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Medical/Science Quote Week. Thursday

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

--Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

Medical/Science Quote Week. Wednesday

Now and then at the sulfur baths, I meet a perfect specimen of health and vitality who was given up by the doctors years ago. They all tell the same story; they forgot their ailments, they ignored them, they found something to do - something of a serviceable nature - which made them forget themselves.

--Henry Miller

Medical/Science Quote Week. Tuesday

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

--Norman Cousins

Medical/Science Quote Week

Formerly when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake science for magic.

--Thomas Szasz

Adam, The Dream Healer

If you have never heard of Adam, the Dream Healer, now is a good time. He is conducting an experiment of healing intentions and you can participate if you want!

Adam is one of the many visionaries of today bridging science with spirituality. He is a healer of the highest degree, and, he is attending university to study traditional medical science.

Here is a short Youtube video and description of the experiment.

In the Global Intention Heals Project a volunteer with a medical issue will be wired to an electroencephalographam (EEG). This involves the recording of electrical activity along the scalp produced by firing of neurons within the brain. Neurons are responsible for carrying out all of the brains functions. In the presence of trained clinicians and specialists, the EEG output will be recorded before, during and after specific healing intentions are sent by thousands of people to the volunteer.

While the volunteer is hooked up to the EEG monitor there will be thousands of people from around the world who will be using DreamHealer techniques to focus healing intentions on the volunteer’s brain. The DreamHealer visualizations which they want everyone to use has been placed on their website. These visualizations are designed to focus intention and awareness in the brain of the volunteer at a distance, with the intention of creating activity in the brain which is measureable on the EEG equipment.

The volunteer will be unaware of the exact time when the healing intentions will be sent to him by thousands of participants around the globe. The participants will be shown the volunteer’s photograph just before the healing intentions are sent.

1. Mentally burn the person's picture in your mind. (You can click on the picture to make it larger)
2. Familiarize yourself with the visualization in the above video.
3. At exactly 01:15pm pst (Vancouver BC) find yourself a quiet location where you will be undisturbed for 10 minutes. (World Time Clock)
4. Us the above visualization or one of your own to stimulate activity in the person's brain.
5. Hold your intention and focus for exactly 10 minutes. Stop at exactly 01:25 pm pst
6. Now do something that helps you take your mind off of this person.

The Plague, The Flu and You

This article is being reprinted with permission from the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 27, 2009
 

Shots or Not?
The Plague, the Flu, and You

(OMNS, October 27, 2009) Swine flu. Bird flu. The media has everyone worrying about epidemics and pandemics. Yet there is nothing said about one of the great communicable diseases of all time: the plague. The Black Death. No, it is not extinct. There are new cases of plague in the United States every year, totaling over 400 cases since 1950.

And yes, there is a vaccination for it. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00044836.htm

So have you had your plague shot?

You haven't?

Why isn't your doctor urging you to get one? Do you know anyone who has had a plague vaccination? Then why is there no plague epidemic? And why is vaccination supposedly the only way to stop a flu epidemic?

One proffered explanation is that the diseases are dissimilar, because influenza is viral, and plague is bacterial. But tetanus is bacterial, and we aggressively vaccinate against that. Indeed, the CDC http://www.cdc.gov/ncird/dbd.html specifies a considerable number of Vaccine Preventable Diseases http://www.cdc.gov/ncird/dbd.html#meningvpd which are bacterial. These include, among others: anthrax, bacterial meningitis, diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae serotype b, and, of course, pertussis (whooping cough).

Plague is not even on the CDC's list. Wait a minute! The Black Death, the disease that killed at least a quarter of Europe, hasn't even made the list of Vaccine Preventable Diseases?

Worldwide, there are over 2,000 cases, and hundreds of deaths, every year from the plague. In the United States, human plague cases average about 10 to 15 per year. http://www.dhpe.org/infect/plague.html Most cases are in the Southwest. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/plagwest.htm CDC states that "persons who have regular contact with wild rodents or their fleas" in areas in which plague has occurred should be vaccinated. That's right, it isn't just rats that carry the fleas that carry the plague. Squirrels, mice, rabbits, coyotes, woodchucks, cats and dogs all carry fleas. Fleas are found everywhere. Then why isn't plague everywhere?

One explanation is that plague is climate related. This map shows plague distribution in the US: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague/plagwest.htm If incidence were related merely to the heat of the day, we might expect a fair share of plague cases in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama. But there aren't. If plague is temperature-dependent, it is a confusing illness to say the least: how come almost all USA cases are in the warm, dry Southwest and yet plague decimated Europe in the 1300s? Most of Europe is a lot cooler than the American southwest. Indeed, too warm a climate may actually stop the spread of plague. http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL24636220080902

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This Just In

Today President Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal guidelines at hospitals.

It has begun.

DO NOT BE SHEEP.

From the "No Kidding" File

Time Magazine recently reports:

Modern Homo sapiens is still evolving. Despite the long-held view that natural selection has ceased to affect humans because almost everybody now lives long enough to have children, a new study of a contemporary Massachusetts population offers evidence of evolution still in action.

The phrase long held is interesting to me. Long held by whom? And by how long? Of course we are still evolving. Any reasonable enlightened human just has to know this by instinct, right?

Scientists...sheesh.

My Doctor Got H1N1

He went home ill just hours after my October 8th appointment. Which means my exposure to the virus was about as high as it could be at that time. I was too polite to ask when I saw him today if he had taken the shot.

In any case as of right now I win, doc loses.

Photo Quiz

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