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What Kind of Soul Are You

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 14, 2010 at 3:35pm

I took this test twice for fun. Here are the results.You Are a Warrior SoulYou're a strong person and sometimes seen as intimidating.You don't give up. You're committed and brave.Truly adventuresome, you are not afraid of going to battle.Extremely protective of loved ones, you root for the underdog.You are picky about details and rigorous in your methods.You also value honesty and fairness a great deal.You can be outspoken, intimidating, headstrong, and demanding.You're a hardliner who demands the best from themselves and others.Souls you are most compatible with: Old Soul and Peacemaker SoulYou Are a Visionary SoulYou are a curious person, always in a state of awareness.Connected to all things spiritual, you are very in touch with your soul.You are wise and bright: able to reason and be reasonable.Occasionally, you get quite depressed and have dark feelings.You have great vision and can be very insightful.In fact, you are often profound in a way that surprises yourself.Visionary souls like you can be the best type of friend.You are intuitive, understanding, sympathetic, and a good healer.Souls you are most compatible with: Old Soul and Peacemaker SoulHere is what it says about Peacemaker & Old Soul:You Are a Peacemaker SoulYou strive to please others and will compromise anyway you can.War or conflict bothers you, and you will do anything to keep the peace.You are a good mediator and a true negotiator.Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy.While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly judgmental.You lose respect for people who don't like to both give and take.On the flip side, you've got a great sense of humor and wit.You're always diplomatic and able to give good advice.Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul, Hunter Soul and Visionary SoulYou Are an Old SoulYou are an experienced soul who appreciates tradition.Mellow and wise, you like to be with others but also to be alone.Down to earth, you are sensible and impatient.A creature of habit, it takes you a while to warm up to new people.You hate injustice, and you're very protective of family and friendsA bit demanding, you expect proper behavior from others.Extremely independent you don't mind living or being alone.But when you find love, you tend to want marriage right away.Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul and Visionary Soul

You Know Who You Are

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 14, 2010 at 7:28am

Your presence in this life experience is a precious gift. This life experience has been changed forever. To let go is the true power of love. To have faith.Amazing to re-unite with the other - twin souls that from before their birth stood contemplating and laying out their birth visions together. Even though divided in soul-body ... having been on the same path and touched many of the same experiences. It's comforting to know you and relise I have not been alone, AND there are others who believe and see as we do. I feel so alive reuniting with the other whom I have loved and will always love from here to eternity.I await a time when there isn't so much confusion where I can share with you the simple and the profound.I thank you for reminding me of who I am, why I came here, and where I am from. This is the principle of "In La'kesh in all its stunning glory. Reflections. Mirrors. Wellsprings. Conduits for transfiguration.You are so beautiful. And I have faith.

Drugs in US Drinking Water

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 13, 2010 at 5:16pm

Drugs in US’ Drinking Water(antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones)That would explain a lot of things!

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe.But the presence of so many prescription drugs — and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen — in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health.In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.Water providers rarely disclose results of pharmaceutical screenings, unless pressed, the AP found. For example, the head of a group representing major California suppliers said the public “doesn’t know how to interpret the information” and might be unduly alarmed.How do the drugs get into the water?People take pills. Their bodies absorb some of the medication, but the rest of it passes through and is flushed down the toilet. The wastewater is treated before it is discharged into reservoirs, rivers or lakes. Then, some of the water is cleansed again at drinking water treatment plants and piped to consumers. But most treatments do not remove all drug residue.And while researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals, recent studies — which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public — have found alarming effects on human cells and wildlife.“We recognize it is a growing concern and we’re taking it very seriously,” said Benjamin H. Grumbles, assistant administrator for water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Members of the AP National Investigative Team reviewed hundreds of scientific reports, analyzed federal drinking water databases, visited environmental study sites and treatment plants and interviewed more than 230 officials, academics and scientists. They also surveyed the nation’s 50 largest cities and a dozen other major water providers, as well as smaller community water providers in all 50 states.Here are some of the key test results obtained by the AP:_Officials in Philadelphia said testing there discovered 56 pharmaceuticals or byproducts in treated drinking water, including medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems. Sixty-three pharmaceuticals or byproducts were found in the city’s watersheds._Anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications were detected in a portion of the treated drinking water for 18.5 million people in Southern California._Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey analyzed a Passaic Valley Water Commission drinking water treatment plant, which serves 850,000 people in Northern New Jersey, and found a metabolized angina medicine and the mood-stabilizing carbamazepine in drinking water._A sex hormone was detected in San Francisco’s drinking water._The drinking water for Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas tested positive for six pharmaceuticals._Three medications, including an antibiotic, were found in drinking water supplied to Tucson, Ariz.The situation is undoubtedly worse than suggested by the positive test results in the major population centers documented by the AP.The federal government doesn’t require any testing and hasn’t set safety limits for drugs in water. Of the 62 major water providers contacted, the drinking water for only 28 was tested. Among the 34 that haven’t: Houston, Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Phoenix, Boston and New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection, which delivers water to 9 million people.Some providers screen only for one or two pharmaceuticals, leaving open the possibility that others are present.The AP’s investigation also indicates that watersheds, the natural sources of most of the nation’s water supply, also are contaminated. Tests were conducted in the watersheds of 35 of the 62 major providers surveyed by the AP, and pharmaceuticals were detected in 28.Yet officials in six of those 28 metropolitan areas said they did not go on to test their drinking water — Fairfax, Va.; Montgomery County in Maryland; Omaha, Neb.; Oklahoma City; Santa Clara, Calif., and New York City.The New York state health department and the USGS tested the source of the city’s water, upstate. They found trace concentrations of heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer.City water officials declined repeated requests for an interview. In a statement, they insisted that “New York City’s drinking water continues to meet all federal and state regulations regarding drinking water quality in the watershed and the distribution system” — regulations that do not address trace pharmaceuticals.In several cases, officials at municipal or regional water providers told the AP that pharmaceuticals had not been detected, but the AP obtained the results of tests conducted by independent researchers that showed otherwise. For example, water department officials in New Orleans said their water had not been tested for pharmaceuticals, but a Tulane University researcher and his students have published a study that found the pain reliever naproxen, the sex hormone estrone and the anti-cholesterol drug byproduct clofibric acid in treated drinking water.Of the 28 major metropolitan areas where tests were performed on drinking water supplies, only Albuquerque; Austin, Texas; and Virginia Beach, Va.; said tests were negative. The drinking water in Dallas has been tested, but officials are awaiting results. Arlington, Texas, acknowledged that traces of a pharmaceutical were detected in its drinking water but cited post-9/11 security concerns in refusing to identify the drug.The AP also contacted 52 small water providers — one in each state, and two each in Missouri and Texas — that serve communities with populations around 25,000. All but one said their drinking water had not been screened for pharmaceuticals; officials in Emporia, Kan., refused to answer AP’s questions, also citing post-9/11 issues.Rural consumers who draw water from their own wells aren’t in the clear either, experts say.The Stroud Water Research Center, in Avondale, Pa., has measured water samples from New York City’s upstate watershed for caffeine, a common contaminant that scientists often look for as a possible signal for the presence of other pharmaceuticals. Though more caffeine was detected at suburban sites, researcher Anthony Aufdenkampe was struck by the relatively high levels even in less populated areas.He suspects it escapes from failed septic tanks, maybe with other drugs. “Septic systems are essentially small treatment plants that are essentially unmanaged and therefore tend to fail,” Aufdenkampe said.Even users of bottled water and home filtration systems don’t necessarily avoid exposure. Bottlers, some of which simply repackage tap water, do not typically treat or test for pharmaceuticals, according to the industry’s main trade group. The same goes for the makers of home filtration systems.Contamination is not confined to the United States. More than 100 different pharmaceuticals have been detected in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and streams throughout the world. Studies have detected pharmaceuticals in waters throughout Asia, Australia, Canada and Europe — even in Swiss lakes and the North Sea.For example, in Canada, a study of 20 Ontario drinking water treatment plants by a national research institute found nine different drugs in water samples. Japanese health officials in December called for human health impact studies after detecting prescription drugs in drinking water at seven different sites.In the United States, the problem isn’t confined to surface waters. Pharmaceuticals also permeate aquifers deep underground, source of 40 percent of the nation’s water supply. Federal scientists who drew water in 24 states from aquifers near contaminant sources such as landfills and animal feed lots found minuscule levels of hormones, antibiotics and other drugs.Perhaps it’s because Americans have been taking drugs — and flushing them unmetabolized or unused — in growing amounts. Over the past five years, the number of U.S. prescriptions rose 12 percent to a record 3.7 billion, while nonprescription drug purchases held steady around 3.3 billion, according to IMS Health and The Nielsen Co.“People think that if they take a medication, their body absorbs it and it disappears, but of course that’s not the case,” said EPA scientist Christian Daughton, one of the first to draw attention to the issue of pharmaceuticals in water in the United States.Some drugs, including widely used cholesterol fighters, tranquilizers and anti-epileptic medications, resist modern drinking water and wastewater treatment processes. Plus, the EPA says there are no sewage treatment systems specifically engineered to remove pharmaceuticals.One technology, reverse osmosis, removes virtually all pharmaceutical contaminants but is very expensive for large-scale use and leaves several gallons of polluted water for every one that is made drinkable.Another issue: There’s evidence that adding chlorine, a common process in conventional drinking water treatment plants, makes some pharmaceuticals more toxic.Human waste isn’t the only source of contamination. Cattle, for example, are given ear implants that provide a slow release of trenbolone, an anabolic steroid used by some bodybuilders, which causes cattle to bulk up. But not all the trenbolone circulating in a steer is metabolized. A German study showed 10 percent of the steroid passed right through the animals.Water sampled downstream of a Nebraska feedlot had steroid levels four times as high as the water taken upstream. Male fathead minnows living in that downstream area had low testosterone levels and small heads.Other veterinary drugs also play a role. Pets are now treated for arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, allergies, dementia, and even obesity — sometimes with the same drugs as humans. The inflation-adjusted value of veterinary drugs rose by 8 percent, to $5.2 billion, over the past five years, according to an analysis of data from the Animal Health Institute.Ask the pharmaceutical industry whether the contamination of water supplies is a problem, and officials will tell you no. “Based on what we now know, I would say we find there’s little or no risk from pharmaceuticals in the environment to human health,” said microbiologist Thomas White, a consultant for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.But at a conference last summer, Mary Buzby — director of environmental technology for drug maker Merck & Co. Inc. — said: “There’s no doubt about it, pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment and there is genuine concern that these compounds, in the small concentrations that they’re at, could be causing impacts to human health or to aquatic organisms.”Recent laboratory research has found that small amounts of medication have affected human embryonic kidney cells, human blood cells and human breast cancer cells. The cancer cells proliferated too quickly; the kidney cells grew too slowly; and the blood cells showed biological activity associated with inflammation.Also, pharmaceuticals in waterways are damaging wildlife across the nation and around the globe, research shows. Notably, male fish are being feminized, creating egg yolk proteins, a process usually restricted to females. Pharmaceuticals also are affecting sentinel species at the foundation of the pyramid of life — such as earth worms in the wild and zooplankton in the laboratory, studies show.Some scientists stress that the research is extremely limited, and there are too many unknowns. They say, though, that the documented health problems in wildlife are disconcerting.“It brings a question to people’s minds that if the fish were affected … might there be a potential problem for humans?” EPA research biologist Vickie Wilson told the AP. “It could be that the fish are just exquisitely sensitive because of their physiology or something. We haven’t gotten far enough along.”With limited research funds, said Shane Snyder, research and development project manager at the Southern Nevada Water Authority, a greater emphasis should be put on studying the effects of drugs in water.“I think it’s a shame that so much money is going into monitoring to figure out if these things are out there, and so little is being spent on human health,” said Snyder. “They need to just accept that these things are everywhere — every chemical and pharmaceutical could be there. It’s time for the EPA to step up to the plate and make a statement about the need to study effects, both human and environmental.”To the degree that the EPA is focused on the issue, it appears to be looking at detection. Grumbles acknowledged that just late last year the agency developed three new methods to “detect and quantify pharmaceuticals” in wastewater. “We realize that we have a limited amount of data on the concentrations,” he said. “We’re going to be able to learn a lot more.”While Grumbles said the EPA had analyzed 287 pharmaceuticals for possible inclusion on a draft list of candidates for regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act, he said only one, nitroglycerin, was on the list. Nitroglycerin can be used as a drug for heart problems, but the key reason it’s being considered is its widespread use in making explosives.So much is unknown. Many independent scientists are skeptical that trace concentrations will ultimately prove to be harmful to humans. Confidence about human safety is based largely on studies that poison lab animals with much higher amounts.There’s growing concern in the scientific community, meanwhile, that certain drugs — or combinations of drugs — may harm humans over decades because water, unlike most specific foods, is consumed in sizable amounts every day.Our bodies may shrug off a relatively big one-time dose, yet suffer from a smaller amount delivered continuously over a half century, perhaps subtly stirring allergies or nerve damage. Pregnant women, the elderly and the very ill might be more sensitive.Many concerns about chronic low-level exposure focus on certain drug classes: chemotherapy that can act as a powerful poison; hormones that can hamper reproduction or development; medicines for depression and epilepsy that can damage the brain or change behavior; antibiotics that can allow human germs to mutate into more dangerous forms; pain relievers and blood-pressure diuretics.For several decades, federal environmental officials and nonprofit watchdog environmental groups have focused on regulated contaminants — pesticides, lead, PCBs — which are present in higher concentrations and clearly pose a health risk.However, some experts say medications may pose a unique danger because, unlike most pollutants, they were crafted to act on the human body.“These are chemicals that are designed to have very specific effects at very low concentrations. That’s what pharmaceuticals do. So when they get out to the environment, it should not be a shock to people that they have effects,” says zoologist John Sumpter at Brunel University in London, who has studied trace hormones, heart medicine and other drugs.And while drugs are tested to be safe for humans, the timeframe is usually over a matter of months, not a lifetime. Pharmaceuticals also can produce side effects and interact with other drugs at normal medical doses. That’s why — aside from therapeutic doses of fluoride injected into potable water supplies — pharmaceuticals are prescribed to people who need them, not delivered to everyone in their drinking water.“We know we are being exposed to other people’s drugs through our drinking water, and that can’t be good,” says Dr. David Carpenter, who directs the Institute for Health and the Environment of the State University of New York at Albany.The AP National Investigative Team can be reached at investigate (at) ap.orgWritten by eldibMarch 10, 2008 at 7:27 amhttp://eldib.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/drugs-in-us%E2%80%99-drinking-water-antibiotics-anti-convulsants-mood-stabilizers-and-sex-hormones-that-would-explain-a-lot/

10 Facts About Bottled Water

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 13, 2010 at 5:00pm

Here are 10 facts about bottled water:1. “An estimated 25 percent or more of bottled water is really just tap water in a bottle—sometimes further treated, sometimes not treated at all.” – Allaboutwater.org2. Drinking bottled water is 1000 (one thousand!) times more expensive than drinking tap water.3. “In an interesting study conducted by Showtime television, the hosts found that 75% of tested New York City residents actually preferred tap water over bottled water in a blind taste test.” – Allaboutwater.org4. “Bottling and shipping water is the least efficient method of water delivery ever invented. The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes. But refilling your water bottle from the tap requires no expenditure of energy, and zero waste of resources.” – PBS.org5. “The Earth Policy Institute estimated that to make the plastic for the [water] bottles [consumed annually] burns up something like 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to power 100,000 cars for a year.” – SeattlePI.com6. “Nearly 90 percent of [water] bottles are not recycled.” SeattlePI.com7. “Bottled water is actually much less regulated than tap water. There are a number of studies in which we find arsenic, disinfection byproducts and bacteria in bottled water.” – SeattlePI.com, quoting Gina Solomon8. 30 million water bottles are thrown away every day, and each one of them takes 1000 years to biodegrade. – emagazine.com.9. “In one case, bottled water labeled as “Alaska Premium Glacier Drinking Water: Pure Glacier Water from the Last Unpolluted Frontier” was actually drawn from Public Water System #111241 in Juneau.” – emagazine.com.10. Buying one gallon’s worth of bottled water is three times more expensive than buying one gallon of gasoline. – emagazine.com

alienshift.com - Alienshifters - Alienshift Leaders

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 12, 2010 at 8:30am

ALIENSHIFT LEADERSIn 2010 the ALIENSHIFTERS around the Globe will organize their local groups and start having their weekly town meetings working on how to make a CO-Operative society in their community based on Trust & Co-Operation and not a monetary society.Leaders will be working on full Survival Preparation for 2012 event and beyond.Please come forward as town leaders if you have special skills, Abilities or qualifications to be an ALIENSHIFT Country, City or Town Leader.· Leaders must be between ages of 25 and 45 (other ages must be approved based on merit).· Leaders can Male or Female in any country.· Must be Physically & Mentally fit and healthy with extra energy for others to give.· They love people with good positive outlook into future of Man, Planet Earth, ET contact & the Cosmos.· They can unite people around them and make a Change.· Must have Character and abilities for leadership in their community.· Leaders must be ready to organize their group in a short time find donations or finance their ALIENSHIFTLocal organization totally up and running independently.· Leaders not only are familiar with ALIENSHIFT way of thinking and the Path but they can pass this to manynew groups of people.· Leaders are good in survival tactics capable of supporting and managing their city or town in time ofemergency without any Government help know how to prepare their town for 2012 planet Nibiru arrival theyhave resources and contacts in their city that allows them to do so.· They are family oriented Practice and believe in the sanctity of marriage between Male and Female.· They are famous for their Honesty and good Credit with People in their city with no Criminal back ground.· They love nature and are Green in all way of living do not waste paper, water or earthly substances or minerals.· They are Spiritual and a Light Worker or Light Warrior they stand in front of Humanity to be a new hope forHumanity.· They are responsible for all future ET Contact and Dialog, agreements or other Time travel or planetaryexpatiations they might be called upon.· They are Independent from all others and can manage others.· They are known in their community and are active in their social affairs.· They allow ALIENSHIFT to publish online their Picture, contact email address & their Skype or phone numberin order to answer people’s questions and concerns.· They only Represent & Defend ALIENSHIFT and no other Group, Ideology or Path.· Please Note: City or Town depending on their population size can have many Leaders.· Town Leaders can be appointed and Managed by City Leaders.· Country Leaders can appoint and manage City Leaders.· Country Leaders will be assigned by ALIENSHIFT Founder and Leader.· All Leaders agree to be available for online Public Live video casting or other ALIENSHIFT WorldwideGathering Events when needed or called upon.· If you have what it takes to be a Leader then please contact us:· David@Alienshift.com· Or call 1-310-355-0505 Pacific Time Zonehttp://www.alienshift.com/id263.html

Earliest Semitic Text Revealed In Egyptian Pyramid Inscription

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 12, 2010 at 8:00am

Editor's Note:In the 1990s, Dr. James Harris of BYU, along with Dann Hoane, succeeded in establishing the algorithm for the oldest alphabetical system yet discovered. The team brilliantly assigned sound values based on the pre-Thamudic (early Hebrew and Aramaic) dialects instead of sounds used in Arabic dialects. The results, called "proto-Canaanite." were dramatic.Prior to their discovery it was believed that Southern Arabia held the root language on which the first alphabet was based. This was because the old signs were found in Ethiopia and Yemen. While other similar inscriptions were found in the Sinai, it was thought that these were from people that migrated from the South, and who spoke Arabic.The controversy regarding prot-Canaanite was exactly when it was invented. While Harris seems to suggest that certain characters were derived from Egyptian hyeroglyphics, the following discovery seems to illustrate that the language existed prior to the Egyptian era.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Earliest Semitic Text Revealed In Egyptian Pyramid InscriptionScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2007) -- The first public revelation of the earliest continuous Semitic text ever deciphered has taken place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The presentation was made by Prof. Richard Steiner, professor of Semitic languages and literature at Yeshiva University in New York, in a lecture entitled "Proto-Canaanite Spells in the Pyramid Texts: a First Look at the History of Hebrew in the Third Millennium B.C.E." The lecture was sponsored by the Academy of the Hebrew Language in cooperation with the Hebrew University and the World Union of Jewish Studies.Prof. Steiner, a past fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University and a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has deciphered a number of Semitic texts in various Egyptian scripts over the past 25 years. In his Hebrew University lecture, he provided the interpretation for Semitic passages in Egyptian texts that were discovered more than a century ago, inscribed on the subterranean walls of the pyramid of King Unas at Saqqara in Egypt. The pyramid dates from the 24th century B.C.E., but Egyptologists agree that the texts are older. The dates proposed for them range from the 25th to the 30th centuries B.C.E. No continuous Semitic texts from this period have ever been deciphered before.The passages, serpent spells written in hieroglyphic characters, had puzzled scholars who tried to read them as if they were ordinary Egyptian texts. In August, 2002, Prof. Steiner received an email message from Robert Ritner, professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago, asking whether any of them could be Semitic. "I immediately recognized the Semitic words for 'mother snake,'" said Steiner. "Later it became clear that the surrounding spells, composed in Egyptian rather than Semitic, also speak of the mother snake, and that the Egyptian and Semitic texts elucidate each other."Although written in Egyptian characters, the texts turned out to be composed in the Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites in the third millennium B.C.E., a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew. The Canaanite priests of the ancient city of Byblos, in present-day Lebanon, provided these texts to the kings of Egypt.The port city of Byblos was of vital importance for the ancient Egyptians. It was from there that they imported timber for construction and resin for mummification. The new discovery shows that they also imported magical spells to protect royal mummies against poisonous snakes that were thought to understand Canaanite. Although the Egyptians viewed their culture as far superior to that of their neighbors, their morbid fear of snakes made them open to the borrowing of Semitic magic."This finding should be of great interest to cultural historians," said Prof. Steiner. "Linguists, too, will be interested in these texts. They show that Proto-Canaanite, the common ancestor of Phoenician, Moabite, Ammonite and Hebrew, existed already in the third millennium B.C.E as a language distinct from Aramaic, Ugaritic and the other Semitic languages. And they provide the first direct evidence for the pronunciation of Egyptian in this early period." The texts will also be important to biblical scholars, since they shed light on several rare words in the Bible, he said."This is a sensational discovery," said Moshe Bar-Asher, Bialik Professor of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University and president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. "It is the earliest attestation of a Semitic language, in general, and Proto-Canaanite, in particular."http://www.viewzone.com/proto-canaanite.html

The Sahara Forest Project - Libya

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 12, 2010 at 7:09am

The Sahara Forest Project was first proposed at the third Claverton Energy Group Conference, at Wessex Water Plc headquarters, on April 13, 2008. The SFP was the brainchild of Bill Watts, Charlie Paton and Michael Pawlyn. The name "Sahara" is used here to mean what the word 'Sahara' means: namely 'desert', and therefore it includes any desert in the world, although the focus point is the Sahara herself. The project aims to provide a source of renewable energy, food and water to desert regions around the world, by using two technologies: Seawater Greenhouse technology (SG) and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). The former creates fresh water from seawater via especially designed greenhouses, which also provide food-growing environment; while the latter produces electricity from sunlight at a fraction of the cost of photovoltaics, via special mirrors used to condense (or concentrate) sunlight to create heat, which then is used to drive conventional steam turbines to generate the needed electricity.It was estimated that it will cost around $59 billion to begin producing energy by 2020, and that to start sending significant amounts of energy from North Africa to Europe one needs to spend about $465 billion over the next 40 years. Who knows, maybe North African countries will have something more valuable in the future than oil today. Hence it does not come as a surprise when the French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed the construction of a new solar-power station in the Sahara last year, when he founded the Mediterranean Union: a strategic alliance of 43 countries from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Oil will certainly run out, very soon, and other sources of energy must be found. The Sun is the only permanent source of pure and clean energy in our Solar System, as it is guaranteed to shine for 5 billion more years; although the last two billion years will be far too hot to sustain any form of life but lava. Food for thought.The glorious sun shines more energy onto the surface of our planet than we could possibly consume from all sources in an entire year.What is the impact of all this on the Sahara Herself and her scarce and sacred wildlife?•NewScientist.com ): Solar superpower: Should Europe run on Sahara sun?

Note to my Beloved ... A Dreamtime Walkabout .... Gridwalking

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 12, 2010 at 7:03am

Rest and I'm gonna type something here I just remembered that I saw in a dream.I only remember this so very rarely and I don't know if I can tell it well as it is foggy in my mind and moves in and out of clarity.I didn't know how to deal with the concepts in the dream - at the time of the dream.I call it a dream simply beacuse I was in the dreamtime.It was like instant relocation - or phasing - physically .... anywhere I thought of. The places I went were beautiful - and ... they were not of Earth. Though I never saw another soul during this adventure. I recall being sooooooooo super happy and content and walking through a giant desert - mostly really scenic dunes and some foliage too here and there. Also dotted all around were pools of beautiful blue water. The sun was high overhead and I was walking for the sake of walking. I went to some other places on other worlds I think and do not recall them. Then, I went back to my beloved desert to walk in the shimmering sun ... I remember the feeling that my whole soul was glowing light.

Better Butters - December 31, 2008

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 11, 2010 at 4:51pm

http://current.com/items/89667351_better-butters.htmBetter ButtersHemp-seed butter: health-minded hippies have been hailing hemp as the next best thing for years. But today, hemp-seed butter (made from the soft interior of the seed from the hemp plant) is slipping into the mainstream as a protein-packed spread. Containing more omega fatty acids than all other nut butters, hemp-seed butter is free of trans fats, cholesterol, sugar, gluten, preservatives and hydrogenated oils. It may take a while to get used to its greenish tone (thanks to its high content of chlorophyll), but the spread’s delicious on a roll or mixed with yogurt and fruit for a smoothie.For more http://current.com/1oqak4c

Human Growth Hormone, Melatonin And The Pineal Gland.

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 11, 2010 at 4:43pm

Human Growth Hormone, Melatonin And The Pineal Gland.By Larry R MillerThe Pineal Gland is the Least Known of All the Endocrine GlandsThe pineal gland, no larger than a grain of wheat, is the most mysterious endocrine gland of all. In 1628 the famous French philosopher Descartes called the pineal gland, "The seat of the soul."Because of its inaccessible location, deep within the center of the skull and attached by a stalk to the posterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain, the pineal gland hasn't been studied as exhaustively as the other glands.The gland will sometimes shrink and then fill up with specific types of mineral salts that are referred to as "brain sand." The condition has been traced directly to poor nutrition. When this condition exists in the pineal gland, thinking and sexual processes are affected. The pineal gland will respond quickly to proper nutrition even after being "starved" and degeneration has begun. The pineal contains more lecithin than any other body part.The pineal isn't an actual gland; it's a neuroendocrine transducer: meaning it converts incoming nerve impulses into outgoing hormones. Most glands are triggered by changes in the body or hormones secreted by other glands. The pineal gland releases hormones in response to bioelectrical messages from the outside environment received through the eyes. The optic nerve sends information to the visual portion of the brain through nerve fibers. The impulses from the brain are carried to the superior cervical ganglia (a cluster of nerve cells) in the upper part of the neck by smaller nerve fibers. From there the autonomic nervous system relays the information to the pineal.In low light, or darkness, the pineal gland secretes the hormone melatonin. Melatonin has been connected to many body functions. If one references back to medical information written before the early 90's they may find no information on melatonin, even in medical dictionaries. Excesses of melatonin have been connected with alcoholism. Aging accelerates calcification of the pineal and calcification is connected with higher cancer rates. People who eat less sugar, less highly processed foods and spend more time outdoors, exhibit a lower incidence of calcification.Melatonin production increases after dark. In the morning when sunlight hits the retina, production of the hormone slows. Light meals in the evening help improve sleep and maximize melatonin's anti-aging effects. Keeping a regular schedule and eating at set times increases hormone production. If we exercise or participate in any strenuous activity at night, we delay melatonin output. Stimulants and caffeine at any time of the day, but especially at night, slow or stop melatonin production.Human growth hormone (HGH), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and melatonin are all free radical scavenging, antioxidant and anti-aging hormones. Melatonin may be the most efficient of the free radical scavengers, especially for anti-aging, since it has the ability to permeate any cell in any part of the body. Within the cells, melatonin provides protection for the nucleus, the central structure containing the DNA. Protection of the central structure allows a damaged cell to repair itself. If a cell can't repair itself, it can mutate and turn into a cancer cell. The enzyme glutathione is stimulated by melatonin.Glutathione is a tripeptide containing the amino acids glutamic acid, cysteine and glycine. Glutothione functions in several oxidation-reducing capacities, meaning it's an antioxidant. Research during the 30's and 40's showed it to be necessary for delivery of calcium to the brain cells. Research studies on 44 mentally retarded children using supplemental glutamic acid, raised their test scores from an average of 69 to 87 (almost normal). One of the test subjects, a 17-year-old boy, scored 107 (average/normal) on his first test and after 6 months of treatment with glutamic acid scored 120 (superior intelligence, just below genius).Organs and other body parts take their share of glutamic acid before the brain receives any. A nutritionally deficient diet has low or nonexistent amounts of this necessary amino acid. When added to the diets of hyperactive children, and others with behavior problems, glutamic acid was able to obtain the same calming effects as the chemicals so often prescribed and without side effects.Glutothione has shown to be highly beneficial in removing lead from the body. Lack of glutothione contributes to chronic fatigue.Glutamic acid can be found in almost all protein rich foods, natural cheddar cheese, (not cheese substitutes or highly refined and processed cheeses), eggs, lean meats, peanuts, whole grains, soybeans, legumes, peas and beans.Balance out your mental powers, get some sleep and slow the aging processes by "naturally" caring for your pineal gland.

Golden Ratio Discovered In A Quantum World

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 10, 2010 at 4:00pm

Published: Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 14:31 in Physics & ChemistryZentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. They have measured the signatures of a symmetry showing the same attributes as the golden ratio famous from art and architecture. The research team is publishing these findings in the Journal Science on the 8. January.

The magnetic field is used to tune the chains of spins to a quantum critical state. The resonant modes (“notes”) are detected by scattering neutrons. These scatter with the characteristic frequencies of the spin chains. (Credit: Image courtesy of Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres)On the atomic scale particles do not behave as we know it in the macro-atomic world. New properties emerge which are the result of an effect known as the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. In order to study these nanoscale quantum effects the researchers have focused on the magnetic material cobalt niobate. It consists of linked magnetic atoms, which form chains just like a very thin bar magnet, but only one atom wide and are a useful model for describing ferromagnetism on the nanoscale in solid state matter.When applying a magnetic field at right angles to an aligned spin the magnetic chain will transform into a new state called quantum critical, which can be thought of as a quantum version of a fractal pattern. Prof. Alan Tennant, the leader of the Berlin group, explains "The system reaches a quantum uncertain – or a Schrödinger cat state. This is what we did in our experiments with cobalt niobate. We have tuned the system exactly in order to turn it quantum critical."By tuning the system and artificially introducing more quantum uncertainty the researchers observed that the chain of atoms acts like a nanoscale guitar string. Dr. Radu Coldea from Oxford University, who is the principal author of the paper and drove the international project from its inception a decade ago until the present, explains: "Here the tension comes from the interaction between spins causing them to magnetically resonate. For these interactions we found a series (scale) of resonant notes: The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618…, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture." Radu Coldea is convinced that this is no coincidence. "It reflects a beautiful property of the quantum system – a hidden symmetry. Actually quite a special one called E8 by mathematicians, and this is its first observation in a material", he explains.The observed resonant states in cobalt niobate are a dramatic laboratory illustration of the way in which mathematical theories developed for particle physics may find application in nanoscale science and ultimately in future technology. Prof. Tennant remarks on the perfect harmony found in quantum uncertainty instead of disorder. "Such discoveries are leading physicists to speculate that the quantum, atomic scale world may have its own underlying order. Similar surprises may await researchers in other materials in the quantum critical state."The researchers achieved these results by using a special probe - neutron scattering. It allows physicists to see the actual atomic scale vibrations of a system. Dr. Elisa Wheeler, who has worked at both Oxford University and Berlin on the project, explains "using neutron scattering gives us unrivalled insight into how different the quantum world can be from the every day". However, "the conflicting difficulties of a highly complex neutron experiment integrated with low temperature equipment and precision high field apparatus make this a very challenging undertaking indeed." In order to achieve success "in such challenging experiments under extreme conditions" the HZB in Berlin has brought together world leaders in this field. By combining the special expertise in Berlin whilst taking advantage of the pulsed neutrons at ISIS, near Oxford, permitted a perfect combination of measurements to be made.Source: Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresSource: sciencedaily.comRed Ice Radio:Dan Winter - Fractal Geometry and the Golden Mean

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Sonic Resonance, or Bliss

Posted by Oversoul 1.618 on January 10, 2010 at 2:11am

All vibration embodies these profound dynamics. The same current/field of vibration is an avenue for both centrifugal and centripetal forces. Both undulate through the serpentine vibratory movement with energy both coming from and returning to its source in a balanced polarity of forces. There is always a balance of opposites in the undulating fields of alternating polarity, expansion, and contraction. A profound octavian process links fields nested within fields following the universal harmony of the Golden Spiral. All vibration is a three dimensional vortex with fields embedded within fields braiding the standing waves of resonance which define phenomena. Every level of vibrating microcosm and macrocosm is the Golden Spiraling song.All vibration following these key principles nests as spirals within spirals braiding the fabric of creation.All vibration spirals as a reflection of these paradoxical principles. The vast harmony of the electromagnetic spectrum is unified through the mysterious properties of the spiral. All creation on the vibratory level of the electromagnetic spectrum is made up of spirals. Spirals in nature undulate in phase dynamics, which move from within to without (involutionary force) and at the same time from without to within (evolutionary force). Both directions of force, rajas and tamas, undulate through every spiraling helix of vibration in a profound balance of wholeness. This balance of wholeness is sattva guna, the Tao. The centrifugal pulsation manifests as two arcs, Air and Fire, and the centripetal as Water and Earth.The Atmosphere (Greek). . . spheres of breath . . . of a living Earth. . . Living beings are "cells" in the body of the earth. Our chakras & joints are at the nodial points of the harmonics of the Earth's breath.The four elements are four specific patterns of resonanceâ€”four moments in the evolutionary cycle. Air is a lengthening of the wave form from the sphere of Ether to the ellipse of Air as energy steps-down in a helix from above to below. Fire is a radiant expansive force from within to without. Water is a contractive flow from without to within. Earth is a release of Spirit from matter as the cycle finds completion in form and then returns from below to above. The four elements are four phases in the ubiquitous evolutionary cycle which underlies creation in nature.Through sympathetic vibration the elemental forces of nature and the cosmos entrain with the elemental energy systems of the body. Each phase in the cycle is qualitatively defined by its harmonic relationship to the source. Differentiation is determined by variations in the wavelength and degree of arc, positive or negative phase, and distance from the core. The quality and power of any aspect of physical manifestation is a reflection of its attunement to the vibrations of the core of the force field.It is very important to understand that the four elements are moments in a cycle of wholeness. They seem differentiated, but they are only phases in a single process, relationships within a whole. What we are viewing is a single universal helix, a whirling vortex of bipolar energy. Within this gestalt are the four harmonics, four phases of the primal Oneness. These four elements are attuned to each other as opposite waveforms, balanced harmonics working together to reflect a fundamental Oneness as the basis of the universal synergy. They exist only through their dynamic relationship with each other as a gestalt.The rhythms of breath, heartbeat, vibration, and oscillation of life within every atom, molecule, cell, organ, and body cavity are profoundly lawful as the embodiment of universal law. The rhythms of these finite systems are organized by the spiral helix of in-breath and out-breath. The breath is our link between the macrocosm of the Air element as the life of a living universe and the microcosm of the finite systems of every atom, molecule, and cell of our living bodies. Our energy fields are entrained in a fabric of spirationâ€”inspiration, expiration, respirationâ€”with the universal spiral helix of Spirit, the life breath.

Standing waves are one of the fundamental organizing principles of a cosmology based upon resonance.Standing waves appear whenever waves are confined to a finite region. Standing waves appear within the â€..finite systemâ€ of every unit of wholeness of natureâ€”every atom, molecule, cell, and organism. Our body is an example of a finite system which sustains patterns of standing waves. Each body cavity, organ, cell, molecule, and atom is a finite system sustaining standing waves which are the central organizing principle of the energy field. Standing waves always manifest as a logarithmic spiral which can be described through the Golden Ratio. This foundation of universal law is called the Golden Spiral. The Golden Spiral describes the rhythmic generation of the universe embodied in the ubiquitous breath of Brahma. Every level of macrocosm and microcosm manifests from a bindu radiating as the Golden Spiral. Standing waves align themselves with the fields of force of nature and the cosmos. By examining standing waves we can make transparent the underlying "ultrasonic" fields of force of nature and the cosmos.http://www.weare1.us/Bioresonance.html