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Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these "unproductive" members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.
The President made light of these concerns. He said:
"Let me just be specific about some things that I've been hearing lately that we just need to dispose of here. The rumor that's been circulating a lot lately is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for death panels that will basically pull the plug on grandma because we've decided that we don't, it's too expensive to let her live anymore....It turns out that I guess this arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allowed Medicare to reimburse people for consultations about end-of-life care, setting up living wills, the availability of hospice, etc. So the intention of the members of Congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they're ready on their own terms. It wasn't forcing anybody to do anything." [1]
The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled "Advance Care Planning Consultation." [2] With all due respect, it's misleading for the President to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.
Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for senior citizens on Medicare every five years, and more often "if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual ... or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility... or a hospice program." [3] During those consultations, practitioners must explain "the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice," and the government benefits available to pay for such services. [4]
Now put this in context. These consultations are authorized whenever a Medicare recipient's health changes significantly or when they enter a nursing home, and they are part of a bill whose stated purpose is "to reduce the growth in health care spending." [5] Is it any wonder that senior citizens might view such consultations as attempts to convince them to help reduce health care costs by accepting minimal end-of-life care? As Charles Lane notes in the Washington Post, Section 1233 "addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting proximity to fiscal ones.... If it's all about alleviating suffering, emotional or physical, what's it doing in a measure to "bend the curve" on health-care costs?" [6]
As Lane also points out:
Though not mandatory, as some on the right have claimed, the consultations envisioned in Section 1233 aren't quite "purely voluntary," as Rep. Sander M. Levin (D-Mich.) asserts. To me, "purely voluntary" means "not unless the patient requests one." Section 1233, however, lets doctors initiate the chat and gives them an incentive -- money -- to do so. Indeed, that's an incentive to insist.
Patients may refuse without penalty, but many will bow to white-coated authority. Once they're in the meeting, the bill does permit "formulation" of a plug-pulling order right then and there. So when Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) denies that Section 1233 would "place senior citizens in situations where they feel pressured to sign end-of-life directives that they would not otherwise sign," I don't think he's being realistic. [7]
Even columnist Eugene Robinson, a self-described "true believer" who "will almost certainly support" "whatever reform package finally emerges", agrees that "If the government says it has to control health-care costs and then offers to pay doctors to give advice about hospice care, citizens are not delusional to conclude that the goal is to reduce end-of-life spending." [8]
So are these usually friendly pundits wrong? Is this all just a "rumor" to be "disposed of", as President Obama says? Not according to Democratic New York State Senator Ruben Diaz, Chairman of the New York State Senate Aging Committee, who writes:
Section 1233 of House Resolution 3200 puts our senior citizens on a slippery slope and may diminish respect for the inherent dignity of each of their lives.... It is egregious to consider that any senior citizen ... should be placed in a situation where he or she would feel pressured to save the government money by dying a little sooner than he or she otherwise would, be required to be counseled about the supposed benefits of killing oneself, or be encouraged to sign any end of life directives that they would not otherwise sign. [9]
Of course, it's not just this one provision that presents a problem. My original comments concerned statements made by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor to President Obama and the brother of the President's chief of staff. Dr. Emanuel has written that some medical services should not be guaranteed to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens....An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia." [10] Dr. Emanuel has also advocated basing medical decisions on a system which "produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated." [11]
President Obama can try to gloss over the effects of government authorized end-of-life consultations, but the views of one of his top health care advisors are clear enough. It's all just more evidence that the Democratic legislative proposals will lead to health care rationing, and more evidence that the top-down plans of government bureaucrats will never result in real health care reform.
Steve Maloney adds this, "It's important to understand the reasons why the death panels will become a reality: the liberals (mostly Democrats) have wildly overpromised seniors. Predictions of the "underfunded" liabilities are up around $50 trillion (and more). These are promises to older Americans, mainly Baby Boomers, that the government has no way of keeping. Many Baby Boomers and those youinger know this is the case, but they somehow can't believe it. To meet the liabilities the feds would have to double taxes ON ALL TAYPAYERS. Confiscating the income of people making $250,000 a year WOULD NOT DO IT. These aren't "my opinons"; they're the view of every actuary that has studied the situation. We are talking economic collapse, folks. The "cuts" Obama and other leftists talk about in Medicare are meat-axe cuts. In short, they are what Gov. Palin called them: refusals to pay for medical services. Doctors are just like us: if they don't get paid for their labors, they eventually refuse to do the work. Translation: patients won't get care. A "private" market will spring up -- even a black market for health care. You'll be paying a pretty price for health care that won't be available . . . unless you pay extra money out of your pocket. That isn't change we "can believe in." Its change we don't even want to imagine.
It's all basic economics. If, for some reason (terrible hurricane? War?) there was no way to get gasoline to your area, that doesn't mean there wouldn't be gasoline available. It might cost $10 a gallon -- or $20 a gallon. Suppliers, looking at hefty profits, would get gasoline to your region by hook or by crook. That would produce shortages in the regions where gas was selling at, say, $3 a region. Good news for them: gas is cheap. Bad news? There isn't any gas.
The analogue to health care? If you're willing to pay $300 extra for a simple office visit, hey, you'll have many doctors willing to take your money. Problem? The people who can't afford to pay extra will find it takes a six-month wait to see the doctor. If you're having chest pains, well, just suck it up.
What I'm describing is the situation for many Canadians. If they need breast surgey immediately, they can get it -- by going to the U.S. and paying out of their own pockets. I get criticized by Obamabots for saying these things; however, they take place in all nations at all times. Michael Jackson wanted a private doctor who would bend the rules for him. The cost to Michael was between $150,000 and $300,000 per month. The old saying that "everything is available at a certain price" is true.
The "public option" will drive private insurers out of the market. The reason is that a subsidized public option will cost "consumers" less than an unsubsidized private option. Yes, there will be "competition" as Obama claims, but it will be unfair competition because government subsidies will make it that way. If you throw enough wrenches in the gears, eventually the gears -- the private plans -- stop working.
At that point, we have exactly what Obama and the leftists want; a government-run, single payer system.
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For years, two of the most popular New Year's resolutions have been to begin a fitness program, and spend more time in nature. Now, for the second year in a row, you can combine both by participating in First Day Hikes at a Texas State Park near you on Jan. 1.
The second-annual First Day Hikes program is part of a national umbrella coordination by the National Association of State Parks Directors (NASPD) to encourage a new tradition at the beginning of each year to get people outdoors, and promote the numerous physical and emotional benefits of hiking.
During the inaugural year of First Day Hikes at the start of 2012, more than 1,100 people showed up at 47 state parks across Texas. For 2013—which is just a few weeks away—more hikes and locations are scheduled, and they range from short, leisurely walks, to birding hikes, to nature tours along the Gulf Coast, to challenging treks in mountainous terrain.
"In addition to drawing new users to parks on January First, we hope to see return visitors from last year as families start to embrace First Day Hikes as a beloved tradition from year to year," said Interpretive Services Assistant Director Karen Blizzard, the Texas coordinator for First Day Hikes.
Most all hikes will be guided by state park staff or expert volunteers and feature an interpretive message about native plants, animals or park history. The walks average one to two miles in length, but many also offer shorter or longer trek options as well.
Participants will want to make some modest advance preparations. Some hikes warrant call-ahead reservations, and in most instances, folks will want to wear sturdy shoes, and bring drinking water and a hiking stick. Park entrance fees apply in most places, and many parks are leading the First Day Hike at no extra cost.
Recent on-site visitor surveys in Texas parks revealed that hiking / trails were the most sought-after amenity by park visitors, and many Texas state parks have added newly built or recently improved hiking and biking trails in order to meet growing demand.
The concept of having an official "First Day Hike" in a park on New Year's Day originated more than 20 years ago at the Blue Hills Reservation, a state park in Milton, Massachusetts, with the intent to promote both wellness and year-round recreation at parks. Since then, other states have offered similar New Year's programs. It has, however, grown into a nationwide event today, with most state park systems participating.
For more information about First Day Hikes in Texas State Parks, visit the Web site at http://www.texasstateparks.org/firstdayhikes, which lists detailed hike locations, descriptions, and park contact information. For national participation in First Day Hikes, visit the NASPD Web site at http://www.americasstateparks.org.


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That's how I'm feeling right now.
My teenage son has come back to live with me. It seems that it wasn't working out at his father's place. Who could have seen that coming...? (It was written in the fucking stars)
Where I'm currently living, there is no room for him, so he has been boarding with a friend. I thank the universe that his friends mumma bear just got it, without me having to go into minuet detail. I didn't have to fill in all the blanks.
My time where I am living is coming to end. I've been searching and applying frantically for places, so I can make a home for Nathan and I. As yet - nothing. Oh the irony that I can write and connect on the internet, but are, for all means and purposes, essentially homeless as of Wednesday. That I have an iPad, a laptop, an iPhone, a car...yet no home.
I just stood in my kitchen, clutched my hair, and yelled at the ceiling, HOW THE FUCK DID I GET HERE?
Don't worry, I know the answer to that. What I'm still working out is how the fuck do I get out of 'here'?
I am funning on blind faith. Like I have never done before. I don't have the answers, or solutions. I usually do. It's a strange land to be in, where I don't know the lay of the land. Everything is unfamiliar, strange and uncertain. I just keep looking. For a house. For a job. And sending it out there to the universe, every single second, that it's all going to be ok.
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The diet and weight loss industry rakes in billions of dollars every year. With so many companies offering so many different plans or programs, how can you actually take positive steps to healthy weight loss and not waste time or money and get the results they want? The answer to that question is really quite easy, but before we answer it, let's talk about you. After all, there is a reason you are reading this article.
You need to see this article as a mirror. Sometimes when you look into the mirror, you don't like what you see, but you can't argue with what is there. Likewise, this article may present you with some very poignant questions that you make not like, but you should make every effort to answer. It will confront you with the truth, and the truth can sting a little bit. But make no mistake about it, it will help you to take positive steps to healthy weight loss. And, the most important thing is that you face the questions posed here, deal with them, and move forward more intelligently and with a renewed vigor. So, shall we begin?
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Think about all of the diets or weight loss programs you have tried. Now, think about how you felt after trying it and then deciding to move on. First, how did you feel when you initially decided to start the plan or program? Excited? Hopeful? And how did you feel after deciding to quit? Frustrated? Disappointed? Like a failure? I know there isn't an official quit date. Usually it is a gradual thing.
Maybe you are not a diet or weight loss plan or program jumper. Maybe you have one plan that you keep starting and stopping for whatever reason. The same questions apply. How do you feel when you start? How do you feel when you stop?
Think about why you switched programs or why you keep starting and stopping. Why, even with the best intentions in the world, do you ride the cycle of hope, frustration, and disappointment? These are legitimate questions that you really need to give some serious thought to if you have a genuine desire to lose weight and keep it off.
For most, somewhere in the answer to one of those questions is you basically wanted to lose your unwanted wait faster than you put it on. Probably considerably faster than you put it on. It took years to put on, but you want it off in days, weeks, or a few short months. So with that mentality, you jump from one weight loss plan, program, or idea to another trying to essentially find the magic bullet - the plan that will allow you to lose all of your excess weight fast with very little work or inconvenience. And, if you are a starter-stopper, this way of thinking also applies.
By the way, the word 'plan' is used very loosely, because chances are there probably was not a whole lot of planning in your last venture into weight loss. Don't feel bad. That approach is not very uncommon in the least. But like any undertaking, if you fail to plan, then you can pretty much plan on failing. So what is the answer to taking positive steps to healthy weight loss? Or, to put it another way, how can I plan to succeed and succeed with my plan?
That is a great question to ask. After all, they say that the first step to solving your problem is admitting that you have one. And by asking for a plan to succeed, essentially what you're saying is how do I stop failing at losing weight, get on the right track, and finally become successful.
Well, first, it is time to stop going down dead end streets. And let's identify the names of some of those streets. If you are looking for quick, fast, or easy street, you are definitely headed in the wrong direction. As a matter of fact, any company that is promoting quick, fast, and easy weight loss is doing exactly that with your money when you buy their product. The weight loss/diet industry is perfect for finding prey to make quick, fast, or easy profits. Instead, what you should be looking for is safe, healthy, efficient, effective, and long term.
Think about the last plan, program, or idea you used to lose weight. Was it safe? Was it healthy? Did it you give you the tips, tools, techniques, strategies, or knowledge to lose the amount of excess weight you wanted? Did it work like you wanted or expected it to? Were you able to lose the weight and keep it off? No one is checking so feel free to be honest with yourself. Chances are your last weight loss plan wasn't the right or best way to lose weight for you. It might have worked for others, but it wasn't the right one for you. That is why it didn't yield the results you were looking for.
If you are truly serious about losing weight, it is time to make a serious change. I know it may sound airy-fairy, but you are going to have to change your mindset - how you view weight loss. The bottom line is this. If you are not willing to change, how in the world can you expect change?
Would you consider yourself insane? A definition often given for insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Let that soak in for a minute, and think about it as it relates to your previous weight loss efforts.
Here is why you need to change. When it comes to doing anything, if you keep doing what you are doing, you are going to keep getting what you have always gotten. Understand, that can be a good thing, but in the context we are talking about here, it is not.
Alright, let's get down to the nitty gritty. The weight loss program that you are involved with should address you mentally as well as physically. For example, the most effective programs have components dealing with your mindset, your goals, your discipline and commitment, your exercise regimen, and your diet.
As a matter of fact, if you remember only one thing from this article, remember this simple but extremely powerful phrase and never ever forget it. "Change your thinking, change your life." You see, change mentally equals change physically. Literally everything you do begins with a thought about it, and when your mind is right, the body will follow. If you are ready to change your life and take positive steps to achieve healthy weight loss, then you need to follow these two steps:
1. Change your thinking. Effective immediately, you need to start seeing losing weight as a long-term, ongoing lifestyle change as opposed to a quick, short-term diet. If you start seeing it this way, you will never or rarely experience failure, disappointment, or frustration when it comes to weight loss. As a matter of fact, you need to get to the point where it is not even about losing weight (so you won't use that term anymore), but more about your lifestyle choices.
2. Plan effectively with realistic goals and expectations. Most people spend more time planning a week's vacation than they do about living a healthy life. You need to develop a plan that you are excited about and will help you lead a healthy lifestyle. Yes, it will involve changing what and how you eat and what your activity level will be. But what will kill your plan even before you start is that trying to make significant or massive change all at once before you are ready for it. Plan in gradual phases. Think about where you are and where you want to be in terms of your health then fill in the blanks of what it will take to get there.
This is not about losing 20 pounds in 20 days with very little exercise and still eating bad food or starving yourself. First of all, that is not very healthy, and it is totally unrealistic. Using the analogy of planning a cross country trip, you would think about all of the sights you wanted to see, how long you wanted to stay, when you needed to makes stops, and about how long it would take to reach your destination. You know that on your trip you can't travel 150 miles every hour. It is unrealistic and definitely not very safe. So you have to plan and set realistic goals with realistic expectations. Doing this would make for a more enjoyable and safer journey. Wouldn't you agree?
In conclusion, it is important to remember that Rome was not built in a day. In other words, its taken some time for you to put on those unwanted pounds, and it is going to take you some time to get them off. However, it is important to understand that it first starts with the fact that if you change your thinking, you can change your life. This means that it goes beyond losing some unwanted pounds. You must develop the proper mindset that you want to live healthy for the rest of your life.
Having an effective and realistic plan for yourself that you are excited about will keep you from being discouraged, frustrated, disappointed, feeling like a failure, or losing focus. The end result is a new, happier, healthier you!


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Complaints from doctors and patients used to be a regular part of life for Steve Slack. That's because the Director of IT for Barrow Neurological was saddled with slow T-1 lines. So when doctors accessed patient images and records from a centralized office it took a long time. On top of that, Slack was being pressured to implement a bandwidth-hungry electronic medical records (EMR) solution. He tested an appliance solution to boost his T-1's performance, but it was still too slow. He considered VPN solutions, but those utilized slow T-1 lines as well. He needed a solution that delivered blazing speed, while being easy to implement and manage.
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Underage students looking to get into bars could see legal action taken against them if they use fake identification, police say.
Each year, bouncers, bartenders and servers confiscate fake IDs from minors who try to get into bars. Though when most fakes are taken, not much legal action is taken by the police.
For the most part.
"If someone tries to get into a bar with a fake ID it falls within our disorderly conduct code," ELPD Lt. Steve Gonzalez said.
"If the individual stuck around and the officer takes some kind of enforcement, the ID will be confiscated and placed into evidence, as evidence in the potential criminal case that would be upcoming in court," Gonzalez said. "If the person left and the bar simply confiscated their ID, what they'll do is eventually they'll turn those IDs over to the police department."
Once the bar hands over the fakes to police, Gonzalez said ELPD mainly uses the IDs for training purposes.
According to Gonzalez, ELPD also has an officer who acts as a liaison to bars and restaurants across the city. Once a fake ID is taken and given to police, it's catalogued to distinguish trends among fakes over the years.
"So that officer will take those IDs and kind of catalogue them and track them: one so we can track them and see where these IDs are coming from," Gonzalez said. "What's the prevalent trend, is it a state of Maryland ID, state of Michigan ID, that type of stuff to see where most of the fake IDs are coming from. From year-to-year that seems to vary a little bit, which state is being used the most."
Michael Krueger, general manager at Crunchy's, said there are many ways to distinguish whether or not an ID is fake, but wished not to discuss the exact methods.
"We just kind of stay updated on all the out-of-state stuff and look for the differences in ... the newest ones," he said. "There's always new ones coming out for each state, and the fakes are getting better and better but they all have their little tells."
In order to stay on the same page for responsible liquor serving practices, bars from across the city team up with police and community officials to form the East Lansing Responsible Hospitality Council, or RHC.
Andrew Poole, MSU staff liaison for the RHC, said members of the RHC will be conducting a training with ELPD on techniques to catch fakes from entering bars and restaurants.
Poole thinks it's more important than ever to crack down on fakes because of the technology that's available to replicate actual IDs.
"It's getting more and more challenging because of the graphic design stuff that's available on the internet and the price you can pay on the internet to get something printed out, so they have to be on their toes with it," he said.
Kreuger, who's also on the executive committee on the RHC, said he prefers to not get the police involved, but has no problem doing so if the minor trying to get in is being rude to his staff.
"If the person is a real jerk about it, then I have the option to turn it in to East Lansing Police and they can follow up at a later time," Kreuger said. "We do that with out-of-state fake IDs, we do that with Michigan IDs, we do it with whatever. Ideally we don't want to turn it into the police, but as long as you're cool about it then we'll just cut it up and throw it away."
Per East Lansing ordinance, the only way a minor would find themselves in a bar would be through the lack of a better judgement from bouncers or through an attempted bribe.
Gonzalez said East Lansing Police has been involved in a sting operation where undercover officers will try to order alcohol with an underage ID. If they receive the booze, an officer will write a citation, where fines can be levied against the individual who gave the minor access to the booze, or to the establishment itself.
"If the individual employee that is checking IDs, or that's their primary responsibility to either let them in the bar or if it's a situation where they don't have someone at the door and there's a bartender that's responsible for checking IDs before they serve someone alcohol, both that individual can be cited for a liquor control violation," Gonzalez said.
"It's the chief's sole discretion as to whether or not that violation is sent into the Michigan Liquor Control Commission so they can issue a formal violation against the establishment."


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Here's the other quilt my paternal grandmother made. It isn't dated as the autograph one was, but I think it must have been pieced in the mid-to-late 1960's as the other one was. It was was quilted by my mother and sister Cathy. It measures 68 in X 83 in.
Here is a close up
And here
This one shows the damage done when I took it on a camping trip at the end of medical school. I was wrapped in it to get warm after floating down the Buffalo and caught a couple of sparks from the campfire. I regret the damage, but have good memories of the trip with DeWayne Nash, Ken Carpenter (deceased), Joe Cloud, and Gene Hardin (those guys were like brothers to me). Sure hope the ones who can will be at our 30th class reunion this weekend.
Here's a picture from the camping trip.


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Newcastle council has condemned behaviour at a luxury weekender, but a court has overturned a council refusal
A group of men and one barely-clad woman arrived at a luxury Hunter weekender not so long ago, but neighbours say they weren't there just for the ocean views.
There was partying on the back deck and in the spa until late that night. By the following day the woman was on the deck naked - apart from a sex toy strapped to her waist.
The Beach House at Merewether is billed as "the perfect holiday experience", where guests pay an average $1000 for a night, or an advertised $9135 in 2018 for the Supercars package.
But neighbours of the John Parade property, including a number of prominent Novocastrians, and others in a nearby street have told different stories to Newcastle council that were later raised in court.
There was the wedding party that returned to The Beach House after 2am and partied on. There was a fight that night that left neighbours picking up discarded bottles thrown into their yards, and smashed glass in the street.
There was the incident described as "blow job night" in a complaint letter to The Beach House's owners in 2017, where a group of women sitting in the spa regaled each other with stories about their sexual prowess - every word clearly heard in the bedrooms of two girls, aged 9 and 14.
Or a notorious weekend that led to Newcastle council compliance action in 2017, where guests partied and engaged in extremely loud "sexual activity" on the back deck until 3am before retiring, only to resume festivities three hours later.
"We ensured the children could not see what was occurring, but there was no way we could prevent them hearing it," said a neighbour's complaint letter to The Beach House owners Adam Sherman and Amanda Rose.
"We regularly witness binge drinking and group sex on the back deck of your holiday rental (which) is typically accompanied by loud voices and foul language."
But despite complaints from residents; despite a history that includes opening its doors to guests in December 2016 without the appropriate consent, and despite the council's strong objections, The Beach House has won an appeal to continue operating, with tighter restrictions.
But Land and Environment Court Commissioner Danielle Dickson acknowledged new conditions might not protect neighbours from incidents in future.
There is "no certainty that adverse impacts will not occur to the residential amenity of the surrounding residents", she said after overturning a council refusal and approving The Beach House as tourist and visitor accommodation in a decision last week.
But the risk of more noisy sex on the deck at 3am, more fights, more cars parked across the footpath, more swearing, excessive drinking and anything covered by the phrase "antisocial behaviour", needed to be balanced against the fact the use is permissible, neighbours were told.
And a search of "getaway" property websites showed another 21 properties listed within two kilometres of The Beach House, Commissioner Dickson said.
We ensured the children could not see what was occurring, but there was no way we could prevent them hearing it.Neighbour complaining about "sexual activity" on the back deck at The Beach House.
Online advertising platforms such as Airbnb had made it "much easier for property owners to let their properties, whether their principal place of residence, an empty beach house or an investment property, for short term occupation", leading to a "rapid growth" in the tourist and visitor accommodation market across the state, she said.
But Newcastle council said the findings in The Beach House case gave significant weight to changes proposed by the NSW Government that would introduce a planning framework for the management of short-term rental accommodation.
"The proposed framework includes possible sanctions for hosts or guests who commit serious breaches of a code of conduct, with NSW Fair Trading playing a policing role," a council spokesperson said in a statement that condemned the "inappropriate behaviour" described to the court.
The council is considering an appeal.
Ms Rose and Mr Sherman said they bought the cottage next to their home as "the only traditional beach house remaining on John Parade".
"We had a vision to restore it to create a modern holiday accommodation while respecting the style and shape of the original cottage. We spent about the entire year in 2016 working onsite every day to bring our vision of the perfect holiday experience to life," they said.
But there were problems.
The Building Professionals Board investigated a professional conduct complaint after a private certifier issued a complying development certificate (CDC) for The Beach House renovation works, despite not having accurate detailed plans and documents for the proposed development.
The board admonished the certifier in March but took no further action. It advised him that a development certified without relevant information could mean "difficulties for the local council when seeking to enforce compliance and for future owners and neighbouring residents as to what has been approved".
Newcastle council initiated compliance action against The Beach House owners in September, 2017 after complaints about an incident involving extremely loud "sexual activity" on the back deck and spa area until 3am.
The council also required the owners to lodge a development application to operate as tourist and visitor accommodation, more than nine months after The Beach House was listed on Airbnb and had started taking paying customers.
In October, 2017 a consultant for Ms Rose and Mr Sherman acknowledged development consent was "necessary", but argued for approval because The Beach House "contributes to the economic and social success of Newcastle".
"By providing luxury accommodation in a prominent beachfront location along Bathers Way the site actively promotes Newcastle as a key tourism destination," the consultant said.
It said no extra parking was required, there would be "no parties or events", visitor numbers in the three-bedroom house would be capped at 10 and guests would be "reminded to keep noise to a minimum after 10pm and be respectful to neighbouring residents".
Newcastle council refused the proposal, saying it operated as a serviced apartment which is a use prohibited in the low density residential zone.
Ms Rose and Mr Sherman appealed to the Land and Environment Court. They argued The Beach House was not a serviced apartment, but despite not fitting neatly into any "tourist and visitor accommodation" categories, it was still a permissible use like a hotel, which is permitted in the zone.
Commissioner Dickson rejected the council's "serviced apartment" argument, in part because guests, and not The Beach House owners, are responsible for cleaning during their stay, whether for one night or several months.
"As the guests will be carrying out their own cleaning during their stay, I believe the proposed development does not comply with the definition of 'serviced apartment'," the commissioner found.
Newcastle council argued The Beach House generated excessive noise, potential and actual antisocial behaviour and parking problems. It has been rented for 377 nights since it was first listed, and three groups have been evicted for breaching house rules.
While the sharp rise in online short stay holiday letting in NSW has been a hit with consumers, it has also left a trail of unhappy neighbours and local councils struggling to regulate their use.
One Beach House neighbour said he was woken at 2am one weekend because more than 40 people were on the property, and the next morning "drunken tenants" swore at walkers on Bathers Way, and particularly women. A prominent John Parade resident said he had reported a number of incidents to police. Proposed measures to reduce negative impacts were "hopelessly inadequate".
A nearby unit block owners corporation wrote of problems with owners advertising units on Airbnb without the knowledge or consent of other owners. Even "carefully vetted" guests who appeared without notice were "indifferent to other residents", were "non-responsive and aggressive" if challenged, drank to excess and engaged in behaviour including, on one occasion, urinating as a group off a balcony, the owners corporation said.
Ms Rose told the court the screening process had "become more strict over time as we started asking more detailed questions about the purpose of the stay".
In a response to questions Mr Sherman said the court decision had been "a win for commonsense".
"We decided to take this case to the Land and Environment Court because we didn't believe we had done anything wrong, we knew that we were operating in a very ethical and responsible manner, and we wanted a neutral body to hear all facts of the case," he said.
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Callie Shell has photographed President Barack Obama, TIME's 2012 Person of the Year, countless times before. But for a POY feature shoot that is both grand and personal, Shell herself is humble. "I think people are sometimes surprised by how nervous photographers can get making images that can really show who the person is and what they are going through," she says.
Shell has covered Barack Obama since 2004, and her quiet but steady lens has documented his development as a politician, father, and president, as well as his first, and now second, Person of the Year honors. This collection offers an intimate look at the President on the cusp of his second term. Shell traveled with President Obama on POY assignment for TIME earlier this month. She met him at the White House on December 10 and flew with him on Air Force One to Michigan, where they visited Daimler Detroit Diesel, and back to Washington later in the week, where the President and First Lady attended a holiday party.
(See more: Barack Obama, 2012 Person of the Year )
Shell first met then-State-Senator Barack Obama in Chicago while she was covering Senator John Kerry's presidential run in 2004, and Obama introduced Kerry at a campaign event. "We got to hang out in the hallway, and I just got to watch him and realize how truly gracious and kind he was to everyone around him," she says, remembering how he connected with everyone who walked through the hall. Like Shell, Obama was also away from his young children and spouse. "Family is really important to him, family is really important to me," she says. "We both always told people that we married up."
Soon after that, she was reviewing photographs she had taken of Obama sitting on a chair. Shell, who was a White House photographer during Bill Clinton's presidency, observed many Clinton-level qualities in Obama, especially when it came to relating to people. That's when she first thought to herself, "He would run for president."
On the one hand, Shell has noticed ways Obama has changed over the years she has photographed him. The seriousness of the Oval Office has made its mark. But on the other hand, she sees that his core has not changed at all—he still tries to make those around him feel at ease. Last year, Shell was recovering from some health issues. "He called me to see how I was doing," she remembers. "I didn't do it consciously, but I stood up to talk to him. After all, he is the president."
Callie Shell is a South Carolina-based photographer who has covered Obama since 2004. See more of her work for TIME here.
Elizabeth Dias is a reporter in TIME's Washington bureau. Find her on Twitter @elizabethjdias.


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The Tree of Life
- Some Results of Initiation
- Dream Interpretation in Esoteric Work
- Love – Initiation – The Dark Night of the Soul
- Facebook and Life?
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- The Eightfold Path
- On Thinking
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- The Trap of Materialism
- The Logos Walks the Earth
- The Three Logoi in the Theosophical tradition
- The Three Logoi and the Mayan
- The Taoist Triad and the Three Logoi
- The Symbology and Meaning of AUM
- Sophia, Created in the Beginning
- The Manichean Stream, Freemasonry, Templars and the Third Logos
- The Logoi's Creating in the Physical world and the Fibonacci Sequence
- The Soul as Truth, Beauty and Love
- All Creation Happens Through the One Becoming Two…
- The Ichthus and the Infinity Symbol
- Serpents of the Kundalini Fire
- The key to Alchemy
- The Three Spiritual Principles of the Universe
- Elementals and Nature Religions
- Esoteric History of Man
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Serpents of the Kundalini Fire
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Buddhism, Esoterics, Indian esoteric, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism on September 29, 2008
To continue the tale of the serpents lets look at the Kundalini Fire from India. The Kundalini system looks like the Caduceus Staff with the two Serpents around the spine: The serpents has two different colors like the two outer pillars in the Kabbalah Tree of Life, and they have the same interpretations as the Feminine and Masculine energies. Seven Lotus Flowers or Chakras, which are spiritual organs, are placed on the spine.
Macrocosmic Man
Left side of Man is the masculine side and the right side is the feminine side, as we see the Tree of Life from the front, the macrocosmic man.
Chakras in the Tree of Life
! Face looking out of paper !
The correspondence between the Chakras (see later) and the Sephirots:
- Sahasrara or the Crown Chakra, corresponds to Keter
- Ajna, the Third Eye , or the Brow Chakra corresponds to Chokmah, and the back head chakra with Binah.
- Vishuddha or the Throat Chakra corresponds to Chesed and Ta Chui, The Neck Chakra, with Gevurah.
- Ahanhata or the Heart Chakra corresponds to Tiferet
- Manipura or the Navel Chakra, where Hod corresponds to the Liver and Netzach corresponds to the Stomach
- Svadhistana or the Sacral Chakra corresponds to Yesod
- Muladhara, the base of spine, the Root Chakra, corresponds to Malkhut
From the heart and up the feminine and masculine energies are nearly in Equilibrium with the heart near the center.
5. Chesed, 6. Gevurah, 7. Chokmah, 8. Binah, 9. Daat, 10. Kether
Microcosmic Man
Rudolf Steiner describes the two sides of man as being a kind of fight between Luciferic and Ahrimanic powers, where Lucifer is the masculine power (Yang) and Ahriman is the feminine power (Yin). Both described in the literature as Serpents or Dragons. Lucifer represents The Right Pillar, and Ahriman The Left Pillar. They are on Earth seen as Evil powers, but they are necessary factors in our development, as we both need the Feminine and Masculine influence, but we need to find the balance between them. From The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman:
The left part of you — your left man, as it were — is the fortification set up by Lucifer, and your right man is the fortification set up by Ahriman. And the whole art of life consists in finding the true balance between them.
See also an extended Collection of Steiner texts about Lucifer and Ahriman(pdf) . The energy flows from the left side to the right side, from the Luciferic or Masculine side to the Ahrimanic or Feminine side.
Microcosmic Man
Crossed arms or legs shortcuts the natural streams and should be avoided, except where specified in meditative practices.
From The Kingdom of God from www.adishakti.org/
"Now this Kundalini is the power which is placed in the sacrum bone, nowhere else… And imagine this bone is called sacrum; "sacrum" means "sacred. So they knew there was something in it… This is the primule, is the germinating power within us. Now this fact has been accepted for thousands of years in India and elsewhere. For in the Bible also … they talk of the Tree of Life. That is the same as this… So this is the thing that is being described in our ancient books, in all the scriptures, even in the Qur'an they are described as Ruh, R,U,H, Ruh. "Ruh" means the "cold breeze", the "cool breeze". The cool breeze of the Holy Ghost is described in the Bible also.
Japanese Mitsudomoe
The Mitsudomoe represents the trinity of the Shinto religion: Sky, Man, and Earth, which is the same as the three Pillars of Kabbalah: first, second and third, or Steiners Lucifer, Christ, and Ahriman, or the Hindi Rajas, Sattva, and Tamas.
Korean Sam-Taegeuk
In Sam-taegeuk we have the same three, with red as heaven, blue as Earth, the physical world, and yellow as man.
Korean Sam-Taegeuk
In relation to Kabbalah, blue is the left pillar, yellow the center pillar, and red is the right pillar.
Bön tradition of Tibet
Bön is the oldest spiritual tradition of Tibet, and they use the same symbol as the Korean Sam-Taegeuk.
The Three Gunas
In the Aurvedic tradition the three Gunas are the three principles of the world. The "trinity", Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, represent the gunas, or qualities of tamas, sattva and rajas. From Brahman, Atman, Karma and Gunas
They are sattva (goodness, virtue, essence), rajas (power, passion, activity) and tamas (dullness, inertia). All earthly events, like the laws of nature, are guided by one of the three gunas or a combination thereof. There should be a balance between them for harmonious workings of the world. Disequilibria will lead to chaos, war, suffering, corruption and destruction.
The three gunas dominate People by various degrees and a way to regulate these in the body and mind is through ayurvedic cooking:
Sattvic foods :
Are fresh, juicy, light, unctuous, nourishing, sweet and tasty.
Give the necessary energy to the body without taxing it.
The foundation of higher states of consciousness.
Examples : juicy fruits, fresh vegetables that are easily digestible, fresh milk and butter, whole soaked or also sprouted beans, grains and nuts, many herbs and spices in the right combinations with other foods,…
Rajasic foods :
Are bitter, sour, salty, pungent, hot and dry.
Increase the speed and excitement of the human organism.
The foundation of motion, activity and pain.
Examples : sattvic foods that have been fried in oil or cooked too much or eaten in excess, specific foods and spices that are strongly exciting, …
Tamasic Foods :
Are dry, old, decaying, distasteful and/or unpalatable.
Consume a large amount of energy while being digested.
The foundation of ignorance, doubt, pessimism, …
Examples : foods that have been strongly processed, canned or frozen and/or are old, stale or incompatible with each other – meat, fish, eggs and liquor are especially tamasic.
Saints and seers can survive easily on sattvic foods alone. Householders that live in the world and have to keep pace with its' changes also need rajasic energy. They ought to keep a balance between the sattvic and rajasic foods and try to avoid tamasic foods as much as possible.
Tamas is Yin or the left pillar of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, and Rajas is Yang or the right pillar, and Sattva is the equilibrium, Tao the imaginary line between Yin and Yang, the center pillar.
Hatha Yoga
The definition of Hatha Yoga, from Erin Goldman:
Yoga, as you may know, means union. Hatha is actually two words in one. Ha meaning sun and tha meaning moon. So one might say that Hatha Yoga is the union of opposites (of sun and moon). We all have "sun energy" within us. This is a masculine, active, fire energy. We also have within us "moon energy". This is a feminine, passive, cooling energy. The practice of Hatha Yoga joins together these two opposite energies, creating a balanced individual. The combination of the words Ha and Tha in sanskrit means forceful. Thus, the practice creates a more balanced and more powerful you.
And as Ha are the masculine Sun it relates to Rajas, Yang or Lucifer and Tha the feminine Moon relates to Tamas, Yin or Ahriman, and Hatha is the equilibrium and relates to Sattva, Tao, or Christ.
Yamas and Niyamas
In Hatha yoga there are a set of moral and ethic directives, Yamas and Niyamas, that work on the area of Ha and Tha:
The Yamas
Since Yama comes from the root word 'yam' 'to hold' or 'to rule', yama yoga represents the behaviours that 'control' certain negative tendencies (the 'animal/instinctive nature') that occur in all human beings. These are the five ideals of:
- Ahimsa (non-violence)
- Satya (truth)
- Asteya (non-stealing, or non-cheating)
- Brahmacharya (continence, involving self-restraint and moderation in all you do)
- Aparigraha (non-coveting, including no envy, jealousy or unhealthy competitiveness).
The Niyamas
The niyamas are the general actions that are necessary if we truly want to achieve a condition of health and deep balance within ourselves. The niyamas ask us to aim for:
- Purity (Sauca)
- Contentment (Santosha)
- Ardour (Ishawar-Pranidhana)
- Discipline (Tapas)
- And study of the Self (Svadhyaya)
Yamas is rules to discipline Tha or Yin where Niyamas are rules to discipline Ha or Yang.
Ketu and Rahu
Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 5.4.1-5.5.1:
"Clearly, that is itself, and that was just this, namely, the Satyam (the real or true) itself. 'Brahman is the real (Satyam)'– a man who knows this immense and first-born divine being in this manner conquers these worlds. 'Brahman is the real (Satyam)'– a man who knows this immense and first-born divine being in this manner, would he ever be conquered himself? For Brahman is simply Satyam (the real or true).
…..The gods venerated only Satyam (the real or true) , which is made up of three syllables — sa, ti, yam. Sa is one syllable, ti is another, yam is the third. The first and last syllables constitute the real, while the middle syllable is the unreal. So the unreal is trapped on both sides by the real and becomes completely united with the real. The unreal does not injure a man who knows this."
And a slightly different explanation given in Chandogya Upanishad 8.5.4:
"Now the name of Brahman is Satyam (Real or true). This word has three syllables: sa, ti, and yam. Of these, sat is the immortal, and ti is the mortal, while the syllable yam is what joins those two together. Because the two are joined together (yam) by it, it is called yam. Anyone who knows this goes to the heavenly world every single day."
The last can be shown in western esoteric tradition as:
Incan Tradition
In the Incan tradition they have yachay, munay, and llankey which is the same as the three Pillars of Kabbalah: right, center and left pillar, or Steiners Lucifer, Christ, and Ahriman, or the Hindi Rajas, Sattva, and Tamas:
In the Andes they recognize three ways of knowing, each associated with a different part of our physical body. I have found this distinction to be very useful in organizing my thoughts about what the Andean culture has to offer and how it differs from our own. One way of knowing is through the yachay, which is located in the head. The yachay is the center of the intellect. A second way of knowing is through the munay, which is located in the heart. The munay is the center of love. And a third way of knowing is through the llankay, which is located slightly below the navel. The llankay is the center of the physical body. The Andeans take the whole of who we are as a being and differentiate it into three aspects, sometimes, for they also differentiate it in other ways as well, into two aspects (the right side and left side of the body), or some other number, depending upon the context. […] Anyway, one class of distinctions the Andeans make in our existence is between the intellect (yachay), the heart (munay), and the ability to manipulate the physical world (the llankay), we can be differentiated in other ways as well. Kenosis.
The Pentagram and the Ether Streams
Steiner describes, in "From the Contents of Esoteric Classes", the pentagram with:
We're always surrounded by five ether streams in the world around us on earth. They're called earth, water, fire, air and thought ethers. These etheric streams are also active in man: earth either from the head to the right foot, from there water ether to the left hand, from there fire ether to the right hand, from there air ether to the left foot, and then thought ether back to the head. This is the occultist's sacred pentagram, the symbol of man. Its point is directed upwards, which indicates that the spirit streams to man from the heights. The pentagram is present in many flowers and other things in nature. The sign of black magic is a pentagram with one point at the bottom, through which magicians attract bad forces from the earth and send them out of the two top horns into the environment by means of their bad will in order to use soul and nature forces for their own egotistical, evil purposes.
The cross sections of the five etheric streams and their connections with color, taste, and body regions are as follows:
Prithivi Tattwa, earth ether, square with only the corners distinct, yellow, sweet, bones and muscles;
Apas Tattwa, water ether, crescent moon at fifth day, white, tart, digestion;
Teja/Agni Tattwa, fire ether, equilateral triangle, red, hot, blood;
Vaju Tattwa, air ether, circle, green, sour, nerves;
Akasha Tattwa, thought ether, two intersecting spirals — one is distinct, dark blue, bitter, lymph vessel system.
The five ether streams are called Tattwas.
And in "The Creative Cosmic Tone"
It is characteristic of it [the etheric body] that it is indeed, the architect, the creator of the physical body. Just as ice forms out of water, so does the physical body fashion itself out of the etheric body, which, like the ocean, is flooded through by many currents flowing in all directions. Among them are five main currents. When you stand with feet apart and arms outstretched, you can accurately follow the direction of these five currents. They form a pentagram. Everybody has these five currents hidden in him. The healthy etheric body appears so that these currents are, as it were, his bony framework. You must not suppose however, that everything pertaining to the etheric body is only within, because when a person moves, for instance, the currents actually go through the air. This pentagram is as mobile as a man's physical bony framework. Thus, when the occultist speaks of the pentagram as the figure of man, it is not a matter of something that has been thought out, but rather he is speaking of it as the anatomist does of the skeleton.
Yin and Yang Meridians
Here we see the meridians of the chinese acupunkture system, with Yin as right side and Yang as left side.
The Rosicrucian Cross
The Rosicrucian Cross is the symbol for the Spiritual Stream started by Christian Rosenkreuz known under the name Rosicrucianism. The Rosicrucian Cross combines the seven Red Roses, Lotus Flowers or Chakra's with the Cross we have seen in the Caduceus Staff or the Tree of Life of the Kabbalah. When the Roses Bloom on the cross the Chakra's has been opened. The twelve rays are the influence of the Zodiac as the roses symbolize the planets.
In this context, the roses are Yang and the cross Yin, but together they are life, Tao or in Hindi Rajas, Tamas and Sattva.
In Steiners terminology Lucifer, Ahriman and Christ:
He who tears the roses from the black cross and has nothing left but the black cross, would fall into the clutches of Ahriman. The black cross in itself represents life when it strives to embrace inanimate matter. Also, if one were to separate the cross from the roses, keeping only the latter, one would nor find the proper thing. For the roses, separate from the cross, tend to elevate us to a life of selfish striving toward the spiritual, but not to a life in which we reveal the spirit in a material world. Not the cross alone, not the roses alone, but the roses on the cross, the cross carrying the roses: That is our proper symbol. RS
From a meditation by Steiner:
Imagine you see before you a black cross. Let this black cross be for you a symbol for the baser elements that have been cast out of man's impulses and passions; and at the point where the beams of the cross meet, picture to yourself seven resplendent bright red roses arranged in a circle. Let these roses symbolize for you a blood that is the expression of passions and impulses that have undergone purification.
Kundalini Rising
There are three forces connected with the spine, also called Sushumna or Aaron's rod. These are Kundalini, the serpent-fire, Ida the female force, and Pingala the male force. The Moon moves in the Ida and the Sun in the Pingala. Ida is cooling. Pingala is heating. The two serpents, around the Spine, has two different colors like the two outer pillars in the Kabbalah Tree of Life, and they have the same interpretations as the Feminine and Masculine energies. They connect Earth with the spiritual world and the spiritual world with Earth. For these to flow the Lotus Flowers, or Chakras, has to be open or running. When European esoteric talk about Initiation eastern religions talk about Kundalini Rising. The development path is described in The Eightfold Path.
The Chakras is known all over the world and are the spiritual organs controlling our body. The Inkas in south America know five of them, and they match the Indian descriptions.
The five ñawi (eyes) are roughly equivalent to the chakras. Kulli ñawi corresponds to the third eye, Sonqo ñawi to the heart, kunka ñawi to the throat, cosco ñawi to the navel, and siki ñawi to the root chakra.
The Chinese know them and use them in their medicine. They are the base for Astrology, and most alternative medical schools. When we are born, our Astral organs contains a picture of our Karma, which through our youth are build into the Etheric organs, and the pictures are erased from the Astral body as they are imprinted in the Etheric body. Astrology tells about Karmas influence on you, through those Etheric organs. Through your life you build your new karma in your Astral body, constantly modeling the Astral organs. When the Kundalini fires, your Astral body's Chakras are imprinted into the Ether body, and you have now made your own Etheric organs, from the Karma you have build in this life, and is now free from the tyranny of your birth chart. The Chakras relation to our spiritual bodies are shown in a table in Dream Interpretation in Esoteric Work
Yetzer ha Tob and Yetzer ha Ra
From "An Introduction to the Study of the Kabalah" by William Wynn Westcott:
In another form of symbolism the Kabalist tells us a man has two companions, or guides; one on the right, Yetzer ha Tob, to good acts, he is from the higher Sephiroth; and one on the left, Yetzer ha Ra, encouraging the appetites and passions, temptations to evil, is an agent of Samael and of The Beast.
Man is in a very unfortunate position according to the Zohar 95 b, for it is there said that the Evil Angel joins him at birth, but the Good Angel only at the age of 13 years.
Merkabah, also spelled Merkava, is the divine light vehicle allegedly used by ascended masters to connect with and reach those in tune with the higher realms, symbolized with the Kabbalah. "Mer" means Light, "Ka" means Spirit, and "Ba" means Body. Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body with rotating fields of light, which transports energy in our spiritual bodies, our chakras are the seven lowest of these sephira.
The four Chayot angels, Man, Ox, Lion and Eagle, represent the basic archetypes that God used to create the current nature of the world, the lower 4 sephira. They also relate to the inner planets, Earth, Moon, Venus, and Mercury.
In Alchemy
In Synergetic Qabala the relation between the Gunas and Alchemical metals are described
Alchemy is not concerned exclusively with consciousness, but also seeks the subtle transformation of the body, so that the physical level is also brought into perfect equilibrium. Thus, the alchemical metals may be considered analogous to the chakras of the yogis. We can draw another parallel among the three major principles of alchemy and those of Yoga, which are known as the Gunas. Mercury……….Sattva Sulphur………Rajas Salt……….Tamas The quality of Mercury is vital and reflective; it equates with the spiritual principles of goodness and intelligence; Sattva guna is illuminative. The quality of Sulphur is fiery and passionate like the principles of Rajas, which incites desire, attachment and action. The quality of Salt is arrestive and binding, and reflects the gross inertia of matter, which is much like Tamas. These gunas and the three alchemical substances symbolize spirit, soul and body. Another "alchemical" way the gunas were applied concerns food: sattvic foods incline one toward meditation and the spiritual life (fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains); rajasic foods are stimulating (i.e. spicy food); tamasic food incites the baser instincts (animal flesh). The concept of four basic elements, harmonized in a fifth, is also common to both alchemy and yoga doctrines. The Indian elements are known as Tattvas. They are: Akasha (quintessence); Tejas or Agni (fire); Apas (water); Vayu (air); Prithivi (earth). Furthermore, the preparation for the practice of both alchemy and yoga requires a moral or ethical preparation. Both stress that evil tendencies should be overcome while positive virtues are developed. This includes both behavior and the purification of various body centers. The objective is not wealth, but health or wholeness. Alchemy also speaks of a "secret fire", which is often compared to a serpent or dragon. Here again, we find the correspondence to Kundalini, the serpent-power. Alchemy is performed by the aid of Mercury, the illuminative principle, and the powers of the sun and moon. Both alchemists and Tantrics practice with the essential aid, sometimes sexual, of a mystical sister, the alchemist's soror mystica or yogi's yogini, complement of King/Queen, Shiva-Shakti, God/Goddess joined together in the miracle marriage. The yogic system works in three channels in the subtle body. One equates with the sun, another with the moon. They are called ida and pingala. The third, or harmonizing channel, is known as sushumna, and is associated with illumination. The twin serpents twine together and open the third way, as shown in the Cadeusus.
Paracelsus in "The life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim…" by Franz Hartmann
The Bible tells us that Man is made out of nothing ; that is to say, his spirit, the real man, is from God, who is not a thing, but the eternal reality ; but he is made into three somethings or substances,' and these three constitute the whole of Man: they are himself, and he is they, and from them he receives all that is good or evil for him. Every state in which man can possibly enter is determined by number, measure, and weight.' The "Three Substances" are the three forms or modes of action in which the universal primordial Will is manifesting itself throughout Nature, for all things are a Trinity in a Unity. The " Salt" represents the principle of corporification, the astringent or contractive and solidifying quality, or, in other words, the body ; the 'Sulphur' represents the expansive power — the centrifugal force, in contradistinction to the centripetal motion of the first quality — it is that which "burns," i.e., the soul or light in all things ; and the "Mercury" is the Life, i.e. that principle or form of will which manifests itself as life, or consciousness and sensation. Each of these forms of will is an individual power ; nevertheless they are substantial, for "matter" and "force" are one, and originate from the same cause. The three substances, held together in harmonious proportions, constitute health; their disharmony constitutes disease, and their disruption death.
Steiner in Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
In olden times men did not use the abstract word think to express something that arose in the mind as a picture. When a real knower spoke about 'thinking' he spoke of the salt-process just described. Nor did he speak in an abstract way of the 'will' but of the astral forces laying hold of the airy element in man, of the sulphur-process from which the will is born. Willing was a process of concrete reality and it was said that the adjustment between the two — for they are opposite processes — was brought about by the mercury-process, by that which is fluid and yet has form, which swings to and fro from the etheric nature to the astral nature, from the fluidic to the aeriform.
Dambala and Aida Wedo – Tahiti
Body, Soul, and Spirit
In the western countries the church only work with Body and Soul, having done away with the spirit in 689. Steiner says :
Even the concept of the threefold nature of the human organism or the human being in its entirety has in a certain respect been abolished for occidental civilization by the eighth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople in the year 869. I have often mentioned this. The dogma was then established that the Christian does not have to believe in the threefold human being but only in a twofold human being.
The belief in body, soul and spirit was tabooed, and medieval theologians and philosophers who still knew a great deal about the true facts had a hard time to circumvent this truth, for the so-called trichotomy, the "membering" of the human being into body, soul, and spirit had been declared a heresy. They were compelled to teach the duality, namely, that man consists of body and soul, and not of body, soul and spirit.
and here:
Outside the circle of spiritual science, as you know, the total nature of man is thought of as consisting of but two parts, the bodily-physical and the psychic. In the realm of recognized science it is not customary nowadays to mention the spirit. Indeed, following certain premises, the result of reverting to the threefold organization of man (body, soul and spirit), as did the catholicizing Viennese philosopher, Günther, in the nineteenth century, raised scientific misgivings and also the blacklisting, in Rome, of Günther's interesting books. This was done because as early as 869, at the eighth Ecumenical Council at Constantinople, the Catholic Church, in contradiction to both the Old and the New Testaments, had abolished the spirit. It had guided the development of dogmatism in such a way that the organization of man was permitted to comprise body and soul only. Curiously enough, this catholic development has persisted into our present science. If we seek to ascertain from history why scientists admit only body and soul we find but one reason. In the course of time the spirit has been forgotten; the habits of thought prevalent in certain circles have lost the ability to accept the spirit along with the soul of man.
This has melted soul and spirit together to one unit giving the dualistic view with body and soul as opposites, placing the bad Ego in the body and the goodly in the soul, where the Ego should be in the equilibrium in the soul between the materialistic body and the goodly spirit, we should walk the golden middle-way between the physical and the spiritual..
I have used "The Kabbalistic Sefirot and the Chakras", and "The Chakras" by Kheper.net, and "Chakras" by Bellabenes Astralseiten (German), in preparation of this text. The Mans inner Cosmic System looks at the organs role in the body. Steiner says that the meaning of Mercury and Venus was changed in old times, so when Steiner connect Venus with the Kidneys and Mercury with the lungs, old traditions will typically do the opposite, as in Universal Healing TAO.
Notes on Lucifer & Ahriman, The spiritual Bodies and Initiation, and The Eightfold Path. A visually inspiring page on Chakras at Chrystal Links. In "Knowledge of the Higher Worlds And Its Attainment" Rudolf Steiner goes more in depth with the Lotus Flowers or Chakras. In "The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita" Steiner looks at Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas. Kundalini Shakta by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). In Alchemy: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur and Alchemy: The Evolution of the Mysteries by Rudolf Steiner.
Principles of Christian Dream Interpretation
This paper is quite interesting. The Jews and Christians has thousand of years experience with dream interpretation and they accepted the spiritual world as the source of the dreams which our psychoanalysts don't, and that limit their success in dream interpretation.
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Snapchat also attracted a high-profile board member: Sony Corp. of America Chief Executive Michael Lynton.
The cash will go to hiring more engineers and deploying more servers, Snapchat said on its blog.
The service, started in 2011 by Stanford University students, has proven popular with teenagers and twenty-somethings, many of whom use it to send saucy photos.
Users can set a time limit for how long the photo messages may be viewed, up to 10 seconds, before they disappear. The company has come under fire for design loopholes that allow the technology savvy to save or retrieve the photos.
Existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and SV Angel also participated in the round.
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By now you've probably heard the White House has rejected the strategic plans of the Big Three automakers. General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner was asked to resign at the request of President Barack Obama.
What you probably haven't heard is that Wagoner will be eligible to drive away with $20 million in retirement benefits from GM, the corporation that lost tens of billions of dollars under the ousted CEO's leadership, ABC News reports.
"Upon his departure, Wagoner becomes eligible for both a "Salaried Retirement Plan" and an "Executive Retirement Plan" with General Motors. The combined value of the plans at the end of last year was $20.2 million, according to the company's filings with the SEC, although compensation experts said his age—56—may make him ineligible for the entire amount.
"Most of that will be paid out as an annuity over five years, the remainder is a small lifetime annuity," GM spokeswoman Julie M. Gibson said in an email earlier today. But in a subsequent "clarification" email after this story published, Gibson said that the terms of Wagoner's final compensation were not yet hammered out. "Specifics on any compensation entitled to, or actually paid to Mr. Wagoner are still being reviewed," she wrote.
GM has received "billions in loans" from Treasury Department and has requested billions more. Under its agreement with Treasury, the world's once largest corporation cannot pay severance fees to senior executives. But that ban does not appear to apply to retirement benefits. This is your tax dollars at work.
In related news, the president says auto "unions and workers [have] already made painful concessions" and will have make "even more." Funny. Must have missed the Administration's speech on "painful concessions" from Wall Street and ousted auto executives.


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The 103rd Infantry continued its journey to France, leaving Bordon, England by train for Southampton, where the men crossed the English Channel and finally landed at Le Havre. They briefly billeted at Camp Hadsfield before continuing on to Neufchateau in the Vosges region of northeastern France. Following are notes from Sam's Pocket Diary:
"This company… Left Camp Bordon at 9.20 on Oct 20, arrived in Southampton at 1 pm same day… Left Southampton at 4.30 same day. PM marched in river until 4.15 pm Oct 21 and then got underway for France. Arrived at Havre France at 3 am Oct 22, disembarked at 3 pm and hiked to Camp Hudsfield…"