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The end of the cold war brought about an increased opportunity for bizarre experiments on unwitting civilian victims. Both sides wanted to find a way to control the other. Eventually the information on what kinds of efforts were made would be purged from the dark files of several governments. The U.S. and the old USSR had been secretly engaging in a variety of technical, biological and mind control experiments.
A November 1992 Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article mentioned such a mind control operation performed jointly between the U.S and Canada beginning in 1955. Financed by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) through a phony front organization called "The Investigation of Human Ecology," about $60-75,000 went to Dr. Ewen Cameron at McGill University in Montreal. Canada allegedly picked up the rest of the tab, about $200,000. Even though this is 1950's dollars considering the nature of covert funding there is no real way to know exactly how much was spent on this project.
Dr. Cameron was well respected in his field and headed the American Psychiatric Association between 1957-61. The good doctor believed he could change peoples' thoughts and coined the term "psychic driving" to describe how to do it.
The emphasis on this experiment was probably one stage of several as it focused on completely wiping out a persons memory. The next stage would likely be in reprogramming it, building it up with multiple personalities which could be triggered to perform a desired function like assassinations, sex, relaying messages, piloting an aircraft etc.
Over the past fifteen years several women who did not know each other came out with a similar story of how they and many other children between the ages of 5-8 were flown to a location, tortured and forced to learn many new behaviors. The books Tranceformation of America and Secret Weapons stand in testimony to powerful people who so far are above the law. The authors of these books Cathy O'Brien, Cheryl and Lynn Hersha, along with Brice Taylor all corroborate similar incredible experiences with what was called Project Monarch. These amazing tales will be explored in future columns.
The CIA would also benefit from this Dr. Cameron's primitive experiment with the ability to brainwashing better, coerce interrogation procedures and improved mind control methodology.
Cameron died in 1977, but the effect of his work lingered. A lengthy lawsuit would eventually be filed by eight of the possible 80 unwitting volunteers. In an out-of-court settlement the victims divided up $907,500 in late 1992.
One of the eight - Linda McDonald (in 2006-68) says she felt healthy before seeing Cameron and being diagnosed as an acute schizophrenic. She spent 86 days in a sleep room being subjected to drugs (LSD), shock therapy and more. While this might remind some of the movie Clockwork Orange, the reality was even grimmer. In the end she couldn't read, write, had to be toilet trained, couldn't remember her husband, children or the first 26 years of her life! McDonald has made a considerable recovery since then.
A CIA spokesman, John Hedley is quoted in the WSJ article, "It's a sad episode that happened more than 30 years ago and the case is closed."
While Hedley made no mention of existing programs since then, Victor Marchetti (a 14-year CIA veteran) had something to say. Marchetti is author of The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence and in 1977 interviewed another writer on the mind control subject, John Marks, the author of The Manchurian Candidate. Marks commented, "the mind control research continues and the CIA claims to the contrary are a cover story."
Behind the veil of misinformation there is evidence of Project MKULTRA, which secretly examined psychological conditioning with drugs, sensory deprivation, microwaves and implants in the brain or intracerebral devices.
A 1950's neuroscientist, Jose Delgado demonstrated the value of these implants, what he called stimoceivers. Delgado planted one in the brain of a full-grown bull and by simply pushing a button he could stop that raging charge.
Later improvements gave another option. Dr. W. Ross Adey at the University of Southern California found out behavior and emotional states can be altered without implants. Adey and others would find by putting the subject in an electromagnetic field, directing the right frequency at the subject and shaping it with amplitude modulation into a particular wave the desire behavior could be produced.
Both the RAND Corporation in 1970 and a well-known microwave scientist Allen Frey found one could trigger docility, fatigue, irritability, memory loss and hallucinations with the right frequencies.
Exploring the positive potential of the mind is admirable; but distorting this into a weapon of ultimate control, while tragic is well within the bounds of credibility considering the lack of accountability and secrecy with many of the personnel in agencies like the CIA, NSA, NRO, DARPA etc.
Think of it, the ability to create discontent or calm in a city or several cities by projecting a particular frequency. This could be done to an enemy country or as ploy to anger our own citizens to support violence. Larry Abraham, co-author of None Dare Call it Conspiracy, believes that there will be an increase in random mass shooting sin the next few months making the cry for gun control and gun confiscation a greater possibility.
Abraham published a newsletter called The Insider and feels that than President Clinton's desire to establish a new elite police force is tied directly to disarming the citizenry of the U.S.
How to influence enough of the masses to get them to believe, buy or become part of whatever agenda is desired by those wielding power is nothing new.
So next time someone tells you they are hearing voices and they feel it is either God or the Devil telling them to commit some ruthless act, the origin of such communication could be much closer to home.
Future investigations on this topic will involve how it is part of the UFO enigma, random killings and bizarre behavior by previously peaceful people. This has been the subject of numerous fictional representations only because the authors have researched some of the disconcerting facts.
To date, it is believed you the general public will not believe any such stories. To date most of you have not been informed. There are two kinds of opinions; informed and uninformed, don't hesitate to step away from being part of the herd and get informed. You've just made an excellent choice by reading this article.
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Here are seven goal-setting questions for you to ask and answer over and over again. I suggest that you take a pad of paper and write out your responses.
Question Number One:
What are your five most important values in life?
This question is intended to help you clarify what is really important
to you, and by extension, what is less important, or unimportant. Once
you have identified the five most important values in life for you,
organize them in order of priority, from number one, the most important,
through number five.
Question Number Two:
What are your three most important goals in life, right now?
This is called the "quick list" method. When you only have thirty seconds to write down your three most important goals, your subconscious mind sorts out your many goals quickly. Your top three will just pop into your conscious mind. With only thirty seconds, you will be as
accurate as if you had thirty minutes.
Question Number Three:
What would you do, how would you spend your time, if you learned today that you only had six months to live?
This is another value questions to help you clarify what is really important to you. When your time is limited, even if only in your imagination, you become aware of who and what you really care about.
Question Number Four:
What would you do if you won a million dollars cash, tax free, in the lottery tomorrow?
How would you change your life? What would you buy? What would you start
doing, or stop doing? This is really a question to help you decide what
you'd do if you had all the time and money you need, and if you had
virtually no fear of failure at all.
Question Number Five:
What have you always wanted to do, but been afraid to attempt?
This question helps you see more clearly where your fears could be blocking you from doing what you really want to do.
Question Number Six:
What do you most enjoy doing? What gives you your greatest feeling of
self-esteem and personal satisfaction?
This is another values question that may indicate where you should explore to find your "heart's desire." You will always be most happy doing what you most love to do, and what you most love to do is
invariably the activity that makes you feel the most alive and fulfilled. The most successful men and women in America are invariably doing what they really enjoy, most of the time.
Question Number Seven:
What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you would not
fail?
Imagine that a genie appears and grants you one wish. The genie guarantees that you will be absolutely, completely successful in any one thing that you attempt to do, big or small, short or long-term. If you were absolutely guaranteed success in any one thing, what one exciting goal would you set for yourself?
Action Exercise
Study the pad of paper that you used to answer these questions. This paper represents your future goals. Look at what you wrote every day and shape your life the way you see it on that paper.
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In 1966 something happened that shook the scientific world to it's very foundations... and it was discovered, not in a famous laboratory, but in a small room in an office building in New York
By James F. Coyle, Author of Beyond Belief: The Ultimate Mindpower Instructional Manual
In 1966 a very strange event occurred. Cleve Backster, America's top polygraph (lie detector) expert was working late in his New York office. His secretary had installed a Dragon pot plant to brighten the office.
Backster noticed that the plant needed water, and on impulse attached the leads of a lie detector to one of the leaves. The lie detector measures skin resistance and Backster knew that it would indicate when water reached the actual leaf. He poured water over the root system and waited to see how long before this moisture reached the leaves.
Nothing happened. In fact after a while the instrument appeared to indicate less moisture in the leaf. The pen-tracing equipment attached to the lie detector was trending downwards with a fair amount of "saw tooth" motion.
Backster was puzzled as this was exactly the same response expected from a human being experiencing an emotional stimulus of short duration. He wondered if the plant could be displaying emotion.
Backster knew from long experience that the best way to make a polygraph needle "jump" was to threaten the subjects well-being so he dunked the plant leaf in his hot coffee. There was no reaction. He thought about this for a couple of minutes then conceived a worse threat. (He used to work for the CIA). He would light a match and burn the leaf. The instant he conceived this thought something dramatic happened - something that has had far reaching scientific implications all over the world...
...THE POLYGRAPH REACTED VIOLENTLY!
The pen-traced graph moved off its centreline into a pronounced upward curve.
Backster was staggered. He was some distance from the plant and he wondered if it could possibly have been reading his thoughts.
As later events will prove... IT WAS!
This was the start of an incredible reaction from the scientific community. And the interesting fact is that thousands of people have been able to duplicate this experiment. All you need is a "Wheatstone Bridge" circuit and a sensitive multimeter which any competent electronics enthusiast can easily assemble. With this simple equipment you can carry out your own experiments.
Backster initially wondered if his equipment was faulty but thorough tests over the following weeks eliminated this as a coincidental effect.
Backster discovered a further vital fact. When he only "pretended" to burn the leaf there was no reaction. In other words the emotion and intent had to be genuine.
Backster advised associates around the country as to what he had discovered and they were able to replicate his results which proved that it was not a "one off" effect between Backster and his plant and quelled the sceptics who claimed he had faulty equipment.
That was the start of an amazing series of experiments on different types of plants, fruits and vegetables such as bananas, oranges and onions.
Backster named this strange new effect - Primary Perception.
At this point Backster realized he was on to something with enormous potential so he converted his offices into a full scale scientific laboratory.
Over the following months all sorts of plant matter was tested. In one instance a plant leaf was totally shredded but when reattached to the electrodes it still exhibited the same response.
It was discovered accidently that the plants also reacted to unexpected stimuli such as the sudden appearance of a dog in the room or a person who did not like plants.
It was also found that the plants reacted to the attempts of a spider attempting to escape from the close proximity of humans which it perceived as a threat. The plant reacted JUST BEFORE the spider made any movement - that is, it picked up the spiders intentions.
Backster concluded that while plants may be in "tune" with each other they are more in tune with animal life which is mobile and may present a threat.
Another interesting observation was that when a plant was seriously threatened it tended to "pass out" from "emotional" overload. The plant appears to go into a "deep faint" for a while and then recovers. Backster discovered this while he was demonstrating his effect to a group of visiting scientists. The plants simply would not respond on this occasion and it was discovered that one of the scientists in the group roasted plants in an oven to get their dry weight for experiments.
Forty five minutes after this person left the building the plants came back to normal. This "fainting" effect has been replicated on many occasions.
A sceptical reporter was invited by Backster to assist in an experiment to see if a philodendron could "read his mind". The idea was to find the reporters year of birth by naming each of the 7 years between 1925 and 1931. The reporter was instructed to answer "no" to each question. Each year was read out and the plant responded strongly (via the polygraph) when the reporter answered no to the correct date. The resultant article created so much impact that it eventually appeared in the Readers Digest. Further tests indicated that plants could reliably indicate when a person was telling a lie, however this is fraught with legal dangers as the plant could easily be sabotaged by the subject mentally picturing the plant being burnt.
In another experiment a group of Backster's students drew a folded slip of paper out of a hat. The instructions on one of the slips told its bearer to totally destroy one of two plants placed in the laboratory. This was to be done in secret at some point during the day, without anyone else knowing. The surviving plant was attached to the polygraph and the students were paraded past it. When the culprit approached the plant reacted strongly, positively identifying the "murderer". The conclusion was that the plant could remember and identify the person who destroyed a sister plant.
Backster also noted that a bond appeared to develop between a plant and its owner. He used a synchronized stopwatch while he was making a trip out of town to New Jersey. The moment he made a conscious decision to return to his lab he triggered the stopwatch. When he returned he noted from the polygraph recording equipment that the plant had given a response at that critical instant he had pressed the stopwatch.
After years of testing Backster concluded that if a person genuinely liked a plant it would respond to him or her which might explain why some people have "green fingers" and others don't. It appeared that a communication "bond" developed which was totally unaffected by distance and there is now considerable evidence that this communication is not limited to the speed of light (as radio waves are) but is instantaneous.
Obviously segments of the scientific community are wondering if this could be used for deep-space communication where a radio signal takes years to reach us, even travelling at the speed of light. Even the signals from our deep space probes out beyond Mars can take hours to reach us and we haven't really started serious space probes yet! In a speech Backster made to the American Congress he indicated that it might be possible to modulate (overlay information) on signals between plant and human life.
His further experiments indicated that once a plant is "linked" to a particular person it seems to be able to maintain that link, no matter where that person is or how big a crowd of other people they are in.
Tests were carried out with the plant in a Faraday cage and a lead container. Both block out radio waves. The communication still went thru unchecked. Backster concluded that this primary perception was outside the usual electromagnetic spectrum.
On one occasion Backster cut his finger and as he applied iodine to the wound the polygraph attached to his plant reacted. It also reacted when somebody poured boiling water down the sink. After months of tests it was concluded that the plants were sensitive to the destruction of living cells and the bacteria in the sink plug-hole. This lead to lengthy experiments on single cells and simple cell structures including scrapings from a human mouth. When these scrapings were centrifuged and attached via fine gold electrodes to a polygraph it was found that they reacted to the emotions of their human donor - even when he was miles away! That is, human cells react in the same way that plants do!
This was quite an astounding finding because it explained for the first time how a persons emotions and thoughts might affect the individual body cells - and hence the functions and health of that body! In fact there is some doubt as to whether our body cells are individually controlled from the brain by electro-chemical impulses - it is considered a possibility that the cells receive "operating instructions" via this "primary perception" in a manner not yet understood. Which might explain why people who "know" that they don't catch colds... don't! And people who "know" that they are always sick... are!
In a well thought out scientific experiment, designed to quell the sceptics, Backster and his staff designed an automated device that dumped live, healthy Brine Shrimp into boiling water. At the instant the shrimp died in this boiling water, the three monitored plants reacted. The Brine were dumped automatically at random intervals so there was no human interference with the process. Light and temperature conditions were strictly controlled and a fourth polygraph (with a fixed value resistor in place of a plant leaf) was used as a control, to indicate possible fluctuations in power supplies or electromagnetic fields.
Backster's 1968 report in the International Journal of Parapsychology drew more than 7000 queries from scientists around the world, wanting more information. Most of the news media ignored Backster's work until the February 1969 edition of National Wildlife featured a story about this strange new effect.
This attracted worldwide attention and everywhere housewives started talking to their plants!
Another event led Backster onto a different path. One evening he was about to feed a raw egg to his dog. He cracked the egg in preparation and as he did this noticed that one of his plant/polygraph mechanisms reacted quite violently. He decided to attach a store-bought raw egg to his equipment and his chart recorder indicated that it was pulsing with the same rhythms as a chicken embryo, with a frequency between 160 and 170 beats per minute. However the egg was unfertilized and when it was broken open there was absolutely no sign of a circulatory system. Backster appeared to have discovered the same force which has been noticed in Kirlian Photography.
After some years of experimenting Backster's work indicated that when connected to polygraph equipment plants register pleasure, fear and relief. They respond to the threatening intentions of other life forms that they are attuned to. This is where the term PRIMARY PERCEPTION evolved in relation to the apparent interconnectedness between organic and other living matter.
Furthermore it has now been firmly established that human cells respond in the same manner to various emotions displayed by their "host' body, even when these cells are miles from their "host". Human brain neurons (made up of cells) share a common consciousness with other human brain neurons via this "primary perception" which would explain why mind-to-mind contact in the form of Subjective Communication works so well. Rupert Sheldrake calls this a morphogenic field.
There appears to be a common life-force here which has yet to be identified and explained. We have discovered it, but we don't know what it is or how to use it....yet! It is like the discovery of electricity and magnetic fields. We were able to manipulate and use them in the 19th century but didn't even come close to understanding them until well into the 20th century. And 18th century people knew about them in the form of static electricity and lodestones. (Natural magnetic rock). So it has taken around 200 years to get magnetism and electricity up and running properly.
It is likely to take a lot less time than this to commercially utilise primary perception because of the scientific protocols and equipment available. The speed of progress will be restricted only by the same human restrictions evident in the 18th and 19th century ..... "closed minds". It has been suggested that primary perception is a universal communication handshake in the same manner that gravity is a universal force field handshake.
The main problem with this primary perception business is that it only appears to work if the intent is genuine. It seems to be linked to survival and doesn't respond to play acting. Genuine sceptics also have a lot of trouble getting a response. In fact this applies to virtually all mind-power forces - if you believe in it .... it works!
The big problem with the investigation of primary perception is that it seems to work only when genuine emotional intent is involved or when there is a question of survival in living organisms. Scientists are having a hard time with it because results are not uniform and sometimes not even capable of being replicated. All other forces known to science can be reliably measured in any laboratory anywhere, which has the right equipment. Not so with the Backster Effect. So mainstream science understandably finds it hard to deal with.
If a scientist sets up a Backster style experiment in his laboratory and gets it running perfectly .... and then demonstrates it to a group of his fellow scientists only to find it doesn't work, he ends up with a certain amount of egg on his face.
This non-replicability is a serious problem for the scientific community. Science works on protocols - which can best be described as regulated pre-formatted procedures. When you approach a plant with this procedural protocol firmly fixed in your mind the plant perceives no serious emotional intent or genuine threat so it does not respond. And if the same test is applied repeatedly to the same plant its response quickly drops off. These are only some of the problems that will have to be overcome before plant life can be used for, say, interstellar communication.
There is one exception to this response-dropping factor .... and that is the death of human cells. The plants seem to respond consistently to the death of healthy human cells. At one point during Backsters experiments he was noticing that the polygraph would give irregular emotional responses which didn't seem to tie in with any of the tests being done. It took some time to discover what is was. There was a men's urinal next door to the lab. Every time it was flushed, the plant reacted. It was finally concluded that the disinfectant in the cistern was destroying cells in the body's excretions. But the strangest thing was that when the person using the urinal was aware of this effect there was no reaction from the plant!
There have been a multitude of tests by different researchers in an attempt to ascertain the effects of love and hate on plant systems and almost without exception they report that feelings of love toward a plant enhance its growth and wellbeing, something that every "green thumb" already knows!
Experiments of this kind with plants started long before Backster made his amazing polygraph discovery but did not make any substantial public impact until America's top lie detector expert announced his findings.
Meanwhile research goes quietly on - it will be most interesting to see just where it ends up!
James F. Coyle
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By Clifford Mee
Creator of The Power of Conversational Hypnosis
The Hypnotic Gaze Induction is powerful indeed and knowing how to use it will be a wonderful tool for you in your practices. The hypnotic gaze induction in itself covers and accomplishes the 4 Stage Protocol all wrapped into one induction.
It does this through a series of phases which you will lead a person through using eye contact, body language and tone of voice. A quick review of the four steps in the induction will help you to get into the mode for this article.
The first step in hypnotic gaze induction is to go first. You will develop an instant rapport rich with feelings of comfort and good will. You will put yourself in an outside trance to create external focus.
The second stage is to apply your hypnotic gaze. In this you should display with your signals complete confidence in your ability to induce trance. It is important to keep your gaze calm and clear, but most of all steady and unwavering.
The third step in this induction is to alter your voice to a trance tonality. Use all the aspects you can to create a calm voice that slows everything down. Make good use of your hypnotic language and create a relaxing environment with the words and tones you use.
Finally the fourth step in hypnotic gaze induction is to still use your hypnotic language as you create a double feedback loop for your subject. Tell them what you want them to do as far as trance signals, and as they unconsciously put them into effect repeat back to them what it is they are doing. This will reinforce their actions and lead them deeper into trance.
Now that you know how to do a hypnotic gaze induction you will want to not only practice it but refine and perfect it as well. This is where this article comes in, you will learn techniques to make your hypnotic gaze inductions run very smoothly and eventually go undetected by the person you are putting into trance.
The first area of refinement that you will want to concentrate on is how to make your inductions less direct. This is done through the art of overt and covert hypnotic voices. In learning this concept keep in mind that your actual language will not change, this only really works on the tonality you are using.
This is simply slowing the rate at which you change your tonality down so it is less obvious that you are converting into a hypnotic tone. A good way to do this is to only change your regular conversational voice slightly to be smoother on the ear.
When you do this there will be very few people who will actually notice you are using a hypnotic tonality with them. The voice tone in this is much more normal but can have the same impact as the very deep, slow, low trance voice people are used to hearing.
The idea of overt is the more obvious hypnotic tone of voice that you may use in some situations and the covert is the more indirect and less obvious tonality you will use. Many times you will make the decision of which to use based on the person and environment in which you are dealing.
The second refinement technique that you will focus on is called my friend John/Jane technique. In this technique you are not changing the words of the experiences you describe you simply change who they are happening to.
Instead of describing a trance they will be or are going into you would describe the experience your friend John or Jane had. This converts your instruction to a story about an experience someone else had. It still sends the same message of the signals and such you want them to experience, except it is easier to agree to as it is someone else's experience.
In this technique you are essentially creating a double reality for your listener. They are aware on some level that you are really talking about them and the things they are experiencing or doing but it is presented in a story about someone else.
The third and final refinement skill for hypnotic gaze inductions are to talk in extended quotes. When you talk in extended quotes you are really just putting words into another person's mouth. You use this to quote what another person may have said about something. In this the listener hears you giving them information, almost as if it fact just because another person said it.
Because they view it as a statement that they can agree with, you can't deny what someone else said there is little resistance. It goes in to their unconscious and becomes an embedded suggestion that will help to send your listener into trance and actually have the experiences you are leading with your quotes.
So in refining the hypnotic gaze induction you really have three concepts to put into action. The first refinement is to change your tone of voice to create new voices that are less or more covert and overt. The second refinement technique is to tell stories and experiences that happened to other people to make embedded suggestions. And the third and final refinement is to use extended quotes to make a thing agreeable and put into action by the subconscious.
In using these three refinements you will increase the power behind your hypnotic gaze inductions to make them more efficient and powerful. This in the world of hypnosis is always a positive aspect.
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Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. One time I arrived in the
middle of the night for a pick up at a building that was dark except for
a single light in a ground floor window.
Under these circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only means of transportation. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door. This passenger might be someone who needs my assistance, I reasoned to myself. So I walked to the door and knocked.
"Just a minute," answered a frail, elderly voice.
I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 80's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940s movie. By her side was a small nylon
suitcase.
The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.
"Would you carry my bag out to the car?" she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb. She kept thanking me for my kindness.
"It's nothing," I told her. "I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated."
"Oh, you're such a good boy," she said. When we got in the cab, she gave
me an address, then asked, "Could you drive through downtown?"
"It's not the shortest way," I answered quickly.
"Oh, I don't mind," she said. "I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice."
I looked in the rear view mirror. Her eyes were glistening.
"I don't have any family left," she continued. "The doctor says I don't
have very long."
I quietly reached over and shut off the meter. "What route would you
like me to take?" I asked.
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, "I'm tired. Let's go now."
We drove in silence to the address she had given me.
It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway
that passed under a portico. Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon
as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her. I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
"How much do I owe you?" she asked, reaching into her purse.
"Nothing," I said.
"You have to make a living," she answered.
"There are other passengers."
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly.
"You gave an old woman a little moment of joy," she said. "Thank you."
I squeezed her hand, then walked into the dim morning light. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.
I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly, lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then
driven away?
On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life. We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us
unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
Kent Nerburn
The author has confirmed that this story is true. For more inspiring writing by Kent Nerburn go to his website: http://kentnerburn.com
Edited by: Lawyer Asad
By Amara D. Angelica/Source: Kurzweilai. I love the premise: take off on a global trek to interview the world's oldest people, top health and fitness gurus, and smartest life-extension scientists, and ask one question: what's your secret?
In How To Live Forever, a new film from Variance Films, producer/director Mark Wexler (Seeing Double, Me & My Matchmaker, Air Force One on PBS-National Geographic) does just that. Ya gotta love Buster, a 101- year-old chain- smoking, beer-drinking marathoner in London,
Marge Jetton, a104- year-old iron-pumping Seventh-day Adventist in Loma Linda, California, and Edna Ruth Parker, 115 , the then-oldest person in the world, in Indiana. "There was something exquisitely moving about being in the presence of all my elderly subjects," says Wexler. "These were people who'd lived through turbulent times and faced great adversity, yet no matter where they were or what their background, they all shared remarkable grace, humor, and resilience." Wexler goes into the operating room with Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, a 94- year-old cardiothoracic surgeon.
On the other side of the world, Dr. Craig Willcox, gerontologist and Co- Principal Investigator of the Okinawan Centenarian Study, explains how the Okinawan people live longer by consuming a low-calorie, high-nutrient diet and maintaining their daily activities such as walking, gardening and traditional dance. Among the dozens of interesting people appearing in the film are Ray Bradbury, Aubrey de Grey, Suzanne Somers, Phyllis Diller, John Robbins, Jack LeLanne, Roy Walford, Willard Scott, and Ray Kurzweil, and the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), the definitive source for information on the world's oldest living people. And as a backup, Wexler visits Alcor, a cryonics lab where patients are preserved after death in the hopes of being reanimated in a more medically advanced era. This film's definitely on my must-see list.
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That's all it takes to get your wish!
WITH ONLY A FEW SECONDS of focusing your attention on a subject, you activate the vibration of that subject within you, and immediately the Law of Attraction begins to respond to that activation. The longer you keep your attention focused on something, the easier it becomes for you to continue to focus upon it because you are attracting, through the Law of Attraction, other thoughts or vibrations that are the essence of the thought you began with.
Within 17 seconds of focusing on something, a matching vibration becomes
activated. And now, as that focus becomes stronger and the vibration
becomes clearer, the Law of Attraction will bring to you more thoughts that match.
At this point, the vibration will not have much attraction power, but if you maintain your focus longer, the power of the vibration will become further reaching.
And if you manage to stay purely focused upon any thought for as little as 68 seconds, the vibration is powerful enough that its manifestation begins.
*When you repeatedly return to a pure thought, maintaining it for at least
68 seconds, in a short period of time (hours in some cases or a few days in
others), that thought becomes a dominant thought. And once you achieve a
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Remember that:
- The thoughts you think equal your point of attraction.
- You get what you think about, whether you want it or not.
- Your thoughts equal vibration, and that vibration is then answered by the Law of Attraction.
- As your vibration expands and becomes more powerful, it eventually becomes powerful enough for manifestation to occur.
- In other words, what you think (and therefore feel), and what manifests in your experience, is always a vibrational match.
*You Have the Ability to Direct Your Own Thoughts*
You have the ability to direct your own thoughts; you have the option of observing things as they are, or of imagining them as you want them to be—and whichever option you choose, whether you are imagining or observing, is equally powerful. You have the option of remembering something as it
actually occurred or imagining it as you would prefer. You have the option of remembering something that pleased you or remembering something that did not please you.
You have the option of anticipating something you want or anticipating
something you do not want. In every case, your thoughts produce a vibration
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You have the ability to place your attention wherever you decide, so it is
possible to distract yourself from something unwanted and put your attention upon something wanted. But when a vibration within you is one you have practiced a great deal, the tendency is to continue to offer the vibration in the way you have been practicing it—no matter how much you wish it to be different.
*It is not a difficult thing to change the pattern of your vibration, especially when you understand that you can do it a little bit at a time.
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By Owen Waters/Author of The Shift One of the great advantages of regular meditation is that it enhances your sense of intuition.
The more you practice meditation, the more you gain insight into every aspect of your life. Insights can relate to present or past events, leading to a greater understanding of your life's path, or they can relate to future events. Insights into future events can be challenging in four ways:
1. The future is not fixed. Until you experience it, the future remains as an array of possibilities with a "most likely" scenario based on what holds the greatest energy.
2. Viewing the future can change the outcome.
Even a 100% accurate view of the most likely scenario will trigger questions about whether you want that scenario to manifest, and that change can influence the outcome. This can give the illusion of inaccuracy in the original prediction. 3. Inner impressions come into your awareness through your imagination. However, a fertile imagination can create images on its own, almost for pure entertainment. True impressions of a future event arrive while you are in a meditative state, or sometimes while performing a monotonous task such as driving at a constant speed. They don't fire up with the great energy of a dramatic imagination. They slip in quietly and have to be examined and unraveled to see what each impression contains.
4. When you first start scanning the future, your predictions will be less accurate than they will become later, after constant practice. Sometimes, lack of self-esteem can be a barrier to the development of your innate abilities. In that case you need to be aware that everyone is everything that Infinite Being is. The universe is holographic by design, meaning that while the many make up the
One, the One is also mirrored within each of the many. So, each person, each spark of Infinite Being, contains all of the qualities of Infinite Being. Lack of self-esteem, therefore, is only a personality trait and not reflective of your true self. You have a perfect sense of intuition or insight, just waiting to be developed.
One of the hallmarks of the global Shift to higher consciousness is that, with each passing year, more and more people will develop more of their inner abilities. While you are practicing your intuitive skills, it is a good idea to make written notes for later reference. Insights arrive in your consciousness while you are in an altered, meditative state, so their memory dissipates quickly just like the memory of your dreams.
If you keep notes, then re-read them weeks or months later, you will be amazed at how accurate many of these insights were. Sometimes, you will also see how insights into less than desirable scenarios caused you to make a decision to steer your life in a different direction. When faced with decisions about which direction to turn, the best barometer is always your highest joy. Ask yourself: "What scenario would represent my highest joy?" When you follow your highest joy, you are following the path through life which is most closely aligned with your true essence - your soul or inner self.
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Foods Take food less than your hunger-It has been established through experiments that the life expectancy of a person goes up two times, if his food intake is reduced by 40 %.
The Golden gifts of the nature for you:-
o Pomegranate (Anar)- Contains all the important minerals and vitamins required by our body o Honey - Collected from flowers, a superb gift from nature.
o Coconut water - The water of green coconut lifted from the earth, and after processing at many stages stores the health nectar with great potentialities of health and vigour.
o Amla - provides us with many essential vitamins, best for all types of heart diseases.
o Bel - the superb gift from nature, highly useful for stomach ailments and digestive system.
Take vegetarian and fibrous foods (All raw vegetables and fruits fall in this category) - avoid fried and greasy food.. Take your meals preferably two times a day- Avoid meals after sunset Food in less quantity but of high nutritious value can lead to a longer and healthier life. Include in your daily diet - Curd, Amla, Sprouted black grams, Apple, Honey, Almonds, Soyabeans, Lemon, Raw Onion, Garlic (preferably roasted -avoid raw)
Daily intake of green leafy vegetables in large quantity eliminates the wrinkles on face. There are instances of people having improved their eyesight by eating these only. Yellow ripe Pumpkin (Sitafal) contains beta- Carotene, as found in Carrots and gives energy to the heart. Totally avoid Tea and coffee - They contain toxic substances, which damage the liver in the long run.
Tea takes approximately 6 hours to digest and plays havoc with the metabolism of the body. Continuous consumption of tea or coffee is said to result in damage to modular oblongata, which links up all body nerves with the brain, and therefore, controls all body functions. Avoid Sugar as far as possible, it brings Aging, Cataract and Acidity.
Keep fast at least for one day in a week taking only fruits. Keep fast atleast for 24 hour in a fortnight taking only water. Keep fast atleast for a day every month, without water.
Instead of bed-tea take hot water. Daily drink water kept in a copper vessel overnight, with magnet kept underneath it. Drink water with Rudraaksha beads soaked in it overnight. At least three times a week take dry fruits/nuts like Almonds, Peanuts, Raisin etc.
Keep changing your cooking oils to supply the body with all types of necessary nutrients. Don't take salt in excess. Use as little salt as possible. Just observe that any food provided by nature is never salty in taste, it is always plain, sour or sweet. Excessive salt corrodes our body like sea water, which is never allowed to be drunk even if a person is thirsty. Add following sprouts to your daily diet:
o Black grams sprouts - for heart and diabetes.
o Moong (Green lentil) sprouts - a general tonic
o Methi (Fenugreek) seed sprouts - For activeness and diabetes.
o Soyabeans - Contains 9 types of proteins
o Wheat grains sprouts- for vitamin E and long life Bottle Gourd (Ghia) - It is packed with nutrition, and recommended for high blood pressure and urinary disorders. Food supplements & general tonics Vitamin B complex is the most useful and effective diet supplement and should be added to your daily intake of meals. It is mostly found in the uncooked sprouts of different grains.
Bio-chemic combination no -28, which contains all the 12 essential salts for the body should be taken regularly. It is a general tonic and should be taken after meals to prevent common diseases.
Daily intake of vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) increases life span of body.
Remember all dairy products produce heart diseases - try to avoid them or restrict their quantity. Remember all types of spices produce cardiovascular diseases.
Exercise & Yoga Human body is like an automobile it needs the following:-
o Lubrication - Proper exercise is the lubrication of body, it increase circulation and flexibility..
Battery charging - Solar plexus is the battery of body and is charged through Pranayam, the yogic breathing.
o Cooling Systems - Relaxation provides the cooling of body.
o Fuel - Proper diet, food, air, water and sunlight provides the fuel for body Balanced Driver - Mind is the driver of body. It can be balanced and controlled by meditation and concentration
Do light exercises regularly. Don't do strenuous exercises like fast running, body building as they increase the metabolism rate of your body
Brisk walking is the best exercise to keep control on diabetes and heart problems
By living at a cold place (Hill stations), the metabolism rate of the body decreases and the age increases
Deep breathing up to the naval and retaining it for sometime helps in increasing the life span of a person
The normal ratio of our breathing i.e. inhaling, retaining and exhaling should be 1 :4 :2
Keep your posture erect Try inhaling the breath from left nostril during day time and from right nostril during the night time
Our internal organs are more important as our outer organs in keeping us healthy.
So to keep the liver, stomach and lungs etc in a healthy state. Daily walking in the morning and evening is very essential. It is possible to even reverse the heart problems by not using oil or ghee at all, by taking only boiled vegetables, doing yogic exercises, and by living a tension free life.
Mind, Temperament and way of living There is no yoga greater than the control of mind.Keep your mind busy and active with lot of physical work. Keep yourself happy and at peace - avoid anger and hot temperament By meditation, high blood pressures, forgetfulness & aging process can be controlled
Keep enchanting the Maha-mritunjaya Mantra in case of health problems.
Take life as it comes, don't get disturbed by the ups and downs of life.
Eat & drink in moderation, have religious faith, work hard and adopt the habit of early to bed and early to rise. It was the finding of survey done in Japan, that a large portion of centenarians were engaged in the Agriculture or Forestry as their primary jobs.
Miscellaneous Take hot water after every meals to control the fatness and improve digestion. Early in the morning, without cleaning your teeth or mouth drink a glass of water so that all the accumulated sliva in your mouth goes back to your stomach. This method in principal is similar to homoeopathy and is used widely in Japan to prolong the life span and cure many diseases automatically.
Mr Morarji Desai, the former Prime-Minister of India resorted to auto-urine therapy when he had tried all types of therapies and failed to get any cure out of them.
After washing your face with water don't wipe it off. Let it dry itself on the face. It keeps the face skin young and healthy.
Sleep with your head towards south., it helps to improve the blood circulation of body, due to the body's alignment with earth's magnetic field. Sleep with the leg side of your bed higher than your head side. It increases the blood circulation of your body more towards head side. It keeps you young and rejuvenates your body functions.
Take magnetic water -You can prepare it by keeping a glass of water with two magnets, one on top with north pole facing downward and second under it with south pole facing up, kept overnight and drink in the morning.
Daily intake of Aspirin, even one fourth of a 100 mg tablet, avoids chances of heart attacks. Aspirin stops the Aging process by keeping the tissues flexible - it is also good for eyes. (Take only with the advice of doctor.)
Daily apply a drop of mustard oil mixed with some water into your nostrils. It is beneficial for your eyes and keeps the breathing passage clear and smooth. Daily rub mustard oil on the toe of your feet, it helps in the improvement of eyesight.
Smoking, or intake of tobacco in any form narrows down the arteries and restricts the blood circulation.
The secret of Chinese who lived up to 250 Years - Even in modern times there is an instance of a Chinese whose name was ?Lichigian? who reached to a life span of 250 years using the great Indian herb called India Pennywort (Brahmi). He said he is regularly using this Indian herb and he has achieved such a long life by regularly using this herb.
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There are plenty of reasons to feel bad about yourself. Everywhere you look, magazine ads, TV shows, books, and billboards promote people who are skinnier, more successful, more intelligent, and more famous than you are.
The trick is to take all that hype and reduce it to what it is: not your concern. Instead, here are some simple ways you can live in a world that worships youth, beauty, innovation, and money and still feel just fine about yourself.
1. Smile.
Smiling at yourself in the mirror each morning–despite the crazy hair, new wrinkles, and that beautifully soft but oh, so ragged t-shirt you wear to bed – starts a rush of endorphins in your body kicks off a feel-better cycle. You can literally "fake it' til you make it" with smiling, because pretty quickly you'll start thinking of reasons to smile. It's one of the best physio
logical effects on earth! Plus, the more you genuinely smile at others, the more positive your social interactions tend to be, the better other people will treat you, and the more you'll feel like smiling.
2. Remember that not everything is about you.
There's a saying: "No one thinks about you nearly as much as you think they do." While that is devastating to the narcissists among us, it can be a burden off the shoulders to just about everyone else. When you look in the mirror, you see all your imperfections and problems, external and internal, but others around you are much more willing to overlook those supposed defects. Either they like you anyway or they just don't look closely enough to see and nitpick your faults. Stop taking yourself so seriously and life will be a lot more enjoyable.
3. Take care of your inner self.
While not everything is about you, it's very important for you to
remember that you, as a person, are unique and inherently precious in the world. Beef up your inner strength by soaking up the spirituality, mental clarity, and emotional balance that comes with quiet self-reflection, religious observance, meditation, and just doing things you like to do on a regular basis.
4. Hold onto a realistic body image.
For women especially, punishing yourself for not being skinny or beautiful enough is all too common. Most women and quite a few men want to weigh less and look more sleek, but constantly berate themselves for not having yet
achieved their perfect ideal. Say it with me, people: "I am not my physical body alone."
That's right! You are still you inside, and your physical shape does not define who you are. Eating a healthful diet and exercising are ways of showing love and gratitude toward your body, so do those things without the expectation that as you enjoy looking in the mirror more you will be completely fulfilled by being able to wear a bikini in public. Happiness is an internal process, so learn to love yourself at whatever physical stage you happen to be in.
5. Dress appropriately.
You act confident and assured when you feel good about how you look. Dressing well doesn't mean you have to wear the priciest duds from
the catwalk, but it does mean learning how to pick clothing that emphasizes what you like and minimizes what you're still working on. What many insecure teen girls need to learn, however, is that more skin does not equal more worth. Modest dresses, blouses, skirts, and pants in the right colors for your skin tone and that fit well present a sophisticated, competent image to the world. And yes, others will treat you based on their first impressions of how you look, so why not choose your clothing so that you'll be treated as the intelligent, beautiful person that you are? And make sure you smile.
6. Grooming.
Along with dressing appropriately, careful hygiene practices and grooming techniques are a must. While you don't need to spend hours a day on grooming (and if you are, it's time to change your hairstyle, makeup, and perfectionist at
titude), keeping yourself clean and smelling nice is essential. It seems like an obvious thing to say, but some boys still need to hear it. Wear deodorant (or a granola equivalent that really works). Shower frequently. And girls, revel in a hot new haircut or makeup technique every once in a while. When you feel like you look good, you'll be surprised how people respond to your instant magnetism.
7. Stretch your mind.
Ignorance is not bliss. Nor is it all that attractive. Even if you are not currently undergoing the rigors of formal education, learning new things does help you feel better about yourself. Mastering a new skill boosts your confidence tremendously, but even the journey of learning and growing is something we're built to enjoy.
Human beings are naturally curious. Find ways to stretch your creativity, expose yourself to new ideas, and enrich your education.
8. Nurture relationships.
Strong, nurturing relationships with family and friends are critical in helping you up your self-confidence level. Not all your relationships will be ideal, but nurturing those that you feel are healthy satisfies the need within each of us to belong somewhere. We all need people, whether we need them in small doses or can't fathom being alone for a minute. Being a good spouse, parent, child, and friend opens up opportunities for some of the most fulfilling moments in our lives.
9. Serve others.
Remember how it's not all about you? Everyone around you is just trying to make it through this
life, so why not ease someone else's burden just a little? Sometimes a happy smile will be just the thing you can give someone who is having a bad day. Look for chances to lighten a burden for someone else and you'll be surprised to find that your own burdens aren't quite so heavy to bear.
The great thing about service is that you can help others and feel great about it.
10 . Cultivate the ability to love.
Love is one of the few things in this world that you have more of the more you give it away; but the more you refuse to give it, the less you'll
have. Don't be stingy with it. Loving yourself means accepting your weaknesses as parts of yourself you are still working to improve and celebrating your strengths.
Do that for those around you, and you'll find that life is filled with joy. How can you not feel better when you have joy in your heart?
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Children are Not Property
The starting point of raising super kids is to realize that your children are not your property. Your children belong to themselves. They are a gift to you from high above, and a temporary gift at that.
Children are a Precious Gift
When you look at your children as precious gifts that you can only enjoy
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Love Makes the Difference
The most important consideration in raising super kids is the amount of
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Unconditional Love and Acceptance
Make it clear to your child that nothing he or she does could ever cause you to love him or her less than 100 percent. The most wonderful gift you can give your child is the absolute conviction that you love him or her completely, without reservation, no matter what he or she does and no matter what happens.
Praise and Encouragement
Give your children continual praise and encouragement for the positive
things they do, even small things. Praise and reinforce what you would like to see repeated. Praise them to build their self-esteem and self-confidence.
Action Exercise
Ask yourself what it would be like to be your own child. Put yourself in the position of your child or your children, and then evaluate yourself as a parent. What are your strengths and weaknesses? What do you do well and what do you do poorly? What are some of the thing that you do that might be causing your children to grow up with lower self-esteem than you would like? What can you do, starting today, to be a better and more loving parent?
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Focus on all the Reasons You Can Get What You Want
Ray Stanford entered my life when I was working in the fire hall in
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He encouraged me to take an honest look at the results I was getting. He said "Bob, you keep talking about not having a formal education and using it as an excuse for getting poor results." He then said, "Those are only reasons why you're not getting what you want. Set those aside and start to focus on all the reasons you can get what you what." Then he gave me Napoleon Hill's book, Think and Grow Rich.
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Study, Study, Study
I then got a hold of Earl Nightingale's condensed narration of the
Napoleon Hill book, Think And Grow Rich on a record. I began listening
to that record every day. It was listening to Earl's voice and the
information he was sharing that caused me to want to go to work with him. I moved my Family from Toronto to Chicago and joined the
Nightingale-Conant Corporation. It was only after I got there that I
realized I had a double win. I wasn't only going to work with Earl
Nightingale - I would also work with Lloyd Conant. Earl and Lloyd became
my 2 coaches. I loved working for them and I got an education that you
couldn't buy. They literally originated the self help business in
recorded fashion that we know today. In time, the Nightingale-Conant Corporation became the largest distributer of self help programs in the world, and I was working there with the people that originated it. Earl Nightingale taught me how to study. He said, "Don't just read the book, study it. Attempt to understand the idea the author is attempting to communicate in each paragraph. To do that you might need to study that paragraph for a month."
Take the Lid Off Your Mind and Let it Soar
Lloyd Conant taught me to take the lid off my mind and let it soar. He
said, "Bob, nothing is big or small, except our thinking makes it so. No
one alive knows what we're capable of doing. Go after something big.
Even if you miss, it can be exhilarating."
Know You Have a Magnificent Mind
It was there that I was introduced to Val Van De Wall. Val and I became
great friends and he shared one idea with me that literally changed my life. It was a diagram of the mind. He explained we think in pictures but no one has ever seen the mind so when we think of it, we become confused. There is no order in the mind. A doctor friend of his came up with the original drawing. I refer to it as the Stick Person and I've
shared it with people all over the world. If I were to be coaching you,
I'd teach it to you.
Val introduced me to his coach, Dr. Harry Roder. Harry knew more about
the mind than anyone I'd ever met. I'd spent countless hours with him
and I began to understand exactly how the mind functions. In fact, Dr.
John Mike from Florida said I taught him more about the mind in 1 year
than he had learned in 4 years of medical school and 5 years of
psychiatric training. I found that interesting because I had merely
taught him what Dr. Roder had taught me.
These 5 men helped me answer a huge question. how and why did my life change? Without any formal education, without any business experience, in less than 5 years, I built a company that operated in 7 cities and 3 different countries and I really didn't understand how I had done it.
They taught me what I had changed and how I had accomplished what I had accomplished. It was this magnificent knowledge that triggered the enormous desire in me to teach this information to as many people as I could. But I had one big problem . I was quiet and shy.
Believe You Can Do What You Believe Others Can Accomplish
I was afraid to stand up and ask a question let alone stand up and
teach. It was at that point in the late sixties at the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago that a man named Bill Gove walked out on a stage and literally captivated an audience of 500 people. Merely by sharing information with them, he had that audience in the palm of his hand. I stood there thinking, "If only I could do that, then I could teach what I've
learned." But the thought of it scared the daylights out of me.
At that point, I flashed back in my mind to a recording of Earl
Nightingale's that I had listened to a thousand times. He said, "Now
right here we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can accomplish, and for some equally
strange reason we think other people can accomplish things that we cannot. I want you to understand that that is not true. You have deep
reservoirs of talent and ability within you that you can bring to the
surface and achieve all that you desire."
If you had asked me if I'd understood it, I probably would've said, "Of
course!" But here I was watching Bill Gove do something I thought I
couldn't. It was at that point that I started hearing the recording in
my head and I realized if Bill can do it, I can do it. I switched my
thinking to, "If I could do that, I could help people all over the world
change their life." And it suddenly dawned on me that we are capable of doing anything. I'm not going to just do that, I'm going to get the man
on the stage, Bill Gove, to teach me. and he did. Today I'm able to do
what he did and get on the stage and share this valuable information.
Bill Gove and I remained friends for over 35 years until he passed away
a few years ago.
Pass It Along
All of these men are gone but their legacy lives on, through me and all
of the other people they helped. That's how my life changed. These
people taught me to earn millions of dollars and invest it back into a
business that has helped millions of people. These lessons have allowed
me to help people who were in financial trouble become prosperous and companies that were struggling grow into viable organizations. Any way a person can be helped, I've seen it happen because the answers are within us. And, because of what these great men taught me, I was able to pass it along.
Bob Proctor
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Thinking happy thoughts as a way to feel better may not be beneficial across all cultures, a new study shows.
Source: Futurity.org
Focusing on positive emotions does not help Asians cope with stress and depression, according to a survey of college students.
For European-Americans, however, the more stress and depression they felt, the fewer positive emotions they reported.
The findings suggest psychotherapies emphasizing positive emotions, which can relieve stress and depression in white populations, may not work for Asians, who make up 60 percent of the world population.
The study, published in the journal Emotion, could have implications for helping the Japanese recover from natural disasters and subsequent nuclear crisis in March, and for Chinese coping with post-traumatic stress following the 2008 Sichuan province earthquake.
"If we are to relieve some of the trauma from the tsunami and earthquakes, we have to be careful of imparting Western therapies," says Janxin Leu, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington. "I worry that if a therapy which relies on positive emotions and thinking is used with Asian patients, it will not be effective and may even make patients feel worse."
Mindfulness therapies that encourage patients to pay attention to the good and the bad will likely work better, she adds.
Leu and colleagues asked 633 college students—a mix of Asian immigrants, Asian Americans, and European Americans—to rate how much stress and depression they felt and how often they've been in a sad mood, felt worthless, or had sleep or appetite changes.
The participants also rated the intensity of the positive emotions that they felt, including feelings of serenity, joy, confidence and attentiveness.
For European-American participants, there was a strong correlation showing that the more positive emotions they expressed, the less depression or stress they reported. The correlation was more subtle among Asian-Americans, but for Asians, there was no correlation between positive emotions and depression and stress.
The findings show that Asians interpret and react to positive emotions differently in regards to their mental health.
Upon winning an award, for instance, the researchers say a typical response would be "I'm so happy that I'm afraid." The award would trigger feelings of happiness for the achievement combined with concern that others would be jealous.
This blend of emotions is common among Asians, Leu says, and it may be shaped by Buddhist beliefs that happiness either leads to suffering or is impossible to obtain.
"Happiness signals that something bad will happen next; happiness is fleeting," she adds. Similarly, yin-and-yang attitudes may instill views that life is a natural balance of good and bad.
For Asians with depression, Leu says, therapies likely to work the best are those that encourage patients to "observe when they feel good and bad and notice that both will disappear. Everything passes."
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"At its present position beyond the orbit of Mars, Elenin is a faint
telescopic object. At that distance a planet-sized object would be one of
the brightest 'stars' in the night sky one would think, and if it were
Jupiter-sized it would be visually spectacular, a shining beacon that would make everyone take notice! But no, that does not seem to be the case. Large amateur telescopes are straining to even catch a glimpse of Elenin; it is likely a small object, probably a big rock," writes one blogger.
Big seems to be the appropriate word for we now have the first actual astronomical calculations that puts the coma (the part they can see is 50,000 miles in diameter. Yes a big rock!
"On April 8th at our Russian
observatory we carried out planned observations of Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin). An analysis of the results of the observations shows a rapid growth of the coma. Besides
the internal compact gas envelope, the forming rarified external coma is
also visible in the image. *Itsdiameter exceeds 1 minute of arc, or 80,000 km!* It is possible that such a rapid growth of the coma is associated with the apparent superposition over it of the comet's dust tail, which after opposition, still remains invisible to the earthly observer."
The coma is what astronomers actually see and is actually much bigger than the core. It's the green in the above picture that they are saying is 80,000 km or 50,000 miles across. We could estimate that the core might be half the diameter of the coma or approximately 25,000 miles. Big enough—it seems to
be already stirring up the Earth under our feet.
There is a lot of speculation going on about what this comet actually is and what it is composed of but at least now we have an idea of its size. The following video is from a man who explains how the size was calculated and he confirms the above astronomers are not out of their minds.
*The Professionals Step In*
*We have news out of Cornell University that sustains the view that Elenin is playing a direct part in causing large earthquakes.* Professor Mensur Omerbashich is
saying that his "georesonator
concept in which tidally induced magnification of Earth masses' resonance *causes seismicity*." This trashes NASA's assertion that the humongous earthquake we saw in Japan and before that with the ones in Chile and New Zealand were coincidental with alignments between Elenin, the Earth and the
Sun.
*The earth's seismicity can arise as a natural response of our planet to its alignments with other celestial objects.
Professor
Mensur Omerbashich*
Omerbashich demonstrates empirically that "all strong (~M6+) earthquakes of 2010 occurred during the Earth's long astronomical alignments within our solar system. He shows that the same holds true for all very strong (~M8+)
earthquakes of the decade of 2000s. He asserts that the "*comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) has been adding to robustness in terms of very strong seismicity since 2007. Elenin will continue intensifying the Earth's very strong seismicity until August-October, 2011."*
It seems like every time Elenin lines up with Earth and another planet or
the Sun we have an earthquake, *the nearer Elenin gets the bigger the
earthquakes*.
*Past* *Elenin Alignments and
Earthquakes:*
*Past Alignments*
*Date*
*Location*
*Magnitude*
Elenin - Earth - Sun
Feb 20 2008
Indonesia
7.4
Elenin - Earth - Sun
Feb 25 2008
Indonesia
7.2
Elenin - Earth - Neptune
May 12 2008
China
7.9
Elenin - Earth - Sun
Feb 18 2009
Kermadec Islands
7.0
Elenin - Earth -Jupiter
May 18 2009
Los Angeles, US
4.7
Elenin - Mercury- Earth
July 15 2009
New Zealand
7.8
Elenin - Mercury - Earth
Aug 09 2009
Japan
7.1
Elenin - Sun - Earth
Sept 09 2009
Sunola islands
8.1
Elenin - Earth - Venus
Feb 18 2010
China/RU/N.Korea
6.9
Elenin - Earth-Sun
Feb 25 2010
China
5.2
Elenin - Earth-Sun
Feb 26 2010
Japan
7.0
Elenin - Earth- Sun
Feb 27 2010
Chile
8.8 [Earth knocked off axis]
Elenin - Earth- Sun
Feb 27 2010
Argentina
6.3
Elenin - Earth - Mercury
Mar 04 2010
Taiwan
6.3
Elenin - Earth - Mercury
Mar 04 2010
Vanuatu
6.5
Elenin - Earth - Mercury
Mar 05 2010
Chile
6.6
Elenin - Earth - Mercury
Mar 05 2010
Indonesia
6.3
Elenin - Earth - Mercury
Mar 08 2010
Turkey
6.1
Elenin - Earth - Neptune
May 05 2010
Indonesia
6.6
Elenin - Earth - Neptune
May 06 2010
Chile
6.2
Elenin - Earth - Neptune
May 09 2010
Indonesia
7.2
Elenin - Earth - Neptune
May 14 2010
Algeria
5.2
Elenin - Earth - Jupiter
Jan 03 2011
Chile
7.0
Elenin - Earth - Sun
March 11 2011
Japan
9.0 [Earth knocked off axis]
*Future Elenin Alignments:*
*Future Alignments*
*Date*
*Note*
Elenin - Mercury - Mars - Earth
Sept 06 2011
Mercury - Sun - Elenin
Sept 25 2011
Sun - Elenin - Jupiter
Oct 11 2011
Elenin 0.246au from Earth; that's a quarter of the distance to the sun.
Oct 17 2011
Elenin closet to earth 0.232au
Oct 20 2011
Elenin will enter Earth orbit and we will experience a gravitational pull.
Nov 02 2011
Earth enter Elenins tail/ previous path
Venus - Earth- Elenin - Mercury
Nov 11 2011
Sun - Mercury - Earth - Elenin
Dec 04 2011
Mars - Elenin - Jupiter
Dec 25 2011
*Final Alignment:* Elenin - Earth - Sun
Dec 21 2012
Now of course we have many earthquakes and if we showed them all, this chart would then lose much of its meaning. The 9.1 earthquake in Japan though will never lose its meaning and it happened on cue with an alignment with Elenin.
So everyone I guess it is not a small pebble after all that is coming our
way and I think NASA knows this for how could they calculate its pathway
through the inner solar system without knowing its mass or size? But before we blow our gaskets over this I want you to take a look at a most interesting and strange video of a presentation by a most beautiful and intelligent man. It seems that flybys of big objects are not that unusual and that we had a truly big comet almost hit the Sun less than ten years ago. Below we have physicist Nassim Haramein showing a NASA video of something that frightened everyone who was watching yet nothing happened
when something should have. When asked why not Haramein said, "I don't know."
I trust Nassim, and what he shows goes beyond the pale of scientific
understanding. According to him such a large object should have made a mess of the inner solar system but it did not. In the film we actually see the sun protecting itself with a huge and forceful solar flare from what looked like a possible collision with a huge comet.
But now we have another one heading in but this one is already wrecking the earth with 9.0 earthquakes, already resulting in a nuclear catastrophe in Japan. It was only seven days ago when I published:
In this video<http://imva.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=25b08cc8b5ebaf472984d04d0&id=3463f4bb8f&e=23126b847f>you
will see with mathematical precision that * every time this celestial body comes into alignment with the earth and sun we have a huge earthquake*. The last three alignments produced the Japanese
9.0 quake, the one in New Zealand and before that the one in Chile. On March 11th Elenin was much further out. When the next alignment happens it will be devastatingly close. *The main point to understand is that if Elenin was
just a normal comet it would not have the mass to generate a gravity pull that would affect the earth when the Earth swings around into alignment*.
The mystery only gets more profound. Cosmic rays crashing into the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Similar cosmic ray "hotspots" have been seen in the northern skies too, yet we know of no source close enough to produce this pattern. "We don't know where they are
coming from says Stefan Westerhoff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It's a mystery because the hotspots must be produced within about* 0.03 light years of Earth*. Further out, galactic magnetic fields should deflect the particles so much that the hotspots would be smeared out across the sky. But no such sources are known to exist.
Perhaps our incoming comet is hot in terms of radiation and is doing more than putting out gravity fields that are affecting the Earth's structure. We have an evolving puzzle going on down here on Earth but it will get clearer as the next few weeks or months pass. So far we have many strange "coincidences" that are going unexplained but as they pile up we will be better able to triangulate events into a comprehensible perception of what
is in store for us and what to do, if anything, about it.
People pounced on Nassim Haramein for inferring that the NASA video he was showing in his presentation above was proof that Nibiru had come and gone already. It is dangerous to make assumptions but who would have thought that
there was more than one big planet-size object that was coming in on comet trajectories within ten years of each other?
This last one that Haramein shows danced with the sun and must have had some Klingon cloaking device—certainly no one I know was aware of such a close call or that comets could be that big. Now according to NASA we have a tiny rock coming in that somehow is big enough to yank on the gravitational/electric/magnetic/structural under-pinnings of our world. Must be made of Krypton or its bigger than NASA is letting on.
Excuse my attempt to lighten up the discussion. I have people crawling all
over the place, including inside my own family, who are uncomfortable even knowing what's going on with comets on their way into our backyard. This one is going to pass close where the other one seen in Haramein's presentation
miraculously left the inner solar system in peace.
What is going to happen is anyone's guess but Professor Mensur Omerbashich does not seem to be guessing. Perhaps we should all read his paper and study up on his georesonator concept. He is from Cornell, one of the most respected Universities in the world, so personally I do give him the
courtesy and honor of taking him seriously. It is most difficult presenting these topics to the world for their will be great dissention and controversy until September and then we will really get to experience whatever reality is going to offer itself to us on earth. My bet is that events will continue to build in intensity and life will continually get more and more out of hand on every level and dimension.
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I could literally post hundreds of videos and stories of strange happenings in our world. We do not need a crystal ball to see the relentless Earth changes. We have left the landscape of normalcy behind and are entering into
a world where cataclysmic chaos is becoming the new norm. Just ask the
people in the Mississippi valley this week. The escalating trend of
anomalous weather patterns, massive animal die-offs, inexplicable seismic activities, droughts, famine and increasing food prices supports the view that things are changing quickly and something unseen and uncalculated is participating in this. Can't blame everything on global warming and CO2!
Below you will see two articles, one from the Washington Post and another from The New York Times from 28 years ago, but read them like they were printed yesterday. Astronomy deals practically with eternity so what is 28 years? NASA came right out and admitted they found a massive very cold body
outside the solar system. Now they are not saying a thing about this or
whether this past massive comet from 2003, or the current one, have anything to do with their discovery almost three decades ago. What could possibly be their motive for keeping a tight lid on this terribly important subject?
*Washington Post*
*Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered*
31-Dec-1983
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly
so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite. So mysterious is the object that
astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby
"protostar" that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars, or a
galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever
gets through. "All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," Dr.
Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview.
The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body, which *is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen by optical telescopes on Earth or in space*, is that it is a giant gaseous planet, as large as Jupiter and as close to Earth as 50 billion miles. While that may seem like a great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone's throw in cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost planet Pluto. "If it is really that close, it would be a part of our solar system," said Dr. James Houck of Cornell University's Center for Radio Physics and Space Research and a member of the IRAS science team.
"If it is that close, I don't know how the world's planetary scientists
would even begin to classify it."
The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite as it scanned the northern sky from last January to November, when the satellite ran out of the super-cold helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies in the heavens. The second observation took place six months after the first and suggested the mystery body had not moved from its spot in the sky near
the western edge of the constellation Orion in that time. "This suggests *it's not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the one we've observed *and a comet would probably have moved," Houck said. "A planet may have moved if it were as close as 50 billion miles but it could still be a more distant planet and not have moved in six months' time.
Whatever it is, Houck said, *the mystery body is so cold its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above "absolute" zero, which is 459 degrees Fahrenheit below zero*. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is so
sensitive it can "see" objects in the heavens that are only 20 degrees above absolute zero. When IRAS scientists first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be as close as 50 billion miles, there was some speculation that it might be moving toward Earth. "It's not incoming mail,"
Cal Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse that idea with as much cold
water as I can."
*The New York Times*
Clues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X
30-January-1983
John Noble Wilford
Something out there beyond the farthest reaches of the known solar system seems to be tugging at Uranus and Neptune. Some gravitational force keeps
perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits.
The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object that may be the long-sought Planet X.
Evidence assembled in recent years has led several groups of astronomers to renew the search for the 10th planet. They are devoting more time to visual
observations with the 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar in California.
They are tracking two Pioneer spacecraft, now approaching the orbit of distant Pluto, to see if variations in their trajectories provide clues to the source of the mysterious force. And they are hoping that a satellite-borne telescope launched last week will detect heat "signatures"
from the planet, or whatever it is out there.
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was boosted into a 560-mile-high polar orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. It represents an $80-million venture by the United States, Britain and the Netherlands. In the next six or seven months, the telescope is expected to conduct a wide-ranging survey of nearly all the sky, detecting sources not of ordinary light, but of infrared radiation, which is invisible to the human eye and largely absorbed by the atmosphere. Scientists thus hope that the new telescope will chart thousands of infrared-emitting objects that have gone
undetected—stars, interstellar clouds, asteroids and, with any luck, the object that pulls at Uranus and Neptune.
The last time a serious search of the skies was made, it led to the
discovery in 1930 of Pluto, the ninth planet. But the story begins more than a century before that, after the discovery of Uranus in 1781 by the English astronomer and musician William Herschel. Until then, the planetary system seemed to end with Saturn.
As astronomers observed Uranus, noting irregularities in its orbital path, many speculated that they were witnessing the gravitational pull of an unknown planet. So began the first planetary search based on astronomers' predictions, which ended in the 1840s with the discovery of Neptune almost
simultaneously by English, French and German astronomers.
But Neptune was not massive enough to account entirely for the orbital behavior of Uranus. Indeed, Neptune itself seemed to be affected by a still more remote planet. In the late 19th century, two American astronomers,
William H. Pickering and Percival Lowell, predicted the size and approximate location of the trans-Neptunian body, which Lowell called Planet X.
Years later, Pluto was detected by Clyde W. Tombaugh working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. Several astronomers, however, suspected it might not be the Planet X of prediction. Subsequent observations proved them right.
Pluto was too small to change the orbits of Uranus and Neptune; the combined mass of Pluto and its recently discovered satellite, Charon, is only one-fifth that of Earth's moon.
Recent calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune, which Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the observatory, says could be explained by "a single undiscovered planet." He and a colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, calculate that the 10th planet should be two to five times more massive than Earth and have a highly elliptical orbit that takes it some 5
billion miles beyond that of Pluto—hardly next door but still within the
gravitational influence of the Sun.
Some astronomers have reacted cautiously to the 10th-planet predictions.
They remember the long, futile quest for the planet Vulcan inside the orbit of Mercury; Vulcan, it turned out, did not exist. They wonder why such a large object as a 10th planet escaped the exhaustive survey by Mr. Tombaugh, who is sure it is not in the two-thirds of the sky he examined. But according to Dr. Ray T. Reynolds of the Ames Research Center in Mountain
View, CA, other astronomers "are so sure of the 10th planet, they think
there's nothing left but to name it."
At a scientific meeting last summer, 10th-planet partisans tended to
prevail. Alternative explanations for the outer-planet perturbations were
offered. The something out there, some scientists said, might be an unseen black hole or neutron star passing through the Sun's vicinity. Defenders of the 10th planet parried the suggestions. Material falling into the gravitational field of a black hole, the remains of a very massive star after its complete gravitational collapse, should give off detectable
X-rays, they noted; no X-rays have been detected. A neutron star, a less
massive star that has collapsed to a highly dense state, should affect the
courses of comets, they said, yet no such changes have been observed.
More credence was given to the hypothesis that a "brown dwarf" star accounts for the mysterious force. This is the informal name astronomers give to celestial bodies that were not massive enough for their thermonuclear furnaces to ignite; perhaps like the huge planet Jupiter, they just missed being self-illuminating stars.
*Most stars are paired, so it is not unreasonable to suggest that the Sun has a dim companion*. *Moreover, a brown dwarf in the neighborhood might not reflect enough light to be seen far away*, said Dr. John Anderson of the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Its gravitational forces, however,
should produce energy detectable by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
Whatever the mysterious force, be it a brown dwarf or a large planet, Dr. Anderson said he was "quite optimistic" that the infrared telescope might find it and that the Pioneer spacecraft could supply an estimate of the object's mass. Of course, no one can be sure that even this discovery would define the outermost boundary of the solar system.
*Dr. Mark Allan Sircus, Ac., OMD, DM (P)*
Director International Medical Veritas Association
Doctor of Oriental and Pastoral Medicine
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