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The fried egg is a dead egg. You can't unfry it means you can't unkill it. Devolve it, however, while it's still alive -- yes you can. This is done by blocking certain newer programs in the evolutionary development of birds and unblocking certain earlier programs that were operational before reptiles evolved into birds. The proverbial chicken with teeth -- that was actually created by geneticists via removing the Sir2P blocking rings off the genes that keep those genes for pterodactyl teeth inactive in a warm-blooded modern bird. That's the opposite of evolution. I'm not saying reptiles are lower and birds are higher, I'm talking timeline of development -- something came earlier, whatever came later as a species splitting off it "evolved," but whatever evolved and then went back to the earlier stage "devolved." A chicken with teeth equals the devolving from fully chicken traits to chicken plus pterodactyl traits. So, my point is not that humans are "lower" than simians, or higher, but that in order to get a human, to devolve a simian by way of neoteny is both necessary and sufficient. But it's not an ordinary happening, contrary to what you seem to believe. Neoteny of this depth and scale is extraordinary and without precedent. It blows my mind still that the fact blows so few minds still. Buddhists came up with this metaphor for an overactive mind, "like a monkey in a cage," but I don't know if they noticed that the key word is "cage." Let it out of the comfort-zone common-denominator cage and it's in infinity of possibilities and eternity of wonders -- without any special techniques, mind you. Why so few ever try this... well, if a monkey is born in a cage and spends all his life in a cage, and you come and open the cage, he will stay put -- comfort zone... Forever restless, frustrated, bored -- but willing to tolerate this state rather than venture into the scary infinity of the unknown outside the cage... OK, don't let me metaphorize too much.

I was at the Health Expo in LA a few years ago and listened to Hal Huggins present his new findings. The plot thickened. He got deep into the energetics of the process, and apparently you had to take this and that into consideration and if you didn't, you were better off not touching them, that's the gist of it I remember. By then I had had mine removed, by someone rated the best dentist in NYC. The best dentist may have had a foot fetish -- he kept admiring my very ordinary walking shoes and actually had me remove them to inspect and admire them closer -- dentists are weird. Hal Huggins is also a dentist. I talked my daughter out of doing this based on my own experience. @Mythmaker: if the dentist who still uses gold for fillings still exists, I want his number. Please. I was told by a local one that they don't do this anymore, but he proudly showed me his own gold fillings which he got way back in dental school, thirty years ago. He said there's nothing better, and at the time he did them, they cost him, like, five dollars more per filling than the "silver" (mercury) ones. He said he had a patient who was over 80 who had gold fillings from way back in his teens -- nothing ever happened to the teeth fixed like that. And composits decompose... Our dentistry has fallen behind what they used in ancient Egypt. Gold fillings -- and implants carved out of animal teeth (horses and cows), fully biocompatible.

(casting out the extra syllable) Deep eternity. At the point of no return someone called the cops.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein. Left-brain-only science is dead. Desmond Morris was referenced merely because he was the first one to point out to me a mind-blowing phenomenon I wasn't aware of before -- but he writes popular books on top of a solid academic education and credentials, so did Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, so does Antonio Damasio, the world's leading cognitive neuroscientist, so did Charles Darwin, incidentally. But you may have noticed I invited you to look into neoteny, not into Desmond Morris's work specifically. He's not the only one. The aquatic ape theory as I recall was offered by him without much pressure, as a possibility -- it looked very plausible, but he neither had, nor pretended he had, any decisive proof, so he left it at that. Incidentally, if you believe -- well, you said you don't, but I do, and so did Einstein -- that emotions, such as are implicated in a passionate quest for truth, meaning, harmony, or such as curiosity, fascination, a sense of mystery, etc. -- are the hallmark of real science rather than the desiccated kind that may withstand "peer reviews" (one hand washes another) but not the test of time -- you may find your way from a popular book that ignites your imagination to hardcore scientific sources because you might feel you're on fire or thirsting or frustrated -- whatever -- but you want to, you must, know more. Not for the academic career. For the pure thrill of it -- that's the best thing humans have, the sense of a thrill of discovery of something other than what promotes their "natural selection" opportunities. This is how Tesla describes the beginning of his interest in science -- he read a novel... and he credits it with dynamiting the idle, dreamy inertia of his thoughts and giving them purpose and focus -- a scientific one.

Yes, it's very simple, and it does not address neoteny, the main fact offered in my post in support of my opinion. Have you looked into that at all? I read Desmond Morris's book many years ago and it really blew my mind at the time, this particular fact. I felt it should be on the news, like, this very second. Well, that was over twenty years ago, and most people still go, darwin shmarwin, evolution, natural selection, like a broken record, while others believe -- well, whatever, just not the monkeys, chief, not the monkeys!!! But the real picture is way more fascinating -- and disturbing and thought-provoking and... anyway. Look into neoteny, see if it might pique your interest if not blow your mind.

Darwin admits over and over again that his theory is a theory, a hypothesis -- and in every case where it falters, he offers what he terms "reason," i.e. speculations as to how the highly impossible could become improbable could become probable. That's a far cry from having "proved" the hypothesis. Here's an example of how he goes about it: From the Origin of Species, CHAPTER VI--DIFFICULTIES OF THE THEORY "Organs of extreme Perfection and Complication. To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility."

"The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal," by Desmond Morris, is a good start.

Well, for one thing, "evolved" as we prefer to think of it presupposes a further development to some "next" or "higher" stage, but humans did not evolve from simians -- they devolved from simians, via a process known as neoteny, a drastic (and not necessarily spontaneous -- this can be induced) developmental halt on a whole lot of genetic programs that results in the adult of the species retaining certain (in our case, numerous) features of the fetal stage, thus creating a new species. That's how we got our big brain, our furless skin, our feckless teeth and claws, and our tailless butt. What we lost -- oh, the losses are incalculable. But the way whereby you can make a human out of a monkey via straightforward neoteny is well understood (though not widely publicized), so both camps are wrong -- those who think we "evolved" (because neoteny is the opposite of evolving) and those who think we didn't, couldn't, descend from a monkey (we absolutely could, genetically speaking -- and the only grey area remaining is, did we do it spontaneously -- as a desperate adaptive move in some dire adversity -- which is the only switch that can spontaneously flip on neoteny in affected species -- or was it done to us.)

W.H. Auden (...) In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate; Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye. Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice. With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress. In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountains start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

Uh-huh. And the one next to it is the yellow-blue flag of Ukraine with the Wolfsangel rune on it, the nazi symbol for the Third Reich.

These are the elite troops of the new Ukrainian government, the "Azov" Battalion, part of Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation" in the Southeast.

I'd love to -- been too swamped on my last visit to the Right Coast, but I won't forget the next time. From your descriptions, your teacher sounds (and now looks) as a blessing to encounter on the way.

Quite impeccable, thank you for sharing, MM. Does he have a Chen Fake lineage?

The jaguar's head ring on my finger glares at the cars ahead with fierce ruby eyes. The artist said it's for protection. I am thinking of the city of a million roses, I am rhyming them with noses, hoses, striking poses, I am dreaming of the city of a million jaguars, each of them protecting one citizen from bombs and missiles. Glowing glaring roaring swearing sharing all the pain with all the roses. I am thinking of the causes true and bogus, rhymed and free, free and chained, and in the night tiger, tiger burning bright was the hero of another poem of a million roses. This one is for jaguars. Sinking deep into the well of my heart where jaguars dwell...

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. --J. K. Rowling

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No secret at all! One claw sticks out of the cloud. The dragon revealed.

Here today, gone to Maui. -- overheard in someone else's conversation. This instantly filled me with wanderlust, and a desire to post this everywhere where people expect to find me.

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet. --Miyamoto Musashi

(accent in bold mine) Unfortunately commonly understood as an open invitation to blame the victim. Blame the victim, and the problem purportedly disappears. Let them work on themselves, all those hosts, to be better people -- they've nothing to complain about, the chemicals are good, it's they who are messed up. A good example of how the substance changes the host I've seen in quite a number of older people who came to this country at the age of around their 60s, parents of all my friends and family members who followed their children and grandchildren. Twenty years down the road all these old people were addicted -- sic -- massively and irreversibly -- to painkillers, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs -- dozens of brands, sometimes closer to hundreds over the years (I know because my mom never throws any bottles away) -- which they never took in their whole previous lives elsewhere. After a while no one was recognizable as parents, grandparents, etc. among them -- they were (and are, those who are alive) collections of assorted reactions to assorted drugs they've been put on and hooked on. No personality of their own anymore. And some of them are people I've known since childhood. Host or chemicals?.. Steve -- the system. The system makes use of the host's susceptibility to chemicals, and it's not side effects, any of this. It's all effects, and I believe it's all intended effects. God damn this thread. I'll never get out. OK, tying my hands behind my back.

Wow, a nice diagram! I haven't looked at the details but it's clear at a glance that overall this is a lucky chart, you have Water in abundance to nourish your Wood -- this is the most important part, Mother phase to your Wood is not deficient. The rest is easy to balance -- but you are most definitely not cut out to be a vegetarian or god forbid a raw foodist, with your Wood excess and Metal-Earth-Fire deficiency.

I'm talking immunology of gluten consumption, a different animal. Starches are present in tons of foods Ayurveda approves of, and even though my paleo guru hates them with a passion, and I know all the whys and wherefores myself, I'm not one hundred percent convinced yet -- I need a foray into epigenetics to better sort out what to do (or think about) starches in general. However, with wheat it is different. To India and Pakistan, eating wheat came late in the day and was brought by colonial authorities. As late as the 1960s, they rioted in the streets, Hindu and Buddhists and Moslems alike, when there were famines and they would get humanitarian aid in the form of wheat. They accused their governments of poisoning them on purpose with this, and demanded rice which they normally ate... That's also a starch, and also a grain, but a lesser devil under the grand devil -- the grand devil is wheat and all the grains related to it. (You mentioned in another thread that you believe in alien intervention -- dig into the history of grain agriculture, but dig deeply, you'll find your proof...) And then there's how wheat is harvested. Worse than starch, and worse than even gluten -- Roundup. It is drowned in Roundup days before harvesting it so as to kill it, because dead poisoned wheat is easier on the harvesting combines and they wear down less, and also you can gather more when it's all withered. I'll post a link when I have a chance (I did on FB though, so you can find it there if you're there.)

OK, let's see whether your Fire Horse gallops through this obstacle course smashing everything in his way -- or whether it will (as well it should) give him pause: my kids are Fire Horses by the year of birth (which as I told you before accounts for 1/8th of the 5E reading which is part of the bazi reading, also known as the Eight Characters reading, also known as the Four Pillars of Destiny reading. Year of birth animal accounts for ONE elaboration on ONE of these EIGHT characters.) My son is the one with the most severe intolerances of grains, and thrives only on the strictest avoidance of gluten (present not only in wheat though it has more than the rest, but also in barley, oats, spelt, and responsible for problems with some of the grains that technically don't have gluten but do cause similar immune reactions via a pretty complex mechanism of cross-sensitivity, such as corn -- and in some people, this mechanism, triggered by wheat, may extend even to non-grains, such as dairy. When I say wheat is the devil, I mean it.) My son's twin sister (difference in time of birth 15 minutes! -- and a different Four Pillars chart because of that!!) never had these problems. Neither do I, incidentally -- unlike BKA, I don't feel bad when I eat grains, I just like who I am when I don't. Oh, and in order to be able to help my son, I invested years in massive research, and came up with information no doctor, nutritionist, or amateur pasta lover could ever give me about what we're dealing with here. When I first started mentioning the word "gluten," in the 90s, most people were hearing it for the first time in their lives. I suspect I may have freakin' started a scientific revolution in nutrition for all I know -- 'cause I used to go preach from the hill (not anymore -- see below), but of course here and now all such things first turn into fads and then fizzle out when a new dietary fashion comes along. I'm finding it profoundly ironic that there's faddist grain evaders out there now, who do it because they think it's the hot thing, the cool thing, the hip thing to do. Perhaps those who don't want real healthy trends in nutrition either supply all the bogus faddist ones or make the real ones indistinguishable from the latter. Sigh. I will take a break before reading the rest of your post, I may have completed my karmic quota for saving erroneous eaters, and if you don't consider yourself one, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise -- like I said, I'm done, whatever food karma I may have had has been paid in full, so I don't need to change even a speck of icing on anyone's cake anymore.

Try fixing a ruptured Achilles tendon. A significant other was yelled at by a surgeon who got very upset when he questioned the urgent necessity of a surgery -- questioned very slightly, very humbly. So he limped on to seek a second opinion. The second doctor said, "There's less chance of repeat trauma with surgery than without." "By how much less?" Anyone into those guess-a-number games for this one?.. Hail to an honest doctor. He could have yelled too, instead of naming that number that nearly sent the patient to the ER with the new problem of shock. Try fixing a fractured sternum. The treatment is -- nothing. Painkillers. Addictive and inefficient for this kind of pain. (Until someone sent me a much less addictive, way more efficient painkiller from another country, I was marveling at the level of messed-up-in-the-head that awful Vicodin generates without taking even the tiniest edge off the pain.) There's a marked tendency of doing nothing useful when doing something is indicated, and doing something useless when doing nothing is indicated. I wonder. OK, no more getting into this thread, or I'll never get out.

An exchange today between me and my acupuncturist/herbalist (Chinese, poor English, family lineage, mom one of the theorists of acupuncture at a Chinese university): TM: How about some herbs too? Acupuncturist: (hesitantly) They work slowly. TM: I didn't grow up in America. A: They are expensive these days. TM: I do my hair and nails myself, have never had a professional pedicure in my life, and what I save, I invest into health. A: You would have to cook them for a long time. They taste bad. TM: I've done this hundreds of times. I know how. I know what they taste like. In Xi'an, I had boiled giant centipedes in the formula. A: Insurance won't pay. TM (losing patience a bit): You think they won't help? A: I think they will help, but I guarantee it won't be tomorrow. TM: I know. I won't expect "results" tomorrow with a long-standing problem. If there's no difference in three months, I'll stop. And so on... Poor doctor has learned his lesson about what his patients want... I used to see him a few years ago, he was new to this country then, and so enthusiastic about what he can give! Of course he takes those herbs himself, I asked, in an accusatory tone of voice, and he confessed. I asked because in these few years that I hadn't seen him, physically he's grown younger. But looks like his spirit has grown older, and wiser...