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Embodied or Not Embodied?

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

field-aura1So far, I’ve talked about a fibre system that sends very fast impulses around the body. I’ve also mentioned in passing a system which, looking at structure, seems to mimic the functions of a computer chip array – it can process and store information, and it also links into every cell in the body.

What we are talking about is a system that can be used to send data to every cell and receive responses back very rapidly.

But this isn’t the end of the puzzles being brought forward because of amazing advances in the technology. There is evidence from organ and other transplants to suggest that dead peoples’ personalities can somehow be transferred along with the limb or organ.

There are documented cases of traits that were known to be fundamental to the now-dead donor and alien to the recipient, being found in the life of the recipient. They can be as ephemeral as a change in taste for art or as radical as a sudden interest in something very much out of the ordinary.

This is something else the ‘we are only physical’ people have a problem with – there is nothing in their lexicon that can define a method by which a dead person could be influencing a living person they have neither met nor heard of – in either direction!

Add to this the fact we cannot find the decision cell and we are facing a major mystery – what is Man that we can make decisions without a physical mechanism, and that we can forward on traits and quirks that are very much associated with personality and mentality, via an organ or limb?

Brain Dead? How About No Brain?

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

human-brainI talked about the micro fibre system throughout the body that appears to be the actual pathways used for the acupuncture practices that have been passed down to us for several thousand years. This high speed transmission system resolves some puzzling issues left over from our study of nerves. But this isn’t the only new system to be found throughout the body.

There is also connective tissue system - you’ve probably seen schematics of muscles with a sheath around the fibres that leads down to the ligaments which connect to the bone. The structure of these up-till-now ignored tissues is semiconductor-like. In other words it can differentiate in signal direction. It’s also layered in ways similar to our computer arrays. There appear to be structures which resemble both processor and memory semiconductors.

These tissues also have links into and out of every cell in the body. So we now have both an extremely fast signal system (more than ten times faster than nerve transmission) operating with micro-currents, that runs all through the body, as well as a processing system that connects electrically into every cell in the body.

And we have no possible motivator for our impulses to be found in the physical systems – in other words, by the ways cells work, we don’t have anything we can point to and say, ‘that cell (or whatever) makes the decision to start a movement.’ This may not seem strange until you think it through. Psychology is telling us we are just a body and a brain, that all behavior can be explained by the amazingly complex processes occurring in the grey matter we all carry around with us.

Which turns out not to be the case. There are documented cases of people with very little grey matter who somehow still lead ‘normal’ lives, going to school, learning & participating in life from a condition that makes ‘brain dead’ seem like a vibrant living condition. They literally are missing very large parts of their brains.

The view from the field of psychology cannot account for such people at all.

Tools for Sanity

Monday, June 15th, 2009

genie-in-your-genesOnce we step back from the emotions and engage reason, we can begin to see simple ways we can start making change. The ones I suggested above are practically risk-free, and there’s not a government in the world who would dare tackle you for buying from local producers instead of overseas corporations. Not yet anyway. And you will stimulate your local economy, circulating money out of reach of the grasping claws of the powergrubbers.

See if there’s a Barter system set up in your area. See if a group of you can start one. You can trade skills or personal work, or home-made products for things you need.

If you find someone who does things the old ways, support them. Stop going to McDonalds and Walmart and pay the little extra it takes to keep the little guys alive.

There are lots of things you can do if you put your mind to it, but first you have to take back your mind. Get the EFT manual - it’s a whopping 670KB in size. try it out and if you honestly do it and it doesn’t work, come back here and call me an idiot.

If you’d like a rationale as to why EFT works, get hold of Dawson Church’s The Genie in Your Genes and see where the Science is taking us. You certainly are NOT going to hear about it on the MSM - the big pharma’s have no interest in cures or non-drug treatments and the manipulators don’t want you so much better you might being to think clearly.

Stop using fluoride. Get a filter that will remove it from any water you consume. Some refuse to even use it for washing etc but at the least, stop ingesting the shit. You owe it to your body.

And here’s the BIGGIE! Stop watching TV. Seriously, it is damaging you on levels you will not believe until you give it up.

Take back your life, take back your mind and look around for things you can do to make both of them better.

Why Are Things Like This?

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

kid-fishingWe are taught, of course, that we aren’t conformist, but Monty Python tells truth in the scene where all the jeans and T-shirt brigade are gathered to listen to a speaker who says ‘We are all non-conformists!’ and the little guy who isn’t wearing the jeans and T-shirt uniform says, timidly, ‘I’m not!’

Why don’t we revolt? Because we have been educated into believing we are helpless, we are in the best of all worlds, and that there is no alternative. Look at the US view of the Middle East. The average American sees them as pretty much savages, lucky enough to be sitting on oil, who for some unknown or poorly understood reason, just happen to hate all Americans.

Why do they think this? Because that is what they have been shown, over and over, with symbols that stir the heart to back the message, to drive it home in deep beyond the censorship that a reasoning mind would put in place as it realised that, just like Americans, those of the Middle East are people also. They have opinions, they have lifestyles and they have dreams and hopes for their kids.

But, just as is happening in the Middle East, the people are being programmed by manipulators with a black and white message that leaves no room for a middle ground. It’s the ‘we’re good and they are evil’ message that is ALWAYS put out when the leaders want war. You have to demonise the opposition before you can convince people to go murder other people.

I think the trick is to try to step back from the emotions. EFT is a good way to start this process. Emotional Freedom Technique is easy and effective and you don’t have to believe it to let it work. You can discharge the fear, let go the anger and engage thinking in a creative way. And you can get the manual free, no catches, and although you can go on to buy stuff relating to EFT, the manual is all you need.

The Information Age

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

candleThe information is not stored in the brain, but in the Mind. Minds are what brains do. The hologram field that is the tool of our active consciousness is, for all practical purposes, infinite in capacity. Even when the input channels get overloaded, the incredible capacity for associating and sorting in the brain will increase to handle it - that’s why neurons can develop new connections and why they are ‘refreshed’ so quickly - the brain can adjust.

The problem is, I think, not a matter at all of Information Overload, but rather of MIS-Information Overload. I think we are being bombarded constantly by BS from the media, from our governments, from advertising and from religion, and the ratio of shit to sugar has increased beyond our ability to detect the differences. The shite comes loaded in symbols actively designed to trigger processes in us and whatever truth there might be coming at us gets smothered in the avalanche of BS.

And just to make sure we can’t determine the differences, our children (and us in the past) have been cheated of Education by a system that sets us up as feedback robots. In other words, let an authority tell us something and we have a pretence of thought about it but we will feed back what was told us in the drill classes that are schools.

We are trained to live in our Spotlight Awareness, focus all the time on the immediate NOW moment, putting all our processing behind what is being fed to us. We have lost sight of the fact (and it is a fact) that we have an entire other level of awareness, the Floodlight Awareness, that can take in all the rest of the environment and make sense of it in different ways to that of the Spotlight.

We can focus only on a tiny part of the information coming at us every second, which is why advertising works - they give us an up-front story to engage our focus, usually using sex, but sometimes other trigger symbols, and feed the misinformation in through the neglected Floodlight Awareness and because we are so engaged in the focus level, we don’t censor or even register the messages coming at us from the periphery of awareness.

But it is impossible for the mere humans doing this stuff to get the level of coherence achieved by Reality, so this misinformation coming in starts to creates mismatches in the association process - and because it is coming in with the authorioty of symbolism behind it, it creates direct conflict with other ‘known’ facts.

I think this is the source of confusion, not that we are learning so much more now as the spiral of growth in knowledge tightens. I think we can handle all that, even if we need to learn greater finesse in selectivity - what we cannot handle are the lies, the manipulations of truth and the control mechanisms being implanted in us by the media around us.

The Spirituality Values

Monday, June 8th, 2009

spotlight1Science is finding that meditation and prayer have quantifiable benefits, but only when done personally and with involvement from deep in ourselves, yet how many of us have been taught structured prayers to say, meaningless patter that doesn’t require any personal level of attachment to the words?

The chakras need to be known about before they can be used, trained, activated or whatever process we wish to use on them. Directed energy seems to be able to have effects on others - someone who has worked on their energy system can noticeably affect the kirlian patterns of another person.

There are two levels of awareness we all have, the spotlight and the floodlight.

The spotlight you are familiar with, it starts in class or maybe before… ‘pay attention’ ‘look at me’ etc. It is when we look through the tiny pinhole of clear sight in our field of vision, when we bring our attention onto a specific thing, concentrating on it and ignoring the rest of the input we are constantly receiving.
We have been carefully focussed (sorry) on the spotlight throughout our lives. Those who can’t activate it at will or who get distracted by the rest of the sensorium are labelled with ADD.

The other kind you are also familiar with but probably don’t know it. The floodlight is all the rest, from peripheral vision through to the ongoing input of information flooding the senses that aren’t being used for spotlighting. When we drive with a friend, we can happily chat with them all the way to the destination, concentrating on the conversation and thoughts involved in the interaction. When we get where we are going we often can’t recall the journey - yet all the way we were driving, steering, watching traffic, noting the conditions, the road, the signs. The driving was being done with floodlight attention while we spotlighted with our friend.

This is the awareness spoken of by the native tribes, by the shamans and sages. When we release the fixed focus of the spotlight and let the world flow in and become aware of it, not fixing our attention on anything in particular but just Being there, Being Aware of the world in all its complexity.

And it is in those moments of Floodlighting we can become aware of the simulation and of the connectedness of All.

The Magic Gene

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

dna1Recently, around 2000AD, Science completed the mapping of the Human Genome. The pharmaceutical companies were very disappointed – they’d held the view that when the genes were counted, they’d have the chance to create medicines for individuals, but that was based on there being way more than 100,000 genes that make a human – there isn’t. There are a little over 23,500 of them.

That may sound like a lot but it isn’t, not for something as complex and intricately intertwined as the mechanisms of the human body. There’s not a lot of difference between a mouse and a human and we even share a lot of the same genes.

So there’s a bit of a mystery about the human genome. It just isn’t complex enough, the genes get turned on and off instead of being relatively set at conception as was first thought and very small differences in the pattern can produce vastly different effects. Even identical gene sets (identical twins) can have radically different outcomes.

I’ve mentioned before about how most people think of DNA as the brains of the cell, but it simply isn’t so. As we’ve learned more about the workings of a cell, it has become apparent the cell is a response system – something tells it what to do & it performs a task.

And now we have a gene issue as well. Genes simply don’t seem able to produce the interwoven complexities of a human. And we see the same gene in different people and even different animals performing different functions, or, as it is termed, being ‘expressed’ differently.

Are genes magic? Do they have an ability to do different things based on their own decisions? Dawson Church brings together a wide range of information that says, rather emphatically, No.

Life is Strange

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

orionMost people, when asked, would say life is all about the physical. Some will bring their church into it but they see that as a separate thing to daily life – church is about what happens to your soul, about where you go when life is done, and about conning the God into thinking you’ve had a good life and so deserve to go to heaven.

But many people, perhaps ALL people, will, when asked nicely, tell about a time when they knew things they couldn’t, felt things impossible, saw strange things, heard sounds from nowhere or acted just right to prevent disaster without knowing why they did it. It might be thinking of someone not seen for years, then meeting them, knowing who is on the phone or at the door, feeling the presence of a loved one then finding that was the exact time they died, or just knowing something has gone wrong for a child or friend.

What most people DON’T realize, because they don’t have the training or education, is that while one of these things may be simple coincidence, all of them add to a scientific anomaly. And the fact that so many people have them is also a scientific anomaly.

We discard such things because they have been made to seem like fantasy, or superstition, and of course, as modern ‘realistic’ humans, we can’t see ourselves believing in such mumbo-jumbo, but when so many people have so many ‘impossible’ things happen to them, this is definitely not something to ignore. Something is going on and that something has an explanation – but if we refuse to look for it we will never find out what it is.

I’ve been wondering and worrying at these things across the years. It is what brought me back towards a spiritual view of life, the motivation that had me overcome the anathema to such things generated by my early experiences and showed me, once again, the delightful mystery of life.

Mysteries of Life

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

field-aura1Here’s one: We have carefully documented cases of people who have been diagnosed with incurable disease. Then suddenly, they seem to have no evidence of the disease. There seems little coherence of the factors involved – in other words we can’t look at their lives and see that they all did a particular thing to get well.

Here’s another: All living things have a Kirlian Aura. If you take a living thing and place it within a high frequency electric field, then photograph it, there is a glowing field around the object. This is not simply an effect of the tiny electric impulses we’ve known about for so long, and video of the aura shows it can change and react to outside influences.

Weirder still, if we take a leaf and look at its Kirlian aura, then tear the leaf in half and look again at one half, the missing piece still shows, and it continues to show for half an hour or more.

Here’s one more: Plants can feel. There’s solid objective evidence that a plant will react not just to damage, but to thoughts of damage. A plant will set a flurry of activity on an EEG or a polygraph when someone intends to harm it. Maybe those who think eating vegetables need to rethink their ‘moral’ stance?

Another one: there are documented cases of people receiving transplants from unknown (to them) donors, who subsequently develop strange cravings or behaviours – on checking back, researchers have found the new behavior was characteristic of the donor, now deceased.

Here’s yet another: From what we have learned about nerves and how they work, a batsman in cricket or a batter in baseball should not be able to hit the ball. That little sphere comes at them so fast there is not the time for several sights of the ball (to be able to calculate trajectory and speed) ro reach the brain, be thought about, even instinctively, and the results to be sent back out along the nerves to start the swing – and the bat makes god contact with the balls to often for it to be blind or chance hitting.

There are many such puzzlements in our lives, often ignored or brushed aside as wacko ideas. But we all have strange little experiences in our lives, all of us.

The Magic Gene

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

dawson-churchRecently, around 2000AD, Science completed the mapping of the Human Genome. The pharmaceutical companies were very disappointed – they’d held the view that when the genes were counted, they’d have the chance to create medicines for individuals, but that was based on there being way more than 100,000 genes that make a human – there isn’t. There are a little over 23,500 of them.

That may sound like a lot but it isn’t, not for something as complex and intricately intertwined as the mechanisms of the human body. There’s not a lot of difference between a mouse and a human and we even share a lot of the same genes.

So there’s a bit of a mystery about the human genome. It just isn’t complex enough, the genes get turned on and off instead of being relatively set at conception as was first thought and very small differences in the pattern can produce vastly different effects. Even identical gene sets (identical twins) can have radically different outcomes.

I’ve mentioned before about how most people think of DNA as the brains of the cell, but it simply isn’t so. As we’ve learned more about the workings of a cell, it has become apparent the cell is a response system – something tells it what to do & it performs a task.

And now we have a gene issue as well. Genes simply don’t seem able to produce the interwoven complexities of a human. And we see the same gene in different people and even different animals performing different functions, or, as it is termed, being ‘expressed’ differently.

Are genes magic? Do they have an ability to do different things based on their own decisions? Dawson Church brings together a wide range of information that says, rather emphatically, No.

My Mind Working

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

genie-in-your-genesI’ve recently been working my way through Dawson Church’s book, The Genie in Your Genes. It has been an very interesting journey so far, and it is taking me longer than many books I have read – not that it is hard going, but simply because as I read, so many things are ‘clicking’ into place. I’ve grown accustomed to these ‘clicks’ in my life. They aren’t really sounds, just the sensation when something I learn ‘snicks’ into place with associations across a variety of subjects.

I was an average to good student in school – smart enough to be able to get by while being lazy, dumb enough not to realize that if nobody else pushed me I should do it myself, but after a while I noticed that when someone asked a question, I could string together an answer that, to me, had to be a lie, but sounded good enough for them to accept it. Later they would thank me and I came to know that somehow, I had produced a correct response.

Over the years I came to understand what was happening – while I wasn’t a classic student, able to regurgitate at will the facts and figures force fed to us, those same facts were going in and being assigned a place. When I started trying to answer someone, the recovery process would reach across subjects, finding bits and pieces of data and fitting them together. Edward de Bono calls it Lateral Thinking.

So I spent my life learning, not worrying specifically about what it was, or from whom it came, and fairly early on I developed a view of problems that, if I couldn’t find an answer in a short time, I would work out all the things I could about it, then send it to ‘the back of my mind’ for an answer to come later. Sooner or later, I’d have an ‘Aha!’ moment as the answer came forward.

And sometimes, questions I had held for some time would suddenly find the missing jigsaw piece as I heard or read something new and I would almost literally feel the ‘snick’ as the pieces came together.

Dawson Church’s book has been like that for me.

Guest Author Dawson Church on Bruce Lipton, Cell Stimuli and More

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

genie-in-your-genesAs part of his virtual tour to promote his book, I decided to question Mr. Church on some subjects relevant to his work and curious to me. Today is the last day of this style questioning.

Stop in tomorrow for my more formal interview with Mr. Church.

S: Bruce Lipton talks about cell stimuli, as in what triggers them to do things. The signals seem to provoke reactions in the cell membrane which then cause the internal processes to produce proteins. What i wonder is where the epigenetic structures receive their ‘instructions’ to operate. Is it possible they show the presence of a life field as Lipton says is the originator of our DNA functions?

DC: I believe there’s Consciousness with a big C, of which our little local human consciousness is a part. Experienced meditators have experiences that are not explainable in terms of our local awareness. They produce a “felt sense” in the body as well, as these transcendent experiences echo down to the level of our cells.

The amazing observation I make here is that we’re unified organisms, and our trillions of individual cells are as involved with transformative states of consciousness as our transcendent spirits. There’s no such thing as a spiritual change that is not a biological change, and when our spirits soar, our bodies are filled with vibrancy and health.

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Dawson Church has edited or authored many books in the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. He has collaborated on articles with many of the leading voices of our time, including Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Caroline Myss, Barry Sears, and John Gray. He earned his doctorate in Integrative Healthcare at Holos University under the mentorship of distinguished neurosurgeon Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., founder of the American Holistic Medical Association. He went on to receive a postgraduate Ph.D. in Natural Medicine.

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Author Dawson Church on Genetic Research, Rupert Sheldrake and More

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

genie-in-your-genesAs part of his virtual tour to promote his book, I decided to question Mr. Church on some subjects relevant to his work and curious to me.

S: Craig Venter has been involved recently in a project to map the genetic diversity across the oceans. They have found more families of genes than there are genes in the Human genome and seem to have new life at every drop of the collector. Is it possible that ALL this life uses epigenetics to control the DNA or are we just talking the higher life forms or perhaps even just primates or humans?

DC: What is life? At least part of it can only be explained by consciousness. In The Genie in Your Genes (www.GenieBestSeller.com), I review the research showing that consciousness is epigenetic. The change of consciousness provided by love and nurturing is epigenetic beyond reasonable doubt; in the book I also make the case for the epigenetic effects of meditation, optimism, energy psychology, altruism, belief, and energy medicine.

S: There are a couple of biologists whose work seems to perhaps mesh with the epigenetic process. Rupert Sheldrake uses Morphogenetic Fields to explain some interesting things about how various species pass on non-coded information. He talks about how birds in Holland, for example, managed to keep memory of how to steal milk from bottles even though for years the deliveries had ceased. Could epigenetics be involved here?

DC: I’m visiting Rupert in London later this month, and I love talking to him, because he stimulates so many insights. Information is also held in energy fields, and these fields shape biological processes. In the 1930s, Harold Saxton Burr experimented with salamanders whose limbs had been severed (salamanders, unlike humans, can regenerate lost limbs).

He found that even when a limb was missing, the electromagnetic field of the cell persisted. And when a new limb grew, it took on the morphological characteristics of that energy field. We use electromagnetic fields all over medicine nowadays, from EEGs to MRIs to pacemakers. I believe there are also much larger nonlocal quantum fields that contain information, like Rupert’s morphogenic fields, and in the book, I describe rigorous experiments that demonstrate that they are independent of local electromagnetic fields and all known forms of energy exchange.

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Guest Author Dawson Church on DNA, Genes and More

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

genie-in-your-genesAs part of his virtual tour to promote his book, I decided to question Mr. Church on some subjects relevant to his work and curious to me.

S: For a long time it was thought that individuals are the result of their genes. Before the Human Genome study it was presumed that the DNA of humans would be complex, vastly more so than say, a mouse. Did this finding kick off the epigenetics theory or was it more a matter of bringing back into attention something from earlier times?

DC: It was eye-opening when the Human Genome Project showed that humans share about 99% of the genes of mice. We have only about twice the number of genes found in a simple insect such as a fruit fly. Scientific papers from the early 1990s spoke of over 100,000 genes. A decade later scientists were talking 65,000 genes, then 40,000, down to the current consensus of 23,688 genes. These findings told us that epigenetics, control of the DNA from outside the genome, was very important in differentiating human bodies.

S: Some time back there was a study that looked at the environments of grandmothers and how this affected their children and the children of their children. Was this the beginning of a real look at the effects of environment on DNA expression?

DC: A number of provocative studies have shown that love and nurturing is epigenetic. When we’re loved, gene switches in the stress-response parts of our brain are tripped, and these changes affect our lives. They can also be passed on to the next generation. So the offspring of nurturing parents tend to nurture their young better, several generations on. All this without any change in the DNA sequence!

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Dreaming of Life

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

candleSo if we are spotlighting our way through life, focusing on only the smallest but most immediate part of the flood of perceptions available to us, do we simply discard the rest? Does only what comes through the spotlight get through to be recorded and associated into our sensorium and experience?

Personally I think, and there is quite an amount of evidence that agrees, that everything is recorded. The floodlight senses are working all the time, placing us in our world, filtering the mundane from the focus, filing away extra information as local colour, as extra layers of sense that get attached to the events on which we focus.

I think that is what at least some of our dreaming is about. The Conscious mind runs through the input it has received and the extras, the large part of our world that got missed out of the immediate conscious awareness, gets runs as well. In this way I think the input from the external world gets associated and stored, altering either grandly or minorly, the shape of us, the terrain of Mind in which we live.

But I don’t think this is all the dreaming we do. For a start it is well known that in normal circumstances, we have two REM (Rapid Eye Movement) periods of sleep – this is when research tells us we a re dreaming most actively. It seems a little strange for us to have two such periods – surely the processing of the day could be done in one?

Then there’re the other types of dreams, the ones where problems get solved, or where we learn things, or even the Lucid Dreams where we are aware we are dreaming.

Hands up all those who have had a lucid dream? Keep your hand up if you’ve managed to make use of it? When you became aware that you were dreaming, did you try to do things? Go places? Find God?

It seems to me a Lucid Dream is an opportunity to try almost anything you can think of.

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