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FEBRUARY / MARCH MEETINGS:
Since we had a more than usually busy Fall (2007),  February/March 2008 is a little lighter with ONE meeting, at the end of February.  No formal meeting is planned for March but who knows.  Someone might come into town (a few people have mentioned this possibility, in passing), something might come up....  Dr. Karim spoke about coming here February or March to show us how to "Go for the Gold" but no word about that has reached us.  His daughter, Leila, who accompanied him here April 2007 was supposed to have gotten married in January.

April 8th:  Earth Energies, Grid, Ley Line, Water Dowsing
May 22-24:  A presentation and Workshop on Spiritual Clearing and Clearing Non Beneficial Energies of all beings, realms, Dimensions, Objects and Spaces and anything else you can think of by a truly qualified expert
June: 3?  10? :  Cymatics, Sound, Vibrational Healing   -OR- Elementals in your Garden

For now, please DO RESERVE MAY 22-24.   If this is confirmed it proves to be a most extraordinary and exceedingly valuable presentation and workshop, by one of the best clearing experts around.   I have been trying to arrange this speaker's visit to our group for a year.  You will be amazed.  Guaranteed.   I can not say more until details are confirmed.  Stay tuned to our website.

MARCH NEWSLETTER:    As there will *probably* be no March meeting, there will *probably* be no March newsletter.

REFRESHMENTS!  YES!   OF COURSE!  PLEASE DO BRING munchies, finger food for us to share pot luck style at the end of the presentation.

Subtle vision; a masters tool to limit the negative effects of interacting with technology

Developments in medicine, travel, communications and entertainment are on the edge of a revolution.  Scientific and technological discoveries in the line of genetic engineering, Nano-technology and artificial intelligence are changing the way we interact with physical creation, with each other and with systems of society and commerce.

If we are to retain our essential humanness we need people with vision of subtle realms, of subtle bodies and their interaction with physical creation. Taking a purely reductionist or materialist approach limits our ability to make decisions that will have impacts into the future.

If we think it is because we are endowed with a particular vehicle. A subtle body (astral body) that exchanges thoughts and emotions with the corresponding layer, the astral layer. Just as the physical world has layers, air, earth, water, so the etheric (life force) and astral worlds have layers and sub layers, some more refined, others more gross. As each subtle body is in direct continuity with the world around it, changes in the astral world (wireless networks) bring changes in our personal astral body (mind).

Vision of subtle realms can be developed. With practice, it is not difficult to see the subtle structures that surround the heart, the mysteries of the larynx, the subtle vehicles that allow a person to connect to higher frequencies of spirit.

A heart operation performed without knowledge of these structures will have consequences. Placement of your bed, or desk without vision of earth lines can bring deleterious effects to emotional and physical health. With vision we have the opportunity to adjust the way we interact with the physical and the subtle to minimise any possible deleterious effects.

With practice, and a knowledge of subtle bodies modern stress related illnesses such as migraine and chronic fatigue can be turned into a non-event. Advances in virtual reality and artificial intelligence are only going to increase the incidence of these type of astral body diseases.

A knowledge of the relationship between the astral body (or manas in Sanskrit), etheric body (or prana or Qi in the Chinese system) and higher Ego (spirit) is a beginning. An experiential understanding of the impact of technology on these subtle bodies is essential if we are to retain our essential humanness. Mapping the impact of technologies on subtle structures can provide pathways to developing techniques that are more conducive to maximising health and well-being.

Clairvision® School, founded in Australia by Samuel Sagan MD is a school of meditation and spiritual development for the next millennium. Resting on the teachings of the western esoteric tradition, the Clairvision® techniques have been developed by students sharing experiences as they plug their consciousness into realms beyond the physical.

The Clairvision® model of subtle bodies is constantly evolving. Students are encouraged to map the impact of new technologies on subtle vehicles. Vision is placed on everything from the subtle structures in the organs, to the impact of a computer screen on the subtle structures around the eyes; the impact of prolonged laptop use on the energy centres in the wrist; the dis-organising effect of long haul travel on the lower centres; the impacts of different modalities of healing on the healer.

Knowledge about the consequences for us, our body, our mental and emotional health is critical if the usage of these technologies is to unfold responsibly. With practice students report increased solidity, awakening and greater soul flexibility. They are less reactive and more able to cope emotionally, mentally and physically with the demands of today's lifestyles.

Helen Russ has been working with Inner Space practices for 8 years in Australia, Europe and America. Recently moved to the US, Helen is visiting Canada seeing clients and doing a series of talks and workshops. Helen is a student, a practitioner, a senior Clairvision® Instructor and Clearer. Helen has direct experience of the changes in subtle bodies and improved vision brought about by using the techniques.

Helen will be holding an  introductory weekend  where she will introduce you to the techniques; entitled-  Awakening the Third Eye in in Toronto April 5th and 6th 2008 and in Kitchener on April 12th and 13th 2008.  For more information contact Helen at helenruss@bigpond.com or 773 827 8999. www.clairvision.org

The Toronto Dowsers has participated in this event the 22nd of September, December and March.  March 22nd, 2003 was our first visit to The Mound.  This history, story and feedback was written up in the May 2003 Toronto Dowsers newsletter.  *NEW* information and data about the Mound is included IN THIS ISSUE!   If you can, return to The Mound that evening.

Saturday March  22 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, please join in the global network to raise the energy and consciousness of the Earth.  All types of positive healing energy - dowsing, Reiki, prayer, chanting, meditation, tai chi, drumming, EVERYTHING - should be directed to the waters, the land, the people, the animals, the governments, the religious institutions and the past, present, and future of our planet. For a minute, an hour or as long as you wish, please direct your thoughts and energy to this effort.  Our collective goal is to unilaterally claim our divine power and ability to heal, balance and protect the Earth from any and all negative energies.  Please share this message with everyone you know.  Thank you for caring, and doing something about it!  The future is ours to create now.

Four times a year, at 8 p.m. EST on the 22nd of  March, June, September and December, light workers around the globe are invited to join together again.  Again, our collective goal is to unilaterally claim our divine power and ability to heal, balance and protect the Earth from any and all negative energies.  These four dates tie in with the seasonal solstices, and will keep the healing energy “set in motion” all year long.

This series of events was catalyzed by a friend of Raymon Grace.  We are reminded that everyone has the divine power to heal and affect positive change.  But too rarely do we accept the responsibility to direct our energies to healing the planet.  Here's another chance to make a meaningful contribution.

( It was realized that Brian Collins had some information that the dowsers would want to know, most specifically about the "432 Revolution" which began about 20 years ago. Brian was invited to speak to us this evening on this topic, i.e., what this means, how and why it happened, how it influences us (DRAMATICALLY!!!!) and to give us a demonstration so we could each experience that felt sense.  For those who heard Brian's demonstration it was truly awesome.  Yes, the 432 Revolution IS Astounding.)

Since music is all about vibration and everything else in the universe is all about vibration, it seems fitting that a talk ostensibly about music should touch on topics as diverse as quantum physics, ancient mythologies, mathematics, Earth plate tectonics, anthropology and deep space.

The talk began with a musical performance, “Autumn Leaves,” played on piano by the speaker, Brian Collins. He is a working musician with an extracurricular passion for vibrational physics and it has put him on the path of a quest to restore harmony to music.

Vibrational physics begins with the fundamental law that "all" in the universe is in vibration and emits frequency. The varying rates of vibration determine the planes of existence whether it be physical, mental or spiritual. And quantum science has proven that we are all connected through an etheric plane of living “mind force” consciousness that vibrates and produces mass in the form of geometric platonic solids. By changing the energy of mind force vibration, you change the very nature of mass. Thus, we are responsible for creating the very nature of the universe around us.

Music is a subset of the vibrational frequencies that make up all existence and can therefore impact, through resonance, all levels of existence. This helps to explain why some ratios of musical vibration affect our emotions, making us feel happy, sad, inspired, etc. Light, which is mind force at work, is a higher vibration of sound. Tuning to the harmonics of light brings music closer to the “all” of mind force creation. 432 cycles per second is one of these light harmonics. A musical harmonization with mind force creation will happen when musical instruments are finally retuned away from 440 hz, the current standard (which is dissonant with all life forms and brings about disconnection and disharmony in those systems) and to tune with the frequency of 432 hz, which is resonant with all life forms. Music played to this tuning resonates with the DNA of a human to facilitate an upgrade to higher consciousness.

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It was only in the late 1600s that it first became technically possible to determine the exact pitch of a given note in cycles per second. Most early music scholars agree that Mozart tuned his C to precisely 256 hz with his "A" falling in the range of 427 to 430 hz. Although the composer Verdi made failed efforts in Italy in 1884 to officially set "A" at 432 hz, there was a steady subsequent tendency toward uptuning over time, ostensibly in search of a brighter sound. The uptuning movement culminated in an effort to impose 440 hz tuning internationally in 1939 when Josef Goebbels convened an international conference in England to impose on all musicians what had been standardized as the German pitch. An agreement was made, but given the outbreak of the World War II, it had no regulatory effect.

So what is the nuts and bolts case for making 432 hz the standard "A" tuning? It all comes down to planetary ratios. The contention is that if the natural world, including the planets, the earth and our bodies, contain a vibrational pattern or code, then by aligning our music to that code, through resonance the music can work to unite us with our world and each other.

The sun, planets and moon stand in the same frequency ratio as the notes on our most harmonic scale and harmonics are understood to beautify music and nature for us, the beholders.

The universe is based on harmonic series such as 72, 144, 432. And 144 (a "C" tone in hertz) is a perfect harmonic of the speed of light, which is 144,000 nautical miles (144,000 minutes of arc per Earth grid second) in the vacuum of space. Each of these harmonics is literally a mirror, or a cascade of mirrors within mirrors, that 8 hz can look into. For example 144 is 18 x 8 hz, and 72 is 9 x 8 hz. The earth is said to vibrate at 8 hz and 8 hz is also the alpha brain wave rhythm in which our brain hemispheres are synchronized to spin together equally. The way that light travels in space is thus a 144 decimal harmonic (144:144,000),

When A is tuned to 432 hertz, a whole world of meaning erupts within the entire octave pointing to connections between geometry, astronomy and the world’s sacred sites.

Proponents of a movement to change standard tuning to 432 say the number harmonically aligns to astronomical time count of the procession of the equinoxes, 432 x 60 = 25920.

As well, the original Stradivarius violin, the most precise musical instrument ever constructed by humans, was designed to be tuned to 432.

Additionally, the human voice cannot sustain music sung at the 440 tuning as witness by the destruction of the singing voices of many of the world’s opera singers.

Most importantly, the number 432 is considered sacred in a majority of the major temple complexes of this planet. For instance, one side of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, at its sea level foundation, is 432 Earth Units (51.49 cm). The major Toltec complex of Teotihuacan in Mexico, has its great Pyramid of the Sun with an overall base of 864 STU (Standard Teotihuacan Units) which is twice 432.

After a lengthy discussion about the physics that supports a return to 432 tuning, Brian Collins presented the most compelling reason to make that move when he played two recordings of Silent Night played on piano. The one tuned to 440 sounded cold, boring and unconnected, while the version played at the 432 tuning sounded much warmer, more grounding and created a sense of instant peace.

The tuning debate may continue to rage internationally. But it could easily be settled just by listening, with a sensitive ear, to the music.

Sources:
/altered-states.net/index2.htm?/emf/sacredharmony.htm
/www.schillerinstitute.org/music/revolution.html
/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7DD1630F930A2575BC0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3
/www.carnaval.com/music432/     THANK YOU MICHELLE!!!!

The 432 Revolution, which started 20 years ago,  needs to continue and needs to be brought about.  For that reason, here are some internet resources that you can pursue:

• Debra Howell, a Sound Healer in Vancouver uses 432 in her work and reprints an excellent article:  Music and Your Health – The Relevance of Concert Pitch (432hz) By Patrick Thilmany (The Association of North American Waldorf Music Educators)  /debrahowell.net/index.php?pr=432hz
• The Foundations of Scientific Musical Tuning, by by Jonathan Tennenbaum, Reprinted from FIDELIO Magazine, Vol .1 No.1 , Winter 1991-92 www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/fid_911_jbt_tune.html
• Revolution in Music: A Brief History of Tuning /www.schillerinstitute.org/music/rev_tuning_hist.html
• Petition to lower the pitch  Return to the Verdi Tuning: www.schillerinstitute.org/music/petition.html
• No less than a revolution in musical history was unleashed on April 9, 1988 in Milan, Italy, when the Schiller Institute brought together some of the world's most highly-regarded classical singers and instrumentalists, to demand a return to rationality in musical tuning and performance. /www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/1980s/conf_88_milan_tuning.html
• Elan Chalford,Tampa Bay, Florida:  "Recently, while talking with Stephanie at Lyndon LaRouche's office, she revealed that the A-432 tuning harmonizes with the outer physical body. C-256, a natural resonance in this tuning, matches the rate of vibration for our bones. It might be a stretch to think that every bone in every person's body has a natural frequency of 256 Hz. If so, it could be one more good reason to use this tuning.  /a432.blogspot.com/
• /www.theviragos.com/news_news_432hz.php
• /www.members.aol.com/johnkeely/scale.html
• /altered-states.net/barry/newsletter152/index.htm
• /goldennumber.net/classic/music.htm
• /grassapelli.com/A-432/index.html%20
• /query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7DD1630F930A2575BC0A96F948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

One of the most frequent queries with regard to how to improve one's dowsing is:  "I feel I may be influencing the answers when I'm dowsing.  Why does this happen and how might I prevent this?"

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For the last 2 years, dire reports about the mysterious deaths of bees around the world have been circulating.   For years we have been hearing about how sonar is wreaking havoc with the whales.   Within the past 3 months, in addition to more reports about the bees, we can add to that reports about the disappearance of the birds, bats, frogs and other insects.   What's next?  Mice?  Then cats, dogs, horses, humans?  Possibly.   Aside from the fact that this life has a beauty and fascination for us, we can not sustain ourselves unless these animals are also flourishing on our planet.  Here are some segments:

Naturalist Artist Robert Bateman was featured in How the Song Birds Are Disappearing,  a 14 minute CBC segment, introduced by Peter Mansbridge, October 31, 2007.  Some of what they tell us:

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The North American skies are a lot quieter than they were a century ago.   Birds are disappearing from the Canadian landscape.  There should be a lot more swallows, hundreds of them.  Robert Bateman started birding when he was 12.  His first sketches were of birds.  When he was 8 years old, he would go to sleep to the song of the Whip-poor-will.  He has not heard their song in decades.

Tens of millions of the most common birds found in North America have disappeared.  Species have plunged by 60, 70, 80%.  Hardest hits are the grassland bird, sparrows, birds that next in Canada's forests, wetland birds.  The birds are disappearing due to enormous environmental disruptions.  The bobwhite, for example -- we used to have 31 million.  Now there are only 5 1/2 million.

A big reason is also factory farming.  We are creating a big monoculture, species diversity which require different habitats, no longer exist.  Pesticides.  The wholesale harvesting of our forests.   Polluted lakes, streams.  Urban sprawl.

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LONDON, ENGLAND: The issue with birds is very serious. A couple of years ago the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reported that sparrow populations in London had dropped by 70 percent in the last decade. They had no real explanation, and did not mention microwaves, but that decade of course saw an explosion of cell phone towers across the landscape. It has been reported that dozen of bird species are facing extinction, again no clue as to why:

INDIA:  Indian research a while back showed that small birds were affected by microwaves.  If you look you will never see a small bird perched on a cell phone mast, no matter how much the operators disguise it to look like a tree.

SOUTH AFRICA:  Some research was done here, commissioned by the Oppenheimers, SA's wealthiest family, who noticed that the birdlife in their famous gardens in Johannesburg was diminishing. In a report the lead researcher said they were finding insect communication patterns were being interfered with by cell phone radiation, Obviously if the insects are disappearing, birdlife will be affected.

"At my agricultural publication, I used to edit a column on pigeon racing (very entertaining copy -- South Africa hosts the world's biggest pigeon race, the Sun City Million Dollar, so we are very big in this game). Pigeon fanciers all over the world are reporting more and more lost birds, and they are blaming cell phone masts. I heard a story from a friend in the US that they were pigeon-racing champions until a cell phone mast was erected near their house, then their birds got totally disoriented and vanished, and they gave up the hobby."

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NEW DIGITAL TV SIGNALS TO BE INTRODUCED IN 2009 TO BE EVEN MORE DAMAGING:  The change from analog TV to digital TV is now in progress.  U.S. broadcasters are being force to change to digital signals by February 2009.  This will mean that extremely powerful digital signals will be broadcast over very large areas by large antennas.  This is expected to be a very dangerous development which could cause a great danger to health.

It is quite clear that 'over the air' broadcasting is dangerous and should be stopped.  Television and many other wireless services could be delivered to the consumer much more safely by wired connections than by wireless.  Governments should be implementing widespread wired / fiber optic infrastructure now!

SMART METERS:    Did you know that:   Smart meters, to measure electricity use,  will be installed in Ontario. The goal is that everyone in Ontario will have one by December 31, 2010. Toronto Hydro-Electric System customers will receive advance notification of the smart meter installation.   The Government of Ontario has mandated that everyone on our province will receive a smart meter.   The meters are to be put in all of Ontario's four million households - including apartments.

Our concern is that:   The meters continually collect electrical usage data and transfer that information by radio-frequency to the electrical utility company.  By this method the company can provide discount rates at low-use times of day and may save electricity use during prime times.  The only smart thing about the devices that is beginning to become apparent is their ability to harm and eventually kill people who are going to be exposed to additional electro magnetic radiation.  The method of data transfer is expected to use the present electrical distribution system wiring.  The downside is that all this additional high frequency radiation, is that it is quite likely to cause dangerous EMR to enter homes on the house wiring.  These devices are being installed throughout Ontario yet the method of data transfer is still in some doubt.

A  Pape Avenue Toronto resident wrote to Toronto Hydro about some of his concerns regarding these meters.  Note his questions, and the responses from Gordon Baird, Supervisor, Customer Management Services, Toronto Hydro:

1.   Will the meter cause radio frequency or microwave radiation on to your electrical wiring or to neighbors electrical wiring?
The radio communication portion of the smart meters are isolated from the power measurement portion, so there will be no transfer on to the electrical wiring. Also the building electrical wiring is (or should be) properly grounded.

5. Can they guarantee this will cause no health effects when the meters are installed?
The radio frequency transmissions are regulated by the federal government.  If a customer has concerns about the safety of the standards being followed, they should contact Industry Canada.

6. Will they remove the meter if there is a health problem?
If the radio transmissions are later determined to be unsafe, Toronto Hydro will comply with the new regulations.

7. Are they aware of all the scientific research which indicates that radio frequencies and microwave radiation cause serious harm to health?
Should a customer have concerns about the safety of the standards being followed, they should contact Industry Canada.

8. Are they insured for any harm that may be caused by the smart meters?
Toronto Hydro does not expect there will be any harm caused by the smart meters.

9. Will you provide details of that insurance?
Toronto Hydro has general liability coverage but does not have specific insurance for smart meters

An average high rise apartment building with say, 400 units currently has one meter for the entire building.

With the proposed change this means 400 smart meters in that one building added to the soup, each one sending data continually by radio frequency.   How many buildings are there in Toronto?  How many apartments?  Two million?

With the proliferation of WiFi, cell phones and new digital TVs, oy oy oy!

This is just Toronto.  If you do not live in the GTA, what about your city?

12th Feb, Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby hosted a teleseminar on the subject of microwave radiation and cell phone hazards.  You can download this 90 minute talk at:  /www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=1909812

One of the things he said was:   Put a raw egg between 2 cell phones.  Leave it there a couple of hours and see what happens.  [Note:  if you put an egg (in its shell) on its side on a hard surface and give it a spin and if it spins quickly, then it is hard boiled.]   And he told us about:

US  Residents:   Source Antennas and Towers near you

www.antennasearch.com/ All Towers (Existing and Future) and Antennas within 4 miles of your address will be listed -  Database Last updated on: 1/30/2008 - 1,944,190 Towers and Antennas Online!

Do you remember these two advisories?

       November 2002:   Dr. Sabina DeVita spoke to us on "Electromagnetic Pollution" she mentioned that in many forests, the tops of trees were appearing "fried".  Why?   Microwaves.
       October 2005:  Dr. Magda Havas spoke to us  on "Earth Energy, Life Energy, and Techno Energy Interactions:  How is electrical technology affecting life on our planet?  It's a Shocker!"  She related an anecdote where a farmer had noticed that the corn in his fields was not as high as previously.  The farmer was a dowser.  The previous year, he ran put electricity out to the barn for the first time.   It was determined that the electricity ran from the road, through the field, to the barn -- right through the corn.  The corn was being affected by the electricity.

"We" have heard -- frequently -- that at some point, probably at the magic moment of December 21, 2012 or thereabouts, if that can be believed (can it?) that among other things, there will be a pole (polar) shift (reversal) and the North Pole will have the qualities of the South Pole and vice versa.  That the time this is expected to take will be from instantaneous to 3 days.  I've read that in so many places I've lost track.  Furthermore, you know that anything in the scientific area is not easily within my realm of understanding so don't take what I just wrote about it as gospel.

I'd discounted that theory, but again, I heard it twice in one day, from 2 very different sources.

The End of Electricity?:   The first time was on a January 5th  teleconference with a research scientist who offered perspectives as to the physics of ORMUS.  That when the shift hits our world will no longer be based on electricity but on magnetism.  This means that EVERYTHING we have that is electric will no longer work.  Try to imagine that.   But . ...  our bodies are electric, are they not?  So what could this all mean?   Will our bodies just stop working?   Not possible, yes?   After all, Earth has entered a new epoch, yes? The Anthropocene epoch, where humans became the predominant force over the Earth's environment (as reported by By Robert C. Cowen in the February 7, 2008 Christian Science Monitor:)   "Geologists wonder if they should add a new epoch to the geological time scale. They call it the Anthropocene - the epoch when, for the first time in Earth's history, humans have become a predominant geophysical force. Naming such a new epoch would also recognize that humans now share responsibility with natural forces for the state of our planet's ecological environment."

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Next --- the January 5th CoasttoCoast show --   Solar Cycle 24 with John Jay Harper:
"Futurist John Jay Harper discussed how Solar Cycle 24 marks the start of a disastrous cycle for our climate and civilization. The new solar cycle, which according to experts is currently under way, indicates that solar activity — sunspots and solar flares — is likely to begin increasing. Harper said the activity will reach its peak on or about the year 2012, in agreement with the Mayan calendar and other end-time prophecies.

"Harper expects Solar Cycle 24 to trigger a series of cataclysmic events. "Solar flares have been equated with flu pandemics, with increased earthquake activity and underwater volcanism," he explained. Harper said Greenland's ice cap will likely melt, forcing additional ocean water toward the equator and causing a disruption in the axial tilt of our planet. He said an electromagnetic pole shift will occur as well.

"The disruption to our agricultural, economic, and telecommunications systems will put us back into the pre-industrial age, Harper forecasted. All is not lost, however, as Harper believes these events will lead to an integration of science and religion into a single truth — the idea of energy transformation. He said many will survive the apocalypse because of their ability to link into a unified mind field."

Just as the above section about the birds, bees, bats, frogs and insects was being written, we heard news from England that according to new research BIRDS DOWSE!!!   Is that amaaazing synchronicity, or wot?  What follows is his introductory message

"I have spent seven years studying animal self-medication using finches. I have reason to think that this ability of animals to instinctively know where to find water or even medicinal items in their environment may well be related to Dowsing. The ability of finches and other animals to instinctively know where to find water or even medicinal items in their environment may well be related to Dowsing. - William -"

The aim  is to generate interest in the apparent ability of animals to choose medicinal items in their environment, to consume or feed their young, in order to cure or prevent infection or to relieve internal or external pain or in any other way to restore their health. Incredibly this may in some cases extend to the ability to locate water even though there is no visible trace of it. With regard to finches, I call this study Finch Self-Medication for convenience.

I have spent seven years studying this ability with Estrildid finches of several species and have written some articles based on my observations and findings.

Scientists agree that animals seem to instinctively know what herbs or substances to consume for curing or preventing a disease. But, they say that it is not instinct to medicate themselves as such that is at work but rather an instinct to use trial and error until they find what works. This is what our common sense tells us should be happening. However, although this seems to apply in some cases, it does not seem to apply in all cases and some other process may be involved. Here are some reasons as to why I suspect this.

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In all these instances, animals may be in great pain and the urge to survive somehow triggers some mechanism that allows them to detect a vital source of water, or adequate food or adequate medicine in their environment, even though there is no visible trace of water or they have never encountered the food or medicinal items before !!

It is also just possible that all living things possess this psi ability but in the case of most human beings, the logical brain interferes with this ability and filters it out which is why few of us can successfully dowse for water and even fewer of us if any are able to cure ourselves of illness as animals are observed to do.

Dowsing as an ability that evolved in animals to favor their immediate survival is readily understandable. But what does sound strange is that some human beings are known to dowse with repeated success for items that have nothing to do with their immediate survival. They do not dowse for water or medicinal plants but for oil as they do in Texas or precious stones or metals as Uri Geller does.

Charles Hubbard, from Nova Scotia, our March 2005 speaker on "BioDynamics And Dowsing" phoned a couple weeks ago.  Thanks to our efforts in encouraging Charles, producing a booklet of his teachings (this most excellent  booklet -- with drawings and charts -- is available for sale at our meetings), and promoting him as a guest speaker at the American Society of Dowsers Annual Convention and other activities, Charles has co-authored a rather comprehensive book with a BioDynamic gardener on his techniques of Biodynamic farming, Earth and cosmic energies, Dowsing, Sacred geometry, Growing food using pyramids, Creating your own living classroom,  Nature spirits and more.  Details to follow.

PYRAMID GARDENING IS BEYOND SPECTACULAR! Charles reports that BioDynamic Gardening, with Pyramids is PHENOMENAL!  This cabbage picture is from the pyramid garden on the farm and was taken after about one month's worth of growing.  This is the result of using biodynamic preparations, earth and cosmic energies, intention, intuition, and nature spirits.  Can you imagine growing 3 foot kale?  To achieve that is they treated the soil using earth and cosmic energies, quarter miners dust and biodynamic preparations. Just looking the vegetables -- heck, even at just the pictures of his vegetables -- one can feel the  life force vibrating the pages - imagine how eating food that contains such energy could support your health!

BIODYNAMIC BALCONY GARDENING? - - When Charles was here, he mentioned, in passing, that one can do BioDynamic Gardening on one's balcony.  So I asked him for details.   He said this is container planting.    He hopes to get us details as to how this could be accomplished.  Can any of you help?  Please contact me.

URBAN GARDENING:  He is seeing a lot of  interest in is:  URBAN GARDENING.  This is more than green roofs, more than community gardens.   Picture swaying cornstalks nestled against a Wall Street skyscraper, an empty floor in an office building crowded with tomato vines or an entire high-rise dedicated to indoor fields. Urban farming can help revitalize urban areas while providing a potential solution to escalating food needs and land shortages.

Urban farmers use land in city neighborhoods to grow fruits and vegetables to sell. An urban farm can be as small as a backyard or as large as an acre or two.

Urban farms can profit and increase property values. Studies have shown that proximity to parks and other greenways has a positive effect on property values. Properties adjoining green areas have market values up to 32 percent higher than similar properties 3,200 feet away.  Investors who own multiple homes in a single area could add value to their properties by leasing a lot or two as urban farms. This could potentially present a use for investors’ empty lots, providing rental income while revitalizing the area and leaving the land largely available for future development.

Skyscraper farms could eventually serve a city’s food needs in addition to creating job opportunities. Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbiology at Columbia University, has been developing the concept of vertical farms—i.e. farms on multiple floors within skyscrapers—for six years,

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Before you plant,  research the history of the land, looking at its previous uses and at what kinds of activities took place in the properties surrounding it. Find out if  there was any activity on the property or on property nearby that may have resulted in any kind of chemical contamination, find another spot.

Charles said that there is a higher consciousness now in Halifax as to the issue of food security.  In January a woman was cited for having chickens in her Halifax backyard. Although this is apparently against the bylaws of the municipality, this issue is being re-considered, because, the times they are a changing.  A Victoria, BC resident commented:  "I live in downtown Victoria and yes we are allowed to keep chickens. I believe in the coming years with increased knowledge of food security issues more people will become urban farmers."

About 8 years ago, I used to take long walks in the Toronto ravines, especially the Ravine that goes from around Moore Park and loops around to St. Clair between Yonge and Mount Pleasant.   At different places at a certain time of year I'd see groups of oriental women, with large black garbage bags, and cutting tools --- cutting I don't know what.  I would go over to them to ask what they were collecting, but they did not speak English and I did not speak their language.

About 12 years ago, a fellow I knew from the Cell Tech days told me he had planted thousands of trees, around Newmarket, and invited me to go with him one day to check out the trees.  We are walking along and he starts pointing out species.  "That's burdock" he said.  Burdock?  Oh, so that's what that hardy weed is!  No wonder why it works so well in the body!  It's so strong!  And all along I was buying it!  When I could have dug it up, fresher, for free!

Shazzie tells us:  "Superfoods.  If you really can't afford to buy them, then go out to your garden and pick them. Go out to a crack in the pavement.  Go out to the woods!
Dandelion - leaves, and --- roots -- the roots have inulin which are excellent for diabetics
Clover -- gets rid of abnormal cells.  nice when sprouted
Cleavers (sticky willy).  A really good lymphatic cleanser, contracts the lymph vessels and causes toxins to come out.  Its quite sticky.  It must be!  To Stick to the lymph!  good juiced or in salads
? - good in calcium, allergies, really good in raw chocolate recipes.  (balances magnesium)
Nettles -- juice or blend or eat plain
Plantain - one of the best lung tonics in the UK.  tasty, too.  likes to put seed cheese inside them and rolls them up

"As the Anastasia Revolution takes hold, more and more individuals, families and communities are coming together to grow food on large plots of land.  If you are already familiar with Anastasia's "Ringing Cedars" series, in Russia, you will already know about Anastasia's view of a sustainable world.  If you want to be a SuperBeing, go out anytime in the UK and have a look around you at the SuperFoods.  They are there for free, take them and love them."

[Note:  Our March 2006, June 2006 and November 2007 issues had much to say about the Anastasia series.]

Elections:  This international gossip filled popularity contest soap opera seems purposefully designed to --- distract the populace.  It distracts people from important issues, from paying attention to real problems that need to be scrutinized and solved.  Its like spending time watching television when homework needs to be done.

Every 4 years: The US election takes place .
18 months before each election, there is serious talk about who will run in the election.
12 months before the election, talk begins about the primaries (which will determine the candidates)
10 months before the election, the primaries begin.  From then on, the election train is running down the track, smoking along in high gear, the primary candidates then the party candidates seem to be the primary attention grabbing  topics in the newspapers --- in the US and in Canada -- on the radio, in conversation.

Consider the buzz about this already -- here in Canada.  Look at all the newspaper space wasted on this useless carnival.  Its even more in the US.

A distraction -- pure and simple.  Hilary won yesterday.  Barack won today.  Hilary will probably win tomorrow.  Back and forth, it is about as realistic and absorbing as watching a ping pong game.  The fixed attention on this popularity contest is a waste of time.  Purposefully designed by the spinmeisters to distract us, so we don't focus on the real issues.  Just like when you want to distract a baby from what the baby wants, you give the baby a spoon and a pot lid and it sits there happily banging away.  They have given us spoons and pot lids and we sit on the floor happily banging away.

Doesn't it seem incredible that Hilary Clinton is actually a candidate for president of the US?   Is it any more incredible than her election as a Senator from New York State?  Born in Illinois, she attends Yale (in Connecticut), marries Bill and moves to Arkansas, then to Washington DC.  While still First Lady, she becomes elected as the Senator from NYS.   She knew as much about NY, as I know about living in Montreal.  Not much.  This incredulity is not examined.

It seems as if Canada, once again, will be next with a Federal election --- as if this makes a difference?

Elections are distractions.  So is tax season.  For many, so are Christmas preparations.  Few are consciously aware of these machinations and orchestrations.  Consider what is said here, comment if you would, opt out when you can.

A good time to look around and see what is happening, i.e., what legislation, etc., is being pushed through, is during crises (China was accorded special favors by the US September 12, 2001), during Holidays, such as Christmas, and when there are big news events taking place.  Stay sharp, stay aware, remain curious, ask questions.

Did you realize this?  I did not, it was pointed out to me by one of you, my most brilliant correspondent:

For several years we have been forced to witness and at times be unwilling participants in the Bush show.  The theme for this farce is to convince us that terror, mayhem and Americanicide (having conveniently forgotten their contribution in its creation) lies in the hearts and minds of many darker toned people and their solution to this is to legislate stripping away the privacy, freedoms and rights of all, putting them in control.  For whatever unfathomable reason or justification, it does seem as if Americans have bought and accepted this story and solution, afraid of outsiders, seeking for their government to protect them, even trusting them, somewhat.

[70 years ago we were taught to hate the Germans and Japanese
60 years ago it was the Koreans
40-50 years ago it was the Russians and "Red" Chinese
30 years ago it was the Vietnamese
Lately Americans have been taught to mistrust Arabs.   Now we love the Germans, the and Japanese, we are somewhat friendly with the Russians, trying to establish good relationships with the Chinese.   Could anyone have thought, in 1943, that we would be very friendly with Germany in the near future???
Who will be next?  Chinese?  South Americans?  Africans?]

The Bush show is kind of show is like bad pornography (well, it is bad pornography).   After awhile it becomes very boring and not believable.  So the producers, again behind the scenes, begin a campaign to discredit the the Bush Show and its cast.

Because the Bush Show has been going on for such a long time and has exhausted the adrenals of the country and the populace, this time the producers need a really different kind of show.  They came up with a very different theme:

The Al Gore Global Warming Farce.   Very different from the pictures of fear and threat of Arabs bringing suitcase bombs to the Liberty Bell, this show is very very different, and so is the cast.  They even come from "the other" political party!    Even different colors!  Once red, they are now BLUE!  (Did you ever see RAN? Akira Kurosawa's epic Oscar-winning 1985 film , the most expensive Japanese film ever produced up to that time.  It beautifully demonstrates the futility of changing sides, among other things.)

Now the mandate, instead of fear of a country, race or religion, its fear for our planet.  The means for control this time around, is to legislate and tax what we can and can not do and should do with our garbage, water, soil, parks, air, forest, etc.  A different victim, or target, and very different spin, the effect on its citizenry is the same.

Meantime, all of a sudden, instead of talking about global warming, the same sources that were ballyhooing that fantasy just a year ago are now shouting about a report from an obscure Russian Scientist in an obscure Russian Observatory about the coming Ice Age (just as they did 20 or 30 years ago).   Flip flop.  Flip flop.   Despite the fact that 4 weeks earlier the Astronomical news was about Solar Cycle 24 (see info above), heralding the most intense solar activity in hundreds of years.  "Interesting" how this stuff makes the news

"As the Sun is expected to experience a period of lower activity, the Earth will receive less heat and thus will cool. Earth's climate is determined mainly by the Sun's activity and by the small changes in Earth's orbit. The effects of other factors, such as the greenhouse gases, are small relative to these cosmic events.

A Russian astronomer, Khabibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory in St. Petersburg, reported on Monday that the global warming experienced in the 20th century was mainly caused by an increased solar activity. According to him, this increased solar activity will reach its peak in six of seven years from now, after which the temperatures will start to drop.

Abdusamatov said there will be a massive solar output decline between around 2035 and 2045 which will correspond to a mini Ice Age on Earth.  This is also supported by a recent mapping of North American glacial history which has shown that in the last 10 000 years glaciers have gone up and down many times. In other words, there were large climatic variations."

The Bush Show and cast.  The Gore Show and cast.  That's all it is.  Their strings are pulled.  By whom?  Who are the Producers?

The purpose of this article is to illustrate that this could very well be so and to ask you to ... just... remain aware.  Watch.  Discern.  Determine if you think this is happening, or not. These producers have been doing their thing for a long time.  The only difference is the theme, the cast and the run of the show.   Watch how it is happening, who and what gets played up or down, who gets plunked into a starring role for no apparent reason or vaunted accomplishment when previously they were just another ordinary Joe.  When a major event or holiday, etc., is taking place, read the back pages of the first section of newspapers to see what unpopular legislation is finally being written up, hoping folks won't notice, because their attention is on, say, a national popularity contest.  Watch the hand they don't want you to watch.

 
Michael Cordy's books seem to be pretty prophetic.  He is the author of four books: The Messiah Code (originally The Miracle Strain), The Lucifer Code (originally Lucifer),the Crime Code (originally Crime Zero), and The Venus Conspiracy (originally True).  He worked in marketing and advertising for ten years before writing The Miracle Strain, which was published in as many as twenty five countries. He lives in London with his wife.  He has written 4 very good 'political thrillers' between 1997 and 2004.  Some of the descriptions of the 'spy stuff' that he wrote about eleven years ago is so prophetic, its uncanny (or is it?).  For example, check out the 2 small excerpts below, from the 1997 novel, "Miracle Strain", pages 230, 296:

The passage on the left should give you an idea as to why you might not exactly want to give anything that can be a DNA sample of yours to any authority.  Or any group that claims it wants to analyze your DNA to tell you your heritage.  You might not know who they work for, who owns the company, and, what will become of the biological information that you give them.  Not that we're paranoid, or conspiracy nuts, or anything like that.  Oh no.  Smart, maybe.

AND JAMES ROLLINS:  Who writes in "Black Order", page 481:  "... That is the newest consensus.  Our brain propagates a measurable electromagnetic field, generated by our complex interconnectivity of neurons.  Some scientists conjecture that it is this field where consciousness resides, bridging the matter of the brain with the quantum world."  (It will be interesting to see what happens to our brains when the poles flip. .   and we go from electric to magnetic, if we do.  What does this mean? Has this ever happened before?  And..??)

[This very scientific article below by  Roger Taylor PhD, Former Researcher in Immunology in the Department of Pathology, Bristol University, Researcher for Centre for Crop Circle Studies . Science Editor, : Caduceus magazine,  details a study whereby Dowsing is used to determine life energy in Orgonite and in ORMUS. After Barry Carter made contact with the Toronto Dowsers, in preparation for his fall 2007 visit here, he obtained this article from Dr. Taylor who gave us his permission to use this article in our publication.]

Abstract
Metal particles set in resin (“Orgonite”) behave as a source of the “orgone” energy of Wilhelm Reich.  By dowsing the intensity of such energy quantitatively with rods, the following has been shown: this activity of orgonite depends on the sun; it is abrogated by microwaves; it is taken up from orgonite by water and some other materials; ormus ( the “white gold” discovered by David Hudson) exhibits a similar energy. It is suggested that the presence of orgone energy is indicative of some kind of quantum coherence within the source.

Introduction
      As is well known, Wilhelm Reich identified a form of energy (“Orgone”),which was favourable to life, and is often equated with the “life-energy” in the human body, otherwise traditionally known as chi, prana, etc. He found orgone would accumulate within a box whose walls consisted of alternate layers of metal and organic material, and could then be detected by sensitive persons, or by a variety of physical means. Much more recently, it has been found that by merely incorporating metal particles into a non-conductive matrix (usually synthetic resin) one can make a powerful source of orgone. Such material has been called “Orgonite”, and patented by its discoverer, Karl Welz, who makes use of it in his radionic devices1. There are now a number of web sites concerned with orgonite.  One of these has much interesting research on the technology.
     As a result of suggestions by James Lyons(3) - a physicist and expert dowser - I have developed an ability to quantitatively dowse the intensity of such energy. What I do is to place the object on the ground (preferably outside on the lawn) and walk towards it holding dowsing rods. These cross at one or more intervals (indicating an “aura” of one or more rings) and then again finally cross over the source. With a tape-measure on the ground, I record the radius of the innermost ring, which I find to be related to the intensity of the source. All the data to be presented concern this measurement, and are given in inches rather than centimetres.
     Ormus is the name now given to a series of extraordinary elementary substances, also known as “White Gold”. They are thought to be mainly precious metals, in which the electrons are re-arranged in such a way as to render them non-metallic, chemically nonreactive and possibly super-conductive4.

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Addendum by James Lyons:   The latest research is indicating that the nodal harmonic structure of standing waves in the quantum vacuum can readily be detected using a mental technique of intention usually combined with some indicting device such as hand held L-rods. Every object creates its own standing wave pattern in this field, which is discernible by dowsers. Isolated objects induce rings surrounding themselves much like a snapshot of waves generated by a pebble thrown into a pond. The structure of these rings is very stable and well known to experienced dowsers. This process offers a repeatable technique enabling dowsers to assess the inherent energy density embedded in any object. Ring (nodal) radius around an object is directly proportional to its embedded energy density.

    The longer I stay here, the stronger is the energy, the vibration that calls to me.  Mexico is a place of the mystical and the magic.  It is a place of kindness, warmth, gentleness and joy.  I have been welcomed and cared for here.  People share so much with me.  And they are always anxious to please, to teach me about themselves and their country.  Not to say they are without their problems, but, in general, these are people who have a strong sense of who they are and of their amazing, deep, and long history.
    Despite the fact that, like Canadians, they sometimes feel that they are less important than their neighbours immediately to their north, these are people who feel their ancient roots and carry it with them in their spirits.  This is evident in every village, town and city I have visited.  Even in the high tourist places where the clash between the desires and demands of  the North American tourist dominate and diminish the gentle ways of the Mexicans who have lived in these places for centuries, these are people who do their best to serve, to please, to share.

I have had so many magical moments in the past 2 months.  These have ranged from travel through small - and by our standards - very poor villages to climb a mountain too see ancient and well preserved petroglyphs (not a tour - just an experience offered to me by some people I met) to a magnificent trip with the Copper Canyon Railway where I stayed in the primitive (and very cold - it snowed up there!) town of Creel.  With an Italian woman I met in the Creel hostel, I travelled back down to Divisadero - a very small town in Northern Mexico which overlooks the canyon which is several times larger than the Grand Canyon!  How is it that most of us don´t know about this place?

    Horses took me up to see the Monarch butterflies in their southern sanctuary* -- having made their annual trip from Canada.  A phenomenon which surely unites our two countries in a very special way.
    Today finds me in the small town of Tequisquiapan which is located between Mexico City and Sam Miguel de Allende.  It is the last week that I will be with my friend who joined me 2 weeks ago.  It is a wonderful place for some quiet moments.  I am currently sitting in the zocalo in the sunshine, drinking in the amazing energy here and watching people as they go about their daily business.  Some are hurrying by; some are just strolling with their treasures and treats from the market; some are sitting around the fountain.  Birds are chirping. The church bells ring several times an hour.  The sense of peace is deep and wonderful.
    Yes, Mexico is calling me for another month -- as long as I can successfully deal with my return airline ticket!

   Even though I will be happy to return to Toronto when this magic experience must end, I will certainly be sad to leave!

See you soon!
Kathy

     * The El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary lies 6 kilometers from the town of Angangueo, to the north of Zitácuaro.  It is estimated that every winter, some 100 million monarch butterflies migrate from Canada and the U.S. to alight and often weigh down the branches of the pine and fir trees of the area. To get there by car, make your way to Zitácuaro via highway 15 from Morelia or Toluca/Mexico City, drive north to the town of Ocampo then to Angangueo and park your car. From there you can take a truck to the sanctuary unless you prefer the pretty tough hike that takes you up a steep and rocky trail and  through two river fords at over 8,500 ft. in altitude.

Speaking of Mexico, remember Michael and Graham, the "Chocolate Guys" at Chocosol Traders?   They had exquisite samples for us of real raw chocolate at a couple of our meetings.   2 days after receiving Kathy's email, there is a big story on their business on page 1 of the Living section of the Toronto Star, just in time for Valentine's Day.   Michael's passion has always been the ecological and social justice aspects ....  They are now at 6 St. Joseph Street in Toronto, and at the Dufferin Grove Farmers Market, Thursdays.

Don Marcelino stands next to a cacao tree, papaya-shaped pods jutting from the trunk and branches in his yard in a village five hours from the capital of Oaxaca, where Michael Sacco learned to make chocolate and where the idea for his company, ChocoSol, was born in 2003.

"I'm more into the food and nutrition and social justice and ecology side of the business," says Sacco, 32, who has a master's degree in environmental studies from York University.

The business is built on relationships of mutual respect. That includes fair trade – giving Mexican farmers fair price for their beans – but it also means he listens when farmers tell him they don't want the chocolate to be sold at such a high price that most people can't afford it.

He shares his knowledge of organic farming, works to preserve a rare species of white cacao bean and helps growers figure out how to plant vanilla and other crops in their jungle plots to increase their income. His Mexican friends are subsistence farmers, growing as little as five kilos or as much as 500 kilos of beans for ChocoSol.

Sacco calls it horizontal trade and it extends north to Canada, where he was surprised to find a network of like-minded people in southern Ontario. He thinks he may have found someone crazy enough to transport cacao beans from the Mexican port of Veracruz to Toronto on a sailboat. If that happens, and if he gets a bicycle grinder and solar roaster set up on the Big Carrot's roof this summer, he hopes to make a 100 per cent energy-free bar.

By that he means energy-free production. The chocolate itself is packed full of more than 1,200 chemical compounds, many of them known to have medicinal or beneficial qualities – chief among them flavonoids, some of which act as powerful antioxidants.

"Chocolate in its pure form is quite healthy and it makes people happy," Sacco says.

Mexico once more, indulging myself here.  Recognize la Gringa among the group?  I found my photo albums while cleaning up.   The summer I graduated from university, I answered an ad in the Village Voice for companions to drive to Mexico.  4 of us travelled in a big ol car, 6 flat tires on our journey, driving from NYC to Merida, on the Yucatan peninsula.   Many adventures along the way.   Zapata vive, la lucha sigue.   iYa basta!

How many adorable pictures have we seen of tiny kittens being fed  pure cow's milk, directly from the cow? Now, we are told many cats are lactose intolerant and cannot metabolize the milk properly, so we should not give that  to them. Who knew?

Here are seven "people foods" that should not be  given to your cat or dog, as they have been found to be either directly or  indirectly "toxic" to them:

• Avocado:   Avocados contain  persin, which is a derivative of fatty acids. Persin is toxic to cats and dogs,  as well as other animals, and especially birds.
• Chocolate:   Chocolate is considered to be poisonous to cats and dogs. It contains theobromine, an alkaloid, which can give pets theobromine poisoning, which can  lead to death if not treated early.
• Cows' milk:  Cows' milk  is not considered toxic to cats, but some cats are lactose intolerant, thus milk  may give them diarrhea or other digestive symptoms.
• Foods containing  Xylitol:   ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center warns dog owners that  products sweetened with Xylitol are harmful to dogs. Xylitol is a naturally  occurring sweetener extracted from fibers of fruits and vegetables and is used  in a wide variety of desserts, snacks, candies, gums, and the like. Xylitol can  cause a rapid and severe blood-sugar drop in dogs, which can lead to seizures,  vomiting and weakness. Immediate veterinary attention is required.
• Grapes, raisins:  Grapes and raisins should be avoided as  pet snacks, as they have been linked with kidney failure, especially in dogs.
• Onion, garlic, leek, chive:  Onions contain a substance  called N-propyl disulphide, which can destroy red blood cells in cats, causing a  type of anemia called Heinz body anemia. Garlic, leeks and chives contain  similar substances, although in lesser amounts.
• Tomatoes, raw  potatoes:  Tomatoes and raw potatoes contain the glycoalkaloid  Solanine, a poisonous compound which can cause digestive ailments in animals.

WEST:  MANITOBA:  2004, Frank Albo announced that he had found major occult symbolism and geomantic architecture in the Manitoba Legislative Building.

Shortly after, he was interviewed on the Alex Jones show to discuss how talismanic magic is incorporated into the architecture of government buildings.  3 years later, Frank's research has been publicly accepted and verified, and he has released a new book called "The Hermetic Code". The book was originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press as a dramatized portrayal of his journey of discovering the secrets behind the greatest masonic temple in north america, built at the longitudinal and latitudinal center of the continent!

 "IT BEGAN as a curious glance at two sphinxes on the Manitoba Legislature ...   and resulted in the remarkable discovery of one of the greatest cover-ups in Canadian history. After years of painstaking research, specialist of ancient religions and secret societies, Frank Albo, uncovers a spine-tingling trail of occult clues concealed in the building’s architecture, including hidden hieroglyphic inscriptions, numerological codes, and Freemasonic symbols so intelligently masked it has escaped historians and visitors for nearly a hundred years! As Albo pieces together the complex jig-saw puzzle an astonishing pattern emerges - a web of concealment in the original blueprints and in the building’s iconography pointing to a secret plot. He reveals the building to be a library of coded messages and secret teachings inscribed in a Masonic language. Is it possible that Canada’s historic centerpiece is really a conduit of magical power? Is the building’s location in the centre of North America a site for numinous earth energies? The Hermetic Code is an edifying feast of religious mythology, occult history, and code-breaking symbolism."

Completed in 1920, The Manitoba Legislative Building is by far the most expensive building in Manitoba, and it is irreplaceable. The cost of construction today would be impossible, especially considering the lack of very skilled mason workers that would be capable enough

About the book and from the book:
It begins with the Sacred Geometry of the overall design - the Golden Ratio of the Pythagoreans, incorporated prominently in temples and churches for thousands of years. Into the lobby of the building one is confronted by protective beasts or temple guardians (apotropaic icons) in form of sacred bulls, lion-heads, bukrania, Medusa and Athena. A “Room of Protection,” says Albo, an integral component of ancient temples. The room is a perfect square, 66.6 feet on each side, alluding to the number 666. Albo’s explanation of this - perhaps surprising to the average reader - has to do with the reverence of occultists for the works of the legendary hermetic alchemist, Cornelius Agrippa.

The importance of Numerology is apparent throughout. There’s a GrandStaircase in the Room of Protection, for instance, which has thirteen steps, leading to five archways with panels having five, eight-petalled gold roses. The numbers 5, 8 and 13 are repeatedly invoked. (Astute readers will immediately grasp the significance of the sequence.)

Other features of the building include the Pool of the Black Star - the temple altar - with allusions to Ishtar, Pan, Hermes and Aphrodite. The eight-pointed Black Star, together with the patterns on the floor of the rotunda above, are suggestive of the first degree of Freemasonry. On the roof is the Golden Boy statue - a representation of Hermes Trismegistus - flanked by two Sphinxes carved with a hieroglyphic dedication to the Egyptian Sun God Re. The list goes on, and on. “The building is laden with Masonic themes and incorporates the order’s ritual symbolism. As you walk through it, you’re unknowingly participating in a type of interactive Masonic drama. You’re undergoing rites of purification and moral perfectibility, facilitated by the iconography and sacred geometric proportions.”

* In trigonometry, the sine of 666° is one-half negative of 1.618, close to the golden number.

* Standard sized credit cards are 54mm by 86mm, creating a ratio of 0.628:1, close to the golden ratio.

* In some Christian crosses, the ratio of the vertical part to the horizontal part is the golden ratio.

* The golden angle, 137.5 degrees, is obtained as follows:   (a) multiply the non-whole part of the golden mean (0.618) by 360 degrees, which yields approx. 222.48    (b) subtract the result in (a) from 360, which yields approx. 137.52

* As viewed from a fixed point in space [where?], the planet Venus traces a regular (perfect) pentagram across the ecliptic sky every eight years.

* The sound of a 'perfect 5th' in musical terms (?) occurs in the rotunda. Its diameter is 54 feet and the distance from the 'Pool of the Black Star' to the 'eye of the dome' is 87 feet. Then, 87 divided by 54 = 1.611 [this figure is approx. = 1.618, the golden number].

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EAST:  HALIFAX:  Announcing The Atlantic Conference: The definitive gathering of world experts on the possibility of early  trans-Atlantic contact..  Halifax, August 15-17, 2008

Linguists, Archaeologists, Cartographers, DNA  experts  will gather to  share their recent work, their views and their theories regarding early (pre Columbus) trans-Atlantic contact of peoples of the Americas with those of Europe, Africa and the Middle East .

Since the 1933 discovery of a flint spearhead unearthed at Clovis, New Mexico, scientists, academics and just about everyone else became entrenched in the idea that North Americans arrived on this continent exclusively via the Bering Straight land bridge. The mammoth skeleton that lay beside the Clovis point was carbon-dated to 11,500 years ago and there seemed to be no other find that pointed to older human habitation in North America . This theory became so accepted that archaeologists stopped looking for older artifacts.

Natives tell a different story. They speak of many waves of migration and even purposeful intermarriage between the peoples of Europe and those of North America , and it was not just a one way street. People were going both ways. [NOTE:  Chief Tecumseh Brown-Eagle explained this in great detail in the Voices of the Ancestors conference in Toronto December 17.]

Many different people throughout the world have, in the past couple decades, arrived at conclusions that point to ancient contact from both sides of the Atlantic . Scientists and academics who ascribe to such theories are knows as Diffusionists. This term is used to describe anyone who is interested in pre-Columbian (1492) contact between peoples across the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.

In 1961, Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad identified a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland as being of Viking origins. That  is the only pre-Columbian contact via the Atlantic Ocean that traditionalists are willing to consider thus far.

The Atlantic Conference will gather world-renowned cartographers, linguistic archaeologists, DNA experts, and key tribal leaders from Native North American tribes such at the Mi'kmaqs who have a rich oral history telling of three waves of contact across the Atlantic , beginning about 200 A.D. And they say it was not just a one-way street.

About the Atlantic Conference -  The Atlantic Conference is a not-for-profit company whose sole aim is to further the study of early trans-Atlantic contact. The organization is run by Niven Sinclair of the U.K. , Steve St. Clair of the US , and William Mann of Canada .

(Bill Mann  is the author of "The Knights Templar in the New World, How Henry Sinclair Brought the Grail to Acadia."  His late great-uncle was a Supreme Grand Master of the Knights Templar of Canada and it was from him that the author received the key that would eventually unlock this mystery. William Mann lives in Oakville, Ontario. He uses the principles of sacred geometry, archaeological evidence, and Native American legend to discover the site of a secret Templar settlement in Nova Scotia

In 1398, almost 100 years before Columbus arrived in the New World, the Scottish prince Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, sailed to what is today Nova Scotia, where his presence was recorded by Micmac Indian legends about Glooskap. This was the same Prince Henry Sinclair who offered refuge to the Knights Templar fleeing the persecution unleashed against the order by French king Philip the Fair at the beginning of the 14th century. With evidence from archaeological sites, indigenous legend, and sacred geometry handed down by the Templar order to the Freemasons, author William F. Mann has now rediscovered the site of the settlement established by Sinclair and his Templar followers in the New World. Here they found a safe refuge for the Grail--the holy bloodline connecting the House of David to the Merovingian Dynasty through the descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene--until the British exiled all the Acadians in 1755.

When Mary Hardy first came to Toronto, 5 years ago, Mary and Daniel Kolos had dinner with Bill Mann.  Mary and Daniel as you know, have a deep interest in the Templars.  At Mary Hardy's 2007 Conference, Chief Tecumseh of the Erie Indian Moundbuilders Tribal Nation gave a presentation.  Tecumseh's tribe  are the Stewards of much of our land in Toronto, as well as stewards of the Mound area.  His people have been in this area long before Columbus.

      A  couple weeks ago I was in the room next to the room the computer is in when I heard that familiar --- and usually welcome -- chime indicating that my computer had started up.
      Hmmm.   that was weird.  This system has been extremely stable and not glitchy.   I went over to the computer and it started up fine, I did not lose anything and assumed that maybe the power just dropped and came back up again.
      I began work on the computer again and as I'm sitting in front of it, an hour later, the system stops, then reboots.   I see a quick flash of a message ,  maybe 3 seconds, before it goes on to its next process, something to the effect of:

      CPU OVERHEATING
     (or:  CPU  FAN  OVERHEATING  ????)
    something like that

     It seems to start up again fine, there is a little dust in front of one of the vents, I clean it off, nothing feels hot to the touch.   I continue.   Turns out my IN emailbox got corrupted and I lost it.    I keep a lot of messages in it.  Good thing I had reasonable backup and lost the messages in that INBOX (only) for the past month.    It could have been a lot worse if I did not have that backup...

    Peter, the computer guy came a few days later.
    He showed me how to go through SETUP  and we saw that my CPU temperature was dangerously high.   So off comes the back and whaddya know there's a good chunk of dust.   Yes, we got rid of it.   Properly.   To find out the temperature of your CPU, you have to restart your computer, and as soon as the screen light turns green you start tapping either the delete key, or the F2 key -- whichever is appropriate for your version of SETUP (you will be prompted).

   If I had bothered to stay current with "Making Sense of Computer Maintenance", which I read from cover to cover a few years ago, I may have recalled the part that said:   "Sitting on top of the CPU are a heat sink and fan.  Keeping the fan and fins clean is vital to the health of your computer....."   I even have the can of compressed air the author recommends!!!   And that area should be cleaned every 6 months.   PROPERLY.   (You do NOT NOT vacuum the inside of your computer, not unless you feel like risking a big static charge of electricity, which could easily fry all your data.)   I had not cleaned the inside of the computer in over 2 years...

    I think its time to reread that book.  Check the temperature, etc., of your components so your system doesn't burp the way mine did and you don't lose your data and good humor.
 

Peter Gouveia -- the "computer guy" -- President, Virtually Independent Products and Technologies (VIP TECH), (416) 835-4198, is a friend of some of our members, and was available to fix the computer.   Yes, Peter does make house calls and he has even started attending our meetings!  Peter is preparing an article for us which shall explain how a hacker can get into your computer, remotely.

Just before the New Year, one of you I have not spoken with in some time called and told me about this new insidious flu that had you totally out of commission for there weeks.  The next day, I started experiencing the symptoms.  Hoo boy.  How come this travels by phone?  Obviously it doesn't, I was just unlucky.   For the next 6 weeks, on and off, mostly on, life was not fun, there was too much fatigue, feeling crummy, de-energized and too much coughing.

Luckier than most, I'd heard that with most it started as a real bad sore throat, then you can't talk for several days, sniffles, stuffed nose, then the feeling crummy, cough, exhausted, etc.  And when you think its gone, it comes back.  2 or 3 times.  If not well cared for it could -- and has -- developed into strep pneumonia.

What is with this flu?  With the strep/sore throat discomfort added on to the fatigue, it is a really nasty mixture.  Does it come from chem trails?   Probably.

Toronto Dowser Helga Riemer tells us the best way to deal with it is by the use of vibrational remedies.  She's probably right. Helga and her colleagues can prepare these for people.

With thanks to the Toronto Dowsers, the means I used to diminish this illness was very different from what I would have done even 3 or 4 years ago.  Here's my list, in the event you may consider some of these helpful for your own use:
 

Cass Ingram's Oil of Oregano -- 1 or 2 drops under the tongue, and held there, about 3 times a day.  This was THE BEST!

Young Living Oil's Thieves Spray -- as needed, excellent to relieve sore throat pain or cough

Pierre Noreau's Calcium Ascorbate -- for Vitamin C.

Plenty of Ginger tea made from freshly grated ginger, with Cass Ingram's Wild Oregano Honey

Rob Jarvis' www.IndigoldEnergy.com ORMUS -- felt so soothing.

From Lee Pulos -- Whenever I could and whenever I'd feel it I'd go into my 'quiet zone' and say to myself or think:  "I love my body.  I love my lungs."  Sometimes, too, when I was not in such a quiet place, I'd just put my right hand over my heart and focus on love.

Do you remember within the past year we had an article which included the homeopathic remedies for teeth and gum health prepared by Humesh Kapitan?  They did a great job.  Humesh was at our social..  One of you told me you went to Thompson's Homeopathic Supplies (Yonge & Bloor) because you, too had this flu and got a remedy that did a great job.  So I went too.  They suggest the cell (tissue) salt:  Kali Mur (for Muriaticum).   It helps!   Strengthens the lungs!  Cell Salts are miraculous.

About 2 weeks after this started, I remembered the Tong Ren, as we learned from Nick Lomangino.  !!  I started tapping away on the lung points.  An hour later, huge relief as big gobs of phlegm came up.  This stuff is AMAAAZING!   And I can do it on myself!  and it doesn't cost anything!  and it WORKS!   The next night, I left the acupuncture model doll in a dark room with the laser on the lung points.  Felt so much better the next day.

COLOR THERAPY:  Used the GREEN LIGHTS, purchased through Robert Gilbert.  It felt sooo soothing.  Had thought about using the Green light on the acupuncture doll rather than the red laser light, but I did not.   Should have used the Dinshah system as well, but did not.

Okay --- this was the most dramatic:
     Had an appointment with Angi Venning, to clear a big emotional blockage.  This was the 4th one in 2 years.  Each of them is a biggie and has been around for quite some time.  This issue that was dealt with was really stuck in the throat and in the heart.   Just as the issue was clearing, the coughing, which had been stubbornly persistent for weeks -- Stopped.  That was the most dramatic instance of the emotional affecting the physical that I had ever ever ever experienced.  A little of it has returned, but not nearly what was there previously.  95% of the coughing, and the discomfort, is gone.

The only thing I did not do because I forgot at the time was to use Dr. Ibrahim Karim's BioGeometry Symbols.

So that's my story.  My hope is that this may have given you different ways of dealing with imbalances.  And, please share your own successes with me and the rest of the crew.   Thank you.

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Helen Russ has been working with Inner Space practices for 9 years in Australia, Europe and America. Recently moved to the US, Helen is visiting Canada seeing clients and doing a series of talks and workshops. Helen is a student, a practitioner, a senior Clairvision® Instructor and Clearer. Helen has direct experience of the changes in subtle bodies and improved vision brought about by using the techniques.

Clairvision School offers systematic techniques to develop vision of non-physical realities. Vision of land energies, visions of time, vision of the impact of technology on subtle bodies for example.

The Clairvision School journey starts with a systematic method for developing the third eye — the foundation for direct experience of spiritual realities. Related techniques include psychic sleep, dowsing ley-lines, tuning into land energies, a whole range of practices to achieve psychic protection and grounding, communication skills based on perceiving energy movements, and several techniques to enhance daily awareness and presence.

Through time there have been extraordinary people who have had vision of non-physical realities. With systematic techniques working with the inner space of consciousness vision of subtle realms can be developed.

Inner space practices take us inside and by experience teach us to navigate inner realms.  Helen explains that working with inner space  can bring a certain soul flexibility.  By developing organs of subtle perception a new relationship to creation develops, vision opens, metaphysical shifts change perception, sources of power and energy are awakened inside. It is this enlargement of consciousness that overcomes depression, anxiety, fear, anger and sleepiness.   Through practice, working with the inner space of consciousness can awaken the God within.

During this talk Helen will explore the different styles of vision, vision of the etheric, vision of the column of spirit, vision of the eye.  Helen will discuss how you can develop your vision, the non physical vision used in dowsing, the other kinds of vision that are used in dowsing as well  and she will share her experience of the impact of dowsing on subtle bodies.

Helen will be holding an  introductory weekend  where she will introduce you to the techniques; entitled-  Awakening the Third Eye  in Toronto on April 5th and 6th 2008 and in Kitchener on April 12th and 13th 2008.