Welcome To Nathan’s Visionings Blog

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Wolfsto_Wordpres

Nathan Stein

Welcome to my blog, or what I like to call the ‘Ruminations of a Clairblogger’. Here I will share what I’ve experienced both through my physical and extra senses.  Hopefully what you read, hear and see here will be interesting and worthwhile and both a learning and teaching opportunity.  If what is said here in these posts brings us to a place where we can examine our most closely held thoughts and beliefs from new and empowering perspectives, then I believe it was time well spent. Thanks for joining me.

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My Council Of Greats

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Nathan

In the 1937, self development pioneer, Napoleon Hill wrote his classic: “Think and Grow Rich”.  This book has remained one the most influential books since that time.  It may seem that this book is simply about wealth, but in truth it is just as relevant to spiritual growth or success in any endeavor.  One of the most controversial techniques talked about in Hill’s book was ‘The Invisible Counselors Technique’, and he stated that it was his ultimate technique for sourcing skills, ideas and inspiration.  Hill claimed that it allowed him to tap into the imaginary minds of anyone living or passed on.  In this technique you are called on to ask the council members, of which you are the Chairman, for the information you wish them to contribute.  The idea here is for you to start a discussion with these people on any topic you choose and listen to what they have to say.

In Hill’s own experience, even after just a few times of trying it out he found it to be more profound and real than he ever thought possible.  He reported that after a short while the characters seemed to take on a life of their own and developed individual characteristics that surprised him.  In fact, as these sessions continued on, Hill found that he was receiving information and advice that he could have never known by himself.  What was going on here?  Was Napoleon Hill somehow tapping into a collective consciousness, the Akasha or as British biologist Rupert Sheldrake calls it,’the morphogenic field’? Sadly there is no short or even definitive answer for this question, but it appears that Hill’s technique was remarkably effective in bringing about positive change for many.

In today’s post, I am presenting an interesting youtube video, that talks about how to start using and reaping benefits from this technique.  Enjoy!  Many blessings and Namaste, Nathan.

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The Power of Illogical Thinking

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Nathan

Today’s post could really be subtitled: “How To Find A Miracle In Every Mess”.  Everyone I have ever spoken to, heard of or even read about has found themselves in a ‘real mess’, which I suppose is in contrast to a bogus mess, and is of course no problem of all.  “What”, you say, “are you ruminating about here? To cut to the quick, I will say happiness and how to consciously experience it.

Sure, we all experience happiness every now and then, and if you’re like me you might even find yourself saying I: “I wish I knew what just happened so that it could happen again”. Except for bona fide curmudgeons perhaps, happiness feels good, because after all, what’s not to like?  The only trouble with happiness though, from one point of view is that some say it doesn’t last.  Is this true? Perhaps, but here is where the power of illogical thinking comes in.

I read an article recently (here is the link if you’re interested), that got me to think less logically about this whole business of illogical thinking and feel more instead.  In this article, author Charles Burke, talked about his own experience of finding and losing happiness- an all too common experience for most of us I suspect.  Now when we believe we have lost happiness, it’s easy to think or say: “My life is such a mess”, and then we begin to reel off an increasing list of reasons that will apparently validate for the world the veracity of this assertion.  Why do we do this?

Now before I explain that, I want to point out the obvious and say that you should always seek out ‘true experts’ in any area you want to learn something about.  Listen to what they have to say and consider it before thinking ‘illogically’ as I will soon describe.  Anyway, I’m asking you to listen to me in this post, because I consider myself a ‘true expert’ in both mess making, and illogical thinking.  In Nathan speake, mess making involves the process a person goes through and finds themselves in a place of perceived challenge(s).  We may even say or think: ‘I don’t know how this happened, but I am not ‘feeling’ happy about it’! Now this is a logical thought is it not?

You turn on the TV, radio, your computer, and perhaps you learn about more examples of unhappiness occurring, and perhaps you think consciously or unconsciously: “the world is such a mess”, here is the evidence of it and it is only logical to think that way”.  After all, who in their right mind would look at the unhappiness in the world or their small part of it and say, “I’m glad this unhappy situation I find myself in is happening?”  It’s only logical to feel unhappy when you’re ‘supposed’ to be. So what is illogical thinking then and do we really want to embrace it? How about you, what is illogical to your understanding of the term?

I suppose that a common answer, if you were to poll people, is that thoughts or actions that defy consensus understanding are illogical. Yet there are many places and many situations where consensus thinking just doesn’t explain experience.  A good example can be seen with a person’s blood type. Consensus thinking says it doesn’t and can’t change during a person’s lifetime- that it is genetically programmed into us.  Yet, there are examples of people with Dissasociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) that have been observed to do just that.  When these people switched between personality identities, their blood types and even diseases they had would come and go!  Defies logic, does it not?

Thinking in a way that is fixed, that assumes it is absolute truth’, that excludes limitless possibilities, is my definition of logical thinking.   Within the scope of that definition (which is just another thought after all), all thinking is logical.  All thinking involves perspective, points of view or beliefs.  When you change the way you think, your point of view if you will, what was once absolute to you, no longer is. As long as ‘logical thought’ is the major navigator in your life, you may get to where you ‘thought’ you wanted to go, only to be surprised at what you found when you got there.  Does the expression, ‘be careful of what you ask for come to mind’?

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we find the quote: “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.  In this we find, the power of illogical thinking- and I know what you are thinking (yes I am a mind reader) – that this is not logical.  Before I lose you completely with my illogical ruminations, here is what I mean- allow yourself to move your perspective when perceiving challenging or unhappy situations in your life.  It may be illogical to think that when you are unhappy there is blessing in it and you would be right of course.  It is also very logical to think there is great blessing and happiness in unhappiness and of course you would also be right.  And in case you are thinking all this is very confusing and illogical, well of course you would be right too!

So once again in my ruminations as I inevitably do, I come to the point.  To lead a happier life, train yourself to feel happier, not think happier.  Learn to embrace and appreciate (yes, even with gratitude) every situation you find yourself in.  Gratitude is a key and a most powerful force behind happiness.

A teacher of mine was fond of saying that the great questions in life are like a multifaceted gemstone where you can look at it from different points of view and understand it more fully.  In order to appreciate the gemstone, you have to consider it as a whole. Who we perceive ourselves to be and the way we relate to the world are but one facet of our multidimensional being.  May you all find great happiness in your life in every situation.

Many blessings and Namaste, Nathan.

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How to Invent A Disease by Selling Cures

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Nathan

How to Invent a Disease by Selling Cures

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Nathan

If it weren’t tragic it might actually be amusing- a strategy used by large drug companies that creates an instant market for what you wish to sell. Embracing the ideology of Edward Bernay, the father of modern PR, drug companies focus on creating conditions in which products sell themselves. Using this philosophy, instead of selling drugs on their own merit, they sell drugs by branding or labeling something ‘a disease’. To some this may seem like the use of mere hyperbole or spin doctoring and not much different than what many other marketers do too. The consideration here to keep in mind though is that many (if not most) drugs have serious side effects, and are often unnecessary. I could site many examples of these over-prescribed medications (‘cures’) but to name just a few: statin drugs (to reduce risk of heart attack by lowering cholesterol – even though surprisingly, LDL cholesterol is not a major risk in relation to heart disease.); antibiotics (which are often prescribed for things they shouldn’t be such as minor infections and even viral infections); Vaccines to deal with pandemics (that rarely materialize and which often contain heavy metals in the preservatives used and/or, are untested or show very little effectiveness in dealing with what they are supposed to prevent); Hyperactivity drugs which are now even administered to infants (because surprise, infants are restless and inattentive) and so on.

In today’s post, I present an article by Dr. Joseph Mercola, in which he elaborates on this strategy of the pharmaceutical companies with respect to common conditions which can he helped or reversed quite simply and naturally and giving them a name and calling them a disease. An example he talks about is shyness and if you refer to it as such you may be behind the times. Shyness is not shyness really, it is Social Anxiety Disorder- and you guessed it, there is a drug that can rid you of (or so the drug companies advertise). By the way, if you suffer from shyness (and I want to be clear I am not minimizing the possibility that it can be quite debilitating for some) simple procedures such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Hypnosis, or NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) can often be highly effective (even in severe situations) without ever using an expensive or dangerous drug.

CNN commenting on the marketing of Paxil by a PR firm hired by GlaxoSmithKline, labeled their campaign as a “public awareness campaign” about an “under-diagnosed” disease. The under diagnosed disease, was of course Social Anxiety Disorder formerly known as shyness. As a result of their campaign, mentions of Social Anxiety in the press rose from 50 to over a BILLION in just 2 years and Social Anxiety Disorder became the third most common illness in the US!! Predictably, Paxil became one of the most prescribed drugs in the US. It’s clear from available statistics that there was not a catastrophic rise in the number of people suffering from shyness, but a catastrophic rise in people listening to others telling them: “if you are shy or nervous around others you need to take this drug”. If this sounds like a familiar story to you, then you will probably find the article below to be quite interesting. Many blessings and namaste, Nathan

How to Brand a Disease – and Sell a Cure

Posted By Dr. Mercola | October 29 2010 | 17,304 views
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pharmacist with prescription bottlesThe manner in which prescription drugs are marketed today can be readily understood if you read the 1928 book “Propaganda,” by Edward Bernays, the father of PR. Bernays knew that public relations business was less about selling things than about creating the conditions for things to sell themselves. Pharmaceutical marketers, following in his footsteps, sell drugs by selling diseases — a system known as “disease branding.” Illnesses such as panic disorder, restless legs syndrome, bipolar disorder, and ADHD were once considered rare until a marketing campaign transformed the brand in order to sell more drugs. According to CNN:

“If all drugs were harmless, disease branding would be relatively harmless, too. But no drug is completely benign … Detrol can make elderly people delirious and may cause memory problems. Paxil is associated with sexual dysfunction and dependence … Side effects like these are a part of every drug. But they are never part of the brand.”

Sources:

CNN October 11, 2010
Dr. Mercola’s Comments:

Drug companies are master marketers and they fully embrace the ideology that Edward Bernays’ — the father of PR — is most known for. Instead of trying to sell their drugs on their own merit, they invest untold amounts of money into creating diseases their drugs are meant to treat. By doing this, they create instant patients, patients who will likely go to their physicians and request the said drug by name. It’s an ingenious model and one that the PR industry has won awards over … the only problem is that it’s detrimental to your health.

The Fine Art of Disease Mongering

Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research — almost twice as much. Part of these costs often go toward hiring expensive PR firms, celebrity spokespeople, and physicians and academics to pedal their wares. As CNN reported, in order to market its antidepressant Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline hired a PR firm to create a “public awareness campaign” about an “under-diagnosed” disease. The disease? Social anxiety disorder … previously known as shyness. You may have seen this campaign firsthand; ads stating “Imagine being allergic to people” were distributed widely, celebrities gave interviews to the press and psychiatrists gave lectures on this new disease in the top 25 media markets. As a result, mentions of social anxiety in the press rose from about 50 to over 1 billion in just two years … social anxiety disorder became the “third most common mental illness” in the U.S. … and Paxil skyrocketed to the top of the charts as one of the most profitable and most prescribed drugs in the United States. Clearly there was not a rapid rise in the number of people suffering from extreme shyness during this time … there was just a masterful marketing campaign that successfully whispered into enough people’s ears, “If you’re shy or nervous around others, you need to take this drug.” And that’s just what millions did.

Drug Companies are Seeking to Medicalize Society … and You

Drug companies would like you to believe that for every symptom you experience, there’s a pill you need to treat it. This includes symptoms you might not have thought twice about, had you not seen the very same ones advertised on television in relation to an “underdiagnosed” and “undertreated” disease. As authors of Selling Sickness: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Disease Mongering wrote in the British Medical Journal:

“There’s a lot of money to be made from telling healthy people they’re sick. Some forms of medicalizing ordinary life may now be better described as disease mongering: widening the boundaries of treatable illness in order to expand markets for those who sell and deliver treatments. Pharmaceutical companies are actively involved in sponsoring the definition of diseases and promoting them to both prescribers and consumers. The social construction of illness is being replaced by the corporate construction of disease.”

This practice has resulted in the creation of unholy alliances between drug companies, health care providers and supposed consumer groups, all working in concert to convince people they’re sick and in need of drug treatment. As the British Medical Journal continued:

“Within many disease categories informal alliances have emerged, comprising drug company staff, doctors, and consumer groups. Ostensibly engaged in raising public awareness about underdiagnosed and undertreated problems, these alliances tend to promote a view of their particular condition as widespread, serious, and treatable. Because these “disease awareness” campaigns are commonly linked to companies’ marketing strategies, they operate to expand markets for new pharmaceutical products. Alternative approaches—emphasizing the self limiting or relatively benign natural history of a problem, or the importance of personal coping strategies—are played down or ignored.”

What the drug companies don’t want you to know is that ALL of their drugs carry risks of serious side effects, some worse than the alleged diseases they’re meant to treat. They also don’t want you to know that, more often than not, you can overcome problematic symptoms yourself by making positive dietary and lifestyle changes. And, in fact, this latter form of “treatment” is virtually the only way to actually cure an illness, as drugs typically do absolutely nothing but temporarily mask your symptoms.

You Needn’t Live in Fear …

One of the key strategies that drug companies depend on to make medicalization of society work is targeting your news media with stories designed to create fears about a condition or disease, and draw attention to the latest treatment. This has led to problems on several key levels:

  • People with benign, normal symptoms end up taking dangerous drugs. Once you’re convinced that natural signs of aging and common conditions are diseases or treatable symptoms, you take drugs for such things as balding, anxiety, mild bone loss and indigestion, which puts your health at risk over issues that were not true illnesses or risks in the first place.Further, many of these conditions are entirely treatable with diet and lifestyle modifications.
  • People who are tested regularly end up undergoing unnecessary treatments with drugs and invasive surgery. Very few people after middle age can pass standard medical tests without being told that they have some sort of “risk.”This risk is then turned into a pseudo-disease leading to such things as dangerous breast and colon surgery and “preventive” medications, instead of outlining natural strategies that would actually help a person’s health to thrive.
  • As a result of “disease mongering,” the more the medical industry influences a nation, the sicker that nation “considers itself to be.” It eats away at your self-confidence and teaches you that you’re weak and incapable of staying well, and that all signs and symptoms are potentially dangerous conditions and diseases.Truly, this sort of marketing has blurred the lines of what drugs and surgery you really need to save your life, and which may end up killing you faster. Rather than focusing more time and attention on your health as you age, or as you see degeneration setting in, you might settle for a “diagnosis” and the latest medications. The only winners in this grand scheme are the ones who profit financially.

It’s Time to Take Control of Your Health

Drug companies will try to convince you that you’re sick. Your physician, too, may encourage you to seek drug treatments that aren’t really necessary and are very likely dangerous. The only way to break out of this self-destructive system is to take a stand for yourself, and take control of your own health. One of the primary purposes of Mercola.com is to provide you with the insight to protect and defend yourself from these persuasive and manipulative influences. I encourage you to browse through the site and get educated about how to get and stay well without drugs, surgery, and other often-unnecessary medical interventions. If you’re just beginning, read my nutrition plan first, as its recommendations come from decades of experience in which I have researched extensively, conferred with my professional colleagues, and most importantly, successfully treated tens of thousands of patients. And always remember: first and foremost, drug companies are nearly always trying to sell you something that there are better natural solutions for. They’re not really concerned if you’re sick or well, or whether you get healthy or sicker; they just want you to buy their products. But in far more cases than not, there are more effective and safer options than drugs to help you get well.

Related Links:

How Many of These Ridiculous “Disorders” Do YOU Suffer From?
Will Anyone in Their Right Mind Actually Buy Into These Three New Vaccines?
Medicalisation: Disease Mongering
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Random Acts Of Kindness

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Nathan

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Sometimes a kind word, a compassionate hug, or simply listening can change and save lives.  Recently, I learned that a friend inspired by a project to freely offer hugs to people, decided to do just that along with a few friends, in front of a local courthouse.  The event covered by a local tv station, was in my opinion a great success and I provide a link to video interview below. I hope you enjoy it.  Many blessings and namaste, Nathan.

http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21002592352197/#?ref=nf

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How Available Are Herbs And Supplements?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Nathan

I have long been an advocate of free choice with regards to what we use to help promote and maintain health. Progressively in America and Europe those choices are being removed. Until the present there is been a steady increase in use of alternative and holistic healing modalities overall. Among these modalities both interest and use of those using herbs and herbal supplements has been huge. Why, because the potential to supply what the body needs but can no longer obtain through diet is obvious.  In America we spend more money on health care per capita, then many other developed countries combined, yet we rank near the bottom of the list in terms of results.  Clearly for many reasons, the current strategies using drug based approaches to symptomatic management of disease, is unaffordable, ineffective and has a history of poor safety. Understandably then, when people don’t get the help they need or if their conditions are made even worse by the current health care offerings, they seek alternatives.  Our ability to seek alternatives based on herbs is poised on the brink of extinction.  Laws are ready to be enacted throughout Europe and if they do, it is highly probable, based on regulatory policy, that America will rapidly follow.  Plainly and simply, the reason for this development has little to do with efficacy or safety but everything to do with power and control.  In the article which follows, Dr. Mercola elaborates on this situation in ways that should make everyone who values their ability to make their own health choices stand up and take notice.

 

If You Use Herbs and Supplements, You’ve Been Betrayed by Lawmakers. A HIGHLY URGENT Message…
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In less than a year, virtually all medicinal herbs will be illegal in the European Union.

In their take-no-prisoners strategy to wipe out every penny of competition and gain complete control of the health of the people, Big Pharma and Agribusiness have scored a major win in Europe. Similar, potentially devastating battles are also underway in the U.S.

How can this be happening?

The secret weapon used by drug companies is trade law. According to Gaia Health:

“Rather than treating food and traditional medicines as human rights issues, they have been treated as trade issues. That makes the desires of large corporations the focus of food and herbal law, rather than the needs and desires of people.

It’s this twisting that has resulted in the FDA’s making outrageously absurd statements, such as claiming that Cheerios and walnuts quite literally become drugs simply because of health claims made for them.”

Sources:
Gaia Health September 12, 2010

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Even though I generally believe many people take far too many supplements, and that supplements are a poor substitute for improving your diet, it is clear that some supplements are highly beneficial. And supplements in general are clearly safer “band-aids” when compared to expensive and potentially toxic drugs.

That said, in order for all of us to take responsibility for our own health, I believe we must never lose the right to choose and buy nutritional supplements.

Unfortunately, your health freedom is being encroached upon at this very moment.

The European Union stands poised to enact into law a directive that may have a devastating impact on Europeans’ freedom of choice in regard to supplements, and practitioners of ancient medical modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda, may lose their ability to prescribe traditional herbal remedies.

And once the EU enacts this law, I can strongly assure you the United States will not be far behind.

I usually urge my American readers to take action, but in this case, the action call at the end of this article goes out to all my European readers.

Please be sure and distribute this information to your family, friends and social networks and ask them to join you in taking action as well.

The Restrictive EU Herbal Directive Poised to Become Law Next Year

As described in a recent article by AlternativeHealthzine.com, the European Directive on Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products (THMPD) was enacted back in March 2004, and will become law as of April 1, 2011, but the groundwork was laid well before:

“In 1998 or so the EU said they had received a large number of complaints from companies who said that it was difficult to sell their herbal products in other member countries.

So, as the EU does, they said: “Let’s harmonize herbal regulations in all EU countries.”

This approach has some merit. If everyone follows the same rules in every country, it is easier for products to be sold in each country – rather than exporters having to accommodate different rules in every country. So, it’s OK for exporters.”

In essence, this Directive creates new rules and regulations for herbal products and nutritional supplements that were previously traded freely. Any supplier within the EU who wants to sell their product to another European country will need to get a license for each and every supplement they sell.

In fact, under this Directive, all supplements and herbal preparations must go through the same licensing procedure as pharmaceutical drugs.

In TCM and Ayurvedic formulas that contain a number of herbs, each herb would have to be licensed separately.

The cost alone will undoubtedly drive most supplement makers and herbal manufacturers off the market. According to GaiaHealth, the estimated cost per nutrient or herb ranges from £80,000 to £120,000 (around $126,700 to $190,000).

It will take a mass public outcry of epic proportions to stop this draconian rule.

Fortunately the process has already been started. The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-I) is challenging the THMPD, and according to NutraIngredients.com, the ANH is prepared to take the case to the European Court of Justice.

But they will need your help, so please review the action items at the end of this article.

As stated above, this encroachment on your personal freedom stems from the fact that companies want to be allowed to trade freely between countries, without having to comply with each country’s individual requirements.

But it’s also part and parcel of the grander scheme that is the Codex Alimentarius.

What is Codex Alimentarius?

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1962, through a series of relationships between The World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the American FDA and USDA.

The “Codex Alimentarius” itself is a compilation of food standards, codes of practice and guidelines that specify all requirements related to foods, whether processed, semi-processed, genetically engineered, or raw.

Their purpose is to protect consumers’ health, ensure fair business practices within the food trade, and eliminate international food trade barriers by standardizing food quality.

This sounds all well and good, but there are major problems with the strategies they use to “keep you safe.”

Codex Uses Toxicology to Assess Nutrients

There are many problems with Codex, many of which are not immediately recognizable unless you have the proper perspective. But one of the most bizarre and potentially dangerous issues is their Vitamin and Mineral Guideline, finalized on July 4, 2005, which classifies nutrients as toxins.

Yes. This is what you end up with when you use Risk Assessment to assess the safety of nutrients.

Risk Assessment is a branch of Toxicology, also known as the science of toxins. In a sane world, it is used to assess how much of a toxic substance you can safely consume without noticing any physical effects or problems. As soon as there is a biological effect, you have hit the upper, maximum limit for that substance.

Codex Alimentarius has, slowly but surely, been shimmying into position to mandate the universal maximum “safe” level of every vitamin, mineral, supplement and herb that may legally be manufactured, used or sold — with “safe” being a level that has no physical effect.

However, this is not a cut-and-dry process. It’s been going on for nearly 50 years, and it will likely take many more years before all their plans are completed. See, the Codex agenda is inched forward, one piece of legislation at a time, at different times, in various countries.

However, in the end, we can never take our eyes off the final goal, with is global “harmonization” with Codex’ insanely restrictive rules and flawed ideas about nutrition. And the EU herbal directive is likely an important piece of this giant jigsaw puzzle.

Once this directive takes full effect, a vast majority of herbs and supplements will vanish from the market simply due to prohibitive cost of testing and licensing.

Whatever is left will most likely, in the end, become restricted to doses that have no beneficial impact on health whatsoever, under the Codex Vitamin and Mineral guideline…

You Can Take Action Now!

If you value your access to herbs, vitamins and other nutritional supplements, please do not remain on the sidelines.

Take action!

The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-I) and the European Benefyt Foundation (EBF) are actively fighting to stop the implementation of the EU Traditional Herbal Medicinal Products Directive (THMPD).

You can download their joint position paper here.

The following Action Steps were provided by Gaia Health:

1. If you live in Europe, please send a letter or call your Member of the European Parliament.

You can determine who your MEP is, and get his or her contact information here.

Tell your MEP that you support the ANH and want the implementation of THMPD suspended. Ask your representative to take a stand in support of your right to choose herbal treatments and your right to buy nutritional supplements.

To make it faster and easier for you, the ANH via Gaia Health offers this prewritten sample letter, which you can modify and individualize to your own liking. There is also a Spanish version, provided by Denice Delay for Gaia Health.
2. For further information, you may contact:

* The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-I) Sophie Middleton (campaign administrator), tel +44(0)1306 646 600 or email info@anhinternational.org
* The European Benefyt Foundation (EBF) Chris Dhaenens or Harrie Sandhövel, Tel +31 320 251 313 or email: info@benefyt.eu

Unfortunately, I do not have any action items for my American readers, other than to stay vigilant and become involved in any and all legislation that pertains to your right to supplements and natural organic food in the US.

Ditto for all of you who live in Canada.

Hopefully, the EU will stop this assault on our freedom to choose, which will make it more difficult to enact similar types of legislation here in the US.

Related Links:
How the Government is Threatening Your Freedom to Use Supplements
Codex Serves Up A Hearty Helping of Melamine!
Flawed Codex Guidelines Passed

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Playing For Change

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Nathan

I’m reminded from time to time by my guides of just how important it is to remember and spread the message that we are never alone and that we are ultimately  connected and supported.  In the past I have come across many beautiful and moving messages emphasizing this. Several years ago, I came across one such profoundly moving message delivered in the form of a video in which Bill Moyers of PBS Television was interviewing Movie Producer Mark Johnson who was talking about his very special global project: Playing For Change.  Mark’s vision was that people everywhere could learn to realize their connection through the Universal language of Music.   With the participation of musicians and singers around the world, the messages: We are ONE heart. ONE mind, ONE Spirit, ONE BEING and how by standing by each other, we can face anything. In this life, I have observed that there are no accidents, and perhaps you were guided here today to consider the message. Perhaps, you know of someone going thru a crisis that could benefit by hearing it and if so, share this post with others.

There were several short videos included in the Bill Moyer’s interview with Mark Johnson which I would like to share below. After seeing them, if you are interested in seeing the interview which I highly recommend, you can find it at the following link:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10242008/watch3.html

If you would like to check out the Playing For Change website and see some of their other short videos, you can click on the link below:

http://www.playingforchange.com/episodes

Many blessings and Namaste, Nathan.
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Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

One Love – Playing for Change version

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Space Age Mapping Before The Last Ice Age?

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Nathan

One of the most astounding of the ancient maps is one drawn by Turkish Admiral Pri Reis in 1513(shown below courtesy of Wikipedia Commons).  In many ways this map is an OOPart (an Out Of Place artifact). It shouldn’t exist but does. It reflects a technology that was only even barely possible about 50 years ago. This map made almost 500 years ago and based on even earlier maps, shows the earth prior to the last ice age and from a projection many miles above the earth. In future posts we will discuss other maps that shouldn’t exist but do. For now, let’s learn more about this ancient wonder.

1513 Piri Reis Map

In 1929, a group of historians found a map drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet.  In in a series of notes, on the map, Reis indicates that he compiled and copied the data from a large number of source maps, some of which dated back to the fourth century BC or earlier.

The Piri Reis map shows the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. The northern coastline of Antarctica is perfectly detailed and apparently at a time when it was free of ice.

In 1953, a Turkish naval officer sent the Piri Reis map to the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Bureau. To evaluate it, M.I. Walters, the Chief Engineer of the Bureau, called for help Arlington H. Mallery, an authority on ancient maps, who had previously worked with him.  To check out the accuracy of the map, he made a grid and transferred the Piri Reis map onto a globe The Hydrographic Office couldn’t believe what they saw: the map was totally accurate and they were even able to correct some errors in the present days maps!!   He stated that the only way to draw a map of such accuracy was the aerial surveying: but who, 6000 years ago, could have used airplanes to map the earth??

The importance of the accuracy of the map can not be stressed enough and is a demonstration of impossible technology.  No one that far back in time was supposed to be able to draw a map of such precision. The first instrument to calculate the longitude in a approximately correct way has been invented in 1761 by the englishman John Harrison. Before that time there was no way to calculate the longitude in an acceptable way: there could be errors of hundreds kilometers.

The earliest known civilization, the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, appear out of nowhere around 4,000 B.C. but have no nautical or maritime cultural heritage. They do, however, speak reverently of ancestral people who were like the “gods” and were known as the nefilim.

Here is a summary of some of the most unusual findings about the map:

Scrutiny of the map shows that the makers knew the earth was round and knew an accurate circumference of the Earth to within 50 miles.

The coastline and island that are shown in Antarctica must have been navigated at some period prior to 4,000 B.C. when these areas were free of ice from the last Ice Age.

The map is thought to be one of the earliest “world maps” to show the Americas. Early scholars suggested that it showed accurate latitudes of the South American and African coastlines – only 21 years after the voyages of Columbus! (And remember, Columbus did NOT discover North America – only the Caribbean!)

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