Could we be looking the long way down the telescope?

Tony Wright has a long chat with Adam Lowery author of 'The Cognitive Rampage' Tony says audio is poor in places due to his 10 yr old laptop not having the processing power.

The Hemp Revolution

1995 documentary

Food for Consciousness the book

Buy my book here:

https://foodforconsciousness.co.uk/product/food-for-consciousness-by-holly-paige/

Ships world wide.

“This excellent book shows you how to live a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life – in every area.”

Brian Tracy – Author – Maximum Achievement

348 pages, over 100 raw food recipes, complete guide to raw nutrition and much more

Getting Back on Track of your True Peak Potential

This book shows how we can build and fuel the brain or lens of consciousness with natural nutrition that will supply it with the biochemicals it needs for optimal functioning. It details nutrient rich raw food nutrition that can be put into practice in a variety of circumstances and locations. It explains how herbs and supplements and lifestyle practices can be used to reach our full potential. It includes a complete repertoire of over 100 delicious, easy, simple and quick raw vegetarian recipes that focus on the vital nutrients. Ultimately our DNA can once again be read to its full blueprint.

Contents

Introduction

1. Origins ~ Your Unique Codes for Life

2. What on Earth’s going on ~ the Human Story

3. Getting Back on Track of your True Peak Potential

4. Eating the Biological Diet of our Species

5. Brain Biochemicals to Optimise Potential

6. Living in Beauty ~ Natural Lifestyle

7. Cleansing and Regenerating your Body Ecology

8. Reclaiming the Use of your Mind

9. Our Hormonal Human Life Cycle

10. Recreating the Forest ~ in your Kitchen

11. Succeeding ~ Bring the Life Force back into your Life

12. Recipes

References, Reading and Resources

Acknowledgments

Appendices

In this book you will discover:

• how you can fulfil your unique potential
• how you can unveil a new sense of self, that feels more life the real you, your true nature and identity connected to the greater life of nature and the cosmos
• the phenomenal new research of the last few decades which changes how science views the brain
• how you can build and fuel your neural system with natural undamaged nutrition that will supply it with the biochemicals it needs for optimal functioning.
• detailed nutrient rich natural food nutrition, that will work in a variety of locations, climates and situations
• specific recommendations to cover the needs of young people and take into account their needs for growth
• tips on making raw food and plant based diets work long term
• give a complete repertoire of delicious, easy, simple and quick raw vegetarian recipes that will supply the vital nutrients
• how to equip your kitchen to be your laboratory of human potential with the biochemistry of ancient forest life.
• highlight effective use of herbs and supplements and powerful techniques to help you expand your state of mind.
• connecting to the earth that is the local source of our physical life and the benefits of doing this
• which bodily cleanses are of most benefit and basics of how to do them.
• how we can change our thinking to engage with the life that is dreamed for us, and is given to us in the form of our destiny
• how to experience that exquisite feeling, every day, of being fuelled by the Life Force itself
• point you to the next steps in finding more about this incredible phenomenon.

Research in the fields of anthropology, plant biology, mythology and human experience, and on the brain itself, suggests that we could be living in a very different and profoundly preferable state of consciousness to the one we have considered normal. The way we eat and our hormonal balance have a huge impact on how we feel, experience life and behave. Through regenerative nutrition, we can all significantly, swiftly and sustainably improve our brain and body chemistry, enhance our energy, effectiveness, mental acuity, intuition, creative powers, harmonious connection, joy, happiness and sheer pleasure of existence and attain substantially more success in our chosen paths. Ultimately we have the potential as humans to ongoingly experience a sense of well-being now usually associated with peak states, in a benign state of perpetual wonder and awe, in ecstatic connection with the natural world.

Holly Paige is passionate about our potential as humans to move into a much happier and more functional state of consciousness. She has spent many years investigating human origins and the lifestyle practices that generate a deep sense of well-being and fulfilment for humans. 

Check out my personal website hollyjrpaige.com.

Productivity and completing tasks

"All success in life is task completion."

Vanessa Beeley on Syria

UK Column News - 16th December 2016: Aleppo, Justice, Accountability and Fake News
UK Column 

Coba, Tulum and Sian Ka'an Jungle

This is  bonus trip after the March retreat. Click here for more details.

Five steps to jump timelines

Five steps to change timelines using your sovereign will and capacity to feel:

Identify timeline
Shift vibrational state to match the timeline
Lock in state so it does not waver
Take action that is an expression of the new timeline
Persevere and hold and act from the vibrational state even in the face of contrary sensory information

“The manifesting of a new timeline into your three dimensional reality requires accumulated energy. If you persist in holding the vision of the new timeline with the vibrational field or feeling of it with gratitude for it already existing you will accumulate energy. The task is to be true to your vision  while paying attention to what the current reality is showing you. It is not about pretending. It is about facing reality as it presents itself to you while simultaneously holding a higher vision, in other words you deal with the reality of your life while simultaneously holding a vision of a different life”

The Maitreya Process

"Bodhi-Ma confers the generic sense of humanity to the human animal isolated in ego, single-self identity. She nurtures the consciousness of the species-self, as it may be called." JLL
http://www.metahistory.org/MaitreyaProcess.php

Chartres

The Virgin Earth Mother forever giving birth...

A Sheaf of Cut Wheat

A vivid description of what happened in the ancient mystery schools and the encounter with the organic light.

Parable of the Extras

"Are you just an extra in Her dreaming?"
These parables alter your NLP.

The Tragedy of the Mother

Addiction to the Pain of not being Seen

Free Excerpt and Recipes from Food for Consciousness Book

I am very excited to announce that my book Food for Consciousness that I have been working on so long is nearing release. It was inspired at the time when I began eating mainly raw foods and experienced a massive shift in my experience of life. Intrigued I was determined to find out what causes this so called 'raw high',
I did find the answers and a lot more and a decade and a half later I present a book with well over 100 recipes plus a look at what has happened to humans over millennia since we left our original biological habitat. All the recipes are delicious and easy to make and all based on the foods that we as humans are designed to eat, foods that regenerate our neural system and help us reach our maximum potential. There's a lot more in addition to nutrition and recipes I look at the way we use our minds as well as how we feed them.
You can read a free excerpt from it and see my reset blended recipes, all delicious including the famous chocolate pudding recipe based on
 Wright's optimal neural nutrition breakfast. Please give your feedback and comments. The full version will be online soon and you have the opportunity ti get involved in an online community, with access to videos, answers to questions and support on your journey of this nature.

This is the link

http://bit.ly/140BrainNutritionRecipes

This is a piece I wrote recently I hope you enjoy!



The term Edenic States evokes images of the Garden of Eden, an Earthly Paradise where humans lived in their original innocent state free of the concerns that bedevil us in current times.

Science and mythology both describe a similar sequence of events. Science tells us of the shrinking human brain and increasing hormonal damage to the left cerebral hemisphere. Mythology. Mythology tells of a Golden Age followed by eras of decline right down to the current age of degeneration.
At this time, we have the knowledge in our grasp to regenerate our neural systems and access latent abilities. It seems the root of the problem is that moving from our natural biological habitat, the tropical forests, millennia ago, changed what we ate and therefore our internal biochemistry. This changed the way our DNA is read and therefore the construction of our neural and endocrine systems,.

Eating the complex nutrition we are designed to plus plant medicines and various practices can help short medium and long term. Eating a diet rich in the materials are neural system is designed to be built from for example undamaged fatty acids, amino acids and fruit compounds can have rapid effects on mood. In the medium term it rebuilds and helps us access more right hemisphere function. Long term, alongside other measures it can change the way DNA is read to be more in alignment with our natural DNA blueprint giving us abilities that today would be considered extraordinary. Potentially as humans we have the capacity to live in an ongoing benign state of sublime wonder and awe, in cognitive ecstasy.

This is the basis of Food for Consciousness. In the bookI describe practical measures we can take including nutrition and many recipes to move towards Edenic States of Consciousness.

Constellational myths with John Lash

This fascinating talk by John  Lash in London in 1996 is about real sky astrology and the mythological language of the starry constellations in the sky.

"In this rare footage of the great heretic John Lamb Lash, he gives a lecture on Stellar Mythology. He explains from a Comparative Mythologist and naked eye astronomer's view the real sky constellations, and their connection to humanity's history and pre-historic monuments. The monuments and myths go together, they are coded - he is the ultimate decoder and dot connector."

Global Ibogaine Conference Tepoztlan

At last the documentary from this phenomenal conference this spring :) Ibogaine is a derivative of the unique and powerful healing plant iboga, "one of the only medications that orally stimulate the production of Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), a hormone that helps stimulate the growth of new neutrons in the brain" Jonathan Dickinson More about this and much more in this video.

Dana Beal on ibogaine

Dana Beal explains how ibogaine rebuilds the brain, the creation of an 'aha' moment in doing this and also in the treatment of Parkinson's.  Also much more, Dana Beal is a long time campaigner in this field.

meaning of death

"It’s a hurtful kind of comfort that the dominant culture. is in some kind of beginning stage of terminal swoon...it's hard to tell the difference between that and dancing going on... there’s no turning back from it...all that we need of you is that you be human... what has to die is your refusal to die..you're not supposed to feel punishment you're supposed to feel more...that's the invitation"
Stephen Jenkinson

D H Lawrence

A trip to the town where I grew up, Nottingham, to see my parents, I took time to visit Eastwood the birthplace of D H Lawrence.  D H Lawrence was an inspirational writer of reflections on humanity, born 1885 and grew up in Eastwood, near Nottingham, travelled to and lived in France, Italy and Mexico.

And watch it putting forth each time to heaven,

Each time straight to heaven,

With marvellous naked assurance each single twig,

Each one setting off straight to the sky

As if it were the leader, the main-stem, the forerunner,

Intent to hold the candle of the sun upon its socket-tip,

It alone.

Every young twig

No sooner issued sideways from the thigh of his predecessor

Than off he starts without a qualm

To hold the one and only lighted candle of the sun in his

    socket-tip.

He casually gives birth to another young bud from his thigh,

Which at once sets off to be the one and only,

And hold the lighted candle of the sun.

Bare Fig-Trees D H Lawrence

The fig is a very secretive fruit.

As you see it standing growing, you feel at once it is symbolic :

And it seems male.

But when you come to know it better, you agree with the Romans, it is female.

Figs, D H Lawrence

Birthplace of D H Lawrence

eye body

Peter Grunwald has discovered that certain areas of brain, eyes and the rest of the visual system correspond to specific areas in the human body. He has developed effective techniques to release patterns which underlies myopia, presbyopia, astigmatism and other visual dysfunctions together with postural dysfunctions causing back, neck and shoulder pain, headaches and breathing disorders.
http://www.eyebody.com/

The biochemistry of Juvenility

Tony Wright on our relationship with the flowering plants,
impact on size of window of brain development which slows down at age of puberty, impact on longevity and more.

Plant Spirit Medicine Class

Meet Your Plant Spirit Ally and Enter the Dreamsong of Gaia
With Gwyneth Robbins

We are only a fraction of what we could be as human beings.  When we fully open up our heart, mind and souls to the green-beings of the Earth, we enter into another dimension.  There’s so much we can learn about ourselves and our soul journey from the plants and trees.
I’m offering you the opportunity to take part in this class and find your plant spirit ally, moving into a deep state of re-connection, taking up your rightful place within Nature.  This is a soul healing journey that is deeply life-changing.  A unique personal experience.

This class is a whole day as part of our Three day initiation Retreat in Wales this September.  I’m also offering this as a stand alone class.  It will be a long day, from 10am until 6pm and you will need to be equipped for ‘weather’, as you’ll be outside some of the time, even if its raining.  You’ll also need to bring a wooden bead or other small human crafted organic offering for your plant.  You also need to come with an open heart and respect for the green-beings.

http://mycrystalguru.com/edenic-states-retreats/plant-spirit-medicine-class/.

This unique class will:

Deeply realign your energies to the natural world
Help you be more decisive and clear about your own pathway on Earth
Can help to heal deep hidden trauma spontaneously and supportively
Give you a sense of balance on all levels of your being.
Keep you grounded, earthed and able to manifest your dreams.
Find a plant spirit ally for life, which can always be called upon when needed.
The exact location of this class in Wales is a mystery and will take place on Saturday 17th September 2016 but will be in a beautiful location in the South – full details will be revealed on booking!

We are designed to live in symbiosis with plants. Even our DNA is read to it's full potential in a biochemical mix of complex plant phytochemistry along with our own hormones. These and more mysteries revealed at our September retreat of which this stand alone class is a part.

Neuroactive Nutrition Consultation

DO YOU WANT TO adjust your diet to eat and live in an optimal way for neural function, so you think more clearly, remember more and feel happier? Are you struggling to tailor your nutritional intake to feel at your very best? Miracles can be worked with food and herbs when you know how. Specific issues can so often be turned around with simple changes...
http://www.edenicstates.com/product/neuroactive-nutrition-consultation-2/

Fermentation and Neuroactive Nutrition Food Preparation Class

Sunday 25th September 2016
Amazing health secrets you and your family need to know.
Exact location to be confirmed, it is full day class that is part of a weekend retreat. It will be in South Wales, we can collect from train or bus stations of necessary. Book before 16th August to get early bird price of £85.
In this informative, exciting and comprehensive class you will learn.
Food, supplements and herbs that regenerate our neural systems, supply good fuel and modulate our existing biochemistry to give us the best experience of life possible….enhance our cognitive abilities, perception, capacity to feel and to feel good. ongoingly,sustainably, functional and productive in the world as well as ecstatically connected.
The optimal biological diet of our species.
Raw food nutrition principles and recipe creation for long term success.Why kefir is one of the most powerful and cost effective superfoods available.
How to use exotic cruciferous veggie ferments to safeguard you and your family from xenoestrogens and harmful chemicals in plastic.
For more details and booking click here:
http://foodforconsciousness.co.uk/product/fermentation-fetish-one-day-food-class-85/

Economics is a Form of Brain Damage

Geneticist and climate activist David Suzuki explains how conventional economics is a form of brain damage in this clip from the 2011 documentary "Surviving Progress."

Alternative View of Nutrition

“AV7 was the most eclectic Alternative View event to date; bringing together Campaigners, Activists, Spiritual Warriors and people who have simply had enough of a Governmental system which evidently does NOT have Humanity’s best interests as heart!  The speakers and the audience represented almost every demographic imaginable. People from all parts of the social spectrum, almost every political persuasion and varying religious and philosophical viewpoints came together at AV7, united in their knowledge that ‘Something isn’t right’ … that Humanity (the collective ‘WE’) have an enormous challenge ahead. ”

You can buy DVD of my talk o here
http://www.edenicstates.com/product/brain-nutrition-dvd-talk-holly-paige-summer-2016/
ABOUT AV7

ABOUT NEUROACTIVE FOOD

What is ‘food’ ? Is it inert building blocks or an intricate array of complex biochemical components that interact with our own neurochemistry to affect our thoughts feelings and actions. Putting aside what we have been told, what is the natural biological diet of our species?
We look, in a very practical way, at how we can eat and use herbs to regenerate and optimise our incredible neural equipment. We also see how this can empower us into a state of awareness where we can not only see the nature of the problems that confront us but can also clarify and focus on the solutions.
We explore how our synergetic connection with trees and plants through fruit and herbs widens our intelligence and kickstarts the pineal gland into pumping it’s own biochemicals of perception. There are particular plant species which reset our neurotransmitters and receptors thus clearing lifelong and ancestral trauma. We look at how changing our biochemistry can change the stories we live and we ask how we know what is the true story of our individual destinies.
Science and mythology tell the same story. We are designed to live in states where we feel alive and free and we now know the steps to get into them.

“

Also 16 disk DVD set  available including my talk on neuroactive nutrition at the 2016 Alternative View Conference. Every talk was unique and fascinating.
 You can find out more or purchase here.
http://www.edenicstates.com/product/alternative-view-7-16-disk-box-set-including-holly-paige-neuroactive-nutrition/

VOLUME ONE
Disk 1:  James Gordon Graham
Tax Havens & the Secret Multi-Dimensional Knowledge of the Ruling Parasites
Disk 2:  Holly Paige
 Neuro Active Food
Disk 3:  Anthony Carlin 
Never Book a Judge By His Cover
Disk 4 :  Vanessa Beeley
The NGO Soft Power Complex : Humanitarians or Executioners?
Disk 5 : Dr Graham Downing 1
The Null Hypothesis : Dead Doctors Don’t Lie!
Disk 6 : Patrick Henningsen
Consensus Reality : Mind Control Through The New Media
Disk 7 : Max Igan
Decoding the Matrix : Creating a New Reality
Disk 8 : Open Mic & Speakers Panel
VOLUME TWO
Disk 1:  Dr Graham Downing 2
VAXXED : One FLU over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Disk 2 : Michael Shrimpton
Takedown : ‘Unexplained’ Aircraft Disappearances
Disk 3 :  Willem Felderhof
The Toxic War on Humanity & on Mother Earth
Disk 4 : Field McConnell
Hillary Clinton’s Connection to 9/11 … Revealed!
Disk 5 : Thomas Sheridan
The Lords of Perception & their Psychopathic Control Grid

Disk 6 : Zen Gardner
Rise Like Lions After Slumber; In Unvanquishable Number; …
Disk 7 : Ian R Crane
 The EU Hokey Cokey … IN or OUT; Either Way, EU’re Screwed!
Disk 8 : Bonus Disk
Breaking Free

Claudio Naranjo on the early days of ibogaine experiments

Interview with the Chilean Psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo about his clinical experiments in the 60s with Ibogaine; his findings, observations on therapeutic potential and phenomenology, etc.

neuroactive nutrition presentation

bookings here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroactive-nutrition-and-edenic-states-with-holly-paige-tickets-25886282568

• foods and herbs to increase mental powers
• a diet that makes you happy
• creativity, inspiration, connection to divine intelligence
• ultimate health
• the search for the over 95% micronutrients we lost when we left the wild
• regaining access to supress brain powers
• knowledge you are unlikely to have come across anywhere else
• refinding your symbiotic connection with nature
• connecting to eternal youth

Spring water, Devon

Harper's Well, Totnes

There is a wonderful list of springs in Devon, England here:
http://people.bath.ac.uk/liskmj/living-spring/sourcearchive/fs9/fs9lh1.htm

Neuroactive Nutrition at AV7 Conference

Holly at AV7

Practical application of the research encapsulated in Return to the Brain of Eden by Tony Wright http://www.edenicstates.com/product/return-to-the-brain-of-eden-tony-wright/
• Food, supplements and herbs that regenerate our neural systems, supply good fuel and modulate our existing biochemistry to give us the best experience of life possible....enhance our cognitive abilities, perception, capacity to feel and to feel good. ongoingly,sustainably, functional and productive in the world as well as ecstatically connected.
• The optimal biological diet of our species.

sex hormones amok ~ the biological origins of the fall from grace

Up to 200,000 years testosterone and other sex hormones unmodulated by the micronutrients and biochemicals in the optimal human biological diet. What effects might we expect to see? ...
Return to the Brain of Eden by Tony Wright.

http://www.edenicstates.com/product/return-to-the-brain-of-eden-tony-wright/

Alternative View

I am talking at Alternative View 7 on 14th May. It will be videoed.

What is 'food' ? Is it inert building blocks or an intricate array of complex biochemical components that interact with our own neurochemistry to affect our thoughts feelings and actions. Putting aside what we have been told, what is the natural biological diet of our species?

We look, in a very practical way, at how we can eat and use herbs to regenerate and optimise our incredible neural equipment. We also see how this can empower us into a state of awareness where we can not only see the nature of the problems that confront us but can also clarify and focus on the solutions.

We explore how our synergetic connection with trees and plants through fruit and herbs widens our intelligence and kickstarts the pineal gland into pumping it's own biochemicals of perception. There are particular plant species which reset our neurotransmitters and receptors thus clearing lifelong and ancestral trauma. We look at how changing our biochemistry can change the stories we live and we ask how we know what is the true story of our individual destinies.

Science and mythology tell the same story. We are designed to live in states where we feel alive and free and we now know the steps to get into them.

http://www.alternativeview.co.uk/index.php?route=information%2Finformation&information_id=63

May Day flowers

Green alcanet, pennywort and yellow archangel are edible. 

coastal path South Devon

green alcanet

yellow archangel

pennywort

One and Only Food for Consciousness and Fermented Foods Class

In response to the many enquiries about our classes in fermented food and raw food preparation, we now have the following deal. You get the group and venue together and we bring everything else.

People then and now

London then and now footage, interesting to compare people's posture, sense of purposeful direction and movement There is also noticeable blackening of buildings and visible air pollution in those days.

With Kate Magic in her Magic Bubble

I am very honoured to be the only person to be interviewed three times for Kate Magic's Magic Bubble. And in fact it took three attempts for the technicalities to work out for this third interview..which has never happened before for her either...anyway third time lucky 

smile emoticon

 We talk about quality nutrition and lifestyle to get the optimum from human potential, nutrition and brain chemistry, living blissfully, plant communication and grounding, celestial astrology, plant medicines (particularly iboga), and upcoming Edenic States retreats in Mexico.

http://www.katesmagicbubble.com/interviews/audio-interview-with-holly-paige

Ibogaine for Parkinsons

At The 2016 Global Ibogaine Conference:
 “Phytostan Pharmaceuticals, Genesis Ibogaine Center, Nutra Lab Canada Ltd.,   Patient ‘D’ and CKBR-12 have conducted the first  treatment anywhere of a Parkinson’s Patient with an Ibogaine Derivative Medication. The results are astounding.”

“both ibogaine and its metabolite noribogaine have been shown to lead to an increase in levels of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) in the brain. It has also been shown to have neuroprotective qualities promoting the survival of both dopaminergic and motor neurons.
In other research, neurotrophic factors, specifically GDNF, have been shown to cause sprouting of dopaminergic fibers, with a resulting improvement of clinical symptoms of Parkinson’s in experimental animal models and humans”
https://www.ibogainealliance.org/ibogaine/therapy/parkinsons/

Dana Beal on ibogaine and regrowing dopamine neurons

The legendary Dana Beal speaking at the Global Ibogaine Conference yesterday "Recently ibogaine has also been found to switch on a growth factor, GDNF that regenerates dopamine neurons"

Edenic States retreat

Please join us at our amazing September retreat beautiful Tepoztlan Mexico neuroactive nutrition, earthing, plant communication, star watching, celestial astrolog,y kundalini yoga, massage, crystal healing, traditional Mexican Temazcal sweat lodge, trips to sacred sites including the sacred pool of Quetzalcoatl, and much more.
http://www.edenicstates.com/product/edenic-states-retreat-september-2016/

Noni champagne

Fresh noni juice, bottled and fermenting so it fizzes over the top when you open the bottle. Widely available in the healer's town of Tepoztlan. Retreat here in September. Click here for details.

Tepozteco national park

Tepoztlan and the beauty of the mountains in Tepozteco national park.

Early morning dew

Rejoice in the early morning dew

give thanks to Mother Earth

for being so one

with her beauty,her sincerity

~ John Trudell

Iboga sustainability project

In these auspicious black pots in my garden are iboga seeds from iboga fruit, waiting to sprout. Bringing these fruits and their seeds to Mexico from Africa is part of a sustainability project by GITA (Global Ibogaine Therapy Alliance). The picture on the right shows iboga fruits. There is ever increasing demand for iboga and its derivative ibogaine as the world discovers its incredible value for human development. https://www.ibogainealliance.org/iboga/sustainability/

Find out more at the Global Ibogaine Conference in Tepoztlan.

http://www.ibogaineconference.org/

neurogenesis

Neurogenesis by Brant Cortright is a groundbreaking book. We have been teaching this way of eating and living for years and know it works.To have it spelled out by a eminent psychologist complete with scientific references is a great gift to the world. Highly recommended reading!

Neurogenesis is about what we can do to keep our brain cells growing and so achieve higher cognitive function, better memory and learning, emotional vitality and resilience, protection from stress anxiety and depression, elevated immunity and enhanced overall brain function. Nutrition, good sleep, music and the quiet of nature aerobic exercise, emotional and cognitive stimulation all make a difference especially together. Nutritional recommendations are to eats lots of fresh, fruit and vegetables, minimise other carbohydrates and add healthy fats fish oil. “Omega 3’s have been shown to be as or more effective than prescription SSRI antidepressant medication in treating depression”. 

There is a list of foods and nutritional components to increase neurogenesis:

green tea

turmeric

blueberries

whole soy

ginseng ginkgo

quercetin

vitamin E

piperine (pepper)

DHEA and pregnenolene

tryptophan and 5 HTP

rhodiola

melatonin

mulberry

red sage

lithium

goji berry

grape seed extract

lotus rot

apigenin

luteolin

Bodhisattva

"The Bodhisattva…does not abandon life. Turning his regard from the inner sphere of thought transcending truth…outward again to the phenomenal world, he perceives without the same ocean of being that he found within… And he is filled with compassion for the self-terrorised beings, who live in fright of their own nightmare." Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

The hero

“The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations to the generally valid, normally human forms.” Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

John Trudell ~ extremely eloquent therefore extremely dangerous

"Apocalyptic propaganda is the basis of western religion. It's a control mechanism by instilling fear. You instill the fear so people won't think clearly. Everything is there to disrupt the creative intelligence so it doesn't flow with clarity and coherence. So fearing the apocalyptic is just a mining tool they've been using since they came up with the concept of the male dominator god. But what I will say about this thing they call the Mayan calendar is it ends in 2012 because they ran out of stone. Look at it, there was no more room. Basically all the apocalyptic stuff is based on Christian interpretation of reality. Of course, apocalyptic propaganda is used to keep people off balance, to keep them from thinking clearly. It's a mining tool. " JohnTrudell

"He's extremely eloquent ... therefore extremely dangerous," from FBI memo

Aloe makes for younger skin

Aloe vera in my garden

As far as I understand it, wrinklees ar a kind of scar tissue and aloe gel, especially fresh straight from the leaves has an almost magical effect on damaged skin and wounds. Aloe vera also contains valuable monatomic elements which improve neural function.

"According to scientists with the Department of Dermatology of the Seoul National University Boramae Hospital in Seoul Korea, taking a small amount of aloe vera gel on a daily basis can significantly improve skin elasticity and reduce wrinkles.

Their research took thirty women over the age of 45, giving one group a small dose of 1,200 mg of aloe gel per day, and the other group 3,600 mg of aloe gel per day. The women’s baseline status was used as a control and their wrinkles and elasticity were measured before and after a 90 days period of supplementation.

The results of the research weren’t only promising, they were pretty remarkable. All of the women experienced a decrease in wrinkles, with the women in the lower-dose group also seeing improvements in facial elasticity. All women also saw an increase in collagen production."

http://naturalsociety.com/reduce-wrinkles-natural-aloe-vera-gel-proven/

What makes a good life?

Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness
Robert Waldinger
TED Talks

Don't throw away your avocado seeds

from http://dailysuperfoodlove.com/4448/the-surprising-benefits-of-avocado-seeds/

The secret benefits of avocado seeds will surprise you. Historically, extracts of avocado seeds were used as ink for writing and as a food dye. A single avocado seed represents around 18% of the fruit and a waste issue for avocado processors.

Over 70% of the total antioxidant capacity of avocados is found within the seed.
Pennsylvania State University recently launched a study on the benefits of avocado seeds and found that the phenolic antioxidant compounds in the seeds may lower high cholesterol, high blood pressure, reduce inflammatory conditions, diabetes, and boost your immunity. The seeds even have insecticidal, fungicidal, and anti-microbial properties.
“Any heart disease patient must eat the avocado including the seed.” – Dr. Tom Wu Dr. Wu has earned the “Remarkable Contribution” award from the American Cancer Society and the “World Famous Doctor” award from the United Nations for his breakthroughs with diabetes and cancer.

Inflammation is the culprit behind numerous chronic diseases: arthritis, heart disease, stroke all have been linked to excessive inflammation within the body.

Avocado seeds and skins contain higher levels of antioxidants such as catechins (also found in green tea) and procyandins that act as anti-inflammatories, reduce pain, swelling, stiffness, and loss of joint function. These two antioxidants also improve heart health and blood circulation.

In ancient South America avocado seeds were used to treat dysentery, gastric ulcers, and other digestive issues.
Your digestive system is essential to your overall health. Much of your immunity comes directly from the bacteria that live inside of your digestive tract. If these beneficial gut flora are living in a healthy environment, then they can do easily combat pathogenic bacteria and viruses.
The antioxidants and fiber found in avocado seeds are great for your digestive system. An avocado seed contains more soluble fiber per ounce than almost any other vegetable; your GI tract will thank you for adding avocado seeds to your daily diet and perform at its prime.

The University of Antioquia, in Medellin, Colombia in November of 2013 found that extract of avocado seed and the fruit (Hass variety) had a pro-apoptotic effect on leukemia cells. The extract caused the leukemia cells to self-destruct and left the normal cells healthy and stable.
The seeds also contain a phytochemical known as flavonol, which is a potent antioxidant that can reduce tumor growth.

Avocado seeds are packed with fiber, which can keep you full and satiated. Plus, avocado seeds can help control your blood sugar levels. When your overall blood glucose levels are steady throughout the day – you’re less likely to give in to junk food cravings.

Avocado seeds are the perfect food for your skin. Their potent antioxidants can rebuild collagen, repair cell damage caused by free radicals, and actually improve the look and feel of your skin.

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