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Behemoth sunspot 1045 is crackling with M-class solar flares--and that's not all-2/9

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China's debt bomb-2/8 NY Post, by Arthur Herman-- America's No. 1 creditor holds the ultimate weapon-- 'He who pays the piper calls the tune": That old saying captures perfectly America's growing dependence on our No. 1 creditor in the world, Communist China. By their carelessness Congress and the Obama administration are steadily handing over control of America's economic and financial future to a handful of Chinese officials and generals in Beijing. Those who think the Chinese won't use that control if they feel they have to are ignoring history -- and the Chinese. The ancient military strategist Sun Tzu said that the best strategy was to render an opponent's army helpless even before the battle began. America may still have the biggest and best military in the world. But many at the Pentagon are starting to realize that, thanks to our growing fiscal irresponsibility, we may be surrendering control of America's destiny to a rival superpower -- and all without a shot being fired. Consider the scale of the problem. With President Obama's 2010 budget, 42 cents of every dollar the federal government spends will have to be borrowed. In the last decade, foreign investors have wound up lending us roughly half of all federal debt -- with just two countries, China and Japan, providing nearly half of that sum, or 44 percent, through the purchase of US Treasury securities. China now tops Japan as our biggest lender by some $30 billion a year, at $789 billion. (By comparison, our No. 3 lender, Great Britain, comes in at a measly $277 billion). But that's not all. As its booming economy becomes more global, China is also the world's largest holder of foreign-currency reserves. Most of that is in US dollars. Indeed, without most Americans realizing it, China has become the largest foreign holder of US dollars in the world. How many dollars foreign exchange traders at the Bank of China decide to sell or buy on any given day is increasingly determining whether the dollars in our purses and wallets buy a little or a lot. Seen from one angle, this dependence on China for the value of our national currency and the funding of our debt is like our dependence on inexpensive Chinese exports for our standard of living: the inevitable fruit of today's interlocking global economies -- and poor planning on our part. Seen from another, more strategic angle, it may spell disaster. History shows that nations that can't control their economic fortunes don't control much else. Debt freezes destinies -- as every credit-card holder knows. ...

Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge-2/7 NY Times, by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story-- Billions of dollars were at stake when 21 executives of Goldman Sachs and the American International Group convened a conference call on Jan. 28, 2008, to try to resolve a rancorous dispute that had been escalating for months. A.I.G. had long insured complex mortgage securities owned by Goldman and other firms against possible defaults. With the housing crisis deepening, A.I.G., once the world’s biggest insurer, had already paid Goldman $2 billion to cover losses the bank said it might suffer. A.I.G. executives wanted some of its money back, insisting that Goldman — like a homeowner overestimating the damages in a storm to get a bigger insurance payment — had inflated the potential losses. Goldman countered that it was owed even more, while also resisting consulting with third parties to help estimate a value for the securities. After more than an hour of debate, the two sides on the call signed off with nothing settled, according to internal A.I.G. documents and an audio recording reviewed by The New York Times. Behind-the-scenes disputes over huge sums are common in banking, but the standoff between A.I.G. and Goldman would become one of the most momentous in Wall Street history. Well before the federal government bailed out A.I.G. in September 2008, Goldman’s demands for billions of dollars from the insurer helped put it in a precarious financial position by bleeding much-needed cash. That ultimately provoked the government to step in. ...

Unsustainable: We are incentivizing financial unsustainability-2/7 NRO, by Mark Steyn-- At the National Prayer Breakfast, Barack Obama singled out for praise Navy Corpsman Christian Bouchard. Or as the president called him, “Corpseman Bouchard.” Twice. Hey, not a big deal. Throughout his life, the commander-in-chief has had little contact with the military, and less interest. And, when you give as many speeches as this guy does, there’s no time to rehearse or read through: You just gotta fire up the prompter and wing it. But it’s revealing that nobody around him in the so-called smartest administration of all time thought to spell it out phonetically for him when the speech got typed up and loaded into the machine. Which suggests that either his minders don’t know that he doesn’t know that kinda stuff, or they don’t know it either. To put it in Rumsfeldian terms, they don’t know what they don’t know. Which is embarrassingly true. Hence, the awful flop speeches, from the Copenhagen Olympics to the Berlin Wall anniversary video to the Martha Coakley rally. The palpable whiff given off by the White House inner circle is that they’re the last people on the planet still besotted by Barack Obama, and that they’re having such a cool time starring in their own reality-show remake of The West Wing they can only conceive of the public — and, indeed, the world — as crowd-scene extras in The Barack Obama Show: They expect you to cheer and wave flags when the floor-manager tells you to, but the notion that in return he should be able to persuade you of the merits of his policies seems entirely to have eluded them. But, since Obama’s mispronunciation is a pithier summation of the State of the Union than any of the dreary 90-minute sludge he paid his speechwriters for, let us consider it: Is America a Corpseman walking? Well, we’re getting there. National Review’s Jim Geraghty sums up Obama’s America thus: “Unsustainable is the new normal.” Indeed. The other day, Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, described current deficits as “unsustainable.” So let’s make them even more so. The president tells us, with a straight face, that his grossly irresponsible profligate wastrel of a predecessor took the federal budget on an eight-year joyride, so the only way his sober, fiscally prudent successor can get things under control is to grab the throttle and crank it up to what Mel Brooks in Spaceballs (which seems the appropriate comparison) called “Ludicrous Speed.” ...

'Mystery worshippers' go online-2/8 Seattle Times, by Danny Westneat-- The help-wanted ad going live this week on Craigslist might raise some eyebrows. If not tempers. "Need people who aren't Christians to review church service," it says.-- The help-wanted ad going live this week on Craigslist might raise some eyebrows. If not tempers. "Need people who aren't Christians to review church service," it says. It goes on. "Who: Age 20-35. Do not currently believe Jesus Christ is God. Not mad at Christians. "What: Attend a church service (anonymously) and complete a survey." The pay for this odd job? $50. To go, once, to the Sunday service at North Sound Church in Edmonds and rate it on everything from whether the music is tedious to if the sermon seems sincere. It's the inspiration of Jim Henderson, a Seattle evangelical Christian, former pastor and self-described "spiritual anthropologist" who says it's past time Christians found out "what our true customers really think." He came up with the Craigslist ad. As well as a Web site for ranking houses of worship, called ChurchRater.com. "We say it's our mission to reach out, including to nonbelievers," Henderson, 62, says. "So why would we not want them to tell us what they think of our efforts to influence, change or even convert them?" One reason might be that it can be brutal. His Web site is free and open to believers and doubters alike, to say whatever they want. You can post reviews and one- to five-star ratings of churches, much as Yelp or Urban Spoon rank restaurants. A church in Everett got one star because someone found the pastor too self-absorbed. ...

In Internet Era, an Unwilling Lord for New Age Followers-2/8 NY Times, by Scott James-- “It is absurd to be put in this position, when I’m just some bloke,” Mr. Patel said. A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed the messiah Maitreya by followers of the New Age religious sect Share International. He was raised as a Hindu and had never heard of the group. He has no desire for deification. But he may not have a choice. Mr. Patel’s journey from ordinary person to unwilling lord is a case of having the wrong résumé at the wrong moment in history. For this is a time when human yearning to find a magical cure for the world’s woes can be harnessed to the digital age’s instant access to a vast treasure-trove of personal information. I have known Mr. Patel for four years — he keeps an office down the hall from mine. He is charming, and as a graduate of Oxford, Cornell University and the London School of Economics, he is considered brilliant, although he is self-effacing. He readily admits to being imperfectly human. People began to believe otherwise on Jan. 14 in London when Benjamin Creme, the leader of Share International, who is also known as the Master, proclaimed the arrival of Maitreya. The name of the deity has Buddhist roots, but in 1972, Mr. Creme prophesied the coming Maitreya as a messiah for all faiths called the World Teacher. Mr. Creme did not name the messiah, but he revealed clues that led his devotees to fire up their search engines on a digital scavenger hunt that would lead them to The One. About this time Mr. Patel was publicizing his new economics book, “The Value of Nothing.” With blogging, biographies and talk show appearances, the details of his life and views permeated the Internet ether. Crowds packed his readings, his book debuted on the New York Times best-seller list, and he appeared on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. The Maitreya clues — his age (supposed to be born in 1972; Mr. Patel was), life experiences (supposed to have traveled from India to London in 1977; Mr. Patel was taken on a vacation there with his parents that year) race (supposed to be dark-skinned; Mr. Patel is Indian) and philosophies — all pointed to him. Some believe Maitreya will have a stutter. When Mr. Patel tripped over a few words when talking with Mr. Colbert, it was the final sign. “It became a flood,” said Mr. Patel, referring to a torrent of e-mail messages that asked: “Are you The One?” He removed the contact information from his Web site, but dozens of pages, discussion groups and videos have emerged online proclaiming his holiness. Mr. Patel has emphatically and publicly denied being Maitreya. Bad move. According to the predictions, “Maitreya will neither confirm, or will fail to confirm, he is Maitreya,” said Cher Gilmore, a spokeswoman for Share International. Ms. Gilmore said Mr. Creme would not say if he believed Mr. Patel was the messiah. “It is absurd to be put in this position, when I’m just some bloke,” Mr. Patel said. A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed the messiah Maitreya by followers of the New Age religious sect Share International. He was raised as a Hindu and had never heard of the group. He has no desire for deification. But he may not have a choice. Mr. Patel’s journey from ordinary person to unwilling lord is a case of having the wrong résumé at the wrong moment in history. For this is a time when human yearning to find a magical cure for the world’s woes can be harnessed to the digital age’s instant access to a vast treasure-trove of personal information. I have known Mr. Patel for four years — he keeps an office down the hall from mine. He is charming, and as a graduate of Oxford, Cornell University and the London School of Economics, he is considered brilliant, although he is self-effacing. He readily admits to being imperfectly human. People began to believe otherwise on Jan. 14 in London when Benjamin Creme, the leader of Share International, who is also known as the Master, proclaimed the arrival of Maitreya. The name of the deity has Buddhist roots, but in 1972, Mr. Creme prophesied the coming Maitreya as a messiah for all faiths called the World Teacher. Mr. Creme did not name the messiah, but he revealed clues that led his devotees to fire up their search engines on a digital scavenger hunt that would lead them to The One. About this time Mr. Patel was publicizing his new economics book, “The Value of Nothing.” With blogging, biographies and talk show appearances, the details of his life and views permeated the Internet ether. Crowds packed his readings, his book debuted on the New York Times best-seller list, and he appeared on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. The Maitreya clues — his age (supposed to be born in 1972; Mr. Patel was), life experiences (supposed to have traveled from India to London in 1977; Mr. Patel was taken on a vacation there with his parents that year) race (supposed to be dark-skinned; Mr. Patel is Indian) and philosophies — all pointed to him. Some believe Maitreya will have a stutter. When Mr. Patel tripped over a few words when talking with Mr. Colbert, it was the final sign. “It became a flood,” said Mr. Patel, referring to a torrent of e-mail messages that asked: “Are you The One?” He removed the contact information from his Web site, but dozens of pages, discussion groups and videos have emerged online proclaiming his holiness. Mr. Patel has emphatically and publicly denied being Maitreya. Bad move. According to the predictions, “Maitreya will neither confirm, or will fail to confirm, he is Maitreya,” said Cher Gilmore, a spokeswoman for Share International. Ms. Gilmore said Mr. Creme would not say if he believed Mr. Patel was the messiah. ... Benjamin Creme wouldn't know Maitreya if he was standing right in front of him. Editor
El Morya on Buddha, Maitreya and Buddhism

 

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NYT: Audi's Green Police Ad 'Put the Mental in Environmental'-2/8 This was funny! You have to watch it a couple times to catch all the nuances. Editor


Doritos Commercial - Keep Yo' Hands Off My Momma!-2/8


E-Trade Baby Girlfriend Super Bowl Commercial-2/8


E-Trade Baby Airplane Commercial Superbowl Ad-2/8


E-Trade Baby Outtakes-2/8

The best and the rest of the Super Bowl commercials-2/8 NY Post

U.S. Pacific Command prevailed over NSC in urgent push for Taiwan arms sale-2/8
U.S. Commerce plan to ease export controls to China meets with skepticism-2/8
U.S. oil companies are latest targets of Chinese hackers-2/8
Taiwan Posts Best Export Growth in More Than 33 Years-2/8
Hu Jintao set to unleash massive online campaign against U.S. policies-2/6
Tibet's Star Activist Warns Obama-2/6
China to levy anti-dumping duties on US chicken-2/5
Taiwanese military orders German helicopters-2/5
Dalai Lama to visit White House 'later this month'-2/4
China's number one security threat: The Chinese-2/3
Chinese warn Boeing over Taiwan-2/3

Obama vs. Einstein-2/7 PJ Media, by Frank J. Tipler-- A renowned physicist demolishes a paper by the president, co-authored with Laurence Tribe, on the "revolutionary" aspects and legal implications of 20th century physics. -- According to the Washington Post, David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s senior advisor, said that the president worked with “[Harvard professor] Laurence Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of Einstein’s theory of relativity.” I’ve read that paper, “The Curvature of Constitutional Space.” It’s complete nonsense. It shows no understanding of Einstein’s theory of relativity, or of the relationship between relativity theory and Newton’s theory. I — to use Obama’s favorite word — do understand relativity theory. I was trained in relativity theory by the best. I was the post-doc of the late Princeton professor John A. Wheeler, who was himself the post-doc of Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr. Wheeler’s most famous student was Nobel Prize Winner Richard Feynman. I was also the post-doc of the late Oxford professor Dennis Sciama, who was a student of Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac. Sciama’s most famous student was Stephen Hawking. The key thesis of the Obama-Tribe paper is contained in the opening sentences of its abstract: “Twentieth-century physics revolutionized our understanding of the physical world. Relativity theory replaced a view of the universe as made up of isolated objects acting upon one another at a distance with a model in which space itself was curved and changed by the presence and movement of objects. Quantum physics undermined the confidence of scientists in their ability to observe and understand a phenomenon without fundamentally altering it in the process.” All of these sentences are completely wrong. In Newtonian theory, gravity is space-time curvature just as it is in general relativity. In fact, Einstein’s general relativity is just a special case of Newtonian gravity theory incorporating the ether. Quantum physics is also just a special case of Newtonian mechanics in its wave-particle formulation (called Hamilton-Jacobi theory) incorporating the very modest requirement that this formulation be mathematically consistent. Hamilton-Jacobi theory is deterministic, hence quantum mechanics is equally deterministic. There was absolutely nothing revolutionary about twentieth century physics. There has been no “paradigm shift” in physics. The magnificent intellectual edifice created by Isaac Newton stands unshaken. The fact that Newtonian gravity is curvature just like Einsteinian gravity was established by the greatest geometer of the twentieth century, the French mathematician Elie Cartan, in the year 1922, before either Tribe or Obama were born. Cartan and Einstein corresponded about this mathematical fact, so Einstein — and I, and the rest of the world’s relativity experts — are aware of it, if not Obama and Tribe. A detailed mathematical proof that Newtonian gravity is curvature can be found in Gravitation, the co-authored by my teacher John A. Wheeler. ...

It Will Be as if the American Founding Never Happened-2/6 Heritage Foundation, George Washington, James Madison, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln—nothing meaningful happened in America before 1877. That’s the lesson North Carolina public high schools may start teaching. Under proposed changes in their high school history curriculum, the U.S. History course (which seniors take) will cover events from 1877 forward only. It will be as if the American Founding never happened. According to Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the goal of this change is to teach what students will feel connected to, “where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day.” By implication, nothing before 1877 has any meaning to students: the Declaration of Independence that proclaims the self evident truths of equality, natural rights, and consent of the governed; the Constitution that establishes the rule of law and the framework in which we exercise our liberty; the Civil War in which Abraham Lincoln defended the principles of the American Founding and ended the institution of slavery. These events are irrelevant for today’s students. ...


No. 14 on NY Times Best Seller list; #151 at Amazon

Dr. Jeffrey Long’s Near-Death Experience Research a “Game Changer” for Science-2/6 Skeptiko, The most comprehensive research into near-death experience deals a kill shot to skeptics and aims to change how science views the afterlife. Science has studied the near-death experience for more than 20 years. Most research has concluded NDEs are real and unexplainable, but scientists have been slow to accept consciousness beyond death. A new scientific study by Jeffrey Long, M. D. may change that. The research compiled in his new book, Evidence of the Afterlife, represents the largest, most comprehensive study of near-death experience and according to the study’s author is, “a real game-changer”. Dr. Long explains, “we looked at nine lines of evidence that indicate the reality of near-death experiences and their consistent message of an afterlife. With each of these lines of evidence we carefully reviewed all prior scholarly research on the subject and made our contributions with our original research… from my point of view, the scientific term is compelling, but you can put it another way — the nine lines of evidence that I present is proof of the reality of near-death experiences.” The conclusions of Dr. Long’s research are paradigm smashing for near-death experience skeptics who’ve argued that limited brain functioning may explain NDEs. “What near-death experiencers see correlates to their time of cardiac arrest and it is almost uniformly accurate in every detail. That pretty much refutes the possibility that these could be illusionary fragments, or unreal memories associated with hypoxia, chemicals, REM intrusion, anything that could cause brain dysfunction”, Dr. Long stated. “I looked at over 280 near-death experiences that had out-of-body observations of Earthly ongoing events… If near-death experiences were just fragments of memory, unrealistic remembrances of a time approaching unconsciousness or returning from unconsciousness, there is no chance that the observations would have a high percent of completely accurate observations. They’d be dream-like or hallucinations. But 98% of them were entirely realistic… In fact, these observations of Earthly ongoing events often include observations of things that would be impossible for them to be aware of with any sensory function from their physical body. For example, they can see the tops of buildings. They can see far away. In my study over 60 of these near-death experiencers later went back and independently attempted to verify what they saw in the out-of-body state. Every single one of these over 60 near-death experiencers that reported checking or verifying their own observations found that they were absolutely correct in every detail.”, Dr. Long said. While some near-death experience researchers have been reluctant to make the leap from NDEs to proof of the afterlife, Dr. Long is convinced by his research findings, “I’ve gone over every skeptic argument I can get my hands on. At the end of the day, I have no doubt in my mind near-death experience is for real. It’s a profound and reassuring message that we all have an afterlife. Every single one of us. And it’s wonderful. It is probably the greatest thrill of my life to be able to carry forward that important message to the world. I wouldn’t do it if I weren’t absolutely convinced that it’s correct.” The conclusions of this research will be controversial, but Dr. Long stands ready to take on the critics, “I would be delighted to debate any near-death experience skeptic, any time, any place, on any media, as long as they’re scholarly, well informed, and as long as it can be a very high-level, intellectual debate.” ...

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Admiral Richard Byrd
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El Morya on Armageddon
El Morya on Prophecy, the New Era and the Age of Maitreya
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General Washington's Vision
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NDE and the Future
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Solzhenitsyn: A World Split Apart
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Sean David Morton and the Bible Code
Screwtape: The Real Manchurian Candidate?
Vision of the New-Jerusalem

Psychic prediction is based on man's free will and is sometimes more accurate but not necessarily God's Will. True prophecy comes from God as a warning for man to change his ways and pray for intercession. If mankind makes the course correction then calamities can be averted. Editor

The whale whisperer: Andrew Armour strokes a sperm whale-2/5 Telegraph (UK), Dive operator Andrew Armour has become known as the Whale Whisperer after forming a special bond with a colossal sperm whale that allows him to swim nose-to-nose with a true giant of the sea. Picture: Eric Cheng/ Barcroft Media


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The Cedar Pendant at a very reasonable price-2/5 After reading most of the first book. I just ordered several. Editor

 

World's oldest monastery restored-2/6 BBC, Egypt has completed the restoration of reputedly the world's oldest Christian monastery, called Saint Anthony's. The monastery is believed to be 1,600 years old. The government-sponsored restoration project cost over $14m (£8.9m) and took more than eight years. The monastery is a popular site for Coptic Christian pilgrims. The restoration comes soon after Egypt's worst incident of sectarian violence in a decade, when six Copts were shot dead on Christmas Eve. BBC's Cairo correspondent Yolande Knell says it is hoped the newly-restored monastery in Suez City will be held up as a sign of co-existence between Egypt's Muslim majority and Christian minority. Solitary life Speaking at the site, Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass stressed that restoration work at the monastery was carried out by Muslims. "The announcement we are making today shows to the world how we are keen to restore the monuments of our past, whether Coptic, Jewish or Muslim," said Mr Hawass. Saint Anthony settled in a cave in remote mountains close to the Red Sea at the end of the 3rd Century to live in isolation. When he died, his followers built the monastery and named it after him. The project has restored an ancient wall, a tower, two main churches and the monks' quarters.

The hidden powers of your pooch: Why your dog really is a genius-2/6 Daily Mail (UK), By Alexandra Horowitz Last updated at 12:45 AM on 06th February 2010 Comments (2) Add to My Stories When your dog next sits lovingly at your feet, wagging his tail, remember this: he knows what you last ate, whether you've just run a mile, and perhaps if you have cancer.He can also tell if you've recently had sex. Dogs' sense of smell is millions of times better than ours; their hearing range is far wider; and they can taste a teaspoon of sugar diluted in a million gallons of water. Scientist ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ has spent years investigating these supersenses. Welcome to the secret world of your dog...







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This book is incredible! Awe-inspiring! Knowing a little about the non-physical universe one has to admit these things are possible and yet the narrative and events are so fantastic you can't help but wonder. But in the end it doesn't matter. Editor


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Solfeggio Frequencies in Water Crystals

What Are The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies?-2/3 Lightwithin.com, by David Hulse--These original sound frequencies were apparently used in Ancient Gregorian Chants, such as the great hymn to St. John the Baptist, along with others that church authorities say were lost centuries ago. The chants and their special tones were believed to impart tremendous spiritual blessings when sung in harmony during religious masses. These powerful frequencies were rediscovered by Dr. Joseph Puleo as described in the book Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse by Dr. Leonard Horowitz. I give honor to both of these gentleman for the part they’ve played in helping return these lost frequencies back to humanity.
The Six Solfeggio Frequencies include:
UT – 396 Hz – Liberating Guilt and Fear
RE – 417 Hz – Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change
MI – 528 Hz – Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair)
FA – 639 Hz – Connecting/Relationships
SOL – 741 Hz – Awakening Intuition
LA – 852 Hz – Returning to Spiritual Order
For example, the third note, frequency 528, relates to the note MI on the scale and derives from the phrase "MI-ra gestorum" in Latin meaning "miracle." Stunningly, this is the exact frequency used by genetic biochemists to repair broken DNA – the genetic blueprint upon which life is based! ...
How I found out about the Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies:
I found this ancient scale to be part of a 6-tone scale sequence of electro-magnetic frequencies called the Original Solfeggio Scale through the book "The Healing Codes of Biological Apocalypse" by Dr. Leonard Horowitz. These particular frequencies were rediscovered by Dr. Joseph Puleo, who received them in a wonderful experience that some would suggest was mystical. These frequencies are not something new, but they are something very old. I shared the information about these frequencies with a musician friend who had a studio in her home. After reviewing the information, she decided that she would like to experiment with these frequencies in the form of meditation music. She was also in touch with Jonathan Goldman (author of the book, "Healing Sounds") and he knew of these frequencies, and was using them in some of his music such as "The Lost Chord" CD. Aryiana requested that he have the tuning forks made for her to research the frequencies. I asked if she could also have a set made for me. After I received the tuning forks and began talking about them around the country, I noticed that people were resonating with the information about these powerful frequencies. It felt as though something was going on in a much larger picture. We were connecting energetically to this information, and yet I didn’t know what I was going to do with the tuning forks. Then people began to ask if I could use the tuning forks on them. From those experiences, and with information I had gathered, a method and technique began to develop. I called the technique SomaEnergeticsTM, which is designed to utilize the optimum energy of the Solfeggio frequencies using tuning forks. Soma, meaning "body" in the Greek, combines the wholistic idea of the body as an energy field - SomaEnergeticsTM. When starting these first tunings, the main frequency that I knew the most about was 528 Hz – that biochemists are using for DNA repair. I realized that the right side of the body is controlled by the left-brain, and the left side by the right brain and that these correspond with our inner male and female energies. As I took the fork down each side of the body, I could get in touch with the dominate ancestral DNA that comes thru the Mother’s side or Father’s side of the chromosomes. I would many times get a tremendous imbalance in the sound between the two sides. The purpose of energy work, as many of you know, is to attain balance. For example, if everything is in balance, such as the ph level, the physical body can heal more naturally. It’s the same way in our energy bodies. If we can find that energy balance, that equilibrium, where everything aligns or everything comes into synchronization into the rhythm of the dance of life – then healing becomes the natural state. It’s nothing supernatural, or miraculous. I think a lot of spiritual texts have referred to this idea when they describe, "going home to heaven." Heaven, to me, is the complete synchronization with higher frequencies and vibrations of creation being totally entrained. In other words, being in a state of at-one-ment. When I would continue to do the technique, the sound would begin to even out between the male and female sides of the body, and the client would indicate they were "feeling" a shift. As that would occur, I was totally amazed, and asked myself, "What is happening here?" Although I’ve been a speaker of spiritual things for over 40 years, I can’t tell you that I’ve been the most intuitive person in the world. All of a sudden I started having certain feelings about what to do with the forks. I found that at some point in working with the client, I stopped "doing" the tuning forks (being the initiator of the technique), and they started "doing me" – seeming to direct the movement of the Forks! After hundreds of tunings and positive testimonies, I have learned to trust the Ancient Solfeggio Scale frequencies in the form of Tuning Forks as a legitimate modality. ... continued here >>>


417 Hz Frequency Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change


528 Hz Frequency Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair)


852 Hz Frequency Returning to Spiritual Order

P.S. I had the 741 Hz frequency up but didn't care for it. So I put up 852 Hz instead. Editor

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I admire sincerely by Your art so much that I can say without exaggeration that never have landscapes made such a great impression on me.
– Albert Einstein (Letter to Roerich Museum, 1931)


Roerich's paintings -- "a cross between Matisse and Maxfield Parrish," according to one critic -- only begin to tell the artist's story. (Photos By Helayne Seidman, The Wash. Post)

Nicholas Roerich's Different Strokes-2/1 Wash. Post [Oct. 4, 2009], By Blake Gopnik -- Painter's a Footnote Today, but a Little Museum Reveals His Epic Story-- -- Hail a cab to the Nicholas Roerich Museum, and the driver has to ask for the address. Stand at the busy corner of Broadway and 107th Street, half a block from the museum, and ask 10 locals about it, and you hear basically the same answer 10 times. "Never heard of it." "Don't know it." "Nope." Talk to cultured friends who've lived for years near the museum -- ask experts across the length and breadth of the art world -- and you still don't score a hit. Buried in a little mansion that's seen better days, this may be the most obscure art museum in a city of obscure museums. Eighty years ago, however, this man whom no one's heard of was one of the most famous artists in the country. He rated a purpose-built, 29-story skyscraper, with whole floors for his museum, and a Roerich institute and lodgings for disciples. "Nicholas Roerich is an international figure. Not only is he a painter, but a scientist, a writer, poet and an archaeologist as well. . . . Beauty, which is the unifier of all nations, is the warp and woof of his paintings, too." That was how things stood on Sept. 7, 1930, when Ada Rainey, this newspaper's art critic, wrote about the 55-year-old Russian emigre. She was reviewing a show of more than 1,000 of Roerich's paintings, on display in the newly opened Roerich tower. That same day, Rainey gave rather less space to another interesting new museum. It was called the Museum of Modern Art. The gorgeous art deco skyscraper is still there, at Riverside Drive and 103rd Street, though it has been turned into an apartment building. Its museum is now tucked into the middle of a block at the far west end of 107th Street, in a Victorian pile with linoleum-covered stairs and scruffy carpet over patches of its old oak floors. The museum's 200 works by Roerich -- of the 7,000 or more he made -- splash gaudy color across the cracking plaster, with images of wild mystic lands as far apart as Everest in Tibet and Mount Hira in Arabia, by way of Sinai and the Russian woods. Roerich used them as backdrops for Krishna, Muhammad and Saint Sergius the Builder, along with most of the world's other stars of otherworldliness. The museum has a staff of four. Its 82-year-old director, Daniel Entin, has had the job since 1983. For his appointment with a journalist, he wears chunky old sandals and socks, black chinos and a safari vest. The museum is hardly a thriving concern, but somehow Entin has a kind of Zen-like -- or maybe Roerichian -- peace about matters. ...
Nicholas Roerich at Wikipedia

Banned from the Bible-2/8 Coast to Coast Recap, Prof. Ken Hanson discussed "banned from the Bible" stories that were too explosive to make the cut into the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and a recently discovered ancient tablet that contains text similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls. In contrast to the parchment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the tablet's text appears as ink on stone, and is said to date back to just before Jesus' birth. "It's a message delivered by the angel Gabriel" about a messianic character who will rise from the dead," and is written in the apocalyptic style of the Dead Sea Scrolls, he reported. But it is possible that the stone is a forgery, he added. One interesting ancient text found at the ancient site of Masada, "Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice," refers to a airborne craft and "non-terrestrial beings." It describes a procession of angels ascending to a heavenly temple, as they soar in a Merkabah or chariot-like throne, Hanson detailed. Encounters with such "non-terrestrial" beings may be one reason a number of ancient texts were excluded from the Bible, he said. A whole race of beings were spawned by the Nephilim, according to some of the banned books of the Bible, like the Book of First Enoch. Fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls represent a number of these excluded books and are like "the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle," said Hanson. "We're more than what we know; I think these banned books are shouting this at us...that our consciousness is something more than just the body," he shared.

The Faeries of Shakespeare-2/2 Llewellyn, by Kenny Klein-- We all know him as the rock star of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Puck, aka Robin Goodfellow, that mischievous sprite who has this to say of himself:
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.
(II:i:50-57)
Puck is such a dynamic figure on stage, and has such a history in the annals of folklore, that he is almost like a long lost friend when he appears and gloats over the feud between his master Oberon and his mistress Titania. And of course, we all recognize the Faerie King and Queen themselves, though Shakespeare might have given them names that differ a bit from what British lore calls them. The play is set in an Athenian grove, after all. But why did Shakespeare write about Faeries? Most of the dramatist's work recounts the deeds and tragedies of kings, princes, and emperors. Why write about the denizens of the Faerie world? Shakespeare grew up in the central English Midlands, in Stratford-Upon-Avon. In the playwright's day, the Midlands were a maze of farms, fields, and forests. Shakespeare would have absorbed a good deal of local folklore, and like anyone in the area would have held a belief that Faeries lived in every garden, grove, and thicket. That he was well versed in Faerie lore is evident in the play here, as well as in the Queen Mab speech in Romeo and Juliet, and the legends of the forest spirit Hern that play prominently in The Merry Wives Of Windsor. In each of these plays the Faerie lore is well presented and accurate, proof that Shakespeare was paying attention when Faeries were being described by the storytellers and farm wives of his community. Though he became the toast of aristocratic London, Shakespeare never lost the Faerie beliefs of a Midlands farm boy. And while Puck and Oberon prance about wreaking magical havoc on unsuspecting mortals, there are several smaller roles given to Faeries who may be worth thinking about. Let's take a peek at five Faeries to whom Shakespeare assigned minor roles, but whom the iconic playwright seems to know well and to regard perhaps lovingly. The Five Faeries of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamWhile Shakespeare paid his due to Faerie royalty in the figures of Titania and Oberon, the Bard of Avon seemed just as taken with the less stately Faeries of forests and gardens. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, the first Fairy to appear is a sweet little thing whose name we never learn (she is simply called Fairy), but who is very much tied to the green and growing flowers of the thicket. On first meeting her Puck asks where her travels have taken her, and she answers:
Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
(II:i:3-15)
This Faerie's job seems to be enhancing the flowers of glade and grove: she places dewy teardrops that shine like rubies upon the yellow flowers of the primroses (cowslips), and says that these are a blessing from enchanted beings, “fairy favors,” for flowers that give their loyalty to the Faerie Queen. She is also a Faerie with a sense of humor. Recognizing Puck, she begins happily describing the pranks she has heard of him performing: ...
Editor: Okay I'm going to stretch your imagination. Go with me here. Shakespeare otherwise known as Sir Francis Bacon was vitally concerned wth man's relationship with nature, faeries and elemental life. So much so, that 17 years before he made his Ascension in 1684 as Saint Germain, he contacted Abbe de Villars from 1667 to 1670. The book he dictated to Villars is filled with references to elementals and nature spirits. Many were influenced by this book including Alexander Pope, Bulwer Lytton (Zanoni) and James Barrie (remember Tinker Bell in Peter Pan?) among others.
After this, a short interlude follows, then the Comte ascends. He returns as the Comte de Saint Germain to finish his mission of bringing forth Freemasonry, Rosicrucians and "The New Atlantis": America. Those who hate God and Saint Germain such as the recently deceased Howard Zinn will always focus on the negatives of America's history, never the positives and spiritual. Don't get your knickers twisted over this. I had Howard Zinn as a professor. I've known about him, people like him and their motives for a long time.
P.S. I think the Comte is asking us to not only be aware of elementals but also work with them. Here's a very nice description of ' Gabalis' at Wikipedia:

Comte de Gabalis-2/2 From Wikipedia, C.H. Bjerregaard, writing in Theosophic Journal The World xix 1914 pp 116-121 says, “To a reader who cannot or will not believe that the Comte de Gabalis was a real person, but merely a fiction...., the advice is that he leave the question open and attend to the teachings of the book.... All this has meaning to those only of the Inner Life... .....the man and the book...leave a subtle influence upon the mind and prepare it for a flight upwards.”
The Comte De Gabalis is a Sacred Text for Rosicrucians and Spiritual Adepts. It is composed of Five Discourses given by a Count or Spiritual Master to the student or aspirant. It was anonymously published in 1670 under the title: Comte De Gabalis. The meaning suggests the Count of the Cabala as the text is cabalistic in nature. The "Holy Cabala" is mentioned explicitly throughout. The first English translation was rendered in 1680. Only in later publishings did the name Abbé N. de Montfaucon de Villars become attached to this work as being its author (see the book Comte De Gabalis, 1914 or 1922 English edition, The Brothers: Macoy & Masonic Supply Co). Nevertheless, the importance of who the Comte actually is, is hinted at and among Spiritual societies and groups, it is held to be The Polish Rider -- as he rode westward. At the beginning of the text is a painting by Rembrandt titled "The Polish Rider". This painting can be viewed at the Frick Collection, New York City. However, those there who attend to this painting are not aware of who the "Polish Rider" is. Rosicrucian Adepts and members of certain spiritual organizations, such as the "I AM" Activity or Saint Germain Foundation, believe that it is none other than Sir Francis Bacon, who they claim wrote the Shakespearea Plays, employing the pen name "William Shakespeare"-- earlier in his illustrious career. Therefore, Francis Bacon at a later date; and just prior to 1670, would have given five discourses under another another pen name Comte De Gabalis. This personage, it is held, disappeared for a time before returning again before the public with a new and final name Sanctus Germanus which means "Holy Brother." Today, this name is widely known and recognized as being the Ascended Master Saint Germain. Highlights in this work include prints by Rembrandt, scroll of The Birth of Jesus as related in the Koran, explanation of famous stories and histories such as Melusine, so forth. In later editions, an extensive commentary by Lotus Dudley was included. The commentary is simply a means of assisting the reader to understand the points being made in the text which are historical and based in fact. Thus, it is considered a work of nonfiction. However, to an everyday reader, it is often considered a novel or work of fantasy. The book begins with a quote by Tertullian: "When a thing is hidden away with so much pains, merely to reveal it is to destroy it". The book consists of five Discourses that center on the topic: 1. Nature of the Divine Principle in Man: The Student meets the Comte 2. Evolution of the Divine Principle in Man: The People of the Elements 3. Man's Place in Nature: The Oracles 4. Children of the Sun: Children of the Philosophers 5. The Life of the True Light is Radiation: Charity of the Philosophers ...

The book at Amazon.com:

Here is The Comte de Gabilis for free at Sacred Texts.


New: Former Artistic Director of Globe Theater, Mark Rylance Speaks About the Shakespeare Controversy-2/7

Five Stages of Greek Religion-2/8 Sacred Texts, by Gilbert Murray [1925] -- In this book the eminent classical scholar Gilbert Murray details the evolution of Greek religion, from a cycle of festivals devoted to the principal Olympian Gods, through the Homeric hymns, Hellenistic philosophy including Platonism and Gnosticism. Murray traces elements through centuries of Greek spirituality which culminated in Christianity. He includes a translation of the Treatise of Sallustius, which is a credo of later Greek pagan beliefs and philosophy. This book is essential reading for classicists and anyone interested in the evolution of ancient Greek religion.
I. Saturnia Regna
II. The Olympian Conquest
III. The Great Schools
IV. The Failure of Nerve
V. The Last Protest
Appendix: Translation of the Treatise of Sallustius

The Mahatma on Witchcraft and Black Magic-2/1 Agni Yoga, New at Reverse Spins:
Fiery World I, 620. Furthermore, it is the greatest infamy that humanity even now practices witchcraft, precisely the blackest sorcery bent upon evil. Such conscious collaboration with the dark forces is not less horrible than poison gases. It is incredible that men who consider themselves to be in the religion of Good perpetuate the most dreadful sorcery. I would not mention this black peril if it had not reached such terrific proportions at present. The most intolerable rituals have been re-instituted in order to harm people. In their ignorance the crowds have been inveigled into mass magic. It is impermissible to allow such disintegration of the planet! It is impermissible to allow the dark forces to succeed in annihilating all evolution. Sorcery is not permissible, being a pressure on space contrary to nature. Everywhere, stress the danger of sorcery. More >>>

“The Catholic Demonologist Handbook”-2/5 Dealing with Children “Who See Ghosts” ...

Air Force Academy to Open Outdoor Worship Circle for Wiccans and Druids-2/1

Obama Receives Religious Devotionals by Blackberry-2/6

Shroud of Turin: Image provokes prayer, curiosity, scholarly disputes-2/6

The all Pyramids tour of Egypt, 19 to 27 March 2010 w/Robert Bauval-2/8