Alien life found living in Earth's atmosphere, claims scientist - Telegraph

Alien life found living in Earth's atmosphere, claims scientist - Telegraph

Aliens do exist and have been found living in the clouds above the Peak District, according to new claims by scientists.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Buckingham University claim to have found evidence for microscopic organisms living 16 miles up in the atmosphere between Chester and Wakefield.

The scientists used a specially designed balloon to gather samples in the stratosphere during the recent Perseid meteor shower.

They found the fragments of single celled algae known as a diatom.

They argue that this could be the first evidence to show how life may have arrived on Earth from space, perhaps carried here by meteorites.

It is not the first time organisms have been found in the atmosphere and indeed the skies are thought to be teeming with microscopic life.

Birds without wings

GRAY, DAVID
Wishing that something would happen
A change in this place
'cos I'm tearing off the fancy wrapping
Find an empty package

Take for a while
Your trumpet from your lip
Loosen your hold loosen your grip
On your old ways
That have fallen out of step
In a changing time
Hoist a new flag
Hoist a new flag

Angry sun burn down
Judging us all
Guilty of neglect and disrespect
And thinking small

And death by boredom
And death by greed
If we can't stop taking
More than we need

But across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
Tired ideas
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
Birds without wings

And these are just thoughts
Of lack lustre times
I've no interest
In excuses you can find

Like you've had a hard day
Now you're too tired to care
Now you're too tired to care
You've had a hard day

Well across the fractured landscape
I see the same things
Tired ideas broken values
Many with the notion
That to share is to lose
A hollow people bound by a lack
Of imagination and too much looking back
Without the courage to give a new thing a chance
Grounded by this ignorance

(and the cat comes)
We're just,
Birds without wings
Birds without wings
Birds without wings

fertile plant from the remains of 32,000-year-old fruit

Researchers in Russia have revived a fertile plant from the remains of 32,000-year-old fruit that was found buried within the fossilized burrows of ancient squirrels deep in the Siberian ice.
The resurrected plant, from an era of woolly mammoths and saber-tooth cats, is the oldest viable multicellular living organism, according to the study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It is also the first plant returned to life from permafrost conditions, researchers said.
The discovery raises the possibility of reviving other frozen organisms with prehistoric gene pools, researchers said. Using a horticulture technique called micropropagation, researchers grew the plant from fruit tissue in a test tube of nutrients. The ones that grew roots were transferred into pots with soil and light, where they developed flowers and seeds.
“There is abundant permafrost in northern Alaska and Canada,” said Buford Price, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who edited the paper, in an e-mail. Finding an organism that could produce a plant with dark green leaves and small white flowers shows the benefit of pursuing goals that seem impossible, he said.
Price said he expects the researchers to “get increased funding levels to expand this work, going deeper and looking at other likely locations of animal burrows where plants were stashed.”
The fruit was found preserved 124 feet (38 meters) deep in permafrost, ice at below-freezing temperatures that hadn’t melted or been disturbed since the late Pleistocene epoch. The ancient burrows can store as many as 800,000 seeds, the report said.
Permafrost covers about 20 percent of the earth’s surface and is now under extensive investigation for preserved life that could be revived, according to the researchers led by David Gilichinsky at the Institutes of Cell Biophysics and Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science at the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Pushchino, Russia.

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Humans vs. Robots: Who Should Dominate Space Exploration? by Adam Mann

The most recent footprints on the moon are 40 years old, and the next artificial mark on the lunar surface will probably be made by a robot’s wheels rather than human soles.

Many space scientists, engineers and politicians argue that this is a good thing. Most astronomers will tell you that virtually anything a human can do on another planet, a robot can do, only cheaper and without the risk of losing a life. But the battle between humans and robots for the starring role in the next chapter of space exploration is not yet settled.

“In what was really only a few days on the lunar surface, the Apollo astronauts produced a tremendous scientific legacy,” said planetary scientist Ian Crawford of Birkbeck College in London, author of a paperin the April issue of Astronomy and Geophysics. “Robotic exploration of the moon and Mars pales in comparison.”

Robots have done all the recent planetary exploration in the solar system. In past decades, rovers, landers, and orbiters have visited the moon, asteroids and comets, every planet in the solar system and many of their moons as well. But how does their work compare to that of human astronauts?

In terms of sheer scientific output, manned exploration of outer space has a good track record. More than 2,000 papers have been published over the last four decades using data collected during the manned Apollo missions, and the rate of new papers is still rising. In comparison, the Soviet robotic Luna explorers and NASA’s Mars Exploration rover program — Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, and Opportunity — have each generated around 400 publications.

Humans hold a number of advantages over robots. They can make quick decisions in response to changing conditions or new discoveries, rather than waiting for time-delayed instructions from Earth. They are more mobile than current robot explorers: The Apollo 17 astronauts covered more than 22 miles in three days, a distance that has taken the Mars Opportunity rover eight years to match. Humans can drill for samples deep underground and deploy large-scale geologic instruments, something that no rover has achieved on another body.

Despite these qualities, many experts are skeptical of Crawford’s argument.

“I strongly disagree with his conclusions,” wrote engineer Adrian Stoica, who supervises the Advanced Robotic Controls group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in an email to Wired. He notes that Crawford’s paper seems to focus on cost in terms of scientific output achieved.

The Apollo program was incredibly expensive — about $175 billion in today’s money — though it was not solely a scientific mission. It was mainly a geopolitical stunt during the Cold War to show American technological superiority over Russia, with science piggybacking on the ride.

The total amount spent on science over the Apollo missions, Crawford estimates, comes to about $2.09 billion in today’s dollars, making it comparable to or even cheaper than the recent $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory.

But contrasting manned lunar missions with robotic Mars missions is not the right way to go, wrote Stoica. A better analysis would use the potential cost of a manned Mars mission, which NASA estimates to be at least hundreds of billions of dollars.

Crawford counters that cost is not the biggest impetus behind his analysis. Instead, he wanted to bring attention to the sheer efficiency and legacy that the Apollo program achieved during its short time. If space exploration continues to focus on sending robots to other planets, “we will learn less about the solar system in the next 100 years than we will if we engage in an ambitious program of human exploration,” he said.

Of course, humans and robots each have their own advantages for exploration of outer space.

“There isn’t a battle between robots and humans — that’s comparing apples and oranges,” said James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “We send the robots as our pathfinders and scouts, and they open the frontiers so that we can decide where and when to send the people.”

Humans and robots already work together on Earth and in space. There are schemes that offer the advantages of human exploration without incurring as high of a cost.

“What makes robots at a distance inferior to humans is one thing only: latency,” said astronomer Dan Lester of the University of Texas at Austin.

The time it takes for a signal to travel from a robot back to mission control on Earth is a major stumbling block. Commands sent to a Mars rover take between 5 and 15 minutes. Light travel time to the moon is around 2.6 seconds.

“It takes 10 minutes to tie a knot with the Earth-moon latency,” said Lester. “But if we could bring that down to about 100 milliseconds, the robots themselves are very capable.” Teleoperated robots on the surface of another planet would have greater strength, endurance, and precision than human explorers, he added.

Teleoperation has been considered in the past for space exploration. During the Apollo era, the technology was not well developed but in the last decade, it has taken off. On Earth, surgeons in Baltimore now perform operations in Indonesia while officers in Nevada covertly spy on nuclear sites in Iran.

Lester envisions a future where astronauts camp out on Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos and order remote-controlled robots to drive long distances over the planet’s surface, set up geologic instruments, and collect samples for analysis. He estimates this could greatly reduce costs because roughly half the price tag of a manned mission is spent on getting people down and back up the deep gravity well of a planet.

Crawford agrees such a plan would be a step beyond simply sending a robot, though perhaps less efficient than putting people on a planet’s surface.

“I think it will be strange to spend all the money to go all that way and then not land,” he said.

Image: NASA’s Robonaut 2 squares off with a human astronaut. NASA

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The Fifth Element (1997) - Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos.

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: Where are the stones?

Priest Vito Cornelius: I don't know. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell somebody like you.

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: Why? What's wrong with me?

Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. But you only...seem to want to destroy it.

Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: Oh, Father, you're so wrong. Let me explain. [closes office door, places an empty glass on desk] Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene and boring. But if it is. [Pushes glass off table and crashed.] Destroyed! [robot cleaners move to clean broken glass] Look at all these little things. So busy now. Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who'll be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain... of life. [Desk prepares a glass of water and a bowl of fruit] You see, Father, by creating a little destruction, I'm actually encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business. Cheers. [drinks water with cherry, only to choke on cherry stuck in throat. Zorg frantically presses all buttons on his desk in an attempt to get something to clear his throat]

Ancient alien Evidence

Ancient alien theorists like Erich von Däniken believe that, thousands of years ago, extraterrestrials landed on Earth, where they were hailed as gods and helped shape human civilization. But what proof could possibly exist for such an encounter? Proponents of the theory point to two types of evidence: ancient religious texts and physical specimens such as cave drawings, stone sculptures and pyramids. Is your curiosity piqued? Here’s a quick introduction to some of the most famous examples.

The Nazca Lines

Etched into a high plateau in Peru’s Nazca Desert, a series of ancient designs stretching more than 50 miles has baffled archaeologists for decades. Along with simple lines and geometric shapes, they include drawings of animals, birds and humans, some measuring more than 600 feet across. Because of their colossal size, the figures can only be appreciated from way up in the air—and there is no evidence that the Nazca people, who inhabited the area between 300 B.C. and 800 A.D., invented flying machines. According to ancient alien theorists, the figures were used to guide spaceships as they came in for a landing, and the lines served as runways.

Vimanas

Many Sanskrit epics, which were written in India more than two millennia ago, contain references to mythical flying machines called vimanas. Pointing to similarities between descriptions of vimanas and reports by people who claim to have seen UFOs, ancient alien theorists have suggested that astronauts from other planets visited India during ancient times.

The Moai of Easter Island

The Polynesian island of Easter Island is famous for its “maoi”: the 887 giant human figures with enormous heads that guard its coastline. Roughly 500 years old, these monolithic statues stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, but some are twice as tall and much heavier. How could human beings without sophisticated tools or knowledge of engineering craft and transport such incredible structures? Some ancient alien theorists believe it is the work of visiting extraterrestrials who left their mark on the island.

Puma Punku

Located in the Bolivian highlands, Puma Punku is a field of stone ruins scattered with giant, finely carved blocks. Such precise workmanship on a massive scale would have been nearly impossible without modern tools and machines, yet the ruins are more than 1,000 years old. Ancient alien theorists have hypothesized that extraterrestrials with advanced engineering techniques created the site or advised the people who built it.

The Book of Ezekiel

In the Book of Ezekiel, part of the Hebrew bible, a prophet has a vision of a flying vessel accompanied by fire, smoke and a loud noise. Some ancient alien theorists have argued that the vehicle’s design closely mirrors that of a modern spaceship. Rather than a divine intervention, then, perhaps the text describes an early encounter between humans and alien astronauts.

Pacal’s Sarcophagus

Pacal the Great ruled over the Mayan city of Palenque, in what is now southern Mexico, during the seventh century. Upon his death, he was buried inside a pyramid called the Temple of Inscriptions. The intricately carved lid of his sarcophagus has become a classic work of Mayan art—and an oft-cited piece of evidence for ancient alien theorists. In their view, Pacal is pictured in a spaceship during takeoff, with his hand on a control panel, his foot on a pedal and an oxygen tube in his mouth.

For more earthly evidence of extraterrestrial encounters, tune in to Ancient Aliens on HISTORY.

Ancient Aliens

According to ancient alien theorists, extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations and forever changing the course of human history. But how did this concept develop, and is there any evidence to support it?
Ancient alien theory grew out of the centuries-old idea that life exists on other planets, and that humans and extraterrestrials have crossed paths before. The theme of human-alien interaction was thrust into the spotlight in the 1960s, driven by a wave of UFO sightings and popular films like 2001: A Space Odyssey. The space program played no small part in this as well: If mankind could travel to other planets, why couldn’t extraterrestrials visit Earth?
In 1968, the Swiss author Erich von Däniken published Chariots of the Gods?, which became an immediate bestseller. In it, he put forth his hypothesis that, thousands of years ago, space travelers from other planets visited Earth, where they taught humans about technology and influenced ancient religions. He is regarded by many as the father of ancient alien theory, also known as the ancient astronaut theory.
Most ancient alien theorists, including von Däniken, point to two types of evidence to support their ideas. The first is ancient religious texts in which humans witness and interact with gods or other heavenly beings who descend from the sky—sometimes in vehicles resembling spaceships—and possess spectacular powers. The second is physical specimens such as artwork depicting alien-like figures and ancient architectural marvels like Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt.
If aliens visited Earth in the past, could they make an appearance in the future? For ancient alien theorists, the answer is a resounding yes. They believe that, by sharing their views with the world, they can help prepare future generations for the inevitable encounter that awaits them.

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The Matrix 1999 "Human beings are a disease"

Agent Smith -"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."

Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away his fortune - "I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul."

Millionaire gives away fortune that made him miserable

Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy.

Mr Rabeder, 47, a businessman from Telfs is in the process of selling his luxury 3,455 sq ft villa with lake, sauna and spectacular mountain views over the Alps, valued at £1.4 million.

Also for sale is his beautiful old stone farmhouse in Provence with its 17 hectares overlooking the arrière-pays, on the market for £613,000. Already gone is his collection of six gliders valued at £350,000, and a luxury Audi A8, worth around £44,000.

Mr Rabeder has also sold the interior furnishings and accessories business – from vases to artificial flowers – that made his fortune.

"My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come."

Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck.

His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.
"For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said. "I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years," said Mr Rabeder.
But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling.
"More and more I heard the words: 'Stop what you are doing now – all this luxury and consumerism – and start your real life'," he said. "I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need.
I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing."
However, for many years he said he was simply not "brave" enough to give up all the trappings of his comfortable existence.
The tipping point came while he was on a three-week holiday with his wife to islands of Hawaii.
"It was the biggest shock in my life, when I realised how horrible, soulless and without feeling the five star lifestyle is," he said. "In those three weeks, we spent all the money you could possibly spend. But in all that time, we had the feeling we hadn't met a single real person – that we were all just actors. The staff played the role of being friendly and the guests played the role of being important and nobody was real."
He had similar feelings of guilt while on gliding trips in South America and Africa. "I increasingly got the sensation that there is a connection between our wealth and their poverty," he said.
Suddenly, he realised that "if I don't do it now I won't do it for the rest of my life".
Mr Rabeder decided to raffle his Alpine home, selling 21,999 lottery tickets priced at just £87 each. The Provence house in the village of Cruis is on sale at the local estate agent.
All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans to Latin America and builds development aid strategies to self-employed people in El Salvador, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile.
Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt "free, the opposite of heavy".
But he said he did not judge those who chose to keep their wealth. "I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul."

How full is your Life?

The Mayonnaise Jar When things in your life seem , almost too much to handle, When 24 Hours in a day is not enough, Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee. A professor stood before his philosophy class   and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar And proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students, if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.   He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full...  They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.  Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.' The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.  The students laughed. 'Now,' said the professor,   as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognise that this jar represents your life... The golf balls are the most important things - family, children, health, Friends, and Favourite passions – Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, Your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car. The sand is everything else --The small stuff. 'If you put the sand into the jar first,'   He continued, there is no room for  the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, You will never have room for the things that are important to you. So... Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play With your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. 'Take care of the golf balls first -- The things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.' One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.. The professor smiled. 'I'm glad you asked'. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.'

In 1854, the United States Government offered to buy two million acres of Indian land in the Northwest. The following is a translation of the Dwamish Chief Sealth's (Seattle's) reply to President Franklin Pierce.

"The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. The Great Chief also sends us words of friendship and good will. This is kind of him, since we know he has little need of our friendship in return. But we will consider your offer.
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The sap which courses through the trees carries the memories of the red man. So, when the Great Chief in Washington sends word that the wishes to buy our land, he asks much of us...
This we know: All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. But we will consider your offer to go to the reservation you have for my people. We will live apart, and in peace.
One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover - our God is the same God. You may think now that you own him as you wish to own the land: but you cannot.
He is the God of man; and his compassion is equal for the red man and the white. This earth is precious to Him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The whites too shall pass; perhaps sooner than all other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
But in your perishing you will shine brightly, fired by the strength of the God who brought you to this land and for some special purpose gave you dominion over this land and over the red man. That destiny is a mystery to us, for we do not understand when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses are tamed and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires. Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. And what is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival. So we will consider your offer to buy the land. 
If we agree, it will be to secure the reservation you have promised. There, perhaps, we may live out our brief days as we wish. When the last red man has vanished from the earth, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, these shores and forests will still hold the spirits of my people. For they love this earth as a newborne loves its mother's heartbeat. So if we sell our land, love it as we've loved it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you take it. And preserve it for your children, and love it...as God loves us all. One thing we know. Our God is the same God. This earth is precious to Him. Even the white man cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all.
We shall see..."

life in a day

The basic timeline is a 4.5 billion year old Earth,
with (very approximate) dates:
3.8 billion years of simple cells (prokaryotes),
3 billion years of photosynthesis,
2 billion years of complex cells (eukaryotes),
1 billion years of multicellular life,
600 million years of simple animals,
570 million years of arthropods (ancestors of
insects, arachnids and crustaceans),
550 million years of complex animals,
500 million years of fish and proto-
amphibians,
475 million years of land plants,
400 million years of insects and seeds,
360 million years of amphibians,
300 million years of reptiles,
200 million years of mammals,
150 million years of birds,
130 million years of flowers,
65 million years since the non-avian dinosaurs
died out,
2.5 million years since the appearance of the
genus Homo,
200,000 years since humans started looking
like they do today, so incredibly we in compared have been here just 5 minutes!

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good will hunting quote

Sean: You're just a kid, you don't have the
faintest idea what you're talkin' about.
Will: Why thank you.
Sean: It's all right. You've never been out of
Boston.
Will: Nope.
Sean: So if I asked you about art, you'd
probably give me the skinny on every art book
ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot
about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him
and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole
works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what
it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never
actually stood there and looked up at that
beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about
women, you'd probably give me a syllabus
about your personal favorites. You may have
even been laid a few times. But you can't tell
me what it feels like to wake up next to a
woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid.
And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably
throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more
unto the breach dear friends." But you've never
been near one. You've never held your best
friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his
last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you
about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet.
But you've never looked at a woman and been
totally vulnerable. Known someone that could
level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an
angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue
you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't
know what it's like to be her angel, to have that
love for her, be there forever, through anything,
through cancer. And you wouldn't know about
sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two
months, holding her hand, because the doctors
could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting
hours" don't apply to you. You don't know
about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when
you've loved something more than you love
yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love
anybody that much. And look at you... I don't
see an intelligent, confident man... I see a
cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius
Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly
understand the depths of you. But you presume
to know everything about me because you saw
a painting of mine, and you ripped my fucking
life apart. You're an orphan right?
[Will nods]
Sean: You think I know the first thing about
how hard your life has been, how you feel, who
you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that
encapsulate you? Personally... I don't give a shit
about all that, because you know what, I can't
learn anything from you, I can't read in some
fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you,
who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But
you don't want to do that do you sport? You're
terrified of what you might say. Your move,
chief.

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Everything is energy - wingmakers.co.nz

Everything Is Energy Introduction With his famous equation E= mc2, Albert Einstein proved the when you come right down to it everything in the universe is energy. Both in the physical plane of our reality of matter and the abstract reality of our mind are made up of energy pattern. Here we are going the learn more about this energy and it relationship with Telepathy, telekinesis, and even the fundamentals behind teleporting physical matter in the way of physical objects The concept of a universal energy flow is not a new one. The ancient Chinese called this flow chi; the ancient Hindus called it prana. The disciplines that developed in those two cultures - t'ai chi and yoga, respectively- are based on the art of tuning in to the flow of energy and using it to centre the self. In 1977 when I first discovered energy there were no names for it. Energy was known as energy and the greatest master of energy to me came in 1979 when yoda turns to Luke at the lake and said feel the force between the rock, the land, and the ship this caught my attention after working with energy for two years. When we are centred we feel and experience harmony - not only with ourselves, but also with others, and with our entire environment. Any centring process is actually the act of balancing ourselves with the universal flow of energy.

Exercise One: Feeling Your Energy Field

What we are going to do here is stimulate the charkas in the hands by briskly rubbing your two hands together warming them up. As soon as they feel nice and toasty (this will take about thirty seconds or so), Hold your hands palm to palm, lining up the fingers.
Now Slowly begin to pull your hands away from each other until you feel a push or a pull sensation (some people feel one, while other people feel the other) that seems to suggest you've come to the outer edge of a chunky field within your energy field. Usually this occurs when your hands are about four to eight inches apart.
If you don't get any sensation with this technique the first time keep trying this exercise until the sensation occurs. I can promise you it will. Some people don't feel the edge until they actually play with the field itself, moving their hands closer together and then farther away as if playing with a marshmallow. Try this yourself once you get the push/pull sensation going between your hands, you'll get the idea of what the energy field feels like and how to sense it more easily.
The energy field you sensed between you hands is actually your own aura; this radiant energy field surrounds you. You have just learned the ability of sensing energy one part of your aura's boundary. In the next exercise we will explore the ability of seeing energy.

Exercise Two: Seeing The Energy Field

What we are going to do here is stimulate the charkas in the hands by briskly rubbing your two hands together warming them up. As soon as they feel nice and toasty (this will take about thirty seconds or so), Hold your hands palm to palm, lining up the fingers.
For this exercise you will need to find a black or very dark surface in your home (a piece of clothing, a tabletop, or even a turned off television). Turn off and electric lights, pull the shades, and place a single lighted candle behind you.
Now put your hands in front of the black surface and examine them. You should see a whitish, filmy glow emanating form your fingers. (Tip Try focusing on the background.) Try this with a friend and experiment with the filmy shadows. See how close you have to come for your mutual films to touch.
The physical aura is not always easy to see because it can be very subtle. Don't be discouraged, though. When you do begin to see your glow, try increasing it through concentration. Wishing and concentrating will project energy, and you'll see the auric field more clearly.

Understanding Telepathy & The Etheric Body

The Etheric Body (from "ether", the state between the energy and matter) is composed of tiny energy lines "like a sparkling web of light beams" similar to the lines on a television screen. It has the same structure as the physical body including all the anatomical parts and all the organs. The colour of the etheric body varies from light blue to gray. The light blue colour has been connected to a finer form than the gray; a more sensitive person with a sensitive body will tend to have a bluish 1st layer, whereas a more athletic, robust type of person will tend to have a more grayish etheric body. All the charkas of this layer are the same colour as the body. That is, they will also range between blue to gray in colour. Etheric energy emanates from all forms of solid matter in the universe and it is this etheric plane that we blend with while working with telekinesis, teleportation, and telepathy The etheric plane is also know as Tele-plasma Or PSI-energy

Exercise Three: Telepathy

What we are going to do here is stimulate the charkas in the hands by briskly rubbing your two hands together warming them up. As soon as they feel nice and toasty (this will take about thirty seconds or so), Hold your hands palm to palm, lining up the fingers.
For this exercise you will need to find a black or very dark surface in your home (a piece of clothing, a tabletop, or even a turned off television). Turn off and electric lights, pull the shades, and place a single lighted candle behind you.
Now put your hands in front of the black surface and examine them. You should see a whitish, filmy glow emanating form your fingers. (Tip Try focusing on the background.) This fine layer of energy that is emanating from your fingers is known as the etheric body and is part of the etheric plane the etheric plane is a sea of energy surrounding all objects in the universe and is the bridge that telepathy passes through.
Now what we are going to do here is something new. I want you in your own time to focus on the higher self or spirit guide and telepathically ask if they are there but this time send the thought out into your etheric body you can do this through looking at the energy around your hand. Just see the thought passing through your energy field and out into the etheric plane. Then sit silently and wait after a while you may hear a answer.
Telepathy is a lot more audio when performed through the etheric plane it is common to hear like a voice in your head when they answer. This same technique can be used between two people the only difference is that the thought is sent out into the etheric plane through your etheric body and you see it passing into the etheric body of the other person
Don't be discouraged if you don't pick up any reply at first it takes time to develop this form of telepathy.
Things to try if you have any trouble with the two-person technique. Try siting across from each other and focus of the persons aura and see the light energy field emanating from the person and project your thought in to the field of energy close to their body.

Energy Blending

Exercise Four: Telekinesis: Spoon Bending

Find a spoon
What we are going to do here is stimulate the charkas in the hands by briskly rubbing your two hands together warming them up. As soon as they feel nice and toasty (this will take about thirty seconds or so), Hold your hands palm to palm, lining up the fingers.
Hold utensil in your hands.
Sit in a quiet space, breath deeply, and relax yourself. Escape mentally from all thoughts and sounds.
With your eyes shut, rub your fingertips lightly over the surface of the spoon's handle.
Feel the surface without necessarily thinking about it. Feel the energy of the spoon and blend your energy with the spoon, Become a "part" of it, the atoms of the metal mixing with the atoms of your fingers and the air so that they flow together as though they are water. Imagine that this mixture of your energy and the spoons energy is melting into liquid.
This may take a few attempts. You will begin to actually feel the energy and the warmth on the metal.
At the moment you feel the momentum of the energy, bend it! Don't put physical force on it- you're not testing your ability to bend a spoon with your hands. You already know you can do that. It's your mind we're testing.

Exercise Five: Teleportation: Teleporting A Spoon

Find a spoon
What we are going to do here is stimulate the charkas in the hands by briskly rubbing your two hands together warming them up. As soon as they feel nice and toasty (this will take about thirty seconds or so), Hold your hands palm to palm, lining up the fingers.
Hold utensil in your hands.
Sit in a quiet space, breath deeply, and relax yourself. Escape mentally from all thoughts and sounds.
With your eyes shut, rub your fingertips lightly over the surface of the spoon's handle.
Feel the surface without necessarily thinking about it. Feel the energy of the spoon and blend your energy with the spoon, Become a "part" of it, the atoms of the metal mixing with the atoms of your fingers and the air so that they flow together as thought they are water. Imagine that this mixture of your energy and the spoons energy is melting into liquid.
This may take a few attempts. You will begin to actual feel the energy and the warmth on the metal.
At the moment you feel the momentum of the energy, see the energy of the spoon and try teleporting it out of your hand and to a short distance not far from you and see the energy and spoon reappearing at the new destination. When you feel like the spoon is gone open your eyes and check your hands if the spoon is not there then go to the destination and see if the spoon is there.

Remember

Remember NEVER apply force! You aren't there to physically force the object to move through the fabric of time and space. That's not point of the exercise.
You may experience problems with your destination don't worry it takes practice to learn to control it. At the moment you feel the momentum of the energy, bend it! Don't put physical force on it- you're not testing your ability to bend a spoon with your hands. You already know you can do that. It's your mind we're testing.

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Aliens built the Pyramids - outerworlds.com

You know those big stone structures out in Egypt?  The ones  which were supposedly built to house the remains of dead pharaohs???  The ones you thought were built by the Egyptians?Well, you are wrong!THEY WERE BUILT BY ALIENS!Let's take a look at some undeniable evidence....

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First, look at this diagram:The pyramid is highlighted in red, and its two diagonals are extended beyond the end of the pyramid to the north-east and north-west.  The mass of squiggly lines above the pyramid is the Delta of the Nile River, and, as you can see the two diagonals encase the Nile neatly and entirely.  IS THAT A COINCIDENCE???
Yes,  I'm sure that the way the Egyptians did this was to have someone walk hundreds of miles to the end of the delta and hold a really, really long piece of string while someone walked all the way back to the site of the pyramid.  Then,  those two people stood there while two more people repeated the process on the other side of the Pyramid.  Just so that they could build a big building in such a way that its diagonals lie on those two lines.
NOW THAT IS LIKELY????
Here is what really happened: A couple of aliens, flying high enough over the earth to be able to see where the Nile Delta's origin is, easily saw what orientation the pyramid would need to be in order to have its diagonals  lie on those two lines.

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Second piece of evidence:The big dark shape on the upper left of this diagram is the great pyramid.  If you look at the compass rose in the bottom right, you can see that the pyramid is lined up exactly with the magnetic North Pole,  a difference of only 16 minutes, or some absurdly small number like that (there are 60 minutes in one degree).  COINCIDENCE?   How could the Egyptians possibly have built their pyramid facing the exact magnetic North Pole without even having a compass?  FYI, a compass was not invented for a few thousand years after the ancient Egyptians were long gone?  IS THAT LIKELY????This is how it really worked:  Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, came along and using their compasses,  they landed on earth and found the actual magnetic north and south poles.  THEN THEY BUILT THE PYRAMIDS!

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Now look at this:This is a photograph of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and its neighbor, as seen from the Sphinx, on the evening of the summer solstice.  As you can see,  the sun is setting in the exact center of the two pyramids.  COINCIDENCE???For the Egyptians to be able to do this, they must have known the day of the summer solstice, and they therefore,  must have known the exact length of the year, or 365.25;  once again, a fact not discovered until long after the Egyptians were gone.   HOW LIKELY IS THAT???
The real story goes like this:   Those meddling aliens, in all of their infinite wisdom, saw the earth upon entering the solar system, and by calculating the size of its revolutions around the sun,  the velocity it was at which it traveled and the angle of its axis of rotation,  they were able to easily calculate the longest day of the year or the length of the year.
THEN BUILT THE PYRAMIDS!

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Here is another photo:This is a photograph taken on the day of the winter solstice from the entrance of the Great Pyramid.  The Big shape silhouetted in the middle of the photograph is the Sphinx.  Since this is only a photograph,  and not a movie,  you can't get the full effect.   But even in the photo, you can see that the sun is tracing around the Sphinx's head.  In actuality,  the sun rises exactly at the left side of the base of the Sphinx's head.   Then it traces it all the way around until it sets on the right side of the Sphinx's head.  COINCIDENCE???Had the Egyptians done this,   since this occurs only on the day of the winter solstice,  they would have had to have known the exact length of a year.
IS THAT LIKELY???
It's those aliens,  who after finding the length of the year,  found the shortest day of the year, and then built their Sphinx and Pyramid accordingly.

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Consider this:This above image is a diagram of the stars of the Belt of Orion.  Now look at the diagram of the pyramids below.Though this fact is not as remarkable, the positioning of the three Pyramids of Giza are exactly aligned with the position of the three stars in the belt of Orion, both in position and in size.  While it is possible,  it would create many difficulties for the Egyptians in terms of measuring huge distances.  Not only this,  but in fact,  at the time that the pyramids were supposedly built (about 3000 BC), the stars that make up the Belt of Orion were not exactly at the correct angle to match up with the pyramids.   If the location of the stars is traced back over thousands of years,  the time at which the belt is exactly aligned with the pyramids is in fact 10,500 BC.  A time when there were supposedly no
civilized   humans living on the earth.  Another fact to support this is,  if you consider the Sphinx,  a lion with a human head and then look at the size of the body,  you can see that the body is perfectly proportioned for the head of a lion,  not the human head.   This human head  looks tiny and silly sitting on top of the body.  This is because the Sphinx was actually built in 10,500 BC,  around the same time as the pyramids,  with a real head of a lion.  Evidence to support this is that there are signs of water erosion all over the Sphinx.  The last time that there was any water nearby, aside from the Nile is around 10,000 BC.  Also,  the constellation of Leo the Lion (thus closely related to the Sphinx), was in fact rising directly behind the sun in 10,500 BC.
Are they saying that the Egyptians built their pyramids to be in the exact shape of Orion's Belt,  but purposely aligned them differently from what was actually in the sky?  That after they built the Sphinx, they purposely made the head look small and funny?  Then, they broke their backs carrying water from the Nile just so that they could put water erosion lines all over the body?????
In fact,  no Egyptian did it at all.  The aliens, with their plethora of wisdom,  came down in the year 10,500 BC and built the Pyramids and the Sphinx.  They built it with a head of a lion to match the Belt of Orion, as well as the constellation of Leo.  Thousands of years later, Ramses, the egomaniacal dictator-pharaoh of Egypt,  decided that he didn't like having the head of a lion on top of the statue in his land.  So,  he had a head in his own likeness constructed instead.  But the Egyptians, not being very skilled at huge masonry, built the head somewhat too small.
Why is it that the great Pyramids of Giza,  built in 3,000, are perfect, and still standing as tall as the day they were built?  (Aside from the capstone and the polished stones, which were stripped by humans in the building of Cairo)  The other Pyramids, which were supposedly built about 500 years later, all have shoddy masonry, and are crumbling down.  An example of this is the famous 'bent' pyramid,  which  started out with the sides being built at one angle,  then suddenly shifts in the middle to a shallower angle.  This is because the angle at which it was started  was much too steep for it to stand when finished.   It is  because the Egyptian pharaohs saw the great pyramids standing on their land and decided that they wanted pyramids of their own.  But they found that it was much harder to do than was expected and ended up building silly looking structures that don't even come close to comparing with the magnitude of elegance emanating from the great pyramids.

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Other startling evidence:If you take the perimeter of the pyramid and divide it by two times the height,  you get a number that is exactly equivalent to the number pi (3.14159...) up to the fifteenth digit.  The chances of this phenomenon happening by sheer chance is remarkably small.  Did the ancient Egyptians know what the number pi was?  Not likely,  seeing as it was a number not calculated accurately to the fourth digit until the 6th century,  and the pyramids calculate it to the fifteenth.

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What about the fact that even though the sides of the base of the pyramid are some 757 feet long,  it still forms an almost perfect square?  Every angle in the base is exactly 90 degrees.   In fact,  the sides have a difference in length of something like two centimeters, which is an incredibly small amount.

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What about the fact that although the Egyptians kept very careful records about everything they ever did;  every king they had,  every war they fought,  and every structure they built, there were no records of them ever having built the pyramids? 

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What about the fact that the Egyptians had not even invented the wheel yet,  but the blocks that they had to carry to build the pyramids weighed about 2 tons each? 4,000 lbs.?  What did they do... use cement?   In fact, they used so much stone, that if you took all of the stone they used and cut it into 1 foot square blocks, it would extend 2/3 of the way around the earth!!!

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If you take the line of longitude that the pyramid lies on and the latitude that the pyramid lies on,  31 degrees north by 31 degrees west (the fact that they are the same number is a coincidence???)  they are the two lines that cover the most combined land area in the world. In essence, the pyramid is the center of all of the land mass of the whole earth!!!!

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How about the fact that a  group of modern scientists  attempted to build a pyramid out next to the real one using modern technologies, and after something like 100 days, succeeded in building one about 1/40 of the size of the real one????

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Did you know that the height of the pyramid (481 feet) is almost exactly 1/1,000,000,000 of the distance from the earth to the sun (480.6 billion feet)?

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What about all of that fungi that was found in King Tutu's chamber?   Fungi which has never before been seen on earth?  What about the Pharaoh's curse?????   You decide, who built the Pyramids?????



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Most people or other people - Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Test Tube Baby (actually making a girl!!)

Through the wonders of science, infertile couples who were
previously unable to bear children, due to reasons such as blocked
fallopian tubes, low sperm count, low egg quantities or advanced age
of the mother, are now able to conceive through in-vitro
fertilization. The results are babies known as test-tube babies
which are technically conceived outside the womb.

In a natural scenario, the conception of a baby occurs when the
ovum, travels from the ovaries, through the fallopian tube to be
fertilized by the sperm of the father during sexual intercourse.
>From this point on, the fertilized egg will travel down towards the
uterus and during the process division of cells will occur until it
reaches its final destination at the wall of the uterus. However, in
the cases of block fallopian tubes, the eggs are unable to travel
from the ovaries to the uterus and conception cannot happen.

Developed in the United Kingdom by Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr.
Robert Edwards, the process of in-vitro fertilization involves
removing eggs from the ovaries of the mother and combining them with
the sperm of the father in a lab environment. The fertilized egg is
then placed back into the uterus of the mother after 3 to 5 days and
will remain there to grow till birth. Because of the low success
pregnancy rate of this procedure, a few eggs are placed in the
uterus to increase the odds of success. With this process,
statistics have shown that the rates of multiple births have
increased where 24 percent of the in-vitro fertilization births have
produced twins.

The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, who was born on the 25th
July 1978, marked hope for other infertile couples to have a baby
through this procedure. However, many others were concerned about
the ethical issues surround this. One major area of concern was the
fact that as the egg is located outside the womb for a few days
while the cells multiplied before being put back inside the uterus,
the health issues affecting this baby is unknown. Indeed, research
has been shown that test-tube babies have a higher chance of birth
defects and low birth weight, and researchers still have not been
able to determine the reason for this.

Other issue of concern is that through this procedure, some of the
eggs fertilized in the lab are later discarded. Does this procedure
mean that the researchers are actually killing potential people? How
is the line drawn in this case?

Then there is also the issue of commercial opportunities for eggs
and sperms to be bought and surrogate wombs to be rented with the
purpose of creating babies. This process of embryo transfer to
another mother, not necessarily the same woman who had provided the
eggs, is known as placing the embryo in a gestational carrier. This
procedure has been becoming increasingly common through
technological advancement, which has made couples including women
with uterus problems, have a chance in having their baby.

Test-tube babies have really brought changes to the way in which
babies are conceived and have given much hope to many who have had
problems having babies through the process of fake fertilisation. However, the
downside of this are the ethical issues behind the procedure, with
which still poses a big question mark and with which is still
opposed by many factions. For more details on cell biology
please visit http://www.biology- online.org/tutorials/1_cell_biology.htm

Author's bio
Dr.Richard Waller has been helping thousands of infetile couples and
gave hope to childless women since 1999 through the process of i

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How to study the human mind

How to Study the Human Mind

By reading about the content of the human mind based on Jung’s discoveries and on my discoveries, you will understand how the human mind works. You’ll see that a huge part of your brain belongs to the wild side of your conscience, the anti-conscience. This vision will help you understand why you act in an absurd way many times, or why you were absurd in the past.
On the other hand, you’ll see that the human side of your conscience is not as sensible as you may believe. This happens because your human conscience is under-developed and one-sided. You have to develop your intelligence in order to use your entire conscience.
You will have a better grasp of the study of the human mind if you learn how to translate the meaning of your dreams, instead of having only a theoretical vision, by reading my conclusions. Your dreams give you many lessons about what determines your behavior. Your entire personality is analyzed through dream messages.
You won’t study the human mind by having a static vision of its content. You’ll see that the human mind is an entire world. Then, you’ll discover to your surprise that you are in fact a genius who never had the chance to shine. You have to eliminate your violent wild side, so that your wise, human side, may triumph. This is how you’ll acquire mind power. This means that you’ll be able to transform your reality and influence other people. It also means that you’ll learn how to be always calm and balanced. You’ll never become angry for any reason because you’ll understand why other people make mistakes.
You don’t become angry when you are able to understand why a certain problem was provoked. For example, when you see a child making a mistake, you understand that a child didn’t learn how to do many things yet. You don’t become angry because he or she broke a vase in an attempt to catch a ball that fall there. Of course, he was not supposed to be playing with this ball in the living room. However, you know that children are not obedient creatures that do what we tell them to. Thus, you show understanding.
The same way, when you know that someone else made a mistake for being controlled by his or her absurd anti-conscience, you feel sorry for him or her instead of becoming angry. You know that his human side lost the control of his behavior. He is acting like an animal for being dominated by his animal nature.
The human mind is a control panel that works based on knowledge. Now you completely ignore the existence of your anti-conscience, and you didn’t acquire complete consciousness yet.
When you translate the meaning of your dreams, you’ll understand all the mistakes you make because you are influenced by your animal nature. As you understand that you are wrong when you do certain things in a certain way, you acquire consciousness. You realize that you are doing what is bad for you. You cannot ignore this fact, the same way you cannot ignore that when you are eating something and your food falls in the street, it becomes dirty and you cannot simply catch it from the dirty street and keep eating. There are dangerous bacteria in the dirty street.
As you understand all your mistakes, you stop acting like a violent and indifferent animal. You acquire a mindful thinking, giving importance to all the details that compose your reality. You stop making mistakes, and at a certain point, you become a perfect human being who possesses many virtues.

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what do dreams mean

What Do Dreams Mean? The Meaning of Most Dream Symbols

Many people ask me to give them quick translations because they don’t have time or patience to study the dream language.
I had to simplify the complicated method of dream interpretation discovered by Carl Jung, which was too time consuming.
In order to translate thousands of dreams for many desperate people who had many other problems besides the psychological ones, I had to find a way to very quickly translate not only a single dream but an entire dream collection.
I continued Jung’s research discovering the anti-conscience, which is our wild conscience. The anti-conscience evokes mental illnesses within our human psyche. Once I learned about this sinister force and how it works, I could easily understand the meaning of all dreams.
The main purpose of the wise unconscious mind that produces our dreams is to protect our mental health from the attacks from the anti-conscience. This is something that Jung couldn’t see as clearly as I could. For him many things were immersed in darkness and were totally incomprehensible.
He accepted his ignorance, recognizing the necessity to stop researching the unknown content of the human psyche. He believed that we could learn the rest only after our death.
However, I had indications from the unconscious mind that I had to continue his research and this is why I could see the primitive side of the human conscience.
Today you can have this knowledge. I will teach you everything I know so that you may be protected. You have to take dream interpretation seriously for your own safety.
The superior unconscious protection cannot be compared to the false protection that ignorant human beings may try to give you. The unconscious mind shows you in dream messages everything that is threatening your mental health and your life.
So, you already know that the general meaning of all your dreams is to protect the human side of your conscience from the anti-conscience’s attacks. The anti-conscience wants to destroy your human side and control your behavior. In order to stay healthy you must transform the anti-conscience into a positive component of your human side.
Through dream messages the unconscious mind helps you fight against the anti-conscience and tame it. You, the human being, must control your behavior.
Now you know also that all dreams help you learn how to control your behavior.
This is why the meaning of most dream symbols is related to various dangers that threaten your human conscience.
Here is a list with the most common dream symbols that indicate danger:
Bees – You are being dominated by anger
Blood – Painful experiences and mental illnesses are awaiting you
Cat – You are being stupid
Demon – An evil person in your life
Elephant – You must show heroism
Falling – You’ll have big deceptions
Flying – You are far from reality
Ghost – A neurosis is threatening you
Snake – Bad experiences are awaiting you
Spider – Great danger ahead if you don’t act fast
Of course, you need more explanations about the meaning of each dream symbol in order to really understand its importance. You have also to learn what to do in order to get out of a dangerous situation and protect your mental health.
Study the dream language with my dynamic method. You’ll soon be able to understand the meaning of everyone’s dreams the same way you’ll understand the meaning of your own dreams. Dream language is universal. You will not only help yourself but you will help the world.

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mind of our own

What Frightens Us the Most – Having a Mind of Our Own

We all pretend we have a mind of our own. But actually few walk the path. It means literally to form our own perspective, feelings and opinion about every moment of life. But we don’t do that. We’re talking on the cell, to our friends and acquaintances, blogging, blurting, shouting, face-booking, emailing… etc. almost all the time. We’re too busy watching each other, being like each other, bragging to each other, keeping somebody around all the time – merging into one people… except in how we style our hair or tattoo, dress, prance around, have a life style… all of which have the outward appearance of specialty without the substance.
So what is this substance? To have our own opinion… alone, without any need for companionship, including convincing everyone else to agree with us – can’t even happen unless we choose, not forced by circumstance or betraying lovers. One must choose to be alone on a regular basis without any props, games, internet searches, shows, movies, telephone conversations, etc. Just naked aloneness for some length of time, to notice, feel, think, see the contradictions in our self… to commune with us. Indeed one has to have a passion for self-discovery or it will never happen. One has to feel they want to have only opinions of their own, uniquely derived from the suffering and inspiration of their own experience – even if they disagree with everyone else on the planet. If we can’t stand-alone in this way – not just sometimes, but anytime – then we don’t really have a mind of our own.
The best test to know whether we have such determined uniqueness… is whether being alone is sometimes frightening. Why? Because it means we’re going to die. Aloneness has always been associated with death. If one spends too much time as a child alone and frightened, it feels exactly like dying. What’s more, being the only one to think the way we do makes us sometimes, even as an adult, feel paranoid about what all the other people are going to do about it.
Lots of people would say it’s impossible to have a mind entirely our own. There’s truth here. They would insist that we all are conditioned by society to feel and think some things that makes us a part of the culture that we are, the family that we love, etc. Having independent perspective about one’s family, including a spouse or partner, is the hardest thing of all – nearly impossible because to be a touch contrary in all things seems in love to be almost a betrayal. We still deal with the normal contradictions and conflicts of life by being as much the same as we can… if nothing more than to minimize the number of differences with which we have to cope. In the process we sacrifice pieces, sometimes all of a mind of our own.
Having a mind of our own is possible only by paying a lot of attention to our life. If we’re going to sustain an opinion shared by no one else, then we have to provide for ourselves the support, admiration and encouragement our social group, including family, has always given us. We’re going to have to, when alone, be our own companion, creating a mind-space within which we relate intimately with ourselves, spending regular and sometimes extended time in this place.
Yet who actually believes their own life is so admirable and worthwhile enough to command the respect and attention of others? The answer is that we think very little of ourselves. Fame puffs up the lives of a few of us, the only way most of us believe they will ever be important. Having a mind of our own means to regard our own life worthy of such special treatment. There’s no question that ideologically we’ve come to believe this. But who does it, or even knows how?
The answer is artists and philosophers of all types, who seem naturally to have invested a great deal of time and attention in their own life, possible only by taking one’s self very seriously. In the process they are fortunate to enjoy the great pleasure of discovering new things for themselves, perhaps just a special way of using color, a turn of phrase, or of mixing reality and abstraction. But whatever their endeavor, they find themselves very interesting. Perhaps that’s why aloneness has never become very popular, because finding a way to be fascinated by one’s self is very difficult.

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Micro chip the pets whos next !?!

Would requiring microchips in pets and owner registration help reduce the number of strays in pet shelters and the cost of boarding and euthanizing them? Certainly, it will increase the number of reunions between pets and their owners. It would also increase accountability in pet owners encouraging them to turn in their pet to a shelter as opposed to abondoning them. When traveling with a pet, microchips are essential to protect your pet should it be lost or separated from you.
Are there further issues as well? How would the program be enforced? Would mandatory micro chipping in domesticated pets mark the start of greater identification in all animals and eventually in humans?
Discuss this with other pet owners in our forum: http://www.pettravel.com/forum/showthread.php/65-Making-microchips-mandatory-in-pets-a-growing-trend.

Edmund Burke - English philosopher

‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’

The I Have a Dream Speech - Martin Luther King Jnr

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"