New Consciousness Review - Spring 2016

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The Purpose of DEPRESSIONFuture-Fit GOVERNMENTVaccine WHISTLEBLOWER

The Energies

of LOVE

Synchronicity: ENLIGHTENMENT OR PSYCHOSIS?

Find out why Sting, the English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor, and philanthropist, believes Debra Silverman and her book

The Missing Element are on to something that can help us all.

CONTENTS33 51 66 72317

5 FROM THE EDITOR

HEALTH 7 THE PURPOSE OF DEPRESSION AND DISEASE

by Blake Bauer

12 THE WHOLE HEALTH DIET by Mark Mincolla14 NAVIGATING ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION

by Julia Schopick

18 HARNESS YOUR BODYS ENERGIES by Joseph Cardillo

22 VACCINE WHISTLEBLOWER by Kevin Barry

OUR WORLD26 ALIGNING BUSINESS & PERSONAL BELIEFS

by Emmanuel Dagher

29 A CALL FOR FUTURE-FIT GOVERNANCE by Anna Borgeryd

31 THE TRAUMA BOND by Lawrence Swaim33 THE SOUL OF ANCIENT EGYPT by Robert

Bauval and Ahmed Osman

CONSCIOUS CINEMA36 MOVIES & THE POWER OF CHOICE by Brent

Marchant

41 THE PHYSICS OF THE SOUL by Frank Huguenard

INSPIRATION44 LIFE AND DEATH by Tim Braun46 TRUE INTIMACY by Courtney Walsh49 THE ENERGIES OF LOVE with Donna Eden and

David Feinstein

51 TRUE COMMUNICATION by Leslie Shore54 R.E.S.P.E.C.T. by Dr. Denee Jordan

CONSCIOUS PARENTING58 CHILDREN AND FEAR by Janai Mestrovich

METAREALITY62 SYNCHRONICITY: ENLIGHTENMENT OR

PSYCHOSIS? by Chris Mackey65 MANIFESTING 123 with Ken Elliott 66 SIDEWALK ORACLES by Robert Moss68 ORDINARY MAGIC by Gary Sherman 72 QUANTUM MODELS OF COGNITION by

Jerome R. Busemeyer & Peter D. Bruza

74 EASY BREEZY PROSPERITY by Emmanuel Dagher

77 RISING STARS82 REVIEWERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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NEW CONSCIOUSNESSReviewBold Perspectives on Life, the Universe and Everything

Cover Personality: Blake Bauer

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FROM THE EDITORTrader vs. Investor

A professor of finance from NYU was pointing out the difference between a trader and investor on Bloomberg news. A trader is a person who looks solely at the potential for the price of a stock to move up or down, and makes a profit based on how well he can predict (or manip-ulate) these movements in the market. His perspective is short term, focused on the next quarterly report. An investor, by contrast, looks at the fundamentals of a company its man-agement, its net assets, its cash flow, its competition, and its long-term prospects. A companys valuation in the stock market, however, is determined by analysts with a trader

mentality. They decide how they think a stock should be performing in the next quarter, and then mark it down if it doesnt meet their expectations, even though the company may have delivered perfectly respectable results. The valuation of a company is based on the amount of profit it can generate for investors, and maximizing returns for shareholders has become accepted as the primary purpose of a company. Valuation has been completely di-vorced from values like serving the community, caring for employees, minimizing the carbon footprint, or even investing in development for the long term. Short-term profit drives everything, especially CEO salaries. (It was announced during the same broadcast that the compensation of the CEO of Citibank was $16.5 million in 2015!)

This aggressive, opportunistic thinking was behind the stock market crash of 2008, and it struck me that this same mind-set is playing out in the political arena, and forcing the candidates vying for the presidency to adopt a short-term, trader mentality. Values and integrity seem to be readily sacrificed on the altar of poll numbers, and rallying the base is often done by manipulation ranging from cynical to hypocritical, appealing to or arous-ing fear and prejudice. I believe that all sides are filled with good people responding with their hearts and truly wanting whats best for their families and their country, but it is easy to give up critical thinking when swept up in the rhetoric of faith and nationalism.

Yet those who brandish their religion like a sword seem to ignore the moral values set out in the Bible, like feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, caring for the sick, welcoming strangers, and loving ones neighbor. Respect for life seems curiously selective, and readily overridden by fear-driven calls for carpet-bombing and torture. Disrespect for others with different views is actively encouraged, heedless of the damage it may be causing to the social fabric of our country. This harks back to the trader mentality, where profit and power are seen as the only worth-while objectives, but it can come with a heavy cost.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? (Mark 8: 36)

If you think like an investor, however, you want to build real wealth for the long term. People like Anna Borgeryd, who is the fifth generation CEO of her familys business, is a passionate example of and spokesperson for sustain-ability, corporate responsibility and good governance. Please read her Call-to-Ac-tion in this issue! Just think what the world could look like if we were to invest more than we consume, act more than react, build more than we destroy, unite more than we divide, appreciate more than we criticize, and love more than we hate. It has never been more urgent to focus on the values that bind us, rather than the is-sues that divide us.

We would do well to contemplate this warning in the Great Law of the Iroquois that states, Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations, even those whose faces are yet beneath the surface of the ground the unborn of the future Nation.

Miriam KnightEditor & Publisher


This extraordinary new book is a guide to help you re-create your reality in a positive and meaningful way by using your mental, psychic and spiritual connections with the higher dimensions of infinite, multi-dimensional reality. It covers truly unusual and fascinating ideas such as the sub-harmonics of injury and illness, the dimension of Identity and DNA, and Torsion Fields and enfolded, higher dimensions. Volume Twos expanded format presents new concepts and meditations, from pulling in higher-level energies,or focusing on your bodys stem cells,to defining magic in terms of physics so that you can distill magic into action. Nikola Tesla is revealed as a man of tremendous compassion, insight and vision who is still interested in helping us reach into new ways of relating to 4-D reality. His intelligence,insight and enthusiasm shine through what he presents, and can energize your minds, hearts and sprits with new and fascinating perspectives, ideas, and unusual depths of mind.

Nikola Tesla: Afterlife Comments

on Paraphysical ConceptsVolume Two: HEALING AND MAGIC

Channeled by Francesca Thoman

From celebrating the present human trend to live without needing to punish others, to describing the energies of para-light, para-gravity and para-sound, Volume Two: Healing and Magic is human and humanitarian, full of fresh and innovative approaches to understanding the infinite, multi-dimensional reality of the One Whole Being.

The Purpose of DEPRESSION and DISEASE

By Blake Bauer

Everything happens for a reason, including health challenges of the mind and body. Although this may be difficult to accept, my view is that we make ourselves sick and miserable looking for love and attention outside ourselves. We learn from a young age to seek mom and dads conditional love in order to survive but it is often at the expense of being true to ourselves and causes us harm.

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If we never wake up to this unhealthy in-ternal dynamic, it eventually leads to de-pression and disease. The suffering in our body and mind are cries from our soul, from God and the Universe, calling us back home to ourselves and to the source of peace and strength within.As adults weve become accustomed to living withfearsof losing love, attention, approval, and security. We learned to feel guilty early in life about expressingwhat we need to be healthy and happy, because thisis somehow tooselfish orcriticizedas wrong, when in reality everyone is actually selfish whether theyre aware of it or not. Now, after years of pleasing othersand not taking care of ourselves, we oftenfind ourselves unhappy, unwell, and full of resentment, anger and regret.

Confused, we ask ourselves how did I get here?

No one is a bad person for wanting to live a deeply fulfilling and authentic life. Yet we feel shamefor


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having this desire. Entrapped in a web of our own weaving, we have yet to realize that we are waiting for a wholehearted commitment to our own well-being and that our suffering is simply asking us to speak and act based on what we truly feel in each situation and relationship.

I cannot help but point out the fact here that modern medicine has not discovered cures for al-iments like cancer, autoimmune disease and clini-cal depression. Is it because we have been viewing these extreme symptoms from a limited perspec-tive and completely missing the purpose of these challenges?

I believe so.

Although it can be hard to swallow, I have found that our mental and emotional relationship to our-selves is both the cause ofand the solution to most forms of personal suffering. Our ability to express what we feel effectively and act in alignment with this inner truth directly determines the quality of our mental and physical wellbeing. In most cases deep unhappiness and chronic illness are simply the result of the self-destructive, critical, judgmen-tal and fear-based relationship many of us devel-

oped toward ourselves in childhood. Because we tend to be so lost in this harmful way of thinking and acting, its very easy to overlook the simple fact that transforming this mental and emotional dis-ease can bring the long-term relief and peace were seeking.

I have heard it said that life will take away anything or anyone we take for granted. Our life itself and our health fall into this category also. In my work with thousands of people I have witnessed time and again how individuals ignore and disregard their mental and emotional life, because they do not know how to navigate it, talk about it or re-spect it. The natural progression of this sentiment is a deep feeling of worthlessness; where one per-ceives their feelings, needs and desires do not mat-ter. They feel their inner self or soul has no value or is not appreciated by those around them, and the byproduct is a body that does not matter or feel worthy of attention. In other words, a heart not cared for or honored by us becomes a body that does not feel good to inhabit.

Whats the point of being alive if our soul feels trapped, misunderstood, and valueless? What sen-tient being would ever want to continue to live a


mentally tortured, emotionally anxious, and over-whelmingly stressful life? Yet we as human beings feel so unworthy of creating a lifestyle, career and relationships that make us feel good, alive and well on a daily basis.

Although objectively it seems natural to desire a healthy and happy life, the guilt, fear and under-lying hurt inside uspersistently hold us back. They leave us feeling disconnected and trickle down in-side like acid slowly eating us alive from within. Ad-diction and suicide can be understood in this light.

No one wants to live believing they must always be more, do more, or have more to find happiness, health, peace or love. But this is a psychological symptom of past internalized hurt caused by oth-ers and ourselves, which when left unresolved, leads us to live in our head in an attempt to protect our heart from further pain and also leaves us feel-ing alone and insecure.

As children we learned to make our feelings, needs and desires wrong, and now for years weve en-dured a limited life of poor self-care and toxic self-talk. We need to swing the pendulum of attention toward transforming our dysfunctional mental and emotional life if we want our body to reflect a healthy internal environment moving forward.

Traditional Chinese Medicine offers one the most practical and logical insights into how our thoughts and emotions can lead either to health and happi-nessor to depression and disease. From this worl-dview the causes of physical disease directly cor-relate to the flow of energy and blood in the body. In simple terms, when energy and blood are free flowing daily we experience health and happiness. But when they stagnate we will eventuallyencoun-ter pain, tiredness, depression,and the toxic build-ups that cause illness.

The belief is that blood in the body follows the flow of life force energy. The best example of this is the energetic beat or pulse of the heart that caus-es blood to flow within our veins and carries our immune cells, hormones, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to all corners of the body. What is often overlooked in western medicine is the link between internalized thoughts and emotions that, coupled with fear and the resulting inaction, lead

to a decrease in thehealthy flow first of energy and then of blood.

A 40-year-old person, who has on average been awake for 16 hours every day, has lived 840,960,000 moments or seconds. Thats 14,016,000 minutes of life experience, where this person is feeling and thinking something directly connected to their deeper wounds, needs and desires. Objectively much of this inner process is made up of unresolved emotional pain and negative thoughts, which con-stantly circle the mind and body and are rarely ex-pressed or addressed in a way were at peace with.

Both thought and emotion are subtle forms of atomic energy, which when repressed constant-ly over time cause internal stress, limited oxygen intake, and imbalances in molecular and cellular processes. It also causes the flow of life force ener-gy and blood to slow down and become severely blocked. Due primarily to the various manifesta-tions of survival fear, most people dont act based on instinct, intuition and what the heart truly com-municates either, which creates further disrup-tions to the healthy flow of energy and blood in the organs and circulatory system. Symptoms like anxiety, shallow breathing, chronic fatigue, leth-argy, digestive disorders, depression, bi-polar and sleeplessness set in, and we, and often our doc-tors,are not quitesure what the underlying cause is.

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A 40-year-old person, who has on average been awake for 16 hours every day, has lived 840,960,000 moments or seconds. Thats 14,016,000 minutes of life experience, where this person is feeling and thinking something directly connected to their deeper wounds, needs and desires.


Eventually, over days, weeks, months and years of this process guiding our lives and behavior, the blood and fluid in our bodies begin to coagulate to such a large degree that nodules, masses, growths and tumors begin to form. This then leadsto tox-ins building up in the blood stream and organs, re-sulting in chronic pain and disease. In simple terms our body becomes at war with itself on a cellular level (like in auto-immune conditions) because we are at war with ourselves mentally and emotion-ally, living with a constant tear between what we really feel, want and need, and the fears that stop us from speaking and acting completely honestly.

From this viewpoint its easy to see how living a stressful life compounded by work that is unful-filling, or staying in relationships where one is not true to their deeper emotions, needs and desires, can create significant inner pressure on our ma-jor organs and central nervous system. If we are constantly fighting ourselves in this way, the inev-itable result is our self-destruction. Thisdoes not even account for excessive consumption of alco-hol, food, recreational drugs, and pharmaceutical drugs, which are merelyunhealthy habitsmotivat-ed by an unconscious desire to numb our deeper mental and emotional pain in a misguided quest for short-term superficial relief that only makes health concerns worse in the long run.

Most people understand that eating natural whole foods and adopting a healthy lifestyle will support health and prevent illness. What most dont know though is that complete honesty and vulnerability in every situation is just as vital to our long term mental and physical health. We are so used to hid-ing our true feelings in order to survive and keep the peace, protecting ourselves from judgment, criticism, rejection, abandonment and aggression, that we remain unaware were relating to ourselves in such a harmful way -until of course we are forced to figure out why weve become sodepressed or ill.

There will never be a better time than today to be-gin practicing this. Depression and disease is our bodys practical and logical way of alerting us to the life or death importance of giving ourselves permission to be fully who we are now, because its the only path to lasting happiness and vitality. I have found we are given a choice in life between feeling sorry for ourselves and respecting our-selves, but we cannot have both. I have witnessed countless people stop beingvictims to their fearful and insecure thoughts and move beyond suffering into enjoying life daily. Once they wholeheartedly committed to speaking and acting in a way that values their thoughts and feelings in every situa-tion as the priority, even when scared, they were able to heal and forgive their past, and finally stop hurting and betraying themselves in the present.

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Depression and disease is our bodys practical and

logical way of alerting us to the life or death importance of giving

ourselves permission to be fully who we are now,

because its the only path to lasting happiness and

vitality.

Deep down we all know wewere not born to suffer. But no one can save, heal or free us beside ourselves. This is precisely why the pur-pose of mental, emotional and physical symp-toms is to show us where and how we are not caring for ourselves well enough to thrive and flourishfully before we die. When we can un-derstand the simple but profound truth that all suffering is the result of a constant rejection of the true self - a self that we never learned how to love, accept or value fully- we can begin transforming whatever struggles were faced with and find deeper peace and health imme-diately.


The key then to letting go of depression and dis-ease is to stop running from yourself and to start breathing in life and oxygen as deeply as possi-ble right now. By staying open in each moment to yourself you will finally welcome your inner truth and feel deeply again, even if its scary or painful at first, which is the only way to truly heal. Then you can get clear about what you actually want in life, what feels good to you, and what makes you feel alive and well.

I have found that when we focus primarily on these things daily, even when criticized for doing so, while speaking and acting with complete honesty and respect for ourselves, we support the healthy flow of energy, blood and emotion in the body and we naturally move away from any person, situation, or habit that is no longer healthy for us. Anything else that we need to address will naturally surface to be felt and liberated as we move forward.

It is my view that each person isone with what we term God, or the Loving Universal Intelligence, and

Blake Bauer is a Chicago native whose fascinating life experiences led him to take the path of teacher. Remarkably young yet gifted with ex-traordinary wisdom he has become an internationally recognized author, counselor, and alternative medi-cine practitioner. Blake has traveled worldwide training with notable spir-itual teachers, healers, and masters and has acquired a formal education in psychology, Chinese medicine, nutrition, herbal remedies, hypnosis as well as other forms of traditional healing and alternative medicine.

His bestselling book, You Were Not Born To Suffer focuses on how loving yourself unconditionally is the key to healing yourself, finding peace, fulfill-ing your lifes purpose, and realizing your full potential on both a profes-sional and personal level.

until we open to this powerwithin, which means until we believe in our inherent capacity to heal ourselves and find lasting happiness, there will always remain aspects of our body and mind that are closed and thus will not heal. It doesnt matter how many doctors we visit or how great a practi-tioner might be. The walls of the ego and the small separate self must come down through bringing our own loving attention and acceptance to all the parts of us weve rejected over the years.

I have found that its only through taking 100% per-cent responsibility for the depression and disease were experiencing now, regardless of how hard life has been to date, that we can finally see the pur-pose this suffering has served in bringing us home to our true selves and tothe ocean ofstrength and peace thats always existed beneath our mental and emotional struggles. Blaming anyone or any-thing external only wastes the time and energy we need to heal and free ourselves now. And choosing pride over honest vulnerability will only keep us trapped.

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In this case the bigger picture includes not only the reasons we overeat, but also how to construct a diet based on solid nutri-tional science, as well as one that caters to ones particular food sensitivities and metabolism. Weve all had the experience of reaching for food to meet a need oth-er than hunger, and when that food or beverage or other substance doesnt do the trick or satis-fies us only temporarily we keep trying to fill the gap, and our weight keeps climbing. By helping us understand the interplay among the emotional, physical, chemical, and nutritional components of health, Mincolla provides practical information we can use to achieve vibrant health.

The Whole HEALTH DIET

by Mark Mincolla, PhD

I It is both refreshing and encouraging to read a book about dieting that focuses on the bigger picture of health, rather than simply weight loss.


For example, he explains the effects of different types of exercise on the body. Exercise is vital to stimulate metabolism, but trying to sweat off pounds through vigorous aerobic exercise doesnt really work. Weight training and muscle building actually increase metabolic efficiency and will lead to greater weight loss, because a pound of muscle burns 40 calories a day versus 2 calories a day for a pound of fat. But balance is also important, so he recommends alternating aerobic exercise with weight or resistance training sessions, plus some form of mind-body exercise.

The most unique feature of the whole health diet is the use of muscle testing to determine what are the best foods for you at any given time. He also strongly recommends rotating your food selections across the week. Because any food can cause sen-sitivity if eaten continuously, he suggests allowing several days between repetitions of the same food, and retesting yourself for sensitivity at least once a month. He even provides recipes to illustrate his approach to healthy eating. While they may not be the most exciting recipes on the planet, you will get the idea.

Mincollas holistic approach is not a quick fix, but a sure and steady one. It addresses all the aspects of your life that you need to get into balance, and gives you the rationale and the method for doing so. Observing the principles in this book would be a good investment in health.

Reviewed by Miriam Knight

Mark Mincolla, Ph.D. has transformed the lives of many thousands of people over the past 30 years. Integrating ancient Chinese energy techniques with cutting edge nutritional science in what has be-come his innovative Electromagnetic Muscle Test-ing system (EMT). The main focus of his integrated east-west approach is what he calls Acutrition, as it zeros in on each individuals unique nutritional needs. His website is http://www.maxhealing.com

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The most unique feature of the whole health diet is the use of muscle testing to determine what are the best foods for you at any given time. He also strongly recommends rotating your food selections across the week.

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As the author of a book about innovative medical treatments many doctors and patients dont know about, I want to share some tips about how to separate the wheat from the chaffi.e., the good from the bad (or at least, the questionable)when it comes to both alternative and conventional treat-ments.

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Navigating Through Online Information to Find the Right Treatment

for YouBy Julia Schopick

Author, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases

M Many people ask, With all the health information online, how can I tell which treatments are worth trying, and which ones arent?


FIRST, ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS

Tip #1: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!

With alternative treatments, the first rule of thumb is, If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. So, beware of all the miracle cures, miracle po-tions, breakthrough cures, biggest discoveries, and any treatment that cures all ____s. (Fill in the blanks: cancers, infections, etc.) Oh, yes, and lets not forget about all those one minute cures out there! Sadly, these quotes are taken from actual websites that are hawking actual cures. Remem-ber, no one treatment can cure ALL of anything.

The four treatments I feature in my book, HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Tested, Inexpensive Treat-ments for Life-Threatening Diseases, are all prom-ising treatments. But not one of them works for everyone. For instance, one of the treatments, the Ketogenic Dieta high fat, low carbohydrate, low protein diet for childhood epilepsyhas helped thousands, maybe millions of children since its inception in the 1920s at prestigious institutions such as Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic. In small studies since the 1920s, it has been found to help 60-70% of children who try it. But clearly, it does not help everyone. Yet, for those patients whose seizures are stopped or lessened with this diet, it is a miracle. But it is not a miracle cure, since it does NOT work for everyone.

The same is true of the other three effective, time-tested, but not miracle treatments featured in my book: Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for auto-immune diseases; intravenous alpha lipoic acid for end-stage liver disease; and Silverlon for non-heal-

ing wounds. Like the Ketogenic Diet, these treat-ments help many thousands of patients who have used them, and my book contains contributions by several people who have been helped by these treatments. But still, they do NOT help everyone.

Tip #2: Avoid Treatments with Obvious Financial Ties.

Second, it is important to realize that in the US, money is closely tied to healthcare, both con-ventional and alternative. So, if you want to find a treatment that is worth trying, keep away from those with questionable financial ties. Be wary of a treatment if the only positive information you find has been provided by the doctors who are proponents of the treatment, or by people (doc-tors or laypeople) who profit from it. These are of-ten thinly veiled testimonials, and its easy to spot them. Youll be able to know which are obvious testimonials because they are too enthusiastic, too salesy. Instead, look for solid information provid-ed by third parties people who have NO skin in the game.

Tip #3: Look for Small Studies on the Treatment Youre Considering.

Third, if the treatment is reputable, there may well be small studies available on the government-run PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/). Please note that most so-called alternative

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Ketogenic Dieta high fat, low carbohydrate, low protein diet for childhood epilepsyhas helped thousands, maybe millions of children since its inception in the 1920s at prestigious institutions such as Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic

Pharmaceutical companies are not likely to want to put

money into studying natural treatments, or those that

are too inexpensive.


treatments will NOT have large, expensive, class 3, double blind, placebo-controlled studiesthe kind the FDA requires to give its approvalsince a majority of those studies are conducted by the pharmaceutical companies that stand to profit from them. And pharmaceutical companies are not likely to want to put money into studying nat-ural treatments, or those that are too inexpensive. In HONEST MEDICINE, David Gluck, MD contributes a fascinating chapter in which he explains the Big Pharma-FDA-Trial connection. Id be happy to send this chapter as a PDF to anyone who writes to me at [email protected]. Please put Dr. Glucks chapter in the subject line.

But many promising, so-called alternative treat-ments do have smaller studies performed on them. For instance, a recent check on PubMed showed numerous studies conducted on the treatments profiled in my book: e.g., 95 on Low Dose Naltrex-one, 13 on Silverlon, 1584 on the Ketogenic Diet, and 2017 on alpha lipoic acid.

Some people are surprised when they learn that a large number of nutritional supplements have been put through similar small studies, some con-ducted in foreign countries, but reputable studies nonetheless. (Try searching for studies on mela-tonin, magnesium, gaba, and some of the supple-ments you take. You may be pleasantly surprised!)

CONVENTIONAL TREATMENTSJust as there are signs to watch for in the alterna-tive medicine world, there are also signs to watch for with conventional treatmentseven in cases of treatments offered by some of our best medical institutions, and touted by some well known phy-sicians. The reason for this is that some physicians and medical institutions receive financial support from pharmaceutical and medical device compa-nies, which can lead to conflicts of interest.

So, again: Patient, beware!

Tip #1: Watch out for Major Medical Institutions with Financial Ties.

Chances are, if your doctor knows you will want to research your condition or treatment, he or she will most likely steer you to a website or websites that are considered by conventional medical practi-tioners to be reputable.

But often, the websites doctors recommend are also fraught with questionable ties. For example, two of the websites most respected by conventional doc-tors are those of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Min-nesota, and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. But, most doctors are not aware of the finan-cial ties these institutions have to the pharmaceu-tical and medical device industriesties that may well cloud the advice provided on their websites.

For instance, a 2014 article titled Mayo Clinic doc-tors making millions for private consulting reveals:

An unprecedented disclosure of payments from drug companies shows that $3.07 mil-lion for consulting was paid in 2,388 pay-ments to Rochester-based Mayo Clinic re-searchers, doctors and hospitals during five months last year.

And a 2012 article titled MD Andersons president DePinho can keep pharmaceutical ties states:

TheUniversity of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer PresidentRonald DePinho will be allowed to maintain financial ties with three pharma-ceutical companies, the Houston Chronicle reports.

In a letter made available Oct. 23, Dr. Ken-neth Shine, the UT Systems vice chancel-lor for health affairs, granted the waiver for Massachusetts-based companiesAveo Phar-maceuticals, Karyopharm Therapeutics and Metamark Genetics Inc. and said DePinhos holdings in them will be placed in a blind trust, the Chronicle reports.

There are numerous similar instances of financial ties for many other major medical institutions. You just need to do your research.

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Tip #2: Disease-Related Organizations Often Have Financial Ties, too.

When patients are diagnosed with cancer, oncolo-gists are quick to point them to the American Can-cer Society website for information on the best treatments.

Not so fast!

If you check the ACSs site, youll see that it has re-ceived contributions of over $250,000 each from several pharmaceutical companies, including Ab-bott Labs, AbbVee, Pfizer, Merck, and Eli Lilly. And other disease organizations your doctor recom-mends may also have similar financial ties. For instance, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society lists as its corporate partners Allergan, Genzyme, Novartis, and Biogen Idec, to name a few. Ditto the American Diabetes Association, whose corporate sponsors include a stunning number of pharma-ceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, Eli Lil-ly, GlaxoSmithKline, Janssen, Merck, Sanofi, and Pfizer.

With pharmaceutical contributors like these, there is a good chance the information on these websites might be influenced by the organizations financial ties.

Tip #3: Clinical Trials Have Financial Ties, too.Add to this the fact that a huge percentage (some estimates range up to 90%) of Phase 3 clinical tri-alsthe ones doctors rely on when prescribing medicationsare financed by the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the drugs they plan to sell and profit from. There is reason to question the results of these trials. See Big Pharmas Role in Clinical Trials.

Tip #4: Learn About Doctors Financial Ties. If you are curious as to whether a doctor you are planning to consult has questionable ties to phar-maceutical or medical device companies, youll want to visit one of my favorite websites, Dollars for Docs: https://projects.propublica.org/doc-dollars/ . Even I, who consider myself to be a sav-vy researcher and patient advocate, was recently

helped by this site. A friend recommended that I consult a particular orthopedic physician for a problem I was having. Imagine my surprise when I discoveredthanks to Dollars for Docsthat, from August 2013, to December 2014, this enter-prising physician had earned $887,819 from a to-tal of 116 companies. Andget this!Dollars for Docs ranked him #5 out of 721 physicians in his specialty in Illinois in the amount of money he earned from these companies. In other words, he got more money from pharmaceutical and medi-cal device companies than 716 other orthopedic physicians in Illinois. This, most probably, is in ad-dition to his real salary! And this, apparently, is not of concern to the top medical institution where he practices.

Make no mistake about it. There is an abundance of great health information online. As a matter of fact, most of the contributors to my book found the treatments that saved their lives on the In-ternet. But there is also information about treat-mentsboth alternative and conventionalthat are too good to be true, and/or have question-able financial ties. I hope the information I have provided here will help you separate the wheat from the chaff, and in so doing, will help you find treatments that will assist you in your quest for op-timum health!

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Julia Schopick is a health writ-er, lecturer, patient advocate and coach, and the author of the award-winning HONEST MEDICINE: Effective, Time-Test-ed, Inexpensive Treatments for Life-Threatening Diseases.

Through her writings and her blog, HonestMed-icine.com, Julia empowers patients to make the best health choices for themselves and their loved ones by teaching them about little-known but promising treatments their doctors may not know about. Julias writings on health and medical topics have been featured inAmerican Medical News(AMA),Alternative & Complemen-tary Therapies, theBritish Medical Journaland the Chicago Sun-Times. Learn more at www.HonestMedicine.com. Write to her at [email protected].


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Getting the energy we need

The major reason that people feel burnt out is that they there is a mismatch between the energy that they are expending within a particular activity physical, mental or spiritual (I use this last term nondenominationally) and the energy that is required for that task. For example, a weight lifter trying to bench-press 350

lbs. will require different energy than a student try-ing to solve a difficult math equation or a mom or dad trying to get the children up and off to school or someone trying to play a melody on the piano. When energy and actions are mismatched you feel drained. When you use the right energy for the right task, you will feel invigorated and happy. You will flow rather than burn out. You will perform and feel your best and your life will feel vibrant. The things you do will bring you joy. This is why I wrote my book Body Intelligence, because I want everyone to plug their daily energy drains, replace them with energy gains, and live a luminous life. I encourage everyone to make learning more about Body Intel-ligence and body energy science a priority. A small commitment reaps long rewards for you and your family and really everyone you will ever touch.

Part of the reason why people are not getting the energy they need is that weve been conditioned to think there are only two kinds of energy: high and low. As a result many individuals turn to en-

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Harness Your Bodys Energies for

YOUR BEST LIFE By Joseph Cardillo, PhD

Author of Body intelligence Harness Your Bodys Energies for Your Best Life

One thing we all want is more and better quality energy. Many individuals, instead, get caught in the whirlwind of daily activities. This is especially true during current times when everyone is trying to crank more out you everywhere. By days end, you go to bed drained or with a racing mind or both. We wonder where we are ever going to get the energy for all those things we want to do.


ergy drinks, supplements, and other substances to bring them either up or down. But there is more to it than that. As long as we think of energy that way, we suffer daily consequences which in-clude: overall low energy, memory fatigue, brain fatigue, increased errors and conflict, insomnia (the number one negative influence on workforce labor), body pain, emotional concerns, attention/focus problems, interrelationship problems, and the beginnings of many top shelf health problems. Good energy management begins with identifying whether we are experiencing any of these condi-tions and becoming aware of their causes. In the scope of these health issues, body energy (when mismatched) can be both the cause and (when matched) the correction, the cure or a signif-icant part of the cure. From the perspective of the new mind-body-medicine, this last point will be determined by several factors, including the indi-viduals and his or her caretakers efforts, tool kit and understanding of the bodys full spectrum of energy mechanisms and influencers.

Defining Body IntelligenceDefinition for my theory of Body intelligence begins with an understanding that the body is an incred-

ible, intelligent instrument. Like a tremendously capable antenna, it can proficiently and literally download energy from everything in its environ-ments, including from within itself. Then there is the other half of Body Intelligence which involves BQ and which (like IQ) refers to the individual the individuals understanding of the bodys full energy spectrum, e.g. chemical, light, electrical, heat, sound, mechanical, and the subtle energies. And BQ also refers to the individuals comprehen-sion for how to access and use these. Sounds diffi-cult, complex? But not really. How about fun and liberating (freeing you to get the energy you need easily, accessibly, and fast and not having to wait for catastrophe to hit and/or being bound to phar-maceuticals when unnecessary or being bound so much, as well as having to deal with invasive procedures, and fears. Who wants that? Even in dif-ficult cases, ones ability to access their full spec-trum energies helps keep them more positive and if nothing else, there are mounds of research show-ing a more positive mindset will help the more con-ventional procedures, chemical and otherwise, to have a better overall effect. So understanding your full being energies is always a win, win situation.

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Mixing and Matching EnergiesWhatever it is you are trying to do there is an en-ergy you can harness to fuel it: Do you need more memory, more calm, more alert, more concentra-tion, sleep, creativity and so on.

Anyone who has a cell phone has labored over at-tempting a task on the device. Then later a friend shows you a super simple function or app already on your device that can do the job for you in a snap. What a difference that makes in relieving stress and replacing it with smooth sailing.

We dont have apps in our body, per se, but we do have mechanisms and templates that work similar-ly and can help us tap our energetic sweet spots fast and issue the changes wed like throughout our entire being of body-mind-spirit.

Body Intelligence is learning how to use these mechanisms to achieve the exact energy you need.

We Live in a Physical World for a ReasonYou are energy, your world is energy, and everything in your world is energy. We have a body and live in the physical world for a reason. As such, the body becomes an instrument to balance and evolve the mind to higher consciousness. It can be so sim-ple. When your mind is fatigued, depressed, disor-

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ganized, you dont want it imposing its influence over your body. If that happens you are going to have two problems. But the fix can be easy. Heres a tiny example: Who in the middle of a rough day hasnt taken a walk outside and felt better? Not only does the exercise refresh your energy reserves but the extra light reduces the amount of mela-tonin in your bloodstream the hormone making you feel groggy in the first place. Sometimes thats all you need. But theres so much more you can do to rev your bodys electro-chemical patterns in similar simple ways.

Ultimately, Body Intelligence is about learning how to take simple feel-good patterns of activity and amplify the feel-good effects. This can be seen, in some cases, as equivalent to increasing the dose of say a pharmaceutical or exercise, mental of physi-cal. You can learn how to sustain the effects of feel-good patterns, giving them long-lasting power. Ul-timately and literally, you can create a whole new brain and mind circuitry that will activate to spark the energy you need automatically, as you need it. Beyond ourselves, when you gift this person-ally nourishing energy outward, you change and evolve the world.

For an in-depth look at how you can do this, you may wish to check out my newest book, Body Intel-ligence Harness Your Bodys Energies for Your Best Life.

Joseph Cardillo, PhD is a best-selling author and lecturer in the fields of health, mind-body-spirit andpsychology. An expert in Attention Training, creative thinking, and body energy, Dr. Cardillo has taughthis methods to more than twenty thousand students at various colleges, universities, and institutes. He isa regular contributor toPsychology Today,and is the author ofBe Like Water, the body-energy classic. His website is http://www.josephcardillo.com/

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the CDC curtailed my conversations with him in 2004 due to my familys participation in the National Vac-cine Injury Compensation Program where we were seeking remuneration for my own sons vaccine inju-ries. The phone calls from November 2013 to August 2014 were secret and Thompson did not let CDC of-ficials know that he and I were talking as that could have cost him his employment.

I made the decision to record four of the last phone conversations I had with Dr. Thompson, without his knowledge, based on the revelation of harm to chil-dren, caused by the CDCs very dysfunctional and even criminal vaccine safety program. These record-ings were obtained legally and involved advice from legal counsel in each instance. . . .

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Vaccine WhistleblowerBy Kevin Barry

The following excerpt from Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC provides an Executive Summary of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr. Brian Hooker, a scientist investigating autism and vaccine research, and Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist in the vaccine safety division at the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC). Thompson is still employed at the CDC under the protection of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy

At a town hall meeting in Los Angeles on June 17, 2015, Dr. Brian Hooker revealed that he and Dr. Thompson had spoken on the phone over thir-ty times. Dr. Hooker legally recorded four of those calls.

. . . Over the period of November 2013 to August 2014, I had over thirty separate phone conversations with Dr. Thompson. He initially reached out to me in an unsolicited phone conversation to my cell phone. Dr. Thompson and I had talked on the phone and exchanged email correspondences much earlier, be-tween 2002 and 2004, back when I was trying to ad-vise the CDC on their vaccine safety studies related to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. However,


Call 1Highlights of the May 8, 2014, call REFERENCE: http://www.ageofautism.com/2015/06/the-battle-for-california-part-4-the-nation-of-islam-and-the-church-of-scientology-join-the-fight-

Dr. Thompson wants to stop lying about omitting signif-icant data which suggested an elevated risk of autism in a subpopulation (African American males) from a 2004 MMR paper he coauthored.

Dr. Thompson says thimer-osal causes tics, thimer-osal-containing vaccines should never be given to pregnant women, and that he would never give a thimer-osal-containing vaccine to his own wife. Flu shots with thimerosal are on the recom-mended vaccine schedule for children, pregnant women, and adults.

Dr. Thompson describes how the CDC stonewalls Congressional requests for documents and how the CDC stonewalls requests for infor-mation under the Freedom of Information Act.

Dr. Thompson says how the CDC and media love to hype measles and polio out-breaks in order to scare the public. In May 2014,Thomp-son essentially predicted how the CDC and media reacted to the measles outbreak at Disn-eyland in late 2014.

Dr. Thompson says autism research is a political hot potato inside the CDC.

Dr. Thompson discusses in May 2014, some seven months before the CDC, drug companies, and the press fanned the fires of measles hysteria, that they love to hype and scare people: But I also have to say these drug companies and their pro-moters, theyre making such a big deal of these measles outbreaks and they now theyre making a big deal that polio is coming back and polio comes back all the time in third world countries. Its like a never-ending thing where the press loves to hype it and it scares people.

Call 2Highlights of the May 24, 2014, call

Dr. Thompson says what the CDC has been denying for years: There is biologic plausibility right now, I real-ly do believe there is, to say that thimerosal causes au-tism-like symptoms.

Dr. Thompson hired a whis-tleblower attorney in May 2014 to protect his position as an employee at the CDC during the period he hopes to testify before Congress.

Dr. Thompson says the CDC is currently sitting on a trea-sure trove of data pertain-

ing to 1,200 children with autismincluding vaccine records of children and their mothers (Rhogam, flu shots). Its called the SEED (Study to Explore Early Development) study.

Dr. Thompson says that re-searchers at the CDC are not looking at the vaccine data, and Dr. Thompson urges that the data be looked at by genuinely independent researchers. Dr. Thompsons suggestion disqualifies CDC partner organizations like Autism Speaks. The founding of Autism Speaks in 2005 was underwritten by a $25 million dollar gift from Home Depot cofounder and billionaire Bernie Marcus. Mr. Marcus is Chairman Emeritus of the CDC Foundation. (More on Autism Speaks in Chapter 9.)

Dr. Thompson says CDC staffers Dr. Boyle and Dr. Yeargin-Allsopp were invited to testify at the Congressio-nal hearing held on May 20, 2014, but they declined the invitation. Thompson says Dr. Yeargin-Allsopp said she wont testify and Dr. Boyle said she would never tes-tify before Congress again. Knowing this, one can hope Congress will not hesitate to use subpoena power to com-pel these federal employees to be accountable.

Dr. Thompson says the CDC has put the research ten

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years behind. Dr. Thomp-sons MMR paper was pub-lished in 2004. The Ver-straeten and Madsen papers were published in 2003. The signals on the possible con-nection between vaccina-tion and autism and other adverse events like tics and verbal IQ were not accurate-ly reported by researchers. Because the CDC researchers omitted significant data, the flow of research was diverted away from vaccination. The autism rate has increased from 1 in 166 in 2004 to 1 in 68 in 2014.

Dr. Thompson says I am part of the problem, and confides that he has great regret.

Dr. Thompson predicts his coauthors at the CDC will try to undermine him when news of his whistleblowing gets out. Dr. Thompson pre-dicts they will argue that he is mentally ill. Fortunately, Dr. Thompson kept his re-cords from the study in ques-tion and he has turned those records over to Congress.

Call 3Highlights of the June 12, 2014, call

Dr. Thompson acknowledg-es that he and his coauthors changed the criteria of their 2004 MMR paper to alter the data in a way, which elimi-nated a signal which indicat-ed that, for African-American

boys, getting the MMR vac-cine on time (before age three) increased the risk of an autism diagnosis.

Dr. Thompson reveals that because there was no out-side review panel on the 2004 MMR paper, there was no one to stop them from changing the criteria.

Dr. Thompson describes the difficulty in getting signifi-cant findings about adverse health outcomes caused by vaccination published by medical journals.

REFERENCE: https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/profiles.asp

Dr. Thompson reveals that indicted fugitive Dr. Poul Thorsen, who is alleged to have stolen more than $1 million from the CDC, is the purported boyfriend of for-mer CDC researcher Dr. Di-ana Schendel. Dr. Thorsen has been under indictment since 2011 for stealing more than $1 million dollars for his own personal gain from the CDC by falsifying invoices. According to the indictment, he executed a scheme to de-fraud and divert this money from approximately February 2004 to February 2010. The missing $1 million CDC grant money flowed through Aar-hus University and Odense University Hospital in Den-mark. Apparently, Dr. Thors-en and Dr. Schendel have

been dating the entire time Dr. Thorsen has been under indictment. Dr. Schendel worked at the CDC from 1993 to 2013. Thompson says she spent the summer of 2003 in Denmark money launder-ing with her boyfriend. Dr. Schendel relocated to Den-mark after leaving the CDC and currently is employed at Aarhus University.

Dr. Thompson says those in-side CDC want to include Dr. Schendel in research oppor-tunities going forward with the SEED data. If Dr. Schendel and Dr. Thorsen are actual-ly a couple, one can hope the CDC will not employ Dr. Schendel while her partner is still a fugitive indicted felon.

Dr. Thompson describes for-mer CDC director Julie Ger-berding taking a job as Pres-ident of Merck Vaccines as dark. Like many parents, Dr. Thompson appears to share the opinion that Dr. Gerber-dings choosing to work for a corporation which she used to regulate was shady, dirty, or dark. The MMR vaccine is manufactured by Merck. Dr. Gerberding was the head of the CDC in the early 2000 when the studies alleging the safety of the MMR vaccine were done. Just after the required waiting period of a year and a day of leaving the CDC, Dr. Gerberding took her new position at Merck. She currently is Executive Vice

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President for Strategic Com-munications, Global Public Policy and Population Health at Merck, as of December 2014. Dr. Gerberding is one of many researchers using the revolving door between gov-ernment and industry. She has made millions of dollars with Merck and from Merck stocks since leaving the CDC.

Dr. Thompson describes a culture at CDC where senior people do completely uneth-ical, vile things and they are not held accountable. One can hope Congress will hold hearings in the near future to hold them accountable. Hopefully, someday we will also have a president willing to hold the CDC accountable.

Dr. Thompson makes an excellent policy recommen-dation regarding the CDC and the future of vaccine safety. Dr. Thompson suggests mov-ing vaccine safety out of the CDC. He suggests a structure similar to the Federal Avi-

ation Administration (FAA) and the National Transpor-tation Safety Board (NTSB). With this change, the CDC can concentrate on vaccine promotion while a separate agency would be responsible for vaccine safety.

Call 4Highlights of the July 28, 2014, call

Dr. Thompson describes how CDC whitewashes and waters down attempts to replicate adverse effects from previous vaccine safety research. Data showing negative health effects from vaccination would sometimes disap-pear between submission of an original manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal and publication.

Dr. Thompson says there is a very biased political agen-da inside the CDC. One way CDC blocks future vaccine safety research funding is to give research on this issue a

low-priority score so those projects will lose out to other projects in funding competi-tion.

Dr. Thompson speculates that the Verstraeten study (2003) may have EXCLUDED specialty clinics from the data in order to game the data, in a reverse way that the Madsen Denmark paper INCLUDED specialty clinics to game the data. According to Dr. Thompson, when re-searchers dont like what they are finding in the data, they adjust it.

Dr. Thompson tells Dr. Hook-er that he provided Repre-sentative Darrell Issa and Representative Bill Posey with 100,000 documents regarding vaccine safety re-search, which would assist a Congressional investigation, some of which Dr. Hooker has had a chance to review inside Congressional offices.

*Kevin Barry, Esq. has three sons, one with regressive autism. Mr. Barry is a former federal lawyer. He is currently co-president of the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law & Advocacy (EBCALA) and president of First Freedoms, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Mr. Barry is the former president of Generation Rescue.

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A business that doesnt operate from integrity often doesnt succeed. Being transparent, open, and honest will be a re-flection of your true self and will encourage others to invest in you and your desires. For example, Ive noticed that many members of the wellness community dont like having a social media platform. Some of my colleagues in the well-ness and holistic health field dont feel that social media can be an extension of their personal self. They only utilize social media, if at all, as an outlet for business purposes. What theyre missing is that social media can also be used to create communi-ties.

When I first began to develop my social media plat-form, I was advised by several people not to put too much of my energy into it, because it would take away from my practice elsewhere. I thanked them for their input, but I had a good feeling about social media, so I decided to give it a try anyway. It has worked out amazingly well for me. Without my social media connections, I wouldnt have suc-ceeded nearly as quickly.

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Aligning Your Business with Your Personal Beliefs

by Emmanuel Dagher

Part of staying in alignmentkeeping your outer life in balance with your true valuesis remaining honest with yourself and others.


Just last year, I was approached by Camden, a friend who had previously advised me against ex-panding my social media platform. He was amazed by what I had done but worried that if he tried to do the same thing, it would backfire, and he would wind up having to put all of his energy into some-thing that didnt help him or his client base.

I encouraged Camden to pursue more involvement in social media as long as those actions felt as if they were in alignment with him and with his vision. I told him that I viewed the business opportunity of social media as an extension of my true self, so I made using it into a spiritual practice, and I hoped that he would do the same. Putting energy into a community creates a greater positive feedback loop than putting energy into a solo venture. We talked about how I integrated social media into my life and my business practices and what I avoided. I focused on how I try to remain honest and true to myself even on my professional accounts. If I allow a separation between my business and personal accounts on an internal level, I find it much harder to keep the balance. If instead I allow my personal and professional values to integrate across my so-cial media accounts, Im better at maintaining the balance necessary for integrity.

Social media, when used both personally and pro-fessionally, allows for such a great public expres-sion of positivity and energy. Camden had seen a lot of professional accounts that only focused on the business aspects of what social media can help you gain, without seeing what it can help cre-ate within a communityor even how it can help form a community. Running social media for your business doesnt have toand shouldntfeel like work. It should be a connection with your have. Social media isnt a narcissistic practice unless you make it one. Its community building and network-ing for both business and friendship.

By using our professional accounts to also discuss ideas and concepts that matter to us personally, we open ourselves up to greater opportunities for raising awareness about our businesses or about something we are deeply passionate about, such as a cause, charity, or fundraising event. I look to social media as a way to ask how I can be kind, lov-ing, positive, and of service to my community.

It took a while for Camden to see these possibilities, but once he did, he welcomed the opportunities it provided with open arms. He changed his perspec-tive on what social media really can do and allowed its positive energies into his life. As a result, he has attracted greater interest in his business and has developed an engaged social network community, both of which have had a positive impact on the success of his business.

I see social media as an extension of us as peo-ple, as human beings. It allows us to connect with people we might have otherwise never met. This generates a huge, positive network of like-minded people who are capable of creating great change. Similar to the way mantras workwhere the ener-gy you tap into has been built upon by thousands or millions of peoplesocial media has access to a wealth of energy and the possibility of creating in-tense, meaningful relationships across the globe.

My follower base on Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms built themselves because I didnt see it as work. I saw it as a way to connect and share with other people.

Creating balance in your life is an important invest-ment in your future growth and prosperity. When one area of your life demands the bulk of your time, an imbalance is created in that area, and you will inev-itably feel that imbalance in other areas of your life.

There are three keys to creating balance and align-ment with who you are:

Do what you love. Work should be fun! It shouldnt feel like work, and it shouldnt feel separate from

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your personal life. Your work and personal lives should be entwined, to a healthy extent. You should be able to go out and have fun with friends and family, but you should also be having fun at work and feel a sense of enjoyment while working.

Cultivate a spiritual practice. This can include things such as meditation or taking a walk in Na-ture. This practice should help you find your center and give your mind a break from thinking about your To-Do List, so that youre better able to focus on your spiritual development. Without spiritu-al development, we cut ourselves off from a huge portion of the energy that the Universe is willing to give us.

Play. This one always makes my clients grin. Play can come in many forms, from things like drawing, painting, or playing an instrument, to literal play-ingrunning around the yard with your kids or go-ing to an amusement park. Its your time to turn off your mind and to just let loose. You might prefer play when its in the form of going to the movies or putting together a dinner party with your friends. Either way, play is crucial for all stages of life and development.

These three keys allow for balance in your life be-tween work and personal time. Its important to keep your own energy cup full, so you can both give to and receive from others. If your cup is per-petually full, you might want to find time to give a

bit more. If your cup is always running dry, remem-ber to let others give to you, and to honor them by accepting their gifts.

Your cup running dry might also be a symptom of being out of alignment, so make sure to dou-ble-check that what youre doing in each area of your life is making you happy.

***The preceding is excerpted from EASY BREEZY PROSPERITY: THE FIVE FOUNDATIONS FOR A

MORE JOYFUL, ABUNDANT LIFE by Emmanuel Dagher (Rodale/January 2016) and reprinted with

permission of the publisher.

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Emmanuel Dagher is a highly sought after Transformation Specialist, Holistic Health Prac-titioner, Inspirational Social Media Personali-ty and Speaker.Heis the author of the Amazon bestseller Easy Breezy Miracles. Considered by many a next -generation new thought leader, Emmanuel is a gifted humanitarian who is devot-ed to assisting people and the planet in positive transformation, in service to the well-being of humankind. To subscribe to his popular Energy Forecast and for more information please visit : www.emmanueldagher.com Twitter:@emmanueldagher FB: facebook.com/emmaneuldagher1

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A Call for Future-Fit Governance

Anna Borgeryd addressed this call of a Swedish working group, The StepWise Group, to governments and businesses across the world to take action to promote a positive systems change and work strate-gi cally towards sustainability. She pointed out that while climate change, toxicity, shrinking biodiversity,

poverty, degradation of food production capa city or corruption are all great challenges, the great-est challenge, the one that drives the rest, is igno-rance or inaction on the part of our political and industrial leaders regarding the mechanisms of de-struction of our ecological and social systems. They call upon leaders to adopt a systems perspective to help society become sustainable.

Stockholm 2016 02 03Sustainability is scientifically defined by robust op-erational principles. Scientific studies of planetary

boundaries show global systemic consequences of humanitys present, unsustainable behavior. We know that the economy currently powering our civilization comes with yet-to-be-paid-for external

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costs, some of which are unthinkable: We are fast approaching biophysical tipping points and risk ir-reversibly pushing the world into a state danger-ously unfavorable to civilization and all higher life-forms.

The historic COP 21 Paris Agreement shows that, although we still lack sufficient plans even for ur-gent climate actions, we now have widespread, at least partial, recognition of the need for profound change. This is an urgent call to move further and act faster to secure a sustainable future.

In order for agriculture, fisheries, transportation, housing, industry and other crucial sectors to work in the future, they all need to comply with the sus-tainability principles. We represent businesses currently working to realize this transition towards sustainability, and we know this to be true:

It is already profitable and in our self-interest to stepwise move our organizations towards full sustainability.

This is possible because we set our goals by using basic sustainability principles as the boundary conditions for what will work in the future, and then develop concrete actions to move strate-gically, taking steps at the right pace and in the right order, towards these goals.

But the transition is too slow. Many leaders in businesses and municipalities would like to in-crease the pace of change and are now asking for more proactive governance, including legis-lation and infrastructural investments.

The prevailing global economy is dominated by norms and practices that rapidly consume natural and social capital, funneling us glob-ally into a future where the indispensable bio-sphere capacities are shrinking, and social sta-bility is weakening. These mounting costs are made invisible by dangerously flawed, current economic accounting.

Individual organizations, regions and nations do not have to wait for global agreements in order to act on this call. Strategic sustainable development in line with the above offers us a competitive edge, while at the same time aid-ing society in the necessary global transition.

We call on business leaders and policymakers at all levels to engage with the StepWise method, and to adopt and implement sustainability strategies for future-fit governance.

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velopment (FSSD) that includes guidelines for achieving ecological and socialsustainability alongside improvedeconomic returns. It was

adopted by a unique and grow-ing group of corporate leaders and owners in Sweden who meet reg-

ularly to discuss the application of science for strategic sustainable

developmentto their respective or-ganizations. They cover topics like learning how to: deal with system boundaries, evaluate trade-offs,

estimate sustainable resource and market potential before investing in newtechnologies, managesupply chains and cooperate effectively

across sectors and disciplines. The group members seek to identify

technologies and creative innova-tions that contribute to sustainabil-

ity while also being economically viable for their companies.

Anna Borgeryd, Chairman Polarbrd; Kar-in Bodin, CEO Polarbrd; Anders Ehrling, CEO Braathens aviation; Martin Malmros, CEO Aura Light; Jenny Lindn Urnes, Chairman Lindn-gruppen; Erik Urnes, CEO Lindngruppen; Jo-han Castwall, CEO Ports of Stockholm; Jonas Kleberg, Chairman Soya Group; Torkel Elgh, CEO Wallenius Water.


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It is however ultimately encouraging, be-cause, it tells the story of people who have bravely told the truth and found the way to maintain their humanity in the face of evil and serve the greater good. The trau-ma bond in the title refers to that quirk in the human psyche whereby victims of tor-ture or brutality may identify with those who hold power over them and then go on to vent their pain through aggression toward others.

The chapter that gives the book its name is about Norman Finkelstein, the son of two Holocaust sur-vivors, who wrote his PhD thesis on exposing the untruths in a book written to morally justify the ex-pulsion of the Palestinians from their villages during the establishment of the state of Israel. Later pub-lished as a book, Finkelsteins work earned him the enmity of the Israel lobby and indirectly resulted in

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How Finkelstein Broke the Trauma Bond

and Beat the Holocaust by Lawrence Swaim

TThis book is difficult to read, detailing as it does some of the most horrific episodes of brutality and evil in the wars and armed conflicts of recent history.


his being blacklisted from academia despite being recognized as a gifted researcher and teacher.

There is a chapter about Eric Lomax, whose sto-ry about ultimately forgiving his Japanese tortur-er was made into a movie with Colin Firth called The Railway Man. Another chapter talks about the work of Gerry Adams and his brave decision to seek a political solution to the Irish troubles that had cost so many lives over 30 years.

Iris Chang was a Chinese American whose grand-parents and parents were present in Nangking during the Japanese invasion and exceptional-ly brutal treatment and massacre of its citizens. Known as the Rape of Nanking, the history of these events had been suppressed, presumably due to the US desire to foster good relations with Japan and avoid embarrassing revelations. While the oth-er stories in the book were about freeing oneself from the effects of the trauma, in this case Iris was working on behalf of an entire community to give voice to a story that had been silenced because of political pressures. Iris was driven to write several highly regarded books on the subject, at consider-able cost to her delicate mental state, and inter-viewing survivors of the massacre for her last one may have contributed to her suicide.

Another particularly moving chapter for me was the story of Noam Chayut, an Israeli author and former soldier who was moved to become one of

the founders Breaking the Silence www.break-ingthesilence.org.il an organization of Israeli sol-diers dedicated to talking about their experiences serving in the occupied territories, and exposing to the Israeli public the reality of everyday life for the Palestinians who live there.

What ties these and all the other chapters together is the authors thesis that two things are necessary to break the trauma bond and successfully com-bat systemic evil: one is to acknowledge the truth about a situation and speak of it to others, and the other is to take some kind of positive action for the greater good. This brings to mind the quotation from Edmund Burke, The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Throughout the book are examples of how even good men may be drawn into complicity with ter-rible acts. When brutality becomes commonplace and winning at any cost is the only criterion of right action, the moral compass loses direction. There are far too many resonances with present day events, and one can only hope that Swaims call is more that of a rooster at dawn than a canary in the coal mine.

How Finkelstein Broke the Trauma Bond and Beat the Holocaust would have benefited from some drastic pruning and copy-editing. Its length is rather off-put-ting, which is a pity because it does provide valuable perspectives and sobering food for thought.


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Lawrence Swaim is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit estab-lished after 9/11 to oppose bias against religious minorities and Islamophobia, and to advocate religious liberty for all. He served for 25 years as a counselor dealing with emotional trauma, ad-

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dictions and chronic mental illness. He writes a regular column on religious liberty issues and has written three novels and a trilogy of books on ag-gression, trauma and systemic evil.



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The authors are two expatriate Egyptians, one a Christian and the other a Muslim, who bring a rich and authoritative perspective to the turbulent tides of Egyptian history, from the time of Isis to the bewildering rise of ISIS, putting it all in context. Looking at the cover and the tagline, I kept passing on it, thinking it was about the ico-nography of this ancient civilization. What I found was something far more riveting - a narrative of the tangled streams of politics and power, religion and cultural identity, national pride and humiliation, arrogance and corruption across the millennia.

Until recent times, Egyptians had lived in harmo-ny with the rhythms of the River Nile, whose an-nual flood resulted in fertile crops and engendered

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THE SOUL OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Restoring the Spiritual Engine of the World

by Robert Bauval and Ahmmed Osman

TThis fascinating book provides an overview of the history of Egypt across the last 7000 years, illuminating the dynamics of its shifting fortunes.


Maat, the spirit of balance with the natural world that was part of their cultural legacy. This balance was lost in the rush to modernize the country and enjoy the fruits of the consumer society. This led to rampant corruption; the population increased cat-astrophically, outstripping the ability of the land to support the people; and there were multiple waves of bloody uprisings. In the Arab Spring revolution of 2011, it seemed for a brief while that the Egyp-tian soul was crying out for a return to Maat.

I suspect that very few of us have much knowledge of the early attempts of the prophet Mohammed to forge an alliance among the followers of the Abrahamic religions. Tribal allegiances quickly short-circuited these ecumenical attempts, and left a bloody legacy of Shia and Sunni enmity in the power struggle that followed the Prophets death. The book also provides a context for understand-ing the wounds in the Arab psyche inflicted by the West that eventually led to the rise of the Muslim brotherhood and the more extreme and bloody ex-pressions of fundamentalism.

A substantial burden of blame can be laid at the feet of Western imperialists, who carved up the Middle East without regard for tribal identity, and whose greed to control the riches the East was only matched by their condescension and arrogance. Puppet rulers kept in power by foreign forces were happy to drain their countrys resources and take out massive loans to support pet projects and the lavish lifestyle enjoyed by the few elite at the expense of an increasingly desperate populace. When the people rose in protest, the British bru-tally restored order and essentially occupied the country for over 60 years. It is easy to see the paral-lels across the world through modern times where appetites for power and corporate greed seem to know no limits, and cynically feed corruption in the name of progress.

The authors explain the culture shock experienced by conservative members of a society rooted in pa-triarchy and the seclusion of women when they see the permissive culture of the West. This was the re-

action of Hassan al-Banna, and it inspired him to found the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that set the template for Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Edmund Burke observed that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. Bauval and Osman have provided a fine overview of the histo-ry of the country that in many ways is the cultural leader of the Arab world, and the historical record of Egypt has much to teach us about what is going on today across the region. I believe it is incumbent upon us as citizens of the world to at least have some inkling of the complexities of the issues we are dealing with, when we try to wrap our minds around the whys of terrorism. Trying to impose our will through carpet bombing and bullying tactics will only clamp the lid down on a boiling pot that is bound to explode. If we learn anything from this book, we must see that these cultures have a his-tory thousands of years older than ours, and they want to be treated with respect. We must listen to the pain of their souls and work together to redis-cover the spirit of Maat.


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A substantial burden of blame can be laid at the feet of Western imperialists, who carved up the Middle East without regard for tribal identity, and whose greed to control the riches the East was only matched by their condescension and arrogance.


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MOVIES ANDTHE POWER OF CHOICE

By Brent Marchant

Some possibilities may be more likely than others (the quality that distin-guishes those options as probabili-ties), but the full range is always open to us. And, whether we look at this notion from the scientific viewpoint of quantum physics or the meta-physical perspective of conscious creation/law of attraction concepts, the principle is essentially the same in both cases. The determining factor that governs which option we ultimately pursue, how-ever, rests with something else entirely our pow-er of choice.

At any given moment in time, we can proceed in myriad directions as we move into the future.


As conscious beings imbued with free will, we in-nately possess the ability to select which probabil-ities we experience. This power to choose our desti-ny is a birthright, one of the qualities that make us intrinsically human. Its a precious gift to be cher-ished, used judiciously and never taken for granted. Whats more, its always available to us, whether or not we opt to exercise it, a circumstance that effec-tively renders expressions like I had no choice in the matter to the trash heap of flimsy excuses.

In a conscious creation/law of attraction context, choice is most crucial when it comes to the beliefs we embrace, for they provide the juice that make the process work. And the beliefs we choose are fueled to a great degree by the intent backing them. Intent helps frame and/or nuance the beliefs we employ in the manifestation process, giving them the color and character that shape the forms of the outcomes that eventually spring forth from them.

Considering the power associated with our beliefs and intents, its important that we make use of it carefully. In light of that, its something about which we could likely benefit from some inspiration. And, as in so many other ways, this is where the exam-ples set in film can prove so incredibly valuable.

Since choice permeates every decision we make with regard to our beliefs, its a common theme in

a variety of movie genres and narratives. One of the most fundamental choice-related questions we face is what to do when assessing multiple op-tions, a conundrum posed to a fiercely independent young woman in Far From the Madding Crowd (2015). When the wealthy mistress of a 19th Cen-tury English estate (Carey Mulligan) must address the advances of a trio of would-be suitors (Michael Sheen, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge), she finds her power of choice to be a valuable ally in making a decision, as well as in balancing her de-sires for independence and companionship.

Using the power of choice to deliberately ex-ercise our independence also comes in handy when pressed by others to conform. This theme is revealed in several films, such as the quirky do-mestic comedy, Housekeeping (1987). When a free-spirited woman full of wanderlust (Christine Lahti) is asked to settle down and care for her two orphaned nieces (Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill) in a small Northwestern town in the 1950s, the temp-tation to eschew expectations and live her own life proves quite strong. But, given her obligations, what is she to do? Under these circumstances, choice just might prove to be her saving grace.

This theme pops up again in the sci-fi thriller, THX 1138 (1971). Director George Lucass debut fea-

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ture follows the adventures of a nonconformist (Robert Duvall) who quietly rebels against the be-havioral dictates of a sterile future society in which people are treated more like cogs in a machine than as human beings. Under conditions like this, choosing to be different comes at a high price, but, considering the alternative, such resolve could be essential to preserving ones sanity as well as ones very existence.

The degree to which we deliberately make our choices can have a direct and tremendous impact on how successful we are in realizing our goals. Sometimes this benefits from choosing to do some research, employing a variety of beliefs to try out various probabilities to see which one fits best, either in our life overall or some particular area of it. Such is the case in Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) in which a London psychiatrist (Simon Pegg) who believes hes ill-equipped to help others feel joy sets off on a globe-trotting ad-venture to find its source. What he discovers may prove to help him as much as it does any of his pa-tients.

In stark contrast to such deliberation there are those who blindly engage in behavior they know to be wrong but do it anyway for reasons that elude them, a conundrum that naturally prompts the question, what beliefs drive them? Its an issue skillfully raised in Experimenter (2015), a fact-based, offbeat comedy-drama profiling the studies of Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sars-gaard), who conducted a series of controversial experiments to learn why people would acquiesce in inflicting pain on others just because they were told to do so. The results, to say the least, are quite fascinating, not to mention rather telling about our belief patterns and the choices we make.

Holding fast to our power of choice may be what it takes for us to survive under appalling circum-stances, even if those choices are difficult and rep-rehensible in themselves, a notion probed in the gripping drama, Sophies Choice (1982). When a Polish concentration camp survivor (Meryl Streep) must confront her past and the choices she made to stay alive, she comes face to face with her choices and their consequences, both for better and worse, in helping her see her way through an unspeakable

ordeal. Choice, it seems, can be an ally even when we might be tempted to think otherwise.

Difficult choices also surface in the action-ad-venture thriller, The Dark Knight Rises (2012). When Gotham Citys Caped Crusader, Batman, and his alter-ego, philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Chris-tian Bale), must make some hard choices about the future of their beloved metropolis, they must look to their beliefs to decide whats right to save their community, as well as their own souls. With high-stakes consequences at risk, they had better choose carefully.

The consequences of our choices provide a recur-ring theme in a number of films, including such of-ferings as the dark Martin Scorsese comedy After Hours (1985), in which a bored New York office worker (Griffin Dunne) seeking a little excitement in his life gets a valuable lesson in be careful what you wish for; the raucously funny road trip com-edy Thelma & Louise (1991), in which a pair of girlfriends (Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis) become unwittingly embroiled in a multistate crime spree as a result of the choices they make; the bittersweet

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romantic comedy Le Week-End (2013) in which a long-time married couple (Jim Broadbent, Lind-say Duncan) return to the site of their honeymoon in Paris to reassess the choices theyve made and those they want to make for the future; and the in-ventive one-man drama Locke (2013) in which a philandering contractor (Tom Hardy) sincere-ly seeks to make restitution for the missteps hes made in a heartfelt act of personal redemption.

Of course, as noted earlier, understanding the in-tent behind our choices is just as crucial to assess-ing why our reality unfolds as it does. For instance, when we clearly see the intent behind our choices but willingly look the other way, we may set our-selves up for serious consequences, as seen in the gripping Roman Polanski thriller, The Ghost (2010). When a ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) is hired to tweak the political memoir of a retired British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) knowing that this type of work is not his specialty (but that he takes on anyway because it carries the promise of a big payday for a months work), he suddenly finds himself swept up in a web of intrigue that he never saw coming and from which he may have unimaginable difficulty extricating himself.

Similarly, attempting to unduly finesse our intents into agenda-satisfying solutions frequently leads to ill-considered choices, as is apparent in the made-for-cable movie, Game Change (2012). This docudrama chronicles the 2008 presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ed Harris) and his selection of Gov. Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) as his running mate, a decision driven by intents oth-er than finding the most qualified candidate. As the story plays out, viewers come to see how far off-base our results can be when we try to game our beliefs; this practice

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