Synchronicity

[bagwa-john]

Damn sad loss.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/michael-nyqvist-dead-dies-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-1202479889/

[bagwa-john]

This routine makes you feel great!
There is a part 2, if you decide this kind of exercise works for you.

[bagwa-john]

A Xing I Quan teacher I know and practice with occasionally sent me this link. Ba Ji Quan. It is quite a dynamic application of body weight and joint locks.

[bagwa-john]

an oldie but a goodie. Colbert's roast at the dinner.

[bagwa-john]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eva-norlyk-smith-phd/mind-body-_b_4387093.html

[bagwa-john]

http://www.fascial-fitness.de/en/

[bagwa-john]

Achieved a Fascia Fitness Trainer certification today! Combined with a whole lot of work and study, I can carve out a whole new kind of future!

[bagwa-john]

[bagwa-john]

Good breakdown in applications here by this old Master...

[bagwa-john]

http://fasciadvds.com/fascia-and-sports-medicine-dvd

[bagwa-john]

[bagwa-john]

[bagwa-john]

Wow this was an hour well spent! This woman must be tough as iron. Most Baguazhang is taught using the individual palm methods and the practitioner walks the circle moving through the palm movements as they feel moved to do so. This particular demonstration is an organized form like a TaiChiChuan form is. It does include only about half of the movements I have been taught, but the short form she teaches has to be an enjoyable period of time, and it'll take me many months to learn this as she teaches it, to have an enjoyable exercise period which includes many different defensive and offensive movements in such a celebration of movement. just google baguazhang applications and you'll see what these movements actually do.

[bagwa-john]

Going to be at this workshop next weekend.
http://www.anatomytrains.com/courses/?id=58

[shaolin]

bagwa-john, I appreciate your reply. It was a long reply so it will take a wcouple of readings to digest. I will print it off because I am old school and deal with print better. From what I saw at first glance, I saw some good advice and resources. I will respond ASAP. Problem is 11 year old computer. Need to update when I can afford. Thanks again --- shao

[bagwa-john]

Shoalin, I know you don't get onto the forum much, but here goes...

Shoalin, Chi is alive. It isn't mind over matter. According to the Teachings of Agni Yoga; Chi, Prana, 'universal energy' are the collective of what they refer to as The Fires of Space. Every star radiates itself into space into all directions. This influence includes physical light and all the radiatory influence up the spectrum from each star. These subtle plasmas fill space. When we choose to address these energies while we breathe, we draw them into our body and then we receive the benefits of their influence in our chemistry. Sungazing will also help us in a similar way. I choose to sungaze with closed eyes, because I don't necessarily have the opportunity to do it as the sun rises. The bright light comes into the eyes, and through the optic nerves, saturates the brain and then the nerves. This boost is free to the participant. I don't feel the sunlight into our eyes is a choice, though the breathing of the energy seems to be. We walk around all day long with sunlight coming into our eyes, and therefore we are benefitting from it without realizing the fact. Its ok to acknowledge the influence anyway.
Chi, breathe it and let it into your body as often as you can acknowledge its existence.
I'm into the 61 year, and arthritis is creeping in. In my youth I practiced 100 day indirect iron palm. Really powerful striking method, but I had to stop the practice because I found that agressive action "out" by slapping the gravel bag, led to the same agressive energy coming back into my life, so I chose to learn how to deliver the loving touch instead. What goes around comes around. I got invloved with baguazhang because there wasn't 'striking' per se; but a tremendous amount of catching incoming energy into a spiraling movement and spinning it back into the opponent. Kam Yuen taught me some Shoalin forms back in the late 80s. Very aerobic, but impractical for older folks, though Kam is still 10 years older than myself as of his birthday yesterday. He has really honest bones in his body and is easy to like.
He is the Grand Master of 7 Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu now.
I take SAMe for the joint aches, and some Bayer. I order the SAMe from the Puritan Pride website, in the 100mg tablets, and I also include from the same site the CoQ10 100mg gelcaps, which I take 8 of those a day. The combo really helps me. I also keep liniments around from the orientalherb site I listed in the info box above. Combined with the chigong exercises and the breathing, my joints stay fairly flexible. Give up the striking martial arts, and embrace the redirecting martial arts. Better timing results and easier on your joints. Sure Baguazhang has stikes at the end of their movements but your opponent is almost always off balance by the time you strike him. gravy.
Drink warm water when you drink water. maybe a quart a day. the color of your urine will tell you how much is enough. When it is clear, you're drinking enough water.
get off of wheat and gluten foods, and just keep those foods out for awhile. Eat low glycemic carbs, leafy greens cut into soups made from lean meat and beans. It'll cut your food bill down and it'll help you feel good. We get 4 meals from a typical pot roast because we pull greens and tomatoes from the garden for soups for the following 3 days after the pot roast meal. If I eat gluten I pay dearly with joint aches and bad blood pressure.
You wanted my opinion. Look into the Fascia Fitness information. It will help you reprogram the fascia in your limbs so you don't injure yourself from stiffness as often. once maybe twice a week at most at first. I'd say first 3 months once a week, based on my 60 year old tissues responses from it.
Bruce Frantzis good place to start for redirection martial arts, also John Painter. Painter has a set of videos on baguazhang for street combat, and it is loaded with easy practical application movements. I guarantee you'll love the change in movement philosophy.

[shaolin]

babwa I have been away away a while. You contacted me at Dojo board. hope all is well with you. I love the martial arts for the physical part of it. As a christian, i can see the chi as a simple matter of control of " mind over matter ". I'd like your opinion. I am 55 yrs old and started in the arts at 42. I have artheritis so I am limited in striking ability. trying to compensate. any suggestions?

[bagwa-john]

This half hour videa is really informative about how the roles of Fascia are being discovered. It is in English subtitle, spoken German. The weekend workshop on Fascia Fitness I took in January was presented by Robert Schleip, who helped pull this information together from Doctors efforts across the world and eventually pulled together the present methods of Fascia Fitness.

[bagwa-john]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/12/25/can-meditation-cure-disease.html
Meditation using Light is more than an imaginary experience.

[bagwa-john]

http://www.terrarosa.com.au/dvd/fascial_fitness.htm

The DVD is where the Utube in the previous post was pulled from.

[bagwa-john]

A short sample of the methods we explored.

This DVD will pay you back in better movement quality, though Robert told us that it takes about 2 years with 2 brief exercise periods a week (limbs torso etc) to replace all of the body's callogen with the newer tissues created due to the new directions the tissues/limbs move. It takes a bit more than a day for the callogen to be rebuilt after each session, so time is required for the recovery.

[bagwa-john]

This was a really good workshop!
http://fascialfitness_la2013.eventbrite.com/

[bagwa-john]

I've been patiently going through the Bagua Mastery system. I'm finally into the second half of the curriculum, where he starts showing the basics of the single palm change. The first 12-13 DVDs were all fundamentals with static postures to practice while walking the circle. I have to admit, the practice has enlightened what I already thought I understood about Baguazhang. Good stuff. I'm putting in an hour a day now as a base before other types of exercise. Training for what I'm not sure; but like in T2, there is a storm coming.

[bagwa-john]

I have received the other 6 modules to the Bagua mastery system. I'm not likely to get to them for many months since the information in the first 6 modules takes a bit of time to practice.

On a different note, I went to one meal a day (breakfast)raw and sprouted in January. I added lunch to the lineup about 3 weeks ago, and about that time my wife joined me with the discipline. We've already reached the point where our bodies don't feel well if we have too much processed food. It is good news in that our bodies are thanking us for eating properly in quick order. The downside is our 'old way' of eating is about to become history. Can't trust the food from the grocery stores hardly at all anymore anyway. The sproutpeople website has very good information on the nutrition of plants and sprouts.
The book Becoming Raw has been a reference book for raw/vegan/fruitarian nutrition and what each supplies nutritionally.

[bagwa-john]

I've received the first 6 modules of this program...
http://www.energyarts.com/offer/bagua-mastery-program-launch

I've just finished my first pass through the first module, and can safely say it may take me a few months before I decide to venture into the 2nd module. I've been practicing Baguazhang since 93 officially, (John Painter)but I've been a student of the same teacher since 77. Everything I learned in the earlier classes I took in Painter's Arlington Texas school was totally structured in Bagua and I hadn't known it until I started taking his workshops in L.A. in the early 90s. Every teacher comes from different roots of the system, since the first documented teacher Dong Hai Chuan taught some 72 different people from different martial arts backgrounds, and none of them were shown the same aspects. Frantzis presents it from the inside out, so there are many alignments and meditations which have to be in place before the foundation can be built upon. Its like a new art from his perspective. (for me).

[bagwa-john]

I've known this guy for almost 20 years. He was the person who played the monk Carradine faught at the end of the Kung Fu the Legend continues the movie.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2264275244795
He was also the person who directed the martial arts in the first year of the new series. He had to back out of it after that. many reasons.

[bagwa-john]

I've been aware of this for over 20 years.

[bagwa-john]

[bagwa-john]

once upon a time, it was one of my favorite tunes, because it represented the search we all go through.

[bagwa-john]

http://www.worldgathering.net/vision.html

[baymare]

what the Tibetan referes to as dynamic substitution

Simply put, The method seems to be a good method for changing habits.

I will try it.

Change of topic: Hope your dog is continuing to improve. It will be interesting to see what your vet says about his health.

At 11:30 I went out to bring our dogs in, and one of them who is normally a happy happy energetic guy, was walking slowly, with tail down, and head down, when both are usually up and perky.
And he refused treats.

I thought maybe he ate some plant that disagreed with him. (He likes to munch on herbs) so I dosed him with olive oil, and he perked up to his usual happy self and accepted treats.

Have a good evening. I need to start dinner.

[bagwa-john]

I think we're in step about it.
Most people are emotionally polarized and this topic makes no sense. Once we start the practice of Raja yoga we become Mentally polarized and the emotional vehicle takes a back seat, so to speak. From what I have learned in the practice of this discipline, emotions which I entertain, are seamlessly connected to thoughtforms I entertain. To rid the emotional body of undesirable emotional activity, the thoughtform it is connected to has to be discovered and then starved out by what the Tibetan referes to as dynamic substitution. Simply put, the student constructs a mental "goto" command. If this: (undesirable) thoughtform, then: goto Light meditation. (as an example) Over time, you feel the energy shift when that certain thoughtform is about to bubble forth and you automatically change your mental channel to Light, and the undesirable thoughtform and its associated emotional activity drifts to the deep background. Our new mental textures include more and more moments of meditating in the Light, and our energy field changes shape, attracting newer experiences. It is very systematic. The practitioner just has to be serious to get some change to happen.
If you become complacent in the old ways of thinking, you get no change.
I think the Tibetan offered the best clue to change when he says over and over in the books, to keep the mind ever focussed in the Light. Perhaps it relates to the thoughtlife including more and more time spent in the Light.
Decades it takes, yes, hmmm.
sorry I had a Yoda momment.

[baymare]

Is this making any sense?

Yes. Thank you.

the emotional body IS subjegated by the Mental body

and

once the student has sorted through his/her thoughtlife long enough

I agree with you, but:

I think the key lies in the level of development of the individual. Most people's mental, emotional and spiritual development never rises above their waistline (kundalini fire). Most people are trying to escape their thoughts and ignore issues in their life and the outer world. They are not studying their own thought processes and are at the mercy of their emotions.

Light is the language in the higher realms, and Light does carry information

Via our pineal gland?

The light flooding into the earth, the last few years, is quite beautiful.


a whole concept arrives into your consciousness all at once in a multidimensional packet which you have to process to understand

During problem solving sessions, such as a time in college I was studying a chemical synthesis problem for Organic Chem Lab. I had worked the problem from several different directions for a couple hours. then gave up and took a nap. When I awoke the solution flashed. It was so fast, that I had to "re run" it to write it down. This example is probably on a lower level then what you are referring to. But I've had many such "aha" moments.

[bagwa-john]

I'm familiar with Lucis Trust too. I've read all of the Bailey series, and a half dozen or so I read regularly as study guides. I've read all of the Agni Yoga series too, into my 4th pass of them. The material is different every time I read them, because they stretch your consciousness like a yoga exercise stretches your body.
We're not on the same page, as you guessed. Raja Yoga teaches by practice that the emotional body IS subjegated by the Mental body, because the system works from the top down. The emotional body is slower than the mental body in the spiritual anatomy, and once the student has sorted through his/her thoughtlife long enough, they begin to see how all of their "stuff" relates to their life. You become energy field conscious and without a doubt you know when an emotional level wave comes into your field, you can reliably figure out who it is. You become thought sensitive as well, because since you are monitoring your own thoughtlife, you become aware of your thoughtlife texture. This practice is the key to understanding how we all interconnect, and the key to learning how to control what you radiate out into the environment.
Once you've become conscious of your emotional and mental vehicle compositions, you start becoming aware of energies from higher levels which haven't manifested into the dense plane of mental matter.(comparatively) Light is the language in the higher realms, and Light does carry information, but not spoken language information. You have to meditate on the "felt sense" and turn it into your linear spoken language. The information comes in bursts, where a whole concept arrives into your consciousness all at once in a multidimensional packet which you have to process to understand. The Masters converse with the others in the Ashram through the Heart center in such a way.
Is this making any sense?

[baymare]

Your writing elicits responses on different levels.

I'm familiar with the Lucis Trust, but have not read the Light of the Soul. Your experience with "feeling" your brother-in-law" could be called "empathy". Some people are empathic, in that they feel what others are feeling. They may not be able to discern their own emotions from those around them. I've had those experiences where I was inundated with strong emotions and did not understand where they were coming from, until I analyzed the person or situation around me, to determine the source.

Or could you be referring to the morphogenetic field, in which we live and move, and which connects us to all others in and on the planet, and probably to further reaches. Something akin to the hundredth monkey effect, where when one member of the group has an idea, or thought, the rest of the group then receives that thought transmission.

And the idea of controlling the emotional body is important, by learning to control the mind and thinking, since we must take responsibility for ourselves and for our actions. But, I think the emotional body is the larger, more powerful body of energy. If one has very powerful emotions that effect one's life in a negative way, that may be holdovers from traumatic experiences, then it is not possible to merely control those emotions, as they are always lurking near the surface. There is so much energy expended in controlling those emotions. It is imperative to eliminate those emotions, so that they are no longer effecting one's energy body, to free up one's energy.

Perhaps I've missed your point entirely. It was interesting reading. I just threw out some thoughts that occurred to me from my own life experiences.

I'm ending this post to focus on the market, which is quite wild.

Talk about emotions of fear!!

I look forward to reading more.

[bagwa-john]

About the emotional component to Lupus...
This experience which opened my eyes to how we have effect on one another emotionally took place back in late 87 or early 88, after we became opened up to energy. I was downstairs in the house watching the TV, and my wife's brother came home from work. My wife was upstairs reading in bed. my brother in law walked past me to the kitchen and then walked past me again to go upstairs to his room with an evening beverage. Minutes afterward I felt like I had been gutshot and felt like throwing up. At the time I didn't make a connection. I turned off the TV and went upstairs. I then told my wife I just suddenly felt sick to my stomach and it was strange because I was feeling good earlier. She asked me if David had just come home. I said yes he did, and she said, "Welcome to my world. Sometimes I feel you before you reach the front door."
I had started reading the Light of the Soul, but hadn't gotten serious with it until after that incident. From then on I read it and studied it like life depended on me learning the science of Raja Yoga. It was described as being the method to controlling the emotional body, by learning to control the mind and the thinking. Energy does follow thought. Thought shapes our energy field, and also 'textures' our energy field. This has effect on how we 'touch' our environment, and how our environment touches us. Like attracts like. The fallback thoughtform to focus on to clear the shape and texture to a higher standard is to keep the mind steadily focussed in the Light, according to the Tibetan. This brings in a new energy, and results in a new shape and a new texture which we present to the environment. It is quite logical.
I found after about a year of practicing this method that certain thoughts were seamlessly connected to emotional activity linked to the thoughtform. I have to continue in a later post. past bedtime. 4:30 rolls around early.

[bagwa-john]

There is an emotional component to Lupus too. How we figured that out is a nice long story, which I can't go into at the moment, but I'll go into it later when I am home.
We utilize Raja Yoga as a way to quiet the emotional composition. I learned it from Alice Bailey's book The Light of the Soul. The Tibetan erally does a good job of breaking the discipline into its parts; all pulled from Patajali's work the Yoga Sutras.

[baymare]

EDIT: since there appears to be an emotional component to the disease, your wife may be a candidate for the breathwork mentioned in an earlier message. The emotional release was tremendous, when I did the breathwork.





A client has fibromyalgia.

But she is not open to "alternative" treatments. Alternative health care is all about prevention and simplicity and nutrition.

The traditional medical industry isn't really about curing illness or preventing illness. Their business model is: sick patients = more revenue for the medical industry, e.g. cancer.

I did read, recently, about a nutritional component to fibromyalgia on one of my favorite health sites.

Here's a link to several articles about fibromyalgia.

http://search.mercola.com/search/Pages/results.aspx?k= Fibromyalgia

[bagwa-john]

This is a really good read.
http://rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/10374903/30422539/Can_Meditation_Cure_Disease/full/


Can Meditation Cure Disease?
Published - Dec 25 2010 03:15PM PST


Email Share Print AAA Single Page View A Tibetan lama believes he cured his gangrene-stricken leg by meditating for a year. Now scientists are studying his brain, hoping to discover a medical miracle.

Can the power of the mind help humans self-heal? That's what a group of scientists are hoping to help determine by studying a Tibetan lama who believes he cured himself of gangrene through meditation.

Related story on The Daily Beast: The New Science of Reverse Aging

When Tibetan Lama Phakyab Rinpoche immigrated to the United States in 2003, he was a 37-year-old refugee with diabetes and Pott's Disease. His afflictions had gotten so bad that his right foot and leg had developed gangrene. He was hospitalized and examined by three different doctors in New York City who all gave the same treatment recommendation: amputate.

Few people would go against such medical advice, but Rinpoche (pronounced Rin-Poh-Chey) is no average person. Born in 1966 in Kham, Tibet, he was ordained at the age of 13 and named the Eighth Incarnation of the Phakyab Rinpoche by the Dalai Lama himself when he was working toward the highest level of Tibetan Buddhist study, the Geshe degree, in 1993. A deeply spiritual man who has devoted his life to the teachings of Buddhism, it was only natural that he should reach out to his mentor, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, when deciding whether to allow his leg to be cut off.

The Dalai Lama's response was shocking: Do not amputate. Instead, Lama Rinpoche says, the Tibetan spiritual leader advised his protégé to utilize his virtuoso skills at Tsa Lung meditation-heal himself, and then teach others the value of the ancient tradition. He sent a letter prescribing additional mantras, such as the Hayagriva, which, at the outset of new endeavors, is said to clear obstacles and provide protection in their tradition.


The progression of the degradation wasn't simply halted-his leg was back from the dead.

It was a decision that would require an incomprehensible leap of faith. But Rinpoche says there was no doubt within him. Though doctors had made it clear he could die, he was not afraid. "As a Buddhist, what is the worst thing that could happen if I die?" he told The Daily Beast through a translator. "I would be reborn again. But to lose a leg in one lifetime because I didn't try to save it didn't make sense."

And so he began to meditate. Rinpoche says he took no medicine and his diet was an ordinary one. He would break for meals-when the lama he was living with came home from work, they would have dinner and enjoy conversation-but then he would return to meditating before getting a good night's sleep at the end of the day. In the morning, he would awake and return to his routine.

In the early days of this ritual, Lama Rinpoche remembers, the putrid ooze from his leg ran black; a few months later it turned cloudy, he said, and bruising started to appear. The swelling increased and it was more painful. The odor was sickening, he recalls. But still he felt no doubt.

Then, after nine months, he says something began to happen that many Americans would consider a miracle. The liquid leaking from his disabled leg began to run clear. The swelling went down. Soon he could put some weight on it. At ten months, he could walk again, first with crutches. A short time later he was down to one crutch, and then, before even a year had passed, he was walking on his own.

The progression of the degradation wasn't simply halted-his leg was back from the dead. His diabetes and complicating Tuberculosis are gone today as well.

Now, a group of doctors at New York University have begun studying Rinpoche-specifically, his brain. Practitioners of Tsa Lung meditation like Rinpoche visualize a wind (or "lung," or "prana" ) that is one with the mind, moving down the center channel of their bodies, clearing blockages and impurities before moving on to ever-smaller channels.

"This is a cognitive-behavioral practice that present East-West science suggests may be more effective that any existing strictly Western medical intervention," says Dr. William C. Bushell, an MIT-affiliated researcher in medical anthropology and director of East-West Research for Tibet House in New York. Gangrene is not curable by current medical intervention once past a certain point in its progression, except by amputation.

This month, Dr. Bushell and NYU neuroscientist Zoran Josipovic, Ph.D. won Lama Rinpoche's cooperation in undergoing a functional MRI scan of his brain while he meditated inside the scanner at NYU's Center for Brain Imaging. In this first scan the Rinpoche participated in an ongoing study of the effects of different types of meditations on anti-correlated networks in the brain that Dr. Josipovic has been conducting at NYU.

Bushell wrote a scientific analysis of the processes occurring in the same form of meditation used by Rinpoche in a letter to Joshua Lederberg, Nobel Prize winner in medicine, some 10 years ago. Dr. Lederberg was one of the giants of modern science, father of molecular biology, infectious disease medicine, and modern genetics. His foundation published the letter, which is actually an adaptation of a scientific paper, posthumously on his website. It speaks of the mild to moderate hyperthermia resulting from the practice, which kills bacteria and aids the body in healing.

"It is not entirely clear from a Western science perspective what the winds are, but the scientific evidence suggests to me and others that the meditative process involving winds includes increased local blood flow, metabolic activity, and oxygenation,'' Bushell explains. "The original scientific model I developed (which is largely in a theoretical state) was based on, among other things, the pioneering work of Thomas K Hunt, MD, on the antibiotic properties of oxygenation in the blood and surrounding tissues, and was sponsored by the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, Calif. Research shows that mental imagery directed to sites of the body, both superficial as well as deeper tissues, can with practice eventually lead to increased local blood flow, metabolic activity, and oxygenation. Such increases could in principle combat even powerful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, which not only can be the cause of gangrene, but is now often times resistant to antibiotics."

Dr. Bushell's colleague Dr. Josipovic was also very curious about Rinpoche's abilities and, in particular, about the way they may have affected the functional and structural organization of his brain. The early results of the test are significant at first glance, he says. They show changes in a wide network of brain areas mediating attention and awareness. The team will publish their findings next year.

"Over the past 10 years research into the effects of meditation on the brain has been gaining unprecedented public and scientific attention," Dr. Josipovic explains. "What these studies have shown is that it is possible to optimize one's life experience through cultivation of subtle cognitive states generated through meditation, and that these are accompanied by changes in the anatomical structure of the brain, or neuroplasticity. But what soon became evident was that a great variety of meditation techniques and states of consciousness they engender, pose a considerable challenge for understanding them in terms of the established constructs of Western science."

Dr. Josipovic says that a major new discovery in the field of neuroscience, that of spontaneously fluctuating resting-state networks in the brain, has the potential to shed some light on this issue. "On a global level, the brain appears to be organized into two large-scale networks: extrinsic, or the task-positive network, composed of the brain areas that are active when we are focused on some task or external environment, and the intrinsic, or default' network, composed of the areas that are active when we reflect on ourselves and own experience."

These networks are usually anti-correlated in their activity-that is, when one is "up" the other is "down," he says. "While this antagonism serves some healthy functions, for example, of allowing us to focus on a task and refrain from being distracted by daydreaming or irrelevant concerns, we suspect it may also underlie some unhealthy aspects of our everyday experience, such as excessive fragmentation between self/other and internal/external-in other words the dualistic mind' that many contemplative traditions see as the root of our suffering.''

Those who wish to begin a Tsa Lung practice, which is an advanced but achievable discipline, are encouraged to seek a teacher. Rinpoche himself teaches often across the country, and is adding a website www.awakeningmindfoundation.org and Skype to his teaching sessions to reach more people around the world. This year he will lead a special New Year gathering in Tubac, Arizona sponsored by Pocket Sanctuary and the Helen Graham Park Foundation.

MaryAnn Zitka, a medical researcher and senior student of Phakyab Rinpoche explains that the word Rinpoche is a Tibetan Buddhist honorific title that literally means the precious one. "This is a very appropriate title to me," she says. "It's not often that you meet someone so committed to helping others. Rinpoche freely teaches his wisdom traditions to all who wish to learn, and his only request is to practice."

Maureen Seaberg is a NYC-based journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Daily News, Irish America, ESPN the magazine and on PBS and MSNBC. She won a scholarship to the inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony in 2009. She is also a synesthete and synesthesia researcher who is on the organizing committee of the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference for the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her first book, about synesthesia, titled Tasting the Universe, will be out in March 2011 from New Page Books.


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[bagwa-john]

Not sure what happened for that response Terry. I think I was responding to something else in the link which isn't there now. I wasn't quite right that night anyway. Memory farts, and a bit of angry going from stuff going on.

I hope you're doing good.

[bagwa-john]

I miss him. I miss Dan Fogelburg too. Whole lot of musical heroes are taking the Light express.

Nice to see you over here!
You may notice I'm not on the political boards anymore. Doesn't mean I'm not staying attentive. It just takes more work to hold the thread of honest REAL information.
Life is too short too cash in your chips through a stroke with an argument with someone who'd love to see you die in front of them.
I've seen that twisted look when someone drops when being battered by someone who wants them dead.
You just wish you had a pistol in your hand, and that propagates the problem. Those who turn the other cheek, just keep losing in this time frame.
I fully understand wanting to carry a firearm.
So I keep training, keeping fit as best I can, better diet, ya never know when you have to stand up in person.

[easymoney101]

message from our beloved Sam~~~~
http://www.youtube.com/user/Yoetah

[bagwa-john]

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[bagwa-john]

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[bagwa-john]

Keith nailed it down tonight! Loved it when he told Obama to get a copy of The American President, and when he reached the point where he said, "I was so busy trying to keep my job, I wasn't doing my job" hit rewind.

[SamIam]

NASA and this god awful corrupt machine
can't hide much longer...hell is raining down in towns...only citizens can help one another
Mainstream will NOT broadcast the truth

Gulf Oil Spill - Corexit rain in Canada

Comets (Extended ver) Plasma Cosmology Electric Universe

;

The Pacific Ring of Fire

okie dokie..that's all

For some love: Alicia Keys - Unthinkable

[SamIam]

Yes John, ya nailed it! Now for Comet Holmes


Forget about Nibiru...let's focus on how comet Holmes exploded, became brighter than the sun and is now the size of a minor planet. "Blue Star Hope Prophecy."
NASA would have us believe comets are dirty snowballs when in fact, they are are electro-magnetic celestial bodies that gather matter as they travel in space.

It's all one big corporate wasteland. They rape the planet and leave it to rot and burn. Why do they behave as if there's no tomorrow? Because for us who don't have the security of underground safety there will be no tomorrow.

GASLAND Trailer 2010

Centrailia coal mine fires burning for decades sending out sulfur into the air; destroying the town, lives and environment.
Where's EPA remediation?
centralia coal fire

[bagwa-john]

Nice to see you back! I saw an article in the Daily Breeze a few days ago about a mud volcano that has been burying towns in SE Asia. Result of a well drilling gone bad. Been creeping all over the neighborhood for a few years. Not in the news. Fancy that. I'll see if I can find a link to the story.
Lotsa hits on mud volcano...
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/mudvolcano/

[SamIam]

How an old Bush can ruin a good lunch

[SamIam]

A Black brother betrayed Martin Luther King
Want a name or would everyone rather feed on drma like
the latest Hollywood scandal.

Hey AP, leave Brittany and Mel Gibson alone!
hehehehe

Serious, leave Mel alone...he's the man