This many years along, (8?, 10?) I have made a number of magic mirrors. My first one I took an empty picture frame and spray painted the glass flat black. With cleansing and consecration, it was sufficient. I have used new mirrors and old ones. I have come to prefer antique mirrors. I often don't cleanse them at first to see what is in them. This could be a bad thing for someone with inadequate protections, so I don't recommend it, but it is interesting for the hardy of spirit.
Honestly the mirror makes a lot less difference than the user. An inexperienced user can have a great mirror and get poor results. I have learned not to do work in the mirror for people, opting instead to teach them how to do their own. For beginners I suggest to put a nonagram on the back of the mirror, and one on a cloth on the front, and keep it closed at all times not in use. This keeps unwanted things from finding their way in and out of it. My working mirror is that way now.
The trance practice is the most important part. I set up in a dark room, light two candles that light the mirror, but not me, and focus. It takes more or less time to reach the place where my image fades, and I start seeing what is in the mirror. Depending on why I am there, I may be doing this in the trance phase of a ceremony, or other times when I have a question. I have several regular spirits I meet there, and if I have gone in ceremony, I often meet someone totally unexpected.
It is important to remember, if you have used protections, whoever shows up is there because you asked them to. One time I made requests and started trance, and this green snake woman, with snake hair showed up. Honestly, I have no clue why these creatures choose to look like this, but it is their way. I knew this stuff happens, so it did not take long to regain my composure and begin the conversation. She seemed amused.
Bear in mind, if you use a strange mirror, uncleansed, without protections, that these things are doorways, and they can let some really evil stuff in. Know to open and close them, and to seal them with nonagrams to prevent surprises. It does not seem to take a lot, but in my working space, with my usual protections, I have never had a bad experience.
I have heard friends that will not allow a working mirror in their houses after bad experiences. Some have seen things they still whisper about, and some have had to have things cleansed from their houses. This is not a toy. This is a doorway, and improperly used it opens the way to things unbidden. It is the spiritual equivalent of leaving your door open in the bad part of town, you could get lucky, but do you want to count on it?
Blessings
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Nutrition for apnea
The reason naturopaths are so reluctant to give values is that the individual response varies so much, and the reasons why are more important than how much. Last year my sleep issues came to a head, getting so severe that it was outright dangerous to drive. As I was getting disabled enough to get on a pittance for a pension and stop working, it became less of an issue, but still needed fixed.
The symptom track, something doctors are too ignorant to understand, became obvious as I studied the issues. I was having violent headaches, acid reflux, outrageous leg cramps, degenerative bone issues, and calcified organs, not to mention increasingly severe sleep apnea. I will address the bone disease and calcified organs another time, but it was connected by common nutritional deficiencies.
It works out that these things were all connected by deficiencies of micronutrients and vitamin D3. The micronutrients are required to maintain chemical balance in everything from tissues to brain chemistry. It worked out that the Lisinopril they prescribed for blood pressure made this a lot worse. The fool doctor told me those were not side effects of the medicine, not because it was so, being these are well documented side effects, but because she was uninformed. The sloppy, half-assedness with which these people practice is severely annoying, and can be dangerous.
The micronutrients, which I get from Himalayan salt, include magnesium, copper, (sodium), potassium, and calcium. The magnesium and calcium I also heavily supported by dietary support from nuts and seeds, molasses, and such foods as turnip and collard greens. With hypertension, it is important to use such things as Himalayan salt with caution, because it is easy to get too much.
The vitamin D3 I got from a naturopath, who described what I was looking for in theraputic results. It is important to understand that there is such a thing as too much, and this can do as much harm as good. The headaches, cramps, and mostly acid reflux resolved at 12,000 units a day. She recommended a theraputic injection of 30,000 units to start, but of course I could not get this from my doctor. The apnea reduced, but was still active until I started getting 20,000 units a day. As it is likely that this amount is likely to be harmful in the long term, I will be looking to reduce the dose likely a month from now and see if the apnea returns.
There are tests for this, but it requires a doctor that is some help, not one that is only interested in getting paid to prescribe. It is important to get proportional amounts of other things. I am using 6,000 units of vitamin C. I am still working on the dose, but it causes yellow, itchy diarhea in excess, and it is a good thing to stay below that. The B50 program works well to balance, and I am taking additional B12. I am also using a magnesium carbonate supplement. This is not in common use because it is such an efficient laxative. I have found that 1/2 tablespoon, with 1/4 cup of kimchi is a maximuim, but this is very individual.
It works out that protein is a conundrum. Enough to be satisfying is also enough to flush nutrients through the kidneys. It is important to understand that as much as possible, protein should come from plant sources. There is no nutritional reason to eat meat, and meat comes with toxic fats that cause heart disease. On the other side of the problem, all nuts and seeds in the US are required to be pasteurized, which destroys the ability to sprout them. (sprouting being the best way to neutralize phytates) The problem with this is that nuts and seeds come with phytates, and a satisfying amount can cause degenerative bone diseases and nutrient deficiencies with the phytates sucking the life out of the blood.
Mitigating phytates can be tricky. I found out last year from experience that soaking them overnight in lemon water was not enough. With beans, they come covered in a sugar that is honestly a bad deal. Soaking them a few hours, ( like 4) and dumping off the water gets rid of that, then soaking them overnight in vinegar water will remove about 30% or so of the phytates. With nuts and seeds, I just soak them overnight in vinegar. Now we have a problem. That much vinegar is likely to also remove nutrients. I make about a pint of nuts a day, soak them in water with a tablespoon of vinegar, then reduce the acid with a teaspoon of choline bitartrate. I tried baking soda, but it binds sodium to the food in unacceptable quantities. It takes a little more than an hour to neutralize the acid this way.
After neutralizing the acid the following day, I mix in some kimchi for the probiotics. It will not work in vinegar, so neutralizing it between is important. I use the bitartrate because it is the strongest organic base I could find, and as poorly as it converts to choline, it is unlikely to get an excess. I let the kimchi process the nuts overnight. BTW, I use a nut chopper to reduce the size of the nuts so that the agents can penetrate enough. After one more night, I neutralize the lactic acid the kimchi makes with another teaspoon of choline bitartrate, add two teaspoons of molasses, and eat it. This gives a lot of protein, and organic magnesium and trace minerals. I tired two nights of processing with the probiotics, but it produces unbelievably bad odors. The water included in this process contains nutrients, and needs to be consumed as well.
I am certain there are still too much phytates, but the excess vitamins C and D3 are capable of dealing with it at this point. I am still eating an average of one meal a day with some meat proteins in it. I am still working on how I am going to reduce enough phytates to get all the protein from plants.
My diet is entirely driven to nutriate illness into wellness, but the chemistry takes a lot of research and thought. I understand that people just want to eat everything that is wrong, then take a pill to make it better, but that will never work. It is important to understand that the amounts of nutrients are very individual, and personal values need to be determined according to what result you want, and how much it takes to get that.
Blessings
The symptom track, something doctors are too ignorant to understand, became obvious as I studied the issues. I was having violent headaches, acid reflux, outrageous leg cramps, degenerative bone issues, and calcified organs, not to mention increasingly severe sleep apnea. I will address the bone disease and calcified organs another time, but it was connected by common nutritional deficiencies.
It works out that these things were all connected by deficiencies of micronutrients and vitamin D3. The micronutrients are required to maintain chemical balance in everything from tissues to brain chemistry. It worked out that the Lisinopril they prescribed for blood pressure made this a lot worse. The fool doctor told me those were not side effects of the medicine, not because it was so, being these are well documented side effects, but because she was uninformed. The sloppy, half-assedness with which these people practice is severely annoying, and can be dangerous.
The micronutrients, which I get from Himalayan salt, include magnesium, copper, (sodium), potassium, and calcium. The magnesium and calcium I also heavily supported by dietary support from nuts and seeds, molasses, and such foods as turnip and collard greens. With hypertension, it is important to use such things as Himalayan salt with caution, because it is easy to get too much.
The vitamin D3 I got from a naturopath, who described what I was looking for in theraputic results. It is important to understand that there is such a thing as too much, and this can do as much harm as good. The headaches, cramps, and mostly acid reflux resolved at 12,000 units a day. She recommended a theraputic injection of 30,000 units to start, but of course I could not get this from my doctor. The apnea reduced, but was still active until I started getting 20,000 units a day. As it is likely that this amount is likely to be harmful in the long term, I will be looking to reduce the dose likely a month from now and see if the apnea returns.
There are tests for this, but it requires a doctor that is some help, not one that is only interested in getting paid to prescribe. It is important to get proportional amounts of other things. I am using 6,000 units of vitamin C. I am still working on the dose, but it causes yellow, itchy diarhea in excess, and it is a good thing to stay below that. The B50 program works well to balance, and I am taking additional B12. I am also using a magnesium carbonate supplement. This is not in common use because it is such an efficient laxative. I have found that 1/2 tablespoon, with 1/4 cup of kimchi is a maximuim, but this is very individual.
It works out that protein is a conundrum. Enough to be satisfying is also enough to flush nutrients through the kidneys. It is important to understand that as much as possible, protein should come from plant sources. There is no nutritional reason to eat meat, and meat comes with toxic fats that cause heart disease. On the other side of the problem, all nuts and seeds in the US are required to be pasteurized, which destroys the ability to sprout them. (sprouting being the best way to neutralize phytates) The problem with this is that nuts and seeds come with phytates, and a satisfying amount can cause degenerative bone diseases and nutrient deficiencies with the phytates sucking the life out of the blood.
Mitigating phytates can be tricky. I found out last year from experience that soaking them overnight in lemon water was not enough. With beans, they come covered in a sugar that is honestly a bad deal. Soaking them a few hours, ( like 4) and dumping off the water gets rid of that, then soaking them overnight in vinegar water will remove about 30% or so of the phytates. With nuts and seeds, I just soak them overnight in vinegar. Now we have a problem. That much vinegar is likely to also remove nutrients. I make about a pint of nuts a day, soak them in water with a tablespoon of vinegar, then reduce the acid with a teaspoon of choline bitartrate. I tried baking soda, but it binds sodium to the food in unacceptable quantities. It takes a little more than an hour to neutralize the acid this way.
After neutralizing the acid the following day, I mix in some kimchi for the probiotics. It will not work in vinegar, so neutralizing it between is important. I use the bitartrate because it is the strongest organic base I could find, and as poorly as it converts to choline, it is unlikely to get an excess. I let the kimchi process the nuts overnight. BTW, I use a nut chopper to reduce the size of the nuts so that the agents can penetrate enough. After one more night, I neutralize the lactic acid the kimchi makes with another teaspoon of choline bitartrate, add two teaspoons of molasses, and eat it. This gives a lot of protein, and organic magnesium and trace minerals. I tired two nights of processing with the probiotics, but it produces unbelievably bad odors. The water included in this process contains nutrients, and needs to be consumed as well.
I am certain there are still too much phytates, but the excess vitamins C and D3 are capable of dealing with it at this point. I am still eating an average of one meal a day with some meat proteins in it. I am still working on how I am going to reduce enough phytates to get all the protein from plants.
My diet is entirely driven to nutriate illness into wellness, but the chemistry takes a lot of research and thought. I understand that people just want to eat everything that is wrong, then take a pill to make it better, but that will never work. It is important to understand that the amounts of nutrients are very individual, and personal values need to be determined according to what result you want, and how much it takes to get that.
Blessings
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Why veterans die on park benches
I doubt anyone takes the trouble to find out how many died in the cold winter this year. It is less likely here where winters are usually milder, but this one was exceptional. The veterans often have ID and are identifiable, not that anyone checks. The bodies show up at various county morgues as they thaw.
It is what leads up to it that is better hidden. When a veteran is identified as 'homeless' he is put in the 'homeless veteran program.' Sounds impressive, like someone is doing something. In this program many of them get a 'non-service connected pension, just over $1000 a month. So far, so good. Then the 'social workers' 'place' them. This means they are lied to about a motel room that is '$800 a month.' Ok, really it is $200 a week. Still thinking? Every second or third month they have to pay a fifth time, or the whole money they get. The 'social workers' tell them a lot of guys are making that work, then tell them they have not managed their money right. What were they supposed to eat? It is across the river. How are they supposed to manage the bus ride and still have food, much less most months, but on the $1000 months?
After ending up on the street again they get told they have mismanaged their money and get into a different program. This time it is an apartment for $675 a month, with utilities in the summer of about another $100. Not quite $800, but a guarantee they can not have a phone, a monthly bus pass, and still have anything to eat. They are told they can get food stamps. Ya, all $15 worth of food stamps. Like that changes the problem.
When I was in the program I was counseled that I had abused the program because I paid my insurance and child support and had not saved what they thought was enough money. So the program is to put the veteran in a place he can not afford, with a pile of bills waiting to fall on him, and tell him he is not managing his money effectively.
Like me, most of them drop out after a while and just do without. I will not tell you which garage, but living in a garage it about works.
This is bad enough, but what happens under the "health care" is a lot worse. I have medical evidence I have been misdiagnosed, and as is customary, they stopped one view short of enough to properly diagnose my problem. I learned from other veterans that the only way I will get past this is to get outside diagnostics and a letter from my senator. Evidently. I have gone as far up the administrative chain as I know how, and people have just shuffled some paperwork and laughed. I have been refused diagnosis on serious things like heart disease, as they refused to so much as test, and had them perform the steps they did do, wrong to prevent further effort. I have found doctors that refuse to use existing diagnostics they have done to diagnose properly, and refuse further effort.
If I did not have internet access this article could not have happened. Those living behind dumpsters and in the woods behind parks just give up and stop. Eventually they freeze or otherwise die.
I have made my best effort to stop young men from serving, trying to explain to them that this is how they get treated when they come home. When I got out I was told I didn't learn anything serving that anyone could use, and I could flip burgers for minimum wage. The "educational resources" were engineered to create debts I would never be able to repay. I ended up doing construction until I got too crippled to be able to do the work any more, and when I finally went to veterans 'services' I found out what a joke that is.
They will tell you they are trying, bringing up programs like Cedarwood. What they don't tell you is that program was full with a year waiting list when it opened. It was never intended to meet more than 5% of the need. They will tell you they "place" most of their veterans within two months. What they don't tell you is that most of them crash financially within a couple of months, and get abused for failing in programs that are certain to fail. They park veterans more than 50 miles from their medical help, and leave them to walk to get help.
I would not wish this on the enemies I fought. I am a bit confused at why a government asks us to serve, then throws us away like yesterday's trash when we return. I have said a country that treats it's warriors like this does not deserve freedom.
One parting shot. Our senators and congressmen like to roar in front of the news, but in session, they regularly defund veterans programs, and deny more than 90% of requests for veterans funding. I really don't need to hear more lies from people that never put their money where their mouth is.
It is what leads up to it that is better hidden. When a veteran is identified as 'homeless' he is put in the 'homeless veteran program.' Sounds impressive, like someone is doing something. In this program many of them get a 'non-service connected pension, just over $1000 a month. So far, so good. Then the 'social workers' 'place' them. This means they are lied to about a motel room that is '$800 a month.' Ok, really it is $200 a week. Still thinking? Every second or third month they have to pay a fifth time, or the whole money they get. The 'social workers' tell them a lot of guys are making that work, then tell them they have not managed their money right. What were they supposed to eat? It is across the river. How are they supposed to manage the bus ride and still have food, much less most months, but on the $1000 months?
After ending up on the street again they get told they have mismanaged their money and get into a different program. This time it is an apartment for $675 a month, with utilities in the summer of about another $100. Not quite $800, but a guarantee they can not have a phone, a monthly bus pass, and still have anything to eat. They are told they can get food stamps. Ya, all $15 worth of food stamps. Like that changes the problem.
When I was in the program I was counseled that I had abused the program because I paid my insurance and child support and had not saved what they thought was enough money. So the program is to put the veteran in a place he can not afford, with a pile of bills waiting to fall on him, and tell him he is not managing his money effectively.
Like me, most of them drop out after a while and just do without. I will not tell you which garage, but living in a garage it about works.
This is bad enough, but what happens under the "health care" is a lot worse. I have medical evidence I have been misdiagnosed, and as is customary, they stopped one view short of enough to properly diagnose my problem. I learned from other veterans that the only way I will get past this is to get outside diagnostics and a letter from my senator. Evidently. I have gone as far up the administrative chain as I know how, and people have just shuffled some paperwork and laughed. I have been refused diagnosis on serious things like heart disease, as they refused to so much as test, and had them perform the steps they did do, wrong to prevent further effort. I have found doctors that refuse to use existing diagnostics they have done to diagnose properly, and refuse further effort.
If I did not have internet access this article could not have happened. Those living behind dumpsters and in the woods behind parks just give up and stop. Eventually they freeze or otherwise die.
I have made my best effort to stop young men from serving, trying to explain to them that this is how they get treated when they come home. When I got out I was told I didn't learn anything serving that anyone could use, and I could flip burgers for minimum wage. The "educational resources" were engineered to create debts I would never be able to repay. I ended up doing construction until I got too crippled to be able to do the work any more, and when I finally went to veterans 'services' I found out what a joke that is.
They will tell you they are trying, bringing up programs like Cedarwood. What they don't tell you is that program was full with a year waiting list when it opened. It was never intended to meet more than 5% of the need. They will tell you they "place" most of their veterans within two months. What they don't tell you is that most of them crash financially within a couple of months, and get abused for failing in programs that are certain to fail. They park veterans more than 50 miles from their medical help, and leave them to walk to get help.
I would not wish this on the enemies I fought. I am a bit confused at why a government asks us to serve, then throws us away like yesterday's trash when we return. I have said a country that treats it's warriors like this does not deserve freedom.
One parting shot. Our senators and congressmen like to roar in front of the news, but in session, they regularly defund veterans programs, and deny more than 90% of requests for veterans funding. I really don't need to hear more lies from people that never put their money where their mouth is.
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