"I'm waiting for take-out."
As the people have moved out of Eugene, Oregon, the turkeys have moved in. This one is waiting outside the local restaurant, The Electric Station.
"Megaphones don't automatically create wisdom or even utility.
They simply make some people louder."—Seth Goden
“There is no greater divider than
fear.”—Abraham
"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy
the ride."—Anthony Bourdain
It's a little hard to think of our bodies as an amusement park
right now isn't it? Being in quarantine and all, wearing masks, keeping our
distance from other people, not visiting with our family, businesses closed,
and a "stimulus package," that will not even pay one month's rent.
We're on house arrest.
How are you dealing with it?—scroll to the bottom to get some
perspective.
Wait, read the rest of this blog first.
Yesterday I was talking about laughter and jokes, today I'm on a
rant. "Make artificial diamonds," just popped onto my screen, as
though I didn't have enough to rant about. Scientists can make artificial
diamonds, but they can't kill a virus.
Last night when my husband showed me the drone event during the
Winter Olympics, I was, at first, in awe, then I got mad.
I got mad that people are so tech-savvy that they could produce
such a spectacle as 1,500 synchronized drones producing three-dimensional dancing
orbs in the sky, and we don't know how to stop a teeny tiny virus from wreaking
havoc with our lives.
Or if you believe sinister thoughts, that some people are
wreaking havoc with our lives.
Don’t let them.
Don’t buy into fear, and let the world condition drive you into
a corner.
You are made for survival.
You are made to live in joy.
Remember why you came here. To make a difference, and to enjoy our lives. I think our lizard brains are taking
over, but remember we also have a high mammalian brain. That magnificent brain
that sits atop all the others can calm the lizard which would just as soon eat us
as look at us. (Like a man who kissed the nose of his pet rattlesnake and it
bit him.)
Regarding that scary something we are calling a virus:
I know cellular biology and physiology are complicated, but so
is programming a drone display. I think the wrong people are looking into
this—we need some of those savvy kids that aren't afraid to think fifth-dimensionally—whatever the heck that is.
My ten-year-old grandson came from the computer room and
asked, "What if we lived in a non-Euclidean world?"
I thought for a minute. Euclid? Well, there's Euclidean
geometry; that was the extent of my knowledge. "What's a non-Euclidean
world?"
"Well, he said, "take a cylinder, (I thought of a
giant culvert) that looks small on the outside, but when you go inside, it
looks big." (Once someone described a UFO that way.) I think a
non-Euclidean world has no parallel lines. I know—this is theoretical, and right
now we are dealing with a physical object—a virus, but maybe we should expand
our thinking.
Didn't John Kennedy say, "We will send a man to the moon
and bring him home safely by the end of the decade?"
And those savvy engineers and mathematicians did it.
We don't want to wait a decade to solve this problem, I just
know with Scientific ingenuity people accomplish great things—and if the intent
is to destroy our economy, maybe we should mutiny and go back to opening our
businesses, and smiling at people, and not from behind a mask.
Remember Tesla? He had some pretty outlandish ideas. Like a
machine that emitted a frequency. Proponents suggest that if they match the
frequency of a virus, that resonance frequency will destroy it.
Outlandish?
A company can make a car that drives itself, that’s outlandish
too.
Throw some of those tech-savvy people in with the medical
researchers, and maybe they would look into some alternative forms of
treatment.
Call me crazy, but look at the stores—isn't that crazy?
Someone can make a car that can drive itself, name it Tesla, and
people go cuckoo. But, some of Tesla’s other ideas, like his Rife machine,
because we can't understand it, are thrown away as absurd. It doesn’t have
funding. It sits on the shelf.
In Tacoma Washington (1940) there was a huge suspension bridge where hundreds of
cars traveled over every day. That area tends to be windy, and one day the
right frequency of the wind vibrated the bridge until it collapsed. They said
it was brought down by resonance frequency. “
An entire bridge for heaven’s sake. Follow the
link, there is great footage of a bridge swaying like rubber, and falling into
the sound.
People have postulated
that if a frequency could be tuned to the frequency of bacteria, cancer cells
and viruses it would destroy them.
Worth looking into I’d
say.
Over the years I have
heard of a Rife machine. (Based on Tesla’s theories.) Conventional wisdom
brushes it aside. Yet some think that resonance frequency can kill viruses if
they find the right frequency—there’s the rub.
Researchers spent
months trying to find frequencies that worked on cancer cells. It was searching
for a needle in a haystack. But what about the Enigma machine that cracked the
German code in WWII?
Computers can compute
at lightning speed maybe there’s some way to connect the two.
Conventional thought
poo-poos the idea that light and sound could heal the body.
So, how it is working
for us??
Influenza's have killed
countless of thousands over the ages, and still every year untold millions get
the flu.
A coronavirus got
loose and is spreading world-wide and we are trying to halt it or slow it down
the best way we know. Our methods seem primitive to me.
The media is having a
hay day.
Amazon is having a hay
day.
I love how local
businesses are coming up with creative ideas.
See, we are survivors.
The local Nutrition
store, Evergreen Nutrition, (keep
reading and I’ll pass along an anti-viral herb), placed a table outside each of
their two doors, like a counter. You go to the counter order your supplement
and they bring it to you.
Restaurants are having
take-out.
They aren’t curling up
and dying.
There are some
shut-in’s my daughter treats who virtually never go outside—to the store
occasionally, doctor’s offices once in a while. They would be safe in their
cubbies, but what do they do? They watch television all day, and allow
the news to program their poor brains until they believe there is a big bad
scary world out there.
Oh, Global warming, we
can’t be bothered thinking about that.
Election primaries are
going on.
Really?
An election is coming
up.
Who cares.
To take away one’s
inner peace is enslavement. Remember Nelson Mandela unjustly imprisoned for 30
years? He came out a peacemaker.
Victor Frankl,
imprisoned in a concentration camp came out and wrote “Man’s Search for
Meaning.”
Right now, we have an
opportunity to rise above, to know that while our physical body is held
captive, our minds are not. Solitary confinement does weird things to a social
being. Keep some connections. Know that your mind is free. Know that you are a divine being, and that here
is an opportunity to reevaluate our lives and values, and perhaps usher in a
new age.
I have a thought lurking in the back of my mind, have you
thought of it? There is an old ploy: Create a problem, and we'll give you
the solution. Then we're heroes.
One Way to Fight Back
Specific Herbs
Considered to be Virus Killers:
I received the
following information from a local nutrition store Evergreen Nutrition.
This herb first came
to attention during the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. More than
670,000 people in America died from this strain of flu. Lomatium grows profusely in the American west
and northwest, and the native peoples there used it as a sort of panacea. The Washoe tribe in Nevada used the plant to
treat members of the tribe who had fallen sick during the epidemic. There
was not a single death in that tribe from influenza or its complications, although numerous natives died in other
parts of the state where the root did not grow.
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After that, Lomatium
began to be used by physicians with astonishing success treating even the
most virulent types of flu. It is a powerful tonic to the respiratory mucous
membranes. It is equally a bronchial protectant, expectorant and
antiseptic, cleansing the lungs. In recent times it has been used to
successfully treat upper respiratory viral infections, all influenza
strains, SARS (a coronavirus), and pneumonia. Renowned herbalist Stephen
Harrod Buhner, in his book Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for
Emerging & Resistant Viral Infections, recommends it
specifically for emerging flu strains, and professes that there is nothing
better for serious, debilitating flu, swine flu, avian flu, or severe
pneumonia. It is a systemic antiviral, especially for upper respiratory
viral infections. He recommends it combined with other herbs such as
licorice (antiviral) and pleurisy (a lung tonic). Its antiviral properties
have been shown to benefit Epstein-Barr, hepatitis and HIV, in addition to
the respiratory viruses.
Here are three
others:
Sambucus
niger, the most
commonly used medicinal species of elder, grows all over the world, and
the parts used medicinally are, generally, the fruit and flower,
although other parts of the plant have been used as well. The berries
have shown good activity against influenza and other enveloped viruses,
especially respiratory. Elder inhibits viral replication, binds
viruses, inhibiting them from infecting host cells, and is directly
virucidal (kills viruses). Elder also is anti-inflammatory and
diaphoretic (induces sweating). As well, some compounds act to
stimulate specific immune response. The flavonoids in elder are highly
active against influenza viruses, but its other compounds have been
shown to be active against a broad range of viruses, including herpes
simplex, Epstein-Barr, hepatitis B and C, rhinoviruses, dengue, and
SARS and other coronaviruses.*
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Olive leaf extract, (and its attendant compounds,
namely oleuropein), has shown pronounced antimicrobial activity. It is
both antiviral and virucidal. It has been tested on and shown to have
activity against influenza A and B, polio, parainfluenza 1 and 2, and
herpes. Olive leaf extract's oleuropein appears to interfere with viral
infection by directly inactivating the virus or by preventing the virus
shedding, budding or assembly at the cell membrane. It can penetrate
infected host cells and irreversibly inhibit viral replication. In
addition, it directly stimulates phagocytosis (the "Pac-Man"
activity of immune cells to fight invading pathogens). In essence, it
selectively blocks an entire virus-specific system in the infected
host, making it a true antiviral compound.
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Sambucus
niger, the most
commonly used medicinal species of elder, grows all over the world, and
the parts used medicinally are, generally, the fruit and flower,
although other parts of the plant have been used as well. The berries
have shown good activity against influenza and other enveloped viruses,
especially respiratory. Elder inhibits viral replication, binds
viruses, inhibiting them from infecting host cells, and is directly
virucidal (kills viruses). Elder also is anti-inflammatory and
diaphoretic (induces sweating). As well, some compounds act to stimulate
specific immune response. The flavonoids in elder are highly active
against influenza viruses, but its other compounds have been shown to
be active against a broad range of viruses, including herpes simplex,
Epstein-Barr, hepatitis B and C, rhinoviruses, dengue, and SARS and
other coronaviruses.*
To get some
perspective on this flu season:
In 2018,
80,000 died of the flu. (The highest in 40 years, and there was virtually no talk of it.)
From October
1, 2019-April 4, 2020, there were 24,000-62,000 flu deaths.
Have you gotten cabin fever
yet?
Stay connected, we can help
each other.
I appreciate you,
Love,
Joyce
P.S.
Don’t ask what can go
wrong. Ask what can go right.
I didn’t think I was a
procrastinator, but I learned differently with this book preparation. And I’ve
spent ten-million hours on that cover, not that I didn’t like it, but I was
working with a small image that I had to blow up to read my text, and then
lower the size to change anything. And it kept bobbing around on me. I still
wonder where it will be cut, and if I have the text within the bleed
lines.
We’ll see.
I can always do it
again.
The front cover was
easy. It was the back that needed resizing. People who read only the ebook will
never see the back. But wait, I can show it to you.
Steven Pressfield, in
his book The War of Art, wrote the entire thing on Resistance,
which can be called procrastination. I’ve run the gauntlet.
Pressfield
wrote:
“When Kristna
instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of
our labor, he was counseling the warrior to art territorially, not
hierarchically. We must do our work for its own sake, not for future or
attention or applause.”
Forty years in the
making. Somehow it was vital for me to write Where the Birds of Eden
Sing. It’s such fun slapping paint on canvas, or writing a first
draft. Now a few dozed drafts later…Oh, you mean I should show it to
somebody?
It’s time to see if my
birds can fly.
Is that what a mother
bird feels when she pushes her fragile little baby out of the nest? Or does she
know without a doubt that her exquisite baby can fly?
Coming Soon:
Where the Birds of
Eden Sing.
Oh, I just had a thought,what will I do once this book is carved in stone?
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