St. Francis, Follow Your Heart

Tonight, this is one of the cards that I pulled.  Very appropriate for me right now.  Particularly the last part, where my friends or family may not understand my spiritual path, but in fact it is I who question my spiritual path.  However, because of what I know, I know that I have the honor I of being of service for others to learn how.  Here it goes!  Namaste ALL day world!

Worth, love, care, of the self

Being decisive has often been my challenge.  I am a Gemini and ninety percent to always, I consider every angle, every side, mind frames, consequences positive and negative.  Hence, once I do make a decision it is one I am quite proud of and other times, I wish I would have made it sooner.  Pausing is positive and then there comes a time to take action.  It helps when I visualize my decision and see how my body feels as a result.  This more often nudges me to a choice conscientiously swifter.  Time to do that more often.

A prayer for those in need

Tonight I am saying a prayer for anyone that needs one.  If you seek to be comforted may you be held.  If your heart needs mending may you be made whole.  If your mind needs peace may the comfort of silence be within you.  And if for even a moments time sanctuary be your restoration let your soul receive it from the highest light and the path be made. Whatever Great Spirit you pray to, speak to, or connect to be with you now & always.

Amen

Growth

Hello World!

How one foot step in front of the other can catapult into such magical change is amazing! I am finding that each step I take to solidify my dreams is me laying a single brick to build my foundation. Time for a marathon now!

Keep at it

It is those days when I could almost feel off my path, that I am reminded that indeed I am on my right path. By various others on it. I am exactly where I am meant to be. I said exactly the opposite over lunch with friends today. And just like that it was released to the universe and back to me on wings with the answer that I . You are important...everyone is. Everyone

Sometimes this, sometimes that

Sometimes things will be easy, sometimes things will be difficult, sometimes things will be joyous, sometimes things will be sad.  Sometimes things will make sense and sometimes they will make no sense.  A part of me wishes to know the end result now...so I can see if I need to change anything to make the end result more to my liking.  Some of the most delicious things are from the roads I would have never in the right mind traveled.  Does any of it ever make any sense.  Maybe sometimes it does, but right now it doesn't feel like it.

There are so many blissful things occurring in my life right now.  I came here to ride the river.  Sometimes the river will be gentle, sometimes the river will be rough.

I can really say right now in this moment...it is all worth it.  Every single beautiful and not so beautiful sometimes.

Tea makes everything better

As my To Enjoy list mounts. It is time for me to take a breather from the work of the day, my vacation day to be precise. The renovations are almost done and I can put my belongings and life together again. I have had opportunities throughout my life to appreciate the beauty of having a sacred space to lay my head to rest. Now is another one of those times.

I am the kind of person who needs lots of mini breaks to gather myself and refocus. It is easy to day dream on a beautiful day like today and listen to the birds singing, cuddle with my dogs that need a bath today when I am done inside, and realize it is lunch time. Oh to be human. Now is one of those times and hey it is my staycation as my lovely co-worker coined it.

Yoga Teacher Certification

I completed my 200 hour yoga teacher certification! It was a grueling, wonderful, amazing, and life changing experience. And it is only the beginning. I am putting things together so that I may teach after 4th of July weekend. I will make announcements and blog about it once I do.

Here are some pictures from my yoga teacher training grad party:)!

Ain't no party like a yogi partay!

Flouride Conspiracy

And I just went to the dentist and she prescribed I get this flouride toothpaste stuff....lame.  I totally forgot in the moment and paid for it.  Now that's $10 in the trash...even the dental assistants said I could get it somewhere else too... I just thought I was taking care of my teeth.

http://ekoscommunications.com/node/125

By goers - Posted on 29 July 2005

The Fluoride Conspiracy

"Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it."

- Adolf Hitler

"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century."

- Robert Carlton, Ph.D, former EPA scientist, 1992

The history of forcing fluoride on humans through the fluoridation of drinking water is wrought with lies, greed and deception. Governments that add fluoride to drinking water supplies insist that it is safe, beneficial and necessary, however, scientific evidence shows that fluoride is not safe to ingest and areas that fluoridate their drinking water supplies have higher rates of cavities, cancer, dental fluorosis, osteoporosis and other health problems. Because of the push from the aluminum industry, pharmaceutical companies and weapons manufacturers, fluoride continues to be added to water supplies all over North America and due to recent legal actions against water companies that fluoridate drinking water supplies, precedent has been set that will make it impossible for suits to be filed against water suppliers that fluoridate. There is a growing resistance against adding toxic fluoride to our water supplies, but unfortunately, because fluoride has become "the lifeblood of the modern industrial economy"(Bryson 2004), there is too much money at stake for those who endorse water fluoridation . The lies of the benefits of water fluoridation will continue to be fed to the public, not to encourage health benefits to a large number of people, but to profit the military-industrial complex.

The story begins in 1924, when Interessen Gemeinschaft Farben (I.G. Farben), a German chemical manufacturing company, began receiving loans from American bankers, gradually leading to the creation of the huge I.G. Farben cartel. In 1928 Henry Ford and American Standard Oil Company (The Rockefellers) merged their assets with I.G. Farben, and by the early thirties, there were more than a hundred American corporations which had subsidiaries and co-operative understandings in Germany. The I.G. Farben assets in America were controlled by a holding Company, American I.G. Farben, which listed on it’s board of directors: Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company, Chas. E. Mitchell, President of Rockerfeller’s National City Bank of New York, Walter Teagle, President of Standard Oil New York, Paul Warburg, Chairman of the federal reserve and brother of Max Warburg, financier of Germany’s War effort, Herman Metz, a director of the Bank of Manhattan, controlled by the Warburgs, and a number of other members, three of which were tried and convicted as German war criminals for their crimes against humanity. In 1939 under the Alted agreement, the American Aluminum Company (ALCOA), then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride, and the Dow Chemical Company transferred its technology to Germany. Colgate, Kellogg, Dupont and many other companies eventually signed cartel agreements with I.G. Farben, creating a powerful lobby group accurately dubbed "the fluoride mafia"(Stephen 1995).

At the end of World War II, the US government sent Charles Eliot Perkins, a research worker in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology, to take charge of the vast Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to control the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners "stupid and docile"(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority. Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers. It may not seem surprising that Hitler’s regime practiced the concept of mind control through chemical means, but the American military continued Nazi research, exploring techniques to incapacitate an enemy or medicate an entire nation. As stated in the Rockerfeller Report, a Presidential briefing on CIA activities, "the drug program was part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means of controlling human behavior"(Stephen 1995).

The ‘dental caries prevention myth’ associated with fluoride, originated in the United States in 1939, when a scientist named Gerald J. Cox, employed by ALCOA, the largest producer of toxic fluoride waste and at the time being threatened by fluoride damage claims, fluoridated some lab rats, concluded that fluoride reduced cavities and claimed that it should be added to the nation’s water supplies. In 1947, Oscar R. Ewing, a long time ALCOA lawyer, was appointed head of the Federal Security Agency , a position that placed him in charge of the Public Health Service(PHS). Over the next three years, eighty-seven new American cities began fluoridating their water, including the control city in a water fluoridation study in Michigan, thus eliminating the most scientifically objective test of safety and benefit before it was ever completed.

American ‘education and research’ was funded by the Aluminum Manufacturing, Fertilizer and Weapons Industry looking for an outlet for the increasingly mounting fluoride industrial waste while attaining positive profit increase. The ‘discovery’ that fluoride benefited teeth, was paid for by industry that needed to be able to defend "lawsuits from workers and communities poisoned by industrial fluoride emissions" (Bryson 1995) and turn a liability into an asset. Fluoride, a waste constituent in the manufacturing processes of explosives, fertilizers and other ‘necessities’, was expensive to dispose of properly and until a ‘use’ was found for it in America’s water supplies, the substance was only considered a toxic, hazardous waste. Through sly public re-education, fluoride, once a waste product, became the active ingredient in fluorinated pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, anesthetics, tranquilizers, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and a number of industrial and domestic products, fluorinated dental gels, rinses and toothpastes. Fluoride is so much a part of a multibillion-dollar industrial and pharmaceutical income, that any withdrawal of support from pro-fluoridationists is financially impossible, legally unthinkable and potentially devastating for their career and reputation.

Funded by US industrialists, in an attempt to encourage public acceptance of fluoride, Edward Bernays, known also as the father of PR, or the original spin doctor, began a campaign of deception to persuade public opinion. Barnays explained "you can get practically any idea accepted if doctors are in favour. The public is willing to accept it because a doctor is an authority to most people, regardless of how much he knows or doesn’t know"(Bryson 2004). Doctors who endorsed fluoridation didn’t know that research discrediting fluoride’s safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first place. Fluoride became equated with scientific progress and since it was introduced to the public as a health-enhancing substance, added to the environment for the children’s sake, those opposing fluoride were dismissed as cranks, quacks and lunatics. Fluoride became impervious to criticism because of a relentless PR offensive, but also because of it’s overall toxicity. Unlike chemicals that have a signature effect, fluoride, a systemic poison, produces a range of health problems, so it’s effects are more difficult to diagnose.

Recently declassified US Military documents such as Manhattan Project, shows how Fluoride is the key chemical in atomic bomb production and millions of tonnes of it were needed for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium. Fluoride poisoning, not radiation poisoning, emerged as the leading chemical health hazard for both workers and nearby communities. A-bomb scientists were ordered to provide evidence useful for defense in litigation, so they began secretly testing fluoride on unsuspecting hospital patients and indignant, mentally retarded children.. "The August 1948 Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse effects from fluoride was censored by the US Atomic Energy Commission for reasons of "national security" (Griffiths 1998). The only report released stated that fluoride was safe for humans in small doses.

During the Cold War, Dr. Harold C. Hodge, who had been the toxicologist for the US Army Manhattan Project, was the leading scientific promoter of water fluoridation. While Dr. Hodge was reassuring congress of the safety of water fluoridation, he was covertly conducting one of the nation’s first public water fluoridation experiments in Newburgh, New York, secretly studying biological samples from Newburgh citizens at his US laboratory at the University of Rochester. Since there are no legal constraints against the suppression of scientific data, the only published conclusion resulting from these experiments was that fluoride was safe in low doses, a profoundly helpful verdict for the US Military who feared lawsuits for fluoride injury from workers in nuclear power plants and munitions factories. Fluoride pollution was one of the biggest legal worries facing key US industrial sectors during the cold war. A secret group of corporate attorneys, known as the Fluorine Lawyers Committee, whose members included US Steel, ALCOA, Kaiser Aluminum, and Reynolds Metals, commissioned research at the Kettering Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati to "provide ammunition"(Bryson 2004) for those corporations who were fighting a wave of citizen claims for fluoride injury. The Fluorine Lawyers Committee and their medical ambassadors were in personal and frequent contact with the senior officials of the federal National Institute for Dental Research, and have been implied in the ‘burying’ of the forty year old Kettering study, which showed that fluoride poisoned the lungs and lymph nodes in laboratory animals. Private interests, sought to destroy careers and censor information by ensuring that scientific studies raising doubts about the safety of fluoride never got funded, and if they did, never got published.

During the 1990’s, research conducted by Harvard toxicologist Phillis Mullenix showed that fluoride in water may lead to lower IQ’s, and produced symptoms in rats strongly resembling attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Just days before her research was accepted for publication, Mullenix was fired as the head of toxicology at the Forsyth Dental Center in Boston. Then her application for a grant to continue her fluoride and central nervous system research was turned down by the US National Institute of Health (NIH), when an NIH panel told her that "fluoride does not have central nervous system effects"(Griffiths 1998).

Despite growing evidence that it is harmful to public health, US federal and state public health agencies and large dental and medical organizations such as the American Dental Association (ADA), continue to promote fluoride. Water fluoridation continues, despite the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s own scientists, whose union, Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, has taken a strong stand against it. Dr. William Hirzy, vice president of Chapter 280, stated that "fluoride (that is added to municipal water) is a hazardous waste product for which there is substantial evidence of adverse health effects and, contrary to public perception, virtually no evidence of significant benefits"( Mullenix 1998). Although fluoride is up to fifty times more toxic than sulfur dioxide, it is still not regulated as an air pollutant by the American Clean Air Act. Since thousands of tonnes of industrial fluoride waste is poured into drinking water supplies all over North America, supposedly to encourage gleaming smiles in our children, big industry in the US has the benefit of emitting as much fluoride waste into the environment as they like with absolutely no requirement to measure emissions and no way of being held accountable for poisoning people, animals and vegetation.

In August 2003, the EPA requested that the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), re-evaluate water fluoride safety standards by reviewing recent scientific literature, because the last review in 1993 had major gaps in research. "Neither the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), nor the National Institute for Dental Research (NIDR), nor the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry has any proof on fluoride’s safety or effectiveness"(Sterling 1993). The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an unapproved dental medicament due to it’s high toxicity and the US National Cancer Institute Toxicological Program has found fluoride to be an "equivocal carcinogen" (Maurer 1990).

Currently the US government is continuing to introduce further fluoridation schemes throughout the country, including the Water Act passed in November 2003, which has made it impossible for water companies to undergo civil or criminal hearings as a result of adding fluoride to public water supplies.

In a society where products containing asbestos, lead, beryllium and many other carcinogens have been recalled from the marketplace, it is surprising that fluoride is embraced so thoroughly and blindly. It seems absurd that we would consider paying the chemical industry to dispose of their toxic waste by adding it to our water supply. Hiding the hazards of fluoride pollution from the public is a capitalist-style con job of epic proportions that has occurred because a powerful lobby wishes to manipulate public opinion in order to protect it’s own financial interests. "Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of" (Bernays 1991).

Following My Heart

Thank You Life, Mother Earth, and God:  I am bursting with love and good vibes and listening to my heart a fruited in my deeper connection to her.  Because of this deeper connection a bond is being strengthened and is much easier to tune into now a days quite effortlessly.  This gives me immeasurable happiness that gives me tears of happiness.  Oh, I know that may sound cheesy, however, it really does.  Practice makes perfect and I realize now how much things that like knowledge, love, trust, and things of the sort are as much strengthened by exercising them as the body is.  Everything is connected by likeness to make life a bit more simple in its seeming complexities on every plane of existence.

I went to this convention, Conscious Life Expo, on Saturday and attended some amazing Free Lectures that come with the day pass, what a treat to my body, mind, and soul indeed!

http://2011.consciouslifeexpo.com/program-guide.html

I see now this is most likely a big reason for my lighted joy- the lectures were amazing and several of them had enlightening group meditations/healing, which completely activated every inspiration within me.

My Heart always knows the way before I do, that is why I follow Her- especially when it doesn't make sense.

Thanks Be!!!!!!!

NIKOLA TESLA

“When the great truth accidentally revealed and experimentally confirmed is fully recognized, that this planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball and that by this fact many possibilities, each baffling imagination and of incalculable consequence, are rendered absolutely sure of accomplishment; when the first plant is inaugurated and it is shown that a telegraphic message, almost as secret and non-interfereable as a thought, can be transmitted to any terrestrial distance, the sound of the human voice, with all its intonations and inflections, faithfully and instantly reproduced at any other point of the globe, the energy of a waterfall made available for supplying light, heat or motive power, anywhere — on sea, or land, or high in the air — humanity will be like an ant heap stirred up with a stick: See the excitement coming!”

- Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla, he is the reason the word genius was created.  His work has always intrigued me and this year it is my intention to read some of his works.  It's as if his passion and love transfer whenever I read anything from him- even a quote, that is how profound and electric he is, which is appropriate being that he is the true founder of channeling electricity...among other things.  

Ray LaMontagne is AWESOME!!!

Pandora is playing as I enjoy my breakfast of my cheese omelette, avocado, toast, and bananas on the side that my lovely little sister prepared for me(she is 19)  I'm looking at my room and deciding what needs to go, stay, be moved.  And then something beautiful happens.  I hear  Trouble by Ray LaMontagne for the fist time.  Here is the link and some other ones because I am completely captivated now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZkaj37kA0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHmNEQYc3js&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziUsdu1vZtE&feature=related

I feel like my life just improved by hearing his voice.  He is such an old soul.  I am really happy that he listened to his heart and started singing from working at a shoe factory.

Happy New Year

New Year Coming

I am going to start thinking of the ways to rework my life and get things in as much order as possible before the new year so I can have a clean slate.

I have very good feelings for 2011

"...Challenge makes you discover the gifts within you..." -Michael Beckwith during a lecture at CSUN

I went to a lecture at CSUN this past year to hear Michael Beckwith speaking and that is one of the transforming things he had said. I had forgotten about it and facebook had this application where they compiled various status updates from over the year and I came across it again. At just the right timing as it always happens that way.

Many challenges have come to me this year and they all have and are continuing to push me forward...or would the correct thing be to say inward.... Well in all reality it could always be worse and yet it could always be better as well. I believe everything is all in life's lessons and plans anyways. I feel like times seem to be harder when obstacles comes because the obstacles change the equilibrium that I was riding on beforehand. It's all in learning. Sometimes circumstances simply push me into certain emotions like tears, sadness, anger, depression, happiness, laughter, joy, smiling, peace. I suppose now as I grow as a human it does get easier to bounce back to the center...or maybe I just give it over to God more quickly now.

I ponder many things...I enjoy pondering. Sometimes it does me good and sometimes I come to the point where I give it to God. The truth is that I really cannot handle anything on my own- NOTHING...that's why I give it to God as I understand Him. My relationship with God today is my saving grace. I have tailored it to me- and I appreciate all religions and all facets of life, knowings, and understandings. All that I've learned thus far has given such a substantial degree of peace of mind, heart, body, and soul. I am truly and ever grateful to be in this place today because I know all the other ways I have felt and been otherwise.

So yes, it is true. Challenge has made me discover the gifts within me.

It's been awhile

I realize today how sacred it is, right where I stand. All of the ancestors that came before me that I could BE today. The amazing lineage which I am proud to be a strand of. The support which helps me stand and breathe when I am weak. The sunrise and sunset- the shining moon and stars. The trees and dirt. Even the concrete, freeways and buildings.

I am grateful for the bittersweet because it gives me contrast for the savory honey. I am grateful for the sorrow because when I come to the joy I know where I came from. And I know that even in the midst of darkness- one persons light can make it melt away. I know this because of my Mother's, Grandma's, and Great-Grandma's hugs and kisses. This is why I have a waterfall of love to share with the world because it is so given to me. I know only this. This is all I need.

Racquel

Love

I feel love in my veins...like the blood within me...it sustains me...is me...I know of so much beauty, light, grace, mercy, blessings, which are bestowed upon me every moment of every days...thoughts are for paupers of the poor in mind...I am more wise when I have no thoughts...wisdom is knowing...Love is knowing...and I know him so well that I hold fast to this knowing...even though he is not yet here- he is because I love him.

CHANGE

I am ready to make some changes in my life beginning right now. Many miracles have already manifested for me and I feel very hopeful and feel that I have heavens full support in becoming an ever improving individual. Self discipline is self gratifying and it is time. Time to be what I know I am and cleave the wood ever more. To reveal the innermost piece that is me.

Time to walk the path. Today is 1/11/10 this is a special number January 11th 2010 the date where I've made the conscious decision to turn my life over yet again from the place which I now stand. Turning it over that I may access a new part of me. Just like I did on September 19th 2004. Now I'm ready to dig deeper no matter how painful it may seemingly be. Because I know of the fruits.

I'm ready and willing.

Speaking to Stars

I've begun a relationship with the Stars as of late.  One night I came home from watching the movie 2012 and upon getting out of the car I looked up.  There was a particular star twinkling just a bit more than usual.  I stood there with my head up in awe.  My mother and brother asked what I was doing as they were going in the house.  I said, "I am talking to the stars..a star," as my eyes and head remained fixated upon this special star.  

My brother told me to sit on the grass as he knows how I am.  Sure enough I sit on the grass and the conversation became more intense- between this star and I.  One day I will attempt to fully describe as humanly possible this wondrous experience.  For today the facts.  How does one communicate with Stars?  Well in a linear sense- TELEPATHICALLY, however it is much better than that. 

Main Entry: te·lep·a·thy 

Pronunciation: \tə-ˈle-pə-thē\

Function: noun

Date: 1882

: communication from one mind to another by extrasensory means.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/telepathically

Stars know so much more and are much more AWARE of their complete divinity- all of it.  Well that communication with them moves me so.  They showed me a great vision and it brought me to tears.  This is how I know it was real.  

And well ever since- 2-3 x's thus far I have ventured outside in the night to sit and speak with them some more.  I do make it a point though now to say my hellos and I love you's.  

Prophets

If I were a prophet, I'd tell you that all your dreams are real.  That every vision has a seed of fulfillment and outcome in all its purity.  That every heartache you may feel brings a shift to the energy of the universe because there is no heartache which ever exists without first love being there to begin.  As much as it comes so forth uncomfortably it is being released to the earth to come unto you tenfold and more in return once it is let go completely.

If I were a prophet, I'd tell you it's okay because the divinity within you that is YOU surrounds you and is within you and is YOU throughout ALL of your days and IN all of your days.  Even throughout the unspeakable and unthinkable and you surviving nonetheless.  This is how strong and beautiful you are.  This is how strong and vibrant YOUR LIGHT is.  Whatever feeling you may stand in as a result- I pray for them to dissipate that you may come center of your essence and be on your peace.  

If I were a prophet, these words will come to you and hold you from the core so in knowing the truth of these words- you would know all that you need to for all of your days and that you are a prophet too.   

Racquel

Sky and Sea

There will be a time when I will fly above the skies amongst the clouds and birds.  I will feel the crisp air upon my cheek and taste it in my mouth, feel it in my nostrils and eyeballs.  I will be new- just like in my dreams.  Except I'll be able to fly for longer periods of time and when I wake up I'll still be in the air.  Maybe when I go to sleep I'll dream of the land.

There will be a time just the same when I will swim beneath the deepest depths of the sea.  Except it will be as bright as day below- not like oceanographers think today.  I don't know how it'll work whether I will breathe in the water water and filter it through my lungs or something or breathe from within but that is irrelevent.  The important part is I will swim with the fish and even the sharks will be my friends. 

Hmmmm....good idea.