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Steiner
Quote about things gone very, very wrong with the chemico-pharmaceutical
world and what we have learned to take for granted as a result [in
the little angel book we read at Marleen's]
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BB's
father--avid organic gardener. Died in his early 60s, turns
out because he was poisoned by the high levels of zinc in the
beautiful rich looking soil. BB's bottom line as a result
became not even to bother with organic. Heck, we're all gonna
die anyway. Understandable choice -- one that deserves much
empathy; not everyone's however.
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History
of pharma and our supplements -- global and from the UN organ World
Health Organization - down...Codex Alimentarius
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Green
tea research and this site: [[ disguise the name, so this is
not visible, but give opportunity to go to: www.mercola.com/2000/sep/10/green_tea_fluoride_thyroid.htm
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Frankly,
we need our own lobby! I invite us together to look at how we
can achieve that in a really BIG way. Membership / donations.
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We
also need an army of volunteers and staff ... and a .org arm for all
this that stretches across the whole spectrum of
activist/products-services LAL interests.
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We need to
know what the real issues are that are threats to our health.
Although we can only superficially separate individual, personal health
from the global issues involved, the idea is to look at specific
concerns in this context, having to do with the kinds of decisions we
make every day, the habits we form that directly affect our personal
health and wellbeing. Many of the tiniest details of our daily
lives, such as diets, the ingredients in cosmetics funnel into habits of
many years and whole lives. We tend to latch onto something and
choose to trust it as safe, as being however we interpret what the
labels say. A tea, for example may say simply roibos tea. Or
someone uses certain products because hir parents or even grandparents
always 'swore by it' or because we just liked it as reason enough,
without really fully knowing whether its a safe choice or not.
It's easy
to shrug this off, and just say, I can't look at everything with a
magnifying glass, and go our merry way. And it's no wonder for the
most part we do this very thing!
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every
year____# of chemicals are introduced into our water, air, soil,
into our food, clothing, what we put on our plants, on and in our
pets, our livestock, what we put on our hair and skin ..
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We use
for years and decades and lives certain products we have come to
trust, that our parents trusted, without thinking to know exactly
what kind of long-term impact they may have
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A car
is for most of us a big investment, and we want to make the best
choice we can afford. Many people have strong opinions about
what cars they like. They research everything about them to
know which gives the best gas mileage, the fastest speed
acceleration time from 0-90 mph, the horsepower, they take a lot of
time to check out which companies and cars demonstrate the best
reliability.
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Or
they're very picky about what music they like, what tv programs they
will watch or what schools they send their kids to or which sports
teams they support passionately. They may go way out of their
way to research the financial institutions they prefer to do
business with or the financial investments they make or their
community volunteer choices they make or the insurance companies
they
But they
may not be so careful about what they put on their hair or in their
clothes washer or dryer, or in their mouths over the course of weeks,
months, years.
We all
make concessions. We must. Otherwise, we could spend whole
lives doing nothing but checking out all the products we use to see if
they're safe as they are said to be, or if our interpretations of labels
for foods or cleaning products are really ...
Something
changed or intensified all this for me. My own idea of eating
healthy is somewhat left of center -- vegetarian, occasionally eating
dairy, chocolate is a vitamin, yadda-yadda. I do read labels, and
usually, not always, buy on that basis.
I
am an avid and long-time green-tea drinker. Recently I saw a
comment to the effect that for all the wonderful health-giving
properties, 'what they don't tell you is...' green teas have aluminum in
them--tea companies don't want you to know that. To me that's a
red flag, so I went looking for more information. Oh, and also they tout
the natural 'advantage' of green and black teas being high in fluoride.
What I found was what appeared to be an exhaustive look at many research
aspects concerning teas and their fluoride content, and this brought up
the whole raging debate about the safety of fluoride in general. I
read all 30+ pages on the spot and promptly
We need on
our board or through a network of volunteers / staff: people who
are clear they are only looking for what is really happening and what is
hype or misleading information on all fronts and who have the integrity
to go for nothing less. They would have to have absolutely nothing
to gain from this except the satisfaction, the privilege of contributing
to our greater understanding of what the real issues are. Their
responsibility would be to research all sides of any given issue, then
simply to report what they have found. Some of these people would
have to have professional knowledge and connections to pursue
this. Or maybe we could find laboratories, university research
centers [??] who would help with some of this.
Or a
system that supports this approach, so that there is a open-minded and
clear on their responsibility to thoroughly research
A globally affecting phenomenon has
been happening right before our eyes and among our neighbors, friends,
family, even to many of you who read these pages that thus far [2007]
has been remarked by an abundance of individuals over the last century,
yet is not in our shared [public] consciousness. And so it is
described as largely "silent" or at least unheard and
generally unrecognized.
"Near-death
experience" [NDE] is an expression so widely recognized, we
can safely call it a common household 'word', thanks to the interest of
western medicine and science and to the media that have given it a lot
of regular attention since 1975. That was the year Dr. Raymond
Moody, Jr.'s still popular book about NDEs, Life After Life, was
published, and that shift in awareness happened so quickly! -- within
the span of a few years after that book came out.
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WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING [PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ACCEPTANCE] WITH SINGLE
EXPERIENCES NOW NEEDS TO HAPPEN, IS HAPPENING WITH THE FULL GAMUT OF
HUNDREDS OF TYPES OF SUCH EXPERIENCES.
IT'S ONE THING TO 'EXPLAIN AWAY' AND GENERATE THESE NIFTY THEORIES TO DO
SO WITH ONE TYPE OF EXPERIENCE, BUT WHEN YOU REALLY LOOK SQUARELY,
HONESTLY AT ALL THESE MANY TYPES OF ANOMALOUS EVENTS, THAT JUST HAS TO
GO OUT THE WINDOW. SKEPTICISM IS CERTAINLY HEALTHY, BUT SO IS THE
BALANCE OF OPEN-MINDEDNESS. IT'S TIME TO LOOK AT THE BIGGER
PICTURE BEING PRESENTED WITH ALL THIS EVIDENCE. ..
AND THAT'S WHERE WE BEGIN TO SEE THIS REVOLUTIONARY PHENOMENON
DEVELOPING IN A BIG WAY ALL OVER THE PLANET. WHEN YOU TAKE A HARD
LOOK AT THOSE STATISTICS, AND YOU ADD IN HOW THE REVEALING OF THESE
EXPERIENCES BY EXPERIENCERS TO NONEXPERIENCERS -- I.E., MANY
NONEXPERIENCERS GO THROUGH THE SAME CLASSIC SHIFT THAT THE EXPERIENCERS
THEMSELVES EXEMPLIFY, THE SO-CALLED AFTEREFFECTS.
BY THE MOST CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES, IT'S CLEAR THAT AT LEAST SOMETHING
ON THE ORDER OF 300,000,000 PEOPLE LIVING TODAY HAVE HAD SUCH
EXPERIENCES. I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE ANY DEFINITIVE STATISTICS
TO SUGGEST HOW MANY HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN TRANSFORMED BY THEM, SUCH AS THE
COMMONLY-ASSOCIATED AFTEREFFECTS DESCRIBE. AND EVIDENTLY SOME
TYPES OF EXPERIENCES ARE MORE PRONE TO GENERATE SUCH CHANGES THAN
OTHERS. STILL, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REASONS TO SUGGEST THIS IS A
VIABLE TREND THAT IS WELL WORTH OUR TIME TO PAY ATTENTION TO AND TO
STUDY.
IF 300 MILLION PEOPLE [NOT TO MENTION AS A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE] HAD
BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS BIRD FLU, YOU DON'T THINK THERE WOULD BE A
STOP-THE-WORLD-REACTION BY POWERS THAT BE??
IF 300 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SUDDENLY REFUSED TO PURCHASE
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS OR PHARMACEUTICAL DRUGS OR GENETICALLY ALTERED WHEAT
[OR QUIT FIGHTING ON WAR FRONTS AN PUT DOWN THEIR WEAPONS], DON'T YOU
KNOW IT WOULD GET SOME ATTENTION!!
This has to do with the
greater and greater numbers of people experience the profoundly
life-altering events often called death-transcendent
"exceptional human experiences" / EHEs or spiritually
transformative experiences. Suddenly people were coming out of the
proverbial closet with their obviously genuine experiences of this
nature and were being seriously studied by scientists and listened to by
medical staff. I dare say by far most had probably never told
their stories to another human being up to that time, but the momentum
has steadily built since whereby experiencers have found safe avenues
for revealing their stories to professionals and to loved ones.
Now it's so 'normal' to accept at face value such stories, the previous
knee-jerk and very valid fears of being considered crazy or a liar have
been replaced with a genuine and empathetic regard. Moody and Dr.
Kubler-Ross, and Kenneth Ring were the first of the respectfully heard
pioneers in this regard. And other types of experiences began to
get their hearing as well, such as out-of-body and mystical experiences
and so forth.
Of course, not everyone thought these were actual anomalous or
other-worldly events, not to mention the 's' word [spiritual]. The
one thing people have largely agree upon is that, whatever the actual
cause, be it spiritual or lack of oxygen, it's a genuine, medically
recognize phenomenon. Not only the NDEs and OBEs but the very idea
of profoundly altered states of consciousness that have been widely
studied and profiled.
One of the main reasons they are so well regarded is the nearly
universal aftereffects so many such experiencers
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