There are plenty more, but you don't really care. You're just chest-pounding on the superiority of your belief system vs. those who allow for something more.
Don't fall for people who pick a hole in scientific understanding and try to defend pseudoscientific babble while hiding behind things they don't understand.
People don't pick holes in "scientific understanding". The holes exist, and people just point them out. There is no accepted "theory of everything" yet, and there are many observations that don't make sense when looked at from a materialist overview.
There are good "psychics" and not-so-good "psychics". If you happen to cross paths with a good one, you might have your own paradigm shift.:)
I see. It's a pity that there's no evidence that these experiences actually took place in reality, not just in the participants' imaginations, don't you think? Because if there were evidence, someone would be a million dollars richer.
The U.S. government financed development of 'remote viewing' for over 20 years. It's said that the spooks hated the program, but because they got results, right from the start, they allowed it to continue until the soviet union broke apart.
Of course, when evidence conflicts with beliefs, beliefs usually win, even by those who fancy themselves of a "scientific" mindset. See The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
A scientific community cannot practice its trade without some set of received beliefs. These beliefs form the foundation of the "educational initiation that prepares and licenses the student for professional practice". The nature of the "rigorous and rigid" preparation helps ensure that the received beliefs are firmly fixed in the student's mind. Scientists take great pains to defend the assumption that scientists know what the world is like...To this end, "normal science" will often suppress novelties which undermine its foundations. Research is therefore not about discovering the unknown, but rather "a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education". (emphasis added)
For your consideration, concerning the facts about individuals being "able to demonstrate their alleged abilities under controlled conditions":
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From the top of our system on down, there are many who could stand up and be counted regarding the efficiency of developed remote viewing, and even regarding superior natural psychics. It has been circulated in the intelligence community that successful remote viewing sessions probably saved the nation a billion-plus dollars in what otherwise would have been wasted, or misdirected, activities. Not a bad payback for the $20 million.
Why do they not stand up and be counted? For the most part, they are afraid of being taken apart in the press, afraid of being ridiculed for doing their duty in an area of threat analysis which was completely justified. This fear is not their fault. It is the fault of our unthinking and irresponsible popular culture.
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I now direct your attention to "successful remote viewing," and ask you to wonder if it can exist. Begin by considering psychics who successfully help the police. Add to that success some quite good remote viewing training. Then consider that what is a bit possible in natural psychics might be understood, developed, and then trained.
Now assume that a "little-bit-psychic" can become a "whole-lot-psychic" -- and you come up with the "eight martini result."
Those of you who witnessed the Nightline TV show of 28 November 1995, will recall an individual said to be from the CIA, but identified only by the name "Norm."
Mr. Robert Gates had just finished saying that remote viewing was unpromising. But when it came "Norm's" time to talk, he began saying something like, "Well, if it's the Eight-Martini Results you want to talk about, I won't talk about them."
What, then, is an "eight-martini" result? Well, this is an intelligence community in-house term for remote viewing data so good that it cracks everyone's realities. So they have to go out and drink eight martinis to recover. Remote viewing does have its amusing aspects, you know.
My beliefs about the nature of the universe have been shaped by the experiences I've had, the sources I've read, and the people with amazing skills I've encountered. I interpreted them as I do, in a manner that I find constructive, and they allow me to work towards the goals I have.
You have your beliefs, and ask me to prove them wrong for you. Why should I bother? If your beliefs work for you, who am I to challenge them? Good luck to ya.:)
... a fraud with an agenda. He's no different that a bible-thumping jesus freak, except he beats the "materialist" drum.
But as one "super-psychic" points out, even scientists now say that matter-as-we-know-it only makes up between 4 and 7% of the universe. The rest is labeled as "dark matter" and "dark energy". They don't know what exactly it is, but that plain matter is inadequate to explain the measurements taken by cosmologists.
I road-tripped to Vegas to hear Ingo's talk earlier this summer. He's a very smart man. "I only work with scientists" (he's now retired). He'd prepared some notes, and held up his copies of Scientific American and other mainstream sources... And pointed out that "dark energy" interpenetrates everything, and is the carrier medium for experiences previously labeled "extra-sensory".
(the basis of his talk was that "we need new words, because there are experiences that don't have a label, and the words we do have limit us to concepts that are 200 years out of date" Or something like that...)
And you hardly can inoculate all the poultry in a country. So the significance of this seems pretty limited.
Especially so, considering that the largest outbreaks of bird flu have been in countries with the most environmental polution (legacy agent orange contamination in Vietnam + chickens == weakened immune system especially susceptible to influenza).
"FOWL!" is an investigative report into how dioxins, POPs and other environment chemicals are contributing to illness in migratory birds, chickens and humans by making them more susceptible to the effects of influenza viruses.
The avian flu scare is just the latest act in an ongoing world government drama. This book is a disclosure about betrayals on many levels. Here are a few of the truths that will be exposed: -Who wants the rural chickens dead? Who benefits from the destruction of the family farm, here and abroad? -What are the real reasons that domestic chickens and ducks are sick? -What is the connection between toxic environmental conditions and the death ofmigratory birds? -Why are human deaths associated with bird flu concentrated in Southeast Asia? -Who benefits from the manufacture of a 'pandemic vaccine'? What's in it? -Why vaccines are not the answer.
In the show, one of the guys went to a mystery target location, and the other guy received instruction from Mr. Smith on how to remote view to 'see' the location where his compadre had gone. The RVer made his impressions and drew some pictures. Then they went & met up at the site. MythBuster RVer was like, "ah hah, yeah, this is what I 'saw'", and they were able to correlate his drawings to the actual site. They decided that there was something to the techniques.
Of course, Remote Viewing had already been proven to work in the U.S. government's various "psychic spy" programs...
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From the top of our system on down, there are many who could stand up and be counted regarding the efficiency of developed remote viewing, and even regarding superior natural psychics. It has been circulated in the intelligence community that successful remote viewing sessions probably saved the nation a billion-plus dollars in what otherwise would have been wasted, or misdirected, activities. Not a bad payback for the $20 million.
Why do they not stand up and be counted? For the most part, they are afraid of being taken apart in the press, afraid of being ridiculed for doing their duty in an area of threat analysis which was completely justified. This fear is not their fault. It is the fault of our unthinking and irresponsible popular culture.
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I now direct your attention to "successful remote viewing," and ask you to wonder if it can exist. Begin by considering psychics who successfully help the police. Add to that success some quite good remote viewing training. Then consider that what is a bit possible in natural psychics might be understood, developed, and then trained.
Now assume that a "little-bit-psychic" can become a "whole-lot-psychic" -- and you come up with the "eight martini result."
Those of you who witnessed the Nightline TV show of 28 November 1995, will recall an individual said to be from the CIA, but identified only by the name "Norm."
Mr. Robert Gates had just finished saying that remote viewing was unpromising. But when it came "Norm's" time to talk, he began saying something like, "Well, if it's the Eight-Martini Results you want to talk about, I won't talk about them."
What, then, is an "eight-martini" result? Well, this is an intelligence community in-house term for remote viewing data so good that it cracks everyone's realities. So they have to go out and drink eight martinis to recover. Remote viewing does have its amusing aspects, you know.
... you can't extract free energy as work from the zero-point energy. The zero-point energy is by definition the lowest energy state that a system can have; to extract usable energy, you'd have to decrease the energy of the rest of the system below that minimum value, which is by definition impossible.
ah, but perhaps the definitions need to be changed.
I've personally met someone you would call a "crank physicist" (a doctoral candidate at a conventional university) who is working in the zero-point energy field, and he's quite exicited about the implications of his work.
Someday we'll look back and chuckle at how everyone use to believe in a fundamentally mechanical universe, even after cosmologists had made their observations that matter-as-we-know-it only makes up 4-7% of the universe...
Is there a distinction between faith you can't prove to yourself because it's not proveable (metaphysics),
It's not that metaphysics are unproveable, just that there's not currently an accepted theoretical framework that allows for the phenomena observed.
For example, MythBusters tested Paul H. Smith & his claim to be able to teach "remote viewing". Materialist scientists scoff at the notion that a human could get information about a distant location with hokey 'psychic' skills, because there's no allowance in their model of the universe of a mechanism that allows for the transference of said information. But, as the Mythbusters found in the show, there's something to the practice.
It was pointed out to me that even the scientists now say that matter-as-we-know-it only makes up 4-7% of the universe. The rest is classified as "dark matter" and "dark energy", and said dark-stuff "interpenetrates" everything else. 'Dark energy' could very well be the vector that explains the how & why of so-called psychic phenomena.
I'm currently working on Lynne McTaggart's The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, which covers more on the energy of empty space. She's a science reporter, and the first 100 pages are on the historical progression of interest in the subject.
If your saliva's acidic, it'll dissolve away your enamel no matter what you do.
http://www.thebadbreathreport.com/ - best $20 I've ever spent. Please note that I could've signed up for his affiliate program, but this is just a plain link.
Also see http://www.euroamericanhealth.com/ - you could very well be a good candidate for his base powder, or baking soda at the least. Get some pH strips to test your saliva pH first, then you'll know what to do next.
Look up in the sky... After I first heard about the "chemtrail" phenomena, I started paying attention. Interesting how some jet's vapor stream dissipates quickly, while others hold together for some time.
Activist web sites alledge that some planes get atomized aluminum powder in their jet fuel, which passes through the engine okay. Aluminum in the air reflects sunlight back into space.
Atomized aluminum in the ground wrecks havoc with the ecosystem. The bastards who started this program ought to be shot, if it indeed exists as charged.
I like the "increased underwater volcanic activity" theory myself. Saw a pdf by a climatologist somewhere... When I find it again, I'll submit a story.
I picked up a copy of Mr. Gatto's A Different Kind of Teacher the summer after finishing my 4-year college degree (from an expensive science/engineering school), and realized that I didn't really know how to read.
Gatto had discovered that most of his 7th graders couldn't read beyond the level required for a multiple choice test, and offered his readers a question on the classic All Quiet on the Western Front. I went to the library, borrowed the book, read the first 20 pages as best I could... And had no idea whatsoever what was going on.
I'd tried to read many books before - The Hobbit, Moby Dick, texts for college course, etc. I couldn't even read Harry Potter.
Someone posted a link to some Gatto videos when I posted a comment linking to Underground History some months back. So if you're like me, and can't really read, then at least you can watch the movies.:)
If every GM car was as good as a new 'Vette or Cad, perhaps they'd be making more profit? Perhaps if they stopped making ugly, shitty cars that get bad mileage they'd sell a few more? No, it's easier to blame the unions.
so true, so true. GM could be profitable even with their union labor rates. They'd just have to build cars the equal of Toyota's lineup.
Silly pseudo-scientists, always trying to marginalise empirical evidence in favour of their own skewed (imagined or not) experiences
Let me help you out here, because you seem to be confused.
Emperical3 : capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment
Observations and experiments almost universally support the existence of the vitalistic overview. The exception comes when the experimenter strongly believes in the materialistic overview.
Also the CIA found out remote viewing doesn't work for shit.
What evidence do you have to back that up? Or have you just taken YOUR belief and carefully selected which "evidence" you're willing to consider?
Mr. Swann says that the CIA spooks always hated their program, so they had to get results, right from the start. If the results weren't there, they would have been shut down immediately.
At a rare 2004 question-and-answer session, Mr. Swann told a story from SRI. He was sitting on a throne in the restroom when two spooks walked in. One spook said to the other [paraphrased], "wow, they got some really good stuff going on here." The other responds, "yeah, next thing you now they'll be reading our minds." Swann: "I knew the program was doomed..."
"This is to say that the intelligence community did not conduct psychic research and go out on a limb just for the hell of it. In fact, that community never did psychic research. What it did was to assess the threat of the Soviet efforts.... All media reports of the 1970s correctly identified the purpose of this threat analysis, albeit with a good deal of joking and amusement.
"At the time, this threat analysis was perfectly justified, completely necessary, and unquestionably required in behalf of the well-being of the nation."
"[We] clearly confirmed the reality of the threat. Even most of the 1970s media concluded that the work was necessary, even if it was funny and ridiculous according to Western anti-psychic traditions."
"... Those of you who witnessed the Nightline TV show of 28 November 1995, will recall an individual said to be from the CIA, but identified only by the name "Norm."
"Mr. Robert Gates had just finished saying that remote viewing was unpromising. But when it came "Norm's" time to talk, he began saying something like, "Well, if it's the Eight-Martini Results you want to talk about, I won't talk about them."
"What, then, is an "eight-martini" result? Well, this is an intelligence community in-house term for remote viewing data so good that it cracks everyone's realities. So they have to go out and drink eight martinis to recover. Remote viewing does have its amusing aspects, you know."
That tends to make me think that we do in fact, have a pretty good grasp of the laws of physics. IMO, the only thing we're missing is the "gravity to the rest of it" connection, confounded by the inconvienient fact that gravity appears to be the only force in the universe which is apparently instantainious over galactic distances.
Ah yes, the old "only missing a page or two out of the Book of Physics". Problem is that the pages aren't numbered. So this one little itsy bitsy problem of "gravity to the rest of it" could very well be huge - dozens of chapters yet to be discovered.
The materialist peanut gallery claimed victory over the vitalists (advocates of a non-material life force existing separate from matter, which 'animates', making the difference between 'dead' and 'alive') after Newton put together his works, they said it again after Einstien put together General Relativity. Always trying to marginalize non-physical experience, silly materialists.
But, as Ingo Swann recently pointed out, now even the scientists say that matter only accounts for 4-7% of the universe, the rest being "dark matter" and "dark energy", which interpenetrates EVERYTHING else.
Say, Remote Viewing is instantaneous like Gravity too - how does that skill fit into the physical model? Mr. Swann says (with good experience training others to back it up) that these powers are possessed by everyone, and it's only a matter of doing the proper training... (There was a Mythbusters TV segment on Remote Viewing, and the skill passed their test).:)
Whenever a situation is interpreted as threatening in some manner, the body tends to go into a fight-or-flight response. So-named because it (the body) gets ready to fight or run away. Or freeze. What happens is the blood that used to be flowing to all parts of your brain retreats to the "reptilian brain" at the base, and to the arms & legs.
To draw the blood back into your forebrain, you can take the pads of your index and middle fingers and place them gently between your eyebrows and hairline. After a bit you'll feel a steady thump-thump-thump. When you have proper blood flow in your grey matter, everything just works better.
When I first started doing this particular exercise, it took quite a while at times to find the pulse. But now it's almost instantaneous. I guess I've re-trained my body to keep its thinking skills whenever a stressful situation occurs.
The Bates method seems to work for some people, but not for others. I know a guy who did the exercises, threw in a little self hypnosis, and got crystal clear vision... For a moment or two, and then it was back to his normal blurry perception. He ended up getting LASIK, and was happy with the outcome.
So there's something missing in that methodology.
I started seeing a Cranial Osteopath last year for my disfunctional arms. I noticed a testimonial letter in his waiting room on the third or fourth visit about Osteopathic vision prescriptions, so I mentioned that I wore contacts. "Oh really? Let's see how they are." He got behind me, put his hands on my temples and instructed me to close my eyes. After a moment I was instructed to open my eyes. "Oh, these are totally wrong for you! We'll have to fix this too..." (Cranial Osteopaths have a very refined sense of touch, and he noticed muscles contracting when I looked through my original contact lense prescription.)
Over the next year, I've been through six different prescriptions. The left eye bounced between -1.75 and -2.00 (was initially -2.25), while the right eye steadily decreased from -2.75 to the current -1.25. My last prescription was in March; before that it was changing about every month-and-a-half.
Cranial Osteopathy
A three-year-old little girl was scheduled to have eye surgery, a shortening of the eye muscles, then eye-patches for three weeks, while strapped into a crib at the children's hospital. The parents were told that she would probably need similar surgery at least twice before completing high school. She was taken to a cranial osteopathic medical doctor for help. He found that the left occipital base of her skull had been pushed forward and up high, probably at birth, and that due to pressure on the visual cortex, the eye muscles could never work properly. He added that **all serious visual disturbances in children were usually the result of cranial compression that occurred during birth, or from a fall**. Following the visit, the cranial osteopath requested that the little girl's thick glasses be removed since he believed her vision would improve greatly overnight. The next morning her 20/400 vision was 20/20, and the strabysmus had completely resolved. (emphasis added) -Healthy Medicine, pg 145
My vision started going downhill when I was in the 4th grade. I'm pretty sure that was about the same time as when my parents started really fighting. As the good doctor said, "what was happening in your life, that you didn't want to see?" My brother and I got our first pairs of glasses at the same time, but while I remember being able to see clearly (at times) in the 4th grade, he has no such memory... Granted, he was in Kindergarten, but I think it likely that he carries some sort of fascia restriction from birth.
Over the past year, my eyes have gotten better, while my brother's have gotten worse. How many people do you hear of whose eyes have gotten better without surgery? And compare that to the multitudes whose prescriptions just keep ratcheting upwards... I will be evaluating natural vision improvement programs once I'm finished with my course of osteopathic treatment.
(I have written about this subject on slashdot before... See this comment, and the ones it links to.)
1. GM sponsors an entry in the first Solar Race Across Australian 2. GM's Sunraycer runs away from the competition 3. a. The board says, "rah rah, good PR opportunity. Now back to our business of making gasoline-powered cars."
b. The engineer CEO says, "Build me a prototype, I want GM to be a leader instead of playing perpetual catch-up!" The board says, Are you sure? Might give those crazy CARB regulators ideas... 4. Impact prototype shows in the January 1990 L.A. autoshow. By November, CARB had a spiffy new Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate on the books. 5. Engineer CEO says, "we can do this!", and starts going all-out to meet the ZEV mandate. 6. 1992: Recession! GM misses profit forecasts. The engineer CEO is kicked out, and replaced with a beancounter. 7. Beancounter CEO says, "look, this EV1 project is a decade away from being profitable, and we're cashing in on every Suburban we sell. Our only hope is to spend $1.50 lobbying against the crazy mandate for every $1.00 we spend on EV1 development." 8. GM splits into two parts - a section that believed in the project, and a section that believed in making Suburbans. 9. GM shows a diesel-electric 4 passenger 80mpg hybrid at a 1997 autoshow. Never shown again. GM proceeds to let Toyota clean their clock in the hybrid game...
10. GM loses several billion dollars last year on declining sales of Suburbans, while Toyota and Honda (which build cars too) enjoy substantial profits.
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blah blah, sure I'm missing something. Above points partially inspired by this electric car group post, and Alan Cocini's memoir (Electrical Engineer extraordinaire, who saw the writing on the wall and left soon after the engineer CEO was kicked out).
GM could've been a leader, as electric cars with an onboard generator are now all the rage. Instead they spent a couple years cashing in on SUV sales, and now they're irrelevant. With a visionless management, they'll certainly be in bankruptcy court soon.
The post linked to above is quite lucid, so I'm going to copy it in part here:
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Like gluttons at an "all you can eat" Las Vegas buffet, they filled up on high calorie, high profit trucks and SUVs, then gave away the profits and gambled that nobody would notice that they had forgotten how to build cars.
Worst of all, GM long ago stopped listening to its customers, and that's just plain bad Car-Ma!;-)
The turning point occurred in the late 90's, when a group of visionary engineers, under the tutelage of then CEO Robert Stempel, attempted to "reinvent the corporation." Among their achievements, they built, on the relatively small shoestring budget of $350 million, the world's most advanced and efficient automobile -- the EV1. The EV1 assembly line in East Lansing, Michigan established new benchmarks in low volume custom manufacturing -- a key technology for the future, then and now dominated by Toyota Corporation.
But Stempel and his lieutenants were soon ousted by a corporate coup when GM's earnings took a downturn during a recession, and the Beancounters took over once again.
In 1997, GM showed off a hybrid electric version of the EV1 at the Los Angeles Auto Show -- just as Honda and Toyota were introducing their hybrids to the world. But the Beancounters at GM Corporate quietly tucked away their hybrid, never to be seen again, and openly derided the Japanese offerings for selling "below cost" -- forgetting the painful lessons that America has had to learn in so many other elec- tronic-related technologies.
At the same time, GM executives were trying to kill the all-electric EV1. But they had a problem. Many tho
Yes, that Edgar Cayce. The one who was 90% accurate. The one who gave recommendations that, if followed, resulted in improvements in cases who were previously considered "hopeless". The one who told people what they could expect - from slight improvement to complete cure. The one whose readings extensively cover proper nutrition. The Edgar Cayce who is considered the father of western wholistic medicine.
But you're just a materialist, whose belief system does not allow for information being channeled from other-than-physical sources. Why don't you go find some flat-earth socialites to hang out with? I'm 'spinning my wheels' with you here, and won't play this game any longer.
Does modern medicine lack a guiding philosophy? Eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, exercise a little, don't smoke and don't drink too much. Sounds good to me.
These are tacked on as an afterthought. Cayce spoke extensively about good health being the product of good assimilations and eliminations. There's so much more than "five servings" in nutrition.
One of the decent things grandma's oncologist did for her was send her to a nutritionist. Later she said, "she wanted me to eat five servings of vegetables a day. She's CRAZY!." The oncologist never again asked about grandma's diet, and went on his merry way happily trying to drug the symptoms away.
Quackwatch seems to be an organized slander campaign against health technologies outside those accepted in the allopathic paradigm. They have entries on just about anything that isn't drugs and surgery. See Quackpotwatch for one take on the organizers behind "Quackwatch".
Grandma decided to pass on the thalidomide because she knew she was dying, and wasn't about to waste $2.3k of her own money in a last-gasp effort to prolongue her life. Later my uncle, a MD/radiologist, decided that that drug probably would've done more harm than good, as thalidomide is a harsh drug (don't remember what it was exactly - kidneys perhaps?).
I won't try to defend the high prices of drugs, merely point out that is a problem of politics, specifically capitalism and private medical care, not medicine or science.
The Flexner Report was used to shut down 1/2 of the U.S. medical schools early in the last century, obstenably for "quality" reasons. The medical education system that emerged was transformed into one that focused on new patented drugs as the primary modality. Not because that approach was superior, but because that was one way for distant middlemen to stick their profiteering fingers into the doctor-patient transaction.
And as for Reich, remember that Cosmologists now tell us that only 4-7% of the universe is made up of matter. Another 20-something % is "dark matter", and the other 70% is classfied as "dark energy". They call it "dark" because they don't know what it is, just that some missing form of matter & energy is needed to account for their observations on the expansion of the universe. Reich was onto something 60 years ago, but most of our medical technologists still focus 100% of their attention on that 4-7% of the universe, for material drugs.
There was nothing tragic about my grandmother's passing. It was her time to go, and all things considered, her last few months were okay. I'm just a little pissed that the Mayo Clinic profiteered by offering the rest my family false hope that they could "save" grandma. (I encouraged Hospice right from the start).
I'm not overly familiar with Hamer's work. I was exposed to it by someone who has some incredible skills in getting people what they want out of life. My experience is that the personality type/cancer connection is valid. Grandma was always... cold and "heartless". My cousin's wife has been, as long as I've known her, extremely anxious, and she just had surgery (again) for cervical cancer.
To deny the carcinogenic effects of tobacco smoke, as Hamer does, is ludicrous.
And yet, thousands of smokers never get cancer. Besides, it seems that it's not the tobacco smoke that's carcinogenic, but the radiation you get along with it:
Radioactive fertilizer
It's a well established but little known fact that commercially grown tobacco is contaminated with radiation. The major source of this radiation is phosphate fertilizer.1 The big tobacco companies all use chemical phosphate fertilizer, which is high in radioactive metals, year after year on the same soil. These metals build up in the soil, attach themselves to the resinous tobacco leaf and ride tobacco trichomes in tobacco smoke, gathering in small "hot spots" in the small-air passageways of the lungs.2 Tobacco is especially effective at absorbing radioactive elements from phosphate fertilizers, and also from naturally occurring radiation in the soil, air, and water.3
To grow what the tobacco industry calls "more flavorful" tobacco, US farmers use high-phosphate fertilizers. The phosphate is taken from a rock mineral, apatite, that is ground into powder, dissolved in acid and further processed. Apatite rock also contains radium, and the radioactive elements lead 210 and polonium 210. The radioactivity of common chemical fertilizer can be verified with a Geiger-Mueller counter and an open sack of everyday 13-13-13 type of fertilizer (or any other chemical fertilizer high in phosphate content).4
Conservative estimates put the level of radiation absorbed by a pack-and-a-half a day smoker at the equivalent of 300 chest X-rays every year.5 The Office of Radiation, Chemical & Biological Safety at Michigan State University reports that the radiation level for the same smoker was as high as 800 chest X-rays per year.6 Another report argues that a typical nicotine user might be getting the equivalent of almost 22,000 chest X-rays per year.7...
Tobacco smoking has been popular for centuries,11 but lung cancer rates have only increased significantly after the 1930's.12 In 1930 the lung cancer death rate for white US males was 3.8 per 100,000 people. By 1956 the rate had increased almost tenfold, to 31 per 100,000.13 Between 1938 and 1960, the level of polonium 210 in American tobacco tripled, commensurate with the increased use of chemical fertilizers.14 -http://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_t obacco.html
The harm in the choice is that people may reject therapies for which there is evidence of potential benefit for snake oil which will not work.
The problem is that modern medicine has no guiding philosophy for health. They just treat the symptoms, and hold out their successes as validation of their approach, sweeping all the failures under the carpet.
Sometimes all a person needs is some "snake oil" (belief change). Sometimes they need to change their nutrient intake, sometimes they need to release some emotional trauma. Sometimes surgery is called for, sometimes drugs. Sometimes osteopathic manipulation is appropriate.
But as it is, there's a ton of profit for pharmaceuticals in pursuing
My grandma trusted Mayo clinic, and all they did was extend her period of suffering before she died. Bastards took medicare for between $50k and $100k. After six months of worthless treatment, they decided they'd worked her for all she was worth (bone marrow was >90% cancerous, even after all their "therapy") and she started hospice care. Died a week later.
Dr. Hamer challenges the materialistic notion that matter is primary, therefore his revolutionary ideas must be suppressed. Governments always throw the best healers in jail... Jesus, Wilhelm Reich, Ruth Drown, all killed at the hands of the state. Gerber was ran out of the country.
Some people will not respond well to Hamer's system. Some respond remarkably. It seems that some people cast off by the establishment as "terminal" respond beautifully, so what's the harm in having a choice? Other than to the bottom line of the high-priced cancer industry, that is...
On the other hand, my wife died of an incurable brain tumor, Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM). Curing that "symptom" would have been nice...for now.
Even a cancerous tumor is a symptom of some other problem. Consider Dr. Hamer's findings on the relationship between the psyche and disease:
Dr. Hamer realized that his wife's death and his own cancer had to be connected somehow with the tragic shooting and eventual death of their son, Dirk. As a medical doctor, scientific researcher and head internist of an oncology clinic in Munich, Dr. Hamer was in the position to be able to come to the conclusion that a physical event can create a biological conflict shock that manifests in a visible physical transformation in the brain, and leads to a measurable change in physical-nervous parameters and to the development of cancerous growths, ulcerations, necroses and functional disturbances in specific organs of the body.
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Well, I've already given one. Mr. Swann is known as the 'most tested guinea pig in parapsychology', or something like that.
Allison Dubois (inspiration for NBC's Medium) was tested by Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona.
There are plenty more, but you don't really care. You're just chest-pounding on the superiority of your belief system vs. those who allow for something more.
Don't fall for people who pick a hole in scientific understanding and try to defend pseudoscientific babble while hiding behind things they don't understand.
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You might benefit from consideration of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Paradigm Shift, and all that.
People don't pick holes in "scientific understanding". The holes exist, and people just point them out. There is no accepted "theory of everything" yet, and there are many observations that don't make sense when looked at from a materialist overview.
There are good "psychics" and not-so-good "psychics". If you happen to cross paths with a good one, you might have your own paradigm shift.
The U.S. government financed development of 'remote viewing' for over 20 years. It's said that the spooks hated the program, but because they got results, right from the start, they allowed it to continue until the soviet union broke apart.
Of course, when evidence conflicts with beliefs, beliefs usually win, even by those who fancy themselves of a "scientific" mindset. See The Structure of Scientific Revolutions:
For your consideration, concerning the facts about individuals being "able to demonstrate their alleged abilities under controlled conditions":
My beliefs about the nature of the universe have been shaped by the experiences I've had, the sources I've read, and the people with amazing skills I've encountered. I interpreted them as I do, in a manner that I find constructive, and they allow me to work towards the goals I have.
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You have your beliefs, and ask me to prove them wrong for you. Why should I bother? If your beliefs work for you, who am I to challenge them? Good luck to ya.
... a fraud with an agenda. He's no different that a bible-thumping jesus freak, except he beats the "materialist" drum.
But as one "super-psychic" points out, even scientists now say that matter-as-we-know-it only makes up between 4 and 7% of the universe. The rest is labeled as "dark matter" and "dark energy". They don't know what exactly it is, but that plain matter is inadequate to explain the measurements taken by cosmologists.
See Ingo Swann's Telepathy - The Opening Up Of (Part 1 of 3) for more on the new understanding of the biological basis behind telepathy.
I road-tripped to Vegas to hear Ingo's talk earlier this summer. He's a very smart man. "I only work with scientists" (he's now retired). He'd prepared some notes, and held up his copies of Scientific American and other mainstream sources... And pointed out that "dark energy" interpenetrates everything, and is the carrier medium for experiences previously labeled "extra-sensory".
(the basis of his talk was that "we need new words, because there are experiences that don't have a label, and the words we do have limit us to concepts that are 200 years out of date" Or something like that...)
Especially so, considering that the largest outbreaks of bird flu have been in countries with the most environmental polution (legacy agent orange contamination in Vietnam + chickens == weakened immune system especially susceptible to influenza).
See Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's FOWL! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think
or this interview.
Had shooting pains up & down my right forearm, triggered by excessive use of the trackpoint on an IBM Thinkpad 600E.
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"No Problem," I thought, "I have two index fingers. I'll just switch to using my left hand to operate the pointing device."
Before long, I had shooting pains up & down my left forearm too. Brilliant.
(modern osteopathic technique is the greatest. Pay special attention to the page on vision. See this tree of my
Of course, Remote Viewing had already been proven to work in the U.S. government's various "psychic spy" programs...
... you can't extract free energy as work from the zero-point energy. The zero-point energy is by definition the lowest energy state that a system can have; to extract usable energy, you'd have to decrease the energy of the rest of the system below that minimum value, which is by definition impossible.
ah, but perhaps the definitions need to be changed.
I've personally met someone you would call a "crank physicist" (a doctoral candidate at a conventional university) who is working in the zero-point energy field, and he's quite exicited about the implications of his work.
Someday we'll look back and chuckle at how everyone use to believe in a fundamentally mechanical universe, even after cosmologists had made their observations that matter-as-we-know-it only makes up 4-7% of the universe...
Is there a distinction between faith you can't prove to yourself because it's not proveable (metaphysics),
It's not that metaphysics are unproveable, just that there's not currently an accepted theoretical framework that allows for the phenomena observed.
For example, MythBusters tested Paul H. Smith & his claim to be able to teach "remote viewing". Materialist scientists scoff at the notion that a human could get information about a distant location with hokey 'psychic' skills, because there's no allowance in their model of the universe of a mechanism that allows for the transference of said information. But, as the Mythbusters found in the show, there's something to the practice.
It was pointed out to me that even the scientists now say that matter-as-we-know-it only makes up 4-7% of the universe. The rest is classified as "dark matter" and "dark energy", and said dark-stuff "interpenetrates" everything else. 'Dark energy' could very well be the vector that explains the how & why of so-called psychic phenomena.
I'm currently working on Lynne McTaggart's The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, which covers more on the energy of empty space. She's a science reporter, and the first 100 pages are on the historical progression of interest in the subject.
If your saliva's acidic, it'll dissolve away your enamel no matter what you do.
http://www.thebadbreathreport.com/ - best $20 I've ever spent. Please note that I could've signed up for his affiliate program, but this is just a plain link.
Also see http://www.euroamericanhealth.com/ - you could very well be a good candidate for his base powder, or baking soda at the least. Get some pH strips to test your saliva pH first, then you'll know what to do next.
Look up in the sky... After I first heard about the "chemtrail" phenomena, I started paying attention. Interesting how some jet's vapor stream dissipates quickly, while others hold together for some time.
Activist web sites alledge that some planes get atomized aluminum powder in their jet fuel, which passes through the engine okay. Aluminum in the air reflects sunlight back into space.
Atomized aluminum in the ground wrecks havoc with the ecosystem. The bastards who started this program ought to be shot, if it indeed exists as charged.
I like the "increased underwater volcanic activity" theory myself. Saw a pdf by a climatologist somewhere... When I find it again, I'll submit a story.
I picked up a copy of Mr. Gatto's A Different Kind of Teacher the summer after finishing my 4-year college degree (from an expensive science/engineering school), and realized that I didn't really know how to read.
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Gatto had discovered that most of his 7th graders couldn't read beyond the level required for a multiple choice test, and offered his readers a question on the classic All Quiet on the Western Front. I went to the library, borrowed the book, read the first 20 pages as best I could... And had no idea whatsoever what was going on.
I'd tried to read many books before - The Hobbit, Moby Dick, texts for college course, etc. I couldn't even read Harry Potter.
Someone posted a link to some Gatto videos when I posted a comment linking to Underground History some months back. So if you're like me, and can't really read, then at least you can watch the movies.
http://www.edflix.org/gatto.htm
If every GM car was as good as a new 'Vette or Cad, perhaps they'd be making more profit? Perhaps if they stopped making ugly, shitty cars that get bad mileage they'd sell a few more? No, it's easier to blame the unions.
so true, so true. GM could be profitable even with their union labor rates. They'd just have to build cars the equal of Toyota's lineup.
GM Deathwatch, part 81
also see GeneralWatch
Silly pseudo-scientists, always trying to marginalise empirical evidence in favour of their own skewed (imagined or not) experiences
... All media reports of the 1970s correctly identified the purpose of this threat analysis, albeit with a good deal of joking and amusement.
Let me help you out here, because you seem to be confused.
Emperical3 : capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment
Observations and experiments almost universally support the existence of the vitalistic overview. The exception comes when the experimenter strongly believes in the materialistic overview.
Also the CIA found out remote viewing doesn't work for shit.
What evidence do you have to back that up? Or have you just taken YOUR belief and carefully selected which "evidence" you're willing to consider?
Mr. Swann says that the CIA spooks always hated their program, so they had to get results, right from the start. If the results weren't there, they would have been shut down immediately.
At a rare 2004 question-and-answer session, Mr. Swann told a story from SRI. He was sitting on a throne in the restroom when two spooks walked in. One spook said to the other [paraphrased], "wow, they got some really good stuff going on here." The other responds, "yeah, next thing you now they'll be reading our minds." Swann: "I knew the program was doomed..."
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Consider Mr. Swann's 1995 statement on Remote Viewing. Selected quotes (emphasis added):
"This is to say that the intelligence community did not conduct psychic research and go out on a limb just for the hell of it. In fact, that community never did psychic research. What it did was to assess the threat of the Soviet efforts.
"At the time, this threat analysis was perfectly justified, completely necessary, and unquestionably required in behalf of the well-being of the nation."
"[We] clearly confirmed the reality of the threat. Even most of the 1970s media concluded that the work was necessary, even if it was funny and ridiculous according to Western anti-psychic traditions."
"... Those of you who witnessed the Nightline TV show of 28 November 1995, will recall an individual said to be from the CIA, but identified only by the name "Norm."
"Mr. Robert Gates had just finished saying that remote viewing was unpromising. But when it came "Norm's" time to talk, he began saying something like, "Well, if it's the Eight-Martini Results you want to talk about, I won't talk about them."
"What, then, is an "eight-martini" result? Well, this is an intelligence community in-house term for remote viewing data so good that it cracks everyone's realities. So they have to go out and drink eight martinis to recover. Remote viewing does have its amusing aspects, you know."
That tends to make me think that we do in fact, have a pretty good grasp of the laws of physics. IMO, the only thing we're missing is the "gravity to the rest of it" connection, confounded by the inconvienient fact that gravity appears to be the only force in the universe which is apparently instantainious over galactic distances.
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Ah yes, the old "only missing a page or two out of the Book of Physics". Problem is that the pages aren't numbered. So this one little itsy bitsy problem of "gravity to the rest of it" could very well be huge - dozens of chapters yet to be discovered.
The materialist peanut gallery claimed victory over the vitalists (advocates of a non-material life force existing separate from matter, which 'animates', making the difference between 'dead' and 'alive') after Newton put together his works, they said it again after Einstien put together General Relativity. Always trying to marginalize non-physical experience, silly materialists.
But, as Ingo Swann recently pointed out, now even the scientists say that matter only accounts for 4-7% of the universe, the rest being "dark matter" and "dark energy", which interpenetrates EVERYTHING else.
Say, Remote Viewing is instantaneous like Gravity too - how does that skill fit into the physical model? Mr. Swann says (with good experience training others to back it up) that these powers are possessed by everyone, and it's only a matter of doing the proper training... (There was a Mythbusters TV segment on Remote Viewing, and the skill passed their test).
Whenever a situation is interpreted as threatening in some manner, the body tends to go into a fight-or-flight response. So-named because it (the body) gets ready to fight or run away. Or freeze. What happens is the blood that used to be flowing to all parts of your brain retreats to the "reptilian brain" at the base, and to the arms & legs.
To draw the blood back into your forebrain, you can take the pads of your index and middle fingers and place them gently between your eyebrows and hairline. After a bit you'll feel a steady thump-thump-thump. When you have proper blood flow in your grey matter, everything just works better.
When I first started doing this particular exercise, it took quite a while at times to find the pulse. But now it's almost instantaneous. I guess I've re-trained my body to keep its thinking skills whenever a stressful situation occurs.
So there's something missing in that methodology.
I started seeing a Cranial Osteopath last year for my disfunctional arms. I noticed a testimonial letter in his waiting room on the third or fourth visit about Osteopathic vision prescriptions, so I mentioned that I wore contacts. "Oh really? Let's see how they are." He got behind me, put his hands on my temples and instructed me to close my eyes. After a moment I was instructed to open my eyes. "Oh, these are totally wrong for you! We'll have to fix this too..." (Cranial Osteopaths have a very refined sense of touch, and he noticed muscles contracting when I looked through my original contact lense prescription.)
Over the next year, I've been through six different prescriptions. The left eye bounced between -1.75 and -2.00 (was initially -2.25), while the right eye steadily decreased from -2.75 to the current -1.25. My last prescription was in March; before that it was changing about every month-and-a-half.
My vision started going downhill when I was in the 4th grade. I'm pretty sure that was about the same time as when my parents started really fighting. As the good doctor said, "what was happening in your life, that you didn't want to see?" My brother and I got our first pairs of glasses at the same time, but while I remember being able to see clearly (at times) in the 4th grade, he has no such memory... Granted, he was in Kindergarten, but I think it likely that he carries some sort of fascia restriction from birth.
Over the past year, my eyes have gotten better, while my brother's have gotten worse. How many people do you hear of whose eyes have gotten better without surgery? And compare that to the multitudes whose prescriptions just keep ratcheting upwards... I will be evaluating natural vision improvement programs once I'm finished with my course of osteopathic treatment.
(I have written about this subject on slashdot before... See this comment, and the ones it links to.)
1. GM sponsors an entry in the first Solar Race Across Australian
2. GM's Sunraycer runs away from the competition
3. a. The board says, "rah rah, good PR opportunity. Now back to our business of making gasoline-powered cars."
b. The engineer CEO says, "Build me a prototype, I want GM to be a leader instead of playing perpetual catch-up!" The board says, Are you sure? Might give those crazy CARB regulators ideas...
4. Impact prototype shows in the January 1990 L.A. autoshow. By November, CARB had a spiffy new Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate on the books.
5. Engineer CEO says, "we can do this!", and starts going all-out to meet the ZEV mandate.
6. 1992: Recession! GM misses profit forecasts. The engineer CEO is kicked out, and replaced with a beancounter.
7. Beancounter CEO says, "look, this EV1 project is a decade away from being profitable, and we're cashing in on every Suburban we sell. Our only hope is to spend $1.50 lobbying against the crazy mandate for every $1.00 we spend on EV1 development."
8. GM splits into two parts - a section that believed in the project, and a section that believed in making Suburbans.
9. GM shows a diesel-electric 4 passenger 80mpg hybrid at a 1997 autoshow. Never shown again. GM proceeds to let Toyota clean their clock in the hybrid game...
10. GM loses several billion dollars last year on declining sales of Suburbans, while Toyota and Honda (which build cars too) enjoy substantial profits.
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blah blah, sure I'm missing something. Above points partially inspired by this electric car group post, and Alan Cocini's memoir (Electrical Engineer extraordinaire, who saw the writing on the wall and left soon after the engineer CEO was kicked out).
GM could've been a leader, as electric cars with an onboard generator are now all the rage. Instead they spent a couple years cashing in on SUV sales, and now they're irrelevant. With a visionless management, they'll certainly be in bankruptcy court soon.
The post linked to above is quite lucid, so I'm going to copy it in part here:
Yes, that Edgar Cayce. The one who was 90% accurate. The one who gave recommendations that, if followed, resulted in improvements in cases who were previously considered "hopeless". The one who told people what they could expect - from slight improvement to complete cure. The one whose readings extensively cover proper nutrition. The Edgar Cayce who is considered the father of western wholistic medicine.
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But you're just a materialist, whose belief system does not allow for information being channeled from other-than-physical sources. Why don't you go find some flat-earth socialites to hang out with? I'm 'spinning my wheels' with you here, and won't play this game any longer.
g'day.
Does modern medicine lack a guiding philosophy? Eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, exercise a little, don't smoke and don't drink too much. Sounds good to me.
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These are tacked on as an afterthought. Cayce spoke extensively about good health being the product of good assimilations and eliminations. There's so much more than "five servings" in nutrition.
One of the decent things grandma's oncologist did for her was send her to a nutritionist. Later she said, "she wanted me to eat five servings of vegetables a day. She's CRAZY!." The oncologist never again asked about grandma's diet, and went on his merry way happily trying to drug the symptoms away.
Quackwatch seems to be an organized slander campaign against health technologies outside those accepted in the allopathic paradigm. They have entries on just about anything that isn't drugs and surgery. See Quackpotwatch for one take on the organizers behind "Quackwatch".
Grandma decided to pass on the thalidomide because she knew she was dying, and wasn't about to waste $2.3k of her own money in a last-gasp effort to prolongue her life. Later my uncle, a MD/radiologist, decided that that drug probably would've done more harm than good, as thalidomide is a harsh drug (don't remember what it was exactly - kidneys perhaps?).
I won't try to defend the high prices of drugs, merely point out that is a problem of politics, specifically capitalism and private medical care, not medicine or science.
The Flexner Report was used to shut down 1/2 of the U.S. medical schools early in the last century, obstenably for "quality" reasons. The medical education system that emerged was transformed into one that focused on new patented drugs as the primary modality. Not because that approach was superior, but because that was one way for distant middlemen to stick their profiteering fingers into the doctor-patient transaction.
100 years of Medical Robery
Real Medical Freedom
Also articles on LewRockwell.com
And as for Reich, remember that Cosmologists now tell us that only 4-7% of the universe is made up of matter. Another 20-something % is "dark matter", and the other 70% is classfied as "dark energy". They call it "dark" because they don't know what it is, just that some missing form of matter & energy is needed to account for their observations on the expansion of the universe. Reich was onto something 60 years ago, but most of our medical technologists still focus 100% of their attention on that 4-7% of the universe, for material drugs.
I'm not overly familiar with Hamer's work. I was exposed to it by someone who has some incredible skills in getting people what they want out of life. My experience is that the personality type/cancer connection is valid. Grandma was always
To deny the carcinogenic effects of tobacco smoke, as Hamer does, is ludicrous.
And yet, thousands of smokers never get cancer. Besides, it seems that it's not the tobacco smoke that's carcinogenic, but the radiation you get along with it:
The harm in the choice is that people may reject therapies for which there is evidence of potential benefit for snake oil which will not work.
The problem is that modern medicine has no guiding philosophy for health. They just treat the symptoms, and hold out their successes as validation of their approach, sweeping all the failures under the carpet.
Sometimes all a person needs is some "snake oil" (belief change). Sometimes they need to change their nutrient intake, sometimes they need to release some emotional trauma. Sometimes surgery is called for, sometimes drugs. Sometimes osteopathic manipulation is appropriate.
But as it is, there's a ton of profit for pharmaceuticals in pursuing
My grandma trusted Mayo clinic, and all they did was extend her period of suffering before she died. Bastards took medicare for between $50k and $100k. After six months of worthless treatment, they decided they'd worked her for all she was worth (bone marrow was >90% cancerous, even after all their "therapy") and she started hospice care. Died a week later.
Dr. Hamer challenges the materialistic notion that matter is primary, therefore his revolutionary ideas must be suppressed. Governments always throw the best healers in jail... Jesus, Wilhelm Reich, Ruth Drown, all killed at the hands of the state. Gerber was ran out of the country.
Some people will not respond well to Hamer's system. Some respond remarkably. It seems that some people cast off by the establishment as "terminal" respond beautifully, so what's the harm in having a choice? Other than to the bottom line of the high-priced cancer industry, that is...
Even a cancerous tumor is a symptom of some other problem. Consider Dr. Hamer's findings on the relationship between the psyche and disease:
Also see this interview at the same site. Apparently the doctor developed a protocol that is highly effective.
My condolences on the premature passing of your wife.