Liz Blackstone

Living in a Fish Bowl Pond

2009-08-03T08:09:00.000-07:00

Did you know that if you move a goldfish from a small fishbowl in
your home and take it to a lake - he will continue to swim in the
same small circle? Why? Because he has accepted the belief that
if he swims farther, he's going to bump his nose. He's always done
it this way. Any other way is "impossible."

When you question your beliefs - you question your limitations. If
your beliefs serve you - they can withstand the scrutiny. If they
don't survive the questioning - it is time to drop them and
replace them with beliefs that serve you.

Examples: You may have the belief that you need money to make
money. It's hard to succeed in a recession. That you will never
get out of debt. That there are too many obstacles in your way to
succeed at...(you fill in the blank)

Like the goldfish that has been freed to swim in the lake, you
still think you are limited. Your limitation is set by your
beliefs.

The question people ask me the most is "How can I tell for sure
what I believe is true or not?" This is actually quite easy. The
question to ask is simply...

"Does this belief serve me?"

It doesn't matter whether your beliefs are "true" or "false". What
matters is, are they moving you TOWARD or AWAY from what you want?
If they don't serve you, now is the time to replace them with
beliefs that do.

Today will bring you a new awareness, a lesson or a manifestation
that you are making progress - IF YOU LOOK FOR IT! No matter how
large or small, please record it. It will only take a few moments
and will AUTOMATICALLY put you in the Flow.

Truly Caring for Your Success!

Dr. Robert Anthony
www.thesecretofdeliberatecreation.com

The Best Advice of All Time: Enjoy the Ride!

2009-07-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

So what’s potentially the greatest advice of all time?

REMAIN CHILDLIKE.

Be open. Be adventurous. Be curious. Be eager to learn. Be genuine, not least to yourself. Don’t judge. Acknowledge the wonder of life and the amazing experience it brings.

After all, it seems so real, doesn’t it?

In the words of the late comedian Bill Hicks:

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it’s very brightly coloured and it’s very loud and it’s fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, “Hey – don’t worry, don’t be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride…”

And we kill those people.

“We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real.”

Just a ride…

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok.

But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love.”

So what’s your choice?

Remain childlike. And enjoy the ride!

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You Are My Sunshine. The Miracle of a Brother's Song. (True Story)

2009-06-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

Woman's Day Magazine called this The Miracle of a Brother's Song. This is a sweet, inspiring miracle and true story.(Be prepared to get watery eyes!)

Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby was on the way, she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son, Michael, prepare for a new sibling.

They found out that the new baby was going be a girl, and day after day, night after night, Michael sang to his sister in mommy's tummy..

He was building a bond of love with his little sister before he even met her.

The pregnancy progressed normally for Karen, an active member of the Panther Creek United Methodist Church in Morristown , Tennessee

In time, the labor pains came. Soon it was every five minutes, every three, every minute. But serious complications arose during delivery and
Karen found herself in hours of labor.

Would a C-section be required? Finally, after a long struggle, Michael's little sister was born. But she was in very serious condition.

With a siren howling in the night, the ambulance rushed the infant to the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Mary 's Hospital, Knoxville ,
Tennessee. The days inched by. The little girl got worse. The pediatrician had to tell the parents there was very little hope. Be prepared for the worst.

Karen and her husband contacted a local cemetery about a burial plot. They had fixed up a special room in their house for their new baby but now they found themselves having to plan for a funeral. Michael, however, kept begging his parents to let him see his sister. I want to sing to her, he kept saying.

Week two in intensive care looked as if a funeral would come before the week was over.

Michael kept nagging about singing to his sister, but kids are never allowed in Intensive Care. Karen decided to take Michael whether they liked it or not.

If he didn't see his sister right then, he may never see her alive. She dressed him in an oversized scrub suit and marched him into ICU. He looked like a walking laundry basket.

The head nurse recognized him as a child and bellowed, 'Get that kid out of here now. No children are allowed.' The mother rose up strong in Karen, and the usually mild-mannered lady glared steel-eyed right into the head nurse's face, her lips a firm line. 'He is not leaving until he sings to his sister,' she stated.

Then Karen towed Michael to his sister's bedside. He gazed at the tiny infant losing the battle to live.. After a moment, he began to sing.
In the pure-hearted voice of a 3-year-old, Michael sang: 'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray.' Instantly the baby girl seemed to respond. The pulse rate began to calm down and become steady.

'Keep on singing, Michael,' encouraged Karen with tears in her eyes. 'You never know, dear, how much I love you, please don't take my sunshine away.' As Michael sang to his sister, the baby's ragged, strained breathing became as smooth as a kitten's purr, 'Keep on singing, sweetheart..'

'The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping, I dreamed I held you in my arms.' Michael's little sister began to relax as rest, healing rest, seemed to sweep over her.

'Keep on singing, Michael.' Tears had now conquered the face of the bossy head nurse. Karen glowed. 'You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. Please don't take my sunshine away.'

The next day.....the very next day the little girl was well enough to go home.

Woman's Day Magazine called it The Miracle of a Brother's Song.

The medical staff just called it a miracle.

Karen called it a miracle of God's love.

NEVER GIVE UP ON THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE.

LOVE IS SO INCREDIBLY POWERFUL.

Life is good.

Have a Wonderful Day!

'The evidence of God's presence far outweighs the proof of His absence.'

Dairy and Meats Industry Spend Millions on Ads Making Us Think We Need More Protein...

2009-06-16T06:17:00.001-07:00

http://dietforahappyplanet.com/protein/

By Christopher Westra:

Main Idea: Our bodies thrive with ten percent protein or less. Fruit and green leaves provide all the amino acids we need to build our bodies.

John Robbins is the author of May All Be Fed. In his book, John shows study after study showing the health dangers of a high protein diet. High protein intakes are linked to osteoporosis.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell wrote The China Study. The China study was one of the largest research projects in the world. The study showed that high protein intake leads to increased cancer rates.

Dr. Campbell says that we need only 5 to 6 percent of our daily calories coming from protein to build and repair our bodies.

Douglas Graham is the author of the 80/10/10 Diet and is also a lifelong athlete and coach. He says that even for athletes and bodybuilders, ten percent protein is still plenty.

Tim Van Orden is a runner who lives on a fruit based diet and is doing extremely well. See his website at http://RunningRaw.com for videos and race results. He just turned 40 at the time I’m writing this book and he’s winning races!

Tim is an inspiration to me as I’m a mountain runner myself. I hope to race with him soon. I’m a couple years older than Tim.

Fruit and green leaves will provide you with all the protein you need. See some figures below. These figures are from Nutridiary.com, which gets most of their date from the USDA Nutrient Database:

Apricots - 10% Protein, 6% Fat, 84% Carbohydrate

Bananas - 4% Protein, 3% Fat, 93% Carbohydrate

Cucumbers – 15% Protein, 5% Fat, 80% Carbohydrate

Oranges - 7% Protein, 2% Fat, 91% Carbohydrate

Peaches - 8% Protein, 5% Fat, 87% Carbohydrate

Lettuce – 24% Protein, 13% Fat, 63% Carbohydrate

Papaya - 6% Protein, 3% Fat, 91% Carbohydrate

Strawberries - 8% Protein, 8% Fat, 84% Carbohydrate

More protein is not better. Human mother’s milk is just 5 to 7 percent protein and that is for a rapidly growing infant!

Don’t take my word for it. Do your own research into the protein issue. You will find that a diet of varied fruits, a few vegetables, and leaves will meet all requirements.

Why then do so many people think we need to eat more protein? The answer is simple. The meat and dairy industries spend millions on advertising to make us think we need more protein.

Action Items:

Eat just fruits and greens for 30 days while exercising regularly. You will get enough protein to build muscle.

When you hear an “expert” claiming we need high protein, track down the source. Most often, the source will be linked to the meat and dairy industries.

FDA Regulating Tobacco Industry Now= Us Getting Screwed Over

2009-06-15T14:20:00.000-07:00

has anyone heard about what the FDA wants to do to the tobacco industry now that they HAVE THE RIGHT to regulate it? NO more flavored cigarettes, Flavored cigars (this means blunts & blunt wraps,) no more colored packaging, no more late night stops at the gas station (cause they won't be able to carry them BY LAW!), you will have to scan you ID card into a system every time you buy a tobacco product Your information will be sent to the FDA who will share this information with your health & life insurance companies which will directly affect your premium. Cigarette store will have blacked out windows like porn stores, no more LIGHT/ FULL Flavor/ MEDUIM/ ULTRA LIGHT ciggs. No more smokers rights period!

I feel smoking is a right. If the person is of the smoking age, it is their right to smoke. Its bad enough they limit where people can smoke, but now to take away the basic right of which kind of cigarettes we can buy? AND they share that info with the insurance companies!! That is BS! Sounds like the ... Read Moregovernment is in bed with the insurance companies. While many of us knew that all along, it now seems they are openly airing that information. There has to be some kind of petition or something going on that we can show our displeasure with what is going on. This is wrong.

If anyone knows of any petition going around, or anything like the sort, where we can have our voices heard please please let me know.
Email me at: lizblackstone@yahoo.com

Schadenfreude- Pocket Tazer Story...

2009-06-12T06:19:00.000-07:00

I normally only post things of great importance. I think I am going to start adding some funny things too. Life is too short not to take a minute and laugh. This post is reminds me of the song Schadenfreude (If you dont know that reference- go to youtube and listen to the song from the musical Avenue Q). Anyways, I was sent this email this week:

A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their
anniversary submitted this:

Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse- sized tazer. The effects of the tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long-term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety...

WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home. I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time; I'd get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.

AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.

Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two triple-A batteries, right? There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target. I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised. Am I wrong?

So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading
glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and tazer in another. The directions said that a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant; a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water. Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.

All the while I'm looking at this little device measuring about 5"
long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference; pretty cute really and
(loaded with two itsy, bitsy triple-A batteries) thinking to myself,
'no possible way!' What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best...

I'm sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side as to say, 'don't do it dumbass,' reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny little ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it. I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and ?
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD . . . WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION . . . WHAT THE HELL!!!

I'm pretty sure Jessie Ventura ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, and then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs? The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.

Note: If you ever feel compelled to 'mug' yourself with a tazer, one
note of caution: there is no such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor... A three second burst would be considered conservative. IT HURT LIKE HELL!!!

A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at
that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and
surveyed the landscape. My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace. The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was. My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching. My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs. I had no control over the drooling. Apparently I pooped on myself, but was too numb to know for sure and my sense of smell was gone. I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head which I believe came from my hair. I'm still looking for my nuts and I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return!

P.S... My wife, who can't stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift, and now regularly threatens me with it!

If you think education is difficult, try being stupid!!!

Excerpt from Earl Nightingales "The Strangest Secret" from 1957- 1st Gold Record...

2009-06-11T05:51:00.000-07:00

In 1957, Earl Nightingale, speaker, author and co founder of the Nightingale-Conant Corporation, recorded his classic motivational record "The Strangest Secret." "The Strangest Secret" sold over one million copies and made history in the recording industry by being honored as the first Gold Record for the spoken word. Nightingale, known as the "dean of personal development," concluded that life's "strangest secret" is that we become what we think about all day long.

Your belief system, like your computer, doesn't judge or even question what you input; it merely accepts your thoughts as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Think thoughts of defeat or failure and you're bound to feel discouraged. Continuous thoughts of worry, anxiety and fear are unhealthy and often manifest in the body as stress, panic attacks and depression.

At the core of Earl's message, he reveals the incredible power of positive self-talk, belief and expectation. What you vividly imagine and hold in your subconscious mind begins to out picture as your reality. Your belief system not only defines your reality, but it also shapes your character and determines your potential.

Earl Nightingale's radio recording that he called The Strangest Secret electrified his listeners all over the country. The stations that carried his syndicated show were deluged with requests for copies of it.

As a result, the audio version of Nightingale's message was recorded, and sold over 1 million copies. In fact, Earl Nightingale's recording of The Strangest Secret was the first non-music record to exceed the one million mark!

An excerpt from
The Strangest Secret
by Earl Nightingale

George Bernard Shaw said, "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, they make them."

Well, it's pretty apparent, isn't it? And every person who discovered this believed (for a while) that he was the first one to work it out. We become what we think about.

Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn't know where he's going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety and worry - his life becomes one of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing... he becomes nothing.

How does it work? Why do we become what we think about? Well, I'll tell you how it works, as far as we know. To do this, I want to tell you about a situation that parallels the human mind.

Suppose a farmer has some land, and it's good, fertile land. The land gives the farmer a choice; he may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn't care. It's up to the farmer to make the decision.

We're comparing the human mind with the land because the mind, like the land, doesn't care what you plant in it. It will return what you plant, but it doesn't care what you plant.

Now, let's say that the farmer has two seeds in his hand- one is a seed of corn, the other is nightshade, a deadly poison. He digs two little holes in the earth and he plants both seeds-one corn, the other nightshade. He covers up the holes, waters and takes care of the land...and what will happen? Invariably, the land will return what was planted.

As it's written in the Bible, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."

Remember the land doesn't care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants - one corn, one poison.

The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn't care what we plant...success...or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal...or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.

You see, the human mind is the last great unexplored continent on earth. It contains riches beyond our wildest dreams. It will return anything we want to plant.

Social Security and the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan

2009-06-10T08:16:00.000-07:00

I received this as an email and figured blogspot is an appropriate place to post this. I have heard of the Golden Fleece Retirement plan before. This is real. And we, as the people, have the power to change it. I dont know about you, but I feel in America we are all supposed to be equal. I dont feel equal when our representatives can vote in a health care plan for themselves, but leave us, the people they represent out on the street as far as they are concerned. These are the people who are saying single payer health care can not work. Thats ok with you, right? I sure as heck hope not. While they are receiving money to take care of themselves forever-literally until they die, curtsy of you and me (the tax payers), we are left struggling to take care of our loved ones medical conditions.

Continue reading to learn more:

LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON "PEOPLE POWER" AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS.

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT!

KEEP IT GOING!!!!

Propose this in 2009:

START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY

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SOCIAL SECURITY:

(This is worth reading. It is short and to the point.)

Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years.

Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it.

You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they should have a special plan for themselves. So, many years ago they voted in their own benefit plan.

In more recent years, no congressperson has felt the need to change it. After all, it is a great plan.

For all practical purposes their plan works like this:

When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die.
Except it may increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments...

For example, Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may expect to draw $7, 800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred Thousand Dollars), with their wives drawing $275, 000..00 during the last years of their lives.
This is calculated on an average life span for each of those two Dignitaries.

Younger Dignitaries who retire at an early age, will receive much more during the rest of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan is $0.00. NADA!!! ZILCH!!!

This little perk they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab for this plan. The funds for this fine retirement plan come directly from the General Funds;

"OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"!

From our own Social Security Plan, which you and I pay (or have paid) into, every payday until we retire (which amount is matched by our employer), We can expect to get an average of
$1,000 per month after retirement.

Or, in other words, we would have to collect our average of $1,000 monthly benefits for 68 years and one (1) month to equal Senator Bill Bradley's benefits!

Social Security could be very good if only one small change were made.

That change would be to

Jerk the Golden Fleece Retirement Plan from under the Senators and Congressmen.. Put them into the Social Security plan with the rest of us

Then sit back.....

And see how fast they would fix it!

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve.

How many people can YOU send this to?

Better yet......

How many people WILL you send this to ?

Day 4

2009-06-04T13:56:00.001-07:00

I am on day 4. I have not had any meat in 4 days. I have not spoken to anyone online about this because I am not looking for a pat on the back or for someone to tell me good job. I am doing this because of personal issues that have come up in my life.

This started years ago. But this came up again about a month ago.

My little sister got her lip pierced and my mother took her to a tattoo and piercing shop to make sure she was ok. Thats where mom met a very nice Jewish man- he was about 23. He talked about a lot of interesting things from what mom told me. I wont go into detail about what he spoke about- because it wasnt about becoming a vegetarian and I dont want to confuse the subject of this blog.

But he mentioned science using pig hearts for human surgeries. He went on and said that pigs are the closest on the inside of the body to humans.

Thats where my mom comes in. She started having trouble eating pig thinking about it being too similar to human flesh.

She is NOT a vegetarian. In fact, I told her that I do not have an interest in meat anymore because I couldnt stand thinking about the flesh sitting in my stomach- she told me, "dont think about it and eat it."

I know she meant well. I know she is concerned I will not be getting enough protein. But, it would have been nice for her to understand instead of give me the feeling she wants me to just get over it.

Matt has been polite and quiet about it when I talk. The only thing he has said is, "you're not going to give up my bbq chicken right?"

I told my boss (who is a vegetarian) via email asking for assistance. His reply. Learn how to spell vegetarian correctly first.

So far, I have not had a strong support group helping me with this.

This is difficult for me. Im at a crossroad. I love the taste of meat, but it is really bothering me thinking about it.

This is a whole new life style for me. I really would like a friend who lives at the beach who understood. Maybe help me find a nice vegetarian restaurant or exchange some nice vegan recipes...

But for now, at least I have my own peace of mind.

2012- The Science Behind A New World Age: Gregg Braden Interview

2009-06-04T13:53:00.001-07:00

Hello. This is a VERY excited post for me. Today is my birthday and I wanted to share something special with you. I spent literally hours and hours transcribing this interview between Jennifer McLean and Gregg Braden on a phone interview on Healing With The Masters.

The interview can still be purchased along with the transcripts here: http://www.healingwiththemasters.com/buy.htm

I decided to give you the most important parts of the interview so I have taken out much of the dialogue in the beginning and left the meat of the subject. Its still really lengthy, but if you are interested in 2012 I'm sure you will be glad that it is as long as it is. It is FULL of scientific information to wet you appetite. Hope you enjoy!

Introduction to Gregg Braden:

NY Times best seller, Gregg Braden, is internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science and spirituality.

Following a very successful career as a computer geologist for Phillips Petroleum during the 1970’s energy crisis. He became a senior computer systems designer for Martin Marietta Defense systems during the last year of the cold war. In 1991 he was appointed the first technical operations manager for Cisco Systems where he led the development of the global support team that assures the reliability of today’s internet.

For more than 20 years Gregg has searched high mountains village, remote monasteries and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets.

Today his works have left such paradigm shattering books as, The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The Divine Matrix, and the Spontaneous Healing of Belief, which was released last year. It is about shattering the paradigm of false limits.

Gregg’s works are now published in 17 languages in 27 countries and shows us beyond any reasonable doubt that the key to our future lies in the wisdom of our past.

He continues that with Fractal Time. The Secret of 2012. A New World Age.

Gregg merges the Modern discovery of nature’s pattern, fractals, with the ancient view of the universe. The result is a powerful model of time, fractal time. And a realistic time window into what we can expect from our lives, and for the world as we approach 2012. The end of the current world age and beyond.

We have an opportunity to choose our future. Can we create a new epoch of peace, cooperation and healing? Is definitely the questions we are going to explore tonight.

Gregg thanks everyone listening/reading and tells us why:

I want to thank every single person that is on this call tonight. I want to let you to know how much I love you and I love all that you’ve done with in your world and your lives to bring us to this point where we on this planet today. And these calls are so important because this is where change begins.

It takes 5 to 8 years for new ideas to trickle down through the classroom and become accepted broadly in academy and the kind of changes that we are talking right now are happening so quickly, 5-8 years later its all over. We have this rare precious beautiful opportunity hour tonight to cut right to the bottom to myths a lot of misunderstandings about our time in history, great cycles of time and the opportunities that are available to ever to every one of us to literally to cast a vote of consciousness in terms of where we are going and how this time in history, this rare pivotal moments we are all feelings, right now in our lives. How this turn out because everyone of the ancients traditions says we are writing our the ending in this chapter in our history while we are being given the challenges and no body knows how its going to come out. We are choosing it so Jennifer I want to thank you and say those things as we go into our program tonight.

What’s the big deal with 2012? They said well you know, its a special, mystical year. And I thought why not a really cool even rounded number like 2000 you know or 2020. Why 2012? And of course back in the 80’s 2012 seemed like a life time in the future.

And I began a journey to understand what that date meant to me. I quickly understood and discovered that the only way that that date to make sense was if I began to understand huge cycles of time and how Earths relationship to other heavenly bodies changes within those cycles of time, and how those changes brings profound changes to the physical reality of planet Earth and the people that are living during those periods of time.

It’s a journey that continues, it’s been 22 years in the making the book Fractal Time Secret of 2012 The New World Age, is what I knew when this book was written in 2007 and 2008 and it all centers around our relationship to these powerful bodies of energy in the heavens and how we go through these cyclic changes in our lives.

The bottom line for me, is that I discovered that Earth does go through cyclic changes and each time the cycles occurs, the conditions for each new cycle are very similar, not identical, but they are similar to the conditions that have already happened in the past. And what that told me was that whatever was going to happen on this 2012 date, the mystical end date of the last cycle of the Mayan calendar. Whatever is going to happen on that date; or in that zone of time, maybe not on that specific day, to some degree has happened in the past and if we know how to read the cycles of time, if we know how to look in the past we can give ourselves some really concrete ideas. Factual ideas based on factual discoveries of what we can expect.

Because for many people and as I travel the world I am finding this and I am sure that many of our listeners are finding the same thing, we are speaking to the choir tonight, and I will call the listeners the choir because we talk about this stuff all the time. But what I am finding is that many don’t talk about this all the time.

And the first insight that they are having into the mystery of 2012 are though the very frightening documentaries that are being carried on the on cable channels and if they missed those, there is a Hollywood, full length motion picture complete with very frightening special effects that’s going to be released the end of 2009 simply called 2012, and all of these very frightening images are portraying, literally portraying the end of the world as we know it now. And there are survival groups throughout the world in North America, Europe, and Australia who have already gone into bunkers and taken provisions because they believe the end is close to what is interpreted as the end of the world.

So in the 80’s when I would ask people, Id say, “What does this date mean to you”, for every person I asked I got a different idea. For some said the end of the world and others literally said the beginning of 1000 years of peace and they couldn’t wait for it to get here. I knew it probably wasn’t going to be both, so my man brain wanted to know which is it and how could I make sense of it, and that is what led me on the journey to what we are discussing tonight.

Can I share just 3 discoveries that modern science has made in the last few years that link us into the ancient wisdom and traditions of this date?

One of the things I found quickly was that almost universally. Ancient texts have always talked about our time in history They always said something big was going to happen Those traditions are generally- they lived very close to the earth they are not technological traditions. So they left clues and signs in terms of how we would know when this pivotal point was arriving. They left those clues in terms of signs of nature. So for example when a white Buffalo is born on the plains of North America or when the seasons change and you can’t grow corn in Nebraska in the middle of August any more you know, or a blue star appears in the sky. Those are very cool signs and they are meaningful but to a scientist it makes them crazy because they can’t do anything definitive with such a generalized sign. They’re open to speculation.

We quickly found that the Mayans however, the ancient Mayans, were the only civilization that we know of so far, there could be others, we have not found those yet to the best of my knowledge; That developed a system of time keeping that was so accurate and it is based in numbers that link to verifiable phenomena. The numbers link to things that we can confirm in the heavens. Alignments between planets and star systems. The solstice, the winter solstice of December 21 of 2012 that marks the end of this great cycle that we are experiencing right now.

The Mayans used these numbers and they are more precise than anything we developed until the 20th century with computers and satellites. We could probably in the future Jennifer At some point we could have –How did they know? Who were they? Where did they come from? Where did they get that information? They left a legacy. And they began a count down shows that we are living a moment in time that only 5 generations in recorded human history has ever experienced. Only 5 generations. And the last human that walked the earth and experience what we are about to experience now in this great cycle, lived 1700 years before the biblical Exodus from Egypt. That’s how long ago it was this happened. And this is important to know because, probably, no one living today has a direct memory of the last time we went through this cycle. I don’t think there are any 5000 year old people. You never know. I’m on a 200 year plan, that’s as far as I am looking right now. But we now know is we are coming to the end of a rare cycle that is marked by verifiable phenomena. This cycle began in 3114 BC. It ends with the winter solstice, December 21, 2012 AD. a cycle that is 5125 years long. This cycle is the 5th of 5 such cycles that make an even bigger cycle that is about 26,000 years long called the Pre-cession, not procession, the precession of the equinoxes. And this 26000 year cycle, is the cycle that describes a wobble that earth does in the heaves. A long slow wobble, from one side to another, and as Earth wobbles over this 26,000 year period, what happens is, if you sitting on planet earth and you are looking at the stars, the scenery changes over that 26000 because earth tilt. Earths wobble is changing.

Somehow the Mayans knew this. They knew that we were at the end of not only a not 5000 year cycle but at the last of a 26000 year cycle. We are about to live in this rare moment both the close of a 5000, as well as the close of the 26000 year cycle. So when I began to understand that I thought, so what’s the big deal? Why is this important? This is where these discoveries that I mentioned come in. Because Modern science in the last few years has confirmed in the last few years what the ancients were telling us in non scientific language.

Number 1 is that there is a powerful source of energy at the very center, at the core, the hub of our Milky Way Galaxy. A powerful source of magnetic energy. Some ancients traditions called it the Great Central Sun. And that source of energy has a powerful influence on life on planet earth. That’s the first discovery. Maybe to earth to us intuitively we have always known that. But this is modern science in peer review journals.

This is discovery number 1. Source of energy influences earth

Number 2: Is that the effect of those energy change on a cyclic basis over a long periods of time and that’s a big discovery for modern science.

Number 3 That those cycles can be measured and calculated and predicted.

And those 3 discoveries give new meaning to what our ancestors were saying to us. And it makes total sense. When we are at one point in our orbit in the Milky Way around this source of energy we are further away and the wobble tilts us away from this energy source so it affects us less.

Where we are right now is that we are relatively closer. We are tilting toward the energy source. And Dec 21 in the year 2012 marks the point in the tilt where we are in direct alignment. We’ve got a Straight shot. Unimpeded access to the energy of the Of the magnetic fields that are coming from that source to planet earth.

In the past what we know, geologically that this field of energy has brought big changes upon Earth. But they don’t happen in a day. We are talking huge systems. We are talking about solar systems and galaxies of planets and as they come into that alignment-it doesn’t happen in a day. It happens over long periods of time. And the reason I am saying this is because we are already well into the 2012 zone of change.

And we are already experiencing some of the most profound changes. And the frightening ones that the prophecies have always talked about. So rather than waiting for those things and fearing them coming 3 years from now. This is 2009. What we know is that we are already living some of the major magnitude earthquakes more of them that we have seen in recorded history And we have already seen tsunamis that are wiping cities off the shore line. And super storms that are taking cities and villages from the coast. We are already living multiple raging fires that we can not control on different continents at the same time. We are already living millions of people dying from disease we have no cure for. We are already living the changes in the weather patterns that prevent us from growing food like we used to.

And we all know that is not the only things that are happening. There are a lot of really good things happening on our planet right now. So instead of focusing on the frightening things they say are going to happen to me it helps to bear in mind that we are already seeing many of those things already.

Before we get off this call tonight, I’m going to share yet 2 more discoveries that tell how each of us how we are directly linked into the field of energy that regulates the conditions of life on earth and we are linked in a way that allows us to do something inside of our hearts that literally helps to smooth the chaos of this field of energy. And the only way that we can accomplish this is if we work together. That’s where we are going to go with our program tonight. So that was a long question t a short question with a lto of material. But I wanted to do it early.

What I began to understand was this: These cycles of time, this isn’t the first time earth has gone through one of these cycles. And before I worked at the defense industry as a computer science, I was a geologist as a computer scientist or a computer scientist working in the field of geology.

And what that told, is that we have places on this planet where earth has a preserved a library, a record of the history of every year on this planet, at least for the last 500,000 years and one of these places is the ice cores or the ice caps in Antarctica.

Every year there is new layer of ice that’s deposited. And with that ice it captures air bubbles of the atmosphere and it captures literally the chemical elements that are present in the air during that period of time. From that we can learn about how strong earths magnetic fields were the year those things were captured. We can learn what were the temperatures on the planet. Were the sea levels high or were the sea levels low? Were the ice caps melting or were they freezing? Did the sun have a strong influence or a weak influence? We can learn all those things geologically. And we can do that to 500000 years ago.

Now for humans, we haven’t had big civilizations, we believe, for 500,000 years so we look into archeological records. And We can go back in the archeological records 10-15000 years and say how were people responding to these changes. What do we know about those civilizations? And that’s what I’ve done in the book. We talk about cycles of time in general and Fractal time. And the key with fractal time is if you know where to look in the past. You have a good understanding of what you can expect in the present and the future. And with that in mind, we’ve Applied these principals specifically to 2012 and that is what you and I are talking about tonight. I know this is a bottom line audience tonight. So I am going to cut right to the bottom line. Because our time is really flying. Our fractal time is flying tonight.

So we find that if we go into these records and we know where to look we know what to expect. And using the rhythms and the patterns of nature that govern life and time we can do some very Simple mathematics I describe it in the book and I know a lot of people are not into math in the book so I put it all in the appendices but some people don’t want to do the appendices so we’ve actually automated a way for you to do these calculations for your own called the Time Code Calculator. We’ll talk about that more in a minute. Using the algorhythym and simple math and the time code calculator what we know is if we look at the key dates in past, and we talk about cycles, these dates are called seeds- s-e-e-d. So a seed, is a date where an event that occurred that put into motion a pattern of energy that will repeat following natural rhythms throughout time until something changes that cycle.

Jennifer: And we can read about this in the archeological and the physical data base of the earth.

Gregg: We can and what’s more is we can see it in our personal lives. Because our personal cycles of love, trust, hurt, and betrayal and success, and abundance. They all began with a seed event that leaves a strong emotional imprint. That puts into motion a cycle that will repeat in our personal lives until something changes it and you can calculate that using the calculator as well. We will talk about that in a couple minutes.

But the bottom line for what we can expect. When I went back and looked at the ice cores for Antarctica, I looked at 2 dates. One of them is 1155 BC is one of the first seed dates. The other was 13824 BC was the second seed date. How we got to those are described in the book and the calculations.

Those dates using natural rhythms are the seeds that put into motion the events that we can expect to experience in the year 2012 and around that zone time. And What makes it so interesting, is when I look at the magnetic field of the earth, the earths magnetic strengths. Earth magnetic fields, you can think of those as the buffer or the blanket that protects us from solar radiation, from solar wind and the high energy particles in the cosmos that are coming our way. Its like a big warm fuzzy blanket that takes good care of us.

So what we know is that this blanket protects us, when we go through these cycles because of the tilt of the earth and where we are, the blanket becomes a little weaker and as the blanket is weaker and if the blanket get weaker, we have greater influences from these sources of energy. So what we find is that in both of our seed dates, both 1155 BC and 1324 BC; the magnetic fields of the earth became weaker, just like they have become in the last 130 years now that we know. Our magnetic fields are weaker now than they have been in 2000 years. But don’t worry because they are still really, really strong, they are just weaker than they have been in past times.

And we know that when they get weaker it allows more solar energy to penetrate on to the Earth which is exactly what is happening right now. And it happened in both 1155BC and 1324 BC. When that occurs the oceans heats up a little bit. The atmosphere heats up a little bit. Which is precisely what we are experiencing right now. And that warming is usually between 1 and 2 degrees Celsius. Which is right where we are right now.

And when that happens, the ice on both poles begins to melt and that ice is holding a lot of water, the water has to go somewhere, it goes into the oceans. The sea level begins to rise and the cold water changes the temperature in the oceans and that changes climate which begins to change weather patterns and all of a sudden you can’t grow corn in Nebraska maybe in August the way you have done in the past.

So when we look at these parameters; We just covered, magnetic strengths, solar output, climate status and ice. We just covered all of those. When we look at the past at the key dates for the year 2012, what we find is that although earth has definitely gone through a dramatic shift in the last 130 years or so, that that shift has brought us precisely into alignment with where it appears we always are when we reach this point in the cycle.

And now it is important to see how civilizations in the past have responded to the changes in their world that we are finding in ours to see if they made mistakes then that we can recognize and avoid in making in our time right now.

For me this is what begins to tell the story.

First of all when we go back 13824 BC we didn’t have any big civilizations then. So the one I'm going to look at first in our program tonight 1155BC. If there are any historians on this call tonight, you know this date. It’s the exact date the calculator gave us, based on the year 2012, using the rhythms of nature. It also is the exact date that one of the greatest civilizations on the face of the earth in the history of our world collapsed when they faced the same kinds of challenges then that we are facing in our cycle now. They didn’t understand why the changes were happening. And in their fear, the way they responded to the changes led to the end of a great civilization.

So what happened was the climate changed because of where they were in the cycle. They couldn’t grow food the same way. They began fighting with their neighbors and they entered into multiple wars. Multiple wars with different countries that spread their armies so thin they couldn’t maintain these wars. And the economy was stretched so much, that the economy collapsed. They went broke trying to sustain the wars. Trying to gather the diminishing resources from a changing world. And they collapsed and that was the end of one of the greatest dynasties, and greatest superpowers that time on the face of the earth.

Now archeologically, Jennifer this is really interesting, archeologists now are finding remnants of highly advanced civilizations, that go further back history says we should have advanced civilizations. And interestingly enough, they are finding them, and they are correlating those dates with the cycle before Egypt collapsed, the time before that. And these particular remnants are being found in an area. A very interesting area, between what is now Pakistan and India, on what is called the Ragestan plains. And I’ve talked about this in some other books. Highly advanced civilization; hot/cold running water, closed sewage systems, glass windows, a system of writing that to this date, no one has ever translated. So if anyone listening tonight wants some homework, there is a language that has never been decoded that very probably tells us what happened to them, so maybe we can avoid the mistakes in our time. But even if we never understand the cycles are giving us insight. Because they collapsed in what appears to be a war time setting, and this is what archeologists are saying that occurred when their cycle brought about a change in their world.

So what were seeing, and the parallels Jennifer are striking. You look at what’s happening, and I am not saying they are the same, but look at what’s happening in our world right now. We are engaged in multiple wars and a lot of them are over resources that are simply not sustainable resources. World economies are going broke in part, trying to sustain the military and the weapons development and all of the energy it takes to maintain those kinds of wars. And we are in precisely in alignment with the physical conditions. The magnetic fields of the earth right now are measured at a unit of about 7.5 on a scale that’s called a VDAM scale. Historically the magnetic fields of the earth have fallen to between 5 and a quarter and 10 and a half when we go through these cycles. 7.5 puts us right in line.

So for me, what this says to me, is that although the changes are intense and they appear abrupt to us, when you look at the big picture we are right in line with where we always are when we go through these changes. And I am less concerned about the natural phenomenon. I think we will get through those just fine.

What concerns me is the lesson these past civilizations apparently have not learned. And it’s about how we treat one another as a family on this planet when we go through the greatest challenges in 5000 years.

And this is the question we are posing to our audiences. This is our opportunity. And here is what I believe, I believe is happening. I think if we as a planet, if we can recognize that working together to get through this intense but brief period of change; If we can do this now because we need one another and we need to, to get through it, to survive, if we can do it now, I think we are going to find is that we like working together. And that we will continue to do it as a way of life, because we are better people. And we create a better world. Even when we are no longer challenged with the conditions of a great cycle. And I think this may be the gift of our 2012 window of opportunity, the conditions that come with the end of this great world age cycle are pushing us to evaluate what it is that works and what’s sustainable, what doesn’t work, what’s not sustainable and how we can work together to get all of us through this little, this narrow window of time. And the things that are not sustainable, the things that don’t work, stop doing them. Don’t put more energy into them. And the things that do work, lets do more of them.

And I think one of the greatest opportunities we have, physicists look at a little moment in time between cycles. When one cycle ends and the next begins, there is a little time that physicists call a “choice point.” For example the inhale and the exhale that all of are taking right now, there is a place between where neither one of those exists. In the esoteric tradition that is powerful moment where all possibilities lives. And if we think about this 2012, 5000 year window of time, then when that cycle ends by definition we begin a new cycle. But there is a place between where neither exists. And it is at that point where our choices are more potent than at any other time in the cycle. And that is where we may choose.

We look at all the frightening things that may happen and that’s when we may choose to walk away from that way of life to say that we choose as a planet to outgrow the habit of war to solve our problems, we choose to outgrow the use of nuclear weapons on civilian population for example. When we choose to stop basing our economy on something that is not sustainable, ever expanding markets and people profiting only through other peoples loss. That is the way our economy works now. That’s not sustainable.

So I think what we’re seeing consciously or not, Jennifer, I think we are seeing is a global evaluation. And I'm not saying everyone is aware of why it’s happening. But the conditions of the earth are forcing this reevaluation. When the weather changed and we started the food shortages, that’s what triggered a lot of the shift we’re seeing now and the greed that’s not sustainable. Surfaced very quickly. And I think that is what we are seeing now.

The Mayans said something very similar to this in another terminology. They didn’t know what our world would like 2000 years ago. But they said that this cycle has been akin to what they would call a gestation cycle and that we are like an embryo in the womb of our mother. And at the end of this 5000 year cycle the gestation is over and we are birthed into a new way of being. They didn’t say it’s the end of the world. It’s the end of a world age. And in this new way of being they said were probably not going to recognize the world or yourselves because the changes and the challenges have forced us to shift the way we live our lives. But I think we are better people and we have a better world because of it. I believe the value of the 2012 window of opportunity. A choice point created by natural phenomenon and by understanding cycles of time. We’re now giving ourselves the gift of looking into the past to know what we can realistically expect. And based on that we can learn from the past and do the things that make sense to do as we move into this new way of being. And for all tense and purposes, its already happening. We are already well into the shift. And I think that is the opportunity that we’re looking at right now. I know that was long, I just wanted to cover all of that before we got to questions.

Jennifer: It’s not long at all. But there is something you have talked about in all of your books. You have shown us that if we change our live, our beliefs, our thoughts, we can change our body, And ultimately can change the universe. The elements of earth are the same elements of our body. That’s part of this choice point, is that its part of the opportunity is for us as individuals to contribute to not being over whelmed with this, to not to be thrown into fear with this. And with that fear can create cataclysms in many ways.
Gregg: You said that beautifully. The answer is absolutely. But this leads us to the last little piece that I know we are going to have questions, and some other discussions. But at the very beginning I promised, I said there was a third piece that I wanted to touch on before the end of our evening. And that is yet another new discovery. And this is the reason I emphasize the role of the magnetic fields in the earth in these changes. The magnetic fields of the earth link all life. Even things that are not alive. Everything from an atom, to a molecule, to the DNA of a blade of grass, and hamsters and gold fish, and dogs and cats and people and stars. We are all linked through these very powerful fields of magnetics. And the magnetic fields, the geomagnetic fields of the earth, when they rise and fall they regulate the way life happens on our planet right now. They are actually looking right now, there is a new peer reviewed research article in the prestigious journal Nature. I have a link, we talk about in the book and there is also a link is on the website. That is now linking the rise and fall of dinosaurs, the 65 Million year cycle to these magnetic fields of the earth and our relationship to the energy source at the center of the Milky Way. So we’re looking at cycles within cycles within cycles.

Here is why that is important.

I’ll just tell a quick story. September 11, 2001. 9/11. We had a satellite in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere. They are there today. They are called GOES; Geo Synchronis Orbital something Satellites. Their sole job is to send back a reading to the computers on the earth every 30 minutes of how strong the magnetic fields of the earth really are. And you know, the earths magnetic field, they earth ebbs and flow at reasonable rates through out the day. 9/11 scientists saw a big glitch; a big jump in the magnetic fields of the earth from both satellites; the northern and southern hemisphere. We show this in the live program and I’ll give you a link in a minute. We can look at it on the web site.

And their question was what in the world happened on earth? What could possibly happen on earth that could influence the magnetic fields of the entire planet to such a degree that the satellites 22,000 miles above the surface of the earth are picking this up? What is happening?

And when they realized it was the collective emotion of 6 billion people on the planet in response to the tragedy of 9/11, this is a big deal in the realm of science. Because it means that somehow we are intimately connected to the very fields of the earth that sustains life on the earth.

Not metaphorically, not figuratively. This is a real concrete tangible link. This led to a series of studies and research projects. The bottom line is the link is created through the magnetic field of the human heart. Each of us, everyone listening right now, your heart was built, it was designed, and from the first moment you took your first breath on this planet, you have been engaged in a conversation with the very fields of this planet that sustains all life, even if you didn’t know you were having a conversation. And what the research now has shown is when we create very concise qualities of emotion in our heart, not in our mind; we have to get out of our heads to do this. But when we create very concise qualities of emotion in our hearts we set up what is called an experience of coherence. And we talked about this a little bit in the last program. If you are a scientist coherence is something you can measure electrically at 0.10 cycles per second, 0.10 hertz. Between the heart and the brain. And we are learning now to create the right kinds of emotions so that we have that coherence in our bodies. That is just good for us. When we do we think better, we are healthier, our anti aging hormones kick in, we have very strong immune systems. It’s just a good way to live.

But what the studies are showing, Jennifer, and this is what brings it back to the first 5 minutes of our conversation. Is that when many people get together and create a collective field of coherence that we couple with the very field of the earth that is undergoing the greatest change, that holds the greatest threat to the way we live our lives. And by simply living from a heart based perspective, emotions, like care, like gratitude, like appreciation, very precise techniques that will help us get to that place; we literally can smooth out the rough edges of the chaos, of what is called stress waves. Stephen Lewis I think this is what he was referring to. The stress waves that are rippling through the conscious field of earth as people respond to so much change, they can’t even keep up with it. But now we know that coherence is the key to sustaining life within our bodies. And also literally it gives every one of us direct access to the filed, the very field that is affected most by this cyclic change. And it’s the same field that sustains life on this planet.

And I think it is no accident, Jennifer, that only now at the end of this cycle, when the experts tell us we are faced with the greatest threats and challenges that human kind has ever faced. 5000 years of history. The greatest number of challenges and the greatest magnitude of challenges. That at the same time we are learning the language of the human heart that allows us to communicate with the fields that are going through the change.

And for the first time we have a science based initiative called Global Coherence Initiative, GCI, that is linking people in a family, in a community, not unlike the community we have with us tonight. And for people that would like to know more about this, I'm going to encourage you, it’s all free. If you go to my web site greggbraden.com. The middle of the home page is a link. It says click here to learn about Global Coherence. It will give you a slide show, and it gives you the opportunity, you can do everything from passively watching this project and I’ll describe it in a minute; to actually becoming a member of the community that is learning to create this coherence and part of the webinars and part of the experiments that are happening. Even one step further, becoming trained yourself so you can train other people in sharing the gift of coherence in our lives.

Jennifer: Well you know what’s interesting is that the guest next week on the show is Eric Pearl. Who talks about the fields quite a bit, and he talks about your material and Howard Martin.

Gregg: Vice President of this division of Heart Math, the Heart Math Institute- HEARTMATH all one word- They are the pioneers in exploring heart based technologies. They are the ones heading up this non profit project. And for transparency, I am both on the steering committee as well as the advisory board for this project because I believe so strongly in it. Howard will be a guest I think it’s in early April.

And it’s a 2 tier project. 2 layer project. One layer Jennifer, that is just fascinating to me is they’ve learned to build the sensors that can actually read these magnetic fields and put the images day by day on the web site so we can see with our own eyes how these magnetic fields shift in response to collective changes and emotions. Now that is fascinating in itself.

The second tier are the training programs and the ways to come together as a community to share this coherence and to positively affect our transition in our time in history. And the beauty is we don’t have to change anything we do. We’re not changing anything you pray or meditate or what you believe. You don’t have to follow a practice.

Its just about learning to do what you’re already doing from a heart based rather than a brain based perspective and that is the big hurdle for a lot of people.

So that’s all. We covered a lot of ground and that’s the closure, the completion of why this 2012 window is so powerful. It’s a choice point. And now we have the language to choose. And it’s the language of our most ancient and cherished spiritual traditions based on the heart. What a beautiful symmetry.

The thing is there are a lot of people on this planet. We all think differently. We all learn differently.

Gregg: And that’s the beauty of so many different traditions if we can get past judging one is right or wrong from the other one and embrace the wisdom they all bring to the table. What we find is that for 5000 in one way or another we have all been preparing for a moment in time that we are going to live in this generation. The close of a great world age. Not the end of the world, but the end of a world age. And by definition because it’s a cycle, the end of anything is the beginning of what comes next. And we can just as easily say we are giving birth to a sixth world age. We are giving birth to a new 5125 year long cycle.

I am not sugar coating this. I am not saying this is a bed of roses or we don’t have challenges and people aren’t suffering.

But I am saying that I believe... This is almost like a really, very cool science fiction narrative.

Where people on the world began a journey so long ago that no one living today even remembers the beginning of the journey or even why we are on the journey.

And its in the last moments of the journey, when the greatest threats to our survival as individuals, our way of life, our civilization and our planet; when the greatest threats show up we discover the way to successfully complete our journey is to embrace the great gift that we had all along and that is the gift of the language of the heart that speaks to the systems that are going through the change. Isn’t that beautiful?

one of the new discoveries is that the human heart literally has its own brain like tissue. Neuro tissue in the heart. And please everyone, Howard Martin is worth spending an evening of your time listening to. He is funny, he is a brilliant man. He has a beautiful heart. And he will talk about what is called heart intelligence. Heart intelligence is when we get out of our mind in the presence of the great decision and choices we have to make and go into this neural center in our heart. And its kind of like a muscle that maybe you are not used to using. Some are very used to it. So some are saying, “what’s the big deal?” And others are saying, “huh?”

But when we use it a few times, its becomes almost second nature. It’s like remembering something we forgot a long time ago. And it’s this heart based intelligence that I believe is the basis for a successful civilization. And if we are going to learn from the mistakes of our past, and these were very successful, powerful civilizations. Jennifer, they have even found electrical wires in clay tubes running underground and batteries that could hold a current. So we think they may even have had electricity used for lighting, we don’t know. They had highly advanced architecture, mathematics, they had all these things, but had they evolved to a point where it made sense for humans to cooperate and work together through the greatest challenges and are we making that mistake now. This is the choice that we are all making.

Jennifer: Yeah, that’s the question I have for you. From your perspective, have we reached that critical mass? Have we reached that point? I think you’ve talked in other places, I’ve heard you talk about how we avoided some of the destruction of the darkness and so I’d love to hear examples of that and also does there need to be a critical mass? Are we there yet?

Gregg: I'm going to answer these in reverse. The whole idea of critical mass, we are actually rewriting the rules for how we deal with the challenges of our time. And the way we are rewriting them, Jennifer, a lot of people say they do not like what is happening in the world so they are going to fight what is happening in the world. When we choose with the heart, we are not fighting a system that exists, we’re saying, “that system is there”, you know, “god bless it. We are choosing another way of being and there is a huge HUGE energetic advantage to choose a way of being instead of resisting what is already in place. And when we make those choices… Are there any Star Trek fans?

Jennifer: I am!

Gregg: Ok, then maybe you know this. In one of the early episodes in the Star Trek academy, there was a puzzle that every star ship person, any of the officers had to solve this problem.

Jennifer: They failed.

Gregg: the unsolvable problem. And I thin it was Kirk. Was it Kirk or was it…?

Jennifer: Yes it was Kirk. It was Kirk.

Gregg: The only way he solved it, you couldn’t solve the problem. He rewrote the rules to define...

Jennifer: He cheated! (laughter)

Gregg: We are rewriting the rules.

Jennifer: Got it.

Gregg: In this polarity world, if we are going to fight the things; and you know at the 3 dimensional level sometimes it makes sense to fight, but what I'm saying is now we are looking at a new way of being with consciousness. We are moving beyond battling, guys bumping chests and governments and civilizations. We are now going to source of the energy and a powerful choice is different from aggressive resistance. And I think this is one of the things we are learning. When people choose with the heart, and this is why I am answering the question this way, then the old linear hundred monkey idea no longer applies. You no longer need to have a certain number of people. What happens is, a relatively few people, who clearly concisely speak with the language of the heart, that field is experienced by many. And not everyone of the 6 billion people on the earth have to make a choice to benefit. And in all honesty this is why I began the program, thanking you and thanking our listeners. Because there are a lot of people tonight that simply do not have the luxury to sit by a phone or computer to sit and do what we are doing. They are too busy trying to live until tomorrow. They are just trying to get through to the end of the day. That’s us. That’s our family. And by us, we are all working together by us learning and embracing the gift of life and the power of heart based language on the planet right now. When we, a relatively few number of people learn to do that really well, everyone benefits, because there is no them and us. And we talk about people in government making those choices, those people are there because we empowered them to be there. There is no them and us. There is a we. They are plugged into the same fields we are. And they feel the ripple effect and the stress waves, and the coherence that we create. And we never have to say a word. You dont have to make a big deal about it saying, “Hey. We’re going to smooth out the coherence of the planet.” We don’t have to do that.

Jennifer: We don’t have to march on Washington as the Coherence Alliance.

Gregg: No but its fun. Its fun to do that.

Jennifer: Yea.

Gregg: Its subtle and its powerful. And this is the irony of our time in history or learning that we are actually part of the fields that are going to change. When we live in that heart centered way, cooperation makes a lot of sense.

For example. Right now. A lot of people do not know this because the economy is over shadowing it. The United States government, right now Congress is determining whether or not to aprocreate hundreds of billions of dollars to refurbish our nuclear arsenal. Because the triggers were built in the 50 and 60’s. They deteriorate and get old. That’s a lot of money.

There was a time in our history, where the world was so insane that maybe it made sense to have that arsenal. But there is also a time right now where just possibly, if we walk away from the expenditures for those weapons and set an example for the rest of the world and said, “We’re living a rare moment of crisis on this plane. Lets take this money and help one another. And other countries then didn’t feel threatened and do the same thing. That could just possibly set the template for a beautiful level of cooperation on this planet that we haven’t seen, if ever for a very long time.

Jennifer: Do you think that’s possible Gregg?

Gregg: I am so encouraged by what I see. I don’t know why. I think we are taking a rough road to a better world. I really believe that. Why we took this long hard route that caused so much suffering and why we all had to hurt in our lives. Every person listening tonight, everyone of you, the only way you could be here is to have a lot of hurt in your life. Because the world we are living in, is a world that hasn’t made sense to us and I know all of you have been through it in one way or another. Economically, in personal relationships, financially, we have all lost people and things that we love and hold dear. Why? What’s that all about? Why have we gone through all of that? I don’t have the answer for that. But what I do know, is that we are here for much more than to see this planet and our species perish from 3 years from now. We have the power, we have the technology, and I think we are actually all really good people. And when you see us doing things that don’t make any sense I think that it comes from a place of hurt.

Jennifer: Yes. I agree. I completely agree.

Gregg: You know there was a study that was done, 400 studies were done after 9/11 to find out if humans are inherently a violent species. In all 400 studies came back with the same answer. That we are actually a peaceful, peace loving species. However there are 3 conditions that we will betray our true nature of peace and we will become violent. Those three conditions are when we feel personally threatened; when we feel that our families are threatened; or when we feel that our way of life is threatened. And you look at the conditions in the world where the greatest terror is occurring, and all three of those conditions apply to those people. I am not justifying it. I am not condoning it. I'm not saying it is the reason these things are happening. But what I am saying is if people are looking for a way to make sense out of the senseless, we might begin looking at how to help one another feel safe personally, feel safe for our families and feel whatever our little way of life is, that we can preserve that personally while we work together collectively for a new way to live on this planet.

Jennifer: I have this wonderful community of people. The people that seem to be attracted to this community seem to have that kind of an energy. And would just I ask of them to even take it that much further. And kind of look at the people within the community, look at the speakers. Look at me even, as someone who is holding an intention of honor, or integrity, of support of love. And I think, I sometimes get some pretty wild emails from people, I'm sure you do too Gregg.

Gregg: Yea

Jennifer: Where people immediately assume that you’re trying to do them harm. And I know that that comes from a place of hurt. And I know the work I do with people it comes from a place with trauma- usually.

And I think there is an opportunity for us, everyone on this call right in this moment to make a little agreement with ourselves. I have to do this for myself too. I have those moments myself. Where we get to make an agreement with ourselves that I'm going to give someone the benefit of the doubt until the doubt has been removed. There are still people out there who aren’t necessarily in a place that can offer that to us.

Gregg: People come to me and say it can’t be that easy. It has got to be more than what we’re talking about. What I know is this. We have learned a way of being that has served us so well that it got us to the point where we are right now.

Jennifer: Right. It protected us in many ways.

Gregg: Exactly. And it made sense. And at the same time for that to go away, you cant simple stop one way of being in an instant and say, “now what do we do?” And figure out a new way.

The new way has to develop while the old way is in place. There has to be that overlap. And then when the old way falls away, the new structure is already in place. And this is why we have people on this planet, God bless them, are doing both.

Our military is buying us precious time, precious time of a relatively peaceful world. It could be a lot worse. Do we have the wisdom to know what to do with that peace? When we choose that peace in our lives, their job become obsolete. And this is what we’re working for. In that way I think we’re all working together doing the only thing we know how to do to build a better world and become good people.

Jennifer: So Theresa asked a question. And I know that other people are kind feeling this too on this call. Can one person really really make a difference? If so, what then can I do to make a positive shift for the greater whole?

Gregg: I want to say absolutely one person can make a difference. One person clearly, cleanly embodying these principals in their everyday sphere of life; and you don’t have to broadcast you’re doing it. You don’t have to go around with a big badge saying, “I'm living a new way.” Just by example I’ve seen this happen. I’ve seen one person do this in a corporate board room. And other people in that board room responded to the way this one person was solving problems and from that corporation, other corporations like the United Nations were influenced. And the decisions were made all based on changes that happened in one meeting in one day from one person choosing to work cooperatively and to come from a heart centered solution rather than bumping chest, yelling and saying the kinds of things that people say when they are angry. One person, one person did that. I’ve seen that happen.

Jennifer: And it doesn’t have to be the CEO in a board room.

Gregg: It wasn’t a CEO. It actually was an advisor that the CEO had asked to come in to help. And this was in the defense industry.

Jennifer: In the defense industry?

Gregg: Yup. During the cold war years. And most of the people in the board room were retired military. Most of them were male. Most of them had learned to solve problems by yelling, pounding fists, and with brute force. That was just their path.

And I saw someone come in that had a completely different approach. Didn’t announce it. Didn’t broadcast it. Just began solving the problem differently. And everyone responded unconsciously.

It’s kind of like you could be driving to church with your friends on a Sunday morning listening to the oldies and really rocking out on the road. And the minute you step into that church, there is a different vibe going on in that room. And everyone responds. The people in you’re group. 5 seconds ago you were rocking to the oldies and now you have gone within and you’ve become in a very different space. It’s unconscious. And that’s the way it works in a board room. I'm just using that as an example.

Jennifer: Yea, No. It is a perfect example. And so every singly person on this call, if you come from a heart centered place and practice the principals that pretty much every speaker is talking about.

Gregg: The thing with heart math is they are giving us modern techniques that are verifiable. There are feed back mechanisms that Howard will talk about that tell us, we don’t have to guess when we are incoherent.

Jennifer: Yes. I got the EM wave. I got it right after our last call.

Gregg: Absolutely. This is what makes it different. For the first time. I mean everybody here has probably been involved in these calls where they say on noon on Saturday go into your heart and feel peace in the Middle East. And we all do it. And it probably helps.

But realistically, we don’t know when we are incoherent. So we don’t know how many of us are moving into coherence. The beauty of what heart math has pioneered, is we now have the technology that can be loaded into your lap top or a little device the size of your cell phone that tells us with no question when we are incoherent and then we know what feeling it takes to make that happen. I'm not a big gadget person. Give that gadget to somebody else.

Jennifer: Well, yea. It trains you to feel what it is like to be coherent.

Gregg: First of all, are we on a hard stop? Can we go longer?

Jennifer: We can go just a few minutes longer, at least 5 minutes.

Gregg: Here is a true story and I talked about it in the book. This is the scnyronicity of the universe putting all these things together because the players never knew what was happening.

It was the closest that we ever came to a nuclear exchange between the 2 super powers. And I'm going to share a story that we didn’t even know about until the end of the cold war when the Russians, former Soviet Union, declassified their documents.

1983 cold war was raging and there was civilian airliner, that straight off coarse about 200 miles over Russia was shot down by the Russia military mistakenly. They thought it was a spy plane. 265 civilians including a United States Congressman were on that plane. Lawrence McDonald. And they were all killed. And in the paranoia of the cold war, the Soviet Union thought we would interpret that as an act of war and we would attack them. And in that paranoid thinking they said, “Ah. We’ll beat them to the punch and surprise and attack them first.”

It was the closest that we ever came to being surprised by nuclear attack from another power. And if it had happened, it would have been a surprise because we didn’t even know they were planning it.

Now, here is the flip side. And somewhere in heaven got to be looking down and shaking their heads saying, “Look at these people on Earth. What are they doing?” Because it happens that precisely during this period of time, the largest experiment in human consciousness testing the power of creating peace was unfolding. And this was one of the TM experiments through the Siti techniques; TM Transmittal Meditation experiments. Where they have 7000 people that were crating peace in their bodies using the SITI techniques. And the effects were so profound, statistically that the effects were felt from Australia to Europe, through he United States.

They were measured, they were documented. And it was precisely when we came the closest to having the closest to having that nuclear attack, and it would have been an exchange afterwards, that the experiment happened and for reason that no one has been able to explain cooler heads prevailed and everybody backed off the trigger. And I think it was no accident that we backed away from the trigger precisely the day the experiment was happening. I document this in the book. And I tell people if they want to read more about that where they can.

But I think this is one of the first times we have learned definitively that human consciousness in one place has a powerful and profound effect that is not limited to the place where people haven’t had experience. And the peace was the effect that came from feeling peace. And to me that opens the door to all the possibilities. Isn’t that a cool story?

Jennifer: That is so cool. But someone asked an interesting question. This happens to be the foundation of my work too. It’s not just being positive. Each of us have traumas and negative and unconscious beliefs and I think our goal is to access those -not stick our heads in the positive sand of life reaffirmation. But use the challenges that come up before us. Like this big one is. And the little ones, well they may be big for us as they use up in our life. Use that them to access that more negative content within us to release it, realign it, re-pattern it and let it go so we can find easily and effortlessly more times of coherence. Do you think that’s true?

Gregg: Couldn’t have said it better myself. Absolutely, I think that’s it. But the key, and this is what may be a little differently, is when we move into this heart centered way of living and heart based techniques, many people have been conditioned to believe that it is a relaxation or a letting go or almost of a zoning out. It is just the opposite. It is an active form of concentration. To hold the focus in a precise way where it is useful. At least once go through the techniques with a heart math trainer or Howard will talk to you about this. Don’t miss Howard’s program. I'm going to be turned in for Howard’s program.

Jennifer: Awesome!

Gregg: So it’s a very active form of concentration but it’s a concentration that holds the focus in the human heart.

Jennifer: Right. Oh my goodness. We are absolutely out of time. We are about to get cut off.

For those of you that are interested I have a special link to Gregg’s Book launch on March 17. It’s a really cool site that I think is still up that Hayhouse put together for the book launch. Where you can get all kinds of wonderful gifts from some people who are supporting this whole idea of 2012. It’s a beautiful site too.

www.Healingwiththemasters.com/gregg

And also the email just I sent prior to the show if you click on the link it will take you to that site.

You can buy the book. I think there is a prize with Abraham Hicks too, isn’t there?

Gregg: I have never been on a book launch before. I think yes.

Jennifer: What a delight at always. I know we actually have had moments of coherence on the call. I can feel the energy emanating from this group. Feel your hearts right now everyone and bring that heart energy into your life and everyone you meet. Thank you so much Gregg. What a wonderful program.

Gregg: Jennifer thank you for being such a gracious host. Thank you all of our guests. I want to say God bless everyone. Its not the end of the world, it’s the end of a great world age and what comes next and we are all part of it.

Science and Parallel Universes etc

2009-06-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

Current science on parallel universes:

“There are vibrations of different universes right here, right now. We’re just not in tune with them. There are probably other parallel universes in our living room—this is modern physics. This is the modern interpretation of quantum theory, that many worlds represents reality.”

~Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, Professor and Bestselling Author

“There are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast all around you from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car or living room is full of these radio waves. However if you turn on a radio, you can listen to only one frequency at a time; these other frequencies are not in phase with each other. Each station has a different frequency, a different energy. As a result, your radio can only be turned to one broadcast at a time. Likewise, in our universe we are *tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.”

~Professor Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)

We are facing a revolution in our thinking about the physical universe

“Today, probably more than in any other day, we are facing a revolution in our thinking about the physical universe—the stuff that you and I are made of. This revolution, brought to a head by the discoveries of the new physics, including relativity and quantum mechanics, appears to reach well beyond our preconceived vision, based as it was on the concept of concrete solid reality.”

~ Dr Fred Alan Wolf, Author and Physicist

How to Protect Your Email Address Book from Spreading to Your Friends

2009-06-03T12:30:00.000-07:00

How to protect your e-mail address book (received in an email today from my mom):

A computer repairman says this is like having gold. This is a good thing.
I learned a computer trick today that's really ingenious in its simplicity.

As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer it heads straight for your email address book, and sends itself to everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and associates.

This trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will alert you to the factthat the worm has gotten into your system.

Here's what you do:

First, open your address book and click on 'new contact,' just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of email addresses. In the window where youwould type your friend's first name, type in 'A'.

For the screen name or email address, type AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA

Now, here's what you've done and why it works:
The 'name 'A' will be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1.

This will be where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your friends. When it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA, it will be undeliverable because of the phony email address you entered. If the first attempt fails(which it will because of the phony address), the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.

Here's the second great advantage of this method:

If an email cannot be delivered, you will be notified of this in your In Boxalmost immediately. Hence, if you ever get an email telling you that an email addressed to AAAAAAA@AAA.AAA could not be delivered, you know right away that you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps to get rid of it!

Pretty slick huh?

If everybody you know does this then you need not ever worry about opening mail from friends. DO IT NOW and pass this on to all your friends.

Hydrogen Peroxide- what they never told you.

2009-06-03T11:10:00.001-07:00

I have been researching the benefits of hydrogen peroxide for a while. For the moment I am only going to post some information on the subject. The particular benefits I am looking into is the food grade 35% hydrogen peroxide.

It is EXTREMELY important to note that this is a substance that needs to be treated with caution. If taken improperly it could result in injuries. For example a child drinking out the bottle would result in a trip to the ER- but the diluted dose (starting with 1 drop in a 8 oz cup of water in the morning of the first day and then 2 more times that day and adding one drop per day) will reap many benefits. It is also important to be careful when you handle the bottle. In its undiluted form it can upset the skin if it is in concentrated doses. Usually it just turns your skin white if its a little bit, but in extreme cases (if someone poured the bottle on their arm- which would be stupid to do) it can burn the skin and need medical treatment.

For those of you who have heard of the One Minute Cure and wanted to know more like myself, I hope you find this information helpful. Also, just for my peace of mind I want to remind you I am not a doctor (didnt want any needless lawsuits etc).

Here is some of the information I found on the subject. I have included the web page of each article at the bottom so you can check it out for yourself:

Hydrogen peroxide is one interesting substance! Hydrogen peroxide should really be called hydrogen dioxide. Its chemical formula is H2O2 - it contains one more atom of oxygen than water (H2O).

By now everyone is aware of the ozone layer that surrounds the Earth. Ozone consists of three atoms of oxygen (O3). This protective layer of ozone is created when ultraviolet light from the sun splits an atmospheric oxygen molecule (O2) into two single, unstable oxygen atoms. These single molecules combine with others to form ozone (O3). Ozone is not stable. In fact, it will quickly give up that extra store of oxygen to falling rainwater to form hydrogen peroxide (H2O2).

It is the hydrogen peroxide in rainwater that makes it so much more effective that tap water when given to plants. With the increased levels of atmospheric pollution, however, greater amounts of H2O2 react with air-borne toxins and never reach the ground. To compensate for this, many farmers have been increasing crop yields by spraying them with diluted hydrogen peroxide (5 to 16 oz of 35% mixed with 20 gal. of water per acre).

You can achieve the same beneficial effect with your house plants by adding one ounce of 3% hydrogen peroxide (or 16 drops of 35% solution) to every quart of water you give your plants. (It can also be made into an excellent safe insecticide. Simply spray your plants with 8 ounces of 3% peroxide mixed with 8 ounces of white sugar and one gallon of water.)

Hydrogen peroxide is odorless and colorless, but not tasteless. When stored under the proper conditions it is a very stable compound. When kept in the absence of light and contaminants it dissimulates, or breaks down, very slowly - at the rate of about 10% a year. (This can be slowed even further by storing the liquid in the freezer.) It boils at 152 degrees Celsius and freezes at minus 2 degrees Celsius.

The closer you look at hydrogen peroxide,
the less surprising it becomes that it can help such a wide variety of conditions.

When exposed to other compounds hydrogen peroxide decomposes readily into oxygen and water. In nature, oxygen (O2) consists of two atoms, and is thereby a very stable combination. A single atom of oxygen, however, is very reactive and is referred to as a free radical.

Yet, over and over we continually read that these free radicals are responsible for all types of ailments, and even premature aging. What many writers seem to forget, however, is that our bodies create and use free radicals to destroy harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

In fact, the cells responsible for fighting infection and foreign invaders in the body (your white blood cells) make hydrogen peroxide and use it to oxidize any offending culprits. The intense bubbling you see when hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with a bacteria-laden cut or wound is oxygen being released and bacteria being destroyed.

The ability of our cells to produce hydrogen peroxide is essential for life. H2O2 is not some undesirable by-product or toxin, but a basic requirement for good health.

Newer research indicates we need hydrogen peroxide for a multitude of other chemical reactions that take place throughout the..Newer research indicates we need hydrogen peroxide for a multitude of other chemical reactions that take place throughout the body. For example, we now know that vitamin C helps fight infections by producing hydrogen peroxide, which in turn stimulates the production of prostaglandin’s. Also lactobacillus, found in the colon and vagina, produce hydrogen peroxide. This destroys harmful bacteria and viruses, preventing colon disease, vaginitis, bladder infections, and a host of common ailments. (Infect Dis News Aug. 8,91:5) When lactobacillus in the colon or vaginal tract have been overrun with harmful viruses, yeast or bacteria, an effective douche or enema solution can be made using 3 tablespoons of 3% H2O2 in 1 quart of distilled water. Keep in mind, however, that a good bacterial flora must always be re-established in those areas to achieve lasting results.

Also regarding enemas and douches, there is another misconception about H2O2 I need to address. The friendly bacteria in the colon and vagina are aerobic. In other words, they flourish in high oxygen environments and thrive in the presence of oxygen environments and thrive in the presence of oxygen rich H2O2. On the other hand,most strains of harmful bacteria (and cancer cells) are anaerobic and cannot survive in the presence of oxygen or H2O2.

Hydrogen peroxide produced within individual body cells is essential for life.And no one doubts its effectiveness when it comes to treating infections topically. The controversy deals with ingesting the substance orally or introducing it into the body intravenously. The dispute has been going on for decades (and considering the attitude of our medical community - it will continue for many more decades).

I admit that I was personally skeptical when I first learned about using H2O2 orally, or intravenously. This healthy dose of skepticism, however, led to a great deal of investigation, clinical work, and experimentation. I realize a large majority of readers will probably never be convinced that H2O2 is a safe and effective compound, I am. Hydrogen peroxide is safe, readily available and dirt cheap. And best of all - it works!

No one fully understands the complete workings of hydrogen peroxide. We do know that it is loaded with oxygen.

(A pint of the food-grade 35% solution contains the equivalent of 130 pints of oxygen. A pint of 3% hydrogen peroxide found at the local drugstore contains 10 pints of oxygen. And a pint of the 6% solution used to bleach hair contains 20 pints of oxygen.) We also know that when H2O2 is taken into the body (orally or intravenously), the oxygen content of the blood and body tissues increases dramatically. Early researchers felt these increases were simply due to the extra oxygen molecule being released. This doesn’t, however, appear to be the case. Only very diluted amounts of H2O2 are ever introduced into the body. The small amount of oxygen present could not be solely responsible for the dramatic changes that take place. Dr. Charles Farr, a strong proponent of intravenous use, has discovered another possible answer.

Dr. Farr has shown that hydrogen peroxide stimulates enzyme systems throughout the body. This triggers an increase in the metabolic rate, causes small arteries to dilate and increase blood flow, enhances the body’s distributions and consumption of oxygen and raises body temperature.

(Proceedings of the Internationals Conference on Bio-Oxidative Medicine 1989, 1990, 1991)

We are just beginning to learn exactly how H2O2 works…

H2O2 was reported to work as far back as 1920. Later, The Lancet, an English Medical Journal, reported that intravenous infusion was used successfully to treat pneumonia in the epidemic following World War I. In the 1940s, Father Richard Willhelm, the pioneer in promoting peroxide use, reported on the compound being used extensively to treat everything from bacterial-related mental illness to skin disease and polio. (Father Willhelm is the found of Educational Concern for Hydrogen Peroxide, ECHO, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public on the safe use and therapeutic benefits of hydrogen peroxide.)

Much of the interest in hydrogen peroxide waned in the 1940s when prescription medications came on the scene. Since then, there has been little economic interest in funding peroxide research. After all, it is dirt cheap and non-patentable.

Even still, in the last 25 years, over 7,700 articles relating to hydrogen peroxide have been written in Medical Journals. Thousands more articles, illuminating its therapeutic use, have appeared in alternative health publications.

While the number of conditions helped by hydrogen peroxide are astounding, the reported dangers and side effects are few and often conflicting.

Let’s look at several conditions that seem to respond especially well to H2O2 therapy. First, keep in minds that there are two methods ofadministering the peroxide - orally and intravenously. While most conditions respond remarkably to oral ingestion, emphysema is one condition in which intravenous infusion can be a godsend.

It is obvious that our oxygen needs are not being met.

Several of the most common ailments now affecting our population are directly related to oxygen starvation:

Asthma, emphysema and lung disease are on the rise,especially in the polluted metropolitan areas. Cases of constipation, diarrhea, intestinal parasites and bowel cancer are all on the upswing. Periodontal disease is endemic in the adult population of this country. Cancer of all forms continues to increase. Immune system disorders are sweeping the globe. Chronic fatigue (the so-called “Yuppie Flu”) and hundreds of other strange viral diseases have begun to surface.

Ironically, many of the new “miracles” drugs and nutritional supplements used to treat these conditions work by increasing cellular oxygen (oftentimes through H2O2 formation). For example, the miracle nutrients, Coenzyme Q10, helps regulate intercellular oxidation which received considerable publicity not too long ago, also increased oxygen levels at the cellular level. And even substances like niacin and vitamin E promote tissue oxidation through the dilation of blood vessels.

Hydrogen peroxide is only one of the man components that help regulate the amount of oxygen getting to your cells.

Its presence is vital for many other functions as well:

It is required for the production of thyroid hormone and sexual hormones. (Mol Cell Endocrinol 86;46 (2) 149-15 Steroids 82;40 (5) : 569-579)

It stimulates the production of interferon. (J Immunol 85;134 (4) : 24-12455)

It dilates blood vessels in the heart and brain. (Am J Physiol 86;250 (5 pt 2): H815-821 and (2 pt 2) :H157-162)

It improves glucose utilization in diabetics. (Proceedings of the IBOM Conference 1989, 1990, 1991)

Possible Reactions to Hydrogen Peroxide

Skin eruptions, nausea, sleepiness, unusual fatigue, diarrhea, colds, (in head or chest), ear infections, boils, or any other method that the body uses to emit toxins from the body! (The toxins have been rooted out by the use of hydrogen peroxide.)

This is the natural way for the body to cleanse and the natural cleansing will be of short duration, as you continue to maintain your program. Above all, even if you must decrease the dosage, it’s good to continue the program, don’t give up.

If you get a cleansing reaction, you may want to increase the dosage to hasten the cleansing. A cleansing is the effect of the body of bacteria dying off, or various forms of poisons being released through the eliminative organs of the body, i.e. skin, lungs, kidneys, and bowels.

Remember: When hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with virus and streptococcus, it will liberate free oxygen (O2).

This may be happening in your stomach. If your stomach feels uneasy, it is only the hydrogen peroxide seeking out the virus and streptococcus to destroy.

If you do choose to use Hydrogen Peroxide internally, read the information below thoroughly and use extreme caution.

http://answers-h2o2.com/h2o2-hydrogenperoxide

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The Many Benefits of Hydrogen Peroxide

http://educate-yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml
Posted July 17, 2003

(Original title: Hydrogen Peroxide - Curse or Cure?)

When it comes to hydrogen peroxide therapy there seems to be only two points of view. Supporters consider it one of the greatest healing miracles of all time. Those opposed feel its ingestion is exceptionally dangerous, and only the foolhardy could think of engaging in such behavior. Before either condemning or endorsing hydrogen peroxide, let’s take a real close look at what we’re dealing with.

If any substance is interesting, it’s hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide should really be called hydrogen dioxide. Its chemical formula is H2O2. It contains one more atom of oxygen that does water (H20). By now everyone’s aware of the ozone layer that surrounds the earth. Ozone consists of three atoms of oxygen (03). This protective layer of ozone is created when ultraviolet light from the sun splits an atmospheric oxygen molecule (02) into two single, unstable oxygen atoms. These single molecules combine with others to form ozone (03). Ozone isn’t very stable. In fact, it will quickly give up that extra atom of oxygen to falling rainwater to form hydrogen peroxide (H202). (Bear with me: all this chemistry mumbo jumbo I’m going through actually will help you understand the importance of hydrogen peroxide.)

Helps Plants
It is this hydrogen peroxide in rainwater that makes it so much more effective than tap water when given to plants. With the increased levels of atmospheric pollution, however, greater amounts of H202 react with air-borne toxins and never reach the ground. To compensate for this, many farmers have been increasing crop yields by spraying them with diluted hydrogen peroxide (5 to 16 ounces of 35% mixed with 20 gallons of water per acre). You can achieve the same beneficial effect with your house plants by adding 1 ounce of 3% hydrogen peroxide (or 16 drops of 35% solution) to every quart of water you give your plants. (It can also be made into an excellent safe insecticide. Simply spray your plants with 8 ounces of 3% peroxide mixed with 8 ounces of white sugar and one gallon of water.)

Hydrogen peroxide is odorless and colorless, but not tasteless. When stored under the proper conditions, it is a very stable compound. When kept in the absence of light and contaminants, it dismutates (breaks down) very slowly at the rate of about 10% a year. (This can be slowed even further by storing the liquid in the freezer.) It boils at 152 degrees C and freezes at minus 2 degrees C.

When exposed to other compounds hydrogen peroxide dismutates readily. The extra oxygen atom is released leaving H20 (water). In nature oxygen (02) consists of two atoms–a very stable combination. A single atom of oxygen, however, is very reactive and is referred to as a free radical. Over the past several years, we’ve continually read that these free radicals are responsible for all types of ailments and even premature aging. What many writers seem to forget, however, is that our bodies create and use free radicals to destroy harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi. In fact, the cells responsible for fighting infection and foreign invaders in the body (your white blood cells) make hydrogen peroxide and use it to oxidize any offending culprits. The intense bubbling you see when hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with a bacteria-laden cut or wound is the oxygen being released and bacteria being destroyed. The ability of our cells to produce hydrogen peroxide is essential for life. H202 is not some undesirable by-product or toxin, but instead a basic requirement for good health.

Newer research indicates we need hydrogen peroxide for a multitude of other chemical reactions that take place throughout the body. For example, we now know that vitamin C helps fight infections by producing hydrogen peroxide, which in turn stimulates the production of prostaglandins. Also lactobacillus found in the colon and vagina produce hydrogen peroxide. This destroys harmful bacteria and viruses, preventing colon disease, vaginitis, bladder infections and a host of other common ailments. (Infect Dis News Aug.8,91:5). When lactobacillus in the colon or vaginal tract have been overrun with harmful viruses, yeast, or bacteria, an effective douche or enema solution can be made using 3 tablespoons of 3% H202 in 1 quart of distilled water. Keep in mind, however, that a good bacterial flora must always be re-established in theses areas to achieve lasting results.

Aerobic versus Anerobic
While we are discussing enemas and douches, there is another misconception about H202 I need to address. The friendly bacteria in the colon and vagina are aerobic. In other words, they flourish in high oxygen environments and thrive in the presence of oxygen rich H202. On the other hand, most strains of harmful bacteria (and cancer cells) are anaerobic and cannot survive in the presence of oxygen or H202. We can agree that hydrogen peroxide produced within individual body cells is essential for life. And no one doubts its effectiveness when it comes to treating infections topically. The controversy deals with ingesting the substance orally or introducing it into the body intravenously. The dispute has been going on for decades, and considering the attitude of our medical community, it will continue for many more decades to come.

I’ll admit I was skeptical when I first learned about using H202 orally or intravenously. This healthy dose of skepticism, however, lead to a great deal of investigation, clinical work and experimentation. And while I realize a large majority of readers will probably never be convinced that H202 is a safe and effective compound, I am. Hydrogen peroxide is safe, readily available and dirt cheap. And best of all, it works! No one yet fully understands the complete workings of hydrogen peroxide. We do know that it is loaded with oxygen. (A pint of the food-grade 35% solution contains the equivalent of 130 pints of oxygen. A pint of 3% hydrogen peroxide found at the local drugstore contains 10 pints of oxygen. And a pint of the 6% solution used to bleach hair contains 20 pints of oxygen.) We also know that when H202 is taken into the body (orally or intravenously) the oxygen content of the blood and body tissues increases dramatically. Early researchers felt these increases were simply due to the extra oxygen molecule being released. This doesn’t however, appear to be the case.

Only very diluted amounts of H202 are ever introduced into the body. The small amount of oxygen present couldn’t be solely responsible for the dramatic changes that take place. Dr. Charles Farr, a strong proponent of intravenous use, has discovered another possible answer. Dr. Farr has shown that hydrogen peroxide stimulates enzyme systems throughout the body. This triggers an increase in the metabolic rate, causes small arteries to dilate and increase blood flow, enhances the body’s distribution and consumption of oxygen and raises body temperature (Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-Oxidative Medicine 1989, 1990, 1991).

Father Richard Willhelm
We are just beginning to learn exactly how H202 works. It was reported to work as far back as 1920. The English medical journal, Lancet, then reported that intravenous infusion was used successfully to treat pneumonia in the epidemic following World War I. In the 1940’s Father Richard Willhelm, the pioneer in promoting peroxide use, reported on the compound being used extensively to treat everything from bacterial-related mental illness to skin disease and polio. Father Willhelm is the founder of “Educational Concern for Hydrogen Peroxide” (ECHO, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public on the safe use and therapeutic benefits of hydrogen peroxide.) Much of the interest in hydrogen peroxide waned in the 1940’s when prescription medications came on the scene. Since that time there has been little economic interest in funding peroxide research. After all, it is dirt cheap and non-patentable. Even still, in the last 25 years, over 7,700 articles relating to hydrogen peroxide have been written in the standard medical journals. Thousands more, involving its therapeutic use, have appeared in alternative health publications. The number of conditions helped by hydrogen peroxide is astounding. The reported dangers and side effects are few and often conflicting.

Emphysema
Let’s look at several conditions that seem to respond especially well to H202 therapy. First, keep in mind that there are two methods of administering the peroxide-1) orally and 2) intravenously. While most conditions respond remarkably to oral ingestion, emphysema is one condition in which intravenous infusion can be a godsend. Emphysema involves destruction of the alveoli (the small air sacs in the lungs). Although chemical fumes and other irritants can cause the destruction, it is most often the result of smoking. As the disease progresses, the patient finds it more and more difficult to breathe. A wheel chair and supplemental oxygen become necessary as the disease progresses. Lack of adequate oxygen reaching the tissues forces the heart to pump more forcefully. This leads to high blood pressure, enlargement of the heart itself and eventually heart failure. Conventional medicine offers little help for emphysema. There is no cure. The best that can be hoped for is symptomatic relief and the prevention of any serious complications that might result in death. H202 therapy can offer more. Using 1 ounce of 35% peroxide per 1 gallon of non-chlorinated water in a vaporizer improves nighttime breathing tremendously. But intravenous infusion holds the real key to relief. It has the ability to cleanse the inner lining of the lungs and restore the ability to breathe.

We continue to hear the same story from Dr. Farr and others who use intravenous infusion for emphysema and congestive lung problems. Within minutes oxygen from hydrogen peroxide begins to bubble up between the membrane lining the lungs sacs and the accumulated mucus. (Dr. Farr refers to this as the “Alka-Seltzer effect.”) The patient begins to cough and expel the material that has accumulated in the lungs. The amount of bubbling, coughing, and cleansing can be regulated by simply turning the H202 on and off. As the peroxide clears the lung surface and destroys the bacterial infections, the patient regains the ability to breath more normally. We continue to receive reports from patients for whom the technique has improved breathing so much that a wheelchair and supplemental oxygen are no longer needed. If you would like to find a doctor in your area trained in the use of intravenous H202 infusion, contact the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation (IBOM), P.O. Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113 at (405) 478-4266. They can provide names and addresses of doctors using the procedure in your area.

If emphysema were the only ailment successfully treated with H202 therapy, it would still rank as one of the top health discoveries of all time. Fortunately, H202 works wonders on a multitude of health problems. It does so by increasing tissue oxygen levels. A closer look at how we have decreased the availability of external and internal oxygen, will show you just how important this can be. If you were not too occupied with trying to hide dissection specimens in the other student’s desks, you might remember from elementary science courses that our atmosphere contains about 20% oxygen. That is under ideal circumstances. It has recently been reported that in many of our more polluted cities, there levels have dropped to around 10%! (I have already mentioned how less hydrogen peroxide-containing rain is reaching the earth’s surface. With increased pollution it is reacting with airborne toxins before it even reaches the ground.) And everyone, by now, knows the oxygen-generating rain forests are being destroyed worldwide, which further reduces available oxygen. Internal oxygen availability is also under attack.

Chlorination of drinking water removes oxygen. Cooking and over-processing of our foods lowers their oxygen content. Unrestrained antibiotic use destroys beneficial oxygen-creating bacteria in the intestinal tract. Dr. Johanna Budwig of Germany has shown that for proper cellular utilization of oxygen to take place, our diets must contain adequate amounts of unsaturated fatty acids. Unfortunately, the oils rich in these fatty acids have become less and less popular with the food industry. Their very nature makes them more biologically active, which requires more careful processing and gives them a shorter shelf-life. Rather than deal with these challenges, the food industry has turned to the use of synthetic fats and dangerous processes like hydrogenation.

It’s obvious that our oxygen needs are not being met. Several of the most common ailments now affecting our population are directly related to oxygen starvation. Asthma, emphysema, and lung disease are on the rise, especially in the polluted metropolitan areas. Cases of constipation, diarrhea, intestinal parasites and bowel cancer are all on the upswing. Periodontal disease is endemic in the adult population of this country. Cancer of all forms continues to increase. Immune system disorders are sweeping the globe. Chronic fatigue, “Yuppie Flu” and hundreds of other strange viral diseases have begun to surface. Ironically, many of the new “miracle” drugs and nutritional supplements used to treat these conditions work by increasing cellular oxygen (oftentimes through H202 formation). For example, the miracle nutrient, Coenzyme Q10, helps regulate intercellular oxidation. Organic germanium, which received considerable publicity not too long ago, also increases oxygen levels at the cellular level. And even substances like niacin and vitamin E promote tissue oxidation through their dilation of blood vessels.

Hydrogen peroxide is only one of the many components that help regulate the amount of oxygen getting to your cells. Its presence is vital for many other functions as well. It is required for the production of thyroid hormone and sexual hormones. (Mol Cell Endocrinol 86;46(2): 149-154) (Steroids 82;40(5):5690579). It stimulates the production of interferon (J Immunol 85;134(4):24492455). It dilates blood vessels in the heart and brain (Am J Physiol 86;250 (5 pt 2): H815-821 and (2 pt 2):H157-162). It improves glucose utilization in diabetics (Proceedings of the IBOM Conference 1989, 1990, 1991). The closer you look at hydrogen peroxide, the less surprising it becomes that it can help such a wide variety of conditions.

The following is only a partial listing of conditions in which H202 therapy has been used successfully. (Many of these conditions are serious, if not life-threatening. As always, I would highly recommend seeking the advice and guidance of a doctor experienced in the use of these techniques.)

[8:38:31 PM] _Sophie Maven: Asthma
Bacterial Infections
Bronchitis
Cancer
Candida
Cardiovascular Disease
Cerebral Vascular Disease
Chronic Pain
Diabetes Type 2
Diabetic Gangrene
Diabetic Retinopahty
Digestion Problems
Emphysema
Epstein-Barr Infection
Erythematosis
Food Allergies
Fungal Infections
Gingivitis
Headaches
Herpes Simplex
Herpes Zoster
HIV
Infection
Influenza
Insect Bites
Liver Cirrhosis
Lupus
Multiple Sclerosis
Parasitic Infections
Parkinsonism
Periodontal Disease
Prostatitis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Shingles
Sinusitis
Sore Throat
Ulcers
Viral Infections
Warts
Yeast Infections

Grades of Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide is available in various strengths and grades.

A) 3.5% Pharmaceutical Grade: This is the grade sold at your local drugstore or supermarket. This product is not recommended for internal use. It contains an assortment of stabilizers which shouldn’t be ingested. Various stabilizers include: acetanilide, phenol, sodium stanate and tertrasodium phosphate.

B) 6% Beautician Grade: This is used in beauty shops to color hair and is not recommended for internal use.

C) 30% Reagent Grade: This is used for various scientific experimentation and also contains stabilizers. It is also not for internal use.

D) 30% to 32% Electronic Grade: This is used to clean electronic parts and not for internal use.

E) 35% Technical Grade: This is a more concentrated product than the Reagent Grade and differs slightly in that phosphorus is added to help neutralize any chlorine from the water used to dilute it.

F) 35% Food Grade: This is used in the production of foods like cheese, eggs, and whey-containing products. It is also sprayed on the foil lining of aseptic packages containing fruit juices and milk products. THIS IS THE ONLY GRADE RECOMMENDED FOR INTERNAL USE. It is available in pints, quarts, gallons or even drums. Various suppliers are mentioned later in this article.

G) 90%: This is used as an oxygen source for rocket fuel.

Only 35% Food Grade hydrogen peroxide is recommended for internal use. At this concentration, however, hydrogen peroxide is a very strong oxidizer and if not diluted, it can be extremely dangerous or even fatal. Any concentrations over 10% can cause neurological reactions and damage to the upper gastrointestinal tract. There have been two known fatalities in children who ingested 27% and 40% concentrations of H202. Recently, a 26 month old female swallowed one mouthful of 35% H202. She immediately began vomiting, followed by fainting and respiratory arrest. Fortunately, she was under emergency room care and although she experienced erosion and bleeding of the stomach and esophagus, she survived the incident. When she was re-examined 12 days later, the areas involved had healed (J Toxicol Clin Toxicol 90;28(1):95-100).

35% Food Grade H202 must be

1) handled carefully (direct contact will burn the skin–immediate flushing with water is recommended).

2) diluted properly before use. 3) stored safely and properly (after making a dilution the remainder should be stored tightly sealed in the freezer).

One of the most convenient methods of dispensing 35% H202 is from a small glass eye dropper bottle. These can be purchased at your local drugstore. Fill this with the 35% H202 and store the larger container in the freezer compartment of your refrigerator until more is needed. Store the eye dropper bottle in the refrigerator. The generally recommended dosage is outlined in the chart below. The drops are mixed with either 6 to 8 ounces of distilled water, juice, milk or even aloe vera juice or gel. (Don’t use chlorinated tap water to dilute the peroxide!)

Suggested Protocol
The program outlined is only a suggestion, but it is based on years of experience, and reports from thousands of users. Those who choose to go at a slower pace can expect to progress more slowly, but that certainly is an option. The program is not carved in stone and keep in mind that it can be adapted to fit individual needs. Individuals who have had transplants should not undertake an H202 program. H202 stimulates the immune system and could possibly cause a rejection of the organ.

Day # - Number of Drops/ Times Per Day
1 - 3 / 3
2 - 4 / 3
3 - 5 / 3
4 - 6 / 3
5 - 7 / 3
6 - 8 / 3
7 - 9 / 3
8 - 10 / 3
9 - 12 / 3
10 - 14 / 3
11 - 16 / 3
12 - 18 / 3
13 - 20 / 3
14 - 22 / 3
15 - 24 / 3
16 - 25 / 3

Maintenance Dosage
In most situations after the above 21 day program, the amount of H202 can be tapered off gradually as follows:
25 drops once every other day for 1 week
25 drops once every third day for 2 weeks
25 drops once every fourth day for 3 weeks

This can then be reduced to between 5 and 15 drops per week based on how one feels. Those with more serious problems will often benefit from staying on 25 drops three times a day for one to three weeks, then tapering down to 25 drops two times daily until the problem is resolved (possibly as long as six months). Those with chronic systemic Candidiasis may need to start with 1 drop three times a day, then 2 drops three times a day before starting the above schedule. It is important that H202 be taken on an empty stomach. This is best accomplished by taking it either one hour before meals or three hours after meals. If there is food in the stomach, the reaction of H202 on any bacteria present may cause excess foaming, indigestion, and possibly even vomiting. Additionally, some animal research indicates that when H202 given orally combines with iron and small amounts of vitamin C in the stomach, hydroxyl radicals are created (J Inorg Biochem 89;35(1):55-69). The bleach-like aftertaste of H202 can be lessened by chewing one of the sugar-free cinnamon gums. Some individuals taking H202 immediately before bedtime have a difficult time getting to sleep. This is probably due to a sense of alertness triggered by an increase of oxygen at the cellular level. The oral dosage schedule is basically the same for all conditions. There are several points to keep in mind, however.

Some individuals may experience upset stomach. If this occurs it is recommended that one not stop the program, but rather remain at the current dosage level or reduce it to the previous level until the problem stops. (Some patients have been able to solve the nausea problem by taking three or four lecithin capsules at the same time they take the H202.) During the program it’s not uncommon to experience what is known as a healing crisis. As dead bacteria and toxins are released from your body it may temporarily exceed your capacity to eliminate them quickly enough. In some individuals this overload may cause fatigue, diarrhea, headaches, skin eruptions, cold or flu-like symptoms, and/or nausea. One should not discontinue using the peroxide to stop this cleansing. By continuing the program, toxins will clear the body sooner and this healing crisis will pass rather quickly.

If you are not already taking vitamin E and an acidophilus product, I recommend starting them before going on H202. Vitamin E can make more efficient use of any oxygen available and acidophilus will help re-establish the beneficial bacterial flora in the lower bowel and also help in the internal production of hydrogen peroxide.

Making and Using 3% Solutions of H202
A 3.5% solution can be made quite easily by first pouring 1 ounce of 35% H202 into a pint jar. To this add 11 ounces of distilled water. This will make 12 ounces of 3.5% H202. 3.5% H202 has a variety of medicinal uses.

1. Three tablespoons mixed with a quart of non-chlorinated water makes a good enema or douche formula.
2. It can be used full strength as a mouthwash or mixed with baking soda for toothpaste.
3. It can be used full strength as a foot bath for athlete’s foot. (Diabetics have found relief from circulation problems by soaking their feet in 1 pint of 3% peroxide mixed with 1 gallon of warm, non-chlorinated water for 30 minutes nightly.)
4. A tablespoon added to 1 cup of non-chlorinated water can be used as a nasal spray. Depending on the degree of sinus involvement, one will have to adjust the amount of peroxide used. I have seen some who can use it at the full 3% strength and others who had difficulty with using a few drops and mixed with a cup of water.
5. 3.5% H202 can be added to pets drinking water at the rate of 1 ounce per quart of non-chlorinated water. Sick cattle reportedly benefit from 1 pint (of 3%) to each 5 gallons of water. (Chickens and cows have remained healthy by using 8 ounces of 35% H202 per 1,000 gallons of drinking water.)

Additional Information
There are two sources you should contact if you have an interest in using hydrogen peroxide therapy. The first, ECHO, was founded by Father Richard Willhelm and is run by Walter Grotz. Their information packet includes a sample newsletter, a list of H202 distributors and several other items. The packet is being made available to interested ALTERNATIVES readers for only $3. Their address is

ECHO Box 126
Delano, MN 55328

If you have an interest in contacting doctors who provide intravenous hydrogen peroxide therapy you can write to the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation (IBOM) at the address listed earlier in this article. You should also be aware that there are now numerous hydrogen peroxide products on the market. Some are simply peroxide that has been flavored and mixed with sea minerals, aloe vera, inner tree bark or other ingredients to make the peroxide more palatable (Superoxy, Oxy Toddy, etc.).

Others claim to have developed products that deliver more oxygen than does simple hydrogen peroxide (Aerox, Anti-Oxid-10, Di-Oxychloride, Aerobic 07, Aqua Pure, etc.). Basically you’ll end up paying a small fortune and at best achieving the same results you can get for pennies by using hydrogen peroxide.

Conclusion
Hydrogen peroxide is one of the few simple miracle substances still available to the public. Its safety and multiple uses ranks it right up there with DMSO. If you’ve never used either of these compounds you are overlooking two of the most powerful healing tools ever discovered. Most of us started on hydrogen peroxide shortly after birth. Not only does mother’s milk contain high amounts of H202, the amount contained in the first milk (colostrum) is even higher. This seems only reasonable now that we know one of its main functions is to activate and stimulate the immune system. Although I am a strong supporter of H202 therapy, I am not suggesting that everyone needs to be using it. There are probably some individuals whose health and well-being would not be enhanced with hydrogen peroxide. But there are also millions of others who are suffering needlessly because they either do not know about hydrogen peroxide or they have been misinformed about its use.

~ Afterword ~
The above copyrighted article has been reprinted with permission from Mountain House Publishing, P.O. Box 829, Ingram, TX 78025. It appeared in a recent issue of the health newsletter, ALTERNATIVES ($39.00/yr. 12 issues). Subscription information and/or a sample issue can be obtained by writing to the above address.

Source: Family Health News

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Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy: Supplement to The Art of Getting Well

Editor’s note: this is a very important article. Most of what I have read, don’t explain what the hydrogenperoxide does in your body. This does. It explains the miraculous changes I have experienced, and I have read in other literature, like the book, One Minute Cure for all Diseases

Here is the gist of what you will learn: What we think and hear, that hydrogenperoxide consumption provides additional oxygen to the oxygen deprived cells is both false and true: the complete truth, in layman’s language is: the hydrogen peroxide nudges the cell to take the oxygen that is available… and that is a big difference. Oxygen deprived cells may be oxygen deprived in a very oxygen rich environment, just like in diabetes type 2, the cells are glucose deprived in a very sweet environment. So the hydrogen peroxide forces the cell to open itself t the oxygen and use it… that is how cancer, etc. get killed. A cancer cell that gets the oxygen in dies as a result… and normal cells gain an incredible amount of health as a result, so much that they can fight off disease vigorously.

Quote: Cancer and many other degenerative diseases are thought to be the results of poor cellular oxidative processes. They are not the results of a reduced supply of oxygen. Persons with anemias or severe lung disease may have an oxygen deficit but do not necessarily have a greater incidence of Cancer or chronic diseases. The problem is not the delivery of oxygen to the cells but utilization by the cells. Hydrogen Peroxide affects utilization or oxidation dramatically whereas hyper-oxygenated or chlorinated molecules have not been shown to be necessary in the body to improve oxidative metabolism.1

Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician, or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment” - The Arthritis Trust of America.

Sources are given in references.

Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged; major author, if any, is underlined.

Charles Farr, M.D., Ph.D., William Campbell Douglass, M.D., Walter O. Grotz, Dr. Edward Rosenow /Responsible editor/writer Anthony di Fabio.

Copyright 1992

All rights reserved by The Roger Wyburn-Mason and Jack M. Blount Foundation for the Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

AKA The Arthritis Trust of America,
7111 Sweetgum Road, Suite A, Fairview, TN 37062-9384

I must report on this promising therapy, as so many physicians and patients have given me good tidings from its use. What is probably not so well known by the general public, and many practicing physicians, is that hydrogen peroxide has been used for more than a century, the abstracts of articles published from 1966 through 1988 alone reaches 2″ high when printed on 8-1/2″X11″ paper.

A number of clinics in the United States and Mexico use hydrogen peroxide therapy, as well as other treatment modalities, on a routine basis, usually given by intravenous injection (IV).

Before scoffing, keep in mind that one of the very first lines of defense against any and all microorganisms recognized as invaders by our immunological system are macrophages and leucocytes, one of which uses hydrogen peroxide to oxidize the foreigners; and that vitamin C is effective principally by its ability to promote hydrogen peroxide use against foreign invaders, including parasites, viruses, bacteria, yeast/fungus; and that all body tissues contain catalase and that hydrogen peroxide in the presence of catalase is reduced to oxygen and water. So, there is strong reason to believe that added hydrogen peroxide, used properly, may be both effective against certain organisms and safe.

Hydrogen peroxide is an essential metabolite, meaning that it is necessary to life’s process, according to William Campbell Douglass, M.D. of Georgia.

As we age, our immunological system weakens, which permits organisms of opportunity to spread, thereby breeding colonies of organisms whose presence is anathema to good health. Killing these organisms should permit at least temporary respite from microbial warfare, and give your system time to heal.

According to William Campbell Douglass, M.D.2, not only is H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) involved in phagocytosis (killing and absorption of foreign germs), but also “it acts like insulin in that it aids the transport of sugar through the body.” Is is also at least as important, or perhaps more so, than thyroid for heat generation because it creates “intraceullar thermogenesis, a warming of your cells which is absolutely essential to life’s processes.”

Various physicians, including some of our referral physicians, also use hydrogen peroxide therapy for various ailments. Physicians have independently discovered such treatments to be effective against some types of cancer, leukemia, arthritis, coronary heart disease, arterial circulation disorders, colitis, gum diseases, and assorted children’s diseases.

The First International Conference of Bio-oxidative Medicine was held February 17-19, 1989 in Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX. Physicians presented papers on the efficacy and safety of hydrogen peroxide infusions. Since that date the non-profit International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation2 has grown rapidly, attracting many physicians who have also presented many scholarly works based on their work with patients.

While Chelation Therapy is an extremely useful treatment and preventive measure for at least 80% of peripheral circulation problems, it apparently cannot clean out hardened plaque in arteries, like the large heart arteries and the aorta.3

According to Douglas, the Baylor University Medical Center may “have gone a long way toward proving that H2O2 dripped into the leg and carotid vessels of patients known to have severe arteriosclerosis will clear those arteries of disease. When these patients died, autopsies were done to compare arteries that had been treated with H2O2 with those not treated. They reported: `The elution [separation] of lipids from the arterial wall by dilute hydrogen peroxide has been accomplished. . . .’ In simple English that means the plaque buildup was removed by injecting H2O2 into the blood vessels. . . . That was over 20 years ago.”4

Dr. Douglass added that, “The investigators also reported that the improvement is not temporary.”

While H2O2 has been used to good advantage for hardening of the arteries, temporal arteritis, shingles, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the yeast syndrome, various viral infections, including AIDS, certain forms of cancer, dental gum diseases, colds (35% H2O2 in cold humidifier), growing better food, purifying water without chlorine complications, increasing thyroid activity, arthritis, depression, emphysema, lupus erythematosis, multiple sclerosis, . . ., a list of claims made would exceed our space limitations, and so I direct you to others for substantiation and research reports: The International Bio-Oxidative Foundation5 and ECHOS6, as per references.

A word of caution: while many reputable physicians and researchers have made legitimate claims on the safety and efficacy of H2O2 , it is my opinion that there are a lot of scam artists using or selling H2O2 , and so one must be careful. 7 I believe that you can rely on the work of the International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation and ECHOS.

There are also many important forgotten facts in the past medical literature. For example, William Campbell Douglass, M.D. reports on “Dr. Edward C. Rosenow, author of 450 published medical papers and associate at the Mayo Clinic for over 60 years . . . proved [more than] 70 years ago (1914) that bacteria could be found consistently in the lymph nodes that drain joints (J.A.M.A., April 11, 1914). He was probably the first scientist to postulate that H2O2 would help arthritis because of its ability to supply oxygen to oxygen-hating organisms causing arthritis (Streptococcus viridans).”

Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D., says, “Perhaps we have become myopic about biological oxidation! The majority of investigational studies seem to concentrate on the damaging effects of biological oxidation and the production of free radicals. Hydrogen peroxide is usually treated as a[n] intermediate or by-product of metabolism and considered of minor significance in metabolic pathways except as it relates to biochemical disruption, tissue or cellular damage.

We feel the physiological effects of bio-oxidation and, in particular hydrogen peroxide, should be investigated with a new prospect.

From the 2,500 or more references on hydrogen peroxide we have collected and reviewed we have come to appreciate this physiological product as a[n] extremely important molecule in metabolism. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by all cells of the body for many different physiological reasons. The granulocytes produce H2O2 as a first line of defense against bacteria, yeast, virus, parasites, macrophages, and most fungi. It is involved in any metabolic pathway which utilize oxidases, peroxidases, cyclo-oxygenase, lipoxygenase, myeloperoxidase, catalase and probably many other enzymes. Hydrogen peroxide is involved in protein, carbohydrate and fat metabolism, immunity, vitamin and mineral metabolism or any other system you might wish to explore.

Our studies demonstrate a positive metabolic effect to intravenous infusion of H2O2 . Its ability to oxidize almost any physiological or pathological substance, in addition to producing increased tissue and cellular oxygen tensions, has proven it to have therapeutic value.

“We feel the evidence presented should stimulate a new appreciation in the study of the potential therapeutic application of bio-oxidative mechanisms.”

Two Means of Administration

There are two ways to administer hydrogen peroxide for medical purposes. Both means require a pure grade of hydrogen peroxide which is something different than one can purchase at the drug store for topical treatment of sores and wounds. The 3% drugstore hydrogen peroxide also contains tin and phosphate compounds that are dangerous to consume either by means of IV (intravenous) or orally.

For sources of pure “food grade” oral or intravenous hydrogen peroxide, contact ECHO8.

I must caution at the outset that Dr. Farr and some other physicians11 do not approve of use of H2O2 for oral treatment, as so many treatment modalities describe9. The exact method for oral administration can also be obtained from ECHO.

Dr.Farr, and some other physicians, feel that free-radicals are produced in the stomach when H2O2 is administered orally, and these free-radicals are not safe. Combinations of fatty acids which are likely to be in the stomach in the presence of iron and ascorbate may reduce hydrogen peroxide to hydroxyl and superoxide free radicals. These may have a deleterious effect upon the gastric and duodonal mucosa, with an increase of glandular stomach erosion, duodonal hyperplasia (abnormal increase in number of cells), adenoma and carcinoma, although in rats there seems to be inconsistencies in the studies related to carcinogenesis using 0.8% concentration for ten weeks versus 1% concentration for 32 weeks, the former indicating carcinogensis, the latter not so.

Since some clinics are using both intravenous and oral techniques with patients successfully, or to some good advantage, apparently not all possible research is in on the subject of oral versus IV administration.

I have twice tried the oral method, and have failed to continue onward, because of a terrible, revolting nausea. Some folks react similarly, others don’t, and some persevere despite all.

As stated earlier, Dr. Farr’s research demonstrates that hydrogen peroxide stimulates oxidative enzymes which increases the metabolic rate. Intravenous use rapidly relieves allergenic reactions, influenzal symptoms, chronic systemic candidiasis, acute viral reactions as a result of the oxidation of antigenic substances and regulation of immune system functions.

To prepare the IV (intravenous) solutions, Dr. Farr begins with 30% H2O2 of USP food or cosmetic grade. Thirty percent H2O2 is a powerful oxidizer and should be handled with extreme caution.

The 30% solution is diluted with equal amounts of sterile distilled water to make a 15% stock solution. The stock solution is passed through a Millipore 0.22mm medium flow filter for sterilization and removal of particulate matter. The stock solution is stored in 100 ml sterile containers and kept refrigerated for future use.

His infusion solutions are then prepared using sterile 5% dextrose in water. The addition of 1/4 ml sterile of the 15% H2O2 stock solution to each 100 ml of carrier solution produces a 0.0375% concentration that is finally used for the intravenous infusions.

Dr. Farr further warns that “caution must be exercised that nothing is added to the H2O2 solution because of its tremendous oxidizing power. Even ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) is rapidly oxidized to the mono-dehydroascorbate radical, an unstable compound which degrades into numerous other chemical fragments. . . . Vitamins, minerals, peptides, enzymes, amino acids, heparin, EDTA, or other injectable materials should never be mixed with the H2O2 solution.”

By far the widest use for hydrogen peroxide, whether wisely or not, seems to be that of oral use, where a 35% “food grade” is diluted to a 3% concentration by use of 1 ounce of 35% H2O2 to 11 ounces of distilled water. The 3% concentration is then used by quantities of drops in distilled water, increasing the dosages and number of oral treatments daily throughout a number of weeks.

Many have made the claim that a “die-off” effect is observed, similar in nature to the Herxheimer Effect510.

Further information on the oral use of H2O2 may be acquired from ECHO411.

There are many other uses for hydrogen peroxide for health purposes than simply topical use on sores, or intravenous therapy. With permission from ECHO4, the following is presented:

Other Uses for H2O2

Use 3% solution, except where 35% is highlighted.

Vegetable soak: Add 1/4 cup to a full sink of cold water. Soak light-skinned (like lettuce) 20 minutes, thicker skinned (like cucumbers) 30 minutes. Drain, dry and refrigerate. Prolongs freshness. If time is a problem, spray vegetables (and fruits) with a solution of 3%. Let stand for a few minutes, rinse and dry.

Leftover tossed salad: Spray with a solution of 1/2 cup water and 1 Tbsp. 3%. Drain, cover and refrigerate.

To freshen kitchen: Keep a spray bottle in the kitchen. Use it to wipe off counter tops and appliances. It will disinfect and give the kitchen a fresh smell. Works great in the refrigerator and kid’s school lunch boxes.

Marinade: Place meat, fish, or poultry in a casserole (avoid using aluminum pans). Cover with hydrogen peroxide. Place loosely covered in refrigerator for 1/2 hour. Rinse and cook.

In the dishwasher: Add 2 ozs to your regular washing formula.

Sprouting seeds: Add 1 oz. to a pint of water and soak the seeds overnight. Add the same amount of hydrogen peroxide each time you rinse the seeds.

House and garden plants: Put 1 oz. in 1 quart of water. Water or mist plants with this solution.

House and garden plants: Put 1 oz. in 1 quart of water. Water or mist plants with this solution.

Insecticide spray: Mix 8 ozs. white sugar, 4-8 ozs. hydrogen peroxide in 1 gallon of water.

Humidifiers and steamers: Mix 1 pint to 1 gallon of water.

Laundry: Add 8 ozs. to your wash in place of bleaches.

Shower: Keep a spray bottle of hydrogen peroxide in the shower. Spray your body after washing to replace the acid mantle of your skin that soap removes.

Facial: Use on a cotton ball as a facial freshener after washing. (Remember: do not use 35% grade!)

Rejuvenating detoxifying bath: Add 6 ozs. to 1/2 tub of water. May increase hydrogen peroxide up to 2 cups per bath. Soak at least 1/2 hour.

Alternate bath: Add 1/2 cup 35% H2O2 , 1/2 cup sea salt, and 1/2 cup baking soda or epsom salts to bath water and soak.

Foot soak: Add 1-1/2 ozs. 35% H2O2 to 1 gallon water and soak.

Athlete’s foot: Soak feet nightly until condition is improved.

Mouthwash: Add a dash of liquid chlorophyll for flavoring if desired.

Toothpaste: Use baking soda and add enough to make a paste. Or just dip your brush in it and brush.

Douche or enema: Add 6 Tbls. to a quart of distilled water. 6 Tbls. is the maximum amount to use.

Pets: For small animals (dogs & cats) use 1 oz. to 1 qt. of water.

Agriculture: Use 8 ozs. 35% H2O2 per 1000 gallons of water. If you do not have an injector, start out by using 1 tsp. 35% H2O2 in the drinking cup at the stanchion.

Drinking water of ailing cows: Use 1 pt., to 5 gallons of water. To drench sick calves, put 1/3 pt. bottle and fill remainder with water. Do this twice a day. For an adult cow, use the same procedure, but use a quart.

Foliage feed crops: put 5 to 16 ozs. of 35% H2O2 into 20 gallons of water. This is sufficient for 1 acre. Spray on plants early in the morning when the dew is still on them and the birds are singing.

Hydrogen peroxide has been a recognized medicinal source since at least the 1800’s, has gone into disrepute, and now seems to lie in a sort of limbo, so far as established medicine is concerned.

However, research has progressed forward on its use throughout the world, and American doctors of a more open-minded view are persisting in learning its good effects.

Again I caution the reader that there is controversy between the use of oral hydrogen peroxide and use of IV (intravenous) treatment. You must study the issues and come to your own judgement. But please make an educated decision, and whichever you decide, find a physician who knows what he/she is doing.

Stimulation of Oxidative Enzymes

Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D. has used hydrogen peroxide clinically, and has reported on research that he performed that sheds a great deal of light on how H2O2 functions. Contrary to popular belief, the use of H2O2 by either infusion or orally cannot supply as much oxygen as a good, deep breath. Instead, it is the stimulation of oxidative enzymes that does the useful trick. Dr. Farr’s conclusions are appropriate and follow:

Dr. Farr says612, “There are a number of commercial products [that] claim to contain more oxygen on a volumes percent basis than Hydrogen Peroxide and consequently this has been interpreted as meaning they would somehow have more biological activity. There is a great deal of confusion about the difference between the terms `Oxygenation’ and `Oxidation’ when applied to biochemical reactions. A product which contains more oxygen per molecule may or may not have any biological activity.

“We reported113 Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide has an oxidative stimulatory effect when administered to man which appears to be independent of the amount of oxygen produced.

“Hydrogen Peroxide is a very simple molecule produced by almost every cell in the body. This amazing molecule, essential for life in both plant and animal, has been generally overlooked for it’s role in oxidative metabolism. Every chemist knows any reaction must have an opposite reaction to balance the equation. This applies equally to reactions in the test tube and in living cells. The world seems to have been caught up in the idea all biological oxidation is harmful because free-radicals may be produced. Free-radicals can cause lipid peroxidation and membrane damage. Consequently many products, containing anti-oxidants, are being promoted to prevent peroxidation. Some researchers714, including this author, feel peroxidation serves a useful purpose in the biochemical balance and may need stimulating at times instead of preventing.

“Hydrogen Peroxide as an oxidizer, under certain catalytic conditions, can degrade into water and oxygen.
“The fact that Hydrogen Peroxide may increase oxygen tension in the tissue is of secondary importance. Any student of biochemistry knows the principal reaction of an oxidizer, such as Hydrogen Peroxide, is to accept electrons in the RedOx [reduction/oxidation] reactions of the body and has nothing to do with “Oxygen” or “Oxygenation.” It is true Hydrogen Peroxide increases the rate of oxidation in the body815, but this is not because it produces oxygen but rather it stimulates oxidative enzymes.

“Hydrogen Peroxide is a naturally produced purposeful molecule in the body. It functions to aid membrane transport, acts as a hormonal messenger, regulates thermogenesis (heat production), stimulates and regulates immune functions, regulates energy production and many other important metabolic functions. These effects can occur without increasing the amount of oxygen. It is purposely used by the body to produce Hydroxyl Radicals to kill bacteria, virus, fungi, yeast and a number of parasites. This natural killing or protective system has nothing to do with increasing the amount of available oxygen.

“The amount of oxygen produced by a therapeutic infusion of Hydrogen Peroxide is very small. A single breath of fresh air contains many times more oxygen than found in either a therapeutic infusion or in a few drops of 35% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide taken orally.

“Claims are being made that molecules containing Oxygen and Chlorine, Chlorine or Chlorite ions will sterilize water, milk and almost anything to which they have been added. Chlorine is added to almost all public water supplies for the same purpose. The small amount of oxygen in these molecules have very little to do with this sterilization process. There are many more aerobic (requires oxygen) than anerobic (does not use oxygen) bacteria and increasing the oxygen supply may actually stimulate the growth of the aerobic bacteria. `Oxygen supply’ or `Oxygenation’ is not a credible basis for the promotion of these products. Oxidation is the key word and not Oxygenation.

“Oxidation is the removal of an electron from a molecule which changes electrical energy of the molecule into an oxidized state. The oxidizing agent which accepts the electron through this reaction becomes reduced. This reaction takes place in many biochemical reactions in which OXYGEN is not involved. In oxidative reactions in which Hydrogen Peroxide is involved, oxygen is released when the Hydrogen Peroxide, acting as an oxidizer, is reduced but it is the transfer of the electrons which is important and not the production of Oxygen.

“Manufacturers of products which claim to have the same effect as Hydrogen Peroxide may not have a good understanding of the biochemical role of Hydrogen Peroxide in the body. Some of these products claim to provide more oxygen molecules than Hydrogen Peroxide and that may be true but I know of no scientific evidence to show this enhances oxidative metabolism. Cancer and many other degenerative diseases are thought to be the results of poor cellular oxidative processes. They are not the results of a reduced supply of oxygen. Persons with anemias or severe lung disease may have an oxygen deficit but do not necessarily have a greater incidence of Cancer or chronic diseases. The problem is not the delivery of oxygen to the cells but utilization by the cells. Hydrogen Peroxide affects utilization or oxidation dramatically whereas hyper-oxygenated or chlorinated molecules have not been shown to be necessary in the body to improve oxidative metabolism9.”

Many physicians and clinics are effectively using Hydrogen Peroxide intravenously with their patients.

There is a ton of literature favoring Hydrogen Peroxide treatment for various medical conditions10.16

We suggest that your study of H2O2 may be an important step in your search for good health. It’s worth looking into!

References

1. International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, PO Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205.

2. William Campbell Douglass, The Cutting Edge, PO Box 1568, Clayton, GA 30525. According to Douglass’ paper, see: Docknell, Inf./Immunity, January 1983, pp. 456; Mallams, Finney & Balla, S.M.J., March 1962; Jay et. al., Tex Rep. Biol. & Med., 22:106, 1964; Urschel, Diseases of the Chest, 51:180, 1967; Finney, et. al., Angiology, 17:223, 1966; Hydrogen Peroxide — The Forgotten Miracle.

3. Anthony di Fabio, Chelation Therapy, The Arthritis Trust of America/The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, 7111 Sweetgum Road, Suite A, Fairview, Tn 37062-9384.

4. Walter O. Grotz, ECHO, 300 South 4th Street, Delano, MN 55328. ECHO for a small fee can provide you with a listing of abstracts dating back to 1920; also see their Progress Report, 2nd Edition.

5. Dr. Paul K. Pybus, Anthony di Fabio, The Herxheimer Effect, The Arthritis Trust of America/The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, 7111 Sweetgum Road, Suite A, Fairview, Tn 37062-9384.

6. Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D., The Therapeutic Use of Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide (Monograph). Genesis Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73139, Jan. 1987.

7. T.L. Dormandy, “In Praise of Peroxidation,” Lancet, II (Nov. 12):1126, 1988.

8. Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D., “Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide in Man,” J ACAM, 1:113-129, 1988.

9. “Why Hydrogen Peroxide?” International Bio-Oxidative Medical Foundation Newsletter, Vol. II, No. 1, Op.Cit., 1989.

10. Ed McCabe, O2xygen Therapies, Energy Publications, 99-RD1, Morrisville, NY 13408, 1988.

11. Leon Chaitow, “Bland Attacks `Fad’ for Hydrogen Peroxide,” Townsend Letter for Doctors,” May 1988, p. 204; from Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine (UK).

12. Jonathan Collin, M.D., “The H2O2 Crusades,” Townsend Letter for Doctors, Op.Cit., June 1989, p. 322.

1. “Why Hydrogen Peroxide?” International Bio-Oxidative Medical Foundation Newsletter, Vol. II, No. 1, Op.Cit., 1989. [↩]
2. International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, PO Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205. [↩]
3. Anthony di Fabio, Chelation Therapy, The Arthritis Trust of America/The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, 7111 Sweetgum Road, Suite A, Fairview, Tn 37062-9384. [↩]
4. William Campbell Douglass, The Cutting Edge, PO Box 1568, Clayton, GA 30525. According to Douglass’ paper, see: Docknell, Inf./Immunity, January 1983, pp. 456; Mallams, Finney & Balla, S.M.J., March 1962; Jay et. al., Tex Rep. Biol. & Med., 22:106, 1964; Urschel, Diseases of the Chest, 51:180, 1967; Finney, et. al., Angiology, 17:223, 1966; Hydrogen Peroxide — The Forgotten Miracle. [↩]
5. International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, PO Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205 [↩]
6. Walter O. Grotz, ECHO, 300 South 4th Street, Delano, MN 55328. ECHO for a small fee can provide you with a listing of abstracts dating back to 1920; also see their Progress Report, 2nd Edition. [↩]
7. Jonathan Collin, M.D., “The H2O2 Crusades,” Townsend Letter for Doctors, Op.Cit., June 1989, p. 322. [↩]
8. Walter O. Grotz, ECHO, 300 South 4th Street, Delano, MN 55328. ECHO for a small fee can provide you with a listing of abstracts dating back to 1920; also see their Progress Report, 2nd Edition. [↩]
9. Leon Chaitow, “Bland Attacks `Fad’ for Hydrogen Peroxide,” Townsend Letter for Doctors,” May 1988, p. 204; from Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine (UK). [↩]
10. Dr. Paul K. Pybus, Anthony di Fabio, The Herxheimer Effect, The Arthritis Trust of America/The Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, 7111 Sweetgum Road, Suite A, Fairview, Tn 37062-9384. [↩]
11. Walter O. Grotz, ECHO, 300 South 4th Street, Delano, MN 55328. ECHO for a small fee can provide you with a listing of abstracts dating back to 1920; also see their Progress Report, 2nd Edition. [↩]
12. Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D., The Therapeutic Use of Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide (Monograph). Genesis Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73139, Jan. 1987. [↩]
13. International Bio-Oxidative Medicine Foundation, PO Box 13205, Oklahoma City, OK 73113-1205 [↩]
14. T.L. Dormandy, “In Praise of Peroxidation,” Lancet, II (Nov. 12):1126, 1988. [↩]
15. Charles H. Farr, M.D., Ph.D., “Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Intravenous Hydrogen Peroxide in Man,” J ACAM, 1:113-129, 1988. [↩]
16. Ed McCabe, O2xygen Therapies, Energy Publications, 99-RD1, Morrisville, NY 13408, 1988. [↩]

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INTRODUCTION:

Next to Apple Cider Vinegar, hydrogen peroxide ranks up there as one of the best household remedies. H202

Besides the obvious (cleansing wounds), did you know that it is probably the best remedy to dissolve ear wax? Yep, and it is used around the world to prevent the flu. Athletes also use hydrogen peroxide to build stamina. Additionally, we have received several emailed reports that hydrogen peroxide has cured melanoma, prostate and mesothelioma (asbestos) cancer.

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As you will read below, there are quite a few ways that our readers report taking hydrogen peroxide. Some folks put a few drops of food grade (35%) peroxide in water and drink it. Others are big fans of 3% drugstore peroxide -- they bathe in it; splash it on their skin; add it to a sterilized nasal pump and inhale it through the mouth and into the lungs; or soak it in the ears for a few minutes to get rid of viruses. We'll leave it up to you to decide how you want to try it.

Note: Regular bottles of 3% hydrogen peroxide (bought at any drugstore for under $1) is the type of peroxide most commonly referred to below from our readers for the ears. The only grade recommended for internal use is 35% Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide, which must be properly diluted down to 3% with water.

Bill Munro uses the 3% drugstore brand for his inhalation method.

COLDS AND FLU:
We heard about this practice years ago. It is reportedly a common practice in India and Germany... During flu season, fill the cap of a bottle of hydrogen peroxide with the liquid, lay down on your side, and pour it into one ear. After a few seconds, the liquid will bubble. Lay with the peroxide fizzing for 5 or 10 minutes, then shake the peroxide out. Repeat on the other ear. This remedy is supposed to cures colds that are already in progress - causing the symptoms to begin to clear up within a few hours. Note: If the virus has been in your blood for some time, this will not work!

Cold and Flu Reader Feedback

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE'S HISTORY:
Ted from Bangkok writes, "Yes, the pharmaceuticals are threatened by hydrogen peroxide cures! Last time, about 120 years ago (during the reign of Queen Victoria), people in India (a British colony then) found that Hydrogen peroxide added in small amounts to drinking water cured a variety of sickness especially colds, flu, cholera, malaria, etc. It threatened the British monopoly drug sales, so they issued a fake news by hiring a news reporter disguised as a doctor to put out the information to the effect that taking hydrogen peroxide causes viral brain damage. It sounded believable, but the child who died of the hydrogen peroxide caused viral brain damage was non-existent.

It worked and the people in India went to buying British drugs, while suppressing India's own Ayurvedic medicine from any sales. It is amazing that Ayurvedic medicine actually survived under British threat for more than 200 years of occupation!

It has happened during the Queen Victoria era, and now it is happening again. History repeats itself, only this time, we now have the internet, which at least for now, the information is free. No doubt, freedom of information is something we just have to always be vigilant and fight for."

EARTH CLINIC REPORT:
11/21/2006: True enough, if a $.79 home remedy jeopardizes the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical and medical industries, there will be an effort to squash it as either dangerous, ineffective, or both. Since July (when we started to receive anti-H202 emails), more articles are appearing on the internet and in magazines about the dangers and ineffectiveness of drinking hydrogen peroxide as reported by the FDA. The latest article we just read came from Consumer Reports, December 2006, page 53. They devote an entire column to the dangers of hydrogen peroxide. The title: "Safety Alert: Hydrogen Peroxide Isn't For Drinking". The article references several websites promoting H202 as a cure for cancer. No doubt the author came to this page too!

To quote from the article: "The idea behind ingesting hydrogen peroxide stems from a now-discredited theory that cancer and AIDS thrive on a lack of oxygen in the body."

Ummmm, discredited by what studies? Show us!

According to the FDA, when taken orally H202 might cause gastrointestinal irritation or ulcers. Hey, so does ibuprofen, which also causes acid reflux in people. We seriously doubt there are many people foolish enough to swallow large quantities of peroxide and suffer these purported side effects. (The standard dosage for food grade peroxide is 3-4 drops per 8 oz of distilled water.) If there are indeed people suffering side effects from these minute dosages, we'd like to see the reports.

4/1/2007: Below is one case sent to us today by Anonymous from New York City, NY. Here is the link to this abstract.

1: J Emerg Med. 2006 May;30(4):403-6.
Hemorrhagic gastritis and gas emboli after ingesting 3% hydrogen peroxide.

Moon JM, Chun BJ, Min YI.

Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital and Chonnam Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea.

It is well known that ingestion of low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide is usually nontoxic; this does not produce gas embolism and is only a mild irritant to the gastrointestinal tract. We report the case of a 25-year-old woman who ingested one mouthful of 3% hydrogen peroxide and presented to the Emergency Department with persistent vomiting and epigastric pain. The radiographic evaluation found portal venous gas emboli. In addition, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy performed 2 h after ingestion revealed diffuse hemorrhagic gastritis. She showed a decrease of hemoglobin concentration and a positive test result for occult blood in stool. She was observed for 14 days and discharged. Follow-up endoscopy showed erythematous gastritis. This case illustrates that a low concentration of hydrogen peroxide can cause portal venous gas embolism and severe gastrointestinal injuries even if only a small amount is ingested."

4/2/2007: Ted from Bangkok writes, "No one uses 1% concentration for internal purposes either. So 3% is way beyond that.

In the alternative health field, the maximum is actually 0.5% concentration. Actually and optimum H2O2 concentration was first determined in 1950s by Dr. Reginald Holman by implanting Walker 256 adenocarcinoma tumours. The drinking water for the rat used H2O2 optimum concentration needed to kill the tumors were about 0.45 percent.

Tumours completely disappeared in 15 to 60 days in rats. Of course a better way is to add 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda in the glass of 0.45% concentration of H2O2. This can be extended to treatment of almost any kinds of conditions, from virus, bacteria, microbial infections, pneumonia, tuberculosis, flu, etc. My own experience of using just baking soda (also increases the body's oxygen) and ascorbate vitamin C about three weeks for a small tumor to go into remission.

A more effective I think in the future of peroxide therapy is to add baking soda to the 0.45% concentration to normal drinking water since baking soda is alkaline and increases oxygen, while the peroxide furthers this natural increase. Ted"

CHECKING FOR STABILIZERS IN H202
Ted from Bangkok writes, "There is a simple way to see if Hydrogen Peroxide contains stabilizers: Pour 1/2 cap of hydrogen peroxide in a glass of water. If the color has yellow (or other off colors), it has a stabilizer. It is best to set it out in the sun where it is easier to see. If the H202 remains colorless when mixed in a glass of water, it usually does not have a stabilizer.

Almost all H2O2 sold in drug stores will have stabilizers, actually to discourage people to use them internally. So you can use this as a way to compare them. Basically, H2O2 poured into a clean glass and left out in a sun covered by a dish should not have air bubbles. If it does, there are metal contaminants. If you are asking for trouble, a drop of ammonia solution in H2O2 mixed in water will cause a rapid air bubble generation. It is more unstable if it has stabilizers. You can try the experiment and compare the results.

The test for this is not perfect one, but the key is the color, even when you add just a small amount of water in direct sunlight. Also, a good quality H2O2 doesn't get small bubbles during storage.

By the way, an easy way to test the quality of your drinking water is to add 10% of 3% H2O2 to 90% Water and perform the test by noticing air bubbles. If there are a lot of air bubbles for the next 6 hours, then the water has either too much organic residues OR heavy metals. During the test please keep in places AWAY from children. After the test immediately discard the contents into the sink. Ted"

09/14/2007: Ron from Temiskaming Shores, Canada writes: "Great site. I wanted to put my 2 cents in about Hydrogen Pyroxide (HP). I went to Wal-Mart to purchase some HP and when I got it home I noticed that my bottle of HP had the skull and cross bones on the front of it. Yikes!! The lable reads "POISON" because this particular brand contains stablizers. The previous brand that I bought did not have stablizers in it and did not have the skull and cross bones symbol on the front. I dont't think I want to try to ingest the poison type of HP. I think readers should be made aware that there is a difference and to be careful when buying HP, to make sure they find one without stablizers."

09/17/2007: Ted from Bangkok replies, "Remedies require food grade H2O2 except in instances of external use. H2O2 can't be labelled poison if it is for external use (as in antiseptics) since other contact poisons go directly through the skin killing you. Stabilizers can't do this. Most labeling no longer use the skull and bones, at least not on H2O2, since they often more cause skin burns if used in high concentration and are classified as caustic solutions. Even hydrochloric acid might also be considered a poison, but our stomach produce plenty of it. I don't think labels are consistent in classifying it"

*** HYDROGEN PEROXIDE NO LONGER RECOMMENDED FOR WOUND CARE ***
2/15/2008: Dawn (R. N.) from Allen, Texas writes: "Hydrogen peroxide was once used for cleaning wounds but research has shown it is too harsh for wound care. It kills healthy tissue, is cytotoxic, and actually delays wound healing. Unfortunately, some health professionals have not kept current on changes in wound care and still recommend H2O2. I cannot comment on the other clains on your page, but H2O2 for wound care is definitely inappropriate."

FOOD GRADE WARNINGS:
04/18/2006: John from Sault Ste Marie, MI writes, "I'd be very wary of recommending that anyone use 35% hydrogen peroxide unless they've had HAZMAT training or the equivalent. At that concentration H2O2 is extremely corrosive and causes severe burns; in other words, it's a very hazardous chemical that even professional chemists (and I am one) must handle using appropriate safety equipment (rubber gloves, safety goggles, protective lab coat). I know this from experience because I was badly burned by 35% H2O2 while carrying out chemistry research. It's irresponsible to imply that this stuff is harmless and to recommend it to people who have no experience handling hazardous materials."

04/10/2009: David from Tampa, FL writes, "I have used food grade H2O for years and if you do spill it on yourself just rinse with water for a few minutes - it will turn your skin white and it is temporary and there is no prolonged damage. Yes, you do have to be careful but not afraid."

EARTH CLINIC'S ADDITIONAL WARNING NOTE:
Please be very careful when transporting food grade hydrogen peroxide after the bottle has been opened. Make sure you keep the bottle upright. Once the seal has been removed upon opening, these caps can leak. Food grade will cause the skin to burn and turn white. Yes, we learned the hard way! Luckily, skin will return to normal after 30 minutes or less if you rinse off the peroxide quickly. By the way, the same whitening of skin effect happens when you dip your fingertips in drugstore 3% H202 for a minute or more. It too goes away within 30 minutes...

http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/hydrogen_peroxide.html
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Recently, while surfing the Internet looking at natural cures, I stumbled upon the One Minute Cure website that claims you can heal almost any disease by taking a daily dose of a particular product (not their own). At first, I thought that it was surely some sort of snake oil scam. But after doing some research, I began to think differently.

To understand how it works, you have to know a little bit about biology. And the key word here is aerobic. An aerobic organism is one that needs oxygen to survive. All people, plants and animals are aerobic organisms.

However, most bacteria and viruses that cause diseases are anaerobic. This means that they thrive in low oxygen environments. In most of us, our blood cells contain just a small amount of oxygen; providing an ideal environment for anaerobic organisms. This allows disease causing anaerobic bacteria and viruses to flourish within our bodies.

And the point of the One Minute Cure website is really simple; introduce more oxygen into your system and these dangerous disease causing anaerobic organisms will disappear; eliminating many diseases and making you healthier. After I learned this information, it all seemed very logical.

The site indicates that there are hundreds of physical problems and diseases that this natural therapy can cure. Among them are:

Allergies

Arthritis

Bronchitis

Chronic Pain

Digestion Problems

Eczema

Headaches

Influenza

Migraines

Sinusitis

Sore Throat

(And although I hesitate to mention it – even Cancer, Emphysema
, and Parkinson’s disease among others.)

Because I am a big fan of natural cures, I immediately ordered the book. I just got it yesterday, but I will check it out and be applying their natural cure techniques. To check it out for yourself, go to Natural Cures.

http://www.articlesbase.com/supplements-and-vitamins-articles/natural-cures-one-minute-cure-scam-or-slam-705549.html

Please take action: Stop NBC from swiftboating universal health care

2009-06-01T12:58:00.001-07:00

Stop NBC from swiftboating universal health care.

Dear Friend,

Americans' lives depend on whether we pass the right kind of health care reform. So why is NBC News airing an infomercial that will spread dangerous misinformation?

Rick Scott is the Chairman of a group called Conservatives for Patients' Rights, and he has a history of disseminating lies and misinformation. According to the AP, Scott is "the former head of Columbia/HCA health care company who was ousted amid a fraud investigation that ultimately resulted in the firm pleading guilty to charges of overbilling." His "documentary" looks to be an extended version of videos he's been promoting over the last few weeks, which FactCheck.org characterized as "misleading" in part because they misrepresented the opinions of a doctor who actually favors the public option.

I just sent an e-mail to NBC News President Steve Capus asking him not to air Rick Scott's shameful propaganda. I hope you will too.

Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/nbc_healthcare/?r_by=-2066542-Y7xit4x&rc=paste

Thanks!

Food for Thought: You Are What You Eat

2009-05-29T10:35:00.000-07:00

In another email subscription I received an interesting thought. Its one of those things we know subconsciously, but sometimes forget in daily life.

Long story short, Peggy McColl had spoken with Dr. Vartabedian. Very interesting. Hope you find it interesting too. I like Dr. Vartabedians kids chart- I think I am going to get that for my house. I know its for kids, but I can use it too ;) I'll paste his web page at the bottom of this.

Dr. Vartabedian said that we need to realize that nutrition is one of the MOST important, if not THE most important factor that affects our health, how we feel, and our longevity.

"Think of it, Peggy, while exercise moves the body, food not only fuels the body but actually makes the body."

Hmm, good point!

He went on, "We've all heard that we need to eat good food for high energy fuel - just as our cars need good gasoline. But a living organism is quite different from a car. Our food literally makes and remakes our bodies as we grow, metabolize, tear down, and ultimately rebuild our bodies on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycle. After several year's time, you will have replaced virtually every cell (or components which make up the cells) in your entire body! And what are those made up of? Everything you eat. So the adage is true: 'You are what you eat!' "

Wow!

"So if you improve your diet, you can literally improve your physical makeup - and therefore improve your health, how you feel, and increase longevity."

The Search for the Best Foods for the Human Body

"How did you first get into this field?" I asked.

Dr. Vartabedian explained, "When I was growing up, my grandmother Louise was a health nut. She read Prevention magazine, talked about foods that were poisons, such as sugar, and touted miracle foods, such as brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses (which she added to her cereal every morning!). Everyone in our family thought she was a fanatic - except me, because Grandma Louise was the most positive, energetic person I knew, and I wanted to be just like her! Grandma loved life so much that she wanted to live forever (or at least to be 100!).

So I would constantly ask Grandma about different foods and whether they were good for you or bad for you. She would then explain to me the virtues and pitfalls of all the foods I asked about. I was so relentless with my questions that one day, frustrated, she gave up and said, 'Roy, if it's food, it's good - don't worry about it, just eat it!'

As I grew up, my interest in health and nutrition grew and eventually became my profession. The questions I had asked my grandmother were now being asked of me by my patients and clients. Life had come around full circle, and I could see that it was my destiny to help people answer this question once and for all: How do you figure out which foods are the best (and the worst) for peak performance and for preventing disease?

Creating the System to Identify the Best Foods

"I came up with a new twist on a concept called 'nutrient density.' Nutrient density is the critical analysis that determines the quality of any food. How does it work? Nutrient density is the amount of nutrition per calorie. The more nutrition in the fewer calories, the better a food really is.

Here are some examples: Orange juice has a lot of vitamin C, as well as some vitamin A, folic acid, thiamin, calcium, iron, magnesium, and potassium. It has only 80 calories per serving. A McDonald's Big Mac has some B vitamins, vitamin A, and protein - and 700 calories. See the difference? It's the ratio of calories to nutrients that's particularly important. At the end of the day, you want to have packed as much nutrition into your calories as possible.

My twist is this: Not only does the Big Mac have less nutrition per calorie, it also has unhealthful things in it such as cholesterol, saturated fat, and total fat, which over time have negative effects on the body. For that reason, the ideal system should measure how much good AND bad are in each food per calorie. Nutrient density measures only the good. Over a 10 year period of refinements and working with specialists, we created the best overall food rating system.

The food analysis tracks 18 positive factors, or essentials, like protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals and 8 negative factors, or excessives, like calories, cholesterol, and fat in any given food to yield one number that tells you how good or bad that food is. The higher that number, the better the food. Eat at least 100 of these Nutripoints from six food groups each day, and you will get all the nutrients you need while limiting the negatives automatically.

When I applied the analysis to a host of foods, there were some big surprises. Would you have guessed that a quarter of a cantaloupe scores 29 points, while an apple gets only 4.5? The simple explanation is that an apple is not packed with high nutrition; it's a good food, but the quarter of a cantaloupe has 50 times the vitamin A, 10 times the vitamin C, and more of virtually every other significant nutrient than the apple. Maybe the motto should be a cantaloupe a day!

Let's look at some other comparisons. Two cups of spinach rate 75 points, but an equal amount of iceberg lettuce scores only 18! Two slices of whole wheat bread outscore white bread by a 6 to 2.5 margin, and cooked broccoli chalks up 38.5 points compared to 8.5 in a baked potato.

Once you have been introduced to this concept, it becomes sort of a numbers game. The system even includes negative scores for those foods that contain more excessives than essentials - like that Big Mac, at -2.

Why is my system's twist on nutrient density so important? Because we will all eat a certain number of calories every day, and we need to pack in as much positive (the essentials) and the least negative (the excessives) per calorie as possible for optimal cell function and health.

Optimal function means peak performance. Peak performance of every cell means peak performance of your whole body. To operate at peak efficiency, your body needs the best nutrition at the cellular level. The best way to get this is through eating foods that are highly nutrient dense and have a low density of harmful components.

"So if you want to be successful in life and reach your goals, your body must be functioning at peak performance," I concluded.

"Exactly, you can only go so far in life without being in the best of health."

"So how does your point system work? Do you need to just eat all of the top rated foods?" I asked.

"The system is set up so the goal is to get at least 100 Nutripoints per day from six food groups, which provides all the nutritional requirements of the American Dietetic Association, American Cancer Society, and the American Heart Association at the same time. So it's a no brainer for people who don't have the time or inclination to figure it all out. People pick the highest rated foods that they like, and develop their own healthy eating plan."

Dr. Vartabedian went on to explain that a study of several hundred clients from the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, TX showed the following average results using his Nutripoints program in a two week total wellness program:

Weight lost: 8 lbs. or 4% decrease
Cholesterol: 14% decrease
Chol/HDL Ratio: 16% decrease
Glucose: 10% decrease
Triglycerides: 40% decrease
Treadmill Time: 19% increase
Blood Pressure: 6% decrease

"So the same diet that fuels the body for peak performance also helps the body function optimally for disease prevention. The study participants' fitness levels increased, and their risk factors for chronic diseases decreased significantly," he explained.

I want to recommend Dr. Vartabedian's book and program to you today. He is offering his Nutripoints Packages at a special price to my email members. Go to his website to get more information on this amazing program that will give you more energy, help you lose body fat, have increased mental clarity, and reach peak physical performance. All of this through knowing what the score is and choosing the best foods to eat that you love the most.

http://nutripoints.com/cgi-bin/imcart/display.cgi?item_id=k-placemat&cat=1&page=1&search=&since=&status=

Pot Friendly Netherlands to Close 8 Prisons: Not Enough Criminals!

2009-05-29T08:51:00.000-07:00

For years prohibitionists, including our own Drug Enforcement Administration, have claimed — falsely — that the tolerant marijuana policies of the Netherlands have made that nation a nest of crime and drug abuse.

They may have trouble wrapping their little brains around this:

The Dutch government is getting ready to close eight prisons because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them. Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate.

Just for fun, let’s compare the Netherlands to California. With a population of 16.6 million, the Dutch prison population is about 12,000.
With its population of 36.7 million, California should have a bit more than double the Dutch prison population. California’s
actual prison population is 171,000.
So, whose drug policies are keeping the streets safer?

http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2246821.ece/Netherlands_to_close_prisons_for_lack_of_criminals

Why I Love Our New Drug Czar, Gil Kerlikowske

2009-05-29T08:50:00.000-07:00

"According to Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske: "Whether it's the Drug Enforcement Agency or the Seattle Police Department, you use your resources to go after the most violent offenders."

"Medical marijuana doesn't pose that threat."

The full article is found here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/exseattle_police_chief_heads_t.html

Want to Know Why Pot is Illegal? Ask Your Governor (Again)

2009-05-29T08:48:00.000-07:00

From www.theweeklyweek.com

Want To Know Why Pot Is Illegal? Ask Your Governor (Again)
I’d like to give you seven specific reasons why the use of cannabis by adults — including seriously ill patients — remains a crime in America. Ready? Here they are:

Governor Donald Carcieri (R-Rhode Island)
Governor James Douglas (R-Vermont)
Governor Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii)
Governor John Lynch (D-New Hampshire)
Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-Minnesota)
Governor Jodi Rell (R-Connecticut)
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-California)

Each of these Governors have single-handedly opted to kill marijuana law reform legislation in their states — either by the stroke of a pen (Carcieri, Lingle, Rell, Schwarzenegger) or by applying enough legislative pressure to abruptly halt ‘pro-pot’ proposals from ever reaching their desk.

Diet for a Happy Planet- Interview with Christopher Westra on Eating More Fruits

2009-05-29T06:14:00.000-07:00

Read an interesting interview this morning. Wanted to share it. You can get free information on this subject and free recipes if you sign up by going to the link and entering your email:

Welcome to the Diet for a Happy Planet™.

You can Sign up to get notified of the new chapters. Right Over Here ———->>> http://dietforahappyplanet.com/

You’ll learn about the benefits of a fruit based diet for yourself, and for the planet. Here are some questions I get about a fruit based diet.

Question: What about the four food groups? You can’t live on just fruit.

Christopher: Why not? I know many people who live on fruits and green leaves. There used to be 11 food groups. At another time there were seven food groups. The four food group idea was started by people who wanted to sell you milk and meat.

Question: But we don’t have enough fruit in the world to feed everyone.

Christopher: You are right. We’d better get started planting more fruit trees!

Question: This would totally change our food production system. Wouldn’t this bring about massive changes in land use? It would require us to rethink our relationship to the land, and to each other.

Christopher: Isn’t it wonderful.

Question: Can we really make changes? The food industry is so powerful. They have the money.

Christopher: We are more powerful. We have the money. We make a difference every time we shop in the produce section rather than the processed food section.

Question: So I suppose you think that government needs to make new laws about this?

Christopher: No, we the people need to make changes. Real change comes from the bottom up, not from the top down. Join me today. Let’s restore ourselves to health and our planet at the same time. You’ll see that the same diet works for both situations.

Question: How do I learn more about this fruit-based diet?

Christopher: Just sign up for the newsletter over on the right. Then start reading the chapters (blog posts). Come visit soon for more.

Question: Where do you get all your great photos?

Christopher: I get them from my friend Sun Star at SunStarPhoto.com.

Money: An illusion, a shadow of something else

2009-05-28T13:19:00.000-07:00

The following is a(R)evolutionScape Bulletin. I love these guys.
Here is their site: http://www.RevolutionScape.com

Money: An illusion, a shadow of something else...

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty. - Wallace D. Wattles.

The first step to having wealth is to know what it is. And few people know what it really is, in and of itself. What is wealth? What causes it? What causes the cause of it? Let us start with money, the world's symbol of wealth, and then move deeper.

Money is not real.

Money is merely legal tender, a form of exchange. We use it to exchange value. It represents value.

Money is the 'body' of value. It is the physical representation of value that rises and falls in ourselves, within us. Not within 'things' outside of us, but within us. For without us, what can the value of a thing, such as a car, be to us? Nothing, at least not to us. In other words, it is we, the observers, that place value in things, but this value is really value in us - we give value to the material things. The material things have no 'money' value in themselves - we give that to them. So, money is the external physical representation of a particular section of our internal value, within us, within you. That is why a house or a block of shares valued at $1 million today can fall to a valuation of half a million dollars tomorrow when fear is introduced into the hearts of those involved. The fear kills a portion of the internal values of the participants and that is reflected by the paper money, the 'body' of value.

Here is something else: physical paper money does not even represent money in full. It cannot reasonably do that. By some estimates (and this varies from nation to nation), only as little as 4% of the money in the banks exists as paper cash. Imagine how much cotton, linen, pulp, and metal the world would need so as to make all the money everyone has in his or her bank accounts. Imagine how much space it would take to store all this money in paper form. If you were to stack only one million US$1 bills, it would weight one ton and be 361 ft high. Neither does money exist as gold reserves any more. This is for exactly the same reason - we ran out of the reasonable ability to keep a gold standard in the 1970s.

So what does it exist as, the money that we are always talking about? Well, it is one massive illusion. It is all just numbers written on paper and computer storage devices, and assigned to people and entities such as companies and investments, or more accurately, further records! To put it in another way, for every $100 or its equivalent in any other currency, only about $4 exists as printed-paper notes or coins, while the remaining $96 exists as numbers written on papers and computers in banks and businesses and other entities. The only reason this system does not collapse is that we all believe in it. The last time people stopped believing in it in a large enough extent was just before the Great Depression when large numbers of people rushed to their banks to withdraw their money and found that they could not all get it. This is not what caused the Great Depression, but it in a large way accelerated it.

So, money is not real - something else is. Money is just the shadow of that other something. The first step to wealth is to know what money really is, or more accurately, what it represents. Learn not to look at the money most of the time. As you will soon see, it is very rare in a day that you should ever look at money as you know it today - the cash, the bank accounts, the costs, etc. This is merely the shadow and not the real thing. Looking at the shadow, the physical money, as you will soon see, is most of the time very unwise and unhealthy for you and your finances.

Look, instead, at the value within you and within people, and the flowing and exchanging of this value between people. Our internal value, is what creates money. Money is the shadow of our internal value. Develop this internal value in yourself and in others and your external money and wealth will correspondingly rise automatically, without fail.

Know this however: Money represents an aspect of a person's internal value, but that does not mean that it represents a person's entire internal value. That is very important. It is not about self-worth. Money only represents an aspect of that internal value that pertains to wealth. You cannot therefore say that a wealthy person has a higher self-worth and value than a poor person, but you can correctly say that in matters that relate and pertain to money, the wealthy person has a higher internal value in that aspect of value or that the person chooses to exercise a higher proportion of this internal value. This section of internal value that reflects on the outside as money, when exercised, is called Wealth Consciousness. It is available to all people equally and can be developed by and within all people equally. Like everything else that is important to our being alive, such as air, wealth consciousness is free to all. But you can choose to develop it or not develop it, or to exercise it or not. At any time, you can change your choice, and nothing outside of you can stop you.

You require nothing outside of yourself to increase your wealth consciousness, and therefore your money. All you need is within you right now. You may have forgotten it, but it is right there. You will now remember it. And the first step to that is to always remember that money is not real; it is the shadow of something else.

And here is another secret: Wealth consciousness is simply the expansion of your consciousness and awareness into the wealthy parts of your Self. That is why all that you need to increase your wealth consciousness is within you already. You are already wealthy, but you have been taught to choose to not experience your wealth. This insight changes everything. Like the wealthy people, you can now know how to and choose to start experiencing the wealthy you.

You have more wealth capability within you than you can possibly experience in a lifetime. You need not worry that you have reached your limit of becoming wealthy in any way or because of any condition. Neither do you need to know how to convert wealth consciousness into paper cash money - as you will see, it will happen automatically. All you need to do is expand your wealth consciousness and exercise it, act on it, be it, and the situations and opportunities for the equivalent conversion into cash money will present themselves automatically to you. None of the extremely wealthy people today could have, at the time when they were not wealthy, possibly predicted and planned the exact sequence of events that would lead to their immense wealth. They most probably had a set of goals and a plan, but any one of them will tell you that they met countless 'coincidences' and opportunities that 'joined the dots' for them in ways they could never have predicted. Their goals were their own doing, but the paths that led to them coming into being, and exceeding them, we amazingly intelligent yet unforeseen. You shall now see how to make them happen in your life - you may not be able to predict their sequence, but you can certainly make these 'fortunate coincidences' happen to you every day of your life.

By the way, it is not only paper money that is not real. A lot of the things around you that you hold so real are really not real at all either. You are about to embark on a beautiful, empowering and liberating journey that will show you exactly what your world is in a way that you have never looked at it before. It is a journey that will open your eyes and free your wings. You are about to look 'under the hood' of the Life, you are about to learn how to customize your world to your liking.

You are about to attain Wealth Consciousness. Once you do, avoiding success and wealth will become very difficult. Yes, you read that correctly. Once you have wealth consciousness, it will be very difficult for you to not have success and wealth. Success and wealth will follow you automatically wherever you go. You will not need to concern yourself with their quest, yet they will find you. You will be free to experience other aspects of life that you may not have even dreamt of before, dimensions of Self and Life that are truly amazing. The same goes with happiness, for you will see it here in this book as well.

Let us now get started on the real stuff, if you are still interested...

The Steps To Wealth and Happiness

You are now on a journey, at the end of which you shall know how to create all the wealth and happiness you ever wished for, Now, without any limits. You shall soon also know many timeless truths about who you really are, what you are doing here, and what this game of life is all about. Here are the steps of the journey you are now taking with this book:

1. You shall first take a simplified look at Quantum Physics, for knowing what you and the world are made of is the first key to knowing how to make it your way. After this, you will never look at the world in the same way again. You shall have an amazing sense of involvement and power in the universe...

2. Then the secrets of time shall be unveiled, beginning with the fact that time does not exist. You shall learn how to use this illusion instead of being used by it. There is only Now...

3. You now will learn how to create your universe out of the quantum field using images of your mind. This is the first part of the creation lessons.

4. You then learn how to create using your thoughts. You will learn the right way to think, and what the mind is really for, and when to shut it down for your own benefit...

5. You will then look at the power of true goal setting in the thousands, in a way you may never heard before, a most powerful way...

6. Next will come the most powerful creation tool of all, your state of Being...

7. The final creation tool, action, will then be uncovered in it's true position and purpose to you...

8. You shall then learn the magical and vital ingredient of certainty, and learn how to have it in plenty...

9. Now, it will be time to look at the prime Law of the Universe and how to use it to have happiness and wealth in abundance. The is the law of Cause and Effect...

10. While still in this law, we shall look at what conditions really are. This will shock you, make you laugh, empower you, and free you...

11. While still on conditions, you shall see how you are and shall realize ever-present success and never fail...

12. Then, you shall look at a prime killer of wealth and happiness and how to totally avoid it...

13. You will then move on to progressively larger things. You will start with your self-chosen Purpose here on earth. Why did you come here? You shall see...

14. Then the gift of giving and the gifts it brings in return will be fully given to you...

15. The power of gratitude Now shall be unveiled. This will prove to be extremely powerful for you...

16. Finally, it will be time to look at Consciousness, what makes you Here, Now, awake...

17. And then it shall get really interesting when you have a look at your Self, the First Cause of all that is in your world. Get familiar with your Self and your world will change dramatically...

18. After that, you shall see what is larger than the Self, that which you and all else are part of. It is the One. Knowing how you relate to All That Is, The Source, then experiencing this, will put you in a position of immense joy and abundance...

19. And on that note, you shall see how abundant you really are...

20. From there, you shall look at your real nature and how to reclaim it. It is the nature of pure joy...

21. Then, coming around full circle, you shall see how to best handle paper money, as you know it now, to increase wealth...

22. And to close this part of this journey, you will be guided into the next empowering steps you may wish to take after you first finish this book...

How to read and understand this book

The way to understand this book is to read it once in its entirety. As you read, you will have many questions, and some things may not make sense to you when you read them. Never mind; just keep going. Further chapters will make clear some things that you may have not understood or found true in earlier chapters. Language is a linear thing, yet wealth consciousness is wholeness, a non-linear whole, and one whereby step one may be connected to step seven and so on. And wealth consciousness is a state of being, while language is a symbol; states have to be experienced and symbols cannot represent experience accurately - they can only show the way, be a guide. So, as you read it you will find many amazing things that make sense right then, but it will only totally make sense when you finish this book and have the whole of it in you. That is when you will start to go ah-ha!

Once you read it fully, read it again slowly. In the second read you will be able to more fully understand things, since you now will have the whole in you. The material you will find in this book contains many layers of understanding. What you understand today will reveal an even deeper hidden truth, application and identification when you read it again tomorrow. Read a small part of this book every day, even after you finish it the first time, and your internalization of wealth and happiness and becoming of wealth and happiness will accelerate.

The other thing you should do is to not only read with your logical mind but to also feel the lessons in this book. Some of the things in this book are logical, but many pertain to a realm where logic cannot fully grasp, yet your Self knows it all and perfectly understands. As you read this book, keep yourself open, feel the essence of what you read. Many things will not make sense to your brain, for it is finite and four-dimensional. Some things are infinite and multidimensional and only your Self will know them because it is multidimensional and infinite in nature. Sometimes you will feel that you understand something at a deeper level, but your mind cannot picture it, yet you understand deeply somewhere. Honor the deeper level, for the mind may never fully grasp it any way. In any case, your mind is a tool, but all you know is in your Self. You are a Self with a mind as a powerful tool, as long as it does not take over you. However, most people have unfortunately identified with the mind and believe they are their mind - and that is where the trouble and limitations start. You shall now go higher than that.

Read this book and take it to heart, live by it. And wealth, affluence and abundance will automatically come to you in ways and amounts you never before imagined possible, by laws that never fail. Carry it around with you where possible. Leave it by your bedside and read it for a few minutes every morning when you get up and at night before you go to sleep. When you are done, start again, a few pages every day. Repetition causes internalization, making it your second nature.

You will understand this book to the extent that you are willing.

Ready? Still interested? Lets begin...

This text was extracted from the book A Happy Pocket Full of Money

Milk Myths Exposed

2009-05-28T10:33:00.000-07:00

Milk Myths Exposed

I just read an interesting article. I am realizing that I like blogspot because I can post the interesting things I read and come back and find them easily. Anyways, on with the article.)

(This article can be found here: http://www.naturalhealthontheweb.com/milk/myths.html )

By Consumer Health Advocate, Frank Mangano

Many myths have been circulating regarding the contentment and happiness of dairy cows, which provide the milk so many people drink on a daily basis. First, it is important to note that humans are the only mammals, which continue drinking milk even after the weaning period. Because of this constant need for milk in our diets, dairy cows are the most over worked of all farm animals. Dairy cows are forcibly impregnated each and every year to ensure their milk flow does not stop; with no baby calf to take care of the milk will stop producing.

Scientists and researchers are beginning to think that drinking dairy milk is not only unhealthy but completely unnatural as well. Recent scientific research has linked the consumption of cow’s milk through different diary products to several different levels of threatening conditions. Some of the health problems that have been found to be associated with cow’s milk include acne, runny nose, wheezing, coughing, ear infections, rashes, stomach aches, asthma, eczema, heart disease and diabetes.

With years of reports and beliefs that cow’s milk is the best source of calcium and a healthy beverage that should be consumed on a daily basis, new opinions and studies are beginning to challenge this age old belief. Now is the time to expose the most believed myth regarding milk and milk products; many people believe that the majority of their calcium intake comes from cow’s milk, this is false. Less than half of your calcium intake comes from milk and milk related products as calcium can be found in a number of different foods and beverages today that do not contain milk ingredients.

Almond milk is quickly becoming the natural and healthier alternative to cow’s milk. Almond milk is made from ground almonds and unlike cow’s milk, almond milk contains no cholesterol or lactose and can be used as a substitute in any recipe that calls for cow’s milk. You can find commercial almond milk produced in plain, vanilla and chocolate flavors to allow you to enjoy your new alternative to cow’s milk. Often times the different manufacturers of almond milk include added vitamins to further enrich the health benefits of this dairy alternative.

Your healthiest option here is to make your own almond milk, which is a fairly simple process that requires raw almonds, water, cheesecloth and a blender. Here is a simple 15 minute recipe for almond milk:

* Put one cup of fresh almonds in a glass jar with 4 cups of water.

* Close the jar tightly and place in the refrigerator for no longer then 2 days.

* After the 2 days of refrigeration, pour the jar into a blender and blend it until it's smooth.

* Place a cheesecloth over a large bowl and drain the blend in it squeezing the cloth to strain all the pulp.

* You can then save the pulp for other uses.

* Enjoy your delicious and nutritious almond milk!

You can find the calcium you need through many different foods such as broccoli, sesame seeds, almonds, Brazil nuts, dried figs and sunflower seeds. After reading through this list you may have discovered that your diet already contains many of these foods and therefore your calcium intake is taken care of through other aspects of your diet and cow’s milk is not necessary in this respect.

The more and more cruelties are revealed in regards to dairy cows today, the more people are choosing a natural alternative that requires no animal sacrifices and provides you with a healthier supplement.

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I Can't Believe My Eyes

2009-05-28T08:57:00.000-07:00

Special thanks to Henk and Nicholas. (www.revolutioniz.com) These guys really post a lot of valuable information. I am very thankful to have discovered them. Here is another very fascinating article about what we see and what we believe.

“I can’t believe my eyes”, people say…

Well, they shouldn’t either. Because you’re eyes don’t actually see.

They’re merely lenses that pass on information to the visual cortex in the brain. And only there do you see.

The location of the visual cortex in your brain, which is what we actually 'see' with.

So you actually see with your brain, not with your eyes. “I saw it with my own brain!” would be a better way to put it. After all, we decode the visible frequencies of light that our eyes pick up into ‘physical reality’. Your eyes don’t send images to your brain of 3D street scenes or whatever we think we see outside of us. They perceive frequencies and then send them to the brain in the form of electrical signals. And your brain decodes those signals into an apparent 3D reality that we think is outside of us.

What we see is ‘light’, as it’s reflected by what’s called ‘luminous matter’. ‘Luminous matter’ reflects electromagnetic light, which your eyes can perceive.

But 95 percent (at least) of the mass in the universe is known as ‘dark matter’ or ‘dark energy’. This ‘stuff’ doesn’t reflect light, and therefore can’t be seen by us humans. However, it can be measured by its effect on the part of the universe that we can ‘see’. That’s how we know it’s there.

But anyway, the only light we can see is the light reflected within the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. And we only see those particular frequencies within that electromagnetic spectrum. And actually, it’s only a fraction of the spectrum that can be accessed by our human vision:

The light we can actually 'see' is only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the electromagnetic spectrum is only 0.005% of all the mass in the universe.

But there’s even more… The electromagnetic spectrum is only 0.005% of the estimated mass of the universe. And human sight can see only a tiny fraction of these electromagnetic frequencies. So imagine how little of the universe we can actually perceive and decode into ‘physical’ reality!

We’re virtually blind!

The truth is that we only see what the brain tells us to see. And let’s take a quick look at what happens before we actually ‘see’:

- First, light enters the eye by passing through the outer, transparent layer called the ‘cornea’.

- Then it goes on through the pupil, which gets bigger or smaller to allow for more or less light to be let in (depending on the circumstances). This latter process is controlled by the iris (the colored part of the eye).

- Then it goes to the lens to be focused.

- After that, it enters the ‘vitreous humor’, a jelly-like substance behind the lens.

- And then the light (or information) strikes the retina, which ‘captures’ the image like the film in those good old photo cameras. However, this image recorded on the retina is two-dimensional and upside-down!

- The next stop is the optic nerve, which in turn sends the image through the brain to the ‘occipital lobe’. This is where the brain re-assembles the two-dimensional and upside-down image that was delivered by the eyes into the form that we think we are seeing.

So this is really quite a path to travel for what we think is an ‘objective image’ before we actually see it. And what’s even more striking are all the things that happen before we actually ‘see’ the image that we think we see.

After all, what we think is a 3D image that situated outside of us is only constructed when frequencies are recorded as a two-dimensional and upside-down image on the retina. It’s only later (when the info reaches the ‘occitipal lobe’) that it’s constructed into a 3D image. And this construction happens in your brain.

So does the world outside of us really exist in the way we think we see it? But wait… Here’s another thought-provoking realization:

On the way from the eyes to the visual cortex, the temporal lobes edit and reconstruct up to 50% and more of the ‘light’ or ‘information’ that was perceived by the eyes. In his book The Holographic Universe, the late Michael Talbot writes about the work of neurophysiologist Karl Pribram and others [p. 163]:

“Pribram discovered that the visual information a monkey receives via its optic nerves does not travel directly to its visual cortex, but is first filtered through other areas of its brain. Numerous studies have shown that the same is true of human vision. Visual information entering our brains is edited and modified by our temporal lobes before it is passed on to our visual cortices. Some studies suggest that less than 50 percent of what we ‘see’ is actually based on information entering our eyes. The remaining 50 percent plus is pieced together out of our expectation of what the world should look like (and perhaps out of other sources such as reality fields). The eyes may be the visual organs, but it is the brain that sees.”

Wow! And then consider this…

What we don’t ‘see’, we make up. Seriously, we make it up! Here’s how…

Our eyes have a blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the eye in the middle of the retina. We can’t see anything with that part of the eye. However, the brain weaves the picture together from the information available and ‘fills the hole’.

So actually, what we believe we are seeing is what we see. Upon constructing the 3D image that we think we eventually ‘see’, the brain filters and tweaks the information received by filling in holes and matching it to its expectations of what there is to be seen, based on its engrained beliefs. And that latter part makes up for more than 50% of the images we actually ‘see’!

That’s quite something! We also describe this mechanism in our free book on the Premises Of Your Own Power (and if you haven’t read it yet, you can get it for free by subscribing at the right hand side at the top of this page). Here are some excerpts of what we wrote:

“Most people will be familiar with overlooking misspelled words. This is because your eyes, or rather your brain, is so accustomed to reading the words in correct spelling, that it simply overlooks a typo. The typo is filtered out of the image by your brain, which causes you to overlook it and see the correct spelling, which is in line with your expectations. This does not happen all the time, but it does happens sometimes, which illustrates the point to make here. Neurophysiologists like Karl Pribram have long been aware of this fact.

(…)

In relation to the example of the misspelled words, your engrained belief system (the correct spelling of the words you see most of the time) caused your brain to filter out the information (the typo) that was at odds with its conditioned worldview (its expectations).”

Here’s another excerpt:

“Likewise, studies have shown that men and women often have trouble communicating accurately with each other, because what one says the other does not hear. Each hears merely whatever supports their belief and prejudice about each other. They pick up only what they want to hear, or what supports their conditioned view of the way things are. This is a psychological phenomenon called ‘selective retention’.”

And here’s a final one:

“The catch is that seeing is not just believing. Apparently, ‘believing is also seeing’. Because the information picked up by your eyes is edited by your brain according to its engrained belief systems, a large proportion of what you actually ‘see’ is determined by what you believe deep inside to be true. You see what you believe. And of course, because you see what you believe, you immediately believe what you see, because it supports your belief systems that determined what you saw in the first place. Thus, what you see reinforces your belief system, which causes you to keep seeing things in the way you believe things to be, which in turn again makes you see things in that way. It’s a self-reinforcing cycle!”

(You can read more details on that in the book on the Premises Of Your Own Power…)

But for now, we’re slowly moving into the point that we want to make…

After all, it’s clear that the beliefs programmed into your brain have a significant effect on the way you perceive ‘reality’… or in fact, on the way you even construct reality and thus what you seem to be ‘attracting’!

The thing is… Your brain is not the center of control that determines what happens and what doesn’t happen.

And that’s good news!

Because it’s still true that you can be the one taking control. You don’t have to be a slave to your body and brain. That is, if you recognize that you are not your body. You need to recognize that you are indeed the essence controlling it and occupying it to allow yourself to experience this ‘3D solid world’.

After all… Consider all this:

There has been this publication of an article in the scientific journal ‘Science’ with the provocative title ‘Is Your Brain Really Necessary’. This article was a reaction to the description of this British neurologist John Lorber of a young man of ‘normal development’, with an IQ of 126, and an academic degree in mathematics.

The funny thing was that a brain scan of this apparently highly intelligent young man showed that he was a pretty hardcore case of what’s known as ‘hydrocephalus’, or ‘water on the brain’.

Put differently, the head of this ‘IQ 126’, ‘academic degree in mathematics’ young man was filled with cerebrospinal fluid for 95%. What this means in layman’s terms is that his skull was like a swimming pool for his brain, which basically drowned in all that fluid.

His cerebral cortex had a gauge of about 1 millimeter, so there was hardly any brain tissue left. The weight of his brain was estimated to about 100 grams, where 1500 grams is normal for an average homo sapiens sapiens. But the workings of his brain were hardly impaired at all!

The following picture comes to mind:

Water On The Head

Maybe we underestimated him…

Anyway, it seems like the brain is not the source of consciousness. And so the good news is that you can exert control over your brain (and thus your perceptions and the way you construct your reality (or what you seem to ‘attract’)) through your own being conscious.

Put differently: You need to wake-the-hell up!

Basically, your body (including your brain) is a vehicle for experience, and you’re in the driver’s seat.

You can take control and manipulate your perceptions, and it has been shown that you (being a conscious essence) can even change your brain (being a part of the ‘space suit’ (your body) you’re wearing in order to be able to experience this ‘physical ‘reality’).

And if you listen closely, you’ll see this is true, and you’ll learn how you can benefit from this…

Science has shown during our lives there’s this ongoing process of adaptation in your brain. This happens because your mental, intellectual, spiritual and physical activities influence both the number as well as the locations of the mutual connections between neurons (brain cells). This process of ongoing adaptation is called ‘neuroplasticity’ or ‘cortical remapping’.

So basically, because of conscious attention, emotions and active thought processes, as well as due to physical activity and movement, the neural networks in your brain change continually. And as such, the electromagnetical activity in your brain changes all the time as well.

In a recent article in the scientific journal called ‘Progress In Neurobiology’ called ‘Mind Does Really Matter’, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard comes to the conclusion that trust and positive expectations are capable of influencing (changing) the parts in the brain that play a significant role in perceiving, movement, pain and a whole bunch of emotional processes.

So your mental processes (thoughts, feelings, beliefs, but most of all your conscious free will) can significantly influence the functioning of your brain on various levels. Your conscious and deliberate manipulation of your thoughts and expectations not only greatly improves your feelings of well-being. It also causes a demonstrable biological change in your brain.

So what to make of all this scientific mumbo-jumbo?

Well, here we go…

By waking-the-hell up from the vicious cycle that you may find yourself in, you can make astonishing changes in your perceived reality.

After all, we’ve seen that you see what you believe. Your brain edits the information it receives based on its engrained belief systems to determine what you see. And then what you see is merely a confirmation of what you already believe.

It’s a self-reinforcing cycle, and it’s vicious as long as it’s based on beliefs of negativity, being powerless, being poor, feeling guilty, and so on…

But by waking-the-hell up, you can consciously change your perceptions. You can consciously cause significant, demonstrable biological changes in your brain.

Your brain will change, and your perceptions will change. And as your perceptions will change, your beliefs will change. And as your beliefs change into knowing that you have full power over your own reality, your perceptions will change accordingly.

It’s still a self-reinforcing cycle, but not a vicious one anymore.Both your conscious and your subconscious mind will change into a state in which you genuinely believe down to the core of your being that you’re the one in control. And you can simply pick your beliefs. Your brain, mind and perceptions of your ‘outside reality’ will follow automatically.

Even if you have water on the head, as you have seen…

So who cares if your brain scan looks like Homer Simpson’s?

It doesn’t matter, because you are not your body. You are a unique representation of all that exists, and you kick ass.

You can choose to make the change. It’s your call. And here’s how you can.

P.S. Watch your e-mail… You can expect to get some more info on how to greatly facilitate and improve this process of changing your brain, beliefs and perceptions without even lifting a finger! We’ll let you know by e-mail…

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2009-05-28T08:15:00.000-07:00

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The Law of Attraction and the Ultradian Rest Response

2009-05-28T08:07:00.000-07:00

Credit for this article goes to Henk and Nicholas with www.Revolutiz.com
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Here's the article:

Few things are as important to ‘attraction’ (or rather your act of ‘creation’) as what some scientists call the ‘ultradian rest response’. You may have never heard of this before, but it’s one of the keys to bringing about in your life what you want to see.

You see, there is a great difference between ‘thinking’ and ‘knowing’. Thinking is a purely intellectual activity. It mainly takes place as electrochemical processes in your body and brain.

‘Knowing’ on the other hand, transcends intellect. It is what is often called ‘intuition’. Intuition is often defined as ‘immediate knowing’, without the conscious use of reasoning. There is no sequence of thoughts following up on each other leading to an outcome. It’s just there, instantly. Bang! You suddenly get it.

“Aha!”

It appears to be stemming from a whole different source of awareness compared to the ‘rational mind’ or intellect that we tend to use so much in our lives.

In our modern societies, we find ourselves under so much pressure to ignore intuition and to rationalize everything that happens. We’d rather go with our ‘heads’ than go with our ‘hearts’. We learn that from an early age in our education system, which puts the main focus on the left part of the brain, the intellectual and analytical part.

As a consequence, if you’re like most people, you tend to ‘overrationalize’ everything. You regularly get the feeling that you want to do something, and it really makes your heart sing. But then your intellect rears its ugly head, and suppresses the ‘intuitive knowing’ you just experienced by using the limiting thoughts and emotions that have been dominating your being and thinking for long. You start to think and feel things like:

“Oh dear, who am I to think I can do that?”

“Oh my, what will my mother say?”

“Goodness, what will the boys at the bar think if I do that?”

“Dear me, my parents will get angry for not doing something with my education…”

“That can’t be right. Scientists say that this is not true. Who am I to think otherwise?”

Thoughts like this have ruled most people for all their lives and forced them into submission. The repetition that has been going on for years has created ‘habits’ to go with the ‘head’ all the time instead of the ‘heart’. The moment you have intuitive knowing and your heart starts to sing, you immediately begin to doubt it and you’re pulled back into line.

“I can’t do that, it’s not responsible. What about my job?”

“I’d love to do this, but…”

“If I could ever do this… Nah, I can’t do that. I must have gone mad.”

“What will the neighbours think?”

You’re systematically pulled in line, back to the image of artificially imposed norms of what ’society’ or others think you are supposed to be. It is ignoring the deepest core of yourself, and the intelligence of the magnitude that you are deep inside.

When you look at it this way, it’s not a surprise that your intuition is often at odds with what you think. The intuitive knowing stems from a source that has a much greater overview, the bigger picture. It sees what the ‘knowing’ and associated action will lead to. The rational intellect always has a limited perspective that is quite likely even coloured by societal and religious ‘norms’, or ‘bad memories’ of certain events, which itself are often limited interpretations of what were actually stepping stones into a whole new reality.

Ernest Rossi, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychotherapist, teacher, and pioneer in the field of mind/body healing. In his book The Psychobiology of Mind/Body Healing, he describes how during an ultradian rest response your body goes into a mode that makes you more receptive to the unconscious parts of your being:

“This is the time when it is easiest to access our own intuition, your own internal imagery. Thoughts are most likely to be closer to the unconscious. This is a time when the unconscious wants all the energy it can get. If you train yourself to just watch and observe and not intrude, you are going to fall into what is called ‘reverie’ or ‘hypnagogic state’, what I call its more naturally intuitive state.”

So when do you ‘know’ instead of just ‘think’? How can you distinguish?

Well, it’s largely a feeling, but Dr. Laurie Nadel gives you some hints in her book Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power:

“Do you find yourself losing concentration during certain times of the day? Perhaps it comes as a sudden touch of fatigue, or a subtle mental fuzziness. All of a sudden, you feel droopy. Your eyes may tear. You can’t stop yawning, or you sigh. Maybe you find yourself staring out the window, your mind far away from the tasks at hand. If somebody speaks to you, you find yourself startled by the sound of his voice. Or you don’t understand what was said the first time and ask the speaker to repeat himself.”

According to Dr. Nadel, these are signs that your body is entering the ultradian rest response. At times that this occurs, your body is most attuned to your intuition, as the four main regulatory systems of your body (endocrine system, autonomic nervous system, immune system and neuropeptides in your brain) align to the unconscious, greater levels of yourself.

The clearest memory that comes to mind of experiencing an ultradian rest response myself was during a final math exam back in high school. I had trouble with one of the questions and finally drooped away. It was like I temporarily switched to the realms of ‘no-time’, staring out of the window without being conscious of what was happening around me. Then suddenly some kind of realization kicked in, and I suddenly knew how to get on my way of solving the question that I didn’t seem to understand at first.

This is not something uncommon. Everyone experiences this all the time, probably daily. The trick is to recognize it. Even some of the greatest minds in modern history accepted the importance of intuition:

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” — Albert Einstein

“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.” – Henri Poincar (one of France’s greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists)

According to Dr. Nagel, ignoring the signals of the ultradian rest response or trying to suppress them can cause you to become irritable, uncomfortable, and even depressed. However, she emphasizes that if you allow them and flow with them, they can be moments of great inspiration. Here’s what she says:

“This is the best time to take a break rather than forcing yourself to push through the fatigue. You can think of it as your intuition break, time to take a deep breath, close your eyes, and allow impressions from your intuitive right hemisphere [right brain] to flow through your mind. You are working on a project and would like help from your intuition, this is the time to ask for it. It is also a good time to meditate.”

Meditation is not a must. All you need to do is trust your intuition and listen to your inspirations. True enough, you are blessed with an intellectual mind too. But it shouldn’t dominate your intuitive knowing and suppress it.

The thing is that ‘attraction’ doesn’t happen like things just falling out of the sky right on your lap. It often works through inspirations to do something or go somewhere. Your inspirations and hunches point you towards things you can do to bring about the changes in your life that you desire.

Ignore them, and you won’t ‘attract’ what you want. But follow along with them, and magic happens.

And finally, always realize this ‘intuitive knowing’ can be unique to the knower, which is you. What may feel good for you, doesn’t have to feel good for others. Everyone is unique. You will be inspired to do something that is best for you, and that matches what you want. That can be totally different from anyone else. Besides, not everyone wants the same thing, at least if everyone would follow their true ‘wants’, not the ‘wants’ imposed by the image of what others think you should want.

No one should judge or ridicule what another feels is good for him or her, as long as the person never seeks to impose anything on anyone else. That is the freedom of life we need, that will change everyone’s life radically, and the whole world with it.

Gotta go now. I feel an ultradian rest response coming in…

To learn more about how to really get results from the Law of Attraction, go to http://www.revolutioniz.com.

Struggling to Manifest You Desires?

2009-05-28T07:49:00.000-07:00

Thank you guys at Manifesting Network~ They are awesome and usually have really interesting info.

(I subscribe to a bunch of really interesting email lists as anyone who knows me will find out. I only post the most interesting of articles because honestly, I know your time and my time is valuable. I have a tendency to be super chatty and ramble, so i try very hard to narrow it down and post the most helpful articles for those curious in the same fields of knowledge as myself.)

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Adapted from the book, Good Money, The Energy Flow Advantage. (This book is no longer available for purchase, but is included for FREE_with the upcoming PushButton Manifesting program by Michael Campbell and Sean Collins.)

Struggling to manifest?
Here’s how to end the struggle
and start making miracles.

Do you use a television or stereo that has a remote control?

Aren’t those amazing? You aim a little 5-ounce piece of plastic across the room and press a little button and — BLIP — the sounds and sights of the whole world are right in front of you on the television set.

It’s kind of magical.

Now let me ask you something.

What would happen if you took the little door off the back of the remote control, and turned the battery around so that the little “+” and the little “-” are reversed, and THEN tried to turn on the television or stereo?

What would happen?

Right! Nothing!

How come? Because the battery doesn’t do any good when it’s in backwards! The positive (+) and negative (-) poles need to be lined up the right way.

The TV is still a working TV, and there is nothing wrong with the remote control - there is really nothing wrong with the battery either! - But having a backwards battery stops EVERYTHING from working.

But wait a second: what if you REALLY REALLY REALLY wanted to turn the TV on with the remote control (even though the battery was in backwards), and THEN aimed the remote at the TV, would it work?

No.

But what if you were a REALLY good person, and wrote a bunch of affirmations that you deserve to have the TV on, would it THEN work, even with the battery in backwards?

No.

What if you asked a friend to try the remote control, somebody REALLY smart, or highly evolved, saintly, someone who REALLY deserved to have the TV on. Would it work for THEM?

No.

Not until you fix the little battery that’s in backwards. NOTHING will work until the battery is turned around.

Well here is some news for you.

Your body is the SAME way!

Did you ever WANT to manifest a result, but couldn’t muster the “willpower” to make it happen?

Did you ever want to reduce your weight, but “something” sabotaged it?

Did you ever “mean to” get started with an investment program, but didn’t?

Did you ever “mean to” stop doing some habit, but then something stopped you and you had no idea what it was?

Ever have a feeling like you are running after a goal (a money goal or any other) with big bricks in your pocket?

Your “battery” is probably running backwards.

When your battery is running backwards, you don’t do what you need to do. You might KNOW in your head what needs doing, but then you don’t do it.

Or, mysteriously, the things that ought to work don’t work. (How come some people can “Feng Shui” their home and get miracles, and other people don’t? Why do some people find their “creative visualization” works REALLY well, while other people get zero results?)

When I say, “your battery is running backwards” I am referring to the flow of energy in your body. You might think I am using this as a metaphor, but actually there are flows of energy in your body.

Chinese medicine has this well mapped out in acupuncture. (Not just in China, either…ancient finds in Europe show evidence that the SAME flows of energy in the human body were mapped identically even EARLIER than in China!)

Your body is, if you think about it, really like a giant remote control device, aimed at the universe.

The channel you see (the world your senses perceive, in other words) will not change UNLESS you change the channel.

But you can’t change that channel until you turn your battery around.

Here’s one way to do exactly that…

WARNING: Do this process even if you think you don’t have to. (Especially if you think you don’t have to.) If your batteries are NOT running backwards and you don’t need this process, doing it won’t hurt you. On the other hand, if your batteries ARE running backwards, YOUR MIND WILL TRY TO TALK YOU OUT OF DOING THIS.

DO the process anyway.

If you have read other books on manifesting or prosperity-thinking, or bought audios or videos or CD-ROMs, attended “must-see” seminars or hired a personal success coach, and STILL don’t have the abundance you want, then your batteries are REALLY running backward, and you need to do this process.

Super Simple Technique:

Before We Begin: Identify ONE SPECIFIC thing that you feel blocked about. It’s okay and natural to have more than one. But just pick ONE for now. Let’s call this “X”

Step One: Find the following part of your hand. (Either hand will do.) It’s called The “Karate Chop” point because it’s approximately the place that you hit when you make a “karate chop” strike with your hand.

Spot to Tap

Step Two: Tap the karate chop point with two fingers from your other hand. (About as hard as you’d tap a salt shaker that has salt stuck inside and on the bottom.) Or, alternatively, bump the two karate chop points into each other, as if hitting one karate chop point with the other karate chop point.

Step Three: While tapping that point (or bumping both of those points together), say outloud, “Even though I want ____”X”_____, I now deeply and profoundly accept myself.”

Step Four: Do this a couple of times a day and/or just before doing ANY manifesting technique, such as visualization, affirmations or electric manifesting!

The following can be found here:
http://www.manifestingnetwork.com/blog/19/manifesting-sabotage/

The Truth About Time: It Does NOT Exist

2009-05-28T07:37:00.000-07:00

Thank you(R)evolutionScape for another awesome bulletin. I suscribe to their e-mail list and get a lot of interesting information often. I wanted to share this info with you guys.

The Truth About Time: It does not exist except as you say it does

Time is a funny thing. A very funny thing. The biggest trick time ever played on us was to make us think it was real, and that we were under its full control. Yet, time is a complete illusion, a strong and persistent illusion.

What wonderful news that is! Time is an illusion created by you. Once you understand how this illusion is created by you, you then begin to re-create it as you wish, consciously and deliberately instead of unconsciously and accidentally as you may have been doing.

What is time? What do I have to do with time? How should I think and be about time so that I may experience wealth and other things in larger quantities faster? This chapter will begin to answer these questions. In other chapters in this book, these concepts will become more real to you.

The only time that truly exists is Now...

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent - Albert Einstein

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

Whether time is long or short, and whether space is broad or narrow, depend upon the mind. Those whose minds are at leisure can feel one day as a millennium, and those whose thoughts are expansive can perceive a small house to be as spacious as the universe. - Hung Tzu-ch'eng

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

Time flows in all directions, not forwards only as it appears to. The past, present and future exist simultaneously.

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

Here is an easy explanation of what time is. This is an extremely simplified explanation but it will do for now. Imagine a football or soccer field with 10 objects spread around it. Now, imagine that a certain object A represents a child being born and a certain object B represents being a 10 year old child. If object A was to travel to object B, that travel would take what you now call '10 years of time'. That is 10 human years of a child growing up. Now, it gets a little complex: What if that football field was to shrink? Object A would reach B and pass through all the experiences of 10 years of childhood, but the sensation of time would change. In other words, 10 years would feel very different. If that field shrunk enough, ten years could feel like an instant. And you have experienced this often. When you are having a great time, you feel as if time flew by. You did not notice the hours pass; yet your watch said they passed, because your watch is designed to take the same amount of 'time' to move from one second marker on the clock face to the next. But you are not designed that way. Time is the moving of your consciousness past pre-existing events in the space-time continuum. You will soon see what this is.

The field of life that we live in is not static - it keeps changing its dimensions. That is why we have to keep readjusting our watches worldwide all the time for this crazy thing called time to make sense for us - but only because we think of time as consistent slices of periods. It is not. It is merely our misinterpretation of our consciousness moving by one pre-existing event in the filed of Life to the next event, as you shall soon see. The field of life is not static, nor does our consciousness move at a fixed speed. The field may not change that fast for us, and our consciousness may not change its rate that fast unless we will it to do so, and that is why we do not usually notice these differences that much and see that time is not constant.

But if you were to travel very fast in a spaceship, as you may well have heard from Einstein's Theory of Relativity, you can slow down time or even go back in time. Time is more of a sensation of passing events and the faster or slower you pass these events, the faster or slower the calibration of time changes. It is not the taking of time that changes; it is the calibration of time (one minute no longer takes one minute).

Ok, back to the soccer field. Imagine you were one of the objects. You would feel time as you move around the field passing other objects that you see, isn't it? Yes. Now, imagine if you were born moving faster, say three times the speed. Time would seem shorter. Now, imagine you were the soccer field itself! Or even an object large enough to cover the whole field. Now we are talking! Time would cease to exist for you. Because you are the field and you can feel, touch, and be with all the objects on you at the same time always, there would be no travel from one object to another. It would all be happening Here, Now. All of it. All the 10 objects would be happening at the same 'time' for you, always. This is the eternal moment of Now, Here. Everything that can possibly happen in the universe, everything that can possibly be created, the past, present and future, are all running all at the same 'time' in one huge field. Your consciousness and awareness are awake to only a small section of this field at any one 'time' and as you move them about from one point to another, you experience 'time', experiencing a sensation of past, present, and future. The field itself does not experience time; it only experiences an eternal process that is always happening all at one go, Now, Here, Always, All Ways. You can think of the whole field as The Source.

As you expend your consciousness and awareness, as you take up more and more of the field, and time shrinks for you. Can you see that? Now the amazing thing is that, the mind and the Self (or soul or spirit, whichever you are used to referring to) is a lot larger than your physical body. We are used to thinking of the soul or Self as a little thing contained inside our body. That is just human thinking - relating things to containers. Have you ever considered that the soul, being far more powerful than the body, actually holds the body together and surrounds it? And the mind holds the brain and nervous system together and surrounds it? If you have considered that the soul and mind are larger than the body and brain, have you ever considered where they end? How many feet away from your body? Or is it how many miles away? Or how many light years away from your body does your soul end? It is not impossible that your Soul and Mind are a billion times larger than your body (why not?). They are infinite and eternal.

Yet, this humongous powerful Self is you. Anyway, let us get back to wealth. Understanding time clearly, how it works and how to take control of it, and understanding your Self and your Self's composition and relation with everything else physical and non-physical, is of high importance if you wish to experience massive wealth 'fast'. It is all a matter of expanded consciousness, right state and right thought and choice. These lead to your consciousness becoming awake to wealthy parts of the whole and doing so in wider circles.

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

Now is the only moment that exists. An eternal moment of Now is all there is. You can remember the past and dream the future but you can only be, exist, Here, Now. Make an irrevocable commitment to yourself to make Now the best moment of your life ever!

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

Do not dwell in the past, or live in the future. Your only moment is Now. Dwell in Now.

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

As you will soon see, your outer world mirrors your inner world. You will see in this book how this is so.

Do you feel as if you do not have enough time to do what you wish to do? People short of time on the outside are short of it on the inside. They act, think, and speak believing they are short of time. Stop thinking and saying you do not have enough time. Do not believe that for a second. The universe has no shortages of anything including time, and neither do you, except for the ones that you build for yourself. Believing in any sort of shortage makes your consciousness smaller and slower so that you may experience what you believe in.

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

The present moment is the greatest gift you can have. It is perfectly created for you according to your stated designs. You state these designs by the thoughts, states of being, words, and actions that you held most true to yourself earlier. The present is something that you send yourself, a perfectly pre-sent moment. It allows you to experience, taste, review, and change your past thoughts, states of being, words and actions. Be grateful for the present, for you know you can change it, for it allows you to experience your Self, for its entire existence is to serve you. Cursing, condemning and judging the present moment will only keep it as it is longer. What you resist, judge, and condemn persists. What you embrace and bring to the light for non-judgmental, honest and clear examination reveals the lessons you are looking for, the key to the next level that you seek.

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but 'lies asleep.' - H. P. Blavatsky

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

The future influences the present just as much as the past. - Nietzsche

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

The first time you do something is a journey of discovery. You take in the details and learn many new things. At this point, there are no labels and memories to enable you to pre-judge the new experience. Learning is at its highest. The hundredth time you do it is often very different. For most people, repetition brings about unconsciousness. Most people do and see the things that occur most often in their lives in an unconscious and unaware state. Because they have seen or done something once, they turn to relying on their memories of it and labels about it that they built in their minds the first time. Learning and discovery drops to zero. Memories of the past experiences take over. What good does it serve you to live today based on your memory of it yesterday? You miss the gift of the present moment totally! In your business or work, do you take an absolutely fresh look at your work, workmates and customers each new day, or do you go by how you 'know' them in their past?

Everything changes, and using memory keeps you from seeing that change, seeing things as they truly are. Try to 'forget' everything about what you are looking at, and you will discover a whole new world, and you will grow a whole lot faster, grow your wealth and self a whole lot quicker.

Think about it. It is quite often that a stranger will complement your work mate or spouse over something that you totally miss every day because you do not look at them as if they were totally new to you. Memory has its place, but many people overuse it, often in an unbeneficial way.

Decide right now to face every experience anew by choosing to forget that you have ever faced it before. Decide not to anticipate a specific appearance or behavior, an anticipation based on your memory and emotions. Practice detachment of outcome, but have certainty of your choices and intention, and you will find a world that has been hiding from you all along, right in front of your eyes all along.

- I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY -

This text was extracted from the book A Happy Pocket Full of Money
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Tell BLM no more public lands for the world's dirtiest fossil fuel!

2009-05-21T08:05:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Did you know that Bush-era environmental policies are still on the books, jeopardizing our natural places?

Because of a rule issued by the Bush Administration, the Bureau of Land Management is poised to lease millions of acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming to develop oil shale – the dirtiest fossil fuel in the world.

Please let the Bureau of Land Management know that you want public lands protected from oil shale development.

Oil shale development is not environmentally sound, nor is it economically viable. If it moves forward now, we don't know if we'll get usable energy sources – but we do know that we'll end up with polluted air, wild lands that are carved up by roads and transmission lines, and depleted water resources in these already arid Western States.

Email the Bureau of Land Management today and urge them to protect our public lands from oil shale development.

Here is the web page: http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/oilshale00a

Its free and its easy!

Thanks for your help!

Liz Blackstone

Aspartame reply to Joel with bodytransformationinsider.com

2009-05-21T07:53:00.000-07:00

I subscribe to Joel with www.bodytransformationinsider.com because he has posted some good workout ideas and other helpful information. However, after hearing his view point stating aspartame being safe, I had to disagree. So this is my reply to his post.

Originally I was not going to comment. As a mother of a 6 year old, and I also work a full time job. I understand how busy life can be and I figured most people didn’t have the time to research the subject for themselves. Luckily, I save almost every article I really enjoy along with their web pages. So I decided to do my best to present some of the research I have found.

Growing up I never used diet products. Then I had my son and I gained over 65 pounds. I was desperate and wanted to lose the weight. I heard of diet products and figured less calories had to be better right? So I started drinking diet sodas and diet foods. At first I didn't realize much, I had slight head aches but I didn't associate that with the Splenda. Then the headaches turned to migraines. I never had migraines growing up. That was a new experience for me and let me tell you those migraines really hurt. After speaking with a friend who is a doctor he asked if there was anything new I had been doing and I at first thought, no. But as he went on he told me it could be after prolonged use of something and I thought about how I recently (just under a year) started with the diet drinks. I mentioned it and he told me the same thing Jane (post a couple above this) said. He told me the negative effects had been known since the year after its’ release on the market. He told me to use my common sense and stop ingesting those products to see what would happen.

I stopped taking diet drinks and foods and the headaches subsided. I guess it could be coincidence but after more research online I heard a lot of interesting things that doctors, human rights activists and regular people like you and me were saying. I was surprised at was the amount of people (especially the doctors) who are concerned because of this substance.

I was curious as to what exactly aspartame was made of and found interesting information. I do hope that the following information provides more avenues for your research on the subject.

I attempted writing before, but due to copy right laws I could not copy information from other sites. However I am allowed to paste the link of where interesting content is found and can give a summary of some of the things you will find inside those links. I will do my best to pass along information while not plagiarizing the web pages and inserting the links that go with the corresponding web site so you can check out the pages for yourself.

The first site I would like to share explains how sucralose is made. Sucralose is comes from sucrose. But did you know the process to change sucrose to sucralose involves chemically changing the structure of the sugar molecules through a process where the sugar is chlorinated? What they do is take 3 hydroxyl atoms from the sugar and substitute them with 3 chlorine atoms.

This web site talks about many other issues such as the origin of sucralose and how Tate & Lyle arranged with Johnson & Johnson in 1980 to develop sucralose. Then Johnson & Johnson formed McNeil Speciality Products Company in 1980 to commercialize sucralose. Sucralose is not yet approved for use in most European countries, where it is still under review.

Here is the web site where this and more information can be found.
http://www.karlloren.com/Diabetes/p40e.htm

This web site lists its resources so I would like to add them here:

Sources:
Food and Drug Administration "Final Rule " for Sucralose, 21 CFR Part 172, Docket No. 87F-0086.
Lord GH, Newberne PM. Renal mineralization--a ubiquitous lesion in chronic rat studies. Food Chem Toxicol 1990 Jun;28:449-55.
Labare MP, Alexander M. Microbial cometabolism of sucralose, a chlorinated disaccharide, in environmental samples. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 1994 Oct;42:173-8.
Hunter BT. Sucralose. Consumers' Research Magazine, Oct90, Vol. 73 Issue 10, p8, 2p.
Maudlin RK. FDA approves sucralose for expanded use. Modern Medicine, Oct99, Vol. 67 Issue 10, p57, 1/9p
Sucralose--a new artificial sweetener. Medical Letter on Drugs & Therapeutics, 07/03/98, Vol. 40, Issue 1030, p67, 2p.
Q&A: Is newly FDA approved sweetener sucralose good for you? Executive Health's Good Health Report, Nov98, Vol. 35 Issue 2, p6, 1p, 1c.
Gain B. FDA approves J&J Sweetener. Chemical Week, 04/15/98, Vol. 160 Issue 14, p27, 1/4p.
Sucralose Toxicity Information Center
Splenda Product Web Site
Official Tate & Lyle Sucralose Web Site
Endurance News, Issue 26.
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The next bit of info address aspartame. This information is from the National Institute of Science, Law, and Public Policy.

There is a LOT of interesting information on this site. Did you know there were other studies that were not just performed on mice, but on child size monkeys? 7 monkeys were fed milk with aspartame; one died and 5 had 'grand mal' seizures.

This site also goes into detail about how people who saw the negative effects of aspartame started taking this issue publicly as early as the late 1960's.

Dr. Olney in 60's publicly announced that aspartame caused a loss of neurons, and was responsible for stunted and retarded growth of the pituitary glands, testes and ovaries in the animals. Dr. Olney is a conservative scientist, and yet he is adamant and says, "there is no margin of safety for aspartame in a child's diet."

Olney was worried because aspartame had very similar properties to glutamate (an ingredient of monosodium glutamate) and in his groundbreaking research with glutamate he had shown that it caused brain lesions in baby rats.

Turner and Olney decided to fight aspartame's approval. Representing a Washington, D.C. public interest group, The Consumer Nutrition Institute (CNI), Turner and Olney filed formal objections with the FDA They challenged the validity of some of the key aspartame safety tests which Searle submitted to the FDA, They presented animal studies by Olney and others that showed evidence that aspartame causes brain damage, brain tumors, seizures and changes in brain chemistry. Turner and Olney were especially concerned about the new sweetener's potential effects on pregnant women and young children.

In April 1975, the FDA set up a hearing, a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI), to review the objections to aspartame. While preparing for the PBOI. Dr. Olney examined the FDA files which contained Searle's "Safety Data Studies." What Olney discovered buried in those files would obsess him for years to come He was shocked when he found results of aspartame feeding experiments conducted by Searle which showed an unusually high incidence;' of brain tumors in rats that ingested the sweetener and no rumors in the control rats.

They suggest for further information to read Mullarkey’s book, Bittersweet Aspartame, A Diet Delusion.

They offer a lot more information on their web site including some side effects of aspartame.

Their address and web pages you can find this information are as followed:

National Institute of Science, Law, and Public Policy.
1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 462-8800 Fax: (202) 265-6564
tamara@swankin-turner.com

http://swankin-turner.com/
http://swankin-turner.com/nislapp.html
http://www.swankin-turner.com/aspartame.html

There is a little bit more information I would like to share.

Aspartame was not approved until 1981, in dry foods. For over eight years, the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn’t approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then, there was so much opposition to approval, that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: “Do not approve aspartame.” Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own Board of Inquiry.

In February of 1994, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the listing of adverse reactions reported to the FDA (DHHS 1994). Aspartame accounted for more than 75% of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA’s Adverse Reaction Monitoring System (ARMS).

The following information can be found inside http://dorway.com/

They encourage anyone who has experience adverse affects of aspartame, to fill an aspartame reaction form and fax it. The office addresses for this company is as follows:

Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland 20857

Mrs. Betty Martini
Mission Possible International
9270 River Club Parkway
Duluth, Georgia 30097
Internet E-mail:

If you are further interested and would like more places to research check out these links:
http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html
• http://www.dorway.com Front door to everything!
• http://www.dorway.com/possible.html Mission Possible Files
• http://www.dorway.com/asprlink.html Links to more sites/source information
• http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame More in-depth Information
• http://www.trufax.org/menu/chem.html More good articles
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Links for books:
http://www.dorway.com/books.html
• http://www.dorway.com/amazon.html DORway Amazon Bookshelf

I sincerely hope this gives the reader a greater understanding of the ramifications of sugar free products.

I also hope the reader finds that there are many more books and websites that they can research for themselves to see the bigger picture.

Best wishes to everyone,
Sincerely,
Liz Blackstone

CA Gov. "Its time to debate legalizing marijuana." & Mexican Congress Passes... read for more

2009-05-08T06:26:00.000-07:00

We are witnessing a lot of change that many thought would be impossible to see in our life time- if they thought it could happen at all! Every week I hear more and more about this subject and the positive implications. Please read and share what you head lines interest you the most. This is a very exciting period in history.

1. California: Governor Says It's Time To Debate Legalizing Marijuana

2. Mexican Congress Passes Drug Decriminalization Measure

3. Maine: Lawmakers Expand Marijuana Decriminalization Law

4. PA: Bill In State House Would Make Marijuana Legal For Medical Use

5. NH House creates team to work out pot bill

6. Conservative Poll Shows 52% of Americans Say Legalize Marijuana
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1. California: Governor Says It's Time To Debate Legalizing Marijuana

Sacramento, CA: Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced this week that he believes that California legislators ought to publicly debate the merits of taxing and regulating the production and sale of cannabis for adults.

"I think it's time for a debate (regarding taxing and regulating the sale of cannabis for adults)," Schwarzenegger said. (*Note: his comments come at the very end of the video.) "I think all of those ideas of creating extra revenues, I'm always for an open debate on it. And I think we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs, what effect did it have on those countries? ... It could very well be that everyone is happy with that decision and then we could look at that."

The Governor's remarks came less than one week after a Field Research Corporation poll of 901 registered voters reported that 56 percent of Californians agree with the statement: "Legalize marijuana for recreational use and tax its proceeds."

A separate Zogby poll of approximately 4,000 voters released this week indicates that just over half of Americans nationally support legalizing marijuana.

Current estimates indicate that California's budget deficit will grow to $28 billion by the end of the 2009/2010 state budget year.

In February, California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced legislation — Assembly Bill 390: The Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act — to tax the commercial production and retail sale of cannabis.

A fiscal analysis of this proposal by the State Board of Equalization estimates that AB 390 could raise more than $1.3 billion yearly in tax revenue for the state of California.

Last week Oakland City Council members approved a 1.8 percent tax on medicinal marijuana sold by the city's four licensed dispensaries. Lawmakers believe that the tax could generate between $400,000 and $1 million annually for the city.

The citywide measure will be decided upon by voters on July 21, 2009.
For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Deputy Director, at (202) 483-5500 or Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=paul@norml.org. ________________________________________________________

2. Mexican Congress Passes Drug Decriminalization Measure

Mexico City, Mexico: Mexican lawmakers enacted legislation last week to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of controlled substances. The measure now goes to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his approval.

As passed, the proposal would eliminate criminal penalties for the personal possession of up to five grams of marijuana, as well as minor quantities of other drugs.

The legislation also authorizes state and local police to enforce drug trafficking laws. Under current law, only federal police (about five percent of Mexico's law enforcement personnel) may arrest individuals suspected of selling drugs.

In 2006, Mexico's Congress passed a virtually identical measure, only to have it vetoed by former President Vincente Fox, who stated, "Congress ... [needs] ... to make it absolutely clear in our country [that] the possession of drugs and their consumption [is], and will continue to be, a criminal offense." Fox's veto came after political pressure from members of the US State Department who warned that enacting such a law could promote so-called "drug tourism."

Last month, Mexico's ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan told CBS's Face the Nation that legalizing marijuana could potentially quell ongoing border violence. "This (legalization) is a debate that needs to be taken seriously – that we have to engage in on both sides of the border," he said.

However after meeting with Calderon days later, United States government officials said that the option of the US liberalizing its pot laws is "not on the table." The White House instead proposed increased efforts to curb domestic drug demand, and also called for expanding the use of 'drug courts' and coerced drug treatment.

According to the Associated Press, Mexican drug cartels now derive an estimated 60 percent of their income from illicit pot sales.

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500.
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3. Maine: Lawmakers Expand Marijuana Decriminalization Law

Augusta, ME: Democrat Gov. John Baldacci signed legislation on Friday expanding the state's longstanding marijuana 'decriminalization' law.

Under current law, possession of up to 1.25 ounces of marijuana is treated as an infraction, punishable by a fine of no more than $600. Defendants who possess greater amounts are presumed to be engaging in the sale of cannabis and face criminal penalties and potential jail time.

The newly approved legislation (LD 250) states that the possession of over 1.25 ounces but less than 2.5 ounces of marijuana will also be defined as a civil offense, punishable by a fine of $700 to $1,000 dollars. (Civil fines for the possession of less than 1.25 ounces of marijuana will remain the same.) The new law also removes the inference that the possession of quantities of marijuana above 1.25 ounces but less than 2.5 ounces is presumed to be for sale.

"Maine's new law will save prosecutorial resources and it makes common sense," NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre said. "It is expensive and illogical to presume that minor marijuana offenders are criminal traffickers. Kudos to the Maine legislature and to the Governor for supporting this effort to revise the state's longstanding cannabis decriminalization law."
The new law takes effect 90 days following adjournment of the state legislature.

To date, 13 states – including Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Ohio – have enacted versions of marijuana decriminalization, replacing criminal penalties and jail time for the personal possession of cannabis with the imposition of nominal fines. Only one state, Ohio, treats the possession of more than 2.5 ounces of cannabis as a fine-only (no jail) offense.

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at, (202) 483-5500.
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4. PA: Bill In State House Would Make Marijuana Legal For Medical Use

Bill Waschko reached to the shelf of vintage medicine bottles at his family’s century-old drug store in Hazleton and pulled down one labeled “Cannabis.”

The powdered extract of marijuana was bottled by Eli Lilly and Co., but although the bottle is empty and the label has no date, marijuana was a legal drug around the country until 1937.

A bill in the state House of Representatives would make marijuana legal again for medical uses, emulating action already taken in 13 states and also proposed in New York and New Jersey.

The Pennsylvania bill, sponsored by Reps. Phyllis Mundy, D-Kingston, and Mark Cohen, D-Philadelphia, would set up compassion centers for growing and distributing marijuana to patients who had registered identification cards. Physicians would give written statements to patients whom they believe would benefit medically from using marijuana, but they would not write prescriptions, which could subject them to federal prosecution.

They would have a (marijuana) clinic like a methadone clinic,” suggested George Waschko, Bill’s brother and the pharmacist at Waschko’s Pharmacy.

George Waschko said the possible medical uses of marijuana include treating glaucoma and nausea caused by chemotherapy given to cancer patients.

The bill also lists marijuana as a treatment for wasting due to AIDS and for chronic pain, seizures and Crohn’s disease.

Tom Dougherty, a pharmacist at Valley Pharmacy in Sugarloaf, remembers marijuana was in the dispensary at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia while he was a student.
“It sat there. We had to count it every month. We never used it,” Dougherty said.

Dougherty wonders whether there is a great medical need for marijuana or whether it would be “an orphan drug where you have six patients who need it in Pennsylvania.”

The Medical Board of California, which in 1996 became the first state to re-legalize marijuana, issued a statement in 2004 calling medical marijuana an emerging treatment.

Ed Pane, director of Serento Gardens Alcoholism and Drug Services in Hazleton, supports the use of marijuana for medical purposes only and said numerous patients might benefit from it.

He said marijuana can reduce vomiting in chemotherapy patients, and treat migraines and the spasms of multiple sclerosis, “which can be extremely painful.”

Three hundred thousand Americans have multiple sclerosis, and 1.25 million people are diagnosed yearly with cancer, Pane wrote in a paper this fall for a class he is taking while earning a master’s degree.

Marijuana “helps individuals to put on weight and handle food and cuts down on the need for pain medication by enhancing what the person is taking. It doesn’t make the medication stronger to the point of overdose, but makes it more effective,” Pane said in an interview Friday.

While 32,000 people die yearly from prescription medicines, including overdoses and allergic reactions, no one ever has died from an overdose of marijuana, he said.

States can make money by taxing medical marijuana and save the expenses of prosecuting patients who use marijuana, but Pane still wants Pennsylvania to prohibit abuse of the drug.

“Street dealing under any guise needs to be illegal,” he said. “From my standpoint, it breaks my heart when I see kids using it. They’re not going to grow up emotionally. It becomes a means of handling problems. www.citizensvoice.com
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5. NH House creates team to work out pot bill

CONCORD – House supporters of legalizing medical marijuana for chronic or terminally ill patients slowed their campaign Wednesday after fearing Gov. John Lynch would veto the bill (HB 648) as the state Senate had passed it.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to create a team of legislative negotiators to try and work out differences between the two branches.

State Rep. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua, said there's broad agreement among House and Senate supporters.

The goal of the working group, she said, would be to try and address eight specific problems Lynch and his staff identified during private meetings with House supporters earlier this week.

Full story and Bill No. HB 648 at a glance here:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090507/NEWS02/305079899/-1/XML15
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6. Conservative Poll Shows 52% of Americans Say Legalize Marijuana

WASHINGTON D.C. - A new Zogby poll commissioned by the conservative-leaning O'Leary Report has found 52 percent voter support for treating marijuana as a legal, taxed, regulated substance. The survey, published as a full-page ad in today's issue of the political newspaper The Hill, polled a sample of 3,937 voters weighted to match the 2008 presidential outcome -- 54 percent Obama voters and 46 percent McCain supporters.

"This new survey continues the recent trend of strong and growing support for taxing and regulating marijuana and ending the disastrously failed policy of prohibition," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.

Voters were asked: "Scarce law enforcement and prison resources, a desire to neutralize drug cartels and the need for new sources of revenue have resurrected the topic of legalizing marijuana. Proponents say it makes sense to tax and regulate the drug while opponents say that legalization would lead marijuana users to use other illegal drugs. Would you favor or oppose the government's effort to legalize marijuana?"

The results showed a decisive majority of 52 percent in favor with 37 percent opposed and 11 percent not sure -- slightly higher than the 46 percent support reported in an ABC News/Washington Post poll released at the end of April.

In California, the respected Field poll recently found 56 percent support for making marijuana a taxed, regulated product that is legal for adults.

"Voters are coming to realize that marijuana prohibition gives us the worst of all possible worlds -- a drug that's widely available but totally unregulated, whose producers and sellers pay no taxes but whose profits often support murderous drug cartels," Kampia said.
"The public is way ahead of the politicians on this."

With more than 27,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.

http://www.salem-news.com/

What Is Single-Payer National Health Insurance? Doctors answer these questions and more.

2009-05-06T07:31:00.000-07:00

I am surprised to see how many people have not heard the term "Single Payer" when talking about health care. And the few that have heard it before, did not quite know understand it.

Thankfully the folks at One Care Now have a lot of information. (Here is there web page: http://onecarenow.org/ )

If you agree after reading (and researching), please go to the link below and sign a petition.

What Is Single-Payer National Health Insurance? Doctors answer these questions and more. (Direct link to this information.)

Single-Payer National Health Insurance

by Physicians for a National Health Program

Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private.

Currently, the U.S. health care system is outrageously expensive, yet inadequate. Despite spending more than twice as much as the rest of the industrialized nations ($7,129 per capita), the United States performs poorly in comparison on major health indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality and immunization rates. Moreover, the other advanced nations provide comprehensive coverage to their entire populations, while the U.S. leaves 46 million completely uninsured and millions more inadequately covered.

The reason we spend more and get less than the rest of the world is because we have a patchwork system of for-profit payers. Private insurers necessarily waste health dollars on things that have nothing to do with care: overhead, underwriting, billing, sales and marketing departments as well as huge profits and exorbitant executive pay. Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Combined, this needless administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans' health dollars.

Single-payer financing is the only way to recapture this wasted money. The potential savings on paperwork, more than $350 billion per year, are enough to provide comprehensive coverage to everyone without paying any more than we already do.

Under a single-payer system, all Americans would be covered for all medically necessary services, including: doctor, hospital, long-term care, mental health, dental, vision, prescription drug and medical supply costs. Patients would regain free choice of doctor and hospital, and doctors would regain autonomy over patient care.

Physicians would be paid fee-for-service according to a negotiated formulary or receive salary from a hospital or nonprofit HMO / group practice. Hospitals would receive a global budget for operating expenses. Health facilities and expensive equipment purchases would be managed by regional health planning boards.

A single-payer system would be financed by eliminating private insurers and recapturing their administrative waste. Modest new taxes would replace premiums and out-of-pocket payments currently paid by individuals and business. Costs would be controlled through negotiated fees, global budgeting and bulk purchasing.

Is national health insurance "socialized medicine"?

No. Socialized medicine is a system in which doctors and hospitals work for the government and draw salaries from the government. Doctors in the Veterans Administration and the Armed Services are paid this way. Examples also exist in Great Britain and Spain. But in most European countries, Canada, Australia and Japan they have socialized financing, or socialized health insurance, not socialized medicine. The government pays for care that is delivered in the private (mostly not-for-profit) sector. This is similar to how Medicare works in this country. Doctors are in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis from government funds. The government does not own or manage their medical practices or hospitals.

The term socialized medicine is often used to conjure images of government bureaucratic interference in medical care. That does not describe what happens in countries with national health insurance. It does describe the interference by insurance company bureaucrats in our health system.

Won't this raise my taxes?

Currently, about 64% of our health care system is financed by public money: federal and state taxes, property taxes and tax subsidies. These funds pay for Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, coverage for public employees (including teachers), elected officials, military personnel, etc. There are also hefty tax subsidies to employers to help pay for their employees' health insurance. About 17% of heath care is financed by all of us individually through out-of-pocket payments, such as co-pays, deductibles, the uninsured paying directly for care, people paying privately for premiums, etc. Private employers only pay 19% of health care costs. In all, it is a very "regressive" way to finance health care, in that the poor pay a much higher percentage of their income for health care than higher income individuals do.

A universal public system would be financed this way: The public financing already funneled to Medicare and Medicaid would be retained. The difference, or the gap between current public funding and what we would need for a universal health care system, would be financed by a payroll tax on employers (about 7%) and an income tax on individuals (about 2%). The payroll tax would replace all other employer expenses for employees' health care. The income tax would take the place of all current insurance premiums, co-pays, deductibles, and any and all other out of pocket payments. For the vast majority of people a 2% income tax is less than what they now pay for insurance premiums and in out-of-pocket payments such as co-pays and deductibles, particularly for anyone who has had a serious illness or has a family member with a serious illness. It is also a fair and sustainable contribution. Currently, over 41 million people have no insurance and thousands of people with insurance are bankrupted when they have an accident or illness. Employers who currently offer no health insurance would pay more, but they would receive health insurance for the same low rate as larger firms. Many small employers have to pay 25% or more of payroll now for health insurance – so they end up not having insurance at all. For large employers, a payroll tax in the 7% range would mean they would pay less than they currently do (about 8.5%). No employer, moreover, would hold a competitive advantage over another because his cost of business did not include health care. And health insurance would disappear from the bargaining table between employers and employees.

Won't this result in rationing like in Canada?

The U.S. Supreme Court recently established that rationing is fundamental to the way managed care conducts business. Rationing in U.S. health care is based on income: if you can afford care you get it, if you can't, you don't. A recent study by the prestigious Institute of Medicine found that 18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance. That's rationing. No other industrialized nation rations health care to the degree that the U.S. does.
If there is this much rationing why don't we hear about it? And if other countries do not ration the way we do, why do we hear about them? The answer is that their systems are publicly accountable and ours is not. Problems with their health care systems are aired in public, ours are not. In U.S. health care no one is ultimately accountable for how it works. No one takes full responsibility.

The rationing that takes place in U.S. health care is unnecessary. A number of studies (notably the General Accounting office report in 1991, and the Congressional Budget office report in 1993) show that there is more than enough money in our health care system to serve everyone if it were spent wisely. Administrative costs are far higher in the U.S. than in other countries' systems. These inflated costs are directly tied to our failure to have a publicly-financed, universal health care system. We spend at least twice more per person than any other country, and still find it necessary to deny health care.

Another consideration is that everyone would have the same comprehensive health coverage, including all medical, hospital, eye care, dental care, long-term care, and mental health services. Currently, many people and businesses are paying huge premiums for insurance that is almost worthless if they were to have a serious illness.

Who will run the health care system?

There is a myth that, with national health insurance, the government will be making the medical decisions. But in a publicly-financed, universal health care system medical decisions are left to the patient and doctor, as they should be. This is true even in the countries like the UK and Spain that have socialized medicine.

In a public system the public has a say in how it's run. Cost containment measures are publicly managed at the state level by an elected and appointed body that represents the people of that state. This body decides on the benefit package, negotiates doctor fees and hospital budgets. It also is responsible for health planning and the distribution of expensive technology.

The benefit package people will receive will not be decided upon by the legislature, but by the appointed body that represents all state residents in consultation with medical experts in all fields of medicine.

What about medical research?

Much current medical research is publicly-financed through the National Institutes of Health. Under a universal health care system this would continue. A great deal of drug research, for example, is funded by the government. Drug companies are invited in when it comes to marketing successful new drugs. AZT for HIV patients is one example. All the expensive clinical trials were conducted with government money. When it was found to be effective, marketing rights went to the drug company. (This is a controversial practice because it means pharmaceutical companies enjoy significant profits on the back of taxpayer-financed research.)

Medical research does not disappear under universal health care system. Many famous discoveries have been made in countries that have national health care systems. Laparoscopic gallbladder removal was pioneered in Canada. The CT scan was invented in England. The new treatment to cure juvenile diabetics by transplanting pancreatic cells was developed in Canada.

It is also important to note that studies show that the number of clinical research grants declines in areas of high HMO penetration. This suggests that managed care increasingly threatens clinical research. Another study surveyed medical school faculty and found that it was more difficult to do research in areas with high HMO penetration.

Won't this just be another bureaucracy?

The United States has the most bureaucratic health care system in the world. Over 24% of every health care dollar goes to paperwork, overhead, CEO salaries, profits, and other non-clinical costs. Because the U.S. does not have a system that serves everyone and instead has over 1,500 different insurance plans, each with their own marketing, paperwork, enrollment, premiums, rules, and regulations, our insurance system is both extremely complex and fragmented. The Medicare program operates with just 3% overhead, compared to 15% to 25% overhead at a typical HMO.

It is not necessary to have a huge bureaucracy to decide who gets care and what care they get, if and when everyone is covered and has the same comprehensive benefits. With a universal health care system we would be able to cut our bureaucratic burden in half and save nearly $150 billion per year.

How will we keep costs down if everyone has access to comprehensive health care?

People will seek care earlier when diseases are more treatable (and affordable). We know that the uninsured delay or avoid seeking care because they are afraid of health care bills. This will be eliminated under such a system. Undoubtedly costs of taking care of the medical needs of people who are currently doing without will cost more money in the short run. But we will be spending proportionately less on administration to compensate.

In the long run, the best way to control costs is to negotiate fees and budgets with doctors, hospitals, and drug companies and to set and enforce an overall budget.

How will we keep doctors from doing too many procedures?

This is a problem in systems that reimburse physicians on a fee-for-service basis. In today's health system, another problem is physicians doing too little for patients. So the real question is, "how do we discourage both overcare and undercare"? One approach is to compare physicians' use of tests and procedures to their peers with similar patients. A physician who is "off the curve" will stand out. Another way is to set spending targets for each specialty. This encourages doctors to be prudent stewards and to make sure their colleagues are as well, because any doctor doing unnecessary procedures will be taking money away from other physicians in the same specialty. Another way is to continue to develop expert guidelines by groups like the American College of Physicians, etc. to shape professional standards – which will certainly change over time as treatments change. This really gets to the heart of "how do you improve the quality of health care" which is a longer topic . Suffice it to say that universal coverage is a pre-requisite for quality improvement.

What will happen to physician incomes?

On the basis of the Canadian experience, average physician incomes should change little. However, the income disparity between specialties is likely to shrink.

The drop in income that a physician might experience under a single-payer system could be mitigated by a drastic reduction in office overhead and malpractice costs. Billing would involve imprinting the patient's national health program card on a charge slip, checking a box to indicate the complexity of the procedure or service, and sending the slip (or a computer record) to the physician-payment board. This simplification of billing would save thousands of dollars per practitioner in annual office expenses.

How will we keep drug prices under control?

When all patients are under one system, they wield a lot of clout. The VA can purchase drugs for 40% discounts because they are a bulk purchaser. This is called monopsy buying power and it is the main reason why other countries' drug prices are lower than ours. The same could happen with medical supplies and durable medical equipment.

Why shouldn't we let people buy better health care if they can afford it?

Whenever we allow the wealthy to buy better care or jump the queue, health care for the rest of us suffers. One need only look at the example of the nation's health insurance program for the poor, versus the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, that serves members of Congress. Access to care for the poor is deteriorating because Medicaid is a grossly underfunded health care program. Because it doesn't serve the wealthy, the payment rates are low and many physicians refuse to see Medicaid patients. D.C. General Hospital in D.C., which serves the poor, is always on the brink of bankruptcy. Calls to improve Medicaid fall on deaf ears because the beneficiaries are not considered to be politically important. On the other hand, members of Congress have completely free access to care at National Naval, where the quality of care couldn't be better.

What will be covered?

All medically necessary care, including doctor visits, hospital care, prescriptions, mental health services, nursing home care, rehab, home care, eye care and dental care.
What about alternative care, will it be covered?

Alternative care that is proven in clinical trials to be effective will be covered. For example, spinal manipulation for some back conditions. Other treatments will be decided by the health care planning board or other public body. New kinds of treatments will be added to the benefits package over time as they are shown to be effective, including "alternative" treatments. Similarly, ineffective, harmful, or wasteful care can be removed from the benefits package, such as funding for a costly medication that is no better than aspirin for arthritis.

Isn't a payroll tax unfair to small businesses?

The payroll tax is more costly to businesses who are not currently insuring their workers. However, it is much less THAN what they would pay for good private insurance for themselves and their workers. For most of the small businesses already providing coverage, the payroll tax will be much less expensive than what they are paying now.

Ideally, the payroll tax will be replaced in the future by a tax that doesn't charge an administrative assistant making $17,000 a year the same percentage of salary as a CEO earning $175,000 a year.

Can a business keep private insurance if they choose?

Yes and no. Everyone has to be included in the new system for it to be able to control costs, reduce bureaucracy, and cover everyone. However, business and anyone who wants to can purchase additional private insurance that covers things not covered by the national plan (e.g. cosmetic surgery, orthodontia, etc.).

Insurance companies will no longer be needed to decide who gets medical care and what kind of medical care, and would not be allowed to offer the same benefits as the universal health care system. Any allowance for this would weaken and eventually destabilize the health care system. It would undermine the principle of pooling the risk. Health care systems act as universal insurers. At any one time the healthy help pay for those who are ill. If private insurers are allowed to cherry pick the healthy, leaving the public health care system with the very sick, the system cannot help but fail. This is part of what is happening in U.S. health care now.

Another reason is that, if allowed, patients would enroll in the private system while they were healthy (and their premiums were low), and enroll in the public system when their care (and private premiums) became expensive. This, in fact, is what we saw happen to Medicare and HMOs. There, patients needing expensive care, e.g., a hip replacement, were encouraged to drop out of their HMO so traditional Medicare would pick up the tab. However, while they are healthy they enroll in the HMO for the modest additional dental and drug benefits.

What will happen to all of the people who work for insurance companies?

The new system will still need people to administer claims. Administration will shrink, however, eliminating the need for a large bureaucracy. The focus will shift to those who deliver health care. More health care providers, especially in the field of long-term care and home health care, will be needed, and many insurance clerks can be retrained to enter these fields. Many people now working in the insurance industry are, in fact, already health professionals (e.g.nurses) who will be able to find work in the health care field again.

How will we contain costs with the population aging and the advent of expensive technology?
Japan and Europe are already facing this problem head-on and doing fine. They have a much higher percentage of elderly than we do, and still spend less on health care by far.
The best way to approach this is to regard it as a societal problem, one that needs a solution with everyone in mind. Germany and Japan recently adopted single-payer long-term care systems to cover the long-term care needs of the elderly at home and in specialized housing. Germany is pioneering a program that pays family members to care for the elderly at home. That's family values!

What about ERISA? Doesn't it stand in the way of implementing a universal health care plan?

No. ERISA (the Employees Retirement Income Security Act) prevents a state from requiring that a self-insured employer provide certain benefits to their employees. However, a single payer plan would not mandate the composition of employer benefit plans – it would replace them with a new system that would essentially be "Medicare for All". The state would require employers to pay a payroll tax into the health care trust fund. This is legal and is done now with taxes levied to pay for Medicare.

How will the Health Planning Board operate?

In Vermont, it would work something like this: The health planning board (the Health Care Administration) would be a public body with representatives from every legislative district. The representatives would be appointed by each member of the state house of representatives. The state would be divided into 7 regions. The appointed members from each region would elect one person among them to serve on the health planning board. The board would consult regularly with a medical expert advisory committee. The latter would advise the regional board members on what treatments, medications and services should be covered, decisions supported by medical science.

Since we could finance a fairly good system , like the Norwegian, Danish or Swedish system with the public money we are already spending (60% of health costs), why do we need to raise the additional 40% (from employers and individuals)?

There are three reasons why the U.S. health care system costs more than other systems throughout the world. One, we spend 2-3 times as much as they do on administration. Two, we have much more excess capacity of expensive technology than they do (more CT scanners, MRI scanners, mammogram machines than we need). Three, we pay higher prices for services than they do. There is no doubt that we do not need to spend more than we currently spend to cover comprehensive care for everyone. But it would make the transition to a universal system very difficult at first if we spent less. That is because we have a tremendous medical infrastructure, some of which would likely retain its slightly larger than necessary capacity during the transition phase. Secondly, we would likely retain salaries for health professionals at their current levels. Thirdly, we would cover much more than most other countries do by including dental care, eye care, and prescriptions. And for these reasons we would need the extra 40% that we are already spending – but NOT more. We could cover all the uninsured for the same amount we are currently spending!

How much of the health care dollar is publicly financed?

Previous calculations of the percentage of the health care dollar that is publicly financed were estimated to be around 50%. That was from federal and state taxes to fund Medicare, Medicaid and the VA. 30% was out-of-pocket and 20% from employers.

Estimates differ depending on how they factor in certain costs. For example, recent studies put the tax subsidy offered to employers into the public spending column. A tax subsidy to help employers buy health insurance for employees means the public helps pay the bill. Another factor is that many employees pay the full cost of the premiums for their health insurance at work – not the employer. Newer analyses of these factors put the public financing estimate at 60%, out-of-pocket at 17% (for uncovered services, premiums not paid for by an employer) and employers' contributions at 19%.

(Woolhandler and Himmelstein, Health Affairs, 2002, 21(4), 88, "Paying for National Health Insurance—And Not Getting It,")

Why not MSAs?

Medical savings accounts (MSAs) and similar options such as health reimbursement arrangements are individual accounts from which medical expenses are paid. Once the account is depleted and a deductible is met, then medical expenses are covered by a catastrophic managed care plan, usually a restricted PPO plan. Individuals with significant health care needs may rapidly deplete their accounts and then be exposed to large out-of-pocket expenses. They would tend to select plans with more comprehensive coverage. Since only healthy individuals would be attracted to the MSAs, higher-cost individuals would be concentrated in the more comprehensive plans, driving up premiums and threatening affordability. By placing everyone in the same pool, the cost of high-risk individuals is diluted by the larger sector of relatively healthy individuals, keeping health insurance costs affordable for everyone. Also, since healthy individuals cannot possibly predict whether or when they would develop significant health care needs, they would eliminate that potential financial risk by being included in the comprehensive pool with everyone else.

Why not use tax subsidies to help the uninsured buy health insurance?

The major flaw of tax subsidies is that they would be used to help purchase plans in our current fragmented system. The administrative inefficiencies and inequities that characterize our system would be left in place, and we would continue to waste valuable resources that should be going to patient care instead. In spite of tax subsidies, moderate and lower income individuals would be able to afford only those plans with very modest benefits, and with higher cost sharing that might make health care unaffordable. Instead of perpetuating our current inequities, tax policies should be used to create equity in contributions to a system in which everyone is assured access to comprehensive beneficial services.

If the tax subsidies are granted to individuals, employers would be motivated to drop their coverage, and most individuals covered would have merely rotated from employer coverage to individual coverage. The net reduction in the numbers of uninsured would be close to negligible. If the tax subsidies are granted to employers, a major shift in funding passes from employers to taxpayers without significant improvements in the inefficiencies and inequities of our current system. We can use the tax system to create equity in the way we fund health care, but we should also expect equity and efficiency in allocation of our health care resources. That is possible only if we eliminate the private health plans and establish our own publicly administered system.

Won't competition be impeded by a universal health care system?

Advocates of the free market approach to health care claim that competition will streamline the costs of health care and make it more efficient. What is overlooked is that competitive activities in health care under a "free market" system have been wasteful and expensive and can be blamed for raising costs. Not only have they NOT contained costs, they have raised costs. In fact it has been shown that in some states where competition among insurers and HMOs is fiercest, such as California, costs are higher than the national average.

There are two main areas where competition exists in health care. Among the providers, and among the payers. When, for example, hospitals compete they often duplicate expensive equipment in order to corner more of the market. This drives up overall medical costs to pay for the equipment. They also waste money on advertising and marketing. The preferred scenario has hospitals coordinating services and cooperating to meet the needs of the public.

Competition among medical care providers can be beneficial in terms of improving the quality of medical care. Take for example, three primary care doctors in a certain area "competing" for patients for which they will receive equal reimbursement from every patient. The doctor who is most competent in different areas will attract the most patients in that area. One doctor may make house calls to see the elderly. Another may be very good at mental health care. This is competition based on quality not on price. Competition among insurers (the payers) is not effective in containing costs either. Rather, it results in competitive practices resorted to by private payers such as avoiding the sick, cherry picking, denial of payment of expensive procedures, marketing, etc.

Why not make people who are Higher Risk pay Higher Premiums?

Experience rated insurance requires higher risk people to pay higher premiums. This approach says that people who have had cancer or other problems in the past, or who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension, must pay more because they are at higher risk of getting cancer again or having a stroke or other health problem. Experience rating allows insurance companies to "cherry pick" the healthiest people and either refuse to insure the sickest or, what amounts to the same thing, charge prohibitively high rates.This approach makes no sense. The whole point of insurance is to spread the risk so that everyone is covered. If you raise premiums – and thereby exclude from coverage – those people unfortunate enough to have been sick in the past, you defeat the point of both insurance and the health care system. Genetic conditions, childhood diseases, accidents, injuries and income distribution (or how much equality there is in a society) play a much bigger role in people's health than so-called "lifestyle" factors. It costs much less to care for a smoker than a driver who has a paralyzing accident. (Of course, we need public health and education programs to try to prevent both!).

Community rated health insurance is the socially fair approach. It spreads the risks evenly among all the insured. It removes the punitive element. It does not discriminate against the very sick, nor against those of us who are at higher risk because of our age (say, over 50) or our gender (females have higher health expenses in their 20's and 30's than men do).

It appears that for what should be a broad social service an insurance-based approach does not work. For it to work at all society is asked to surrender all control of the system and what is left is both discriminatory and unaccountable to anyone. At some point in our lives all of us without exception have needed or will need some level of health care. Health insurance is unlike any other form of insurance. We all are involved in it. It is profoundly intertwined with social principles of decency and fairness. A system that punishes the sick is neither. Any reform of the health care system must begin from a principled approach.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been in the news lately for poor care and treatment of returning soldiers from Iraq. Won't national health insurance have similar problems?

As we consider what we can learn from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center debacle with regard to government-run efforts, some clarifications should be made:

1) Walter Reed Army Medical Center is an Army hospital and is run by the Department of Defense. The VA hospitals are run by the Veterans Administration (Veterans Health Administration) and are a separate structure. The reporting in the news media has clouded this fact and has led the public to presume that all government-run health efforts should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. Nevertheless, the VA health system continues to hold the position of the US health system with the most satisfied patients and one of the highest quality ratings for its use of information systems, access of patients to their medical records, transparency and accountability programs for dealing with medical errors, application of AHRQ quality guidelines to patient care for both inpatients and outpatients, and it won the Baldridge Prize (2004) for quality and patient-safety improvements.

2) There is a lot we can learn from the Walter Reed disgrace. Its operation was outsourced to a Halliburton-connected company in 2002, over the objections of some Army medical personnel and leadership, with a subsequent loss of government employees with institutional experience and a drastic reduction in staff. There was also some hanky-panky with the contracting process when the government employees' bid for the operations contract came in lower than the Halliburton company's bid, and the bids were subsequently "recalculated" to make the private company the lowest bidder. Here is a link to an eye-opening article:inistration push for privatization may have helped create Walter Reed 'disaster'" This article has links to Rep. Waxman's letter to the Army generals and to the Army Times article that "connects the dots". (contributed by Dr. Anne Carroll)

What about incremental reform of the health system?

As a matter of policy, PNHP expressly opposes what are sold as "gradual" steps towards single-payer. Many well-meaning supporters often push these bills as "feasible steps" to move us towards single-payer, but the history of these kinds of health reform efforts - Hawaii in 1974; Massachusetts in 1988; Oregon in 1989; Tennessee in 1992; Minnesota in 1992; Maine in 2003, etc. - shows that despite all their claims of pragmatism, incremental reforms have failed to shepherd in meaningful reform in more than three decades of trying. In addition, these reforms distract attention away from the real problems, and since they are bound for failure, compromise the ability to enact real reform.

Furthermore, many incremental reforms would expand the private insurance industry, precluding any of the positive aspects of single-payer (administrative savings, global budgeting, cost control, single-tier universal coverage, etc). It is our fear that these bills distract attention away from the real problems and solutions, and would hurt the chances of real reform down the road (as the Clinton plan did to health reform for 15 years.)

What happens to investor-owned hospitals under national health insurance?

"The NHI program would compensate owners of investor-owned hospitals, HMO.s, nursing homes and clinics for the loss of their clinical facilities, as well as any computers and administrative facilities needed to manage NHI. They would not be reimbursed for loss of business opportunities or for administrative capacity not used by NHI".…. "Investor-owned providers would be converted to non-profit status. The NHI would issue long-term bonds to amortize the one-time costs of compensating investors for the appraised value of their facilities. These conversion costs would be offset by reductions in payments for capital that are currently folded into Medicare and other reimbursements." (Physicians' Proposal, JAMA, August 13, 2007).

What happens to employees of insurance companies under single payer?

National health insurance would eliminate many administrative and insurance worker positions, necessitating a major effort at job placement and retraining. Many of these displaced workers might be deployed as support personnel to free up nurses for clinical tasks; other might be retrained to staff expanded programs in public health, home care, and the like. (Physicians' Proposal, JAMA, August 13, 2007).

Single-Payer Overviews

Physicians Proposal for National Health Insurance - "Proposal of the Physicians'' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance," JAMA 290(6): Aug 30, 2003

Key Features of Single-Payer - A useful handout detailing the main features of single-payer.

Statement of Dr. Marcia Angell introducing the U.S. National Health Insurance Act -A great overview of the need for and logic of a single-payer system. Perfect as an introductory handout.

Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending - Another great introductory handout.

Public Citizen's Response to the Citizens' Health Care Working Groups Interim Recommendations - A great overview on the benefits of a single-payer system by Public Citizen.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich Tackles Health Care - Rep. Kucinich talks with Truthdig about the health care crisis in America.

A bibliography of single-payer studies and papers

ONECARE VIDEO - MUST SEE FOR EVERYONE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWiVLdR47c

EVERYONE should see video above.

It goes into great detail about how Single Payer works in general starting 4 minutes into the video. If you want to understand how Single Payer works this is a must see, as the principles discussed also apply to HR 676.

Protesters for Single Payer thrown out of Senate Committee and Jailed. SEND EFAX NOW!

2009-05-06T07:02:00.000-07:00

I received an email this morning on this issue. A single payer health care system would allow everyone in the states health care. This is a BIG issue and much different than what our current health insurance systems have established.

I took immediate action and sent an e-Fax. It is free and easy.

Please take a moment to send an e-Fax if you agree.

Together our voices will be heard. You are important to this issue. You are affected. You mother, father, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends are affected by this.

I am posting this as I received it today:

Protesters for single payer is thrown out of the Senate Committee.
(Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKP05AyfRsI )

Senator Max Baucus says the meeting was to discuss the best options for health care reform, but still refuses to allow a single payer advocate be present.

If you haven't sent your fax to the Senate Committee SEND IT NOW

Here is the link: http://www.1payer.net/campaigns/finance-committee.html

Mad Max Baucus showed us what he means when he says ‘single payer is off the table.’ When single payer advocates politely asked for a seat at the table, where 15 insurance flunkies were waiting to testify to his Senate committee, Sen. Baucus sneered at them and told them they would get more police. That gave all of Baucus' fellow insurance flunkies (and all the other clowns in the hearing room) a big laugh. Then Baucus hypocritically told the audience how much he respected single payer, as the police were arresting eight people who just wanted to present a point of view.

I am angry about this arrogant abuse of power.

If you are angry, now is your chance to tell Baucus. Call 800-578-4171, choose option 1, and connect to his office. if no one answers, it probably is because Baucus is too chicken to even listen to the angry messages.

Alternatively, call each one of his offices in Montana. Here are the phone numbers: Billings(406) 657-6790; Bozeman (406) 586-6104; Butte (406) 782-8700; Great Falls (406) 761-1574, (406) 452-1117 (TDD); Helena (406) 449-5480; Kalispell (406) 756-1150;Missoula (406) 329-3123; Washington D.C. (202) 224-2651(Office),(202) 224-9412 (Fax)

Cures for Swine Flu?!

2009-05-01T07:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, everywhere I turned someone was talking about the Swine Flu.

"Wash your hands"

"Wear surgical masks"

To be honest, I am sick and tired of hearing everybody in a panic.

Lets have a flash back together.... "The Bird Flu"

Sound familiar?

Yes, there were some people who became ill. BUT not near as many people got sick as they were predicting.

So today when I did my daily email check, I was very excited to see an email title:
Swine Flu Cure?

Inside it talked about a possible cure. In a nutshell it said, "If you don't do anything else, go to this site: http://www.betaglucan.org/ , or google Beta Glucan. "

I admit I am still researching this subject (which appears to be checking out, with research from respected schools such as Harvard).

However, my second great piece of information was discovered shortly after I made a post to my facebook page.

I read www.theweeklyweed.com every week. Which is where I went next.

Then I found the article "Cannabis: A Viable Treatment for Swine Flu." Very, very fascinating.

Briefly, here is what it said:

"Cannabis Science Inc. an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, reported..." "The Company’s non-toxic lozenge has properties that could alleviate many of the symptoms and harmful effects of the H5N1 bird flu and H1N1 swine flu viruses, and has offered its assistance to HSA today..."

I decided to google the subject and found many other sites. Here is one of the many articles about this subject:

Cannabis Science Inc. Reports on Prospective Life Saving Treatments for H1N1 Swine Flu and H5N1 Bird

Source: www.marketwatch.com

It really makes me feel hopeful hearing about the cures instead of focusing on the problem. I am very excited that there cures surfacing so quickly.

It is even more promising that cannabis is surfacing as a possible cure. People who have been taught that cannabis could never help our country are starting to wake up to the real truth. The truth that has been covered with false propaganda for decades.

Peace & Love ya'll,
Peace & Love :)

p.s. My mom and I eat lunch together a couple days out of the week. Yesterday at the end of lunch we decided to start meditating on peace and healing in our world and sent out messages of peace and love to the people.

If you havnt heard of it yet, I encourage you to check out Global Coherence Initiative. It is a wonderful community I have recently joined. Its completely free. They do offer products etc, but I pay nothing and have gained.

Here is some info:
The Global Coherence Initiative is a science-based initiative uniting millions of people in heart-focused care and intention, to shift global consciousness from instability and discord to balance, cooperation and enduring peace.

This project has been launched by the Institute of HeartMath®, a nonprofit 501(c)(3), a recognized global leader in researching emotional physiology, heart-brain interactions and the physiology of optimal health and performance.

The Global Coherence Initiative is designed to help individuals and groups work together, synchronistically and strategically to increase the impact of their efforts to create positive global change.

Check out this site for more info: http://www.glcoherence.org/about-us/about.html

Im not longer listed as spam!

2009-04-30T07:07:00.001-07:00

Yeah! I just logged in and checked my page and it only had the adult content warning :)

Now I can post to my hearts content! Which is good because my mind has been pregnant and swimming with thoughts.

Its also good because now I can post the interesting articles I read every day instead of censoring which ones I put up. In fact, after this post I am going to post one.

I dont know when it happened, but I have a LOT of web sites.

It started innocently enough with one yahoo mail account and a myspace page.

Somewhere down the lines its exploded into facebook, myyearbook, twitter, Digg, youtube, friendster, zenzu, and the other ones like rockyou, photobucket, ikeepbookmarks, snapfish, pogo, and other more well meaning cause related groups like the Global Coherence Initiative, Change.org, and 10 Million Clicks for Peace.

And there are many more (like my language learning sites etc.)

I am glad there are so many places for people to express themselves.

Guess thats it for now.

Peace & Love

They think Im a spammer :(

2009-04-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

I just opened a blogspot account today and uploaded all my previous posts from myspace and twitter. 16 in all for now. Then I went to the main page and it said my page was gone and that my name was available for a blogspot account. I thought my account was deleted. Luckily later this afternoon I found out it wasnt but that it needs to be reviewed so that they can make sure I am not spam.

I hope this is a quick and easy process.

I was so excited to post blogs and find them months later. Before I was blogging to myspace, but if you have too many blogs the previously posted blogs disappear and no one can view them.

If anyone knows me, I am incredibly talkative and have a tremendous amount of energy. So it would be awesome to be able to write a blog whenever I would like to instead of censoring what I write about. That way, I can use this blogspot as an open journal.

I will probably still post to myspace, but I'll censor what I write there and only put the most important or valuable information up on the other sites.

Im glad its toward the end of the day. Its been busy.

I uploaded some videos to my youtube (youtube.com/lizblackstone) of the jumping pillow they had at the KOA in Fort Mill, NC. I also saved my pics from Carowinds to disc earlier today.

My little sister is coming over tonight. I am pickin up Aaron and then getting her and then getting Matt and going home.

Thats it for now.
Peace & Love ya'll ;)

NORML Launches First Ever Nationwide Television Ad Campaign "Legalization – Yes We Can!

2009-04-28T07:37:00.000-07:00

NORML Launches First Ever Nationwide Television Ad Campaign "Legalization – Yes We Can!

Watch the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0mEDE_w1xo

HULU TUBE - PHASING YOU OUT OF YOUTUBE. Sign petition to right of video if you agree.

2009-04-28T07:27:00.000-07:00

HULU TUBE - PHASING YOU OUT OF YOUTUBE.

Watch the following video.

Sign petition to right of video if you agree.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V025E_b5I4g

PLEASE READ ALL THE INFO:ORIGINAL SOURCE FOR THIS VIDEO:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ne...http://www.clickz.com/3633218

Some people are saying this was all a lie. Here is the original article in black and white. What you are hearing right now is a LOT of spin control over the reaction by the youtube community.

PLEASE DO NOT MIRROR ANY MORE.Here is a link to the online petition:

http://guardianhost.com/realweeklynews/index.php?news=dmca-reform-petition

We need it to go viral! Also make sure to rate and comment those videos as well.

If you want to keep the you, in youtube. We need to speak up now!If you also want to show your support, place this image as your background on your youtube page:

http://guardianhost.com/realweeklynews/index.php?news=thumbnails
http://www.zurech.com/youtube/old-youtube/

One is the hulutube thumbnail and the other is the disney tube. Put one of these two images as your youtube background image.

Also Spread the word to your friends to do the same. We need these images everywhere!

Reddit link. This is already on the hot section:
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/

Digg
http://digg.com/television/HULU_TUBE_Phasing_you_out_of_yourube

Stumble
http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.youtube.com/watch%253Fv%253DV025E_b5I4g

Here is another alternative download link if you need it:

http://rapidshare.com/files/222119936/therealweeklynews_-_HULU_TUBE_-_PHASING_YOU_OUT_OF_YOUTUBE.mp4

Here are links to my Website & other channels like facebook, Twitter, BlogTV, myspace, Digg, Yahoo Buzz and my blog:

http://guardianhost.com/realweeklynews

http://www.facebook.com/pages/REAL-WEEKLY-NEWS/75170678273?v=wall&viewas=1501393354

http://twitter.com/realweeklynews

http://www.blogtv.com/People/realweeklynews

http://profile.myspace.com/realweekly...

http://digg.com/users/realweeklynews

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/PIF2EA5P7...

http://realweeklynews.blogspot.com/

I WANT EXPANDED AND IMPROVED MEDICARE NOW!

2009-04-28T07:19:00.000-07:00

eFax President Obama: I WANT EXPANDED AND IMPROVED MEDICARE NOW!! Send NOW if you agree:

http://www.1payer.net/campaigns/fax.html

Go to the site to sign the petition.

Here is part of the eFax:

I WANT EXPANDED AND IMPROVED MEDICARE NOW
Dear President Obama and Legislators:

You want a "uniquely American solution" to the health care crisis. So do I. Fortunately, we already have a uniquely American solution. It works. It saves money. It's called Medicare. It's the most popular social program in history.

I want expanded and improved Medicare now. For me. For everybody. Just like in Rep. Conyers' bill, HR 676.

Health insurance is not the same as health care. Insurance is for accidents. Health care is not an accident. I want health CARE, not health insurance.

Insurance company flacks and high-paid lobbyists twist the truth about Medicare. It's not "socialized medicine." Medicare is publicly financed, privately delivered health CARE. I have heard the nonsense about "government bureaucrats practicing medicine." The insurance companies paid Harry and Louise to twist the truth in 1994 and spout half-baked "facts" to defeat the Clinton plan. That tactic won't fool me again.

Medicare works for Americans over 65. It will work even better for healthier younger people. Quit looking for a solution that gives the insurance companies more money. Use what works. Give Americans under 65 the same right that seniors have - the right to guaranteed affordable health care with free choice.

Medicare for me. Medicare For All. Everybody In, Nobody Out. Now.

Tell the President and Congress to Expand and Improve Medicare

Fill out the following form to send this letter and your comments as an electronic fax to the White House Office of Health Reform, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Max Baucus, Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator John D. Rockefeller, Representative Fortney H. "Pete" Stark.

Insurance companies do NOT belong in health care. Please sign petition if you agree.

2009-04-28T07:11:00.000-07:00

Insurance companies do NOT belong in health care.

Check out the following petition and sign if you agree.

This is the first paragraph:

We want transparency in the creation of health policy.We oppose the secrecy that has recently been reported. We oppose forcing Americans to buy health insurance. This will not solve America's healthcare crisis. Forcing people to buy health insurance forces people to buy a defective product. Insurance companies don't carry a stethoscope or bandage a wound. Insurance companies make money when they DENY health care. Insurance companies don't belong in health care.

http://www.1payer.net/campaigns/index.php?option=com_petition

Source: www.1payer.net

Single payer health insurance site for activists Explore and connect with other single payer activists

545 vs 300,000,000

2009-04-28T07:06:00.000-07:00

545 vs 300,000,000

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE.

READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.

545 PEOPLE

By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, theFederal Reserve Bank does.

100 senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.

The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility.

I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.

When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the redIf the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.

Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of theOrlando Sentinel Newspaper.What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.

Support The National Criminal Justice Act of 2009!

2009-04-28T07:02:00.000-07:00

Hello to everyone reading these words :)

There are so many changes going on in our world right now, and many of them seem depressing. While I know this is a challenging period of time we are going through, I deeply believe we will over come these obstacles. Things are moving faster and faster. New events and information presents itself so quick that I have to limit what I put up on my myspace or else I would be blogging incredible articles every hour! So lately I have been attempting to focus on one particular item at a time, which as you can see from my blogs have pertained to the legalization of cannabis. I am completely confident that legalizing cannabis would greatly help our economy in so many ways, but i wont go into that now.

Todays blog came from Norml but its not about smoking. The links are active, so you just have to click on them to go to the pages they are talking about. You'll see what I mean in a moment.I understand there are many things going on in your life and I deeply appreciate you taking the time to read my blogs. Thank you. You mean a lot to me and I love you! :)

I have exciting information I will be posting up here soon about December 21, 2012. I have to ask permission from the web site before I post the transcripts, but hopefully I will be allowed to post it. If anyone has read anything from Gregg Braden, you will be very excited to know it is a phone interview with him discussing 2012 and cycles. I cant express to you how wonderful the interview was. I also have some wonderful web sites to share about the reality of money, and more importantly some on speading peace and love to our family here on planet earth. These are the types of sites that make me feel good knowing there are such caring souls here with us on this walk through life. I will post all that at a later time. But for now, here is some action we can take to help make a difference in our world:

Norml.org

Support The National Criminal Justice Act of 2009!

Congressmen Jim Webb (D-VA) and Arlen Specter (R-PA), along with fifteen co-sponsors, have introduced legislation in the US Senate to critically evaluate America's drugs and prisons policies. The bill, Senate Bill 714, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009, is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As introduced, the proposal would establish a blue-ribbon commission to "undertake a comprehensive review of the criminal justice system; make findings related to current Federal and State criminal justice policies and practices; and make reform recommendations for the President, Congress, and State governments to improve public safety, cost-effectiveness, overall prison administration, and fairness in the implementation of the Nation's criminal justice system."

Specifically, the Commission will examine "current drug policy and its impact on incarceration, crime and violence, sentencing, and reentry programs, [including] an analysis of the general availability of drugs in our society, the impact and effectiveness of current policies on reducing that availability and on the incidence of crime, and in the case of criminal offenders, the availability of drug treatment programs before, during, and after incarceration."

Writing this past weekend in Parade Magazine, Sen. Webb stated: "Drug offenders, most of them passive users or minor dealers, are swamping our prisons. ... Justice statistics ... show that 47.5% of all the drug arrests in our country in 2007 were for marijuana offenses.""America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to the point that it is a national disgrace. Its irregularities and inequities cut against the notion that we are a society founded on fundamental fairness. ... It is incumbent on our national leadership to find a way to fix our prison system."

Senate Bill 714 seeks to re-evaluate America's multi-decade long 'do drugs, do time' mentality. Please take time today to urge your senator to support Senate Bill 714. If your senator sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, then it is especially important that he or she hears from you.

For your convenience, a prewritten letter will be e-mailed to your member of Congress when you visit here:

http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=13046001

After you have written your senator, please take a moment to write or call Sen. Webb and thank him for raising this important issue.

You may contact him here.

Thank you for assisting NORML's federal law reform efforts. Sincerely, The NORML Team

President Obama: What Is So Funny About Taxing And Regulating Marijuana?

2009-04-28T07:00:00.000-07:00

I am very disappointed with Obama and his total and complete lack of respect for us, the people.
Obama pledged "to open up the White House to the American people." I'm one of the tens of millions of Americans who believe that cannabis should be legally regulated like alcohol. I'm also one of the tens of thousands of Americans who voted to make this subject the most popular question online at Presidential Town Hall. I'm disappointed to learn that he believes that my voice doesn't really matter.

Go to www.norml.com

Under President Obama: What Is So Funny About Taxing And Regulating Marijuana? Update Update Update is a paragraph with a link where you can send an email or a typed letter to President Obama. Lets the flood the White House with response so they can not avoid this issue.
We ARE the people. The government is supposed to reflect our decisions and opinions. We need to stand strong on the issues that are important. This IS Important.

This is not a laughing matter Mr. President.

LEGALIZING CANNABIS WILL STIMULATE OUR ECONOMY AND CREATE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.

Legalizing cannabis would not only save us money in expenditures like court and prison costs, but it would provide a major boost to the economy through taxes. It would literally make thousands upon thousands of Americans small business owners over night and provide jobs for many more.

Just look at what California is modestly anticipating. Without taking into consideration how much money would be saved in court and prison costs, California anticipates over $1.5 billion within the first year.

This is not just an issue about smoking pot.

In 1938 Popular Mechanics printed an article about marijuana called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars. Popular Mechanics also talked about how there are over 25,000 uses for cannabis. I bet a lot of people did not realize how practical it is to legalize marijuana.

Check out this site to see just a couple of the many, many uses: http://www.torontohemp.com/hempuses.htm

In a time where people are concerned with job security, let alone for the thousands attempting to find a job to begin with, just to make money to feed and house our families and afford medical bills, we should NOT laugh at the most viable solution we have in front of us.

Please help me support RE-INTRODUCE HR 5843 in the 111th Congress! A FED BILL to Allow

2009-04-28T06:58:00.000-07:00

Please help me support RE-INTRODUCE HR 5843 in the 111th Congress! A FED BILL to Allow Responsible Adults to use Cannabis Come join my cause:

RE-INTRODUCE HR 5843 in the 111th Congress! A FED BILL to Allow Responsible Adults to use Cannabis!

You will be able to recruit friends, raise money, and add a profile badge to show your support! Check this out ya'll! Every time people find a moment to say what they want done with this country~ the Number ONE response is Legalize Cannabis!!

Just look at California- they project (when the votes come in and it is legalized) within the first year they will have over $1 Billion dollars for the state (An economic analysis by California NORML estimates that a legal, statewide retail market for cannabis could generate additional revenues totaling some $12 to $18 billion dollars per year.); and that is a modest estimate considering if we are not adding people to our jail systems- which some speculate would project approximately over $50 BILLION dollars in ONE year!

Amazing huh?..(Legalization of cannabis is currently the number one cause on Causes, and it was the number one item on change. org AND change. gov. Also worth checking out: MPP on youtube. It is the 10th most suscribed to channel on youtube- MPP= Marijuana Policy Project, and you can follow them on twitter: http:..//twitter. com/..MarijuanaPolicy) ps If you havnt checked it out yet:

http:..//twitter. com/..lizblackstone

Thats it.

Hope i kept it short & sweet :)

Peace & Love ya'll! ;)

California: Assemblyman Introduces Measure To Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol

2009-04-28T06:52:00.000-07:00

California:

Assemblyman Introduces Measure To Regulate Marijuana Like AlcoholProposal Will Raise Over $1.3 Billion Per Year, State's Tax Collection Agency Says Bill Is The First Of Its Kind Since California Outlawed Cannabis In 1913!

San Francisco: State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) introduced legislation this week to legalize and regulate the commercial production and sale of cannabis for adults age 21 or over.

The proposal – Assembly Bill 390: The Marijuana Control, Regulation and Education Act – is the first bill ever to be introduced in the California legislature that seeks to tax and control the sale of cannabis.

Ammiano introduced AB 390 at a press conference Monday. Joining the assemblyman in support of the measure were Betty Yee, Chairwoman of the California Board of Equalization (Taxation), Oakland City Council member Rebecca Kaplan, Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray (retired), and Dale Gieringer, Coordinator of California NORML, which provided legislative text and financial analysis for the bill.

"With the state in the midst of an historic economic crisis, the move toward regulating and taxing marijuana is simply common sense," Ammiano said. "This legislation would generate much needed revenue for the state, restrict access to only those over 21, end the environmental damage to our public lands from illicit crops, and improve public safety by redirecting law enforcement efforts to more serious crimes. California has the opportunity to be the first state in the nation to enact a smart, responsible public policy for the control and regulation of marijuana." Local news anchors from CBS, ABC, NBC, and PBS television covered the press conference. National stories regarding Ammiano's bill have appeared in USA Today, as well as on Air America and CNN.

As introduced, AB 390 would raise over $1.3 billion in annual revenue by taxing the retail production and sale of marijuana, according to financial estimates provided by the California Board of Equalization. An economic analysis by California NORML estimates that a legal, statewide retail market for cannabis could generate additional revenues totaling some $12 to $18 billion dollars per year.

The noncommercial cultivation of marijuana for personal use – defined as ten plants or fewer – would not be subject to taxation under the proposal. In addition, AB 390 would not alter existing legislation on the use of medicinal cannabis, nor would it impose new taxes or sanctions on the medical cultivation of cannabis.

A recent Zogby poll of 1,053 likely voters, commissioned by California NORML and Oaksterdam University, reported that nearly six out of ten respondents on the west coast favor taxing and legally regulating cannabis like alcohol."

This bill is a winning proposition for California taxpayers," Gieringer said. "It's time that California stops wasting resources trying to enforce marijuana prohibition, and instead realizes the tax benefits derived from a legal, regulated cannabis market."

For more information, please contact Dale Gieringer, California NORML Coordinator, at (415) 563-5858, or Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director, at: http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vdXMubWM1ODYubWFpbC55YWhvby5jb20vbWMvY29tcG9zZT90bz1wYXVsQG5vcm1sLm9yZw==. Additional information on AB 390, as well as contact information for the California Assembly, is available at:

http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vY2Fwd2l6LmNvbS9ub3JtbDIvaXNzdWVzL2FsZXJ0Lz9hbGVydGlkPTEyNzU4ODk2.

US Attorney General Says Ending DEA Raids 'Now American Policy'

2009-04-28T06:48:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON D.C.) - Speaking at a press conference on Feb. 25 with DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that ending federal medical marijuana raids "is now American policy."

http://www.theweeklyweed.com/page3.html

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder, on his first day on the job, signaled a clean break with past policies of the Bush administration and promised to hold Wall Street accountable if any major financial institutions engaged in fraud that contributed to the global financial crisis.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/02/04/holder_promises_new_era_as_head_of_justice_dept

Norml is asking you to please take a moment today to thank the Attorney General for taking this brave and compassionate position.

You can e-mail the new Attorney General at: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov, or you may call the Office of the Attorney General at: 202-353-1555.

(If you are calling, be sure to do so during east coast business hours.)

Additional contact information is available at: http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html.

Please be polite and concise when contacting the Attorney General's Office.

Below is a sample script you can follow.

"Hello, my name is ____________.While campaigning for the office of the President, Barack Obama promised that he would halt the DEA raids of state-authorized providers of medical marijuana in the 13 states that have legalized the drug's use. You announced on C-SPAN:

What the President said during the campaign is now American policy. Thank you for taking this common sense and compassionate stance. According to a new Zogby, 72 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. government should stop interfering with state medical marijuana laws.

I thank you for supporting the will of the people and the health and welfare of seriously ill patients."

Thank you assisting NORML's federal marijuana law reform efforts.

(I sent the sample script with a few additions. It only took a couple minutes.)

Kellogg's Pays The Price For Firing Michael Phelps! Good Job Stoners!!!

2009-04-28T06:46:00.000-07:00

Kellogg's Pays The Price For Firing Michael Phelps! Good Job Stoners!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenCVCa8Y1w

Marijuana: The Simple, Logical Benefits of Legalization

2009-04-28T06:40:00.000-07:00

Kudos to Jason Mraz for posting a blog with the link for this article!Marijuana:

The Simple, Logical Benefits of LegalizationThe fact that Marijuana is still illegal in the United States is a farse! And there are more then enough good reasons to legalize Cannabis that dont take a rocket scientist to figure out. This article will highlight this reasons:

August 16, 2006 by Richard Sepulveda

Marijuana is the most recreationally used illegal drug in the United States. It has been estimated that literally millions of otherwise law abiding Americans use the drug to get "high". Still there are millions of others that use the drug to ease their suffering from ailments like:

Insomnia, Cancer, Aids, or chronic aches and pains. While it is true some states have legalized Marijuana for medicinal purposes on the federal level Marijuana remains illegal to: possess, cultivate, import, sell or consume.

Thus doctors that could prescribe it to their patients as a treatment are fearful to do so even though they reside in a state that has medicinally legalized. It is truely ridiculas that Marijuana should be illegal in a nation where Tabbacco kills thousands of people each year from lung cancer and Alcohol causes a majority of fatal car accidents and petty desputes. Especially considering that Marijuana is not as nearly harmful to the body as the negative advertising around it (payed for by alcohol and ciggarette companies by large) would lead someone to believe. In fact In a study deliberately covered up by the U.S. gov't until recently, The National Toxicology Program found no evidence that Marijuana causes cancer. In fact the study proved the exact opposite.

Animals that were exposed to THC (the ancronym that stands for the active chemical in Marijuana also known as Tetrahydrocannabinol) showed less of a risk of getting cancer then those that weren't. Study after study has shown that Marijuana actually decreases a persons risk of getting cancer and that smoking Marijuana does not increase a persons risk of getting any of the cancers associated with smoking. So besides the fact that the drug may actually fight cancer why else should we legalize marijuana? Now I will give you some common sense reasons for legalization:

ECONOMIC REASONS:

Legalizing Marijuana would create a new multi-billion dollar industry in the United States with a substance that can be taxed by the gov't thereby generating more money to fund gov't programs and create more gov't jobs.The currently labor suffering midwest would be saved by Marijuana processing factories requiring large amount of labor creating thousands of new jobs for middle america.

Shipping commerce from middle America to the big cities and their ports for exporting and importing marijuana would increase dramatically.

The increased trade with marijuana producing nations would help to stabalize their struggeling third world economies. This would also help to curve illegal immagration to the states from major marijuana producing nations like Mexico by creating a new mexican industry fresh with new jobs. Lowing incentive for illegal immagrants to cross the border in search of work.

Small businesses that sell marijuana would see increased profits which they have been needing since many former ciggarette smokers are now quitting.

Alcohol and Tabbacco companies would be forced to push their products harder thereby dumping millions of dollars more into advertising.

Televised anti-marijuana ads would be a thing of the past making room for other commercials to advertise their products.

Marijuana can grow almost anywhere thus there is little danger of a weak crop and falling profitsNot to mention that Economists at large have thrown their favor behind legalization.

LEGAL REASONS:

With marijuana users no longer being jailed for possession lots of room would be opened up in our already overcrowded prison system for more hardened offenders such as: murderers, rapists, child molesters and other violent criminals.The Judicial system would no longer be burdened by having to trial cases involving marijuana.The police will be able to allocate more resources to solving more violent crimes.

Since marijuana could be purchased at any drug store after being legalized, violent crimes such as: robbery, drug warfare, contamination of drugs by other substances such as: LSD, PCP and Cocaine could quickly become a thing of the past.

MEDICAL REASONS:Marijuana has been proven on more then one occasion to not cause cancer unlike its legal counterparts tobbacco and alcohol.

Patients suffering from a host of disorders and diseases such as: Cancer, Aids, Chronic pain and insomnia would have easy access to a pain reliever.

The relaxing effects of marijuana use could prevent tension and stress that cause sore muscles and or aggitation and high blood pressure

We can plainly see that marijuana legalizations benefits are boundless I could go one listing for days but until Americans wake up and realize that the true crime surrounding marijuana is the cornering of the market by campaign contributions from Alcohol and Tabbacco companies thereby denying the rest of us the: Jobs, Money, Health and pleasure from legalizing marijuana.

American Drug War Economics

2009-04-28T06:39:00.000-07:00

I stumbled upon this video and thought I would pass it on.

Interesting information, including who funds the "Partnership for a Drug Free America." (The tobacco and alcohol industry is the answer for those impatient like me. They spend millions of dollars to reinforce the distinction between legal drugs and illegal drugs...)

The video is 6 minutes long. The embedded code isnt showing up on this blog so I am removing it and adding a link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqd_C9ISPjA

Oh No! Look out!! Its Marijuanna!!!

2009-04-28T06:33:00.000-07:00

Wow. I just posted a blog yesterday (January 6, 2009) about voting ...org/ideas on my myspace at on my myyearbook.com/lizblackstone I didnt overly think about it. It was a good idea that I wanted to help support but I have a lot going on in life (I'll post a blog on it sometime in the near future).

I have the same routine every morning once I get to my office. Check my office emails and do what work needs to be done, and then I check my personal emails starting with myspace and then yahoo and then myyearbook. No one replied to the myspace blog which is pretty normal- I get lots of views on the blogs but not many comments which is cool. I feel appreciated just knowing people read my blog. So I was a bit surprised when I checked myyearbook page to find almost over 3 pages of comments on that blog. So this morning I prepared another blog for myyearbook and decided to share part of it on myspace to see if anyone had anything positive to add to the discussion:

I couldnt help but find some of the replying comments pretty funny~ Especially since it was a short blog about voting for a Department of Peace and it just mentioned other things to check out including a topic on legalization of marijuana (along with others including repealing the Patriot act etc). Yet somehow it sparked some fighting comments about the evils of marijuana.

(You see why I thought those comments were funny, right?! lol It was a blog about voting for peace and yet there was an argument about marijuana...)
Now that the can of worms has been opened, I guess I can comment a few words on the subject. I've studied the subject matter for years. Its interesting how people assume that just because you are for the legalization of the substance, that you are a lazy, irresponsible, hippie pot hot.

How come people don't go out on the streets protesting alcohol? My sister almost died because of a drunk driver. I have had friends die because of drunk drivers. I have had friends beaten by their lover under the influence of beer. And I dont care to think about the others- because there are too many personal situations that involve the negative side effects of alcohol and I understand the law of attraction.

I don't know anyone who has beat their wife after smoking weed. They usually sit down, eat and then watch TV. Or like many musicians I know who go to their room and play the guitar, piano, fiddle etc. or listen to music. Many artists I know sit down and draw the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen after smoking weed. The positive stories outweigh the negative.

The truth of the matter is that it was legal in this country before. It was not only legal but made MADATORY for farmers to grow!!

Thanks to propaganda the truth is often left alone. Humans have been using marijuana for centuries- for more than just medical purposes.

Did you know marijuana is the earliest known woven fabric which began to be used as a textile in the 8th millennium BC?

The United States first law issued in regards to marijuana was enacted in 1619 in the colony of Jamestown where it ordered all farmers to grow cannabis. In 1631 Massachusetts followed and then Connecticut in 1632. From 1331 until the early 1800's marijuana was even recognized as legal tender- mainly to encourage farmers to grow more.

In the early ages of transportation the ships used cannabis-hemp for fuel.

All the sails and rigging on all ships were made from cannabis-hemp due to the fact that cannabis was known to be highly resistant to salt and rot. Cannabis-hemp was once so significant and crucial to the navy that King Henry VIII made it a compulsory crop to safeguard supplies for making sails and rope. The USS Constitution used over 60 tons of hemp in her.

The vast majority of the world's fiber, fabric, medicine, paper, incense and lighting oil was made from cannabis. America's famous flag Old Glory consisted entirely of cannabis.

Early American settlers knew from experience that cannabis-hemp was softer and warmer than cotton, and had three times the tensile strength making it more durable than cotton.

Benjamin Franklin started one of Americas first paper mills using cannabis- NOT tree pulp. The revolutionary newspapers and pamphlets like Common Sense, the Declaration of Independence and many others would not have been published if they had to procure their paper from England . Until 1883 80-90% of all paper in the world was made from cannabis including bibles, books, maps, money and newspapers.

Marijuana is also widely accepted in the medical field and has been used by the Chinese for over 5000 years. Numerous published studies suggest that marijuana has medical value in treating patients with serious illnesses such as AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and chronic pain. In 1999, the Institute of Medicine, in the most comprehensive study of medical marijuana's efficacy to date, concluded, "Nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety . . . all can be mitigated by marijuana." Allowing patients legal access to medical marijuana has been discussed by numerous organizations, including the AIDS Action Council, American Bar Association, American Public Health Association, California Medical Association, National Association of Attorneys General, and several state nurses associations.

Henry Ford, inventor of the Ford automobile, recognized the utility of the hemp plant. He constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on ethanol made from hemp. Ford knew that hemp could produce vast economic resources if widely cultivated. Ford's optimistic appraisal of cellulose and crop based ethyl alcohol fuel can be read in several ways. First, it can be seen as an oblique jab at a competitor. General Motors had come to considerable grief the summer of 1925 over another octane boosting fuel called tetra-ethyl lead, and government officials had been quietly in touch with Ford engineers about alternatives to leaded gasoline additives.

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You don't have to drink alcohol because it is legal, and you don't have to smoke weed because it is legal. It is a choice you make as an individual. There are laws that help make drinking alcohol a responsibility and there should be rules to go with marijuana. Obviously there should be an age limit. Kids do not need tobacco, alcohol or marijuana. And if people are not supposed to drink and drive, it would be beneficial not to smoke and drive.

Its one of those things I find funny. The thought that if weed was legal there would be no rules or regulations and it would be pandemonium. OF COURSE there should be rules and regulations, AND the government can make money from the taxation! It would free up space in the prisons, which everyone knows are overcrowded from non-violent crimes including marijuana possession and selling. Wow, I guess I could go on for a while, but its your turn to talk about it. If there is enough of a discussion I will write another blog with interesting history on the subject.
Thank you for listening.

I wish only the best for everyone! Even the haters need love, and so i love them too.

Peace ya'll & Keep smiling.

P.S. Happy New Year everyone! I love you all!

Self Growth Give Away, Online Radio and Karl Moore

2009-04-28T06:30:00.000-07:00

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There is literally $4570 worth of free stuff here that you can download and save to your computer. There are free interviews and audio mp3s you can download too. I will share a little bit of what they give away if you haven't clicked the link yet:Motivator Software (Keep in-line with your goals, every single day! The Motivator software constantly reminds you of your aspirations - and keeps you moving toward them. Created by Michael Masterman and Karl Moore. This is my favorite freebie of them all~ Its awesome~ simple and effective. You can program it to say what ever you want too.)

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Karl Moores blogs can be found here: http://www.karlblog.com/

Hope you enjoy! I know I have been enjoying the Motivator Software, the Relaxation screen saver, and a bunch of other stuff. There seems to be something there for everyone.

What The BLEEP Do We Know?

2009-04-28T06:29:00.000-07:00

Have you heard about this movie called What the Bleep do we know?

'WHAT THE $*! DO WE KNOW?!' is a radical departure from convention. It demands a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed, not even dreamed of since Copernicus.
It's a documentary. It's a story. It's mind-blowing special effects. This film plunges you into a world where quantum uncertainty is demonstrated - where neurological processes, and perceptual shifts are engaged and lived by its protagonist - where everything is alive, and reality is changed by every thought."

Watch it free online here:

What The Bleep Do We Know:
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/what_the_bleep_do_we_know.php

Any comments?

(The movie passed the $10 million mark at the box office several months ago and has sold more than a million DVD copies. As word of the film spread, pastors rented out theaters, meditation teachers took students to see the film and some churches held classes on the movie's philosophy. The Rev. James Trapp of Miami 's Unity on the Bay, who saw the film last summer in Barcelona at the 2004 World Parliament of Religions, rented out a screening room at Regal Cinema on Miami Beach and took 150 congregants to see the film when it opened last fall.)