Progressive Radio Host Mitchell J. Rabin Mondays @ 6pm - Once Upon A Time....There was a Beautiful Planet

By Mitchell J. Rabin

Yes...there was a big, beautiful planet called Earth. And running all around her, as well as swimming inside her, were all types of interestingly shaped, sized and colored beings, each making their own unique sounds, hums and noises while moving about in their own unique ways. SSome walked, others crawled, some swam and yet others slithered. Despite the fact that some ate others for their sustenance, they all had a way of finding time to frolic, pro-create, rest, and those who were on land, bask in the warmth and rays of the sun. And in a strange, somewhat abstract way, all were somehow, more or less, co-existing on this beautiful, blue-green planet. 

At a certain point along the way of the multi-billion-year history of this marvel of an Earth, a green gem of the solar system, appeared a being known initially as Neanderthal, and who later, much later, came to be known as a chimpanzee, oh wait, excuse me, as homo sapiens. Yes, in one of his now considered ancient languages, this meant "rational, or wise man" with a brain volume of a minimum of 1,350 cubic centimeters. What we have learned from biology and history, it is apparently not size that most matters.

He was a playful if mischievous creature, and due to his larger brain than that of his neighbors in the animal kingdom, in different ways, began to lord over them. He lived in accordance with the beauty and abundance of this amazing and extraordinarily rich, beautiful planet during which period, he was considered, according to another of his ancient languages from the other side of the Earth, living in the Tao, that is, the flow of life. 

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Winslow Myers - Social Psychosis and Collective Sanity

Published on Thursday, November 10, 2011 by CommonDreams.org

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/10-8

by Winslow Myers

We know from the sad experience of Nazi Germany or Khmer Rouge Cambodia that it is possible for whole nations to become mentally ill, with horrendous consequences. At the time, however, the Nazis or the Khmers had no idea that they were deeply out of touch with the reality that all people are equally worthy of respect and care.

The population of the earth recently surpassed 7 billion. As we move further into the condition of global villagehood, it becomes more important than ever to assess our shared mental health. Collectively we can less and less afford the distortions that afflict the psyches of individual persons, such as denial, regression into infantile rage, fantasy ideation, or blind projection outward onto “enemies” of our unresolved inner tensions. Everyone is aware of the potential horror, for example, of a nuclear weapon falling into the hands of someone not in the clearest of minds.

The social psychosis of denial is one of the greatest of our temptations. As I write I’m sitting outdoors on my back porch in Boston. It is November 8. The “expected” temperature for an average day at this time of year might be around 40. Today it is 70. News stories in the last week have once again sounded the alarm of the amounts of CO2 going into the atmosphere being much greater than previously estimated. The displacement of millions of people by climate instability has the potential to be the primary cause of future conflict.

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Dalai Lama - 'Cultural genocide' is behind self-immolations in Tibet

by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 7, 2011

http://www.sinodaily.com/reports/Cultural_genocide_behind_self-immolations_Dalai_Lama_999.html

The Dalai Lama on Monday said Tibetans faced "cultural genocide" under hardline Chinese rule that he blamed for a recent wave of self-immolations in China's southwest.

"Chinese communist propaganda create a very rosy picture. But actually, including many Chinese from mainland China who visit Tibet, they all have the impression things are terrible," the Dalai Lama told journalists in Tokyo.

"Some kind of policy, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place," the 76-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader said, in comments that are likely to rile Beijing.

Eight Buddhist monks and two nuns have set themselves alight in ethnically Tibetan parts of Sichuan province since the self-immolation of a young monk in March at Kirti monastery sparked a government crackdown.

Activists say that at least five monks and two nuns have died and that Chinese police have at times responded by beating the burning protesters and their colleagues rather than providing assistance.

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Naomi Wolf - We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion

By Naomi Wolf, Al Jazeera English

Posted on November 1, 2011, Printed on November 2, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/152932/we_may_be_witnessing_the_first_large_global_conflict_where_people_are_aligned_by_consciousness_and_not_nation_state_or_religion

America's politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. Across the country, police, acting under orders from local officials, are breaking up protest encampments set up by supporters of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement - sometimes with shocking and utterly gratuitous violence.

In the worst incident so far, hundreds of police, dressed in riot gear, surrounded Occupy Oakland's encampment and fired rubber bullets (which can be fatal), flash grenades and tear-gas canisters - with some officers taking aim directly at demonstrators. The Occupy Oakland Twitter feed read like a report from Cairo's Tahrir Square: "they are surrounding us"; "hundreds and hundreds of police"; "there are armoured vehicles and Hummers". There were 170 arrests.

My own recent arrest, while obeying the terms of a permit and standing peacefully on a street in lower Manhattan, brought the reality of this crackdown close to home. America is waking up to what was built while it slept: Private companies have hired away its police (JPMorgan Chase gave $4.6m to the New York City Police Foundation); the federal Department of Homeland Security has given small municipal police forces military-grade weapons systems; citizens' rights to freedom of speech and assembly have been stealthily undermined by opaque permit requirements.

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Kamran Mofid - Global Crises are Spiritual: A Time for Awakening

Published on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 by Share The World's Resource (STWR)

http://www.stwr.org/economic-sharing-alternatives/global-crises-are-spiritual-a-time-for-awakening.html

In modern economic thinking, greed and selfishness are upheld as guiding the ‘invisible hand’ of the market and are therefore exempt from moral consideration. It is time for us to redefine our values and build a just economy for the common good

by Kamran Mofid

Many sages, philosophers and theologians throughout history have reminded us that there are two forces at work in society, the material and the spiritual. If either of these two is neglected or ignored they will appear to be at odds with one another: society will inevitably becomes fragmented, divisions and rifts will manifest themselves with increasing force and frequency

It is clear that this is exactly what has happened today. We have a situation of disequilibrium and disharmony. Only the reawakening of the human spirit will save us from our own worst extremes. Physical wealth must go hand in hand with spiritual, moral and ethical wealth.

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Progressive Radio Host Mitchell J. Rabin, Mondays @ 6pm(EDT) - We Meet at the Crossroads of History

I didn't hear him but I heard that Einstein said that "Time was Nature's way of keeping everything but happening at once..." That is time in its garb as linear, sequential. But there is another sense of time, several as I experience it. Another one is synchronistic, a fine term coined by Dr. Carl G. Jung, to describe a series of events occurring at pretty much one and the same time, or in fairly rapid succession, all of which seem inter-related and inter-connected in some ways that appear to defy probability or ordinary logic, as though everything in the Universe is mysteriously and finely connected in ways that ordinary consciousness cannot fathom on that very same level.

Then there is the idea of multi-dimensionality of time, that it exists with different sensibilities in different, respective dimensions, suggesting the notion of parallel universes. While we're making a God-awful mess of this one, there exists another one, at least a probable one, parallel to this one, into which we could likely hop if we could gather enough metaphysical momentum in one moment.

Of course there's geological time which, according to our subjective experience, seems very slow to us, and then, even if we compare the speed of time to five years ago, it seems now, lightening-quick. How do we account for these different rhythms, feelings and cycles of time? Some Hopi and traditional people live as they have for hundreds of thousands of years, even without running water in a faucet or electricity. Others live in an abstracted, techno-world where Earth is experienced mostly as the cement on a sidewalk.

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Science Daily - Yoga Eases Back Pain in Largest U.S. Yoga Study to Date

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024164708.htm ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2011) — Yoga classes were linked to better back-related function and diminished symptoms from chronic low back pain in the largest U.S. randomized controlled trial of yoga to date, published by the Archives of Internal Medicine as an "Online First" article on October 24. But so were intensive stretching classes.

"We found yoga classes more effective than a self-care book -- but no more effective than stretching classes," said study leader Karen J. Sherman, PhD, MPH, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute. Back-related function was better and symptoms were diminished with yoga at 12 weeks; and clinically important benefits, including less use of pain medications, lasted at least six months for both yoga and stretching, with thorough follow-up of more than nine in 10 participants.

In the trial, 228 adults in six cities in western Washington state were randomly assigned to 12 weekly 75-minute classes of either yoga or stretching exercises or a comprehensive self-care book called The Back Pain Helpbook. Nine in 10 of them were primary-care patients at Group Health Cooperative. Participants in the trial typically had moderate -- not severe -- back pain and relatively good mental health, and most had been at least somewhat active before the trial started.

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"Frank Schaeffer" - How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%

By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet

Posted on October 13, 2011, Printed on October 15, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/152724/how_christian_fundamentalism_helped_empower_the_top_1_to_exploit_the_99

As the Occupy Wall street movement spreads across the country and the world, we must bring attention to the enablers of the top 1 percent exploiting the 99. Fundamentalist religion made this exploitation possible. Evangelical fundamentalism helped empower the top 1 percent. Note I didn't say religion per se, but religious fundamentalism.

Why? Because without the fundamentalists and their "values" issues, many in the lower 99 percent could not have been convinced to vote against their (our) economic self-interest; in other words, vote for Republicans who only serve billionaires.

Wall Street is a great target for long-overdue protest, but so are the centers of religious power that are the gatekeepers of Republican Party "values" voters that make the continuing economic exploitation possible.

Fundamentalist religion -- evangelical and Roman Catholic alike -- has delegitimized the US government and thus undercut its ability to tax, spend and regulate.

The fundamentalists have replaced economic and political justice with a bogus (and hate-driven) "morality" litmus tests of spurious red herring "issues" from abortion to school prayer and gay rights. The result has been that the masses of lower middle-class and poor Americans who should be voting for Democrats and thus their own economic interests, have been persuaded to vote against their own class and self interest.

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"Tana Ganeva": 5 Signs That America Is Moving Away from Religion

In between bragging about the number of people they've killed and vilifying gay soldiers, the GOP presidential candidates have spent the primaries demonstrating how little they respect the separation of church and state. Michele Bachmann seems to think God is personally invested in her political career. Both she and Rick Perry have ties to Christian Dominionism, a theocratic philosophy that publicly calls for Christian takeover of America's political and civil institutions. (Even Ron Paul, glorified by civil libertarians for his only two good policy stances -- opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and drug prohibition -- sputtered about churches when asked during a debate where he'd send a gravely ill man without health insurance.) GOP pandering to the Religious Right is just one of those facts of American political life, like climate change denial and Creationism in schools, that leave secular Americans lamenting the decline of the country, and of reason and logic. Organized religion's grasp on the politics and culture of much of Europe has been waning for decades -- why can't we do that here? But there are signs that American attitudes are changing in ways that may tame religion's power over political life in the future.

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"Debbie A. Allsup" - Esoteric Acupuncture brings health and higher consciousness

http://www.naturalnews.com/033665_acupuncture_consciousness.html

Saturday, September 24, 2011 by: Debbie A. Allsup

(NaturalNews) According to Mikio Sankey, founder of Esoteric Acupuncture (EA), the guidance for how to do this special acupuncture was able to come to humanity at this time because we have reached a certain level of consciousness. EA addresses the physical body and the energy fields above it, which helps people's efforts to achieve higher consciousness and to maintain health.

Those seeking a treatment that offers more than merely sorting out a physical ailment will most likely notice more awareness of the third dimension as long as natural foods are being ingested in conjunction with the EA treatments. Chemicals and unnatural foods have an adverse effect on the light bodies access during EA, so eating organic, non-GMO, non-irradiated foods is essential for the overall treatment protocol. EA is perfect for clients who are seeking a drug-free health plan and approach to life.

Both traditional acupuncture and EA can balance a person's physical and etheric bodies, thus aiding with overall health. The etheric body houses the meridians and acupuncture points and can be felt after a physical counterpart, like an arm, has been removed. Traditional acupuncture is "left brain" due to the academic style in which it is taught and to the focus on diseased states. EA is "right brain" due to needle insertion style, to practitioner and client's simultaneous visualization, and to the practitioner's use of intuition in deciding on a treatment plan. Traditional acupuncture follows an exact definition for acupoint location, assuming each point is in the exact same spot on all people; whereas, EA takes into consideration that acupoints aren't necessarily in the same spot, even on the same person from day to day.

Amazing energy, what Sankey refers to as spin fields, occurs at the needle insertion sites due to the order of needle placement and practitioner intent. The arrangement of the needles creates particular geometric shapes to be superimposed on the energy field of the person. This pulls certain energies into the person, thus supporting a shift in his or her own awareness. Of course, a still mind is required for one to fully notice what has occurred, but a shift, no matter how small, once having occurred, will wait until it is one day noticed.

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