The Undead

I just finished reading an interesting article entitled, "The Undead," and thought it worth sharing. Many of us have come close to having family members whose personal lives have come close to this, and perhaps some of you are living with someone you know in this human condition.

The undead
Trapped inside their bodies, apparently switched off to the world, but still alive: they are the undead. Or so we thought. Forty per cent of patients in a ‘vegetative state’ are misdiagnosed. Now British scientists are leading the field in trying to put that right. For the full article, click on this...........
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3004892.ece

Point of Separation

Today while reading a newsletter from Geoffrey Hoppe and his description of what many of us are witnessing, personally going through, etc., as we whirl and twirl through our days, the terminology of "POS" seemed to be a good fit.

You can find more reading material of his at this web site .

Point of Separation:

More About Spiritual Physics

By Geoffrey Hoppe

What is a “Point of Separation”? Tobias has talked about this in several recent Shouds, and a lot of Shaumbra have asked me what it really means. According to Tobias, a Point of Separation (POS) occurs when consciousness moves from one “level” to another. It’s like a train leaving the station en route to the next station. There’s an important “space” from the point of leaving one station until arriving at the next. This is when the actual evolution and expansion of consciousness takes place. It’s a very special and often mysterious time, filled with as much excitement as uncertainty.

Here’s a recent example: On election night in the United States this month, there was a definitive Point of Separation when John McCain conceded the election to Barak Obama. It continued into the time of McCain’s concession speech and Obama’s moving acceptance speech. If you watched the events on television, and especially the pictures of 100,000+ people gathered in Grant Park in Chicago, you could actually feel the Point of Separation that was taking place. The U.S. and perhaps the whole world was right in the midst of a POS. It was a transition from the George Bush era into a new, undefined era. Many spiritually oriented people could feel it was a movement of consciousness that had been stuck for many, many years. At about midnight in the U.S. on November 4, the old train pulled out of the station to begin a new era of change and transformation.

A Point of Separation generally occurs after a period of turmoil, frustration or stuck energy. The end of World War II was a POS. The first man on the moon was another memorable POS. And certainly September 11, 2001 was also a POS. Immediately following these events you’ll notice a change in the way people think and act. They tend to come from a place of perspective and awareness rather than routine and logic. They think outside of their usual box, for a change. They feel a surge of creative consciousness that comes rushing forward after being suppressed for a long time.

Tobias says that “all energy seeks resolution” and that “consciousness seeks to expand and experience.” If the energies are out of balance they will create a situation, or Point of Separation from their old ways, in order to come back into balance and harmony in a new way. If consciousness is stuck, it will create a POS to get moving again. It’s an amazing simple process that is at play every day in our lives, in ways large and small.

Global Points of Separation used to occur few and far between. That’s why change came so slowly in generations past. But now with a higher overall level of consciousness and instant communications with resources like the Internet, the POS’s are occurring more frequently, and are often clumped together in groups. It’s an exhilarating time for inventors, musicians, writers and others who are using their creativity. It’s nerve-wracking and anxiety-wrought for those who prefer the comfort of the status quo.

We’ll experience more and more global Points of Separation in the years ahead. It will feel like a series of consciousness earthquakes rumbling us off our feet and out of our complacency. And just like an earthquake, the aftershocks will continue until we’ve fully arrived at our next major level, or what Tobias calls a Point of Presence. The Point of Presence (POP) occurs when humanity arrives its next level. It’s a time to rejoice, and to experience the new consciousness.

None of this should seem foreign to Shaumbra, of course. We’ve all gone through our own Points of Personal Separation (POPS) these past years. We know what it’s like to wildly and dramatically break out of our old consciousness. We know what it’s like to fly or spin through the mid-zone between a Point of Separation and our new Point of Presence. And we know, thank goodness, that we always seem to land safely in the new Point of Presence. After shaking ourselves off and getting grounded once again, we so often say, “Damn that was fun! Let’s do it again.” Whoa, cowboy! Take a moment to relax and enjoy. Sit back and watch how humanity will go through its Points of Separation these next few years. Be there to hand out water and bandages to the ones just getting off the cosmic ride through consciousness. You’ll have plenty of time for more POPS of your own, but trust me that they won’t need to be like your previous experiences. More about that in another article!

David Korten, The Great Turning

A two minute video on ways to rethink where we are going and what we are doing. His take on it - we are now headed toward a collective suicide.

The Shift Movie

A YouTube video worth checking out! Our body vehicles are shifting gears - let's get moving on.

Upside Down Rainbow

"Upside Down Rainbow"

If today's economic news is creating an emotion in you of feeling disheveled, one just has to look to the sky for metaphors. There is a saying, "As Above, So is Below."

Life as we know it appears to be turning upside down. Hang in there, and remember to smile as all is in Divine Order.

"It appeared in the sky for the briefest of moments. A dazzling arc of psychedelic color reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat's grin in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. But this is no fantasy or trick of the light--it is known as a circumzenithal arc. Seen shimmering in the sky over Cambridge in the afternoon sunshine, it is often mistaken for a rainbow hanging upside down.

Relatively rare in Britain, the arc only appears when sunlight shines at a specific angle through a thin veil of wispy clouds at a height of around 20,000 to 25,000 feet. At this altitude the cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals, the size of grains of salt. Renowned astronomer and writer Dr. Jacqueline Mitton was lucky enough to capture the optical phenomenon on camera near her home in Cambridge last Sunday. Mitton, who has a doctorate in astrophysics from Cambridge University, was awed: "I've never seen anything like it before--and I'm 60.""

Crop Circle "8" on 08/08/08 Wiltshire

Crop Circle 08/08/08 - Wiltshire

On the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of the twenty first century the number eight appears in one of the fields of Wiltshire.

The number eight is a very meaningful number to the Chinese as it is also to many religions of the world.

The sheer scale of this formation is a marvel to behold. Many people were walking among its many circles in awe and wonder.

May we all remember our "INFINITE POTENTIALITY"!!!

Lets See the Dog Whisperer Do This!!!

This YouTube dog video warmed my heart. Enjoy!!!!

Faryl Smith 12 Year Old - Britain's Got Talent

An amazing voice for a young 12 year old. Here is Faryl Smith singing Ave Maria on the live final Britain's Got Talent - May 31, 2008.

Pitt Professor Looking for Power in Polymers

Family Connection
Dr. Lisa MauckWeiland is married to my nephew. It is so encouraging to see this generation taking the lead towards energy independence.

There are 3 1/2 million miles of rivers in the United States.

In Lisa Mauck Weiland's dreams, they could be the next great clean energy source for the world, but not the old-fashioned way, with dams and hydroelectric power plants.

Instead, Dr. Weiland, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Pittsburgh, hopes to use tiny strips of plastic, undulating in the current of rivers and streams, to produce electricity.

An expert in "smart materials," Dr. Weiland and her team at Pitt are working on a project in which they hope to use plastics known as ionic polymers to help generate electricity for the town of Vandergrift in Westmoreland County, 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

If her plans work out, the borough's historic downtown could one day get 20 percent or more of its electrical power from a mile-long array of tiny plastic devices wiggling away on the bottom of the Kiskiminetas River as it sweeps around the town.

Ionic polymers, already used as sensors, have the ability to dynamically generate current when they move, and Dr. Weiland and her engineering students are now trying to figure out the best size, shape and array of the plastics to put in the Kiski River sometime in the next five years.

Once the array goes in on the riverbed, she said, "if you were able to look at it, you would just see a bunch of little things wiggling. It wouldn't look that different from a bunch of plant life." Cables from the array might then connect to the town's power grid at different spots along the bank.

The power generation project is just one part of the Vandergrift Improvement Program, in which the borough, designed in 1894 as a model steelmaking community, now hopes to revitalize itself as a model "green" community, with the help of Pitt, the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation and the state Department of Community and Economic Development.

Dr. Weiland is Pitt's key liaison to the project, and she plans to put as much energy into community education work on environmental sustainability as she does on the power experiment.

By working with Vandergrift's citizens on conserving energy and developing clean technologies like solar power, she said it's conceivable Downtown could one day function without using any fossil fuels.

The residents' creativity and ideas will be crucial to the effort, she said, because even though "technology is going to have a very important role to play, technology alone is not going to come to the rescue. It took all of us to make this mess and it will take all of us to clean it up."

While the Vandergrift project has become Dr. Weiland's personal mission, it is not her professional passion.

That is planes, and specifically, changing the shape of military aircraft in midflight, a process known as morphing.

The idea behind this experimental work is to develop an aircraft that can perform more than one function. Right now, for instance, if a fixed-wing military surveillance plane spots some trouble from high altitude, it has to signal for other planes to investigate, and by that time, it might be too late.

But what if the surveillance plane could change the shape and angle of its wings and go down to eyeball the situation itself? That's the idea behind morphing, she said.

Engineers have made great strides in figuring out how to change the shape and angle of the wings in midair, she said, but haven't licked the problem of how to get the craft's skin to alter itself. "The skin is one of the last hurdles to developing an airplane that can morph in flight, just like a bird does," Dr. Weiland said.

The trick is to find a material that can soften when the wings are changing shape and then harden again. There is one class of materials that can be softened with heat and then regain its rigidity, but that process is too slow and could give off a "heat signature" that the enemy could detect, she said.

As an alternative, her lab is investigating materials that could soften and reharden after exposure to different wavelengths of light, or different electrical frequencies.

That work has also led her down another pathway, exploring materials that incorporate the same energy packets that are used by human cells -- ATP, or adenosine triphosphate.

The ATP can drive microscopic pumping action in a material, and one possible use of that might be to deliver vaccines or medications to target cells that would activate the pumps and release the substances in the body, she said.

If the ionic polymers she is working with in Vandergrift don't end up being the best material for generating power, they still hold great promise as self-powered sensors, especially for spots that are too remote or dangerous for regular human inspection, such as deep mine shafts or nuclear plants, she said.

There might even be medical uses, Dr. Weiland said. One experiment has used an ionic polymer patch on the arm to detect the subtle turbulence in the bloodstream that might indicate clots are forming near the heart.

Dr. Weiland grew up in the Baltimore area and can remember being so fascinated by planes at a young age that she would climb out of her crib if she heard one flying overhead.

After earning an associate degree at a community college, she got her bachelor's in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. Eventually, her airplane mania lured her to graduate school at Purdue University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2002 and did her first airplane morphing.

"One day it hit me like a ton of bricks -- why in the world am I not taking my technology training and applying at least a little of my time to [helping the environment]?"

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08210/899996-298.stm

Goddess Crop Circle Reported on July 27, 2008

Goddess Crop Circle

Tonight I opened a web site and noticed that another crop circle had been reported on July 27, 2008. The location was at Allington Down, nr Devizes, Wiltshire.

What a beauty!
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/honeystreet3/honeystreet2008c.html

Crop Circle July 27, 2008

This morning I was pleasantly surprised to see a new crop circle formation that appeared on my birthday in the UK. The diamond pattern or rectangle (depending on which way you view it) with the "X" has spoken to me for many years.

Thank you Spirit! :-)

Wayland Smithy Oxfordshire - July 27

Words to Reflect On

This morning I opened an email from Jean Hudon who has dedicated countless hours compiling articles of personal, national and global interest sent to him from many concerned and aware individuals throughout the world. The words that he shared with us today in his opening message were powerful, and for me today it will become my center of thought.

Quote from Jean.........

"The first and foremost thing one should keep in mind is that whatever happens in the world and whomever is responsible for what happens, the only person one can influence and whose behavior can be controlled for the benefit of the whole is oneself. Each one of us is the most important actor in the human drama now unfolding on a planetary scale and each one of us can choose to be part of the solution, instead of being part of the problem. In addition to contributing by all our personal choices in life through what we buy, who we decide to vote for and how we respond to the global crisis, we must never underestimate the power of one determined individual guided by a clear vision and motivated by high ideals, an uncompromising ethic and an unconditional compassion for others and all life forms in bringing the whole world a little bit closer to sanity, peace and harmony. This is the only force that has always been the catalyst for any change occurring on Earth. Be it for the protection of human rights, for the prevention of nuclear war or for the achievement of a better world for all, individual will and action shall remain forever the unique rampart against blind violence, sheer destruction and stupidity erected as a system.

Justice for all, respect for all expressions of nature and love for all that lives may sometime appear like a distant dream. Yet this dream is growing in every human being ever since we have started to walk on this gorgeous planet and look up in the sky at night to gaze at the starry vault embracing our awakening consciousness with rays of dim light, echoing unseen marvels and prodigious wisdom. We are the living flesh of this huge body of life whose throbbing heart beats in our chest and whose crystalline and lucid awareness flickers in our brains. Like all other life forms in this mighty, unfathomable universe, we have been given a mission, not to have dominion over other life forms and conquer natural habitats for our sole benefit, but to open new skies of co-creative ingenuity with the other beings and civilizations inhabiting this planet and, undoubtedly, countless other planets, as far as the mind can imagine.

We must close our eyes, from time to time, calm our thoughts and go deep within to feel, sense, touch this growing awareness that expands its gentle arms and fingers to hold the whole of humanity in one single self-conscious being, a being so full of Love, Compassion and Serenity as to be like a divine expression of God, the true Reality now being expressed on this land, as it was in the Beginning that never was, as it will be in the End that will never be... and as it is Now more than ever."


- Jean Hudon - Taken from http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/WhatFuture.htm

These Boots are Made for Walking

Sunday's Sermon on the Pavement

Life has a way of giving us those small twists and turns that take us to our knees! What started out as a beautiful sunny day, ended with a six hour stint in the local ER room of our hospital.

The morning began with a comment from my mouth, that perhaps I needed a new car as the one I was driving didn't feel safe. I got the look from family like, "What's your problem?" Somewhere deep inside me though, the feeling that makes one's stomach contract, the message to this scribe was trying it's best to give me heads up on the red flag or 911 alert. Sunday while being left alone to my own devices for entertainment, I decided to hop into my car and take a short drive.

Everything was going fine until I headed the car back home. I had just crossed over the Cumberland Bridge that recently had some repair work done to it, as the landslides that occur frequently put stress on it. When crossing it, the "Sign of the Cross" often comes to mind with a short prayer for protection, as the thought of a long plunge into the cold waters below often makes me cringe. :-)

I was heading back up the hill when the power seemed to be giving out and the car was slowing down to a crawl. I managed to get it off the road but in a very dangerous place to park as the cars were whizzing by me. This dream I was dreaming up, was now turning into a nightmare. It was nearly 15 years ago when my last car gave out at nearly this exact spot during an electrical storm. I now believe that spot needs some energy clearing! It not only put my car out of commission, but took me down with it!

Back to the story........I called AAA and they sent me a tow truck. Not feeling safe sitting in the car thinking a rear end collision wouldn't feel very good, I decided to get out and wait at a safer place out of harms way. It was then the flip-flops on my feet did not support the soft shoulder of the road, and down I went turning my left foot and creating a most unbecoming pavement rash tattoo to my right leg. The tow truck driver was so apologetic for not getting to me sooner and offered to drive me to the hospital. I declined as we got back to my house and hobbled then to another vehicle and drove myself to the hospital.

Now having been to the ER several times recently while taking a family member in, I knew what I was heading into. One often feels like they must have landed on another planet! We won't go into the perceptions that came to mind concerning animalistic behavior of others, but when the ER doctor came into my room, closed the curtain and sat on the bed saying, "He was hiding," I knew how he felt. A few minutes earlier he encountered the same mean bruiser drunk I had witnessed yelling at his wife earlier. If I hadn't been sitting in a wheelchair and unable to walk, I might have given him a few sermon on the pavement words that were coming to mind. Instead I called in the white light to surround and protect all of us!

Six hours later after x-ray's and bandaged up, with new boot on foot and recently tanned leg now minus the brown skin clothed in white gauze, I am on my way back home! For those of you who may not have a nice walk in shower with seat to sit on, I am viewing the ice chest recently purchased as a make shift stool to sit on. Hopefully today I will be able to put it to use as I can smell myself. The mini clean yesterday just didn't cut it. These episodes usually assist us in thinking of others who have physical problems that are life long and helps us to give thanks when ours are short-term.

When viewing the video of Matt dancing that I posted earlier today, I realized my feet may not be moving, but my arms and heart were dancing with the rhythm of the beat. One of the last things I remember looking at while in the hospital was the phone that was in the room. When I got up my eyes went to the little numbers that were posted and the first thing I saw was 911. I saw those numbers the other day on the clock and knew something was coming in......a little message to be prepared, but never an inkling as to how it's going to show up.

I am now grounded for a while and will do my best to go with the flow. My friend who is a nurse on the East Coast sent me this quote today that she had just read, "You will instead begin to recognize Alpha, Theta, and even Delta, brainwaves as your normal state of consciousness, and your Multidimensional SELF will feel like YOU! When this occurs, you will have to pay special attention to your physical earth vessel. If it is not strengthened to fit your expanding mind you will suffer symptoms of transformation in whichever area of your body is your weakest link." Now that was an interesting message and seemed to fit - the physical is always the last to come on board!

The next time the Firemen are out holding the boot for $$$ for those 911 calls, I will remember how important the ankle support is to all of our foundation. A big thank you to all the Earth Angels who came to my rescue!

(Follow up 2 hours later....my daughter came over to help me and she picked up the discharge papers from the hospital. I glanced at them and then my eye went to the bottom of the page and it said, "Printed at 9:11.10." Yup - another synchronicity.)

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day ... July 22, 2008

Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth
Credit: Matt Harding & Melissa Nixon

Explanation: What are these humans doing? Dancing. Many humans on Earth exhibit periods of happiness, and one method of displaying happiness is dancing. Happiness and dancing transcend political boundaries and occur in practically every human society. Above, MattHarding traveled through many nations on Earth, started dancing, and filmed the result. The video is perhaps a dramatic example that humans from all over planet Earth feel a common bond as part of a single species. Happiness is frequently contagious -- few people are able to watch th video below without smiling.

If the link doesn't work above try this: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080722.html

Galley Gossip: Flight Attendant Pet Peeve #3 - You want me to do what?

To all my flight attendant friends ..... I dedicate today's blog to you. Thank you Heather Poole for your great insights, sense of humor, and most importantly the message for today on responsibility.

I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did. :-)

http://www.gadling.com/2008/07/15/galley-gossip-flight-attendant-pet-peeve-3-you-want-me-to-d/?icid=200100397x1205615653x1200284134

Blind Piano Prodigy From South Korea Only 5 Years Old, Can Play Any Song "After Just One Listen"

You Were Born To Be Loved!

Tonight I watched this video on YouTube an amazing performance by a young 5 year old South Korean girl. It was towards the end of the performance when she sang that it was evident of what her mission in life is.... to remind us of our purpose.

May she touch your heart as she has touched mine so deeply.

(A blind five-year-old pianist from South Korea has stunned the music world after a video of her performance received more than 27 million hits.
Yoo Ye-eun, who was born blind and adopted in 2002, has never had a formal piano lesson but can play any song after just one listen.

And now her remarkable talent is set to propel her to stardom as clips of her amazing performance have attracted millions of viewers to Korean website Pandora TV. A similar clip on YouTube has so far received two million hits.

Her display on 'Star King', a Korean talent show, earned the youngster £500 in prize money and moved the studio audience to tears.)

The Hubble Deep Field: The Most Important Image Ever Taken

In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope took the image of a millenium, an image that shows our place in the universe. Anyone who understands what this image represents, is forever changed by it.

What an amazing You Tube video. The Hubble helps us to become humble. I hope you enjoy viewing this as much as I did.

Eva Vertes Attention

Today I received an email from Dr. Edo McGowan who saw my post on Eva Vertes and her research on cancer. Dr. McGowan wanted to share with her some research information and was unable to locate her, thus asking if I would post the information here in hopes someone might be able to find a way to get this information to Eva.

Thank you Dr. McGowan for sharing and I hope your connection will be made.

Note from Dr. McGowan

Kristie, I have no way to reach this young woman, but this may be of interest to her. I tried to post but was rejected. Your help posting this or reaching Eva would be appreciated.

Thanks Dr Edo McGowan

Eva some rambling thoughts. In working with wound healing and tissue repair using topically applied hyperbaric, there was often no scar tissue. Other that using embryonic tissue, I am unaware of this phenomenon. Thus the stem cells seem to be turned on by the oxygen. If one were to prick damaged tissue and then bring up tissue fluids, subject the area to topically applied hyperbaric the area would often remodel without scar tissue----i.e., new skin. The topically applied hyperbaric closed Pyoderma gangrenosum very quickly when not much else would work. Too much oxygen was damaging to new tissue. The right amount was angiogenic. The electron microscopy demonstrated this. Oxygen acted as an irritant, the TNF involvement and the MAP kinase and the phospholation of threonine kinase had something to do with driving this. See if you can talk with Madalene Heng who has this all worked out. You can Google her, Heng MC. Also ask her about her rat brain studies.

In your Monterey address a year or so ago, you mentioned muscle tissue as being exempt from active cancer growth. This tissue is also susceptible to enormous shifts in oxygen supply. In the microvascular supply the endothelial cell is capable of metabolic activity that can be 100 times greater than that of other cells. To support this elevated and impressive metabolic activity, endothelial cells are also major oxygen sinks. In ischemia, reperfusion injury, and acute inflammatory states, the endothelial cell shifts to a prothrombotic mode, the consequences of which are microthrombi [5]. The postcapillary venules are the most prone to attack during the inflammatory response as well as during ischemia or reperfusion injury. Granger et al noted that venular endothelial cells are 1 to 3 times more sensitive to inflammatory mediators and peptide angiogenic factors than endothelial cells found in the aorta [6]. The implication is that venular endothelial cells contain the highest density of inflammatory mediator receptors.

You might look at this. Also in furtherance of the discussion, the following is noted.

Effect of acute hypoxia on microcirculatory and tissue oxygen levels in rat cremaster muscle Paul C. Johnson,1 Kim Vandegriff,2 Amy G. Tsai,1 and Marcos Intaglietta1 1Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla; and 2Sangart, San Diego, California Submitted 9 June 2004 ; accepted in final form 29 November 2004 Repeated exposure to brief periods of hypoxia leads to pathophysiological changes in experimental animals similar to those seen in sleep apnea. To determine the effects of such exposure on oxygen levels in vivo, we used an optical method to measure PO2 in microcirculatory vessels and tissue of the rat cremaster muscle during a 1-min step reduction of inspired oxygen fraction from 0.21 to 0.07. Under control conditions, PO2 was 98.1 ± 1.9 Torr in arterial blood, 52.2 ± 2.8 Torr in 29.0 ± 2.7-µm arterioles, 26.8 ± 1.7 Torr in the tissue interstitium near venous capillaries, and 35.1 ± 2.6 Torr in 29.7 ± 1.9-µm venules. The initial fall in PO2 during hypoxia was significantly greater in arterial blood, being 93% complete in the first 10 s, whereas it was 68% complete in arterioles, 47% at the tissue sites, and 38% in venules. In the 10- to 30-s period, the fall in normalized tissue and venular PO2 was significantly greater than in arterial PO2. At the end of hypoxic exposure, PO2 at all measurement sites had fallen very nearly in proportion to that in the inspired gas, but tissue oxygen levels did not reach critical PO2. Significant differences in oxyhemoglobin desaturation rate were also observed between arterial and microcirculatory vessels during hypoxia. In conclusion, the fall in microcirculatory and tissue oxygen levels in resting skeletal muscle is significantly slower than in arterial blood during a step reduction to an inspired oxygen fraction of 0.07, and tissue PO2 does not reach anaerobic levels.

Hope this reaches you.

Good luck with your work.

Edo

A Prayer that Spoke to Me

Prayer of the Bodhisattva

Alone, in the presence of others, I walk through the waking dream of life.

Others see me.

At the first sight of recognition, they turn away; for they have forgotten.

Together, through the waking dream of Life, we journey.

May the clarity of my vision guide your life in grace, for I am a part of you.

May my action remind you of your God within, my action is your action.

May my breath become the breath that fills your body with life.

May my soul become the food with which to nourish and quicken you.

May the words from my mouth find a place of truth within your heart.

Let my tears become the water to your lips.

Allow my love to heal your body of the pain of life.

In your most healed state, may you remember your most precious gift;
your divine nature.

Through our time together, may you know yourself.

In that knowing, may you find your true home, your God within.

(This prayer can be found at Sancta Divina newsletter.)

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

I enjoyed this video talk of Paul Stamets on mushrooms. You can view it at Ted talks. He certainly gives new ideas for our ailing planet and people.

Why you should listen to him:

Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets' research is the Northwest's native fungal genome, mycelium, but along the way he has filed 22 patents for mushroom-related technologies, including pesticidal fungi that trick insects into eating them, and mushrooms that can break down the neurotoxins used in nerve gas.

There are cosmic implications as well. Stamets believes we could terraform other worlds in our galaxy by sowing a mix of fungal spores and other seeds to create an ecological footprint on a new planet.

"Once you’ve heard 'renaissance mycologist' Paul Stamets talk about mushrooms, you'll never look at the world -- not to mention your backyard -- in the same way again."