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Arts & Entertainment ........................... 36 & 37Astrology ........................................................40Awareness .................................................26-30The Billboard ..................................................24Thriving Business ...........................................4The News ..........................................................8Compassion Flower Resource Guide ......41-43Dining Delights ..............................................31Essential Living Guide ............. 14,15,26,27,29Fitness & Sports ............................................17Green Business Directory ............................33Health Notes ....................................................8-13Healthy Appearance ....................................... 18Healthy Planet ............................................32-35Diversity ..........................................................29Martial Arts ...................................................... 16Massage / Bodywork ...................................... 14Movies ............................................................. 37Music .............................................................. 37Parenting, Kids & Education ......................... 20Pet / Animal Health .......................................... 21Radiation Protection ........................Will ReturnRave Reviews ................................................... 24Wave X Theme ............................................ 22-23Spirit ..................................................................39Travel & Fun .................................... Will ReturnWonderful Women ........................................... 19Yoga .................................................................. 15

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Medical CounselingWhat’s the focus of your Business?

Providing counseling and stress reduction for people with health-related concernsWhat inspired you to do it?

In March 2014, I stopped working at the County Health Clinic on Emeline Ave in Santa Cruz after 21 years of service. I had been a pri-mary care physician there. It had its rewards, but I was done working in that environment and in that capacity. I wanted to compose music and to write. I wasn’t sure what, if anything, I wanted to do with my medical degree. I had a very lean year!

Then, two people in the same week told me about Dr. Lindsay Johnson and her medical counseling practice and suggested I talk to her. As it turns out, Dr. Johnson was just about to close her prac-tice. She told me about the kind of work she’d been doing with patients and it immediately ap-pealed to me. I had special skill sets I’d always wanted to use that I could apply to working with people in this way. There are very few physicians offer-ing this kind of service, and it’s something that both patients and doctors could really use. Doctors nowadays are simply too overloaded to give patients the attention they need. Plus, the things I assist people with are beyond the comfort zone of many physicians. There’s only so much you can teach about how to work with people in emotional distress. There’s no shame in that. How does it work? How does one get an ap-pointment with you?

Since I don’t provide any primary medical care, everyone who comes to see me has to have their own primary care or specialty care physician already in place. However, people can self refer. They don’t need a referral from their physician. They can simply call (831) 239-9311 and we can set up a time for a phone consultation. People may also find it useful to take a look at my web-site SantaCruzMedicalCounseling.comHow do you meet or work with your Clients?

The phone consultation gives me an idea of what is going on—what the medical condition is, where the patient is at emotionally, and what they are seeking assistance with. Then if we both feel that counseling would be beneficial we set up an appointment.

Patients often need a safe space to have their feelings validated as their first priority. Their family and health care providers have often been urging them to start treatment before they’ve even had time to adjust to the news that they have a catastrophic illness. People need to grieve. There is usually a high level of overwhelm right after a diagnosis, so stress-reduction becomes important. I teach people techniques like mind-fulness meditation right in the office, and have them practice at home. I also do guided imagery sessions in the office that are customized for each patient and recorded for later use at home. You can read more about guided imagery on my website. It’s a very powerful tool for inducing states of relaxation.

People may have questions about their condition that they’d like to have answered. If

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And of course, people may want help making treatment decisions. In Santa Cruz, many people want to make use of alternative and complementary therapies and most physi-cians know very little about these, so patients are afraid to even broach the subject with their treating physicians. Western medical treatment strategies can seem terrifying, and people tend to have a knee-jerk reaction against considering them at all. It’s not an either/or proposal, though. Complementary therapies, combined with things like guided imagery can make Western treatments much less stressful and work even better than

they would have otherwise. Ultimately though, I’m

there to help the patient find the right answer within themselves. I will support whatever the patient decides. My job is to insure that the patient has considered all the possibilities, has all the informa-tion they need, and that they are capable of deciding from a place of inner knowing rather than out of fear.What are some of the topics or concepts that you help people learn about or accomplish?

I think one of the most important concepts I can introduce to people is the mind-body connection. Our minds have such a powerful influence over our bodies that I would even say it can be more important that someone believes a treatment will help them than what the particular treatment is.

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I’m not saying that people should follow through with their doctor’s treatment plan. It isn’t my job to nudge them in the direction of what their doctor wants them to do or what I think they should do or even what I would do in their situa-tion. But, I do believe it’s vitally important that patients examine where their fears come from and ask themselves whether they are necessarily valid. If there is one thing we can change, it is our thoughts and beliefs. And I can teach people how do that, if they are open to it. EducationB.A. in Psychology, Yale University, 1978M.D., University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 1983Internship in Internal Medicine, St. Mary’s Hos-pital, SF, CA, 1984Other CredentialsCertified Massage Therapist, McKinnon School of Professional Massage, Oakland, 1989. Prac-titioner of Higher Consciousness, Inner Light Ministries, Soquel, 2007. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course, Bob Stahl, Domini-can Hospital, 2011. Reiki Level I, Santa Cruz, October 2014. Contact: (831) 239-9311 Office: 5905 Soquel Drive Suite 400 Soquel, CA 95073

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My program is syndicated and called Coast to Coast AM. It is heard on KSCO-AM beginning at 10pm….and we are LIVE 7 nights a week with me on M-F. I’ve been doing the show since January, 2003What’s the focus of your Program?

Our program deals with search-ing for the truth no matter where it takes us. We delve into the paranormal, unusual and conspiracies of life.What inspired you to do your Pro-gram?

Since I was a boy, I loved the mysteries of the supernatural and what a delight to be able to broadcast these incredible stories.Is yours a Call-In Talk-Show? How does that work for you?

Yes we are heavily caller driver. We have open lines or the caller can ask a specific guest a question.Do you feature Guests on your Program? IF you care to do so, please name 2 or 3 of your favorite Guests (and succinctly tell why). Yes we have guests on quite often. A few of my favor-ites are Rosemary Ellen Guiley, an expert on dreams; Stanton Friedman, the father of modern day UFOLOGY; and Dr. Bruce Goldberg, who deals with rein-carnation and past livesWhat are some of the topics or concepts that are your favorite and that you have featured on your Show?

We deal a lot with BIG FOOT, UFO’S, and Life After Death. But, we will also cover current events too.Any future plans in store with your Program at KSCO or for any endeav-ors that you are doing? (one idea: are you doing ‘Youngevity’?)

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George Noory, host of the na-tionally syndicated program, Coast to Coast AM, says if he weren’t a national radio talk show host he’d be in politics. Heard by millions of listeners, Coast To Coast AM airs on approximately 564 stations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Guam.

While hosting The Nighthawk, a wildly successful, late-night pro-gram on KTRS in St. Louis, Noory was recruited by Premiere Radio Networks to guest host on Coast to Coast AMwith Art Bell. He became

the permanent host of the phenom-enally successful over-night program on January 1, 2003, following Bell’s retirement. Since then, Noory’s audi-ence has continued to grow.

Noory captivates program lis-teners with his discussions of para-normal phenomena, time travel, alien abductions, conspiracies and all things curious and unexplained. He is driven, he has said, by the desire to solve the great mysteries of our time. From his first days as a radio broadcaster he says, “I’ve wanted to cover stories that the mainstream media never touch—the unusual, the paranormal and things like that. I learned that broadcast was the best business for exploring these issues, and I’ve been doing it for 33 years.”

He dates his interest in these matters to a book by Walter Sul-livan, We Are Not Alone, that his mother gave him when he was 13. He was hooked.

Prior to his late-night show on KTRS, Noory had an extensive broadcast career. He started in radio at WCAR-AM in Detroit where his first-ever interview was with nuclear physicist and UFO expert Stanton Friedman. From 1974-1978, he served as news producer and executive news producer at WJBK-TV. At age 28, he became the youngest major market news director in the country at KMSP-TV in Minneapolis.

Noory was also the director of news planning and development at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis, was news director at KSDK-TV in St. Louis and the recipient of three Emmy Awards while a news executive.

Noory released his first book in 2006. “Worker In The Light: Unlock Your Five Senses And Liberate Your Limitless Potential,” co-written by best-selling author William J. Birnes, is Noory’s revolutionary guide

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In December 2012, GA-IAM TV launched “Beyond Belief with George Noory,” a new TV show exploring the unknown and mysteries of the universe. The one-hour, weekly series features Noory’s informa-tive, investigative and dynamic conversations, as well as some

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He was born, raised and edu-cated in Detroit. He has three children and six grandchildren. He served nine years in the U.S. Naval Reserve.Listen to George every weeknight on KSCO 1080AM starting at 10pm.Find out more about George’s favorite nutritional choice at: www.ConnectionHealthTeam.com

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Jimmy Carter’s nuclear exposure

Jimmy Carter helped cleanup a nuclear accident in Canada during the 50s, as President toured Three Mile Island on the fourth day of the partial meltdown, and was part of then-Captain Hyman G. Rickover’s nuclear submarine program when he served in the Navy. These substantial radiation exposures are risk factors for cancer, but they aren’t mentioned in media reports. The Monterey Herald article stated his cancer is probably due to too much sun. To the public, Carter is just a peanut farmer who became President and then got involved with Habitat for Humanity.

His career is much more extensive. Carter served on submarines as Navy officer, did graduate work at Union College (NY) in reactor technology and nuclear physics, and was senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second US nuclear submarine. His work at the Ontario Chalk River

Experimental Reactor partial meltdown, as well as his exposure at TMI, with unknown exposures in Rickover’s program, are risk factors for his present cancers.

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by Dr. Tonya Fleck-D’AndreaI can’t tell you how often a patient presents

to my office with classic low thyroid symptoms but tell me that their Doctor said their thyroid “is fine.”

Our thyroid gland is one of our most important endocrine organs. The functioning of the thyroid directly affects more bodily functions than all the other endocrine glands because it con-trols cellular metabolism by secreting hormones which govern the metabolic rate of most of our body’s vital func-tions. Imbalances of the thyroid can have serious effects on your health, so you should always seek advice from your doctor when dealing with any hormone problem.What thyroid problems can arise?

The thyroid gland can become either under-active (Hy-pothyroid) or overactive (Hyperthyroid). The causes can be multi-factorial. In cases of Hy-pothyroid, the gland doesn’t produce enough (T3) triiodothyronine and (T4) thyroxine, the hormones necessary for healthy metabolism. Symptoms of low thyroid include depression, constipation, dry skin, loss or thinning of hair, weight gain, fatigue, poor memory/brain fog and low body temperature. Because there may be other imbalances creating these symptoms, the thyroid can often be overlooked.

Hyperthyroid is much less common. Symptoms of an overactive thyroid include weight loss, sweating, a sense of anxiety, heart palpitations, high blood pressure and a bulging of the eyes.

A third condition, in which the Thyroid gland becomes inflamed, is called Hashimoto’s disease and it is as an auto-immune disorder. The symptoms are those of an under-active thyroid and the cause seems to be genetic in nature.

How are thyroid disorders diagnosed?

Your doctor will diagnose Thyroid gland imbalances by taking a history of your symptoms as well as a blood test. Typically we measure TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone), a hormone

produced by the pituitary gland in the brain which stimulates the thyroid to produce T4 and T3. It is important also to test the levels of free T3 and T4 and not just TSH, which is sometimes regarded as sufficient. Lab markers indicate that a TSH between .4 - 4.0 is normal. However, clinically I find most people whose TSH is over 2.0 often present with low thyroid symptoms and feel bet-ter on thyroid support.

If Hashimoto’s is suspected, then anti-bodies levels are measured in the blood. Can Naturopathic Medicine effectively treat thyroid disorders?

You bet. And with a high degree of success as well. The nature of our approach is in in-dividualization of the diagnosis. In addition to directly treating the

thyroid using non-toxic methods, a Naturopathic Doctor will also work to discover the underlying cause of the imbalance- acknowledging that the thyroid is impacted by the health of the body’s entire system. Another way of saying ‘treating the whole person.’

Another key element is ensuring that the body has all the minerals it needs for proper functioning. A Naturopathic approach will likely include Nature Throid (a prescription glandular), dietary recommendations, specific nutritional supplements, homeopathics and/or herbal medicines. The outcome is not only a balanced Thyroid gland, but a higher level of overall health and well-being.

Dr. Fleck is the Founder & Medical Di-rector of the Santa Cruz Naturopathic Medical Center. She received her doctorate in Natur-opathic Medicine from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, her BS in Psychology and completed graduate work in Marriage and Family Therapy at the Univ. of MD. Dr. Fleck-D’Andrea specializes in Family Medicine & Women’s Health as well as medical nutrition, fatigue, depression & anxiety, detoxification, heavy metal chelation, homeopathy and botani-cal medicine. Call for a free 15 minute consulta-tion. 831.477.1377 www.scnmc.com

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by Christine Cyr, CST (formerly, Christine Bayless)

I would like to share my three favorite Cranio-Sacral moves with you. Why these three moves? Not only do I, as the practitioner, can feel your body expand and loosen from these moves, but my patients report profound effects!

Sacrum CST (Cranio-Sacral Therapy) and Decompression: This move allows me to free up your sa-crum bone at the base of your spine, pelvic area, and low back. As I work to decompress your sacrum, I can feel

helps with that compaction. I can actually feel you get-ting taller be-cause we are creating space in the spine, opening it up.

T h o -racic (upper b o d y ) R e -lease: I have

one hand placed under you, a bit above your shoulder blades, and my other hand is on your chest, under your col-larbones. I work with my two hands subtly pushing together to squeeze out any restrictions that are being held there. It may be that I squeeze more on the right as opposed to the left. It just depends on what particular restric-tions I find in the body. This move

allows me to unwind tight muscles in the chest, shoulders, and ribcage. I can feel your body open and unwind and balance out as I work with your thoracic area. I have had patients say that they can actually breathe better after this technique. Also patients can feel more grounded or have a sense of peace once this release is done.

My last favorite move is called the Dural Rock: I have one hand placed under your lower neck and the other hand near your tailbone. I rock the

spine along the length of it, with my hands creating a slow smoothing and spreading effect. This helps to loosen any restrictions that may be left in the body. I tend to do this move at the end of each Cranio-Sacral session because it allows your spinal fluid to move more freely. If you think of your spinal fluid as your life force, your battery so to speak, then this move regener-ates you, smooths out any kinks, and people report feeling that effect.

Chrystine Cyr, CST works at the office of Sylvia Skefich, Doctor of Chiropractic, 920 41st Ave., Suite G in Santa Cruz. (831) 475-1995 www.Vital-You.com See Christine’s special in the adjacent ad. “Like” Dr. Skefich’s professional Facebook page to be ap-prised of Christine’s specials and to receive occasional news and helpful, healthful tips.

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Non-Ionizing Radiation warned in 2008 that children’s exposure to cell phone radiation would cause severe neurological impacts in the near-, mid- and long-term.http://tinyurl.com/23qqq3z

Scientist Martin Pall this month confirmed one mechanism for neu-rological damage – the activation of voltage-gated calcium channels -- ( Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy) http://1.usa.gov/1NHjoLG . He testi-fied to the Oregon State Legislature last year about these implications for public health.

Do you want to put your child at risk for dementia in their 40s? If so, give them a cell phone, iPad or install Wi-Fi, and definitely don’t remove the Smart Meter on your house (which provides higher 24/7 exposures).

Geoengineering experiment readied in Moss Landing

Details are scarce on a 7-year cloud whitening project by top Silicon Valley and government scientists, with money from Bill Gates, called the “Marine Cloud Brightening Proj-ect”. Moss Landing is named as the first test site. The international ETC Group has already spoken out against it. Local newspapers have been silent. San Jose Mercury and Activist Post recent articleshttp://tinyurl.com/nwp2tq8http://tinyurl.com/nrusddr

Public hearings and local gov-ernment permitting process are not mentioned, nor are there details about the components beyond the use of aerosolized seawater. What other components are involved? What would be the negative impacts and conse-quences to weather and earth from this technology? What about impacts

to ozone? Monterey Bay seawater is contaminated with increasing levels of Fukushima radiation. That aerosolized radiation is an additional impact.

Global Wi-Fi from space will destroy ozone layer

Meanwhile, obvious impacts to climate change are not being ad-dressed, including NASA, NSA, and military space launches and proposed space toursim. Rockets produce 1000X more soot than airplanes for the same amount of fuel. And now eight companies are competing to put Wi-Fi in space via hundreds of launches per year, putting up 11,000 new satellites (compared to 1100 operating satellites now). The soot and water alone from the exhaust will add heat to the atmo-sphere and destroy ozone. Climate warming is a certainty if these plans come to fruition. That’s in addition to the health and environmental effects of the all-encompassing wireless radiation.

A new organization GUARDS – Global Union Against Radiation Deployment from Space – is fighting these plans. Here is their press release posted on Refugium.com

http://tinyurl.com/ph2nk6k Samsung, Iridium, and Globalstar are also planning space Wi-Fi.

Eucalyptus groves still in danger at Elkhorn Slough

The Monterey County Board of Supervisors hearing has not yet been scheduled on the Elkhorn Slough tree removal project appeal. Please help stop this loss of habitat, loss of oxygen, and loss of living, sentient beings.Nina Beety, Smart Meter Harm: www.SmartMeterHarm.org, Heal Fuku-shima: www.HealFukushima.org. To support this advocacy work: http://SmartMeterHarm.org/donate

your whole spine start to open and create space, all the way to your neck (through the continuum of fascia). With this move, you lie face up, and I have my hands at your lower back & tailbone area. I tend to do subtle

rocking and lengthening motions, along with side to side motions to get your sacrum to move freely. This move can also help people who suffer with neck pain or headaches, because of the fascial soft tissue connection along the spine. Our sacrum tends to get com-pacted because we sit a lot during the day for work or travel. So this move

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by Ben Fuchs, Nutritional Pharmacist

If you watch the cartoonish commercials on TV about depression and anti-depres-sants, you would think that that the mol-ecule known as serotonin is a biochemical of bliss and if you’re feeling crappy, you

can just take a medicine that bumps up its effects and voilà, you’ll be happy! On the other hand, if you go to websites like “SSRI stories.com,” which is filled with night-marish tales about violent behavior, assaults, suicides, suicidal thoughts, murders, and school shootings all associated with SSRIs; or if you read the papers and listen to conspiracy theo-rists, it’s almost impossible not to be impressed by the link between all of this unpleasantness and drugs that affect serotonin levels. Even the package insert that comes with Prozac and Effexor and Zoloft and other SSRIs pharma-ceuticals contain warnings from the purveyors of these poisons about side effects of self-harm and savagery that one would never think would be associated with a drug that’s supposed to make you jump for joy.

So which is it, hormone of happy or hor-mone of horror? If serotonin is indeed the chemi-cal of calm that you hear about on commercials and if SSRI drugs are indeed the glee-inducing, depression-fighting drugs that your doctor tells you they are, why is that Lilly and Pfizer and all the other manufacturers of these substances are warning patients about side effects like suicide and violent and aggressive behavior?

Well, as it turns out, serotonin, despite what you may have heard, is far from a happiness and joy brain biochemical. While it’s true that serotonin is partially a brain-based neurotrans-mitter (nerve chemical), it is involved in far more than cranial chemistry. While around 3-4 per cent is located in the brain, in fact, serotonin is found pretty much in all the systems of the body including the blood, skin, lungs, liver, and reproductive organs. And, as it turns out, most of the serotonin, some 90 per cent (or more) is found in the intestines, where it stimulates diges-tive contractions.

One of the serotonin’s main roles is to help the body eliminate ingested food poisons. Stimu-lating contractions of digestive tract muscles is the way the body deals with stuff it wants to expel. This is why SSRIs are sometimes used as appetite suppressants; under the influence of serotonin, we just don’t feel like eating. It’s also why one of the most common side effects of SS-RIs is digestive disorders, especially cramping, loose stools and diarrhea. And this promotion of intestinal contractions is a clue to the real role of serotonin.

You see, far from being the happy hor-mone marketers and medical people tell us it is, serotonin is an emergency response hormone. It is involved in helping the body deal with survival threats and challenges; in addition to the inges-tion of toxins, it’s protective against circulatory distress, especially bleeding. The term serotonin actually refers to “toning” (tightening) of the “sero” (blood). Sero-tonin is so named because it was first discovered in clotting components that

are found in the blood, the little cell fragments called platelets. Thus, serotonin is a major blood clotting and blood vessel contracting chemical. It coagulates the blood and increases blood pressure, essentially preparing the body for an emergency.

So, not only is serotonin not a happy hormone, it is actually a hormone of stress and vigilance. Its main role is to prepare the body to respond to emergency, whether such

response requires empty-ing the digestive tract of poisons by causing intes-tinal contractions, blood clotting to prepare the body for a fight, hypertension, to prepare the body for a flight or hypervigilance to prepare the body for some kind of perceived impend-ing attack.

Contrary to mythol-ogy, not only does sero-tonin NOT signal joy and bliss and happiness, but it actually sends a completely

opposite signal, specifically one of preparation for the avoidance of impending doom! Any hap-piness is associated with serotonin is a result of the body elevating emotional response to prepare its owner for some kind of stress.

Serotonin is a hormone of alertness, and this is what accounts for its link to suicides and violent behaviors which are manifestations of the vigilance response gone crazy. Basically it tells the brain that the body’s survival is at stake; that the digestive tract and the circulatory system (the blood) are being threatened, that the life of the organism is at risk. When you take a drug like Prozac or Effexor or Zoloft or any SSRI type drug you are upregulating the chemistry of threat and danger. In the short run this may have anti-depressant effects and one of the body’s responses to emergencies is elevations in mood; cortisol which is another stress-related hormone will do the same thing in small amounts. This is one of the ways that the body handles emergen-cies. Pharmacologically increasing serotonin may in the short run improve the affect, but in the long run it will semi-permanently upregulate the stress response system. In other words, it improves mood by up-regulating the chemistry of threat and danger, which is most certainly NOT a good thing! This is why some studies show that paranoia, aggression, and suicidal thoughts/suicides can be caused by drugs that increase the levels of this stress management chemical. And significantly, this is why rage and aggressive behaviors, violence and suicidal behavior can be associated with drugs that increase the activity of serotonin.Ben Fuchs is Pharmacist Ben, a nutritional phar-macist from Boulder, Colorado & host of “The Bright Side,” a syndicated radio program. Hear Ben Fuchs every weekday morning on KOMY 1340AM Radio Program. The program entitled “The Bright Side” is on every Monday through Friday for one hour. It is from 8am to 9am PST. And, it is also on “24/7” on www.brightsideben.com The focus of your Program is the apprecia-tion of the human biology and chemistry. And, most importantly, how to practically use it to maximize health and reduce dependence on the medical model and canon. Find out about the best nutrition options that Ben supports. Go to ConnectionHeathTeam.com.

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REPLACING LOST TEETH IMMEDIATELYby David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A.

Once patients decide to re-move unhealthy teeth, the next concern often becomes

what to replace the teeth with, and, I generally give the same answer. We can ultimately replace the teeth with devices that are removable or xed, depending on their preferences and budget, but in the very beginning, I tell my patients that we are going to replace their teeth with a ipper. That’s right, a device we in the profession refer to as a “ ipper” or an immedi-ate temporary partial denture. The name ipper comes presumably from the ease the appliance can be ipped out of the mouth by the tongue when necessary. It has no relationship to the dolphin television star of the 60’s.

So what is a ipper? Gen-erally speaking, a ipper is a removable oral appliance with 1-3 teeth attached to a custom made hard pink acrylic plate that form- ts to the palate or lower dental arch utilizing the contours of the teeth and the arch for retention and stability. Some dentists have them made with metal clasps for retention, though I have managed to locate a small lab that does cus-tom work for me and provides metal free services. Since many of my patients present with signs of metal allergies, having a metal free removable option is paramount in my practice. I am blessed to have such a skilled laboratory technician to service my patients. His name is Stan; he’s an artist and has a wonderful grounded sense of humor. I can always count on Stan; he is, Stan the Man.

Back to the topic—a ipper is usually inserted immediately upon ex-traction of teeth for multiple purposes. It serves as an immediate band-aid by placing direct pressure over the surgi-cal wound site, aiding in healing by stopping the ow of blood, much like what is done in a rst aid situation: direct pressure to the wound. The form of the ipper also helps create and guide the nal tissue contour which helps to assure a nice functional and esthetic bony foundation for later pos-sibilities. Moreover, its presence limits food and other forces from disturbing the healing wound, making healing less disruptive. I particularly like the design that Stan creates for my patients because his meticulous attention to detail enables my patients to securely wear their ippers for weeks without adding dental pastes and adhesives for retention. It takes a little more extra time and plaster to make the ipper retain without pastes, but it is well

worth the bene t in hygiene, healing, and hassle.

One of the biggest concerns many patients have is how their ap-pearance will be altered immediately following the surgery. I tell them to relax; they will never leave the of ce without their smile after their surgical appointment. Moreover, we have spent

years creating pretty smiles with our ippers, and truly do work with an art-

ist, Stan, who truly cares about people, which is reflected in his work and timeliness when emergency ippers are needed to quickly help a traumatic situation. Supporting people and labs like Stan’s is why we work with small laboratories: we have the relationship to ask for favors when necessary.

I believe that a well-designed esthetic ipper should provide patients with a con dent smile after the surgery is complete, and that’s what we con-sistently provide. In my of ce, that means that the smile is eye-catching, but does not draw critical scrutiny. In many cases, the smile we provide following surgery is a significant improvement over the one the patient presented with at the beginning of the dental journey.

Speech is generally affected initially, but within 48 hours of use, people adapt and speech returns to nor-mal, though the continual awareness of the appliance with the tongue per-sists awhile longer. Occasionally, the ipper can be thinned to create more

tongue space, but thinning weakens the plate, and should be minimized. Since the ipper may be necessary for an indeterminate amount of time, it is best to take good care of it. My recommendation is that patients put up with the thickness for a week before thinning the support, and then only if intolerable. Keeping ippers wet and cleaning them with a toothbrush and soap and water also helps assure long-term use. If one chooses to not wear it for awhile, I recommend placing the ipper in water with some 3% hy-drogen peroxide. A word to the wise: cover and place the ipper away from pets, as cats and dogs have been known to chew up dental appliances.

Flippers are generally worn a minimum of approximately 10-12

weeks before treatment to pro-vide a more permanent restor-ative option can begin. It takes that long before soft tissue and bone mature enough before it is possible or wise to resume treatment. Flippers can, by the way, last for a long time, given the situation and the care the patient affords the appliance. I have patients who have worn these for years. Plus, I have had patients who wore nothing but ippers for decades as it t best

into their lifestyle, budget, and health concerns.

The pink material in most removable appliances is acrylic and is colored by the heavy metal, cadmium. Cadmium free acrylics are available, and our

choice of materials for our patients. Teeth are acrylic and porcelain, though porcelain teeth are a bit more costly. Setting and adjusting porcelain teeth is more challenging and time consuming, with little esthetic gain, so I generally stay with the acrylic teeth. Besides, the acrylic teeth bond to the plate, whereas the porcelain ones must be mechani-cally retained. In a situation where I need to thin the tooth for clearance by opposing teeth, porcelain teeth can fracture. Stick with the acrylic teeth.

I hope that by knowing more about ippers, the journey beyond ex-traction becomes less threatening, less fearful. Remember, you can have your smile the day your teeth are extracted. How much better can it get, given the circumstances? Happy trails….

Dr. David Biles is currently ac-cepting new patients. He practices ide-al dentistry as a Biological Bioesthetic Dentist with a signi cant background and perspective rooted in athletics, physical education, cardiopulmonary medicine, dentistry, and human re-search in exercise physiology, www.drbiles.com and (831) 423-0121.

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BECAUSE IT IS...by David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A.

Inever thought that I would con-tinue to learn as much as I do after so many years in practice as

a dentist. As a matter of fact, one of my early concerns was that dentistry wouldn’t offer as much stimulation as I thought I might need to be suf- ciently interested in my daily toils,

decades into my career. I could not have been more surprised as time has unfolded. Treating the trusting and grateful patients I do enables me to better understand how this oral system operates in health and disease and still keeps my daily interest. Each day I hear tales that astound me, challenging my understanding of the mechanisms of disease and dysfunction. I routinely hear from patients of brain fog clearing, whole body pain di-minishing, and energy increas-ing. Sometimes the reports are even more remarkable.

Recently, for example, a woman returned with her sister for a second opinion and examination, determined to help her sibling with her health concerns, touching all of the bases on possible solutions to helping her heal from a myriad of symptoms, dif cult to label medically. As has been my custom, I thoroughly evaluated her mouth on multiple levels, examin-ing her gums, TMJ, teeth, existing dental restorations, tongue posture, soft tissue, dental materials, and level of oral hygiene, utilizing digital x-rays, photographs, a laser cavity detector, and illuminated high mag-ni cation. My goal is to identify as many potential stressors in the oral cavity as possible, believing that the nature, magnitude, and duration of the stressors’ existence impact the immune system in, at the very least, diverting the attention of the immune system from other maladies.

During the course of the exami-nation, the former patient revealed to me that although she still had the antibodies for Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, SLE, she had not experienced any symptoms since completing treatment in my of ce seven years ago. That was why she had brought her sister in for an ex-amination and consultation with me. She wondered if a similar approach to dental care might be bene cial for her sister. Healthy mouth, healthy body, the American Dental Association says, so… of course I agree, being the good supportive dentist I am, applauding the ADA for some of the good work it does.

Another case history? Last week a gentleman suffering from high blood pressure, obesity, and shortness of breath informed my staff that he felt better than he had in years fol-

lowing several hours of full mouth periodontal debridement with our skilled registered dental hygienists. Even though he was still slightly numb, he said, later that evening his energy was signi cantly improved, as well as his mental clarity, includ-ing a reduction of whole body pain. All of this from just having his teeth thoroughly cleaned, because he, like 70-90% of Americans suffer from un-diagnosed gum disease. This was the third or fourth time I had heard such a revelation from a patient, leading me

to believe that rapidly lowering the total amount of bacteria in the head can have a signi cant effect on our health. Quickly.

The previous hypothetical link came to me when a physician called to acknowledge that her patient was now responding to her therapy fol-lowing a similar protocol. Prior to thoroughly cleaning her mouth and eliminating two cavities, this patient had been non-responsive to all of the physician’s efforts to stimulate her immune system and heal. She was now thrilled to see the patient’s prog-ress and called to understand why this was happening. We concluded that the reduction in bacteria was enabling her immune system to nally direct its attention to other priorities in the body rather than deal with an appar-ent chronic low grade sub-clinical infection in the head, localized to the mouth, primarily between and around the teeth. With this awareness came other implications, however.

The common denominator? A systematic approach to achieving a healthy mouth on multiple lev-els, attending to all of the possible stressors on and in the oral system, understanding that there are multiple types of stressors and each one exerts its in uence in a unique way. The stressors? Bacteria, number and type, from decay, gum disease, bad oral hygiene, poorly contoured, rough dental restorations that promote bac-terial accumulation and proliferation, inaccessible concave surfaces, plus the energetic effects of mixed metals, including the out gassing of mercury from silver colored llings, facilitated by the presence of gold. All of these physical in uences are impacting our

immune systems. Our symptoms we experience and report to health care practitioners are the logical result of this oral pollution. Unless the under-lying dental issues are strategically, safely, and effectively reduced or better yet, eliminated, then the medi-cal treatment regime we are engaged in will be little more than slightly effective symptom management. Ar-guably… the mouth comes rst.

This concept does not support the current perceived hierarchy in health care, however, as dentists do

not intentionally do medically related dental care due to the restrictions placed on both professions, not to mention the lack of communication and common understanding between the medical and den-tal professions. Nonetheless, the few dentists that do treat the whole mouth systemically oftentimes see healing of ap-parently unrelated symptoms. There are many reasons for this, including the somewhat obvious economic reasons,

where patients are more likely to seek care for a single tooth rather than a whole mouth. Plus, it takes much more skill to restore a whole mouth that one can only acquire after years of dedicated post-graduate work.

Detoxifying an entire mouth and rebuilding it better are tech-niques that are not taught in dental schools, necessitating specialized training, instrumentation, and travel. It has taken me over 15 years of soul searching and analysis, coupled with revelations from my patients over that time frame to become comfort-able with knowing that when patients unify their dentistry, health bene ts will occur. What those bene ts will speci cally be depends on the issues the patient possesses along with other factors, including the willingness to make lifestyle changes, if they have not also been examined and instituted already.

Don’t you think it is time we reconnected the mouth for dentistry and medicine? I welcome patients who are willing to invest in their health and educate themselves when it comes to understanding the particular stressors in their mouths. Likewise, I welcome the testimonials that only serve to validate a legitimate direction for the dental and medical professions to embark. We are here to heal, are we not?

Dr. David Biles is accepting new patients interested in a compre-hensive approach to health created in tandem with the patient. Dr. Biles brings awareness to health from a lifetime of study. Schedule a visit to see if an ideal approach to dentistry is what your body needs to heal, (831) 423-0121, www.drbiles.com.

by David L. Biles, D.D.S., M.A.

For those interested, I have actually never read anything by Adolf Hitler, other than this quote from Bartlett’s Familiar Quo-

tations, one of my favorite books to read, particularly when I am sleepless, tossing and turning, wondering…how to bridge a significant experience and unexpected heartfelt moment with the resurrected awareness of a task yet undone, unfinished…the repeal of SB277, a new law to go into effect January 2016, effectively eliminating all personal exemptions to California State mandated vaccines for children. The only out will be home schooling…at least for now. Nonetheless…

Last evening, as the office was closing at the end of a long day, I had the opportunity to speak to a middle aged female patient of mine, Jean, who emotionally thanked me for the years of service my staff and I had rendered and the activism I have supported through this column in The Connec-tion Magazine and my twice monthly radio show which appears on KSCO, 1080 AM, www.ksco.com the second and third Saturday of each month, noon to 1 pm, Pacific Time Zone.

I was totally surprised by Jean’s response to my good natured quip about her healthy mouth and that I would see her at her next visit. Her teary eyed response was that I prob-ably would not see her again as she was going traveling, unsure where, but out of California for sure…Malaysia, Europe, Australia, China, “who knows where?” she said. She could no longer tolerate living here where children were going to be mass inoculated by the State against the values of their parents. She was serious. What had happened to our country, she mused.

She nearly broke into tears as she told me of her angst, then thanked me again and cautioned me, as others have done lately. My reaction? Sur-prise,.. gratitude.., dismay... Dismay? Dismay.

Dismay to begin so early to see the exodus of some of my patients over the passage and endorsement of SB277 by Governor Jerry Brown, despite the efforts of so many nature loving Cali-fornians, preferring lifelong naturally acquired immunity through exposure or prevention via isolation, both reasonable alternatives to man made mandated inoculation schedules that require ongoing boosters to maintain an artificially acquired time limited immunity. Dismay that our country has reached a point where so much money can buy politicians to write laws that

economically benefit the politicians directly or indirectly in advancing their careers and dismay that we, the people, must suffer the consequences of such an economic political union. Dismay that our medical profession, society’s licensed physicians, are so specialized,

so indoctrinated, so tied to Big Pharma willingly force their beliefs and medi-cine on a divided population, ignoring biology, natural immunity, free choice and informed consent. Dismay that our population is lulled into sleep by whatever distraction or addiction holds its citizens unaware of the pending trouble ahead, allowing this nanny state government to further destroy the family as more and more children suffer the consequences of receiving periodic doses of multiple vaccines, a schedule that surely has not been tried on apes or chimpanzees. Or has it? Fair question. Results?… I wander as I ponder the future and the responses I have heard from my patients after SB277 was passed and endorsed.

Though I really didn’t know Jean other than our professional rela-tionship in the office, I felt compelled and asked permission for a hug, which she granted, and we embraced one another, acknowledging the shared concern and love she had shared with me… a beautiful moment. Thank you, Jean.

Thank you also for motivating me to write this 11th hour tome as my editors, Pattie and Thom, fret over whether or not I will make the absolute final deadline. I thought I was through with my vaccine related columns. Thank you for shaking me out of my doldrums because for the sake of our children and ourselves, it isn’t over until all of our resources are exhausted in this battle to repeal this evil legisla-tion…and that which will surely come when the social psychologists begin linking herd immunity to a mandated adult vaccine schedule. One can only surmise what is next in vaccine terror-ism, surely profits for many, directly and indirectly as ill health related to inoculations spins off more business elsewhere.

One half million, or 500,000, voter signatures are required to get a proposition on the next statewide bal-lot November 2016 to repeal SB277…

and time is running out. Getting the proper number of signatures on the petition effectively means that all kids can be admitted to public and private schools in California in August and September of 2016 without having to be vaccinated. It puts the issue before the people, front and center to debate…to evaluate….to decide… to listen to the commercials funded by Big Pharma…all during the Presiden-tial elections…what an entertaining time with so many choices. Will it be repealed overwhelmingly only to be overturned by some federal judge or Supreme Court? Time will tell as the saga unfolds. Meanwhile stay tuned to Presidential politics…

So far as I have heard, only Senator Rand Paul has articulated any policy close to my beliefs: children (and therefore, by implication, adults also) are not the property of the State. Their life choices, until they reach the government granted adulthood age of maturity, 18, are to be made by the par-ents (and I would add, grandparents) of the individual child. To add more to the fray, I would propose raising the age of maturity back to 21, where it once was, but later changed during the Nixon years, in response to drafting 18 year olds to die in Viet Nam…but that is another issue, another controversy, another time….

Readers can come by my office at 604 Frederick Street in Santa Cruz to sign the petition or visit the follow-ing local healthcare offices: Cypress Chiropractic, The Pacific Center for Integral Health, The Santa Cruz Natur-opathic Medical Center, Santa Cruz Wellness, and Whitelaw Chiropractic. Readers outside Santa Cruz County can find petitions and information on www.SB277referendum.com Solici-tations for volunteers and donations can be found on the website also. Help, if you can. Sign the petition. Please. Let’s get this out in the open.

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by Korin Miller

The conversations are about your metabolism and your stress levels, so listen up! The concept of stress eating is nothing new. When you’re frazzled, you’re more likely to reach for

a pint of ice cream instead of an apple.But, scientists have discovered that there’s

more at play than just nerves. New research pub-lished in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology found that your body fat sends signals to your brain that affect the way it deals with metabolism and stress—and, that may even infl uence how much stress eating you do.

Researchers found that a glucocorticoid receptor (which regulates genes controlling your body’s stress response, among other things) in fat tissue directs the brain to regulate its energy balance, helping to cope with stress.

So, essentially, your body fat is talking to your brain about how stressed you are. That could have a big impact on your body.

Here’s why: Those signals regulate the part of your neuroendocrine system that controls your reaction to stress, as well as many of your body’s other functions, including digestion, mood, sexu-ality, energy storage, and your immune system. As a result, your body fat can affect you in many important ways, including your response to stress.

Study co-author James Herman, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati, tells Yahoo Health that it’s possible that excess body fat can mess with that stress signaling, causing you to eat more.Related: The Refreshing Watermelon Smoothie That’s Good for Your Gut

It can be a vicious cycle, too. Herman notes that weight gain can give people a negative body image, which is a psychological stressor. And, when extra body fat and stress are combined, your

body may feel even more stressed out—and, once again, return to stress eating.

Herman says that more research is needed before scientists know exactly how this signaling process works, but he points out that the new research shows that stress isn’t just in our heads: “These fi ndings tell us that stress is a whole-body problem.”

Unfortunately, researchers aren’t sure if los-ing weight can break the cycle. “Fat cells expand and shrink, and stress hormones are part of the expansion process,” Herman explains. But it isn’t yet clear if your stress hormones reduce as you lose weight.

While stress eating can lead to weight gain and obesity, it has a useful role—at least, histori-cally speaking. “From the evolutionary perspec-tive, the stress response is designed to increase energetic resources to meet or anticipate a physi-ological challenge,” says Herman.

When our brains get the message that we’re stressed, it views it as an emergency and signals the body that we need more food to cope with the stress.Learn to Love Any Exercise—In an Hour

But since most of our modern-day stressors are more in the realm of work deadlines and less for hunting woolly mammoths, we’re often not us-ing that extra food from stress eating. As a result, we end up gaining weight and feeling even more stressed out.

Herman acknowledges that stress eating is an issue for a lot of people, and says awareness of this fat-brain communication could help. But he says the key to beating stress eating (and subse-quent weight gain) is just to reduce your overall stress levels.

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by Charlotte Carreira, Wellness Coach

With beautiful weather lately in our beach community, I de-cided to take a bike ride. I was feeling

the freedom of a summer day with sunshine, fresh air and movement only to end with a crash resulting in major road rash on my elbow and knees. Ouch. That crash catapulted me from positive healthy feelings into pain and necessary action to restore control over my sense of wellbeing. Ice, whole food supplements, water, emotional release and rest contributed to my feeling much more grounded and aware by the second day. I also gained a new level of patience and compassion for my body now in a healing process.

Being committed to a lifestyle of well-being is different for every person, given one’s current state of unique physical, mental and emotional issues. However, such a commitment absolutely has a positive impact on YOUR FUTURE SELF: on your ability to respond in times of crisis. And your body’s ability to respond in crisis is cultivated by small daily habits. It’s an investment in your Wellness.

Having a strong physical core not burdened with excess toxins in the system, allows you to be alert, aware and responsive. For me, my simple bike crash gave me a moment of gratitude for the level of wellbeing that I presently experience not only on a day to day basis, but especially for that unexpected BIKE moment required my mental, physical, emotional and spiritual strength to move to a healing state.

It’s all about how you handle stress on all levels because cortisol levels in the body impacts everything.

When we are young, we fall, crash, bump and bruise and, for the most part get right back up. With time, that responsiveness changes. Your physical strength is based on stamina, mental alertness and keeping core muscles strong and flexible—all a direct result of a lifestyle practice with diet, exercise, rest, hydration, whole food supplements, meditation, prayer and gratitude. And, this practice usu-ally requires that you have a support system of mentors and coaches to keep you on track.

In addition, alternative healing practices that help with balancing energy and strengthening the immune system, such as ear candling, massage, acupuncture and chiropractic are supportive of developing your responsive FUTURE SELF.

Take baby steps. Start with one change at a time and master being consistent with that change so it be-comes a natural habit. Many clients come to me with a specific issue concerning allergies or strengthen-ing their immune or digestive system and we begin with whatever is the most pressing issue in the moment. I

use Ear Candling and/or unique protocols I have developed over many years as a wellness coach. I offer free consultations.

So when you think being healthy is too hard to keep up, remember you are investing in your Future Self. Your ability to respond during the times that your body mind and spirit will be called upon to work for you in the future IS what really matters—your health IS your greatest wealth. Attention to your health today, is an investment in your ability to experience vibrant life with YOUR FUTURE SELF.

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We’ve been told by our doctors and by the general wisdom that the successful way to

loose weight is by eating less and exercising more. We’ve been taught to think “calories in, calories out.” We’ve also been persuaded to think that fit people are smarter, more successful and certainly poses much better will power than obese people. And of course, we are made to feel guilty, self-conscious and engage in self-hatred thoughts and feelings about our weight issues.

On the other hand, the food that we have available to eat is made to make us fat. It has also been chemi-cally and genetically and mechani-cally designed to make us want more and more of it even when we’ve had enough. Furthermore, the food that we are strongly promoted to eat is the type of food that does not satisfy our body’s need for nutrients, so we become un-dernourished while fat!

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On Wednesday, September 30th, from 6:30 to 8:00pm, I am hosting a Transformation Game demonstration and Q&A session at the Center for Health in Santa Cruz. The talk is free of charge and all you need to bring is an open mind.

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The more that people understand how sound and energy healing work, the sooner we can get into the main-stream (homes and hospitals) so we can take our power back to heal

ourselves and others once again. Physically

The science is very specific when it comes to how sound affects us physically. Physics has been studying the effect of sound on matter for many years. There are specific formulas for the resonant frequency of spaces (rooms, chambers, or spaces in the body), and materials (strings, quartz crystals or metal in bowls, and all the materials of the body). There are even formulas for how to find the resonant frequency of something in the quantum field (such as thought forms and emotions).

Once you know the reso-nant frequency of something you can play its frequency to it, which then feeds it energy, or entrains it into it’s own natural vibration of health. In a cell it simply gets the cell to hum at it’s own frequency, which then triggers it’s own metabolism. You can also find the frequency of a so-called “bad” cell and then turn the volume up and explode it as is done with ultrasound on kidney stones.

The problem is that we don’t yet know the frequency of every part of the body. That’s why we have started the “GeneOM” project (www.GeneOM) to map all the frequencies scientifically.

There are many people that have devel-oped an intuitive way to find the frequency of a certain part of the body. You can simply do a frequency sweep up and down (kind of like a si-ren) and intuitively listen for the frequency. Some people just get a “knowing.” Others get chills or goosebumps when they find the frequency.

Mentally The science is also very specific when

it comes to how sound affects us mentally. We can very clearly see how sound and rhythms af-fect brainwaves with EEG. We can use different rhythms to entrain the brain into delta (for sleep and meditation), theta (meditation and creative downloads), alpha (relaxed presence and creative problem solving), and beta (help with ADD and ADHD). Of course, the brain then affects the whole nervous system of the body, pulsing these frequencies throughout.

Researchers have now found a super high brainwave frequency of Gamma in people in deep meditation. However, they also see an extremely low frequency of Epsilon at the same time. There-fore, you can think of higher consciousness as going to both a lower and higher frequency at the same time.

The most interesting horizon is creating brainwave maps with different rhythms spread around the brain to entrain us into specific states of consciousness. Studies on Dalai Lama trained meditators show different brainwave frequencies spread across the brain. Ultimately, we could en-train people into maps of gratitude, compassion, love, joy and the ultimate – that innate connection to Source that we all have in us.

Emotionally The science behind how sound affects us

emotionally is not so well defined since we can’t measure emotions so definitively. However, we

can see a stuck emotion such as PTSD as a theta loop in the brain when looking at EEG. There are specific sounds that are proven to help break up these looping frequencies. White noise has been shown to break up these frequency loops. White noise also manifests as sounds of the ocean, riv-ers, streams, waterfalls, wind, shakers, rattles, whispers and the breath.

There is also a huge amount of research on how music affects the brain and body. Regard-less, the emotional effect of sound and music is the most obvious and intuitive. We all know how powerful music is to affect and change our emotions. There is so many CD’s currently out

that are designed to entrain people into specific emotions including our own.

One of the most important techniques is to use sound to reverse negative limiting beliefs. Once you have tracked down and identified a negative belief within, think of the opposite of the nega-tive belief – a positive belief. Then, intuitively make the sound of the positive belief to bring that vibration into your body. This is an extremely powerful technique whenever feeling insecure about anything in life.

Spiritually There is only the science of quantum

mechanics that is just beginning to explain the vibrational nature of thoughts, emotions and spiritual entrainment. However, the science here is quite lacking and will continue to be until we can prove the existence of things like chakras, the Soul, and God. However, the overwhelm-ing number of people that report mystical, life changing experiences while listening to sound and music is undeniable.

There are so many sounds that we can use in sound healing and simply add the intention to resonate higher emotions of gratitude, compas-sion, love and joy. One of the best antidotes for loss of love or a loved one is to simply send love to your own heart with the soft sound. You can even do it silently.

One of the main keys to resonating Source energy is to tune into multiple frequencies or sounds at once. Most people report that they are “all frequencies in the Universe” when One with God. Therefore, when you tune into more than one thing at a time, you are opening a portal to this right brain state. You can tune into multiple crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, or even a song with multiple instruments. This is one of the most amazing things of listening to a symphony. The same thing happens when watching sparkles on the ocean, or even a view of a landscape in nature.

When in a state of oneness, the brain is mostly in Theta. So your can also use the rhythms that entrain the brain into Theta as a portal to Oneness. And the coolest thing about being One with the Universe, is that everyone reports there is indescribable love there (particularly all the near death survivors). See you there. Globe Sound and Consciousness Institute (www.SoundHealingCenter.com) offers Certificate and Associate Degree Programs in Sound Healing and Sound Therapy. The Institute is also putting on the 5th International Sound Healing Confer-ence in Oakland, September 11-14 with the top people in the field, exhibits, concerts and free sound healing sessions – www.GlobeSoundHeal-ingConference.com

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Life is balance. Everything that you see as life, everything that you see as yourself is beautiful only when it is in balance.

Right now, if I lose my balance in body, I will fall off this chair. Sitting is balance. Stand-ing is definitely balance. Standing on these two legs and balancing is not a simple act; you have taken it for granted.

When you were an infant and tried to stand up, you know what it took? You are doing it ef-fortlessly right now. If the body goes little out of balance, then you will see, just to stand is such a feat. Don’t take this balance for granted.

Just like sitting and standing, walking is supreme balance. Just two feet! The way you are walking, do you know how much is involved just to keep you balanced when you walk? It is a big thing.

If you lose balance in your thought, it is called insanity. If you lose balance in your emo-tion, the very juice of life, it becomes torture, both for yourself and for others. Your body, your thought, your emotion, your activity, everything is beautiful only if it is in balance.

So, how to bring balance into one’s life? What is the basis of this balance? Balance is such that even if you are on the battlefield, you are still balanced.

If your inner balance is absolute, you can harness the external, your body, and your mind, to the highest possible level—and that is all a human being can do.

When it comes to external situations, there is no such thing as perfect balance. Within my-self, I may be absolutely balanced, but in activity, it is still a constant adjustment.

There is nobody on this planet who has balanced his outside activity perfectly. I may believe something is perfect, but somebody else says it is nonsense. Isn’t the same thing happen-ing within the family?

You think you got everything organised, you are hugely successful in your life, and the whole world is clapping. But your children stand up and say that you are no good.

So, external situations are always going to need an adjustment—constant calibration depending upon the needs of the situations in which we are placed. Balance will come only if you are physically, mentally, and emotionally balanced within.

This will naturally find expression in your activity. It is not the activity that is balanced. If you can get the physical body and the mind to function at its highest potential, whatever you could do in this world, you will do to the best of your ability, depending upon the opportunity and the situation. That is all you can do.

Externally, how much activity and how we do the activity is not something you should decide. Activity should always be in line with the situation in which you exist and not be about you.

But right now, most people are living here as if the activity is about them. This is simply be-cause who you are has not been established. You are trying to establish it through your activity.

You have heard them say: ‘I think, there-fore I exist.’ Look at it, is your existence first or is your thought first? Because you exist you can think, isn’t it?

Once you get into this mode—because you think you exist, because you act you exist—there is no question of knowing a moment of balance in your whole life. Such a thing is not possible. Outside things may be beautifully arranged, but inside is a big mess because you are going on in a completely different mode all the time, you are trying to handle life upside down.

So, when we say balance, what would be your idea of balance? Today, if the day goes off

well, would you call that balance? For me, balance means—if I shut my door and sit down for four or five days, I won’t have a single thought in my mind.

I am not trying not to think; if I want to think I have to think, otherwise nothing comes in my mind. I am just empty-headed, because not a single thought arises in my mind unless I think.

That is not the case with everybody. They have not known a single moment of no thought in their life unless they were grabbed by something outside, isn’t it?

It never happened by yourself simply because you are identified with something that you are not. The moment you are identified with something that you are not, thought is an end-less process.

So, if you want to get to this state, what do you have to do? Your mind has to take instruc-tions from you, that is the most important thing. In many ways, it has been expressed—not just in India but all over the world.

Even Jesus went to the extent of saying this, “If therefore thine eye be single, your body shall be filled with light.” That is, in your physi-cality, there is always you and me. If you want to balance anything, there must be two, only then balancing becomes a necessity.

If your experience of life has transcended the duality of who you are right now, if you tran-scend the limitations of the physical, something beyond the physical becomes a living reality and now you have a single eye. You have one eye; you are looking at everything the same way.

Now everything is in perfect balance. You don’t strive for balance anymore; existence is balance. It is only the physical reality, which is fluctuating. Everything else is in perfect balance. It is only the physical, which is going up and down. Isn’t it so?

So, the most important thing in human life is that you transcend the limitations of the physical. You are the only creature on this planet, who has come with that capability; all the other creatures are trapped in their physicality.

You are capable of rising beyond the physicality but not going against your physical-ity. This is not about rejecting the body; it is about going a little deeper, not remaining on the surface. This is one thing that must happen to every human being.

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Martial Artsby Ted Mancuso

Carthage, most defi-nitely a lover and not a fighter, nevertheless loves to fight. She will tussle with a feather

long past the time my attention might exhaust. Black fur revolving around her orange chest, she rolls over and over snatching out a feline claw to snap the insubstantial feather. She is programmed that way. She will fight furiously, only to end by licking and purring. The fight, she seems to say, is not personal. She would do it with any willing participant.

She explodes in this manner, tossing her catnip mouse this way and that on the deck which, moments ear-lier, she sprawled across motionless, pretzel-twisted, seemingly drugged into sleep. She does not need a far-off unidentifiable sound to spark her cat senses. From meatloaf to gladiator, the smallest provocation is sufficient.

Roxy, whose claim to pugnacity lies solely in the first three letters of her breed—PUG—will nonetheless whip herself up to a head-dropping, butt-up, forelimbs-truncated posture of faux-aggression, often times lead-ing to end runs and other combative maneuvers.

You see, fighting is natural to animals—all animals. Fighting is as human as eating. Fighting taps into our reactive nervous system. But we must give a nod to the idea that the

‘lizard-brain’ aspect of our natures also gives us moments of perfect unity with ourselves. Normal Mailer’s first short story ends with a young man who, ALMOST caught and beaten by thugs, finds himself finally safe, while also acknowledging that this was the best day.

What is missing above is that neither cat nor dog actually want to fight. They want the directness of experience without losing limbs or fur, to advance to the level of benefits without toppling into the ditch of violence. They understand the differ-ence between shades of aggression (a natural gift) and counter-aggression or violence.It is people who are confused.

I have been asked over and over how Buddhist monks (as in Shaolin) could possibly be interested in such things as martial arts. I first refer to the deep tradition of Chinese alchemy that would see martial arts as a refining and transforming of the aggression that may lay in practitioner’s spirits. Then I turn it around and ask people who they think I should teach martial arts to? My preference is nuns, rabbis, peacekeep-

ers, teachers and other vulnerable but brave individuals.

Carthage skitters across the kitchen floor in a mad scamper to catch a piece of string. She almost crashes into the neglected $30 playhouse we bought for her; the penny string that wrapped it capturing her whole at-tention.

The martial arts were con-sciously designed to at least acknowl-edge and deal with some of the less beneficial aspects of humanity, without losing the necessary courage and strength to support our lives. Most of the violence you see in martial movies, even Asian ones, comes from a poor imitation of what western cinema has interpreted as martial training.

But real martial arts—not fight-ing, without principle—use posture, movement, thinking, avoidance, lis-tening and sensing to indicate a dif-ferent direction. The famous Tai Chi teacher, Cheng Man Ching, responded to a question: “Does the martial arts change people’s lives?” His reply, “The martial arts gives people the strength to change their lives.”

If Carthage were awake, she’d agree. Ted Mancuso, the director of the Academy of Martial & Internal Arts, has been teaching traditional Chi-nese martial arts for almost 50 years. To learn more about his school, his teachings, his classes and upcoming seminars, visit www.reelingsilk.com

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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. —Bruce Lee


Fitness & SportsStaying Balanced

as a Climberby Lyndsay Babbit, Yoga Instructor & Personal Trainer

Santa Cruz is a very active community, home to many enthusi-a s t i c athletes.

First and foremost there are the surfers, always waking at the crack of dawn to be the first one in the water, steal-ing the first wave of the day just as the sun peaks above the horizon. Then we have mountain bikers, swimmers, skaters, rowers, sail-ors, the list goes on. Finally, hiding in the trees or at the tip top of the mountain, there they are. The rock climbers.

Rock climbing might not be the first thing that crosses the mind as you enter this surf mecca, but they are everywhere. You may see them at the local farmers market grabbing some grub for their next trip, or at the Seabright Brewery wearing their puffies on a cool winter night after an evening session at Pacific Edge, dreaming of the next time they’ll get on some granite. Santa Cruz is conve-niently close to some excellent climb-ing spots such as Castle Rock and the Pinnacles. It is very welcoming to the rugged climber type.

Rock Climbers, just as surf-ers, want to be the best at their sport. They’re always pushing to finish their project or progress to the next grade up. What’s often overlooked is the balance that should be maintained in the body to maximize the physical ability to climb hard. Although push-ing yourself is an excellent tactic to excel in the sport and strengthen the primer climbing muscles, it is equally as important to train the antagonistic or ‘opposing’ muscles in the body to maintain balance, maximize output, and prevent injury. Here we can ap-ply Newton’s 3rd law (in anatomical form). Every mus-cular contraction has an equal and opposite exten-sion. For example, as the biceps on the front of the arm shortens, the tri-ceps on the back of the arm lengthens. It is important to keep each muscle in these actions equally strong to maximize stabili-

zation and minimize injury (I won’t even get into how many climbers I know with finger pulley ruptures and tendon tears).

Three of the most common areas of the body that develop imbal-ances with climbing are the fingers,

shoulders, and core. Here are a few exercises to keep you pain free on the wall and in excellent climbing shape:

FingersFingers are

undoubtedly the number one body part often injured in climbers. This i s because we so aggressively workout our fin-ger flexors that the extensor muscles become too weak to support them. Try placing a rub-ber band around the outs ide of your fingers as you touch them all together at the

fingertips. Then extend your fingers, opening them into the rubber band 50 times after every climbing session.

ShouldersShoulders - As you wander

around the climbing gym checking out what everyone is working on one day you may begin to notice a pattern in body types. Most climbers develop the ‘hunchback’ posture as the poste-rior shoulder muscles and upper traps become overdeveloped and cave over the chest. Practice opening up the chest and performing 3 sets 15 flys:

Lie on your back with knees bent and feet on the floor. Take one dumbbell in each hand (5-25lbs) and hold them straight up with arms straight, palms turned in, and weights touching each other. As you inhale lower the weights out to just above the floor while keeping the arms straight. On exhale press the arms back together. Keep the core engaged and low back pressing into the ground.

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This will help maintain balance in the upper body.

The CoreThe core is the most important

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by Donna Williams-Smith

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In Ayurvedic medicine, roses are considered cooling and tonic for the mind. Therapeutically, the rose scent has a potent anti-depressant effect and may be used via face and body massage, skin care, baths or diffusers to treat nervousness, sadness or long term stress. Two drops of rose oil may be helpful in a bath for depression, grief or insomnia.

Diluted in distilled water, rose oil may be used to soak compresses for

tired, irritated eyes. Rosewater is also a good skin-care remedy, and is a staple in my own regimen as well as in my skincare practice. It is softening, soothing and toning to the epidermis and great, used as a hydrator in a spray mist.---Rosewater essence, bought in specialty food stores, may be used in the kitchen as it has been for centuries in the near eastern countries, France and Victorian times, for confections. Dried rose petals sprinkled on a simple dessert, will give it an instant elegance.

Rosehips (the fl eshy, swollen seed capsules) have long been valued as an important source of vitamin C and are still consumed in commercial teas, syrups and fruit drinks. Oil from the hips of Rosa Rubinosa, in addition to vitamin C, are high in linoleic and linolenic acids and are excellent for maturing skin and softening calloused areas.

The gifts of the rose unfold, as her petals, in a potpurri of nurturing abundance. Soothing and healing on many levels--be it viewed, inhaled, ingested or applied, one understands why it is considered a stimulant to the heart chakra and truly, a blessing.

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by Carmel Jud

Educating a girl is a far cry in our place. My name is Parveen. I live

in India. Girls are sent to school till the age of 9 or 10 years at the most. When I was a child, my brother and I attended school. In class 5, my father could not afford books for us, so he sold my text books to buy notebooks for my brother. That was the end of my schooling. Whenever I think of this, tears come to my eyes. Then I got married when I was 14. My life was between the four walls of our hut. I was very poor, and we were living

day to day. My two children were born before I was 17. In my village, women were not allowed to go out and work. We couldn’t talk in front of elders, and in no way were we allowed to voice our opinions. I was dependent on my husband for everything, and because of this, I had no voice - no power. I was constantly fearful that my little

girl would suffer the same fate, and the pain that brought me was unbearable.”

“To study is a desire that comes from my heart. My name is Ana Del Carmen. I live in the highlands of Gua-temala, in Chalpul. When they teach me, I really like my studies. I was sad

when my mother told me I could no longer study next year, because we do not have enough money.”

“My name is Lucy. I was born a hearing child in the town of Kisumu in north western Kenya. I became deaf at fi ve due to illness, maybe measles. I grew up in a large family. My mother was the last of

fi ve wives in a traditional tribal fam-ily. I felt easily lost in the shuffl e. My parents used their resources for my brothers to attend higher education, and stopped funding my schooling after the 8th grade.”

It’s estimated that 62 million girls

are not in school. In many developing countries school is not free and often sending a girl to school is not a priority. Parveen, Ana Del Carmen, and Lucy are determined to change that, and they’re succeeding. Their secret to suc-cess? Craft-making. All three enrolled in craft-making programs that brought them the income needed to make the

dream of an education a reality. Lucy learned to make gorgeous jewelry in Sasa Designs’ program for deaf women in Kenya. Ana Del Carmen and her mother Maria now weave beautiful scarves thanks to Limitless Horizons Ixil. Parveen convinced her husband to

send her to tailor-ing school. She perhaps sums it up best, “The training was excellent and I became a skilled worker. Now I am respected in my community. I am able to educate my daughter along with my son. See-ing this, the other men in the village are encouraging their wives to learn some skill which will bring income to the fam-ily. They now send their daughters to school. It is a nice feeling to see that I was able to change the future of my village.”

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by Sayer Ji, FounderA concerning new study

finds that most of the breast milk samples tested contained artifi cial sweeteners. Why has this never been discovered until now and what are the implica-tions to our most vulnerable populations?

An article soon to be published in the Journal of Toxicology and En-vironmental Health on the presence of synthetic

sweeteners in breast milk is bound to upset the apple cart when it comes to assessing the toxicological risk of these chemicals to breast-fed infants.

In previous articles, we have reported extensively on the dangers of artifi cial sweeteners, especially aspartameand sucralose (aka Splenda), whose presence in tens of thousands of consumer products make exposure to them commonplace. Despite their present day low-risk regulatory status, we have found highly concerning research that these compounds contribute to a wide range of health conditions such as:

Brain DamageObesity and DiabetesWeight Gain/OverweightAddictionEven more concerning, when Splenda is

heated at temperatures that occur in baking ap-plications it produces dioxin, one of the most deadly chemicals known to man. This is a fi nding that has received almost not attention outside a few scientifi c studies that we reported on in an article you can familiarize yourself with here: Sucralose’s (Splenda) Harms Vastly Underes-timated: Baking Releases Dioxin. (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/splenda-contaminates-65-breastmilk-sampled-gov-study-fi nds)

The new study titled, “Non-nutritive Sweeteners in Breast Milk”, was conducted by researchers from the National Institute for Diabe-tes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda , Maryland , USA. The study abstract is available to read ahead of the study’s full publication later this month: Non-nutritive Sweeteners in Breast Milk.

J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2015 Aug 12:1-4. [Epub ahead of print]

Sylvetsky AC1, Gardner AL, Bauman V, Blau JE, Martin Garraffo H, Walter PJ, Rother KI.Abstract

Non-nutritive sweeteners (NNS), including saccharin, sucralose, aspartame, and acesulfame-potassium, are commonly consumed in the general population, and all except for saccharin are considered safe for use during pregnancy and lactation. Sucralose (Splenda) currently holds the majority of the NNS market share and is often combined with acesulfame-potassium in a wide variety of foods and beverages. To date, saccharin is the only NNS reported to be found in human breast milk after maternal consumption, while there is no apparent information on the other NNS. Breast milk samples were collected from 20 lactating volunteers, irrespective of their habitual NNS intake. Saccharin, sucralose, and acesulfame-potassium were present in 65% of participants’ milk samples, whereas aspartame was not detected. These data indicate that NNS

are frequently ingested by nursing infants, and thus prospective clinical studies are necessary to determine whether early NNS exposure via breast milk may have clinical implications.

************This ground breaking study has found for

the fi rst time that sucralose and acesulfame-po-tassium survive maternal metabolism and enter into breast milk in the majority of the breast milk samples tested (65%). As is the case for many chemicals released into the human food supply, adequate proof of the safety of these compounds in infants is not only not available, but unethical to perform in human subjects. This is one justi-fi cation for the use of surrogate risk assessments using animals, such as the animal LD50 model, whereby a chemical is tested by determining the amount needed to kill 50% of rodents within a relatively short time frame (so-called “acute toxicity”), and then deducing from that data an “acceptable level of harm” to humans primarily by adjusting for body weight differences between rodents and humans. This system, of course, is extremely primitive, and does not account for low-dose, chronic exposures; nor does it account for the synergistic toxicities of multiple exposures occurring simultaneously in real-world situations, such as the study above.

Clearly, if these artifi cial sweeteners are being passed directly to newborns through breast milk, and there is no assurance of their safety, an immediate halt to their use by those wishing to conceive, are pregnant, or breast-feeding should be initiated by regulators. Anything less than obeisance to the precautionary principle could be considered a violation of informed consent, and evidence o culpability shared by manufacturers and regulators to for the harm done to exposed populations.

This new study will represent something of a litmus test as far as determining how effectively the media will keep this information buried or will report accurately on it once it is released. Given the high gravitas government source of the research, and the profound implications it has to the health of our most susceptible population: newborns and infants, if it goes under-reported it is our job to make sure it gets widespread ex-posure. Therefore, please share this information and relevant links above with relevant parties and stakeholders who should be aware of the true dangers associated with the use of artifi cial sweeteners.

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when he was killed. He was a major attraction at the park and was being studied and tracked by the University of Oxford as part of a larger study.

Cecil—named after Cecil Rhodes—and another lion believed to be Cecil’s brother were noticed in Hwange National Park in 2008. In 2009, Cecil and his brother encountered an established pride, which resulted in a fi ght in which Cecil’s brother was killed. Cecil retreated to another part of the park where he eventually established his own pride which had up to 22 members. In 2013, Cecil was forced out from the area by two young male lions into the eastern border of the park. There, he created a coalition with another male lion named Jericho to establish two prides which consisted of Cecil, Jericho, half a dozen females and up to a dozen cubs sired by Cecil or Jericho.

It is estimated there are between 25,000 and 30,000 lions alive in Africa. In 2013, 49 hunted lion carcasses were exported from Zim-babwe as trophies; the 2005-2008 Zimbabwe hunt “off-take” (licensed kills) average was 42 lions per year.DEATH

In June 2015, Walter Palmer, an Ameri-can dentist and recreational game hunter from Minnesota, reportedly paid US$50,000 to a professional hunter / guide, Theo Bronkhorst, to enable him to kill a lion. Cecil was allegedly lured out of the sanctuary where he was shot and wounded with an arrow. He was tracked, and ap-proximately 40 hours later was killed with a rifl e. He was then skinned and his head was removed. When his headless skeleton was found by park investigators, his tracking collar was missing.

The killing drew international media atten-tion and sparked outrage among animal conser-

vationists, politicians and celebrities, as well as a strong negative response against Palmer. Two other men are being prosecuted in relation to the hunt, and the Zimbabwean government has stated it will seek Palmer’s extradition.

Zimbabwe National Parks have stated that neither Bronkhorst nor the landowner, Honest Ndlovu, on whose property Cecil was believed to have been shot, had the appropriate permit for a lion. On 31 July 2015, Agence France Presse AFP reported that the Zimbabwean hunt guide, Bronkhorst, declared: “We had obtained the permit for bow hunting, we had obtained the permit for the lion from the council.” The two Zimbabweans were arrested by Zimbabwe police and accused of assisting Palmer in the killing. Palmer had already returned to the United States, where he issued a statement that he had “relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt” and “deeply regret that my pursuit of an activity I love and practice responsibly and legally resulted in the taking of this lion”. On 28 July, The Daily Telegraph reported that “independent sources” had “seen a copy of the relevant hunting permit”. In a previous incident, in which Palmer killed a bear 40 miles (64 km) from where the bear hunting permit he held would have been valid, he had offered about $20,000 for his hunting party to lie about the circumstances. On that occasion, he was given a $2,938 fi ne and a year of probation.

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The September 2015 Wave X Awakeningby Dr. Kathy J. Forti

I ONCE HAD a media and communications professor ask a packed auditorium of journalism students the

interesting question: “What is the singular factor that affects all of humanity? A factor that can start or stop wars? That can raise up civilizations or destroy them?” Not one student could come up with the right, yet so obvious, answer: Space Weather. Almost 35+ years later, I still remember his words.

When I heard Dr. Simon Atkins recently talk about the ‘”WAVE X shift of 2015? it made complete sense. Atkins is a well-known climate risk economist and planetary threat forecaster with a doctorate in Biometeo-electromagnetics. He uses the science of magnetism to bring clarity to what is presently occurring in our world.

Space weather not only influences, but guides humanity. Statistics show that when there are intense solar flares from space, 82% of the time there is a downshift in the stock market 1-3 days later. These same solar flare peaks are known to cause eruptions of violence between classes (sort of like the full moon effect). It’s a natural phenomenon, but its all due to magnetic waves that ultimately affect every living organism on our planet.

On a positive note, when there are coronal mass ejections from the sun (CMEs), humans are more likely to experience euphoria, calmness and ultimately peace. CMEs are explosions of electricity and energy in the form of electrons and protons, according to NASA. This magnetic energy that comes from our Sun (which is why the Ancients saw the Sun as the God Source) actually elevates consciousness levels. The Sun is the great benefactor. If you stay out of the Sun you quickly lose your connection to third eye consciousness. You also can experience depression and/or illness.

I experienced this first hand many years

ago when I worked in a darkened lab doing altered states studies during daylight hours. I started not only getting oily skin and breaking out with facial eruptions (which I had never had), but I became quickly depressed. Something told me to take a few 15 minute breaks outside each day and just sit in the Sun. It was like a miracle cure. Like a plant, we need light to thrive. Without it, it will lead to dysfunction, be it emotional and/or physical. It’s a lesson I never forgot.

The BIG SECRET is the Sun is also connected to our evolutionary awakening. During the last half of September 2015, there is a powerful wave of gamma light coming from the Galactic Core. This intergalactic WAVE X energy will be coming through to Earth at maximum strength and peaking on September 28th. We are already well into it and feeling its effects. It happens every 3,600 years, and is being called “The Event Horizon.” It is the next step in the evolutionary cycle of man.

As reported by Time Magazine (http://tinyurl.com/l4zg3jv), scientists know about this event, but are questioning what these mysterious intergalactic bursts are or, more importantly, what they will bring. Change, for sure. It is no coincidence that in the last 18 months worldwide earthquakes have suddenly quadrupled as this energy is beginning to be felt more and more on the planet. The earth is doing strange things. People of all countries and even the media have reported eerie sounding, and rather loud, groaning sounds coming from the earth. Expect more in August as these are signs of dimensional portals opening in the earth itself, says Atkins. Intergalactic WAVE X is getting closer. This is no Armageddon scenario as many biblical adherents are predicting, but a time when our cellular DNA is able to shift and open up our true gifts.

In 1984-1985, Dr. Peter Gariaev and his team of Russian linguists were studying DNA and the ways light, sound and frequencies interact with DNA. Their research led to many groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting discoveries with one of them showing that DNA is able to absorb and emit light (photons), which spirals along the double helix in sacred geometrical form. Literally, DNA creates

magnetized wormholes in the time-space fabric. DNA acts as “tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness.” The researchers found that with the presence of light (photons), DNA activation and thus evolution can occur.

This is the great awakening that has always been promised us. This is an incredible time to be alive to witness this shift. It does not pick favorites. It does not matter what race or religion you embrace. It is here for us all. We are the Oneness.

Some people believe that helpful extraterrestrials (ETs) are trying to slow down this planetary energy from being too much for us because this faster electromagnetic energy can cause some people to feel like they are going mad (it opens enhanced mind/thought patterns). Call it energy weirdness. It’s no coincidence that violence rates suddenly surged in the US during 2015, after years of showing a decline.

This new energy is nothing to fear. We want this WAVE X energy. It serves to cleanse and help raise the consciousness of humanity. There are those who might disagree and are doing their best to suppress it. The CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland is ramping up to go full steam on August 15, hoping to stop this galactic energy. They’ve spent trillions of dollars for this very purpose. The dark forces behind CERN know this energy shift will spell the beginning of the end of control of the masses as it begins shifting DNA. Just imagine a world where a greater percentage of people are fully awakened than ever before. The 1% who have worked hard to enslave humanity for their own greed and benefit—well, their days are numbered.

Everywhere in our world we are now seeing the awakening of humanity speed up. We are seeing massive rallies against corruption and rallies for peace spread. We are seeing tyranny, cover-ups and false flags exposed. And more importantly, we are seeing movements converging that offer solutions to these issues the world faces. People’s inner worlds of heart and mind are breaking free and we are seeing this have direct and positive impacts in our outer world.

If you talk to most people these days, they all feel like something is getting ready to happen in the next month or two. Most don’t know what it is, but they can sense it. Whether it be a global currency reset, financial collapse, civil chaos, more earthquakes, or something else—as a collective mass we are the precipice of a new world emerging. Trust that this is not the end. You may be feeling more tired than usual lately—like you just can’t get enough restorative sleep. Maybe you’ve even taken to power napping—which is good. Take care of yourself. Your cells are already feeling the energy change. No sense fighting it. It will be interesting to see what emerges for us all.

Learn how WAVE X might affect you.About the author: Dr. Kathy Forti

is a clinical psychologist, inventor of the Trinfinity8 technology, and author of the book, Fractals of God: A Psychologist’s Near-Death Experience and Journeys into the Mystical.

How WAVE X Will Affect Youby Michelle WallingCHLC Staff writer, In5D.com

WAVE X is the term given by Dr. Simon Atkins to the big wave of

electromagnetic frequency that is has been prophesized to arrive on the planet at the end of September this year. There is scientific evidence that proves that electromagnetic frequencies from the sun affect every living thing and its consciousness on the planet. How will Wave X’s electromagnetic and cosmic frequencies affect you?

You are actually the best person to answer this question. Earth and its inhabitants have been receiving bursts of Source light energy in the form of solar flares and gamma rays for thousands of years now. As Earth, the solar system, and the galaxy aligned with the center of the Universe at the end of 2012, all were able to begin to receive rapidly increasing transformational energy waves from the center of the Cosmos, or Source, that are raising the vibrational frequency of everything in its path.

2012 to 2013 seemed like a period of

September’s Space Weather Set to Flood Earth inWAVE X Awakening

WE ARE LIVING in a most auspicious (and wonderful) time. Many of us are aware of this phase that we are in now on planet Earth/Gaia. It is building up to some transitional things

to happen this month, September, with some noted time to pay attention to at the end of the month. Most important thing is to believe in “all things bright and beauty-full” taking place. Read on to find out some perspectives that people are sharing with us all. If this seems a bit ‘out-there’ to anyone, just read on, breathe and as a LifeLong Learner which you are, enjoy the new ideas, perspectives or not. However, if you are like us, you want to read, study, research this BIG adventure that we are each and all on here. Enjoy the ride or the dance?!

With love & light, Pattie & Thom

rest and preparation for many people. It seemed like nothing had happened and that we were stuck in a never ending time loop. The party started up again in 2014 as the chaotic world events began to reflect the inner changes in people. The end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 brought wave after wave of transformational energies which have sent the general population into a tailspin that will most assuredly change the world forever.

Look back to 2012 and review the way you have changed since then. Are you a different person? Do you have a better understanding of what has happened in humanity’s past and what is currently happening to our DNA? By looking back at the beginning of the acceleration and how you have changed, you can get a good idea of how you will be handling the energies of Wave X.

The Fast Track SoulsThose that have taken a fast track

awakening have literally transformed 180 degrees in the last five years. These are the people who were literally “asleep” and all of the sudden had a huge awakening that something was very wrong in their lives and there was an urgency to find out what it was. This led to dedicating most of their time into research while following thread after thread in order to find out the truth of who they are and why they are here.

The fast track individuals had an especially challenging time integrating the energies through their bodies in such a short time. These people may have had major flu like ascension symptoms two or three times since then as the body was detoxified and energetically cleansed. They have had to work really hard through a few “deaths” of the ego and lower personalities in the “Dark Night of the Soul” phase.

Most fast track people will integrate the Wave X energies with swiftness and grace. They are used to change and are not afraid to dedicate every second of their lives to integration and exploration. How far the fast track people will take it depends on the amount of integration what has been done in this lifetime coupled with the overall soul integration and experience.

The PioneersThose that have been awake and integrating

energies for many years and some since the Harmonic Convergence of 1987 have chosen the

route of the Pioneer. They had to set the stage for the massive amount of people to begin to awaken since 2012. The Pioneers’ work included gridwork, energy healing, psychic readings, channeling, and writing to explain to the future lightbringers what would be in store for them. The Pioneers chose a long and steady path of shifting and preparing that has prepared them for Wave X due to the experience and wisdom they have accumulated in this lifetime. Many of the Pioneers have done this type of work in other lifetimes and may have been awake and aware of who they are and what they needed to do since childhood.

Just because a pioneer has been doing this their whole life does not guarantee a golden ticket through the changes that are happening on the planet at this time. Some may actually find this time extremely difficult because they are usually a few generations removed which naturally means they might be resistant to sudden change. How a Pioneer integrates the upcoming galactic wave will depend on how much they are willing to give up their well established practices as everything changes into a new co-creative and interactive stage of quickly blossoming revelations. A guaranteed method of integration of Wave for the Pioneers would include letting go and being their true authentic self. The beautiful merging of Pioneer energy with the Indigo energy will build a bridge for many of the Fast Trackers to integrate this new energy and to become prominent leaders and teachers of today.

The Star Children and Indigos

The Star Children and Indigos can be grouped together because they are the game changers. Star Children are today’s children who know who they are and possibly already have three stands or more of DNA activated. Indigos include children and adults who have always known they are here to anchor the new energies and to go through this shift in consciousness with the planet. The Star Children and Indigos are already tuning into Wave X as it approaches the planet and are anchoring the energies in advance in order to help step down the galactic frequency a little at a time because the energy is too refined to assimilate all at once.

Indigo adults can be fast trackers if they took a long time to awaken to who they are and why the came. Once awake, they had to hurry and catch up on their personal work in order to know what to do when the big waves of energy came. Just by being incarnated here with their light on the planet at this time, Star Children and Indigos will have completed their mission.

Twelve strand DNA means twelve dimensions and more

Everyone has played an important role in preparing for the planet to receive her cleansing Wave X energies. There is no limit to what can be accomplished with these energies. A twelve strand DNA allows twelve dimensions to be accessed, and doors that have been closed for thousands of years will be open. You have to be willing to find the doors and walk through them. You will find that you can return to Source any time you wish to bask in the void of love and peace. After you have fulfilled the emptiness inside of you that always longed to go home, you will gain a whole new appreciation for Earth and the physical body experience she provides.

Advanced Metaphysical abilities

Most people that have intentions to “move

into the fifth dimension” will be pleasantly surprised when they will have access to higher dimensions and places in space and time outside of the constraining matrix overlay we have been trapped in. As more people explore outside of the prison walls, the false light matrix will no longer be supported and will dissolve. Access to higher dimensions will not necessarily unfold in linear fashion. As multidimensional beings, we have always been connected to all dimensions but have forgotten how to access them.

Many people who have advanced metaphysical abilities will experience an opening that will allow them to be the teachers of abilities they never dreamed possible. People who are already reaching areas past the astral are going even further. Those who are already channeling information from their higher selves will have instant access to Universal Akashic records. In the very near future, teleportation should be possible through the dematerialization and re-materialization of the physical body as our bodies transform into more of a light body than a physical dense body. Regeneration and rejuvenation of the physical body will take care of all diseases and aging. Manifesting anything you need from the background energy will provide for limitless creation coupled with creative responsibility.

Those who have readied themselves for the manifestation of metaphysical abilities through healing and clearing will be able to tap into them with the introduction of Wave X. This is truly an exciting time to be alive on the planet no matter what chaos unravels around this transformation and upgraded capability.

The Indigos and Star Children will invent and manufacture the technology needed to clean the planet up. Those who have proven to be negative and service to self will be split from those who operate out of love and harmony. The world will be changed forever, not just a thousand years. How much the world will change will depend upon us, and how fast we get there will depend on how quickly we can dissolve the constraints. How big are you willing to dream?

Will Wave X change the world in an instant? The world has already changed in the future. Outside of time, the world is perfect. The route to merging perfection with the now in physicality and the time it will take to manifest this perfection depends upon humanity. While some people will definitely be changed immediately when the energy wave comes in September, others will struggle to know what hit them. Prepare yourselves now with the intention that you have no limits to what you can do with this energy.

Editor’s note: In5d has been reporting on this energy shift for many years in preparation for this massive upcoming event. Many people have prophesized this shift at this time and have confirmed events that prove we are going through an acceleration. For more information, be sure to utilize the search button on In5d.com for more information in archives articles.

Michelle Walling is a Certified Holistic Life Coach, webmaster, writer, and and Radio Host on In5d radio’s The Cosmic Awakening Show. As a truth seeker, she is committed to share her experiences with the world. Michelle has joined forces with Gregg Prescott as an admin for the In5d Facebook page, as an assistant for In5d Events, and as a contributing author for In5D. All of Michelle Walling’s articles and radio appearances can be found on her database CosmicStarseeds.com. Holistic Counseling sessions can be booked through her website MichelleWalling.com. The truth about the holographic nature of the matrix and how we are going to

dissolve it can be explored on her website Howtoexitthematrix.com.

http://in5d.com/how-wave-x-will-affect-you/Printed with permission.

Science Proves the Existence of the Creator of the Universe!by Owen K. Waters

THE UNIVERSE WAS created by an infinitely large, all-encompassing

intelligence. Now, science has proven it beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Science is in general agreement about the existence of a Big Bang, from which the universe is said to have literally exploded into life. The problem science faces with this theory is the difficulty that such a Big Bang would face in being successful in creating life.

In his book, The Life of the Cosmos, physicist Lee Smolin details the many variables which had to be exactly balanced in order for the universe to unfold into living order, rather than random chaos.

The mass of the proton, the strength of gravity, the range of the weak nuclear force, and dozens of other variables determine how a universe will unfold after a Big Bang. If any of these values had been just slightly different, the universe would have become a disorganized pool of hot plasma where galaxies and solar systems were unable to form.

In order to make a universe that supports life, the numbers have to be exactly right.

What are the mathematical chances of an accidental Big Bang producing a universe that produces life as we know it?

One chance in 10229.That’s one chance in 10 to the power

229.To spell it out, that’s exactly one chance

in ...10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00

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00,000,000,000Basically, not much chance at all!What are the chances of an intelligent

Creator getting the mix just right so that the universe can support life?

Well, we’re here aren’t we?

Owen K. Waters is an international spiritual teacher who has presented his insights into the New Reality to hundreds of thousands of seekers. In 1963, while growing up in a mystical part of Britain, he encountered his first spiritual awakening. The surprise of this mystical experience was such that his life became focused upon a continuous search for spiritual answers.

Almost forty years of study and research followed, along with the development of his inner vision. By the year 2002, like many of the spiritual teachers who are coming forward for The Shift, his realizations began to unfold rapidly. Today he helps people find inspiration, love and creativity through heart-powered consciousness. Spiritual Dynamics Academy LLC, Delaware, USA

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who was there with her husband Pat. Judy gave me what I was needing, and yet how much better if someone would have just spoken a word of gratitude or acknowledgement. Everyone needs a word of acknowledgement. That is the very real human part of all of us.

This experience in Hawaii led me to think-ing about our Creator. Day after day we are all blessed with gifts, such as a beautiful sunset,

the list goes on and on. Sometimes I wonder if our Creator also wishes that we would acknowledge these amazing gifts.

I feel very far from perfect in remembering to say thank you, and yet it has become some-thing that is very important to me. I want to give acknowledgement for all of the gifts, however they come and however small. In my relationship with Barry, I try to see the things that he does and thank him. Some things are very big, like the way he looks at me with so much love. But even small things, like emptying the dishwasher by himself when it is something that we usually do together, will get a big hug and thank you from me. I want him to know that I see and am grateful for all of the ways, however big or small, that he is helping and loving me.

You might think that people know you are grateful, so you don’t have to share it. But remember that expressing your gratitude is a special gift for you as well. Cards, letters, phone calls, a hug in person, an email or even texts are all powerful ways to express your gratitude. The important thing is to do it. And then there are the many blessings that come from the unseen hand and Presence of Love which watches over us continually. A moment of noticing and bowing your head in gratitude can bless your life in ways you can hardly imagine.

Here are a few opportunities to bring more love and growth into your life, at the following longer events led by Barry and Joyce Vissell: Oct 14-20—Assisi Retreat, Italy; Feb 7-14, 2016—Hawaii Couples Retreat; June 4-11, 2016 — Alaska “Inside Message” Cruise from Seattle; Jul 17-22—Shared Heart Summer Retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs, OR.

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New Dimensions of Relationship

“Remembering to Say Thank You”

Joyce and Barry Vissell

by Joyce and Barry Vissell

When our children w e r e l i t t l e , I r e a d

stories over and over that I hoped would instill in them positive qualities. One story always stood out. It was a little book and the title was, “He remembered to say thank you.” In this Bible story, Jesus is walking in the countryside and comes across a group of ten lepers. I then needed to explain to our children that a leper is someone with a disease that had no cure at that time, and people could catch the disease by contact. There-fore the lepers were outcast and made to live far away by themselves. Back to the story, the ten lepers beg Jesus to heal them. He touches their heads and they are all healed. All ten of them instantly run back toward their families in the city, yelling and screaming in joy. One leper stops and realizes that he has not thanked the man that healed him. He then runs back and thanks Jesus. Jesus then says, “Ten men were healed and only one remembered to say thank you.” He then puts his hand on the man’s head and says to him, “The others were healed in their body, but you have received a greater blessing by remembering to say thank you.”

Of all the stories I read to our children, that -

ing the words in my head, “He remembered to say thank you.” Those words have become sort of a mantra for me, something I say over and over again, and then I think of the meaning.

As we have both written about before, Barry and I and our family like to go rafting, and the

year we went, the ranger told us to be extra care-ful of a rapid called Blossom Bar as 12 people had died there just in that one year. Typically a few people die there every year. This year, as we approached that rapid, Barry and I put our heads together and prayed for protection. While Barry was guiding us through the rapid, I sat in the front holding onto our dog, Rosie, praying the whole time. I could feel the protection like an angel’s wings around us. Once through the rapid, we felt a wave of relief and shouted in joy. Even our dog gave a wiggle. One hour later, that little mantra

say thank you.” I asked Barry, during a calm stretch, to put our heads together and say our prayer of thankfulness. That prayer of gratitude helped complete something in a very beautiful way. Another blessing besides the protection had come through to us.

Each year Barry and I and our musician friend Charley Thweatt lead a week long retreat for couples in Hawaii. We love doing this very much. Each morning we begin with an early morning meditation. I usually share a short story and lesson on love to help people go into their hearts more deeply. I pour my whole heart into this teaching. There is also music by Charley. One year I particularly put a lot of focus on what I was going to say. I rose when it was still dark outside to prepare. It gives me a lot of joy to lead these meditations. Day after day, I gave from my heart and day after day, no one commented at all. Each day at least two people would thank Charley for a particular song, but no one said anything to me. I tried to convince myself that the lack of gratitude was okay. However, since no one commented at all, I began to feel that my efforts were not be-



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Having a body is an amazing experience, do you agree? Even those of us who are differently abled have

ways to take in the gift of each mo-ment. If you have eyes that see, there are uncountable shades of color in our land and sky-scapes. If you have ears to hear, there is a vast cornucopia of sound to delight your ears. There are so many more ways we can experience the world around us, we are truly blessed.

I have found that I appreciate life and the world around me easily when I am feeling healthy. When I suffer from illness my surroundings do not seem as bright and vivid as when I am in excellent health. At times, when my body is struggling, the very sound and light that normally bring me joy can become painful to my sensitive eyes and ears. I have concluded that when my body is healthy I take in more of my world, meaning, I more capable to be present to the majesty that is taking place all around me.

I am truly inspired by the idea of living a vibrant life as much of the time as possible. In last months article I opened up the subject of food in regard to optimal health. Specifi cally, I addressed the fact that there are as many philosophies about eating as there are people. You can ask a room full of people what they eat and if you have twenty in the room you may very well get twenty different answers.

There are, of course, old technologies (tradi-tions) around food that can be followed as well as many new philosophies. Science is discovering more each day about how our bodies work and maintain optimal health. The body is a complex organism and there are enough differences from one body to another and neither doctor nor nutri-tionist can honestly say that there is one diet that is perfect for every body.

I believe that our bodies are intelligent and if we are willing to listen, they will teach us what they need. To come to this understanding I engaged in the following three-year experiment. I slowly removed dairy products, meats of any kind and indulgences, such as caffeine and foods contain-ing simple sugars. I also reduced eating cooked foods, making sure that around 50% of my daily intake came from raw and living foods. Further-more, I eliminated packaged, dry and processed foods altogether.

My next step was to clean out my digestive tract. I utilized several different cleansing methods and followed up with colon hydrotherapy. In the beginning of this I felt tired, sluggish and even

sick at times. I pressed on, trusting that there was something worth all the work, sacrifi ce and abstinence from chocolate.

Over the course of three years I introduced new foods into my diet one at a time. I would eat that food once a day for several days in ad-dition to my base diet. I took notes on how I felt, how much energy I had and other data, such as how

my eliminations were or if I became congested.It was during this process that I discovered

an allergy to oats. This was such a relief to know and sad at the same time because I love oatmeal. However, I fi nally realized why I felt so sick in the mornings. Often I would eat a big bowl of oatmeal and tarry off to work or school and then feel just terrible. I never put the two together.

Now the most amazing benefi t that came was something I had not intended and what’s more, did not even know was possible. Over the course of my three-year experiment, I became so sensitive that I could smell or taste something and know if it would be good for me. Meaning, I had a sense of what foods my body would like to avoid and what foods it would thrive on just by smelling and/or tasting them! This was a revolution in my personal life.

This all took place in the early 1990’s. Now I can report that I rarely have to smell or taste a food to know if my body wants it. I just know. Seriously, I just get a feeling in my body of yes or no. When I go with it, as I feel it, I feel good. Every time I go against the feeling I get, I end up regretting it.

Through my own personal life and my own experimentation I have come to the conclusion that my body is aware of what it likes and what it does not. Perhaps this is a form of intuition, a sixth sense? I believe my body is intelligent and I feel that it always wants to be operating at it’s optimal level. I trust the feelings that my body sends me about the food I am thinking of eating. Sometimes I still smell or taste it before I commit to it.

Another fantastic benefi t that has come from my food experiment is I found my optimal diet. I feel healthy, full of energy and strong. I sleep well and my stamina for projects, school, work and life is amazing, even to me. I eat simply, I consume few supplements and my diet is not expensive. I did not fi nd my diet in a book or through a lecture. I found it because I wanted to. I found it by listening to my body, by experimenting with foods and through my willingness to go without comfort foods and indulgences for the duration of the experiment.

I believe that anyone can embark on the journey to fi nd out what his or her optimal diet is. All it takes is a desire to cultivate a close relation-ship with your body and the willingness to begin.

Christopher Love is an educator and medi-tation instructor who welcomes correspondence at [email protected].

“I believe that our bodies are intelligent and if we are willing to listen, they will teach us what they need.”

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. —The Buddha

by Sharon Esther Papo

America’s elder population is expanding, and so are the number

of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) adults who are moving into their golden years. In the next several decades, the population of LGBT adults who are 60 years and older is expected to double, reaching more than 3 million by 2030.

LGBT older adults grew up in a time when it was legal to be arrested for their “deviant” sexual or gender identity. Coming out for many of them came at a huge cost (arrest, family rejection, get-

the trailblazers of the LGBT movement and they face unique challenges as they age.

In the U.S., roughly 80% of long-term care for older adults is provided by family members (spouses, children and other relatives). LGBT older adults are half as likely as their straight peers to have close family to depend on for assistance. This means that they rely more heavily on professional care providers (doctors, pharmacists, hospital and nursing home staff), who may be uncomfortable or actively neglectful or abusive towards them. Studies have shown that even when care provid-ers are supportive, the fear of discrimination may prevent some LGBT people from getting the care they need.

cially wealthy. Poverty rates among elder lesbian and gay couples are 9.1 percent and 4.9 percent respectively, compared with 4.6 percent among elder heterosexual couples.

LGBT elders are more likely to be socially isolated than their peers. They are two times as likely to be single and live by themselves. They are more than three times as likely to be child-less. LGBT older adults are also less likely to feel welcome at existing elder care services and other places where elders often connect (churches, senior centers, etc). Social isolation affects depression, delaying seeking needed care and premature death.

A powerful study called “LGBT Older Adults in Long Term Care Facilities” was recently re-leased. The study clearly states the there is much work to be done to improve the care of LGBT elders, Poor treatment from other residents was a frequently reported problem with 23% of LGBT respondents experiencing verbal or physical ha-rassment from other residents. Transgender elders (both those who have made a gender transition and those who have not) are especially vulnerable.

The study had many heartbreaking stories including one about a woman who came to a nursing home after having a stroke and could not communicate. Her family decided that her partner

ty they shared or to visit or make any de-cisions for the patient. The family sold the couple’s home and got a restraining order against the long-time partner. These women were in their 80’s. They were retired school teachers. They had never considered being out and had not put any legal protections in place. The partner would call the nursing home occasionally at night to see if a compassionate nurse would be willing to break the rules and tell her if her partner was still alive and how she was doing.

LGBT elders are at higher risk of neglect. One respondent (from San Francisco) talked about being in a skilled nursing facility for 16 days before he was taken to shower by the staff (and that was only after “screaming insistence”). Staff didn’t want to touch him for “fear of contracting a disease.” Fifty-one percent of study respondents reported that staff had refused to provide such basic care.

Twelve percent of elders reported direct experience or knowledge of someone who was denied medical treatment because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.

While there is much work to be done, lo-cally, we are fortunate that The Diversity Center’s 60Plus Senior Program is run by the talented and dedicated Jane Schwickerath in collaboration with the committed 60Plus volunteer committee. The Diversity Center’s 60Plus Senior Program offers LGBT Seniors in Santa Cruz County and the surrounding area opportunities to enhance their quality of life through social and recreation activities. We also provide LGBT Aging Cultural Sensitivity trainings to local senior service organi-zations to support them in improving their services to better understand and serve LGBT elders. As LGBT trailblazers are aging, it is critical that the wider community works hard to ensure that our elders receive the dignity and respect that they deserve.

Sharon Esther P apo is Executive Director of The Diversity Center, which enhances lives and promotes fairness for LGBTQ people in Santa Cruz County. For more information you can go to www.diversitycenter.org or call (831) 425-5422. Mark your calendar for upcoming 60Plus Senior Luncheons: Sept. 12 & Nov. 14. The Diversity Center Gala is on Oct. 17. Check our website’s calendar for more information about these and other upcoming events and programs! If you would like to read the full study, go to: https://www.lgbtagingcenter.org/resources/pdfs/NSCLC_LGBT_report.pdf.


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the blessings of water. At one time, people had an

awareness of how much our lives depended on the weather. Through ceremony, the weather beings were honored and respected for their gen-erosity. Ceremony was an integral part of life.

For thousands of years, the Weather Workers in my lineage have been going to a Great Goddess volca-no being named Iztaccihuatl. She lies next to her husband, Popocatepetl, an active volcano. On this particular jour-ney, we were a group of 60 Weather Workers plus children, a caravan of nine vehicles winding up the side of the volcano to 14,000 feet. The site for our ceremony is a beautiful, peace-ful, place, with an expansive view. We can see Popocatepetl’s 17,802 ft high snowcap peak and Iztaccihuatl’s 17,342 ft high rock face, bare of snow.

The sky is blue. The sun is out, and it’s chilly at this elevation. The ceremony begins with lots of copal smoke, prayers, and offerings of flowers, candles, fruit and bread. We are there at the beginning of the rainy season to call Tlaloc, the Rain God, to return with his precious life-giving waters.

The wind picks up. The clouds roll in, and the temperature drops.

Rain and sleet arrives. There’s hail, then snow, thunder and lightning. We’re trying our best to hold on and not blow away. We have our feast and wait for the gods to have theirs from the offerings that we have brought for them. We’re wet and cold and it’s growing dark, but the love we feel for the Weather Beings and each other keeps us going. By the end of the ceremony, Iztaccihuatl’s rock face is completely covered in snow.

Filled with joy and gratitude, we wind down the mountain in the dark, leaving the volcanoes and storm behind. But wait! The storm is follow-ing us, surrounding us with lightning, thunder and rain all the way back to the village. The people of Tepoztlan are overjoyed; the Weather Beings have arrived home with us!

Over time, we have forgotten our relationship with these Divine Beings, and we no longer relate to the weather as a living presence. This is the heart of the drought. Through the absence of rain, the Weather Be-ings are asking us to appreciate their value and return to our relationship with them. Giving thanks to these Great Beings, acknowledging and observing their presence is the way back to balance.

Visit the Ocean and express your gratitude for her gifts of life and weather. Feel the Sun on your skin and thank him for his light and warmth. Look up at the Sky; ob-serve the presence or absence of the Clouds. Listen to the Wind, feel how the Wind shifts and changes. When it rains, step outside, hold out your hand, allow the rain to touch your skin and say, “thank you very much”.

If you would like to participate in or learn more about weather ceremo-nies in Santa Cruz, contact Megan at [email protected].

Megan Montero is a Feng Shui consultant, a Plant Spirit Medicine healer, and a Granicera in the Nahua weather working tradition of Mexico. She has been practicing Feng Shui in Santa Cruz since 2007 and offers consultations in the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay areas and by phone. She practices Plant Spirit Medicine at her office in Santa Cruz. Learn more about Megan’s services at www.windandwaterblessings.com. Stay in touch by signing up online for Megan’s Cycles of Chi newsletter. Contact Megan at (831) 588-5424 or [email protected].

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Bubbling away on kitchen counters, under stairways, or in forsaken corners of the garage, all across the county ancient fermentation traditions live on: those curious

collaborations between man and microbe that yield beer, cheese, sauerkraut, miso, and many other favorite foods. On Saturday, September 12th, the Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project and Seven Bridges Cooperative are hosting the 3rd Annual “Counter Cultures: A Fermentation Celebration”. The event will be held at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and will feature numerous fermented foods and beverages for sampling, as well as fermentation workshops, and live music. Counter Cultures is a benefit for the non-profit Fruit Tree Project, which harvests surplus fruit, develops community orchards, and hosts pres-ervation workshops. Tickets are available on a sliding scale from $20-50.

In recent years, there has been a huge up-surge of interest in fermented foods. One aspect of this is the overall growth of local food econo-mies. Why buy mediocre mass-produced beer, many are asking themselves, when I can make better beer at home or buy it from a local brewer? Similarly, many consumers are rejecting cheeses and yogurts from factory farm operations, choos-ing instead to buy more flavorful products made by small local farmers and artisans, who are also kinder to their animals and gentler on the earth.

Another facet of the fermentation craze is the health-promoting aspects of foods with live

cultures. Our bodies contain thousands of spe-cies of bacteria and other microbes, which are especially important in aiding our digestion. As more and more studies investigate the complexity of our internal ecosystems, a growing consensus seems to be emerging that eating a variety of live fermented foods—examples of which are yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and kombucha—can aid in maintaining digestive health.

Counter cultures will feature an array of foods and beverages to sample, including sauerkraut, kimchi, yogurt, miso, tempeh, pick-les, beer, wine, and many more. The Fruit Tree Project will bring fruit wines and vinegars, and other items made from fruit harvested by their volunteers. Event co-sponsor Seven Bridges, an organic homebrew supply store, will have beer and equipment on hand to model the brew-ing process, with staff available to answer any questions. Other sponsors include Farmhouse Culture, Creative Cultures, Companion Bake-shop, India Joze, Bonny Doon Vineyard, and Freedom Wineworks.For more information, or to reserve a spot visit www.fruitcruz.org/. You can also reach us at [email protected], or (831) 435-6719.Steve Schnaar is a local author, activist, and fermentation enthusiast. He is also founder and director of the Santa Cruz Fruit Tree Project, which organizes community fruit harvests of excess backyard fruit, and which recently broke ground on the Riverside Gardens Community Orchard, Santa Cruz’ first-ever orchard in a public park.


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Since 2009, a group of hardy Watsonville Wet-lands Watch volunteers have met weekly outside the Wetlands Educational

Resource Center in Watsonville to propagate native plants for wet-lands habitat restoration projects. The plants they propagate are also sold at the Watch’s annual “Habitat Festival and Native Plant Sale” being held on Oct 3. The self-named Prolific Propagators have earned their name, propagat-ing ten to twenty thousand plants annually. Volunteers with this group learn many helpful hints for selecting and caring for native plants in their home gardens.

Prolific Propagators’ “adven-tures” include: cleaning and sowing seeds; planting cuttings; separating and transplanting seedlings; divid-ing and transplanting larger plants; trimming & weeding; and sorting and sterilizing containers and tools. This lively group enjoys sharing stories and snacks. Each week, volunteers “choose their own adventure” from a prioritized list of tasks prepared by the Watch’s Restoration Staff. Veteran propagator Cathy Gamble oversees paperwork

and sends a detailed weekly status re-port which often includes a researched native plant or insect profile.

Native plants are drought toler-ant because they evolved with our local

climate and do not require irrigation once established, and thus consume much less water than the non-natives. Native plants can also be the founda-tion for a backyard habitat. Choosing the right native plants means people can attract butterflies, birds, and other fauna to their yards, attract beneficial insects to help control pests in the vegetable garden and create a dynamic and ever-changing landscape.

The huge contribution of the Prolific Propagators is critical to the success of the Watch’s wetlands na-tive habitat restoration efforts and

their annual Native Plant Sale. You too can enjoy the benefits of their labor by coming to the upcoming Habitat Festival and Native Plant Sale and buy-ing one of the native plants carefully nurtured by their hands.

The 3rd annual Backyard Habi-tat Festival and Native Plant Sale takes place on Saturday, October 3 at the Fitz Wetlands Educational Resource Center building, at the top of the Pajaro Valley High School in Watsonville. The Plant Sale begins at 9:00 am and the Habitat Festival opens at 10:00 am. Both events close at 4:00 pm. The community is invited to attend the event where they can buy native plants and learn how to create their own delightful drought-tolerant backyard habitats. The festival also includes presentations and workshops with expert speakers, a fun Eco Kid Zone, wildlife photography and art exhibits, live animals, birding tours, food and more. For more information and the complete program, visit www.watsonvillewetlandswatch.org.

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The Heirloom ExpoSeptember 8th - 10th in Santa Rosa

Do you support right to Save Seeds? Do you want GMO food Labeled? Do you LOVE heirloom vegetables? If YES you must come to the Heirloom Expo, Sept 8-10, Santa Rosa, CA. This has been called “The World’s Fair of Pure Food!” With over 100 leading speakers from the Organic and Non-GMO movements. See thousand of varieties of heirloom crops and meet seed savers from across the planet! Please Share!

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Discover, touch and taste thousands of varieties of heirloom vegetables, fruits and flowers! At the national heirloom exposition, September 8-10, Santa Rosa California. www.theHeirloomExpo.com

Enjoy over 100 speakers and take part in many seedy activities! Please share with your Facebook friends! Come celebrate a non-GMO future!

The 5th annual National Heirloom Exposi-tion, will be held (September 8-10) at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa California. Many new and exciting elements are being added this year, and are sparking further interest from vendors, educators, chefs, and farmers!

Education about organic growing, sustain-ability, and risks of genetically modified foods will take center stage among speakers, exhibitors, and vendors. An impressive line up of nationally and internationally recognized speakers will include Dr. Vandana Shiva, renowned author, philosopher, environmentalist, and leader of a national movement to protect the diversity and in-tegrity of seeds. Ronnie Cummins, international director of Organic Consumers Association, is an activist and advocate of non-GMO foods. Dave Murphy, founder and director of Food Democ-racy Now!, is dedicated to reforming policies relating to food, agriculture, and the environment. Lisa Stokke, is co-founder and associate director of Food Democracy Now and works to connect consumers with farmers who raise and grow food sustainably. Many more renowned speak-ers will engage audiences on multiple platforms throughout the entire three days.

The exhibit hall will be filled with displays of thousands of varieties of heirloom fruits and vegetables. Some of the most innovative minds will showcase items of interest to inspire others. Please bring yours!

Everyone should make and effort to attend this sharing of information about pure foods, sustainable living, organic growing and

much more.Come and tour the aisles at the event

dubbed “the world’s pure food fair!”,a massive assembly of pure food enthusiasts, talented home gardeners, farmers, school groups and leaders in the food industry.

This is a “not-for-profit” event, all funds above cost will be donated to school gardening

education and other sustainable food programs.

Speakers include:Adam Klaus, Adam Scow, Alice Doyle,

Andrew Gunther, Andrew Kimbrell, Anna Peach, Arran Stephens, Ashley Koff, Betsy Goodman, Birke Baehr, Bob McFarland, Bob Quinn, Brett McLeod, Bryan Welch, Carol Grieve, Christy Wilhelmi, Dan Kittredge, Dana Perls, Darles Eaton, Dave Murphy, David King, David Oien, Deborah Koons Garcia, Diana Reeves, Dr Don Huber, Dr Robert Kremer, Erin Axelrod, Felder Rushing, Frederick Smith, Howard Viieger, Jared Zystro, Jeanette Beranger, Jeff Lowen-fels, Jeffrey Smith, Jere Gettle, Jeremy Seifert, Jessica Prentice, Jim Gerritsen, John Jeavons, John Roulac, John Torgrimson, John Valen-zuela, Kami McBride, Karen Brown, Katrina Blair, Ken Green, Larry Korn, Leslie Goldman, Libby O’ Connell, Linda Ly, Lisa Stokke, Liz Carlisle, Mark Squire, Mathieu Asselin, Matt Dillon, Matt Powers, Mia McNeil, Michael Mazourek, Michael Olson, Mimi Enright, Neil Thapar, Pamm Larry, Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser, Peter Ruddock, Rachel Parent, Rebecca Burgess, Richard Eckfield, Rick Williams, Robert Kourik, Ronnie Cummins, Sally Fox, Sara Patterson, Scott Chaskey, Steve Albert, Steven Drucker, Steven Spangler, Taryn Wolf, Tim Wightman, Toby Hemenway, Trei Campbell, Vandana Shiva, Vani Hari, Will Bakx, Zen Honeycutt, Wendy Krupnik,

Volunteers are crucial to the success of The Expo. You can help make this an amazing event by signing up to volunteer. There are many different things to do. Check out the links to see how you can be part of the 5th annual World’s Pure Food Fair.General volunteering: http://tinyurl.com/

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Heirloom Plants and Your Health by Gina Locatelli and Allen Morgan

As we conclude this series about heirloom herbs and flowers and their medicinal values to the body – internally and externally – we pause to reflect on the miraculous healing powers that they offer mankind. We hope you have enjoyed the information we have shared and that you have taken advantage of what their natural healing powers have to offer. Please enjoy Part 3 as we discuss the “external” benefits of our select collection. As mentioned before, it is recommended that you consult a nutritionist or herbalist before preparing remedies based on this article.

Growing Medicinal Heirloom Herbs & Flowersand Their “External” Values to the Body (Third of a 3 Part Series)

ArnicaAccording to the American

Academy of Dermatology (AAD), the skin is your body’s largest and fastest growing organ, and arnica is an ef-fective healing agent for this organ. Typically used for external purposes, arnica tincture is made from the whole fresh plant including the root. It is

commonly used in the form of topical creams, gels and ointments to signifi-cantly reduce bruise formation, as well as for arthritis, burns, ulcers, eczema and acne. Its anti-bacterial and anti-in-flammatory qualities help reduce pain and swelling while improving wound healing. Arnica helps to “mop up” inflammatory debris and lactic acid, which reduces swelling and relieves pain after injury and muscle strain. This is why arnica is used for healing black eyes, boils, muscle exhaustion from over-exertion, altitude sickness, sprains/blows/fractures, post-surgical procedures and painful joints.

NasturtiumsNasturtiums have a broad

spectrum of external uses. The leaves, flowers and seeds blended together make a healing compress that effec-tively treat external fungus infections and yeast infections. It is best and most potent when prepared fresh, which might be why its healing properties are not more widely known. Addition-ally, nasturtiums can be used to treat muscle pain and as a remedy for hair loss. Please be aware that when used topically, the nasturtium contains a

mustard oil and it can prove to be ir-ritating to the skin. Therefore, it is not recommended if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

CilantroCilantro, also known as cori-

ander, is used externally as a therapy for skin irritations. Its natural anti-histamines help to calm the immune

system response against allergens. Fresh cilantro blended with co-conut oil can be applied directly onto hives, sun-burn and poison ivy, as it is help-ful in reducing the inflammation and discomfort. To get the maxi-mum benefit from cilantro, blend with water and apply to the skin and then drink the rest. This double approach wil l give you every opportunity for relief. According to Organic Facts, https://www.or-ganicfacts.net/health-benefits/essent ial-oi ls /health-benefits-of-coriander-es-sential-oil.html,

“Coriander oil is a good deodorant. It reduces bad breath and eliminates mouth and body odor when used either internally or externally…This also helps to inhibit bacterial growth

in your mouth and around your sweat glands, thereby fighting odor. It can be mixed in water, then externally applied or used as a mouthwash to get all of these benefits.”

PansyAn infusion of pansy is useful

for skin eruptions of most kinds, i.e., blemishes, hives, sores and varicose veins. To make an infusion, steep 1-2 teaspoons of the flower in a half cup of boiling water and when it’s at a comfortable temperature apply it to the desired area of the body. This herbal tea, as they call it, is made with the entire plant including the roots and is applied topically to cure skin dis-eases. The dried and powdered plant technique can be applied to wounds or made into a salve with honey and it, too, can promote healing of topical skin problems. The pansy is currently associated with the herbal treatment of eczema and weeping eczema. In 1597, John Gerard wrote the book, Herball. He was superintendent of the gardens to the advisor of Queen Elizabeth and was considered one of the most respected plant experts of his time. In his book, he refers to pansies and pansy compresses as a common remedy for the treatment of scabs, ulcers and itching.

St. John’s WortThe fresh flowers of St. John’s

Wort, when infused in oil, produce a beautiful red emollient that is an anti-inflammatory and analgesic. This therapeutic oil has so many functions that you can sum it up by saying, if it hurts, soothe it with St. John’s Wort oil. This oil is effective when applied to wounds, burns, bruises, damaged skin, strains and varicose veins. When rubbed onto the belly and breasts of a woman during pregnancy, the oil help to prevent stretch marks. Topical applications are effective in treating hemorrhoids and aching, swollen veins that occur during pregnancy. St. John’s

Wort oil is also used to calm the pain of sciatica, fibromyalgia, muscle aches and PMS.

The Santa Cruz County Fair begins on Wednesday this year, which is new; therefore

opening day will be on September 16th, continuing through Sunday, September 20th.

Allen Morgan will have an exhibit in the Harvest Building (near the carnival) and will feature the eight heirloom herbs and flowers

that we have talked about in this 3 Part Series. Come and see the plants first hand, and purchase seeds from his supplier, Seed

Saver Exchange. Allen will also be giving away over 1,000 herb starter plants. You will

not want to miss his presentation!

Marcie Hughes, CMT, RCST, registered nutritional consultant/healer (left) contributed valuable

information to this editorial, with Louise McCarthy (right) who has supported our column with photos and material. Our sincere thanks to both of them.

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“Prop 37 – Right to Know; Label GMO Campaign” Did It Win or Did It Lose?

Editor’s NOTE: THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE VALIANT VOLUN-

TEERS THAT EDUCATED PEO-PLE ABOUT GMOs and OUR RIGHT TO HAVE OUR FOOD LABELED SO WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN CHOICES! THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!!!

Did Prop 37 fail or win? Though support at the ballot

box was 43% pro PROP 37 and 57% against Prop 37, that ‘other side of crooks, lying liars and 1%’ did not really win. WHY? Because even if their products are not clearly labeled as to having GMOs, we now know WHO they are!.

We hope you have saved our Connection Magazine from last month’s October 2012 Issue as the Cover has a chart from the Cornu-copia Institute on it to spell out who is who (that is also online on our website). And, with all of the Articles that people have read in various magazines/newspapers, and all of the educating the marvelous Volunteers have done to inform us, etc.—let us know who the greedy corporations are (and with ulterior motives—we are ‘in the KNOW’ ??!!. Below, you’ll see a number of the greedy corporations. NOW, people know!! Read on and you’ll nd out about the lies. We encourage one and all

to BOYCOTT the corporations and their GMO-poi-soned products.

P.S. If any-one says there is not enough sci-ence out there to show us the ramifications of GMOs, read the center feature of the THEME in our October Is-sue. It states the science. Check it out. NOW, this is a national/in-ternational issue. Now, onward!

Thank you b e l o v e d Vo l -unteers for the ‘right to know’ everywhere and to other states and countr ies who have sent in their support in various ways.

With heart-felt appreciation for the Coura-geous and Truth-ful Ones,

Pattie, Thom & Staff

Proposition 37 appears t o h a v e

failed at the ballot box in California,

according to the California Secretary of State ballot measures results. The GMO labeling ballot measure, which would have required food companies to label the GM content of foods, was defeated with the use of over $45 mil-lion in fraudulent advertising and dirty tricks funded by

• Monsanto, • PepsiCo, • Coca-Cola, • Kellogg, • General Mills, • DuPont, • Bayer and • other food and • pesticide companies.

Over the last month, this cabal of deceptive companies has funneled money into a campaign of criminal fraud which, among other crimes, fabricated a fake FDA quote and sent out mailers that fraudulently used the FDA seal. A criminal complaint has already been led with the FBI.

The “No on 37” campaign also used fabricated front groups and impersonated a police organization (among others) to send out yet more fake mailers to voters, claiming that the police oppose GMO labeling. That fraudulent claim, of course, is entirely false.Huge victory in terms of GMO awareness and grass roots support

The grassroots effort to pass Proposition 37 was supported by the efforts of millions of activists, plus financial donations from Mercola, Nature’s Path, Amy’s, Dr. Bronner and other companies. Natural News donated $10,000 to the effort and pro-vided comprehensive editorial cover-age of the grassroots effort. Click here to see a chart of who gave money to the effort (http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornuco-pia/downloads/prop37-poster.pdf).

And click here to see some of the “natural” brands that betrayed con-sumers (http://www.naturalnews.com/Infographic-Natural-Brands-Betray-Consumers.html) with the “No on 37” deception.

Those brands include: • Kashi, • Silk, • Cascadian Farm,

• Larabar and more.In many ways, the “YES on 37

Campaign” was a huge victory for awareness. The campaign organized over 10,000 volunteers in California alone and succeeded in achieving a massive social media presence.

The “YES on 37 Campaign” also forced Monsanto and the bio-tech giants to spend $45 million to defeat the measure. That’s a record expenditure by the world’s largest toxic pesticide companies to try to prevent consumers from knowing what they’re buying. Remember: GMOs are the only products that consumers accidentally purchase without knowing what they’re buying.

What’s clear from all this is that GMO labeling has a foothold in the minds of American consumers, and this effort to label GMOs is going to be repeated state after state, year after year, until victory is achieved.

The biotech industry can no longer keep its dirty little secret: There’s poison in your food, folks, and the big food producers abso-lutely do not want you to know that you’re eating it.The GMO labeling battle has only just begun

Monsanto and other companies appear to have won this showdown in California, but they are going to lose the war of deception against consum-ers. As awareness of GMOs continues to spread, people will demand honest labeling in increasing numbers.

The huge burst of awareness on Prop 37 has a lot of people asking the questions: Hey, what are GMOs? And, why aren’t they labeled on foods?

That question will ultimately spell defeat for Monsanto, Kellogg, General Mills, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and all the other evil, deceptive cor-porations who bankrolled the “No in 37” criminal fraud that deceived a majority of California voters.

Learn more: www.natural-news.com/037873_Proposition_37_election_results_GMO_labeling.html#ixzz2BWgaShCL

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by Michael WachtelToday, while walking thru the

mazes of greenhouse filled with veg-etables, tractors plowing, anaerobic digesters, experimental ponds, and one remaining greenhouse full of roses, I began thinking about the history of the ‘Kato Family Rose Farm’ which we now call, Whiskey Hill Farms. The last greenhouse remaining full of the Kato’s coveted red, white, and pink roses is ready to be cleared as I recount this story and—I felt inspired to tell you all, the story of the how we rein-vented this historic property over the last year.

My first visit to 371 Calabasas Rd. was in early 2014, when my partner in the farm first discovered this real estate gem-in-the-rough. It’s hard to believe how much this property has transformed since we be-gan. Breathing new life into properties like these is an important part of grow-ing the Pajaro Valley economy of the future. I am personally honored to be a part of this ‘history-in-the-making’.

Our fourteen and a half acre property is home to seven greenhouses ranging in size from .6 acre up to 1.25 acres. When the farm was purchased from the Kato Family, all seven of these greenhouses were filled to the rafters with dormant, overgrown rose bushes. Our first order of business was to begin clearing the greenhouses of roses. This dirty work is really only possible to do properly by hand. You can only imagine working in these

dirty, hot greenhouses—hand-clearing acres of prickly roses by hand. It’s no fun, trust me.

Once the roses are cleared away to expose the bare tortured soil

that had been planted in conventional roses for the last 30 years, it’s now time to plow the soil with the use of our Yoeman Plow—specially designed to be able to thoroughly break up hard packed soil like this. After several passes with the plow, the loosened soil is ready to amend by adding tre-mendous amounts of compost, which add organic matter and fertility to the soil, and gypsum and lime to improve soil structure, break up clay, and adjust ‘ph’. Once these amendments have been spread on top of the soil. we use a spader to properly incorporate these amendments into the top two feet of the soil. When these amendments have been incorporated you can already

begin to see this soil transformed. The final steps are using a rotovator to further break up the soil into a fine texture, at which point it is time to use a bed-making set up on the Yoeman

Plow shaping the soil in the desired bed shape. Thru this process, in 3-4 weeks we are able to take a green-house filled with overgrown dormant roses and turn it into a world-class organic vegetable operation.

As an homage to the Kato Family and history of this amazing property that now houses Whiskey Hill Farms Organic Produce operation we will be potting the last of the famous Kato Roses and offering them for sale to the community. Please come by our booth at the Santa Cruz County Fair to learn about what we are

growing at Whiskey Hill Farms, and buy a ticket to reserve your piece of this Pajaro Valley History in the form of a potted rose bush. Please let us know that you read this in Connection Magazine and how you like our new Column in The Healthy Planet section of the magazine, called ‘Whiskey Hill Farms’. Please come and see us at the Santa Cruz County Fair from Sept. 16 thru Sept. 30th. Let us know you read this. And, ask any questions when you see us at our Booth. Go to: www.WhiskeyHillFarms.com Call: (831) 722-4455.~ Innovative Organically Grown Spe-cialty Crops ~

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Parsley OilParsley Oil is made from the

seeds, roots and leaves of the parsley plant. The oil has anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties that can help with pimples, acne and skin infections. It can also disinfect pores. Please be aware that undiluted parsley, when topically applied, can burn the skin; that is why it is infused in oil. When parsley is infused with water, it creates a tea and that tea can be used externally to clear and heal light bruises, insect bites and skin ulcers.

Oil of OreganoOil of Oregano provides a

myriad of cures. But it is important that you use wild oregano vulgare (origanum vulgare) as opposed to oregano marjoram (origanum majora-na) in order to get the maximum health benefits. In his book, The Cure is in the Cupboard, Cass Ingram writes, “These two phenols, carvacrol and thymol, work synergistically and that is the reason that oil of oregano packs a double punch in antiseptic power

and explains why it is infinitely more powerful than commercial phenol, in microbial killing power.” All of this makes oregano oil a significant fac-tor in healing external candida and skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema. Ingram goes on to say, “The oil of oregano outright destroys all varieties of yeast and fungi regardless of where they reside.” Some of the many medical uses for oil of oregano include treatment of nail fungus, athlete’s foot, skin disorders, rashes, bee stings, insect bites, dandruff and ear aches. In its diluted form, oregano is a natural insect repellent and it has been utilized to treat acne or rosacea. When coming down with a cold, many people put the oil in boiling water and inhale the steam; and when the oil is dabbed directly on the neck or under the ear, it can help to fortify your im-mune system.

MarigoldsMarigolds, whose Latin name

is calendula, have been highly valued by herbal healers for centuries. Com-presses soaked in marigold tea (flower

heads boiled in water) are therapeutic in many ways. They assist in healing wounds, cuts, scrapes, lacerations, infections, animal bites, scratches and scars. Marigolds stop bleeding because they have an astringent capability, and its anti-bacterial abilities combat infection and promote healthy tissue growth. It is an anti-inflammatory that soothes and reduces swelling and ir-ritated skin. When calendula ointment is applied to varicose veins on a regular basis, it can improve them or clear them up altogether. This ointment can also prove to be very beneficial when treating bed pressure sores – and can even assist in preventing them. It is also a safe and effective treatment for diaper rash. Marigold powder is a great replacement for baby powders, as its healing powers far out-weigh talc.

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Sep 23 O.A.R./ Gabrielle Ross (Ages 16+)Sep 24 Best Coast/ Lovely Bad Things (Ages 16+)Sep 25 John Hiatt & The Combo (Ages 21+)Sep 26 The California Honeydrops (Ages 16+)Sep 27 Parmalee/ Leaving Austin (Ages 16+)Sep 28 Richie Spice/ I-Wayne (Ages 16+)Oct 1 Cash Cash/ Tritonal (Ages 16+)Oct 2 The Underachievers (Ages 16+) Oct 3 Beth Hart (Ages 16+)Oct 4 Riff Raff (Ages 16+)Oct 8 Figure (Ages 18+)Oct 9 Xavier Rudd & The United Nations (Ages 16+) Oct 10 Santa Cruz Music Fest (Ages 16+)Oct 11 Israel Vibration/ Roots Radics (Ages 16+)Oct 15 Borgore/ Getter (Ages 18+)Oct 16 El Tri (Ages 21+)Oct 17 Gang Of Four (Ages 21+)Oct 21 Allen Stone/ JMSN (Ages 16+)Oct 22 Common Kings (Ages 16+)Oct 27 Soja/ J Boog/ Dustin Thomas (Ages 16+)Oct 30 The Brothers Comatose (Ages 16+) Oct 31 Halloween Freaker’s Ball (Ages 21+)Nov 3 of Montreal (Ages 16+)Nov 5 The Dandy Warhols (Ages 16+) Nov 8 Houndmouth (Ages 16+)

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Hello Folks,

We publish this magazine to support our community and enjoy featuring leading theater, perfor-

mances, and events. It is very important that you, our readers, tell all of the Arts &

Entertainment Venues, businesses and events, that you read about them in The Connection Magazine. We appreciate your much needed support in return. Thank you very much! Pattie & Thom

Wed. • Sept. 9 • 7:30pmAmy LaVere & Will Sexton

Roots/Americana/Gypsy Jazz

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The Goodness • N.O. Brass/Gypsy Jazz/Barn Stomp

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Long Lost Soul/R&B Singer

Thu. • Oct. 1 • 7:30pm • $20 • DanceAnson Funderburgh, Mark Hummel & Little Charlie w/

Golden State/LoneStar Revue • Blues Legends

Sun. • Oct. 4 • 7pm • $15In the Spirit of Lennon w/ Sun Kings’ Drew Harrison

• John Lennon 75thBirthday Tribute

Let the Music FLowby Janet Leonard

33rd Annual Capitola Art & Wine Festival is Sat. Sep. 12th, 10am-6pm & Sun Sep. 13th, 10am-5pm. Admission and music are FREE! Sat.

2-3:30pm, St. Gabriel’s Celestial Brass Band, New Orleans jazz, zydeco, blues brass band and 5-7pm, Extra Large, funky and fun. Sun. 11:30am-12pm, Santa Cruz Pipes & Drums. 1-2pm, Black Sunday Road-show, Americana, electrifying big band folk music. 3-4:30pm, The Fundamen-tals, red hot rockin’ soul. For more info go to www.capitolaartandwine.com.

Sat. Oct. 10th, 5-8pm, Beer, Brats & Blues, hosted by Chaminade Resort & Spa. There are four local breweries participating, Seabright Brewery, Santa Cruz Ale Works, Discre-tion Brewing and Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. The buffet is German themed and music is by Carie & the SoulShak-ers all outside in the Courtyard Terrace. Reservations recommended at $40 per person all-inclusive. Get your tickets now at www.chaminade.com or call (831) 475-5600. September music scene highlights:

Rio Theatre: Fri. Sep. 11th, In My Life — A Musical Theatre Tribute To The Beatles, an award-winning musi-cal biography of the Beatles through

the eyes of man-ager Brian Epstein. As Paul McCartney once said, “If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian.” Featuring live music performed by renowned tribute band, Abbey Road,

this show is widely considered to be the most unique Beatles show in decades.

Kuumbwa Jazz: Wed. Sep. 12th, Heather Houston, “Prayers for the Wa-ter” CD Release Concert, an evening of heart-felt vocal beauty honoring the life-giving element of water, this CD is “an invitation to fall in love with the spirit of the water through the spirit of the mu-sic.” Heather Houston is an acclaimed local singer, recording artist, choral di-rector, and vocal empowerment coach, known for her exquisitely soulful voice and ability to open hearts, lift spirits, and build community through music.

Catalyst: Sat. Sep. 12th, Blacka-licious, hip hop duo from Sacramento, known for “tongue-twisting”, multisyl-labic, complex rhymes and generally known for “positive tip”; which are lyr-ics that are often spiritual and uplifting rather than violent or misogynous. Lifesavas, classic hip hop group with a style that employs tag-team rhymes, matter-of-fact storytelling, and a soul-ful production and Lateef. Fri. Sep. 25th, John Hiatt and The Combo, John Hiatt an American rock guitarist, pianist and singer-songwriter record-ing since 1972 plays Americana, folk rock, country, blues and heartland rock.

He has released over 21 albums. His songs have been covered by a variety of legendary artists in multiple genres. Tue. Sep. 22nd, Live in The Atrium, an extremely intimate show with The Original Drifters, celebrating 63 years of magical moments as they take you on a trip down memory lane with such greats as “Under The Boardwalk” and “Save The Last Dance For Me”.Concerts in Retro:

Here is my review of a recent show. Remember this is only my opinion.

At the Santa Cruz Boardwalk Bandstand: I thoroughly enjoyed the 8:30pm show of Smash Mouth. This band is such a fun beach party band they even have a song “Pacific Coast Party”. It was incredible to see late 20s, early 30s guys yelling “Shrek song”, Smash Mouth’s remake of The Monkees famous 1966 hit, “I’m a Be-liever” actually written by Neil Diamond, made even more famous by the fact Eddie Murphy in character as Donkey also sings a rendition of it in the Shrek movie. These younger attendees might not even know The Monkees version but we all went crazy over Smash Mouth’s very upbeat rendition.

Are you a local band that would like your CD reviewed in this publica-tion? Send your CD to Music Connec-tion, c/o Janet Leonard, PO Box 3916, Santa Cruz, CA 95063. Call (831) 325-4605 or email [email protected] to tell me about gigs for live reviews. Put “Music Connection” and your band’s name in the subject line.

by Karin Leonard & Daniel Robin

Each month, we select our fa-vorite or otherwise important films to be featured on this page. We rate them, sub-jectively, on a scale from 1

(worthless) to 5 (awesome) in terms of their entertainment and message. We leave the plot details and storytelling to the filmmakers and instead attempt to characterize, highlight strengths and, and hint at purpose. Reach us at [email protected]. Enjoy!The Man from U.N.C.L.E.With Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki Entertainment: 3 Message: 2

More style than substance, as you’d expect from any spy/action-thriller

based on a popular television show, with humor that borders on self-mocking. Ultimately fairly silly, true to the genre and Cold War overtones in all its “retro-chic” splendor. The 60s backdrop, constant double-crossing and playful script are undeniably entertaining. Screenplay doesn’t quite add up, with all the mock violence and tidy intrigue you could ever want, but without the “reality bite” of modern-day conflict (1 hr 56 min).Mission: Impossible Rogue NationWith Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Alec Baldwin, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy RennerEntertainment: 3.5 Message: 2.5

One of the best in the series—en-tertaining, gripping and reasonably

intelligent from start to finish. Solid and sophisticated, there is more of a “Bond” (gentlemen spy) feeling to this one. Tom Cruise is still boyishly charismatic and an effective action hero, full of swagger. Will he ever age? The settings are glamor-ous, grand and intriguing, the women beautiful and mysterious, while the story line is reasonably engaging and interest-ing. So if the spy thing is your cup of tea, you will enjoy the ride. (2 hrs 11 min).Ricki and the FlashWith Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Rick Springfield Entertainment: 4 Message: 4

Does Meryl Streep automatically say “rocker chick” to you? She will after

you see this. Part of what gives us all the more reason to enjoy yet another amaz-ing Streep performance is the unlikely choice—doesn’t seem like an easy fit, but somehow she captures the spirit. As a young parent, Ricki once “went for it”—she and her band “the Flash” took a shot at rock-and-roll stardom and fame.

Now she is a vu lnerable, entirely hu-man mother of her adult chil-dren, asked to be there for her daughter

(played brilliantly by Streep’s real-life daughter), to help make things right. Will they let her? Will she let herself? Let the healing begin! (1 hr 41 min).Shaun the Sheep MovieWith the voices of Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid DjaliliEntertainment: 4 Message: 4.5

This charming and entertaining yarn is delightful stop-action animated fun for

the whole family—with a big heart and two hearty thumbs up (who knew sheep had thumbs...?). Created by Aardman Studios (Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run), and based on a British television show, there is a lot here to like: brilliant animation is unadulterated by any dia-logue, special effects or violence. Instead we are treated to a beautiful metaphor of family and what really matters in life, and an elaboration on “whether the grass is really greener” somewhere else. Whimsical and sweet, every age will find something to like about this uber-goofy film (1 hr 25 min).Straight Outta ComptonWith O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Paul GiamattiEntertainment: 3.5 M e s -sage: 4.5

Based on the real life story of the 1980s rise

and fall of NWA from the mean streets of LA, and the five young musicians who channeled their abusive treatment by authority, and their imperiled existence in the hood, into what became a new genre – gangsta rap/West Coast hip hop. One of the five is “Ice Cube”, played convincingly by his real-life son. This is a powerful biopic illustrating what went on behind the scenes, the murky business dealings of music managers and shock-ing police brutality toward African-American men. But mostly it is about the music, the songs telling stories in explicit rage, striking a nerve. The plot gradually falls apart as egoic fame tears apart its players. While a bit disjointed and confus-ing at times (tighter editing

would have helped), the impactful mes-sage, passionate music, powerful acting and enticing story make it an important film rooted in the past with poignant overtones for today (2 hrs 27 min).TrainwreckWith Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie LarsonEntertainment: 3.5 Message: 4

Comedienne and now actress Amy Schumer has a reputation for being

a bit raunchy, slutty and half drunk most of the time … and those are her good qualities! She is reasonably attractive and appealing, and gets away with a lot because she somehow looks innocent, but once she begins to talk … the in-nocence ends. Here she performs well as a magazine writer on assignment, op-pressed and under-appreciated. Some of the gags probably worked better as stand-up material. Director Judd Apatow captures poignant pop culture dilemmas, and he seems to let Schumer’s character drive the content, with half-baked results that are a bit raw – or at least it could use a clearer voice and tighter edit-ing. But the clever and often hilarious script is edgy and fun, questioning if her “commitment-free zone” will truly serve her emerging adult self. Alcohol is sup-posed to help, but here it seems destined to undo any progress toward a full life. If you liked Apatow’s Bridesmaids, 40 Year Old Virgin, or This Is 40, don’t miss it! (2 hrs 2 min).

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condition she has endured for years escalated and now she needs a bone marrow transplant. I felt chilled when her doctor told us that without the transplant, the average lifespan is a year and a half. With it, she can

anticipate a full life. We are now entering the twilight zone...

discovering what to do, getting donors, starting the process. Cassandra is a strong, resilient, talented woman. The way she is handling this challenge is admirable... and that’s not just a mother talking; it’s a soul acknowledging the light in another soul.

We held each other and cried when we digested the news. Then we committed to being positive, holding the vision of her health, see-ing her active and vibrant. I picture her danc-


An instant can change one’s world: an accident that leaves you dis-abled, debilitating illness, the loss of a loved one—and everything is different. The world takes on the

hue of our responsive emotions from shock to ac-ceptance of what is and what we can do about it.

Facing intense challenge requires that we be strong, and sometimes being strong is simply crying, acknowledging the ache.

Life changing moments put us face to face with our mortality. Things that seemed so impor-tant become insignificant in the light of love and appreciation for each sharing of life.

Recently, I experienced one of those in-stances that change perception and perspective. We were at Stanford again, but this time, it was about my daughter, Cassandra. The rare blood

Melanie Gendron

TogeTher We CreaTe The ShifT!

Candace Stuart-Findlay

Intuitive Insights: MapS of ConSCiouSneSS by Melanie Gendron, Creator of The Gendron Tarot

by Candace Stuart-Findlay

So, what’s your story? By story, I mean how do you define yourself?

Do you still believe that your story determines your

identity… that because you are tall/short/heavy/thin/bald/blonde/redhead/smart/not-so-smart, or whatever physical/3rd dimensional descriptors you use, these things are the sole sum of you? That they do or do not determine value or lack there of?

What about your parents… family… up-bringing experience?

Do you still believe that because your up-bringing was loving/harsh/poor/rich/rejecting/ac-cepting, that those experiences actually determine your true identity or ultimately have anything to do with who you truly are?

They don’t. Nope. Nada. Non. Nein. You are, without a doubt… first and fore-

most, Divine Consciousness self-exploring through a human experience.

And, what is the most effective self-explo-ration method? Contrast. How do we, as Greater Self, create contrast? By juxtaposing Joy/Love and fear/anger experiences here in the physical/3rd dimension.

Since we know that we are the Greater Self (Quantum science is finally closing in on this conclusion as well.), how about we reframe our perception of what the heck is going on here. Let’s start the reframing by substituting “story” with “research program”.

What if everything you, up until now thought defined you in human terms, is simply a program designed by our collective Greater Self for in-depth self-exploration? What if the question of self-value, self-acceptance, etc. was a moot point? I mean, you and I, and everything we see and don’t see is Us! What if this “you” is not you at all, but simply an energetic avatar designed as the perfect vehicle to conduct specific contrast research as programed by the Greater Self?

Contrast is a brilliant tool that only exists here… for research… for self-exploration.

I refer to this remarkable massive energetic research program as the Universal Blocking Ma-trix. Believe me, there is much more to this topic, and I promise to touch on it in future columns. For now, I’d like to share a little information

about studies performed by Dr. Bruce Lipton, and research performed at the Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Spain.

Quoting a TunedBody.com article about the research in Spain, “The study investigated the effects of a day of in-tensive mindfulness practice in a group

of experienced meditators, compared to a group of untrained control subjects who engaged in quiet non-meditative activities. After eight hours of mindfulness practice, the meditators showed a range of genetic and molecular differences, including altered levels of gene-regulating ma-chinery and reduced levels of pro-inflammatory genes, which in turn correlated with faster physi-cal recovery from a stressful situation.” This study was published in the journal Psychoneu-roendocrinology.

To me this is simply substantiating that we are fields of electro-magnetic energy, and what we focus upon can and does shift the frequency alter-ing our 3rd dimension/physical body energy field.

But what about all the research program’s unconscious transmissions we are emitting 24/7?

Dr. Lipton refers to them as subconscious, and states, “The major problem is that people are aware of their conscious beliefs and behaviors, but not of subconscious beliefs and behaviors. Most people don’t even acknowledge that their subconscious mind is at play, when the fact is that the subconscious mind is a million times more powerful than the conscious mind and that we operate 95 to 99 percent of our lives from subconscious programs.”

So, there you have it, Dr. Lipton’s term, “subconscious programs” are actually our avatar’s individual Blocking System, housed within the Universal Blocking Matrix.

Food for thought, eh? How powerful we collectively are when we

individually shift our focus from fear to Love…from anger to Joy!

Together WE create the Shift!Candace Stuart-Findlay is an Author,

Speaker, Now Thought Educator, and Trans-formation Facilitator. If you wish to share your experiences with our readers, please reach out to me through my web site. Contact Candace through her website: www.empoweredwhole-being.com.

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ing again, one of the things about her that has often filled me with joy to watch. I anticipate her healing, see her growing old, creating her beautiful crystal mandalas. We will enjoy many more philosophical discussions on this special life walk.

It’s another phase in the journey to whole-ness, a challenge that tests one’s very core and refines one’s values. Each moment shared, each milestone reached, each sunrise becomes truly

poignant when we realize the miracle of each breath expressing the wonder and mystery of life.

Blessings,MelanieMelanie Gendron is available for

intuitive tarot readings, offering also art, unique gifts, tarot services and products, (831) 335-9064, email [email protected], visit www.melaniegendron.com.

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His focus on self-h e l p sh i f t ed later to-

ward issues of spiritual-ity, quoted on his website as once saying: “My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their con-cepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits.”

Dr. Wayne Dyer, the self-help guru whose best-seller Your Errone-ous Zones was adopted by millions as a guide to better living began his next adventure, his transition on August 29th at age 75.

Wayne Dyer passed Saturday night at his home in Maui, Hawaii, said Reid Tracy, chief executive of Dyer’s publisher, Hay House. The cause of death wasn’t im-mediately reported. He passed away in his sleep.

“Wayne has left his body, pass-ing away through the night. He always said he couldn’t wait for this next adventure to begin and had no fear of dying. Our hearts are broken, but we smile to think of how much our scurvy elephant will enjoy the other side.”

We Love You Forever Dad/Wayne, The Dyer Family

Building on philosophies es-poused by Krishna Rau, the Siddha Yoga founder who was known as Swami Muktananda, Dr. Dyer pub-lished Your Erroneous Zones in 1976. It cataloged the ideas he’d espoused as a counseling education professor at St. John’s University in New York, and it shot to the top of the best-seller lists, where it stayed for more than a year.

Dr. Dyer became a media sensa-tion, touring the U.S. and appearing on virtually every TV talk show and PBS broadcasts where he shared his realizations and writings. He was on PBS for 40 years.

Dr. Dyer’s philosophy mixed New Thought self-actualization theory and nondenominational spiri-tuality —which held up Jesus as an icon of self-reliance but stood away from religious institutions themselves as stifling bureaucracies.

For millions of readers around the world, however, Wayne Dyer’s

teachings were a key to sloughing off society’s focus on guilt and clearing the mind to enable success.

Among those embracing Dr. Dyer was Oprah Winfrey, whose own network broadcast many interviews with and documentaries by him.

Oprah WinfreyIt was always a pleasure to talk

to Wayne about life’s big questions. He always had big answers.

RIP Wayne. You brought the Light.

Ellen DeGeneresThe world has lost an incred-

ible man. Wayne Dyer officiated our wedding and was an inspiration to so many. Sending love.

Tony RobbinsWayne Dyer has passed away

today. For those of us who loved him, it’s sad, but he knew death was a transition. We send love for his next adventure.

Throughout the years, Connec-tion Magazine featured Dr. Dyer’s wisdom and love in various articles. For many, many years we would at-tend any and all events where Wayne would be speaking. For years, he participated in the Whole Life Expo in San Francisco and then for so many years the “I CAN DO IT!” events presented by Hay House. We attended those events in San Jose, San Francisco and Vancouver, BC. We would always go to everyone of his events because he was always so, so inspiring; so bright; so genu-

ine; so present; so real. After Wayne’s presen-tations, people would line up to meet him personally, have their book signed by him, etc. People would be in a block long line waiting to speak with Wayne. What amazed us, is that Wayne patiently spoke with every person in line. He looked into each person’s eyes, ‘their Souls’. No one was ‘hurried’; Wayne was present with each individual—always. This was so touching, so beautiful! We have met many, many of the great contemporary Speakers/Authors/Spiritual Inspi-rations. However, there are two of these folks that are truly present and there with each per-son they interact with;

their eyes sparkle and are alive with love & life. Those two people are our b l e s sed Wayne Dyer and Dr. Bruce Lipton (leader in epigenetics).

After meeting Dr. Dyer numerous times throughout the years and shar-ing Connect ion Magaz ine w i th him, he told us that he gives us ‘carte blanche’ to present any of his work in our magazine. At that time, he told us that we are the only magazine to which he gives that permission. Thank you, dear and beloved friend to us all, Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Sending you Bless ings wi th Blissings on your n e w J o u r n e y , Wayne. You are loved, you are lov-ing, you are lov-able.

Pattie & Thom and Connec-tion Magazine

A TribuTe TO Dr. WAyne DyerMAy 10, 1940 – AuguST 29, 2015

Dr. Wayne Dyer

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The Music of the Spheres: Astrological Insights by Susan Heinz

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Venus, our sisterly twin, now heralds the dawn, having made the invisible crossing from evening star to morn-ing star. Since July 24th,

we have been within the Venus ret-rograde cycle that takes place every 18 months. Imagine the people of old watching the evening skies, observing Venus for many months, a brilliance in the West, shepherding the fall of night, then disappearing for 9 days to return in

Astrology for September 2015the predawn Eastern skies. This change from evening star to morning star takes place only when Venus is retrograde. It is known that when she fi rst rises from her disappearance, situations are unstable, shifts in power take place, and what was moving in one direction changes into the opposite. Venus rules the arts, money, and relationships. On the 6th of September, she goes direct, initiating more forward movement. Along with this, Jupiter has squared

S a t u r n . W h a t was expansive now confronts the need for containment, structure, and connection with a more realistic reality.

Likewise we see this on a global level. Political and economic situations are unstable. We reconsider what will work diplomatically, with the aim to re-establish balance in the world situation. (Watch the Iran nuclear agreement). With Venus going direct, the next sev-eral months help us to integrate what was experienced and gained since July 24th.

On September 12th, a Solar Eclipse takes place. Eclipses inten-sify the energies, exposing issues that were previously hidden. We can ask ourselves how can I tune into what I am experiencing emotionally, while being conscious about the choices I make in daily life? In what ways am I serving a greater vision for humanity and the Earth?

With Jupiter opposing Neptune, our dreams and ideals become more predominate. The danger with this ex-pansive combination is getting caught up in collective assumptions, without clarity and grounding in reality. Instead we can fl ow with its positive visionary possibilities, envisioning new realities.

Mercury goes retrograde on the 17th in Libra, through Oct 9th. It is not a good time for purchasing cars, com-puters, or telephones. Excellent time for editing, research, and long range planning.

The fall equinox takes place on September 23rd, when the Sun enters Libra. A Lunar Eclipse takes place on September 27th as the Moon rises in the East at 7:40 pm PDT, in fi ery Aries. If you tend toward Aries reactive-ness, impatience, and frustration, take a deep breathe and count to 10. The cosmos is singing to us of balance.TWELVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SEPTEMBER 2015: FOR SUN AND RISING SIGNS

Aries (Mar 20-Apr 19): This month focuses on slowing down and listening to your body. At the same time you feel the need for liberation It is a balancing act between structure and freedom. With Jupiter now in Virgo, it is important to pause, breathe, and drop your atten-tion from your head to deepening your relationship with your whole body. Take time to put things in order. At the end of the month relationship issues arise to be seen and cleared.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): Sep-tember brings a release from your

usual mode of being, into something of the opposite. Notice the changes that are taking place in your life. With Venus going direct on the 6th, the next two months will help you integrate the changes that are now occurring. Jupiter entering Virgo supports your creative expression, enjoyment with children, and enjoying your life in general. Focus on keeping your balance and calm as you process new situations.

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): Group dynamics offer inspiration, stimulation, and bringing in new excitement. Drink it in, and refl ect on how enlarging your perspective or possibilities can now take you into the next level of your evolution. But at the same time you must work with structure and discipline, simplifying situations. Put things in order in your home or studio. The benefi ts will serve you over the year.

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 21): This month, writing, communications, reach-ing out to make connections with others, are all highlighted. Your imagination, deep feelings, and insight are your strengths. The experience you have gathered over the last two years can be assimilated. You are refi ning your skills, the way you view your life, and what is possible for you. During Mercury retrograde, attend to your home and your own inner processes. Old issues in relationship surface to be reviewed and transformed.

Leo (Jul 22-Aug 22): Are you on fi re? Getting a lot accomplished? Breathing free of old restrains? This can be a very positive month for you, tuning into what you value, want to create and manifest. Be mindful and discerning of a larger view of your tal-ents and resources. As you clearly see what it is you want, be patient and trust the process. Turn toward your practical skills, and take step by step, with faith toward the transformation that is now taking place.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): This month, shift any worry into imagining new possibilities. Now expansive, pro-tective, and optimistic Jupiter moves into your sign during its 12-year cycle. You can feel its positive infl uence. You feel an expansiveness and openness. Be sure not to take on too much or imagine that you can do more than is possible. What you put in place now will need to be grounded and fi nd its rhythm over the year. Be thoughtful now about money matters.

Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): On August 20th, Venus rose as a morning Star. During the following week, you may have found yourself breaking a pat-tern and approaching life, creativity, or relationship in a new way, a reversal of the direction you had been in. Now is the time to retreat and refuel, seeding a

new vision for yourself. Balance group inspiration with quiet refl ection. Mercury retrograde focuses on unexpected com-munications with others. Take your time.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): Enjoy-ment with your friends and family is highlighted. Enjoy what you have cre-ated! Let yourself swim in the waters of love, appreciation, and optimism. Then retreat, regroup in quiet solitude. Make it a priority. You will feel its benefi t im-mediately. Unexpected issues around work call for calm refl ection on your own needs, especially during Mercury retrograde.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): This month, bring attention to your work, career aims, or more generally, how you want to interface with your com-munity. With Jupiter now in Virgo look specifi cally at the details and practical implementation of your aspirations. This is a time of grounding. Travel, and expanding your learning is highlighted, yet patience is required. If you are beginning a new or big project, you have the ability to be more focused and disciplined.

Capricorn (Dec 21-Jan 19): Since mid August and continuing into this month, a profound change in think-ing and overall perception is taking place. Learning, enlarging your point of view, performing, and teaching, are all highlighted. Dream a new dream for yourself and your standing in the com-munity. Balance solid steps, focus, and structure, with creating space for free fl owing possibilities that take you in new directions. Your thinking lays the groundwork for new realities.

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): Love and relationship are the themes for September! Deepening intimacy brings richness into your life. It also brings up old issues that are ready to be cleared away. The power of transformation and change is around you. Situations can move quickly. Refl ection and inquiry keep you balanced for healthy ground-ing during this next phase.

Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): This month focuses on enjoyment and plea-sure with others. Travel is highlighted. It can feel as if you are living out a long awaited dream! You may understand relationship in a way that you hadn’t before, as unexpected situations arise. With Mercury retrograding on the 17th, be prepared for delays or sudden changes of plan.

Susan Heinz is a professional astrologer in Santa Cruz for 33 years, bringing together traditional & esoteric astrology, Tarot and Qabalah. For info on her Friday monthly astrology groups, her Qabalah, astrology and or, painting classes, and for personal consultations, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanheinz.com.


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Sept. 30, 2015 Connection Magazine

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rests on the fundamental right we all have to use things that spring from the Earth natu-rally as healing agents. Why should cannabis, used for at least 10000 years by human-kind to alleviate suffering, be excluded from this inexorable mandate?

The politics of cannabis are exceedingly com-plex, and yet the truth is simple: this freely grow-ing plant heals the human

body—not to mention provides food, fuel, clothing and shelter, if only we will let it perform its birthright. In a previous article, we investigated the strange fact that the human body is in many ways pre-designed, or as it were, pre-loaded with a receptive-ness to cannabis’ active compounds —cannabinoids—thanks to its well documented endocannabinoid system.

But the medical-industrial com-plex in the U.S. does not want you to use these freely growing compounds. They threaten its very business model and existence. Which is why it syner-gizes so naturally with the burgeoning privatized prison sector, which now has the dubious title of having the highest incarceration rate in the world. The statistics don’t lie:

“Far surpassing any other nation. For every 100,000 Americans, 743 citizens sit behind bars. Presently, the prison population in America consists of more than six million people, a number exceeding the amount of prisoners held in the gulags of the former Soviet Union at any point in its history.”

According to a recent Al-Jeezera editorial, “One explanation for the boom in the prison population is the mandatory sentencing imposed for drug offences and the “tough on crime” attitude that has prevailed since the 1980s.”

Cannabis/marijuana is presently on the DEA’s Schedule 1 list. Since 1972, cannabis has been listed on the Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the most tightly restricted category reserved for drugs which have “no currently accepted medical use”. Opioids, stimulants, psychedelics and a few antidepressants now populate this list of substances that can put you in jail for possessing without a prescription.

The notion that marijuana has no ‘medicinal benefi ts’ is preposterous, actually. Since time immemorial it has been used as a panacea (‘cure-all’). In fact, as far back as 2727 B.C., cannabis was recorded in the Chinese pharma-copoeia as an effective medicine, and evidence for its use as a food, textile and presumably as a healing agent stretch back even further, to 12 BC.[1]

When it comes to cannabis’ medi-cal applications, cannabis’ ‘healing

properties’ is a loaded term. In fact, it is ex-tremely dangerous, as far as the medical industrial complex goes, who has the FDA/FTC to enforce it’s mandate: anything that prevents, diagnoses, treats or cures a disease must be an FDA ap-proved drug by law, i.e. pharmaceutical agents which often have 75 or more adverse effects for each marketed and approved “therapeutic” effect.

Indeed, the domi-nant, drug-based medi-cal system does not even acknowledge the body’s healing abilities, opting for a view that looks at most bodily suffering as fatalistic, primarily ge-netically based, and resulting from dysfunction in the mechanical design of a highly entropic ‘bag of enzymes and proteins’ destined to suffer along the trajectory of time.

And so, an at least two trillion dollar a year industry stands between you and access to the disease alleviat-ing properties of this humble plant.

As Emerson said, “a weed is an herb whose virtues have yet to be dis-covered,” and yet, by this defi nition, cannabis is not a weed, but given that is has been extensively researched and used for thousands of years for a wide range of health conditions, it should be considered and respected as a medici-nal herb and food. Sadly, the fact that the whole herb is non-patentable is the main reason why it is still struggling to gain approval from the powers that be.

Let’s look at the actual, vetted, published and peer-reviewed research – bullet proof, if we are to subscribe to the ‘evidence-based’ model of medi-cine – which includes over 100 proven therapeutic actions of this amazing plant, featuring the following:

Multiple SclerosisTourette SyndromePainObsessive Compulsive DisorderBrachial Plexus NeuropathiesInsomniaMultiple SplasticityMemory DisordersSocial Anxiety DisordersAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisInfl ammatory Bowel DiseaseCancerOpiate AddictionAnorexiaBladder DysfunctionBronchial AsthmaChemotherapy-induced HarmConstipationCrack AddictionDementiaFibromyalgiaGlaucomaHeroin AddictionLymphoma

NauseaNeuropathyObesityPhantom LimbSpinal Cord InjuriesEndotoxemiaMyocardia Infarction (Heart At-tack)Oxidative StressDiabetes: CataractTremorCardiac ArrhythmiasFatigueFulminant Liver FailureLow Immune FunctionAgingAlcohol ToxicityAllodyniaArthritis: RheumatoidAscitesAtherosclerosisDiabetes Type 1High CholesterolLiver DamageMenopausal SyndromeMorphine DependenceAppetite DisordersAuditory DiseaseDystoniaEpstein-Barr infectionsGynecomasiaHepatitisIntestinal permeabilityLeukemiaLiver FibrosisMigraine DisordersOncovirusesPsoriasisThymomaMoreover, this plant’s therapeu-

tic properties have been subdivided into the following 40+ pharmaco-logical actions:

Analgesic (Pain Killing)NeuroprotectiveAntispasmodicAnxiolyticTumor necrosis factor inhibitorAnti-infl ammatoryAntiproliferativeApoptoticChempreventiveAntidepressiveAntiemetic

BronchodilatorAnti-metastaticAnti-neoplasticAntioxidantCardioprotectiveHepatoprotectiveAnti-tumorEnzyme inhibitorImmunomodulatoryAnti-angiogenicAutophagy up-regulationAcetylocholinesterase in-hibitorAnti-plateletCalcium channel blockerCell cycle arrestCylooxygenase inhibitorGlycine agentsImmunomodulatory: T-Cell down-regulationIntracellular adhesion molecule-1 inducer

Matrix mettaproteinase-1 inhibitorNeuritohgenicPlatelet Aggregration InhibitoVascular Endothelial Growth Fac-tor A inhibitorAnti-apoptoticAnti-proliferativeAnti-psychoticAntiviralCaspase-3 activationChemosensitizerImmunosupressive agentInterleukin-6 upregulationTumor suppressor protein p53 upregulationThanks to modern scientifi c in-

vestigation, it is no longer considered strictly ‘theoretical’ that cannabis has a role to play in medicine. There is a growing movement to wrench back control from the powers that be, whose primary objectives appear to be the subjection of the human body in order to control the popula-tion (political motives)—what 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault termed biopower, and not to

awaken true healing powers intrinsic within the body of all self-possessed members of society. Even the instinct towards recreational use—think of the etymology: to re-create—should be allowed, as long as those who choose to use cannabis instead of tobacco and alcohol (and prescription drugs) do not cause harm to themselves or oth-ers. How many deaths are attributed to cannnabis each year versus these other societally approved recreational agents, not to mention prescription drugs, which are the 3rd leading cause of death in the developed world?

Ultimately, the politics surround-ing cannabis access and the truth about its medicinal properties are so heavily a politicized issue that it is doubtful the science itself will prevail against the distorted lens of media characteriza-tions of it as a ‘dangerous drug,’ and certainly not the iron-clad impasse represented by federal laws against its possession and use. All we can do is to advocate for the fundamental rights we all possess as free men and women, and our inborn right towards self-possession, i.e as long as what we do does not interfere with the choices and rights of others, we should be free to use an herb/food/textile that sprouts freely and grows freely from this earth, as God/Nature as freely made available.

“I think people need to be edu-cated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a fl ower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” —Willie Nelson

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?” —Bill Hicks

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