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[Jana]

Agreed Henry we don't need the props. I keep telling people they can fly without wings but they don't believe me. Thing is with orgone tools, ORMUS, magnets etc... it is fun to play around with them because their interaction with the gravitation of sun/moon/seasons etc...is non linear and so they are a mindfuck...trying to understand how the universe is put together using such things is fun...even trying to repair organic damage to the body using various supplements and practices is also fun.
Regarding the bliss juice...well lets just say I got it babe.
Moving into my favorite time of year.

Jist of the thing...
Sovereignty is essential for any semblance of true democracy for lemmings and sheep cannot be moral, they can only obey. With blind obedience there is no safety check to the accumulation of destructive power. Thus the pressing evolutionary moral imperative is to wake up to sovereignty and to not blindly follow or succumb to the machinations of primate power chemistry. Both the top and bottom dog positions on the pyramid represent an unconscious submission to our automatic animal status responses. As such both parties are caught in the suffering and insanity of the unsovereign state. Compulsively cycling their status stress chemistry with no insight to the damage done to the body, mind or soul. This is not a humane life.

[Francis]

The stuff on the old star trek show, like phasers, medical body scanners, etc. were props; now we have most of that stuff for real. Reich was an engineer and a scientist; he was working on technologies that could manipulate chi, which he called orgone. Few scientists with Reich’s hard science credentials in the last few centuries have even  bought into the idea of chi.

The most successful technologies that I know of for consciously manipulating chi are yoga, feng shui and reiki. These are all well established. I’m mostly convinced they work.

The question is: did Reich’s devices work? Even if they didn’t; they weren’t props but merely failed prototypes.

[Jana]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPV-JExUPns  —Overview of Wilhelm Reich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwTsn4BnoQ  —Gnostic Media interview with James de Meo

www.orgonelab.org/cart/naturalenergy.htm  —James de Meo’s site filled with heaps of props and books.


The Orgone Accumulator Handbook, Construction Plans, Experimental Use and
Protection Against Toxic Energy by James DeMeo

Heretic's Notebook, Emotions, Protocells, Ether-Drift and Cosmic Life-Energy, with New Research Supporting Wilhelm Reich Issue #5 of Pulse of the Planet, research journal of the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory


Viktor Schauberger: Comprehend & Copy Nature A DVD-Video Documentary Film
by Franz Fitzke

Viktor Schauberger, Living Water and Natural Harmonies
Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats, Olaf Alexandersson & others


CONFERENCE ON NEW RESEARCH IN ORGONOMY 1-2 AUGUST 2009, ASHLAND, OREGON, USA

The AMA killed off the first generation of the wave healers such as Rife and the anti cancer EMF machines....Tom Valone's book Bioelectromagnetics has a lot of the machines listed.

I wonder if this guy has been knocked off yet:
•John Kanzius new Radio-frequencies generator Could Cure Cancer. Radio-frequencies causes saltwater burning at high temperature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj5twYOxJaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l13mWDcrqUw
Kanzius contact thru; Sterling D. Allan  sterlingda@pureenergysystems.com
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:John_Kanzius_Produces_Hydrogen_from_Salt_Water_Using_Radio_Waves

[henry]

please pardon my little outburst yesterday, i may have had a nasty flashback from a '91 new age expo (now called whole life expos). i suppose "misplaced concreteness" is harmless unless one is alchemically mixing mercury in with the morning coffee. Until i address my own avoidence issues, criticizing the avoidance epidemic is disingenuous . Hold my feet to the fire heartmind. "We teach what we most need to learn, and we are our own worst students".... Signing off from the Pleiades...

[Jana]

"Until i address my own avoidance issues, criticizing the avoidance epidemic is disingenuous."

Substitute "avoidance" with: denial, ignorance, carelessness, anger, bigotry, superficiality, narcissism, childishness, etc...

The problem with shutting up until we are perfect, is that we would never be able to say another word about anything...ever!

The only problem with Henry is that he doesn't say enough.

Outstanding talk by John Ochsendorf, engineer and architectural historian at MIT
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/673/   …jump over the introduction which is about 5 mins or so; and stay for the Q&A

[henry]

"the only problem with henry is that he doesn't say enough"                                                thanks Jana, i'm going to put that on my tombstone! anyway i'll try to do better  

[Jana]

Ok, I got a working definition of sovereignty going...comments welcome?
DEFINITION:

DEFINITION:
Sovereignty is the quality or authority of being independent and responsible for ones life conditions, in such a way that we are in charge of our life and prepared to meet challenges to our freedom and well-being. Sovereignty means liberation from those things that undermine our proactive self-determination. We are inextricably tied to that which we resist, such that we lose our sovereignty in the bargain. Thus in resistance mode, even when we claim we want spiritual and emotional sovereignty, we are actually perpetuating its opposite, for that which we resists persists. When we are stuck in a revolutionary rather than evolutionary mode we are unaware that we are perpetuating a cycle of fear, non-responsibility, blame and victimhood. For when we become angry about a challenge to our freedom it is because of our inner victimhood and lack of sovereignty. This perpetrator-victim bonding creates resistance toward the very structure we are struggling to pull away from, thereby keeping us chained to it. Once we are willing to take responsibility for everything that happens we start to recognize how deep is the structure we’ve created through fear, which keeps us locked into a diminished experience of ourselves and the world. Sovereignty is being be willing to act from our own integrity - not from anger, martyrdom or victimhood – and so we are able to start changing our lives through proactive love. Our reality is changed by first changing on the inside, which then affects the external world. This insightful inner change, the ability to meta-adapt, is freedom or sovereignty. Sovereignty is taking total responsibility for ourselves, our community and for Gaia.

[henry]

now that i'm supposed to talk . i like the notion/definititon of sovereignty as it relates to the collective or societal trance...also encouraged is the enhancement of personal power(even physical strength) and inter-dependence with a nurturing evolutionary network

[Jana]

Once we move out of the oppositional mode of having to defend our right to "be" and step into our vision, we begin to operate from our sovereign self. It is then that co-dependence is dropped as we shift from reactivity to proactivity. Only then does spiritual community emerge as good-will builds the resonance of the Muse into the music of collective creation. Spiritual community cannot form within authoritarian systems for cognitive function is impaired by power imbalance, and hearts and spirit cannot flourish under dictation. Rather than mere inter-dependence, we must now start talking about mutual independence or proactive cocreation...smart action that feeds us, community and Gaia.

Today I spent 1.5 hrs sweeping and washing a seating area along the creek path...I got two good mornings from foreigners and three thank yous from aerobic Americans.

[Nickeson]

DEFINITION:
Sovereignty is ... the authority (for) being independent and responsible for one's life....

That's the definition right there, clean and simple. I don't need to add an editorial.

[jimtzu]

nothing like sweeping the "temple steps" to find out where we stand..  (on the steps of course    )

[Jana]

 

TESTOSTERONE AND SOVEREIGNTY

Neurosis is a defense mechanism against death. In pyramid cultures we lose the one true and vital part of ourselves…our “Yes” feeling, which is our very capacity for growth.  Without our “Yes”…the source of inner origination…we are vulnerable to external forces and influences. We become unboundaried, spiritually perfuse and overly persuaded by the society such that we become a tool of it, rather than a unique contributor to it. Since stress reduces testosterone and its precursor DHEA, it might be that those individuals from stressful childhoods or under excessive stress during the start of a kundalini awakening are more likely to become unbalanced, because their boundary definition and solid self-sense has been compromised by lack of testosterone throughout their lives. One has to be “boundaried” before becoming boundariless. Right relationship and spiritual community arises from well-defined individuals not followers.

Without societal initiations into “maturity” and under pseudo parental authoritarian arrangements such as the state, university, corporation or codependent relationship…DHEA the “Yes” chemical is reduced. This reduction in the spark of hormonal maturation thus hampers the entirety of spiritual development needed for responsible democratic citizenry. Without the “Yes” chemical, which literally translates as “Original Blessing and sovereignty,” right relationship and divine creativity is diminished, thus laying the foundations for malignant power accumulation and the erosion of human dignity. Material fascism arises from spiritual nuturing if you will, through hormonal disempowerment via power-over status posturing and fear mongering of populations.

A common question asked about testosterone is if and how it may affect mood and/or personality. The belief that testosterone causes aggression or anger is often highly over-rated. In fact when starting on testosterone the majority of people report experiencing a calming, stabilizing, less moody effect rather than the hyped-up reports of increased aggression, anger and rage. The mood stabilizing effect of testosterone make the person becoming easier to be around, more able to socially relate to others, and many other positive characteristics related to self assurance.

Testosterone promotes dominant, agentic, proactive behavior, increased libido, increased energy for action and creative enterprise, confidence, status power and enthusiasm. Normal values of testosterone range from the low 200s to over 1200 ng./dl. for men and from 15 to 70 ng./dl. for women. Testosterone indirectly effects protein synthesis by releasing growth hormone, which increases the release of Insulin Growth Factor (IGF) from the liver. Testosterone promotes increased neurotransmitters and increased neuromuscular junctions, which enhance muscle size.

Testosterone is obviously not the enemy. For without our “Yes”…the source of inner origination - a spiritually disenfranchised population, cut off from genuine empowerment are angry, frustrated and apt to lash out irrationally. Both women and men are being overwhelmed with estrogens and hormonally active chemicals in their environments - in water, plastics, and food.  In fact it is the estrogenization of a population through hormones in meat, milk, plastic toxins etc… that may be breeding conditions ripe for child abuse, domestic violence and war. The major source of estrogenizing compounds in the environment seems to be birth-control pills. Questions of the abuse of power arise from the mismarriage of the sexes, poles, charges, hemispheres. Whatever the question, sovereignty is the answer for the universe is sexed, and so the balance or interplay of the empowered polarities is the answer.

[Jana]

Status appears to be hardwired into ones testosterone production...and testosterone production is somewhat variable depending on ones level of status and the "fit" between status and personality.

Testosterone levels are an accurate predictor of dominance behavior and an individuals need to maintain status and power. These motives may exist outside of conscious awareness, giving people a strong preference or aversion to high status positions linked into their baseline testosterone levels. The study described in the paper “The Mismatch Effect” found that when a mismatch between ones preferred and actual level of status occurs, one becomes aroused and motivated to regain the desired level of status. Status mismatch aggravates emotional distress and increases hyper-vigilance towards status-related information, plus there is an increase in heart rate and cognitive impairment. When testosterone increases this signals the individual that the environment is safe for further attempts at maintaining or enhancing status. However when testosterone decreases the individual is motivated to leave the situation to avoid further loss of status. Robert Sapolsky found that when high status is threatened typically there is an attempt to restore status through some type of antagonistic behavior, and this response is often seen among individuals high in testosterone. While low testosterone individuals might avoid high status positions and dominance battles because they lack the strong motivation and aggressive personality to maintain the high status position. Appointed into a high status position, a low testosterone individual may react in fear and confusion, and exhibit the desire to return to a safer level of status.
*The Mismatch Effect: When Testosterone and Status Are At Odds, by R. Josephs, J Sellers, M. Newman and P Mehta. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2006, Vol 90, No. 6, 999-1013

[Nickeson]

Three cheers for testosterone! In its equal partnership with estrogen the two have made the world what it is today...a place to celebrate.

[Francis]

Your definition seems to imply that there are several types of 'bondage' that block sovereignty. Maybe if you classify the different types of obstacles to sovereignty, the definition would be more clear. To paraphrase:

Sovereignty means proactive self-determination, as opposed to reactive victim-hood. It implies that the self has the information it needs to make informed choices, as opposed to being driven by unconscious forces. It seeks to build on what works, rather than focus on destroying what does not.