Dear Community,

Is Self-Esteem Good or Bad For Kids?

There have been so many confusing and conflicting reports on whether
self-esteem has been bad or good for kids this week that I'm
exhausted trying to keep up. Stories have been all over the news, the
Internet and TV. If you google the subject you'll be reading for
weeks. And here are some more thoughts...

It all started (again) with a research study, the lead investigator
being Dr. Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, giving over
16,000 college students a narcissistic questionnaire (the
Narcissistic Personality Inventory, NPI) back in 1982 through 2006.
The results of the study were made public pending the release of her
book in paperback. Its merits are still being considered for a peer-
reviewed scientific journal.

If you haven't already read any of the articles around, then here are
some of the basics.

1. NPI scores have risen since 1982. By 2006 two-thirds of the
students had above average scores, 30 percent more than in 1982.

2. College students answered questions such as "I think I am a
special person," "I can live any way I want," and "If I ruled the
world, it would be a better place.

3. The researchers say these kids are "narcissistic" but not
"clinically narcissistic" so they don't all have to seek counseling.

4. Students' more positive responses on the NPI are equated with
higher self-esteem, a tricky assumption to make because it depends on
your definitions. Wouldn't a more comprehensive definition of self-
esteem include feeling good about yourself because you know the value
of responsibility, hard work, character, and the common good? In
fact, the California Task Force on Self-Esteem in the mid 1980's
created a document outlining just these characteristics (the opposite
of what Twenge would call narcissism) as being part of what self-
esteem means.

5. The study's results support the idea that higher self-esteem leads
to "negative consequences for society, including the breakdown of
close relationships with others, reacting aggressively to criticism,
and favoring self-promotion over helping others." And that it leads
to more crime, higher teen pregnancy, more drug use (see Twenge's
earlier findings at http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/news/releases/
fall2001/pr110701.html.

6. The researchers conclude that problem stems from the beginning
self-esteem movement in the 1980's and telling our kids they are
special. (See my comments in #4 above re what the movement really said.)

These last two assumptions are hard to swallow. Twenge quotes
different research to support the study's conclusions. Other
researchers quote opposing stats. For example, an article by authors
Neil Howe and William Strauss on the Op Ed page of the LA Times March
2nd (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-
howe2mar02,1,4078512.story) point out just the opposite trend.
"Millennials have much greater regards for each other, their parents
and the community than other Gen X's or baby boomers had at the same
phase of life." Howe and Strauss go on to quote statistics that
support their viewpoint and directly oppose Twenge et. al's saying
crime, teen pregnancy, drug abuse all have actually lower not higher
rates today for those under age 25 and volunteerism has gone up.
(Twenge dismisses the higher help rates by saying kids are just doing
it to look good on a college resume.)

I wonder if we go along with Twenge's suggestion and stop telling
kids they are special, is that really the answer to many of society's
problems? I don't believe such a flip response is the answer. There
are so many layers to this issue.

For our youngest kids, parents’ thoughtful praise is critical -
their view of themselves comes from their parents, because parents
are their world. They haven't developed the skills or experience to
nurture or appraise themselves. And too many kids just hear what they
are doing wrong, not right. We want our kids to develop an inner
sense of self, and perhaps always hearing they are "great" from
outside sources doesn't ultimately do what we'd like it to. That is,
to develop an inner sense of worth so kids can comfort themselves
when they need to, realistically appraise what their talents really
are - where they have to work harder, where they can help others, and
what they want their place in the world to be and work toward that goal.

It seems wise to praise for trying to do their best, not just
achieving the highest honor. CBS News reported on Dr. Carol Dweck's
research at Stanford University, which supports praising effort.
"Dweck conducted experiments on fifth graders. After a test she
praised one group for being smart" and "another group for the effort
they put in." In a later "much harder exam, the kids who were led to
believe they were smart folded. But the ones who were praised for
trying performed much better." Research about "learned hopelessness"
also shows if you don't think you can achieve something, eventually
you won't even try.

All this fuel for the fire presents an opportunity to evaluate the
study's broad implications for our children, the effect of throwing
the "baby out with the bathwater", and how we think / feel about this
subject overall. What is important to you? What values do you want
children to develop? How are you helping them become the person you
believe and hope they can become?

Why not make your own determination about the good and bad of self-
esteem when you consider the children in your life? How are they
feeling about themselves, and how are those feelings affecting the
lives they are leading? Are they saying they are feeling good, but
teasing or putting other kids down at school? Or are they reaching
out and standing up for the kid who is being teased? Have they
developed enough empathy and self-responsibility to understand that
what they say and do affects others, and act positively on those
traits? And if you don't appreciate what you see in their behavior,
then teach them what matters - your value system. And remember kids
learn best by example, so be true to what you believe in.

Please share your thoughts and feelings on this latest Hot Topic on
my  Blog at http://imageryforkids.blogspot.com/.


Warm regards,

Dr. Charlotte
Charlotte Reznick Ph.D.
www.ImageryForKids.com
Healing children through the
power of their imagination.
(310)889-7859


Charlotte Reznick Ph.D. specializes in helping children and
adolescents develop the emotional skills necessary for a happy and
successful life. She is a licensed educational psychologist and
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at UCLA.  Dr. Reznick is
the creator of Imagery For Kids: Breakthrough for Learning,
Creativity, and Empowerment and is the author/producer of the
therapeutic CDs "Discovering Your Special Place" and "Creating a
Magical Garden and Healing Pond". An international workshop leader on
the healing power of children's imagination Dr. Reznick maintains a
private practice in Los Angeles, California.  For more information
about her articles and CDs, visit www.ImageryForKids.com,


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Hi There!

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There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere, over the rainbow, skies are blue.
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star and
wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops,
Away above the chimney tops.
That's where you'll find me.
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Why then - oh, why can't I?
If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow,
Why, oh, why can't I?
:-))


Do Your Best Work - Forever & Always

Andris


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Dear Friends,

If you sent me e-mail in the past two days I did not receive it - PLEASE
re-send it - this is why:

Yesterday someone broke into my Yahoo account and sabotaged it. They set
my filters so that any e-mail with an "@" in it goes directly to the
trash and is deleted. I am telling you this for two reasons:

1. If you sent me an e-mail yesterday or perhaps even the day before - I
DID NOT RECEIVE it at all. Please re-send it.

2. I hope I can help someone else that this has happened to or may
happen to and prevent them as much grief as I have experienced! If you
have not been getting YOUR e-mails then check your filters. Apparently
this has happened to quite a few people. Someone thought it was a funny
joke or something. And it is not a funny joke! This person cost me an
entire day of business and I have probably lost a number of clients who
e-mailed me and thought I ignored them. I was also expecting a few
important documents yesterday that it will take me all day to track down
again.

What they do is they go into your e-mail account somehow and change your
filters to read "Send to spam and trash any e-mail with an "@" in it.
This is basically every e-mail! So everyone check their filters and
change their passwords today. When I talked to the Yahoo rep about this
he said he has received quite a few calls with this problem today and
yesterday.

Thank you,

Kristie Karima Burns, Mh, ND

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Intentional Community - UPDATE - DATE CHANGE

The date for this has been changed to Sunday 3/18 at 3 p.m. to 6
p.m. The address is the same: 1124 Bluesage Drive in San Marcos San
Diego county, CA.
Please RSVP by Monday 3/12 by email or calling 760-889-1062. Those
who cannot make this date but who are already planning to come
monday the 19th at noon, please come, but also RSVP by Monday 3/12.
Thank you!

This intentional community is for homeschooling families. We are not
closed to others, single, couples or whatever but we want the core
group to be homeschooling families. We love mentors of all ages!

We want this intentional community to be based on the cohousing
model. The cohousing model has six basic characteristics. (side note-
see here for the six characteristics:
http://www.cohousing.org/overview.aspx ) The first is "Participatory
Process." This step is where the residents organize and participate
in the design and development of the project. This process is said
to take one to five years. We want to be moved in by September of
this year at the very latest. We have a lot of ideas and people to
help build this (actually we have all the man power, architect
included except we are lacking someone with plumbing know-how). All
we need are the people and your ideas. To make this work we need 10-
15 people in the core group.

The area it seems that is the most economical to do this is North
Inland San Diego county. Fallbrook and Valley Center are two areas
that come to mind. We are working with a realtor now looking at
properties.

We want to help families financially and emotionally who want to
live this way. Personally, i am tired and lonely. My children are
more socially isolated than i would like them to be and i want them
to play more with other children and know there are 1/2 dozen eyes
watching my children there with me. I want a feeling of safety. i
want an extended family that doesn't have to limit that definition
by blood or marriage ties. I want more mentors around them. If my
man is working and has to drive one hour to get home, I want him to
see a happy woman and happy, confident and healthy children and not
see a tired wife. i want his dinner ready. I want me and me family
eating more healthy food. I want them learning recipes from all of
you and growing and eating a lot of food grown on the property. I
want to save time making meals in a relaxed place. If this sounds
like this can be for you, please RSVP soon.

See you in a week!
Love,
Jennifer

Lots of good info here ...
Karen

>Subject: [Alternative_Medicine_Forum] ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR ARTHRITIS
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>
>ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT FOR ARTHRITIS
>Eugene Zampieron, ND, Ellen Kamhi PhD RN
>
>The World Health Organization has proclaimed the years 2000-2010 the
>Decade of Joint Health, because joint health is such a widespread
>public health concern.
>
>Arthritis is a general term used to describe a large grouping of
>health conditions, all of which manifest symptoms of pain and
>stiffness.
>
>Commonly diagnosed forms of arthritis include
>osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (autoimmune involvement), gout,
>psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia and
>infectious arthritis (such as Lyme's Disease).
>
>The most prevalent debilitating forms are rheumatoid arthritis(RA),
>affecting 3 million people in the U.S., and the far more common
>osteoarthritis(OA), with 16 million diagnosed cases. Some estimate
>that as many as 40 million Americans suffer with osteoarthritis.
>The most commonly recognized causes of arthritis are genetic
>predisposition, advancing age, obesity, trauma and "wear and tear."
>
>However, the `wear and tear' theory is probably an
>oversimplification, because many elderly people never develop
>arthritis, after years of wear and tear.1 The degeneration of joints
>in all types of arthritis involves ongoing biochemical processes
>that negatively alter metabolism essential to maintaining healthy
>joints.
>
>Although conventional medical diagnostics attempt to assign patients
>a differential diagnosis of one specific kind of arthritis, in
>reality, many patients exhibit a continuum of symptoms. For example,
>even those who are officially diagnosed with osteoarthritis often
>have some degree of auto immune involvement.
>
>Psychological and emotional factors also play a role in the
>development of arthritis. However, in this article we will focus on
>several physical parameters that we have seen in virtually all cases
>of arthritis, and will offer suggestions about specific botanical
>and nutritional interventions that are useful. For brevity's sake,
>we will limit the discussion of glucosamine, since the use of this
>supplement is quite well known to pharmacists.
>
>In this two-part article, we will review several important factors
>to consider in Arthritis:
>
>1) buildup of toxic waste products in the tissues
>2) a decrease in integrity of the lining of the gastrointestinal
>tract
>3) an overabundance of disease causing microorganisms
>4) decreased circulation to painful areas
>5) pain management
>
>BUILDUP OF TOXIC WASTE PRODUCTS
>In ancient systems of medicine throughout the globe, rheumatic
>ailments are thought to
>originate from the accumulation of toxins in the body. Traditional
>Chinese Medicine refers to this as phlegm, or toxic invasion of
>heat, wind and/or cold, while in the Ayurvedic system from India, it
>is called AMA, created by incomplete combustion of food in the
>gastrointestinal tract.
>
>Both Phlegm and AMA have been equated with the Western medical
>concept of toxicity due to endotoxins, food allergens and toxins
>from environmental sources, which lead to the creation of
>circulating immune complexes (CIC's).
>
>In many forms of arthritis(especially RA) pain and inflammation can
>be caused by an overabundance of Circulating Immune Complexes
>(CIC's). CIC's are formed in the body when larger than normal
>molecules escape from the gastrointestinal tract due to decreased
>integrity of the gut lining. Other antigens can be introduced as
>environmental pollutants that enter the body through various
>mechanisms. These molecules are recognized by the immune system as a
>foreign invader, which incites the formation of antibodies, which
>then couple with the antigen, forming the CIC. In a healthy person,
>CIC's are sequestered and neutralized, but in arthritis(and other
>diseases) they accumulate and begin to overburden the eliminative
>organs and initiate allergic and immune responses. When too many
>CIC's accumulate, the kidneys and liver become overburdened, and
>cannot break them down. The CIC's are often shunted to the
>connective tissue (including the joints) to be destroyed by the
>immune system. White blood cells are summoned by cytokines to
>destroy the CIC's. However, in this process, normal or 'innocent
>bystander' tissue can be attacked and damaged. High levels of
>antioxidants should be standing ready to regulate and monitor this
>process, but in all cases of arthritis, regardless of the type, a
>deficiency of antioxidants is the rule. Pain, inflammation, and
>stiffness results from these repeated, unregulated attacks.
>
>Supplementation with antioxidants, such as Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and
>glutathione, decreases this inflammatory response.
>
>Alteratives are non-toxic herbs which assist the organs of
>detoxification and elimination (liver,bowels,kidneys,skin,lungs, and
>connective tissue), by removing deleterious substances such as
>environmental (xenobiotic) toxins as well as those generated
>internally (endobiotic toxins). Alteratives can be combined with
>regimes of cleansing or elimination diets, fasting, colon
>hydrotherapy, saunas, lymphatic drainage techniques and homeopathic
>detoxification and drainage remedies(detoxosodes) to further
>decrease the toxic load on the body, thus allowing the body to
>divert its energy into healing versus crisis management .
>Herbal alteratives include Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum),
>Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), and Burdock (Arctium lappa). Milk
>thistle has been proven to have several mechanisms of action,
>including anti-inflammatory activities linked to inhibition of 5-
>lipooxygenase. , as well as influencing the hepatic cytochrome P-450
>enzymes. The ancient folkloric use of both burdock and dandelion for
>liver support have also been collaborated in modern scientific
>studies. ,
>
>Sulphur containing supplements such as MSM, SAMe, and the amino
>acids cysteine, methionine, glutathione and taurine support the
>hepatic cytochrome p450 enzymes and enable the liver to process the
>onslaught of toxins.
>
>DECREASED GUT INTEGRITY
>Individuals suffering from joint and muscle pain due to autoimmune
>problems, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia,
>often have a condition known as "leaky gut syndrome." This allows
>molecules that are usually too large to exit through the
>gastrointestinal lining to escape and enter the bloodstream, which
>leads to the formation of "circulating immune complexes"(CIC),
>implicated in the production of an inflammatory response resulting
>in joint and muscle pain. Furthermore, non-steroidal anti-
>inflammatory agents(NSAIDS), the pharmaceutical drugs usually
>prescribed for arthritic conditions, actually decreases intestinal
>integrity, which leads to a worsening of the overall disease process.
>Specific nutrients which coat and soothe the intestinal lining, thus
>helping to heal "leaky gut", can help arthritis. These include the
>traditional demulcent, soothing herbs such as marshmallow root and
>okra, and L-glutamine, an amino which reestablishes gut integrity
>and helps to re-grow flattened "villi"- the tiny finger like
>protrusions that line the GI tract, and act as a surface for the
>absorption of nutrients. Gingko biloba, well known for its effects
>on brain function, acts to increase circulation to the small
>capillaries within the GI tract. It also acts as an anti-oxidant,
>which can help to strengthen the intestinal lining, and heal
>a "leaky-gut". Research on the mechanism of action of this herb is
>proceeding at a prolific pace. One study showed that it
>significantly inhibited histamine release, which is part of the
>allergic component due to leaky gut syndrome.
>
>OVERABUNDANCE OF MICROORGANISMS
>"Dysbiosis", the proliferation of "unfriendly" microorganisms,
>including bacteria, yeast, fungi and parasites, is not widely
>recognized by conventional medicine as a cause of arthritis. Yet,
>these organisms are present in a large majority of people who suffer
>from muscle and joint pains. "Molecular Mimicry" is an additional
>complication, which arises when organisms in the gut camouflage
>themselves to resemble human tissue to escape detection by the
>immune system. When the immune system eventually makes antibodies to
>the bacteria, it also begins to make antibodies to the similarly
>structured human tissue, leading to an autoimmune cascade.
>
>A variety of herbs act to discourage the growth of pathogenic
>organisms, while building and supporting the immune system:
>Barberry root contains berberine, the yellow compound that is also
>found in Golden Seal Root. Berberine helps the liver filter out
>bacteria, and can inhibit the growth of streptococci and other
>microorganisms. It helps to kill parasites and tonifies the
>intestinal tract. In addition berberine acts as a natural Cox II
>inhibitor.
>Citrus Seed Extract contains proanthocyanadins(OPC's), biologically
>active flavonoids which help to heal irritations to the lining of
>the intestines. Citrus Seed Extract has a very high level of
>activity against micro-organisms.
>Black Walnut Hulls is a time honored "vermifuge" (worm destroyer)
>used traditionally in Western Herbal Medicine. It is high in tannic
>acid which tonifies the digestive tract and helps rid the body of
>parasites.
>Oregano Leaf Oil has been investigated scientifically and found to
>be an effective broad spectrum anti-microbial agent, with no known
>negative effects.
>It is also important to "re-inoculate" the gastro-intestinal tract
>with `friendly' bacteria, such as Acidophilus( Lactobacilli
>acidophilus). It promotes healthy immune function, and protects
>against the overgrowth of pathogenic microorganism, as well as
>providing an antiallergenic barrier. L. acidophilus generates lactic
>acid, acetic acid, and hydrogen peroxide, which can interfere with
>the proliferation of disease causing organisms.
>
>POOR CIRCULATION
>Poor circulation traps stagnant intracellular fluids in the joints
>and decreases the availability of nutrients needed for repair and
>growth of healthy tissues. This can be aided by stretching exercises
>and massage, along with the topical application of medicinal herbs.
>
>Menthol is one of the principle essential oils derived from
>peppermint, and acts as a powerful analgesic when applied topically.
>Initially, it produces a cooling sensation to inflamed areas,
>followed by a profound cooling effect.
>
>Capsiacin is a resin found in many species of 'hot peppers'.
>Scientific studies have proven that Capsiacin depletes substance P,
>a chemical believed to be overabundant in the peripheral nerves of
>patients with arthritis, fibromyalgia and other painful syndromes.
>Substance P is released in response to injury or inflammation and
>pain.
>
>Camphor is a penetrating, medicinal oil derived from the tropical
>tree, Cinnamonium camphora. When rubbed into painful, stiff joints,
>ligaments and muscles, it provides soothing "camphor-ice" relief.
>One mechanism of action of camphor is that it specifically inhibits
>catecholamine secretion.
>
>Wintergreen(Gaultheria procumbens) is a low growing evergreen shrub
>found in the damp woods of the Eastern U.S. Oil of wintergreen has
>chemical properties similar to salicylic acid- an aspirin like
>compound with pain relieving properties.
>
>Cloves(Eugenia caryphylii) and Allspice(Pimenta diocia) contain the
>essential oil Eugenol , which acts as an excellent anesthetic (numbs
>pain). Folk healers in the Caribbean use these herbs as liniments to
>relieve the pain of arthritis and painful muscles.
>.
>Boswellia (Boswellia seratta) Boswellia is a gum resin extracted
>from the bark and trunk from a tree in India. The tree is scraped
>and the resin is allowed to exude from the tree until it dries. It
>has been used traditionally in Ayurvedic medicine to treat chronic
>pain and inflammation. Modern research has disclosed one of the anti-
>inflammatory modes of action of this botanical to be the inhibition
>of leukotriene biosynthesis through the impairment of 5-lipoxgenase
>(5-LO).
>
>Pain Management
>In natural medicine, the goal is to address the causative factors of
>illness through an examination of diet, lifestyle, allergies, toxic
>load, gut integrity, presence of microorganisms and psychological
>factors. Uncovering these factors, and making the behavioral changes
>that will positively effect the disease process, ultimately will
>lead to increased wellness. However, these steps take time, and the
>issue of pain management
>needs to be addressed immediately, while the body readjusts to be in
>a less inflammatory state. While pharmaceutical drugs offer
>effective pain relief, their use long term is not desirable due a
>large number of secondary effects. NSAIDs, in particular, actually
>make the overall disease process of arthritis worse, by
>increasing `leaky gut' and by depleting the very nutrients necessary
>for joint repair, including iron, folic acid and zinc. COX 2
>inhibitors, introduced with a media blitz touting them as a much
>safer drug therapy, is now known to also have serious side effects.
>
>White Willow Bark (Salix alba) contains glycosides, which are
>converted in the body into active salicylates, similar to the
>chemicals
>found in Aspirin. Thus, it is often referred to as Nature's Aspirin,
>yet
>does not cause gastrointestinal bleeding as does Aspirin.
>
>Kava-Kava (Piper methysticum) is used in the South Pacific to relax
>the mind and body, achieve a tranquil state, and ease pain and
>anxiety,
>which often exacerbates pain.
>Research on Kava reveals the active Kava
>pyrones to be a strong skeletal muscle relaxant, and was used by the
>Hawaiians for arthritis and for soothing tight and aching muscles.
>
>Jamaican Dogwood (Piscidia spp.) was used historically as one of the
>most effective pain relievers by the Eclectic (M.D.) physician's at
>the
>turn of the century ,used for fibromyalgia, joint pain, and the pain
>associated with
>bone fractures. In the Amazon and Jamaican rainforests, the
>curanderos
>(healers) and 'Bush doctors' use the plant to treat migraines, joint
>pain,
>sprains, muscular aches and neuralgia.
>
>In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yan Hu Suo (Corydalis ambigua) has
>been used for thousands of years for its powerful analgesic
>properties. Research into the mechanism of action of Corydalis, in
>particular DHC(dehydrocorydaline) extracted from the root, suggests
>that Corydalis not only inhibits anti-body mediated allergic
>reactions, but also influences cell-mediated allergic reactions,
>through an inhibitory effect on antigen-induced histamine release
>from peritoneal mast cells. As we so often see in Natural Medicine,
>modern research collaborates what ancient healers have known for
>centuries!
>
>Eugene Zampieron ND and Ellen Kamhi PhD RN are coauthors of
>ARTHRITIS- The Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide, and designed
>the ArthroNutrition Program� by NATURE'S ANSWER. 800-829-0918.
>
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>CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN:
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>AWAKEN OTHERS TO IAHF's� STRATEGY TO MONKEYWRENCH THE RULING PONDSCUM'S PLANS
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>Last Sunday I did a conference call from 2-3 PM
>Pacific Time, and I'll be doing another one
>(with slightly different subject matter- details
>below)� this Sunday (March 11)� at the same
>time, same phone number: 712-580-0100 use code
>"1010697#"� �  This call will go better than
>last Sunday's because Ed Griffin of Freedom
>Force International� is going to handle muting
>so this time I won't be interrupted by "dings"
>from people calling in to join the call.
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>Also, on this call, I'll be taking questions at
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><mailto:gedward.griffin@...>gedward.griffin@...
>� �  Also, if you miss the call and would like
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>(641) 985-5036. The access code is the same (1010697#)
>
>I got the idea for Sunday's topic from educating
>a local college student who wanted assistance on
>a paper he's writing. I've gotten known down in
>Bellingham WA from lectures I've been doing on
>the college campuses there, and many students
>have been climbing aboard the IAHF Health
>Freedom Bandwagon. With their help we intend to
>make this issue known on campuses across the US
>and Canada, as well as in a more general sense.
>
>Do you grasp the interconnectedness between the:
>
>WTO, NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY, NORTH AMERICAN
>UNION,CODEX & FDA's Trilateral Cooperation Charter?
>
>On Sunday� I'll lay it out so clearly that
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>family easily. Its taken a lot of hard work and
>study for me to get to the point where I CAN
>explain all of this, so PLEASE don't miss this
>show, our SURVIVAL depends on our ability to
>awaken enough people fast enough that we can
>EXECUTE IAHF's plan to fight back with
>sufficient numbers to stop the intertwined�
>genocide and societal control� agenda!!�
>
>Although the ruling elite's control plan may
>SEEM complicated, I've picked it apart to find
>the WEAK SPOT on their wall, and that WEAK SPOT
>is the FDA's Trilateral Cooperation Charter. By
>HAMMERING that weak spot, we're going to SMASH
>THROUGH the wall by FORCING CONGRESS to give us
>oversight on this issue. We HAVE the numbers, I
>just need your help ACTIVATING people so they'll
>JOIN US in TAKING ACTION!!
><http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body>http://www.thepetitio\
nsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body
>
>
>In simple terms:
>
>Jacques Cousteau said, "to stabilize the world
>population we must eliminate 350,000 people per
>day. It is a horrible thing to say," he
>admitted, "but its just as bad not to say it."
>This Hitlerian sentiment, was published in UNESCO Courier in November 1991.
>
>So........ Here's how the Elite intend to kill
>us off and control us: Its a multipronged
>attack, but not too hard to see the
>interconnection between the WTO, NAFTA
>Superhighway, North American Union, FDA
>Trilateral Cooperation Charter, Codex, and the
>CIA's MKULTRA Mind Control Program.� � �  Heres
>how the pieces of the puzzle fit together, and
>how to blow the puzzle apart so the ruling
>elite's world control plan cannot function.
>
>Remember: This is all happening via one simple
>manipulation technique: the Hegelian Dialectic:
>
>Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis�
>
>Problem + Reaction = "Solution"
>
>First the ruling elite creates a problem, they
>do this to create a desired public REACTION
>(fear), they create this state in order to usher
>in what THEY consider to be a "Solution". They
>pitted communism v capitalism seeking a
>synthesis of global socialism combined with
>fascism as they seek to force us into a prison
>planet in which our numbers are to be culled,
>and our every move- controlled including what we
>can and cannot INGEST. Food Control = People Control.
>
>Via the WTO the ruling elite took away millions
>of American manufacturing jobs and moved them
>offshore to sources of slave labor, especially
>CHINA. They did this to bypass the Unions, and
>to hasten the planned destruction of our economy
>which they intend to crash, deliberately, for societal control purposes.
>
>They need a way to get these Chinese goods into
>the USA and Canada by bypassing Unionized
>truckers, so they intend to ship them from China
>to Mexico, load them onto Mexican trucks, then
>get them into the USA and Canada via the "NAFTA
>SUPERHIGHWAY" via which the current Mexican
>border crossings would become nothing more than
>electronic speedbumps, and the trucks wouldn't
>enter a customs facility til they hit Kansas
>City, MO where a� huge customs� facility is
>being built using US tax dollers.(1)
>
>This would of course drive thousands of American
>truckers out of business, hastening the planned
>destruction of our economy and the middle class,
>worsening our balance of trace with China which
>controls our debt. This will put China in
>position to negotiate the terms for the AMERO,
>the new currency our would be masters intend to
>foist off on us just before moving us to a
>cashless society, an implanted microchip, and
>total mind control via chips and directed energy via Microwaves(2,3,4).
>
>Via the Trilateral Coopertion Charter (5)with
>Canada and Mexico, the FDA is busy creating
>"soft law" to harmonize the food and drug regs
>between the three countries. This is all
>happening by stealth, with zero congressional
>oversight UNLESS WE RAISE BLOODY HELL & DEMAND
>IT!!�  Its via the Trialateral Cooperation
>Charter that the FDA intends to usher UN CODEX
>vitamin restrictions into all 3 countries, then
>later, throughout the hemisphere. Their
>intentions are made CRYSTAL CLEAR via the
>M.U.C.H. Working Group, a subset of the Trilateral Cooperation Charter.
>
>WHAT THE HELL IS M.U.C.H?
>
>M.U.C.H = Mexico, US, Canada Health Fraud
>Working Group. FDA is defining "health fraud" in
>the loosest possible way, to mean anything they
>WANT it to mean:
><http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2006/606_fraud.html>http://www.fda.gov/fdac/f\
eatures/2006/606_fraud.html�
>Any natural product that competes with ANY
>patented pharmaceutical drug is "fraudulent" in
>FDA's book if its promoted to cure any disease,
>regardless of how legitimate it may be. FDA and
>their Canadian and Mexican counterparts have
>been acting as if a North American Union were
>already in place, and you'd BETTER see the WRITING ON THE WALL!!
>
>Some HISTORY that YOU NEED TO KNOW:
>
>I will never forget the summer of 1989. I was
>hard at work writing a book for schizophrenics
>and their families from an orthomolecular
>survivor's perspective. One chapter was to
>contain my personal story of recovery using
>dietary supplements, while most of the other
>chapters were about other survivors all over the
>US and Canada who I'd spent 5 months
>interviewing. The book had an introduction about
>orthomolecular medicine, and it would have had a
>very useful Appendix at the end to guide people
>to badly needed sources of help...... but there
>was just ONE PROBLEM: I was forced to back
>burner the book because a treacherous bill was
>FAST TRACKED through the House that summer
>called the NLEA- Nutrition Labelling and Education Act of 1990.
>
>This was a GUIDED MISSILE aimed straight for the
>heart of the supplement industry, and we came
>VERY close to being TORPEDOED. While we were
>able to curb some of the worst excesses of the
>bill via a last ditch emergency lobby, we
>weren't able to stop it from being passed into law.
>
>It broke my heart to have to stop writing my
>book, and to be forced onto the front lines in
>this war, but I've never been able to come back
>OFF the front lines in the past 18 years,
>because the deeper I got into fighting back, the
>more of the ruling elite's societal control
>program I came to see and understand.
>
>Once you see it, and understand it, you can't
>pretend its not happening, you're morally
>obligated to do all in your power to oppose it.
>My book wouldn't do anyone any good if we were
>to lose our access to healing nutrients-
>something which could EASILY happen in the next
>two years unless we can educate sufficient
>numbers of people to fight back. We passed the
>Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in
>1994, but that was just a stop gap measure.
>
>FDA has been chafing at the bit ever since
>striving to get around DSHEA, and via Codex and
>the Trilateral Cooperation Charter, they've
>found a way and they are going to SLAM us unless
>one HELL of a lot more of you people get very
>SERIOUS about helping IAHF fight back!!
>
>Remember something important here: we're up
>against the Pharma dominated vitamin trade
>associations which have got most of the health
>food stores and small, innovative manufacturers
>in the dark, believing all of this is mere "conspiracy theory".
>
>With distracting nonsense "news stories" such as
>all this to do about Ana Nichole Smith
>dominating the news, displacing the REAL news
>stories about the NAFTA Superhighway, the FDA's
>Trilateral Cooperation Charter and others, I
>need all of YOU to work that much HARDER to be
>sure your friends and family tune into Sunday's
>teleconference, and sign on to the IAHF list so
>you'll fully understand whats going on, and how to stop it.
>
>I KNOW what we need to do people, and I KNOW
>deep in my HEART that we CAN STOP this ruling
>elite agenda because I've SEEN it happen in the
>past. We can WIN if we can shut congress down,
>if we can make phones ring off hooks, fax
>machines run out of paper, and if enough of you
>help by ALSO making personal visits to DC and to
>your local congressional offices in your state.
>We must push with everything we have for
>Congressional Oversight on the FDA's Trilateral
>Cooperation Charter. They have refused to
>respond to my Freedom of Information Act
>Request, and they have lied to Congressman Paul
>in a written response to his legal questions.
>
>WHAT YOU CAN DO:
>
>1. Sign IAHF petition
><http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body>http://www.thepetitio\
nsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body
>and urge others to.
>
>2.
>PHONE SCRIPT AGAINST FDA TRILATERAL COOPERATION CHARTER
>
>�
>
>“I support International Advocates for Health
>Freedom’s efforts to get oversight on the
>FDA’s Trilateral Cooperation Charter. The FDA
>is holding illegal meetings with regulatory
>counterparts in Canada and Mexico via the
>Trilateral Cooperation Charter. Through this
>they are creating one harmonized set of food and
>drug regulations as if our country no longer
>existed, as if we were already part of a North
>American Union. A subset of TCC is called the
>Mexico, US, Canada Health Fraud Working Group- (MUCH).
>
>This group has issued over 700 warning letters
>to dietary supplement manufacturers who
>manufacture weight loss products in all 3
>nations. This is a clear effort by the FDA to
>subvert existing US law- the Dietary Supplement
>Health and Education Act of 1994. Its part of a
>planned effort to DECONSTRUCT our country and to
>force us into a planned North American Union.
>
>I strongly request that Congress hold oversight
>hearings on this matter and that the FDA be
>stopped from what they are doing. Over 7500
>people have signed IAHF’s petition on this
>matter, and I am one of them. I am telling
>everyone I know about this. I also oppose the
>Department of Commerce’s equally illegal
>actions as they too are attempting to
>deconstruct our nation via the Security and
>Prosperity Partnership of North America. These,
>along with Bush’s other illegal acts serve as
>ample grounds for impeachment.”
>
>� WHO TO CALL ABOUT THIS:�
>
>1.� � � �  Your own Senators and Congressmen
>(via Capital Switchboard at 202-225-31212.� � �
>�  The House Oversight & Investigations
>Subcommittee- see list below:� Call via Capital
>Switchboard 202-225-3121 ask to be connected.�
><http://energycommerce.house.gov/Subcommittees/ovin.shtml>http://energycommerce\
.house.gov/Subcommittees/ovin.shtml�
>
>
>SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS
>(Ratio:�  9-7)
>Bart Stupak (MI), Chairman
>
>Diana DeGette, CO
>
>Ed Whitfield, KY,
>Ranking Member
>
>Charlie Melancon, LA, Vice Chair
>
>Charlie Norwood, GA
>
>Henry A. Waxman, CA
>
>Greg Walden, OR
>
>Gene Green, TX
>
>Mike Ferguson, NJ
>
>Mike Doyle, PA
>
>Tim Murphy, PA
>
>Jan Schakowsky, IL
>
>Michael C. Burgess, TX
>
>Jay Inslee, WA
>
>Joe Barton, TX (Ex Officio)
>
>John D. Dingell (Ex Officio) �
>
>
>
>Your donation assists IAHF in this important
>work! Help us make the trips to DC that we’ll
>need to make in the coming year to oppose the
>FDA and the Neocon’s traitorous agenda to
>deconstruct our nation and to force us into a
>totalitarian North American Union patterned
>after the EU Dictatorship. Help us to assist
>Congressman Paul in his courageous efforts to
>get the truth out via National TV as he runs for
>President! The life you save could be your own!
>We're going back to DC for 10 days of work at
>end of Feb- beginning of March. Before
>forwarding this email, please don't forget to
>delete the unsub link which accompanies each
>email at the bottom. Otherwise, someone you
>forward it to may delete you from the IAHF list.
>
>� IAHF 556 Boundary Bay Rd. Point Roberts WA 98281 USA
>
>Or via Paypal at <http://iahf.com/index1.html>http://iahf.com/index1.html�
>
>REFERENCES
>
>(1)Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super
>Highway<http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497>http://www.humanevents.\
com/article.php?id=15497
>
>
>(2)London stock trader urges move to 'amero'
>Says many unaware of plan to replace dollar with N. American currency
><http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53124>http://www.wnd.com/news/a\
rticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53124
>
>
>The Case for the Amero: The Economics and
>Politics of a North American Monetary Union by
><../about_us/people/herbert_grubel.htm>Herbert
>G. Grubel�  http://oldfraser.lexi.net/publications/critical_issues/1999/amero/
>
>(3)The Cashless Society: Video: Alex Jones
><http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8646306163762195517>http://video.googl\
e.com/videoplay?docid=8646306163762195517
>
>
>The Cashless Society& The Microchip: Dubbya
>Productions
><http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-583308516023952474&q=Cashless+society\
>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-583308516023952474&q=Cashless+society
>
>
>(4) The Mind Has No Firewall- Timothy L Thomas-
>Published in Parameters- US Army War College �
><http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/98spring/thomas.htm>http://www.c\
arlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/98spring/thomas.htm
>
>
>Mind Control Forum
><http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/>http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/
>
>John Mecca's Website
><http://www.us-government-torture.com/>http://www.us-government-torture.com
>especially see this part:
>
><http://www.us-government-torture.com/KIT.html>http://www.us-government-torture\
.com/KIT.html�
>Contains section about dietary supplements that
>protect against implanted microchips and directed energy from microwaves.
>
>
>
>For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President
>International Advocates for Health Freedom 556
>Boundary Bay Road Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702
>USA <http://www.iahf.com>http://www.iahf.com
>jham@...
>800-333-2553 N.America
>360-945-0352 World

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>This is just one prong of huge plan to change the world as we know
>it and will destroy the economy of the USA.
>
>[quote]
>Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
>by Jerome R. Corsi
>
>Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the
>plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide,
>through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican
>border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
>
>Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East
>to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro
>Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the process. The
>Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will
>drive on what will be the nation's most modern highway straight into
>the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST
>lanes, checked only electronically by the new "SENTRI" system. The
>first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City,
>their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a
>cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City. [end quote]
>
>See the map and read the rest of the article here:
>http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497
>
>Take action
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigo-news/message/1641
>Scroll down for the instructions. [The pictures didn't show up in
>Yahoo, leaving a big blank space]
>Conference call Sunday, March 11 @ 2-3pm PDT
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FYI~

I've selected those of you who I consider "open" to "out of the box" models
for creating positive results~ to send this email to... so, if you are
reading this now, you are on my list of the "selectively open minded". I
hope you find the information below of interest and value. Please don't
hesitate to contact me for more detailed info on exactly what this
innovative and pragmatic model is, how it works, and how you can put it to
work in your life! Additional info is also available on PSYCH-K and PER-K at
the website:  www.VeracityNow.com <http://www.veracitynow.com/>

<If you would like to be removed from this list just let me know>

This is an interesting and quite amazing example of the results that are
possible using~
PSYCH-KR
~The process that helps you Free Your Mind from the prison
of limiting beliefs~

See the example below~

Allison
Dr. Allison Ashley
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Subject: [Instructors] PSYCH-K Success
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Subject: PSYCH-K Success of the Week 3/6/2007


"May I Remove Your Tumor?" "Why Yes, I InCyst!"

Greetings from Oslo, where we recently held the first Advanced PSYCH-K
Workshop in Scandinavia.

One of Lars Steinberg's students offers this story (rendered as well
as I can manage given the language difference);

A client was sleeping poorly, and had some type of tumor or cyst in
her right cheek. The tumor (cyst) had been surgically excised, but
then had grown back.

The client's goal was better self-esteem, and confidence in her
relationship with her boss. Lars' student helped the woman balance for
"I trust that I do my best, and that I am perfect."

She became so confident and powerful that she spoke honestly and
forcefully to her boss, and was respected for doing so. This was
entirely new.

Lars' student added that there was a side effect (she called it a
"miracle"); the cyst (tumor) in the client's cheek was smaller within
the first week, then was completely gone within three weeks!!!!!!!!!!!
    (Exclamation points from the woman who wrote the story to Lars.)
They both attribute this lovely outcome to the belief change using
PSYCH-K.
_______________

Lars is involved with some exciting projects here. Today he will have
a private session with one of the top skiers in the world who's having
some insomnia. In the fall, a Norwegian university is planning to
offer Basic Workshops to some of their incoming students (as a pilot
project) in order to help them adjust to college life, trust the
choices they make, and in general prepare themselves for success.
Eventually, assuming the pilot project shows promise, the university
would like to offer PSYCH-K to all of the new students each year.

He did a PER-K Workshop (PER-K is PSYCH-K's business-oriented sister
method) for some 27 key government officials. Some were left on a
waiting list. The group of officials included those in charge of
unemployment services, the Mayor and head of administration of
Overhalla, which is a region of Norway, leaders of social services,
Human Resources, headmasters of schools, leaders of kindergarten and
elderly care for a variety of municipalities, and a variety of
national services. He also had the opportunity to demonstrate PER-K
for leaders within human resource development in the Norwegian
Ministry of Defense. Some of these leaders are civilian, and some are
military.

Lars said it was quite remarkable to see the Mayor of Overhalla
facilitating a Resolution Balance with the head of administration. The
political and bureaucratic worlds coming together constructively!

__________

"Those of us who?ve been developing inner peace all these years, time
to let it all out. Time to affirm everyone?s right to bear arms --
provided those arms are used for hugging."  ? Swami Beyondananda
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Hi Allen,
     I just read the link on your son's amazing  recovery.  I am not sure
where I am supposed to respond to this post so I  guess you all get to read it. 
I
had a very similar situation a few years  ago.  I have Fibromyalgia and have
had some sort of ADD but being 47 they  simply did not have those labels in my
time.  I finally figured it  out.  Anyway, I did something similar in that I
took many supplements and  eliminated gluten and dairy.  I was also supposed
to eliminate sugar but  just didn't get that far.  I know I am allergic to
gluten and dairy but  just like your son, I could eat it every once in a while
and
still got amazing  results.  I lost 80 pounds, got so much energy back, my
pain was so greatly  diminished that I stopped taking any pain meds and best of
all, my focus factor,  my ability to think clearly and not get distracted was
just such a life changing  experience.  This was a few years ago and I slowly
went back to all my old  habits, gained all the weight back and now am in
major pain again.  My goal  this year is to get it all back together and get
healthy, mind, body and  spirit.  Your email about your son has done so much for
me.  I am  ready now to get started with the long road back to health.  Thanks
for the  inspiration.
Love Donna




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http://www.commonpassion.org/events/index.html

Breakthrough Celebration: Compassion to Action Program

When: May 15th through the 29th, 2007


----------

Event Description:

CommonPassion.org, in cooperation with many local and global groups,
is orchestrating the world's largest interfaith global meditation and
prayer event ever performed. This will be a series of meditation and
prayers for community and global peace to be held between May 15th
and May 29th, 2007. It is anticipated that over 1,000,000 people will
participate in this two-week program from virtually every
faith-system, religious group, indigenous community and meditation
assembly currently in existence.

Concurrent with the prayer-meditation practices we will monitor crime
statistics, emergency call data and other social indicators to
ascertain change as a result of this peace-creating program.

Here's how the May program works:

Each group will
<http://www.commonpassion.org/events/calendar.html>select a day or
days in which to perform their specific prayer or meditative
practice, the intention for which is to foster social harmony at a
local and or global level. CommonPassion.org is formulating a common
intention and theme for all groups to share, which will foster the
coherence-creating effect. Each group or individual will
<http://www.commonpassion.org/participate/index.html>enroll on this
site and provide a profile of the practice that will be performed on
the selected day(s).

The localized foci of prayer-meditation activities will be based in
large part on where we can obtain data from law enforcement and
municipal governments. In other words, if Chicago, Los Angeles, San
Francisco, Rome, Tokyo, London and Rio municipal governments agree to
provide crime and emergency call data, then we will enroll additional
groups in these metro areas to participate in activities focused on
these areas. This will help enlist the meaningful cooperation of
participants in target areas; the empirical evidence suggests that
this will enhance the desired effect.

CommonPassion.org is the primary portal for enrolling and
participating in this program. The enrollment and profiling systems
are being built right now. Please
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receive an email update when you can enroll.


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COMMON PURPOSE ...

[]


... BUT TO WHAT END ...?

The David Icke Newsletter Goes Out On Saturday

'Maybe it's just me, but I keep seeing a picture of George Orwell in
my mind. He is shaking his head and smiling. Those who complete the
courses are called Common Purpose 'graduates' and throughout British
society such 'graduates' are at work in government, law enforcement,
health and many other areas that affect daily life. So what's it all
about and what is going on here? ...

... The common purpose of the Tavistock/Illuminati guerrilla war on
the human psyche is to wipe clean any sense of the individual and
unique because only that way can they impose the global dictatorship
and have the masses accept it. Brock Chisholm, former Director of the
UN World Health Organisation, was right when he said: 'To achieve
One-World Government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men
their individualism'.

Enter Common Purpose and its training of 'leaders'. If you can get
the leaders to think the same it makes it much easier to transfer
that to the general population. Julia Middleton's organisation, and
whoever and whatever else is really behind it, has been making
dramatic inroads into British society while it has flown below the
radar. It is time we gave it a much higher profile as it goes
ever-more international.'

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http://www.morgellons.ca/faq.htm
Morgellons Disease is also referred to as the 'Fiber Disease' and is,
as yet, mostly unrecognized by the medical community. Thousands of
people who have registered with Morgellons organizations report
remarkably similar symptoms, generally involving non-healing lesions
and fibers developing in the skin.

People affected with this disease experience a variety of unusual
symptoms anywhere from disturbing crawling feelings on or under their
skin to stinging and biting sensations and non-healing skin lesions.
The skin wounds are in many cases characterized by a presence of
strikingly unusual fiber-like structures. It is important to note
that some patients have no lesions yet do have fibers produced from
unbroken skin. Almost all people infected complain of black or white
granules associated with their skin. An attack on the peripheral
nervous system and on the central nervous system seems to be the
second stage of this disease. At this point people infected with this
illness report extreme difficulty with mental concentration, physical
orientation and short term memory. Shooting pains across the surface
of the arms, legs and head, sometimes ending with toothache
resembling pain are also experienced by some individuals. Other most
common symptoms of Morgellons Disease are: extreme fatigue; skin
thickening and swelling; obstructions and poor drainage of lymphatic
system; severe pain in the joints, muscles and the neck; and
persistent diarrhea. Some of the by-products of this disease are
unexpected mood swings, deep depression, and apathy to the world around us.

---- Original Message -----
From: daisybaleen
From: <Health_and_Heal...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:31 AM
Subject: mystery skin disease report....a good report on a morgellons
site today

I have been Morgellons sufferer for over ten years.

Recently, I discovered, quite by accident, something that is
literally making it disappear from my BODY.

As I am sure fellow sufferers can relate to, over the years, I have
experimented with various "super baths," filling the tub with hot
water and puttibng in things like lemons, baking soda, dish
detergent, laundry detergent, alcohol, etc....well, one day about
four months ago, I was filling the bath and I was pretty dirty from
housecleaning so I put some Sun powdered laundry detergent with
colorsafe bleach into the water, just a tad, because it really cleans
the skin so good, and once I finish with the bath, I scrub it off
with regular soap and a scrubby thing that is regularly disinfected.

anyway, I left the bathroom for a minute or two and heard a crash
that sounded like one of my cats getting into something. When I
returned to the bathroom, nothing seemed amiss, so I got undressed
and slid into the water for a soak.

Everything seemed normal until the bubbles parted, and I got the
sight of a morgellons sufferers' lifetime: those black and grey
specks MIGRATING OUT OF MY SKIN AS FAST AS THEY COULD IN DROVES BY
THE HUNDREDS FROM EVERY SQUARE INCH OF MY BODY!!!!!!!!

And even as I saw that, I also noticed several large oblong
things "dissolving" in the bottom of the tub. I picked one up, and
it was an alfalfa tablet. Then I noticed the bottle on the counter
next to the tub was overturned, and about 25 of them had fallen into
the water! They were the cause of the migration of all things
morgellon out of my skin in a fantastic migration for about an hour!
Brown flecks, black specks, fibers, white patches of fibers drifted
off the surface of my skin like No Problema, see ya later, something
I had NEVER BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH WITH ANY TOHER TOPICAL AGENT.

THE MIGHTY ALFALFA HAS SINCE CONQUERED MORGELLONS IN MY BODY.

The scabs are gone, the fibers are history, the patches of fibers are
all taped to a piece of wax paper and about to be sent off to a
research lab that has requested them.

I am sending you my testimonial in hopes that other sufferers will at
least know some relief from the scourge of the skin.

Dandelion the Flame Point Siamese must be credited with this
miraculous discovery. He is only three years old, but he's a hero to
his long-suffering Mommy!

I've done a little research on the mighty alfalfa, and apparently it
creates an alkaline environment in the body in which things like
CANCER and other diseases cannot survive. So, taking it internally
can only be a good thing, also; but it's the BATHS that made all the
difference in the world for me.

I also tried putting St. Johns Wort in the bath along with it, with
even better results. And for some reason, using the Sun powdered
laundry detergent with colorsafe bleach also helps facilitate the
migration of the specks.

God, I really hope this helps even one person as it has helped me.

It has cleared up my symptoms so completely that I kept forgetting to
post this information on the morgellons websites!!!!


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The Crystal Healing Foundation is beginning a newsletter�

It will be focused on the Children of the Light and The Children of
God (Everyone)
Those of Indigo/Crystal energy
Crystal Healing, Education, Seminars, Nutrition,
The Ultimate Goal
Is to bring a team of Light Workers Together on a Global Scale
To Open Alternative Educational Facilities
To Open Holistic Centers
To Open Spiritual Retreats
And Communities
Articles from a number of light workers


Only Together can we create a positive change�

For those who would like to join, please click on the link below

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We are also:

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We would like to speak with YOU!!!

Share your

Talents

STORIES

EXPERIENCES

To take part in a Truthful Documentary about

Living with Indigo Energy

  The Truth Behind Living with Indigo Energy

This documentary will be filmed similar to "The Secret and What the
Bleep?"

If you would like to be interviewed
Or
Considered to be part of this Project
Please email
Lisa.bellini@...

This project is being put together by
The Crystal Healing Foundation
And
Vonron Productions
An Independent Production Company



We would love to share with the world what is working for you and
helping you to cope with living in the energy you have within you.

We Cannot Wait to Hear From You!!

The Crystal Healing Foundation

  Living with Indigo Energy
It's a Divine Gift
The Crystal Healing Foundation has joined forces with the Center for
Holistic Wellness located at 3108 Route 10 West, Denville, NJ 07834,
the Majority of the taping will be done in this location�

Lisa Bellini will be in Ct, Victoria Canada and Seattle, Washington
to begin taping for the Documentary� As I travel, taping will be done
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Help us to get the Word Out�

Spreading around the world now!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder
Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is the name of the phenomenon that
describes the massive die-off affecting an entire
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_%28beekeeping%29>beehive or bee
colony. The BBC have referred to it as VBS (Vanishing Bee Syndrome).

  From Sky, (weblinks at end) through a friend - quote from below:
It would be wonderful if daily everyone would call in the Spirit of
Purification and the Spirit of Perfection for everyone and everything
on this planet and then project the feeling of  gratitude. Everything
responds to gratitude.  That would raise the consciousness and
vibration of the planet, very quickly. It would also being Peace and
Healing to the earth. Not many are doing this, or something like it,
and that is one of the reasons we are in this mess.

>Hi to everyone on this list--------I received the following e-mail
>this morning. The person's name and e-mail address are withheld for
>privacy. This is an important issue--so I thought I would send this
>out to everyone. My response is below----------here is the e-mail.
>Hi, we need to start sending frequency blessings for the bees. I
>have been learning of the die off of the bees all over the world. It
>seems that genetically engineered crops along with numerous
>pesticides,herbicides, and fungicides are major reasons for this
>massive bee die off. You see some crops have had genes inserted in
>them that produce pesticides to kill off insect pests. Well these
>genetic pesticides are also in the pollen that bees consume and turn
>into honey. This weakens the bees and when you combine the various
>chemical toxins of pesticides,herbicides, and fungicides to the
>genetic engineered crops, it is too much for the bees to handle. We
>need to start blessing the bees to be able to detoxify themselves.
>We need to send intent for the bees to add to their genes the
>ability to detoxify themselves from these man made poisons. Also we
>need to send love and healing to the bee spirits of each hive
>collectively. Each hive of bees is an individual bee spirit. We need
>to bless these bee spirits collectively so they will be increased in
>lifeforce to thrive again. We are all dependant on the bees to eat.
>We need the bees. So we need to start blessing them. This needs to
>start immediately to counter those who want to end the bees, and
>thereby bring us humans closer to ending. I think you know what I am saying.
>   In addition we need to work on sending frequencies to the
> bacteria in the soil to be able to break down and detoxify all
> these chemical poisons. These chemicals are getting into the water
> supply thru the soil. Well please add this intent to your emails
> and frequency page somewhere. The more of us who hold these
> beneficial intents in consciousness, the more powerful and grounded
> these blessing become.
>
>....yes know about the bee problem, etc.  Our Military Remote
>Viewer, Major Ed Dames saw this happening about 15 years ago and
>went public with the news.
>
>I can't say much about this--as many would not understand--but the
>bees are not in charge of this---even though they certainly do their
>part. They are like 'servants' of another energy. It is this  energy
>or  frequency that is responsible for the pollination, renewal of
>crops and seasons ---------and we are working with that--so if the
>bees die out--mankind does not. I guess the closest thing you could
>call that energy-- would be " Mother Nature"
>
>There is already  intent in place for the purification of the earth
>and everything on it and within it. Without that knowledge and that
>intent, started many years ago, I don't think we would be here today.
>
>It would be wonderful if daily everyone would call in the Spirit of
>Purification and the Spirit of Perfection for everyone and
>everything on this planet and then project the feeling
>of  gratitude. Everything responds to gratitude.  That would raise
>the consciousness and vibration of the planet, very quickly. It
>would also being Peace and Healing to the earth. Not many are doing
>this, or something like it, and that is one of the reasons we are in
>this mess.
>
>I guess the short response to your e-mail is, "I'm on it!"  However,
>I have not made a public broadcast page for this--but I can. When I
>get the time, I will do that---------and I will purchase and modify
>a machine to continuously broadcast the intent.
>
>I'm glad you cared enough to take the time to compose  and send your
>e-mail. We need more folks like you.
>
>Love and Blessings,
>
>Skylord
>Prosperity
>Frequencies  <http://www.freewebs.com/skylord2>www.freewebs.com/skylord2
>Mother Water <http://www.freewebs.com/skylord1>www.freewebs.com/skylord1
>Dental Repair Experiment
><http://www.freewebs.com/skylord6>www.freewebs.com/skylord6
>Crime page: Catching the bad guys by changing the frequency of the
>future event and lowering their energy.
><http://www.freewebs.com/skylord11>www.freewebs.com/skylord11
>The Great Fuel
>Experiment!
><http://www.freewebs.com/skylord15>www.freewebs.com/skylord15
>increase your gas mileage for free and clean the air at the same
>time-join your intent with ours.
>FREE Broadcasts: YOU do the work to change your frequencies
>from  lack and unhappiness to Miracles, Abundance, Joy, Health and
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For 2 days, there was an escalating problem with Yahoo replicating
and sending out posts 2, 6, 30 and 50 times.

It did not affect gmail users. They only got one copy.  ???

I closed the groups to posts yesterday, if you tried to post and got
a rejection msg that is why.

Everything looks fine now, and the change that caused the glitch,
they say, will now make your posts go through their system faster.


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Antidepressant-Induced Violence, Suicide and Bizarre Behavior
http://www.ssristories.com/index.php

DO NOT go off these drugs cold turkey
http://www.drugawareness.org/ICFDAwarning.html
The most dangerous and most common mistake
someone coming off the SSRI antidepressants makes
is coming off these drugs too rapidly. Tapering
off very, very, VERY SLOWLY--OVER MONTHS (and for
long-term users�a year or more), NOT JUST
WEEKS!�has proven the safest and most effective
method of withdrawal from this type of
medication. Thus the body is given the time it
needs to readjust its own chemical levels.
Patients must be warned to come very slowly off
these drugs by shaving minuscule amounts off
their pills each day, as opposed to cutting them
in half or taking a pill every other day.

http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html
Posted: 12:02 PM- BLACKSBURG, Va. - The gunman
suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech
massacre that left 33 people dead was identified
Tuesday as an English major whose creative
writing was so disturbing that he was referred to
the school's counseling service. News reports
also said that he may have been taking medication for depression ...

http://www.ssristories.com/index.html
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs),
of which Prozac was the first, launched in
December 1987. Other SSRIs are Zoloft,
Paxil  (Seroxat), Celexa, Sarafem (Prozac in a
pink pill), Lexapro, and Luvox. These drugs are
widely employed as first line treatment for
depression. Other antidepressants included in
this list are Remeron, Anafranil and the SNRIs
Effexor, Serzone and Cymbalta as well as the
dopamine reuptake inhibitor antidepressant
Wellbutrin (also marketed as Zyban).

http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/Miscellaneous/pert.html
The entire quote from Dr. Candace Pert: "I am
alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins
neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when
we discovered the simple binding assay for drug
receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other
antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active
compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems
in some susceptible people after long-term use,
which has become common practice despite the lack
of safety studies. "The public is being
misinformed about the precision of these
selective serotonin-uptake inhibitors when the
medical profession oversimplifies their action in
the brain and ignores the body as if it exists
merely to carry the head around! In short, these
molecules of emotion regulate every aspect of our
physiology. A new paradigm has evolved, with
implications that life-style changes such as diet
and exercise can offer profound, safe and natural mood elevation."

http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html
The Michael Moore clip says: These SSRI drugs
have 12 times the suicide rate of some of the previous antidepressants.

[KE] It used to be when people were suicidal,
they would just quietly go away and kill themselves.
Now .... they take a bunch of people out with them ...

http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html
Michael Moore obtained a copy of Dr. Tracy's
book, "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? - Our
Serotonin Nightamre," at the premier of bowling
for Columbine in Denver, CO. After learning more
about these drugs, see his statement from the
movie he recently appeared in with Dr. Tracy,
Mark Taylor, Neal Bush, and others in the Gary
Null production "The Drugging of our Children"
http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html
2 short video clips

http://www.ssristories.com/index.php
What Drug Date Where Additional
<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=785>School
ShootingProzac
Antidepressant2005-03-24Minnesota**10 Dead: 7
Wounded: Dosage Increased One Week before Rampage

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=1145>School
ShootingPaxil
Antidepressant2001-03-10Pennsylvania**14 Year Old
GIRL Shoots & Wounds Classmate at Catholic School

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=1543>School
Stand-OffZoloft Antidepressant1998-04-13Idaho**14
Year Old in School Holds Police At Bay: Fires Shots

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=1568>School
ShootingZoloft Antidepressant1995-10-12South
Carolina**15 Year Old Shoots Two Teachers, Killing One: Then Kills Himself

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=1370>School
Hostage SituationProzac/ Paxil
Antidepressants2001-01-18California**17 Year Old
Takes Girl Hostage at School: He is Killed by Police

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=302>School
ShootingAnafranil
Antidepressant1988-05-20Illinois**29 Year Old
WOMAN Kills One Child: Wounds Five: Kills Self

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=190>School
ShootingLuvox/Zoloft
Antidepressants1999-04-20Colorado**COLUMBINE: 15 Dead: 24 Wounded

<http://www.ssristories.com/show.php?item=609>School
ShootingProzac Antidepressant
Withdrawal1999-11-05Oregon**Four Dead: Twenty Injured
and pages and pages more

http://www.ssristories.com/index.html
The Physicians' Desk Reference lists the
following adverse reactions to antidepressants
among a host of other physical and
neuropsychiatric effects: manic reaction (mania),
emotional lability (or instability), abnormal
thinking, alcohol abuse, hallucinations,
hostility, lack of emotion, paranoid reaction,
amnesia, confusion, agitation, delirum,
delusions, hysteria, psychosis, sleep disorders,
abnormal dreams, and discontinuation (withdrawal)
syndrome.  Adverse reactions are especially
likely when starting or discontinuing the drug,
increasing or lowering the dose or when switching
from one SSRI to another SSRI.  Adverse reactions
are often diagnosed as bipolar disorder when the
symptoms could be entirely iatrogenic (treatment
induced).  Withdrawal, especially abrupt
withdrawal, from any of these medications can
also cause severe neuropsychiatric and physical
symptoms. It is important to withdraw extremely
slowly from these drugs, usually over a period of
a year or more, under the supervision of a
qualified and experienced specialist.

In addition to the adverse reactions listed in
the Physicians' Desk Reference, the FDA published
a Public Health Advisory on March 22, 2004 which
states (in part): "Anxiety, agitation, panic
attacks, insomnia, irritability, hostility,
impulsivity, akathisia (severe restlessness),
hypomania, and mania have been reported in adult
and pediatric patients being treated with
antidepressants for major depressive disorder as
well as for other indications, both psychiatric
and nonpsychiatric."  (Click Links button at
bottom of this page for a direct link to this FDA Warning.)


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Although I spent years watching ZERO of that mind-control box, the
tele-vsion box, with its "programming," I've got sucked back into a
little bit the last couple of years. Every time I see this dude on a
commercial - he get's my biggest negative TV BS reaction.  I am so
pleased to see him get this award and I hope more people will learn
the truth about high cholesterol - its caused by too much sugar,
starch and junk food, not the good dietary animal fats [from
pastured, not grain-fed animals] the human body needs for the
impulse-conductive myelin sheath of the brain and nervous system. The
cholesterol found in arterial plaque is there to patch up damage that
can easily be reversed with enzymes and by eating real old-fashioned
food packed with natural nutrients - and cut the sugar and starch
consumption. Get some sunshine while you are at it! Forget the toxic
chemical sunscreen. And take off those sunglasses as often as you can
and get 1500 light frequencies hitting the retinas of your eyes. Make
your room 100% pitch black at night, and turn off the night lights.
[search http://mercola.com for more info]  [also see Naked at Noon
http://sunlightandvitamind.com/]

Eat right + noontime sun = less drugs for most people and better
mood, health, and longevity.

http://healthmyths.net/stinky.html [quote]
Award Recipient - Pfizer Do-Gooder Dr. Robert Jarvik
If you can't fool all the people all the time, then just fool some
"experts" and the rest will follow behind. Pfizer knows this. And to
do it, they bought the "Dracula of medical technology" to fool
everyone into taking Lipitor for the prevention of heart disease.
Meet Dr. Robert Jarvik, el numero uno cholesterol-lowering drug
pusher on your tube. If Jarvik is reading this he'll need that
translated: the number one drug pusher on your tube. [ Keep reading ]
http://healthmyths.net/stinky.html

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Perhaps the greatest of school's illusions is
that the institution was launched by a group of
kindly men and women who wanted to help the
children of ordinary families�to level the playing field, so to speak.

<http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/historytour/history1.htm>Let's
read a few words from John Gatto about what's really behind these illusions...


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Here's my April article for CNE

Spring Cleaning � Inside and Out

Children of the New Earth Online http://tinyurl.com/asfgm

Scroll down to about the middle of the page and look for
The Truth is Out... Ask Karen Eck

The number at the end is 13. Change to numbers
lower than 13 to see previous articles. I really liked article 1
Hootin� and Hollerin� �bout Autism, Vaccines, and PARENTS!


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http://www.westonaprice.org/healthissues/feeding_pets.html

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Someone on one of the lists asked about alternatives to Pharma Drugs.
This could be helpful to many people - so spread the word.
Articles by diagnosis, etc. - even insomnia and migraine headaches.
http://alternativementalhealth.com/articles/default.htm
I really like the Dr. Walsh article which covers
a lot of diagnosis - even hive, post partum depression
http://alternativementalhealth.com/articles/walsh.htm

Never go off a psych drug cold turkey. Get this
audio tape by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy
http://members.aol.com/atracyphd/orderfrm.htm#withdraw
"Help! I can't get off my antidepressant!"

http://www.drugawareness.org/ICFDAwarning.html
[quote] The most dangerous and most common
mistake someone coming off the SSRI
antidepressants makes is coming off these drugs
too rapidly. Tapering off very, very, VERY
SLOWLY--OVER MONTHS (and for long-term users�a
year or more), NOT JUST WEEKS!�has proven the
safest and most effective method of withdrawal
from this type of medication. Thus the body is
given the time it needs to readjust its own
chemical levels. Patients must be warned to come
very slowly off these drugs by shaving minuscule
amounts off their pills each day, as opposed to
cutting them in half or taking a pill every other day. [end quote]

If you are on prescription drugs, always work with a doctor to get off.
If your doctor won't do it, there are lots of directories on the web.
You can even get one of these doctors to consult
with your doctor if distance is an issue.
Directory - http://alternativementalhealth.com/directory/search.asp
[quote] If you are unable to find a practitioner
on our site, you can also go to
http://www.acam.org, which lists alternative
doctors.  You can call them to find which, if
any, deal with the mental symptoms you are interested in.
An excellent source of referrals worldwide is at
http://www.nutritional-healing.com.au/content/referrals.php
Another resource is http://ahha.org  which lists
many American non-MD alternative practitioners [end quote]

http://alternativementalhealth.com/ [quote]
Welcome to the world's largest site on non-drug
approaches for mental health.Thousands of people
around the world have recovered from mental
disorders and now enjoy the simple pleasures of a
drug-free life. Most were told this was
impossible. Yet we hear from these individuals
regularly. Many others have been able to
significantly reduce their dependency on
psychiatric medication. Commonly these people
find that underlying their "mental" disorders are
medical problems, allergies, toxic conditions,
nutritional imbalances, poor diets, lack of
exercise, or other treatable physical
conditions.Our site has testimonials, over 100
articles, and the Web's only directory of
alternative mental health practitioners. You can
also get information from our bookstore, support
groups, email lists, and our free monthly
newsletter. We hope you find the answers you have
been looking for... [End quote]

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>The Children of Today Program presents: "Free to Be ME" Journeys of
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Hi all,

This is an invitation to gather in Appreciation for the Honey Bees.

Honeybees.

All over the world they are disappearing. Hives are empty, not even a
dead bee to be found. Invader species refuse to take up residence in
the old hives. No one seems to know why the bees are disappearing.
What we do know is that 60% - 70% of all honeybee colonies are
vacant. We realize that without honeybees the crops of fruits, nuts,
corn etc do not become sufficiently pollinated to allow them to bear
fruit. Read more, please: Linda Moulton Howe's EARTHFILES.

In the past we have called for such action when areas of the world
were experiencing unbroken drought. People from all over the world
joined together in giving Appreciation for Precipitation.  As the
Weather Spirits received this outpouring of love and gratitude they
responded with a giving forth of rain!

It is now time to hold the honeybees in appreciation, to allow our
pouring forth of gratitude to revivify and embrace back into the fold
of life and sustainability our dear companions upon this planet:
Honeybees!


Appreciation of Honeybees!
May 2, 2007

Shaman Jade Wah'oo Grigori says, "In whatever manner you are
personally able, move your awareness into that of appreciation.
Perhaps meditate upon someone for whom you have appreciation and
gratitude, an event that stimulates a sense of deep gratitude.

When this is a felt-sense, a palpable experience within your body,
disengage the object of your appreciation (the person or event) so
that you remain in a non-attached state of appreciation. Draw into
this state the image of honeybees.

Now bring in an association of how they sound, their buzzing about,
their beauty and grace, the wonders of honey as a food and as a
wonderful sweetener of life! Feel that joy rushing through your body
as you contemplate the honeybee. Hold your awareness of Honeybees in
this state of appreciation. Do so for as long as is 'right' for you.

When you are ready to stop, forcefully blow your breath into the
image of the honeybee. This breath of life, sent in appreciation
carries with it all your  desire for blessing and positive life
empowerment to be carried forth to the honeybee  species."


If you feel called to do so, please gather in groups in your area and
participate.  Please send this to others.  Together we can show our
gratitude and together we are magnanimously powerful.

En Joy
In Joy
Bee Aware
Bee Grateful
Bee U Ti Full
To Bee

All the best
Diane, Spirit of Ma'at
Sedona, Arizona

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This website is about William Horatio Bates, a medical doctor, and
the Bates Method for improving eyesight.
Here's a snippet about this non-orthodox method that was rejected by
the mainstream medical establishement.

http://www.iblindness.org/intro/howbegan.html
[quote] Early on, he began noticing that the vision of some patients
would vary and that some would see better after not having worn their
properly-prescribed glasses. Investigating the matter, he found that
patients would see better after resting their eyes. He began taking
glasses off myopic medical students and eliminating the students'
need for them. In 1896 he began what was to be many years of
experimental work, gradually making the discoveries that make up the
Bates Method as it is known today. He eliminated his presbyopia, a
condition which was (and is) commonly held to be an inevitable result
of old age. By 1913, he began treating with his methods patients with
not only what was recognized as "functional" myopia but also what was
held to be incurable "organic" myopia, showing those cases to be
functional as well. Eventually he also treated people with other
vision disorders and diseases of the eye. Various medical journals of
the time published his articles about the methods he employed. He
published his discoveries and methods in his 1920 book and his Better
Eyesight magazines.

The things he was observing in his work were not able to be
understood solely in physical terms, so he examined mental aspects
associated with myopia and many other vision impairments. He found
that perfect sight only existed along with complete relaxation, and
imperfect sight was associated with an inappropriate mental effort.
Most importantly, he found that relaxation precipitates perfect
sight, not the other way around, and that by securing mental rest his
patients would rid themselves of their vision problems.

However, in doing all this it was necessary for him to reject some
stringently-held notions concerning sight. Among the statements he
insisted upon had to do with how refractive errors are practically
always functional in nature, are often more transient than had been
believed, and could be cured even in long-standing cases. Despite the
positive results he obtained with thousands of patients, his methods
were contrary to the teachings of a hundred years and were condemned
without trial - and generally still are today. [End quote]

[read more http://www.iblindness.org/intro/howbegan.html]


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In my column
"Let the Light Shine In � and On � and Through!"
in the May edition of
Children of the New Earth Online http://tinyurl.com/asfgm
(Scroll down the middle for the link the to my article
"The Truth is Out... Ask Karen Eck")
I encourage people to take off those sunglasses
(prescription lenses, and contact lenses too)
and experience the benefits of  1500 wavelengths
of unfiltered natural light shining on your retina,
which is an extension of your brain.

I often hear people complain that their eyes are too sensitive
to the brightness. Well then, that's an indication
that you would greatly benefit from helping your eyes get accustomed
to natural, full-spectrum sunlight. Here's how:

The "Sunning" Exercise

"The Bates technique for relieving photophobia is
called sunning, and consists simply of taking
sunshine on the closed lids.  In this way the
retina is accustomed to progressively brighter
light, until the stage is reached where the eye
can function efficiently over the entire range of
normally encountered light intensities.  The
warmth of the sun and the therapeutic properties
of its rays also have a profound and beneficial
effect on the health of the eyes and on the ability to relax them (Page 49)."

Read more:
http://www.causeof.org/bates_sunning.htm

Buy the book here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0285635085/kareeckdotcom
Improve Your Eyesight (Paperback)
by Jonathan Barnes (Author)  $11.66

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Herb'n Home May 2007  May 2007 - Vol 7, Issue 5             In This
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Mom's Cornbread
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Herbs in History
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Kitchen Pharmacy: MSG
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Herbs in the NEWS
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Healing Power of PEWTER
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           Dear Members,
Happy Mother's Day to all mothers everywhere!

Remember - we are all mothers to someone. Anyone who has been touched
with our kind love and kind touch has felt the love of a mother from you
and has been a better person because of it.

This month I am making a special "mother's" offer that you can use with
your mother, sister or friend. For the entire month of May if you
purchase one online class from www.thedreamangels.com
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wish.

You can also get the same "special" with online consultations. For each
online consultation that you purchase I will send an online consultation
to any mother you want. Each "online gift certificate" will be sent
through the E- cards created by our "Artist of the Month" (see below).

Happy Mother's Day!
Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND
       Inspiration of the Month     In honor of all the mothers out there
who are perhaps estranged from their child in some way...please read
this children and mothers...
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind
anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give your
best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between
you and them anyway.

- Mother Teresa-        My Mom's Cornbread     In honor of mother's day
I thought I would share with you my absolute favorite recipe as a child!
I LOVED these corn muffins and not just because they tasted good. They
are cooked in a cast iron muffin pan and shaped like corn. If you have
ever used cast iron you know that it is very healthy and also adds a
wonderful taste to your cooking. Try these out and you will see. The
cast iron muffin pan is the best but if you don't have one you can also
cook these in a cast iron skillet or a regular muffin pan.
Southern Corn Sticks

1 1/2 cups yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon sugar, if desired
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 1/4 cups milk
1/4 cup melted butter or vegetable oil
melted butter for brushing

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 425�. Grease corn stick pan with oil; place in the
oven while making batter. In mixing bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, salt,
baking powder, and soda; stir to blend. If you like your cornbread a
little sweeter, add the 1 tablespoon of sugar. IN another bowl wisk
together the egg, milk, and melted butter or oil; add to dry
ingredients, stirring just until moistened. Spoon batter into the
preheated corn stick pan, filling each mold about 3/4 full. Bake for 12
to 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Let cool 5 minutes then carefully
remove from pan. Brush with melted butter, if desired. Makes about 18
corn sticks, or more if using a mini corn stick pan.

This recipe should make about 12 muffins, baked in greased or sprayed
(cooking oil spray) muffin cups at the same temperature for about 20 to
25 minutes.
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to the Editor     Dear Editor,

I pray you are well. I was wondering if you would be able to help me
with natural remedies. My son (2 � years old) gets sick all the time.
Even if I take him out on a windy day, he will get a runny nose and
start to develop a fever. Right now he has a bad cough and a fever. He
has been put on two inhalers, Abuterol, and something else that I can't
remember right now (to prevent asthma and bronchitis). Last time, he was
also given antibiotics.

What are some natural remedies that I can use to help his situation?
Also, what else can I do on a daily basis for his normal eating habit
and intake.

Thanks,

BJ
Dear BJ,

Some general advice I can give you about the situation:

1. Try to give him some Elderberry syrup daily. It tastes YUMMY and is
great for coughs, colds, fevers, breathing issues, etc...if it seems to
work well for him, continue. If not, then you might need to try
something else. You can find Elderberry at your local health food store.

2. As far as daily diet - someone with his conditions should have a
balanced diet very low in milk & bread products. Also, he should not
drink boxed juices - only fresh and should not consume a lot of sugar.

You may want to get him tested for allergies.

If you would like a complete consultation I do online consultations for
children as well as adults. You can find all the information at the link
below.

It is hard for me to give too much advice without more information. So I
hope what I could offer was helpful!

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, Mh, ND
Online Herbal & Naturopathic Consulting...
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Herbs in History
Feverfew

Chrysanthemum Parthenium L.

Legends, Myths and Stories

There is a legend about feverfew, that this herb saved the life of a
person who fell off the famous temple in ancient Greece, the Parthenon.
Hence, the name parthenium.       Letter from the Editor     I was in a
chocolate shop today and I saw a cartoon - the doctor was saying
"finally I can prescribe you something that is easy to take and good for
your heart"

The lady replied "So are we going with red wine or dark chocolate this
time?"

It brought to light a good point - as long as we think healing is
something awful to endure we will remain unhealthy. We need to enjoy our
healing.

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND
       Kitchen Pharmacy: MSG     The Kitchen Pharmacy
Often times I am asked what the best foods to eat are or what foods one
should avoid. However, over time I have come to realize that it is not
so much the FOODS themselves as what is IN them. MSG is one such
ingredient that we should avoid, but is found in very surprising places.

Remember a few years ago when it was found that MSG caused allergies and
all kinds of bad reactions in people so pressure was put on the Chinese
community to stop using it in all their food. Now you go to any Chinese
restaurant and they have a sign on their door that says, "NO MSG".

Meanwhile, however, did you know that other major restaurants are still
using MSG? I didn't realize this until a couple months ago when I had a
really bad reaction to Pizza Hut Pizza. It was a typical MSG reaction
but I looked over my diet of the day and couldn't find any MSG. On a
whim I Googled MSG & Pizza Hut and found out that they put it in ALL
their sauces!!! MSG can cause fatigue, migraines, cardiac problems,
repiratory problems, visual problems and all sorts of mental issues. For
more information on bad reactions MSG can cause see the website:

MSG Information
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Here is a small list of what restuarants still use MSG:

FAZOLI'S: Everything here is safe except the meat sauce and products
containing sausage. I was told by the Home Office that the lasagna
contains MSG; however the chicken is safe. The only safe salad dressing
is Italian Lite. If the manager doesn't know the answers to your
questions, ask him/her to call the Home Office.

DENNY'S: Eggs, home fries, pancakes and waffles are OK. However, you
should bring your own syrup for the pancakes. Their current syrup may
give you a reaction. Many items on the menu have MSG in one form or
another.

CRACKER BARREL: Choose eggs, baked potato, grilled cheese sandwich or
vegetarian platter. Plain house salad may be OK, but bring your own
dressing. All meats have been treated with Hydrolyzed Protein, based on
an inspection of package labels in their kitchen. All gravies and salad
dressings have chicken or beef base, containing MSG in high percentages.

BOSTON MARKET: This restaurant used to be OK, but now has Hydrolyzed
Protein or Autolyzed Yeast in almost everything they serve -- a major
disappointment to MSG-sensitive people.

OUTBACK STEAK HOUSE: Everything in this restaurant is supposed to be
MSG-free. Still, stay away from the soups. Salad dressings are OK.

RUBY TUESDAY'S: Everything here is said to be MSG- free except soups.
Verify salad dressings. I stick to the salad bar, where everything is
homemade on the premises. I bring my own salad dressing (Paul Newman's
Own Italian).

CHILI'S: This is said to be an MSG-free establishment. I've had no
reaction to anything I've eaten there, but still use my own salad
dressing and avoid soups.

PIZZA HUT: I wrote the Home Office and was sent a list of ingredients.
It indicated that the only thing I could safely eat was the pizza crust!
MSG was contained in the sauces, the meat products and the cheese.

PAPA JOHN'S PIZZA: Here you can safely eat pizza without worrying about
MSG. I would, however, avoid adding meat products as an extra. Stick to
the veggies such as mushrooms, peppers, olives, anchovies, etc.

OLIVE GARDEN: Most all food here is OK, except the soups which have MSG
in the soup bases. Salad dressings are OK. The Complete Kitchen Pharmacy
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compounds and the war on cellulite...

Cellulitis is a condition associated with chronic venous insufficiency
and venous stasis. Symptomatic relief can be achieved by topically
applying substances that promote skin microcirculation and lipolysis.
Since lipolysis is a process regulated by cAMP levels, the use of
compounds that stimulate adenylate cyclase or that inhibit cAMP
phosphodiesterase is one potential method of increasing lipolytic
activity. A Ginkgo biloba fraction rich in dimeric flavonoids appears to
exert anti- inflammatory and vasokinetic properties. Identified as GBDF,
the fraction contains amentoflavone and biflavonoids including
bilobetin, sequoiaflavone, ginkgetin, isoginkgetin and sciadopitysin,
all of which differ in the position and number of methylated hydroxyl
groups. In laboratory assays, GBDF inhibited cAMP phosphodiesterase
(PDE) in a concentration dependent fashion. Degree of inhibition by
individual biflavone compounds was inversely proportional to the number
of methoxy groups on the compound, with sciadopitysin showing almost no
anti-PDE activity and amentoflavone and bilobetin showing the most
activity. Further studies are being undertaken to investigate the effect
of these compounds on the biochemistry of intact fat cells.

Taken from: Bosisio S. Biflavones of Ginkgo biloba in cosmetics.
Fitoterapia       Kid's Corner: Robin Meditation     This is a wonderful
nature activity to do with children - nature meditation! This is how you
do it:

1. Take your child outside. It does not have to be at a park or nature
preserve or any special place. We did this in our backyard.

2. Sit somewhere - on the ground, a chair, anywhere that you will be
very comfortable without moving for about 15 minutes.

3. Pick a bird to watch for that 15 minutes. If your bird flies too far
pick another one. As you are watching the bird, imagine you ARE the
bird. You are flying to the ground. You need material for a nest...oh,
you are bringing it to the nest...it is a bit heavy...let's rest for a
bit. Look around...is there any danger? Does anyone see me slip into
this roof gap...? etc....you must ONLY think like the bird for 15
minutes.

You will be amazed at how relaxing and meditative this activity is -
even for adults. Try it while you are waiting in traffic someday or in a
line or somewhere you are feeling stressed or bored. It works miracles!
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es.tripod.com%2Finternationalwaldorf%2F>        Book of the Month
Everyone always writes about new books that have come out - you can find
that information in any health magazine or online e-zine. However, as
each new book arrives the old classics get shoved farther and farther
off the shelves until they are forgotten. I find this sad because many
of the best books (meaning they have the most complete information,
ideas and/or organization) are older books you can only find in
re-print, at the library or the used book store. If you have any
suggestions of your own please e-mail me! And if you can't find the book
I have mentioned this month (online or in your library or an old
book-shop) please e-mail me. Perhaps I can help!
The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
by William Bennet

I have had this book on my shelf for years and it seems I am always
reaching for it - to share a story with someone that illustrates a
point. Sometimes instead of giving lectures to your friends, spouse,
roomate, friend or child the best way to share wisdom is through a
story.

This book contains hundreds of classic very short stories FILLED with
wisdom and organized by virtue. These are not sappy "and this is what we
learned today dear" stories. These are classic, very well known and
well- written stories. Some have been handed down for generations and
some are from classic literature. No home should be without this book!
Global Sister Goods     (Note: I do not sell advertising. The opinions
in this column are entirely my own)

Note: Last month I mentioned a wonderful tea press that I found at
Starbucks - for those of you who are boycotting Starbucks (I got a few
notes from you) I found the wonderful tea press at another website:
Bodum Tea Press
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And now for something new...
As I was out surfing for great treasures last week I ran across this
wonderful website that supports women's work by encouraging them to make
and sell things on the site. This is a wonderful way to celebrate
Mother's Day - buy something for your mother from this site - that way
you are making your mother happy and someone else's mother too :) Global
Sister Goods
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Website of the Month     Website of the Month
More frequently we are searching out herbal and natural remedies but
sometimes we forget our pets would enjoy those same remedies. I found a
wonderful website that lists some of the uses of Bach Remedies for your
pet. I have used natural healing on all of our pets - even the hamsters!
Bach Remedies for Pets
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of mine sent me such a beautiful e-card last month I could not believe
it was "just an e-mail card". The art in it was so gorgeous and the
animation was not "silly" or "clever" - it was MAGICAL! If you want to
send someone a unique e-card visit this artist's website. I did, after I
received my card, and was surprised at what I found! Artist's E-card
Site - Nature Themes
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quielawson.com>        Healing Power of PEWTER     DID YOU KNOW....That
Pewter has Healing Power?

I've always liked the look and feel of pewter. One of my favorite items
to touch on my grandmother's shelf when I was a child was made of pewter
- a small figurine. It turns out that carrying that figurine around as a
talisman may have been a good idea...
Tin, the main component of pewter, is extracted from a mineral called
"cassiterite" or tinstone and is found, in nature, mixed with other
undergroung mineral deposits. The procedures needed to separate the
tinstone from the other minerals are demanding. Cassiterite is also used
as a gemstone and collector specimens when quality crystals can be
found.

CASSITERITE
Cassiterite is a metallic gray to black mineral/crystal & a 1st charka
gem. Cassiterite is a stone for personal protection. Being metallic,
Cassiterite acts somewhat like Hematite, shielding and protecting one
from negative energy. It basically reflects back negativity to the
sender. Being Cassiterite is dark, shiny and black, it is used as a
grounding stone when one feels flighty or out of sink with the energy of
the Earth. Use this stone to get your energy back into balance, a good
idea is to take your Cassiterite out into nature with you and allow it
to bond with the gentleness of the Earth and to you.

Cassiterite is also used to dispel energy relating to disapproval, it
encourages optimism.

If you already have some nice pewter items - get them out and enjoy
them!

If not... have provided a link below where you can buy some very nice
discounted pewter items. I linked you to one item, but you can link from
there to candle holders, fairy goblets and more. . Buy Discount Pewter
Figurines, Candle Holders & Talismans
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