This FDA article disturbed me greatly:

http://www.naturalnews.com/024569.html

This is not what the FDA was charged to do and is exactly why more and more people feel government intruding upon them.

Here are some products I want you to know about…

For Sea Salt, a store that impresses me is Saltworks.us .. check out their Himalyan salt, which has a higher mineral content and greater purity than French sea salt. You can even use sea salt in home space clearing protocols. Drop it in some water. Recite some mantras over it, and fling around the corners of the house for purification purposes. Salt has always been used this way because it is a type of “yin fire” and baddies are “yin”.

http://www.saltworks.us/salt_info/si_gourmet_reference.asp

Want to kill Candida or fungus?
Candisol + Oregacillin

Kidney/Gall stones?
Planetary Formulas Stone Free and Raintree Nutrition Chancpieda tincture

Parasites?
Beachwood Canyon PC 1-2-3

CoQ10?
Try Jarrow brand QAbsorb100

Clean the gunk out of your arteries?
Phoschol + vitamin D (Carlson D2000) + vitamin K-1 (Biotech Pharmachol K-1) + vitamin E (Unique E)

Now that a preventable crisis has the gripping attention of the world’s leaders, what other catastrophic crisis on the horizon is also something that we can identify NOW and act to alter if we become statesmen rather than politicians?

First, AGRICULTURE — our seeds are controlled by one or two companies that have installed terminator genes, don’t allow farmers to reuse the seeds in subsequent years, and we have a mono-culture crop for most food items … this is a recipe waiting for disaster. One world drought or insect boom or climate change or new disease and the mono-crop is all gone. We must encourage small agriculture once again for security’s sake, as a national strategic concern (just as Saudi Arabia once grew wheat for security concerns as well). The government should encourage public seed swap / seed sharing internet groups as a backup to the often failing government and corporate efforts. There should be NO LAWS preventing farmers from using saved seed — this profit maximizing law threatens your life because it threatens your food supply. The government makes laws and says “No” to many things, and this is one of them because of the risks that the corporations will all so deny … just as they did for the current banking crisis. That’s how profit maximization works. It doesn’t care about social, environmental or other costs like this.

The stakes are way too high here foks to let our food supply policies be determined by corporations rather than public officials thinking things through for the public good (instead of saying let’s just let the profit-seeking corporations do it … witness this month’s stock results). Frankly “terminator genes/seeds” should be outlawed, plain and simple, because of the catastrophic risk. So the firms make less money, big deal. I would not let their actions threaten the food supply of my country, would you?

For the rest of the article on Future Catastrophic Risks, click on the link.

The talk I usually give around the world on the “changing of the guard” in US supremacy is too big to be posted, but here’s the relevant words that address the moment:

* No country stays at the #1 Superpower position forever. Previous to the US it was England, and previous to England (in the Western World) we saw the French, Spanish, Netherlands, Portugal, Venice, etc. That’s just the western world we’re talking about.

* The world supremacy cycle usually lasts about 150 years. A country is usually recognized as “the tops” for about 100 of those years, the first years ignored as the young upstart slowly establishes itself. Witness China the next leader. Within these cycles are large term Kondratieff cycles that on average last around 54 years (the 60 years Indian and Chinese cycle, Jewish 50 year Jubille, Mayan 54 year calendar, 3 generations, etc.). We are in the Autumn entering Winter phase of the current Kondratieff cycle that was longer than usual because of the inflationary policies of the FED started by Greenspan, which temporarily delayed the crash side … but in so doing amplified the underlying forces of too much debt of the wrong type. Austrian economics explains the boom/bust characteristics quite nicely. It is ALWAYS too much debt that looked safe that takes the leader down, along with a lack of regulation, excessiveness (greed), and mind-set that ignored the dictum “the best bank is to store money among the people (not corporations, banks or the government).” The country as it plummets usually turns socialistic in tone. Conservatism returns, protectionism, and debt destruction. A negative social mood breeds an enviroment too ready for war that increases the destruction. War is not the solution, and cannot start a consumptive uptrend.

* The LONG TERM bottom of the current cycle is probably 2014-2015 if we use long term cycle analysis (see timingsolution.com). Between now and then, lots of ups (2009 and 2010) and also downs. It is a period of deflation – destruction of debt and value of property. Cash is king. The value of safe cash increases over everything else.

* The only way out is not inflation, but the Schumpter destruction-creation cycle. New waves of innovation and MASSIVE efficient changes in infrastructure, transportation, energy, banking, etc. can power the uptrends, such as the following past waves in the US:
Cotton/textile: 1787-1842 (Canals, roads, bridges, agriculture, commerce)
Railroad/industrial: 1842-1896 (railroads)
Mass Production: 1896-1949 (Electronics, communications, chemicals)
Information: 1949-2004 (Electronics, consumerism, aerospace, internet)
The government MUST work on promoting this type of massive structural change, like a giant NASA project though in multiple directions. Hidden away projects must be released that can provide breathroughs in energy, transportation, cost recduction, materials, etc. It is the ONLY thing that works.

* As examples, here are sample previous western K-waves in the west that powered the uptrend until debt took each one down or a new trend eclipsed the old trend and became the new powering force (see Michael Alexander):
British rum/tobacco/slave trade
Spanish silver/Sugar
Portuguese gold
Portuguese pepper trade
English textiles boom
English wool
Dutch Asian shipping

* In China, some sample K-waves were (see Modelski and Thompson):
Printing paper/woodblock printing: 930-990 (informational)
National market/new rice/iron casting/paper currency: 990-1060 (networks)
Public finance/tribute system: 1060-1120 (new political framework)
Maritime Trade/compass: 1120-1190 (new global trade)

* The only thing that brings us out of these is a NEW economic force of new possibilities to make money because of a new revolutionary introduction into the economy of something, as illustrated, not a war. The destruction of the old capital base dries up the availability of capital, but new capital will come out of the woodwork if something new is found that displaces the old capital base that was previously the predominant power that demanded protection. After all, it’s already destroyed at the bottom, so there is no use to protect the old base anymore and prevent the new paradigm from manifesting. Such as — a cheaper source of energy, cheaper transportation, more efficient manufacturing system, invention of new revolutionay materials, new informational system, etc. as you can glean from the above examples. For instance, the US governemment (see Greene) has locked away in off book projects many technologies it does not want released that might start the whole thing anew by launching a boom that can absorb the losses even now. Capital will come from everywhere, even after a more devastating final destructive bottom is reached, to risk on these new things. This is the ONLY thing that can help .. not inflation.

* You will definitely see higher taxes. Kuan Tzu would predict that you may even see several countries combining their financial or monetary systems (ex. US and Canada) to get over this.

* History shows you may also see the taxing of non-profits, Foundations and university endowments. Whenever they grow too large, as is the case, and exert too much influence or control, this has happened in the past (France, India, China). Regardless of the religion, it happens. The large non-profit Foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, …) are prime targets.

* You may even see the splitting up of countries because of Federal government decisions to make unwise forays elsewhere that cause national repercussions, or due to the institution of national policies against populist wishes, and then a clamp down on the possible protests by citizens or more intrusions on citizens. Resenting this, and for a variety of other reasons too numerous to mention, countries sometimes split along economic, cultural, language, religious, or mind-set lines.

* The most irresponsible, arrogant, imbecile, stupid, imprudent “screw you rest of the world I’m doing what I want” threatening thing anyone can do right now is invade a country like Iran which is seen as a “maybe possible threat after five years or so.” It’s the worst possible thing that can happen at such a vulnerable juncture, especially when time is on the side of waiting. Remember, there is no immediate threat, and the future threat is only a theoretical possibility. If this can be avoided and people hold on their heads, we have a good chance.

Solution:
Pay attention to the cycles for your investments, but remember cash is king
Encourage the government to release its off book projects that might power a new uptrend, or stop suppressing changes that obliviate billions/trillions in previous infrastructure (ex. solar power, electric car, …)
Be careful of placing people in power whose mindset is asura-like

I just found a quick way to find our out of print books at reasonable prices.

Got to www.Bookfinder.com and put in the title or the author.

Simple as that.

Many people ask me about market cycles and so forth.

Either it has bottomed now, or a late October low (October 20 week).

Whichever it is, a rally into December, then the window dressing fall as funds change their portfolio before year end, and then rally to mid January, and then fall into late March/early April 2009.

Somewhere in 2009 we have a bottom (perhaps that is it), and then a rocket rally up to 2010 and then fall for years thereafter until the real mess works its way through the system … probably ending 2014-2015 by cycles work.

Here’s the best charts I can find:

What a scare. The blog was hacked and I thought the posts were gone forever. For days I’ve been trying to retrieve things and posting the articles as static html pages just in case.  For those of you who are Wordpress inclined, here’s what happened – a new exploit:

There’s a Wordpress plugin that uploads jpg and png avatars for users.  As we found out the hard way,  do not activate it ever. It’s the exact way how the attacker can get into your files (png can be script). Any plugins/addons that allow your subscribers to upload something (you can allow jpg or gifs for avatars, but better keep it safe) turns out to be DANGEROUS.

Here’s how the attacker gets in the database for Wordpress and starts causing mischief.  In the database appears javascript code that creates a second administrator.  It will have no name but all rights and call itself Wordpress (like a superuser).  So you have no chance to see this user in a list. But, there’s still one place where you can see it (please remember it).  When you’re on the user managing page, theres a list

All users | administrators (1) | subscribers (65)

When you click on the All Users, you will see administrators (2) – so if you know there’s only 1 administrator, the second is an exploit.

Why tell you all this? Maybe you can use this info to save a friend.  It sure is hard running a website to offer information nowadays!

In the many opinions people toss about on what the US should or should not do in the world, or what any country such as France, Israel, China or Russia should do to preserve and maintain itself,  I must remind people that every country should consider its international efforts and relations with neighbors in view of survival and prosperity. The various strategies a small state, middle sized state, interior state, island nation, impoverished state and macro state should pursue for survival as underlying national policy I have gone over in my book on Kuan Tzu.

First, a country should act in order to preserve itself. This is called acting for survival. The island exporting nation Japan has  different survival strategies than Israel, which uses strategies different from Ethiopia, China, France, Mexico or a Vanatu, India or Saudi Arabia. Each country must seek  to maintain itself and influence other countries for its own interests, which they all do though in means helpful or detrimental to their long term interests. All nations do this; Britain was a past champion of being able to influence and intervene (some would say interfere) in nations for its own interests of maintaining Empire. The question to be asked by strategist is "how will these actions threaten my survival in the short run or long run? Will they possibly threaten our survival through direct or indirect consequences, in the short run or long run, as we are most prone to simplistic straight line thinking and need to broaden our horizons. Is this the BEST strategy for our survival ?"

Frankly, the US in recent years has done a terrible job at examining these questions because  many of its geo-political actions and interventions have backfired, and if institued with long term survival in mind, show a nation that has imperiled itself rather than strengthened itself.

If survival is not an issue, the country’s leaders must consider whether its actions will,  in both the short run and long run, buttress or weaken its current and future prosperity. The underlying goal is called "maintaining a state of auspiciousness" and is most often achieved by a achieving a balancing of forces (a "golden mean" so to speak) in moderation over a prolonged period of time. In neither economic nor military nor social spheres should you let the nation progress to an extreme. "hubris" — the great error of the Persian Empire — should not be allowed.

In other words, statesmen should ask "will the actions we take or are currently permitting further our goal of ascension in the world, or weaken it through direct or indirect consequences?" There is definite blowback, or cause and effect, for every action taken, and we must consider  the full scope, measure and width of blowback consequences to our hopeful march forward. Obviously this has not been done.

What must not be done is let corporations, which are purely money seeking ventures, call the shots or influence the shots with preponderance. Corporations, for profit, will readily gut a country without a second thought, and only wise legislation can prevent this.  Furthermore, they often profit from wars, which are then seen as desired vehicles of profit for their goods and services, which provides an underlying motivation for them not to make influential moves that would help pace the way for peace and stability in troubled times. Wars are the biggest stimulators of consumption, but no populace benefits by them. Only the powerful at the head of strong banking and defense interests really benefit from military ventures that destroy property, lives and socieities. History has shown this over and over again…countless books commenting upon this have been written.

In capitalism, consumption is driven by advertising to stoke demand, consumer debt to make it possible, and war to make it necessary. Presently America has reached the limits of the capabilities of debt to stimulate production and consumption. Consumerism, or the stoking of demand by advertising and a materialistic ethos, does not have an unlimited lifespan just as capitalism does not have a  guaranteed ticket to ever increasing returns (profits increasing quarter by quarter) unless new markets are constantly opened and resources made available, sometimes by force if necessary. Such is the hidden basis of capitalism’s history, whether spoken of openly or not. The inherent idea is that there must always be growth, but in actuality, the economic models do not rule out a zero growth or low growth environment, which is something that might have to be considered in the next fifty years as even China and the other former Communist regimes reach saturation.  As it is, in most developed countries the consumer markets are replacement markets (eevryone has a car, tv, telephone), except for innovations.

When a government falls into the hands of large profit seeking interests or listens to them too much, thinking their interests are what is best for the people, it makes a big mistake and yet we have drifted into this teritory over the last 30 years because of PACS and the merging of economic thinking by the Democratic and Republican parties.  Corporations are not synonomous with the economy, yet they are readily identified by politicians seeking election donations whereas the great mass of the public is not usually turned into an identifiable voice with a single cash wallet. As a sage once said, "the best bank is to store money amongst the people," not the corporations, yet the rise of electorial politics has caused us to forget this thinking that the benefit of the corporations, and not the working people is what matters. It is too bad that our statesmen do not read economist Michael Hudson who often paints a clear pictue of where we are.

Consider that if one is guided by profits alone, what actions would not be undertaken to further gain? Humanity, ethics, society, culture all go out the window in pursuit of the almighty dollar and profit. That is why I often bring up the commentary by the Grand Historian of China when reading Mencius:

As the Grand Historian was reading Mencius, he unconsciously put the book down and sighed when he came to the place where King Hui of Liang asked Mencius, ‘How will you profit my country?’ The historian said, ‘Ah, profit is truly the beginning of disorder. That is why Confucius seldom spoke of profit, always shoring up the source.’ The source is the beginning. Whether it is found among the upper classes or the lower classes, the degeneracy of lust for profit is basically the same. When those in public office profit unfairly, then the law is disordered. When those in the private sector profit by deception, then business is disordered. When business is disorderly, people are contentious and dissatisfied; when law is disorderly, the citizenry is resentful and disobedient. This is how people get to be so rebellious and belligerent that they don’t care if they die. Is this not a demonstration of how, ‘Profit is truly the beginning of disorder’? The sages and saints were deeply cautious and aloof from profit, giving honor and precedence to humanity and justice. But in later times there were still those who deceived each other in hopes of profit; what limit is there to those who destroy morality and ruin education? How much the more serious is the problem when the path of adventurous profiteering is publicly espoused and pursued; under these conditions, how could we hope for the world’s morals and customs to be upright, and not be thin and weak? 

The Story of Chinese Zen, by Nan Huai-Chin, (Charles E. Tuttle Company, Vermont, 1985), p. 205-206.

 

 
What is the passage Szuma Chien is referring to? It is from the very opening of the book of Mencius, which starts out with a conversation between Mencius and the King Hui of Liang, who said,

 

‘Sir, … You have come all this distance, thinking nothing of a thousand li. You must surely have some way of profiting my state?’
 ’Your majesty,’ answered Mencius, ‘What is the point of mentioning the word "profit"? All that matters is that there should be benevolence and rightness. If Your Majesty says, "How can I profit my state?" and the Counselors say, "How can I profit my family?" and the Gentlemen and Commoners say, "How can I profit my person?" then those above and those below will be trying to profit at the expense of one another and the state will be imperiled. When regicide is committed in a state of ten thousand chariots, it is certain to be by a vassal with a thousand chariots, and when it is committed in a state of a thousand chariots, it is certain to be by a vassal with a hundred chariots. A share of a thousand in ten thousand or a hundred in a thousand is by no means insignificant, yet if profit is put before rightness, there is no satisfaction short of total usurpation. No benevolent man ever abandons his parents, and no dutiful man ever puts his prince last. Perhaps you will now endorse what I have said, "All that matters is that there should be benevolence and rightness. What is the point of mentioning the word ‘profit’?"’

 Mencius, Volume One, transl. by D. C. Lau, (The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong, 1984), p. 3

These are things you should consider when you examine the world trend of events today and try to decipher who is pulling the strings, or pulling for outcomes in certain directions. In the last 60 years a certain style of capitalism and world economic system has developed, but the system has reached a turning point that marks its end and a new one is slowly developing. But what will its shape be?

I recall several small quotes from Understanding This Chinese Generation that touch the periphery of these issues but enough to make their review worthwhile:

Throughout the cultural history of mankind our conceptions of morality have been governed by the religious principles of sin and retribution; from this our educational norms and modes of thought have taken shape, maintaining the social order for the last three millennium. With the rise of the modern culture of materialism and the consequent rapid development of commerce and industry, our view of morality has gradually fallen victim to an ideology of economic valuation that attaches a price tag to all things.

…

This is how danger is transformed into security, and the nation’s fears are put to rest. National salvation follows from the application of talent and wisdom, and the cultivation of talent and wisdom is the windmill which harnesses the “kinetic energy” of the winds of profound thought and learning. Based on the concepts of “rethinking the old to understand the new” and “examining the past to master the future,” we must map the recent historical evolution of our present approach to national salvation. With this in hand, the causes and effects of the complex confusion before us will be revealed and we can begin to understand how to productively direct our efforts in the perilous days ahead.

…

Today, universal education and the boundaries of knowledge grow with each passing day at a rate unheard of more than thirty years ago. Yet, the dedication and spiritual “zeal” of our youth to the ideals of the “movement for national renaissance” cannot compare to that of the generation before them. As we pattern ourselves on the advances of material civilization, we trade in our inhibitions and self-control for the good life, seeking refuge in its promised future of comfort and security. Blindly pursuing the development of commerce and industry, each frantic moment of our precious time is devoted to the attainment of wealth, even as our love of learning and self-realization become impoverished. As a result, we have fostered a social milieu that slavishly stresses the potential of the natural sciences, but treats the exploration of humanist thought as a profligate squandering of time. We continue to avert our eyes from the tragic future certain to result from the grotesque juggernaut of natural science as it feeds off the remains of humanist culture, like a “parasite in the belly of a lion, consuming its mighty host.”
 
If we truly desire to chart a new ideological course for the nation and the world, we must first come to terms with the struggles of modern life and the realization that they are the symptoms of a cultural war. Whether we look to the regions of communist control or the Free World, the industrially advanced First World or the underdeveloped Third World, as in the past we remain lost between the goals of spiritual realization and the necessities of practical existence. In other words, our frustrations are a product of the competition between man’s quest for economic equality in the face of scarcity and his search for spiritual rebirth and peace of mind. In our struggle, two preliminary issues emerge: the unabashed borrowing of capitalist economic devices by modern communism, and our own wrongheaded worship at the altar of materialism. Therefore, other than the current focus of modern youth on learning the skills necessary for everyday life and the struggle for national renaissance, there are two important topics that urgently need to be addressed by the best of this generation:

1. How to shape a new economic philosophy for the benefit of mankind
2. How to synergistically unite and harmonize the cultures of materialism and spirituality.

In the process of working towards this goal, we must proceed with the understanding that our endeavor is an outgrowth of the humanist ideal and a challenge worthy of the best among us, requiring deep reflection, a love of learning, and an inductive approach. Our task is not one of hasty plans and hurried work. While it may be true that there is an ocean of difference between our quixotic goals and the reality of the world around us, “diligent study ultimately leads to success.” Applying this wisdom to the honorable pursuit of humanist ideals will lead us to the inner realm of self-understanding. If, however, we limit our strategies to the goals of personal success and the necessities of individual life, then the historic opportunities now within our reach will be lost. We must seize our present situation and exchange it for an everlasting reality, grab hold of our individuality and transform it into an historical destiny. If we do see to it that these notions take on a renewed sense of worth in the minds of our young, we run the risk of becoming the laughingstock of future generations as we leave a legacy of blank pages to the next sixty years of scholarship.
 

I always try to tell people that tiny things can lead to big results, and to look for the little hinges on which the big doors swing. For instance, one tiny little thing I’d do if I were President would be to push recognition of stevia, the natural sweetener, which the FDA refuses to let us know about.

What would be the domino effect? Less sugar everywhere, less obesity, less health problems, less diabetes, healthier Americans … all because of the recognition and permission to use one natural sweetener that is far far better than sugar on so many different levels. You have to think of the domino effect of tiny acts to see how to change the world for the better.

By the way, there’s a new soft drink made from stevia called ZEVIA. Can’t wait to try it.

And another thing while I’m at it … the labeling rules of the FDA forbid manufacturers from telling you if they did NOT use hormones in their milk production, or their food was NOT irradiated and all sorts of other things we want to know about. Why outlaw such disclosures? Because the FDA bows to big business rather than the public, and big business doesn’t want us to know about the healthier options so we’d buy them..

Such small legislative changes like this could revolutionize the nation. That’s how you should think….what small thing can I do that would have tremendous results in benefitting the public?  I’m sure you could collect tons of ideas like this that cost absolutely nothing and yet the ramifications are so gigantically beneficial that we’re stupid for not doing them. Makes you wonder sometimes if someone isn’t being compensated  or rewarded in some way to keep everyone from being healthier.

Many years ago I wished to write a book entitled Genes are not Your Destiny. Neither is your environment, as Mencius would say, although it plays a big part in it. Go read Mencius and you’ll see.

Bruce Lipton, in his various works (books, videos, etc.), has seconded many of my views in this regard and provides the scientific paradigm for the same opinion. In short, genes do their thing based on what the cellular receptors of your body tell them to do. The inside of the cell doesn’t just decide to go wild, make this protein or that enzyme, but does so based on what the receptors "tell it" to do. Cellular receptors look like hairs or limbs sticking out from the membranes of cells, and  twist, turn, wiggle, fold or react … however you wish to word it and affecting the inside of the cell when they do so … based upon what they contact in the bloodstream.

Aha! Immediately this brings up the notion that if you flood your blood stream with good stuff … from good nutrition and supplements, etc. — then good things will happen. Bad stuff and bad things will happen. Continual overexposure   to a bad environment provokes an unfortunate reaction as the body tries to compensate but is eventually overwhelmed and cannot. Solution? Better environment, better good stuff to avoid a negative fate, negative outcome. White Fat Cow actually talks about this in a different way, but the same lesson comes forth. Meditation for Beautiful Skin is an entire book built around this concept.

[By the way, this article is not about this book, but I received this testimonial just the other day:

"I would like to write a testimonial regarding "Meditation for Beautiful Skin" although I have not read the entire book yet. You may use any part or all of the testimonial. It all is fascinating reading. I do not know where to start with this book. I have read large sections of this book, however, I am not finished yet because I just wanted to actually start practicing some of the information from the book.

"This book is filled with meditation techniques, nutritional information and other information regarding beauty tips. This is obviously much more than a book on superficial beauty. I set up a routine based on information from this book and am starting to see great results after only a few weeks of application. My skin is becoming so smooth and I have had several experiences with alternate states of consciousness that felt profound.

"This book is loaded with lots of practical short term and long term practices and techniques. I like the fact that you have many different alternatives to reach your spiritual, health and beauty goals from reading this book. The author really seems to have put a lot of time and research into supplying and validating information regarding everything that is in this book. This author even goes as far as telling you where to go to obtain products mentioned in the book. I am certain that anyone who is looking for practical information on how to meditate while improving their physical appearance will find more than enough help in this book."

Patricia Lodge
epamail.epa.gov]

Okay, so if you don’t activate genes because the cellular receptors don’t fire … because you in turn take care of yourself and start doing more  of the right things than wrong things, that’s a prescription for healthy living. With this understanding of cellular receptors, we then also have an understanding for why cardiovascular disease, in a family where it dominates, doesn’t seem to strike all the  family members …. and also why it can be reversed. Just do the things that don’t activate the receptors to set off the genes. Same for diabetes [see Julian Whitaker's book on reversing diabetes].  Those who eat right and exercise and take supplements designed to counter such a condition, more often than not don’t seem to activate the genes that would imperil them. A doctor would just call this "healthy living" but Lipton decribes it in terms of whether or not you activate receptors based on what you do or don’t do as a habit. In other words, he describes it from the basis of biochemistry and genes.

In short, it comes down to the same old story of exercise and good nutrition. So what about cancer, and preventative masectomies when you find out you have a "cancer gene."

First, there is no such thing as a "cancer gene". There may be a tendency for cancer, but your fate is not in the genes. It’s in what you do or don’t do. So start doing more of the right things if you find out you have this "genetic predispositon" and stop doing the wrong things.

Even the US government says most cancers are caused by environmental factors or there are nutritional causes, Therefore, to maximize your chances of avoiding cancer, eat right, detoxify, make sure your lymph channels are unrestricted, untwisted, untangled, etc. and stay away from pesticides, radiation, excess EMF and so forth.

I talk about breast health in several articles:

What I’d Do If I Was A woman Who Got Breast Cancer

Breast Cysts, Breast Health

Meditation Methods to Help Fight Cancer

Fight Cancer With Alternative Therapies

Cancer and Natural Medicine Cures

What to Do When You Have Cancer

I talk about a lot of these things and what to do about them in my Beautiful Skin book, which you should probably pick up if interested. If helps clean you out both internally and externally.

What would I do if I found I had this gene?

First thing:  a big, big, big, big , big thing. I’d detoxify every year BIG TIME – Richard Schulze products, Sally Rogers glutathione-lipoic acid detoxification protocols for the liver, etc. etc. I love Nature’s Pure Body for this purpose. I do it every year with two bottles at least.

Second — lymph drainage massage for the breast every year to keep the lymph channels clear. In my articles I explain how to find someone who can do this.

Third – eat right. I like Master Naturopath David Getoff’s ideas on eating as natural as possible. A big thing you should do is get an allergy test from a blood work lab like Immunolabs, find out what foods make you sick that you don’t know about, and stop eating them. They’re taxing your immune system. Cut them out and you’ll lose weight and probably feel better, too. Unbelievable results. Basically, you’re "removing the probable causes".

And of course there are special anti-cancer supplements you can take.

Once or twice a year you should do an immune boosting routine to help clean everything out. That’s why I never worry about colds and flus. They help you rev up your immune system to clean out the garbage that’s accumulated over time, like a typhoon in Asia that comes along every year and blows away the trees and plants that are too weak and encumbering the rest of the vegetation. Recessions do that too, by the way — they come along and get rid of weak economic players too fragile for the economic system.

So genes are NOT your destiny. React but don’t overreact. Change your habits and you change your life. You change your risks, you change everything.

And don’t forget to meditate, too!

This is a really good 90 second map of the birth and spread of religions:

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

Several points of interest:

* The mother of the great cultivation techniques in the world is definitely India. As to Egypt/Babylonia and Assyria,  and the Aztec/Mayan civilizations, nothing much is left to tell us of their techniques and traditions. All civilizations die out in time due to lack of merit or in socio-political terms, the civilization just ran its course. Same for peoples, same for nations … religions are no different (witness Zorasterism). Plenty of spiritual techniques and philosophies were developed in India, many of which have been duplicated in European traditions with their Indian (or even Tibetan) first origins ignored. Perhaps due to the feng shui of the region (its chi) or some other reason, this is where the great cultivation masters sprout up time and time again … most great masters in ancient times went EAST and East meant India or Asia for training purposes. WHo knows where Jesus went during his lost years?

* Buddhism originated on top of these Indian systems and picked from the very best for its teaching structure. It appealed only to the highest levels of educated society and had to be robust to stand their scrutiny as well as really be a guiding path through the countless India competing schools and dogmas. In time, it died out in India due to public preference for ceremonies and the unwillingness to buy into personal responsibility for liberation cultivation, etc. and grafted itself onto China, and  the rest of Asia. China had developed its own set of independent but similar spiritual traditions, so was able to use Buddhist principles to enhance them. As my teacher often says, the great Buddhas when they want to be born are born into poor countries where there is a LARGE population, not small countries like Tibet where their influence would be minimal. China and India fit these qualifications.

* Islam originated in poor, waterless desert kingdoms where the living is not the easiest. Due to the corresponding lack of merit  within the populace (otherwise you’re not born into such poor regions lacking any cultivationculture as well), the main method of Mohammed was to instruct merit making and cultivation through disciplined prayer cultivation several times a day. Discipline + cultivation build up the merit of a people over time – witness Japan’s economic resurgence this century due to national sacrifice and discipline. It’s interesting that Islam spread through a method similar to the Bodhisattva Manjushri: "I have a book of laws and a sword. Follow the one or you get the other." This was the way to graft a civilizing influence onto the people and create a great and noble civilization in time that might never have developed otherwise. It’s imposed onthem, otherwise it would never take hold. Expedient means for the situation at hand, but certainly not for today.

* Christianity’s spread was sporadic and diffuse at first, mostly due to missionary influences rather than the logic of stream itself, and its origins actually concentrated on people considered the lowest levels in society. Without the influence of St. Paul, who had practically no cultivation accomplishments but just an intellect, it was turned into a religion. Missionary work, rather than excellence of the logic of the tradition or robustness of its cultivation methods, is still the main way it grows today.  It thrives primarily in rich countries, which is akin to saying nations with lots of merit. Incidentally, it emphasizes charity, good works and offering which have corresponding karmic returns, and there is this tie-in as to why  many rich countries (not all) have a Christian bias.

All of these religions grow over time, spread and will die over time. All of them. Nothing is permananet. New masters will arise with expedient teachings for a time. Some will take hold and some won’t. Some will spread, some won’t. It’s really that simple. The crux is to find cultivation teachings within a tradition and hold to those for your own personal development. As to external dogmas, many are created, warped, twisted, etc. for political expediency and to rule populations rather than being commandments of religion or eternal laws of universe. But ignorant people don’t know that, and even if you do, one must fit in to the status quo or risk life, limb, wealth, reputation and so forth. It’s as simple as that.

 

With admiration, and at times awe, I sometimes sneak a glance at the Beijing Olympics. The one thing that strikes me is the fact that the athletes got to this level from one thing: training, training, training, practice, practice, practice. This is something I point out in White Fat Cow — you have to set up a schedule of practice for something you really want, and then stick to it religiously, with discipline. That’s how they all achieved sports excellence, and the rights to even compete at the Olympic Games.

Naturally you know I want to pull this into the topic of meditation, or cultivation. If you don’t do the same — if you just pursue spiritual cultivation haphazardly, then we can say another life is wasted. You won’t achieve anything without cultivation work and effort, and that requires practice. Practice requires either discipline or motivation, not just reading books, study and lectures. The best way to  practice is to force yourself to practice by setting up some schedule like Ben Franklin, Liao Fan, and other famous people. That’s how you attain proficiency and then excellence in any field. To just read about it is not enough. Go out and do it, achieve it. You can read White Fat Cow for more information.

White Fat Cow - I’ve never had a bad comment on it!

Now about the Olympics in general. I watched US swimmer Michael Phelps with admiration, and was amazed at the flexibility of his joints when I watched the underwater scenes of his legs and ankles. Do you know how you can increase your athleticism and sports proficiency? Zhealth.net. Get it, try it. It’s expensive, but one of the best things I’ve ever found for people, especially if you’re older. Phelps’s excellence reminds me of this training. If you work every joint through its full range of motion three times per day…and it only takes 10 minutes…you will see tremendous improvement in aches and pains, flexibility and performance. It’s expensive at $85 for the CD, but well worth it.

Zhealth.net….. R-Phase and then I-phase, if you like it and do it.

Now about the Olympics ceremony – marvelous. I don’t think anyone will be able to duplicate its excellence  …or be willing to spend the $80 million it took to create it.. I get a kick out of the fact that China replaced the little girl who sang the opening song with another who "looked prettier." The Chinese do things like this all the time. I remember reading years ago about how they used to try to cheat the world on how great Communism was. Officials would travel form the US and other countries, be brought to rural regions surrounded by lush agricultural fields, and would be told that this was normal for China everywhere. Smart (I should say "wise") officials would pull up and peer underneath the bottom of the tents and hunts that the Chinese said had been there for years, and plainly see the fresh grass proving the Chinese were faking things. Of course, many officials were not so wise, nor intellectuals, and bought into it. Ha Ha

Recently, some upper level Shaolin monks, from the famous Shaolin temple, told me that when Putin visits China from Russia, he loves to see marital arts competitions and brings Russian athletes for contests. Once he invited a match between his athletes and the famous Shaolin monks. This was just recently, mind you. Not wishing to lose the match and thereby "lose face," the Chinese worried that the monks weren’t good enough so they secretly went throughout China to find the best martial artists, shaved their heads and dressed them in monk’s robes,  claimed they were full time monks, and then let the competition begin. So when I see a 13-14 year old Chinese gymnast being passed off as 15 years or older, it’s the same story all over again.

I have so many stories about deception like this that people wouldn’t even believe them. I remember that one airline company in China, when starting out, bought a Boeing aircraft, and to get a second aircraft took out a loan on the first which was forbidden by contract. The insurance company said "no way, it’s the same plane" even though the Chinese tried to change the plane’s numbers and change all documents to that effect. But the company’s Chairman rallied every single department in China to change ALL paperwork for the plane within 3 days, and with a massive forgery campaign (of which he is still immensely proud today), presented the documents and then took the extra step of pushing for the firing of the poor insurance guy doing his job who claimed it was all faked. That’s China for you.

But this is not to take anything away from the excellence of the Chinese athletes. I’m just in the mood to tell stories today and tell you how the world really works. How does the world really work? Well Georgia recently INVADED South Ossetia WITHOUT PROVOCATION and started killing Russians there — over 2000 people. Russia responded, first with a UN request which was squashed, and then with an invasion to stop the genocide. Yes, this was "genocide." Everyone wants the US to go into Darfur and stop the killing, but we have no strategic interests there so nothing gets done. Russia didn’t wait around but just immediately went in and stopped the killing of its people. Georgia didn’t do this without the backing of the US, who supplies weapons to Georgia as does Israel, and the timing was chosen to make George Bush at the Olympics look totally innocent and uninvolved with the matter. You see, you must always play to appearances, just as the Chinese do. And by the way, this was a great strategic blunder because Russia will, in all likelihood, now sell missiles to Syria and Russia is likely to set up a base of operations in Cuba and give double tit-for-tat every time the US makes an aggressive or expansionist move. A good article for how blunderous the move was to encourage Georgia in its excursion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/opinion/24steel.html

But here’s how the real world works — the US press makes it out like Russia is the bad guy for intervening to stop the killing of innocent civilians.  The comparison to the fact that we went into Iraq without any justification (as compared to the Russians) and are still there years later without an exit time-table (as opposed to our demands the Russians pull out immediately) is not brought up anywhere on TV. That is how the  real world works.  The guys in charge in Washington have pulled off another geopolitical blunder. I’ve the only book on how to win the world and rule the world out there and they keep violating every tenet within it to further the collapse of US hegemony and world prominence. See my book on Kuan Tzu strategies if you want to know how to gain world hegemony without looking like it, something these guys just don’t understand. 

Kuan Tzu strategies - how to rule the world, unite the world, become a world leader, turn your state into a superpower, get elected,etc.

Just over 50 years ago, Master Nan said the US had about 50 years left of good fortune being the number one country in the world. As the clock ticked by, he’d lower the number of years left and now the 50 year mark has passed with his words oh so true. The unwise military moves of the US, combined with the crumbling of the US monetary and economic system due to decades of debt proliferation and outsourcing to destroy its economic base are starting to show. But remember that our position of dominance means that the deterioration will take time, but you can see the seeds planted that almost cannot be reversed unless a sage were to come into office. Many of the wisest people I talk to share the same view, and quietly comment that the Bush changes re not something that can be reversed with 3-4 presidential elections.

By the way, the economic cycles show a depressional peak in 2014-2015, but strange enough, a fake market rebound in 2009-2010 for whatever reason. Who knows? Like Zimbabwe, where it took 10 or 15 years to really get a collapse going, things will go up and down and totter until they finally break. Like Jimmy Rogers, I don’t think the Fed will last though the next 20 years. Bernake is just an academic. Paulson is doing a fantastic job but Bernake is not up to it. Then again, we tend to never elect men into the Fed for brilliance but because they tend to be mediocre and won’t rock the boat. Volker was the last great one in the position of Fed chairman.

My only point is to make you wake up. For real news you can always search through www.Rense.com for the nuggets that will keep you informed of what’s really going on in the world. Ignore a lot of the crazy stuff but read the news from all over the world to piece together the real state of the union. I never watch TV news — useless since it’s all controlled by 4-5 large corporations. there used to be over 130 separate, independent,competitive news agencies in the US but there are now only five who do not want to rock the boat or challenge the government (even when it’s being stupid against our best interests, and their failures show that when they THINK they’re making the best moves in our geopolitical interests they’re still just ignorant neophytes and just stupid at it, and their policies are likely to be reversed anyway by subsequent administrations — very high lack of wisdom), and thus you never hear what’s really going on.

The Internet is taking up the slack, but that’s why it’s so dangerous and they want to regulate it. It’s all a matter of control. Unfortunately they don’t realize that you need a reality check on the government and business, just as Democrats are supposed to watch the Republicans and vica verse, for without this things really will go out of bounds as people let profit considerations overide what’s good for the people. But who am I to talk?  … I have no power, no money, no status, no influence, no importance, no voice. You’re the guy who has to do something. Just my two cents.

Be wise, be well, have fun, Autumn is here.

I know quite a few Filipinos who love to tell me about their nation’s ghost stories. They’re not exactly stories of ghosts but of supernatural creatures that live in the remote jungles and forested countrysides of the Island.

Let me recount a few …

First there is the story of a type of being that looks human, but whose upper body can detach from the trunk, and fly off to find its food. What does it look for? Human babies or a pregnant woman carrying a child… the stories are not clear on this. It can kill a child or cause a miscarriage because it feeds on the baby’s chi.

The Chinese and Japanese have a similar story of beings who look human but whose heads fly off at night and secretly sit atop rafters above a baby’s crib. Then the being extends a long thin tongue down to the resting infant, reminiscent of the  poisoned thread once used by a ninja to try to kill James Bond, and tries to suck the baby’s chi to feed upon it.

Another story is of water ghosts, and China has this same type of ghost as the Philippines, attested to by hundreds of stories. It seems that there are certain water ghosts who cannot be reborn as humans unless they find someone to take their place, and so they try to drown people to find a replacement for their position. Usually they live near a bend in a river where other people have drowned. When people claim they hear talking at night on a river or lake even though no one is around, that’s often this type of ghost.

One of my friends was actually playing with friends in such a spot and was sucked into and underneath the water even though it was only thigh deep. Two of her friends drowned and their bodies were found days later "stuffed" under rocks in the shallow water. She managed to escape by praying and struggle, but lost a bracelet tied to her ankle. To this day she swears she felt she was being pulled under by a hand and could not understand it in a river only waist deep. However, all  her friends knew to avoid that spot but for some reason they all partied there the day of the accident. She  felt something bad might happen because they saw a flock of crows leaving the spot right before they settled, recognizing it as a bad omen, but they all set about the partying anyway. Such is karma.

Another being in the Philippines looks like a centaur and kidnaps young girls as a bride, while various female forest denizens seeking husbands will invite men to stay with them who, even though refusing, find out that their brief conversation has cost them  a month in human time, which they discover upon completing their journey through the forest paths and returning home. Of course this is a great cover story for a man who wants to hide his extracurricular activities, too, but I have friends whose chaste relatives were psychic and have experienced this in the Philippines, being targeted probably because of their psychic abilities in the first place.

There’s also the case of Filipino giants who smoke cigars and whose footprints can be found in soft mud. Sometimes their rolled up tobacco leaves, several feet long and inches thick used to make cigars, are often found discarded in the forests and end up perplexing the infrequent travelers who see the burnt ends.

Now some of these stories are made up, just as we can see in the Strange Tales of Liao Zhai, but of course some are real. There are lots of "invisible" beings in the world made of chi. There are dragons, nagas, fox spirits, turtle spirits, giants, elves, mahaghoras (GIANT, and I do mean BIG, snake spirits), and all sorts of minor heavenly beings as well.  Some good, some bad … just like the human realm. The number of invisible creatures on this world alone numbers in the  thousands.

I’ve had  a few encounters with such things, and my teacher has tons of stories as well, but I never seem to bump into "ghosts" while everyone else does. I’ve had friends visit Macau, a gambling mecca, and found their bed shaking in the night with little headless beings appearing in the clothes dresser room. I’ve heard lots of ghost stories from friends who have seen things first hand, but not me. I’ve had Chinese generals and tight politicians, who dare not tell such stories in public because of the ridicule, tell the most interesting supernatural stories … and mafia people who are supposed to show no fear recount their own tales of the supernatural.

Elves or sprites? I’ve had friends recount stories of how the young boys in their village threw sticks at the mounds where the elves live, and when they woke up in the morning they were covered with cuts and bruises that smelled of rotten fish and would not heal until the village elders apologized to the elf mounds, asked forgiveness, and offered a banquet of food. I’ve heard many stories of how  "worm" spirits are bred, trained and then fed to people to control them as a sort of evil yin magic. This happens in Vietnam and China. Stranger things still in Malaysia and Indonesia.

As to asuras or demons, I’ve got stories on these beings too — some good, some bad as usual. Even these beings cultivate. It’s best if your eyes are closed when an asura visits in near or it could produce redness around the eyes.

I’ve got many stories of these things. Some real, some fictional nonsense, of course, or just the details mixed up. They’re fun, interesting, and basically just teach you (1) to be a good human being, a virtuous person and (2) that there are other beings  in this world, too.

Don’t ever think the human being is at the top of the totem pole in the universe or in this world. Anyone who cultivates quickly finds out that above us are the asuras, then the Desire Realm heavenly beings, and then Form Realm beings. There are even Formless realm beings that are hard to reach because of the level of cultivation required. Shakyamuni Buddha categorized the beings in the universe in many ways, and this Buddha land (galaxy) has different beings than other Buddha lands. All of them are seeking the Tao, which means enlightenment or spiritual liberation. That’s the one commonality. The methods used in the different galaxies differs, but the principle of reaching our original nature and fundamental essence (while navigating karmic obstructions) stays the same highest goal.

The problem for us, as humans, is that some religions provide a path and means to attain samadhi and the Tao, and others do not, but simply provide religious rules to help you be a better person and earn good karma for a better rebirth. But if you really want to make spiritual progress then you have to cultivate. That’s why many spiritual beings of all types will come to listen to an enlightened master teach when he does because they all want spiritual progress. Nations have protector deities. Even the local police station and court house have protector deities and invisible beings discharging their duties, whatever they may be. They have their own independent world, sometimes a parallel world, and sometimes a function that links witht he fates of humans.

Is there anyone in charge of the whole thing? No. It just forms naturally over time, you can say from karma or evolution or however you want to describe it. It’s like a man who goes and makes a home in the middle of a desert. After finding out how to survive, by accident or planning other individuals join him and quickly create a lifestyle and culture that lets them survive. This links with the environment, local wildlife, weather, and so on. As time goes on, rules and regulations develop for the gorup as well as philosophy, cities, religion and economic development. It’s all a natural progression. As the city grows, its relationship with other cities and local wildlife, etc. develops in its own special way. So some spiritual beings develop a relationship with man in the same way, and then order themselves just as we develop our own laws and rules and regulations. And of course, some have nothing to do with humans. The variety of beings and relationships is infinite, and you can only speak in general terms. China and India have many stories on these things, and doubtless the ancient Egyptian, Aztec and Assyrian cultures must have had stories as well.

Over time this relationship,whatever it is, develops into a system and the whole thing keeps turning, turning, turning with transformation. There’s nothing special about it. You just don’t know about it because you  can’t see it. But yes, there is an Indra as the Hindus state, and a Mahesvara, and so forth … but there is no ultimate creator that is a person above everything. All this is just empty appearances. It’s all just empty interdependent origination. You can read books and say "No, it isn’t" but after you cultivate to a high enough stage ou find out that "Yes, this is th way it is."

The only real thing is the Tao, the fundamental nature, the original nature we call "God" in the West, "Allah" in Islam, and so forth. The question for us is how to realize THIS UNDERLYING ONE, the Unborn ONE. Sages awaken and teach this. When they are high stage they usually do a great job; low stage samadhi masters (like Moses) usually do a poor job and leave out lots of materials.

The point is — you have to cultivate and awaken for yourself. None of these beings can give you enlightenment or save you. They can teach you the way if they know it and have achievement themselves, but not usually. That’s why they too study under enlightened beings such as Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who have already reached the original nature. Ask Indra or Mahesvara the origin of the universe an dthey’ll say, "I don’t know, please ask a Buddha." Only someone who aciheives complete union and perfect enlightenment with It can understand and teach it.

So the question you must ask yourself is, "Do you know the way and do you have a method to practice it and are you doing so?" If not better start because it’s not about beliefs or ceremonies or membership in some sect or religion. Those things are useless. It’s all about cultivation progress.

 

I recently saw an article in Snow Lion Publications’ catalog about how meditation can shift your level of steady state happiness.

Yes, it’s true. Kudos to science for finding this out, but you don’t need a researcher to tell you this. First, as you open up more and more of your chi channels, more chi flows freely in your body and you get progressively closer to the happiness and bliss of the first dhyana. It all depends upon your meditation efforts and   your cumulative progress.

Second, meditation progress depends on detachment, not clinging to thoughts, being empty and free. Thoughts come up but you just don’t cling to them because they are not you.  They are transient and will pass away. In fact, "being a YOU" is a false thought as well. As thoughts die down and the blue sky of cloudless empty mind appears, of course your baseline of happiness will increase. What thoughts are there to prevent it?

Dr. Kabat-Zinn taught mindfulness meditation to high stress, high tech workers and found it made them less anxious, mor eenergized and more purposeful about their works. Those are the things he could measure. Naturally we go into the deeper aspects because we’re not interested in superficial results but the real target of enlightenment to your original nature that’s always there.

Here’s a business for you …

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