My mom tells the story of baking something with my cousin reading the recipe. My cousin reads out "peanuts", and my mom thinks "that's not right..." She takes a look at the recipe, and it says "pecans". She mentions this to my cousin, and he says something about how they look similar and that they're both types of nuts.
Later my mom mentioned this incident to our common grandmother, who hooked my cousin up with a phonics-based reading program. He eventually learned to read just fine.
That's easy to say if you don't have any structural problems that predispose you to an RSI. My "RSI" flared up first semester in college (CS program). I tried everything - exercises, stretches, postural changes, expensive keyboards, massage (all different types), diet, vitamins, chiropractors, "keyboard vacations", Bowen therapy, other energy modalities, etc. Nothing worked. Some things helped a little bit, the first time or two. But nothing helped consistently.
I recently started consulting a certain kind of Osteopath (see Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Healing chapter 2, or the osteopathy heading in Robert Zieve's Healthy Medicine - it's taken me a long time to put this information together, you'll have to work a little bit too.:), and he's helping address the root cause of my disfunction.
The year before I entered college, I was knocked out with a blow to my chin, spent 10 days in the hospital, and don't remember about 2 weeks total. I figure that's when I broke the rib. (Osteopath: "You have a broken rib back here." me: huh? when did that happen? "like an old injury, that's all healed up now?" Osteopath: "yes", poke poke. me: ow!) Trauma from that incident got stored in my body's myofascial tissue. I was holding my left hip 1-1.5" higher than my right, had a couple displaced ribs, a displaced 1st cervical vertebrae, and a pile of myo-fascial lesions, all of which conspired together to make computer usage a burden for these past 5+ years.
This osteopath, using just his hands, can find these "lesions", and release them. I've been back to see him several times, and while the results are not instant, progress is steady, and I've never felt better. My jaw works much better (used to have horrible TMJ trouble), I'm beginning to be able to relax, and my keyboarding troubles are gradually improving.
I found Dr. Weil's book at a thrift shop soon after starting osteopathic care. I read Ch. 2, which clicked with something my mother had told me the last time I was around her. She'd tell me frequently what a difficult child I was, how I was always crying at the slightest provocation, and how nothing she did could quiet me. She ended up blaming all the grapefruit she ate, or maybe the yellow paint in my room... Fortunately I don't remember that period in my life, because from what I now know, I was crying because I was hurting.
Growing up, I remember tossing and turning in bed for hours before I was able to fall asleep. Every night. I finally learned a form of self-hypnosis after my head-injury, and was able to "drop out" most nights with ease, though some nights I'd still toss for a long time before sleep took over.
So I asked my osteopath if some of these lesions I had/have could be old, from when I was a child. He said this was probable. I've been stiff like a 4x4" wooden post... And now my flexibility is beginning to improve too.
The trick to not getting injured is fixing your habits, toys or no toys...
For me, the Thinkpad laptop (w/ the eraser pointing device) I got that freshman semester was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back". There was nothing I could have done to prevent "getting injured", with all the lead weights I was carrying around from unresolved traumas suffered while growing up. Or in another analogy: I'd accumulated a large bunch of kindling over the years. The Thinkpad was the spark that set the kindling on fire, and the only way for me to put it out was to take the kindling away (osteopathically).
I asked my osteopath if the lesions ever come back. He said "no", then corrected himself with the example of a secretary who'll hold the phone up to their ear with their shoulder - those kinds of lesions will reappear, and you fix that by changing the environme
so if you want to create "geniuses", by the argument, you should spend your entire life having more children.
don't remember where I read it, but something said that the majority of the world's movers-and-shakers throughout history are either first- or second-born. There are exceptions, of course.
first child gets all the attention, second child about the same. By the third kid, Mom's distracted with the other two, and does well to feed & clean #3. By #4, mom's getting kind of frazzled, and so on.
homosexuality is never a 'choice', per-se. Some children are born gay out of confusion, because of a recent sex-change in their chain of earthly experiences (see Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation, by Gina Cerminara).
My dad's GF's Aunt was abused when she was a child, and now she's a lesbian. If 'therapists' knew how to effectively deal with that sort of trauma, I bet she would've gotten married to a guy & had a 'normal' life. I've read reports of 'fixing' a past trauma, and a woman leaving her same-sex partner, finding a husband & having children.
I sincerely doubt that someone could be persuaded to become gay, as the nightmares of militant christian homophobes might proclaim.
Just offering some points for consideration. It does explain the emergence of homosexuality better than anything else I've encountered.
... those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
And those who benefit from tyranny will figure out how to speed up the process.
How did the 2004 presidential election come down to GWB vs. John Kerry, both pro-war-freedom-hating-elitist-scumbags? Or, how did GHWB get to be Regan's vice presidential candidate?
Who wrote the patriot act, so that it was ready to go when the conditions were set for its introduction?
Pray tell, what great scientific achievements did Edgar Cayce contribute to the world?... I just want to know how he contributed to our understanding of consciousness.
An egomaniac doesn't really deserve a response, but for the other people who'll read this:
Edgar Cayce's health advice really is priceless. I've used it, so I know how valuable it is. Cayce frequently recommended castor oil. Recently I had a couple of boils on my face (a result of consuming too much sugar, combined with my crooked spine [which prevents proper lymphatic drainage through the thoracic outlet]). Once I started putting castor oil on them, they started going down.
Last summer sometime I developed a rash. It disappeared soon after applying castor oil.
Cayce frequently recommended osteopathic adjustments when they would help. Nowadays he'd recommend Osteopathy in the Cranial Field, or maybe craniosacral therapy. My new cranial osteopath has done more to straighten me out than any of the MDs I've been to. If it weren't for Cayce, I'd probably be on perscription painkillers and scheduled for a worthless surgery.
Before you trash someone (having only read the so-called "skeptical" propaganda), you should really read up on what that person really said. The Cayce organization followed up on as many of his health readings as they could get feedback on, and as long as the person did as they were instructed, they did get better, as good as Cayce told them they could expect.
you mean that it's poorly understood by most people. Every now and then individuals get a clue: the Buddha, various monks in following in his footsteps, Jesus, etc. We've seen a rash of people in 20th century america who came to understand what it means to be human: Edgar Cayce, Jose Silva, etc. I'd advise looking into Robert Monroe's 3 books (Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journey, the last two moreso than the first). Robert even started his own private research institute for studying conciousness: The Monroe Institute. Think about it: what if it were true, that we are all more than our physical bodies?
Alternative medicine is always based on the assumption of some kind of medical conspiracy.
Hrm? IMHO, progressive/integrative medicine is based on throwing out the establishment's way of doing things, and finding treatment methodology that works.
Its proper place is treating ailments and using methods too mild to be high on the list for mainstream medicine. Like your creaking jaw
You've obviously never had TMJ trouble. The medical establishment doctors I'd been to didn't have a clue what was wrong with me. I thought it was very significant that I couldn't fucking chew (in an "I'm trying to find the root of my problem" sort of way), the last MD I went to thought all of my symptoms were separate problems. What a dimwit, but that's all his medical training allowed him to think.
Progressive/Integrative Medicine's proper place is in helping people who've been given multiple batches of perscriptions and braces and surgeries by their establishment doctors, and are still no better off than when they first sought help.
See Robert Zieve, M.D.'s new book, Heatlhy Medicine for an establishment physician's take on breaking out of the mold.
You know you've hit a nerve when you get such a spasmodic response. What's funny is that I bet you're the type who'll come around in a year or two or three.:)
You can make some argument that the realy underlying cause of the symptoms is something else.
That is what I meant to say.
But, if the symptoms are gone permanently, that is called cured.
Think about all the pharmaceuticals you see advertised on T.V. How many "cure" someone of a condition, and how many just "manage" it? Or consider antibiotic therapy. Why has a person's immunity declined to such a degree that their body needs help?
And what if person A has condition B because they don't get enough of Nutrient C in their diet? Pharmaceutical D may manage condition B such that all symptoms of said condition disappear. And suppose the list of symptoms that Nutrient C deficiency only start with symptom B. As time goes by and the deficiency gets worse, symptoms E, F, G and H develop (over a period of years). So, You can either address Nutrient Deficiency C at the start, or take Pharmaceutical D. But if you never address the real cause of the problem, pretty soon you're taking pills for all those other symptoms too. Until finally the body is weakened to such a state where it develops cancer and dies.
Sometimes surgery is important. And sometimes doctors go for surgery for the personal glory (holding someone's still-beating heart in your hands can contribute to a superiority complex) and the fungoles. Because they can charge $40-50k to perform a heart bypass surgery, and only $3000 for a non-surgical IV EDTA chellation therapy regimen. See Dr. Elmer Cranton'sBypassing Bypass
But, think about this: if "conventional" medicine is really so bad, why does it work so well?
You'll have to excuse me - I think this is funny. Allow me to explain.
My grandmother was diagnosed with "Multiple Myeloma" sometime around last thanksgiving. Her doctor gave her 6 months to live. As I understand it, it's a type of blood cancer. Grandma was always one to adhere to "conventional" treatments. She went to the so-called "best-of-the-best" medical clinics (Mayo Clinic), took their chemotherapeutic drugs, went for her weekly tests & injection, every couple of months went for a red blood cell transfusion. All in the hopes of "curing" her of blood cancer.
About two or three weeks ago I took her out to the clinic to get a PICC line (permanent IV line, as a catheter that runs up the arm into the heart) inserted, so she could start an IV chemotherapeutic regimen. She got some blood tests done, and after several tries inserting the PICC line (an interventional radiologist finally succeeded using his fancy X-ray machine to guide the line into place), we got the word that Grandma's blood counts (platelets, red blood cells, etc) were too low to start the chemotherapeutic regimen.
While I was sitting around with Grandma, I told her how I'd stopped by a hospice office a little while back, and how their representative had responded to my assertion that Mayo's was looking at Grandma like she had big golden dollar signs plastered all over her (as she's covered by Medicare, and medicare will pay for just about anything an M.D. wants to charge for). I'd been told, "We have doctors who've said, 'you've got to get [patient X] away from [doctor Y], he'll CHEMO HER TO DEATH!'". I told Grandma this, and she was like, "hey, yah, hospice. [Friend Z] did hospice, and it was just fine for her. I'm tired of this bullshit."
The next day I took grandma to the hospital for a blood transfusion. They took a bone marrow biopsy while we where there (NOT a pleasurable experience) to see how much her cancer had progressed. When the results came back, Grandma's bone marrow was 90+% cancerous. So her doctor refered her to one of the area's larger hospice organizations.
She started hospice care a week ago today (Monday). She died yesterday morning (Sunday). About six months exactly.
I don't know what "conventional" medicine did for grandma. I suppose that it kept her alive for a few more months, but having been around Grandma for most of those months, I don't think she thought they were worth living. You see, before Grandma died yesterday morning, she was suffering. And "conventional" medicine did nothing to alleviate her suffering. They sucked Grandma dry for all they could get Medicare to pay for, and when they couldn't justify charging for anything else, they gave up on her and let her die. Which really wasn't so bad. The profiteering bastards should've just stayed out of it, and Grandma could've side-stepped at least 4 months of misery.
When I take 10mg of loradatine (Claritin), my allergies clear up.
Allergies are just a symptom. Loradatine functions such that the allergic response is repressed.
If I had allergies, I would wonder why. After learning why, then I'd take measures to cure myself of my allergies. I've read various things on allergies - they could be a nutrient defficiency, a triple-warmer response, etc. If I knew that I was prone to allergies because I was starving to death, I'd take measures to insure that I was well nourished.
I can feel the effect - and, more importantly, double-blind tests can measure the effect.
Apparently you're satisfied with alleviating your symptoms. I suppose you've put a piece of electrical tape over the "check engine" light in your car, too?
You have neither described the mechanism nor provided evidence that your method works.
I'm satisfied with the treatments I've received from a Cranial Osteopath. My TMJ (jaw-joint,
You know what they say about a little boy with a hammer, right? "To a little boy with a hammer, everything is a nail."
Doctors are like help desk technicians - you come to them with a problem, they have tests they can perform, and in the end they try to help you fix whatever's ailing you.
Doctors are like little boys with two hammers. In the end they try to help you... by using the two tools they learned about in medical school: Drugs and Surgery. Sure, they learned a little bit about other topics, but the vast majority of their focus is on perscribing drugs and surgery.
What else would you expect from a profession that is composed of the ideological heirs of bloodletters & mercury salvers?
In a free market, if a profession becomes obsolete, it withers away to become a quaint footnote in a history text. In the united states, we have lobbyists to prevent that from happening to well-connected groups. Just make your new, more effective competition "illegal". Consider:
Dr. Andrew Still 'discovered' his manipulation techniques after he was powerless to prevent several of his children from dying from... meningitis, iirc. He started a healing discipline called 'Osteopathy', and set out to teach others his techniques. Establishment doctors chased him out of town after town (*1) - until he finally found a place to stay and teach.
The real difference between Osteopathy and Allopathy is between their health models. An allopath (99% of M.D.s) believes that a body's symptoms are the problem, and gives his patients substances which counteract the symptom. An osteopath believes that a body is self-regulating and self-healing, so long as everything needed is in place. So, an osteopath's (*2) goal is to remove all a body's impediments to healing. A core tenet of Osteopathy is that Structure and Function are interrelated - hence the importance of applying appropriate adjustments to the body's structure (spine, bones, muscles and tendons) to a body that is not functioning properly.
The difference in treatment outcomes (between Allopathy and Osteopathy) is startling. Quoting from the Cranial Academy website:
For example, common sense dictates that if the lungs are impeded by ribs, a diaphragm or a spine that is not moving well, breathing will be hindered. If breathing is hindered, the body's immune functions such as lymphatic drainage will not be working well, and healing will be delayed. This observation led Dr. Still to manipulate his patients daily during influenza epidemics.
It is recorded in literature that 21,000,000 people died worldwide in the flu epidemic of 1917-18. Medical hospitals in America reported a 30 to 40 percent mortality rate. However, osteopathic patients had a mortality rate of less than one percent. (emphasis added)
Now imagine you're in a profession that's just been made obsolete. Is it easier to start over and learn to become effective, or to lobby the legislatures to make "licensed" members of your profession the only group who can do certain procedures ("diagnose", "perscribe", perform surgery, etc)? Guess which one won out.
And so, I agree with you - Doctors really are like help desk technicians. They're fine doing what they're trained to do (perscribe drugs), but if a problem comes up that's outside the scope of their training, they're worthless, and you'll get put onto the magical medical rollercoaster, going from specialist to specialist to specialist, never getting satisfactory result. It's like going to the helpdesk with a problem, and all they ever tell you to do is "reboot the computer".
I've gotten off the rollercoaster and have taken charge of my own health. I seek out qualified consultants when neede
It's been well established in studies undertaken by entities other than electric power companies that electromagnetic radiation DOES in fact influence human energy systems. Fortunately there are easy-to-do exercises which when done regularly will fix any negative effects.
see Donna Eden's Energy Medicine, which offers Donna's take on tuning up/repairing the body's energy systems.
"separating heaven and earth" is particularly useful after using a computer/etc..
DMSO is wonderful stuff. I once took a divot out of my forehead (stood up into the corner of a cabinet door). I could feel the blood starting to pool up, so I went to look in a mirror. "Yeah, that's going to scar up nicely..." Fortunately I'd heard that DMSO can prevent scars from forming, so I poured some onto a cotton pad and put it on my forehead. It burned a little bit, but it slowed the bleeding down by 90%. Nice. If I look real close I can see a tiny scar. It could've been much worse.
DMSO takes stuff right through the skin. You can dissolve asprin in dmso and apply it topically, and that asprin will go right to where you need it. I did that for a while, but stopped when I realized I couldn't tell the difference between DMSO+Asprin and straight DMSO.
It was also shown to relieve pain and swelling, relax muscles, relieve arthritis, improve blood supply and slow the growth of bacteria. It relieves the pain of sprains and even of broken bones. It enhances the effectiveness of other pharmacological agents. If you apply DMSO to a bruise, the bruise dissolves and disappears in a matter of minutes! If you apply it to the jaw after wisdom tooth removal, all pain and swelling is prevented! The pain of acute gout can be handled with the application of 5 cc of seventy percent DMSO in water four times each day. Application to a fever blister results in rapid resolution of this problem. DMSO also relieves the pain of minor burns and if applied soon after the burn happens, will decrease the tissue damage suffered. DMSO speeds all healing, approximately doubling or tripling all healing responses.
- http://www.medical-library.net/sites/_dmso_dimethy lsulfoxide.html
I love DMSO, and in fact am about to break out a new bottle, 'cause I've spent too much time on this stupid laptop computer, and my shoulders and forearms are all inflammed. Bathe/dry off/apply/wait 10 minutes/rinse.
Everyone who's considering using DMSO thing should get a book on the topic, 'cause it's possible to do some stupid stuff. I know a guy who soaked a cotton pad in DMSO and put it on his foot with an ace bandage. His nerves were firing painfully for days...:).
The American Medical Association (AMA) was founded in 1847 around two propositions: one, all doctors should have a "suitable education" and two, a "uniform elevated standard of requirements for the degree of M.D. should be adopted by all medical schools in the U.S." [1] In the days of its founding AMA was much more open--at its conferences and in its publications--about its real goal: building a government-enforced monopoly for the purpose of dramatically increasing physician incomes. It eventually succeeded, becoming the most formidable labor union on the face of the earth.
The bastards at the AMA came up with the term "quack" to slander chiropractors.
The grandparent poster is on to something, though I'm not so sure about the Raw Apples part... Edgar Cayce (noted 20th century "American Christian Mystic") said that apples should be cooked, unless you go on a "raw-apple" cleanse for a couple of days. See The Edgar Cayce Manual for Health through Drugless Therapy. For more on juicing for wellness, search for "Gerson Therapy".
I don't know if socialized medicine (a la 'Hillary') is the answer, but certainly our current medical/insurance industry is a problem.
I offer another point for your consideration: Medicine in the united states suffers from a state-imposed monopoly given to a certain brand of healer. Consider the following articles:
Not to mention helping the U.S. win the American Revolution.
... but not because they necessarily believed in the Americans' cause. Rather, French assistance to the American revolutionaries was more for the purpose of hurting the British.
According to the articles, the American Medical Association (AMA) was founded with two implicit purposes: to raise their brand of healer's (M.D.s) incomes and status. So they used the government to establish "licensing laws", and worked to close 1/2 the medical schools in the U.S. in the 20th century.
I can honestly say I have zero interest in the Bush-Kerry debates on tv, but I would love to hear their answers to half of these questions that were proposed.
I don't think Bush or Kerry will be the ones doing the answering. "... I would love to hear their advisors' answers to half of these questions..."
We can't assume anything, we haven't met anybody else.
Yeah, 'cause CNN hasn't told us so.
Ingo Swann, founding member of the government-financed remote viewing program (ran for nearly 20 years, then dumped when the soviet union dissolved - "yeah, never worked, but we spent millions of dollars and twenty years finding that out". Ingo says gov't bureaucrats canceled the program because they were scared of being mind-read.) self published a book titled Penetration: The Question of Human and Extra-Terrestrial Telepathy... In it he talks about bases on the moon, human-ET interaction, etc. Why do you think NASA left multiple complete lunar missions on the ground?
From Ingo's perspective, suppression of the existence of ETs comes down to Power. To keep a hierarchical society, the majority of our species must be kept unaware of certain powers which are endemic to our species.
... omg, i've stooped so low as to post a comment with THAT subject line.. Oh well.
The advantage of a low carbohydrate diet is that the calories you do take in make you feel more satisfied, as well as not driving up your insulin levels.
This is so important. Read Dr. Mercola'spagesonInsulin. Eating a diet based around carbohydrates is a lot like filling your car with gasoline, and neglecting the rest of the regular maintenance - no oil changes, no tranny service, no brake pad replacements, never replacing the windshield wipers, headlights, air filters or tires, etc.. Your car will run, well for a while, and it'll keep chugging along for even longer still - but eventually, the damn thing just doesn't work. Nutrition/food is the same way - carbohydrates provide energy to run the body, but are seriously lacking in the "routine care" maintenance nutrients present in veggies and animal products.
some guys learn how to be "pick up artists" by accident. Fortunately for all the rest of us, there's the layguide. This stuff is real, and the principles involved (when properly applied) do work wonders.
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My mom tells the story of baking something with my cousin reading the recipe. My cousin reads out "peanuts", and my mom thinks "that's not right..." She takes a look at the recipe, and it says "pecans". She mentions this to my cousin, and he says something about how they look similar and that they're both types of nuts.
Later my mom mentioned this incident to our common grandmother, who hooked my cousin up with a phonics-based reading program. He eventually learned to read just fine.
Spellcheckers can fix bad spelling, but there's little hope for you if words you've never seen before trip you up. See John Taylor Gatto's refutation of the "whole word" language-teaching methodology in his Underground History of American Education
I just think that people cause it themselves.
:), and he's helping address the root cause of my disfunction.
That's easy to say if you don't have any structural problems that predispose you to an RSI. My "RSI" flared up first semester in college (CS program). I tried everything - exercises, stretches, postural changes, expensive keyboards, massage (all different types), diet, vitamins, chiropractors, "keyboard vacations", Bowen therapy, other energy modalities, etc. Nothing worked. Some things helped a little bit, the first time or two. But nothing helped consistently.
I recently started consulting a certain kind of Osteopath (see Andrew Weil's Spontaneous Healing chapter 2, or the osteopathy heading in Robert Zieve's Healthy Medicine - it's taken me a long time to put this information together, you'll have to work a little bit too.
The year before I entered college, I was knocked out with a blow to my chin, spent 10 days in the hospital, and don't remember about 2 weeks total. I figure that's when I broke the rib. (Osteopath: "You have a broken rib back here." me: huh? when did that happen? "like an old injury, that's all healed up now?" Osteopath: "yes", poke poke. me: ow!) Trauma from that incident got stored in my body's myofascial tissue. I was holding my left hip 1-1.5" higher than my right, had a couple displaced ribs, a displaced 1st cervical vertebrae, and a pile of myo-fascial lesions, all of which conspired together to make computer usage a burden for these past 5+ years.
This osteopath, using just his hands, can find these "lesions", and release them. I've been back to see him several times, and while the results are not instant, progress is steady, and I've never felt better. My jaw works much better (used to have horrible TMJ trouble), I'm beginning to be able to relax, and my keyboarding troubles are gradually improving.
I found Dr. Weil's book at a thrift shop soon after starting osteopathic care. I read Ch. 2, which clicked with something my mother had told me the last time I was around her. She'd tell me frequently what a difficult child I was, how I was always crying at the slightest provocation, and how nothing she did could quiet me. She ended up blaming all the grapefruit she ate, or maybe the yellow paint in my room... Fortunately I don't remember that period in my life, because from what I now know, I was crying because I was hurting.
Growing up, I remember tossing and turning in bed for hours before I was able to fall asleep. Every night. I finally learned a form of self-hypnosis after my head-injury, and was able to "drop out" most nights with ease, though some nights I'd still toss for a long time before sleep took over.
So I asked my osteopath if some of these lesions I had/have could be old, from when I was a child. He said this was probable. I've been stiff like a 4x4" wooden post... And now my flexibility is beginning to improve too.
The trick to not getting injured is fixing your habits, toys or no toys...
For me, the Thinkpad laptop (w/ the eraser pointing device) I got that freshman semester was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back". There was nothing I could have done to prevent "getting injured", with all the lead weights I was carrying around from unresolved traumas suffered while growing up. Or in another analogy: I'd accumulated a large bunch of kindling over the years. The Thinkpad was the spark that set the kindling on fire, and the only way for me to put it out was to take the kindling away (osteopathically).
I asked my osteopath if the lesions ever come back. He said "no", then corrected himself with the example of a secretary who'll hold the phone up to their ear with their shoulder - those kinds of lesions will reappear, and you fix that by changing the environme
so if you want to create "geniuses", by the argument, you should spend your entire life having more children.
don't remember where I read it, but something said that the majority of the world's movers-and-shakers throughout history are either first- or second-born. There are exceptions, of course.
first child gets all the attention, second child about the same. By the third kid, Mom's distracted with the other two, and does well to feed & clean #3. By #4, mom's getting kind of frazzled, and so on.
homosexuality is never a 'choice', per-se. Some children are born gay out of confusion, because of a recent sex-change in their chain of earthly experiences (see Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce Story on Reincarnation, by Gina Cerminara).
My dad's GF's Aunt was abused when she was a child, and now she's a lesbian. If 'therapists' knew how to effectively deal with that sort of trauma, I bet she would've gotten married to a guy & had a 'normal' life. I've read reports of 'fixing' a past trauma, and a woman leaving her same-sex partner, finding a husband & having children.
I sincerely doubt that someone could be persuaded to become gay, as the nightmares of militant christian homophobes might proclaim.
Just offering some points for consideration. It does explain the emergence of homosexuality better than anything else I've encountered.
And those who benefit from tyranny will figure out how to speed up the process.
How did the 2004 presidential election come down to GWB vs. John Kerry, both pro-war-freedom-hating-elitist-scumbags? Or, how did GHWB get to be Regan's vice presidential candidate?
Who wrote the patriot act, so that it was ready to go when the conditions were set for its introduction?
Just one possibility. I don't know much, just that I don't trust establishment media.
But I do know that I hated school. I like John Taylor Gatto's take on the institution of compulsory brainwashing.. Underground History of American Education
Pray tell, what great scientific achievements did Edgar Cayce contribute to the world? ... I just want to know how he contributed to our understanding of consciousness.
An egomaniac doesn't really deserve a response, but for the other people who'll read this:
Edgar Cayce's health advice really is priceless. I've used it, so I know how valuable it is. Cayce frequently recommended castor oil. Recently I had a couple of boils on my face (a result of consuming too much sugar, combined with my crooked spine [which prevents proper lymphatic drainage through the thoracic outlet]). Once I started putting castor oil on them, they started going down.
Last summer sometime I developed a rash. It disappeared soon after applying castor oil.
Cayce frequently recommended osteopathic adjustments when they would help. Nowadays he'd recommend Osteopathy in the Cranial Field, or maybe craniosacral therapy. My new cranial osteopath has done more to straighten me out than any of the MDs I've been to. If it weren't for Cayce, I'd probably be on perscription painkillers and scheduled for a worthless surgery.
Before you trash someone (having only read the so-called "skeptical" propaganda), you should really read up on what that person really said. The Cayce organization followed up on as many of his health readings as they could get feedback on, and as long as the person did as they were instructed, they did get better, as good as Cayce told them they could expect.
Conciousness is so poorly understood...
:)
you mean that it's poorly understood by most people. Every now and then individuals get a clue: the Buddha, various monks in following in his footsteps, Jesus, etc. We've seen a rash of people in 20th century america who came to understand what it means to be human: Edgar Cayce, Jose Silva, etc. I'd advise looking into Robert Monroe's 3 books (Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys, Ultimate Journey, the last two moreso than the first). Robert even started his own private research institute for studying conciousness: The Monroe Institute. Think about it: what if it were true, that we are all more than our physical bodies?
Let the materialistic flamefets begin...
Alternative medicine is always based on the assumption of some kind of medical conspiracy.
Hrm? IMHO, progressive/integrative medicine is based on throwing out the establishment's way of doing things, and finding treatment methodology that works.
Its proper place is treating ailments and using methods too mild to be high on the list for mainstream medicine. Like your creaking jaw
You've obviously never had TMJ trouble. The medical establishment doctors I'd been to didn't have a clue what was wrong with me. I thought it was very significant that I couldn't fucking chew (in an "I'm trying to find the root of my problem" sort of way), the last MD I went to thought all of my symptoms were separate problems. What a dimwit, but that's all his medical training allowed him to think.
Progressive/Integrative Medicine's proper place is in helping people who've been given multiple batches of perscriptions and braces and surgeries by their establishment doctors, and are still no better off than when they first sought help.
See Robert Zieve, M.D.'s new book, Heatlhy Medicine for an establishment physician's take on breaking out of the mold.
You know you've hit a nerve when you get such a spasmodic response. What's funny is that I bet you're the type who'll come around in a year or two or three. :)
You can make some argument that the realy underlying cause of the symptoms is something else.
That is what I meant to say.
But, if the symptoms are gone permanently, that is called cured.
Think about all the pharmaceuticals you see advertised on T.V. How many "cure" someone of a condition, and how many just "manage" it? Or consider antibiotic therapy. Why has a person's immunity declined to such a degree that their body needs help?
And what if person A has condition B because they don't get enough of Nutrient C in their diet? Pharmaceutical D may manage condition B such that all symptoms of said condition disappear. And suppose the list of symptoms that Nutrient C deficiency only start with symptom B. As time goes by and the deficiency gets worse, symptoms E, F, G and H develop (over a period of years). So, You can either address Nutrient Deficiency C at the start, or take Pharmaceutical D. But if you never address the real cause of the problem, pretty soon you're taking pills for all those other symptoms too. Until finally the body is weakened to such a state where it develops cancer and dies.
good point. Usually it'd be tough to do a double-blind study on surgeries, but it has been done before. See: Arthroscopic Surgery for Knee Osteoarthritis No More Effective Than Sham Surgery
Sometimes surgery is important. And sometimes doctors go for surgery for the personal glory (holding someone's still-beating heart in your hands can contribute to a superiority complex) and the fungoles. Because they can charge $40-50k to perform a heart bypass surgery, and only $3000 for a non-surgical IV EDTA chellation therapy regimen. See Dr. Elmer Cranton's Bypassing Bypass
But, think about this: if "conventional" medicine is really so bad, why does it work so well?
You'll have to excuse me - I think this is funny. Allow me to explain.
My grandmother was diagnosed with "Multiple Myeloma" sometime around last thanksgiving. Her doctor gave her 6 months to live. As I understand it, it's a type of blood cancer. Grandma was always one to adhere to "conventional" treatments. She went to the so-called "best-of-the-best" medical clinics (Mayo Clinic), took their chemotherapeutic drugs, went for her weekly tests & injection, every couple of months went for a red blood cell transfusion. All in the hopes of "curing" her of blood cancer.
About two or three weeks ago I took her out to the clinic to get a PICC line (permanent IV line, as a catheter that runs up the arm into the heart) inserted, so she could start an IV chemotherapeutic regimen. She got some blood tests done, and after several tries inserting the PICC line (an interventional radiologist finally succeeded using his fancy X-ray machine to guide the line into place), we got the word that Grandma's blood counts (platelets, red blood cells, etc) were too low to start the chemotherapeutic regimen.
While I was sitting around with Grandma, I told her how I'd stopped by a hospice office a little while back, and how their representative had responded to my assertion that Mayo's was looking at Grandma like she had big golden dollar signs plastered all over her (as she's covered by Medicare, and medicare will pay for just about anything an M.D. wants to charge for). I'd been told, "We have doctors who've said, 'you've got to get [patient X] away from [doctor Y], he'll CHEMO HER TO DEATH!'". I told Grandma this, and she was like, "hey, yah, hospice. [Friend Z] did hospice, and it was just fine for her. I'm tired of this bullshit."
The next day I took grandma to the hospital for a blood transfusion. They took a bone marrow biopsy while we where there (NOT a pleasurable experience) to see how much her cancer had progressed. When the results came back, Grandma's bone marrow was 90+% cancerous. So her doctor refered her to one of the area's larger hospice organizations.
She started hospice care a week ago today (Monday). She died yesterday morning (Sunday). About six months exactly.
I don't know what "conventional" medicine did for grandma. I suppose that it kept her alive for a few more months, but having been around Grandma for most of those months, I don't think she thought they were worth living. You see, before Grandma died yesterday morning, she was suffering. And "conventional" medicine did nothing to alleviate her suffering. They sucked Grandma dry for all they could get Medicare to pay for, and when they couldn't justify charging for anything else, they gave up on her and let her die. Which really wasn't so bad. The profiteering bastards should've just stayed out of it, and Grandma could've side-stepped at least 4 months of misery.
When I take 10mg of loradatine (Claritin), my allergies clear up.
Allergies are just a symptom. Loradatine functions such that the allergic response is repressed.
If I had allergies, I would wonder why. After learning why, then I'd take measures to cure myself of my allergies. I've read various things on allergies - they could be a nutrient defficiency, a triple-warmer response, etc. If I knew that I was prone to allergies because I was starving to death, I'd take measures to insure that I was well nourished.
I can feel the effect - and, more importantly, double-blind tests can measure the effect.
Apparently you're satisfied with alleviating your symptoms. I suppose you've put a piece of electrical tape over the "check engine" light in your car, too?
You have neither described the mechanism nor provided evidence that your method works.
I'm satisfied with the treatments I've received from a Cranial Osteopath. My TMJ (jaw-joint,
Doctors are like help desk technicians - you come to them with a problem, they have tests they can perform, and in the end they try to help you fix whatever's ailing you.
Doctors are like little boys with two hammers. In the end they try to help you... by using the two tools they learned about in medical school: Drugs and Surgery. Sure, they learned a little bit about other topics, but the vast majority of their focus is on perscribing drugs and surgery.
What else would you expect from a profession that is composed of the ideological heirs of bloodletters & mercury salvers?
In a free market, if a profession becomes obsolete, it withers away to become a quaint footnote in a history text. In the united states, we have lobbyists to prevent that from happening to well-connected groups. Just make your new, more effective competition "illegal". Consider:
100 years of Medical Robery
Real Medical Freedom
Dr. Andrew Still 'discovered' his manipulation techniques after he was powerless to prevent several of his children from dying from... meningitis, iirc. He started a healing discipline called 'Osteopathy', and set out to teach others his techniques. Establishment doctors chased him out of town after town (*1) - until he finally found a place to stay and teach.
The real difference between Osteopathy and Allopathy is between their health models. An allopath (99% of M.D.s) believes that a body's symptoms are the problem, and gives his patients substances which counteract the symptom. An osteopath believes that a body is self-regulating and self-healing, so long as everything needed is in place. So, an osteopath's (*2) goal is to remove all a body's impediments to healing. A core tenet of Osteopathy is that Structure and Function are interrelated - hence the importance of applying appropriate adjustments to the body's structure (spine, bones, muscles and tendons) to a body that is not functioning properly.
The difference in treatment outcomes (between Allopathy and Osteopathy) is startling. Quoting from the Cranial Academy website:
Now imagine you're in a profession that's just been made obsolete. Is it easier to start over and learn to become effective, or to lobby the legislatures to make "licensed" members of your profession the only group who can do certain procedures ("diagnose", "perscribe", perform surgery, etc)? Guess which one won out.
And so, I agree with you - Doctors really are like help desk technicians. They're fine doing what they're trained to do (perscribe drugs), but if a problem comes up that's outside the scope of their training, they're worthless, and you'll get put onto the magical medical rollercoaster, going from specialist to specialist to specialist, never getting satisfactory result. It's like going to the helpdesk with a problem, and all they ever tell you to do is "reboot the computer".
I've gotten off the rollercoaster and have taken charge of my own health. I seek out qualified consultants when neede
It's been well established in studies undertaken by entities other than electric power companies that electromagnetic radiation DOES in fact influence human energy systems. Fortunately there are easy-to-do exercises which when done regularly will fix any negative effects.
see Donna Eden's Energy Medicine, which offers Donna's take on tuning up/repairing the body's energy systems.
"separating heaven and earth" is particularly useful after using a computer/etc..
DMSO takes stuff right through the skin. You can dissolve asprin in dmso and apply it topically, and that asprin will go right to where you need it. I did that for a while, but stopped when I realized I couldn't tell the difference between DMSO+Asprin and straight DMSO.
I love DMSO, and in fact am about to break out a new bottle, 'cause I've spent too much time on this stupid laptop computer, and my shoulders and forearms are all inflammed. Bathe/dry off/apply/wait 10 minutes/rinse.
Everyone who's considering using DMSO thing should get a book on the topic, 'cause it's possible to do some stupid stuff. I know a guy who soaked a cotton pad in DMSO and put it on his foot with an ace bandage. His nerves were firing painfully for days...
100 years of Medical Robery (source of above quotation)
Real Medical Freedom (part II)
The bastards at the AMA came up with the term "quack" to slander chiropractors.
The grandparent poster is on to something, though I'm not so sure about the Raw Apples part... Edgar Cayce (noted 20th century "American Christian Mystic") said that apples should be cooked, unless you go on a "raw-apple" cleanse for a couple of days. See The Edgar Cayce Manual for Health through Drugless Therapy. For more on juicing for wellness, search for "Gerson Therapy".
I don't know if socialized medicine (a la 'Hillary') is the answer, but certainly our current medical/insurance industry is a problem.
I offer another point for your consideration: Medicine in the united states suffers from a state-imposed monopoly given to a certain brand of healer. Consider the following articles:
100 years of Medical Robery
Real Medical Freedom
It seems to me that ending the "Medical Doctor" monopoly seems like a better first step than socializing a broken system.
... but not because they necessarily believed in the Americans' cause. Rather, French assistance to the American revolutionaries was more for the purpose of hurting the British.
I put up a Badnarik for President sign on my dad's property on a busy street (his idea). It was only out there a couple of days before it disappeared.
Healthcare in America used to be affordable, with everyone having plenty of options to choose from. These two articles go into how things got so bad.
100 years of Medical Robery
Real Medical Freedom
According to the articles, the American Medical Association (AMA) was founded with two implicit purposes: to raise their brand of healer's (M.D.s) incomes and status. So they used the government to establish "licensing laws", and worked to close 1/2 the medical schools in the U.S. in the 20th century.
I can honestly say I have zero interest in the Bush-Kerry debates on tv, but I would love to hear their answers to half of these questions that were proposed.
I don't think Bush or Kerry will be the ones doing the answering. "... I would love to hear their advisors' answers to half of these questions..."
We can't assume anything, we haven't met anybody else.
Yeah, 'cause CNN hasn't told us so.
Ingo Swann, founding member of the government-financed remote viewing program (ran for nearly 20 years, then dumped when the soviet union dissolved - "yeah, never worked, but we spent millions of dollars and twenty years finding that out". Ingo says gov't bureaucrats canceled the program because they were scared of being mind-read.) self published a book titled Penetration: The Question of Human and Extra-Terrestrial Telepathy... In it he talks about bases on the moon, human-ET interaction, etc. Why do you think NASA left multiple complete lunar missions on the ground?
From Ingo's perspective, suppression of the existence of ETs comes down to Power. To keep a hierarchical society, the majority of our species must be kept unaware of certain powers which are endemic to our species.
... omg, i've stooped so low as to post a comment with THAT subject line.. Oh well.
The advantage of a low carbohydrate diet is that the calories you do take in make you feel more satisfied, as well as not driving up your insulin levels.
This is so important. Read Dr. Mercola's pages on Insulin. Eating a diet based around carbohydrates is a lot like filling your car with gasoline, and neglecting the rest of the regular maintenance - no oil changes, no tranny service, no brake pad replacements, never replacing the windshield wipers, headlights, air filters or tires, etc.. Your car will run, well for a while, and it'll keep chugging along for even longer still - but eventually, the damn thing just doesn't work. Nutrition/food is the same way - carbohydrates provide energy to run the body, but are seriously lacking in the "routine care" maintenance nutrients present in veggies and animal products.
if your diet requires willpower to stay on it, then it's not the right kind of diet for you.
check out this site - imho, Dr. Mercola has some of the best guidelines around. Definitely look into "metabolic typing".
some guys learn how to be "pick up artists" by accident. Fortunately for all the rest of us, there's the layguide. This stuff is real, and the principles involved (when properly applied) do work wonders.
Toys have been the answer, to counter loneliness, and man, I've got a _lot_ of toys.
I suggest using the Layguide instead.