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My grandmother would have said, "What's not to like?"

If you have hardened plaque buildup, then you do need to have it removed professionally. The thing is to prevent that from happening in the first place, with proper diet and hygiene, as discussed here. Then you may not need the professional cleaning as often, and for some people, not at all. Although, some people have deeper emotional issues that cause plaque in any case - plaque can be a type of emotional armoring manifesting physically. So working on the emotional level can help reduce plaque too. Fluoride shows up in many dental products.. not only the fluoride treatments, but also in the polishing paste they use at the end of the cleaning session, and glass ionomer cements that dentists sometimes use with many different restorations (fillings, crowns, etc.). -Karen

I'm writing on behalf of my niece, who's 25 and is looking for work for the summer. She's currently in Florida but is looking to go somewhere else, even internationally, for May-Aug or some part of that time. She could pay airfare, and could consider working in exchange for room and board. She's a writer and has taught English, so she could be a research assistant for a writer. She's also interested in human rights work, and would be interested in an internship in that area, or working in some kind of clinic, but really she's open to any kind of work that's helping people. Since graduating college in '06 she's lived in Korea, Costa Rica, and now FL. Oh, and she's super smart, creative, talented, and a really nice person! (She's also looking for longer-term career opportunities in the area of human rights/international relations, but is having some difficulty finding out what types of jobs are available in that field, what training/education is required, etc.) Any ideas or referrals? Thanks, Karen

interesting, thanks!

Raw Foodists Arrested for Trafficking Chocolate; Interrogated for "Cacao Crimes"

I've heard good things about Kiva.

Hi Wu-Liu, Yes, Dr. Power has done actual food allergy research, not just empirical observation. And she recognizes the Type A subgroups and Rh factor. The six blood types correlate to IgE and IgG antibodies, T-cell responses, and lectin reactions. Her article in the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine is here. -Karen

I could respond to that article point by point, but also the article is referring to Dr. D'Adamo's work which is largely ungrounded and very different from Dr. Power's scientific findings on the way foods stimulate ABO antibodies. It's a fallacy to generalize about blood typlogies, when there is a vast difference between methods. Then to point out the flaws in one method as representative of the whole approach, isn't logical. It's likely that the author of that article equates blood typing with Dr. D'Adamo and doesn't see past that. I wasn't intending to move this discussion into the old meat vs vegetarian debate . That's an area that's rife with ungrounded, emotional opinions on all sides. It turns into an emotionally charged issue with peoples' deep beliefs being challenged, just like debates about religion. -Karen

Ha, well, with food preferences you always have to discern whether it's a real deeper instinct guiding you, or whether it's the false ego talking . People tend to have strong emotional attachments to ideas about diet - witness the never-ending debates about meat vs vegetarianism, and the emotional biases people bring to it. I think we need to look more objectively at what a person needs to eat for health, not imposing a particular belief system, and if there are strong emotional attachments, look at where they're coming from. I would never say that anyone "has" to eat a certain diet, and it's never so cut and dried. I'd have to know much more about you in order to get a better sense of whether you need to eat meat. If you have an aversion to it, I'd look at the reasons for that. And it could be that you need some raw animal foods, not cooked meat - big difference. For those who are in relatively good health, the blood typology is usually a good guideline. There's been a lot of good research and practitioner experience to back it up, although there are still more questions that need to be answered. Also, there are different typology systems that can be appropriate at different times or for different people. People who have metabolic issues may need to focus on a metabolic typing diet first, to get that back into balance. There's the endocrine typing system, which can help with endocrine imbalances which often are related to weight gain. Or the Ayurvedic typing system. Diet typologies can be very useful, but which one/s to use at a given time depends on the individual and what imbalances they're dealing with. In any case, I'd say that avoiding the food lectins according to blood type is a good idea. Type B is the Asian type.. and that doesn't mean tofu Well, you can experiment with it. Gluten grains are poorly tolerated. And some seafood lectins are not good for B's - sorry, you have to give up that caviar habit . Also salmon and tuna. Of course, raw, wild fish is always going to be handled better than cooked, farmed fish. More research is needed. Many other factors of food preparation - raw vs. cooked, organic vs non-organic, eating under stress or with a calm mind - all those things can potentially influence how the food reacts with ABO antibodies. So I think we can use the blood type system as a tool but not to just follow it blindly - as with all tools, the consciousness of the person using the tool is the key! And to always individualize - some people need more structure and stricter guidelines, and others need to aproach things more intuitively. To White Tiger: <bow> -Karen

Ok, thanks, Adeha. The way the instructions were written, I thought it was saying to count on the inhale, and out loud, so that seemed a bit odd . -Karen

Very interesting, thanks. I looked at the instructions at http://www.breathingcoordination.com/selfhelp.html, and got the idea of what he's doing, but I really didn't understand how the breathing is coordinated with the counting - can you clarify? -Karen

Easynow, I didn't have time right now to read through your whole initial post, but when I read "stored trauma," I felt drawn to post this one idea - Heilkunst treatment. Heilkunst is the complete system of health care of which homeopathy is a part. All of the good healing methods suggested here will help with balance, but I think that you need a system that can literally remove those traumas. The stored trauma can be compared to a pregnancy - it's not something that can be balanced, but needs to be removed. Then the healing methods can be more effective, once you're actually removing those blockages. I can tell you from my own personal experience and from being in training in this system, that the deep karmic impingements can be removed, and in a scientific way (in the true sense of the word). With healing methods that focus on symptoms, the symptoms can sometimes mysteriously disappear and there's usually no real way to know whether they'll return in another form, and whether the root cause is still there. But a Heilkunst practitioner can pinpoint the causative disturbances and remove them in a rational, sequential way, according to natural law. I've personally overcome deep-seated karmic issues this way (especially a life-threatening issue I had for 30 years that was resistant to all the natural healing methods, and I threw everything at it). Although, testimonials aren't really necessary when the principles stand for themselves. This remarkable system is being used by Heilkunst practitioners treating people worldwide, with higher success than I've seen anywhere else. If you're interested, you can read introductory articles on my website about Heilkunst, and also at www.homeopathy.com. Best, Karen

Adj, you could ask your doctor if that info is in your chart, or there's a simple home blood typing kit here: http://tinyurl.com/8dses5 (Sorry, not sure why the link function isn't working). I'll get back to replying to the other messages hopefully within a few days. -Karen

Hi Wu Liu, The concept is basically sound, although the popular version and some of the data by Dr.D'Adamo is questionable. There is other research on blood type and diet that stands up better, by Dr. Laura Power. I use software that creates diets based on Dr. Power's blood type research, and other typologies as well including Dr. Abravanel's glandular typing, Ayurveda, etc. Type O's according to Dr. Power's research have ancestors in the tropics, and do best with hunter-gatherer type foods but of the tropical kind. Commercial (pasteurized) dairy products aren't good for anyone but especially for O's. They often do fine with raw dairy. O's do poorly with gluten grains, but other grains like rice are usually okay in small amounts, depending on other factors, when properly prepared. Legumes always should be pre-soaked or sprouted, and aren't completely bad for O's but shouldn't be emphasized in the diet. Type O's like anyone else can actually have low stomach acid due to eating improperly, not drinking enough water, nutritional deficiencies, emotional issues, drugs, or other factors. So the blood type data really has to be taken in the larger context of what's going on with the individual. In other words, there are other things to factor in to what constitutes a good diet for a particular person, at a particular time, dealing with particular health issues. -Karen

Right. A lot of people have experimented with using wax, and found it didn't work as well as resin. That's just what I've heard, but it makes sense in terms of the lack of, or reduced, piezoelectric effect. Many people use coils in orgonite, but I don't think the electrical model of "grounding" applies. Although, putting orgonite near electrical power sources is basically a good idea. -Karen

Smile, I keep thinking that your ideas about orgonite construction and Dennis Griffin's (and others there) ongoing experiments might enhance each other.

Orgone being energy before matter, I don't think it has a particular material effect, but that you will perceive the effects according to what your existing imbalances are. Some people feel energized, or warmed, or cooled, or even more subtle impressions. Re. orgonite design, on the Warrior Matrix forum you could find loads of people with loads of experience having experimented with various designs and materials.. go for it . Karen

In a way . I'm not sure that the yin/yang polarity is the right correspondence here, but maybe that DOR is like stagnant chi, which isn't simply an excess of yang (and TCM people could explain this better I'm sure). I don't see DOR as "directed against their environment" necessarily, but is just what happens when there is some resistance to the free flowing life force. Reminds me of the "Free and easy wanderer" herbal formula for liver chi stagnation. It's also like the way that water has a lot of orgone when allowed to flow freely the way it naturally does. When we force it to flow through straight pipes, that life energy is constrained, and it becomes unhealthy. If we remove the blockages, then it finds its own healthy balance. That wasn't my idea! It was the creation of a friend of mine, Lena, who posts her creations on the Warrior Matrix forum, here are the other gorgeous pics. The glow is from UV pigment powder.

If the eyeball is elongated, where is the template that created that? In other words, many health issues may not seem to be directly related to emotional issues, but if there was no blueprint higher up that is shaping that particular physical condition, then your body would produce something different next time those cells are replaced. Bruce Lipton's Biology of Belief explains this all in terms of actual biological function. I've known people with poor vision who improved it significantly by working on the deeper emotiona/spiritual issues. Also, I'd look into Meir Schneider's method of vision improvement, based on the Bates method. He has a good DVD.. I like his presentation better than some others. He was legally blind, could only see vague shapes, and now can drive. -Karen

Hi Hardyg, I think your question about what causes DOR could be answered on a number of different levels.. we could say it comes originally from ignorance, the essential separation from Spirit. On a biophysical level we can talk about it in terms of the suppression of life energy, which forms stagnant areas, like stagnant chi. Wherever the free economy of orgone is suppressed or armored in some way, these stagnant areas of DOR result, whether it's in the outer environment or within the individual as disease. Pain and suffering don't generate DOR per se, but are symptoms of it. What caused the pain and suffering - some blockage of the life force, causes the DOR, that refracts the natural radial life energy so that now it's contracting instead of expanding. My understanding of deserts is that they form from this same shrinking of life energy in an area. The missing water is the key. Reich described the desertification process in terms of the outer environment and also in terms of emotional shutting down ("shrinking biopathies"). -Karen

DOR is stagnant orgone - not a deficiency of orgone. The orgonite transmutes DOR to POR, which doesn't take anything away from existing POR. I'm not sure bigger is always better. The folks who are getting profound results out in the field are doing it using "earth pipes" and relatively small stuff. Not just metal in resin, but it has to be a matrix. Anywhere where there is a dynamic interpenetration of the two poles of the life force, will generate orgone - all life generates orgone, when not armored. Yes, if you didn't know what you were doing. Sometimes it can be done under controlled conditions.. using an orgone accumulator, or orgone blanket, for example. Some people need to accumulate more orgone, but others who are just stagnant don't need more - it can be painful. For someone who is armored (and we all are to some degree), it's like wearing a tight suit of armor. Then accumulating more orgone is like having a big meal and your body expands inside the suit - now it hurts! So you have to work on releasing the armor at the same time as you're expanding. Same in every field, there's the allopathic mindset that can't expand in truth (it hurts because of the armoring), so it has to attack it. Reich called that the "emotional plague reaction" . -Karen

Great subject. A Sufi music teacher of mine wrote a book called The Listening Book, by W A Mathieu, teaches you to listen to the music of life in a whole new way.

I don't know - I never tried the Hulda Clark zapper, but the point is that it's not necessary to feel anything in order for the zapper to be effective. If it starts to feel prickly, you could burn your skin, and you don't want that. There are other electro-medicine devices that work on different principles, that you will feel, like the SCENAR.