Thanksgiving

Thank you

..for the sun, for sunsets and sunrises, for the moon & beaches & water – oceans, rivers, lakes, fountains, waterfalls, streams, all flowing water.. for optical illusions, clouds, colors, butterflies, ducks, all animals, even snakes and spiders and bugs and esp rhinoceroses, My Mom – all my family – in my long version I listed you all & why you were all important.. feel free to ask. ; ) Same at work.. Thank you!!! : ) Neighbours, friends.. being surrounded by so many amazing creative, loving, special people. My shiny new Mitsubishi (2006-Eclipse? – thought it would be a Mini!) Zoey. I am thankful for all the artists – Gauguin, Kahlo, Matisse, Renoir, the greats, the lesser knows, the closet artists & out-there artists, the musicians, poets, writers, dancers, martial artists, teachers, leaders, fashion designers, my clothes and all the great clothes I have yet to wear, my body, the raw food movement and all those great raw inspirers and educators who are making the world a healthier place, all the vegans and animal lovers, for all the photographs and inspiring images which I come across, for my website (Thank you Randy!) Thank you for fruit and candles and Christmas lights.. and all the beautiful flowers and plants and Trees!. Thank you for mysterious boxes and secrets and jewelery.. and rocks and crystals and minerals & essential oils. Thanks you for chocolate! And raw cacao experts and raw dessert experts.. for phenethylamine ..and all the people who grow the food I eat, who transport and sell the food and take part in any process which gets it from the ground to my plate. Thank you to the universe, & for being blessed with the knowledge I have about life. Thank you for music and rainbows and laughter and smiles. Thank you for humour, Thank you for love. Thank you for tropical islands.. and colourful fish, and not so colourful fish, and tropical fruit, and not so tropical fruit and green smoothies and babies and sprouts and my computer and my zebra blanket and Hugs and life, and life, and Life! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

pic from http://www.illustration-kitchin.co.uk/

The Secret

These are notes from The Secret - a movie I watched last night. It was great. Sure, I had heard a lot of this before.. I have written a lot of this in here before.. btu it's always nice to hear it again, from a different perspective and it's positive reinforcement. I was thinking of a few people who I thought would like to see the movie.. but strangely, it seems to be more the people who already know a lot of this and not the ones who seemingly really need it most.

http://www.thesecret.tv/

I haven't had time to look at the website yet, but I am sure it's interesting.. I will be going there later to check it out and to order a copy for myself. ..and maybe a few presents! : )

Whatever you focus on is what you attract into your life.

Positive thoughts attract positive people and situations into your life.
Negative thoughts attract negative people and situations into your life.

Have you ever noticed – that those who speak most of illness have it.. those who speak most of prosperity have it?

We are magnets.. always attracting.

The law of attraction is a natural law.. like the law of gravity.

According to quantum physics.. we can’t have a world without mind shaping into it.

You are the creator of your own life and you do it with your thoughts.

Be aware of your thoughts and choose them carefully.

Positive thoughts are 100’s of times more powerful than negative thoughts.

Everything that is around us we have attracted to us. Most of us have attracted things by default.

There are basically 2 emotions. One feels good and one feels bad. When we feel anger, frustration, sad.. this is not what we want. Hope, love, happiness are of a higher frequency.. they give us good vibes.. they are in alignment with what we want and where we want to go.

Whatever it is you are feeling is a reflection of what you are becoming.

What you think and what you feel and what manifests are a perfect match every time.

It is important that you feel good – this attracts more things to you that make you feel good and bring you higher and higher.

3 important steps:

1- Ask – You must ask for what you want, not necessarily in words, can be thoughts. You can write them down. Show gratitude and thankfulness for the things you enjoy in your life. The universe is your catalogue, you only have to place your order.

2- Answer – the universe does this step. The universe will rearrange itself to make this happen for you. It is not necessary for you to know how it will come about. The How’s are the domain of the universe. This is where magic and miracles happen.

3- Receive – Bring yourself into alignment with what it is you are asking. If you feel despair, fear, anger you are not in alignment. How you feel is everything.
When fantasy turns into fact you are in the position to create bigger fantasies.

The universe likes speed, don’t delay in acting, when an intuitive nudge is there, act.
Whatever you need, you will attract.

The world is based on abundance and well-being. When you are flowing with the stream of the universe you feel good. When you are resisting you feel uncomfortable. . and this creates dis-ease.

It is not harder to attract something huge than something small. This is no effort for the universe.. like it takes no effort for grass to grow.

Most people offer the majority of their thoughts to what it is that they are observing. Then you attract what you observe. You need to look at what is around you from a new vantage point.

Gratitude is a way to bring more into your life. Start making a list of what you are grateful for.

The secret is feeling good, happiness and love as much as possible.

cold remedy, garlic, coconut water and mushroom supplement

It’s cold season. 2 of my kids have colds and a few other people I know have them. I am determined not to get one. Last year I got sick.. & thought how unfair, that I was eating so healthy.. and raw. ..but my body was still really detoxing, and then you have to think that it could have been a lot worse, it passed fairly quickly. I saw David Wolfe at the Total Health Show & mentioned it to him and he told me that if I ate garlic and took a mushroom supplement, Host Defense by New Chapter, that I would never get sick another day of my life. So I have been doing exactly that lately.

“..the Host Defense formula by New Chapter comprises16 different mushroom species that are supported by scientific literature as well as an extensive history of traditional use. It was developed to provide a broad immune shield against a myriad of bacterial and viral vectors. “The formula works in three way,” says Stamets. “It enhances generalized immunity through direct anti-microbial activity, stimulates the immune system (natural killer cells and macrophage enhancement), and increases antioxidant ability to stave off or ameliorate free radical damage from toxic agents.”
from: http://www.new-chapter.com/media/press_releases/2003_09_22c.html

I made a juice yesterday morning with pea green sprouts, carrots and a garlic clove.

I have another great tip. Miloch told me this one, he saw it in a Juliano video I think.. that if you take out the tiny root inside of the garlic clove that you will not get garlic breath. Open up the clove & look for it in there.. it’s tiny and of course the same color, but it’s there. Interesting.. so whether it works or not, I’ve been doing it.. and no one has been complaining lately.

I am drinking my young coconut water mixed with E3Live right now as i type. .. another immunity boost that I have mentioned before. Coconut water and mother’s breast milk both contain lauric acid which is antimicrobial - great at fighting viruses.

Dorit made us a great drink that had a banana blended with coconut water and E3Live. Mmm.. that one was really good also.

Info on lauric acid here: http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/coconut_oil_healthy.htm

Margaret Robinson, birth and death, dreams and memories

Had the day off today.. for Grandma’s funeral. Jim’s grandma, Margaret Robinson - she was 89, an amazing lady.. she was fun, had a great sense of humour and could converse with everyone, she always seemed to know something about everything. She died of natural causes, well, she got an pneumonia.. but she died at home and that was important to her.. she hated hospitals. She was fortunate to have lots of kids & family to take care of her & spend time with. She had 10 kids! imagine that.. that’s a full house.. of course, some people have more.. but 10 is a lot.

Really big families interest me. Maybe because it was only my brother and I at home.. and he was 4.5 years older than me.. so he had his own friends & schedule etc. We got closer when I got older, teenage & up.. sometimes we’d end up at the same parties. Moncton, N.B. was an interesting place to grow up. Looking back I realize how many interesting & creative people there were there.. we had to create our own fun.. no access to the culture & nightlife and bands etc that bigger cities have. We had parties in the mountains, bonfires by the ocean, rented art galleries and had bands play after-hours.. house parties, I got bonded one time to this guy who was a close friend at an art gallery.. we had our clothing made out of rubber by this designer, think he had just came back from studying and apprenticing with Jean-Claude Gauthier in Montreal.. we exchanged beads and wrote up the ceremony, rules and regulations etc.. It was great, I forget his name now.. hmm.. but we were a really special couple at the time. Rules and regulations - I remember creating this game where everyone who joined had to write up & submit a dossier, and pay so much, I think 5$ and then we had to hunt each other down and the last person alive won. I forget who, it wasn’t me. I remember hanging out in Jamie’s basement and every week we took turns buying new import albums that came into Sam’s.. once in awhile we got lucky & came across something good.. we discovered so many good bands this way.. The Dickies, The Jam, The Heartbreakers..’yeah,yeah,yeah’ - that was the best song!

I just got out this journal I kept when I was a teenager, around 16 .. I still have it, 2 of them actually, but the 1st one is full.. interesting stuff.. it’s full of lyrics, drawings, recordings of conversations written out, recipes, information on lots of interesting things, all kinds of stuff taped & glued into it, phone #’s, journal & stories.. here’s the page I just opened it up to..

Birth
Death
Two sides
Of the same eternity birth-death
One cannot be born
Until one dies
To die
Is to be born anew
To be born
Is to die to all that went before
A birth
2,000 years ago
200 years ago
every second
we are born
we increase and die
what if…
we entered in joy
and left in contentment
deliciously satisfied
with ourselves and our life
can you imagine!
I cannot
But dare to hope
Putting tentative footsteps on the path
Wandering, hoping, wanting to believe

~Anonymous (from ‘… & the pursuit of happiness”

I can imagine that now btw, easily.. joy and contentment and satisfaction. It's all about what you put out there. Thoughts are things.

I had a dream last night that I got this really, really special dog.. and we bonded right away.. it was so cute! & when I woke up I was so sad that I didn’t really have the dog anymore.. that it was only a dream.. I couldn't believe it was a dream. My dreams are getting more intense lately.. more real, more passionate. I love dreaming. I have so many dream books around here.. I used to wake up & record pages and pages every morning of all the dreams I’d remember.. but then I got so many books.. and now I write a blog. : ) I think writing is very therapeutic. Good way to get stuff out, empty the vessel.. the more you empty it the more it gets refilled. The Tao. Temperance. #14.

Sweet dreams!

Pauls art opening, waste reduction week, Alice Walker, activism - voice yourself and Thoughts from Within

Art Opening
Tonight is the opening of my friend’s (Paul Corby’s) first art show. He’s showing with the Stefan Galvanek Fine Art School students in a show called Cityscapes at the Steam Whistle Brewery.
For more info: http://akimbo.biz/events/index.php?id=4806&day=4&month=10

Waste reduction week in Canada is October 16-22.
http://www.wrwcanada.com/
Environmental Information Network - http://www.owe.org/
This is the Ontario waste materials exchange website, which helps in the reusing and reducing of industrial by-product materials.

http://www.prrrdy.com/ - for info on reducing, reusing, recycling.. and info on composting, natural gardening, household hazardous waste, materials exchange program etc.

“Activism is the way we pay for being on this planet” ~ loosely translated, telephone wire quote from Alice Walker.
Alice Walker is an author, best known for writing The Color Purple, and an activist in environmental, feminist/womanist causes, and issues of economic justice.

NOW is not the time to be complacent.. it is time to be active.

One of my favorite activist sites – http://www.voiceyourself.com/

Woody Harrelson’s Voice Yourself - great ideas for healing and helping Mother Earth in this website. & if you haven’t seen his poem – Thoughts from within.. go there first!
http://www.voiceyourself.com/03_thoughtsfromwithin/03_main.php

Have an active and eventful day!

Jacek Yerka paintings and quotes

My friend sent me 76 Jacek Yerka paintings in an e-mail yesterday. I have picked my favorite from them for today & am selecting random quotes to go with them. There's thunder & lightning outside and the weather said bright and sunny.. but I love both - and happen to be dressed perfectly for both.. how cool is that? very!

Have a bright and dramatic and beautifully spectacular day!

According to Maslow the traits needed for eminence are "childlike spontaneity, fearlessness in the face of the unknown,attraction to the mysterious and the puzzling."

"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." ~Noam Chomsky

“It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.” ~Guy Finley



"And the day came when the risk to remain in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom." ~Anaïs Nin

"The human body is a mighty ocean, It’s depth is difficult to fathom. Only one who dives within Can find it’s pearls. I am a diver in this ocean: In a single dive I bring to the surface Such pearls of knowledge As are unknown to the world." ~Kabir

"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, The other is as though everything is a miracle. I believe in the latter." ~Albert Einstein

"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it." ~ Jelauddin Rumi

YummiYa and the Land of many jewels

Yikes! I have not been here for 2 days.. it’s been a busy, although very fun, weekend. & I just realized that today is one of my very special fiends birthday.. so I will need a bit of extra time for that.. and I am making something very special for the kids right now.. and it’s later than when I usually get here.. & I have so many things that I want to look up here but no time for websurfing this morning..

I loved Ron’s phrase.. that we should be a sturdy tree and at the same time a quivering leaf. –emotional moment. That’s my main thought for the day..

Ron & Nadine who make the best chocolate bars in the world, http://www.livinglibations.com/ , gave me a YummiYa bar, their newest flavor, for feeding them raw sandwiches Sat eve. : )

Nadine – ‘botanical muse shaping effable plant-light into palpable consecrations to blush senses and muse imaginations’... from their website.

I also bought an essential oil blend, the land of many jewels, which called to me from across the room.
& we drank to the drink Gods, lol – I set down the essential oils, my cup & a loonie.. was in search of the owner – and we all started dancing in a circle around it.. and it was very, very fun. oh, and scarf dancing with Dorit. So many great moments.. and sharing the durian with Miloch in the corner of the kitchen.. all the great moments are ‘in the moment’ moments.. and I need to run & make juice for my kids.. and call my special friend!

Have a wonderful day!

Have the most wonderful birthday ever Paul.. Much Love!!! : )

monastery story & sunscreen essay

I am writing today about 2 things I heard at Dorits lecture. She told this story.. not exactly the same, but close, she didn’t mention rats or cockroaches..

A man entered the monastery, and the abbot said to him, "This is our rule in the monastery: you can speak only once in seven years."

He accepted it, and he was shown the cell where he was to live. He thought, "My God!" The glass of the window was broken, and the cell was a very small cell, just enough to lie down in.

Rains came, and the water would come inside. He was suffering from cold, sneezing, and all his clothes were wet, but he could not speak. So for seven years he suffered the rain. The rain destroyed the mattress, and it destroyed his health also.

But after seven years he ran to the abbot, and he said, "You have given me a cell which has no glass in the window. I have suffered too much from the rain."

The abbot said, "Enough! Glass will be put in. Just go back, and for seven years, no more speaking."

New glass was put in, but when he went back to the cell, then he remembered that the mattress was completely rotten. But now, seven years ... So he waited for seven years with that rotten mattress, with all kinds of cockroaches and rats. But seven years passed. They were too long, longer than seven years used to be! It was almost an eternity.

After seven years he went running to the abbot, and he said, "You put in the glass, but I forgot to tell you at that time that the mattress was rotten, and cockroaches and rats and all kinds of animals are moving inside the cell. Please move that rotten mattress, and remove all the cockroaches and rats."

The abbot said, "It shall be done -- but no more coming here for seven years!"

So the mattress was removed, the cockroaches were removed, the rats were removed, but the people who brought the new mattress ... It was too big, so they forced it and broke the glass!

Again the same story began, the rains started coming, and from the broken window the rats which had gone out, the cockroaches -- they all came back, the whole family.

Now it was too much. He could not believe that he would survive seven years, but he survived. Man has immense capacity to adapt to any conditions.

After seven years, as he approached the abbot, the abbot said, "Don't speak a single word. Since you have come into this monastery, complaints, complaints, complaints! I never hear anything else. Just get out of the monastery."

The man could not say even what he had come to say. He had been thrown out of the monastery. After twenty-one years, this was the only result.

- Was this man thinking about God or Buddah or enlightenment at all for the 21 years? No. He was thinking only of what he was lacking. If you set your mind on what you don’t have you will get more of that. If you think about your blessings and are grateful and thankful you will attract more blessings and things to be thankful for.

& I think she also recited some of the lyrics from the Sunscreen essay, actually called Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen) written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.
The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single released in 1999, accredited to Baz Luhrmann.

& I really like the words, although I don’t agree with the sunscreen part.. to a large degree.. it blocks the sun and the sun is healthy, in moderation.. and especially if you have a clean diet ad body. (It’s the toxins in the skin which get burned and start skin cancer.) I just don’t like putting sunscreen on my skin, it has all those chemicals in it and skin just absorbs all this stuff and brings it into the body.. but back to the lyrics.. These get me all emotional though.. memories, it was played at Dylan’s grade 8 graduation and after 8-10 years of all these kids being together at Blantyre, they were separating and going separate ways to high school.. and they had this real tear-jerker slide show presentation to go along with it. Anyway, there’s some great parts in here, enjoy : )

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss..

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Pic from http://www.simple-wisdom.net/

Dorit, The Sacred Art of Eating, yoga sandals, durian and recipes

Today is Dorit’s workshop @ Toronto Sprouts - The Sacred Art of Eating- a truly different experience- this workshop will leave you with a totally different perspective on food and how our relationship with food is indicative of our relationship with ourselves.
I am picking her up & we are driving down early.. so just a quick posting.

http://www.yogasandals.com/
Dorit gave Marie & I both a pair yesterday, in black.. perfect. I love them! : )

Ian brought me a durian yesterday.. and Dorit said that’s exactly what she was thinking of that she would like for the presentation.. perfect again. : )

“Eat when hungry, sleep when tired.” This ancient Zen saying is a simple prescription for a satisfying life. But for many people, simply eating is anything but simple. It is ironic that in a land of plenty people suffer from a disordered relationship to food.

Lots of great recipes here: http://www.livingtreecommunity.com/store2/recipes.asp#8DORIT

Dorits book – Celebrating our Raw Nature
http://www.serenityspaces.org/rawnature.asp

pic from http://www.fruitlovers.com/Durian.jpg

Graham mangoes, superfood smoothie, benriner veg slicer and mythical matters

So many points of interest yesterday and things to write about on my mind.. need a list to refer to: adyashanti, ayahausca, carioca, benriner website to look into, a mystical magician-illusionist and his partner, what a dynamic duo, Shadow and Storm, mystical matters: truth, respect and wonderment & inspiring experiences. September Death, the raw living foods chef in from LA and looking into transforming our kitchen into a Rawk Star cuisine experience. The best lunch with our raw bread, sunflower spread and various sprouts, they’re back, missed them so much! And carrot juice.. thats the thing with making raw bread, we get lots of carrot juice. Oh & that wonderful cacao superfood smoothie experiment with Graham.. it was so good!

Superfood Smoothie – almond milk, banana, cacao, wild blueberries, goji berries and bee pollen

& Kermie (Septembers smoothie – & hopefully not a secret or I’ll be here quickly to remove this!) OJ and water, mango or pineapple, cinnamon and kale. She says it’s incredible.

She also makes killer mint choc chip ice cream called Chip n’ Kale. : ) Fun.

& a lead on the best and sweetest mangoes in the world which are found in only one part of Jamaica and mango lovers trek to this mountain to find these elusive Graham mangoes which are found in only this one area. (– but I’ll get back on this one.. it’s written on a piece of paper at work. (Westmoreland?)

Benriner makes my vegetable slicer & I just found where it can be ordered – The "Cook Help" Japanese Vegetable Slicer/Shredder:
http://www.quickspice.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/cookware-slicer-01.shtml?L+scstore+ezye6149+1159449685

http://www.mythicalmatters.com/

http://www.actsofkindness.org/people/days.asp

Eternal sunsets and Beauty tips

Enjoy the sunset - from any location at any time

http://www.eternalsunset.net/
http://www.eternalsunset.net/more.php


Beauty Tips

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives and the passion that she shows.

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

~ Sam Levenson (Audrey Hepburn is often quoted as writing this piece. She didn’t, although she claimed it as one of her favorites and quoted it in public a number of times, always carefully crediting its author.)

pic from http://home.att.net/~paul.dowling/archive/sunset.jpg

Tibetan temple, Soul sanctuary and quotes

"Love is so expansive it can't be contained"
"Love just Is, it asks nothing but seeks (gives) everything"
"Love is our natural state and all other contrary emotions are unnatural"
"Heal the world with the weapon of Love"
~ girlskirtmission.com.

Riwoche Tibetan Buddhist Temple of Toronto
416) 766-7964

28 Heintzman Street
Toronto, M6P 2J6
http://www.riwoche.com

A Hidden Jewel in the Heart of Toronto

This is the Lama and Temple responsible for so much of the good that is in my life today. Rinpoche is a true Dzogchen master and one of the most authentic human beings I have ever met.
The physical temple is one of the most beautiful, authentic Tibetan shrines in North America with 5' and 6' Buddha statues and the 50 statues of masters of the Dzogchen lineage.

The practices are:

Medicine Buddha Meditation
Tuesday Evenings 7:30 p.m.
Stimulates the benefit of natural healing influences forthe health and well-being of oneself and others, especiallythose suffering from physical and mental afflictions.

Tranquility Meditation
Thursday Evenings 8:00 p.m.
Cultivates mindfulness and awareness in a simple practicewhich allows the busyness and speed of habitual mind to subsideso that intrinsic peace and clarity may manifest naturally.

Green Tara Meditation
Saturday and Sunday Mornings 9 a.m.
Invokes the feminine aspects of enlightened wisdom in the form
Monthly Guru Rinpoche and Dakini Feast Offerings
from http://biz.zaadz.com/131/riwoche_tibetan_buddhist_temple_of_toronto/toronto_

http://www.riwoche.com/


Sanctuaire Soul's Sanctuary
http://www.sanctuairesoulssanctuary.com/

909 Manning Avenue 909 Manning Ave
Toronto, M6G 2X5
647 439-3837

To LIVE, to BE in HAPPINESS, SOUL, HEALTH, APPRECIATION, LONGEVITY, COMPASSION, FUN, FUN, FUN, PROSPERITY, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, LOVE, PEACEFUL LOVING SERENITY, for ALL.

“In the faces of men and women I see God.”~ Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass

“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt

“If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life’s purpose ever after.” ~ Abraham Hicks

PEA, coconut oil & spread, Bruce Fife

PEA – phenylethylamine is an alkaloid and a mono amine. It is believed to function as a neuromodulator or neutotransmitter. It is the same compound found in chocolate that put’s you in a good mood. It is sometimes called the 'Love' molecule.. – many studies have shown it to be an effective anti-depressant and effective against ADHD. It is involved with the runner’s high and also has the chemicals responsible for romantic love.

E3Live has a new product – either out or they are working on called AFA/PEA, which is a concentrated liquid blue green algae - aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), which is charged with extra phenylethylamine. AFA/PEA contains 50X more PEA than chocolate.

I have heard that PEA has psychoactive properties and something in it comparable to what is in excstasy.. but of course in a totally natural form.

From a study I am reading PEA increases attention and activity in animals and had shown to relieve depression in 60% of depressed patients. On those who responded whe recovery from depression was very fast after taking the PEA, within ½ an hour. This is huge considering over ½ the population suffers from some form of depression. Also good is that effective dosage doesn’t change and there are no side effects. It generally improves mood and also appears to work on grief, a different form of depression.

Ps. Re: re: endorphins and runners high.. it is now believed tha endorphins don’t penetrate the brain as easily as PEA and its actually the PEA which causes the euphoric mood after a work-out.

I was telling my Mom about how I had been in the bad habit lately of eating a lot late at night, just before bed.. and usually not the best food choices. I mean all my food choices are way above some peoples but I was eating my cacao concoctions loaded with lots of honey and almond butter etc & feeling kind of bloated when I woke up.. (nothing major, I mean, I’m raw & so I can eat all I want & not worry about weight or anything.. but, its mainly that heavy feeling in the morning I was getting). ..but it seemed that when I ate a coconut or something with coconut oil or my coconut spread I would wake up without this bloated feeling. I would wake up feeling amazing, with a flat stomache and energy etc. I was telling my Mom about this & she told me she was reading something similar, in a book by Bruce Fife.

This webpage has info, excerpted form articles by him: http://www.livecoconutoil.com/fife.htm
.. tells how coconut oil is the richest source of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT’s). & these MCT’s are what make coconut oil the only real low-calorie fat which works to melt fat off the body. They produce energy & don’t circulate around in the blood like other fats. Coconut oil & MCT’s are actually being added to sports drinks and energy bars now.

More on my incredible coconut spread from Wilderness: http://www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com/coconut_spread.htm (w/ recipes : )

Am off.. bursting back into real life.. had this image of being a 2d character coming back to 3D. amination is playing a large role in my mind lately.. seeing people as animated characters, listening to that great background animation music (there are some really crazy albums that have been donated to our collection at work. I was really getting into a zydeco album on Fri. ..but more on music tomorrow)

Have a spectacular day!

Pic by Jeremy Blake

Thai salads, the Fox, Noah Ben Shea, Rosh Hashana

Last night Jim & I went out for Thai food. There were actually a number of mostly raw salads to choose from, the usual mango salad, which I can always count on when at Thai restaurants.. but also they had a papaya salad, an apple-mint salad and a green vegetable curry salad – which I got & which was delicious. Jim ordered 4 other dishes, the table was loaded, way too much food.. the veg in all of the dishes were very lightly cooked.. & I had a little bit from those also. It was really good.
We went to see A Scanner Darkly, which is based on Phillip Dick’s book by the same name, which I read a few months ago. Only heard it was playing at the Fox last night. I hadn’t been to the Fox in years.. but now that I have a membership I’ll have to go more often. They get some great films in. The Fox is Toronto’s oldest movie theater.

‘Open for business since 1914, the Fox is the oldest continually running movie house in Toronto. Featuring some of the best alternative and mainstream films in the city, the Fox's single screen shows cult classics, foreign films and Hollywood re-runs, all in full stereo sound.’
From http://www.toronto.com/movies/listing/000-100-040

Check out movie info here: http://www.cinemaclock.com/clock/ont/Toronto.html

I got an herbal tea from Starbucks just before the movie & there are sayings on the sides of their cups. The one I got had something written about appreciating nature .. and that if we appreciated nature as much as the works and deeds of people we would all be richer by far. ‘Any ancient forest, polar bear or species of snake is more complex and improbable than Wi-Fi, the Mona Lisa or landing a man on the moon. What price would you pay to keep such treasures.?’ –Jenny Daltry (herpetologist)
btw a herpetologist studies reptiles and amphibians.

Another thought from a starbucks cup author – "Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back but so they will kiss their children, and their children’s children." -- Noah benShea, Poet, philosopher and author of Jacob the Baker, Jacob’s Journey and Remember This My Children.

His website: http://www.noahbenshea.com/
And the best thought of the day from his website opening:

“What inspires you?

What are you passionate about?

What is the dream inside of you?

There is no greater challenge in our lives than daring to be who we are.

There is no greater opportunity in our lives than daring to be as great as we might yet become."


Happy Rosh hashana weekend!
: )

Pic from http://www.muchnikarts.com/

organic conception, fish and spatula stories

I have 3 things on my mind, and yes, they include the fish and the spatula stories.

1 - is from the Erika Wolff workshop. She was talking about how people who had been trying to get pregnant for years and were unsuccessful, finally got pregnant after they went organic. This apparently is a common occurance & it makes sense. More and more people are having difficulty conceiving and I think and have heard it’s natures way of preserving the species. Nature carries on through its healthy species.. the more toxic and unhealthy people become the more difficult it will be for them to conceive.

2 - Brian Clement was talking about water and specifically how they can make water in a laboratory now, that they actually have been able to do this for years. The interesting things about this though is that when tested this man-made water is in every way completely identical to the natural water on the earth, even through those incredible powerful microscopes.. but when they put a fish in the man-made water it dies.. when put in natural water, it thrives.

3 - An article I read in the Metro on the way to work that made me almost, actually slightly laugh out loud. I have this thing about spatulas and they seem to me to be the most random thing in the world when taken out of context. Kaiya agrees. So I was reading this article in the Metro – Spacewalk is successful – but astronauts worried after bolt, washer float free. The article really went on & on about this bolt & washer and how it could be a real problem if they ended up in the mechanism – they were connecting an addition onto the International Space Station. Then I read how spacewalkers have a long history of losng materials in space (& I am picturing all these things floating by) “In July, Discovery spacewalkers lost a 36–centimeter-long spatula that floated away.” lol.. Spatulas are random even(& maybe especially) in space.. imagine that being out, floating around space and then seeing this spatula floating by. : )

image from http://www.elisehurst.com/forchildren.html

Gabrielle Shavaz, cookie & salad recipe, important websites

Interesting interview with Gabrielle Chavaz where she talks about Victoria Boutenko, green smoothies, smoothies with kefir, cake for breakfast, the raw food lifestyle, bee products, etc. - http://www.therawdiet.com/sept06.html

I am having cookies for breakfast.. have to taste test the ones I dehydrated overnight. I made some almond milk to bring to work.. I think we need to do some Cacao smoothie experimentations today ; ) So the base of the cookies I made was the almond pulp left over from making the milk. I used 1 ½ c almonds.. so there was roughly 1 c pulp. All the measurements are rough estimates.. I have always cooked this way.. but one day if I put out a recipe book, I will measure just to make sure.

Cookies

1 c almond pulp
1 c cacao, ground
1 c dates, chopped
3 bananas
2 t coconut oil
1 t vanilla
1 ½ c coconut, shredded

Mix together. I dehydrated in pressed balls for 2 hours on teflex at 115 degrees, then flipped onto mesh & continued drying overnight.

So now I am enjoying warm cookies while I type.

I made a salad last night, something new.. an inspiration that came. My friend who came over was amazed at how fast I put this together. I brought 2 pkgs of broccoli sprouts.. they are a little strong. So, I got a tomato, an avocado, a green onion. 2 celery stalks.. chopped them all up with the broccoli sprouts, actually 1 ½ boxes by this time.. cause I ate ½ of one of the boxes on the way home. Added some nama shoyu, squeezed lemon, a dash of salt & cayenne in the bowl & mixed.
..& then we sat out on the back porch 2 forks & the bowl & ate it all & really enjoyed it.

Hey, theres a new link to our website at work - http://www.torontosprouts.com/Home.html
Bookmark that site to see upcoming events. : )

Hey! & my website.. there’s a new orange in the top-left hand corner.. always something new there also. The tabs don’t work yet.. but they will soon. Randy is working on it.. and I still have info to write for it. But it is coming & being worked on & changing all the time:
http://www.rawketscience.com/

& I have a good fish story and a spatula story.. but I am out of time.. tomorrow! : )

raw party, pachamama

It was a great raw food party at work yesterday.

It started off with me being starving & us making Earth bread sandwiches. Marie made a sunflower seed pesto for the sandwiches and we topped it with avocado & tomato slices. (we’re out of sprouts.. & really missing them!) ..but soon, we have trays of baby sprouts growing in back. I mentioned what happened, right? Last Sunday, a fire extinguisher fell from it’s hook & it had a faulty clip & sprayed out in the production room in back, where all the wheatgrass & sprouts are grown. So everything, all of the wheatgrass and sprouts were thrown out.. it was really sad. But we are back growing now & by next week everything will be in full force again.

..back to our great food. The pesto was roughly a cup or two of sunflower seeds soaked, 1 bunch green onions, 1 bunch parsley, processed in a food processor - and then nama shoyu, olive oil, salt, cayenne & spices mixed in with that. We made lots, there were lots of people around.

Then Jessica came with this amazing raw ice cream she had made. 2 flavours – Rocky Road, which she said was just an experiment, & which I loved! – and White Honey Lavender, which was amazing also. Both were probably the best ice cream I had ever had.. everyone loved them.
Then we moved on to the durian party in the kitchen (the ice cream was at the chocolate bar – Choco-Sol’s space) everyone gathered around & about 10 of us shared a durian.. as most raw foodists know, sharing durian is a sacred raw experience. Its very built up, but with special friends, it is that great!

Hmm.. what else.. Oh yeah, the topper. Johnny from E3Live came in. They are continuing their chocolate experimentations. He had a bottle of clear greenish-blue liquid on the counter & I had to go see whats up. It was the phenylethylamine – that love/ feel good molecule found in chocolate & also blue green algae. They had separated it.. & he gave me capsules to take of AFA & the separated PEA.. but that’s another story & I am out of time & have to rush to work!

Have a great day!!!

More on Pachamama..

The following is from: http://www.hipforums.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-163522.html

In many South American countries the Earth Mother is given the name Pacha Mama. 'Pacha' means Earth, Infinity, the Divine and the Sacred. Pacha Mama is therefore the Earth Mother, or the Divine in material form. The Earth Mother is a living, Cosmic Being and has a physical, astral and spiritual body. All matter as we know it comes from her and returns to her. Pacha Mama is much more than our nurturer, she is our true spiritual Mother and holds all the secrets of the Universe within her. With the help of her Tutelary Gods, or guardian spirits, she can point the spiritual seeker towards the truth.

As a living Being, the Earth needs us to look after her, feed and love her with our hearts open to her. We are living in dangerous times as we seem to have forgotten how to contact her.

A CONSTANT PRESENCE

The Inca culture has always been very linked to the Earth - there is a saying that 'wisdom comes through the soles of our feet.' The Earth sustains us, suffers, has emotions, she needs us to love her. We say we want to heal her, but instead we just carry on poisoning her with our pollution. Her rivers need to flow. they are her veins. veins she is deperately trying to clean out with all the rain that has been falling. Her mountains are her shoulders. her forests are her lungs. The hole in the ozone layer is a hole in her aura, and the greenhouse effect which is raising her temperature is because she is ill and running a fever. When the Earth is ill, then we are too; because we are like cells on her body, we need to heal ourselves in order to help to her heal.When we start to heal and purify ourselves, then we can begin to be in more direct contact with the Earth, her energies and the power of Nature. The Earth is a constant presence in our lives: when we walk through beautiful countryside; when we watch a bird in flight; when we hear the sound of a waterfall or the crashing waves of the sea; when we see a kind action, watch animals looking after their young, or wonder how a plant knows to grow from its seed into a beautiful flower. The Earth is always nurturing, forgiving, constant - she mirrors the Universe. The Incas look for all knowledge in the Earth because she is what we are made of - the sky is too far away.

EARTH GUARDIANS

When we enter into direct contact with earth energies we encounter what the Incas call 'Apus'. The Earth herself is benevolent. It is the Apus who defend her. Every place has an Apu or teacher spirit. Some people might call them guardian angels. The Apus guard the Earth and when each one of us is born the Apu of that place takes reponsibility for our development. If you lose contact with your Apu, it abandons you and if you lose contact with your Apu you lose contact with the Earth. Apus act as intermediaries between humans and the Earth. The Inca shamanic tradition works with these spirits on a day-to-day basis, for guidance, the resolution of disputes and, most importantly, with healing.Women are said to reflect the Cosmic Mother and carry within them the sacred fires that hold the knowledge and mysteries of the Earth. The Incas believe that women can work more intuitively with the Earth because their hearts are more open. Humanity as a whole is suffering from a lack of heart, yet it is not possible to understand the mysteries of the Earth by adopting a scientific or "macho' approach. We need to rediscover the mysteries of women's traditions. To honour the qualities assosciated with women, is to honour the Earth. To honour the Earth Mother we need to honour our own mothers, even if they behaved badly towards us. We need to go beyond their limitations as a human beings and acknowledge that they carried us in their wombs.

WAYS OF HONOURING

So what can we do? The Earth and the Apus need to be fed and remembered by us. We can give thanks for our food before we eat and by blowing on it, offer some of its essence back to the spirits. We can look after our bodies with exercise and good nutrition and learn to be relaxed and detached in all situations. Meditation is the heart of wisdom. Five minutes a day will teach you more than hours of reading. The Inca path is well-balanced between mysticism and materialism, an Inca warrior is of this world, not apart from it. Through being on the Earth we can learn patience, strength and perseverance. Become aware of any fears that you might have and learn to face them, as fear will block the gateway to knowledge. Dare to overcome your fears and become a warrior for the Earth, we are here to learn, to open our hearts and heal ourselves. Only then will we be able to help our Cosmic Mother, so let's go for it. NOW.
You can also read here: http://www.rahoorkhuit.net/goddess/index.html

pic from: http://home.catv.ne.jp/ff/fiesta/page10.htm

Pachamama, dulse, irish moss, raw catering by Elaina Love

I am looking up Pachamama – an Earth Mother, whom Erika was talking about in her workshop. I have a list of things I want to look up and 20 min to write this blog (gotta have a time limit, yk how it is) ..but now I am in prophecykeppers radio & there is a recording of the 10 point message. ‘Know your garden’, garden being our land, the Earth - is one of the 10 points. This might be important, it’s 17 min long. Am going for it.

(It was all about this womans experiences & I didn’t get the 10 point message that I was looking for.)

Pachamama (pronounced Pawch-mama) or Mama Pacha, is the Earth Mother of the Incans of South America. She lives inside the earth and is a companion to women. The mountain peaks are seen as her breasts, the flowing rivers, her life-giving milk, and the tilled fields, her fertile womb.

Mama Pacha or Pachamama is a dragoness fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting. Her husband is either Pacha Camac or Inti, depending on the source. Catholic conquest replaced her image with Virgin Mary with which she is identified in some parts of Peru.

Peru - Pachamama Raymi or Earth Mother Day / 1st August

On this day, the following festivals takes place: Pachamamaraymi in the District of Ccatca, Wataqallariy in the District of Maras, and Kinturaymi in Huasao in the District of Oropesa. This is an Andean ritual that worships and gives tribute to the Pachamama (Mother Earth) in a special ceremony called “payment to the earth” with offerings of coca leaves, chicha de jora, and huayruro seeds (mystical jungle seeds). The rite marks the beginning of the Andean New Year.
From: http://www.peru.info/e_ftoculturaeng.asp?pdr=1501&jrq=5.2.8.3&ic=2&ids=4972


Erika orders dulse & sea vegetables from: http://www.rolandsdulse.com/
It comes from Grand Manan, NB
She said the dulse comes so soft, it is delicious and nothing like the harder stuff we get in packages from groc & health food stores here.

Dulse is a sea vegetable, grown at low tide and which takes root on rocks. It is harvested by hand and sun dried on a drying ground made especially for drying dulse.
Dulse is grown in several areas, but the dulse grown on Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, Canada is the most delicious and sought after.

Looking at their price list. They have irish moss. Marie was talking about that. Matt Samuelson prepared food for David Wolfe’s birthday party. She said she had the best dessert ever & he used irish moss in it.

I just found an incredible raw catering service:
http://www.purejoylivingfoods.com/services/

I just have to post some of the dishes/meal plans:

Romantic Italian Dinner$65 per person

Beverages: Lemon-cucumber water Young coconut water Fresh "wine" juice cocktail Organic wine selection ( $10 per person extra)

Appetizers: Stuffed Mushrooms Eggplant Bruschetta

Salad: Field Green Arugula Salad with Pears and Candied Walnuts

Main Course: Canelloni-Tender outer wrap stuffed with spinach, macadamia cheese and vegetable sausage topped with a red pepper remoulade and cream sauce Marinated Broccoli and Zucchini

Dessert: Bavarian Custard Parfait with Raspberry and Chocolate Sauces topped with fresh Berries

Indian Summer Dinner$50 per person

All of the food this evening is organically grown, vegan, sugar free, wheat-free and of the highest quality available. We hope you enjoy your evening and our menu selection.

Beverages: Coconut water with lime Purified water with lemon and cucumber slices

Appetizer: Samosas with Mango Chutney

Salad: Organic farmers Salad Mix, Heirloom Tomato variety & thinly sliced English Cucumbers drizzled with Tangy Pineapple-Mustard Vinaigrette

Main Course: Curried Marinated Vegetables over Parsnip Saffron Rice Wilted Spinach with a delicately seasoned Cashew Cream Sauce Zu-roomasala
-Tender marinated mushroomy summer squash with a tangy masala
-tomato marinade Non-Bread
- Just like the traditional Naan Bread, substituting sunflower seeds and vegetables for flour to make a savory, soft wrap in a dehydrator

Dessert Selection:
1. Mango-Coconut Ice cream - Made using Young coconuts, Mangoes, almond milk and fresh vanilla beans. Sweetened with agave nectar $5
2. Lime Dream Pie - Coconut-Macadamia nut crust filled with a creamy-dreamy- coconut-lime filling. Tangy, fresh and light! $7
3. Peach Cobbler - A Walnut-Date Crust filled with tangy summer peaches and peach glaze topped with a Cinnamon-Pecan Crumble that tastes like buttered pecans. $6

Wines and other beverages extra

Casual Italian Dinner$40 per person

Appetizer: Mini Pizzettes with Sun Dried Tomato Sauce, Cashew Cheese, Marinated Portobello
Mushrooms and Greek olives

Salad: Creamy Caesar Dressing atop a Crisp Romaine Salad

Main Course: Spinach Lasagna with Macadamia Ricotta Cheese Corn Bread Focaccia Optional

Dessert: Black Forest Brownies aside Creamy Banana Ice Cream drizzled with Chocolate Syrup

Thai Menu$50 per person

Spring Rolls with Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce: Fresh bean sprouts, avocado, basil, mint, carrots and sunflower sprouts wrapped in a dehydrated vegetable wrap served with a tangy and flavorful dipping sauce

Pad Thai Noodles: Tender zucchini noodles, snow peas and enoki mushrooms tossed in a tangy almond "peanut" sauce topped with paper thin cabbage, cilantro, lime wedges and crunchy dehydrated almonds bits

Asian Wild Rice with Winter Vegetables: Bloomed Manatok Wild Rice and tender vegetables marinating in a spicy ginger-orange sauce

Ginger-Miso Noodle Salad: This light salad is composed of English cucumber, carrot and broccoli "noodles" dressed with a sweet ginger-miso sauce atop a bed of seasonal greens

Key Lime Cream Pie: Tree ripened limes flavor this almond cream pie. Elaina uses Irish Moss (a flavorless, fat free seaweed) to make the pie firm yet light. Topped with a light macadamia cream

Thanksgiving or Christmas Feast$600 (4-6 people)

Wow your friends and family for the Holidays with this enzyme rich, comforting cuisine! Get ideas for healthy holiday gifts too.

Chai-Nog: Begin or end your day with this thick and creamy shake!

Creamy Spinach Dip with Rye Crisps: Rich flavors and blended cashews make a delicious base to a hearty dip, and the crackers are grain free and really reminiscent of a savory rye cracker

Stuffing Fantasy: A little bit of fantasy and a whole lot of flavors go into making this the best stuffing ever!

Cranberry Relish: Absolutely fabulous! The perfect compliment to the stuffing and everything else on your plate!

Rice Pilaf: Savory wild rice with succulent marinated vegetables

Waldorf Salad -Creamy almond mayonnaise tossed with crispy sweet apples, grapes, walnuts, celery and spices. It's great for a snack anytime.

"Pumpkin" Mousse Pie with Macadamia Nut Whip: We will make a pie that will remind you of pumpkin pie, only it's creamier, and much easier to digest. Topped with a decadent nut-cream. (Optional crust free version makes a great parfait or pudding)

Chocolate Haystacks: Coconut oil, which is used in this candy, has been called the healthiest dietary oil on earth. These can be made with cocoa or carob powder, and will be the hit of the party. A perfect holiday gift!

Party Pepper Nut Mix: A variety of nuts tossed with tangy spices and dried to a crisp "can't eat just one" perfection. Holiday gift idea.

Brian Clement, food additives

What a busy weekend! Worked right through it. Today I am there from 10 until probably at least 10 tonight.. but in the evening Erika Wolff will be holding her raw food workshop. So that will be really interesting.. as always : )

..but before I head out again, a few quick notes from the Brian Clement talk yesterday.

We live with much more stress each year, every five years our stress levels increase 5-7000 times.

Protein absorption requires minerals.

Mung beans are the most digestible food known to man

Fact from the China Study, by Dr Colin Campbell (our homework, if we haven’t already read this book, is to read it): consumption of casein a milk protein (a.k.a. whey) had a higher correlation with cancer than cigarette smoking does to lung cancer.

There are 80 trillion cells in the brain, 10 trillion in the rest of the body.

Eat oxygen, get skinny. That simple.

The one thing that every high performance athlete and every very intelligent person has in common is balanced hormones.

Enzymes are not only important for digestion of food but perhaps more importantly they increase the bio-electric shield which circulates around cells.

The body is electro-magnetic. We are tested electro-magnetically for diseases, problems in the body & yet treated chemically. (pharmaceutical companies have a hold on that one.)

Women contract AIDS 8-9X more than men from sex. (because the skin in the uterus is very thin)

Blue-green algae regenerates stem cells. Blue green algae was the 1st life form to ever form on Earth. Everything that ever existed in life is found within the blue green algae. A stem cell will become any cell in the body, it can turn into a liver cell or a eye cell or a toe cell, whatever is needed.


Sprouted hemp seeds, most perfect oil.. flax are good, hemp is better. Also great oils found in black raspberry seed and cranberry seed.

Over ½ of the population have some form of depression.

Goal for healing – to eat the most nutritious foods in the least digestible form.

Sprouts have 10-30X more nutrition.

Less food = more vitality

I sat on the bus yesterday with someone who I knew from awhile ago. We were talking about work & I was saying how I liked my job. He didn’t seem happy with his.. he worked in a place where they make seasonings and coatings for foods. Some of their clients are McDonalds, Kentucky fried chicken, chip companies & packaged foods, chicken nuggets etc. He was telling me that they have 1000’s of huge vats of additives. Listing all these chemical names, sodium aluminum something. yk, all those words you can barely read. He said that many of them have huge warning labels on them, that they shouldn’t come in contact skin, eyes, etc. & they are putting them in our food! & then he said, just before I got off the bus. “Hey, no one tells people they have to eat it!”

water fountains, EMF, earths energy, Sylvia Noble, Tesla

http://www.kirchersociety.org/ This website has some interesting articles. I’ve been led there a few times to see things. This time it’s the Aug 15th posting at the bottom of the main page; Ibirapuera Park Fountain
"Since they were of such great interest to Father Kircher, we are always on the lookout for contemporary water fountains that he would have found pleasing.

The fountain in Ibirapuera Park, created to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Sao Paulo, strikes us as one of the most extraordinary we’ve ever seen. It spits out 61,000 liters of water each minute."

There are so many great fountains.. I remember Jim saying he wanted to make the whole wall of the warehouse we used to live in a wall fountain. The warehouse was such a great and creative spot. I was talking about it yesterday also because when the chocolate guys brought home (Toronto Sprouts) some cool found furniture: great dresser & interesting chaos chair ( we are getting an interesting eclectic thing happening) it reminded me of when Jim used to bring things home to the warehouse that he found: a banged up red car door which hung like artwork on a main wall, a martini table umbrella, which fit right in, a huge plant, whom we named Fred, etc, etc..
Marie found some Christmas decorations and strung white lights around. Erika has donated lots of great books for the bookshelves, the guys bicycle grinder and cool Mexican influence and the lighting was changed by Alan.

Alan works with energy patterns in the earth and helps create comfortable energy patterns in living environments. He is fascinating! I could have listened to him for hours. & hopefully, we are going to have him in to give a talk soon. He was checking energy emissions from our appliances/wiring. Talked about how Edison wanted DC (direct current) and Tesla wanted AC (alternating current), the war of the currents, and the Earths energy system. He measures the EMF (electrical-magnetic frequency) levels, with appliances on & off, around wiring and the plugged in these magnet & crystal things and we watched the EMF radically drop. He used a dowsing rod and found the main arteries in the earth which run through the building and we have them marked on the floor with masking tape. He describes these energy veins as like the veins in our body, how when you draw blood you have to go to the main vein (like inside the elbow) to draw blood. Similiarly, he’s going to build or put something (magnetic/cystal?) to draw the earths energy up through this spot.

I am finally going to ‘close the loop’ or ‘buckle the belt’ French analogy which slightly but not completely gets lost in translation (small tribute to Judith ; ) with mentioning how he put a few pebbles at the mouth of our fountain, where the water pours over into a lower container.. how it changes the sound of the water and the energy of it, such a small thing & making it so much more natural & harmonious. These small things affect us radically. You could feel the energy shift in your body when he changed the energy in areas.

Another thing he mentioned, it was a heavy day, dark, grey, and he mentioned that it was like an ocean over our heads. & I was thinking how it affects some people so strongly.. and it’s no wonder.. thinking of an ocean above us and how heavy water is.


Sylvia Noble – energy consultant & owner of Nature’s Elements

“From the time she was born in Newfoundland, Canada, Sylvia Noble learned and practiced natural medicine. Growing up in an isolated fishing village, Noble did not have access to traditional doctors nor medical care and found that learning how to use natural remedies was crucial. With her British mid-wife grandmother as her teacher, Noble quickly mastered the trade, and today uses her connection with nature to create healing fountains and natural gemstone remedies.

Her interest in natural medicine led Noble to study physics, advance numerology, the Kabala, yoga, I Ching and Mystic Sufism. In 1970, Noble was drawn to Europe and Asia where she sought and found her teacher at a church in Vienna. The seventh generation master fountain artisan who created water designs as a hobby quickly became her mentor. This soon became Noble’s passion, and today she creates Fountains of Well-Being in her Toronto-based store, Nature’s Elements. She also sells stones and crystals from all over the world that embrace the principles of earth’s energy.”

http://www.cosmotoronto.com/sylvia_bio.asp

Sylvia Noble article: http://observer.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca/features/fountain032103.htm
“flowing water over the sphere creates release of negative ions, which improve sleep, alertness, concentration and skin conditions.”
“Breathing negative ions helps to increase relaxation and restore the body's natural balance, she said. Negative ions attach themselves to pollution particles and help to clean the air.”

More interesting info on Tesla here: http://home.earthlink.net/~drestinblack/didyouknow.htm

Pic of Trevi fountain in Rome from: http://www.romeguide.it/MONUM/STORICI/trevi/trevi.htm