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« Reply #15 on: July 10, 2008, 04:20:34 PM »

Yikes, I take it there is Helium in the bubble, so passengers have squeaky voices, and you always have to fly above the clouds.

This looks promising...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M&feature=related —MAGNETIC MOTOR, Australian inventors make motor that produces 5x more power than it uses.
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« Reply #16 on: August 06, 2008, 11:45:24 PM »

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« Reply #17 on: March 09, 2009, 11:46:08 PM »

Innovation in home building

Can two people build a beautiful, functional home with a rubber mallet, a glue gun and a crow bar?

Yes they can.

This is what happens when computer science meets architecture.

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« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2009, 05:41:26 AM »

It looks good but it's hardly functional. All the skilled trades still need to come in and add insulation and utilities. This may sound like no big deal, but these skilled trades are only accustomed to standard building envelopes. So they're going to need to design a completely customized installation for all the utilities. This in turn means that alot of the structural elements will need to be cut and penetrated to accomodate wiring, plumbing, insulation, etc. The structural system, thus modified is then weaker.

So there are a lot of considerations and there is substantially more work needed to bring this turkey to market. Other than that, I like it.
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« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2009, 08:58:17 AM »

Fantastic, but I imagine that if one had it slightly off at the start, the entire thing would get progressively off. The noise level for creating such a home would be relatively low. It would also have to be superprotected from rain/flood water.
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« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2009, 07:44:15 AM »

Sonic refrigerator:

http://www.aip.org/dbis/stories/2004/14171.html
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« Reply #21 on: April 16, 2009, 08:51:58 AM »

Step 1: Looks like this might be the major first Nutricide - step to tying up the food supply to ensure rampant genetic decline/degenerative disease in USA populations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epXNJNjYBvw&NR=1

Dear Friends,

The US House and Senate are about (in a week and a half) to vote on
bill that will OUTLAW ORGANIC FARMING (bill HR 875).


There is an enormous rush to get this into law within the next 2 weeks
before people realize what is happening. Main backer and lobbyist is
Monsanto – chemical and genetic engineering giant corporation (and
Cargill, ADM, and about 35 other related
 agri-giants).

This bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and
poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to "make
sure there is no danger to the public food supply". This will include

backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsanto
genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected
diseases in humans. The name on this outrageous food plan is Food

Safety Modernization Act of 2009 (bill HR 875).


PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL CONCERNED ON YOUR MAILING LISTS & CALL
or WRITE YOUR SENATE REPRESENTATIVES TODAY!

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Step 2: If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America, therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients soon to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally become illegal.
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« Reply #22 on: April 17, 2009, 05:08:48 AM »

I looked through the bill and I don't see this:
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This bill will require organic farms to use specific fertilizers and
poisonous insect sprays dictated by the newly formed agency to "make
sure there is no danger to the public food supply". This will include

backyard gardens that grow food only for a family and not for sales.
If this passes then NO more heirloom clean seeds but only Monsanto
genetically altered seeds that are now showing up with unexpected
diseases in humans.


The bill does appear to give the FDA the authority to do these things, but I see no reason why they would end up doing these things. I think that they need the authority to seize tainted food. Perhaps the law would give too much authority to the FDA, but I'm not certain. Could you point to the language that concerns you? See link below


http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875
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« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2009, 08:12:31 PM »

Sorry that wasn't my piece/concern.
You can't stop the arm of corporate fascism coming down...you can only get out of the way so it doesn't come down on you.
When this bill goes thru, the next thing will be the stranglehold on the supplement industry.
Farmers, consumers, government and corporations will all suffer under this "system" they are creating.

Me, I am going to be on a tropical island with my  BananaDance


http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270101
South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.The plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has offered compensation.
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« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2009, 11:47:25 PM »

i got this email today.. interesting....



Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

April 20, 2009

Urgent! Health Freedom and Natural Solutions Under Attack!

NONE OF THE LINKS IN THIS EMAIL ARE SET UP TO BE 'LIVE'.  KEEP READING AND LEARN WHY, WHILE YOU LEARN HOW YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS UNDER EVEN MORE ATTACK!

This eblast is being sent as "plain text" instead of our usual attractive format in an attempt to reach you through the "spam filters" which are part of the continuing attacks on Health Freedom and the Natural Solutions Foundation.  We believe that live links MAY BE picked up by "spam filters" and keep you from getting the words, information and ideas that you need to protect your health freedom from health tyrants. You can read this Action eAlert with live links at: with live links, at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2491

You know that whenever we "push back" successfully against the forces which are attacking Health Freedom we experience heavy attacks on our organization, electronic, personal and otherwise. Every time our Online Ranking increases and our eAlert list grows, the attacks ratchet up and up.  Their purpose, of course, is to keep you from getting the information you need to protect you health freedom and your health.

Right now, the current attacks include:

1. Fraudulent Credit Card Charges and Associated Costs: Thousands of attempts each day - sometimes as many as 7000 per day!- to obtain small "charges" from our Organics4U.org and Natural Solutions Marketplace.org merchant account (please note that our service provider has been able to isolate these attacks and no one's personal information has ever been at risk). Each one would cost us a nickle if we were not able to identify them successfully as fraudulent charges. Each one still has to be removed by hand, wasting time, of course, but at least we are not forced to pay $350 per day for this cyber attack.  The fact that this attack has continued for several weeks points to the growing success of our campaign to stop the false food safety bills threatening in Congress; those bills were "fast-tracked" but now appear to be at least temporarily halted thanks to the pressure tactics we have initiated.

2. Fraudulent Blocking of Health Freedom Action eAlerts by Spam Filters: Our emails are not spam. Every single person we email to has opted into our list.  Every email has an unsubscribe feature.  Period.  No organ enlargement or get-rich-quick schemes are offered. Every email receives a low "Spam Quotient" score.  Blocking by "spam filters" - even though you opted to join our Health Freedom Action eAlert system - is an electronic way to censor our message and prevent people who need - and want - it from getting it.  Natural Solutions Foundation is not the first, of course, to be censored under the guise of "protecting you" from information that would be incendiary or motivate you to action if you have it.  The main corporate "spam house" policing agency in Germany has a long history of attacking pro-freedom NGOs. If our previous emails have been blocked and this censorship is impacting your access to our emails, please add "healthfreedomusa@mail.democracyinaction.org" to your email "white list."  The reason that we are not using our ordinary format and links throughout this email is to get it to as many people as possible and allow you to forward it with less censorship than ordinarily.

3. Imitators and Detractors: The proliferation of not-very-real (sic) "Health Freedom" groups that are little more than web sites established to gather money from people concerned with these issues. At the same time, various "poison pen" people out there continue to concoct strange (and false!) stories about us, but you can find out the real story at the "About Us" section of our web sites, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org.  In fact, you can also look at our "Accomplishments" page under the "About US" section of those websites and see that we are doing the heavy lifting, thanks to you!

We are the constant target of absurd lies and "revelations" which are total fabrications, but, interestingly, step up sharply in viciousness and intensity each time we do something different and get something new right.  How absurd is this: a former psychiatrist who lost her license because the State Board required her to get a psychiatric examination to determine if she were sane (she refused and lost her license) because of the extremely bizarre charges she was leveling against people with whom she was angry) has charged on her radio show and elsewhere that our wonderful chemical free Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee is poisoned with a mind control drug.

Aside from the fact that once I have sipped my first cup of it in the morning I HAVE a mind, this is, literally, insane.  But, as with everything else on the internet, it gets repeated as if it had some meaning.

We understand this sort of thing.  It is classical Disinformation 101 stuff. The ramped-up electronic attacks are a confirmation, in this case, that our intensive campaign, resulting in nearly a million emails to Congress and decision makers around the atrocious and freedom-and-food-fascism bills before Congress about Food "Safety" and Food" Security" have, apparently, been brought to a grinding halt, at least for the minute.

Imagine a speeding locomotive pulling 500 cars zooming down the tracks in your neighborhood.  You want it to stop so you walk out in front of it, plant your feet and hold your hand up toward the nose of the rushing onrush of steel and momentum.  The train slams into your palm, you are nearly flattened with the force of the train's movement but you regain your equilibrium and continue to resist.

Slowly, grindingly, the force of the train is absorbed by your resistance.  And then, suddenly, the train is no longer moving!  You actually stopped the train with your resistance.

Well, the train in this case, the Farm Bills, has not given up its total momentum and come to a dead stop.  But it is having trouble continuing to make the rounds of Congress with all of the enormous opposition we have offered Monsanto and their corporate familiars.

No wonder they are using more means than before to stop us!  If you were trying to stop the Natural Solutions Foundation, wouldn't you try everything you could think of, too/

But we are not stoppable!  Oh, if you have not taken the necessary Freedom Mouse ride to prevent these horrific bills from becoming law, please visit the link below this paragraph to make it clear, crystal clear, that laws which have the intended effect of removing farming from the capable hands of small, local farmers, and food production from everyone but the multinationals is not just unacceptable, it is unacceptable under our system of laws and values, whether or not the Boards of Big Agribiz like it.

Send your message here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714

Beware the Health Freedom Vampires

Thank you! When we ask you to take action, you ride that Freedom Mouse hard.  Collectively, you have responded to the Natural Solutions Foundation's requests to make Health Freedom a known quantity, an idea of significance.  That's how "Health Freedom is Our First Freedom" became one of the Top Ten  social issues on Change.org and part of the new President's Briefing Book on the official Change.gov web site. Thank you!  Of course, when we tried to enlist other "Health Freedom" groups to seize that opportunity and join us in earning it an even higher ranking, our intelligence told us that they actually banded together to encourage voting AGAINST "Health Freedom Is Our First Freedom" which confirmed a lot of our suspicions about who was who and who was what.

None the less, we NEVER attack anyone - the other side does quite enough of that.  But there is now a new phenomenon which we need to work you about:

Health Freedom Vampires and Parasites

In fact, our collective success has been so significant that we now have parasites and blood suckers! There are a host of new "Health Freedom" organizations which claim to be doing something, going somewhere and having a purpose.

And if they are, God bless 'em. The Health Fascism Beast we are fighting is a hydra with many heads and the more organizations attacking it, to kill it by 'the death of a thousand cuts', the better. But the parasites among these organizations are, in fact, just blood suckers.

If they hold out lofty words without a meaningful plan, they are parasites who want your email address.

One of these new organizations, in fact, is run by a convicted felon who got into trouble, as we understand it, from doing just this sort of thing before.

Pretty banner, grand words, no plan, no action steps, just "spread the word" and, Shazaam, he's got your email for whatever purposes he wants to use it, sell it, etc. We never sell or share or give away your personal information! Never.

Natural Solutions Foundation welcomes real groups and people into the fray - if that is what they are.  There is plenty for all of us to do, and we are not worried about either defending our turf or competing for resources, as other groups seem to be. (Which seems to be part of why they attack us.)

We believe that our consistent leadership (which gives others either guidance or something to copy, depending on your point of view) will always attract the kind of activism and enthusiasm which has made the Natural Solutions Foundation, in spite of consistent and constant disinformation and slander, the acknowledged leader in the battle for global health freedom in just 4.5 short years.

But we urge caution when you are asked to "support health freedom by buying our books" - and nothing else or by "spread the word" - and nothing else or by sending donations - and nothing else.

The problem here is the "nothing else" part. IF an organization is really fighting for your health freedom, they have plenty to tell you about that they are doing, and plenty for you to do.

So if these health freedom parasites transform themselves into real health freedom forces, because of what I am writing here, or the lack of response they are getting to their empty words, so much the better.

If not, beware, be vigilant and be active by making sure that you are getting the Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom Action eAlert and taking all the steps indicated.  And get active, please, by donating to the Natural Solutions Foundation.  All gifts are tax deductible for US tax payers.

Test Format to Defeat Spam Systems: This email is a test of our Action eAlert system. We have nearly a quarter of a million people on our Health Freedom Action eAlert system.  Once again, our intelligence suggests that not all of you are getting our emails.

We are attempting to see if a "plain text" email will get us through the spam filters and into your inboxes during this urgent campaign to stop Codex Food Fascism in its most recent incarnation, the (sic) "Food Safety" bills before Congress right now.

Please copy and paste the Action Items and links we list below into your internet browser so we can gauge the level of public response.

Here are the latest Action Items where we need your help (note: these are not set up as "active links" to avoid spam attacks, so you may need to copy and paste). And as always, please forward this message as widely as you can!

We have learned that some folks do not know how to copy and paste so we have included the following instructions to help them.  If you already know how to copy and paste, skip this section.

To copy, drag your mouse along the length of the link you want to copy while holding down your left mouse button. Then tell your computer to "copy" by a using a keyboard control [Ctrl C] or or by hitting "copy" under your "Edit" button.

Open a new browser tab or window (where you can paste the web address when you are ready).

Click your mouse in the new browser window and then either use the keyboard control to paste the address (or "URL") there or go to the Edit menu and click "paste" [or Ctrl V].  After that, you will be able to click "go" and it will take you to where you will be able to carry out the action steps. We've also posted this eblast on our Health Freedom Blog, with live links: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2491 so all you have to do is cut and paste this one link.

Action Steps and Information:

1. Our Action Item telling Congress and the White House "NO!" to industrializing food production under the guise of fake "Food Safety" bills:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26996

2. Read and share our important White Paper on the connection between Codex Alimentarius (the World Food Code) and (sic) "Food Safety:"

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2394

3. The latest information on our green Valley of the Moon(TM) Eco Demonstration Project in the beautiful, bountiful highlands of Panama:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2476

4. You know we need your help to keep up the good fight. Please donate here:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189

This has been a "plain text" eblast test to see if we can get through the spam filters; if you want to see one of our regular eblasts, we've posted the last blast, with very important information here: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2439.

And we have posted this one, with live links, at: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2491

Sincerely,

Maj. Gen. Albert (Bert) Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.), President and Trustee

Rima E. Laibow, MD, Medical Director and Trustee

Ralph Fucetola, JD, Counsel and Trustee


PS - for a listing of some of our accomplishments over the past years, please see:

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=195

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« Reply #25 on: April 21, 2009, 08:09:23 AM »

The greatest patriots regarding the fascism in the USA are in their 80's apparently.

Great 3 videos by Gerry Spence
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3XqPypb18
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« Reply #26 on: May 18, 2009, 04:08:23 PM »

Yes, on my way home from work today...I thought that within 2-5 years Monsanto will have destroyed the food chain...not merely just created famine. If the bees go, we all go.

Eighty-five percent of all GM seeds are engineered for herbicide tolerance. Most of these crops are Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" cotton, corn, soy, and canola seeds.

• Soy—Bees pollinate soy
• Cotton—is mostly self-pollinating although sometimes it is attractive to bees if insecticide is low, and this increases seed set. Insecticide spraying during flowering can devastate bee populations.
• Maize—is a cross-pollinated, wind-pollinated crop with pollen dispersal driven by a variety of physical factors.
• Canola—is normally self-pollinating, but is  very attractive to bees, increasing germinability of resulting seeds from 83% to 96%.

http://www.geneticmaize.com/2009/01/fruitless-fall/  —Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen.

Monsanto Targets NPR to Spread False Biotech Messages

    * By Meredith Niles
      Grist, May 13, 2009
 http://www.grist.org/article/national-public-propaganda/
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« Reply #27 on: June 04, 2009, 11:35:44 AM »

our planet lost a heroic and poetic ecologist with the passing of father Thomas Berry. no relation to another icon, Wendell Berry. With the commercialization of "green" here are my green thoughts: Thomas Berry was born in Greensboro nc. 94 years ago and died june 1 in Greensboro nc...he will be buried june 8 at Green Mountain monastery in Greensboro vermont. Deep Green Bows bow. Again, sympathy to his worthy friend Jane bow
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« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2009, 04:22:15 PM »



Thoughts of Thomas Berry and This Dream.

The spring has been slow in coming. Many of us having been restless as the ebb of snow lingered on and on, brown on brown, the colour holding itself hidden in that other place of becoming-but-not-yet.  These slowed-down arrivings always make me pay attention.  Finally, I can no longer take it for granted, this plethora of slow, painstakingly slow, oh-my-god-will-it-ever-get-here change.  And when my impatience has reached a crescendo,  I am invited again into watching the miracle, brand new….. the grand entrance of the most notorious prima dona….

It happened again this weekend, this miracle watching.  Perhaps it was also coloured by the recent passing of my beautiful elder, Thomas Berry.  He saw the world like this, I know he did, as an emerging /emergent moment.  The Dream of the Earth, he called it.  Last year he said to me from his dwindling state of decrepitude, “It is hard to imagine these later stages, when everything becomes so limited….still what took care of bringing us here, will take care of us after.  There is just no problem.  It is no problem.”

No problem. Wait a minute! This late cold spring, with the greenery hiding in that ‘other place’ away refusing to budge, refusing to be enthralled  or enticed by the cold and slow chi of the earth stew….. I was feeling a problem to be honest, well, until Saturday afternoon, when my friends came to help in the garden, and I shovelled my year of compost into the wheelbarrow and hauled it over for tilling into the back vegetable garden.  And it struck me again, oh, and not for the first time, but just as if it was the first time, what is really going on.

Energy is flowing around.  It has been since forever, well, since 13.7 billion years. It is flowing here and there up and down, attracted and repelled, bouncing hither and thither…organizing itself into patterns, patterns of energy playing and defining and sculpting and shaping other patterns of energy.  Patterns are playing with each other. Patterns are replicating themselves.  Patterns are stomping and eating and crushing and growing and loving and mulching other patterns…..And all the while, the energy is flowing in and out of these patterns in a continuous endless flow. All the patterns, themselves, like a tango waiting on the dance floor for some bodies to fill it up and inhabit it, to dance it, and let it go again to wait.  All of these patterns, what ever mode they are,  come and go arriving and dancing their dance,  releasing their particular manifestation of the dance back into the frothy energetic stew. 


The compost bin is a wonderful molecular stew.  It speaks so clearly of this molecular moment of being.  It is easier to recognize this chunky putrid porridge as part of the life stew, than it is to recognize myself as that too, or you….  Or Rosie.  There is the grapefruit that gets caught on the pitch fork, and gives off that grapefruit essence, there is the egg shells, the coconut shells, the rotting apples…and other smells and slimes some revolting, some delightfully hinting at an exotic past like a smell fossil…. But regardless,  all of it is slated for reconstruction, all of it is steep in on the change and transformation curve.….Off to the garden with it, and into the summer vegetables and so on.  What is harder to see, is that this is also exactly what is happening with each one of us, not just when we die, but even more amazingly right now, while we are living.   

This entity that is me—I am a node in the energy flow.  This is not a theory, or a metaphor, or an hypothesis. It is what I really look like stripped of the meaning-making mind, stripped of all of the signifiers with which we paint each other.   I am a moment of becoming and dissolving. 

There is that notion that if you want to know what is really happening , follow the money… Well, I say, Follow the molecules.  Where did I come from, where am I going to?  Follow the molecules.  Resist being too attached to the perspective locked behind your eyes and in your body, just follow the molecules.  Give yourself over to seeing the real history from where you have been arriving from, and where you are dispersing to!

The first time I was struck by this, I was out on the ice fishing in Double Mer, a inlet north of Lake Melville.  It was a beautiful day, blue and warm and tingling in early spring.  The man I was with hunted partridges and brought them back to my perch out on the ice.  White feathers, a drop of red blood where the shot went in, blue sky, white snow and ice, green trees.  I opened one partridge up.  Its crop, just above its breast was filled with spruce needles and a red berries.   This little white partridge was reconstituted spruce needles and red berries, and soon was going to flow into me and my friend.  Reconstituted red berries and spruce bows…..how amazing!

Here is something else amazing: Rosie eats Purina Dog Chow and drinks water that I put in her bowl from the tap.  She was out helping me with the compost on Saturday, bringing her ball for me throw, barking encouragement….and  as I dug away, I was thinking about where Rosie’s molecules were a year ago, or even two.  They have been mostly at an Alberta Beef farm, in cows, flowing through calves, through cow milk, heading by transport truck to a slaughter house, through a processing plant, off to the Purina Dog Chow production plant, into a few bags, up the Labrador Highway in another transport truck, doing pit stop at the Coop shelf, been plopped into my shopping cart, and hauled back to my house.   Rosie’s molecules have then been mixed with water that has been in the clouds, fallen into the Grand Lake, been filtered through the depths of the wet lands, spouted up through the Artisian Well through the pump house and into the pipes that come to my house.  All of these molecules have been mixed with Oxygen, that has been breathed in and out by all us, probably everyone here reading has shared some of Rosie’s oxygen at one time or another, you know those chance non-meeting at some airport, when we walked by each other, and breathed each other in, without any conscious recognition of our shared adventure. 

Just as this is the recent history of Rosie’s molecules, this history of mine is more complicated…… you would see me smeared all over the earth in avocado  and pineapple trees, deep in the Atlantic ocean in the Salmon, you would see some of me coming through the dread and sadness of the abattoirs, you would see me rising out of the compost bin I was so happily installing into my garden the year before….You would be able to see me coming together like a movie of a cake being baked, only played in reverse.   Really this is what I would look like--- a smear of energy moving towards “me”, concentrating,  thickening, focusing, refining, bringing acuity and clarity to this MOMENT, a ha! A moment of me in the NOW and then smearing and smudging and disintegrating again to what comes next.  Ha!  This is really what we look like void of our importance and claims to autonomy.  This is how intricately we are woven into and out of this place.   We are articulating stardust.  Ahh, and we are so often confused by our self importance…not that we aren’t important….but you know what I mean.

The H1N1 Swine Flu, as well as being ‘a threat’, is really an amazing opportunity to follow the molecular flow of energy.  It shows us how we are all connected in this beautiful, sometimes horrible, display of Being/Becoming.   Swine flu is a tracer that makes it completely apparent how all of us are connected, not only in this cyber land where we flap around in a silly autonomous display of hide and seek nearly void of a molecular imprint, but, more amazingly, in this dense and emergent  molecular dream of the earth.

This notion we call LIFE is about these self-organizing perpetuating nodes of flow.   It is kind of amazing when I think about it, that one eruption of molecules (me) can wave and signal to another eruption of molecules (Rosie) and she will come over to me, and sit and lie down, do the high five….ha, that one pile of molecules has learned to boss another pile around! Ha! What a trick!…..  Imagine that! Imagine that we all have the ability in our nodal form to direct the traffic of this energy flow!  It is our intention….INTENSION….. Some of us can direct a lot of energy traffic with our intention, some of us less so….. but beyond the discrepancies, imagine that we can do this AND be conscious of all of this at the same time! 

Thomas Berry said, “We are carbon thinking!  We are thinking carbon!”  He named my two children in a ceremony on a lake side in 1991. Daniel Wolf, David Fire…. “Get water from the lake,” he said before the ceremony. “This is not water as a symbol of anything.  Water, as itself is not a symbol of something sacred.  Water is sacred.  Water as water.  What could be more sacred than that!”   

This dream of the earth, this dream of me, this dream of you….this invisible scaffolding that holds my ears and eyes and heart, and my own ability to perceive my self…. this dream!   How simple and silly and splendid and sacred…..

So now the impetuous Beauty Queen of spring has hesitated long enough, my breath is bated, I am paying rapt attention….. I am watching… oh please, please show me, show me, show me again how you do that dance!


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« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2009, 11:19:39 AM »

We're all physically connected via the atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and noosphere. If anyone is polluting any of these, they are poisoning everyone. It's a tremendous moral responsibility requiring us all to be good stewards of these vast reservoirs of more or less pristine materials. We're all connected. Literally.
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