Thoughts On Health & Medicine

Beware and be weary of the coming swine flu shots. All indications are that the swine flu vaccine, quickly produced in accordance with preexisting patents in the face of pure, pandemic hype, should be avoided at all costs.

First of all, experts are saying that this exotic flu’s curious combination of bird, pig, and human flu components was NOT the result of a natural genetic process but was certainly manufactured in a laboratory. The question is, for what and by whom?

Answering that is not something I will get into, here, because the answers we are seeing are almost too sinister for those who might still have a little faith in their government to believe. Yes, it’s that bad.

Add to that the fact that this ’swine flu’ — a purposeful misnomer — started in the wrong place and at the wrong time, Mexico, in the spring rather than Asia in the fall, and that it did not originate with any herd of swine but suddenly and most mysteriously appeared out of nowhere and has killed relatively few people, including maybe 200 Americans, and that those reportedly dying from it are people with existing conditions that already compromised their health and that the symptoms are no worse than the common cold, and you begin to wonder WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON, HERE?!

When you consider that between 36,000 and 37,000 Americans die of the regular seasonal flu each year, and that since about April, this virus has killed only about 200, of us, why is this pandemic — NOT EPIDEMIC — being hyped by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) — and that, AFTER the definition of ‘pandemic’ was changed to accommodate this creation?!

Something really STINKS, and I suspect it’s the crap they are feeding us about this flu!

Now, the vaccine tests have been rushed in order to have this series of THREE vaccines ready in time for the fall. Of course, the manufacturers will make a lot of money while being protected from legal action by the government so they take no risks. The tests are probably mostly for show so they can say the vaccines were tested. But whether the tests were made with safe but inexpensive saline, rather than with the intended vaccine, we will never know. NO ONE in such a position can be trusted.

Of special concern is what is added to this vaccine, particularly squalene, an adjuvant that makes the vaccine ‘work’ more effectively so that less of the vaccine can be used allowing whatever amount is produced to go farther.

Squalene is now known to be what caused the mysterious “Gulf War Syndrome” among returning military personnel. Autoimmune diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis have been linked to squalene and squalene can cause brain damage, paralysis, and death.

Though some states are making the swine flu vaccine mandatory, Massachusetts, for example, has some draconian measures to assure compliance, many health professionals including a large percentage of nurses in New York State say they will refuse to take it.

The fact is that ANY vaccine is dangerous and that even the effectiveness of vaccines such as tetanus is unproven and doubtful. That the use of this vaccine by pregnant women, targeted as among the first to receive it, is contraindicated, doesn’t seem to bother the people with dollar signs — or worse — in their eyes.

Yes, something is rotten in Denmark and throughout the European Union — and the US, Australia, Canada and most everyplace else, as well.

Who is to be trusted with your health? Certainly not the WHO!

What you ultimately do, you will have to decide for yourself, but I hope this encourages you to look farther before you make up your mind and simply do as you are told.

While moving things around a couple of years ago, a number of posts to this blog were deleted. They have been located on another database and I am trying to restore them, here, though they obviously won’t bear the original date of entry, which is unknown. Have added the category “The Lost Posts” to make finding them easier.

After a hectic time during which it stayed dormant and in the shadows, our weblog, Thoughts On Health & Medicine is making its reappearance. We hope you find the posts here, both past and future, helpful and informative.

[This little article is more than a couple of years old, but the cold weather is still with us, so I’m reposting it here.]

Does cold weather bring on colds?

Were you ever told to bundle up on a winter day so you wouldn’t catch cold?

Have you ever said this to your children?

Our daughter has been visiting the snow belt she once called home. The other day she remarked it was nice we kept the house warm, after seeing some friends who kept the temperature relatively cool. She was afraid the baby would catch cold in that environment.

Of course, cold weather doesn’t cause colds. As her husband quickly pointed out, colds are caused by viruses.

But this got me thinking. Why is it that we suffer from colds in colder weather?

Is it because we are more confined and the cold virus is more easily spread when people gather in closed quarters?

This is a common assumption and there might be a little bit to it, but no more than a small, contributing factor.

Is because cold weather is harder on us and brings our resistance down? Maybe there’s something to that, as well. Or maybe it’s having the cold that brings our resistance down.

But I think there’s something else, something that’s overlooked. Something I’ve never heard mentioned that makes a lot of sense when we look at what we do know about colds. Cold weather simply makes it easier for the cold virus to survive.

In fact, as Dan Lee Dimke has demonstrated in his cold cure procedure, cold viruses can be destroyed and colds cured with the proper application of heat and humidity.

As a practical matter, I’ve found that using colloidal silver is faster and easier than the process he describes, but heat and humidity address the issue of colds and why we usually get them during the winter months and not during the summer.

To better understand this, let’s look at how a cold works. A cold is basically a nasal infection. It can lead to sore throats and other things, but a cold lives and dies in your nose. The rhinovirus, strains of which account for most colds, gets its name from that fact. Rhino means nose.

Cold viruses thrive at temperatures slightly cooler than the 98.6 degrees considered normal. So when faced with this invader, your body’s first defense is stuffiness. Why? Because breathing through your nose keeps your nasal passages cooler and the virus alive. But when you get stuffy and are forced to breathe through your mouth, your nose, no longer air cooled, reaches a higher temperature and becomes a much less friendly environment for the virus. The virus dies, and after your body does some necessary cleanup and repair work, you’re good as new.

So what does cold weather have to do with it? Well, Dr. Watson, cold, dry, winter air is just what the virus needs. Even in the snow belt, here, summer temperatures are generally in the 80’s and 90’s, the humidity is high, and breathing warm air makes it hard for the nose to stay cool while the rest of you is sweating. During the winter, with most thermostats set below 70 degrees, probably in the 65 to 68 degrees range, the nose, which isn’t dressed to stay warm, becomes an easy breeding ground for the cold virus. And of course, the dry, winter air helps it along.

It’s been a bad week for some of the “medicines” allowed by the FDA.

First, it was reported Monday that the cholesterol drug Vytorin had no effect in removing the plaque that clogged arteries.

If that wasn’t enough it was followed within a day or two by a report that antidepressants such as Zoloft were ineffective.

Today, the FDA followed-up recent news from the medical profession that over-the-counter cough medications were not only a danger to children under two, but had no effect in relieving their coughs.

The curious thing about the latter is that it begs the question “are they effective when given to children over two?” Yes or no? Why or why not?

Do children over two understand that it’s “medicine” and that it’s supposed to be good for them? Is a placebo effect all that is derived from these pricey products?

Finally, a law firm has been running TV commercials soliciting contact from loved ones of anyone who might have attempted suicide or committed suicide as a possible result of using the anti-smoking drug Chantix. Before the week was out, a news story about the dangers of suicide from using Chantix, followed.

Remember, what the FDA sanctions is supposed to be good. And since it doesn’t sanction natural remedies they are, by default, supposed to be bad.

Where you take your chances is ultimately up to you because there are natural and/or holistic approaches to the problem every one of the above, botched, “medicines” was designed to “fix.” You just have to do your research and find them since natural remedies generally can’t be advertised as such.

The posts referring to “The Cure” have now been placed in sequence, compiled into an article, and given their own page. They’re much easier to read that way. You can find “The Cure” by clicking on it.

NOTE: If you haven’t yet read the July 18th, July 20th, and July 26th entries, you might want to do that first, and it that order.

So what would “The Cure” consist of? Since white framing was important in Stearn’s book, I knew it had to be white. It also had to be a liquid, and not too runny a liquid. Maybe something that had the consistency of cream.

The bottle my imagination conjured up was unusual, too. A funny old bottle from the 1940’s or 1950’s with a rather plain label that had a green, hand-drawn border and “The Cure” printed on it in large, orange letters on two lines. This was kept in a part of my workshop that looks like a doctor’s office, in a cabinet near an examination table. And there is plenty of it available. It’s just there.

So twice daily, usually before going to bed and again before getting up in the morning, I would enter the alpha-state, go down to my workshop, and take the cure. I would just visualize myself getting the bottle from the cabinet and pouring some of it into a small plastic cup while sitting on the examination table, taking a swallow, then lying down and watching or directing it through my system, bathing everything in white along the way.

While the cure was taken orally, it did have special properties and did not just follow the digestive tract but traveled everywhere as directed by my mind.

So I would swallow it, watch it coat my throat and esophagus, and direct it to my lungs, liver, heart and surrounding arteries, and all the organs, sometimes naming them, sometimes just imagining them, with special emphasis on the site of the abdominal pain. Everything would be covered, then I would imagine it draining into my legs, where it would be exhausted.

Sometimes I would let the first swallow travel up into my brain and bathe that in white, then drink some more and continue with the rest of the organs.

I don’t remember how long it took, this was a couple of years ago, but the pain symptoms eventually went away and I stopped using “The Cure.” I must add, that I continued to use a variety of anti-oxidants and supplements and do some lymphosizing and did not rely on “The Cure,” alone. So if you decide to put something like this to use, I would suggest using it in addition to, not instead of whatever else you are doing. I also see this as a preventative, which is why I would have it bathe all the organs and not just the problem area. It had a nice effect on the brain, too.

NOTE: If you haven’t yet read the July 18th and July 20th entries, you might want to do that first, and it that order.

So following what Stearn suggested, I entered the Alpha-State and built my workshop. It’s very elaborate with plenty of room, but so far, I’m only familiar with a small part of it. He suggests and elevator to go up into it, but I enter mine by going down a wide flight of stairs next to a large set of windows that overlook the seashore. Sometimes I stop to watch the gulls and sailboats or the people on the beach before going down.

I began by using a projection screen, as the method suggests. It’s just a screen on which you view whatever it is you want to work on. You are supposed to surround this screen with a white frame.

At the time, I was having some abdominal pain, so I’d go to my workshop and try projecting the area onto the screen to see what was happening while surrounding the screen in a white frame to help affect a cure. I did this twice daily, as best I could, but found it to be too abstract to be projecting and framing. I also tried projecting white onto the problem area instead of using a white frame, but that was still too abstract.

That’s when I decided to do something different, to go into my workshop and create a cure I could take. And since Stearn’s book mentioned having helpers, I eventually brought in a nurse to administer it, from time to time, mostly for effect.

No more projection, nothing abstract outside of me. I put my cure into a bottle that was labeled “The Cure” and began to use it. And it worked very well.

To be continued.

NOTE: If you haven’t yet read the July 18th entry, you might want to do that first.

When my father died, he left behind a lot of books. I mean, a LOT of books. He had books everywhere, and books on just about everything. In going through some of them, I came across a copy of Jess Stearn’s 1976 The Power Of Alpha-Thinking - Miracle of the Mind.

It seems the book was a hot seller back then. It did receive a lot of attention and I still remember a talk show on which I believe Stearn was a guest and the concept was being discussed along with the use of biofeedback machines to monitor states of consciousness. I discounted it, at the time, because I had my own notions of what the alpha-state was having lived on a perpetual high for about 4 years between 1968 and 1972. But almost 30 years later, I was curious so I read it and found it wasn’t quite what I had once thought.

Stearn’s The Power Of Alpha-Thinking - Miracle of the Mind wasn’t just about achieving the alpha-state of consciousness but about using that state constructively, while in it, and exploring the powers of the mind within the alpha-state. People were getting some amazing results with Alpha-Thinking, including healing for themselves and others.

If learning more about this interests you, copies of the book, usually the 1977 paperback, can be found on Amazon, eBay, and elsewhere, but here’s a link to help you understand the levels of consciousness and what the alpha-state is.

If you do a web search on Alpha-Thinking, and don’t also see Stearn’s name, you want the sites related to Silva and not Barfield, who gives the same name, less the hyphen, to an entirely different concept. Anyway, for a serious look, read the book. It might even be at your library if they haven’t discarded it by now since it seemed like a 70’s fad.

What Alpha-Thinking involves is going into the alpha-state, and once there, thinking or working with your imagination in various ways to produce tangible results. Using the methods Stearn describes, you do this in a workshop you create in your mind once you enter the alpha-state.

How to you enter the alpha-state?

With meditative techniques, preferably (they said) monitored with a bio-feedback device until you know what you are doing. It can be a bit involved, but once you learn to achieve it, it’s possible to enter by simply holding your thumb and forefinger together, a conditioned response.

Here’s a page that will show you how to reach the alpha-state.

To be continued.

A couple of years ago, I developed something called “The Cure.” I used it, myself, for about a year and eventually planned on doing an article about it, but in my busy and complicated life could never find the time — so have decided, instead, to present it in a series of posts, herein.

So that you don’t misunderstand, I am not offering this as “a” cure but as an example of “The Cure” that helped me. And since it is a product of my mind, yours, should you choose to develop one, will be different.

“The Cure” which is my cure, is offered as informtion only, not as a cure for your disease. And any cure you might devise upon reading this information will be your cure and your responsibility because it will reside within your mind.

While you’ve undoubtedly heard or read about the power of the mind and of attitude in overcoming illness, you might scoff at this. So if you doubt the power within you, here is what I would like you to do for the next month to test your level of belief:

- Go to a quiet spot.

- Sit or lie down.

- Close your eyes and relax.

- Once relaxed, spend 10 quiet minutes visualizing yourself developing a serious illness; some form of cancer would be good.

- Continue to do this, preferably twice daily, for the next 30 days.

Does it frighten you?

Well don’t really do it!

That’s not the point.

I’m just calling your bluff and using it to show that while most everyone will believe in the power of their own negative energy to affect their lives in this way, many will doubt the power of the positive energy that resides within them and their cure.

Yes, “The Cure” can work, and I believe it helped me.

To be continued.