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“The Living Light: Can biophotonic light emitted from trained probiotic microbes help balance the body?”
Presented by Compton Rom Bada at the Arizona Naturopathic Medical Association (AzNMA) Spring Conference, June 2-3, 2012.

Are humans really beings of light? Our cells release biophotons.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Fritz Albert Popp coined the term “Biophotons”, for the ultra weak photonic emissions given off by cells during reactions. This light is very weak – typically several million times as faint as the light from a firefly. He was able to confirm that living cells emit small bursts of light. He determined that cells do not just radiate light, they also absorb light. He later found out that DNA is a source of our inner light…

< Read or download the PDF of “The Living Light: Can biophotonic light emitted from trained probiotic microbes help balance the body?” >

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Vilayamar Ramachandran PHOTO: ted.com

In this 8-minute video of a TED talk filmed in India in 2009, neuroscientist Vilayamar Ramachandran gives a brief explanation of what he calls “mirror neurons” and their activity, which he claims is proof of empathetic intelligence. The talk also gives his takes on science and being One with the universe.

< Watch the 8-minute TED Talk by neuroscientist Vilayamar Ramachandran online. >

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HR 5171, the brightest star just below the center of this wide-field image, is a yellow hypergiant, a very rare type of star with only a dozen known in our galaxy. Its size is over 1,300 times that of the Sun—one of the 10 largest stars found so far. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have shown that it is actually a double star, with the companion in contact with the main star. PHOTO: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2

“The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the 10 largest stars found so far. This hypergiant has been found to measure more than 1,300 times the diameter of the Sun, and to be part of a double star system, with the second component so close that it is in contact with the main star.”

< Read the article posted March 12, 2014 online at sciencedaily.com. >

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 “A few years after Charles Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis from New York to France, another pilot flying along the Colorado River first noticed giant drawings on the desert floor north of Blythe, California. One of the earth figures measured 176 feet in length. Since then, more than two-hundred images have been discovered along the river from Nevada to the Gulf of California. All told, six-hundred-plus geoglyphs have been recorded in the Southwest and nearby areas of Mexico.

“Known also as intaglio, it’s not known if geoglyphs are two-hundred years old or ten thousand. These giant ground paintings depict geometric designs, human form and animal figures. . . .

“Given the huge volume of rock art worldwide, one thing seems apparent: rock-art sites were as plentiful then as are churches today. Expression was important and widespread, the same as is religious worship today. And rock art expresssion must have been as sacred for them as religion is for people today.”

< Read the entire post by Ron Kilbur, a reprint of a 2003 article published in Southwest Aviator magazine, at tripod.com. >

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Cam-shot of sun viewed on March 12, 2012 PHOTO: NASA SOHO

“How is the SUN triggering many earth changes?

“More than any other major co-factor, the unprecedented, meteoric and relentless changes taking place throughout Planet Earth are the direct result of exceedingly powerful influences emanating from the presiding star of our solar system. The sun, and especially its recent and extraordinary activity, is at the very heart of every major geophysical and meteorological event taking place around the globe today.”

Altogether a far-reaching and encompassing perspective on the influence of the sun on planet earth and on controversial theories like “dark matter.”

< Read the complete article by Anthony Michael posted on April 23, 2012 at marketoracle.co.uk. >

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Below find a brief scientific commentary on the article by Stephan Fuelling. And below that, a comment on Stephan’s comment and a link to the discussion of dark matter from the thunderbolts group, proponents of the electric universe theory:

Stephan Fuelling: “The whole thing [electric universe theory] lacks robust scientific evidence. Since the sun spews out plasma continuously, it would immediately neutralize any charge build-up in our solar system. The article cites some scientific work related to currents in the upper atmosphere of the earth or other planets that follow magnetic field lines (Birkland currents). These can carry large currents but the forces that are produced by these currents are negligible in comparison to the planet’s gravitational force. To then extrapolate this and put this on a cosmological scale is in my opinion ridiculous. Then one has to remember that most of these are dipole forces, like in a magnet, they dissipate with the 4th order of the distance versus the 2nd order for the gravitational force. And on average, these dipole forces from plasma currents should become zero anyway. There is, for example, no significant contribution of the sun’s magnetic force upon the earth’s orbit. The orbit is solely determined by the gravitational force, otherwise our planet would change its orbit drastically with the sun’s cycle – which it doesn’t. Since we do not observe any such force within our solar system, the much weaker density of plasma and weaker magnetic fields outside of our solar system cannot account for effects that are attributed to ‘dark matter’ and the ‘dark force’. We don’t know yet what these are, maybe our understanding about the forces of nature are incomplete but one does not have to jump to ridiculous theories.

“One explanation for dark matter that is not main-stream and that I know of is that dark matter is hydrogen in a ‘sub-state’, called ‘hydrino’, named by Dr. Randell Mills from Blacklight Power. It does not radiate, it would only interact via gravity or act kinetically as an inert gas. If it would accumulate around the sun or be ‘swallowed’ by the sun, it may (re-)convert into normal hydrogen or hydrogen plasma, therefore this hydrino form of dark matter would completely escape detection! However, as fantastic as the theory from Dr. Mills sounds, there are many scientists that have attacked Mills because of bad science. Maybe his theoretical approach is incorrect but the existence of ‘hydrinos’ could explain cold fusion and also dark matter. So time will tell! But I wouldn’t hold my breath. . .”

Robert Anderson: “Stephan is speaking as a trained scientist. As for non-robust science, hypotheses like “hydrinos” are completely “made up”; a speculation on what dark matter “might be; there’s no robust scientific proof. Here is a link to the Thunderbolts site that may be helpful.”

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“Isaac Newton defined the optical spectrum, but it was Goethe who first understood that color is more than just a physical problem. In Theory of Colours (1840), the German writer and painter examined phenomena like colored shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration, as well as the psychology of color, ‘marvelling at color’s occurrences and meanings’ and hoping to uncover its secrets. His great insight: color vision is shaped as much by human perception as it is by mechanical functioning.”

< Read the complete article by Megan Erickson posted online August 12, 2012 in the Think Tank at bigthink.com. >

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A team of scientists has created an “MRI” of the Sun’s interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface. In order to develop their “MRI” of the Sun’s plasma flows, the researchers examined high-resolution images of the Sun’s surface, shown above, taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Using a 16-million pixel camera, HMI measures motions on the Sun’s surface caused by convection. PHOTO: NASA

“A team of scientists has created an “MRI” of the Sun’s interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface. The result, which appears in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, upends our understanding of how heat is transported outwards by the Sun and challenges existing explanations of the formation of sunspots and magnetic field generation.”

If nothing else, this article shows that we don’t know what we think we know about the workings of the sun.

< Read the complete article posted July 9, 2012 at sciencedaily.com. >

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 After seeing Dr. Louis Turi on a TV interview, I was impressed enough to subscribe to his Cosmic Code website (drturi.com) to see his predictions for 2014 and to learn more about his type of astrology. He uses the “Cosmic Dragon” (the nodes of the moon) as a central feature in his astrological readings, something I have always considered more meaningful than a simple sun sign if you want to know a person’s path and personality, since in my experience it has often been more “on” than a sun sign.

Turi claims to use the form of astrology that Nostradamus used and that has proved very accurate. Personally, I think he has succumbed somewhat to the 4th dimensional forces that he uses (or that use him), and his ego can be a turnoff, but getting past that, I find his work of interest. I was interested in how to use Nostradamus’s astrology, which is why I subscribed, despite Turi himself. At any rate, he has given a number of predictions for 2014–2016, one of which I found very interesting. It goes: “A new breed of cosmic spiritual leaders made up of highly advanced spiritual human beings will be offered a voice and a national stage, offering clarification and preparing the way for universal brotherhood unification.”

As I have had a sense that 2014 is going to be a watershed year for the ICC, I thought that this prediction gave some confirmation to that. Of course, I understand that once we are in the sun we transcend the “fate” determined by our stars, so I don’t feel “subject” to his readings, and so that would have to be true for the Community itself as well, but remaining detached and “light” (pun intended) about it, I think it will be fun to see what happens.

by Robert Anderson

“The Earth is affected by the planets around the Sun and their positioning, which is also associated with the sunspot formation and changes in the solar wind. Sometimes when a planet is relatively near Earth, and the Moon lines up with it, there is also a magnetic disturbance (Payne, 2008). Even the thoughts and feelings of humans, when synchronized, also affect the solar activity and therefore the GM field, (Payne, 1986).”

Could this be what astrologers have been trying to get across all along?

< Read the entire article online at Dr. Buryl Payne’s web site. >

< For more on Dr. Buryl Payne, the author of the article, click here. >

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Study examines development of children’s ‘prelife’ reasoning

PHOTO: Natalie Emmons

Date: January 27, 2014
Source: Boston University
Summary: “By examining children’s ideas about “prelife,” the time before conception, researchers found results which suggest that our bias toward immortality is a part of human intuition that naturally emerges early in life. And the part of us that is eternal, we believe, is not our skills or ability to reason, but rather our hopes, desires and emotions.”

“Most people, regardless of race, religion or culture, believe they are immortal. That is, people believe that part of themselves-some indelible core, soul or essence-will transcend the body’s death and live forever. But what is this essence? Why do we believe it survives? And why is this belief so unshakable?”

Robert Anderson has this to say about the article and the research it presents:

“I think it is typical materialistic science that believes religion has “cognitive roots” and that intuition is hardwired into the brain—the brain being the source of the mind. They still have it all backwards and always will because their premises are erroneous; they’re concluding we are what we feel, desire, and hope. I’m so glad we’re not that, but they seem to be getting an inkling into the collective unconscious, the psyche, and concluding that that is our “eternal” selves. This is all that materialistic science can come up with in regard to both religion and the soul; it’s perhaps interesting because scientists are at least pondering preexistence, but they are proceeding from faulty premises so are always coming to faulty conclusions.”

< Read the complete article posted January 27, 2014 at sciencedaily.com. >

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