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Both my wife and I have been doing the grounding thing for about a year now. For us, the main benefit is far better more restful sleep. Our approach is as follows. We got the 1/2 sheet from earthing.net. When we ordered we got the book, electric circuit tester, ground rod, and resistance wire. The ground rod has about 50 ohms resistance and the wire has about 50,000 ohms. The 50,000 ohm resistance is what they are relying on to keep you safe. I was not comfortable with that and just disconnect with predicted thunderstorms. I was definitely not comfortable with hooking myself up to the house ground through the electric outlet. When something shorts and goes to ground you could be part of that circuit. What I did was drive a 8 foot copper plated ground rod into the ground outside my bedroom which is not near the house ground rod. I connected a 12 gauge wire to it and put alligator clips on the other end. The alligator clips connect to the 1/2 sheet. I disconnect them when we have thunderstorms. The risk of lightning strikes outside of thunderstorms is tiny and I'm willing to take that risk. We did experiment with the resistor in line and sleep was better without it. He came to the same conclusion in the book.

I practice 1-2 hours per day in a focused time and manner and a few more hours when I am doing other things.

Both the effective repeal of the Glass-Stegall act and the current insane deficit spending primarily on entitlement programs are both significant contributors to our current problems. If you want to understand how we got where we are and where we are going here are the best books. Rich Dad's Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money by Robert T. Kiyosaki http://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dads-Conspiracy-Rules-Money/dp/0446559806 (more middle of the road) Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown by David Wiedemer et. al. http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Protect-Yourself-Financial-Meltdown/dp/0470481560 (more extreme, take with a grain of salt) The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen by Arthur B. Laffer et. al. http://www.amazon.com/End-Prosperity-Higher-Economy-If-Happen/dp/1416592393

This approach would still let some portion of the oil out. Maybe they were trying the approaches they thought would fully contain the flow first. Even though it has happened in the past in shallower water, it is very obvious that no one had prepared for this worst case scenario in deep water.

What would be even more effective is to have a vessel with the appropriate submersible pumps and containment structures to pump up from 1 mile deep into an onboard oil and water separator. The oil goes into the supertanker and the water goes back in the ocean. Multiple vessels like this could be held in reserve in case this ever happens again.

The well should be able to be stopped with a relief well. Essentially this is drill another well nearby and intersect the existing well. The problem is that it will take several months to do it. There will be significant additional oil released in the meantime.

Neither BP, nor anyone else knows the exact amount of oil coming out of the well. What you see in the video and what is actually coming out of the well is a mixture of both oil and natural gas. It could easily be 80-90% natural gas. You would hope that those scientists that were trying to make independent estimates would understand this. There is no way that I know of to measure the proportions of each at the pipe opening in an undersea uncontrolled leak like this. It might be possible to get a better estimate of the amount of oil when you are further away from the pipe opening and the gas has separated out, however those approaches have their problems also. I imagine the reason that BP did not want to release the video is that people would jump to conclusions without understanding the reality. This does not make BP any less responsible for what happened.

I have always had energy headaches with various practices like AYP and Kunlun and had to work hard to adjust my practice to avoid them. With Michael's closedown, I have not had energy headaches for the past 6 months except when I did not do it. It only takes about 7 minutes to do.

I practiced Kunlun for about a year and found out that the 5 elements standing postures were essential for stability. It ended up being about 1/3 of my practice time. There were a number of reasons I moved on to a different practice, but one was that there was no satisfactory explanation why things worked as they did and why people had the effects they did. It is good now to finally learn some more about what I was doing in this thread.

I became much more risk averse after I was married and especially after I had kids. I used to regularly drive over 100 mph in a sports car designed drive that fast (and faster). I mostly stopped driving it after my first child was born and now I'm selling it. If I were single I'd still be more of a risk taker.

I have had many issues with energy headaches. For me, a little pressure is ok, but headache pain is not. Essentially energy headaches are caused when there is too much energy work being done on the head during practice or there is too much energy left in the head. For the first cause, keep reducing the time of the practice that is causing you problems until you find a short enough time that does not cause headaches. You may also find that practice is not the one for you at all right now. For the second find a good closing routine. Michael Lomax describes an excellent one in his book http://www.amazon.com/Light-Warriors-Guide...g/dp/0967474256 I have been using it for the past 6 months and the only time I get energy headaches is when I don't do it.

Merry Christmas to all. We had 12 inches of snow here, more than any other snowfall in the past 19 years. The kids are loving it, but I have to shovel the driveway

Donna Eden has a section in her book http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Medicine-Bala...d/dp/1585426504 on magnets and their use. She apparently uses them and has practical advice.

Back to goats. A Viewers Guide to THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS By Col. John B. Alexander - US Army (Ret) . Nov 9th, 2009 . The movie, THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, is based on a book of the same title. While listed as nonfiction, the facts were extrapolated almost beyond recognition. The people in the book were listed by their real names. I was named many times. While some Special Forces units experimented with various techniques, the vast majority of the incidents came from one of two other sources. Formal psi research programs were conducted in the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). There was also a unique think tank called Task Force Delta at Headquarters Department of the Army and later at the Army War College. Delta was arguably the most innovative organization in the world. With support of senior leadership, we were consciously pushing the envelope. It should be noted that all of the explorations undertaken were done based on solid rationale. Facts and Fiction - The First Earth Battalion (1EB) was created by Lt. Col. Jim Channon, a brilliant imaginer and artist. He literally owns the First Earth Battalion concept. - The 1EB was never an authorized military unit of the U.S. Army - The 1EB was a notional concept that encouraged/allowed people to think innovatively, yet within a military construct - The New Earth Battalion is a movie version of 1EB - Most of the movie characters are based on real people - though some are composites - The Kevin Spacey character seems to be made up for movie purposes - Senior officer with ponytail (Jeff Bridges) NOT REAL - Remote Viewing - REAL- and was a 20 year official program - Use of Remote Viewing in Gen Dozier kidnapping by Red Brigade - REAL - Concern about Soviet psychic research - REAL - JEDI projects - REAL - but ad hoc (I had one of them with multi-agencies) - Spoon bending - REAL - was taught to hundreds - Cloud busting -REAL - though never as fast as done by Clooney - Computer crashing - REAL - incident did happen - Fire walking -REAL - New Age exploration - REAL - Running into walls - NOT REAL (is the opening scene of the movie) - Use of LSD - not only NO, BUT HELL NO - Hamster staring -ATTEMPTED - by Guy Savelli (a civilian martial artist) - Goat Lab - REAL - used to train medics - Goats - Hit by martial artists - It did die hours later - Goats - Staring - no credible evidence to support this allegation - Dim mak - PROBABLY REAL - supported by physical evidence - References to a hollow army -REAL - post Vietnam was a traumatic period

Glenn Wheaton has always had a somewhat checkered reputation in the remote viewing community primarily relating to the the difficulty in independently validating some of his background and stories. However, as far as I know no one has been able to disprove them either and his remote viewing skills are self evident. Here is a review/interview with some of the players which were composited into the movie. http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/...0,7832466.story If you are interested in more of the history about remote viewing and the military RV unit these are the books to read. http://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Sense-Secret...y/dp/0743462688 http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Enemys-Mind-...e/dp/0812578554 If you are interested in RV methods training, I would recommend these http://www.crviewer.com - Lyn Buchanan/Lori Williams http://www.rviewer.com - Paul Smith

Here is Glenn Wheaton's (www.hrvg.org) report on the unit from his HRVG list he posted up on October 1, 2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats... _____ Aloha All, I got some new information from the production folks in Puerto Rico today from the set of "The Men Who Stare at Goats". The cast includes George Clooney, Ewan Mcgregor, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges. Not to shabby for a story that began for Jon Ronson in my living room at the old Hrvg HQ in Kaneohe. One thing that will be certain is that the work itself will be a work of fiction with a bit of Science Fiction thrown in. The Character Clooney will play will be a quasi-hybrid of me and Uri Geller. The writers have taken my experiences with Project Trojan (Jedi) and the events surrounding the death of a goat at Fort Bragg during a demonstration of Gi Gong in a remote section of Fort Bragg called the Mata Mile. Mix in a bit of Uri Geller and you will have Clooney's character. Where they go from there will be anyone's guess. For the record some time back I wrote about the day the goat that started it all died. It is a true story and it happened just as it is portrayed. The Goat that died... The Goat was an old goat and well past his prime. He was actually born in Honduras and got to Ft; Bragg with several hundred goats on a C-130 intended to be used in slaughter classes to train Green Berets how to slaughter livestock. We learn to slaughter everything from chickens to water buffalos to feed indigenous troops we train in some pretty remote areas. What very few people know is that the death of the goat was what helped usher in Project Trojan (AKA Project Jedi) into the Special Forces. This goat's death was under such extraordinary circumstances that it was actually classified. The day the Goat died. It was winter in North Carolina and on the morning the goat died it was about 35 degrees with a foot of snow on the ground. On a normal training day at Ft. Bragg the Special Forces run the sandy trails in the woods in an area called "The Mata Mile" from about 4:30am to 6:00am. At 6:00am or so they pull into the deep woods for hand-to-hand combat training. We had arranged to train on this day with Michael Echanis, a long time combat trainer in the 5th Special Forces group. I was in the 400th Army Security Agency Detachment at that time which is the Intelligence arm of the 5th Special Forces Group. Although part of the Special Forces Group, we really worked for the National Security Agency. There were 7 of us on this morning and as we finished our run we pulled in at a location called the "Bear Pit". The bear pit is actually a huge pit about 10 feet deep and about 80 feet wide. On a normal training morning we fight in the pit for 1 to 2 hours before heading to the NCO club for breakfast. It was just dawn when reached the pit and we could see a dagger stuck into the tall pine tree near the pit which told us the instructor was already there. The 7 of us stood on the periphery of the pit and stared down into the piney dawn shadows trying to see where Michael was. This was where Michael excelled at being invisible. You would never see him until you jumped down into the sandy depths of the pit, and then it was too late, because he would be on you and for the next hour you had to fight virtually every second, it was all of you against him. I remembered hearing the goat somewhere in the pit, mewling and shuffling as bodies were being thrown about. At times the goat would flat out run to escape the violence Michael was dealing in every direction, running in circles and leaping over and between us. When Michael was finished with us we collapsed in heaps on the floor of the pit. Michael cornered the goat and grabbed him by the horns and drug him to the center of the pit and tethered him to a stake he forced into the sandy floor. He looked around the pit and simply said, "Where are your minds?" The goat was exhaling frosty breath and kept shifting depending on where Michael was. We were all wondering what the heck the goat was for when Michael pulled a knife from his boot and slowly raked it between each of his fingers on both his hands. There was a fair amount of blood seeping between his fingers when he picked up two handfuls of sand and began to squeeze the sand through his fingers. When the last of the sand had fallen to the ground we could see that his hands were no longer bleeding. Once again he said, "Where are your minds?" He then turned his attention to the goat. It immediately began to bray, more like a horse or donkey but very unlike a goat. The goat began to shudder then dropped to his front knees, he was obviously in distress, and slowly blood began to drip from his nose and mouth. In less than a minute the blood began to froth and spill like red suds to the sand. It was then he fell over to his side and passed in a fit of jerks. Michael got up and as we sat in the sand totally in shock he leaped the 10 feet to exit the pit, pulled the dagger from the tree and stared at us from the edge of the pit. He looked down at us and said once more, "Where are your minds?" We buried the Goat in the floor of the pit and turned the sand to erase the blood scar left by its death. After raking the pit floor we ran back to the barracks and got cleaned up. Later at breakfast at the club we discussed what had happened and how it happened. This was the critical moment for us; it was when we decided to begin the search for a new way to think about how we get our minds right about being soldiers. That's the story, that's the truth of it. Michael did kill the goat and never laid a finger on him. I don't really know the hamster killer wannabe boy from Jon's book, but my guess is he is so fill of crap his eyes are brown. It is doubtful and improbable he had any involvement with the experiments conducted after that day in the bear pit. There were only 7 soldiers ever involved and were all Intelligence assigned to my team. There were no civilians involved. Anyway I hope the story rings true, it is the way of it.

Michael neither coerced nor asked for my comments about his classes and book. I'm just sharing my experiences hoping that others might benefit from them as I have benefited from their postings here. When I came into the class I was not sure about what I was going to do, but I was open to the possibilities and to committing the time if I felt it was worthwhile. When I took the class Michael asked that I spend 100 days practicing Stillness-Movement. I had strong results early on, but it really took about 10 weeks for me to be sure that this practice was for me.

Some of what Michael Lomax teaches and initiates in you is this filling of the lower dantien. I felt it immediately during my first Stillness Movement training. He said that this is the starting place and that with practice everything else will come in time. I think he does not go into a lot of detail about the development process so you can discover it yourself and not limit yourself by a linear understanding. I have enjoyed not having to mix and match practices to try an find a combination that does not give me energy overload problems. I went from AYP with a bunch of different practices, to Kunlun with just a few, to Stillness Movement with one. I sure that I will at some point complicate things again, but for now I'm happy not to have continually try to rebalance various practices. It seems like I have progressed more in the past 4 months than in the previous year. Maybe I'm just at the place where I would progress quickly no matter what I did, but it sure is nice not to have to worry with practice, I just have to do it.

I read the book 3 times before going to a Stillness Movement workshop. In fact it was the book and Michael's posts here on TTB which convinced me to go. The story part was enjoyable to read. The instructional part gives a summary of the core of what Michael teaches. I also like the summary of important points at the end. However, you are not going to learn how to do Stillness Movement from the book and I think it should be mostly used as a reference.

I own both the first and second editions. The second edition is completely rewritten. He has taken everything in the first book and everything he learned in the past 10 years and boiled it down to the essentials. I'm only through chapter 5 in the second edition, but I like it better than the first. One of the chapters talks about affirmations and your higher self as a way to manifest some of your abilities. I learned how to feel and manipulate energy in my body using methods from the first edition so I think his work has much merit.

Here is some good info on Kechari without snipping.

Employer based health insurance came about as a result of World War II wage and price controls. Fringe benefits were not subject to the controls, so employers increased benefits instead of raising wages.

So what we may have is a difference in terminology used to describe the same phenomenon. Over the years have you noticed other healers from other lineages who were able to transmute sick qi to light? How did they describe it in words? I do 1-2 hours of stillness movement daily and maybe 1 healing a week. I do the protection before and cleaning afterward. I am aware of sick qi, but with the proper preparation and procedures, I am really not that worried about it.