Are you asleep? Perhaps you have been hypnotized.

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Most of the time we live our lives caught up in busy-ness and exterior activities. We worry about the future or we’re totally absorbed in the past. We are conditioned and brain washed to live in a time which is over and finished, or a time yet to come.

Never in the now.

Religions do this. Political movements do this. Science does this. TV and addictions numb you out totally.

We become very good at being a slave.

Because:

• only the present moment has power
• only the present moment is real
• only in this moment can we have a glimpse of infinity
• and the only time you can be at peace is right now

By not being in the present moment:

• you cover up your pain
• your sensitivity and your power is suppressed
• you end up reliving past traumas
• and so your past becomes your future

And, you never get to BE STILL and experience YOU.

So most of us end up living our lives:

• by the opinion of others around us
• and by what the media tells us

Our self esteem depends on it.

We are so interested in the opinions of others because we are absolutely sound asleep and snoring on the inside.

There is something that I’ve learned.  Your life can only begin to flourish when you start to experience who you are and not live your life or try to be as others think.

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Kicharee is a dish from India that is used traditionally to bring sick people back to health. The reason for this is that it is so full of nutrients and is so easily digestible.

It is also prized by those who  practice daily meditation. Try it; you’ll feel calmer. You can survive on this food.

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Ingredients:

I use organic whenever I can. You’ll need:

• 4 cups brown rice
• 4 cups mung beans
• 2 vegetables (in this video I use a bunch of kale and 6 carrots)
• seaweed
• 2 tbsp sea salt
• 3 medium onions
• large handful of ginger
• 3 bulbs of garlic (YES, bulbs!)
• 2 tbsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp coriander seed
• 1 tbsp cumin powder
• 1 tbsp turmeric powder
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 1 tbsp crushed red chili peppers
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

You’ll need 2 pots, a large 3 gallon pot to start the beans and another smaller one just for the rice.

First thoroughly wash the beans and rice. Start by putting the beans in a container and pour water into it until they are covered. Hold a large quantity of the beans between your hands under the water and rub your hands together. Continue until all have had a scrubbing. Rinse and strain a few times until the rinse water is clear. Repeat the process for the rice.

Rinse the beans a final time and put them in the large pot. Cover the beans with water and bring the water to a boil. Rinse the rice and add them to the smaller pot. Add 6 cups of water (1 3/4 cups of water for each cup of rice). If you have opted not to soak the rice you will need more water, 2 cups per cup of rice. Bring the rice water to a boil and keep an eye on the rice. As the rice cooks it will absorb water. As they become fully cooked there will be no water left. You will have to turn the heat off at the right moment in order not to burn the rice.

Now add 2 heaping tbsps of sea salt to the beans. Add a quantity of seaweed. Chop and dice the onions and add them too. Chop and add your two vegetables.

With a knife remove the peel on the ginger. Chop and mince it. Add it to the beans. Now add the coriander seed and powder, cumin, turmeric, curry powder, chili peppers and black pepper. Make sure that water level in the pot covers all the veggies. If not, add more.

Peel, crush and mince the garlic. Save it for the end. We do not want to cook the garlic.

By now both the bean mixture and rice should be thoroughly cooked. Turn off the heat and add the rice to the beans. Add the minced garlic and mix.

Dinner is served!  I like to eat this meal with a little olive oil and lemon juice. Enjoy!

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A. On the home front:

1. The Internet Genie Is Out Of The Bottle

And with it we have the rise of blogging and the alternative media. The internet is the greatest democratic forum ever created by the hand of man and governments and corporations DO NOT like it one little bit when their corruption gets massive exposure.

This is why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted that the State Department needs more money because the US government is “losing the information war” to the alternative media. The reason, Hillary dear, that so many people go to alternative media is because they are fully aware that the mainstream media feeds them a daily diet of lies and misinformation, pushing an agenda which promotes never ending war and the wholesale destruction of individual liberties. And no amount of money that you pour into this “information war” Hillary, is going to fix this.

Unless of course, the government gets the power to censor or even shut down the internet. Fortunately their latest draconican solution, the dreaded SOPA & PIPA legislation, went down in flames due to massive online protest. This is an important issue for the powers that be. They have not given up and they will try again.

2. The Ron Paul Revolution

The Ron Paul Revolution only exists because of the internet. Despite unprecedented smear campaigns by the mainstream media the public is seeing for the first time an actual discussion on the mass media of:

• the Federal Reserve bankster cartel
• the illegal and unconstitutional wars
• the principles of sound money
• the wholesale gutting of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

3. Public outrage over the ongoing economic collapse and the bailout of the banksters

The public knows the banking system operates as a fraudulent Ponzi scheme where high power criminals get off scot-free and the taxpayer ultimately shoulders all the debt. In 2010 for the first time ever, a partial audit of the Federal Reserve revealed $16 trillion in secret free bailouts for bankers. This sum is greater than the entire US national debt accumulated since 1776.

4. The Icing On The Cake – The Naked Fascism Of The NDAA

The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) was signed into law by Barak Obama on December 31, 2011. It declares the US to be a battlefield and gives the military the power to arrest American citizens, detain them indefinitely, torture and interrogate them without charge or trial.

It effectively implements martial law in the US and nullifies the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights and the Posse Comitatus, which has prohibited the military from policing civilians inside the US since 1878.

B. On the international front:

Because of the escalating collapse the only solution left for “the powers that be” to retain their control is to start a really big war and thereby impose full jackboot martial law.

The same neocons who lied their way into invading Iraq in 2003, are at it again this time beating the war drum ever more loudly for an attack on Iran. It is truly remarkable how many of these warmongers are former draft dodgers who escaped military service but are more than willing to send your kids off to the front.

It is important to note that on January 10 of this year US Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, openly admitted on national television that Iran is not, in fact, developing nuclear weapons.

Even Israel admits that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear bomb. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted on January 18th that Israeli officials are presenting an intelligence assessment to US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Martin Dempsey, that indicates that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb.

The irony of this is that while all the media and governments are pointing their finger at Iran:

• no one says a word about Israel’s very large stockpile of nuclear weapons
• nor that Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
• and it has never allowed any international inspection whatsoever of its nuclear arsenal

Mr Obama, before you decide on an attack on Iran it would be helpful to know a little bit of Iranian history since it is never mentioned on the mainstream media.

Remember it was America’s CIA who in 1953 overthrew the popularly elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh after he kicked out British Petroleum and nationalized Iran’s oil industry. The CIA then installed the Shah who ruled as supreme dictator for the next 26 years.

In 1979 in  just a teeny weeny bit of blowback the Iranians threw out the unpopular Shah during the Iranian Revolution and in their anger for America held 52 US citizens hostage for 444 days during the Iran Hostage Crisis. America has been nurturing a grudge against Iran ever since.

In just another little note, Mr. Obama, remember that both the Russians and the Chinese are warning that any meddling in Iran could lead to World War III. Just thought I’d mention this.

It is clear we have entered a very dangerous period. Now if we can stop this war 2012 will be the quintessential watershed year…

because We, The People will have triumphed.

update: protests in Poland over ACTA internet censorship

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Did you know that essential oils were some of the most highly prized natural medicines of the ancient world?

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…or that most therapeutic herbs can be distilled to obtain an essential oil?

Essential oils are anywhere from 100 – 10,000 times more concentrated than in the original herb so they much more potent than the herb itself.

Many essential oils have powerful antiseptic properties. That means they can prevent the growth of disease causing microorganisms. For example, clove and thyme oil have been documented to kill over 60 kinds of bacteria and fungi. Cinnamon oil is even more potent. Not a single known pathogenic bacteria is able to survive in its presence.

Before using an essential oil it is a good idea to first test  a small amount on the skin just to make sure your body will tolerate it without discomfort.

In my work as a builder I have often cut my hands. I just reach for a bottle of essential oil and apply a few drops to the wound. By using essential oils the cut never gets infected, heals in record time and never leaves a scar.

My favourite essential oils for treating cuts and wounds are:

• Lavender
• Melaleuca
• Rosemary
• Melrose (a proprietary blend made by Young Living Essential Oils)
• Eucalyptus

The following blend has been used for treating infected cuts:

• 7 drops geranium
• 5 drops peppermint
• 10 drops melaleuca
• 4 drops thyme

This formula may work to reduce or eliminate scarring:

• 10 drops geranium
• 6 drops lavender
• 8 drops lemongrass
• 4 drops patchouli

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Ask yourself this – have you ever felt:

• that there has been enormous pressure in your family and in society for you to conform?
• and that many people operate from a kind of mindless herd mentality?

Do you often compare yourself to others and then put yourself down because you just don’t make it? Or feel that your uniqueness is somehow a kind of big mistake?

The truth is:

• that the most important thing you can do in this life is to know yourself and to be yourself
• that your real task is to discover and know that in some way you are an amazing genius
• to know there is nothing wrong with you
• and that you are a gift that can change the world

You know, the US armed forces has been doing literacy tests on potential inductees for a long time. Basically all that has been needed to classify a soldier as literate was a 4th grade reading proficiency. If the candidate could read, write, count, speak and think clearly they passed.

In 1930 the literacy rate of US soldiers was 98%.
By the start of World War II in 1940 it was 96%.
By the Korean war in 1950 it was 81%.
By 1973 at the end of the Vietnam war, it was down to 73%.

All of this decrease in literacy in young men and women was dutifully recorded, despite the fact that each group:

• had spent progressively more years in school
• with more professionally trained teachers
• and had been provided more scientifically selected textbooks than the preceding group.

In 1940 in the US as a whole, the illiteracy rate was 4% for whites and 20% for blacks. By 2000, the Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported an astounding 17% illiteracy rate for whites (more than quadrupling) and even more astonishing 40% for blacks (a doubling).

Yet the money spent on schooling in real terms had grown 350%.

How did the school system become so pathetically incompetent?

One of the most influential American writers of the first half of the 20th century, Henry Mencken, wrote that:

In 1909 former US president Woodrow Wilson stated:

The modern schools we have now are a result of a “revolution” engineered between 1905 and 1930.This revolution was begun by a small group of industrialists and financiers who subsidized universities and research with the aim of molding education to serve business and the state.

For leading industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller, public schooling was to be engineered to serve a planned economy and social order and it was to be modelled on the Prussian system of public education. The Prussian system of the 1800′s was to train only a leadership class while other students would be taught to fit in their place.

The result, funded by the captains of industry, was set up to ensure a docile, malleable workforce to meet the demands of corporate capitalism where the highest value was not on brains or talent, just obedience.

This is essentially the school system we have inherited today where students are taught to excel at memorizing and conforming, and where creative, independent thinking is stifled because the basic training is on getting the one “right” answer. This is an oversimplification but it is, in essence, true.

So, most students emerge as:

• dependant on and subordinate to, authority
•  and in many ways are incapable of thinking for themselves.

It is prime training for permanent under classes, people who are deprived of discovering their own special genius.

There is a way out:

1. Begin by recognizing and knowing that you are TOTALLY UNIQUE.
2. Know that in SOME way you really do have a gift called GENIUS and if you don’t know this already it is your job to discover this.
3. DECIDE you no longer will accept being a non entity in the world.
4. AWAKEN your sleeping giant and BECOME ALIVE!

as for your kids, home school them.

update:

See How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State

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An audio visual prayer for our planet in 2012. May peace prevail on earth.

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The pineal gland may be the source of states of ecstasy and altered consciousness that can be experienced during meditation. In this video Dev Khalsa describes his experience.

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Using kinesiology testing it is easy to demonstrate that when you connect with someone who has a lowered energy, guess what? Your energy takes a dive too. Conversely, when you connect with someone who has a higher energy, you also are energized. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

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The “laying on of hands” method I call Sacred Touch evolved as my sensitivity of touch developed over many years of practice.

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This process began twenty years ago when I began learning various forms of applied kinesiology (Touch For Health for example) and found that when I placed my left hand on certain areas of my testee’s body and then muscle tested with my right hand, my testee’s muscle would become extremely strong. When I shifted my left hand on to another part of the testee’s body there would be no change in muscle strength at all.

If I then rested my hand on the area of the testee’s body that caused the muscle strengthening he or she would experience a deep state of relaxation and well being.

I then discovered that when my testee’s muscle strength increased there also were corresponding changes that happen elsewhere in the body. For example, the joints become more flexible and the skin tissue becomes denser and more robust. See SacredKinesiology.com for more on this.

When I began to focus on this new experience of touch a whole new world of sensation opened up for me.

I practiced more and more and my sense of touch became quite profound. I was able to almost do away with muscle testing except where I wanted to demonstrate what was going on to others.

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The method that I now call Sacred Touch and Sacred Kinesiology developed over a period of almost 20 years.

In this video I demonstrate how touching the body at very specific places increases energy and well being.

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