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06:11 am: Preliminary Virus Observations
Whether or not viruses infect any particular individual, they are now uppermost in the minds of many people worldwide.

Data about current characteristics and infection patterns is extremely difficult to obtain right now. Each national government is dealing with situations in unique ways, and the efforts are often contradictory. Here are a few points to consider as this is being written:

• Where vaccines are available, their effectiveness is usually unknown.
• Significant political and medical factions exist in almost every country that are opposed to vaccines.
• Several different flu strains are circulating.
• An epidemic of a particularly violent lung flu is currently dominating the Ukraine and spreading out from there to Mongolia, China, Belarus, Poland, and Norway.
• In general flu fatality statistics are relatively low right now but all experts agree that could change suddenly and dramatically.
• Prohibition of public gatherings and closing of schools have had no effect whatsoever in the countries where these measures have been implemented.
• Fear is a variable and sometimes heavy factor. In some cases it is actively being cultivated by political and medical entities.
• Each region has a distinctive collection of flu strains. Some are so mild that they are not attracting any media attention. That is the case in the Rocky Mountain area, where the most common flu at the moment appears to be digestive and fairly mild.
  
  

Some data on preliminary observations concerning viruses may assist in dealing with their effects. We know that the consequences of viral epidemics can be extremely serious. Data is now becoming more widely known indicating that beginning in 1491 the total populations of North and South America were reduced from well over 200 million to less than 3 million within just a hundred years! Factors affecting the immunity characteristics of those populations are being investigated. This is important partly because it is now known that in several areas that became depopulated, excellent and sophisticated medical systems were in place. Some of the techniques used in those times are only now being recovered and are consistently astounding researchers.

Any individual virus, or the sum of virus particles infecting a human or animal, is not a conscious entity.

From the standpoint of an infected individual it can appear that a virus is attempting to re-design some or all of a material body.

Apparently, the sum off all particles of any virus is conscious. This is a new concept to many researchers: Dispersed Consciousness.

What this means is that the relationship between any infected individual and the virus does not conform to any existing knowledge about inter-species communication. It also means that communication with viruses might possibly be established.

Some of the factors contributing to this observation include:

• Viral activity is highly variable among individuals and appears to have a relationship to personal consciousness and/or awareness levels.
• Few drugs affect viruses in any way. The only ones that do, interfere with mechanical reproductive processes in specific ways. Those processes are known to vary widely and sometimes suddenly.
• Several herbs consistently can demonstrate anti-viral activity. Some herbs from the center of medicine on this planet, the Amazon Basin, still need to be evaluated in this context.
• Vitamin C usually helps, along with other nutrients.
• Electrical, radio, and magnetic fields can affect viruses, but the exact mechanisms and characteristics are not known. Frequency is the key variable in what studies and experiments have been done so far.

Corollaries to these observations:

It appears that viral dispersed consciousness operates outside the parameters of space as we know it. Apparently the consciousness is more or less equally distributed among all physical particles of the virus present on the planet at any particular time. It is not yet known how these entities experience time. We do know from the science of Applied Time Dynamics that individuals have widely varying experiences of time, usually linked to one's level of personal consciousness.

Physical mutations can arise spontaneously among viruses. How these affect the parameters of dispersed consciousness or the possibilities of communication is not known at present.

Since at this time tools to deal with virus infections are limited, one thing that people in restricted circumstances can do is to attempt the establishment of communication with viral dispersed consciousness entities. Some of these efforts could be of an artistic nature. This unusual step is being advocated partly because in many cases it literally won't cost anything. Playing music for affected patients can thus be recommended. Visual arts may be helpful too. These attempts should not be regarded as religious. A proper attitude might be what one would think when trying to tame a dog or a lion.

Keep in mind that these observations are preliminary and highly subject to modification. This data is being made available at this time, in this form, only because some people are in desperate situations with few resources available. Further observations, experiences, and comments are certainly welcome and will help further this work.

11:08 pm: Miracles Happen!
That 86 Toyota was a wonderful little car.  It fit me well during a difficult time -- got it in 2004.  Small, relatively economical, and incredibly dependable.  But over the past few months it really started to show its age.  Handle fell off the driver door.  Windshield cracked up (a common problem with that model year).  Then the exhaust system fell apart, so that every time i got stopped for a train, which happens a lot in Ft. Collins, my life was at risk.  Final straw was getting pulled over last week -- that hardly ever happens!  So the car was simply not legal to drive any more, and it would cost more money than i make to get it fixed.

Sunday i called a friend from church about the car situation. First thing Monday morning, he came up with a car! So the Toyota is sadly going to that Great Crusher In The Sky. Now i'm in a white 92 Oldsmobile. It's really nice, even if a little dinged here & there. Runs great! Someone was going to have it crushed, so it's like getting a whole new life. Should hold up while other projects get funded. And it means i will be able to continue substitute teaching, and maybe get out to New York in December when the substitute work is a little thin.

Have decided to share this story around with lots of people. Maybe it will encourage some of us. We need to know that even with a lousy economy, an insane government (normal for this planet), and monstrous difficulties keeping families together, miracles still do happen!

Thanks everyone for your prayers!

05:54 pm: Hippies
 After getting accused of being a "Hippie Who Never Grew Up" this was written.  Didn't know where else to put it, so here it is.

Hippies

(c)2009 by Michael Riversong

 

What is a Hippie?  If it was a social aberration, then the idea of it having been a youthful folly, and that anyone who still is in that mode after living most of an average lifetime truly "never has grown up", then using that term in a negative sense is appropriate.

 

What if Hippie is something else?  In the Hopi language there is a word "hipi" that means a special kind of person who carries on traditions of an ethnic group not of one's birth origin.  There's quite a bit to this traditional concept which is beyond the scope of this article.

 

From an anthropological perspective it is possible to regard Hippies as a variant group within a particular ethnicity.  However, it should be noted that many Hippies were from diverse groups.

 

So what was the Hippie Culture?  We know that it involved long hair, loose standards of grooming, general rejection of established living standards, and tolerance of diverse life choices.  Drugs were a part of it, which will be covered in a separate paragraph.

 

My own experience might help us understand a bit.  I first remember preferring long hair in 4th grade.  Nobody knows why.  That was in 1961, long before the idea of "Hippie" was ever mentioned in the media.  We never saw anything about it in the Rocky Mountain region until 1965, and for the next two years it was quite rare around us.  By 1967, there were a few highly visible Hippies in Denver and Boulder, hardly any in Colorado Springs and other towns in Colorado, and few in the Denver suburbs.  Most were in some way associated with opposition to the Vietnam War.

 

In 1969 street drugs became widely available.  I personally resisted pressure to use them.  This pressure was relentless and came from classmates at my suburban high school and members of the Unitarian Church youth group i was associated with at the time.  Finally in April of 1970 i caved in to marijuana, and in August of that year to LSD.  Marijuana didn't become important to me until over a year later.  Inspired by Hippie ideals, i engaged in constant political, journalistic, and musical work throughout high school and during the first year of college.  I grew my hair long, engaged in multiple relationships with the opposite sex, and expanded my liberal outlook.  Interestingly enough, many Hippies heavily criticized me for having too many "straight" friends.  Eventually drug addiction made it impossible to continue most of my work.

 

But Hippies were not originally about drugs.  Distinctive elements of the subculture were entirely separate from street drugs, and did not depend on them at all.  In fact there were many Hippies at the time who did not do drugs to any great extent.

 

Hippie culture embodied a set of ideals.  Many of these ideals were based on necessarily incomplete perceptions of Native American culture.  The phenomenon of indigenous people sometimes transferring parts of their culture to invading societies is known among anthropologists.  These ideals included:

 

Tolerance of social, religious, ethnic, and sexual diversity.

Elimination of all racism and sexism.

Compensation to formerly oppressed people.

Disconnection from the necessity to do destructive work in order to survive.

Responsible stewardship of the environment.

Recycling whenever possible.  (Many Hippies commonly wore military and marching band uniforms partly because they were more durable than anything else at the time.)

Healthy food.

Artistic freedom.

Joy in creating music and art.

Cultivation of communal living.

Easy charity for disadvantaged and dispossessed people.

Easy hospitality.

 

These ideals have been held by other cultures at times in history.  Rarely has any group of humans managed to hold all of them for any extended period of time.  Some Hippies with Christian backgrounds or connections were aware of how the Book of Acts community lived, and were actively striving to re-create it.

 

Some of the Hippie ideals were unrealistic.  Rejection of conventional occupations certainly did not work well in a practical sense.  Easy distribution of charity sometimes encouraged laziness.  Sexual tolerance and relational freedom definitely did not work well; most Hippies were happy to settle into monogamous relationships when the opportunity arose.

 

One factor, above all others, destroyed the Hippie culture as a widespread, viable social reform in the long term.  In a word, drugs.  Aldous Huxley, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac had previously established intellectual rationales for personal drug use as a means of pleasure and as a social/political statement.  Active promotion of drug use by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert starting in 1963 did a lot to make street drugs part of American life.  This is where the Hippie ideal of tolerance worked against the group.  In increasing numbers, people were showing up on the streets intoxicated, addicted, and "blown out".  Many Hippie leaders put forth huge efforts to help people in these conditions, but eventually the numbers became too great and such efforts could not keep up any more.

 

A few Hippies survived.  Some had families and created further generations of the culture.  In a few cities, urban Hippies have formed coherent communities including: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Eugene, Tucson, Albuquerque, Boulder, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Ithaca, Boston, and New York.  Hippie communities exist in many rural areas.  They don't tend to draw much attention.  In a few places, Hippies have essentially merged with old "hillbilly" cultures.  This is especially evident in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee.

 

One of the most important permanent Hippie communities is The Farm near Summertown, Tennessee.  Its founder, Stephen Gaskin, was a professor at San Francisco State University who started teaching a "Free University" class on Monday evenings.  This class became extremely popular, especially with people who were dealing with confusion resulting from LSD use.  Eventually he put together a caravan which traveled around the USA for a few months.  It settled on some affordable land in Tennessee.  All of this was documented in a series of books.  His wife, Ina May, was deeply opposed to abortion, so she sent out word that any pregnant woman who didn't know where to go could get help at The Farm.  Several business interests were developed within the community, and it appears to have a fairly good chance of outliving its founders.

 

There are many other permanent settlements of Hippies in North America now, in almost every state and province.  Most of them are little known and keep a low profile.  Some have set up ongoing relationships with nearby Native American, Hillbilly, and other ethnic communities which tend to exist outside the mainstream of American corporate life.  Some have even made connections with religious groups like the Amish.  A few are specifically Christian.  Small businesses, usually involving agriculture or handcrafts, are common among them.  Ideals of the culture usually keep any from becoming prominent celebrities, so you don't tend to hear much about Hippies these days.  But they still exist, all grown up and functioning well in their families and communities.

04:11 pm: Pine Beetles
Please copy & pass this on to interested people:

 PINE BEETLE PROJECT

 

We are currently losing tremendous amounts of forest west of Cheyenne.  Due to climate changes which have been building up over the past decade, beetles are no longer being killed to any great degree over the winters.  Now many trees are turning browner every day, and eventually dying off.  At the moment local woodcutters are not able to keep up.

 

This is a natural process.  For whatever reasons, climates change sometimes.  When they do, trees in a particular zone will die off.  Over many centuries they may be replaced by other species if erosion does not make the area completely unlivable in the meantime.

 

Humans can fit into this.  We can accelerate the process of species replacement and thereby prevent serious erosion.  In the process we will make the environment much better for our children and grandchildren.

 

In this zone, we see that the main species dying off is Ponderosa Pine.  Since our climate is generally getting a bit warmer, we only need to look southward for the replacements.  In this case, two species are recommended, since lack of diversity has been a problem in our local forests for a long time.  Those species are Juniper and Piñon Pine.

 

Junipers should be relatively easy to work with.  They are hardy and durable.  A few already exist in some places around here.

 

Piñon Pines are going to be a bit tougher.  Many sub-varieties will  have to be tried until we find the ones that work best in this new environment.  To start with, we can bring seeds and seedlings up from around Durango, Colorado and the Manti La Sal in Utah.  We might want to experiment with duplicating cryptobiotic soils as well.

 

This should not be too expensive.  Individuals can do this in many areas as part of normal activities.  Of course reviving groups of "hodads" like we had in the late 1970s would be a great idea, and would help a lot with the tough economy.  That's an area where the government can and should get involved.

 

Hopefully there will be no debate on this and we can get right to work.  If we're supposed to have dominion over this planet, then we have to exercise a great deal of responsibility.  This is one way to do that.

 

-- Michael Riversong

author, Design Ecology

P.O. Box 2776

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003

mriversong@earthlink.net

04:19 am: Chronicles - Lost Music -Intensely Personal
One of my most favorite albums of all time has been "Chronicles" by Booker T. and Priscilla Jones.  Heard the hit "Wild Fox" on KDKO Soul Radio (Denver) in 1974 and immediately put a bit of hard-earned into a copy.  Good thing -- it's now extremely rare vinyl.  It was literally one of my 10 most-played records for several years.  To me, it was always a beacon of true love shining ideally into my own crazy life.

When i got divorced in 1993 i left the original copy with my ex, as a sort of statement about how much i still loved and respected her, in spite of my crimes against her.  But i did make a backup on DAT (a now almost unknown format used mostly by musicians at that time).

Had forgotten all about that backup.  Lately had been wanting to hear the album again.  While up in the wilderness this past weekend, found the backup.  With some difficulty managed to patch what's left of the remaining DAT player into the Mac, and transferred the music through Garage Band into iTunes.  Good thing!

Was curious about what had ever become of the artists, and just put in a search for them.  That's how i found out about how this album has become so rare.  Apparently something happened to that marriage.  A web site for Booker T.'s excellent rockin' new album "Potato Hole" mentions someone else as being his wife.  There's very little data on Priscilla, mostly now related to her membership in the Native American group Walela which also includes her sister Rita Coolidge and daughter Laura Satterfield.  Walela is in itself very much worth listening to, and i have their first album on iTunes too.

Naturally all this raises many questions, mostly metaphysical.  What does it mean when we think that Love lasts forever?  Is it possible for a person to love someone else in a number of different ways as time goes on?  What did Tesla mean when he said, "You can't change the future, but you can change the past."

Yes, i still love my first wife.  In Greek there are several words which all get mushed up and translated as "love" when put into English.  Went through some of that yesterday with Al, the wonderful friend who i'm staying with at the moment.  Some of those words are:
Frateros -- like brothers
Philios -- close friends and family
Eros -- marriage partners, lovers, or an affair -- involving the physical body
Agape -- when you're in love with the whole crazy human race

It's a very useful exercise to get one of those dual-text Bibles (have a couple on this computer) and look up the original word each time you see the English word "love" somewhere.  You will learn a lot doing that.  And maybe your sense of Agape, the highest form of love, will improve.  Whenever that happens the whole planet gets better.

07:41 am: Evangelical Question
 Baptists are instructed to ask, "If you died tonight, where would you go?

Unitarians might ask: "If you died tonight and went to Hell, could you tell the difference?

08:29 am: Sign
There's a sign on a desk where i'm staying near Denver right now:  "Our Policy -- Rigid Flexibility".

You just know you're safe in a place like that.

05:11 pm: Excerpt From a Conversation With a Beautiful Woman
 "I know what you mean.  Sometimes I feel that way too, in love with every human on the planet.  Some guys take that the wrong way, and think it's about them.  It can be really hard to deal with someone like that."

06:54 am: Personal Impressions of Philadelphia
 Now that everything has had a chance to settle in, here's another dimension of my experiences a couple of weeks ago.

Philadelphia has quietly become one of the most alive cities on this continent.  It was always regarded as "uncool" and "backwards".  Those characteristics are part of what makes it so beautiful now.  They didn't get into Modern Progress when everyone else did, so many parts of the city are a bit rustic and unspoiled.

Sure, there are rundown and even dangerous areas, but i didn't see any evidence of the "death penalty for trespassing" mentality that prevails in places like the South Bronx or parts of LA.

What i loved most about the city is how people can actually meet in informal, random settings outdoors.  Rittenhouse Square was one such place -- just packed with various happy people of all kinds.  Another great thing was the "First Friday" -- a completely unregulated event each month on Second Avenue where every kind of artist can set up to share and sell.  We took full advantage of that.

Independence Mall was also nice, but i noticed it was a bit more touristy.  Like a lot of such places in the West, most locals you would see there are escorting out-of-town visitors.

Social Entrepreneurs are becoming more prominent throughout the city.  This is a vital development, especially now that the economy has crashed.  These people provide our best hope of survival.  I got to spend a lot of time with one, Mark Passio, who also was a presenter at our Tesla Celebration.  He is working hard to present his vision of our present and future to a huge number of people.  I'm hoping he succeeds.  Meanwhile, he's existing somewhat outside the normal money economy and spending lots of time helping others in unexpected ways.  I'm very thankful to have met him.

As for my future there, that's unclear right now.  I'm looking into teaching in the city, which is actually possible under some circumstances.  In any event, Philadelphia has become a real beacon in my life.  I could easily be persuaded to return any time, or even live there the rest of this life.

10:53 pm: Report From Philadelphia

Nikola Tesla Energy Independence Celebration in Philadelphia
by Michael Riversong

Philadelphia has a healthy street life. That helped immensely as we promoted this conference by handing out cards at a Friday night arts fair and a July 4th celebration. Several people came to the Tesla Celebration events because of these promotions, so standing there confronting apathy, antagonism, and occasional enthusiasm made a big difference. Not many cities offer such opportunities for public interaction. This is one of many reasons why Philadelphia was an ideal setting for a significant new Tesla conference.

The weekend began with a festive Friday night dinner at the Balkan Express Restaurant with authentic Serbian food. Speakers, invited guests, and some members of the public took advantage of excellent networking opportunities.

On Saturday and Sunday (July 11 and 12) during the days the Nikola Tesla Inventor's Club set up tents on the Independence Hall lawn. This included an art show, music, and informal instruction free to the general public. Many old and new friends stopped by. Only occasionally would someone kindly inform us that our efforts were useless, and discussions were always lively when that happened. Fast-paced and well-attended evening lectures were delivered in the historic Philadelphia Ethical Society hall on beautiful Rittenhouse Square.

Meanwhile on Saturday the Innovation Roadshow Workshop was presented at Two Liberty Place. This was a special, complimentary program for inventors arranged by the Nikola Tesla Inventor's Club and presented by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Valuable instructions on how to develop and market inventions were given.

Two petitions were circulated during the events. One was to advocate canonization of Nikola Tesla as a saint through the Serbian Orthodox Church. www.St-Tesla.com <http://www.St-Tesla.com/>The other will ask the City of Philadelphia to re-name a key freeway after Nikola Tesla. Also a Declaration of Energy Independence was on hand, read several times, and signed by many visitors.

Tom Valone of Integrity Research Institute started the lecture series off with an in depth analysis of technologies initiated by Tesla. He emphasized several medical spin-offs, relating how they work inexpensively on a number of conditions. Long experience in this field of research has shown that medical technologies are often the first to work. Tom also invited all of us to the Third International Conference on Future Energy to be held in Washington DC October 9-10.

Dr. Ljubo Vujovic of the Tesla Memorial Society provided several deep insights into Tesla's life and way of thinking. It was rare, and especially beneficial, to see the role that Serbian culture played in the formation and inspiration of this great man.

Only one of Tesla's laboratories is still standing, at Wardenclyffe on Long Island. Jane Alcorn and Chris Wesselborg had a hopeful outlook concerning the possibilities of creating a Science Center at the site. They gave a vivid photographic tour using recent and archival material and showed a number of plans for the site. Work on resurrecting the building has been going for 15 years and they are making progress among the multiple layers of Long Island government.

David Vujich gave a short briefing on various ongoing government efforts to facilitate the development of alternative and advanced energy systems.

Both evenings, Engineer David Rosignoli demonstrated a distinctive Tesla coil that was one of the most exciting parts of the conference. He allowed audience members to line up and use gas-filled glass tubes to create memorable lighting effects.

Some relationships between electricity and gravity are now known among scientists. It is not known exactly how much Tesla researched Electrogravitics. Russell Anderson has made a great deal of progress in the field by reliably building "lifters" that levitate entirely due to electric charge carried in threadlike wires connected to specially built power supplies. This technology promises to open up new methods of high speed air and space travel in the future.

Father Milorad Orlic is the parish priest of St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Philadelphia. His unusual credentials allowed great insight into Tesla's spiritual life and thus some of the underlying motivations for his inventions. Given his early exposure to religion as the son of a parish priest it is possible to see how Tesla developed the great generosity, ethics, and compassion for which he was known throughout his life. His great sacrifice in leaving homeland and family behind to pursue inventing for the benefit of all humanity was poignantly emphasized.

Any strong historical personality invites artistic portrayal. One of the most intense forms of art is opera. Miriam Seidel wrote such a work which was eventually presented in Serbia and the United States with director Terry O'Reilly. They both gave insight into their creative processes and then showed a long video clip from one of the performances.

While Tesla's name had been removed from school textbooks by order of J.P. Morgan, amateur radio enthusiasts always kept his memory alive. Yuri Blanarovich is president of the Tesla Radio Club in New Jersey, an organization with a long history and many plans to continue helping Tesla become more widely known in the future.

Mark Passio gave a well organized presentation detailing the current state of humanity and what needs to happen both technologically and ethically to change the situation. Many people need to raise their consciousness to Tesla's level in order for our species to make any progress.

The final presentation of the conference built on Mark Passio's talk by focusing on several specific and little known technologies that deserve further research and development. These include solar air systems, wireless transmission of electricity, and John Keely's Dynasphere which was invented in Philadelphia.

Everyone involved agreed that the first Tesla Celebration was successful. Many factors contributed to the success, including a number of dedicated volunteers, lots of networking throughout the East Coast, and special characteristics of Philadelphia as a city. Further annual conferences and monthly meetings are being planned. Cooperation between members of this group and other Tesla groups worldwide will be encouraged. Information can be found at:

Meetings web site:
http://ntesla.meetup.com/38

Main web site:

http://www.nikolateslainventorsclub.com
http://www.teslaacademy.info
215-253-5610 or
484-955-0545

The Nikola Tesla Inventor's Club was founded in 2004 and has the following mission statement: "The mission of the Nikola Tesla Inventors' Club is to bring awareness of Nikola Tesla’s innovations to the greater public. At this critical juncture of transition in human history, we recognize a moral imperative to initiate the development of new energy technologies that Tesla envisioned for the world. Through this event, we will bring together and inspire like-minded innovators and enthusiasts to advance Tesla’s legacy as the father of free energy and communications, and help bring his vision for these technologies to fruition for the betterment of humanity."

Michael Riversong, Founder, Tesla Academy

05:38 am: Medical Thread
You might have been wondering what's been going on lately.  Right now i'm near Philadelphia, about to celebrate Tesla's birthday.  For the past month i've been undergoing rehabilitation from surgery.  On one Mennonite list there's been a thread about various medical matters.  The rest of this post is my fairly long comments from this thread:

Someone wrote about a child who was hyperactive and occasionally going into intense fits of rage:
Food allergy tests can't always be accurate. There are too many variables. That's why ultimately a rotation diet ends up being the primary way to work. It is possible for someone knowledgeable in Ethnonutrition to speed up the process a bit by analyzing genetic background. That's not certain either but it can help. For some, Applied Kinesiology in various forms can work, although we have to be careful with that discipline.

All this said, it's also true that sometimes a person becomes incorrigible. That's a word we don't see used much any more but it still happens. I've had many experiences working, always briefly, with such students. Within the Anabaptist (Mennonite) movement there have always been discussions about the beginning of the Age of Accountability. It seems to vary a lot. All we really know is that at some point a person is completely responsible for decisions. If someone has made a definite decision to follow a wrong path, despite any good influences around, there's not much we can do. Medications will just gum up the whole process and generally make a person less aware of possible good influences.

We can't give up! Even if the only thing left is prayer, we have to do that. I've seen people turn around, sometimes after many years. I'm an example of that. In 1971 i became completely hooked on marijuana. From there on everything i did was influenced by the drug. I became someone you would not want to know. In 1981 i managed to quit. It was incredibly difficult, taking about 9 months before the last bit was smoked, and another 8 months for drug residues to get out of my body.

What made the difference for me was accidentally, through a series of miracles, joining a small Mennonite congregation in Southern Colorado. A few of them knew about my struggle and they were consistently praying for me. I'm convinced that was the critical factor.

One other thing -- anyone who has hallucinations on Adderall is unusually susceptible to stimulants. Such a person should not have any caffeine -- not even good old healthy black or green tea. Food colorings may also cause allergic reactions, as well as many spices. I would even suspect coriander, cinnamon, paprika, and caraway in a case like this!

When doctors prescribe anti-seizure medications in these cases, it is usually an indication they are desperate. Those always have unpredictable effects. It is impossible to say when or how they will work. When you start studying the chemistry of these drugs, and comparing them with normal human metabolism, you will encounter many surprises. I'm still trying to figure out why gabapentin, one of the mildest of these, has an effect by altering the way bodies use potassium. It just doesn't make any sense. When i've brought that up to doctors, the honest ones agree!


In any case where someone is "bipolar" an interview will quickly uncover someone in that person's life who is constantly and consistently invalidating.

Please do not infect other people with your praises of these deadly poisonous substances.  We have to eliminate them from our lives in order to save the lives of so many who have been brutally slaughtered by their effects.  If you have any caring at all or other people, you will do some research and find out how badly you have been defrauded.  That is part of what is suggested for people with these mental problems.  We need to find out who our real enemies are, and some of them are indeed principalities and powers in high places.

Other suggestions include educating ourselves about how we are affected by others, and by Satanic influences.  We also need to educate ourselves about nutritional and environmental factors.

I've seen a few cases for example where one small design element in a house was causing tremendous mental turmoil.  Once that element was changed there was immediate and dramatic improvement.


When you advocate the use of SSRI drugs, you are advocating a systematic program of MURDER. Approximately 6% (best estimate) of people using those drugs will commit violent acts. Pharmaceutical companies have found it cheaper to buy off affected families and doctors than to shut down these fantastic profit engines. Tremendous amounts of documentation are available. Included among the documentation are court records showing how manufacturers have covered up suicides and murders among their own employees who were testing the drugs. The sheer existence of these substances is testimony to massive and well documented corruption in the Food and Drug Administration.

It makes me extremely sad to see someone on this list advocating such horrible and destructive measures against children. I am hoping that this person is good hearted but has been defrauded by medical personnel and pharmaceutical company propaganda.


From CG:
"Actually, bipolar disorder, like depression, results from a chemical imbalance within the brain, which can be aided by medications. Certainly emotional and spiritual issues can exacerbate such conditions, or even aggravate an existing tendency to such imbalances to the point where symptoms occur, result in a clinical manifestation of such conditions.
Once the disease mainfests, medications are very useful in alleviating the symptoms and allowing the patient and his caretakers to correct any underlying emotional problems."

This is pure pharmaceutical company propaganda!  No Christian should be repeating this, as it will cause great harm physically, mentally, and spiritually.  Until you have read the original psychiatric research on these poisons, you have absolutely no clue that you are simply repeating harmful lies.  The fact is, the chemical working mechanisms of most commonly marketed poisons are not known.  Jargon is used to cover up this fact.  Examine pharmaceutical marketing literature carefully and in the fine print you will see plenty of "thought to" and "probably" statements, along with horrible side effects.

Go to a physician, and ask for the specific chemical mechanisms involved in any psychiatric medication you choose.  Record the answer.  Analyze this answer carefully in terms of the specific chemical reactions stated.  In most cases, you won't even get that far.  That's because NOBODY knows the specific chemical chains involved.  All that is known, is that in an acceptable percentage of the population there are no immediate deaths recorded as arising directly from the poison.

Depakote is well known among physicians as being unpredictable. You really never know what will happen with that drug. However, it does not create long-term damage in most cases, so it can be worth a try for many patients with bad diets and unknown neurological manifestations.


Would some hard experience help here?  I've gone into a lot of rages which destroyed 2 marriages and countless friendships.

Medicalizing anger won't work.  I think Scripture backs us up on that.  It's a normal part of the human condition, as is depression.  When we try to handle these things with drugs we always end up doing physical damage to the body.  That puts us in a worse position than before.

What i found, is that there are many direct addresses to the problem of anger within Scripture.  This is why i really enjoy using a computer for Bible study.  So it's a good idea to go through those references.  (If anyone needs the link to a good free computer study program, let me know.)  You will find many of the references in Proverbs.  Consistently Solomon wrote that we had to take conscious control.  My experience is that literally nothing else ever works.

Still that didn't always work out.  In early 2004 my lid came off at a guy who was letting his dogs run loose after a study meeting.  I made quite a scene out of it and was banned from the congregation.  But the teacher there sent me a book to work with, and for the first time in my life i had a way to really handle anger.  This 9 step program based entirely on Scripture actually WORKED!  Within 3 months i was back in the group, and have rarely had problems since then.

"Anger: The Inner Teacher" by Rabbi Zelig Pliskin


From CG:
"People who live near the equator have a very low incidence of depression; conversely, depression is more common the further north (or in the southern hemisphere, south) you get, peaking in Arctic Circle countries."

You hit on something very interesting here.  Magnetic fields are much more intense at the far northern latitudes.  Couple this with seasonal disturbances from lack of sunlight, and you can see some pretty hairy situations.

Also the so-called "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" and related Fibromyalgia are definitely more common in the North.

Probably it's the same in the far southern latitudes.  I know people in Tasmania and Tierra del Fuego get pretty twisted at times.

This should open the door to more intensive studies of magnetic fields.  That would help a lot.

People in the less developed southern countries are also not getting blitzed with pharmaceutical company marketing campaigns since they don't have much "disposable income".  That's probably a blessing...


In response to a question about why the hostility toward psychiatry:
In 1984-1987 i lived near Columbine High School. I knew about the problems there long before that tragic day in 1999. Also i had met one of the students who was killed -- he was a great musician.

That tragedy was directly connected to pharmaceutical products. And there have been many other such incidents where the connection can be found.

Another thing was that in 1982 i was in a mental hospital for 3 weeks. They largely left me alone and provided good food, so i got better. Then the psychiatrist prescribed some fairly nasty medication which made it nearly impossible to work. I quit the drug quickly and got curious about how these things work. Since i can understand medical language i burrowed into some of the original research documents involved. The lies and fraud contained in these things are absolutely amazing!

Did you know: The majority of psychiatrists graduated in the bottom third of their medical school classes.

Probably my next album will be called "Trenchcoat Mafia".


Well it's nice to see some support for my "position".

There is too much of a tendency within the medical community to regard humans as fancy animals. That attitude stems from Darwinism and leads to many abuses in itself.

Humans have one thing that animals don't have, which is our spiritual nature, or as some would say, souls.


From K.R.:
"Many diseases such as hypertension,diabetes, and some forms of cancer can be prevented with diet and lifestyle therefore limiting one s need for medicines to control the illnesses once we have them."

Absolutely! And we find that many mental disorders will clear up with good nutrition and exercise. I would also add, environmental handling. Which can sometimes mean going off to Cozumel or Patagonia to get over a tragedy. That's legitimate, if it harms no one in the process.

You might notice that i mainly come out against psychiatry and its procedures. I like nuerology and have recently gained a lot of respect for diabetes specialists too.

Most fields of medicine do not include diatribes against religion among their basic training materials. That should tell us something.


In response to a concern about Applied Kinesiology:
Applied Kinesiology (AK) is a difficult discipline.  If someone doesn't know it really well it is easy to make mistakes.  It's really at the approximate level of complexity as neurosurgery.  In fact a similar knowledge of neural pathways is necessary for competency in either field.

As for Quackwatch, they have little credibility.  Mainly they exist to trash anyone who does not fit into narrow guidelines for practice as established by the Rockefeller funded American Medical Association and allied pharmaceutical companies.  It's fortunate that on the other side we have www.mercola.com which presents a good balance.  Mercola points out similar quackery and outright abuse perpetrated by AMA/pharmaceutical practitioners.  In a just society, many of those doctors would be prosecuted for health fraud.

When examining health situations, we all need to step back and consider that abuses have existed throughout history in all medical disciplines.  Each case has to be examined carefully.  It is when one or another practitioner tells outright lies that we need to be concerned.  Certain pharmaceutical products run afoul of this criterion.  Many of those products happen to be psychiatric drugs.

02:39 am: Hospital
It has now been more than 8 days since i last was outside the door to this room.  It is a good place to rest and allow a wound to heal.  That process seems to be going acceptably well, but we will only know for sure after another surgery.  I have been told that for the past few days the weather outside has been miserable, which has appeared to be the case based on the small northward view out the window here.  Still, it would be a blessing to feel either rain or sunshine on my face.

My future appears uncertain.  Activity will have to be limited for an indefinite period after being released.  Some upcoming events will have to be canceled, and others may happen in a different form than expected.  I have some work to do, which will require some elaborate logistics, so that's good.  Meanwhile, i can't drive or walk very far after being released from here.  It may be a long time before i see my wilderness home again.

I decided to make the best of this situation by consciously doing several things.  One has been listening to spiritual audio programs.  Another is to provide humor for attending staff members whenever possible.  In fact, a few have become interested in parts of my work, which has brought joy in here.  It is obvious that certain thought patterns were associated with the development of my injury, and so changing those patterns has become a high priority.

For now, i continue to eat well, sleep when possible, get to know the wonderful people who come in here, and try to learn how to pray better.

09:54 am: Meeting La Llorona
If you've been around the Southwest much, sooner or later you've run into this character.  Sometimes children who grew up there were terrified of her when they were little.

Like many legends, there's truth behind this one.  Too many Native American moms were forced to abandon their children and often their tribes too.  They were given as a substitute the glamorous American material life, which implies no connection to family or tribe.  Since it was obvious they weren't "real" Americans at the time, they were shunted off into becoming non-specified Hispanics -- not really Mexican, but not really Native American either.  It also means, as a practical matter,  their children growing up as orphans supported only by siblings.  This can get so bad that nobody actually grows up.  Prisons, especially in Arizona, and full of people like that.

La Llorona is a real person.  You might have met her.  She sent her children off to boarding school or to be raised with relatives.  But she was never happy with the glamorous life that had been promised.  As she grows older she becomes ever more frightening.  Eventually you see only a wraith-like figure hovering around health care facilities on the edge of society.

We should recognize that, as with any cultural icon, there are women who are desperately trying NOT to be La Llorona.  These are the ones who never let go of their children, who smother them with affection and instruction, and manage to somehow keep men out of the house, or maginalized in some way.

Meeting a legend is always amazing, and can explain a lot.

02:54 pm: Suppression of Invention
 Today i'm safely in Arizona, working with Tesla Tech on several projects.

One of the things we have to deal with here is the suppression of invention.  This is worse than scandalous, in fact threatening the future of our planet.  The people who do this, like suppressives everywhere, remain covert and nasty.  We have to expose them any way we can, as part of what needs to happen for environmentally safe and humane technology to emerge.

So the rest of this post, which is rather long compared to most of what is in this blog, is passed on from a friendly source in the US military.  We have friends all over the place.  Hopefully one day i can delete this posting and look back on this period as a "nightmare which we survived."

** COPY THIS INFORMATION AND SAVE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION ONLINE ASAP!!! ***

 

Jim Boswell has been a target of suppression in recent weeks (March-April 2009 timeframe).  Since articles were posted online several weeks ago discussing Jim's advanced energy technologies, Jim has experienced the following:

 

*  Jim has received multiple death threats over the phone.

 

*  Jim received a hard copy death threat - placed on the windshield of his vehicle.

 

*  Unmarked vehicles have been parked outside Jim's house at night on several occasions.  Whenever Jim walks outside to confront the person(s), the vehicles quickly drive away.

 

*  Two uninvited men interrupted a meeting in Texas between Jim and a prospective investor, one of which claimed he was former NSA, using a fake name to identify himself.  After one of the men briefly walked out of the room to make a phone call, this man walked back into the room and mentioned information that could only have been known by someone monitoring Jim's email/phone communications.

 

* The morning after Jim posted a video on youtube demonstrating his technology, a man parked his personal vehicle outside Jim's house, placed a PG&E cone behind the vehicle, and was loitering around Jim's house and accessed Jim's home electrical box outside.  Jim walked outside and confronted the man.  The man immediately walked to his vehicle.  Jim walked inside, grabbed his camcorder and recorded the man leaving.  In one of the videos, the man can be seen holding a taser close to his leg.  The license plates were recorded on the video.  The local police department said the gentleman has a long list of convictions, to include being hired as a hit man.  A private investigator identified the owner of the vehicle by name, and an internet search for the name brought up only one name on the Fresno area.  This individual's mother was also listed on the registration of the vehicle.  She was murdered in 2006 according to online articles.  This individual is considered very dangerous, so do not approach or contact him directly.  For the videos, see http://tr.youtube.com/user/JimBoswell2008 or http://www.youtube.com/user/JimBoswell2008

 

* PG&E confirmed that no one was scheduled for an appointment to work on Jim's house electrical box on that day.  The phone call is recorded.

 

* Jim received a death threat on paper the night after the abovementioned incident stating:

 

WE WARNED YOU!  

 

STOP TALKING ABOUT YOUR INVENTIONS!  

 

YOU WILL NOT MANUFACTURE YOUR

INVENTIONS OR THE NEXT TIME

YOU ARE DEAD!

 

Jim's phones are apparently monitored by an outside party with covert electronic surveillance capabilities, based on information conveyed in the threatening phone calls and from one of the two men who interrupted Jim's meeting with a prospective investor in TX.  Jim can hear a click shortly after he begins a phone call.  The measured voltage on his phone line increases from ~24V to ~40 volts when the click occurs, and the voltage returns to ~24V when another click is heard towards the end of his phone calls or when it is determined that he is talking about an unrelated topic that is not of interest to the monitoring party.

 

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Based on other advanced energy researchers' experiences of suppression, the next likely event is vehicular assault, where someone will drive into Jim, run him off the road, try to hit him in a parking lot or on the street, etc., in order to stop him from continuing his work and public interactions, to ensure his technology does not make it out to the public.  All of the abovementioned information can be confirmed upon request.  Simply repost this information somewhere on the internet with a request to be contacted via email (anonymous email OK), and within a few days the search engines can be used to identify keyword phrases from this original post, and a message will be sent to the email posted along with this message.  This information is intended to 'go viral', as a means of protecting Jim Boswell from future incidents, as local authorities and the FBI are not positioned to provide the protection necessary to ensure Jim's safety, so we must do it through the Internet - a million watt spotlight on these incidents will minimize the likelihood of future incidents.

 

*** COPY THIS INFORMATION AND SAVE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION ONLINE ASAP!!! ***

 

 

 

08:06 am: Possible Solution
My car is increasingly becoming a threat to my survival.  The driver door is broken in several ways, the transmission is starting to get a bit wobbly, the seat belts are broken, and it has over 222,000 miles on it.  This car, although wonderful, probably is getting ready for that great highway in the sky.  Besides, it's too small.

Many of the places i go are, or should be, overnight stays.  This also means that my vehicle has to include a small library and some musical instruments.

So my next vehicle has to be a bus or RV.  Can't really use a truck because it's impossible to adequately protect books & equipment in one.

Last night i attended a picnic with the Northern Colorado Vegetable Oil Co-Op.  That's where ideas began to fall into place.  Diesel engines can easily be converted to run on waste vegetable oil which is available almost everywhere.  In fact that was the original intention of Rudolf Diesel when he invented the engine.

So now it's a matter of obtaining that vehicle and getting it fitted up.  This might take a while, or it might go quickly.  Once it's in place, it will be possible to travel inexpensively all over the country teaching people about Tesla, music, and environmental handling.  This is a sort of "magic bus" career, which i am willing & able to do for the rest of my natural life.  I have a good base in Cheyenne with many friends and it's an ideal location relative to the rest of the continent.

Several people will help with this.  It can't and shouldn't be done alone.  This work is for a diffuse and diverse community of students all over the continent.  Every school is supported by a community.  Tesla Academy is in that way the same as any other school.  One of the good things about people contributing to a school like this is that they become part of the solution, and this makes them feel more connected to life.  Are you one of the people who makes this portable school happen?

10:09 am: Non, Violence?
 

06:05 pm: Being Old
 So now i'm 57 years old.  Which is older than my mom was when she died.  Some people would call this a victory, and maybe it is.

A few days ago had a conversation with a guy exactly my age, just before he got into his car for Oregon.  We agreed -- it's certainly not right to be like old people were when we were kids.  That won't work.  So we determined that we would find ways to enjoy the whole thing, any way we can.  There's always something new to learn, a new friend to find, and another place to check out.

Read a really interesting book lately which i don't have time to explain right now.  One of the best parts was about a guy who died at the age of 86, and had tons of people at his funeral.  His trick was, that every decade he made sure to find new friends.

What i got from the book is that any time i feel out of sorts in any way, all any real friend would have to do is find someone i can help.  Then everything turns around in about a millisecond.  Actually there's a lot of stress in my life, and of course i'm ultimately responsible for making sure it gets handled.  But, part of that is to be connected with people who can, sometimes unwittingly, reduce stress.  If anyone does any simple thing that reduces stress for someone else, it would be good for them to know that the effects go way beyond the person they did something for.  What's really cool about this is that many of the things that can be done to reduce stress don't cost anything.  In other words, there's no way to measure the good you can do, all on your own.

Here in Wyoming, we have to say: 

"If you ain't got a family, you gotta invent one!"

12:59 pm: Breakthrough Power
Someone recently turned me on to a site called GoodReads.com  It's a great way to set up reviews etc., and share the best with friends.  This particular book could save your life.  And many other lives, too.

<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6238472.Breakthrough_Power_How_Quantum_leap_New_Energy_Inventions_Can_Transform_Our_World?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Breakthrough Power: How Quantum-leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2838667.Jeane_Manning_and_Joel_Garbon">Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon</a><br/><br/>
  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45948176?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>This is the first book to be thoroughly endoresed by the New Energy Congress.  It covers many aspects of advanced energy research, and does so more thoroughly than anything published so far.  Many little-known technologies that involve getting energy from water, magnets, or the aether are covered.  Everyone who wants to do something about the ongoing energy crisis needs to read this book.  It makes an especially good starting point for young researchers.
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  <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1908798-Michael-Riversong?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>

02:26 pm: Dose of Inspiration
 Friday night i did something that i haven't done in many years.  Went out to a bar.  That morning, had gotten a copy of the newspaper at school.  In the "To Do" section, which has recently  been improved,  They had a listing for John Warburton performing free at a tiny bar nearby.

He's been one of my favorite musicians since i first heard him about 5 years ago.  I consider him one of Cheyenne's treasures.  His music is purely Americana; an innovative, dynamic mix of blues, rock, and folk.  Mostly solo he plays dobro -- 3 were used in the performance.  Does a lot of open tunings, which of course i appreciate immensely.  His Friday night performance was definitely worthwhile.  Hope to hear him a lot more in the future!

Here's his web site:  http://johnwarburtonmusic.com/

05:12 pm: New Year's Desires
Resolutions don't seem to do a whole lot.  So i don't get involved with them.  What's worked for me have been fundamental changes, like when i quit marijuana after 10 years of addiction and 9 months of resolutions to quit.  I had a powerful vision that shook me up big-time.  One one side, was me lying in a pool of blood on a street in Los Angeles about 3 years from then.  On the other was something intriguing -- a very long, golden road with thousands of people alongside.  Since that time (1981) there have been thousands of people, and i'm tnankful for each one.  Whether or not i remember them.

Today there was a strange incident.  Had a free period, and sat down at a computer in the school library.  A student sat next to me, and started playing an elaborate game of "mind-warp".  Actually that game has a different name but i won't use that here.  Anyway he tried to convince me that i had dinner with him & his father last week.  Sometimes my memory for events with people is faulty, and i explained that to him.  The dinner never came to mind.  Later, i asked his teacher about him, and got to understand that he really didn't know me at all.  She mentioned that he rarely does any work for his classes.  It's always fascinating to meet someone who is incredibly intelligent and flunking school.  That alone is a good reason to write "Network Education" which is a replacement for our current Dewey-Thorndike school system.

So one desire is to get that Network Education material in the hands of many people who can use it to help students.

There's a desire stemming from that "3-Dimensional Music Theory" DVD.  That's to make a video about how we can use music to handle anger.  Actors and other musicians will be required, since part of it should be a re-enactment of an incident that happened in 1990.  Of course some sort of funding is necessary to make this a professional production.

Another desire came up today.  I'd like to get paid for writing a blog.  Every day i have some thoughts that might be worth sharing.  Most of the time, as mentioned here earlier, those thoughts are forgotten before there's a chance to write.  There are people who are paid to write blogs, so perhaps that would be appropriate in this case.  Besides, my ordinary life has recently involved increased demands to make monthly payments for various things.  So some sort of stipend would be an appropriate way to handle that.

So, dear reader, if you happen to know anyone who pays people to write blogs, and you think that these thoughts should go out more often and to a wider audience, please get us connected.  Thanks in advance!