The Crying Gland

pineal
adj.
1. resembling a pine cone in shape.
2. of or pertaining to the pineal gland.
[1675-85; < NL pinealis = L pine(a) pine cone, n. use of fem. of pineus of a pine tree (pin(us)PINE[1] + -eus -EOUS) + -alis -AL[1]]

-AL[1]
a suffix with the general sense “of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of” that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usu. with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal). Compare -ICAL,

-al[3]
a suffix used in the names of chemical compounds that contain an aldehyde group: acetal; furfural.
[prob. extracted from CHLORAL]

pineal body
n. PINEAL GLAND [1830-40]

pineal gland
n. a small, cone-shaped endocrine organ in the posterior forebrain, secreting melatonin and involved in biorhythms and gonadal development. Also called epiphysis.

pine[2]

1. to yearn deeply; long painfully: to pine for one’s family.
2. to fail gradually in health or vitality from grief, regret, or longing (often fol. by away).
v.t.
3. Archaic. to suffer grief or regret over.
n.
4. Archaic. painful longing.
[bef. 900; ME: to torment, be in pain; OE pinian to torture, der. of pin torture (ME pine) << L poena punishment. See PAIN]
Syn. See YEARN.

yearn
v.i.,
1. to have an earnest or strong desire; long.
2. to feel tenderness; be moved.
[bef. 900; ME yernen, OE giernan, der. of georn eager, c. OS, OHG gern, Go -gairns desirous; akin to Gk chaírein to rejoice, Skt háryati (he) desires]
Syn. YEARN, LONG, HANKER, PINE all mean to feel a strong desire for something. YEARN stresses the depth and power of the desire: to yearn to begin a new life. LONG implies a wholehearted desire for something that seems unattainable: to long to relive one’s childhood. HANKER suggests a restless craving: to hanker after fame and fortune. PINE adds the notion of physical or emotional suffering due to the real or apparent hopelessness of one’s desire: to pine for a lost love.

I was listening to American Empire Restored w/ Dr. Yaffa Bey and the mentioned the pineal gland. I’m familiar with a plethora of material concerning this gland. So I decided to look up the terms again and see if anything new pops out. I was looking up Pineal, which sent me to look up the suffix -al and the word pine. When I got to yearn, some wheels turned.

Once when I was doing a cleansing bath, I was laying with my head submerged and I remember feeling two senses. Comfort and Intense Longing. I’ve often dealt with unrequited desire so I’m no stranger to broken hearts and feeling let down or lost, nor to losing something you admire. But this feeling was for lack of a better word, intense. My heart beat took on a soft low tone in the water, almost like the wings of birds flapping. Almost like the sonogram sounds but with more air to it.

Pine-al Gland: The gland of the kind of, pertaining to, and having the form or character of painful longing experienced via physical or emotional suffering due to the real or apparent hopelessness of one’s desire, reminded me of some Gnostic and Greek theories and mythologies.

Sophia and Ialdabaoth:
In some Gnostic traditions the force of the universe expands and it’s final manifestation is Sophia or Wisdom. Out of a yearning to know the original Creator she gives birth to a demi-God, Ialdabaoth who in turn creates the material world. He becomes conceited and arrogant, and his creation (matter) becomes fallen and trapped within his dominion. In this legend the God of the Old testament is seen as evil and Christ is the only emissary of the light world.
Gnostic Theurgy P.16 (pdf)

The importance of Sophia can be best understood when we understand the primal myth behind
her nature. Throughout many cultures there has been the legend of the Goddess who is stolen
from the world of life and is taken to the underworld. There she is kept captive pinning for her
lover who is still in the other world. She waits and pines until at last some salvation is achieved
by her hero coming into the underworld to save her.
The Gnostic Handbook P.31 (pdf)

Orpheus (which is also where we get the word orphan) and Eurydice:
Orpheus became united to a lovely nymph named Eurydice, the daughter of the sea-god Nereus, whom he fondly loved. She was no less attached to him, and their married life was full of joy and happiness. But it was only short-lived; for Aristæus, the half-brother of Orpheus, having fallen in love with the beautiful Eurydice, forcibly endeavoured to take her from her husband, and as she fled across some fields to elude his pursuit, she was bitten in the foot by a venomous snake, which lay concealed in the long grass. Eurydice died of the wound, and her sorrowing husband filled the groves and valleys with his piteous and unceasing lamentations. Finally he determined to brave the horrors of the underworld, in order to entreat Hades to restore to him his beloved wife. Hades consented to release Eurydice on condition that he should not look upon her until they reached the upper world. Orpheus gladly promised to comply with this injunction, and, followed by Eurydice, ascended the steep and gloomy path which led to the realms of life and light. All went well until he was just about to pass the extreme limits of Hades, when, forgetting for the moment the hard condition, he turned to convince himself that his beloved wife was really behind him. The glance was fatal, and destroyed all his hopes of happiness; for, as he yearningly stretched out his arms to embrace her, she was caught back, and vanished from his sight for ever. At last he happened to cross the path of some Thracian women, who were performing the wild rites of Dionysus, and in their mad fury at his refusing to join them, they tore him in pieces. His head was thrown into the river Hebrus, and as it floated down the stream, the lips still continued to murmur the beloved name of Eurydice.
An Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology By James Hampton Belton P. 96 (pdf)

This lover waiting and pining for the loved one is a theme seen all over the world. Some that come to mind are: The Little Mermaid, Can’t Hardly Wait, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Fisherman’s Woman By Emiliana Torrini

There is a concept that within all people there is a spark of divine energy, and that this place is where the true “self” is located. Gnostic theory says you can never know the “true self”. Some segments of philosophy and psychology believe it is a long process to achieve it. This is the sheath concept seen everywhere. The Russian Matryoshka dolls are a good example. But so is Carl Jung’s personality layers, Auras, Levels of Knowledge, Economic Hierarchies, The Solar System. It’s hard to pin point when these concentric circles, Microcosm & Microcosm, and this fractal within fractal concept started.

The process of Transfiguration is to break beyond the Endura (the world of the Archons) and retrieve the Gnosis coded within us, bursting forth with the power of divine Will and formulating an identity of Light substance. In the tradition of the Barbelo Gnostics, Sophia herself, feeling guilty after giving birth to the false creator, hid within his very own creation the keys to man’s liberation and the Demiurge’s downfall.
Gnostic Theurgy P.58 (pdf)

People have been trying to find the location of this “divine spark”. Some say the heart. Back in high school I was a part of a christian youth group, a common meme was that “everyone has a god-shaped hole in their heart”. The god particle of CERN fame is suggested to be found inside, what? Yeah a circle within a circle, inside a sphere… That is, the scientists will find the particle in the LHC which is a large circle underground. Being underground it is within a sphere call the Earth, which is in a suggested circular solar system in a possibly torus shaped universe.

Haha round things are nice.

Some say this spark is in the “ethereal body”. One level of “energy” surrounding the body that is part of the “Aura”. And being in the ethereal body we can’t use the 5 physical senses to locate it.

Some say it is in the brain or more accurately the mind. I’m often quite astounded by the way mind and brain are used interchangeably. In my conspiratorial and business professional mind I understand words and context play and important part in comprehension. Brain is the physical fatty matter sitting in our skulls and the Mind is this thing we use to talk to ourselves and tell us we are we or at least allow us the possibility to believe there is a we. And I don’t believe science has found the mind, perhaps the mind is the divine spark. “I think therefore I am.”

But it’s this search for this divine spark that has led many people to the pineal gland.

Spark By Tori Amos

First for the cynical side:
The pineal gland was the buzz word for 2011, at least in my view. How many youtube clips are there about it? books? lectures? Pineal this pineal that, gateway to the soul, unleash your true power, yadda yadda yadda. Some days I think, “Shit I’m supergirl! Fuck your calcified pineal! I got this!”, then I consider the need to be so boastful. haha But People seem to see this pineal gland as the end all be all to grand enlightened achievement. The Captains’ chair for the good ship Merkaba. I’ll be the first to say that is a probable fact. I just get pretty jaded about the pineal gland and it’s superpowers, but I don’t deny them.

So now many people are all about this pineal gland. I use to have quite a few pine trees in my yard growing up. In school we put peanut butter in them and covered it with birdseed. I may take for granted that everyone has seen and held a pine cone but let’s assume you have. When you break off one of the little limb thingies (that’s the scientific term), they have a little pointy tip at the end that is similar to a frozen drop of water on the underside of a spoon. The bottom of a pine cone is fun for all sacred geometry gogetters. I’m sure there’s a pentagram and a star of David and blah blah blah, you’ll see it. They make a fun sound when you step on them. They make a festive table decorations for a delightful Christmas dinner.

But why say this gland is similar to a pine cone? Common theory says, because it has the shape of a pine cone. Oh! well that makes perfect sense case closed!

…Eggs have a similar shape, as do Eyes when seen as a complete structure, including eyeball and face and the Sacred Pineal Teachers say that the pineal gland has rods and cones like the eye.

Well we can say cones in the eyes are like pine cones, because they both have the word cone.

cone
n.
1. -
a. a solid whose surface is generated by a line passing through a fixed point and a fixed plane curve not containing the point, consisting of two equal sections joined at a vertex.
b. a plane surface resembling the cross section of a solid cone.
2. anything shaped like a cone: the cone of a volcano.
3. ICE-CREAM CONE.
4. -
a. the reproductive structure of certain nonflowering trees and shrubs, as the pine, consisting of hard or papery scales bearing naked seeds and arranged in an overlapping whorl around an axis. Compare CONIFER.
b. a similar structure, as in cycads or club mosses.
5. one of the cone-shaped cells in the retina of the eye, sensitive to bright light and color. Compare ROD (def. 11).
v.t.
6. to shape like a cone or a segment of a cone.
[1480-90; < L conus < Gk kônos pine cone, cone-shaped figure; akin to HONE[1]]

Maybe it’s a pineal because it resembles the reproductive structure of certain nonflowering trees and shrubs and gonadal development in humans? In that case it’s called a pineal because of some reproductive bullshit. It all comes back to sex eh? What a sexually repressed people we are. To have and to hold. And the cones in the eyes are sensitive to bright lights and colors. Like the fireworks of KY Lubricant?

Firework by Katy Perry

Another definition given under Pineal Gland:
n. a small, cone-shaped endocrine organ in the posterior forebrain, secreting melatonin and involved in biorhythms and gonadal development. Also called epiphysis

epiphysis
adj.
1. either of the ends of a long bone separated from the shaft by cartilage but later ossifying with it.
2. PINEAL GLAND.
[1625-35; < NL < Gk epíphysis a growth upon < epi- EPI - + phýsis growth (phy(ein) to make grow, bring forth]

So we have… The Pineal Gland, The gland of the kind of, pertaining to, and having the form or character of painful longing experienced via physical or emotional suffering due to the real or apparent hopelessness of one’s desire. Seen physically as either of the ends of a long bone separated from the shaft by cartilage but later ossifying with it, and reproductively consisting of hard or papery scales bearing naked seeds and arranged in an overlapping whorl around an axis that is characterized by a sensitivity to bright lights and colors. Sounds like a thousand petaled lotus to me.

Teardrop By Massive Attack

Let’s note that in this image the highest Chakra is given the sun symbol of a dot within a circle. Below it is the highest of the 7 main Chakras, the Crown Chakra. It is connected to Keter in Kabbalah and is known as Sahasrara or the thousandfold lotus. Also in the image is the term “Wisdom” which in Gnostic theory is also called Sophia. Who creates and in some cases is the divine spark inside all men.

Is the pineal gland the divine spark? Or do people just want to believe that?

Desktop File Titled: Jan 5

I figured I’d post this file. It’s been sitting on my desktop for over a week…Not sure what day what was read and what was said.

It’s been an interesting week around this town. A member of the community died last weekend. He was a frequent enough customer, given that his family lives just up the hill. I’ve met most of them, uncles, cousins, brothers, aunts, sisters, friends. They’ve all been by. So it’s rather fascinating, perhaps morbidly so, to have to switch from sorrow to joy dependent on customers. So a friend of the deceased will come in dazed and glossy eyed express a few words of sorrow and slump away. and the next customer is high on a cloud chatterbox who never buys anything, but asks weird questions about the community…because she’s new here…yeah. She’s nice enough.

For me it’s been a rather interesting rollercoaster of emotions, that have yet to form themselves in anything reasonably rational language. I suppose a mix of pity, sorrow, and pleasure.

I’ve been reading a few articles from the Reality Sandwich lately. It’s an interesting site with a kind of self-deprecating narcissistic quality. All high and mighty on a pile of poop so to speak. Which is quite in line with my own manner of thinking…or perhaps typing.

For instance I type, quite differently from how I speak. a bit more pomp and verbose….just a bit. Quite frankly I’d say it was for ironies sake and the coincidence that Alanis Morrissette never figured it out. Maybe it’s to feed my insatiable self-esteem? Perhaps its an alter ego that only emerges in verse?

Listened to some more radio today.

Order of the Stars
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf

Listen to internet radio with ChristopherMyers on Blog Talk Radio

and

The Mysteries of Holy Grail Pineal Secrets of Life
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf

Listen to internet radio with AlimBey on Blog Talk Radio

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Listened to some good shows on The Honey Radiance Radio Network.

I also read two interesting articles from Reality Sandwich.

Beyond the Anguish of Impossibility

“We must begin by recognizing that reality itself is an infinite process of enfoldment and unfoldment of an unknowable implicate order, a la David Bohm. It is impossible to put limits on that order or its potential. Therefore, impossibility is itself impossible to assert, except as an empirical observation. The unfoldment process does tend to demonstrate archetypal moments, or folds. Each fold reveals a deeper dimension of the Real. The folds, or pleats, must be linked together in consciousness to unveil the hidden pattern of the implicate order that the phenomenal plane can only at best symbolize to the very consciousness that is being observed, in yet another incident of impossibility.”

That reminds me of Henry David Thoreau and his love affair with Louisa May Alcott?.

Love Scene from Waking Life
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=368363424688672759&hl=en&fs=true

Which for some reason reminds me of Aleister Crowley & Pauline Pierce and the story of Barbara Bush’s conception.

Love is quite an impossible game. And we will forever keep trying to win it. “What is love? Baby Don’t hurt me, no more” Fascinating response, eh?

Quietism & Existentialism

“Give up all concepts, all attempts to grasp, to control, to master. Renounce even the saintly self that is willing to renounce it all. Realize compleat Emptiness. This is the unfoldment of the final pleat, the attainment of the Impossible: the Dreamer of the Dream.”

Once you attain the impossibility, I find an easy slide back to hatred of impossibility. Maintaining impossibility is, impossible.

Dynamic Paradoxicalism: The Anti-ism ism

“Bohr posited that opposites were two different aspects of a higher unity existing just beyond our limited perceptual apparatus.”

This reminds me of the internet. And it’s physical and/or metaphysical location.

“Dynamic paradoxicalism is a philosophy best suited for those who are grounded in a strong, Warrior stance.”

that Warrior again. Also I came across a Dragon song by Tori Amos…that was way too close for comfort. “Don’t tell me a woman did this to you. Candy lies.”

Sugar-coated tricks slip through those pierced lips.

Maybe that’s why I dislike being called Candy.

I’ve had this Relativism vs Absolutism argument with Herbsta several times before. I being the Relativist, he being the Absolutist.

“The relativist is the inverted version of an absolutist. The relativist does not believe in absolute truths — has an absolute disbelief in absolutes — and finds that everything is relative to a point of view, and that most points of view are culturally determined and highly unreliable. But a relativist is also a self-deceiving absolutist, as they have an absolute belief in relativism. The most classic statement repeated by relativists — whether they know themselves to be relativists or not — is, “Don’t be judgmental.” But notice that this statement is perfect in its self-contradiction, as it is in itself a judgment, and ranks nonjudgmental people as more correct than judgmental people. In philosophy this is called “an error of performance:” you contradict your assertion even as you make it.”

Some that may appear to be good can be evil, by there understanding of the game.

The world is an illusion and a reality. It is at the same time happening and not happening. All of the world has gone insane. The “elite” have gone insane. Centuries of philosophers have been driven insane pondering the concepts of what the game is and who is running it, what piece we are. Those who tried to understand it via material wealth, have gone insane. The Scientists have gone insane. The Mathematicians have gone insane. The Everyman has gone insane. In in this realm the conspiracy is that there is a conspiracy, when in reality/falsehood everyone is bluffing.

That’s not to say some levels of the reality can be classified as real. I really feel the wind and the sun against my body. I’ve “felt” all manners of emotions. But those recognizing the game have an ability to manipulate the game to fit their desires. In any variety of emanations. From wretched to divine.

Listened to The Hermetic Hour.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf

Listen to internet radio with The Hermetic Hour on Blog Talk Radio

Wandering Warriors Wonder

The concept of each person possessing one single soul is not shared by all or even most spiritual traditions, including Judaism. Instead, each person is assigned multiple souls, although the number and nature of these souls may differ, depending on tradition. Wandering dream souls enable shamanic journeying. Esoteric, mystic rites sometimes earn an extra bonus soul. Souls may fragment after death: one part assuming duties as an ancestral spirit; one part lingering near bodily remains; another journeying to an afterlife realm. There is no one single soul to lose or sell.
- Encyclopedia of Spirits Bu Judika Illes (Pg 52)

This reminds me of MK ULTRA (mind kontrol, mortal kombat).

Also it reminds me of how time is not linear. Perhaps any spirits I venerate are in essence, aspects of myself from the past and/or the future; perhaps even cross dimensional versions of future and past versions of me. Was that the theme of Highlander?

Funny The Gael from Last of the Mohicans just started playing. Very warrior-esque. I keep running into this theme lately. Warrior. I was listening to a random blog talk show, I’m not sure I only listened to a few minutes of it. But he played some warrior song, the hardcore version….Then I’m reading this book and they’re talking about warrior goddesses Oshun and Oya.

Now it’s playing Orbital’s song Desert Storm… But lately I’ve been listening to this album by Gossip and they have this song called 8th Wonder. and there’s a lyric “You’re just another beating drum, a rhythm for generations to come” Which started to make me ponder the relationship of

Warrior and Wonder

War – Rior

Won – Der

Riot Gear? haha I love marching.

Harbor Creek Marching Huskies – Cadence

I use to love the Cadence for my high school marching band. I never played an instrument. But I had a few friends who were involved so I hung around those “band nerds” quite often.

It also reminded me of the A Perfect Circle Tune – Counting Bodies like Sheep.

Days of the New Enemy

I had quite the crush on that Travis Meeks guy back in high school. I also liked the band Travis. Are the lyrics “I Once One” or “I Once Won”?

I do like that clappy marching sound in songs..its also in this song by Mirah.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/knowtheledgeradio/2012/01/04/the-magic-of-2012-feat-juju-mama?utm_source=BTRemail&utm_medium=ShowReminder

The Magic of 2012 feat JuJu Mama by KNOW THE LEDGE RADIO

This was an interesting show. They talked about warriors… Also about holistic sex, sex magic, the roles of men and women. I did not exactly agree with JuJu Mama’s views however I understood her stance and understand the necessity of archetypes, so good for her.

WWW – my friend and I once decided that WWW stood for Women With Waffles. Perhaps a fisherwoman(siren) has a waffle shaped (inter)net?

Nets il

 

We’ve arrived into 2012!  I’m still waiting for doomsday…

Despite my strong desire to cut myself away from the form of entertainment commonly called writing. The Damn bug keeps biting. Many times I’ve swat it down a told it to fuck of,. and still here it is….. so day 2 of the new year and I’m pretending to resolve to write daily.

I give myself a month, maybe two just to prove myself wrong.

So now for the outpour of fantastical thoughts and opinions I’ve long kept bottled within….

 

 

Was it as anti-climatic for you as it was for me?

 

I watched a few minutes of the Rose Parade this morning and I pondered the following:
Did the Rosicrucians start the Rose Bowl & Rose Parade?
Is the Gregorian Calendar of Rosicurcian origin?
What is the meaning of the ritual of taking down Christmas decorations while watching said Rose Parade?
What if the exposure of illuminati symbolism is a marketing scheme to boost viewership?

Then I stopped caring. haha

I listened to a show I just recently started following.  Order of the Stars – (Mercury’s Messenger).  Good stuff.  I may try to be more involved in the locations I pull material from.  I generally just drift through the world-wide webiverse, giving credit when it is do, or at least when I can remember the source. But I find I read and listen to a lot of information without much said to those presenting. Perhaps I assume the listenership is enough acknowledgement. Maybe not.

So Let’s talk bullshit.
Today is January, the Janus month of two-facedness.  The known home of Capricornic Sea goats and Water flushing Aquari ( or is it Aquariuses?).  Both ruled by the good planet Saturn, known to have his own two sides as Satan and Savior. It’s a moon day and the moon is currently around First Quarter.  Is that too new agey? I can throw in some ascension talk if need be. Also donate! hahahahaha

ok

I’ve been working on my philosophy of good vs evil.  I’ll probably post that as its own separate page because I will be frequently editing it as time and knowledge grows/goes.

SO…. it’s the year of the Dragon. Cue David Icke!

 

Dragon. Horse. Dragonfly. Drag on Whispers. Dragons Lie.

Dr. Agon

AG= Silver
On = God (In hindsight I’m not sure where I heard about a god named On and I currently can’t find any verification, so take that as it is…)

Doctor of the Silver God?

Doctored Silver Goods….I wonder how the silver market is doing? Not really….

This song reminds me of Reptillians for some reason. Though the song mentions gold so eh who knows what the fuck that means.

Yeasayer – Wintertime

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could be alchemical, base metal to gold

A Sliver of Slithering Silver Livers.

Very snake-like, damn dragons.

Silver Snakes, who has silver snakes? Legends of the Hidden Temple…I use to love that show….

2 is snakey in  shape.

Snape was snakey in Potterville. I really have not clue to the accuracy of that. I never watched Harry Potter. Was Snape snakey? He looked it. like Scar of Lion King fame… Sss

I guess it was in the collective unconsciousness. Snape’s on a plane, almost funny.  I did enjoy when he played Metatron in Dogma. I still love that cube.

Silver is the element associated with the moon and with my astrological sign Cancer. good for me….I guess.

So let’s try some musical divination….hahaha my fave!
(Musical Divination Steps: Load your entire music library onto a player. Activate Shuffle/Random. Ask questions, the following song will contain your answer.  It’s divination because everything I do is magic; duh!)

1) The Mode for the Year is encompassed by:

Rainer Maria: The Reason the Night is Long

damn. Which night? THe dark night of the soul. IT does feel like its lasting forever. Perhaps the soul took a wrong turn? Who is steering this ship? oh nevermind they confessed they stole my heart. Now it all makes sense….

My sixth sense has been sick since the seventh stage/plague.

I want a do over….haha

2) The Theme for January is similar to:

Jonathan Coulton – Resolutions

Who the hell! This divination is staged! haha fuck that’s funny. Damn Resolutions, I was trying to avoid them. I guess this is what I get.

3) What Aspect should I strive for this Month:

Aphex Twin – Tree

That’s vague enough…Tree of life? Kabbalah, Weed? What are we getting at here.  I planted some trees I got from the Arbor Day Foundation.  Maybe I need a solid foundation? A Strong tree grows from good soil? Who cares for the weak trees?  Maybe I need to talk to the fairies. I’ve never bothered the fairies before. I reckon I’ve annoyed a few here and there.  I was drawn to a Disney fairy book yesterday but it was a paper doll book, and I only rock with coloring books.

Trees….There is a tree nearby I want to take a picture of, I just never feel like going down that road just to take the picture….someday I will.

Tree was a part of the first password I ever came up with. I don’t use it anymore, or else I wouldn’t mention it here.

1423tree

It was made in rhyme

“Fourteen, Twenty-Three, Tree” or “One Four Two Three T – R – E – E”

1+4 & 2+3

55 Tree?

2012=5

yadda yadda yadda

I often associate venus with 5, not sure why….

Thanks Herbsta for the reminder: venus orbits in a 5 pointed star relative to earth, and 5 pointed stars are a symbol of the goddess venus/minerva.  venus appears to stop and turn around several times in our sky through out its orbital period.

 

4) What should I name this blog post:

Beyonce – Listen

Dear god no… Le sigh. maybe List Ten? haha ahh ok

Bey Once Listen Tree?  I need to listen to that Yaffa Bey show….I keep putting it off. Her info does deal with geneology which can be associated with trees…. I think I’m reaching haha. like a tree……

ok ok let’s get serious.

5) What should I look for this January:

Portishead – Sour Times

Le sigh. Accurate. Thanks Music divination you never fail to make my eyes roll.

Well I’ll take all that into account.

 

In other news, this made me laugh today:

Things Done on Christmas

I haven’t used this thing in years….not sure if I’m really going to “start” but I am going to be randomly dropping random bits of things I randomly find on the internet…. what else is a blog for?

Maybe just maybe I’ll write personal thoughts and opinions! ON THE INTERNET!

I listened to a new show. The debut, pilot, flagship, ultra new and super fantastic episode of THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE!

 

Also BLUE PILL RED PILL JUJUMAMA AA RASHID COACH KHAYR CHRISTMAS

 

A Shill Hiding Behind Every Radio Show

By: TS Sept. 29, 2011

The “Truth Movement” is a Secret Society. While in reality (as we’ll call it) that movement is a free and open community where people may come and go as they please, the door to this information seems only open to those on the Path of Spiritual Enlightenment, or the Search For Truth, or discovering the Nature of Reality. Some secret societies have a concept of self initiation. The Neophytes start to feel activated to do something. In the patriot truther society people may start a garden, buy gold and storable foods. They tell their friends and family about the New World Order, go to protests, and sign petitions. To those they call “sheeple” this need to tell “their version” of the truth can seem like preaching. Many turn away from the information allowing Pastor Truther to use this situation as proof of the stupidity of the sheeple and maintain cult order.

Let’s follow the illumination of Johnny Truthseed. Johnny Truthseed is looking for some truth. He is going about life, happy and carefree when some catalyst comes into his world and “wakes him up” to a world outside of his own. Johnny catches a glimpse of life outside of the cage that he never knew he was in. He decides to take this info about the Truth to as many people as possible. Johnny gets online and starts a radio show, creates a forum, and starts a website.

Welcome to the 2nd degree of Illumination on the Spiritual Path of Trutherdom. Johnny is uncovering the daily hidden agenda by researching the history. There are cold hard facts to be found about almost everything he turns his attention to. There is fluoride in the water. There are live viruses in the vaccines. The law to take his “freedom” away has been signed! Meanwhile, his own Great Work is gaining momentum. It’s good radio. The forum is taking off. The website is getting more and more hits everyday. People are sharing ideas and discussing possibilities. More people come and agree with his message. Johnny receives a good deal of praise for his struggle against the wrong doers. People respect him and even donate money to help him continue to produce the “Truth Juice” those on the path seek.

The core of the society has been formed.

Some darkness has crept in amongst the good people discussing valuable information. It’s a familiar entity. Why do they seem so disenchanted all of a sudden? Has Johnny offended them? He’s only been trying to put out good information. Solid factual evidence of the major disruption in what could have been an expansive physical experience if some mind controlling psychopathic cult of gangster computer gods wasn’t running some eugenics scheme.

The familiar dissenters have waged an attack. Johnny’s name is discredited. His information negated. His reputation tarnished. But Johnny Truthseed remembers Pastor Truther. “People hate hearing the truth.” Johnny’s a good person. He just started this platform on impulse to give a vector for the information. Yes, he has received some success and praise and has grown, but he never signed on with the bad guys! He’s not a gatekeeping shill. He’s just a sovereign soul attempting to help move society into a better world. “To come into realization of what we as a society could be.”

Johnny is becoming disenchanted. “This truth movement is such a sham, all these agent provocateurs and trolls. Are they agents of the system I’ve been trying to expose, are they themselves paid to tear down the good thing I tried to have here?”

The internet is littered with the corpses of other Truthbound radio show forum websites. Some of their founders have all but given up. “I tried all I could to tell the truth, and they tore me down. I’ve received death threats while trying to produce good work. I put myself on the line here!”

For Johnny a new door to the secret chamber appears…

Knock. Knock. “Welcome to the club of the initiated. How was your journey? No doubt you feel a bit betrayed, and misunderstood. We all went through that. You’re safe here. People out there can be rough, they disguise themselves as angels. True wolves in sheep’s clothing. Proponents of fear. But we’ve started a core group here, of true illumined activists willing to do the hard work.”

Like Johnny we have to start recognizing the cycles that we run in our lives. We should recognize how they mirror the cosmos, the microcosm and macrocosm. Death Life Rebirth. Johnny has died to come into this Truth Movement world. Dead to the world that he had known before. He’s an illuminated truther now, having eaten from the tree of knowledge of FEMA camps and chemtrails.

With Johnny’s tarnished persona he can’t blend back into the truther realm. He is able to carry on discourse with the truthers of the secret chamber. Those other radio show forum website seekers who were also declared shills by public polled opinion. Does this make Johnny a part of the Illuminati? Johnny knows the TRUTH. He understands the deception and manipulation of the masses. He’s amongst a group of nameless individuals working towards a common goal. But he’s not trying to use manipulation to bring about his own version of truth. Some of the truthers of the secret chamber may join up with those “dark elite” forces. “If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em.” Some others start a new smaller radio show forum website to continue to bring the information to the people. There IS still an elite secret cabal of evil doers trying to thwart humanity through the banking system.

Let’s see what happens if Johnny takes a quick journey into Spiritual Foo Foo Land. This is where he finds the New Age Movement, love and peace lightworking family. If Johnny isn’t the physical body, meaning the stream of thought that he recognizes as himself or “I”, is not the material body, what is it that the “elite” have over him? Perhaps they have money and wealth and powers unknown to the profane? “Well Johnny, we mean, spirit in a physical body, where are you taking that fancy internet platform you created when YOUR stream of thought ceases to mobilize that flesh sack?” The only thing the “elites” could have is a great deal of confidence in convincing Johnny and the population that they can and do control them. The reality is they have NO control over anything whatsoever. Any control perceived to be cast upon an individual are the shackles they chained to themselves. Their self-created cage. If the “elite” were doing such a great job controlling the masses, how did Johnny get away from their Ultra Mega Power Grip Action? And what about those other people Johnny saw online sharing similar yet variant opinions? How did they slip away from that powerful War Mongering Machine commonly known as the New World Order Satanic Devil Worshiping, Kiddie Fucking, Jewish, Nazi, Luciferian Illuminati Bastards and their Unknowable Almighty and Awesome System of Power and Control!? Damn if their track record is anything indication I’m not hiring them to install the fence I need in the yard. They don’t know fuck all!

In Spiritual Foo Foo Land Johnny can hypothesis that the only secret of the secret dark evil societies is how to manipulate humanity, which he can also see isn’t going too well. Johnny sees the cracks in the machine. He pointed them out on his radio show forum website. The vaccines, the scanners, the laws passed. These “elites” keep patching those holes trying to hold their cage together.

In The Supreme Truth Land of Reality and Truth, that jackbooted thug that just knocked Susie Freedomfighter’s teeth in down at the Super Awesome Truthiness Protest Rally. And it’s really affecting her flesh bag. Johnny knew they were going to do that, didn’t you Susie? She saw what happened at the last Protest Rally. Susie and some of her colleagues even prepared for it. “Feel that adrenaline rush! Oh it feels so good to be a live and fighting the bad guys in the name of honor and truth and freedom!” The Truth Movement cycle continues…

A Peek Inside The Secret Chamber of Truth.

So, my newly illuminated friend let’s consider a possibility. The truth movement IS the deception. Everyone, all the “sheeple” are on the path for truth. Have we forgotten about when we were zombies, a “sheeple”? We’ve watched a few of them “wake up” and take a breath of life, via fancy radio show forum websites. You probably even woke up a few friends of your own.

All people walk different lines of the path. Some choose a path that is gutturally opposed to your own. Johnny calls them the “Elite Illuminati Scum”. They need more waking up than the monarch mind controlled MTV fans. Their manipulation is of a grander level. Which even Johnny can see manifested in their weird attempts at supremacy. They preach their version of the truth with vaccines and eugenics. “We had to kill off those useless eaters, the perfected man can’t be accomplished with such genetic flaws.” They continue to tear down society. Similar to internet trolls with a vendetta. All for the chance to sit atop the pedestal and say, “Hey I did something, I took down the beast, they were shills anyway, working as a Psy-Op, Co-Intel Pro.” The “elite”believe they are in the right.

The big wheel that keeps on turning. The Trolls are the Elite, who are the Freedom Fighters, who act as Spiritual Gurus, that become disenchanted and turn into trolls.

It’s time to Show and Prove Troofer Movement. Show what life will be like when you actually live free. Prove that it’s possible. Don’t worry doomsday will wait. Put your talk into action and stop the preaching, no one wants to here about the new batch of TSA scanners. You’re alive now with Johnny Truthseed; The Freedom Truth Guru. You can carve out your own path. When you live your life as an example, as a rebellious act against the system of thought control, the “sheeple” will see you.

Suppose Johnny leaves the Truth Movement Realm of Conspiracy Research due to being disenchanted and simply tires to be honest and original. Perhaps he works on a smaller forum away from the trolls and infiltrators. Some others have become disenchanted before. They have formed clubs in their local areas. Some set up a community garden, and others opened survival stores. They got out of the preaching cage because they knew there was something outside of it and they searched for it. No one had preached to them about the chemtrails. They uncovered the information themselves They go about living in an illuminated flesh bag, understanding the deception and actively thwarting it daily.

One day at the local market some “sheeple” approach Johnny and ask for advice to start their own garden. Do they grasp the concept of an evil underground cabal? Johnny forms a friendship with the “sheeple”. One weekend over tea, the “sheeple” ask for Johnny’s opinion. “What’s your thought on the new TSA scanners?”

What will we do when the “sheeple” ask us if we know about the New World Order? Will we mentor them on our path to Truth Nirvana? Or gatekeep them from info we deem untrustworthy?

We can’t be so jaded or egotistical. The “sheeple” are looking for truth just like us. There isn’t a conspiracy under every radio show forum website. There are some honest human beings doing the best they can. We will know the true evil by their fruits. We can’t be so self-centered as to think that our version of the truth is the one and only Truth Religion. People walk the path in different manners and part of walking the path is recognizing the differences and being the conduit for change and allowing change within yourself.

Conscious willing shills don’t need to be exposed, they will expose themselves. As long as people maintain honesty and personal truths, there is no conflict with what the shills are doing. Don’t try to pull the “sheeple” out of the cage. They have to crawl out on their own or the lesson is never learned.

A Critique of Truth Secret Chamber Paths.

Should your path maintain a need to expose and pull, don’t be so surprised when what goes around comes around in the minds of those already walking a congruent path. It’s the universal Law of Rhythm. The pendulum swing of the Nature of Reality. The ebb and flow of Truthaggedon. People start off genuine then the cycle comes around full force with them as the new Evil-Doer Illuminati Badie Shill.

This is not to say that confrontation of another path is not valid. Exposing shills can have value. We only must remember humanity and make sure we ascertain clear and precise evil. We can’t resort to ad-hominem speculation and theory or conjecture lest we hang the helpers with the heathens. True shills will show their colors and there is no way to pull the manipulated away from them. Those caught in the glow of a true shill will face a catalyst of their own, in their own time that will force them to change.

All paths have a purpose for the actors on it. There are times when we feel the need to interfere with another path, say the path of Pedophilia. Those outside of that path will rightly maintain that this is an evil way to behave and will proceed with all attempts to stop this evil. This is a correct action and exposure may be necessary. We can call this a true evil because it deals in the manipulation of others for self-interest. Those on the path of Pedophilia may or may not see any faults with their actions, if they see no fault then a true issue of cosmic disconnection is the root. These are psychopaths. They will at some point confront an outside catalyst that will force a change upon them (exposure or death). If the pedophile does develop their own internal remorse their path will lead them to an internal catalyst. They will “wake up” and seek help in walking a path more congruent with things considered good. Perhaps exposure of the nature of this manipulation was their catalyst.

This is a crude analogy of the concentric cycle nature of living. The Pedophile, The “sheeple”, and Johnny The Honest Internet Radio Shill are all walking the path of truth only different perspectives of the path.

The Pedophile thinking they are wholly good will be faced with an obstacle that will lead to the Death of their pedophile realm and fall into the prison system or seek guidance towards a positive completion of their path.

The “sheeple” thinking they are wholly good will be faced with an obstacle that will lead to the Death of their “sheeple” existence and fall into the patriot truther school Gurus or seek the truth behind the truth.

Johnny thinking he is wholly good will be faced with an obstacle that will lead to the Death of his “Shill” platform and fall into the Secret Chamber of Truth or align himself with honest interpretations of reality.

The catalyst for all of these people comes from the same source. Johnny can realize the pedophile and become activated to stop it. The Pedophile can be confronted with Johnny’s exposure and become activated to stop himself. The recognition of Johnny’s platform and the Pedophile can activate the “sheeple” to change their future. One path is not greater or holier than the other. That is ego. The Pedophile is walking the path with the shackles they attached to themselves. The desire to have sexual intimacy through the manipulation of children. Johnny has his own shackles. The knowledge of an ever-present underground cabal of evil manipulating initiates at every corner. The “sheeple” has their self-created cage. The naive understanding of the importance of self. Opposite directions, same path.

This is what could be call living. Opposition, obstacles, dissidence, catalysts. At some point no matter our personal paths we will each experience Death, Life and Rebirth. The differing of opinions is necessary for growth, the name calling and unjust attacking is not. Sharing open thoughts allows for the betterment of the whole of humanity not just the caress of our individual egos. We need to have solid evidence that someone like Johnny Truthseed is willingly working to manipulate people.

Energy needs to be focused on bettering everyone which in turns betters yourself. The Pedophile needs to be forgiven for their manipulative ways. Johnny needs to be forgiven for appearing to be a shill when he was not. The “sheeple” needs to be forgiven for not being at the appropriate place to understand the information. When we work together understanding true evil we can actually start to create something better than what we currently have. When we acknowledge or expose the problems in the path of the Pedophile or the “sheeple” or Johnny we should remember they are in a self-created cage. We can do more to help them by showing them a positive way to act and behave through our own actions than by name calling and lambasting. The time for Pastor Truther is over. More compassion is needed with those called evil. They are the most deceived of the absolute Nature of Truth. If they actually understood Truth and Freedom they wouldn’t be trying to patch the holes of their cage.

This is the balance. Between protecting your physical life with gold, guns and knowledge and sowing the seeds of a better society by working with the evil to help them change their ways. There will be those that will call for intense physical conflict, but do you really think any of these other internet radio truth gurus are going to take you on in hand to hand combat? We’re more similar than different. These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. They aren’t true evil. Remember to ascertain that there is evil. Don’t waste time and energy on maintaining the cycle of confusion. The true shills need no exposing and many good people are being hurt in this shill gatekeeper witch hunt. We don’t all need to agree and sing Kumbaya, but we should be able to have compassionate and honest discussion with others on their paths about what we see at the end of our tunnel. Break out of the truther cage of Co-intel agents causing evil behind every screen name. Respect humanity. We were all “sheeple” once. It’s time for the Truth Movement to Wake Up.

7 Principles of The Chakras

By: Kabir Amen Ra Horakhty

If you love to read like I do, you know that you remember certain things said by writers throughout your life. The information provided resonates so deeply that what you’ve learned can be used throughout your life. For me, Carolyn Myss, in her book The Anatomy of The Spirit, taught 7 Principles of the Chakras. These principles guide decisions I make toward health.

If you become physically ill, you can relate the organ or area of your body to the particular chakra that governs it. Then ask yourself how the principle of that particular chakra relates directly to what is going on in your life. Careful reflection on the events of your life, your reactions and responses to the world you’ve created, and willingness to incorporate “christ consciousness” into the way you are in the world can remove energy imbalances within your being and restore heath to your physical body.

What are Chakras? Chakras represent the “wheels of life”. They are the energy centers in the body that link us to every living entity and the Creator. At this point, let us turn from our image of the Supreme Creator as a person figure, and think in terms of that force from which all else stems: The All. Spirit.

Many of you are ignorant to the core energy of chakras. They are nevertheless the still-points of your existence. Chakras are the hubs around which the wheels of light energy revolve sustaining your physical form. As structural blueprints, serving as conduits for compliment energy information held in higher self, chakras are the interface point between your physical and non-physical form.

Every time you have seen the symbol of the caduceus, representing the medical field, you have come into contact with an aspect of the chakras. As the two headed serpent winds up the staff and intertwines, each point of intersection is symbolic of one of the major chakras of the body. The snakes represent the polarity of opposing forces in nature, and the wings illustrate transformation and freedom. There are many chakras in the body, but for our purposes the seven major ones will be discussed. Through the chakra meditation we find G-O-D( Gift Of Divinity) which lies at the very core of our very being.

Working with the chakras you can begin to open to Spirit, and come to better understand who and what you are, what you feel and how you think and change and grow. Through the chakras you can begin to understand how your thinking affects how you relate to self, others and the world. You can then begin to understand how your perceptions of reality affect your thinking patterns and your resulting health.

You are an energy being, and the chakras are energy centers that draw energy in from the universal energy field, and distribute it throughout your body. As creators and maintainers of your very existence, the chakras hold the key to spiritual awakening, psychological, and physical health. Chakras mediate all energy coming into and going out of your body. See chakras as the union of Spirit and matter manifested as consciousness.

Chakras are always open, since they represent a union of Spirit and matter manifested as consciousness. However, any consciousness that is not aligned with the energy flow of God can cause energy flow to be disrupted. Although chakras may never be closed, they may become blocked. The resulting energy imbalance can lead to illness. Imbalance in energy affects the mind and the body. The emotional (energy in motion) and the physical are connected, and if not functioning harmoniously can begin to wreak havoc on the health and well being of a person.

The chakras are the template for perfection, providing a blueprint along which the mind then enters, and establishes a correct pattern for itself. You are your subtle energies, and they are the roots of your consciousness.

It is said, that you descended from heaven to earth along the rainbow. In those of higher spiritual development, the collection of electromagnetic energies of varying densities in the form of colors of light, are seen to revolve at great speed, thus creating the human aura. Our health, balance, and Spirit energy are thereby reflected in these colors. Extending 2 to 5 feet from the body, the colors, textures and patterns of light reveal much information about the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual states of an individual. Every color and shade in the rainbow is present in the aura, and each color of the rainbow corresponds to a chakra in the body from root to crown. The aura reflects the energy of the Spirit in that matter. One can use color therapy during meditation (discussed later) to help align the chakras when there are blockages or holes in the aura. Dramatic changes in the colors of the aura are evident when illnesses occur.

If you are ill, or if you become ill, take action, and be a participant in creating your own health. Read, learn, and research. Be responsible towards the maintenance of your own health. Learn of the chakras.

The seven major chakras of the body, their corresponding colors and key words are:

Root (Base) chakra = red, understanding and acceptance.

Sacral chakra = orange, creativity and sensitivity.

Solar plexus chakra = yellow, commitment.

Heart chakra = green, divine love and compassion.

Throat chakra = blue, truth and expression.

Third eye chakra = indigo, intuition, vision and hearing.

Crown chakra = violet, boundlessness, thought and will.

Basic knowledge of the chakras allow you to begin to change thinking patterns, speak perfect health, seek the God within, and restore total well being. There must be a complete willingness to let go of mamma’s God, a metaphor for our accepting what others teach us, rather than allowing God to reveal to us, and remember the real gift of divinity within.

The main purpose in working with, and understanding the charkas, is to create integration and wholeness within yourself. You can come to know and accept the different aspects of yourself (physical, material, sexual, spiritual, etc.), which work together to help you gain tremendous insight into how you, through your thinking, speaking and feeling, affect your body, mind, and circumstances in life, for better or worse. The awareness attained gives you the advantage of being able to make choices and decisions from a place of balance, rather than being blindly influenced by forces you do not understand. You learn to give the gift of love to all of creation. Love is the source of all healing.

During meditation, which energy is focused on the following principles, each of which corresponds to a chakra, from root to crown. Commit these principles to memory.

Chakra 1       Root/Base      All Is One.

Chakra 2       Sacral             Honor One Another.

Chakra 3       Solar Plexus    Respect Self.

Chakra4        Heart              Love Is Divine Power.

Chakra 5       Throat            Surrender Personal Will To Divine Will.

Chakra6        Third Eye       Seek Only The Truth.

Chakra 7       Crown             Live In The Present Moment Of Awareness.

Chakras carry one from embodiment to enlightenment. From the lower three chakras where reside earthly material pleasures, your inner world and personal reality, you can ascend through the heart of love and compassion to the higher chakras of universal reality, focusing on communication, insight and wholeness. Transformation from darkness to light towards God-realization can occur.

If you observe yourself or another exhibiting any of the following behaviors, be aware that somatic illnesses, which serve as red flags, alert you to chakra energy imbalances: insecurity, arrogance, conceit, vanity, aloofness, anger and rage, jealousy, possessiveness, blaming others, self doubt, constantly giving in to those in authority, resisting change, laziness, impatience, excessive worrying, over-sensitivity to the opinions of others, intense erotic fantasies, feelings of being misunderstood, shame, excessive need for sympathy, and other less desirable behaviors. Again, you create your existence by your thinking and emotions.

Remember to, “Be what you is and not what you ain’t, cause if you ain’t what you is, then you is what you ain’t.”

On The other hand, the following behaviors inevitably yield a free-functioning, free-flowing, energy-balanced root chakra: down to earth and grounded personality, courage, comfort in the physical body, generosity, empathy, compassion, confidence, sensitivity, ability to cry easily, creativity, warrior-like nature, power, faithfulness in the Divine, selfless to service to others, spontaneity, and the ability to let go into “Being”, instead of “Doing”.

Thinking patterns and behaviors invariably affect energy moving through the chakras. Thoughts are great, living, dynamic things that have force in the universe. When you entertain healthy thoughts, you keep good health. Without a doubt, when you hold on to thoughts of diseased tissues, weak nerves, thoughts of improper functioning of organs or viscera, you can never expect good health, beauty or harmony. “As a man thinketh, so is he.” “Man is created by thought; what a man thinks upon, that he becomes.”

Start giving thanks right now, this very instant, to God for all that you are. Thank God for your illness. Embrace your wonderful self as you are. Give yourself over to the goodness that you are. See yourself as one with all that is, even those you think you hate, or who hate you. You are an integral part of the universe. God loves you. I love you. You love you. You know you do. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

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Energy travels from the spiritual realm, affects the mind, and eventually crystallizes in the physical body. Come to understand natural and sacred laws, which govern the body. Returning to the chakras, we can come to understand all of life’s experiences. You are encouraged not to take for granted what is written here, but to experience for yourself, for experience is the highest teacher. Experience as I do, and allow health to be restored in your body.

While healing is a gift from God, and already exists in each of us in the present moment, it must be made manifest in your body. God exists inside you, and is waiting to flourish. Having basic knowledge of the significance and function of each chakra, you can clear blockages through effort and meditation. Know that effort must be applied to learn, and gain understanding of the chakras, and the state of “feeling meditation”. Daily practice must be applied in many cases. Just as one would practice playing a musical instrument to acquire skill, practice is required to assess the energy of the chakras and clear any blockages: blockages resulting from ill-thinking generated from years of conditioning thrust on us by other humans claiming to know the will of God for others.

Become as a child and allow the information presented here to passively seep into your consciousness, as difficult as it may be for those of you who are learning something new and different. Prepare yourself for a moving experience full of wonderment and physical sensation. I have found no experience that brings me more joy than the feeling of God energy coursing throughout my body, miraculously realigning the universe within. It literally brings tears of joy to my eyes to feel so connected to my own body, while experiencing the flow of Divine love throughout my being.

Top 10 Edible Plants in Your Yard (and beyond)

Tasty (and free!) Greens to Expand your Palette, Increase your Nutrition and Shrink your Grocery Bill

Yes, our neighbors think I’m a little bit crazy. They see me out in the yard with my little basket slung over my shoulder, picking “weeds” to eat for lunch while they’re out with their spray bottle of Round-Up trying (usually unsuccessfully) to poison away those very same “weeds”!
Over the last 70 years or so, since the majority of North American’s moved to the city, we’ve lost touch with our roots — Literally. Plants that our grandparents and great-grandparents and ancestors for many thousands of years sought out for their nutritional and medicinal values are the same ones we now spend hundreds and thousands of dollars trying to eradicate.
Food prices are going up, people are going hungry, and there is free food all around us — we just need to re-discover all the goodness that Mother Nature has provided.
Since the acorn drop this past fall I’ve been learning more and more about all kinds of edible plants, what to eat and when to harvest, how to prepare them and the best ways to eat them. Now I regularly supplement my diet with “foraged” food and I’ve never felt better.
The nutritional contents are WAY higher so I don’t eat NEAR as much — of which my waistline heartily approves!
The world of plants is vast and can be overwhelming, so here are 10 easy-to-identify, commonly found plants that are nutritious and delicious. I hope you’ll give them a try!
(Okay, standard disclaimer here — POSITIVELY IDENTIFY EACH PLANT FROM AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT, RELIABLE SOURCES BEFORE GETTING IT ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR BODY!!! YOU are responsible for knowing what you’re picking, and never take chances. If you’re not absolutely positive, just leave it alone until you are. NEVER make exceptions! It just ain’t worth it. Okay? Okay. Now check out these great tasties!)

Dandelions

1. Dandelions
There’s a commercial for some lawn service company that starts off with a happy-looking suburban couple standing on their perfectly manicured lawn proudly proclaiming “We HATE dandelions…” Well let me tell you, those people don’t know what they’re talking about!
Dandelions are very tasty, exceedingly versatile, highly nutritious and as we all know, incredibly abundant!
Fresh dandelion leaves can be eaten raw in salads, added to a stir fry, or boiled or steamed like spinach. They have a “bitter greens” taste, like endive (especially once the flowers are out) but boiling them in a change or two of water can help take away that bitter taste. They make a great addition to soups or stews, either when fresh or after they’ve been dried. The flowers also make a tasty and colorful addition to salad (just remove the green part off the back) or can be sauteed battered and fried like a fritter, and the unopened buds can be sauteed in butter and garlic for a tasty side dish. Dandelion wine has been described to me as “the nectar of the gods”, but watch out, because the only thing you’ll remember the next morning is how good it tasted!
As for nutritive value, you can’t get any better. According to Wildman Steve Brill, “The leaves are more nutritious than anything you can buy. They’re higher in beta-carotene than carrots. The iron and calcium content is phenomenal, greater than spinach. You also get vitamins B-1, B-2, B-5, B-6, B-12, C, E, P, and D, biotin, inositol, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc by using a tasty, free vegetable that grows on virtually every lawn.”
Now you tell me, why would you want to spray poison all over your lawn to get rid of such an amazing plant?! Hate them? I LOVE Dandelions!! Give them a try and you will too.

Violets

2. Violets
My favorite spring edible. The distinctive purple flowers of Wild violets make the easy to identify. Both the flowers and leaves are edible and make a delicious addition to salads. The flowers have a wonderfully sweet aftertaste — for a special occasion you can candy them for a beautiful topping to cake or pastry. (Or just freak your neighbors out by stopping every so often while you’re cutting the grass, pick a few and pop them in your mouth!) Plus, violet leaves are super nutritious. 1/3 cup of violets has all the Vitamins A & C you need for the day. In spring, when they’re at their prime, violet leaves have about 10 times the vitamin A of spinach.

Chickweed

3. Chickweed
I was just introduced to chickweed this spring and am I ever glad! I prefer the basal leaves, but they’re all edible. Another great addition to my spring salads — chickweed apparently doesn’t dry well so it’s best used as soon as it’s been picked. It’s high in calcium, potassium and iron and has some traditional medicinal purposes as well. Chickweed is a cool weather plant; once the summer heat hits it’s gone until the fall. You can find it sometimes during the winter I’ve been told, and I have no reason to doubt it.

Clover

4. Clover
Both White and Red Clover are high in protein, and are always easy to spot once the flowers begin to bloom. The flowers have a nice sweet taste — when I was a kid on the farm we used to pick the petals and suck on the ends for a sweet taste-of-honey treat. The leaves can also be eaten raw, but I’ve read that some people have a bit of digestive trouble from eating too much, so most references suggest boiling them for a few minutes before consuming. They’re at their tastiest when they’re young — before the flowers come out. The dried flowers and seeds can be ground into flour, which is a great way to add extra protein to lots of baked goods, or can be sprinkled over stuff like rice to add a bit of extra flavor and nutrition. You can also add the dried flower heads to teas and infusions. I’ve read many references to clover as a traditional medicine, so this is one of those that’s probably best used sparingly rather than an everyday addition to your diet. Sure is a great spring treat though!

Plantain

5. Plantain
Mmmmmm, Plantain… Like spinach, but better!
Where to begin with this one? Delicious edible that can be eaten raw in salads or cooked up like spinach (or added to spinach), used in stirfrys, thrown in soups and stews — just make sure you get the young leaves, as they get bitter as they get older. Some folks like to take out the “ribs” because they find it too stringy, but my experience is that it depends on what varietal of plantain you’re harvesting, as there are many different varieties and they all look, taste and prepare up a little bit differently. But hey, feel free! The seeds have a sort of a nutty flavor, and can be ground up into a flour that you can add into muffins or pancakes or ash cakes, or just eat the seeds raw or throw them in a salad or stir fry. This one if very high in Vitamin B and Riboflavin.
Plantain is also a great plant to know as a “first aid kit in a leaf”. It has way too many medicinal qualities for me to list here (I have only 5000 characters left to use!) and I’m focusing this lens on edible plants, not medicinals, but just cause it’s so very cool, I’ll include this link to a page that lists a bunch of them.
Here’s just a few of the basics:
- It’s a great styptic, meaning it stops bleeding and promotes fast healing of damaged tissue.
- It has contains a powerful anti-toxin and works great for bee stings! If you get stung, grab a few plantain leaves, chew them up (get lots of saliva mixed in there with them) and stick them on the bite as a poultice. (Back in the olden days it was apparently used to treat snake bites.)
- It is antibacterial, antiseptic, anti-inflamitory and antispasmodic, meaning that you can use it one way or another for almost anything! (I’ve even heard that, when prepared correctly, the seeds can be used as a laxative and the leaves make a killer wrinkle remover — how cool is that?!)
A friend just told me recently that plantain is not native to North America, but a European import. He said it was known by Native Americans as White Man’s Foot, because wherever white people set foot, plantain started to spread soon after!

Purslane

6. Purslane
There’s a great self-published cookbook out there called “Purslane Pesto”, and if you ever see a copy snap it up (or contact me so I can!) Among the many other great wild edible recipes it has a one for making a yummy pesto using this delicious weed.
Purslane grows abundantly where I grew up and when I found out that not only was edible it was so very tasty I couldn’t believe that I wasted so many childhood hours ripping it up out of the gravel lane and from unwanted spots in the rock garden. I could have been eating it instead!
High in both Vitamin C and alpha-linolenic acid (one of those highly sought-after Omega-3 fatty acids) Purslane is a crispy succulent that has a wonderful spicy, peppery taste. It can be eaten raw or cooked and I have seen it recommended that you harvest purslane in the morning or evening, not in the heat of the day, to get the best flavor and juiciness.
There are more and more “mainstream” recipes that include purslane and a quick Google search came up with about 37,000 links, so more and more people are catching on to this one. Give it a try and help your heart with those extra Omega-3′s!

Yellow Wood Sorrel

Sheep Sorrel

7. Yellow Wood Sorrel & Sheep Sorrel
Wood Sorrel was one of the first “yard weeds” that I tried and it is one of my favorites. People sometimes confuse it with clover, but the leaf shapes are different (wood sorrel has heart-shaped leaves, clover’s are oval with a whitish chevron).
Sheep Sorrel has a very cool arrowhead-shaped leaf that make it super-easy to identify.
They both have a really nice lemony tartness that is perfect in summer salads or as a garnish on fish, meat or other vegetables. You can also eat them cooked, or steep the leaves and flowers to make a lovely lemony tea that is good hot or cold.
They are both high in Vitamin C, but don’t eat too much at once, as Sorrels have a high oxalic acid content (like spinach) and can cause severe indigestion if eaten in large amounts. Make this one a special treat, or use it as flavoring rather than the main green in your dish.

Wild Garlic

8. Wild Garlic
This one grows abundantly in our yard and is another one of those reasons our neighbors think we’re a little bit crazy! I never have to buy green onions at the store this time of year because I just head out to the lawn with my knife and slice off as much as I need for salads, cooking, garnish — whatever. The key here is to remember to use ALL your senses! There are dangerous plants that LOOK like wild garlic, but the don’t SMELL like garlic at all. (Same goes for wild onion.)
I have no idea what the nutritional values are for this one; if the wild version has the same health benefits as it’s cultivated counterparts, but the flavor is outstanding and you don’t need to use nearly as much.
I’ve seen all kinds of articles on how to rid your lawn of this tasty herb, since it grows so much faster than grass and makes the yard “unsightly”. I say when it gets too tall head out with your scissors and get ready for a spicy dinner! (Just make sure it smells right!)

Lamb's Quarters

9. Lamb’s Quarters
Lamb’s Quarters taste remarkably like spinach, but earthier, and are one of the healthiest wild plants around. They contain calcium, beta-carotene, iron, potassium, several B Vitamins, Vitamin C and other trace minerals as well.
You can gather them from spring through fall and prepare them just like spinach — fresh and raw in salad or steamed, wilted, seasoned and served as a side dish or tossed into a soup, stew or stir fry.
While I’ve read that you can eat the flowers I’ve never tried them so can’t attest one way or the other.
Lamb’s Quarter leaves shrink down quite a bit when cooked, like spinach does, so be ready for that. The small, young leaves are the best for eating raw (as they are for pretty much all wild edibles.)
Why pay crazy grocery store prices for spinach when this fast-growing, delicious edible is probably growing in your yard right now?!

Pine

10. Pine
Yes, I eat Pine trees. (I can’t imagine why my neighbors look at us so strangely, can you?)
Pine is actually an amazingly versatile food! My favorite way to consume pine is as a tea. Pine needle tea is wonderfully refreshing and ridiculously high in Vitamin C! (4-5 times as much as OJ!)
The catkins (new growth buds) can be eaten right off the tree as a snack, used in a salad or candied. White Pine catkins have an almost sweet lemon taste. (Does that make sense?)
Pine nuts are all edible too, though on most of the eastern pines the nuts are smaller than the ones you buy in the store (they come from the Pinyon Pine) and you always have to fight the squirrels and other small animals for them! But when you can get them, they sure are tasty. You can eat them raw, roast them, add them to salads or stir-frys, into soups and stews, even grind them into nut-butter. They’re very high in healthy fats and protein.
Pine pollen (that yellow powdery stuff you see covering your car for about 2 weeks in the spring) is super-nutritious and can be added to flour, soups and stews, mixed into ash cakes or sprinkled on top of food.
Even the inner bark (cambium) of a pine can be eaten if you’re in a tough spot. It can be eaten raw, boiled like noodles, or dried and pounded into flour. It’s high in sugars and several different vitamins. Apparently the Lodge and Red pines are the best options if you’ve got them in your area. I’ve tried the cambium layer of the pitch pine roasted, and it wouldn’t be my first choice of survival foods, but it’s good to know it’s there if I ever need it! (source)

33 Secrets to a Good Night’s Sleep

If you are having sleep problems, whether you are not able to fall asleep, wake up too often, don’t feel well-rested when you wake up in the morning, or simply want to improve the quality and quantity of your sleep, try as many of the following techniques below as possible:

• My current favorite for insomnia is Meridian Tapping Technique (MTT) / Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Most people can learn this gentle tapping technique in several minutes.MTT / EFT can help balance your body’s bioenergy system and resolve some of the emotional stresses that are contributing to the insomnia at a very deep level. The results are typically long lasting and the improvement is remarkably rapid.
• Listen to white noise or relaxation CDs. Some people find the sound of white noise or nature sounds, such as the ocean or forest, to be soothing for sleep. An excellent relaxation/meditation option to listen to before bed is the Insight audio CD.
• Avoid before-bed snacks, particularly grains and sugars. This will raise blood sugar and inhibit sleep. Later, when blood sugar drops too low (hypoglycemia), you might wake up and not be able to fall back asleep.
• Sleep in complete darkness or as close as possible. If there is even the tiniest bit of light in the room it can disrupt your circadian rhythm and your pineal gland’s production of melatonin and seratonin. There also should be as little light in the bathroom as possible if you get up in the middle of the night. Please whatever you do, keep the light off when you go to the bathroom at night. As soon as you turn on that light you will for that night immediately cease all production of the important sleep aid melatonin.
• No TV right before bed. Even better, get the TV out of the bedroom or even out of the house, completely. It is too stimulating to the brain and it will take longer to fall asleep. Also disruptive of pineal gland function for the same reason as above.
• Wear socks to bed. Due to the fact that they have the poorest circulation, the feet often feel cold before the rest of the body. A study has shown that this reduces night wakings (Click Here).
• Read something spiritual or religious. This will help to relax. Don’t read anything stimulating, such as a mystery or suspense novel, as this may have the opposite effect. In addition, if you are really enjoying a suspenseful book, you might wind up unintentionally reading for hours, instead of going to sleep.
• Avoid using loud alarm clocks. It is very stressful on the body to be awoken suddenly. If you are regularly getting enough sleep, they should be unnecessary. I gave up my alarm clock years ago and now use a sun alarm clock. The Sun Alarm™ SA-2002 provides an ideal way to wake up each morning if you can’t wake up with the REAL sun. Combining the features of a traditional alarm clock (digital display, AM/FM radio, beeper, snooze button, etc) with a special built-in light that gradually increases in intensity, this amazing clock simulates a natural sunrise. It also includes a sunset feature where the light fades to darkness over time – ideal for anyone who has trouble falling asleep.
• Journaling. If you often lay in bed with your mind racing, it might be helpful keep a journal and write down your thoughts before bed. Personally, I have been doing this for 15 years, but prefer to do it in the morning when my brain is functioning at its peak and my coritsol levels are high (CLICK HERE)
• Melatonin and its precursors. If behavioral changes do not work, it may be possible to improve sleep by supplementing with the hormone melatonin. Ideally it is best to increase levels naturally with exposure to bright sunlight in the daytime (along with full spectrum fluorescent bulbs in the winter) and absolute complete darkness at night. One should get blackout drapes so no light is coming in from the outside. One can also use one of melatonin’s precursors, L-tryptophan or 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP). L-tryptophan is obtainable by prescription only. However, don’t be afraid or intimidated by its prescription status. It is just a simple amino acid.
• Get to bed as early as possible. Our systems, particularly the adrenals, do a majority of their recharging or recovering during the hours of 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. In addition, your gallbladder dumps toxins during this same period. If you are awake, the toxins back up into the liver which then secondarily back up into your entire system and cause further disruption of your health. Prior to the widespread use of electricity, people would go to bed shortly after sundown, as most animals do, and which nature intended for humans as well.
• Check your bedroom for electro-magnetic fields (EMFs). These can disrupt the pineal gland and the production of melatonin and seratonin, and may have other negative effects as well. To purchase a gauss meter to measure EMFs try Cutcat at 800-497-9516. They have a model for around $40. One doctor even recommends that people pull their circuit breaker before bed to kill all power in the house (Dr. Herbert Ross, author of “Sleep Disorders”).
• Keep the temperature in the bedroom no higher than 70 degrees F. Many people keep their homes and particularly the upstairs bedrooms too hot.
• Eat a high-protein snack several hours before bed. This can provide the L-tryptophan need to produce melatonin and serotonin.
• Also eat a small piece of fruit. This can help the tryptophan cross the blood-brain barrier.
• Reduce or avoid as many drugs as possible. Many medications, both prescription and over-the-counter may have effects on sleep. In most cases, the condition, which caused the drugs to be taken in the first place, can be addressed by following the guidelines elsewhere on this web site.
• Avoid caffeine. A recent study showed that in some people, caffeine is not metabolized efficiently and therefore they can feel the effects long after consuming it. So an afternoon cup of coffee (or even tea) will keep some people from falling asleep. Also, some medications, particularly diet pills contain caffeine.
• Alarm clocks and other electrical devices. If these devices must be used, keep them as far away from the bed as possible, preferably at least 3 feet.
• Avoid alcohol. Although alcohol will make people drowsy, the effect is short lived and people will often wake up several hours later, unable to fall back asleep. Alcohol will also keep you from falling into the deeper stages of sleep, where the body does most of its healing.
• Lose weight. Being overweight can increase the risk of sleep apnea, which will prevent a restful nights sleep. CLICK HERE for my diet recommendations.
• Avoid foods that you may be sensitive to. This is particularly true for dairy and wheat products, as they may have effect on sleep, such as causing apnea, excess congestion, gastrointestinal upset, and gas, among others.
• Don’t drink any fluids within 2 hours of going to bed. This will reduce the likelihood of needing to get up and go to the bathroom or at least minimize the frequency.
• Take a hot bath, shower or sauna before bed. When body temperature is raised in the late evening, it will fall at bedtime, facilitating sleep,
• Remove the clock from view. It will only add to your worry when constantly staring at it… 2 a.m. …3 a.m. … 4:30 a.m. …
• Keep your bed for sleeping. If you are used to watching TV or doing work in bed, you may find it harder to relax and to think of the bed as a place to sleep.
• Have your adrenals checked by a good natural medicine clinician. Scientists have found that insomnia may be caused by adrenal stress (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, August 2001; 86:3787-3794).
• If you are menopausal or perimenopausal, get checked out by a good natural medicine physician. The hormonal changes at this time may cause problems if not properly addressed.
• Don’t change your bedtime. You should go to bed, and wake up, at the same times each day, even on the weekends. This will help your body to get into a sleep rhythm and make it easier to fall asleep and get up in the morning.
• Make certain you are exercising regularly. Exercising for at least 30 minutes everyday can help you fall asleep. However, don’t exercise too close to bedtime or it may keep you awake. Studies show exercising in the morning is the best if you can do it.
• Establish a bedtime routine. This could include meditation, deep breathing, using aromatherapy or essential oils or indulging in a massage from your partner. The key is to find something that makes you feel relaxed, then repeat it each night to help you release the day’s tensions.

• Go to the bathroom right before bed. This will reduce the chances that you’ll wake up to go in the middle of the night.

• Wear an eye mask to block out light. As said above, it is very important to sleep in as close to complete darkness as possible. That said, it’s not always easy to block out every stream of light using curtains, blinds or drapes, particularly if you live in an urban area (or if your spouse has a different schedule than you do). In these cases, an eye mask can help to block out the remaining light.

• Put your work away at least one hour (but preferably two or more) before bed. This will give your mind a chance to unwind so you can go to sleep feeling calm, not hyped up or anxious about tomorrow’s deadlines.

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How Humans Are Not Physically Created To Eat Meat

Although some historians and anthropologists say that man is historically omnivorous, our anatomical equipment  teeth, jaws, and digestive system favors a fleshless diet. The American Dietetic Association notes that “most of mankind for most of human history has lived on vegetarian or near-vegetarian diets.”

And much of the world still lives that way. Even in most industrialized countries, the love affair with meat is less than a hundred years old. It started with the refrigerator car and the twentieth-century consumer society. But even with the twentieth century, man’s body hasn’t adapted to eating meat. The prominent Swedish scientist Karl von Linne states, “Man’s structure, external and internal, compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables constitute his natural food.” The chart below compares the anatomy of man with that of carnivorous and herbivorous animals.

When you look at the comparison between herbivores and humans, we compare much more closely to herbivores than meat eating animals. Humans are clearly not designed to digest and ingest meat.

• Meat-eaters: have claws
• Herbivores: no claws
• Humans: no claws

• Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue
• Herbivores: perspire through skin pores
• Humans: perspire through skin pores

• Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding
• Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding
• Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding

• Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly
• Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
• Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.

• Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat
• Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater
• Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater

• Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.
• Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits
• Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits

• Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains
• Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains
• Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains

Based on a chart by A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)

Clearly if humans were meant to eat meat we wouldn’t have so many crucial ingestive/digestive similarities with animals that are herbivores.

Many people ask me, “If we weren’t supposed to eat meat than why do we?”. It is because we are conditioned to eat meat. Also, the ADA (American Dietetic Association) tells us that “most of mankind for most of human history has lived on a vegetarian or Lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.

A popular statement that meat eaters say is; “In the wild, animals kill other animals for food. It’s nature.” First of all, we are not in the wild. Secondly, we can easily live without eating meat and killing, not to mention we’d be healthier. And finally, as I have already shown, we weren’t meant to eat meat. Meat and seafood putrefies within 4 hours after consumption and the remnants cling to the walls of the stomach and intestines for 3-4 days or longer than, if a person is constipated. Furthermore, the reaction of saliva in humans is more alkaline, whereas in the case of flesh-eating or preying animals, it is clearly acidic. The alkaline saliva does not act properly on meat.

The final point I would like to make on how we as humans were not meant to eat meat is this. All omnivorous and carnivorous animals eat their meat raw. When a lion kills an herbivore for food, it tears right into the stomach area to eat the organs that are filled with blood (nutrients). While eating the stomach, liver, intestine, etc., the lion laps the blood in the process of eating the dead animals flesh. Even bears that are omnivores eat salmon raw. However, eating raw or bloody meat disgust us as humans. Therefore, we must cook it and season it to buffer the taste of flesh.

If a deer is burned in a forest fire, a carnivorous animal will NOT eat its flesh. Even circus lions have to be feed raw meat so that they will not starve to death. If humans were truly meant to eat meat, then we would eat all of our meat raw and bloody. The thought of eating such meat makes one’s stomach turn. This is my point on how we as humans are conditioned to believe that animal flesh is good for us and that we were meant to consume it for survival and health purposes. If we are true carnivores or omnivores, cooking our meat and seasoning it with salt, ketchup, or tabasco sauce would disguise and we as humans would refuse to eat our meat in this form.

Overall advantages of vegetarianism

You can indeed reap a lot of benefits by being a vegetarian and people have become more aware of the health benefits of being a vegetarian. Animal rights issues is only one of the reasons why people decide to go on a vegetarian diet. People are beginning to care more about the environment. However, the main reason why people go on vegetarian diet is because of health benefits.

Meat is not good for you as it clogs your thinking. This is especially true if you eat red meat; white meat has less fat compared to red meat. Excessive intake of fats into your body can result in having a high level of cholesterol. If you think that not eating meat is going to make you look scrawny or unhealthy please think again. Just imagine that cows, goats, gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses and so on are all vegetarians (herbivores) but look at how tough these animals are, not to mention their life span which is longer compared to the carnivores (meat eating animals).

If you look at the chicken and vulture (carnivores), these animals eat just about everything and notice how unhealthy these animals look. The Chinese believe that the chi or life force in your body is less when you consume meat and so do the Indians with their ancient yogic principles, their life force was called prana.

The great Tai Chi masters of China were adept at preserving their chi, even if some of the masters were not vegetarians, they still had a balanced diet. It has now been scientifically proven that a balanced vegetarian diet is better compared to a diet that is taken with meat.

There are a lot of misconceptions about being a vegetarian; protein is one of the main topics of debate as a lot of people think that you can only get protein from meat. Vegetarians get a lot of protein, if they eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. What vegetarians don’t get is the excess protein of traditional American diet, excess that leads to kidney overload and mineral deficiency diseases.

A lot of people also think that a vegetarian diet is not a balanced diet. Vegetarian diets have a proportion of three macronutrients, which are complex carbohydrates, protein, and fat. Vegetarian food sources (plants) tend to be higher sources of most micronutrients. Another myth that needs to be clarified is the so-called lack of calcium among vegetarians. Many vegetables, especially green, leafy ones, have a good supply of calcium. The truth is that vegetarians suffer less from osteoporosis (a deficiency of calcium that leads to weak bones).

It is not my intention to force people to become vegetarians. However, vegetarianism is my answer to complete health and wholeness. The three issues to consider in regard to vegetarianism are: spiritual, mental, and physical (nutritional).

The spiritually aspiring person attempts to work on his/her self. The purpose of spiritual growth is to move away from the animal nature into the more human nature that God intended for us to have. Meat eating inhibits this. Again, the same science that sometimes attempts to ignore the existence of a force higher than man also has proved, in the laboratory, that aggression levels are much higher in meat eaters than non-meat eaters! The animal instincts become more powerful every time you eat meat. Another spiritual aspect of being a meat eater is when one must question the necessity and the method as well as the karma of killing animals. However, everyone has their own mores which they must determine for themselves. It is not the purpose of my dissertation to force a specific moral behavior on anyone. Most spiritual people believe auras. Kirilian photography shows us that a force field remains around dead or amputated tissue. You adopt that animal aura when you eat a dead animal. Fruits and vegetables have a higher vibrational aura than animal products. Is it not personal evolution that the spiritual candidate is interested in? If so, meat eating is urgently prohibited.

“You are what you eat”, is a slogan that I love to use to show the mental aspect of vegetarianism. When animals are slaughtered, fear and aggression enzymes are shot into their cells from their glands and other organs, just as in humans, and are part of the dead carcass that goes on to the food store. They remain in the meat until the consumer ingests those same enzymes, which are molecularly very similar to those found in humans. Fruits and vegetables do not have emotions; therefore, when they are picked they do not release any emotions cells prior to digestion. The enzymes within fruits and vegetables supply the body with sufficient nutrients that will always uphold a healthy state of mind.

Fruits and vegetables are high in nutrients; the very thing the body needs to live a long disease and pain free life. The same cannot be said for meat. Nutritionally, the alkaline-based digestive system of humans will not properly break down substantial acid substances, the greatest of which is meat.

Colon cancer is rampant! This is caused by the slow evacuation and the putrefaction in the colon of the remains of meat. Lifelong vegetarians never suffer from such an illness. Many meat eaters believe that meat is the sole source of protein. However, the quality of this protein is so poor that little of it can ever be utilized by humans because it is incomplete and lacks the correct combination of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Studies show that the average American gets five times the amount of protein needed. It is a common medical fact that excess protein is dangerous, the prime danger being that uric acid (the waste product produced in the process of digesting protein) attacks the kidneys, breaking down the kidney cells called nephrons. This condition is called nephritis; the prime cause of it is overburdening the kidneys. More usable protein is found in one tablespoon of tofu or soybeans than the average serving of meat!

Have you ever seen what happens to a piece of meat that stays in the sun for three days? Meat can stay in the warmth of the intestine for at least four days until it is digested. It does nothing but wait for passage. Often, it usually stays there for much longer, traces remaining for up to several months. Colonic therapists always see meat passing through in people who have been vegetarians for several years, thus indicating that meat remains undigested there for a long time. Occasionally this has been documented in twenty-year vegetarians!

Some vegetarians claim they are more satisfied after they eat. The reason for this is that there are fewer ketones (protein-digestive substances) formed when vegetable protein is digested. For many, ketones cause a trace amount of nausea which one normally interprets as a decreased desire for food due to this uncomfortable and slight degree of queasiness. Although the body calls for more food, the taste buds tolerate less. This is the danger of the popular high-protein diet substances on the market. This abnormally high level of ketones is called ketosis and refers to the state of starvation that the body incurs due to the inability of the appetite to call for nutrition. Most Americans who eat the wrong type of carbohydrates never recognize the high amount of complex carbohydrates required to overthrow this condition. Also, when the blood ketone level is too high, it results in abnormally acidic blood, called acidosis.

Tigers or lions who eat meat and grow strong on it have acid-based digestive systems. Our Hydrochloric Acid isn’t strong enough to fully digest meat. Also, their intestines are in a straight run of about five feet long, not twisted and turned, layer over layer, compacted into a small area like the human intestine, which is twenty feet long.

Meats are frozen for a long period of times. Some meat (especially poultry) is frozen up to two years. Cold temperatures do not kill all species of bacteria. Worse than this, as it is shipped and stored, most frozen meat is thawed and refrozen many times. This is almost unavoidable.

Meat eaters suffer more frequently from various types of food poisoning than vegetarian eaters, so much so that statistics show that every American has had food poisoning on at least one occasion. When you’ve felt ill, out-of-sorts, had diarrhea, or were just a little sick to your stomach, no doubt you had not the slightest idea that you had been poisoned by scavengers living off the dead carcass you just ate.

Meat is costly and it is the most wasteful source of resources. When one removes meat from his or her diet, a whole new world of eating opens up. Cooking and preparing vegetarian style is no more time consuming than cooking meat. It costs less than half as much to eat vegetarian as it does to eat meat. There are excellent, nutritious, and easy to prepare vegetarian dishes that are Italian, Chinese, Indian, Mid-Eastern, French, Spanish, etc.

Additionally, one can enjoy many other foods that he has never tasted because of the meat craze. Most consumers have eaten no more than five or six varieties of beans and legumes, less than 10% of what is available and grains, including different appetizing types of wheat, nuts, and seeds. And they can be prepared very creatively!

In my opinion, there are far more benefits to becoming a vegetarian then there are becoming or staying a meat eater. Due to the fact that I was raised on meat, I have the wonderful experiences from both worlds. As a meat eater, I was constantly sick, tired, and overweight. As a vegetarian, I am healthy, full of energy, and maintaining a perfect weight. I love being a vegetarian and it shows. Because I wish the best for myself, it’s just second nature to want the best for others. From my past experience and research, going vegetarian is the best thing anyone can do for their mind, body and spirit.  (source)