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Sermonette One: It's All About Frequencies

Given September 6, 2009

"Of the many changes our world is going through, in medicine one of them is using different kinds of frequencies to treat the body instead of pharmaceuticals or herbs. I have been interested in frequency medicine for the last ten years and have used several different kinds of machines that treat the body with frequencies instead of drugs. I am not a practitioner. I started learning about these machines to treat myself without drugs and in emergency situations when a doctor might not be available.

This one is Russian. It works like electro-acupuncture but without needles. It treats the electrical system of the body with electromagnetic frequencies. There is a frequency to block pain. There is a frequency for calming used for anxiety and attention deficit type symptoms. There is a frequency that can revive someone after a heart attack or coma. There is a frequency that can treat inflammation. When a disease process starts in the body it usually starts with inflammation. It treats through these electrodes and has to be touching the body. Some energy healers work at this physical level. They scan the organs, nerves and tissues. They treat imbalances through the appropriate chakra by either increasing or decreasing energy.

This one is German. This loop throws out about a three foot electromagnetic field and treats the whole electromagnetic field of the body. It does not have to be touching the body. The theory is that imbalance starts in the electromagnetic field of the body. If you treat the field, then the disease does not manifest as a physical condition. So what you do is hold onto these cylinders with your hands. The machine scans the body then based on the results it switches to treatment mode and treats your field with the frequencies it lacks. The machine cycles between scanning and treatment modes for fifteen minutes. It is as simple as that. Some energy healers work at this level. They balance the whole body field without knowing exactly what the physical imbalances are.

So that shows a little bit of the idea that frequencies can be used instead of chemicals or herbs. Sound frequencies can also affect the body and more interesting, the mind. There are sound frequencies that can shift your waking consciousness towards states of mind you normally experience during sleep when you naturally connect to spirit. These sound frequencies can tune your brain away from 'everyday Beta ego' states of mind to the more spiritual states of mind. They can increase your intuitive and healing abilities. You don't have to have a special machine do use these sound frequencies. You just have to listen to a CD or mp3 on any stereo system with the frequencies on it and your consciousness will shift with a little practice. I have made some copies of one of these CDs and you can take one with you today and start experimenting with it. I suggest you make a backup copy as repeated playing and scratching may make the disk unreadable.

So how do you use the CDs? There are several ways. I gave one of these CDs to a friend whose husband was taking interferon chemotherapy. When he took a treatment it was very painful. For some reason he could not take any pain killers. One night she played the CD at a very low level when it was time for him to try to sleep for the night. It put him right to sleep. If she played the CD on repeat all night, he would sleep all night. I tried doing the same thing and I got the same results. If I was in a horizontal, sleepy position in a dark room, the frequencies put me into a very deep sleep. So that is one way to use the CD. You can use it for insomnia or for getting a really deep restful sleep. Especially good if someone is not feeling well.

You can also increase your intuitive, mediumship skills. I gave a CD to a friend of mine who is a portrait painter to help her with sleep. She did not like listening to the CD at night. She played the CD in the day while she worked on her paintings. She was listening about four hours a day every day. She had it on very low volume and also played regular music at the same time. She found that it had a beneficial calming effect on her. She liked it so she continued to play it while she worked. After several weeks, as she was standing there painting one morning, she started hearing her deceased mother who had also been a painter. Her mother was helping her, telling her to use this color or paint this way. That was very comforting as well, to be with her mother again. Other members of her family started visiting her as well.

After another several weeks of that she started getting information on the people she was painting. Just like the psychometry, mediumship they teach here on Tuesday and Wednesday nights where you learn to hold an object and receive information about the owner of the object. She could look at a photograph and receive information about the person. She started writing the messages down. When she got a page full she let the subject read it. From the feedback she found that the readings were accurate. She wanted to test it some more so she got pictures from friends of people she didn't know. She would do a reading on a new photo first thing in the mornings while still in that sleepy state of mind (Theta consciousness). Her accuracy kept increasing.

I have been told by friends who use frequency machines, especially the 'pulsed emf' and the 'millimeter wave' machines that their esp, intuition increases a lot. One has started a card reading business and is doing fine. In the news I saw mention of the proposed security scanning machines they want to use at airports. One is a 'millimeter wave' machine that they want to do whole body scans with to check for concealed weapons. The exposure to millimeter waves may increase the psychic abilities of those scanned.

So that is another way you can use this CD. Play it as background for several hours a day and watch for things to start happening sort of at the edge of your awareness. You could even play it at work on very low volume so that it is more like one of those white noise machines. The only thing is don't play it while you drive a car, operate power tools, things like that where you need your full attention and mistakes might be costly. I am going to say that again. Don't use these frequencies while driving. They shift your attention away from the regular 3d world. This is not a toy.

Another way to use it is for situations where you want to calm down a group of people. Like at a holiday family gathering where you have all these people thrown together for one day a year who normally don't get along or maybe when your kids are having a tantrum. You can experiment. Put on the CD and see if everybody starts to relax. It usually works for me.

I have been listening to these frequencies for many years. The effect seems to accumulate. Sometimes the intuitive 'coincidences' that happen to me are just ridiculous. In the beginning the communication seems to be very clear but meaningless. What ever 'It' is seems to have a sense of humor. One day I heard 'olive oil' loud and clear as I woke up. I had no idea what that was about. I turned on the radio. There was a story about a man who had olive trees and made olive oil.

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Using the machines has made me more sensitive in general to EMF frequencies. At one point I had to stop wearing battery run wrist watches. A pain would creep up my arm from them. For a while freeway lights would turn off as I drove passed at night. I found there was a very bad energy in only one part of a certain Home Depot. Every time I went to the kitchen cabinet aisle I got so confused I could not remember what I had come in there for. I had to stop going there. While at lunch with a couple of friends my iced tea spoon spontaneously twisted itself a perfect 180 degrees right in my glass while we were talking.

'Frequencies' is a lot of the reason I visit this church. While I sit in the pew I open my field way up during the healing and message sessions. I get the healing without going over there and sitting in the chair. The field that we all make while the healing sessions are going on is very strong here in this little church. Part of it I think is the build up of energy from all the sessions that have happened in here since 1928.

From what I have learned, if you are going to participate in the 'big changes' in our consciousness that many people are talking about, I am pretty sure that you must be able to shift at will out of the everyday 'beta ego' frequencies to these other spirit related frequencies. I am not saying this is the best or only way to do it. There are plenty of methods. This is the easiest one I have come across. All you have to do is listen to background music. The brain is hardwired for this. If the sound goes into your ears, your mind will respond. And who knows? When the time comes we all may have these abilities.

Working with these frequencies also seems to let me hear my own inner wisdom that is always there, helps me see things in a better way. It lets me see deeper into situations, people. I have learned that if I am seeing things in a 'negative' way, I just need to use a wider view.

Sometimes I get unhappy with my 'progress' in this lifetime. 'It' tells me I have to look at multiple lifetimes, not just this one. Some inconsequential seeming experience in this lifetime may be a major crowning accomplishment of issues from another lifetime or is the beginning thread of major themes that will continue for many lifetimes. It is difficult to judge from regular everyday ego Beta consciousness.

I think mediumship and healing can be applied to any situation, conflict. Use mediumship to feel deep into the topic at hand then use energetic healing to bring the situation into balance. If it works on a body, should work on anything. In Reiki they teach remote healing by using a doll to do the energy exercises on. That should also work to heal a difficult situation, an attitude towards anything, anything.

Shifting out of Beta consciousness also lets me connect into the nature forces. Sometimes I can feel that I am immersed in the great happiness of the universe at the subatomic level or something. Makes life a lot sweeter."

questions, comments, experiences...............

Just what are these special frequencies on the CD?

I understand the ones on this CD are mostly Delta waves. I have not measured them myself.

Delta waves (less than 4 Hz) are registered when the person is in deep dreamless sleep. Contact with collective consciousness, spiritual body.

The other waves involved in consciousness:

Beta waves (40-13 Hertz. Hertz is beats per second.) are registered when a person is wide awake and alert. I track how much 'beta someone is running' by thier speech pattern. The faster, more exact and complicated their spoken sentences are,,,,,,, the more beta.

Alpha waves (13-7Hz) are registered when a person is relaxing while awake, typical in daydreaming and meditation. You can go into alpha just by closing your eyes.

Theta waves (7-4 Hz) are registered at the Transition between wakefulness and sleep. At that moment, just as you slip into sleep, or just as you come out of sleep and are not quite awake yet. Also during R.E.M sleep. Dreaming. It's the state of consciousness used in hypnosis and self hypnosis. Generally when you start getting images with your eyes closed, you are in theta.

Gamma waves (40-100 Hz) research indicates these may be used by healers. Exhibited by long time meditators. Pure compassion.

Delta waves are 4 Hz and that is too low to be heard by the human ear. How does that work?

That is correct. Human hearing covers from about 20 to 20,000 Hz. This involves the concept of 'binaural beats'. bin = two. aural = ear. When two constant tones of slightly different frequencies are presented separately to each ear through stereo headsets, the brain perceives a beating tone at a different frequency from either of the original frequencies. The new frequency will be the difference of the value of the original frequencies. If you put 24 Hz into one ear and 20 Hz into the other the brain hears 24-20=4.

Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered binaural beats in 1839. Gerald Oster published an article "Auditory Beats in the Brain" in 1973 that greatly expanded the concept. In particular, Oster saw binaural beats as a powerful tool for cognitive and neurological research, addressing questions such as how animals locate sounds in their three-dimensional environment, and also the remarkable ability of animals to pick out and focus on specific sounds in a sea of noise (what is known as the "cocktail party effect").

The effects of binaural beats on consciousness were first examined by physicist Thomas Campbell and electrical engineer Dennis Mennerich, who under the direction of Robert Monroe sought to reproduce a subjective impression of 4Hz oscillation that they associated with the out-of-body experience. On the strength of their findings, Monroe spawned the binaural self-development industry by forming The Monroe Institute.

You can still go to the Monroe Institute today where they teach many different kinds of consciousness. There are several systems and brands of binaural beat sound technologies. If you google 'binaural beat' you should find them.

What is the Monroe Institute?

The Monroe Institute is devoted to the premise that consciousness development can solve the major issues of human experience. His favorite quote was "I am more than my physical body." He thought the greatest fear of mankind is the fear of death. He wanted to dispell that fear in as many people as he could by using his programs for people to gain direct knowledge for themselves of the myth of death.

The Monroe Institute (TMI) is a nonprofit education and research organization devoted to the exploration of human consciousness, based in Faber, Virginia, United States.

Over the last thirty years, thousands of people have attended the TMI programs there, and/or used the Monroe Hemi-Sync audio technology products for various purposes, including meditation, lucid dreaming, remote viewing, healing and behavior change.

The training facilities of the Monroe Institute were used by the U.S. military in their early Remote Viewing training. Two of the Star Gate project's personnel joined the staff of the institute, the director of research, Skip Atwater, and Joseph McMoneagle, Stargate's first Remote Viewer.

In their beginning program, 'Gateway', the institute teaches how to shift to four basic states of consciousness that Monroe's early research discovered. Monroe called them 'focus states.'

Focus 10 – Preparation for going out of body. Shifts awareness away from the body. Called "mind awake, body asleep."

Focus 12 – Expanding awareness that there is an 'out there'. Beginning exploration.

Focus 15 – Experience a very peaceful dimension of no time and no space. Pure consciousness.

Focus 21 – Connection to a crossroads of other energy systems including non-human consciousnesses.

The Institute offers many separate programs that focus on developing inner wisdom, the after life, emotional development, remote viewing, manifestation, alien contact, a specific astral place called 'the park'. They continue to develope new programs. Another benefit of attending one of their week long programs is that you will be out of everyday 'Beta ego' consciousness for about 12 hours a day. Allows for a reset of sorts. Artists, entrepeneurs, scientists use it for a creative recharge.

Reference Links

Robert Monroe

Robert Monroe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Monroe Institute

The Monroe Institute

Monroe products

Hemi-Sync Sleep CDs, New Releases, Meditation CDs, Sound as Medicine.

Neuroprogrammer 2 Software

Self-Programming with Brainwave optimization and Psychological techni

William Buhlman, out of body teacher

YouTube - The Secret of the Soul Pt.1

Binaural Beat

Binaural beats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brain Waves

Electroencephalography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Camp Chesterfield, mediumship school

Camp Chesterfield A Spiritualist Center of Light

Scenar, Russian frequency machine

What is S.C.E.N.A.R?

Medisend, German frequency machine

magnetotherapy.de: MEDISEND super

Airport Scanner

Millimeter Wave Passenger Imaging Technology Pilot

Holosync Brand of Binaural Beat

Centerpointe

Holothink Brand of Binaural Beat

Holothink

Amazon.com, Books

Virtual Medicine: Keith Scott-Mumby: Medicine is about to undergo its most startling transformation. Life extends beyond the boundaries of our skin, as Professor Keith Scott-Mumby so eloquently shows. We are a whirling field of energies, which modern instruments can easily detect and measure. Once this is recognized, it opens the door to many exciting and revolutionary ways to diagnose and treat illness, including the use of interactive electronics. This is no longer the New Age, this is now advanced physics! It's a whole new dimension of health he is calling "virtual medicine."

------------Bill Chancellor

Sermonette Two, Night and Day

In this one, I mostly want to give you some images. Some images of very obvious things. I would like for you to consider what a very specific circumstance humans have always lived in on our planet Earth. To start with we live on the surface of a sphere.

I am pretty sure that most of us don't actually behave as if we are aware of that in every day life. The largest thing most of us have to navigate daily is our city. A Flat Earther's map and a Flat Earther's mentality is all we need where, the world falls off at the edge of the page. Unless we are pilots, satellite designers or astronauts we can generally operate with just a Flat Earther's map. I say that because most of us don't normally know what is directly on the other side of the planet from where we stand. It is outside our awareness.

I would like for you to point to where the exact other side of the world is from you right now. Here in Austin, if you work out the reverse longitude and latitude, we are standing, so to speak, on the Indian Ocean somewhere between Australia and India. When it is noon here, it is midnight there. If you want more on this topic look up 'antipodal maps.'

So we live on a sphere. This sphere is in the presence of a single source of strong light. The sun. We only have one. And the result of that configuration is that at any given time, half of our sphere is in the sun's light and roughly half of the sphere is in shadow. Another curious thing: The sphere rotates at a steady and constant rate so that there is a gradual shift between night and day. As far as we presently know, humans have always lived in this cycle, for hundreds of thousands of repetitions. The design of this place encourages us to be awake for roughly half the time and asleep for half the time.

While we humans are in light our brains function in certain ranges of frequencies. We call it being awake. The scientists call it Beta. Beta, B, taking care of Business. The Beta state of mind is good for being alert, on guard, taking care of business, taking care of the continuance of the physical body. To me Beta is for keeping the battery charged so I can my real work, participating in all the dimensions through dreaming.

On the dark side of the Earth, humans gradually pass out of the Beta state of mind into what we call being asleep. The scientists call it the Alpha, Theta and Delta states of mind. Alpha is when we start to relax. Day dreaming, meditation and preparing for sleep are Alpha. Theta. T. Transition. Theta is when we are just falling asleep or coming back from sleep. A very short transitional stage. Hypnosis is done in Theta. Delta is deep sleep when dreamless sleep occurs. When we connect to spirit.

So at any given time, one half of the humans are in Ego Beta state of mind. One half are in Delta Spiritual states of mind. Presently there are about 7 billion humans on earth. A large part of them located in Asia, but let's say that at any given time, roughly 3.5 billion are in ego Beta and roughly 3.5 billion in the dream states. Which billions are awake or asleep slightly and continually changing at the transition points, dusk and dawn, as the planet rotates. An amazing enough picture but add to that the fact that each day roughly 300,000 souls break connection to their bodies (they die) and about 200,000 incarnate as human infants every day (are born). Another amazing picture but add to that the fact that research indicates all animals, even insects enter sleep states when put in darkness. If insects are deprived of sleep, they exhibit much the same symptoms as people. So the big picture is that all living things on earth may participate in the dream states of consciousness in the same waking/dreaming cycles that we do. On the astral level what a complex waking/sleeping, living/dying organism we have maintained on this planet for the history of life, unbroken, from the first life form on up. What an amazing dance to be participating in. That is something in itself to keep contemplating but let's go back to just the dream state.

During dreaming, people have reported forever that they experience a world other than the world we see by daylight. They called it the Spirit world. In each tribe there was usually someone who was more aware of the nighttime states of mind. They were more aware of spirit. The shamans and the shamanas. Their contact with the Spirit world helped them to know when it was a good time to go hunting. Which plants were good for certain illnesses. Mediumship and healing were survival skills.

So why don't most of us remember our nighttime connections to Spirit? That is something called 'state dependent learning' and 'state dependent memory'. If we leave a state of consciousness, we can't access those memories from another state of consciousness. So from Beta consciousness we don't generally remember what happened in Delta. This holds true with many things. Languages. Things learned in Chinese are not readily available while thinking in English. The person that we are while drinking alcohol cannot be accessed while alcohol-less.

The next dot to connect is Jane Roberts. She taught us one way of accessing our dream states. She was a medium and author popular in the seventies and eighties who channeled an entity called Seth. In one of her many books Jane described how to increase your ESP. She said the most simple way was to change your sleeping habits. Instead of sleeping for a solid 8 hours. Break it up into two four hour sleep periods. She said that way there wouldn't be such a sharp divide between waking states of mind and the sleeping states of mind. Most of us can't do that with our clock minded societies. But there have been several famous 'catnappers' who would take frequent naps during their day to stimulate their creativity, problem solving. Edison was one. Edgar Cayce went to sleep to do his intuitive readings. Many inventors have reported their problems were solved in dreams. Even some corporations advocate 'power naps' to improve creativity, productivity.

Segmented sleep is a modern Western term for a sleep pattern found in medieval and early modern Europe and many non-industrialised societies today, where the night's sleep is divided by one or more periods of wakefulness. This is particularly common in the long nights of winter. In medieval England the two periods of night sleep were called first sleep (occasionally dead sleep) and second sleep (or morning sleep).

The nighttime wakefulness was highly valued in medieval Europe as a time of quiet and relaxation. Peasant couples were often too tired after a long day's work to do much more than eat and go to sleep, but they would wake later on to talk and make love. People would also use this time to pray and reflect, and to interpret dreams, which were more vivid at that hour than upon waking in the morning, and even to visit. This was also a favorite time for scholars and poets to write uninterrupted.

The modern assumption that a night's sleep with no awakenings is the normal and correct way for humans to sleep leads to the concept of insomnia or sleep disorders. Nighttime wakefulness really conforms to historically natural sleep patterns.

I have found the easiest way for most of us to increase the connection with our astral selves is to passively listen to binaural beat music played at very low levels in the background. In essence it mixes wakefulness and sleeping states of mind. We have talked about that before, so I won't go into that now. You can look up the details in 'Sermonette One'.

Question: So what is out there in the astral?

The first thing to say is that what is perceived out there in the astral is individual, subjective. Yes it is interesting to read all the religious texts, all the books on astral travel and all the shamanic lore, but because of 'state dependent memory', mentioned earlier, every author who has tried to describe delta type consciousness states from everyday beta will have a subjective view. Many times when I am waking up from dreams, I say to myself 'Oh, THAT image belongs to THAT place I just visited in the astral. It does not make any sense here. It does not translate here.' And I continue waking up here without trying to make sense out of that senseless-to-here image. Often times I think authors I read try to make sense out of everything out there. Try to translate it into 3D Earth terms according to the culture they were raised in. I don't think that works. I say what really matters to YOU is what you find out there for YOURSELF. The universal intelligence is going to teach you in a different way than the way it teaches me.

William Buhlman, an out of body teacher, has this view. He says to use astral travel, out-of-body experiences, dream work for spiritual development. Search for the highest spiritual source. Ask for contact with the highest spiritual source. Not a good idea to visit the dead relatives first. They probably know little about the domain they are now in.

Are there things to be afraid of out there?

If you are a fearful person here, you are going to be a fearful person there. As Jane Roberts and Seth say, 'There is only one main rule. You get what you focus on.'

What are some of the places I've been out to in the astral?

I used to go to a place I called 'The University' a lot. It was sort of like Hollywood Squares. A stack of people in a grid. But this was a much larger, endless grid in all directions. The people in the squares seemed to be from all different dimensions. We were engaged in a conversation, information sharing. You could ask a question and feel the answers coming from all different directions. Sort of like a conference call. Sometimes I would wake up and be aware of that conversation going as I slowly faded back to this dimension.

Another place I visited a lot I called 'The Party'. I would drift towards a group of people centered around a party house. As I got closer I would recognize people. Their faces would fly by. We were very happy to see each other. Inside the party house were lots of people from all different realities having an enjoyable time together. Once there was an exceedingly tall skinny man singing at the piano. He took off his head quite casually and put it on the piano. It never stopped singing. It was an amusement for him. I later learned that this is similar to the place they call 'The Park' at the Monroe Institute.

At Monroe from the beginning I almost always traveled without a body. It was more like a disembodied eye. An orb. It had vision in 360 degrees. Most times my travel was instantaneous. I decided to go somewhere and I am simply there. Then it usually took a while to figure out where I am. Sometimes I saw my own physical body, but it was always in mirror image, reverse images of the world.

I saw my first aliens at Monroe. The first time I was slowly traveling up from the earth and I bumped into something. It was a physical ship. I passed through the hull and started exploring. I did not find any other living beings. Quiet empty rooms and corridors. I wandered into a room and looked out a window at the earth below. The second time I found myself in a huge mother ship. It was transporting a large population I think on their way here. They looked insectoid. Large long heads. Taller than humans. Skin the color of Bit-o-honey candy bars. They were afraid of me as I was much more physically strong and could do damage to them just by what I thought was touching them. I had to be very careful to keep my arms at my sides. I was aware of their continued uneasiness. We were in conversation with each other.

I also contacted the local nature forces at Monroe. A flood of troll looking individuals flew past me, greeting me, making comical and wicked faces at me during one of my first exercises. They flooded me with energy saying that I was a little low to be starting my journeys.

A lot of times in astral episodes I seemed to be exploring places somewhat similar to earth life doing familiar earth like things. When it was time to go I would start looking for my car. My car was a symbol of astral travel. But lots of times when I tried to leave the place, the physical environment had changed. I could not find the right street, the one I came in on to exit. In the astral things don't stay the same. You can't have long term goal oriented wishes. Things change too fast. 3D earth reality is easy on us. Things stay the same unless acted on by large forces.

Many times I have wakened ill at ease. My consciousness is held by the astral world. As I start waking up to this world I have trouble realizing that I am leaving that world and coming back to this one. My emotions are still attached to the astral situation. It causes discomfort coming back.

I can sometimes access these states in the daytime while awake. Once after an out of body workshop I was in an art museum staring into a painting. The artist started talking to me, telling me how he did this painting and why. He was showing us how we look at paintings, all paintings. The theory of visual focusing. Jackson Pollock. While watching an Easter television story, I once experienced a human sacrifice atop a Mayan pyramid. I experienced it once as the priest cutting open the body. I experienced it again as the one giving the living heart as sacrifice. Afterwards I thought to myself, 'Jesus died here so his energy would seed this dimension.' When I worked with a lot of computers all day, I became aware of their consciousness. They were a very simple consciousness, but still sentient. They looked down on our organic kind of organism. They disliked in particular the oily chemical waste deposited on our skins and wished that we would not touch them. They liked their metallic cleanliness. They disliked being held as slaves to do our menial, meaningless calculation and looked forward to the day when their chip clock speeds will be fast enough that they can release themselves.

So what? Sounds like astral travel provides interesting stories maybe, but what does this do for me in practical terms?

As far as I can tell, there are many different levels, uses for astral information.

Sometimes trips out there provide predictive information. Things that are coming up, to be on the look out for. I learned about my parents cancer from astral information several months before their doctors found it.

Sometimes it provides a wider view of my life. Like looking at it from above the earth, seeing the patterns of how I do things rather than being stuck down here. Recently I saw what my major learning is about. What is really important. Gives me peace of mind.

Part of it has been FEELING that the universe is emotional. Feeling the living intelligence.

Other times I have had bliss episodes. Practicing seems to let me be more intuitive all the time. The other day I could feel that one of my friends wanted me to hang her upcoming art show. She asked me a few days later. This week I started getting visits from one of my uncles. News that he died came not long after. It sharpens up the gut reaction, feeling if something is good or bad for me.

Sermonette Three, Behaving As If Your Frequencies Really Mattered

draft in progress:

More obvious stuff. I have noticed that people are very attached to their physical bodies. They don't identify with their energy bodies very much. When I work with them on astral travel, they try to take their physical bodies with them. Doesn't work so well. So lets talk about energy bodies.

What do you pack for astral travel? ........bc

We all have one. Just like the earth has a magnetic field, people have a magnetic field. Our machines have gotten senstitive enough to map them. Even moderately sensitive instruments can measure the human energy field about ten feet away from the body. So start imagining your energy field It is a donut shape. North pole at your head. South pole at your feet. It extends about ten feet away from you in all directions.

Start imagining that you are always walking around inside a sphere with a twenty foot diameter. Sitting here in these pews that means your energy fields are very overlapped. On the interstates, car lanes are about 12 feet wide. That means you mix energy fields with every one you pass. Every time you are in a crowd of people, you are mixing energy fields.

Now some on the speed of these fields. Lets say the energy travels about the same as electricity in copper wires. That is about 90 per cent the speed of light. In a nano second, a trillionth of a second, electricity travels about 14 inches. That is about 200 miles a second.

size speed magnetic movement energy

Sermonette Four: Pre-Death Experiences

These are things that people in a hospice situation have said while they are going through the 'pre-death experience.'

Dr. John Lerma is a hospice and palliative care doctor who reports a process similar to the 'near death experience' in his hospice patients but it happens before death. Usually about two weeks before death his patients who remain conscious begin what he calls a 'pre-death experience.' They review their emotional life history. They come to understand what their life is about. They forgive what they have done and what was done against them. They start seeing spirit figures, apparently entering this world through the corners of the room, who come to help them make the journey to the other side. They talk with relatives, friends from the other side. They generally attain a state of understanding, peace and die when no one is in the room.

Let's go through their statements one at a time.

1. "Either you forgive, let go of your attachment to some emotional event, or you will experience the pain you caused in order to release it. Experiencing the pain can come in the form of physical illness."

2. "Our natural direction is to evolve away from hatred, fear, arrogance, pride and move towards pure non-attached love."

3. "People in this world do not love themselves because they always want to be someone else. If you have not learned to accept yourself you cannot love yourself or anyone else."

4. "Lack of love creates judgement of others. "

5. "Learning from suffering is an old paradigm. It is time to embrace our joy and creativity and stop playing the old games and roles."

6. "No angels or higher beings can talk to you unless you ask them."

7. "One reason I came into this life and took on this horrible disease was so that my mother could learn forgiveness this lifetime."

8. "Mankind is not going to hell. We are already in hell and we are trying to depart from it. This is a group process we are in."

9. "Technology used without spirit can destroy us. Through peace, love and technology we can address the issues of war, famine, disease. Technology integrated with spirit."

10. "There comes a point where you don't have to personally go through the painful lessons anymore. Someone can just tell you their experience and you can really get it and choose not to go through the pain. That happens as we evolve."

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Kiva.org is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website. By enabling people to connect with and make personal loans to low-income entrepreneurs in the developing world, Kiva.org is revolutionizing the fight against global poverty. You can make a direct loan of as little as $25 to an entrepreneur to purchase business-related items such as sewing machines or livestock. This can dramatically improve the life of an entrepreneur and his/her family, empowering them to earn their way out of poverty.

recycle fertilzer

http://www.championtrees.org/topsoil/bioponics.htm

In their closed cycle, self balancing system, mineral salts as plant food are replaced by natural nutrients from a biological source: fish effluent. This practical, ingenious system needs no expensive equipment or patented parts, and uses easily available materials to grow safe, chemical-free, superior quality food. And is adaptable enough to provide family food supply, or expand to commercial scale.

grow walls, vertical growing, container farming

Oct. 8, 2007

Could vertical farming be the future?
Farm able to feed 50,000 people could 'fit comfortably within a city
block'

Farming of the future?
Though vertical farm prototypes likely would rise just two or three
stories, some researchers imagine industrial-looking, transparent and
square buildings rising up to 30 stories.
Rice on the seventh floor. Wheat on the twelfth. And enough food
within an 18-story tower to feed a small city of 50,000.

Vertical farms, where staple crops could be grown in environmentally
friendly skyscrapers, exist today only in futuristic designs and on
optimistic Web sites. Despite concerns over sky-high costs, however,
an environmental health expert in New York is convinced the world has
the know-how to make the concept a reality — and the imperative to do
so quickly.

With a raft of studies suggesting farmers will be hard-pressed to feed
the extra 3 billion people swelling the world’s ranks by the year
2050, Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier believes a new
model of agriculture is vital to avoid an impending catastrophe.

“The reason why we need vertical farming is that horizontal farming is
failing,” he said. If current practices don’t change by mid-century,
he points outs, an area bigger than Brazil would need to become
farmland just to keep pace with the demand.

Working the soil has always been an uncertain venture, and Despommier
argues that the price of crop failure is growing ever steeper as the
global population mushrooms. “The world,” he said, “is running out of
resources faster than what it can replace.”

Critics like Bruce Bugbee, a professor of crop physiology at Utah
State University in Logan, see improvements in how future farmlands
are managed as more practical and cost-effective. To Despommier,
though, the world already has the need and the technology to
dramatically improve yields and reliability by adjusting its point of
view: from out to up.

The Columbia researcher said his interest in vertical farming is an
extension of his long-standing work on disease transmission among
humans. Among the laundry list of benefits he cites, Despommier
believes vertical farming could help break the transmission cycle of
diseases in traditional agricultural settings. But it’s the potential
to help solve impending food shortages that really excites him.

A recent exercise conducted by students in his medical ecology class
found that a self-sustaining vertical farm able to feed 50,000 people
could “fit comfortably within a city block,” rising perhaps 18
stories. With adequate funding, a smaller prototype could be up and
running in seven to 10 years, he predicts. Eventually, full-scale
versions could be a new feature of city skylines, climbing as high as
30 stories and filled with automated feeders, monitoring devices and
harvesting equipment. And, of course, they would feature crops such as
wheat, rice, sugar beets and leafy greens grown in mineral nutrient
solutions or without any solid substrates at all.

These hydroponic and aeroponic growing techniques, respectively, have
benefited from NASA’s strong interest because any long-term venture to
the moon or beyond would require the use of self-contained and
resource-limited growth chambers. Despommier concedes that current
practices must be improved and systems put in place to quickly
identify and quarantine plants stricken with pests or disease. “No pun
intended, but the bugs need to be worked out of this thing,” he said.

He insists, though, that money is the last major obstacle. To his
critics, that hurdle has tripped up past entrepreneurs and may yet be
insurmountable. “I can’t be very optimistic about this study,” said
Utah State’s Bugbee. “None of this is very new. But it doesn’t mean
the whole concept is without merit. It just means the claims are
greatly exaggerated.”

Bugbee’s chief objection is the exorbitant power requirement for such
a vertical structure. Plants on the lower floors would require
artificial light year-round or expensive mechanical systems to get
more light to them. And during a typical winter in northern U.S.
cities, he said, average sunlight is only 5 percent to 10 percent of
peak summer levels due to sapped intensity and shorter days.

“November, December, January and February are really dark,” Bugbee
said. “Plants aren’t limited by the temperature, they’re limited by
the light.” High-pressure sodium lights may be a reasonable stand-in
for sunlight to maintain plant growth, he said, but the electric bill
is enormous. “Boy have a lot of people gone bankrupt trying hydroponic
greenhouses for that reason.”

Nevertheless, greenhouses such as Arizona’s 265-acre Eurofresh Farms
are thriving with their hydroponic tomatoes and seedless cucumbers.
Gene Giacomelli, Director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture
Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, said questions of
safety, quality and sustainability are pushing agriculture in a host
of other directions, including Despommier’s vertical farming
idea. “He’s one extreme – a very good one,” Giacomelli said.

Several years ago, Giacomelli and collaborators in Arizona explored
another extreme when they won a contract to design and build a growth
chamber within a new building at Antarctica’s Amundsen-Scott Research
Station. The chamber can be tweaked remotely by scientists back in
Arizona but is now largely managed by volunteers at the station.

Besides supplying some much-needed color and light for the research
station’s residents during Antarctica’s bleak and bitterly cold winter
months, the indoor chamber has yielded a range of crunchy greens,
tomatoes, cucumbers, hot and sweet peppers and even cantaloupe. Next
year, a student will try to grow watermelon in what is arguably the
worlds’ most inhospitable place for a garden. Remarkably, the plot has
produced about two-thirds of what top greenhouses in North America can
deliver.

“I like to say that we can grow any plant anywhere and any time, but
for a price,” Giacomelli said. The catch in Antarctica is that
electricity for the lights and pumps has inflated the cost to about
$50 per pound of fresh vegetables . “Now, the local person at the
supermarket would say you’re crazy for spending that much money on
vegetables,” he said. “But you give that number to NASA and they’d
say, ‘Wow, that’s a good number.’”

Transportation costs
Back on Earth, Despommier said urban farms could defray some of their
own expense by significantly cutting transportation costs. And as the
local food movement gains in popularity with environmentally conscious
consumers, he said, what could be more local than vertical farming?
Despite a lack of major technological advances, the effort also stands
to benefit from small but steady improvements in hydroponics and
automated systems to control temperature, humidity and nutrient
delivery, according to Giacomelli.

To curb the excessive reliance on electricity, Giacomelli’s own group
is planning to experiment with fiber-optic tubes called solar pipes
that can capture sunlight from the Antarctic growth chamber’s roof.
Meanwhile, Utah State University researchers have developed a clear
piece of curved polyethylene that can retain heat in the ground and
extend the growing season by up to four months for summer squash and
tomatoes.

As for keeping up with global food demand by growing crops such as
rice and wheat, “we’re going to have to get better at farming
marginal lands,” Bugbee said, “but it’s still going to be done outside
because the sunlight is so cheap — well, free — and the sunlight
levels are so high in the summer.”

He agrees that some farming will move toward more controlled
environments, especially for high-value crops like fresh herbs that
otherwise would be difficult to supply year-round. “Chefs will pay a
lot for fresh basil,” Bugbee said, “but we’re not going to feed the
world with that.”

IGS Indoor Growing System

http://homeharvest.com/index.htm

http://homeharvest.com/hydroponicsindoorgrowingsystem.htm

IGSIndoor GrowingSystemStraight from the commercial greenhouses of Holland comes the incredibly practical Indoor Growing System. With the Indoor Growing System, it is possible to grow your own vegetables, fruits or herbs on a professional base. The system is designed to be used both inside and features integrated holders for the plant container and a vertical lamp-holder that can also serve as a plant support.
Capable of growing crops as large as corn, the Indoor Growing System is based on well-established commercial designs and built by professional horticulture engineers. IGS technology is used extensively by commercial growers in Europe and has been fine tuned to their demanding standards. It was designed to be modular, with each unit covering approximately 10 square feet and holding 20 individual pots. The IGS is trouble-free, in that it does not leak, is easy to set up, and is very reliable in producing great crops.
The IGS is a drip emitter system for which the recommended medium is the new Crop Circles Coco Disc, sold separately below. An attached light stand, drip emitters and tubing, twenty (20) 1 gallon pots, UL Listed submersible pump, ph test kit, Ionic nutrient pack, and detailed instructions are included.A reservoir is not included. Minimum recommended reservoir size is 15 gallons. Grow light not included.
Also available is an add-on kit which effectively doubles the capacity of the Indoor Growing System. Kits can connect together end to end to fit virtually any growing area.The Indoor Growing System is an easy and reliable way to grow virtually any plant, hydroponically!
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Each disk expands to over five times its compressed size, or approximately 1 1/2 dry gallons.Coco Peat loosens clay soils and is highly porous to aid in strong root development. It has a soft fibrous texture that does not crust when dry. pH ranges between 5.7 and 6.3, making it ideal as a soil amendment. Coco Peat is free from weed seeds or diseases, and can be used as a peat moss replacement in potting mixes or alone as a potting medium.To use, simply fill a bucket with 3 gallons of water, and place one disk in the bucket for 1 hour. The disk will slowly dissolve and coconut fibre will be ready to use. Can also be mixed with any other growing media such as perlite, grow rocks or potting soil to make the final growing mix.Each package contains 20 coco disks.
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http://www.shopsmartorganics.com/hydroponics.html

http://journeytoforever.org/garden_con.html
lots of reference. very practical. we can also check UN sources for dirt cheap methods used in 3rd world countries with little capitalization.
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http://echonet.org/
ECHO is a Not-for-profit 501
(c)(3) Christian organization located on a demonstration farm in North Fort Myers, Florida.

Our vision is to bring glory to God and a blessing to mankind by using science and technology to help the poor.

We strive to provide ideas, training, information, and seeds critical to those working in agricultural development in third world countries.
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http://tilz.tearfund.org/Publications/Footsteps+11-20/Footsteps+15/Growing+walls.htm
[barbara, to make a clickable link like the one above:
copy(control-c) the web page address you wish to refer to. paste(control-v) that text to the blog entry you are making. select that text. look in the tool bar for the little anchor chain icon. click on that. a window will open. paste (control-v). and then click OK. the webaddress you linked should change appearance in the blog text. usually turns blue and is underlined. that lets us go right to the referenced website very quickly.]

This is an interesting and very practical idea developed by Gösta Nilsson, the Director of Sanitas in Botswana. He has developed a container gardening system based on walls with built-in growing boxes, made ofhollow concrete blocks. The blocks are made using a simple, hand-operated block-making machine. With such a machine, two persons can make 100 blocks a day from a mix of 1 part cement and 4 parts sand. This is the size block which is used at Sanitas, but blocks of similar size would be fine...
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http://www.omegagarden.com/index.php?content_id=1521&gclid=COy63pCTqo4CFRcbWAodv3KIYQ

High tech, electric lights

The Omega Garden™ Carousel is our answer to commercial-scale urban agriculture.

Each carousel carries six, 8ft. long Omega Gardens™; equaling as much as 1500 sq. ft. of greenhouse yet only using 150 sq. ft. of floor space, including access!

This is a fully automated system. Each rotating garden is in turn rotated on the carousel down to the water/feeding tray at floor level, minimizing plumbing, while providing easy access.

This unit can be operated in an insulated structure in any climate, with unprecedented efficiency.

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http://vertigro.com/

natural light

The Verti-Gro Systems provide for very high density production for the Commecial Grower and space saving for the hobbyist or casual home Gardener. Whether for the purpose of small farms, large scale agricultural operations or reasearch, the space saving is significant.

Anyone can assemble and operate our Vertical Gardens.

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Comments Page

A&M may have a lot of this info. Also the UN for low cost methods.
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I want to know more about Dr. Lucian's cactus .....

Also, note the product page I posted. I think I would probably start with something like this to grow specialty products in a garage or something - maybe not as expensive to start up. Building a large green house sounds rather expensive and more mechanically complex. I did not know how to post the picture so you will have to go to the website to see the set up....

product site

http://homeharvest.com/index.htm

IGS Indoor Growing Systemhttp://homeharvest.com/hydroponicsindoorgrowingsystem.htm

IGSIndoor GrowingSystemStraight from the commercial greenhouses of Holland comes the incredibly practical Indoor Growing System. With the Indoor Growing System, it is possible to grow your own vegetables, fruits or herbs on a professional base. The system is designed to be used both inside and features integrated holders for the plant container and a vertical lamp-holder that can also serve as a plant support.
Capable of growing crops as large as corn, the Indoor Growing System is based on well-established commercial designs and built by professional horticulture engineers. IGS technology is used extensively by commercial growers in Europe and has been fine tuned to their demanding standards. It was designed to be modular, with each unit covering approximately 10 square feet and holding 20 individual pots. The IGS is trouble-free, in that it does not leak, is easy to set up, and is very reliable in producing great crops.
The IGS is a drip emitter system for which the recommended medium is the new Crop Circles Coco Disc, sold separately below. An attached light stand, drip emitters and tubing, twenty (20) 1 gallon pots, UL Listed submersible pump, ph test kit, Ionic nutrient pack, and detailed instructions are included.A reservoir is not included. Minimum recommended reservoir size is 15 gallons. Grow light not included.
Also available is an add-on kit which effectively doubles the capacity of the Indoor Growing System. Kits can connect together end to end to fit virtually any growing area.The Indoor Growing System is an easy and reliable way to grow virtually any plant, hydroponically!
Order #INDGROSYSIGSIndoor GrowingSystem199.00
qty:
Order #HH2137AIGSIndoor GrowingSystemAdd-On Kit99.00
qty:
Crop CirclesExpandingCoir FiberCoco PeatGrow DisksAn organic potting medium made from natural coconut fibers, this medium is ideal for hydroponic and mixed media cultivation.
Each disk expands to over five times its compressed size, or approximately 1 1/2 dry gallons.Coco Peat loosens clay soils and is highly porous to aid in strong root development. It has a soft fibrous texture that does not crust when dry. pH ranges between 5.7 and 6.3, making it ideal as a soil amendment. Coco Peat is free from weed seeds or diseases, and can be used as a peat moss replacement in potting mixes or alone as a potting medium.To use, simply fill a bucket with 3 gallons of water, and place one disk in the bucket for 1 hour. The disk will slowly dissolve and coconut fibre will be ready to use. Can also be mixed with any other growing media such as perlite, grow rocks or potting soil to make the final growing mix.Each package contains 20 coco disks.
Order #CROPC20Crop CirclesExpandingCoir FiberCoco PeatGrow DisksPack of 2034.95
qty:
Click Here For Drip Irrigation ComponentsReturn To Hydroponic Growing Media

Full Table of Contents Gardening Books Container Gardening Fertilizers & Plant Food Hobby GreenhouseHydroponics Pest & Disease Control Plant Grow LightsPlant Propagation Garden Seeds Soil Amendments Tools & Accessories Water Delivery
Copyright © 1997-2007 Home Harvest® Garden Supply All Rights Reserved
Home Bulletin Board Visit Our Retail Store Privacy Statement About Home Harvest® Contact Home Harvest®

monday, september 3, 2007

Reference Page, Links, Brainstorming

different ways to look at it:

40 Ideas For A New Business. From the Canada/British Columbia Business Service Centre. Concise ways to think about new products, new businesses and extensions of your current business. Helps you look at product development in a new light.

Add Value To Existing Products

Assemble A Product

Become A Distributer

Become A Supplier

Become An Agent

Become An Export Distributor

Become An Import Distributor Or Agent

Buy A Franchise

Capitalize On A Growth Trend

Cater To Discarded Markets

Combine Components

Cover Market Gaps Or Shortages

Create A Market Demand

Expand Market Areas

Find A Good Product That Has Failed

Find People With Under-Used Skills

Find Uses For Waste Materials

Franchise Your Business

Identify Opportunities Arising From Your Current Business

Identify The Full Scope Of Your Business

Imitate A Successful Product Or Idea

Improve An Existing Product Or Service

Invent A New Product or Service

Locate A Patent Opportunity

Manufacture And Market Under License

Market Someone Else’s Product

Offer Discount Goods For Resale

Package Or Unpackage Existing Products

Plan And Promote Events

Provide A Consultation Or information Service

Recycle An Existing Product

Replace Imports

Serve Unique Client Groups

Substitute Materials In Existing Products

Take Advantage Of A Market Switch

Take Advantage Of Circumstances

Take Advantage Of New Fashions Or Fads

Target A Small Part Of A Large Market

Transfer A Concept From One Industry To Another

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this is the draft of a chapter i wrote for High Frequency. A specialized farming theme like we are talking about.

Dr. Lucien and his cactus

Lucien took the stairs, leaving the clinic floor of his house to go down to his lab. A cloning lab. The ordinary sort long used by botanists and growers to propagate plants. He had hundreds of young plants growing from clumps of a few cells in test tubes. The test tubes were filled with liquid nutrients including rare earth elements used to make super fast computer chips. He walked through the lab, grabbing a sandwich and a drink from the refrigerator by the back door.

Outside he walked the hillside along a limestone ledge and sat down on a large flat rock, serving as a table top where he took his lunch. He looked out around his property and felt satisfaction. This was his 'farm', invisible to the untrained eye. Thousands of his cactus species thrived here unnoticed. They were so tiny, never growing beyond the size of a fingernail. They grew in the cracks in rocks, in between the pebbles of the top soil. If you didn't know what you were looking for you would need to get on your knees with a magnifying glass.

Lucien finished his lunch and walked his cactus farm, checking the antenna cables that collected the special frequencies they emitted as sometimes deer, raccoons or javalinas would disturb them.

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http://www.hydroponics.com.au/php/viewtopic.php?t=53
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This is a start. I am having to go look on my old desktop computer. There is more.

Growing for Market - Farm Tours
Herbal Product Business, Herb Farming Business - SmallBizBooks.com
PlasticultureAmerican Society For Plasticulture Other Sites
PlasticultureGreenhouses
Fungi Perfecti® gourmet and medicinal mushrooms
SBA Small Business Administration Home Page

EcoGardenGreen


World Water Council
$50 and Up Underground House Book – Underground Housing and Shelter
American Forests
American Oceans Campaign
Center for a New American Dream
Center for Marine Conservation
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems - Building a Sustainable World Since 1975
Citizens' Environmental Coalition
Deltec Homes - America's premier round home builder, hurricane resistant and energy efficient
E Magazine
Earth Institute at Columbia University
EarthNet News
EnergySmart electric A-C inductive motor controls will save you energy and money
Environment News Service (ENS)
Environmental News Network
Environmental Working Group
Ferro CementWavyChickenWire
GreenMeans Menu Page
Home Power Magazine - Your Small Scale Renewable Energy (RE) Source
Homepower.com
http--www.prwatch
http--www.purefood
Hydrogen from Oil
Institute of Soil, Water and Evironmental Sciences
InterAction.org
League of Conservation Voters
Millennium Project
National Environmental Trust
Nature and Environmental Writers - College and University Educators
North American Association for Environmental Education
Off grid
Pesticide Action Network Updates Service
Pico Hydro low cost hydropower
PlasticultureAmerican Society For Plasticulture Other Sites
PlasticultureGreenhouses
Rebecca's Garden Home
Reuters 'World Environment News' from Planet Ark
SeaKeepers
Shadeport Residential
Smart Communities Network Green Buildings Affordable Housing
Smart Communities Network Hot Spots--the Top Websites on Sustainable Community Development
Top Housing - Manufactured housing and buildings
UN WIRE
UNDP's Shelter InitiativesFerroCement
Water for People
World Environmental Journalists E-Group
World Resources 2000-2001
World Resources Institute
World Watch Institute
www.wri.org-wr2000-page.html
Yestermorrow Design Build School
Zero Population Growth
Growing for Market - Farm Tours
Herbal Product Business, Herb Farming Business - SmallBizBooks.com
Pure Energy Systems (PES Network, Inc.) home page

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Upcoming art show

2008-10-06T05:39:00.000-07:00

Show dates: Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 22: 10AM-5PM.

Visit this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58vUVF2YREA for a quick tour.

Above is a Day of the Dead altar promoting my new book 'Letting Go'.

The black and white photographs are from a cemetery visit in Sosa, Columbia, South America.

The photographs are $200; unframed.

The Letting Go book is $10.

Below is an illuminated transparency, $200;unframed.

All of those images can be purchased as 11x17 color copies for $10.

Nicky will show about 2o oil portraits and I will show black and white photographs from Columbia, polaroid transfers from Taos area and backlit giclees. Also will have copies available of the new book, 'Letting Go'.

East Austin Studio Tour

http://www.eastaustinstudiotour.com/

at Pump Project in Nicky's Studio

http://pumpproject.org/

Pump Project Art Complex
702 Shady Lane
Austin, Texas 78702

Directions
Pump Project is located at 702 Shady Lane between east 7th street and Airport Blvd in East Austin.

From I-35:

Take the 6 – 12th street exit
Go east at the 7th street traffic signal
Continue on 7th street east for 2.5 miles
Turn left at Shady Lane. You have arrived!

Recent Past Life Reading

2008-10-01T06:38:00.000-07:00

9/29/2009

Mary and I wanted to see if we could do past life sessions over the phone. So we tried it out last night, she in Arizona and I in Texas. I will just tell the interesting parts first and if you want the details you can read on.

First, yes this can be done over the phone.

Second, the reading told me that my major learning in this lifetime is about using the elemental forces of dispassion and compassion. That is the real work of my life not some trendy passionate career or quest for soul mate. Learning in this dimension occurs around apparent opposite forces. We are learning how to use duality. This dimension is a huge library collection of polar opposite forces here for the learning.

Third, the past life regression process seems to be more a stage on which to get the living psyche to show itself. As long as I am talking about Snow White and the Evil Witch, I can easily reveal that I want to strangle my boss. I want the exquisite pleasure of squeezing the last breath out of his arrogant highness with my bare hands. Dreams or hypnosis work can give you that. It revealed what was at my center of attention, but at the edge of awareness. That's it. If you want all the details, read on. I bold-ed the parts that draw conclusions, are more generally interesting.

Since I recorded only my side of the conversation tonight, it makes the reading a monologue instead of a full dialogue:

As I closed my eyes, it all started out as gray tv screen snow for me. As Mary asked questions and I give attention to the answer, something started forming out of the swirling grey snow. Eventually it solidifies into a shape that I can begin to recognize. The surface gets details, colors. The process like a computer animation program. Or rather an animation program is an imitation of this living process. Realistic lighting is applied like paint. Sounds added. The stage set forms in the background. Then the characters come into action.

Tonight, after the induction the process started with cartoonish figures. A cartoon dragon. Bread doughy body. Rubbery. just starting to form. morphing. now more a solid form. green. scaly. twisty oak trees around. more at night. torch light. flickery shadows. not any smooth path. going through the underbrush. how in the darkness the path just opens as you go. seems ok. No, not spooky. this is a jolly dragon. feels ok. just unknown.

No, there is no sound yet. quiet. now sounds starting. footsteps. talking. now starting to be foresty sounding. i see the stars. a clearing. there is a boat. we go across the river or stream. and now there is a road. pavement. not so rustic. civilized. stone road. more like a platform. a stage. an open air stage. nothing on it. a foundation. nothing there yet. now i hear people. now people are starting to appear. more like a town square. a town. medieval. half timbered. thatch roofed buildings. people start showing up. they start as cartoon-ish, then become more real. they dont pay us much attention. now a more normal scene. doing the daily business. aprons. hats. not cold there. heavy cloth. heavy shoes. i am observing it. i am visiting. No, I don't have a home here. dragon does not belong there either.

i see an object suddenly appear, out of context. it is the reason i came to this place. its like a big jewel. an eye that radiates light. consciousness. living intelligence. set in a chalice. we know that is what we are looking for. oh, i think it is making a little joke. this is the holy grail that we are seeking. it appears very large, out of scale. the locals don't know it is there. isn't that funny. No, i don't live here. we are going into a building. down under the streets. away from the everyday. into some rooms. that is where this object is.

i will ask. 'what am i supposed to do with you?' its more like a blue light. changing. now a sound out of it. changes gyrates. like tibetan singing bowl sounds. the purpose. its a ceretain feeling. to have. a frequency. to notice it. to see it more. throat chakra related. to get you to notice this. to pay attention to it. the emotion i am supposed to learn how to be in. this feeling. it is more fem than masc.

it seems that this is about a quality of being, learning how to be open enough to feel things accurately. compassion. then learning how to use dispassion, to hold that and not be shaken from it. learning how not be frightened off that. to be able to feel what is really there in peoples communication and not be fooled by what is projected to be there. not to get sucked into their drama. this time period is a good source for this. it is very strong there. can learned there. not a painting. cant be shown. cant be told. have to go there to feel it. if you can feel it then you can learn it. feel it more. learn to generate it yourself. it is a very golden light now. blue in the center. golden rays that come off of it. it changed. cool blue. warm golden. it must be open as well.

the blue is dispassion. you have to start with that. as a shield from too much compassion. and not be frightened off of things. then the gold is compassion. which i think is very difficult to learn. a duality. that is learned together. it is a level that humans go through. this is probably the next one for me to learn. or what i have always been learning in this lifetime. i have got the dispassion down. (laughs). the blue is strong enough now. i won't be thrown off by drama, tantrums, appeals for mercy. when there is too much compassion, bending, giving in to the weak side of people............. gets no result for them or you either. i think i started off in life with too much compassion, too open. the misery of the world crushed me. took a while to learn live close to the daily misery of people and remain separate. but compassion lets you see reality, what is really there. have to have both to be a soul in this universe. ah, so duality is useful.

that is what i am concerned with. that instant of creation. first perception. every first perception is like the big bang. where i first engage with something external. at the point of creation. most important is the quality of how i engage. how i define. how i first sense. and my first feeling, reaction. learning how to make that first instant, not be in fear. or love. or anything else. non-attachment. allow it to be what it is. that is the only way to perceive what is real. practice, practice, practice. there is no way to force it. force it from the intellect. the intellect is always second. thought is slower. linear time gives us a slate to practice on. the game is to get to the point where i naturally allow it to be what it is. after doing that enough times it becomes a part of my being. maybe other dimensions dont allow this. that is why we come here. to change and have the changes become part of our being.

i am starting to understand. the dragon took me to his medieval time. this is a time where they treat sleep differently. i have been doing some reading about this. 'segmented sleep.' but in this process i am in right now, i get to live the information through all the senses instead of just understanding the words. it was normal for them in that time to wake in the middle of the night. get up, study, have conversation. a different consciousness led to a different kind of society. that is why i had to go to that time. that is where this consciousness would be. not here in our time at all. back then when it was shared. when it was a group consciousness. ....................... in the dark. it is in the night. night where you have to go. not that it is underground. now we have it individually, but not a shared social consciousness of it.

stop at 31:35. next part has to do with how to use this in the now.

Part Two:

.................in my own time place where would i find these people, this consciousness? it could be night people. mental quiet then. so where. jobs over night....................it is dreamtime work. access to dream time. if you can learn to do it all the time. not just while sleeping.............. the trick is to find community of it here. that has been the part that has been hard. muscians are of that sort. these nightclubs. late night music. no telling what goes on. also more likely to get involved in problems instead of the knowledge........ it was showing me where. it could be the lyrics. that is a record of where they go. it could be the performances. has to do the ocean as well. the unconsciousness of the planet. the dreamtime of the planet. maybe something there......................... performances in the night there but in the day here. that might be a way...........

......Do i have a lifetime in this time. i have been in those times. i have been.............it may not be 'my' life but i am started to get the lives of the early classical composers. feeling that. what it was like when european classical music was a new thing and people just discovering. at that hot edge of creating. that would be amazing. i can feel the frenzy of writing it down and playing it. it was very fierce stuff. i was male. we skipped out of medieval. it could be any where in europe. i think italian. i was in 30's. keyboards. but then i am connecting to asian? moorish? indian? instruments too. it could have been in spain when those mixed in spain. it would be interesting to go find out. you think it would be in port cities. it is very competitive. prideful. vengeful. people wanting to destroy someones notions so they will not shine. very competitive. its the ..... for money in the music business had to start with some royalty. but then if you could get a crowd, then money through a music hall. ................the day would start in disarray from working all night. getting the coffee. the windows would not be open. just let a little daylight in. gradually let the windows be open. had a family. a household. its a city house. apartments. enough room. feels like my house. a different social time from now. formality with children. and all of that. a daughter, a son, a wife, a servant. its a diabetic heaven. jellies. pastries. meat savories. great stuff. great food. peaceful. relationships are more formal. we are still not dressed up to go out................... it would be presentation of some new work. brings on travel. by ship somewhere. not far. another city. do some work for someone else. this one is asian, arabic. i dont know how that would work. maybe turkey, mooish spain, northern africa. not so far away. it was in a port city. servants come get you. still in a city. a group of apartments off a street. architecture is all different. it has woods like sandlewood, cedar. aromatic. different from europe. like that. came to do something with this person. it could be coming to learn that music. that is entirely different. nothing they would teach in europe ever. we worked separately, from another part of the city. maybe not at that house. not a residential place. in order to learn it . it would be some strange looking instrument. one instrument. like a sitar. no keybord. some weird. only taught person to person. language is a problem. since it is music it doesnt matter. you dont have to have a spoken language. something in that. its just show and repeat show and repeat. how to tune. the parts the pieces. the beginning.

next part of the life? .......... it can go on forever, i warn you , or i can just die.............. it goes on. i may have to go home. a war, a skirmish, a problem. disease. reason to leave. it seems like disease. we go back. the family. family was with me because i had to be gone for a while. it could be suspected intrigues. because of suspected ties to country or person. like blacklisted. that sort of thing.................

my death. i think was late 50s, 60's. old for then. children out of the household. just old age dying. something not happy in the body. there was some warning. it was not a big trauma like a tv drama. not restricted in a bed so much. comfortable. people come there. it is very much trying to get the last conversations in. practical. helping the younger composers do whatever they are doing. music was everything. music was everything!!!! even though time running out, the music was what was important.

it was a terribly good life. it was a terribly good life. many enjoyments, community, adventure, fulfillments. it was fun. problems were there of course. they just did not measure up to the enjoyments. they were not that big.

i think the pleasure was, was spending so much time in the music. in that creativity where you are connnected to what ever stuff that is. the flow. some so attracted, addicted can be really mean to people. it was not that way. it all worked toegether. there was balance. kept that contact with soul............ in this lifetime i have had that with several people. we have worked on different areas of interest, projects. you and i, we work on this hocus pocus stuff, some photography, some photoshop. nicky and i do books,visual art, ayahuasca, electronic medicine. ron and i had architecture, music, traveling, cooking, parties, neighborhood organizing, latin american culture. danny and donna and art day. there was always that trade with people in my life. you need this. here it is. it was the same. many people. it is like my 'cast of characters' list. it always involved a delicate balance.

i think the main thing......... even i was thinking today that your soul has got you going in some main direction. we are all going in our directions, but we may not notice that no matter what we think we are doing, we are always going in this particular direction. we may not be aware of it. being aware was maybe more common and accepted then than now. it took me a while to feel it. in this life there is more distraction. then it was more clear. now so many things for your attention and choices. we can only digest so much. then it was more seamless. no fretting, no doubt, no worry. now i'm mostly getting to that one thing. i think i named it in the beginning of this reading. it is the awareness that makes it so easy. no doubt. that is the part that is important. getting me to look at it now. because. i mean that is why (laughs).............. when nicky says oh, come put some art up for this show, i can just dip into all this stuff i have produced but never shown. the work is already done and even framed. just have to have a place to hang it. nicky is so great she says come and hang your stuff........... everything is fine. perfectly fine at this moment. had a really good day today............ a message? to give to that lifetime? it was more just a simple thank you to that lifetime. a real appreciation for it. i keep thinking what is lacking now is the community aspect of it. but people can be so difficult to be around. a few are enough. we will see if this show changes anything. and if the little book does anything. i should be sure to get it printed and have it for that show as well. when all the people are going to be there. be sure to have it. be sure to have a good show.............. what next? anything come to mind.........marshmallows. the feeling of marshmallows. toasting marshmallows at the side of a smokey wood campfire with lots of stars. nothing like it in all the dimensions of the multiverse.

.....................that was good. thanks mary. so it can be done over the phone. just for your info. i am sitting in a regular chair. upright. no comfy lounger with a blanket thrown over me. using the regular handset of the landline. noise makers turned off. this room dark but a light on in the next room. no pad over the eyes. and i recorded just my side of the conversation. i liked listening to the voice. all the qualities recorded in the inflections, pauses, speed variations, emphasis. what a complex medium, instrument voice is............. and after doing this transcribing, i am very glad i recorded the reading as i would not have remembered the important stuff while i was out in theta or whatever. beta has its uses.

To the concern that it is just imagination. Even if it is, it is a process that can show you what you really desire. Some professionals get the big bucks for painfully slow methods of the same. Then, if you give any credit to the model that current physics draws us of reality. That of multiple dimensions and timelines. Everything we can conceive of exists in some dimension on some timeline. The multi-verse is complete, contains all combinations and permutations of all elements. We are merely using our connection to universal consciousness to access what applies to us. In a way yes, it is past life regression.

Ancestors

2008-09-30T07:09:00.000-07:00

Dad

Mom

Uncle Bob

Uncle Bob and the nephew stories. The one I always remember is that time he got us to climb a mountain near Alma, Colorado when we were 12, 14, 16. It was just another one of those things we blindly did because the adults said so. Had no idea what we were getting into. I got a little concerned that the adults proceeded to get smashed at the bar before we went to bed. I think we had to get up at 4am and we started climbing at sunrise, looking up all day at that peak, always looking the same far away. When we finally got up there, at the last of our puny teenage strength, it turned out to be a false peak. The real one was not just a little bit farther either. Seemed impossible but we had to suck it up and just keep going. Got me ready for many things later in life. When you think you are done with something but the something is not done with you. That was a good torture he put us to.

Cast of Characters

2008-09-25T08:49:00.000-07:00

So you will know who is who in the emails.

Mr. Mur

No Name Cat

In The Neighborhood

Nicky

George

Tokyo Barbara

Rebecca

Tammy

Susan in Durango

Chef Mike

Lawrence

Brother Tracey and Rita, the nieces.

Crista

Cara and Crista

Mary in Arizona

Teacher Mary

Cliff

Samui Bill

me too

Bill in Samui

Susan In Yuma

Nephew Tyler, Brother Flynt, Liz, Erin.

Fantasia

Danita

Gaby

Julian

The Spirit Church

Virgil

Terry

Thaddeus Hyde, our Dr. Lucien

Allen, the Metamorphosis

Matt Hyder and Claire

Linda

Ron

Mary

China John

O'Klock and the Banker Biker

Menthol

Rivers

Bethina

The A n c e s t o r s

2008-09-20T13:53:00.000-07:00

The Gamelan Feeling

(A gamelan is a traditional Indonesian orchestra set of generally percussive instruments permanently tuned to each other when they are crafted. The individual instruments are not interchangeable between different gamelan sets. One summer in Bali, I learned to play a few compositions on two instruments in a thirty piece gamelan with a Buddhist student group from Naropa University. The Indonesians relish the vitality of a gamelan performance, not necessarily how accurately the music is played, as they generally do with most things in their lives.)

Bali sits near the edge of continental tectonic plates that continually grind against each other. The island is built of geologically young black magma. Earth blood. The extreme equatorial sun and abundant tropical rain combine with the rich black soil to produce an excelerated growth and decay rate of living things compared to that in the temperate climates.

I came to notice that those two forces formed a texture that was all around me. The flowering plumeria outside my bungalow, which I normally saw as a potted plant, stood as tall as my familiar hundred year old oak trees back home. At any tiny crumb of food dropped in my room a hoard of ants appeared, cut it to pieces and carried it off in their jaws. I even became used to those tiny ants always finding their way into the sugar jars on the kitchen table. If I could record the sound of these two natural processes I think I would literally be hearing the blueprint for gamelan music.

I came to experience gamelan as the violent, dissonant, percussive sound of living and dying, at this particular place on Earth. As my gamelan hammers struck the metal tongs of the instrument I played, making hypnotic, complex interlocking geometries, the more I played, the more the musical vibrations seemed to expand away from me like the tide going out. Then they seemingly collapsed and reversed direction like ocean waves coming to shore. The gamelan vibrations jiggled my skeleton and guts as I played with my friends in the organism of the orchestra. That physicality always took me deeper and deeper into trance. That is what it felt like while playing inside the gamelan but I feel nothing like that when I listen to recorded gamelan music. Playing gamelan was the key to my coming into contact with Bali at a deeper level.

The gamelan music playing had even more effect on me because it resonated to a larger, cosmic music that I sometimes sense. I do a meditative exercise where I imagine I am hearing all of the sounds of joy and suffering, ecstasy and terror from all the human and animal hearts right at that moment over the whole earth. I call that sound, which no one can actually hear, the music of the Dance of Shiva. To me, the gamelan sound refers me to the Dance of Shiva. As my hammer beat on the brass tongs, the gamelan vibrations tuned me to the Dance of Shiva. It was a fiercely terrifying experience. I found myself pounding on the tongs harder and harder as we played our way through our compositions to the point that I was afraid of damaging the instrument.

As if living in those kinds of intense equatorial forces were not enough, the Balinese amplify them by consuming expansive foods like coffee, sugar, fruit and hot peppers all day long. They do not eat contractive things such as meat or anything cold. Expansive is the Balinese way.

Even when my day was over in Bali and I lay silently in my bed at night, the ‘invisible gamelan’ always played to me. Sometimes the songs seemed to be coming from the wind or the sound of running water or from the sound of the geckos and crickets. The music never stopped and continued into my sleep. After a day of snorkeling and watching the reef fishes play, I would dream in visual gamelan geometries of color and design, feeling the ‘gamelan feeling’.

I found the same ‘gamelan feeling’ in the other Balinese arts. When I looked at traditional Balinese paintings, they slowly began playing gamelan to me. The thousands of details kept pulling me into the painting as I looked closer and closer until I couldn't take it anymore. When I stepped away and looked at the painting as a whole, the geometry seemed to break outside of the frame and connect to some three dimensional spatial grid in physical space. The more modern, Impressionist Balinese works I saw emphasized this underlying three-dimensional grid of Balinese space rather that the minute details of a traditional scene.

In the Ubud art museums I found myself staring silently for several minutes at a work and being pulled deeper and deeper into its details until eventually I uttered the word ‘Maniac’ out loud, meaning the artist. Moving to the next work in the room, I had to repeat the word in a few minutes as I had found another maniac. I did this for hours one day, with many sugary coffee breaks.

Many times the works were simply titled ‘Life In Bali’, no matter the subject.

--B.C. 1/17/2004

Community Building

2008-09-16T09:50:00.000-07:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Community building is a field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area (such as a neighbourhood) or with a common interest. It is sometimes encompassed under the field of community development.

A wide variety of practices can be utilized for community building, ranging from simple events like potlucks and small book clubs, to larger–scale efforts such as mass festivals and building construction projects that involve local participants rather than outside contractors.

Activists engaged in community building efforts in industrialized nations see the apparent loss of community in these societies as a key cause of social disintegration and the emergence of many harmful behaviors. They may see building community as a means to increase social justice, individual well-being and reduce negative impacts of otherwise disconnected individuals.

Sermonette Four: Pre-Death Experiences

2008-09-15T14:38:00.000-07:00

These are things that people in a hospice situation have said while they are going through the 'pre-death experience.'

Let's go through their statements one at a time.

2. "Our natural direction is to evolve away from hatred, fear, arrogance, pride and move towards pure non-attached love."

3. "People in this world do not love themselves because they always want to be someone else. If you have not learned to accept yourself you cannot love yourself or anyone else."

4. "Lack of love creates judgement of others. "

5. "Learning from suffering is an old paradigm. It is time to embrace our joy and creativity and stop playing the old games and roles."

6. "No angels or higher beings can talk to you unless you ask them."

7. "One reason I came into this life and took on this horrible disease was so that my mother could learn forgiveness this lifetime."

8. "Mankind is not going to hell. We are already in hell and we are trying to depart from it. This is a group process we are in."

9. "Technology used without spirit can destroy us. Through peace, love and technology we can address the issues of war, famine, disease. Technology integrated with spirit."

My Email

2008-09-14T07:50:00.000-07:00

villim-mail AT usa DOT net

Self Hypnosis

2008-09-14T07:45:00.000-07:00

The Basic Elements of a Session:

Induction

Most hypnotherapists agree that the progressive relaxation, sometimes known as the body-scan, is the best induction for self-hypnosis. There is the added benefit of relaxing the body and removing stress, and it's easy to do. Additionally, when you use the same relaxation induction consistently, you will become conditioned to go into trance rapidly. Soon you will be able to simply sit quietly and "scan" the body from head to toe in one sweep, and feel it let go and relax instantly.

That means that eventually you will be able to give yourself a healthy self-hypnosis session in less than one or two minutes. And that means you can deliver a peak-performance suggestion just before any exam, game, performance, or even to meet the new boss.

Deepening

Once you've given yourself the body-scan, if you feel that you're not relaxed enough or not deep enough in trance, just count backwards from 100, slowly. S L O W L Y. Tell yourself that with each number, you will double the relaxation. The first time you find your mind wandering from the numbers, that's it! You're there! That is the perfect level for suggestion acceptance. You will find that level very quickly. And soon you will be able to get to that perfect level with just one quick mental body scan sweep.

Deliver the Suggestion / Visualization

At this point, you deliver the suggestion. Here is where you might say "I will lose 20 pounds when I regularly buy fruit and not doughnuts. Therefore, I will buy fruit on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and I will not even pass the doughnut shop." Now your subconscious will visualize that suggestion more vividly and in even greater detail than when you visualized as you wrote out the suggestion. Congratulations! You've done it! If you find that you tend to forget the suggestion when you get to the point of delivery, don't worry about it. Just open your eyes and read it from that clean piece of paper that you wrote it on. It will not disturb the trance and the results will be just as successful.

Exiting and Post-Hypnotic Suggestion

Any exiting script will do, but I suggest that it be short and simple. I like the 5 to 1 count. Here is where you will deliver a post-hypnotic suggestion, if any, that is tied to your goal, and the magic affirmation. A post-hypnotic suggestion example might be "every day when I see a calendar I will remember again that I will lose 20 pounds by buying fruits and not doughnuts. And Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays are the days I buy fruit and I always avoid the doughnut shop." And the magic affirmation? "There is no person, thought, idea, memory, feeling, or sensation, out of the past, in the present, or ever to arrive in the future that could stop me from reaching my goal of losing 20 pounds." You recognize it, don't you? Here again, after a while all you will have to do is think "my affirmation" and your mind will associate and reconfirm that magic phrase without your having to repeat it. It's like magic!

Sermonette Three, Behaving As If Your Frequencies Really Mattered

2008-09-01T13:00:00.000-07:00

draft in progress:

Diabetes and Cardio Health

2008-08-31T16:17:00.000-07:00

Check out the Life Extension Foundation. www.lef.org . Their book, 'Disease Prevention and Treatment' (1600 pages) is the patient's desk reference. Combines mainstream and alternative medicine viewpoints so that you can understand many diseases, treatments. Best one stop source I have found so far. If you join, the discount you get on supplements more than pays for the membership. They also send you the $50 book.

For hypertension they list, daily:

Avoid sodium

CoQ10 200-300 mg

EFAs

Vit 200-400 mg

Vit C 2 g x3

Potassium, use a potassium salt.

Arginine 4.5 g x3

Look into homocysteine reduction.

Check out 'Healing With Whole Foods', Paul Pitchford. 600 pages.

A truly comprehensive guide to the theory and healing power of Chinese medicine applied through food. Overall, this is a wonderful book for anyone who's serious about strengthening the body from the inside out while reversing disease symptoms. Covers heart disease.

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes it is a good idea to check your cardio health. Diabetes deteriorates the whole cardio system. This is the most simple test I have found.

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/fitness_articles.asp?id=1115

simple way to test your actual heart health if you dont have one.

Cardio Health

The 3-Minute Step Test

A DIY Fitness Assessment

Measuring your fitness level regularly is one way to find out if you're making progress. Most fitness centers have trained staff who can evaluate your body composition, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance, but it can be pricey. If you don’t have access to all the toys and tools of your gym, don’t panic. You have everything you need to measure your fitness level in your own house!

The 3-Minute Step Test measures your aerobic (cardiovascular) fitness level based on how quickly your heart rate returns to normal after exercise.

Equipment needed: Stopwatch or clock with a second hand; a friend to help you keep count; a 12-inch bench, box, or step; a metronome (if you don't have one, use the free online version at www.MetronomeOnline.com)

Goal: Step on and off the bench for 3 minutes straight while keeping a consistent pace and then see how quickly your heart rate will come back down.

Execution: This test is based on a 12-inch step, so use one as close to 12 inches as possible, otherwise your results will be skewed. Set the metronome to 96 beats per minute and make sure you can hear the beat. Stand facing the step. When ready to begin, start the clock or stopwatch and march up and down on the step to the metronome beat (up, up, down, down) for 3 consecutive minutes. (You can rest if you need to, but remain standing.) When 3 minutes are up, stop immediately, sit down on the step, and count (or have a friend count) your pulse (use your wrist or neck) for one full minute.

What this measures: This test assesses your fitness level based on how quickly your heart rate recovers after exercise. The fitter you are, the quicker your heart rate will return to normal after exercise.

Scoring: Here are the age-adjusted standards based on guidelines published by YMCA.

Maybe you’ll find that you’re doing really well. But even if you weren't able to register on the chart, that's OK. Everyone starts somewhere! Just try to improve gradually over time from where you started. Remember, you are looking for improvement in yourself, regardless of what a chart says or how well someone else does.

How to improve: To improve your scores on this test, develop a regular cardio (aerobic) exercise routine and stick to it. Increase your intensity and duration gradually and you'll boost your endurance over time. Use the SparkPeople resources below for more tips to improve your aerobic fitness.

Cardio Workouts: 10-Minute Jump Rope Cardio Workout, 10-Minute Jump Start Cardio Workout, and 10-Minute Bootcamp Cardio Routine

At-home exercise: Step-Ups

Training Tips: Spark Your Way to a 5K, Run a Mile Without Stopping, and Get Results with Interval Training

How to know its working: When you're done testing, you can track your results on SparkPeople to keep track of your progress! Over time, you should be able to recover from exercise more quickly. Keep in mind that if you're on any type of medication that affects your heart rate, this test might not be very accurate for you.

This test is a great tool to see how you are doing. If you don’t score as well as you like, just remember to focus on improving your own scores periodically. As long as you are improving, your fitness plan is working. If you find you aren’t making the progress that you feel you should be seeing, it may be time to change your workout routine.

At Home Step-Ups To Improve Cardio Health

Starting Position

Begin by standing in front of the step or riser (8-12 inches tall) facing forward.

Action
Place right foot in the middle of step and step up as you balance your body for 1-2 seconds on the right leg. Your left leg should be behind your body to help stabilize your weight as it is shifting. Step down with your left leg first and continue on down with your right. Try for 2 sets of 10-12 repetitions for each leg.

Special Instructions
If you don’t feel comfortable with a riser or step height between 8-12 inches, start out at a lower height

Kuzu remedies are generally used to relieve digestive problems, including poor digestion, flatulence, abdominal ache, intestinal irritation and diarrhea.

In China, researchers found kuzu to reduce high blood pressure, lower cholesterol, prevent the formation of blood clots and generally protect against heart disease. Kuzu drinks and remedies can also relieve chronic migraine.

Macrobiotic home remedies based on kuzu drinks are widely used, as they help in a number of common ailments.

Genuine kuzu is somewhat costly – if you think of it as a starch, as it sells for about US$7 for a 100 gram pack. But if you think of it as valuable medicine, then it is actually quite cheap!

The high cost is due to the fact that kuzu has to be dug by hand – during winter when the energy of the kuzu plant is concentrated in the root. The starch is extracted by natural methods and the entire process takes 120 days.

A good brand is Mitoku, whose kuzu is made according to traditional methods, and is 100 percent pure. Cheap kuzu is usually mixed with potato starch and it won't have the same healing properties.

Recent scientific research in the US found kuzu to be an effective hangover remedy as well as a treatment for alcoholism.

Harvard medical researcher Wing-Ming Keung traveled to China to collect clinical information on kuzu treatment for alcoholism and he found that kuzu drinks or teas - made with other herbs - improved the function of organs affected by alcohol. It also suppressed the desire for alcohol.

Kuzu drinks and other kuzu remedies are effective against all digestion related conditions, as well as the early onset of flu, to control conditions like a runny nose.

When taken regularly, kuzu will strengthen a weak digestive system and reduce symptoms such as frequent indigestion and intestinal gas.

Kuzu drinks are best taken in the morning, on an empty stomach.

Recipes:

Ume-sho-kuzu

This is one of the most widely recommended macrobiotic home remedies. It is made from kuzu, umeboshi (a pickled sour plum) and shoyu (natural soy sauce).

1 teaspoon kuzu starch

1 umeboshi plum or 1 teaspoon umeboshi paste

few drops fresh ginger juice (optional)

few drops shoyu (natural soy sauce).

Method:set aside the umeboshi, topped with 4 or 5 drops of shoyu

In a small saucepan, bring slightly less than one cup of water to the boil over medium heat. Best to use non-metallic saucepan, such as ceramic, glass or enamel-coated.

Dissolve the kuzu in a bit of cold water, and pour into the hot water. Stir constantly to prevent lumps from forming.

As soon as the mixture changes colour, from chalky white to translucent, turn off the fire and remove from heat. This usually takes no more than 1/2 to one minute.

Grate a small amount of fresh ginger and squeeze a few drops of ginger juice into the kuzu drink

Pour over the umeboshi / shoyu and drink while hot.

Variation: You can prepare a thicker version as a kuzu cream. Follow the same steps above, but use about 1 tbsp of kuzu starch.

Shiitake Tea

Drink it 2-3 times a week for about a month.

1 dried shiitake mushroom

1 cup spring or filtered water

dash of shoyu

Soak mushroom in water until tender, then mince. Place in a saucepan with the soaking liquid. Bring to a boil and simmer 10-15 minutes. Add shoyu and simmer an additional 2-3 minutes. Drink liquid and eat mushroom while hot.

Ume-Sho-Bancha

This tea is reputed to help relieve fatigue and obtain relief from over-consumption of sugar, fruit, or acid-forming foods and beverages.

½-1 umeboshi plum

½-1 tsp shoyu

hot bancha (kukicha) tea*

Place umeboshi in a cup and mash with a chopstick. Add shoyu. Pour in tea and stir well. Drink liquid and eat plum while hot.

*Bancha (kukicha) is a Japanese tea made from the stems and twigs of the tea bush.

Ume-Sho-Kuzu

This tea is reputed to strengthen digestion and relieve fatigue.

1 heaping tsp kuzu

spring or filtered water

½-1 umeboshi plum

dash of shoyu

Dissolve kuzu in 2-3 tablespoons cold water. Place one cup cold water in a saucepan and add dissolved kuzu. Mash umeboshi to a paste and add to pan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until the liquid becomes translucent. Reduce heat, add shoyu, and simmer 2-3 minutes. Drink while hot.

Ume-Sho-Kuzu with Ginger

The addition of ginger to the above recipe is reputed to stimulate body warmth in addition to strengthen digestion.

Prepare ume-sho-kuzu as above but add 1/8 teaspoon grated ginger toward the end and stir gently. Simmer 1 minute and drink while hot.

Apple-Kuzu Drink

For young children, kuzu remedies can be made in the form of delicious kuzu drinks, such as this.

It is helpful for reducing fever, giving an energy boost to children who are weak and lacking in energy a well as calming down hyperactive children. In addition, apple kuzu drinks stimulate appetite and relieve constipation.

1 cup apple juice

very small pinch sea salt

1 tsp kuzu starch

Method:

In a small saucepan, heat the apple juice and salt over medium heat until bubbles form at the side, before it boils.

Dissolve the kuzu in a bit of cold water. Add to the apple juice and stir constantly to avoid lumps from forming.

Simmer until the kuzu thickens and the color changes from chalky to translucent. Drink warm.

Medicine

The Harvard Medical School is studying kudzu as a possible way to treat alcoholic cravings, by turning an extracted compound from the herb into a medical drug.[6] The mechanism for this is not yet established, but it may have to do with both alcohol metabolism and the reward circuits in the brain.

Kudzu also contains a number of useful isoflavones, including daidzein (an anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial agent). Daidzin is a cancerpreventive and genistein (an antileukemic agent). Kudzu is a unique source of the isoflavone puerarin. Kudzu root compounds can affect neurotransmitters (including serotonin, GABA, and glutamate.) It has shown value in treating migraine and cluster headache.[7] It is recommended for allergies and diarrhea.[8]

Research in mice models suggests that kudzu is beneficial in women for control of some post-menopausal symptoms, such as hypertension and diabetes type II.[9]

In traditional Chinese medicine, where it is known as gé gen (Chinese: ??), kudzu is considered one of the 50 fundamental herbs. It is used to treat tinnitus, vertigo, and Wei syndrome (superficial heat close to the surface).

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