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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Statins - the honey in the poison-flower
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The Fat Controllers of BigPharma want us to take more statins. So do the agents of the Western allopathic matrix: people called doctors and physicians.
But what are the facts? What are statins? What do they do? What are their side effects? And how do statins poison you to death so slowly that you won't even notice?
Statins are drugs which are used to lower cholesterol levels in patients who have heart disease, or are deemed to be at risk from heart disease. They have been described as cholesterol-busting wonder-drugs. This is true. Statins do inhibit the production of cholesterol very effectively. But there is a problem: cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease.
And cholesterol is good for you. For many people, feeling good is a symptom of high cholesterol levels. We need cholesterol for our cell membranes, our sex hormones, our bile salts, and for the production of our Vitamin D. We need cholesterol for proper neurological function. We need cholesterol to protect us against cancer and premature aging.
But despite all this, we have allowed perceived raised cholesterol levels - hypercholesterolemia - to become the number one health issue of the 21st century.
Hypercholesterolemia is actually an invented disease: a 'problem' that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol levels exhibit no outward signs. This is unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anaemia, which manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness.
And hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a doctor to detect its presence. It's a health issue which makes you dependent on doctors. And doctors are dependent on drugs. And drugs make money for the invisible men at the top of the pharmaceuticals foodchain. Money is good for their health.
In addition to the problem that cholesterol does not cause heart disease and we need not use statins to artificially reduce cholesterol for that reason, there is another problem. Statins have serious side-effects in many people: memory lapses, muscle pain and muscle weakness (due to statin-initiated depletion of coenzyme Q10), neuropathy, polyneuropathy (weakness, tingling and pain in the hands and feet, walking difficulties), weakening of the sex-drive, heart failure (the heart is a muscle and it cannot work when deprived of coenzyme Q10), dizziness, cognitive impairment, cancer, suppression of the immune system, pancreatic rot, and depression, sometimes of suicidal potency. Statins are powerful drugs.
Dr Duane Graveline, a former NASA astronaut and flight surgeon, was put on a statin drug called Lipitor in 1999 for moderately elevated cholesterol. Just six weeks later his wife found him wandering around the house unable to recognize her or his surroundings. His memory lapse lasted a few hours. Duane Graveline was in excellent health. The lapse lasted only a few hours but there was simply nothing to cause it .... except one possibility. He suspected Lipitor was the culprit and since it was the only medication he was on, he discontinued its use. His mental health returned.
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The Fat Controllers of BigPharma want us to take more statins. So do the agents of the Western allopathic matrix: people called doctors and physicians.
But what are the facts? What are statins? What do they do? What are their side effects? And how do statins poison you to death so slowly that you won't even notice?
Statins are drugs which are used to lower cholesterol levels in patients who have heart disease, or are deemed to be at risk from heart disease. They have been described as cholesterol-busting wonder-drugs. This is true. Statins do inhibit the production of cholesterol very effectively. But there is a problem: cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease.
And cholesterol is good for you. For many people, feeling good is a symptom of high cholesterol levels. We need cholesterol for our cell membranes, our sex hormones, our bile salts, and for the production of our Vitamin D. We need cholesterol for proper neurological function. We need cholesterol to protect us against cancer and premature aging.
But despite all this, we have allowed perceived raised cholesterol levels - hypercholesterolemia - to become the number one health issue of the 21st century.
Hypercholesterolemia is actually an invented disease: a 'problem' that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol levels exhibit no outward signs. This is unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anaemia, which manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness.
And hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a doctor to detect its presence. It's a health issue which makes you dependent on doctors. And doctors are dependent on drugs. And drugs make money for the invisible men at the top of the pharmaceuticals foodchain. Money is good for their health.
In addition to the problem that cholesterol does not cause heart disease and we need not use statins to artificially reduce cholesterol for that reason, there is another problem. Statins have serious side-effects in many people: memory lapses, muscle pain and muscle weakness (due to statin-initiated depletion of coenzyme Q10), neuropathy, polyneuropathy (weakness, tingling and pain in the hands and feet, walking difficulties), weakening of the sex-drive, heart failure (the heart is a muscle and it cannot work when deprived of coenzyme Q10), dizziness, cognitive impairment, cancer, suppression of the immune system, pancreatic rot, and depression, sometimes of suicidal potency. Statins are powerful drugs.
Dr Duane Graveline, a former NASA astronaut and flight surgeon, was put on a statin drug called Lipitor in 1999 for moderately elevated cholesterol. Just six weeks later his wife found him wandering around the house unable to recognize her or his surroundings. His memory lapse lasted a few hours. Duane Graveline was in excellent health. The lapse lasted only a few hours but there was simply nothing to cause it .... except one possibility. He suspected Lipitor was the culprit and since it was the only medication he was on, he discontinued its use. His mental health returned.
Two years later his doctor insisted he continue taking Lipitor. He returned to using Lipitor and within a short time experienced another memory lapse episode that lasted more than 12 hours. Convinced that Lipitor was causing his episodes, he discontinued its use.
Another case is that of Mike Hope. There is an awkward silence when you ask Mike Hope his age. He doesn’t change the subject or stammer, or make a silly joke about how he stopped counting at 21. He simply doesn’t remember. Ten seconds pass. Then 20. Finally an answer comes to him. ‘I’m 56,’ he says. Close, but not quite. ‘I will be 56 this year.’ Later, if you happen to ask him about the book he’s reading, you’ll hit another roadblock. He can’t recall the title, the author or the plot. Statin use since 1998 has caused his speech and memory to fade. He was forced to close his business and went on Social Security ten years early. Things improved when he discontinued Lipitor in 2002, but his was a far from complete recovery. He still cannot sustain a conversation. What Lipitor did was turn Mike Hope into an old man when he was in the prime of life.
Because statins are expensive drugs, they are also profitable drugs. They are sold under a number of fancy names: Lipitor (atorvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin). And there are others. Go private and you can be provided with a fancy name of your choice. It must be better because it costs more. Unfortunately, it won't just cost you more money.
Statins are good for doctors but bad for patients. They are good for doctors because they cause a wide range of serious side effects in many patients. These side effects require further treatment. Further treatment demands more drugs.
For doctors and drug companies, statins are a meal ticket for life. Sweet work if you can get it: patients are the meal.
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Bad news about statin drugs
Chris Gupta on NewMediaExplorer.org - many respondents' case histories
Statin drugs & coenzyme Q10 depletion
Chris Gupta on NewMediaExplorer.org - many respondents' case histories
Statin drugs - side effects and the misguided war on cholesterol
Duane Graveline on SpaceDoc.net
Have we been conned about cholesterol?
Malcolm Kendrick in the Daily Mail (London, UK)
Statin drugs are killers
Peter Langsjoen on statin-induced cardiomyopathy
USA backs statin use for children
Leading US doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics push for the aggressive treatment of eight-year-old children with cholesterol-lowering drugs
Cardiologists overlook lifesaving discovery
120 mg a day of Coenzyme Q10 reduces secondary cardiac events by 45% and significantly lowers the number of cardiac deaths
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Drug-induced diseases
How extensive is the problem of specific adverse drug reactions?
The most astonishing health disaster of the 20th century
The American medical system is the number one killer in the USA (a five-minute presentation on YouTube)
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Another case is that of Mike Hope. There is an awkward silence when you ask Mike Hope his age. He doesn’t change the subject or stammer, or make a silly joke about how he stopped counting at 21. He simply doesn’t remember. Ten seconds pass. Then 20. Finally an answer comes to him. ‘I’m 56,’ he says. Close, but not quite. ‘I will be 56 this year.’ Later, if you happen to ask him about the book he’s reading, you’ll hit another roadblock. He can’t recall the title, the author or the plot. Statin use since 1998 has caused his speech and memory to fade. He was forced to close his business and went on Social Security ten years early. Things improved when he discontinued Lipitor in 2002, but his was a far from complete recovery. He still cannot sustain a conversation. What Lipitor did was turn Mike Hope into an old man when he was in the prime of life.
Because statins are expensive drugs, they are also profitable drugs. They are sold under a number of fancy names: Lipitor (atorvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin). And there are others. Go private and you can be provided with a fancy name of your choice. It must be better because it costs more. Unfortunately, it won't just cost you more money.
Statins are good for doctors but bad for patients. They are good for doctors because they cause a wide range of serious side effects in many patients. These side effects require further treatment. Further treatment demands more drugs.
For doctors and drug companies, statins are a meal ticket for life. Sweet work if you can get it: patients are the meal.
........................................................
Bad news about statin drugs
Chris Gupta on NewMediaExplorer.org - many respondents' case histories
Statin drugs & coenzyme Q10 depletion
Chris Gupta on NewMediaExplorer.org - many respondents' case histories
Statin drugs - side effects and the misguided war on cholesterol
Duane Graveline on SpaceDoc.net
Have we been conned about cholesterol?
Malcolm Kendrick in the Daily Mail (London, UK)
Statin drugs are killers
Peter Langsjoen on statin-induced cardiomyopathy
USA backs statin use for children
Leading US doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics push for the aggressive treatment of eight-year-old children with cholesterol-lowering drugs
Cardiologists overlook lifesaving discovery
120 mg a day of Coenzyme Q10 reduces secondary cardiac events by 45% and significantly lowers the number of cardiac deaths
.................................................
Drug-induced diseases
How extensive is the problem of specific adverse drug reactions?
The most astonishing health disaster of the 20th century
The American medical system is the number one killer in the USA (a five-minute presentation on YouTube)
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These days the church
These days
The church
Does not own a person's soul,
Or invent his salvation,
Or control his passage
To heaven.
That fashion has passed.
These days
Do-it-yourself spirituality
Is the norm,
And persons are doing it
For themselves.
A modern,
Free-thinking
Christian
Might choose
A little bit of yoga here,
A little bit of organic vine tomato there,
A little bit of eucharist here,
A little bit of labyrinth there,
A little bit of meditation here,
A little bit of faerie lore there,
A little bit of prayer breakfast here,
A little bit of tree hugging there,
A little bit of affirmation here,
A little bit of church jumble sale there,
A little bit of Harry Potter here,
A little bit of colour breathing there,
A little bit of peace vigil here,
A little bit of dolphin music there,
A little bit of crop circle walking here,
A little bit of organ recital there,
A little bit of contemplation here,
A little bit of dreamwork there,
A little bit of Rhineland mystic here,
A little bit of Sufism there,
A little bit of flower-arranging here,
A little bit of anti-globalisation march there,
A little bit of benediction here,
A little bit of Help-Africa lunch there,
A little bit of holy water here,
A little bit of heritage there.
There is a rich smorgasbord
Of personal choice
And variegated
Spiritual preference
Available.
Something will suit
And no size fits all.
The church,
Among others,
Still has a walk-on part
To play,
Except that it isn't asked
To walk on much,
These days,
And certainly not on water.
The church,
Among others,
Has a new mission:
It has a walk-off part
To play.
When you're on the stage,
And the acoustic isn't working,
And there's nothing in the script
For you to say,
And there's no-one in the audience,
You walk off.
You walk off
And you hang up your costume
For the last time.
The pantomime is over.
These days
Everyone is a priest,
Or no-one is.
And there is no felt need
For stipended creeps
In fancy dress.
Although, in certain conditions,
An out-of-work actor
In priest-costume
Can be useful
At children's parties,
Trad-style weddings,
And trad-style funerals.
And chaplains of a sort
Are still required
By educational foundations
With awkward trust deeds,
Providing that the chaplains
In question
Wear jeans,
And are educated,
Broad-minded,
Syncretistically networked,
Pastorally-oriented,
Punk-looking
Wiccans or Methodists.
Popes don't like this
Type of stuff, of course.
It doesn't suit them.
Nor does Opus Dei.
It doesn't suit them, either.
But who cares
What the wrinklies think?
These days
The church
Is a thing
Of the past;
Yesterday's bad idea;
A transient historical phenomenon
Left behind
And lying lost
On the library shelves.
These days
The church
Is the forgotten fashion
Of a few;
The idle plaything
Of a diminishing chapter
Of tenured scholars
Mining antiquity
For erudite curiosities.
Which is not to say
That the church can't be
Jolly interesting sometimes,
If you like history
And you are prepared
To suspend your disbelief.
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Religion is a terrorist behaviour
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Picture: The Art of the New Spirituality. "Terrorist" by Eugenio Merino (1).
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Can it be true?
Can it possibly be true
That religion
Is a terrorist behaviour?
Can it be true
That religion
Teaches,
Encourages
And energises
The kind of self-righteous,
Exclusive,
Spiritual fascism
Which leads to
Faith conflicts,
Crusades of slaughter
Against other religions,
God-bothered genocide,
Inquisition torture masters?
And which leads to
Settling theological quibbles
By burning books
And people
To death
On slow fires?
And which leads to
Systematic mutilation
With machetes,
And suicide bombing
Of innocent civilians
In America, Afghanistan,
Israel, Iraq,
Lebanon, England
And other less fashionable
Locations within
Human civilisation?
Can this be true?
Surely not.
Surely we must be positive
And allow for the possibility
That moderate terrorists exist,
Such as Anglicans
Who subscribe to the
Thirty Nine Articles of Religion,
And Alpha which says
That my book
Is the only book,
And all other books
Are less,
And Spring Harvest which says
That the Holy Spirit
Of spiritual fascism
Is a friend of Jesus
And must be worshipped,
And Soul Survivor which says
That its heart is to envision young people
And equip them
To move in the power of this
Sectarian Holy Spirit,
Chorleywood-style,
And Al-Qaeda which says
That Jews and Americans must die
If they don't convert on demand,
Which is a moderate position to adopt
Compared with, say,
A good, old-fashioned,
Bible-led,
Holy Spirit-led,
Torture-led
Church inquisition.
And no respectable,
Moderate,
Religious terrorist organisation,
Is training
Young terrorists,
Of course.
Let's be quite clear about that.
Can any of this possibly be true?
Don't be daft.
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I am a terrorist
Heretic unfrocked
My name is God and these are My instructions
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Can it be true?
Can it possibly be true
That religion
Is a terrorist behaviour?
Can it be true
That religion
Teaches,
Encourages
And energises
The kind of self-righteous,
Exclusive,
Spiritual fascism
Which leads to
Faith conflicts,
Crusades of slaughter
Against other religions,
God-bothered genocide,
Inquisition torture masters?
And which leads to
Settling theological quibbles
By burning books
And people
To death
On slow fires?
And which leads to
Systematic mutilation
With machetes,
And suicide bombing
Of innocent civilians
In America, Afghanistan,
Israel, Iraq,
Lebanon, England
And other less fashionable
Locations within
Human civilisation?
Can this be true?
Surely not.
Surely we must be positive
And allow for the possibility
That moderate terrorists exist,
Such as Anglicans
Who subscribe to the
Thirty Nine Articles of Religion,
And Alpha which says
That my book
Is the only book,
And all other books
Are less,
And Spring Harvest which says
That the Holy Spirit
Of spiritual fascism
Is a friend of Jesus
And must be worshipped,
And Soul Survivor which says
That its heart is to envision young people
And equip them
To move in the power of this
Sectarian Holy Spirit,
Chorleywood-style,
And Al-Qaeda which says
That Jews and Americans must die
If they don't convert on demand,
Which is a moderate position to adopt
Compared with, say,
A good, old-fashioned,
Bible-led,
Holy Spirit-led,
Torture-led
Church inquisition.
And no respectable,
Moderate,
Religious terrorist organisation,
Is training
Young terrorists,
Of course.
Let's be quite clear about that.
Can any of this possibly be true?
Don't be daft.
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I am a terrorist
Heretic unfrocked
My name is God and these are My instructions
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Preconceived idea
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A man with a small bruise
On his left knee
Is hopelessly enslaved
By a preconceived idea.
The preconceived idea
Which enslaves the man
Is the thought
That if he doesn't worship God
At least twice a year,
Once at Christmas
And once at Easter,
God will send him
To the funny farm
When he dies.
And what he will experience
At the funny farm
Will not be funny
And may very well
Not be funny
For quite a long time.
What this man doesn't know
Is that God
Does not want
To be worshipped.
God does not want
To be worshipped
Even by people
With perfectly healthy left knees.
Their knees
May be as perfectly unsullied
As the driven snow,
But the metaphysical principle
Stands undiminished:
God does not want
To be worshipped.
Think about it.
If you were God,
Would you want
To be worshipped
In a preconceived manner
By a man
With a small bruise
On his left knee
Who was in the grip
Of a funny farm fantasy?
No, of course you wouldn't.
If you were God,
You wouldn't be
That kind of
Insecure Metaprat.
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A man with a small bruise
On his left knee
Is hopelessly enslaved
By a preconceived idea.
The preconceived idea
Which enslaves the man
Is the thought
That if he doesn't worship God
At least twice a year,
Once at Christmas
And once at Easter,
God will send him
To the funny farm
When he dies.
And what he will experience
At the funny farm
Will not be funny
And may very well
Not be funny
For quite a long time.
What this man doesn't know
Is that God
Does not want
To be worshipped.
God does not want
To be worshipped
Even by people
With perfectly healthy left knees.
Their knees
May be as perfectly unsullied
As the driven snow,
But the metaphysical principle
Stands undiminished:
God does not want
To be worshipped.
Think about it.
If you were God,
Would you want
To be worshipped
In a preconceived manner
By a man
With a small bruise
On his left knee
Who was in the grip
Of a funny farm fantasy?
No, of course you wouldn't.
If you were God,
You wouldn't be
That kind of
Insecure Metaprat.
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Creator creatrix creation creature
Undead but positive
Nothing passes
Creative subversion
Prayer is breathing
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Prayer is breathing
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Picture: Prayer. Young boy says his prayers. Just breathe. Prayer is breathing.
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When you breathe
You don't say:
"I will inhale this molecule
Of air here
And that molecule
Of air there,
But under no circumstances
Will I inhale that molecule
Of air over there
On the left
Of the water cooler ....
Because that molecule
Of air over there
Is a molecule of neon
And I don't fancy
Inhaling neon
Because neon is an inert gas
And it will not contribute positively
To my respiration ....
And, anyway,
Neon is used to make flashy red lights
In Las Vegas
Which waste electricity
And therefore
Contribute to the gambling
Of greenhouse gases."
You don't say that.
You would be using
The word "molecule" incorrectly
If you said that.
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Picture: Prayer. Woman with flowers in her hair goes outdoors to pray.
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And here is something else
You don't say.
You don't say:
"I don't want –
In this particular breath –
To inhale that
Particular methane molecule
Six inches above the shredder.
I don't want that
Particular methane molecule
Mixed up with my oxygen,
Thank you very much,
Because that
Particular methane molecule
Came out of the bum of a goat
In New Zealand."
You don't say that.
Only a dumbo would say that,
Or maybe
A dipstick with attitude
Might ventilate
A similar circumlocution,
If pressed.
But you don't say it.
From the goat's point of view,
A statement such as that
Could be perceived as
Unfair discrimination
Between gases,
And bummist to boot.
So you don't say it.
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Picture: Prayer. Man breathing outdoors. Prayer is breathing.
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What you do actually say is:
"Don't say anything,
Just breathe ....
Just inhale the full,
Complicated,
Equivocal,
Munificence
Of the universe
Without judgement ....
Inflate your lungs fully
And accept the fresh air,
The whole lot,
In trust,
And stop being so silly."
That's what you say.
You don't
Say it out loud
And you don't
Articulate it consciously,
But that is what
Your vital being says.
The real you inside
Simply breathes
Without judgement
Because it is that trust
In benevolence
Which sustains
The internal essence
Of your present becoming
Now.
You know this intuitively:
Breathing is more
Than an expedient exchange of gases
For physical functioning.
Breathing is prayer;
Just do it.
Do it.
But do it better and do it more.
Breathe more deeply.
And breathe more slowly.
Switch off your brain,
Cut the crap,
Flush the religious obfuscation
Down the tubes
And do it.
Breathe.
It's the spiritual economy,
Stupid.
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Is prayer a waste of time?
What is the function of religion?
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Picture: Prayer. Woman stretching and breathing outdoors. Prayer is breathing.
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When you breathe
You don't say:
"I will inhale this molecule
Of air here
And that molecule
Of air there,
But under no circumstances
Will I inhale that molecule
Of air over there
On the left
Of the water cooler ....
Because that molecule
Of air over there
Is a molecule of neon
And I don't fancy
Inhaling neon
Because neon is an inert gas
And it will not contribute positively
To my respiration ....
And, anyway,
Neon is used to make flashy red lights
In Las Vegas
Which waste electricity
And therefore
Contribute to the gambling
Of greenhouse gases."
You don't say that.
You would be using
The word "molecule" incorrectly
If you said that.
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Picture: Prayer. Woman with flowers in her hair goes outdoors to pray.
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And here is something else
You don't say.
You don't say:
"I don't want –
In this particular breath –
To inhale that
Particular methane molecule
Six inches above the shredder.
I don't want that
Particular methane molecule
Mixed up with my oxygen,
Thank you very much,
Because that
Particular methane molecule
Came out of the bum of a goat
In New Zealand."
You don't say that.
Only a dumbo would say that,
Or maybe
A dipstick with attitude
Might ventilate
A similar circumlocution,
If pressed.
But you don't say it.
From the goat's point of view,
A statement such as that
Could be perceived as
Unfair discrimination
Between gases,
And bummist to boot.
So you don't say it.
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Picture: Prayer. Man breathing outdoors. Prayer is breathing.
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What you do actually say is:
"Don't say anything,
Just breathe ....
Just inhale the full,
Complicated,
Equivocal,
Munificence
Of the universe
Without judgement ....
Inflate your lungs fully
And accept the fresh air,
The whole lot,
In trust,
And stop being so silly."
That's what you say.
You don't
Say it out loud
And you don't
Articulate it consciously,
But that is what
Your vital being says.
The real you inside
Simply breathes
Without judgement
Because it is that trust
In benevolence
Which sustains
The internal essence
Of your present becoming
Now.
You know this intuitively:
Breathing is more
Than an expedient exchange of gases
For physical functioning.
Breathing is prayer;
Just do it.
Do it.
But do it better and do it more.
Breathe more deeply.
And breathe more slowly.
Switch off your brain,
Cut the crap,
Flush the religious obfuscation
Down the tubes
And do it.
Breathe.
It's the spiritual economy,
Stupid.
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Is prayer a waste of time?
What is the function of religion?
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Picture: Prayer. Woman stretching and breathing outdoors. Prayer is breathing.
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Novel in Burnley
A woman with tired eyes
Is reading a Jane Austen novel
In Burnley, Lancashire.
She orders a plate
Of mushy peas.
"We don't do food
At Lloyds Bank plc,"
Says the cashier.
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Casualty
A red-haired woman
With smudged makeup
Is brought into
The Royal Shropshire Hospital
In Shrewsbury.
Her head is bleeding,
One of her eyes
Is closed tight
And swollen,
And several of her teeth
Are missing.
Nurse: Name?
Woman: Patricia Alice Lampton.
Nurse: Date of birth?
Woman: 23rd September 1972.
Nurse: Married?
Woman: No. Traffic accident.
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Pumpkin candlelight
Small visitors
Unusual cloud-form over Launceston
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With smudged makeup
Is brought into
The Royal Shropshire Hospital
In Shrewsbury.
Her head is bleeding,
One of her eyes
Is closed tight
And swollen,
And several of her teeth
Are missing.
Nurse: Name?
Woman: Patricia Alice Lampton.
Nurse: Date of birth?
Woman: 23rd September 1972.
Nurse: Married?
Woman: No. Traffic accident.
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Alcuin: What do you think about praying, Flutterby? Is prayer a waste of time?
Flutterby: No, it's not. For a lot of people on your planet, perhaps for most, prayer can be a very useful spiritual exercise.
Alcuin: What is prayer?
Flutterby: Prayer is breathing.
Alcuin: Breathing?
Flutterby: Yes. Prayer is breathing.
Alcuin: What sort of breathing?
Flutterby: Slower than usual, deeper than usual, conscious breathing.
Alcuin: What? Really stretch the ribcage? Hold the breath for as long as possible?
Flutterby: No. Not that. No useful spiritual exercise involves pain, strain, endurance or unpleasantness. Just breathe a little slower than usual and a little deeper than usual. And maybe pause the breathing process for four or five seconds between each inhalation and exhalation. And while you do that, gently pay attention to the breathing process and enjoy it.
Alcuin: Enjoy it? Enjoy prayer?
Flutterby: Yes.Picture: Praying together. English girl and African boy.
Alcuin: Prayer is boring.
Flutterby: If prayer is boring, it is not prayer at all.
Alcuin: Isn't it?
Flutterby: No. Breathing is not boring. Conscious breathing is deeply refreshing.
Alcuin: Eyes shut or eyes open?
Flutterby: You decide. Do what feels best for you. Maybe close your eyes and, while you're breathing, focus your attention on the ajna centre between the eyebrows.Picture: Third eye mandala. Ajna centre. The sixth primary chakram.
Alcuin: The third eye?
Flutterby: Yes. The interdimensional eye.
Alcuin: Right. What about posture?
Flutterby: How do you mean?
Alcuin: Kneeling? Standing up? Sitting down? What is the best posture for breathing?
Flutterby: You decide. Try out a few different postures. See what works for you. See which position helps you to breathe with the greatest comfort and freedom. Sitting up straight with an absolutely vertical spine, or lying down with an absolutely horizontal spine helps a lot of people.
Alcuin: Why?
Flutterby: Because for a lot of people the human spiritual anatomy seems to function best that way.
Alcuin: The chakras and things?
Flutterby: Yes. The interdimensional portals and energy centres in the human spiritual anatomy seem to work well in those orientations.
Alcuin: Is anything which makes you breathe especially slowly or especially deeply a form of prayer?
Flutterby: You could say that. One of the reasons why lots of sex is good for you is that it makes you breathe more and it makes you breathe deeply and it makes you breathe better. And the same thing goes for exercise and laughing and singing.
Alcuin: What should we think about when we are prayer-breathing?
Flutterby: Think about as little as possible, I would say. Just enter the process peacefully and become the breathing itself.
Alcuin: Isn't that a bit passive?
Flutterby: You could say that, yes. But prayer is not what we do to God. Prayer is what God does to us.
Picture: Ask and you will receive. St Germain. I AM the Ascension in the Light.
You always get that which you ask for if you ask for it with your Soul instead of your senses.
If you ask in words alone, you will not receive what you ask for because you have not asked God for it - you have asked your senses for it.
When, however, you have actually written your desire into your heartbeat, as some have automatically done all their lives, from moment to moment, you unfailingly acquire the knowledge you ask for.
It comes to you in a timeless flash, in the rhythmic language of Light which God uses to talk to His children.
Violinio Germain
Source: here (07.12 .93). Bible link here. And more about St Germain can be found here and here.
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Shamanic drumming - a form of prayer
An essay by Jim Ewing
Picture: Prayer. Young boy and his dog say their prayers.
Give it a try
Prayer is breathing
A Prayer for the New Age
Meditation - the direct encounter
Why is church so serious?
How is religion?
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Picture: Is prayer a waste of time?
Alcuin: What do you think about praying, Flutterby? Is prayer a waste of time?
Flutterby: No, it's not. For a lot of people on your planet, perhaps for most, prayer can be a very useful spiritual exercise.
Alcuin: What is prayer?
Flutterby: Prayer is breathing.
Alcuin: Breathing?
Flutterby: Yes. Prayer is breathing.
Alcuin: What sort of breathing?
Flutterby: Slower than usual, deeper than usual, conscious breathing.
Alcuin: What? Really stretch the ribcage? Hold the breath for as long as possible?
Flutterby: No. Not that. No useful spiritual exercise involves pain, strain, endurance or unpleasantness. Just breathe a little slower than usual and a little deeper than usual. And maybe pause the breathing process for four or five seconds between each inhalation and exhalation. And while you do that, gently pay attention to the breathing process and enjoy it.
Alcuin: Enjoy it? Enjoy prayer?
Flutterby: Yes.Picture: Praying together. English girl and African boy.
Alcuin: Prayer is boring.
Flutterby: If prayer is boring, it is not prayer at all.
Alcuin: Isn't it?
Flutterby: No. Breathing is not boring. Conscious breathing is deeply refreshing.
Alcuin: Eyes shut or eyes open?
Flutterby: You decide. Do what feels best for you. Maybe close your eyes and, while you're breathing, focus your attention on the ajna centre between the eyebrows.Picture: Third eye mandala. Ajna centre. The sixth primary chakram.
Alcuin: The third eye?
Flutterby: Yes. The interdimensional eye.
Alcuin: Right. What about posture?
Flutterby: How do you mean?
Alcuin: Kneeling? Standing up? Sitting down? What is the best posture for breathing?
Flutterby: You decide. Try out a few different postures. See what works for you. See which position helps you to breathe with the greatest comfort and freedom. Sitting up straight with an absolutely vertical spine, or lying down with an absolutely horizontal spine helps a lot of people.
Alcuin: Why?
Flutterby: Because for a lot of people the human spiritual anatomy seems to function best that way.
Alcuin: The chakras and things?
Flutterby: Yes. The interdimensional portals and energy centres in the human spiritual anatomy seem to work well in those orientations.
Alcuin: Is anything which makes you breathe especially slowly or especially deeply a form of prayer?
Flutterby: You could say that. One of the reasons why lots of sex is good for you is that it makes you breathe more and it makes you breathe deeply and it makes you breathe better. And the same thing goes for exercise and laughing and singing.
Alcuin: What should we think about when we are prayer-breathing?
Flutterby: Think about as little as possible, I would say. Just enter the process peacefully and become the breathing itself.
Alcuin: Isn't that a bit passive?
Flutterby: You could say that, yes. But prayer is not what we do to God. Prayer is what God does to us.
Picture: Ask and you will receive. St Germain. I AM the Ascension in the Light.
You always get that which you ask for if you ask for it with your Soul instead of your senses.
If you ask in words alone, you will not receive what you ask for because you have not asked God for it - you have asked your senses for it.
When, however, you have actually written your desire into your heartbeat, as some have automatically done all their lives, from moment to moment, you unfailingly acquire the knowledge you ask for.
It comes to you in a timeless flash, in the rhythmic language of Light which God uses to talk to His children.
Violinio Germain
Source: here (07.12 .93). Bible link here. And more about St Germain can be found here and here.
................................................................
Shamanic drumming - a form of prayer
An essay by Jim Ewing
Picture: Prayer. Young boy and his dog say their prayers.
Give it a try
Prayer is breathing
A Prayer for the New Age
Meditation - the direct encounter
Why is church so serious?
How is religion?
The unwisdom of belief
Index of blog contents
What is the answer?
What is the answer?
What is the solution?
Perhaps there is no answer.
Perhaps there is no solution.
Perhaps there is just the question
And the laughter
And we must simply content ourselves
With the interrogative process
Of becoming.
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The libraries do not fool us
Meditation - the direct encounter
What is the population of the universe?
The unwisdom of belief
Index of blog contents
Spirituality websites worth watching
What is the solution?
Perhaps there is no answer.
Perhaps there is no solution.
Perhaps there is just the question
And the laughter
And we must simply content ourselves
With the interrogative process
Of becoming.
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The libraries do not fool us
Meditation - the direct encounter
What is the population of the universe?
The unwisdom of belief
Index of blog contents
Spirituality websites worth watching
Aquarian elf girl
The elf angel of Ardingly
In West Sussex,
Is sixteen years old,
Smells of flowers
And looks like liquid sex
In jeans.
Her voice sounds like
A fairy bell
Heard behind waterfalls.
She doesn't walk;
She flows
Sinuously
Like a reed
In the breeze,
Too slim for friction.
Her coursework
Is averagely badly written,
And she wears her school tie
Unacceptably loose.
She doesn't use a mobile phone,
Or an iPod,
Doesn't watch television,
Won't eat meat
Or anything cooked
In a microwave oven,
And she sleeps
Ten hours a day,
Next to a basket of crystals,
Saying that that is her main work:
She has dreams to look after.
But notice her eyes.
What colour are they today?
Look at her eyes
When she is sitting
Next to her mother.
Her eyes are older
Than her mother's,
But they dance more.
Her lifestream is old,
Yet young,
Experienced,
Yet forever fresh.
A few boys have kissed her,
And many girls.
And they all say the same thing:
Her lips flutter
Like eyelashes,
Her tongue darts
Like a lizard,
And she tastes of Jellybabies
With a hint of lemon
And something else.
It is the something else
Which people remember,
And it is the something else
Which people look forward to.
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Teen issues
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Kristianne Wych Christian Wicca
A dream is a portal
Small visitors
Toenails
Private collection
Never settle down
Mermaid
Unusual cloud-form over Launceston
A new scripture shortly to be published
I am the Moon
More Norfolk koans
Index of blog contents
In West Sussex,
Is sixteen years old,
Smells of flowers
And looks like liquid sex
In jeans.
Her voice sounds like
A fairy bell
Heard behind waterfalls.
She doesn't walk;
She flows
Sinuously
Like a reed
In the breeze,
Too slim for friction.
Her coursework
Is averagely badly written,
And she wears her school tie
Unacceptably loose.
She doesn't use a mobile phone,
Or an iPod,
Doesn't watch television,
Won't eat meat
Or anything cooked
In a microwave oven,
And she sleeps
Ten hours a day,
Next to a basket of crystals,
Saying that that is her main work:
She has dreams to look after.
But notice her eyes.
What colour are they today?
Look at her eyes
When she is sitting
Next to her mother.
Her eyes are older
Than her mother's,
But they dance more.
Her lifestream is old,
Yet young,
Experienced,
Yet forever fresh.
A few boys have kissed her,
And many girls.
And they all say the same thing:
Her lips flutter
Like eyelashes,
Her tongue darts
Like a lizard,
And she tastes of Jellybabies
With a hint of lemon
And something else.
It is the something else
Which people remember,
And it is the something else
Which people look forward to.
..................................
Teen issues
..................................
Kristianne Wych Christian Wicca
A dream is a portal
Small visitors
Toenails
Private collection
Never settle down
Mermaid
Unusual cloud-form over Launceston
A new scripture shortly to be published
I am the Moon
More Norfolk koans
Index of blog contents
Sympathetic help for unacceptably fat women
This blog has long supported the plight of obese persons of the female gender living in Germany and America.
Some of these women are the victims of passive fatness. On the bus to work they watch other women scoffing chocolate bars and cream cakes, they inhale too deeply, and before they know where they are they find themselves wolfing down unwanted chocolate bars and cream cakes themselves.
But other women are gratuitous, wanton, self-inflicted fatties. They have adopted a militant, fattist, anti-man lifestyle. They luxuriate in the epithet "fat slag". They meet at secret, single-sex cholesterol parties solely with the intention of achieving an adipose high.
They patronise dress shops which use curtain material and stage hangings for ball gowns. They indulge in deep Rabelaisian laughter which makes them wobble all over.
They walk around with pink wheelbarrows supporting their bellies. They emit a pungent odour of whale grease and burnt tires.
Persons of this second kind cannot be tolerated by a civilised and caring society. We urge the United Nations and the World Health Organisation to take preventive action.
We do not advocate the mass culling of female fatties as some are doing, but it is important that a fair and transparent international flab tax be levied on those of female gender whose expanded dimensions have become an eyesore to people of sensitivity and discrimination.
This blog has never ducked the issue of female size. We have always addressed the matter in a focussed and scientific manner. Some examples of our research are linked below.
Eating disorder
Lose weight feel great
Seven toffee doughnuts
Strong decision
Blue mouthwash
Lent in the open ocean
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