Sunday, 8 August 2010
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Let food be thy medicine
Beautifully articulated explanation of why we need the medicine in our foods, how modern hybrid food has lost it - and the drugs industry sells it back to us. And the importance of eating truly natural foods which contain the medicinal element.
Thinking about the 'bitter principle', which is the medicinal element of plant foods, those of us who have trodden this path in the face of various adversities have had to become very independent, able to flourish in a range of trying situations and have developed a repertoire of strategies (medicine ways) to call upon and heal ourselves when we are challenged yet again. Its easy to envy those whose path seems to have been more facilitated, but the challenges make us strong and takes us back to our true nature like the wild plants.
Friday, 6 August 2010
Cardinal Grand Cross
In astrology, a grand cross involves four or more planets each opposite another and at right angles to two others as seen from Earth. It is a configuration involving great tension. This summer has been dominated astrologically by several planets going in and out of this powerful formation. On this occasion it is a 'cardinal grand cross' meaning that the planets are in the cardinal signs of aries, libra, capricorn and cancer. These are signs of initiating or leading - in very different ways. On August 6-7, 2010 we have the last big grand cross of the summer when the Moon enter 3 degrees of Cancer to complete it, opposing Pluto at 3 degrees of Capricorn, with Uranus and Jupiter is in Aries (at 0 and 3 degrees, respectively); and then there is a trio of Mars, Saturn and Venus in Libra (at 5, 1 and 0 degrees, respectively).
Tony Wright presentation at Sunrise Off-Grid
Virtually all cultures preserve myths with an almost identical theme; that from a past golden age humanity has suffered a progressive degeneration. Is this near universal tradition based on real events? The answer appears to be 'yes'. Recent scientific evidence supports the idea that we suffer from an inherited hormonal condition that has damaged part of our brain. In an unexpected twist, it is the damaged part that is not only driven to play the major role in telling us who we are but also dominates our basic biological functions. Such a scenario explains some extraordinary anomalies that have emerged from research into how our brains function. It provides an underlying reason for the present crises in health, from the dysfunction of the immune system to the declining age of puberty. It also makes sense of the diverse mystic and religious practices that are said to lead to enlightened states or 'oneness with God'.
If our common experience of near constant low-level fear and anxiety is actually a consequence of a neurological disorder, there may be a fundamental solution to the problem. We all know that fear, distrust and a lack of connection lead to conflict and ultimately war. Such a solution therefore could be of crucial importance to our global future.
Despite the staggering implications the basic proposal is already attracting emotive endorsement and support from sceptical mainstream academics and scholars in many disciplines to spiritually inclined philosophers, environmental activists and pretty much everyone who has read and understood the basic proposal as outlined in the book.
“A stunningly innovative and challenging theory” Dr Dennis McKenna (Heffter Research Institute)
“This is a startling book that makes us rethink the most fundamental issues of religion, psychology, and philosophy.”
Richard Heinberg (Post Carbon Institute)
“Left in the Dark offers a provocative and original answer to the most important question of our time.”
Linda Buzzell-Saltzman (IAE)
“ It will be, it must be, taken very seriously in any discussion of human origins.” Prof. Colin Groves (ANU)
http://leftinthedark.org.uk/
http://www.sunrise-offgrid.co.uk/#talks.php
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Sunrise Offgrid
A Celebration of Off grid Living, Alternative Energy, Community Creativity and Consciousness
19th - 22nd August, Somerset.
http://www.sunrise-offgrid.co.uk/#talks.php
I am doing a talk on Food for Consciousness in the Avalon Rising area.
Tony Wright, author of 'Left in the Dark' will be doing a presentation at the Zia Solar stage probably on the Friday.
'Research suggests that humans once lived, and could again live, in a very different and profoundly preferable state of consciousness to the one we consider normal today. Nutrition and hormones determine the accuracy to which DNA is read and the brain ('lens of consciousness')is built, from the moment of conception. The modern diet provides only 5% of the micronutrients that other primates ingest each day in the wild, whilst pineal underactivity has reduced all important melatonin levels to a point which is having major impact on our state of well-being. Given the knowledge that is now coming to light human beings could eventually be on-goingly experiencing a mode of awareness and function usually associated with peak states - in 'a benign state of perpetual wonder and joy'. Even now, the undamaged amino acids (proteins), fatty acids (fats) and flavonoids (fruit compounds) found in nutrient rich raw foods plus judicious biochemical supplementation can significantly improve our brain chemistry to improve the way we feel and allow us to experience more energy, personal effectiveness, intuition, creative powers and deepen our connection with others. This talk will look at the research and also some very practical things we can do to increase the happiness and harmony in our everyday lives.'
19th - 22nd August, Somerset.
http://www.sunrise-offgrid.co.uk/#talks.php
I am doing a talk on Food for Consciousness in the Avalon Rising area.
Tony Wright, author of 'Left in the Dark' will be doing a presentation at the Zia Solar stage probably on the Friday.
'Research suggests that humans once lived, and could again live, in a very different and profoundly preferable state of consciousness to the one we consider normal today. Nutrition and hormones determine the accuracy to which DNA is read and the brain ('lens of consciousness')is built, from the moment of conception. The modern diet provides only 5% of the micronutrients that other primates ingest each day in the wild, whilst pineal underactivity has reduced all important melatonin levels to a point which is having major impact on our state of well-being. Given the knowledge that is now coming to light human beings could eventually be on-goingly experiencing a mode of awareness and function usually associated with peak states - in 'a benign state of perpetual wonder and joy'. Even now, the undamaged amino acids (proteins), fatty acids (fats) and flavonoids (fruit compounds) found in nutrient rich raw foods plus judicious biochemical supplementation can significantly improve our brain chemistry to improve the way we feel and allow us to experience more energy, personal effectiveness, intuition, creative powers and deepen our connection with others. This talk will look at the research and also some very practical things we can do to increase the happiness and harmony in our everyday lives.'
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