Beyond the Crystal Looking Glass

More on Blood...

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:35:03 GMT

You know, for many many years I have inwardly longed for a life of peace, meditation and a way of eating that coincided with this. But I believed in all the diet fads and the "western" way of thinking and eating and exercising. I had to do hard aerobics, eat protein and fat, lift weights, be "strong". But my blood type says otherwise. Historically, Type A came evolved from Type O when hunting ground started becoming sparce and we had to start planting ans harvesting our own food, building communities and footholds in stable locations. Type A's generally do better on a more vegetarian diet w/ yoga and tai chi or dancing and other moderate stress-reducing activities, including meditation. It's all in me blood, lol. I have been eating and exercising more for a Type O diet. According to what I've read of other peoples' stories, it can take anywhere from two weeks to five or six months and up to one year to see health benefits. I'm not worried about weight loss anymore. I want to stop feeling sick all the time. Stop being in pain. It has been worse since trying to do the Protein Type from MTD. While it would have nice to just eat meat all the time, easier here in the states to do, it just does make me feel well.

What I have learned so far from all my trials and errors - I am lactose intolerant. Period. I can not eat red meat and pork and tolerate it very well. I do not like celery and asparagus no matter how good they are for me ;) And some veggies, like artichoke, I won't cook even if I buy it and have all the good intentions of doing so. I love fruit. I need more raw foods. Sugar and me do not mix well. I would MUCH rather dance or do yoga than to force myself into running or some other hard cardio exercise. I'm a very adaptable cook. I love researching things, lol. I'm not a quitter, I will keep looking for the solution.

We all are really truly different in our needs.

For all interested...

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:29:22 GMT

http://www.unbreakyourhealth.com/

Listening to the author of this book on Justenergyradio.com. It's not a "this is what you do for this" but is instead a this is what this therapy is and this is what this therapy is and so forth. It goes through hundreds of forms of Alternative Therapies and explains what they are.

Have to share

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:00:22 GMT

Tired

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:45:08 GMT

Ok.... on a side note continuing on from something last night... when did the word "asking" become "axing"? I have heard that a few more times today....

I am tied and cold... I had 3-4 hrs. of sleep last night. I just couldn't sleep and my stomach was not liking my dinner... :P So now I'm ready for bed. Is it bed time yet?

And for totally sucky news... One of my coworkers was pregnant. I had a feeling someone around me was and I wanted to ask someone if they were but I never did and forgot that I got that feeling until one of my cowokers told me she was. She just lost the baby earlier this week. She was out on Monday for an appt. and then wasn't in on Tuesday. Very few people at work new about the pregnancy, but those of us that did had a feeling something happened. It did. And it sucks.

Back to my slow day at work...

Loris

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:07:38 GMT

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=39735458

This video is soooo.. totally cute!!! I WANT one!!!!

Bugs and cool things

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:29:48 GMT

Bugs love me and I hate them. After about 20-25 minutes standing in my backyard last night I now have (and I counted) over 30 bug bites total on my body. Over 25 are on my legs and I have more on my arms and back. They tried to get my face, too, but I so wouldn't let that happen. I kept swatting them as I felt them bite... damn things.

I also highly recommend Leah at House of Ravenwood in Yellowsprings for a tarot reading and a medical intuitive reading. She is just beyond awesome and truly has honed her sight. She was spot on about everything and answered many of the questions I've had for a while and saw many things I needed to know.

Bodices

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:22:39 GMT

Looking for bodices online, found these - http://www.sharpe-designs.com/dragonesque-clothing-tops.htm

I'm finding lot of stuff to drool over today...

tapscon2!!!

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:03:02 GMT

http://tapscon2.com/vip.html

This would be the ultimate!! I am sooo.. drooling over the VIP pack...

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:39:17 GMT

http://www.daytonartinstitute.org/collection/as_104_detail1.html

Thai, Sukhothai style
Seated Buddha, 14th-15th century
H. 22"

Absolutely beautiful. I remember seeing this statue at the museum and I can't even describe the feelings it emanated. Peacem love, well-being just name a few. I saw these and another one w/ a different hand positioning at one of the stores in the Springs. I wanted a statue of the buddha I saw at the museum but couldn't remember which one it was. I'm wishing I got the one w/ te differing hand positions after finally seeing this one again that is at the museum. But I had to share this. It is so beautiful. I wish the museum was open when I had time off so I could go w/ friends when they're off and visit the museum again.

Numerology

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:30:05 GMT

I'm a 9. 9 is Humanitarian...
Short description -
9's want to change the world and make it better. They also have a hard time letting go of their past. They need to learn to let go and move on.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I was so amused when I heard this. :D

Mark Twain Claymation

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:40:40 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Mark-Twain-Claymation/dp/6301505638

These are something I used to watch as a kid. Thanks to another LJ friend, I knew they were real and not just dreams I had. I loved watching these and Amazon has them!

B-day

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:30:34 GMT

was Awesome! Thank you everyone for a fun day. I loved it. B-fast was yummy and very fun. I appreciated all those who showed and hope that those that couldn't feel better soon! Springs was lotsa shopping fun.

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:36:11 GMT

DiCaprio eyes other dimension for big screen
Friday July 25 12:50 AM ET

Could the eerie music of "The Twilight Zone" soon be playing again at the movies?

Warner Bros. and Leonardo DiCaprio's production company, Appian Way, are seeking material for a feature take on one or more episodes from the classic TV series.

Appian Way is not known for sci-fi projects, but "Twilight Zone" is said to be DiCaprio's favorite show.

The studio and production company are quietly putting out word that they're looking for pitches and script ideas based on the show for feature development.

The companies don't aim to make an episodic movie like the 1983 "Twilight Zone," the only big-screen version of the series, but rather hope to build one continuing story line based on one or more episodes.

Warners owns rights to the Rod Serling-penned episodes, which account for the bulk of its 1959-64 run. The Serling shows include such famous episodes as "To Serve Man," about giant aliens who land on Earth, and "Eye of the Beholder," about an inverted society where the attractive are considered ugly. The original series contained about 155 episodes.

Thanks to syndication -- the show now runs on Sci Fi Channel -- and many pop-culture homages, "Twilight Zone" continues to have a devoted, if somewhat older-skewing, fan base nearly five decades after it left the primetime airwaves.

Twenty-five years ago Warners released a four-segment film based on the series. Each segment was helmed by a different director -- Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller and Steven Spielberg -- with three of the segments direct remakes of classic episodes.

The movie drew modest boxoffice and was known mainly for the on-set accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors during production of the Landis-directed section.

There have been other attempts at "Zone" updates, among them CBS' 1994 TV movie based on several Serling episodes. Summit is making a big-screen version of the Richard Matheson-penned story "Countdown," which was turned into the "Twilight Zone" episode "Death Ship" and centers on astronauts who land on a planet only to find their dead bodies already there.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

Hmmm....

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:34:54 GMT

Livejournal has just informed me that my mutual friend sissalem has a b-day on the 28th.......

Yeah.....

Hillarious!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:41:45 GMT

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collections/gallery/903/top-10-scientific-inaccurate-movies#photo10

Interesting...

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:35:45 GMT

Playstation 2 component incites African war

Jul 22, 2008

Has the video game industry dug up its very own blood diamond?

According to a report by activist site Toward Freedom, for the past decade the search for a rare metal necessary in the manufacturing of Sony's Playstation 2 game console has fueled a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the center of the conflict is the unrefined metallic ore, coltan. After processing, coltan turns into a powder called tantalum, which is used extensively in a wealth of western electronic devices including cell phones, computers and, of course, game consoles.

Allegedly, the demand for coltan prompted Rwandan military groups and western mining companies to plunder hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the rare metal, often by forcing prisoners-of-war and even children to work in the country's coltan mines.

"Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms," said Ex-British Parliament Member Oona King.

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So where's the connection to Sony? According to Toward Freedom, during the 2000 launch of the PS2, the electronics giant was having trouble meeting consumer demand. To pump out more units, Sony required a significant increase in the production of electric capacitors, which are primarily made with tantalum. This helped drive the world price of the powder from $49/pound to a whopping $275/pound, resulting in the frenzied scouring of the Congolese hills known for being ripe with coltan.

Sony has since sworn off using tantalum acquired from the Congo, claiming that current builds of the PS2, PSP and PS3 consoles are sourced from a variety of mines in several different countries.

But according to researcher David Barouski, they're hardly off the hook.

"SONY's PlayStation 2 launch...was a big part of the huge increase in demand for coltan that began in early 1999," he explained. "SONY and other companies like it, have the benefit of plausible deniability, because the coltan ore trades hands so many times from when it is mined to when SONY gets a processed product, that a company often has no idea where the original coltan ore came from, and frankly don't care to know. But statistical analysis shows it to be nearly inconceivable that SONY made all its PlayStations without using Congolese coltan."

Currently, the Playstation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all-time, having sold through over 140 million units.

It's a sad sad world

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:48:06 GMT

Judge: Girl's name, Talula Does The Hula, won't do

Thu Jul 24, 5:41 AM ET

A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.

Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.

Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.

The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.

"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."

The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.

In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.

Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.

New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment.

Michael Neill - Compulsive Goal Setting

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:46:36 GMT

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's
business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female
the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of
continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."

-George Bernard Shaw

My two dogs, Mishka and Abby, have very different personalites.
Mishka is bored unless engaged in her favorite game, which as you
might imagine for a dog, is fetch. You take her bone and throw it as
far as you can, and she chases it as fast as she can. Then she
brings it back to you and asks (well, begs) you to throw it again.
She wants to play fetch continuously, and I have occasionally
speculated that if I let her, she would keep chasing that bone right
up until the point where she collapsed of physical exhaustion.

I call Mishka a "Goal Dog", because her behavior is similar to what I
see in compulsive goal-setters. They continually set goals in every
area of their lives, driving themselves forward relentlessly towards
the ever receding goal of "making it". They rarely stop to consider
what they would do if they did make it, and those that do succeed (at
least by societies standard) often find themselves bored and lonely
until they throw themselves back into the fray.

Essentially, compulsive goal-setting is like playing a game of fetch
with yourself - you throw the bones as far as you can (set the
biggest goals you can imagine) and then chase them with hyper-focused
attention and continual action. The problem comes when your
happiness and self-worth are the bones.

For most compulsive goal-setters, their sense of well-being comes
from how well they think they are doing. And since they are
constantly raising the bar on what "success" and "making it" mean,
they are never doing well enough to feel happy and worthwhile.

There is always more action to be taken and more targets to be
reached, so there is never a sense of being content right where you
are sitting now. And, I occasionally speculate, if they let
themselves they will keep chasing those goals right up until the
point where they collapse of physical exhaustion.

My other dog, Abby, is more of what I call a "River Dog". I call her
this based on the writing of Earl Nightingale (founder of
Nightingale-Conant), who described "river people" as being those "who
are happiest and most alive when they're in the river - in whatever
business or career or profession it happens to be. And success comes
to such people as inevitably as a sunrise. In fact, they are
successes the moment they find their great field of interest; the
worldly trappings of success will always come in time."

Abby loves the park, and she loves the house. She loves going for a
run with my son, but she seems equally happy and content to hang out
on the sofa with our cat. In fact, wherever Abby is, she throws
herself into the mix without ever seeming to need things to be a
certain way.

Bizarrely, the one game Abby will almost never play is fetch. You
can throw her bone as often as you like, but unless you go and get it
yourself it will never be seen again.

When it comes to us human beings, I think of these two approaches to
life as being less about personality types than behavioral choices.
In any moment, we can decide that what we have is not enough and look
around for something to fill in the gaps, or we can decide that what
we have is exactly what we want. We can turn our "bone of happiness"
into a bone of contention and throw it off into some imaginary
future, or we can enjoy gnawing on it right here, right now.

As Henry David Thoreau wrote so many years ago:

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to suck
the marrow from the bones of life; to put to rout all that was not
life, and not to come to the end of life, and discover that I had not
lived."

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Today's Experiment:
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Step one: Take the week off from trying to accomplish anything with
your life. Enjoy yourself, enjoy your loved ones, enjoy your work,
enjoy your life. If you can't bring yourself to take the whole week
off, take a few days off from the game of achievement. If you can't
get yourself to take a few days off, just take one. If you can't
even take one day off from the "more, better, faster" game, repeat
step one.

Have fun, learn heaps, and may you live all the days of your life!

With love,
michael

PS - In case you think I missed out on step two, I didn't. There is
no step two. When it comes to living fully in the moment, nothing
happens next!

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Wonderings

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:36:59 GMT

I was asked a question recently as to what kind of "religion" I would classify myself as being a part of. I really had a hard time anwering this question. I call myself pagan, but I don't think that really covers it. I believe many different things. I have lotsa good ideas (for all you Dogma fans).

I am a High Preistess of Freyja and and Ordained Minister, but I don't do ritual and celebration of all the holidays and all the rest that typically come w/ the thought of being pagan.

I believe all things are possible and everything... everything... can be changed and healed and "fixed" if you truly are in the receiving mode. I don't believe in "fate" or "destiny", I believe we attract and create everything for our lives, everything that happens we have asked for. I believe in Angels and Faeries and Spirit Guides and Power Animals and ghosts and spirits and al else.

I believe in re-incarnation, not because we have come back because we have to "learn" something in order to ascend. I believe we re-incarnate because we wish to experience something in whatever form and on whatever planet or reality and in whatever time period we decided we wanted to experience what's going on there.

I believe in healing energies through herbs, oils, prayers, meditation, diet and exersice, through the power of belief and of asking for and receiving the health and happiness that we want.

I believe in other things as well. I don't know what I'd "classify" myself as, if I even could. I'm not sure I even like the idea of classifying yourself by your religion. While each name of a religion lets others know what you might believe, it's not necessarily the case. There are so many different paths in each of these "religons" that even if you classify yourself as belonging to one of these religions, that still doesn't describe what you believe.

So, how would you describe your beliefs? Could you actually vocalize what you believe or do you rely on the "classifications" to let others know what you put your faith in and hope they understand?

I have finally been able to put some of mine down in words here, but its also still a work in progress, it always is. That's why this is a journey. We came down to experience this planet and time, so why not enjoy it and have fun and soak it all up in the process? Live it to the fullest, enjoy every moment as it happens, be happy and thankful and be in love and be with love to all including yourself.

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:14:18 GMT

http://www.graveaddiction.com/links.html

New Page

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:21:21 GMT

I can now be found at http://community.beliefnet.com/sissalem Come see me! :D

And for when you've already listened to everything...

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:55:37 GMT

Hay House likes to rebroadcast the same shows over and over again, so if you've already heard the line-up for the day, here's another station to check out - http://www.justenergyradio.com/index.html

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:48:54 GMT

YEA!!! Dana (my manager) is back to work! After 3 stays in the hospital she's back. She's still dealing w/ an infection in the incision, but she's feeling much better. She's lost 40 lbs already but has come to realize that she most likely didn't need the surgery after all. She's realizing, after 40 days w/o any food, that she could have made better choices and eaten smaller portions before. She would never recommend bypass surgery to anyone, even if it went smoothly, she said. She appreciates food more and knows that this gave her a fresh start, but she said it's not worth it. She's the only one in her support group and out of her friends that had this done that had anything wrong happen, but even if it was a breeze through, if she was given the choice of doing it again, she'd say no. But she's back, she's better and still getting better. YEA!

Starting Friday

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:16:49 GMT

https://www.metabolictypingonline.com/temp/3edcac93-e951-41bc-a98d-f9e079e0c11a/StephanieMillerMTEatingPlan6-29-2008.pdf

https://www.metabolictypingonline.com/PDF/FASTStarterMealPlans.pdf

The things I will miss -
Pasta
Tomatoes
Garlic
Black Pepper
COFFEE
sugar for baking
Paprika
Soy
Broccoli
Bell peppers
Sushi
Cheese
Cod
Chives
Soy Sace
Mustard
Parsley
Melons
Berries
Grapes
Pinneapple
Citrus Fruits

I am very grateful for the foods on my Ideal list for I lovemany of them. I can make yummy meals out of all of them. There is plenty of variety. I will miss some of the staples of my old way of eating (like GARLIC and coffee), but I will most likely enjoy myself better.

On another note - I have gotten sick... and my dr. is on vacation :P I wouldn't mind the sick part so much if it didn't come w/ the constantly bloody nose. I hate sinus stuff.

Relics a Fake

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:01:18 GMT

Art of deception: Crystal skulls in British, US museums were fakes

by Richard InghamTue Jul 8, 8:20 PM ET

How about this for the next instalment of the Indy franchise: "Indiana Jones and the Dodgy Antiques Dealer"?

Less than three months after the Quai Branly Museum in Paris discovered that a crystal skull once proclaimed as a mystical Aztec masterpiece was a fake, it is now the turn of the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution to find they were victims of skull-duggery.

Scientists from those two prestigious institutions on Wednesday said their crystal skulls were cut, honed and polished by tools of the industrial age, not by Mesoamerican craftsmen of yore.

"The skulls under consideration are not pre-Columbian. They must surely be regarded as of relatively modern manufacture," they say.

"Each skull was probably worked not more than a decade before it was first offered for sale."

The skulls became star exhibits in all three museums long before the Indiana Jones movie, "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," hit the movie screens this year.

The superstitious deemed them part of a collection of 12 skulls, endowed with healing or mystical powers, that dated back to the ancient culture of Central America.

Reuniting all 12 skulls, together with a putative 13th, would conjure up a massive power that would prevent the Earth from tipping over on December 21 2012, the "doomsday" in the Mayan calendar, according to one fable.

Legend-lovers had a bad day on April 18 when the Quai Branly said it had found grooves and perforations in its 11-centimetre (4.4-inch) -high quartz skull revealing the use of "jewellery burrs and other modern tools."

Doubts had also surfaced about the skulls in London and Washington, with art experts noting they were unusually large and with teeth markings that were exceptionally linear.

Seeking the verdict of science, researchers from those two museums examined the skulls with electron microscopes, looking at tiny scratches and marks left by the carving implements.

These were then compared with the surfaces of a crystal goblet, rock crystal beads and dozens of greenstone jewels known to be of genuine Aztec or Mixtec origin.

The study appears in the Journal of Archaeological Science, published by the Elsevier group.

The skull in the British Museum, purchased in 1897, is made of transparent rock crystal and is 15 centimetres (six inches) high. The Smithsonian skull, acquired by the museum in 1992, is of white quartz and measures 25.5 cms (10 inches) in height.

The investigators found that rotary wheels gave the British skull its sharp definition, a drill had dug out the nostrils and eyes, and diamond or corondum had been applied with iron or steel tools to smooth its upper surfaces.

As for the US skull, "faint traces" of tool marks remain, but these too are consistent with rotary wheels or grinding pads, the authors say.

No evidence has ever been found that rotary wheels were used to cut stones in Central America before the arrival of Europeans.

The investigators also found a black-and-red deposit in a tiny cavity of the Smithsonian skull. X-ray diffraction showed it to be silicon carbide -- a tough compound that only exists naturally in meteorites but is widespread in modern industrial abrasives.

Tiny irregularities in the quartz suggest the mineral for the London skull came from the European Alps, Brazil or Madagascar, while the quartz for the Washington skull had "many potential sources," including Mexico and the United States.

The sleuths pored over the archives of both museums, the Museum of Mankind in Paris, the French National Library, the Hispanic Society of America and newspaper records in a bid to find where the skulls came from.

The only documentation existing for the Smithsonian skull indicates it had been purchased in Mexico City in 1960. The scientists believe the skull was "probably manufactured shortly before it was purchased" there.

As for the British Museum and Quai Branly skulls, the paper trail leads to a French antiques collector by the name of Eugene Boban Duverge.

Boban had a shop in Mexico City and parlayed his way to the salons of Paris thanks to the 1863-67 "French Intervention," when troops of France's Second Empire invaded Mexico.

He built up a collection of 2,000 pre-Columbian artefacts, the biggest in Europe at the time. It included several crystal skulls, including the newly-unmasked fakes in London and Paris.

The skull that would eventually be bought by the British Museum was acquired by Boban between 1878 and 1881, possibly in Europe, the study says. In 1885, he tried to sell it to the National Museum of Mexico, but was turned down.

A year later, Boban sold it an auction to the New York jeweller's Tiffany's.

Two years later, Tiffany's sold the skull to a Californian businessman who nearly a decade later went bust and asked the jeweller to hunt for a new buyer.

So it was that Tiffany's vice president, George Kunz, made a pitch to the British Museum.

He recommended the purchase of "this remarkable object," sketched a past of colourful ownership, beginning with a Spanish soldier who had brought it back from Mexico, and quoting the opinion of others that the skull was of ancient Mexican origin but no-one knew for sure.

The rest, as they say, belongs to history... and human gullibility.