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Your spirit and info are much appreciated.
However, I do have concern about the energy efficient light bulbs;
at least the ones that are presently being made...
they are contaminated with mercury... It's on the label...
Johnny Helms (Chet Helms' younger brother
peace be upon him)
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The Coming Peace
Message from Prime Source: Children of Light throughout my creation, I want to prepare you for what will soon come. We are now close to achieving peace. This peace will last forever and ever, through all millennia.
Your efforts will help all creation as we begin a new era. We will soon forget about what has occurred these past thousands of years, and only look forward to the future.
My children, now is the time to be who you truly are. Live your life in Love and Light. Let your Light so shine that others will follow me. Spread Love to all my children.
Bryan James.
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If you want to prove the existence of Goddess, look down at your feet. You are standing on Her.
Why do you think people throughout the ages, before history to now, have always bowed their heads in reverence instead of looking up at the sky?
Our very Beings know the truth.
luv
Deborah. Liverpool.
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firethegrid
Dear Fraser,
You will like this. www.firethegrid.com
The story of how this woman survived a fatal car crash with her 4yo son, and then brought him back to life by following instructions from "beings of light", who are now instructing her to organise a similar lifesaving exercise for our planet earth on july 17 at 11:11gmt.
Hope you publish it!
Nicole, Brighton, UK
UP! Hinduism: This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them
do unto you. Mahabharata 5,1517
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Get UP! Stand Up For Your Rights! (and everybody else's too of course! :)
u can't understand the world without innerstanding yourself
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u cant innerstand yourself without understanding the world
Get UP! And Don't Give Up The Fight! (only we don't mean violence, ok? :)
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contents...
p.03 "sun21" lands in new york! // Solar Power at Half the Cost // Reach High And Try And Catch The Wind!
p.04 PROOF Bees ARE Dying From GM?
p.06 The Self-Impeaching President
p.07 Our Moral Obligation to LOSE The War
p.09 Michael Moore's "Sicko" For Cannes!
p.09 ecotherapy section - some health professional telling you to take all these drugs? // just laffing would do u more good :) // Is A Country Walk Better Than Prozac? // Gurdjieff On Drugs
p.13 The Hippies Were Right!// FEEDBACK
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"sun21" Makes Historic Arrival In NYC!
Using solar power only, the catamaran "sun21," developed and sponsored by the Swiss transatlantic21 Association, has just undertaken the first solar-motorised crossing of the Atlantic to promote the great potential of this technology for ocean navigation. The "sun21" made its historic arrival into New York's North Cove Marina at 3:00pm on 8 May 2007, 3 pm, having covered about 7000 sea miles.
On this beautiful day the "sun21" crew was happy to have completed the first transatlantic crossing with a solar powered boat.
"sun21" serves as the shining example of clean energy applications in practice. Michel Thonney, its skipper, put it like this: "I don't particularly like speeches but I would like to shout out to the world - use solar energy!"
http://www.transatlantic21.org/
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Solar Power at Half the Cost
A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic material could make solar power in residential and commercial applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years.
[Technology Review May 11, 2007]
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Reach High And Try And Catch The Wind!
by Keay Davidson
Scientists are eyeing the jet stream, an energy source that rages night and day, 365 days a year, just a few miles above our heads. If they can tap into its fierce winds, they say the world's entire electrical needs could be met.
The trick is figuring out how to harness the energy and get it down to the ground cost-effectively and safely.
Dozens of researchers in California and around the world believe huge kite-like wind-power generators could be the solution. As bizarre as that might seem, respected experts say the idea is sound enough to justify further investigation.
The jet stream typically blows from west to east 6 to 9 miles over the northern hemisphere at speeds up to 310 mph.
By lofting generators into the upper atmosphere, scientists theorise, they could capture the power of the jet stream and transmit the electricity along cables back to Earth.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/07/MNGNEPMD801.DTL
UP! Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Udana-Varga
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PROOF Bees ARE Dying From GM?
'We are playing about with genetic structures that existed for millions of years, and the experiment is running out of control.'
Research by a leading German zoologist has shown that genes used to genetically modify crops can jump the species barrier, newspapers reported on Sunday. A 3-year study by Professor Hans-Heinrich Kaatz at the University of Jena found that the gene used to modify oil-seed rape had transferred to bacteria living inside honey bees. The findings undermine claims by the biotech industry that genes cannot spread.
They will also increase pressure on farmers across Europe to destroy fields of oil-seed rape contaminated with GM seeds. In an interview for The Observer newspaper, Kaatz said: "I have found the herbicide-resistant genes in the rapeseed transferred across to the bacteria and yeast inside the intestines of young bees. This happened rarely, but it did happen."
The Observer said Kaatz was reluctant to talk about his work until it is officially published and reviewed by fellow scientists. The reports come a day after Britain's Agriculture Minister Nick Brown urged farmers to destroy crops contaminated with genetically modified seeds. Up to 600 farmers in Britain are believed to have inadvertently planted more than 30,000 acres of oilseed rape contaminated with GM rape seeds, supplied by Anglo-Dutch seed company Advanta. Similar crops have been planted elsewhere in Europe, including in France, Germany and Sweden. The French and Swedish governments have already announced they are ordering the uprooting of the crops.
The research is highly significant because it suggests that all types of bacteria could become contaminated by genes used in genetically modified technology, including those that live inside the human digestive system. If this happened, it could have an impact on the bacteria's vital role in helping the human body fight disease, aid digestion and facilitate blood clotting.
Agriculture Minister Nick Brown confirmed the potential significance of Kaatz's research. He said: 'If this is true, then it would be very serious.'
The 47-year-old Kaatz's reluctance to talk about his research until it has been published in a scientific journal is because he fears a backlash from the scientific community similar to that faced by Dr Arpad Pustzai, who claimed that genetically modified potatoes damaged the stomach lining of rats and was sacked and discredited.
Dr Mae-Wan Ho, geneticist at Open University and a critic of GM technology, has no doubts about the dangers. She said: 'These findings are very worrying and provide the first real evidence of what many have feared. Everybody is keen to exploit GM technology, but nobody is looking at the risk of horizontal gene transfer.
'We are playing about with genetic structures that existed for millions of years and the experiment is running out of control.' One of the biggest concerns is if the anti-biotic resistant gene used in some GM crops crossed over to bacteria. 'If this happened it would leave us unable to treat major illnesses like meningitis and E coli .'
Kaatz, who works at the respected Institute for Bee Research at the University of Jena in Germany, built nets in a field planted with genetically modified rapeseed produced by AgrEvo. He let the bees fly freely within the net. At the beehives, he installed pollen traps in order to sample the pollen from the bees' hind legs when entering the hive. This pollen was fed to young honey bees in the laboratory. Pollen is the natural diet of young bees, which need a high protein diet. Kaatz then extracted the intestine of the young bees and discovered that the gene from the GM rape-seed had been transferred in the bee gut to the microbes.
http://rense.com/general76/gent.htm
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An Organic View On Colony Collapse Disorder
I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse disorder (CCD).
The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.
>> yes, this is one of the most scary things i've discovered since tracking the Great Bee Disaster - how they truck whole colonies around the country.
And yet, though most of us beekeepers are fighting with the Varroa mites, I'm happy to say that I don't have any such problems. WHY?
It's mostly because I've gone to natural sized cells. In case you weren't aware, and I wasn't for a long time, the foundation in common usage results in much larger bees than what you would find in a natural hive. I've measured sections of natural worker brood combs that are 4.6mm in diameter. What most people use for worker brood is 5.4mm in diameter. If you translate that into 3 dimensions instead of 1, it produces a bee that is about half as large again as is natural.
On the other hand, by letting the bees build natural sized cells, I have virtually eliminated my Varroa and Tracheal mite problems. One cause of this is shorter capping times by one day, and shorter post-capping times by one day. This means less Varroa get into the cells, and less Varroa reproduce in the cells.
Why should anyone be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just like the beef industry, and all the rest. And, have we here a solution to the vanishing bee problem?
Although a not uncommonly held opinion is that, since this new pattern of bee colony collapse seems to have struck from out of the blue, there must be a triggering agent, it is more likely that some biological limit in the bees has been crossed. There is no shortage of evidence that we have been fast approaching this limit for some time.
We've been pushing them too hard, Dr. Peter Kevan, an associate professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, told the CBC. And we're starving them out by feeding them artificially, and by moving them great distances. Given the stress commercial bees are under, Kevan suggests CCD might be caused by parasitic mites, or long cold winters, or long wet springs, or pesticides, or genetically modified crops. Maybe it's all of the above...
UP! Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them;
for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:1
The Self-Impeaching President
Now Needs Help From We the People
by Steve Bhaerman aka Swami Beyondananda
At the beginning of the year, I wrote an article on the "Self-Impeaching President" suggesting that George Bush seemed incapable of any flexibility and would inevitably isolate himself beyond right field. I also suggested that impeachment was rightly "off the table" as part of a partisan movement, but would be "on the table" when a critical mass of people understood how intractably criminal this Administration was and is.
The formerly uncritical masses are about to reach critical mass as the realisation sinks in just how different this regime is from anything America has experienced up until now. In any democratic government anywhere in the world, Gonzales would be "gone." He'd have tendered his resignation for the good of the country, the party and the President. But not here, and not now. This Administration plans to barricade itself behind the stonewall. They are challenging the people to bring down the wall, and now it's time to face that challenge.
If we are successful in "overgrowing" this regime through a non-violent evolution restoring we the people to power, we will stand as an inspiration to the entire world. INDEED, THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE THE GENUINE MORAL AUTHORITY THAT COMES FROM LEADING BY EXAMPLE.
We might actually be able to coax democracy around the world from the grassroots up instead of trying to enforce mockracy from the top down.
MoveOn.org is now officially soliciting views from their membership regarding impeaching our current misleadership. Please go here and voice your choice: http://pol.moveon.org/bushsurvey/a.html?id=10229-4599041-uA6iZW&t=1
Please send it along to others too.
The Democrats won't do it without pressure from below, the press is still acting as if this Administration is legitimate, so the only way we can restore our republic is through grassroots action.
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Carter Attacks Blair's Iraq Role
Ex President Jimmy Carter has criticised outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the BBC for his "blind" support of the war in Iraq. He described Mr Blair's backing for George W Bush as "apparently subservient".
He said the UK's "almost undeviating" support for "the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq had been a major tragedy for the world".
Had Mr Blair distanced himself from the Bush policy during the run-up to the 2003 invasion it might have made a crucial difference to American political and public opinion.
"One of the defences of the Bush administration... has been, okay, we must be more correct in our actions than the world thinks because Great Britain is backing us.
"So I think the combination of Bush and Blair giving their support to this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened the effort, made the opposition less effective, prolonged the war, and increased the tragedy that has resulted."
The war had "caused deep schisms on a global basis", he said, and he hoped Mr Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, would be less enthusiastic in his support for it.
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Our Moral Obligation to LOSE The War
by Robert Shetterly
Every act has moral and immoral potential.
The immense immorality of the choice to attack Iraq, and to base that choice in lies, propaganda, and fear is hardly news now. But the fact that, above all else, it was a moral choice means that another moral choice is possible. And only one choice would atone for the original.
This war will not end until the funding is cut off. Anyone who'd continue the funding to “support the troops” is really telling you that, once you make a moral mistake, keep making it, and that those who pay with their blood for your mistake are grateful for the support. Such logic is also somehow maintaining that policy is made by soldiers, not by the people, the Congress and the President.
None of the offered plans now before us to de-escalate the war disavow what we all know to be its original goals - control of Iraq's oil and the building of large, permanent US military bases in Iraq. Nor do any of these bills address the central issue of accountability, the fact that this war is a war crime, a crime against our democracy, our Constitution, the Iraqi people, international law, and our own soldiers. Without accountability, our democracy is meaningless. Without moral action, our claim to integrity and respect are meaningless.
Our obligation as citizens is not to play political games with the Democrats or Republicans to help them re-position for the next election. Our obligation is to demand that the laws and ideals of this country be upheld. The Iraq War problem is not that we are losing it and need a better strategy. It's that we have no moral right to win it! As bad as the colossal mismanagement, greed and corruption are, they are not the true issue. Betrayal of the public trust is the issue. Pre-meditated murder is the issue.
The only good that may come from this disgraceful time in our history will be the honest acknowledgement of how and why the country was misled, followed by punishment for those responsible. Without that justice, we will learn nothing and be easy prey for the next abuse of power.
It's horrible to think that our soldiers have died and been injured in vain. However, if we demand accountability, demand impeachment, something honest will have been redeemed. All that blood may form the bulwark against future abuse. In a sense freedom will have been won, democracy will have been affirmed, justice will have been established - here.
No one can tell what will happen when the US withdraws - though many did predict the chaos of insurgency & sectarianism. But whatever happens, it will be made easier if we involve international peacekeepers, remove our bases, forego any claim to the oil, and pay reparations.
>> which, of course, the UP! has been promulgating for the last 3 years.
The war is and will continue to be a moral/legal catastrophe. But since we precipitated it, we can't pretend we want to protect the Iraqis from it! We can't. We're the cause of it.
This administration has acted from a position that denigrates human rights, legal rights, moral rights, privacy, civil, women's, environmental, worker's and children's rights. Our only hope is to demand our rights, our rights as citizens, our rights to our ideals, our rights to a sense of morality.
The destruction of a small village in Vietnam was once explained away by our military as a village that had to be destroyed in order to save it. That perversity became symbolic of the entire war. Accurately. the War on Iraq should now be described as a war that must be lost in order to save America. That is our moral obligation.
>> and george bush will have made this moral evolution possible!!!
thankyou, george. now here, let me give u a hand onto the Fossil Shelf.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/10/1106/
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>> i agree totally with this document. i'd go much further. the best hope for the planet (meaning everyone) right now is that the Dino Elite fails totally and is seen to fail totally by the whole planet. their dino presence must be removed from planetary culture forever. the human species can no longer afford such attitudes & behaviour. they must be forced from the stage in MAXIMUM SHAME.
UP! Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah
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Michael Moore's "Sicko" For Cannes!
It's a wrap! Mike's new film, "Sicko," will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. As with "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," it's been chosen to screen there.
Mike's intention was to keep "Sicko" under wraps before its premiere in Cannes, and he's been very silent about what he's been up to. In part, that's because he was working very hard to complete the film, but his silence was also because “I knew that the health care industry - which makes up 15%+ of America's GDP - was not going to like much of what they were going to see in this movie and I thought it best not to upset them any sooner than need be.”
Well, going quietly to Cannes was not to be. For some strange reason, on May 2nd, the Bush administration initiated an action over how Mike obtained some of the content they believe is in his film. Since none of them have actually seen the film (or so he hopes!), they clearly decided, unlike with "Fahrenheit 9/11," not to wait until the film was too far down the road to begin their attack.
This pre-emptive action by the Bush administration on the eve of the "Sicko" premiere concerns a trip he took to Cuba to film scenes involving a group of 9/11 rescue workers suffering from illnesses obtained from work at Ground Zero who have received little or no help with their health care from the government. It led Mike's attorneys to fear for the safety of the film, noting that Bush's Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, may try to claim that the content of the movie was obtained through a violation of the US trade embargo and travel laws that prohibit average citizens from travelling to Cuba. (Since the law does not prohibit anyone from exercising their first amendment right of a free press, documentaries are protected works of journalism.)
“All I've done is violate the modern-day rule of journalism” complains an incredulous Mike Moore, “The one that says Ask no questions of those in power or your luncheon privileges will be revoked."
A dissection of the U.S. health-care system, "Sicko" was inspired by a segment on Moore's TV show "The Awful Truth," in which he staged a mock funeral outside a health-maintenance organisation that had declined a pancreas transplant for a diabetic man. The HMO later relented.
At last September's Toronto International Film Festival, Moore previewed footage shot for "Sicko", presenting stories of personal health-care nightmares. One scene showed a woman who was denied payment for an ambulance ride after a head-on collision because it was not pre-approved.
The timing of the investigation is reminiscent of the firestorm that preceded the Cannes debut of "Fahrenheit 9/11," which won the festival's top prize in 2004. The Walt Disney Co. refused to let subsidiary Miramax release the film because of its political content, prompting Miramax bosses Harvey and Bob Weinstein to release "Fahrenheit 9/11" on their own.
The Weinsteins later left Miramax to form the Weinstein Co., which is releasing "Sicko".
MichaelMoore.com.
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ecotherapy section
some health professional telling you u gotta
chemical imbalance and need to take these drugs?
check this shocking truth -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30iwhEw9ho
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just laffing would do u more good :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp-oJhBxn6oup!
or a walk in the park?
Is A Country Walk Better Than Prozac?
by Patrick Barkham/The Guardian
The walkers I passed looked deliriously happy despite foul weather. They were probably sniggering at my jogging style, but research for the charity Mind has found that people do feel less depressed after a country walk.
A stroll in a park increased self-esteem in 90% of a group of people suffering from depression and 71% reported decreased levels of depression. After a walk through a shopping centre, 44% said their self-esteem had dropped, and 22% felt more depressed.
Yet more anti-depressant prescriptions than ever were issued in the UK last year. Mind wants the medical establishment to instead consider "ecotherapy", restoring health through contact with nature, such as exercise in a "green" setting, working on farms or structured contact with animals.
"It is a credible, clinically valid treatment option," says Mind's chief executive, Paul Farmer. "The debate needs to be broadened."
Scientific research is clear on the health benefits of nature. US scientists found that hospital patients with a view of greenery recover more quickly than those who can only see buildings. The UK government's chief medical officer said in a report that "physical activity is effective in the treatment of clinical depression and can be as successful as psychotherapy or medication."
More than 31 million anti-depressant prescriptions were issued in the UK last year.
Won't patients feel fobbed off if their GP tells them to get some exercise? Jules Pretty, professor of environment and society at Essex University, believes doctors could prescribe a structured daily "lifestyle plan". "Taking pills seems easier," he says, "but shouldn't we be thinking not just about 'silver bullet' solutions?"
>> see video above. no psychiatric 'disease' has EVER been solved by modern psychiatry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2079610,00.html
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and you know something? whenever someone tells me that this new kinda marijuana causes mild schizophrenia i reply: well what do u think a stint in iraq does?”
Pentagon Survey Exposes Deep Demoralisation
Of Us Occupation Troops
Support for torture, routine abuse of Iraqi civilians
by Kate Randall
With the US war in Iraq in its 5th year, more than a third of the American soldiers deployed there condone the torture of captured Iraqis. When torture could result in coerced information, 36%/39% of soldiers/marines support it. And when torture is seen as preventing the death of a fellow soldier, that rises to 41%/44%.
And it's all in a Pentagon report on the mental health of US troops deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). The Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) report surveyed 1,320 soldiers and 447 marines between August and October 2006. The survey data was issued internally on November 17, but was only made public last Friday, a month after tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan were extended from 12 months to 15 months.
>> the post Dinosaur era we have now entered will be plagued by this karma for a generation :(
Depression, anxiety, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder, marital problems and suicide, these mental health and personal problems are shown to directly influence the attitudes US soldiers hold toward the Iraqi population - resulting in increasing levels of terror and brutality meted out to civilians.
“Should All Non-Combatants Be Treated With Dignity And Respect?”
Less than half of soldiers agreed. Close to a third reported they had insulted or cursed at non-combatants. 12%/9% of marines/soldiers said they had unnecessarily damaged or destroyed Iraqi property; 7%/9% marines/soldiers said they had physically hit or kicked civilians.
Taken together, these figures reveal literally hundreds of thousands of abusive incidents by US troops, humiliating and beating civilians, destroying their homes and inflicting outright torture. Since the self-reporting of such sadistic and illegal activity must substantially underestimate the real scope of the violence and cruelty, this report helps explain the broad popular support in Iraq for armed resistance to US forces.
That the majority of 170,000 American troops now deployed in Iraq believe Iraqi men, women and children have no right to be treated “with dignity and respect” means that the American occupation force sees the entire population as its enemy and treats it accordingly.
The Baghdad operation is sending more troops out into neighbourhoods where they face an increasingly hostile population. Almost every soldier interviewed by the MHAT survey in 2006 reported being shot at by snipers, and more than three quarters reported being in situations where they thought they could be seriously injured or killed. This can only be increasing under the “surge,” with corresponding violence against civilians.
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Gurdjieff On Drugs
“There is another question which interests me very much” I said. “There are substances which yogis take to induce certain states. Might these not be, in certain cases, narcotics? I have myself carried out a number of experiments in this direction and everything I have read about magic proves to me quite clearly that all schools at all times and in all countries have made a very wide use of narcotics for the creation of those states which make 'magic' possible.”
“Yes” said G. “In many cases these substances are those which you call 'narcotics'. But they can be used in entirely different ways. There are schools which make use of them in the right way. People in these schools take them for self-study, in order to take a look ahead, to know their possibilities better, to see beforehand what can be attained later as the result of prolonged sell-work. When a man sees this and is convinced that what he has learned theoretically really exists, he then works consciously, he knows where he is going. Sometimes this is the easiest way of being convinced of the real existence of those possibilities which man often suspects in himself.
“There is a special chemistry relating to this. There are particular substances for each function. Each function can either be strengthened or weakened, awakened or put to sleep. But to do this a great knowledge of the human machine and of this special chemistry is necessary. In all of these schools which make use of this method experiments are carried out only when they are really necessary and only under the direction of experienced and competent men who can foresee all results and adopt measures against any possible undesirable circumstances.
“The substances used in these schools are not merely 'narcotics' as you call them, although many of them are prepared from such drugs as opium, hashish and so on.
”Besides schools in which such experiments are carried out, there are other schools which use these or similar substances, not for experiment or study, but to attain definite desired results, if only for a short time. Through a skilful use of such substances a man can be made very clever or very strong, for a certain time. Afterwards, of course, he dies or goes mad, but that is not taken into consideration. Such schools also exist. So you see that we must speak very cautiously about schools. They may do practically the same things but the results will be quite different.”
I was deeply interested in everything G said. I felt in it some new points of view, unlike any I had met with before.
[P.D.Ouspensky: 'In Search Of The Miraculous.']
UP! Confucianism: Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state. Analects 12:2
Bring back the warp. sweet memories of sunday morning with our little one mesmerised by it all.
Thanks for all the UP!s they are always a fascinating read.
Love , light peace & JOY
vini, bristol, uk
UP! Taoism: Regard your neighbour's gain as your gain, and your neighbour's loss as your own loss. Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien
The Hippies Were Right!// FEEDBACK
Of course the 'hippies' were right. The hippy movement started with intellectuals, scientists and artists on university campuses around the world. It stands to reason they would have been ahead of their time.
David Bosankoe, Big Sur, California.
>> u make it sound so simple. so wot were those 2 decades of sneering and put downs about? the digestion process? yeah, right!
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Fuck that! - THE HIPPIES ARE RIGHT! and you know it - so get over it and on with it......
dj lookwood, london.
>> heh heh quite right. thanks.
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love your obsession/compassion. don't giv up da fight - u know u totally right.
luv u always.
kaz, brixton. xxxxxxxx
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YEAH! TESTIFY!!!
johnnyfaith, chicago.
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We found a book put out by the Department of Health and Human Services called Correlates and Consequences of Marijuana, with about 100 government studies on the 'erb. The studies find there's a certain personality type that's more likely to smoke marijuana, [someone] who's creative, broad-minded, fun, smart, literate, usually college-bound.
Debbie Goldsberry, Cannabis Action Network, Almora, UP, India.
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Nice try, Fraser.
I too old to have been a hippie and too young to have been a beatnik. Learned organic eating/gardening from my granduncle, from my mother et al. People old enough to have had kin who lived through the "dirty thirties" had to learn about "making do" (aka re-use, recycle, etc) and anyone who survived the oil crunch back in the 1970s knows we need better cheaper faster public transit far more than we need "more energy efficient" cars.
But if what you're saying is we need a new kind of "cultural revolution" based on so-called "hip" thinking, I'd have to agree.
Even the US Army is starting to compost. And the Tucson AZ Sunday paper ran an article saying that we could feed the whole world if we'd support organic farming globally rather than mega-agribusiness.
cello, virginia.
UP! Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing to another whatsoever is not good for itself. Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5
flow of propaganda?// FEEDBACK
Dear UP,
I too have received "anti-muslim" spam, and worse, visited the "military" websites to see how those guys - or their PR directors - think. And I saw what can only be called "snuff porn" featuring Marines blowing away Iraqi women and children.
On one hand, there are "Jews" like myself, Bill Blum, Norman Solomon etc. who are about as "Jewish" as they are "Buddhist" or whatever;
>> yeah, like i'm a scottish presbyterian, right.
that is, they were born of Jewish parents and considered, usually by Zionists and Nazis, to be "Jews." Same with Xtians and any other "religion." But while I know for a fact that writers like myself, Blum, Solomon etc. prove that "not all Jews are Zionists," this remains so only on the web or in leftist political circles. If I had "followed the path laid out by me" like the doctors, lawyers and accountants I grew up with, I would be, I assume, "Israel Uber Alles."
So, one point I've always argued against, that "most Jews" support Israel, no matter what crimes it commits, might actually be true. Besides the fact that I'm not really "Jewish" in that I'm an atheist who knows no Hebrew and hasn't been in a Synagogue since my enforced Bar Mitzvah - they literally threatened me with Military School if I didn't knuckle under to Authority - those upper-middle-class to wealthy "former classmates" of mine are probably no more "god fearing" than I am. Their "religion" is Israel. That's a sobering and alienating realization. But from what I've seen, it's true...
Adam. New York.
UP! Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary. Talmud, Shabbat 3id
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Niall McDevitt, London.
>> luvvit! :D
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