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Reading People’s Emotional Energy
Emotions are a stunning expression of our energy, the “vibe” we give off. We register these with intuition. Some people feel good to be around; they improve your mood and vitality. Others are draining; you instinctively want to get away. This “subtle energy” can be felt inches or feet from the body, though it‘s invisible. Indigenous cultures honor this energy as life force. In Chinese medicine it‘s called chi, a vitality that‘s essential to health. Though the molecular structure of subtle energy isn’t fully defined, scientists have measured increased photon emissions and electromagnetic readings about healers who emit it during their work.
Emotional energy is contagious. It can make the difference between a toxic and healthy relationship. It’s crucial to get a clear read on this aspect of anyone you plan to regularly interact with. Then, you can decide whether a relationship is feasible based on your energetic compatibility. In my medical practice and life this chemistry is a deal breaker. Experience has taught me that it’s pointless to work with a patient or form a friendship if such basic rapport isn’t there. You don’t have to force a fit when the energy feels right. Forcing anything is simply the mind’s attempt to interfere with flow. Of course, we all have quirks, anxieties, and fears, but energy cements your bond with others and motivates you to work through the rough spots. Nevertheless, healthy relationships have a momentum that carries them, a surrender that feels more natural when you‘re both in sync.
When reading emotions, realize that what others say or how they appear frequently don‘t match their energy. You must let go of the notion that what you see is what you always get. As a psychiatrist, I’ve observed how people go to great lengths, purposely or not, to appear in certain ways—either to impress, say the right thing, or sell you on something—but this “self” isn’t aligned with their true emotions. Consider these examples: your spouse apologizes for blowing up but her hostility still lingers. A man you just met tries to charm you, but you don’t feel much heart there. A friend seems cheerful but you sense that she’s hurting inside. Realize: just because people smile doesn’t mean they’re happy. Or just because people are reserved, doesn’t mean they’re not ecstatic. Ultimately, the energy transmitted by someone’s smile and presence tells the truth about where they’re at. So, be smart enough to correlate a person’s energy with their emotions. Most people aren’t being intentionally misleading—often they don‘t know what they feel or project. They might tell you one thing—and believe it—but you’ll learn to decode their emotions.
Here, the surrender to focus on is saying “yes” to the messages your body sends. Your mind may want to talk you out of your body’s wisdom. Don’t allow it to. Reading energy lets you attune to how you relate to people, who you feel comfortable around and who you don’t. To avoid bad relationships and regrets, you must let go of trying to convince yourself of anything the body’s intuition doesn’t affirm. To help with this surrender, here’s what to do. When identifying how you energetically respond to others always ask, How does my body feel? Does my energy go up or down? Then follow your body’s lead rather than resisting it. In practical terms this means: you want to marry someone who increases your energy not drains it, regardless of how perfect he or she looks on paper. You want to sit beside a coworker who’s positive, not negative. You want to choose friends you resonate with so that you can nurture each other. Then notice the positive difference in your life. To experience the pleasure of compatible relationships, use the following tips.
Strategies to read emotional energy
Sense people’s presence – This is the overall energy we emit, not necessarily congruent with words or behavior. It‘s the emotional atmosphere surrounding us like a rain cloud or the sun. For instance, they may give off an aura of mystery, joy, or sadness. To compare extremes, think of the Dalai Lama‘s light, compassionate presence versus Charles Manson’s deranged darkness. Presence is also associated with charisma, a personal magnetism that you‘re drawn to. Warning: charisma doesn’t always contain heart, something to beware of. Charisma without heart can’t be trusted. It’s a dangerous combination present in many con artists and seducers.
As you read people notice: does their overall energy feel warm? Calming? Uplifting? Invigorating like a breath of fresh air? Or is it draining? Cold? Detached? Angry? Jarring? Depressed? Do they have a friendly presence that attracts you? Or are you getting the willies, making you back off. Also see if people look anchored in their bodies, indicating their feet are firmly planted on the ground. Or are they floating outside themselves, which may indicate flakiness and distractibility?
Watch people’s eyes – We can make love or hate with our eyes. Our eyes transmit powerful energies, what the Sufi poet Rumi calls “the glance.” Just as the brain has an electromagnetic signal extending beyond the body, studies indicate that the eyes project this too. In fact, research reveals that people can sense when they‘re being stared at, even when no one is in sight—an experience reported by police officers, soldiers and hunters. Indigenous cultures respect the energy of the eyes. Some believe that the “evil eye” is a gaze that inflicts injury or bad luck on its target. Also, science has documented “the look of love.” Joining eyes with a loved one (or dog!) triggers a biochemical response, releasing oxytocin, the warm and fuzzy “love hormone.” The more oxytocin your brain has, the more trusting and peaceful you’ll feel.
Take time to observe people’s eyes. Are they caring? Sexy? Tranquil? Mean? Angry? The way others look at you can make you feel adored or afraid. Also determine: is there someone at home in their eyes, indicating a capacity for intimacy? Or do they seem to be guarded or hiding? Certain people’s eyes can be hypnotic. Avoid looking deeply into eyes you distrust or sense may be dangerous. The less you engage negative people, the less they’ll zone in on you. On the other hand, feel free to fall into people’s eyes who you cherish. Enjoy all that beautiful energy!
Notice the feel of a handshake, hug and touch – We share emotional energy through physical contact much like an electrical current. Ask yourself: Does a handshake or hug feel warm, comfortable, confident? Or is it off-putting so you want to withdraw? Are people’s hands clammy, signaling anxiety. Or limp, suggesting being non-committal and timid? Is their grip too strong, even crushing your fingers, indicating aggression or over control? Along with physical cues, the energy of touch reveals people’s emotions. Some hugs and handshakes impart kindness, joy, and calm whereas others feel clingy, draining, even hostile. Therefore, spend time with people whose energy you like. Be wary of those you don’t so you‘re not depleted. Avoid physical contact (including making love) with anyone whose energy doesn’t feel good.
Listen for people’s tone of voice and laugh – The tone and volume of our voice can tell much about our emotions. Sound frequencies create vibrations. Some frequencies we hear. Below an audible range, sound can be felt (think of a bass vibration.) When reading people, notice how their tone of voice affects you. Words ride the energy of tone, its warmth and coldness. Ask yourself: Does their tone feel soothing? Or is it abrasive, snippy, or whiny? Are they a soft-talker or mumbler whom you can barely hear, signs of meekness or low self-esteem? Or do they talk too loud or too much, signs of anxiety, narcissism, or insensitivity. Are they fast-talkers, trying to sell you something? Or boring you to death with a slow monotone, suggesting depression and no spontaneity? Be aware of sighing which relays sadness or frustration. Also, a pinched voice suggests emotional repression, over control, or a thyroid disorder. Always observe how much people laugh, a sign of lightheartedness. Does their laugh sound genuine? Fake? Child-like? Joyous? Or are they overly serious, rarely laughing? In addition, FBI profilers interpret a quivering voice and sudden change in pitch as potential signs of deception.
Sense people’s heart energy – The most important aspect to read about energy is whether people exude a sense of heart. This is the loving-kindness in us, our capacity for empathy, giving and connection. When heart is present you‘ll feel the warmth of unconditional love emanating from others which makes you feel safe and at ease. It‘s the unspoken sense of being accepted, not judged. No one can fake this. Our heart presence builds through our good intentions, deeds and emotional work to overcome fear and negativity. The heart is the most positive quality anyone can have. It‘s healthy to be drawn to it.
Reading energy is a game-changer where intense emotions blur your clarity. It enables you to see past fantasies or desires to pinpoint someone‘s motivations by sensing invisible messages they give off.
In your life, get used to reading people’s emotions. Factor what you sense into your total assessment. Maybe just a single red flag will appear so you‘re not sure what to do. Then, take your time. Watch how people treat you. Notice if their words back up their behavior. The purpose of reading energy is to become more empathic by sensing the nuances of different personalities. Stay alert to the signals energy sends so that you can see the whole person.
excerpted from Judith Orloff’s book The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life.
Today’s High Pitched Frequencies
D Major: (Sacral, “I feel”, Venus, sensuality, tenderness, spontaneity) The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
C Major: (Root, “I am”, Mars, ability to survive) – Completely Pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naivety, children’s talk.
You can find the C Major at the 3:00 minute marker of the video below:
This is only the second time I’ve heard this high pitched frequency since I’ve been recording them. It’s an innocent and playful frequency that is based in the root chakra where our physical pleasures want to come out and play!
The chord of C Major has pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B and is most commonly found in country music.
The C Major has the mantra of “I FEEL” and is the key of TRIUMPH! Whenever the C Major or C Sharp frequencies arise, I always wonder what is happening behind the scenes, both here on our planet and in the aethers, following the tenet of, “as above, so below”. Something BIG us happening and in this particular frequency on this particular day, you may physically FEEL it!
As always, these high pitched frequencies are also working on higher, etheric levels, giving you the galactic downloads you need at this particular time. You don’t necessarily need to physically hear them to know what they’re doing. We’re ALL receiving benefits from these high pitched frequencies whether you hear them or not!
What is a high pitched frequency?
Every day, people are hearing high pitched frequencies that are not associated with tinnitus or a Vitamin D deficiency. Until recently, many of us were not sure what they exactly meant.
Every note has its own unique frequency. Royal Rife knew this and built a machine that would use frequencies to address terminal illnesses.
These high pitched frequencies that we’re all hearing boil down to energy vibration.
How to personally read these frequencies
Chances are, these frequencies are helping to transmute both past life and present situations and traumas.
They are also showing us how the collective is picking up empathic stress from global situations that subconsciously affect the collective psyche.
You can also look into how these frequencies are affecting you by noticing which ear you’re predominantly hearing these frequencies. Most of the time, it’s not a predominant ear, but sometimes, is distinctively louder!
In QHHT, the left side represents your past while the right side is the present.
You can also look at it from a different perspective: the left side is the Divine Feminine while the right side is the Divine Masculine.
These high pitched frequencies carry information on a multidimensional level and while these frequencies are helping the collective, they are also helping the individuals who seek further meaning into why they’re hearing these specific frequencies RIGHT NOW!
More than ever, it’s important to STAY GROUNDED, especially through times of despair.
Beyond 3D
There’s a specific reason WHY we’re hearing the high pitched frequencies that we’re hearing. They all contain messages within messages (the root note and the notes that comprise the chord) and each has a corresponding chakra energy center associated with it.
On a higher level, our guides are giving us messages through these frequencies, but we need to be able to decipher what each sound is and how these high pitched frequencies play into our daily lives.
I’ve also been looking at the Hermetic meanings of each chakra. You can use this chart as a reference:
Past life or present life transmutations?
When you’re hearing high pitched frequencies, take note of which side of your head that these frequencies are predominantly louder. In QHHT, the left side of your body represents your past life and your right side is your current life. You may be hearing a louder high pitched frequency in your left ear and are transmuting some past life trauma. OR, you may be hearing louder high pitched frequencies in your right ear and are working on current life issues.
Divine messages
You can also look at the left and right hand side of your body as either the Divine Feminine (left side) and the Divine Masculine (right side). You may be receiving messages from an angel or archangel when you hear a predominant high pitched frequency sound in either ear.
It could also represent either a masculine or feminine energy that is in your past or present life.
Encoded messages
Here is an example of the frequencies that I’m charting:
For three days in a row, the key of D was the predominant high pitched frequency. According to the above chart:
D Major: The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
The interpretation of this and how it applies to us right now can be viewed as overcoming a lot of strife, not only here in our 3rd dimensional reality but also in the aethers. As above, so below.
#frequencey#key$Dec 5#Mind Body Spirit#
C Major: (Root, “I am”, Mars, ability to survive) – Completely Pure. Its character is: innocence, simplicity, naivety, children’s talk.
You can find the C Major at the 3:00 minute marker of the video below:
This is only the second time I’ve heard this high pitched frequency since I’ve been recording them. It’s an innocent and playful frequency that is based in the root chakra where our physical pleasures want to come out and play!
The chord of C Major has pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B and is most commonly found in country music.
The C Major has the mantra of “I FEEL” and is the key of TRIUMPH! Whenever the C Major or C Sharp frequencies arise, I always wonder what is happening behind the scenes, both here on our planet and in the aethers, following the tenet of, “as above, so below”. Something BIG us happening and in this particular frequency on this particular day, you may physically FEEL it!
As always, these high pitched frequencies are also working on higher, etheric levels, giving you the galactic downloads you need at this particular time. You don’t necessarily need to physically hear them to know what they’re doing. We’re ALL receiving benefits from these high pitched frequencies whether you hear them or not!
What is a high pitched frequency?
Every day, people are hearing high pitched frequencies that are not associated with tinnitus or a Vitamin D deficiency. Until recently, many of us were not sure what they exactly meant.
Every note has its own unique frequency. Royal Rife knew this and built a machine that would use frequencies to address terminal illnesses.
These high pitched frequencies that we’re all hearing boil down to energy vibration.
How to personally read these frequencies
Chances are, these frequencies are helping to transmute both past life and present situations and traumas.
They are also showing us how the collective is picking up empathic stress from global situations that subconsciously affect the collective psyche.
You can also look into how these frequencies are affecting you by noticing which ear you’re predominantly hearing these frequencies. Most of the time, it’s not a predominant ear, but sometimes, is distinctively louder!
In QHHT, the left side represents your past while the right side is the present.
You can also look at it from a different perspective: the left side is the Divine Feminine while the right side is the Divine Masculine.
These high pitched frequencies carry information on a multidimensional level and while these frequencies are helping the collective, they are also helping the individuals who seek further meaning into why they’re hearing these specific frequencies RIGHT NOW!
More than ever, it’s important to STAY GROUNDED, especially through times of despair.
Beyond 3D
There’s a specific reason WHY we’re hearing the high pitched frequencies that we’re hearing. They all contain messages within messages (the root note and the notes that comprise the chord) and each has a corresponding chakra energy center associated with it.
On a higher level, our guides are giving us messages through these frequencies, but we need to be able to decipher what each sound is and how these high pitched frequencies play into our daily lives.
I’ve also been looking at the Hermetic meanings of each chakra. You can use this chart as a reference:
Past life or present life transmutations?
When you’re hearing high pitched frequencies, take note of which side of your head that these frequencies are predominantly louder. In QHHT, the left side of your body represents your past life and your right side is your current life. You may be hearing a louder high pitched frequency in your left ear and are transmuting some past life trauma. OR, you may be hearing louder high pitched frequencies in your right ear and are working on current life issues.
Divine messages
You can also look at the left and right hand side of your body as either the Divine Feminine (left side) and the Divine Masculine (right side). You may be receiving messages from an angel or archangel when you hear a predominant high pitched frequency sound in either ear.
It could also represent either a masculine or feminine energy that is in your past or present life.
Encoded messages
Here is an example of the frequencies that I’m charting:
For three days in a row, the key of D was the predominant high pitched frequency. According to the above chart:
D Major: The key of triumph, of Hallelujahs, of war-cries, of victory-rejoicing. Thus, the inviting symphonies, the marches, holiday songs and heaven-rejoicing choruses are set in this key.
The interpretation of this and how it applies to us right now can be viewed as overcoming a lot of strife, not only here in our 3rd dimensional reality but also in the aethers. As above, so below.
#frequencey#key$Dec 5#Mind Body Spirit#
Signs You May be an Angel in Training
Angel in Training Sign #1 You’re thirsty for new knowledge and you feel different from others.
Angel in Training Sign #2 You are deeply convinced that Life has a more profound meaning than just living an ordinary life.
Angel in Training Sign #3 One day, you feel good, you sense Life and Light… and the next, and you are sad and have no energy.
Angel in Training Sign #4 While your friends live in matter without asking themselves any questions, you wonder, “Who is happier, them or me?”
Angel in Training Sign #5 You want to be right and just, you are intense…sometimes too much, sometimes not enough.
Angel in Training Sign #6 You feel discrepancies; you always think it is your fault, or the fault of others, and you don’t understand why you feel like this.
Angel in Training Sign #7 You can foresee certain events before they happen.
Angel in Training Sign #8 You can feel disillusioned by things that happened in the world or in your life, and nothing provides you a sense of fulfillment in your daily life.
Angel in Training Sign #9 You are extremely sensitive; you start to see signs and gradually you start to feel people’s real intention or the message behind the words.
Angel in Training Sign #10 You wake up in the middle of the night, or during the day, you always see the same numbers: 111, 333, 555, etc.
Angel in Training Sign #11 You wish to transform yourself into a better person and to help others.When you receive all these signs, it means that you are in initiation… that you are ready to receive knowledge ready to meet God.
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Inner Alchemy Formulas to Immortality
Introduction to the 9 Tao Inner Alchemy Formulas to Immortality
Primordial Force Activation
Basic Sexual Alchemy Practice
Fusion of 5 Elements & 8 Pakua Forces
Lesser Enlightenment of Kan and Li
Greater Enlightenment of Kan and Li
Greatest Enlightenment of Kan and Li
Sealing of the Five Senses
Congress on Heaven and Earth
Reunion of Heaven and Man
In order to activate the Primordial Force, we need to purify the organs and learn grounding to the earth. The most powerful force that can be used to support us is the primordial force of Earth. Taoist practice is involved with the yin/yang, the PH balance of acid and alkaline. It is also the balance of negative and positive emotions—we do not look at negative as sin.
Inner Smile Microcosmic Orbit1. Inner Smile: Use the power of smiling to activate the relaxation response in the parasympathetic nervous system. Get rid of the negative emotion and rebalance the positive emotion. When we learn to smile to the negative and make friends with it, we can find a way to live in harmony together and enhance our health. Transforming negative emotional energy patterns into the positive components in the organs helps to reprogram the genes and DNA. The Inner Smile is one of the most simple and powerful tools for healing.
Microcosmic Orbit: Opening Chi (body’s life force energy) flow in the energy pathways from the perineum (area Microcosmic Orbitbetween sexual organs and anus) up the spine, through the head and back down the front side of the orbit will help to activate the orbiting of forces of the solar system and the universe. This will help draw in more primordial force from the earth through the soles of the feet up to the spine and from the universe in through the crown to combine in the Lower Tan Tien (abdominal area), the heart and the brain.
Chi Self-Massage: Simple massage techniques are used to remove blockages and to enhance the healthy distribution of Chi in the body from head to toe. This is good to do after meditation and other practices where a lot of chi is activated.
Basic Practices
Chi Kung for Healing, Deep Abdominal Breathing, Energizer and Empty Force Breath: These are breathing methods to open and energize the tan tien, the main chi (life force energy) storage area of the body.
Laughing Chi Kung: Activate the immune system and defense system. Laugh to activate the thymus gland and the bone marrow.
Activate the Stem Cells Chi Kung: With the use of a bamboo hitter and a wire hitter, vibrate parts of the body so the stem cells get the message on where to go for healing and regeneration.
Elixir Chi Kung: All of our body hair, including the armpits and pubic hair are like antennas extended to the universe to absorb primordial force. Saliva is the Water of Life. Activate the saliva and charge it with oxygen and the chi of nature, earth and the cosmic chi. With the Elixir Swallow technique, the charged saliva will be turned into instant chi (life force)—the most powerful healing power.
Tan Tien Chi Kung: Cultivate and condense chi in the lower tan tien. Pack chi power in all 9 areas of the tan tien and the associated organs, kuas, tendons and ligaments using the Dragon and Tiger Breath and 11 animal exercise postures.
Iron Shirt Chi Kung I: Do Chi Breathing and Rooting to Ground while unifying and strengthening bone structure alignment. Circulate forces of Earth and the Universe.
Iron Shirt Chi Kung II: Activate and grow the tendons.
Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Regenerate the bone marrow and activate the stem cells for regeneration and healing.
Tai Chi Chi Kung I: Develop the inner structure and chi flow of Tai Chi. Meditation in movement, movement in meditation.
Tao Yin: A Taoist yoga that stimulates chi flow in meridians (chi pathways delineated in Traditional Chinese Medicine acupuncture maps of the energy body) affected by each exercise. Coordinate deep breathing, chi, mind and body for deep sensing. Be more relaxed and refreshed. Induce elasticity of tendons, ligaments and associated muscles. Condition the spine, psoas muscles and patterns of movement for health and inner development. Tao Yin
Tai Chi Chi Kung II: Use the discharge technique to absorb and transmit the Universal and Earth Forces in this higher level of moving meditation.
Physical Body Chi Kung:
1. Chi Nei Tsang I (internal organs Detox Chi Massage) & Chi Micro Current
No prerequisites (Practitioner Certification) Taoist sages observed that humans often develop energy blockages in and around their internal organs that result in knots and tangles in the abdomen. These can constrict the flow of chi, eventually resulting in physical ailments. By using Chi Nei Tsang I’s 40 techniques of navel and deep organ energy massage you learn to release and clear blockages, toxins, excessive heat and negative emotions. Participants may qualify to enter a program leading to certification through submission of practice case studies.
The “CNT Microcurrent” is TAO innovative 2016 Therapeutic Treatment Technology which combines Microcurrent Electrical Therapy, Cranial Electro therapy Stimulation <CES> and Taoist Chi Nei Tsang Therapeutic Massage which just only not a general treatments that reduce the local pain – acute or chronic pain relieving, etc… The CNT microcurrent which help & support the muscle-tendons pH imbalance Autonomic Nervous System imbalance by Using the most powerful of Modern Tao Signature Therapy applied Technique.
Chi Nei Tsang II, Elixir Chi Kung (Five Finger Kung Fu) (Certification)
Prerequisites: Chi Nei Tsang I (Teacher Certification) Chi Nei Tsang II uses the Elbow Technique, working primarily with the trapped winds of the body. These can become sick or evil winds which can lead to heart attack if not released. The student will learn about the Ten Winds, how to chase and discharge them from the body and how to inject good Chi back into the vital organs and glands. Elixir Chi Kung consists of 11 postures; nine of these involve gathering the forces through the saliva.
Chi Nei Tsang III Healing Harmony Tok Sen (Certification)
New Development in Chi Nei Tsang, Chi Nei Tsang III Tok Sen (Muscle, Tendon & Meridian Massage) is the final chapter of the Chi Nei Tsang Internal Tendon Massage moving the energy (chi) throughout the body while releasing and opening up its passages. Learn to use the hand techniques (finger presser, twisting & spiraling, hand scooping & wave techniques) used in Chi Nei Tsang I to open up and release the brockages in the Abdominal, Arteries, Muscles, Tendons, Vertebras, Shoulder Blades, Coccyx, Arms, Legs, Feet, Joints, Hands, Neck and Meridian Lines. Taught by Master Chia
Chi Nei Tsang IV Karsai Nei Tsang Sexual Organ Detox (Certification)
New Development in Chi Nei Tsang, Karsai Nei Tsang, also known as Genital Health Massage, has been developed specifically for improving the health of the genitals and the genital area. We have neglected our sexual organs for far loo long, our genitals need attention and expert care just like the rest of our organs. Karsai Nei Tsang provides this care. The Karsai Nei Tsang practitioner uses deep, direct pressure with smalt circular massage movements to break up and dissolve the sedimentation in the circulatory system, release the toxicity and remove the physical and emotional block- ages In the pelvic area. Genital Health Massage addresses the common problems associated with our sexuat organs; impotency, frequent and difficult urination, painful menstruation, painful inter- course and low sexual libido. It is also effective in alleviating back pain, improving the body’s alignment, strengthening the pelvic floor muscles and increasing general vitality.
Chi Nei Tsang V Life Pulse Massage (Certification)
Prerequisites: Chi Nei Tsang I Life Pulse Massage is a healing method for activating the vital pulses of your body. This ancient Taoist healing practice, an advanced branch of traditional Chi Nei Tsang abdominal massage, opens a new dimension of healing based on the flow of our vital essence of blood and Chi to improve, revitalize and balance the health of our organs and functions.
Cosmic Body Chi Kung:
Cosmic Healing Chi Kung I: Basic practices for general healing sessions with specific light energies of the primordial force are introduced. The procedure for creating healing ‘chi’ water by changing the water’s structure with one’s mind-eye-heart power and primordial force is also taught.
Cosmic Healing Chi Kung II: More advanced methods are learned, and specific healing applications are taught for specific ailments in specific areas of the body. The practitioner learns meditations focused on connecting parts of the body to the structure of the universe in the process of spiritualization and opening to more powerful healing experiences with the primordial force.
SEXUAL ALCHEMY
Healing Love Sexual Alchemy Master Mantak ChiaSexual organs and the kidneys store part of the Jing, the essence of the primordial force. Learn how to conserve and store it. More sexual energy will help to attract and multiply the primordial chi. Men learn how to control ejaculation and to transform the sexual energy into Chi (life force) and then transform it up to spirit force. Women learn how to control menstruation and transform the blood into chi and likewise transform it up to spirit force. Eventually, there will be less blood lost and more will be converted into chi.
1. Male Sexual Alchemy
Although the principle of conservation applies to both men and women, the actual practice of conserving Ching Chi differs. In studying the nature of sex, Taoist masters found that the main way men lose Ching Chi is through ejaculation, and developed a way to control and use sexual energy through the practice of Testicle Breathing, Power Lock and the Orgasmic Upward Draw. By learning to separate orgasm and ejaculation – two distinct physical processes – men can transform a momentary release into countless peaks of whole body orgasms without losing an erection. In addition to becoming better sexual partners, multi-orgasmic men enjoy increased vitality and longevity because they minimize the fatigue and depletion that follow ejaculation -without celibacy! Cultivating, conserving, redirecting and circulation of the generative force from the sexual organs to higher centers of the body invigorates and rejuvenates all the vital functions and activates the higher forces. The exchange and balancing of male and female energies is also examined, within the body and with one’s partner.
2. Female Sexual Alchemy
Women lose little sexual energy through orgasm, but instead lose it primarily through menstruation and childbearing. The sexual guidance and exercises presented are being introduced plainly to the Western public for the first time. For thousands of years Taoist masters taught these secrets only to very small numbers of people in the royal courts and in esoteric circles, who were sworn to silence. Master Chia presents three main practices that women can use to cultivate and enhance their sexual energy: the Ovarian Breathing, Breast Massage and the Orgasmic Upward Draw. When this practice is mastered one can experience a total body orgasm that is beyond ordinary vaginal orgasm without losing life-force energy. A series of exercises with a jade or stone egg is used to strengthen the urogenital and pelvic diaphragm, the muscles of the vagina and the glands, tendons and nervous system. The practice can shorten menstruation, reduce cramps and compress more life force energy (Chi) into the ovaries for more sexual and creative power.
These exercises lend themselves to titters by the uninformed, but in fact have been successfully practiced for thousands of years to enhance the potency and pleasure of the woman fortunate enough to know about them.
3. Multi Orgasmic Couple
Men and women have different sexual energies – and too often this leads to disharmony, preventing us from fully exploring our sexual potential. By harnessing the power of an ancient tradition of sexual wisdom you and your partner can learn to use physical and psychological techniques to experience the bliss of a whole body sexual experience with orgasm after orgasm. The unique “Sexercises” presented can help anyone go deeper into a loving relationship. The art that has evolved over centuries of Taoist understanding can be brought to life again today to further expand the healing power for lovers. Couples will find and increase their sexual energy potential, and deepen their physical compatibility, as well as develop an ecstatic form of acupressure. Sexuality taught as a way for health and healing, spiritual growth and longevity.
The understanding of the dynamics of the universe, the planet earth, and the human body with respect to their relationship to the Five Agents of Nature (or Energy Phases) and the Eight Forces of Nature is the corner stone of the Fusion Practice. In our inner universe, our organs correspond with these Five Phases of Energy that are part of the Primordial Force (kidneys—water, heart—fire, liver—wood, lungs—metal and spleen—earth). Due to the alignment of forces in the universe at the time of conception or birth etc., some people may be born in the condition of being weak or missing in some parts of the primordial force causing an imbalance in the body. The Fusion practice combines the energies of the Five Phases of Energy into one harmonious whole.
In correspondence to the five elemental forces in nature on Earth, there are dominant forces that affect us from other planets of our solar system. We can balance ourselves by drawing in the appropriate primordial forces from the planets: Mars—fire, Mercury—water, etc. The Tao also recognizes the eight primary forces of the universe, which include the five elements. Each of these forces is represented by a unique trigram combination of three yin and yang lines. Further combinations of the eight primordial forces account for everything in life and the universe. The 64 sixty-four combinations of these eight primordial forces are the basis of the ‘world formula’ of the I Ching. Their mathematical structure corresponds precisely with the structure of the DNA in all living things, including each one of us humans. Again, this is an amazing correspondence of the insights of the ancient Taoists and the discoveries of modern genetic science!
Eight-sided Pakuas are created and used to draw the organs’ energies into their spinning centers. These energies mix with and are transformed by the elemental forces of nature, the planets and the eight primordial forces.
In the practices of Fusion I, II and III, by blending—fusing—all these forces together in the Pakua, any negative emotional qualities or imbalances from the organs are neutralized. The organs’ energy is transformed in the fusion processes. The transformed energy becomes a more refined, balanced quality of energy that is stronger and attuned to a higher quality. It is used to attract more primordial force—like coming into ‘oneness with God.’
Fusion 1
Pakuas for More Powerful Chi Transformation Establish the vibrating essence of the trigrams of the eight primordial forces in pakuas. Neutralize negative energies from the organs with primordial forces of the pakuas. Form a pearl of condensed energy to circulate in the Microcosmic Orbit.
Fusion II
Open Thrusting and Belt Channels Fuse positive energies and create powerful positively charged pearls of life force, chi. Use them to open the inner thrusting channels and the outer protective belt channels. Work with energy circles to broaden the scope of primordial force access and protection.
The second level of Fusion practice teaches additional methods of circulating the pure energy of the five organs once they are freed of negative emotions. When the five organs are cleansed, the positive emotions of kindness, gentleness, respect, fairness, justice, and love are combined into pearls of compassion energy that emerge as a natural expression of internal balance. We use the master Pakua ‘energy transforming factory’ to produce these positive chi pearls, which are then used to open the inner thrusting channels and the outer protective belt channels. Also work with energy circles to broaden the range of primordial force access and protection. This is part of the process of forming our energy body vehicle for gathering more primordial force for health, healing and spiritual development.
Fusion III
Bridge, Regulator and Protection Channels Use the chi pearls to open and connect the Bridge and Regulator Channels, and then open more protective channels for the spine, head and body. Use all of these to further refine and protect the energy body.
The third level of Fusion practice completes the cleansing of the energy channels in the body by opening the Bridge and Regulator channels. In this level you build some extra psychic protection, and learn techniques to drive out negative energy entities that attach to the spine and other areas. There are specialized practices to protect the spine and to clear the brain. The opening of the Microcosmic Orbit, the Thrusting Channels, the Belt Channel, the Great Regulator, and Great Bridge Channels makes the body extremely permeable to the circulation of vital energy. The unhindered circulation of energy is the foundation of perfect physical and emotional health. The Fusion practice is one of the greatest achievements of the ancient Taoist masters, as it gives the individual a way of freeing the body of negative emotions, and, at the same time, allows the pure virtues to shine forth.
INNER SEXUAL ALCHEMY II (FIRE &WATER)
Kan and Li spiritual healing self intercourse practice method from Master Mantak chiaReunite with the Primordial Force. The heart stores part of the primordial force (yuan shen). The sexual organ also stores part of the primordial force. When these two combine together, they will form a more complete force. This process establishes a powerful ‘steaming’ effect in the tan tien cauldron at the level of the navel center. This is used to cleanse, purify and strengthen the organs and brain to better attract the primordial force. Our spiritual fetus is established in the Tan Tien.
The equinoxes and solstices that mark the changes of the seasons provide special opportunities to get a boost of energy in these Kan and Li practices.
The vernal equinox at the beginning of spring time is when the yin and yang energies are balanced between the cold water energy of winter and the hot fire energy of summer. The light of day is balanced with the darkness of night. As the cold of winter yin moves to the heat of summer yang, the earth opens its energy of the warm moist growing power in abundance. It is a great opportunity to be open and interact with it to receive the perfectly balanced quality of water and fire energy. So, humans can make use of this special offering of the primordial force from the earth for the inner alchemy in resonance with our kidney/sexual energy and our heart energy that we are missing. This is a special time to get a huge boost of the earth’s primordial chi.
Lesser Kan and Li – Taoist Internal Sexual Practice
Fusion Practice seals off body (energy) for K&L (Internal Energy Maps). K&L manages the polarity in physical plane (water & fire). Taoist Theory Of Energy Resonance Fields (Breathing in – Breathing out) from the Wu Chi to the Human. 1st Grade Healing Tao alchemy practice with the 3 forces : Yin, Yang & Neutral (center-stillness) in the act of rising & falling. There is a point in which is neither rising or falling (neutral part) that gives you a third channel or the core channel (neutral) which has no polarity.
In Tai Chi symbol there is a point or surface that both forces meet and it is this line (surface or point) that is the neutral line. When you slow your mind that becomes real or valid. The problem is the ego or false mind does not want to recognize it because when this appears the ego loses its identity or substance (polarity).
Alchemy is reversing the creation cycle from physical to emotional (energy) to the spiritual level on a conscious level going back to the Wu Chi (original force) through later heaven then early heaven vortexes. The main EIGHT CHANNELS are: Functional (Front-Yin), Governing (Back-Yang), Core (Central-Neutral), Belt, Bridge (Front Arm & Back Leg) & Regulator Channels. The middle thrusting channel is the core (neutral) channel of the body. The middle path they way of the Tao is the core channel. The Lower Tan Tien is the middle point of the core channel in relationship to the physical body length.
Lesser Kan and Li utilizing the emotional & sexual energy to steam or transfer the energy; then the key is that it connects back to the core channel or point which connects us directly with the Wu Chi through all the vortexes directly back to the source. The sexual energy is powerful because it is our sexual energy in the physical body & when we enter the physical plane we split or fragment our soul to form our gender.
Wood, fire, metal (lead & gold shrinking into air), water, earth (Core Channel -Neutral Force). The Key in Kan & Li Practice is to combine the wood (+,-) & fire (+,+) with triple yang (positive) & 1 yin as the wood burn creating the fire; then combine water (-,-) & metal (-,+) with triple yin (negative) & 1 yang as the metal cauldron holds the water so it can steam the internal body. Yang (fire & wood) descents & yin (water & metal) ascents. By reversing the flow to the cauldron in the Core Channels the neutral force ascents through with 3 legs or 3 forces; the steam is the neutral force which baths all the organs. Water & sexual fluids are cool (kidney & lung). Heart & Thinking (Fire) are warming
Lesser Kan and Li Practice: Reversing & Steaming the Water & Fire Energies
Rub Kidneys-activate heart with palms on heart center & ming men PT with heart sound HAWWWW.
Rock on hips with hands on belly. (Ask feelings of all students (45) after all exercises)
Gather the Yang energy (Heart & Wood), Red Fire Ball with right hand down right side (Right Thrusting Channel)
Gather the Yin energy (Kidney & Metal) Blue Ice Ball with left hand rise up left side (Left Thrusting Channel)
Move Red Fire Ball to perineum (Middle Thrusting Channel) & Blue Ice Ball to solar plexus (Core Channel) connecting them at he navel then fire melts & draws the ice into steam-use the hands to feel the sensations.
The Blue/Green & Red Balls (Pearls) come together along with the Blue/Black & White Balls (Pearls) and start to enlarge in cauldron & cook generating the steam (Neutral Force) to steam the organs.
Setting up the lab or kitchen: Seal the body off with egg or bubble 1′ around the body-Sealed inside the egg by microcosmic orbit (top & bottom) & Belt Channels (sides) sealing the lab off likes a cocoon.
Cup the pearls & fan the fire with Belly breath & steam or mist (neutral temperature) the kidneys, liver, spleen, pancreas, lungs & heart releasing the elements healing everything with neutral force (mist).
Mind is the tool to observe & shifts into another consciousness in the steaming process.
Pulsations: Move the cauldron into spine-Pulsate spine with cauldron-Connect pulsation with each of the organs’ own pulse rate-Tune into your inner symphony – listen to the pulsation lessening the heart’s work helping the heart & strengthen your life. Feel the Energy (Subtle) bodies breath or pulsate faster than the physical body-breatharian breathes totally from the subtle bodies. From Wu Chi (Essence-Original Spirit) a CHI BELT WAVE to the Subtle Bodies: Causal, Soul, Mental, Emotional, Astral, Physical, Ego, & back to the Wu Chi-the Cosmic Pulsation (Breathing in- Breathing out). Feel temperature pulsation (hot & cold).
Feel the spinal cord steaming (breathing) neutralizing the spinal fluid satisfying all the desires
& needs of the body no longer needing any external air utilizing the CHI in the body.
Feel the steam heal the lymph system & fluids releasing & popping the lymph nodes.
Inner eye: window to see & witness the ego manifestations integrated in our daily lives. Negative ego-reacts to events in the physical plane; Positive ego-promotes communicating to the subtle bodies. Inferior ego transmission relates to the ego not from the Soul. Immortal Ego creates from essence into anything.
Self intercourse: focus on what you are looking for in a relationship; then create orgasm in cauldron growing the Immortal Fetus from (Hun) Green Dragon (3 Higher Souls) Wood-Liver-Thunder-Wind- controlling spiritual attachments, & (Po) White Tiger (7 Physical Souls) Metal controlling emotional attachments.
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS ALCHEMY – GREATER ENLIGHTENMENT
(Fire &Water)
Greater Kan and Li inner alchemy practice secret for enlightenment by Master Mantak ChiaFurther Reunite with the Primordial Force. Another cauldron is established in the solar plexus center to draw on the yin and yang forces of the sun, moon and planets to further amplify the processes begun in the lower cauldron.
The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of the year when the sun is at its highest point of its arc in our sky. All living things, the plants, flowers and trees expand to draw on the fullness of this power of the sun. This is a great time to draw in the missing primordial force of the sun when we work in the cauldron at the solar plexus.
This formula comprises the Taoist Dah Kan Li (Ta Kan Li) practice. It uses the same energy relationship of Yin and Yang inversion but increases to an extraordinary degree the amount of energy that may be drawn up into the body. At this stage, the mixing, transforming, and harmonizing of energy takes place in the solar plexus. The increasing amplitude of power is due to the fact that the formula not only draws Yin and Yang energy from within the body, but also draws the power directly from Heaven and Earth or ground (Yang and Yin, respectively), and adds the elemental powers to those of one’s own body. In fact, power can be drawn from any energy source, such as the Moon, Wood, Earth, Flowers, Animals, Light, etc. The formula consists of: Moving the stove and changing the cauldron; Greater water and fire mixture (self-intercourse). Greater transformation of sexual power into the higher level. Gathering the outer and inner alchemical agents to restore the generative force and invigorate the brain. Cultivating the body and soul. Beginning the refining of the sexual power (generative force, vital force, Ching Chi). Absorbing Mother Earth (Yin) power and Father Heaven (Yang) power and Father Heaven (Yang) power. Mixing with sperm and ovary power (body) and soul. Raising the soul. Retaining the positive generative force (creative) force, and keeping it from draining away. Gradually doing away with food, and depending on self sufficiency and primordial force. Giving birth to the spirit, transferring good virtues and Chi energy channels into the spiritual body. Practicing to overcome death. Opening the crown. Space travelling.
PLANET, STAR AND SOUL INTERNAL ALCHEMY –
GREATEST KAN AND LI (FIRE &WATER)
Greatest Kan and Li practice Mantak Chia internal alchemyReunite with the Internal Alchemy Primordial Force Still More. Establish another cauldron in the heart center and expand the body to become a Cosmic Being, billions of light years from head to toe. Become an immense being of the universe whose Crystal Palace is the North Star with constellations and planets for vital internal alchemy organs. Be this being that beams down its exquisite rays to one cell of its being, the human on planet Earth meditating up to the stars. Cosmic consciousness opens the three internal alchemy tan tiens to receive primordial force from their heavenly counterpart.
By manifesting the intention to connect the relevant heavenly bodies to the appropriate parts of one’s body, we attract the cosmic primordial forces needed for our internal alchemy to further develop our energy (soul) body and spirit body. This more refined alchemy in the heart cauldron enhances and furthers the steaming processes of water and fire, yin and yang, energies begun in the lower cauldrons.
The autumnal equinox at the beginning of the fall season is when the yin and yang energies are balanced between the hot fire energy of summer and the cold water energy of winter. Again, the days and nights are balanced as the days become shorter. As the heat of summer yang moves to the cold of winter yin, it’s a good time to get extra benefit in the Greatest Kan and Li practice of drawing the missing heavenly primordial force into the body. In resonance with the tendency of the weather, the cells of the body are contracting and drawing inward from the cool dry weather after the expanding heat of the summer.
The soul body is yin energy, and the spiritual body is yang energy. The soul body (yin) serves as an earth cable and absorbs the yang energy from the heavenly ‘wire’ to the soul body and down to the human body. It also absorbs the earth energy to balance the yang energy absorbed from the heavenly (spirit) body.
This internal alchemy formula is Yin and Yang power mixed at a higher energy center. It helps to reverse the aging process by re-establishing the thymus gland and increasing natural immunity. This means that healing energy is radiated from a more powerful point in the body, providing greater benefits to the physical and ethereal bodies. The formula consists of: Moving the stove and changing the cauldron to the higher center. Absorbing the Solar and Lunar power. Greatest mixing, transforming, steaming and purifying of sexual power (generative force), soul, Mother Earth, Father Heaven, Solar and Lunar power. Mixing the visual power with the vital power. Mixing (sublimating) the body, soul and spirit.
STAR AND GALAXY ALCHEMY
sealing of the five senses inner alchemy methods Taoist Master Mantak ChiaFinally, we add another cauldron to the head, the upper tan tien. This cauldron is located at the mid-eyebrow point. It unifies the five shen, the five streams of personal consciousness that operate through our senses, with the five forces of the collective Stellar Self. The body of our stellar mind can be viewed in the four quadrants of fixed stars in the night sky, originally symbolized by heraldic animals (Black Turtle, Red Phoenix, Green Dragon, and White Tiger). The fifth, the quintessence, is the Purple Pole Star in the center of the sky, with the Great Bear of the Big Dipper marking the progression of the seasons as its handles rotates like the arm of a cosmic clock.
These personal and stellar essences are fused in the upper tan tien in the cauldron at the mid-eyebrow point. This is the process of our Inner Sage attaining the celestial level of immortality. The pure open space connecting the three tan tien cauldrons (at the navel, heart and mid-eyebrow) is integrated. This stabilizes the celestial axis. Profound peace and different spiritual qualities continuously manifest from this activated core and radiate sonically into our physical becoming. We hear the current of inner sound. Our soul pattern expands its conscious destiny to include dimensions of life beyond the physical plane.
This very high formula effects a literal transmutation of the warm current or Chi into mental energy or energy of the soul. To do this, we must seal the five senses, for each one is an open gate of energy loss. In other words, power flows out from each of the sense organs unless there is an esoteric sealing of these doors of energy movement. They must release energy only when specifically called upon to convey information. Abuse of the senses leads to far more energy loss and degradation than people ordinarily realize. Each of the elements has a corresponding sense through which its elemental force may be gathered or spent. The eye corresponds to fire; the tongue to water; the left ear to metal; the right ear to wood; the nose to earth.
The Sealing of the Five Senses formula consists of: Sealing the five thieves: ears, eyes, nose, tongue & body. Controlling the heart, and seven emotions (pleasure, anger, love, hate and desire). Uniting and transmuting the inner alchemical agent into life-preserving true vitality. Purifying the spirit. Raising the spirit; stopping the spirit from wandering outside in quest of sense data. Eliminating decayed food and depending on the undecayed food, the Primordial force, is the True Breatharian.
HEAVEN AND EARTH ALCHEMY
Heaven and Earth inner alchemy method by Taoist Master Mantak Chia formulasThis practice integrates the Early Heaven or formless Self with the Later Heaven (Earth) physical Self. The Self here identifies itself here with two dimensions that co-exist and co-create: the “formless form” of our being and the “substantial form” of our becoming. These two polar dimensions of our greater Self engage in cosmic sex. They couple in order to re-open the portal to their Original state, or “Pre-Self”. This pre-state or Primordial Heaven is called hundun, the primal chaos-unity that preceded the “big bang” of the cosmic egg cracking open.
The Three Originals (san yuan) of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity are gathered in the three body cauldrons as original Ching (Jing), original Chi, and original Shen. This three-tone harmonic chord is resonated with the fundamental or original tone of time and space. Consciousness then stabilizes in the axial center where our true multi-dimensional nature can now be embodied. This is symbolized by a tonal double vortex spinning faster than the speed of light within the void of space. Into this is fused our inner sage’s immortal presence, the quintessence of humanity meditating in the center of a cosmic torus (spiritual black hole). We must enter this portal to complete our journey of Return to the Origin.
This formula is difficult to describe in words. It involves the incarnation of a male and a female entity within the body of the practioner. These two entities have sexual intercourse within the body. It involves the mixing of the Yin and Yang powers on and about the crown of the head, being totally open to receive energy from above, and the regrowth of the pineal gland to its fullest use. When the pineal gland has developed to its fullest potential, it will serve as a compass to tell us in which direction our aspirations can be found. Taoist Esotericism is a method of mastering the spirit, as described in Taoist Alchemy Without the body, the Tao cannot be attained, but with the body, truth can never be realized.
This formula consists of: Mingling (uniting) the body, soul, spirit with the universe, fully developing the positive to eradicate the negative completely, and returning the spirit to nothingness.
Reunion of heaven and Man
This stage is the integration of the eight previous levels of consciousness into the experience of living simultaneously in the present moment in all dimensions, from physical linear time to spirit’s eternal time. This state cannot be fully known or defined conceptually for others. Perhaps it might be conceptualized as the experience of living fully in the Wu Chi, the Supreme Unknown.
This is the true achievement of the authentic or Immortal Self, a permanent state of grace known as Wu Wei, effortless action, or spontaneous action without acting. Creation (of the manifest) and Return to Formless Origin seamlessly complete each other. Attainment of this ninth level is spontaneous, and happens when the inner will of our Immortal sage within has reached complete alignment with the Tao. It may occur only by direct transmission from the Tao to the mature and receptive adept.
We compare the body to a ship, and the soul to the engine and propeller of a ship. This ship carries a very precious and very large diamond which it is assigned to transport to a very distant shore. If your ship is damaged (a sick and ill body), no matter how good the engine is, you are not going to get very far and may even sink. Thus, we advise against spiritual training unless all of the channels in the body have been properly opened, and have been made ready to receive the 10,000 or 100,000 volts of super power which will pour down into them. The Taoist approach, which has been passed down to us for over five thousand years, consists of many thousands of methods. The formulae and practices we describe in these books are based on such secret knowledge and the author’s own experience during over forty years of study and of successively teaching thousands of students.
The Main Goal of Taoist Practitioners: This level—overcoming reincarnation and the fear of death through Enlightenment. Higher Level—the immortal spirit and life after death. Highest Level—the immortal spirit in an immortal body. This body functions like a mobile home to the spirit and soul as it moves through the subtle planes, allowing greater power of manifestation.
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TRANSFORM YOUR WORLD
Whatever you put out into the universe is what you get back. If you put out good intentions and think positive thoughts then you attract positive circumstances into your life. But if you put out bad intentions and think negative thoughts you then you attract negative circumstances.
It has been scientifically proven that everything is made of energy.
Energy just vibrates at different frequencies.
Everything is connected into this one infinite field of energy that we call the universe, so if everything is energy so that means everything is governed by the same laws of energy.
Like frequencies attract like frequencies.
There are certain people that you just seem to gravitate towards, you feel comfortable around them and there are certain people that just seem to repel you, you feel uncomfortable around them.
When you vibe with someone you guys gravitate towards each other because you have similar energies, you guys resonate on the same wavelength, you probably notice that you have a lot in common.
When you vibe with someone its very likely that you’re going to have a lot in common with that person.
When you’re vibing with someone you’ll probably notice that you feel energized around them, that’s because you guys are connecting, so there is energy transferring back and forth from each other, so you guys are feeding off each other’s energy.
When you connect with someone communication is easy.
On the other hand, If you don’t vibe with someone there will be a feeling of disconnect, communication will be a lot more difficult. You may even feel uncomfortable around that person. And just want to get away from that person. That’s because your energies are repelling each other. You guys just don’t vibe.
Places also have their own vibe depending on the surroundings and energy of the people who are occupying that space.
Your energy pulls you to certain places because it is a vibrational match.
Whatever vibration you are emitting will determine what you attract, but not only what you attract but also what you are attracted to, remember attraction works both ways.
So your vibration will not only determine the people and things that you attract into your life but it will also determine the direction that you are attracted to, it will determine which path you get pulled towards.
The universe will only deliver to you what you are on a vibrational match with, so as your vibration changes then the experience that the universe delivers to you will also change.
People who have good luck are usually in a positive state of mind, they think positive thoughts, they feel good, they are always giving out positive vibes so they are always attracting positive things into their life.
If you can control your vibration then you can influence the reality that you experience.
The way that we can tell if we are on a high frequency or a low frequency is through our feelings.
How we feel is determined by our emotions.
.Our emotions are influenced by our thoughts and beliefs.
When we think positive thoughts are brain releases feel-good chemicals like dopamines, serotonin, and endorphins. But when we think negative thoughts our body releases chemicals that make us feel bad like cortisol and adrenaline.
It’s very important to be conscious of the thoughts that you think and the beliefs that you choose to accept because they will determine how you feel and that will affect your vibration.
It’s your mind that creates your reality. If you control your thoughts you can influence your reality.
Pumpkin Recipe
DIRECTIONS Bottom Layer
1. In small saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, cocoa and sugar, stirring occasionally until butter has melted and mixture is smooth. Set aside to cool.
2. Stir in egg, graham cracker crumbs and coconut.
3. Press into ungreased 9-inch (2.5 L) square pan. Refrigerate for 60 minutes.
Middle Layer
1. In medium bowl, use electric mixer to cream together icing sugar, butter, pumpkin, custard powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and salt. Spread over bottom layer; chill.
Top Layer
1. In top part of double boiler over barely simmering water, melt chocolate and butter together, stirring occasionally, until smooth and shiny. Pour over custard layer.
2. Refrigerate overnight.
1. In small saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, cocoa and sugar, stirring occasionally until butter has melted and mixture is smooth. Set aside to cool.
2. Stir in egg, graham cracker crumbs and coconut.
3. Press into ungreased 9-inch (2.5 L) square pan. Refrigerate for 60 minutes.
Middle Layer
1. In medium bowl, use electric mixer to cream together icing sugar, butter, pumpkin, custard powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves and salt. Spread over bottom layer; chill.
Top Layer
1. In top part of double boiler over barely simmering water, melt chocolate and butter together, stirring occasionally, until smooth and shiny. Pour over custard layer.
2. Refrigerate overnight.
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Metal Toxin turning Fashion Statements to Cancer Risk
It seems unthinkable that manufacturers would include cadmium, a heavy metal that causes neurological damage and is a known carcinogen, in children’s jewelry.
Yet this was the case for many years until 2010. That’s when an investigation found Chinese manufacturers, among others, were using deadly cadmium in children’s necklaces and other costume jewelry.
The human body has no use for cadmium, and therefore no way to eliminate it on its own.
That means avoiding it is the safest thing you can do. But that becomes problematic, especially for women, when it is hiding in plain sight around their neck and on their fingers.
Wait… wasn’t cadmium banned from jewelry?
You’d think that ban on children’s jewelry would have taken care of things. But apparently, some manufacturers continued using the toxic metal. And its effects on women are particularly devastating…
Some women’s jewelry is still full of cadmium
Last month, the Center for Environmental Health found that some jewelry being sold along with women’s dresses and shirts was made of nearly pure cadmium.
The Oakland-based non-profit tested jewelry found in national store chains including Ross, Nordstrom Rack, and Papaya. Their tests all took place in the San Francisco Bay area.
While the sampling is small, Caroline Cox, senior scientist at the Center, had this to say: “If you’re a person that buys and is wearing that jewelry, you don’t really care whether it’s a common problem or a rare problem. You have a problem.”
Indeed, this is disturbing news for women all over the country. After all, these national retailers distribute their toxic jewelry throughout the country, not just in San Francisco.
The dangers of cadmium exposure
Aside from being a carcinogen and neurotoxin, cadmium is also an endocrine disruptor. More accurately, it mimics the female hormone estrogen, and so has been tied to hormone-related cancers including breast and endometrial cancer.
One study found that high cadmium levels were associated with a 23 percent higher endometrial cancer risk. But the risks don’t end with cancer…
Other dangers associated with cadmium include:
Neurological. Studies show that cadmium changes the structure and function of our cells, particularly our nervous system. It has been cited as a possible precursor to the neurological changes leading to diseases including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s.
Respiratory. Inhaling cadmium fumes, either at work or in cigarette smoke, increases your risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema.
Cardiovascular. Even low levels of cadmium exposure and blood cadmium have been associated with hypertension.
Kidneys. Of all our organs, the kidneys are in the gravest danger from cadmium exposure. A rare disorder called Fanconi syndrome (not to be confused with Fanconi anemia) affects the filtering tubes of the kidneys. It is often inherited, but can also develop as a result of exposure to toxins.
Symptoms of acquired Fanconi’s syndrome (as opposed to hereditary) include bone disease, muscle weakness, and low blood potassium. Unfortunately, this condition is hard to detect and may take as long as ten years after exposure to show up. By the time a diagnosis is made, there is usually bone and kidney damage.
Bones. In later stages of cadmium poisoning, bone lesions appear that often accompany lesions on the kidneys. Researchers believe these bone lesions are associated with poor absorption of Vitamin D, so it’s not surprising that osteoporosis often accompanies cadmium poisoning.
“Itai-itai” disease. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first pollution-related disease being recognized in Japan. “It hurts, it hurts” is the English translation.
Symptoms include kidney damage and osteomalacia, a bone-softening disorder, as well as small body size, darkened skin, and severe anemia. In all, 200 people in Japan have been recognized as having itai-itai disease caused by cadmium pollution in the Jinzu River. Of the 200, five are still alive.
Where else does cadmium hide?
Cadmium in jewelry is just the tip of the iceberg.
Many drinking glasses, especially older ones, contain cadmium and lead.
Cigarette smoke is full of cadmium.
Nickel and cadmium batteries can leave residue on the skin, which then can be ingested.
Many paints also contain cadmium.
How to protect yourself
Cadmium exposure is toxic to all humans. It causes damage to virtually every system in our bodies.
Remember that avoiding cadmium as much as possible is the best way to protect yourself, but there are some things you can do to help…
Limit your exposure to certain foods. Scallops, mussels, oysters, liver and kidney meat often have higher cadmium content. Buy organic meat and fish whenever possible.
Eat cadmium-fighting foods. Certain foods have been shown to act as natural antagonists to cadmium. These include tomatoes and garlic.
Wear protective equipment. If you work at a job where cadmium exposure is possible, wear protection for your body, hands, and face.
Take probiotics. One of the simplest silver bullets against cadmium exposure may be the humble probiotic. A study published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology found that mice who drank cadmium-laced water and were fed the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum for eight weeks had less cadmium in their intestinal tissues than mice who didn’t get the probiotic.
Yet this was the case for many years until 2010. That’s when an investigation found Chinese manufacturers, among others, were using deadly cadmium in children’s necklaces and other costume jewelry.
The human body has no use for cadmium, and therefore no way to eliminate it on its own.
That means avoiding it is the safest thing you can do. But that becomes problematic, especially for women, when it is hiding in plain sight around their neck and on their fingers.
Wait… wasn’t cadmium banned from jewelry?
You’d think that ban on children’s jewelry would have taken care of things. But apparently, some manufacturers continued using the toxic metal. And its effects on women are particularly devastating…
Some women’s jewelry is still full of cadmium
Last month, the Center for Environmental Health found that some jewelry being sold along with women’s dresses and shirts was made of nearly pure cadmium.
The Oakland-based non-profit tested jewelry found in national store chains including Ross, Nordstrom Rack, and Papaya. Their tests all took place in the San Francisco Bay area.
While the sampling is small, Caroline Cox, senior scientist at the Center, had this to say: “If you’re a person that buys and is wearing that jewelry, you don’t really care whether it’s a common problem or a rare problem. You have a problem.”
Indeed, this is disturbing news for women all over the country. After all, these national retailers distribute their toxic jewelry throughout the country, not just in San Francisco.
The dangers of cadmium exposure
Aside from being a carcinogen and neurotoxin, cadmium is also an endocrine disruptor. More accurately, it mimics the female hormone estrogen, and so has been tied to hormone-related cancers including breast and endometrial cancer.
One study found that high cadmium levels were associated with a 23 percent higher endometrial cancer risk. But the risks don’t end with cancer…
Other dangers associated with cadmium include:
Neurological. Studies show that cadmium changes the structure and function of our cells, particularly our nervous system. It has been cited as a possible precursor to the neurological changes leading to diseases including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s.
Respiratory. Inhaling cadmium fumes, either at work or in cigarette smoke, increases your risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema.
Cardiovascular. Even low levels of cadmium exposure and blood cadmium have been associated with hypertension.
Kidneys. Of all our organs, the kidneys are in the gravest danger from cadmium exposure. A rare disorder called Fanconi syndrome (not to be confused with Fanconi anemia) affects the filtering tubes of the kidneys. It is often inherited, but can also develop as a result of exposure to toxins.
Symptoms of acquired Fanconi’s syndrome (as opposed to hereditary) include bone disease, muscle weakness, and low blood potassium. Unfortunately, this condition is hard to detect and may take as long as ten years after exposure to show up. By the time a diagnosis is made, there is usually bone and kidney damage.
Bones. In later stages of cadmium poisoning, bone lesions appear that often accompany lesions on the kidneys. Researchers believe these bone lesions are associated with poor absorption of Vitamin D, so it’s not surprising that osteoporosis often accompanies cadmium poisoning.
“Itai-itai” disease. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first pollution-related disease being recognized in Japan. “It hurts, it hurts” is the English translation.
Symptoms include kidney damage and osteomalacia, a bone-softening disorder, as well as small body size, darkened skin, and severe anemia. In all, 200 people in Japan have been recognized as having itai-itai disease caused by cadmium pollution in the Jinzu River. Of the 200, five are still alive.
Where else does cadmium hide?
Cadmium in jewelry is just the tip of the iceberg.
Many drinking glasses, especially older ones, contain cadmium and lead.
Cigarette smoke is full of cadmium.
Nickel and cadmium batteries can leave residue on the skin, which then can be ingested.
Many paints also contain cadmium.
How to protect yourself
Cadmium exposure is toxic to all humans. It causes damage to virtually every system in our bodies.
Remember that avoiding cadmium as much as possible is the best way to protect yourself, but there are some things you can do to help…
Limit your exposure to certain foods. Scallops, mussels, oysters, liver and kidney meat often have higher cadmium content. Buy organic meat and fish whenever possible.
Eat cadmium-fighting foods. Certain foods have been shown to act as natural antagonists to cadmium. These include tomatoes and garlic.
Wear protective equipment. If you work at a job where cadmium exposure is possible, wear protection for your body, hands, and face.
Take probiotics. One of the simplest silver bullets against cadmium exposure may be the humble probiotic. A study published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology found that mice who drank cadmium-laced water and were fed the probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum for eight weeks had less cadmium in their intestinal tissues than mice who didn’t get the probiotic.
Saturday 13 October 2018
Technocracy-Where Decision Makers Are Selected on the Basis of Expertise in their Areas of Responsibility and Scientific knowledge
Technocracy is a proposed system of governance where decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in their areas of responsibility, particularly scientific knowledge. This system explicitly contrasts with the notion that elected representatives should be the primary decision-makers in government, though it does not necessarily imply eliminating elected representatives. Leadership skills for decision-makers are selected on the basis of specialized knowledge and performance, rather than political affiliations or parliamentary skills.
The term technocracy was originally used to advocate the application of the scientific method to solving social problems. Concern could be given to sustainability within the resource base, instead of monetary profitability, so as to ensure continued operation of all social-industrial functions. In its most extreme sense technocracy is an entire government run as a technical or engineering problem and is mostly hypothetical. In more practical use, technocracy is any portion of a bureaucracy that is run by technologists. A government in which elected officials appoint experts and professionals to administer individual government functions and recommend legislation can be considered technocratic.Some uses of the word refer to a form of meritocracy, where the ablest are in charge, ostensibly without the influence of special interest groups.
History of the term
The term technocracy is derived from the Greek words τέχνη, tekhne meaning skill and κράτος, kratos meaning power, as in governance, or rule. William Henry Smyth, a Californian engineer, is usually credited with inventing the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers", although the word had been used before on several occasions.Smyth used the term Technocracy in his 1919 article "'Technocracy'—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy," in the journal Industrial Management . Smyth's usage referred to Industrial democracy: a movement to integrate workers into decision making through existing firms or revolution.
In the 1930s, through the influence of Howard Scott and the technocracy movement he founded, the term technocracy came to mean, 'government by technical decision making', using an energy metric of value. Scott proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates denominated in units such as ergs or joules, equivalent in total amount to an appropriate national net energy budget, and then distributed equally among the North American population, according to resource availability.
There is in common usage found the derivative term technocrat. The word technocrat can refer to someone exercising governmental authority because of their knowledge, or "a member of a powerful technical elite", or "someone who advocates the supremacy of technical experts". McDonnell and Valbruzzi define a prime minister or minister as a technocrat if “at the time of his/her appointment to government, he/she: has never held public office under the banner of a political party; is not a formal member of any party; and is said to possess recognized non-party political expertise which is directly relevant to the role occupied in government”. In Russia, the President of Russia has often nominated ministers based on technical expertise from outside political circles, and these have been referred to as "technocrats".
Precursors
Before the term technocracy was coined, technocratic or quasi-technocratic ideas involving governance by technical experts were promoted by various individuals, most notably early socialist theorists such as Henri de Saint-Simon. This was expressed by the belief in state ownership over the economy, with the function of the state being transformed from one of pure philosophical rule over men into a scientific administration of things and a direction of processes of production under scientific management. According to Daniel Bell:
"St. Simon's vision of industrial society, a vision of pure technocracy, was a system of planning and rational order in which society would specify its needs and organize the factors of production to achieve them."
Citing the ideas of St. Simon, Bell comes to the conclusion that the "administration of things" by rational judgement is the hallmark of technocracy.
Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian scientist and social theorist, also anticipated a conception of technocratic process. Both Bogdanov’s fiction and his political writings, which were highly influential, suggest that he expected a coming revolution against capitalism to lead to a technocratic society.
From 1913 until 1922, Bogdanov immersed himself in the writing of a lengthy philosophical treatise of original ideas, Tectology: Universal Organization Science. Tectology anticipated many basic ideas of systems analysis, later explored by cybernetics. In Tectology, Bogdanov proposed to unify all social, biological, and physical sciences by considering them as systems of relationships and by seeking the organizational principles that underlie all systems.
Arguably, the Platonic idea of philosopher-kings represents a sort of technocracy in which the state is run by those with specialist knowledge, in this case, knowledge of the Good, rather than scientific knowledge.[citation needed] The Platonic claim is that those who best understand goodness should be empowered to lead the state, as they would lead it toward the path of happiness. Whilst knowledge of the Good is different to knowledge of science, rulers are here appointed based on a certain grasp of technical skill, rather than democratic mandate.
Characteristics
Technocrats are individuals with technical training and occupations who perceive many important societal problems as being solvable, often while proposing technology-focused solutions. The administrative scientist Gunnar K. A. Njalsson theorizes that technocrats are primarily driven by their cognitive "problem-solution mindsets" and only in part by particular occupational group interests. Their activities and the increasing success of their ideas are thought to be a crucial factor behind the modern spread of technology and the largely ideological concept of the "information society". Technocrats may be distinguished from "econocrats" and "bureaucrats" whose problem-solution mindsets differ from those of the technocrats.
The former government of the Soviet Union has been referred to as a technocracy. Soviet leaders like Leonid Brezhnev often had a technical background in education; in 1986, 89% of Politburo members were engineers.
Several governments in European parliamentary democracies have been labeled 'technocratic' based on the participation of unelected experts ('technocrats') in prominent positions.Since the 1990s, Italy has had several such governments (in Italian, governo tecnico) in times of economic or political crisis,including the formation in which economist Mario Monti presided over a cabinet of unelected professionals. The term 'technocratic' has been applied to governments where a cabinet of elected professional politicians is led by an unelected prime minister, such as in the cases of the 2011-2012 Greek government led by economist Lucas Papademos, and the Czech Republic's 2009–2010 caretaker government presided over by the state's chief statistician, Jan Fischer. In December 2013, in the framework of the national dialogue facilitated by Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, political parties in Tunisia agreed to install a technocratic government led by Mehdi Jomaa.
In the article "Technocrats: Minds Like Machines", it is stated that Singapore is perhaps the best advertisement for technocracy: the political and expert components of the governing system there seem to have merged completely. This was underlined in a 1993 article in "Wired" by Sandy Sandfort, where he describes the information technology system of the island even at that early date making it effectively intelligent.
Engineering
Following Samuel Haber, Donald Stabile argues that engineers were faced with a conflict between physical efficiency and cost efficiency in the new corporate capitalist enterprises of the late nineteenth century United States. The profit-conscious, non-technical managers of firms where the engineers work, because of their perceptions of market demand, often impose limits on the projects that engineers desire to undertake.
The prices of all inputs vary with market forces thereby upsetting the engineer's careful calculations. As a result, the engineer loses control over projects and must continually revise plans. To keep control over projects the engineer must attempt to exert control over these outside variables and transform them into constant factors.
Leaders of the Communist Party of China are mostly professional engineers. The Five-year plans of the People's Republic of China have enabled them to plan ahead in a technocratic fashion to build projects such as the National Trunk Highway System, the China high-speed rail system, and the Three Gorges Dam.
Technocracy movement
The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen was an early advocate of technocracy, and was involved in the Technical Alliance as was Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert (who later developed the theory of peak oil). Veblen believed that technological developments would eventually lead toward a socialistic organization of economic affairs. Veblen saw socialism as one intermediate phase in an ongoing evolutionary process in society that would be brought about by the natural decay of the business enterprise system and by the inventiveness of engineers. Daniel Bell sees an affinity between Veblen and the Technocracy movement.
In 1932, Howard Scott and Marion King Hubbert founded Technocracy Incorporated, and proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates. The group argued that apolitical, rational engineers should be vested with authority to guide an economy into a thermodynamically balanced load of production and consumption, thereby doing away with unemployment and debt.
The technocracy movement was highly popular in the USA for a brief period in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression. By the mid-1930s, interest in the movement was declining. Some historians have attributed the decline of the technocracy movement to the rise of Roosevelt's New Deal.
Historian William E. Akin rejects the conclusion that technocracy ideas declined because of the attractiveness of Roosevelt and the New Deal. Instead Akin argues that the movement declined in the mid-1930s as a result of the technocrats' failure to devise a 'viable political theory for achieving change'. Akin postulates that many technocrats remained vocal and dissatisfied and often sympathetic to anti-New Deal third party efforts.
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The term technocracy was originally used to advocate the application of the scientific method to solving social problems. Concern could be given to sustainability within the resource base, instead of monetary profitability, so as to ensure continued operation of all social-industrial functions. In its most extreme sense technocracy is an entire government run as a technical or engineering problem and is mostly hypothetical. In more practical use, technocracy is any portion of a bureaucracy that is run by technologists. A government in which elected officials appoint experts and professionals to administer individual government functions and recommend legislation can be considered technocratic.Some uses of the word refer to a form of meritocracy, where the ablest are in charge, ostensibly without the influence of special interest groups.
History of the term
The term technocracy is derived from the Greek words τέχνη, tekhne meaning skill and κράτος, kratos meaning power, as in governance, or rule. William Henry Smyth, a Californian engineer, is usually credited with inventing the word technocracy in 1919 to describe "the rule of the people made effective through the agency of their servants, the scientists and engineers", although the word had been used before on several occasions.Smyth used the term Technocracy in his 1919 article "'Technocracy'—Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy," in the journal Industrial Management . Smyth's usage referred to Industrial democracy: a movement to integrate workers into decision making through existing firms or revolution.
In the 1930s, through the influence of Howard Scott and the technocracy movement he founded, the term technocracy came to mean, 'government by technical decision making', using an energy metric of value. Scott proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates denominated in units such as ergs or joules, equivalent in total amount to an appropriate national net energy budget, and then distributed equally among the North American population, according to resource availability.
There is in common usage found the derivative term technocrat. The word technocrat can refer to someone exercising governmental authority because of their knowledge, or "a member of a powerful technical elite", or "someone who advocates the supremacy of technical experts". McDonnell and Valbruzzi define a prime minister or minister as a technocrat if “at the time of his/her appointment to government, he/she: has never held public office under the banner of a political party; is not a formal member of any party; and is said to possess recognized non-party political expertise which is directly relevant to the role occupied in government”. In Russia, the President of Russia has often nominated ministers based on technical expertise from outside political circles, and these have been referred to as "technocrats".
Precursors
Before the term technocracy was coined, technocratic or quasi-technocratic ideas involving governance by technical experts were promoted by various individuals, most notably early socialist theorists such as Henri de Saint-Simon. This was expressed by the belief in state ownership over the economy, with the function of the state being transformed from one of pure philosophical rule over men into a scientific administration of things and a direction of processes of production under scientific management. According to Daniel Bell:
"St. Simon's vision of industrial society, a vision of pure technocracy, was a system of planning and rational order in which society would specify its needs and organize the factors of production to achieve them."
Citing the ideas of St. Simon, Bell comes to the conclusion that the "administration of things" by rational judgement is the hallmark of technocracy.
Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian scientist and social theorist, also anticipated a conception of technocratic process. Both Bogdanov’s fiction and his political writings, which were highly influential, suggest that he expected a coming revolution against capitalism to lead to a technocratic society.
From 1913 until 1922, Bogdanov immersed himself in the writing of a lengthy philosophical treatise of original ideas, Tectology: Universal Organization Science. Tectology anticipated many basic ideas of systems analysis, later explored by cybernetics. In Tectology, Bogdanov proposed to unify all social, biological, and physical sciences by considering them as systems of relationships and by seeking the organizational principles that underlie all systems.
Arguably, the Platonic idea of philosopher-kings represents a sort of technocracy in which the state is run by those with specialist knowledge, in this case, knowledge of the Good, rather than scientific knowledge.[citation needed] The Platonic claim is that those who best understand goodness should be empowered to lead the state, as they would lead it toward the path of happiness. Whilst knowledge of the Good is different to knowledge of science, rulers are here appointed based on a certain grasp of technical skill, rather than democratic mandate.
Characteristics
Technocrats are individuals with technical training and occupations who perceive many important societal problems as being solvable, often while proposing technology-focused solutions. The administrative scientist Gunnar K. A. Njalsson theorizes that technocrats are primarily driven by their cognitive "problem-solution mindsets" and only in part by particular occupational group interests. Their activities and the increasing success of their ideas are thought to be a crucial factor behind the modern spread of technology and the largely ideological concept of the "information society". Technocrats may be distinguished from "econocrats" and "bureaucrats" whose problem-solution mindsets differ from those of the technocrats.
The former government of the Soviet Union has been referred to as a technocracy. Soviet leaders like Leonid Brezhnev often had a technical background in education; in 1986, 89% of Politburo members were engineers.
Several governments in European parliamentary democracies have been labeled 'technocratic' based on the participation of unelected experts ('technocrats') in prominent positions.Since the 1990s, Italy has had several such governments (in Italian, governo tecnico) in times of economic or political crisis,including the formation in which economist Mario Monti presided over a cabinet of unelected professionals. The term 'technocratic' has been applied to governments where a cabinet of elected professional politicians is led by an unelected prime minister, such as in the cases of the 2011-2012 Greek government led by economist Lucas Papademos, and the Czech Republic's 2009–2010 caretaker government presided over by the state's chief statistician, Jan Fischer. In December 2013, in the framework of the national dialogue facilitated by Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, political parties in Tunisia agreed to install a technocratic government led by Mehdi Jomaa.
In the article "Technocrats: Minds Like Machines", it is stated that Singapore is perhaps the best advertisement for technocracy: the political and expert components of the governing system there seem to have merged completely. This was underlined in a 1993 article in "Wired" by Sandy Sandfort, where he describes the information technology system of the island even at that early date making it effectively intelligent.
Engineering
Following Samuel Haber, Donald Stabile argues that engineers were faced with a conflict between physical efficiency and cost efficiency in the new corporate capitalist enterprises of the late nineteenth century United States. The profit-conscious, non-technical managers of firms where the engineers work, because of their perceptions of market demand, often impose limits on the projects that engineers desire to undertake.
The prices of all inputs vary with market forces thereby upsetting the engineer's careful calculations. As a result, the engineer loses control over projects and must continually revise plans. To keep control over projects the engineer must attempt to exert control over these outside variables and transform them into constant factors.
Leaders of the Communist Party of China are mostly professional engineers. The Five-year plans of the People's Republic of China have enabled them to plan ahead in a technocratic fashion to build projects such as the National Trunk Highway System, the China high-speed rail system, and the Three Gorges Dam.
Technocracy movement
The American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen was an early advocate of technocracy, and was involved in the Technical Alliance as was Howard Scott and M. King Hubbert (who later developed the theory of peak oil). Veblen believed that technological developments would eventually lead toward a socialistic organization of economic affairs. Veblen saw socialism as one intermediate phase in an ongoing evolutionary process in society that would be brought about by the natural decay of the business enterprise system and by the inventiveness of engineers. Daniel Bell sees an affinity between Veblen and the Technocracy movement.
In 1932, Howard Scott and Marion King Hubbert founded Technocracy Incorporated, and proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates. The group argued that apolitical, rational engineers should be vested with authority to guide an economy into a thermodynamically balanced load of production and consumption, thereby doing away with unemployment and debt.
The technocracy movement was highly popular in the USA for a brief period in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression. By the mid-1930s, interest in the movement was declining. Some historians have attributed the decline of the technocracy movement to the rise of Roosevelt's New Deal.
Historian William E. Akin rejects the conclusion that technocracy ideas declined because of the attractiveness of Roosevelt and the New Deal. Instead Akin argues that the movement declined in the mid-1930s as a result of the technocrats' failure to devise a 'viable political theory for achieving change'. Akin postulates that many technocrats remained vocal and dissatisfied and often sympathetic to anti-New Deal third party efforts.
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Wednesday 3 October 2018
Thursday 20 September 2018
Chanting and Calling Down Divine Enlightenment For Earth & All Life Forms. by Cathy Bilsky
Chanting and Calling Down Divine Enlightenment For Earth & All Life Forms. Chants for Sept 22 World Enlightenment/Quantum Leap Event Don't forget to make a copy.
LET LIGHT UNITE
LET LIGHT UNITE
Thursday 6 September 2018
Human 2.0
Humans 2.0: meet the entrepreneur who wants to put a chip in your brain
Bryan Johnson’s company, Kernel, aims to improve mental function and treat disorders by creating a brain interface
by Zofia Niemtus
Bryan Johnson isn’t short of ambition. The founder and CEO of neuroscience company Kernel wants “to expand the bounds of human intelligence”. He is planning to do this with neuroprosthetics; brain augmentations that can improve mental function and treat disorders. Put simply, Kernel hopes to place a chip in your brain.
It isn’t clear yet exactly how this will work. There’s a lot of excited talk about the possibilities of the technology, but – publicly, at least – Kernel’s output at the moment is an idea. A big idea.
A neuroscientist explains: the need for ‘empathetic citizens’ - podcast
“My hope is that within 15 years we can build sufficiently powerful tools to interface with our brains,” Johnson says. “Can I increase my rate of learning, scope of imagination, and ability to love? Can I understand what it’s like to live in a 10-dimensional reality? Can we ameliorate or cure neurological disease and dysfunction?”
The shape that this technology will take is still unknown. Johnson uses the term “brain chip”, but the developments taking place in neuroprosthesis are working towards less invasive procedures than opening up your skull and cramming a bit of hardware in; injectable sensors are one possibility.
It may sound far-fetched, but Johnson has a track record of getting things done. Within his first semester at university, he’d set up a profitable business selling mobile phones to fellow students. By age 30, he’d founded online payment company Braintree, which he sold six years later to PayPal for $800m. He used $100m of the proceeds to create Kernel in 2016 it now employs more than 30 people.
But Johnson, 40, says he is about more than money. He was raised as a Mormon in Utah and it was while carrying out two years of missionary work in Ecuador that he was struck by what he describes as an “overwhelming desire to improve the lives of others.
I spent a decade being tortured in my own mind
His subsequent decision to leave the faith only added to this sense of purpose. “For the first time in my life, I had to sit with the notion that the closest I’d ever come to my previous vision of heaven is whatever we can build here on Earth while I’m alive, he explains.
“And when I surveyed the landscape of human history, including how we treat each other and our shared home, I thought we have to do better.
The idea for Kernel also came from a “deeply personal” place, Johnson says. He suffered from chronic depression from the ages of 24 to 34, and has seen his father and stepfather face huge mental health struggles.
Changing minds: Bryan Johnson, founder of Kernel, will put himself forward for brain augmentation. Photograph: Kelly Lee
I spent a decade being tortured in my own mind” he says.I have witnessed and experienced what happens when a brain isn’t at its best. Being able to treat Alzheimer’s disease went from ‘that’d be nice’ to ‘really important’ after my stepfather began showing early symptoms. Helping people overcome addiction went from ‘that’d be nice’ to ‘really important’ after my father suffered from drug addiction for the first 25 years of my life.”
He understands the scepticism around Kernel’s work, but argues that it has the potential to build a better, more equal society.
What if everyone not just the privileged– had the same access to information, learning, skill improvement, and cognitive evolution?he asks.
As idealistic as Johnson’s vision for the brain is, there are still big ethical questions to consider about the process, from security to the squeamishness of having a chip in your head.
Johnson describes it as a “necessary tool” for cognitive evolution, and says he’ll happily be among the first to trial the augmentation.
Kernel is a for-profit company, however; Johnson claims that this gives the brand the best chance of producing a “usable product” at the end of the difficult and expensive road he is taking. While outside investment will be needed to keep the company going, public interest and funding in neuroscience has increased in the past few years, he says, and is likely to keep doing so. Elon Musk got into the field with the launch of his company, Neuralink, earlier this year, and the neuroprosthetics market is expected to be worth as much as $14.6bn by 2024.
So Johnson is keeping his focus on the future, a habit that inspired the project in the first place. He explains that, while trying to work out what to do next after selling Braintree, he hosted a series of 12 dinner parties with the brightest people he knew.
I would begin each gathering with a he recalls. What do we need to focus on today to create a world that you would love to live in by 2050?
With minor variations, I heard the same answers nearly every time: climate science, education, healthcare, AI, governance, and security. Not once, though, did a single person out of the hundreds who attended mention improving the brain itself.And yet, the brain is everything we are, everything we do, and everything we aspire to be. It seemed obvious to me that the brain is both the most consequential variable in the world and also our biggest blind spot as a species. I decided that if the root problems of humanity begin in the human mind, let’s change our minds.
Bryan Johnson’s company, Kernel, aims to improve mental function and treat disorders by creating a brain interface
by Zofia Niemtus
Bryan Johnson isn’t short of ambition. The founder and CEO of neuroscience company Kernel wants “to expand the bounds of human intelligence”. He is planning to do this with neuroprosthetics; brain augmentations that can improve mental function and treat disorders. Put simply, Kernel hopes to place a chip in your brain.
It isn’t clear yet exactly how this will work. There’s a lot of excited talk about the possibilities of the technology, but – publicly, at least – Kernel’s output at the moment is an idea. A big idea.
A neuroscientist explains: the need for ‘empathetic citizens’ - podcast
“My hope is that within 15 years we can build sufficiently powerful tools to interface with our brains,” Johnson says. “Can I increase my rate of learning, scope of imagination, and ability to love? Can I understand what it’s like to live in a 10-dimensional reality? Can we ameliorate or cure neurological disease and dysfunction?”
The shape that this technology will take is still unknown. Johnson uses the term “brain chip”, but the developments taking place in neuroprosthesis are working towards less invasive procedures than opening up your skull and cramming a bit of hardware in; injectable sensors are one possibility.
It may sound far-fetched, but Johnson has a track record of getting things done. Within his first semester at university, he’d set up a profitable business selling mobile phones to fellow students. By age 30, he’d founded online payment company Braintree, which he sold six years later to PayPal for $800m. He used $100m of the proceeds to create Kernel in 2016 it now employs more than 30 people.
But Johnson, 40, says he is about more than money. He was raised as a Mormon in Utah and it was while carrying out two years of missionary work in Ecuador that he was struck by what he describes as an “overwhelming desire to improve the lives of others.
I spent a decade being tortured in my own mind
His subsequent decision to leave the faith only added to this sense of purpose. “For the first time in my life, I had to sit with the notion that the closest I’d ever come to my previous vision of heaven is whatever we can build here on Earth while I’m alive, he explains.
“And when I surveyed the landscape of human history, including how we treat each other and our shared home, I thought we have to do better.
The idea for Kernel also came from a “deeply personal” place, Johnson says. He suffered from chronic depression from the ages of 24 to 34, and has seen his father and stepfather face huge mental health struggles.
Changing minds: Bryan Johnson, founder of Kernel, will put himself forward for brain augmentation. Photograph: Kelly Lee
I spent a decade being tortured in my own mind” he says.I have witnessed and experienced what happens when a brain isn’t at its best. Being able to treat Alzheimer’s disease went from ‘that’d be nice’ to ‘really important’ after my stepfather began showing early symptoms. Helping people overcome addiction went from ‘that’d be nice’ to ‘really important’ after my father suffered from drug addiction for the first 25 years of my life.”
He understands the scepticism around Kernel’s work, but argues that it has the potential to build a better, more equal society.
What if everyone not just the privileged– had the same access to information, learning, skill improvement, and cognitive evolution?he asks.
As idealistic as Johnson’s vision for the brain is, there are still big ethical questions to consider about the process, from security to the squeamishness of having a chip in your head.
Johnson describes it as a “necessary tool” for cognitive evolution, and says he’ll happily be among the first to trial the augmentation.
Kernel is a for-profit company, however; Johnson claims that this gives the brand the best chance of producing a “usable product” at the end of the difficult and expensive road he is taking. While outside investment will be needed to keep the company going, public interest and funding in neuroscience has increased in the past few years, he says, and is likely to keep doing so. Elon Musk got into the field with the launch of his company, Neuralink, earlier this year, and the neuroprosthetics market is expected to be worth as much as $14.6bn by 2024.
So Johnson is keeping his focus on the future, a habit that inspired the project in the first place. He explains that, while trying to work out what to do next after selling Braintree, he hosted a series of 12 dinner parties with the brightest people he knew.
I would begin each gathering with a he recalls. What do we need to focus on today to create a world that you would love to live in by 2050?
With minor variations, I heard the same answers nearly every time: climate science, education, healthcare, AI, governance, and security. Not once, though, did a single person out of the hundreds who attended mention improving the brain itself.And yet, the brain is everything we are, everything we do, and everything we aspire to be. It seemed obvious to me that the brain is both the most consequential variable in the world and also our biggest blind spot as a species. I decided that if the root problems of humanity begin in the human mind, let’s change our minds.
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