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Notes from teaching WHEE at St George's University Medical School in Grenada
This is not your ordinary medical school:
There is a rigorous and demanding preparatory course for students who do not have the academic background for medical school but who are highly motivated to become doctors. If they pass the course, they are admitted to the regular medical school program. If they fail, their registration fees are refunded!
Grenada is a small island and does not have the clinical facilities for the hundreds of students in each class to continue into their clinical years. Graduates of the basic sciences courses proceed to their clinical years at affiliated medical schools in the US.
This is the good news. The bad news is that the Complementary Medicine Selective Conference is but a small part of a normal medical school curriculum. I was reminded of my own experiences in medical school in the 1960's. In many ways, little has changed since then. The academic pressures are so enormous that students are constantly stressed out to the max. There is little that they can do about their anxieties about the enormous burdens of studies, exams, finances, living in a foreign country, and an inhumane educational system.
I handled my own med student stresses by taking a year off between my second and third year in school on an NIMH Research Fellowship in Psychiatry. I had no words at that time to describe my stressful experiences, which were (and today continue to be) the expected, accepted norm for medical students.
It is very satisfying to be able to offer this generation of students the benefits of WHEE, which rapidly reduce anxieties and stress reactions and enable us to install positive thoughts and feelings to replace the negative ones we have released.
More on student stress in a following blog entry.
Blessings
Dan
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Clarification re the current 'invaders'
The invaders I refer to are the ones on our TV; the ones who might perhaps more accurately be called corporate infiltrators – in our government, healthcare, education systems; and the ones in our banking system, for starters.
Blessings
Dan
Dealing with aggression
I really like and agree with all of your observations, Dennis.
One subtle piece that I feel is relevant is the coming together of all consciousness on the planet to deal with the invaders. I believe it is this sort of coming together that can be helpful here, too. With love.
Sometimes, however, abuse and violence cannot be stopped without counter-force. Holding to a place of spirituality, love and healing when using counter-force is a real challenge. Aikido is a good example of this.
Blessings
Dan
On 8/10/10 11:31 AM, "Rachel Finney" wrote:
I received this a while back from Dennis, but forgot to send it out. Thoughtful perspective...
From Dennis Gaumond’s newsletter, Understanding the Shift
AVATAR
By Dennis Gaumond
While the movie, 'Avatar' was in theatres, I was in Costa Rica, so I just recently got around to seeing what all the fuss was about. I must say it is a remarkable movie - visually beautiful, very compelling - I give it five stars. I'm sure it will set a new standard in movie-making, much like 'Star Wars' did back in the Seventies.
I feel moved to comment on a couple of things about the movie that I didn't like so much. The first is something that I call the 'Tarzan Syndrome'. Hollywood loves to put out themes where the world is in jeopardy and one man rises to the top to save the day. That messiah figure is always a white, Anglo-Saxon male, even if the story takes place in a foreign land. In the case of Tarzan, a child of white aristocratic descent is raised in Africa and soon becomes 'king of the jungle', despite the fact that black people have been living there for millennia. In the movie, 'Samurai', Tom Cruise quickly rises to become top gun in the Samurai world, despite the fact that all the other Samurai warriors have been living and training in this tradition for their entire lives. 'Avatar' continues in this Hollywood tradition - the hero/saviour is a white guy living in a cloned blue-body.
'Avatar' is similar to many Hollywood themes, including 'Star Wars' - there is a conflict between good and evil. In 'Avatar' we have corporate greed threatening the lives of a beautiful indigenous race living in harmony with nature - a metaphor for what has happened and continues to happen here on Earth. The movie succeeds in pointing out the problem, but like most Hollywood movies, falls far short in presenting the solution to the problem. Again the solution we are offered is war. The good guys find a way to defeat the bad guys in spectacular battle scenes - the hero and the villain meet in the final scenes to duke it out, etc.
Wouldn't it be refreshing if the movie offered a different solution? Wouldn't it be great if the movie gave us the spectacle of war, which the box office feels is necessary, but then the war effort fails and the good guys have to resort to something else. What if the good guys ultimately win by using the power of their collective consciousness to send light to the darkness - to change the minds of the bad guys by sending them love? Wouldn't that be a breath of fresh air? But Hollywood prefers to give us clichéd stories with predictable outcomes, and we continue to eat them up.
They say that the true nature of misinformation, which we are fed constantly by all forms of mass-media, is that it consists of 90% truth and 10% distorted truth. The 90% truth gets our attention, and then the distortion subtly misinforms us, leading us off of the path and keeping us ignorant. It is certainly easy to see that the news media employs these tactics. I feel that 'Avatar' is yet another example of this.
Even the use of the word 'avatar' is a distortion. An Avatar is an incarnation of divinity, an enlightened, ascended being who descends into physical form in order to help, usually by offering teachings. An Avatar is a being of pure love, incapable of violence. I believe that we are being misinformed when we are given the idea that our problems will be solved by some messiah figure who will lead us through the battle. We can't sit around waiting for 'the chosen one'. We must solve our problems together, collectively.
I truly believe that war is not, and never will be, the answer to the human dilemma. Even when one side is clearly and obviously 'good', which is rarely the case, we will never ward off evil on the battlefield. We cannot fight darkness with more darkness. Love is the only solution.
Source: whyislife.com
A CALL TO JOIN IN PLANETARY HEALING
Dear Wholistic Healing community,
Letme share a few thoughts about what I see as the potential and mission of all healers today:
Ifeel that the dense lack of awareness of people being energies and Spirit aswell as being material beings is a root cause (if not THE root cause) of manyof the world’s problems.
Isee the Wholistic Healing Community as a potential node for bringing more awareness and more healinginto the world.
Hereis a quote that speaks to this:
"Tome, I represent a unified field of love, so therefore I am a spokesperson forthe divine spark in all, which is going to be more and more illuminated as wedraw closer and closer to the prophesized shift date 2012… When this takesplace and the veils are lifted, including the one between life and death - wewill be given full access to the cosmos as galactic voyagers with free reign toaccess all levels of our being and existence. It is like the true power of Gaiathat regenerates itself and opens us up to its cosmic immortal nature, has beenreplaced by a force that carries parasitic beings that attach to people,harmful frequencies that control even the weather - also mind control, who feedoff of anything that gives it power because one is unaware of its influence.Without most of humanity knowing it, they are feeding this force. This is whatI was preparing to confront - those who are behind the technologies andagreements that keep us locked in global exile from the rest of the universeand our true selves. Our current reality is not fully running on the creativepower of each individual or our freedom and divinity - that part of us issomewhat sabotaged in exchange for a fear producing world filled with misusesof power, suffering, environmental degradation, Natural Disasters and neglectof those who are in great need. Our collective imbalance is what causes anyoutward imbalance, and it is due to this divine spark being so veiled andhidden, that we function on a whole other system that is completely out ofalignment with our organic make-up. The blueprints that the planet holds, weare meant to be aligned to in order to create in accordance with naturalcycles, the planetary grid and then also find in our own beings, the union ofpolarities. With this type of awareness, we can bridge the separation of Earthand the Heavens and understand different technologies and how they either workagainst or with our environment. We need to co-create with the Mother energy,there is only so much that this force can do, and now is the time tounify."
-Laura Magdalene Eisenhower -- Taken from 2012 and the Ancient Game:Venus-Sophia and Recruitment to Mars<http://sites.google.com/site/lauramagdalene/home/2012-and-the-ancient-game>
-More about her recent revelations in this article<http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2912-Seattle-Exopolitics-Examiner%7Ey2010m2d10-Whistleblower-Laura-Magdalene-Eisenhower-Ikes-greatgranddaughter-outs-secret-Mars-colony-project> by long-time ERN subscriber AlfredLambremont Webre
-Forwarded by Jean Hudon Jean Hudon globalvisionary@earthrainbownetwork.com
‘Avatar,’the top hit film of all time, shows a variation of how the world could look inits oneness. It is good to see that somewhere inside the collectiveconsciousness there are resonations with this vision.
Manyare awakening to the oneness of all Creation.
Wethe Wholistic Healing Community can serve to facilitate this awakening and healing of our planet.
Withoutthis awakening, we are headed for disasters of unprecedented proportions.
Evenwith the awareness, we may have passed tipping points beyond which disastersare inevitable. In that case, the Wholistic Healing Community can be a node for bringing more healingto those transitioning out of our morass, and to whatever survivors remain.
Bybringing together the diverse visions of a healing reality distilled throughthe diverse members of the Wholistic Healing Community, we can come to a common denominator ofawareness and understanding of the deeper realities where we connect with ourhealing consciousness.
Workingtogether, we could be a greater healing presence on this fraught and imperiledplanet of ours.
Howcan we achieve this?
Canwe get beyond our differences and separation to work together?
Thatis our most important challenge.
Theclock is ticking...
What are YOU contributing to this healing?
Blessings
Gambling on Global Heating: Where do YOU put your chips?
Various thinly supported theories are put forward to suggest we are mistaken about global heating threatening the existence of every living organism on our planet Earth.
Here are a few observations on this subject from a recent email exchange with a wise friend, whose judgment i generally hold in very high respect and esteem.
And would you gamble, Jim, on this thinly supported theory, if you had the ability to control one or the other set of variables that are proposed to be causal in anticipated catastrophic climate change?
My read on the recent colder winters is from James Lovelock, who observed
"Despite the heat absorbed, the global temperature did not rise; in fact it fell slightly, perhaps because to melt ice it takes eighty-one times as much heat as to raise the same quantity of water one degree. This property of ice is called its “latent heat.” You can see this yourself by making a near full cup of tea with boiling water. It will be too hot even to sip. Adding cold water to cool it quickly rarely works; but add a single ice cube and it will be cool enough to drink in a few seconds. In a few more years all that floating ice may go, and then the sun will be free to heat the dark Arctic Ocean, No longer will it have the Sisyphean task of trying to melt white, reflecting ice that rejects 80 percent of the sunlight it receives so that to melt it consumes most of the radiant energy that would otherwise warm the ocean."
Lovelock, James. The Vanishing Face of Gaia- A Final Warning. New York, NY: Basic Books 2009, p. 16-17.
For gambling odds, see this excellent discussion
Risks of global heating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg
Blessings
Dan
Forwarded by: Jim and Andrea MacKimmie
Fw: Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
This is the kind of information that has been ignored and suppressed by the fans of Anthropogenic Global Warming. It indicates the influence of Man is a negligible factor in the climatology of the Earth, and will remain so. Man’s hubris and ignorance continue to be the most detrimental impediments to his health, peace and happiness on this Earth. In fact, the only truly significant geophysical problem being significantly impacted by human indulgence and stupidity is pollution of the oceans, and while that will not in any way permanently damage the Earth, which over a long time can self purify, it might engender a temporary, accelerating toxicity that would endanger mankind much faster than it has even been imagined Global Warming ever could. jb
Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
by Gregory F. Fegel
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.
Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earthâs orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earthâs "wobble," which gradually rotates the direction of the earthâs axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.
Elements of the astronomical theory of Ice Age causation were first presented by the French mathematician Joseph Adhemar in 1842, it was developed further by the English prodigy Joseph Croll in 1875, and the theory was established in its present form by the Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovich in the 1920s and 30s. In 1976 the prestigious journal Science published a landmark paper by John Imbrie, James Hays, and Nicholas Shackleton entitled "Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages," which described the correlation which the trio of scientist/authors had found between the climate data obtained from ocean sediment cores and the patterns of the astronomical Milankovich cycles. Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich theory has remained the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists, and hence the Milankovich theory is always described in textbooks of climatology and in encyclopaedia articles about the Ice Ages.
In their 1976 paper Imbrie, Hays, and Shackleton wrote that their own climate forecasts, which were based on sea-sediment cores and the Milankovich cycles, "· must be qualified in two ways. First, they apply only to the natural component of future climatic trends ö and not to anthropogenic effects such as those due to the burning of fossil fuels. Second, they describe only the long-term trends, because they are linked to orbital variations with periods of 20,000 years and longer. Climatic oscillations at higher frequencies are not predicted... the results indicate that the long-term trend over the next 20,000 years is towards extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation and cooler climate."
During the 1970s the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan and other scientists began promoting the theory that "greenhouse gasses" such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, produced by human industries could lead to catastrophic global warming. Since the 1970s the theory of "anthropogenic global warming" (AGW) has gradually become accepted as fact by most of the academic establishment, and their acceptance of AGW has inspired a global movement to encourage governments to make pivotal changes to prevent the worsening of AGW.
The central piece of evidence that is cited in support of the AGW theory is the famous "hockey stick" graph which was presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth. The "hockey stick" graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures which began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006/07. However, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007/8 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001. It now appears that the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008/09 will probably equal or surpass the winter of 2007/08 for both snow depth and cold temperatures.
The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years ö evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacials.
In 1999 the British journal Nature published the results of data derived from glacial ice cores collected at the Russiaâs Vostok station in Antarctica during the 1990s. The Vostok ice core data includes a record of global atmospheric temperatures, atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and airborne particulates starting from 420,000 years ago and continuing through history up to our present time.
The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacials occur within a regular cyclic pattern, the graph-line of which is similar to the rhythm of a heartbeat on an electrocardiogram tracing. The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years. What that indicates is that global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse. In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.
The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their "fizz," which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Because the release of CO2 by the warming oceans lags behind the changes in the earthâs temperature, we should expect to see global CO2 levels continue to rise for another eight hundred years after the end of the earthâs current Interglacial warm period. We should already be eight hundred years into the coming Ice Age before global CO2 levels begin to drop in response to the increased chilling of the worldâs oceans.
The Vostok ice core data graph reveals that global CO2 levels regularly rose and fell in a direct response to the natural cycle of Ice Age minimums and maximums during the past four hundred and twenty thousand years. Within that natural cycle, about every 110,000 years global temperatures, followed by global CO2 levels, have peaked at approximately the same levels which they are at today.
Today we are again at the peak, and near to the end, of a warm interglacial, and the earth is now due to enter the next Ice Age. If we are lucky, we may have a few years to prepare for it. The Ice Age will return, as it always has, in its regular and natural cycle, with or without any influence from the effects of AGW.
The AGW theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the "big picture" of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.
This article originally appeared in Pravda.
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Distant healing with WHEE
I have three of your books and believe in distant surrogate/proxy WHEE, but haven't been able to get it working. I get the impression that ability to induce physical changes from a distance is strongly related to the bioenergetic balance without our systems. I spend at least 25 minutes/day doing slow abdominal ujjayi breathing per day, use WHEE and related myself, follow Eckhart Toll's teachings, etc. What can I do to increase my 'prayer power'?
If you come to Australia at any stage please let me know.
Best regards,
Blake Graham, B.Sc (Honours)
Clinical Nutritionist
Dear Blake,
You ask deep and important questions, to which human answers are but partial
guesses/ intuits/ understandings/ ...
Wholistic healing is not a ‘perform on demand’ modality. It taps into the
collective consciousness, where each of us is like a brain cell in the mind of
the All.
The mind of the All often has views, understandings and plans that are far more
complex than we can begin to conceive or even imagine.
Spiritual healing is a petition to the Infinite Source to shift what exists in
present time. Sometimes we offer our healing at propitious/ intuited times when
there are needs for extra energies/ unconditional love/ boosts to confidence/
encouragements to think/ look/ step outside the boxes we build around
ourselves.
Sometimes we see the possibilities for changes that others are not yet ready/
able to see. They may need energies for clearing old hurts/ traumas/ feelings/
etc in order to open a door in the walls they have built around themselves.
If we direct energies with the intent to change, before the other person has
become aware of/ dealt with/ learned the lessons of whatever their life path is
about, then the other person cannot/ will not accept our healing wishes/
energies.
If we send energies ‘for the highest good’ of others, then they are free to
accept the energies for exactly whatever it is that they need at that moment.
Thanks for your question, which has helped me put into words in a more succinct
way than before what I believe healing is about.
Thanks
Blessings
Dan
Play Me, I’m Yours: London 2009
Touring internationally since 2008, ‘Play Me, I’m Yours’ is an artwork by artist Luke Jerram
Presented for the City of London Festival and Sing London,30 street pianos were installed on streets, in public squares andparks, train stations, and markets. Like a creative blank canvas, thepianos were there for any member of the public to play and engage with.The pianos were in place for three weeks, after which time they were bedonated to local schools and community groups.
This website was made for you to post your comments, films andphotos about the pianos. It is aimed to help document each piano’sjourney whilst connecting the pianos and their communities across thecity.
Click here to see a heartwarming collection of photos and links to several impromptu performances. (You can click on the double arrows at the bottom right of the photos to advance them more slowly than they are set to rotate automatically.)
Blessings
Dan
