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  • Flouride and the Pineal Gland Mystery

    Flouride and the Pineal Gland Mystery

    Water fluoridation Indictment

    Fluoride in the water, is charged with attempted murder of the pineal gland, by calcification. Fluoride is very harmful to the pineal gland, because it disrupts the pineal gland’s natural functions by hardening its interior walls. Fluoride is also very toxic to the brain and other organs of the body, as NootropicsInfo says.

    Gray's Anatomy of the Pineal Gland
    Reproduction of a lithograph plate from Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body, originally published in 1918 and therefore lapsed into the public domain.

    The fluoride used for treating drinking water is not the natural calcium fluoride found in nature; rather, it is the synthetic industrial version, which is known as sodium fluoride. The natural version of fluoride (calcium fluoride) is not that harmful to us. It is usually found in the soil and spring water in very small quantities. The synthetic version of fluoride (sodium fluoride) is a hazardous waste containing very toxic chemicals.

    Pituitary and Pineal Glands
    Pituitary and Pineal Glands

    The pineal gland, also known as the pineal body, conarium or epiphysis cerebri, is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain. It produces the serotonin derivative melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of sleep patterns in the circadian rhythms and seasonal functions. Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located in the epithalamus, near the centre of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join.

    The gland has been compared to the photoreceptive parietal eye present in the epithalamus of some animal species, which is also called the pineal eye or the third eye. The secretory activity of the pineal gland is only partially understood. Its location deep in the brain suggested to philosophers throughout history that it possesses particular importance. This combination led to its being regarded as a “mystery” gland with mystical, metaphysical, and occult theories surrounding its perceived functions.

    [box type=”info” style=”rounded”]”Keep the pineal gland operating and you won’t grow old — you will always be young”. — Edgar Cayce[/box]

    Water fluoridation Crime Scene

    Water fluoridation is used in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and Australia, and a handful of other countries. The following nations previously fluoridated their water, but stopped the practice, with the years when water fluoridation started and stopped in parentheses:

    • Federal Republic of Germany (1952–1971)
    • Sweden (1952–1971)
    • Netherlands (1953–1976)
    • Czechoslovakia (1955–1990)
    • German Democratic Republic (1959–1990)
    • Soviet Union (1960–1990)
    • Finland (1959–1993)
    • Japan (1952–1972)

    In the United Kingdom a Strategic Health Authority can direct a water company to fluoridate the water supply in an area if it is technically possible. The strategic health authority must consult with the local community and businesses in the affected area. The water company will act as a contractor in any new schemes and cannot refuse to fluoridate the supply.

    Water fluoridation Witness

    So why have they gone to all this trouble to put a toxic chemical in our water?

    [box type=”note” style=”rounded”]Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, opposes water fluoridation. He took part in the debate in Sweden, where he helped to convince Parliament that it should be illegal due to ethics. He believes that it violates modern pharmacological principles, which indicate that medications should be tailored to individuals.[/box]

    Water fluoridation was characterized in at least one journal publication as a violation of the Nuremberg Code and the Council of Europe’s Biomedical Convention of 1999. A dentistry professor and a philosopher argued in a dentistry journal that the moral status for advocating water fluoridation is “at best indeterminate” and could even be considered immoral. They asserted that it infringes upon autonomy based on uncertain evidence, with possible negative effects.

    Reason for Conviction

    [quote]Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. ~ Sherlocke Holmes[/quote]

  • Right Brain/Left Brain Creativity

    Right Brain/Left Brain Creativity

    Recently I saw this amazing visual while surfing the web, then thought to remind myself, the next time I saw it, to stop and curate it. This series of 3 illustrations are so remarkable to me, that it came as no-surprise that they belonged to Mercedes Benz. None-the-less, I captured the wild, exotic beauties for my image collection (I love graphic art). Although in categorizing this art to post, I had to decide; mind or design?

    During another session of curating today, on the Elephant Journal (my fave of late), I stumbled on to this perfect quote ( from a German-American no-less), to go with the heisted art;

    [quote]“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” ~ Albert Einstein[/quote]

    Left Brain
    Mercedes Benz
    Right Brain

    [typography font=”Cantarell” size=”10″ size_format=”px”]Source: adsoftheworld.com[/typography]

    [quote]“Creativity takes courage. ” ~ Henri Matisse[/quote]

    My tool of choice for Curating, is the insanely creative (and free) – Evernote. The most versatile content creation tool I have ever seen, or could ever have imagined. One of my favorite things to do with Evernote, is to create a new personal journal page each day. I never thought I could enjoy keeping a digital diary, as much as I am enjoying this new habit. Just starting each day with a new clean note, then putting that date to create a new page in life, it’s like imaging that you’re the script writer and the lead role. It’s second nature to find cool stuff in the inbox, or click stuff on my social nets, plus I keep a couple Moleskines beside my keyboard, one of them is smaller and contains my on-the-fly notes and questions (also, to-do lists, names, numbers, questions and ideas). I use a pen and paper every day, to continue moving forward.

    My Mozilla Thunderbird inbox handles tens of thousands of messages per day, the software is stable even with 4 GB, from 8 email profiles, each with hundreds of folders, for (amongst other things) dozens of filtered Google Alerts. For example, every morning I get 20 story overviews about Rio de Janeiro, from all over the world. That’s just one of about a dozen News Alerts I personally filter. The creativity is made manifest by Evernote, because as the busy day flies by, I take the time to curate things from the web, add thoughts, ideas and notes, about the real things that I’m doing, what I’m eating, where I’m going, important phone calls, how many KMS I ride on my bike, how much yoga, how many minutes of language study, etc… I created a score card, with a total of 100 points, and at the end of each day I give myself a score on that day.

    [box type=”tick” style=”rounded”]I’m really liking this Evernote strategy, it’s called radical time management.[/box]

    One more thing about Evernote: The app for mobile device is the coolest thing you’ll ever see, once it’s loaded up with all the cool photos, about half of which are from my own collection (the other half are downloaded, mostly from Wiki Commons). And all the things that were happening in the past 30 days, it’s got the layout and style of a ultra-cool digital magazine. That’s a digital diary, when feb 1 comes I won’t even see those rich pages I created (each day) because they’re tucked neatly away in the folder marked “January”. It’ll be super fun to review this movie script at the end of the year. One things for sure, this is making me much more productive because each day I try to score higher. I’m so tough on myself, that with my grading system, I’ll be happy to get into the 80’s. Living each day, like it might be my last.

  • Pursuit of Happiness

    A Little Happiness

    Image via Wikipedia

    To become successful in life requires a long list of important steps, lots and lots of persistence but above all else; determination. There are several great manifestos, filled with the keys to achieving success and several thousand (or more) places where you can obtain this information, all of which is meaningless until it’s assimilated to become knowledge, then put into practice to become wisdom. This process is known as “The Pursuit of Happiness”.

    If we were to amass all that’s ever been written or spoken about happiness and then distilled it down to the purest idea, that which we could consume like a magical elixir, it would be this: the secret to success is in your mind. Now I know that may sound rather simplistic, and yes it’s been said by a thousand different people but herein lays the road-map to enlightenment – master your mind, moment by moment, and make yourself manifest your destiny.

    There’s so much more than can be said on this topic and so many ways to come to the same conclusion but anyway you slice and dice it, you’ll always come back to the same understanding. My favorite comparison of the mind, is the computer. Since the operating instructions for the applications to create happiness are default programs installed on the hard-drive (brain), and came delivered that way from the factory. It happens that sometimes we get more excited by new programs and become distracted by the gee-whiz shiny new applications, and forget the need to keep things simple.

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  • Clarity of Mind

    Sheople influenced by People Think media techniquesAs we entered this new decade at the turn of the new year, despite having every intention, for the first time since I can remember, I neglected to write a new personal mission statement. I did however read over some of what I had written to myself in the past several years. To commemorate this new year I even had in my mind the steps I was planning, to write my mission statement for 2010, complete with spreadsheets for tracking my progress. However, not a word of my mission was written until today because in my heart I could feel that something was wrong with my thinking this year, or maybe for many years.
    Over the last several weeks I became aware that I wasn’t thinking completely for myself, one of my concerns was that I had allowed myself to become comfortably numb about the world around me. Sure I’ve been distracted by things in my personal life, such as loss of family members including someone I loved who left before his time, plus my business interests had been exceptionally tumultuous and occasionally stressful, on top of all this my own creature comfort habits had reached a level bordering on obsessive compulsive but none of these things alone was what was bothering me deep inside.
    So I made a few major lifestyle modfications without even writing the new goals down, I just achieved them, almost like leaving one era of my life and entering another. Then in an attempt to understand the recurring notion that something in my life was misaligned I started consuming information at a tremendous rate, while at the same time stepped up my physical activity and exercise, reduced my food intake and eliminated all toxins. The data that I loaded in to my mind to process was very diverse and came from a broad spectrum of sources, mostly printed material, video segments and full length documentaries. Much of what I analyzed was not happy or uplifting but eventually I discovered one common nagging question I needed to answer.

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  • The Don’t Quit Poem

    When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
    When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
    When the funds are low and the debts are high,
    And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
    When care is pressing you down a bit,
    Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.

    Life is queer with its twists and turns,
    As every one of us sometimes learns,
    And many a failure turns about,
    When he might have won had he stuck it out;
    Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
    You may succeed with another blow.

    Often the goal is nearer than,
    It seems to a faint and faltering man,
    Often the struggler has given up,
    When he might have captured the victor’s cup,
    And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
    How close he was to the golden crown.

    Success is failure turned inside out–
    The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
    And you never can tell how close you are,
    It may be near when it seems so far,
    So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
    It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

    – Author unknown

  • Renovation

    I decided to take up writing on this weblog again and for no other reason than to express myself in a way that is not about making money or promoting another web project. Just purely for the sake of having a place to publish my thoughts and ideas. Also, to make use of this Domain, which I’ve always been rather fond of and to use this publishing system for practice, as well as somewhat of a “sandbox” for testing various technologies developed for Movable Type by the “open source” developer community of which I am a member.

    This weblog is actually quite old, originally started with Radio software in 2001, which is why it was named “weblog” rather than “blog” since I started using this type of communication tool before it became fashionable and before the web community adopted the name “Blogging”  – for those that keep a “Blog”. In the beginning it was more about keeping track of site development.

  • Power of Now

    Ever since I read the book “The Power of Now” I’ve become acutely aware of what my mind was thinking, I realize that for the most part it’s out of control. By that I mean thoughts and ideas are arriving from seemingly no-where then bouncing around, sometimes causing other ideas to emerge, sometimes I become conscious of these thoughts but for the most part my mind runs amok like a high-powered computer just processing random information from Wikipedia with no particular purpose or reason.  

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  • The Mastery of Intent

    In the book by Carlos Castanda about the further teachings of don Juan, a Mexican Nagual or Sorcerer who is teaching the ancient art of sorcery as passed down for thousands of years from teacher to student. The author shares the teachings of don Juan most of which are nothing more than complex and often confusing lessons of life.

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  • Evolution of Ideas

    John Perry Barlow coined the tern “cyber space” from which I embellished “cyber estate” to describe online property. He was such a pioneer JPB, so much so, as to be way out front of almost anyone else alive at the time. When he published “Economy of Ideas” it must have caused allot of confusion even amongst academia, the only place it would have been read (at first). Now all these years and quantum leaps forward his manifesto is just as valid as it was, and may always be. The most valuable assets in the new global economy are ideas.

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  • Universal Energy

    Today I was running a few laps at my club and thinking about what ideas I’d like to write about. Then my eyes started looking at the trees, plants, and flowers that surround the track, I realized that I was the only one there in the middle of a Monday afternoon the track was all mine. Remebering about a South Jersey company that removes trees, i started to focus on that direction.

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