Mar 28
Resting Easy With Mother Earth
Bedtime in the post-millennial world is rife with distractions, noise, stress, and environmental poisons. Unlike our ancestors, the majority of us are tied to a rigorous, demanding schedule which requires us to report punctually for some regular early-morning appointment with some authority figure who doesn’t care if last night’s sleep was sufficiently restful.
What’s worse, the majority of the bedding itself contains toxic substances-often polysyllabic petro-polymers derived from chemicals you’d rather not pronounce, let alone sleep on. These chemicals won’t just make you toss and turn…many of them have been tied organ and central nerve damage in addition to being highly carcinogenic.
The worst offender is mattress glue, and good luck finding a mattress without it. Since these cancer-causing molecules are suspended in water, they continually evaporate whenever your body heat rubs it the wrong way.
Many people are replacing their old box-spring bedding for a memory foam mattress but even many of the premium brands employ unsafe polymers which can cause asthma, heart and liver problems, and worse. Not only that, but to cover up the odor of polyurethane, synthetic memory foam manufacturers utilize perfumes and air fresheners which themselves contain unsavory ingredients.
Recently, we had the chance to stay at the house of a friend who sleeps on the clouds of Heaven. After a thorough cleansing, we were granted the privilege of a single night in a bed made entirely of natural latex foam . Our host slept in the hammock, and we were definitely in a better mood in the morning than he was. Fortunately, we’d done the dishes.
I was intrigued, so I got online and learned more about toxic beds than I ever wanted to know. Apparently we’d slept in a one-of-kind creation, which was not only the smoothest ride I’ve taken to dreamland in a long time, but the product of an environmentally friendly company as well.
In addition to manufacturing the most natural bedding this side of a pile of leaves, they have managed to produce them with 88 percent less waste. Essentia Mattresses offer more than comfort…they add their environmental dream of a cleaner and healthier planet to ours.
All three thumbs up from me!
Jan 27
Biofuel: Growing our way out of the Petrochemical Pit
By Indi Riverflow
War, environmental crisis, economic disaster-all things evil seem to go in and come out of that gas tank. Nevertheless, as prices climb and reserves plummet, the vast majority of motored vehicles continue to run on the costly and divisive toxic goo, much to the delight and profit of the multinational corporations still serving it up.
Of course, the friendly oil companies are there for us, leading the charge for alternative fuels. Those lovable humanitarians at Chevron even have an active website “promoting” energy options that would, if adopted, wipe the firm to the dustbins of bankruptcy. This generosity is as stunning as it is unconvincing.
Biofuels International Magazine
Well, one thing they could do is replace the bloody stuff they sell at the pump! While these fuel barons are diligently researching the methods by which they can continue to fleece us, a “grease-roots” movement has already emerged to free us from the petrochemical dependency the media always reminds us we have.
Rudolph Diesel, inventor of the synonymous engine, designed his creation to operate on pure peanut oil. And around the turn of the century, a group of enterprising hippies rediscovered what many farmers already knew: diesel engines will still operate on ordinary vegetable oil, with a few hundred dollars of modification, or on a plant-based blend known as biodiesel, with hardly any modification at all.
Biodiesel Processor
Biodiesel is made by removing the glycerin from the vegetable oil, using lye and alcohol distillation. The “waste” products can be utilized completely, to make soap and to refertilize the fields where the base plant was grown. While biodiesel pumps are sprouting up more frequently across the country, many people perform this operation at home. There are various biodiesel processing units
According to the website of Pacific Biodiesel, Inc., where we recently purchased a quality tank of biodiesel made from organic mustard seed, it has become more economical for pump trucks to deliver used restaurant oil to Pacific Biodiesel’s Maui processing plant than to dispose of it as waste, resulting in a landfill diversion total of over 40 tons of used cooking oil per month. This pilot project has the distinction of being the only fuel-processing plant worldwide able to boast 0% net emissions.
This issue is very near and dear for the author; in fact, this website is written and managed from a small bus where we work and live, powered by all-natural biodiesel for nearly two years. The very electricity powering this computer on which I write was generated by Herr Diesel’s brainchild in association with Mother Nature and the generous Sun. Today, all of the energy we use aboard our roadboat comes from above the ground rather than below.
Guide to Biodiesel
We examined the options, attending several symposiums to hear advocates. They made a compelling case; it was possible, with existing technology, to power every vehicle on Earth with either vegetable oil-even recycled frying oil-or ethyl alcohol distilled from virtually any plant matter or even waste.
And it could be done without having to scrap the vehicles currently on the road while better methods are developed. Unlike electric hybrids or hydrogen cells, this could be done with a twenty-year old used bus right now!
There were many reasons why we made the switch, but primarily it was opposition to U.S. foreign and environmental policies related to fossil fuels that inspired us to find and convert this little blue bus to alternative fuel. We were tired of being told that the war in Iraq was being fought for “us”. Using gasoline seemed incompatible with pacifism.
Lately, the biofuel solution has come under attack, even within the alternative community, as being impractical for a long-term energy source. Critics point out that vast acreage would have to be devoted to non-food crops, contributing to hunger, further deforestation and agriculture-related environmental damage.
No solution is perfect, and these points are valid to some extent. The most well-known use of biofuel to date is the 85% corn-based ethanol blend being used in several South American nations. Concern has recently been raised about the impact this has had on corn prices, and rightly so. Using food crops for fuel is a dead end.
Pro Future - Pro Biofuel Sticker
However, these criticisms are somewhat superficial and readily countered. The nature of biofuel is such that it can be manufactured from a wide variety of plants, including what we usually think of as weeds, on fallow land, and the waste, i.e. plant fiber, can be returned to the soil to make an excellent and entirely organic fertilizer!
Currently there are millions of acres, where farmers receive payments to grow nothing. Some of these payments are to prevent erosion runoffs and other effects of intensive food farming, but many times farmers are paid to sit the season out for price control. This program, subject to jokes since being immortalized in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, was intended to prevent grain surpluses which would have bankrupted farmers at the time. Today, that fallow land could be incentivized to produce energy crops, without affecting the price of food-grade grains in any way.
Corn is probably the weakest producer when it comes to biodiesel, yielding a measly 18 US gallons per acre. Soybean, which currently accounts for 90% of all biodiesel source, yields over two-and-a-half times that much, nearly fifty gallons per acre, but the best producers such as rapeseed (127 gallons/acre) or even avocados (282 gallons/acre) can’t match the prolificity of certain experimental crops.
Algae to be made into
Biofuel
Algae is the clear winner (over 800 gallons/acre); some optimistic estimates project that as much as 5000 gallons per acre could eventually be produced from this prolific non-food source. There are even plans in some areas to cultivate the ever abundant sewage algae as a sustainable source of fuel.
The food vs. fuel argument brings to light another potential source of biofuel- the land being culled for livestock feed and grazing. Currently nearly two-thirds of all agricultural lands are farmed for the overfeeding of cattle
As many vegetarian advocates have pointed out, this land would better be used for growing food for humans; but it could also be used for biofuel as part of a restorative process.
Challenges remain, but the plain fact is that the only obstacle to replacing petrochemicals with a variety of plant-based alternatives is political. The technology is as much the way of the past as the future.
Jan 11
The Art and Science of Fiction
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Aug 29
Biorhythm charts and cycle calculations
Surf Your Biowaves: Use Your Biorhythms to Ensure Greater Success
Biorhythm charts illustrate the physical, emotional, and intellectual cycles that we as humans go through.
Biorhythm cycle calculations were originally defined by Dr. Wilhelm Fliess through case studies of his patients after he observed certain universally corresponding rhythms. From these observations was derived the study and calculation of biowaves.
Since the turn of the twentieth century, the study of these diagrams has brought great benefit, whether real or imagined, to subscribers of biorhythmics. A great deal of controversy has quite naturally raged over the value and accuracy of biorhythm theory, which to skeptical minds is grouped with practices such as astrology, palmistry, and the reading of tea leaves.
BioWriter Biorhythm softwareProponents of biochronometry point out that although this protoscience is still speculative in many facets, it is already an established interdisciplinary area of scientific study and practice. The effect that biorhythms have on humans is still being extensively studied, although experimental results generally cannot be replicated and are still inconclusive.
To calculate and view your personalized upcoming primary biorhythm cycles enter your birth date below.
The Biorhythm Kit: Plan for the ups and downs in your life
The three primary biorhythm cycles are:
Emotional: This cycle tracks the stability and energy of your psyche and general outlook on life, as well as your capacity to connect with other people. Emotions also affect communication and creativity. The emotional curve is a 28 day cycle.
Intellectual: This cycle tracks your verbal, mathematical, logical, and analytical abilities. The intellectual curve consists of a 33 day cycle.
Physical: This cycle tracks your coordination, strength, and well-being. The physical curve has a cycle of 23 days.
Keeping track of naturally recurring cycles is an effective method of optimize your energetic assets.
Aug 23
Atlantis: Visions of the Golden Age - Plato to Edgar Cayce
The mystery of an ancient civilization has captured the imaginations of scholars, history-buffs, and the mystically inclined for over two millennia. There are more versions of what that ancient civilization was like and where it was located than virtually any other Greek myth. Yet the tale of an advanced culture which preceded ours has persisted precisely because it rings so true to the modern mind.
Plato first began to write of a mythical continent called Atlantis around 355 BC. He believed that the land, which he described as being made of alternating rings of land and sea, lay near the Straits of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean until it was destroyed 10,000 years earlier. Plato addresses Atlantis specifically in two of his dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.
Edgar Cayce described Atlantis as a vast continent, approximately equal in size to Europe. According to the seer’s florid vision, the Atlanteans were gifted with many advanced psychic abilities and technologies, and gave rise to the peculiarly similar civilizations of the ancient Egyptians and the pre-Columbian Americans. More books by & about Edgar Cayce
Interpreting the Timaeus - Critias
The ancient Egyptians, according to Critias, described Atlantis as an island stretching approximately 700 km across, made mostly of mountains along the shore and in the northern regions, and “extending in one direction three thousand stadia [about 600 km], but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia [about 400 km].”
Atlantis - A World Beyond Words
Speculations on the location of Atlantis range from the Eastern Indian Ocean to the Americas, though the most intriguing candidates, naturally, are islands, most notably Crete and Sri Lanka. The prevalence of Flood mythology in the annals of the all the world’s earliest literature suggests that cultures as diverse as the Maya and Incas of the New World and the legendary builders of the Nile and the Fertile Crescent, all were seeded from a thriving antediluvian people with powers we can only guess at today. Naturally, the speculation runs rampant: some popular ideas associate the Ancient Atlanteans with psychokinetic “technology” utilizing the power potential of crystals, an elemental theology of solar/lunar mythology and astrological genius, and a mastery of reincarnation.
We may never know which next stunning archeological find can be identified with Plato’s tale, but one thing appears likely: human kind has achieved high levels of advancement, possibly many times, long before what we commonly think of as “history” even began.
Find more books about Atlantis
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Aug 12
Quantum Consciousness and the Fifth Dimension
Quantum Consciousness and the Fifth Dimension
By Indi Riverflow
“Where ya comin’ from?”
Our worldview is largely a function of our location. The range of what we can experience and imagine is bounded by the culture that spawned us, and the place that we hold within it. Transcending locality is key to comprehending quantum consciousness.
The dynamic opportunities offered by the two dimensions of a page are amplified infinitely, when a third dimension is perceived, making a book, or perhaps a library. Similarly, the more aware of the dimensions that compose our reality we become, the more mastery we can have over the paradoxes of perception.
Who we find ourselves to be has a great deal to do with where we’re coming from. We can describe this in terms of latitude, longitude, and altitude, but also in terms of duration (chronitude) and personality forming experience, realitude.
So some of us live in a dimension where spirits are in active constant contact; others experience no such thing and judge the first class to be insane. To form a consensus reality, it is not necessary to reproduce results for an instrument; the reality is whatever we collectively consider it to be. This is why heretics, simply by representing an alternate viewpoint, are so dangerous to systems which depend on agreeing to an unverifiable perception.
If a geometric point, which theoretically has no dimension, is added to another dimensionless point, a line is generated, in one dimension. If this line is curved about to form a circle, we have two. Bring it into three dimensions, and not only do we have a sphere with an infinite set of points on the surface, but if the camera backs up far enough, that sphere slowly reverts to our original dimensionless point.
Just as a page has not only length and width but also an infinitesimal degree of height, the three dimensions of space also have a slice of time running through them. Because we are within it, we are generally only able to move in a single direction through time, at the subjectively variable rate of one second per second.
The mind is more flexible; memories can track back along the trail of a lifetime, and, in past-life regression, beyond. Perceiving the future is more difficult, and less certain, because we come from a line, but are headed for a sphere.
Thus the multiverse theory of quantum entanglement. All possible events transpire in all conceivable combinations, and every outcome occurs in one dimension or another. So in magic, one is not so much remaking the world to bring about a specific outcome, but propelling consciousness through an act of will into a realm where this has already been accomplished.
Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Shamanic traditions such as those described by Carlos Castaneda make good and deliberate use of this effect. According to Don Juan, our view of reality is fixed according to the position of an assemblage point in the middle of the spine, which approximates the heart chakra. To upset this fixation and induce a broader apprehension of the world, Don Juan strikes this spot, allowing Carlos to see the world of emanations.
So what is the ultimate validity of these supernatural visions? They have the validity we give to them. But our minds do not exist in isolation. For every intention, there is opposition. Magic is the art of defining intention in a way that transcends the frustration of it.
Understanding how we came to want this outcome in the first place is as important as expending energy to promote it. Even more important can be a careful consideration of hidden repercussions.
Otherwise, a spell for world peace could be manifested in the form of a catastrophe that leaves the world very quiet indeed.
Two monkeys from literature come to mind-appropriately enough, one dead and one alive. The Monkey’s Paw, by W.W. Jacobs
The other is The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes, Jr
So perhaps the real question is, which monkey do ya wanna be?
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