| By Drs. Phillip and Jane Mountrose Reiki is an amazing technique using universal life force energy for healing. It is holistic, because it brings balance and harmony to the body, mind, emotions and spirit. It's fun to do and includes easy-to-learn techniques which are energizing for both the giver and the receiver. The extraordinary energy of reiki opens the energy field and offers a deeper level of spiritual awakening for anyone who is attuned to it. It is a unique and powerful method which may be used alone or in combination with hypnotherapy, massage or other healing modalities. Reiki is a method of hands-on healing that connects us with the healing powers each of us has within ourselves. Hands-on healing is a natural part of the human experience. When a child is hurt, his mother puts her hand on the painful area make it better. When we injure ourselves, we instinctively use the energy in our hands to ease the pain. Tapping into the energy of reiki is a way to develop these natural abilities to help ourselves and others to heal.Reiki energy also contains a mysterious ability to connect us with ourselves at a deeper level where we can recognize the magnificent spirit within ourselves. At this monumental time in human history, when all of humanity is preparing to open to the spirit within and shift to a higher level of reality, reiki energy can provide a deep level of healing for all of humanity. The word Reiki is derived from two Japanese words:
HOW REIKI WORKSLife force energy flows into and through all of us and creates life. It "steps down" as it enters our fields and flows through the chakras to the body, nourishing all of the organs and cells. When the flow is disrupted or blocked, this diminishes the life force energy flowing into an area of the body. It can be shown that wherever there is disease, there is a corresponding blockage in the flow of energy. Reiki re-establishes the flow through these blocked areas, recharging them with life force energy. It opens up the energy flow through the blockages, which sets the healing process in motion. For a receptive person, a treatment with this energy feels like a glowing radiance and naturally creates an altered state of consciousness. Reiki is often performed on the chakras, but it may be applied to any area of the body. The universal life force energy that is used is limitless and is energizing for the therapist as well as for the client. A few key points about how this energy works:
This naturally results in adjustments, which may include detoxification or "clearing" symptoms, as the student’s energy field realigns to the new flows of energy. First Degree: Unlocks the ability to use Reiki for direct hands-on healing. This degree includes the use of one symbol and attunement by a person who has received the third degree attunement and training. It takes three or four weeks to adjust to the Reiki I attunement. Second Degree: This level provides tools for sending Reiki long distance and for the use of Reiki on the mental level. It includes the use of two additional symbols and attunement by a person who has received the third degree attunement and training. Third Degree, Reiki Master: This level further unlocks the power of Reiki. It also includes learning how to teach Reiki to others and providing attunements. It includes the use of one additional symbol and attunement by a person who has received the third degree attunement and training. THE REIKI ATTUNEMENT PROCESS The attunement is a sacred process of opening to the universal symbols of Reiki and allowing them to activate the natural ability to use the Reiki energy. The First Degree Reiki attunement may be seen as the "light switch" that turns on the ability to use the Reiki energy and opens the receiver to a new world. Once this switch has been turned on, it just becomes brighter and brighter with use of the energy. This attunement opens and activates the crown chakra to receive the universal life force energy; then the energy centers in the hands are opened to allow the energy to flow out through the hands; finally, the ability to use Reiki in this way is sealed into the energy field, making it available for the user’s entire life. A Reiki treatment should not be considered a substitute for professional medical care. The purpose is to open the flow of energy through the body, which stimulates healing. This makes it a wonderful complement to traditional medical practices, but the client should be told that it is not a substitute for proper medical treatment when a physical problem is involved. |
WHAT IS REIKI?
Ouija Boards? Bottom Line Is Protect Yoursel
by Cara Yowell
I was really surprised at the responses I received to my review on The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit.
Many people emailed me about their experiences with Ouija’s and how they thought they were dangerous. Everyone accept my friend Pent(of course) who shared with me some letters Crowley penned about the Ouija being an reliable tool for the Adept.
Many people emailed me about their experiences with Ouija’s and how they thought they were dangerous. Everyone accept my friend Pent(of course) who shared with me some letters Crowley penned about the Ouija being an reliable tool for the Adept.
Whatever you want to believe is your choice. I prefer not to mess with Ouija Boards.
It’s pretty cool little tool.
Because of the overwhelming bad attitude toward Ouija Boards(mine included), I decided to post the following informative article.
Simply saying the name ‘Ouija Board’ brings up a variety of mixed emotions in people. Many have had experiences with this talking board in their juvenile years, and many more refuse to even acknowledge the experiences that they had. In the metaphysical world, a world filled with future psychics and spirit mediums where does the Ouija Board stand?
The Ouija Board, as I have come to understand it is a tool much like any other. The Tarot Cards, Pendulum and Crystal Ball all have their purpose in the metaphysical world, so too does the Ouija Board. Before looking into the metaphysical of this fascinating board, we need to understand where it came from.
In the 1800’s the world saw a rise in the Metaphysical and Spiritual realm. People would gather for Séances and Table Tipping in order to once again contact those that had passed from this life. During the 19th century psychics and mediums alike began to invent different ways to communicate with the dead. Some of these were rather long and tedious like table tipping, while others bean to shape the instrument we know as the talking board. One of the first was an intricate pulley system that held a pendulum. The pendulum would hang over a paper with the letters of the alphabet on it and move in accordance to questions asked by the medium. The pendulum would then point to the letters and spell out its answer. Before long this instrument began to take further shape, and a moving planchette was created in order to hover over the letters of the board.
In the 1800’s the world saw a rise in the Metaphysical and Spiritual realm. People would gather for Séances and Table Tipping in order to once again contact those that had passed from this life. During the 19th century psychics and mediums alike began to invent different ways to communicate with the dead. Some of these were rather long and tedious like table tipping, while others bean to shape the instrument we know as the talking board. One of the first was an intricate pulley system that held a pendulum. The pendulum would hang over a paper with the letters of the alphabet on it and move in accordance to questions asked by the medium. The pendulum would then point to the letters and spell out its answer. Before long this instrument began to take further shape, and a moving planchette was created in order to hover over the letters of the board.
This form of communication with the dead was one of the clearest yet, and the form of the Ouija Board took shape. In 1892 a man named William Fuld took over a toy and novelty company. Seeing the popularity of the board the mediums were using he decided to create and patent it as a toy, a product that everyone could have access to. Fuld named it the Ouija Board and sold millions of the toys dominating the competition. After Fuld’s death in 1927 the family sold the patent to Parker Brothers, who still hold it and produce this talking board today.
From device to toy the Ouija Board has been around us for years. With its background and superstition it is no wonder why those in the metaphysical world feel strongly about it. The original purpose of the board was to communicate with the dead, and it seems that it has fulfilled its purpose of that even after being packaged as a novelty toy. In fact many people have their first psychic experiences linked to the use of the Ouija Board, though not all of them are pleasant. The metaphysical world sees this talking board as a gateway to communicate with the other side, just like any other tool or ability used within the psychic realm. As they say “With great power, comes great responsibility” and the Ouija Board is not left out of the equation.
One of the things that many psychics speak of when it comes to receiving future oriented information or communicating with the dead is the idea of psychic protections. So what is a psychic protection going to do for you and why is it needed to use the Ouija Board? Before we can understand the use of protections, we need to understand energy. Energy is around us all of the time and is neither positive nor negative. The actions that a person takes with the energy give it a positive or negative charge, forcing the energy to act in a specific way. That being said, it is important to understand that there are spirits that are both positive and negative. The idea of psychic protection is to create a sacred space. This space allows all energy and spirits that are positive to enter and pushes away the spirits and energy that are negative. From a spiritual standpoint this is one of the major faults of the Ouija Board. The board does not come with a protection to use; in fact it doesn’t even mention it. Without the psychic protection, the users are allowing any entity to communicate with them whether it is positive or negative.
If you talk to some of your friends and ask them if they have used a Ouija Board, most of them will tell you the strange and sometimes frightening experiences that they had. It is due to the fact that no protections are used that the negative energies are allowed in. These types of energies ‘feed’ on the emotion of fear and so cause fear in us in order to survive. On the spirit realm a medium or even a person using the Ouija Board look like a bright shining light. The positive spirits see this as a doorway to communicate and possibly re-connect with loved ones and pass along messages, the negative spirits see this as well. Any entity that is positive does not seek out to hurt, harm or scare anyone, they simply seek to communicate and pass along messages to their loved ones. However the problem arises when the negative entities get there first. When you use the Ouija Board, the planchette moves around and spells out the answers to your questions. Often times when a negative energy is attached it will start off by being kind, maybe even telling you the truth. Then it begins to scare you in order to gain energy from your fear based reactions. The psychic protection prevents this from happening, think of it like a bouncer at the door to a club, if your not on the guest list your not getting in…period!
These protections are done in many different ways, from white light to calling forth the Archangels every religion or spiritual path has a protective method with it. Some of the newer talking boards out there do come with a protection. The Psychic Circle for example is a board that in it’s instructions tell you to say a prayer of protection before playing. The metaphysical view on the Ouija Board and talking boards in general is a mixed one. Many feel that the board can be an important tool in connecting with the other side; however it should be done in a way that is spiritually safe for the players.
One of the things that many psychics speak of when it comes to receiving future oriented information or communicating with the dead is the idea of psychic protections. So what is a psychic protection going to do for you and why is it needed to use the Ouija Board? Before we can understand the use of protections, we need to understand energy. Energy is around us all of the time and is neither positive nor negative. The actions that a person takes with the energy give it a positive or negative charge, forcing the energy to act in a specific way. That being said, it is important to understand that there are spirits that are both positive and negative. The idea of psychic protection is to create a sacred space. This space allows all energy and spirits that are positive to enter and pushes away the spirits and energy that are negative. From a spiritual standpoint this is one of the major faults of the Ouija Board. The board does not come with a protection to use; in fact it doesn’t even mention it. Without the psychic protection, the users are allowing any entity to communicate with them whether it is positive or negative.
If you talk to some of your friends and ask them if they have used a Ouija Board, most of them will tell you the strange and sometimes frightening experiences that they had. It is due to the fact that no protections are used that the negative energies are allowed in. These types of energies ‘feed’ on the emotion of fear and so cause fear in us in order to survive. On the spirit realm a medium or even a person using the Ouija Board look like a bright shining light. The positive spirits see this as a doorway to communicate and possibly re-connect with loved ones and pass along messages, the negative spirits see this as well. Any entity that is positive does not seek out to hurt, harm or scare anyone, they simply seek to communicate and pass along messages to their loved ones. However the problem arises when the negative entities get there first. When you use the Ouija Board, the planchette moves around and spells out the answers to your questions. Often times when a negative energy is attached it will start off by being kind, maybe even telling you the truth. Then it begins to scare you in order to gain energy from your fear based reactions. The psychic protection prevents this from happening, think of it like a bouncer at the door to a club, if your not on the guest list your not getting in…period!
These protections are done in many different ways, from white light to calling forth the Archangels every religion or spiritual path has a protective method with it. Some of the newer talking boards out there do come with a protection. The Psychic Circle for example is a board that in it’s instructions tell you to say a prayer of protection before playing. The metaphysical view on the Ouija Board and talking boards in general is a mixed one. Many feel that the board can be an important tool in connecting with the other side; however it should be done in a way that is spiritually safe for the players.
Next time your at a party or a friends house and they want to play with the Ouija Board or talking board, remember to protect your area. Allow only positive spirits to enter and give their messages and you will surely have a good experience with this psychic tool.
H.P. Thomas Moore is High Priest of The Coven of L.I.G.H.T in South West Florida, as well as a professional Psychic. He teaches a variety of classes in the metaphysical field as well as Wicca and can be contacted through his site at http://inperfectloveinperfecttrust.webs.com
Article Source: NewAgeArticles.com
P.S. When it comes to playing with Ouijas, The Queen of Metaphysics says:
“Just say NO!”
Ouija Boards,Pendulums,Channeling and Feng Shui, Oh My!
My Experience with The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit
My Experience with The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit
I received a request to review The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit recently. My first reaction was,” not another channeler,no Oujia board-like stuff.”
Boy,do I stand corrected!
Boy,do I stand corrected!
Before I get into the great stuff about this little gem of a kit, let me first give you some background.
I hate Ouija boards and channeling. Yes, it’s true. I’m a natural medium and have chosen not to develop the talent for the time being. But if channeling floats your boat, that is your prerogative. It is just not my bag. And I’ve always had a thing about Oujia boards. Perhaps it was The Exorcist(thanks, Linda Blair) or the bad experience I had with one as a kid at Christmas(not to mention I begged for the thing).
Dunno, just don’t like them. My friend Pent plays with them all the time, but has recently had to do some banishings because of them. Hmmm?
So what the heck am I talking about? Okay, I received The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit via mail. Hoo-wee! My reaction again was “no way in hell.” Now it may appear that I am being harsh. You bet I am! This reaction was before I even bothered to open it from the Priority Mail box. I knew the kit contained a pendulum and a letter and number board.
And then I started thinking about Lynn Grabhorn of Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waitingfame. She got all whacked out using a pendulum. Lynn was specifically asking her “spinner”questions. You can read about this experience in her book,Dear God What’s Happening to Us. I mostly use the pendulum to change energy in the environment. No problems with proper use of the pendulum. Hey, I’ve trained with Raymond Grace on this, of course I know my stuff…or so I thought.
After I got over my initial negative response, which was based on preconceived notions and past negative experiences, I took a closer look at the kit.
To my surprise it was absolutely beautiful!
And as a bonus, it’s also a Feng Shui Kit with a compass.
How could that be? Channeling and Feng Shui?
Well, before I get into how it can be a Channeling and Feng Shui Kit at the same time, let me share with you my experience of Feng Shui.
The extent of my knowledge is the following:
1.Do not have a mirror in your bedroom.
2.Animals,plants,fountains,and crystals are good.
3. Keep the bathroom door and toilet seat shut.
4.Make sure the foot of your bed does not face the door.
2.Animals,plants,fountains,and crystals are good.
3. Keep the bathroom door and toilet seat shut.
4.Make sure the foot of your bed does not face the door.
Never been able to use a compass…they just don’t seem to work for me. Feng Shui and Palmistry…two modalities I haven’t been able to learn. Not any more! At least I can now learn Feng Shui.
The compass in the kit actually worked for me, so it increased my confidence in being able to use Feng Shui to layout my new diggs. I now have “Feng Shui” hope!
The kit is able to incorporate both systems because of it’s design…you just flip it over. One side is “conscious interactive channeling,” number and letter wheel, the other is a Feng Shui Ba-Gua.
Now the channeling part is well thought out. It includes a rose quartz crystal pendulum and instructions on how to cleanse it and get it responding to you. It worked like a charm. I think I was most impressed by the instructions that included a blessing to say before beginning the work. Like Ouija’s, these type’s of practices can leave you open, and the intent behind the creation of this particular kit and the blessing help to protect you.
Now,I am not an advocate of channeling other beings or talking with the dead, though you could use this kit for those purposes. The Isis Channeling & Feng Shi Deluxe Kit is no Ouija Board!
I do believe in communing with your higher self ,accessing your subconscious and intuition. And that is what I used the kit for. The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kitcalls it’s method of channeling “conscious interactive channeling.” Most dowsers use pendulum charts with numbers and letters, similar to this kit.
Another bonus is the kit is portable and durable. Just fold it up and put it in it’s convenient little carrying case and you’re good to go! No fooling around with paper pendulum charts and a bunch of feng shui tools.
If you are into energy work, or would like to explore “channeling” or “accessing your higher self” or learn a basic form of Feng Shui, you should take a look at The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit. The Queen of Metaphysics gives this kit a major thumbs up. In my opinion, The Isis Channeling & Feng Shui Deluxe Kit best use is as a tool to develop and access your intuition. Very easy to use, just remember to bless and protect yourself..you know,PRAY before using.That is my caveat with all forms of what can be interpreted as divination.
It’s beautifully packaged. It’s affordable. It’s kinda fun.
The creator of the kit, Mary Louise Schiavone is delightful. She truly has high intentions for this kit.
Auld Lang Syne, Happy New Year !!!
Auld Lang Syne
The song, "Auld Lang Syne," playing in the background, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, it was first published in 1796 after Burns' death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 and inspired Burns to produce the modern rendition. An old Scottish tune, "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," or simply, "the good old days."
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!
The "Real " Story Of Christmas, Parts 3 & 4 of 4
III. The Origins of Christmas Customs
A. The Origin of Christmas Tree
Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”. Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Church.
Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshippers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church sanctioning “Christmas Trees”. Pagans had long worshipped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Church.
B. The Origin of Mistletoe
Norse mythology recounts how the god Balder was killed using a mistletoe arrow by his rival god Hoder while fighting for the female Nanna. Druid rituals use mistletoe to poison their human sacrificial victim. The Christian custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is a later synthesis of the sexual license of Saturnalia with the Druidic sacrificial cult.
Norse mythology recounts how the god Balder was killed using a mistletoe arrow by his rival god Hoder while fighting for the female Nanna. Druid rituals use mistletoe to poison their human sacrificial victim. The Christian custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is a later synthesis of the sexual license of Saturnalia with the Druidic sacrificial cult.
C. The Origin of Christmas Presents
In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors compelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual expanded to include gift-giving among the general populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavor by re-rooting it in the supposed gift-giving of Saint Nicholas (see below).
In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors compelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual expanded to include gift-giving among the general populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavor by re-rooting it in the supposed gift-giving of Saint Nicholas (see below).
D. The Origin of Santa Claus
a. Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was only named a saint in the 19th century.
b. Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament. The text they produced portrayed Jews as “the children of the devil”[1 who sentenced Jesus to death.
c. In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas moved his bones from Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There Nicholas supplanted a female boon-giving deity called The Grandmother, or Pasqua Epiphania, who used to fill the children's stockings with her gifts. The Grandmother was ousted from her shrine at Bari, which became the center of the Nicholas cult. Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted annually on the anniversary of Nicholas’ death, December 6.
d. The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic pagans. These groups worshipped a pantheon led by Woden –their chief god and the father of Thor, Balder, and Tiw. Woden had a long, white beard and rode a horse through the heavens one evening each Autumn. When Nicholas merged with Woden, he shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a beard, mounted a flying horse, rescheduled his flight for December, and donned heavy winter clothing.
e. In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he did (and they should) distribute gifts on December 25thinstead of December 6th.
f. In 1809, the novelist Washington Irving (most famous his The Legend of Sleepy Hollowand Rip Van Winkle) wrote a satire of Dutch culture entitled Knickerbocker History. The satire refers several times to the white bearded, flying-horse riding Saint Nicholas using his Dutch name, Santa Claus.
g. Dr. Clement Moore, a professor at Union Seminary, read Knickerbocker History, and in 1822 he published a poem based on the character Santa Claus: “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hope that Saint Nicholas soon would be there…” Moore innovated by portraying a Santa with eight reindeer who descended through chimneys.
h. The Bavarian illustrator Thomas Nast almost completed the modern picture of Santa Claus. From 1862 through 1886, based on Moore’s poem, Nast drew more than 2,200 cartoon images of Santa for Harper’s Weekly. Before Nast, Saint Nicholas had been pictured as everything from a stern looking bishop to a gnome-like figure in a frock. Nast also gave Santa a home at the North Pole, his workshop filled with elves, and his list of the good and bad children of the world. All Santa was missing was his red outfit.
i. In 1931, the Coca Cola Corporation contracted the Swedish commercial artist Haddon Sundblom to create a coke-drinking Santa. Sundblom modeled his Santa on his friend Lou Prentice, chosen for his cheerful, chubby face. The corporation insisted that Santa’s fur-trimmed suit be bright, Coca Cola red. And Santa was born – a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and commercial idol.
IV. The Christmas Challenge
· Christmas has always been a holiday celebrated carelessly. For millennia, pagans, Christians, and even Jews have been swept away in the season’s festivities, and very few people ever pause to consider the celebration’s intrinsic meaning, history, or origins.
· Christmas celebrates the birth of the Christian god who came to rescue mankind from the “curse of the Torah.” It is a 24-hour declaration that Judaism is no longer valid.
· Christmas is a lie. There is no Christian church with a tradition that Jesus was really born on December 25th.
· December 25 is a day on which Jews have been shamed, tortured, and murdered.
· Many of the most popular Christmas customs – including Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Claus – are modern incarnations of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced on earth.
Many who are excitedly preparing for their Christmas celebrations would prefer not knowing about the holiday’s real significance. If they do know the history, they often object that their celebration has nothing to do with the holiday’s monstrous history and meaning. “We are just having fun.”
Imagine that between 1933-45, the Nazi regime celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday – April 20 – as a holiday. Imagine that they named the day, “Hitlerday,” and observed the day with feasting, drunkenness, gift-giving, and various pagan practices. Imagine that on that day, Jews were historically subject to perverse tortures and abuse, and that this continued for centuries.
Now, imagine that your great-great-great-grandchildren were about to celebrate Hitlerday. April 20tharrived. They had long forgotten about Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. They had never heard of gas chambers or death marches. They had purchased champagne and caviar, and were about to begin the party, when someone reminded them of the day’s real history and their ancestors’ agony. Imagine that they initially objected, “We aren’t celebrating the Holocaust; we’re just having a little Hitlerday party.” If you could travel forward in time and meet them; if you could say a few words to them, what would you advise them to do on Hitlerday?
On December 25, 1941, Julius Streicher, one of the most vicious of Hitler’s assistants, celebrated Christmas by penning the following editorial in his rabidly Antisemitic newspaper, Der Stuermer:
If one really wants to put an end to the continued prospering of this curse from heaven that is the Jewish blood, there is only one way to do it: to eradicate this people, this Satan’s son, root and branch.
It was an appropriate thought for the day. This Christmas, how will we celebrate?
AUTHOR: LAWRENCE KELEMEN
AUTHOR: LAWRENCE KELEMEN
The "Real " Story Of Christmas, Parts 1 & 2 of 4
I. When was Jesus born?
A. Popular myth puts his birth on December 25th in the year 1 C.E.
B. The New Testament gives no date or year for Jesus’ birth. The earliest gospel – St. Mark’s, written about 65 CE – begins with the baptism of an adult Jesus. This suggests that the earliest Christians lacked interest in or knowledge of Jesus’ birthdate.
C. The year of Jesus birth was determined by Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk, “abbot of a Roman monastery. His calculation went as follows:
a. In the Roman, pre-Christian era, years were counted from ab urbe condita (“the founding of the City” [Rome]). Thus 1 AUC signifies the year Rome was founded, 5 AUC signifies the 5th year of Rome’s reign, etc.
b. Dionysius received a tradition that the Roman emperor Augustus reigned 43 years, and was followed by the emperor Tiberius.
c. Luke 3:1,23 indicates that when Jesus turned 30 years old, it was the 15th year of Tiberius reign.
d. If Jesus was 30 years old in Tiberius’ reign, then he lived 15 years under Augustus (placing Jesus birth in Augustus’ 28th year of reign).
e. Augustus took power in 727 AUC. Therefore, Dionysius put Jesus birth in 754 AUC.
f. However, Luke 1:5 places Jesus’ birth in the days of Herod, and Herod died in 750 AUC – four years before the year in which Dionysius places Jesus birth.
D. Joseph A. Fitzmyer – Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the Catholic University of America, member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and former president of the Catholic Biblical Association – writing in the Catholic Church’s official commentary on the New Testament[1], writes about the date of Jesus’ birth, “Though the year [of Jesus birth is not reckoned with certainty, the birth did not occur in AD 1. The Christian era, supposed to have its starting point in the year of Jesus birth, is based on a miscalculation introduced ca. 533 by Dionysius Exiguus.”
E. The DePascha Computus, an anonymous document believed to have been written in North Africa around 243 CE, placed Jesus birth on March 28. Clement, a bishop of Alexandria (d. ca. 215 CE), thought Jesus was born on November 18. Based on historical records, Fitzmyer guesses that Jesus birth occurred on September 11, 3 BCE.
II. How Did Christmas Come to Be Celebrated on December 25?
A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.
B. The ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) describes the festival’s observance in his time. In addition to human sacrifice, he mentions these customs: widespread intoxication; going from house to house while singing naked; rape and other sexual license; and consuming human-shaped biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries during the Christmas season).
C. In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians.[2]
D. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.
E. Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.
F. The Reverend Increase Mather of Boston observed in 1687 that “the early Christians who first observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking that Christ was born in that Month, but because the Heathens’ Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into Christian ones.”[3] Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681.[4] However, Christmas was and still is celebrated by most Christians.
G. Some of the most depraved customs of the Saturnalia carnival were intentionally revived by the Catholic Church in 1466 when Pope Paul II, for the amusement of his Roman citizens, forced Jews to race naked through the streets of the city. An eyewitness account reports, “Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators. They ran… amid Rome’s taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily.”[5]
H. As part of the Saturnalia carnival throughout the 18th and 19th centuries CE, rabbis of the ghetto inRome were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the city streets to the jeers of the crowd, pelted by a variety of missiles. When the Jewish community of Rome sent a petition in1836 to Pope Gregory XVI begging him to stop the annual Saturnalia abuse of the Jewish community, he responded, “It is not opportune to make any innovation.”[6] On December 25, 1881, Christian leaders whipped the Polish masses into Antisemitic frenzies that led to riots across the country. In Warsaw 12 Jews were brutally murdered, huge numbers maimed, and many Jewish women were raped. Two million rubles worth of property was destroyed.
AUTHOR: LAWRENCE KELEMEN
IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH READ THIS MANUAL!
IONIZER MANUAL
Congratulations on your recent decision to purchase the Ionizer Footbath.
This manual will give you all the knowledge you will need to fully enjoy and
understand the remarkable health benefits you will receive from your usage.
Although you probably never heard of this wonderful device until just
recently, the Ionizer Footbath has been helping people restore and maintain their
good health for more than three centuries. Only a few natural health practitioners
have known about the secret benefits that electrically charged,
ionized water can bring to the human body. In reality, this in itself, is amazing
because ionized water is perfectly natural and occurs constantly in nature. Two
very common instances of ionized water are a gurgling forest brook and the
roaring ocean surf. Both do wonders for the mind and body.
When water is moving, there is a natural electromagnetic interchange between
the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make up the molecule of water which
humanity knows as the “Liquid of Life”. All life originally came from the sea,
and water is still the incubator of life. Before you were born you gestated in the
watery embryonic sac within your mother’s womb and your body developed in
your water environment. As you can see, water has played a vital role in your
life and health.
When you were born, your body was 85% water and your pH was extremely
alkaline (much more on this later). After the age of approximately 25, when your
body stopped growing (anabolic), your body stabilized at 70% water levels for
males and 75% for females. This period of homeostasis (pH acid/alkaline water
balance) lasts for about two decades. Around 45-50 years of age your body starts
to naturally deteriorate with the build up of acid waste (catabolic) and your water
content gradually evaporates until you die, when your water level is a fatal 50%
of your body mass.
This is all part of the Biblical “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust” prophesy. In
older people, it is quite obvious to the casual observer that the elderly are literally
“drying up”, and this is because they can not or choose not to keep them-selves
properly hydrated. The major cause of dementia and senility is the lack of body
water. Without ionized water, your body has no “juice”. You are an electrical
soul. Your brain works on an electrical pulse and your heart beats with an
electrical spark. It is your ionized blood plasma that supplies your nervous
system with the electricity your body needs to sustain your life.
History of Ionized Water
Ionized water has been with us since the dawn of time. It is the mildly
charged energy which enabled our God to create life. Water in a stream is
ionized as it rapidly follows gravity and flows to the sea. In the sea, the constant
churning of the ocean’s currents, tides and surf creates the ions and the electrical
current so vital to life. Both environments energize humanity.
Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father, and one of the most famous scientists
of the world, is the inventor of the Ionizer Footbath. Around 1755, Franklin was
totally absorbed with the discovery and use of electricity. He correctly
understood that your body is run on electricity. Franklin invented the storage
capability for electricity and named it a “battery”. Once a week, he would use
this device (similar to today’s car battery), hook up an anode terminal to the
poles, and ionize the water in a bucket. Then he would place his feet into the life
energizing elixirs of salted water and soak them for 10 minutes.
In Franklin’s Colonial Age, the average American lived for only 35 years
before yellow fever, cholera, influenza, typhoid, etc. overtook them. Ben lived a
vigorous and fulfilled life for a remarkable 84 years and attributed his long life in
part to his weekly addition of electricity. In fact, Franklin took his status as
“Father of the Nation” a little to heart, as he was a well known womanizer, and
was sued in a paternity suit which he lost at the tender age of 71. Maybe, the
footbaths had something to do with his remarkable libido.
Franklin shared his Ionizer Footbath with his good friend and fellow scientist,
Thomas Jefferson with similar results. After the death of Jefferson’s wife,
Martha Skelton, when he was in his 50’s, Jefferson had a long affair with Sally
Hemings, his Black housekeeper, whom he had an additional 4 children before
his death at 83 on the 4th of July, 1826.
Both Franklin and Jefferson truly believed in the longevity power of the
Ionizer Footbath. works. The Ionizer works by using electrical ions to draw
toxins, fungus, mold, yeast, bacteria, viruses, and other poisonous pathogens out
of your body through the magnetic power of electrical energy. By cleansing the
body of all these harmful substances, the detoxifying action greatly strengthens
your immune system. It is your naturally strong immune system that keeps you
healthy and free from disease. Ask any holistic based doctor, and he/she will tell
you that it is your immune system that God designed, that will keep you healthy
forever.
Detoxification
Your life is a continuous circle of Consumption, Digestion, Metabolism and
Elimination. Your health is determined by an efficient flow of this
eating/energizing/exiting of excess acid cycle. Unfortunately for you, your
system is not perfect, and your many hiccups that occur from your mouth to your
anus cause you multiple health problems.
For Americans, many of our problems start with Consumption. We are the
world’s leader in fast food, junk food, eat-on-the-run, pressure cooker, rat race,
chase-our-own-tail, spinning-out-of-control existence. Our life style is poisoning
us with untold toxicity because we make so many wrong choices. Even though
we know in our minds what is right, our body’s desires trick us continuously.
We need to make the mind/body connection.
Because we follow a bad nutrition philosophy, the rest of our gastro-intestinal
(GI) alimentary channel becomes clogged with way too much acidic garbage.
Acid is corrosive and by its very nature it wears away everything that it touches.
This includes you! Acid burns, acid hurts and the more acid you build up in your
system the faster it will bring your health and life to a halt. Excess acid is the
primary cause of most of today’s diseases.
Diseases fall mainly into three categories: Genetic (Congenital)-diseases
you inherit; Infectious-diseases you catch from others by sexual activity or
something bites you; Chronic-lifestyle diseases you develop usually by what you
eat. These include diabetes, obesity, arthritis, cancer and heart disease, to just
mention a few (there are many more). The Chronic category diseases kill 90% of
all Americans, and all of them are based on excessive acidosis, which is too much
cellular and blood stream acidity. This is why it is so important to use the Ionizer
Footbath to reduce your toxic, acidic overload.
Your Digestion does nothing to change your acid levels. If you eat acidic,
processed foods like white sugar, white flour (pasta & bread), white rice, white
milk, white fat (in a steak) and white cooking oils (trans-fatty acids); you will be
acidic, and your health will suffer. You need to eat alkaline foods; i.e., anything
green because it contains chlorophyll, which is made by using sunlight (God’s
true source of all energy) and grown into food by the process of photosynthesis.
Humanity evolved eating God’s natural foods of plants, berries, nuts, seeds, roots
and drinking pure, ionized water, which are all alkaline. It has only been in the
last century, that we have eaten processed foods, and the acid buildup is making
you sick and tired!
Your Metabolism is hurting you because you are suppose to eat alkaline
foods, which through the Kreb’s Cycle is converted into ATP energy by your
cellular mitochondria, and the byproduct of your metabolism is acid. Your body’s
main Elimination job is to rid yourself of this produced acid. Your body has six
ways to do this. They are: Urination, Defecation, Perspiration, Respiration,
Buffering and Storing.
Urination is simply your kidneys eliminating uric acid in your urine (unprocessed
uric acid crystals causes gout, arthritis, fibromyalgia, sore backs,
etc.) Defecation is your lower GI tract producing stools, acidic hard wastes
(the recent Minneapolis bridge collapse is attributed to excessive bird droppings
– highly acidic, eroding the steel joints). Perspiration, is your sweat coming out
of your pores which is salty/sweet because it is full of acid (all
sweets from sugar based food are acidic, this is why we have so much diet
failures. Diabetics have very sweet perspiration; this is why they are the first to
get bitten by insects at the next picnic). Respiration is your breathing, when you
expire acidic carbon dioxide as your waste gas of metabolism (in the cycle of life,
your carbon dioxide acid is plant’s life gas, which they use to make alkaline food.
The plants produce alkaline oxygen as their waste gas which becomes your life
gas. The moral of this story is to keep a lot of plants around, as they will give
you an abundance of oxygen which raises your alkaline pH value, keeping you
healthy).
In a healthy person, the last four methods of eliminating acid buildup should
be sufficient in keeping a normal, alkaline blood pH. However, we, with our
Standard American Diet (S.A.D.), produce way too much acidic waste in our
bodies to be eliminated by normal means. Therefore, your body is forced to take
extraordinary methods to lower your health-robbing acidic luggage.
The first emergency protocol that your body uses to put out this acid fire, is to
use your body’s supply of alkaline salts of Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium,
Potassium and Iron to raise your pH to a healthy level. In an emergency, this is
OK, but living the life of S.A.D., it becomes a daily, chronic condition, for which
your body responds by becoming sick and tired.
Your loss of Calcium causes osteoporosis, frailness in both sexes. Your loss
of Magnesium causes your inability to handle stress. Your loss of Sodium hurts
your ability to balance your body’s water, causing diarrhea. Your loss of
Potassium causes muscle weakness and heart problems. Your
loss of Iron causes anemia because the iron is stolen from your hemoglobin.
You have read but a few of the many, many health problems caused by too
high blood acid levels – there are many more!
If this wasn’t enough, the sixth method your body uses in its fight to keep the
acid fire under control is storage. With too much acid to cope with, your body
finally decides to stop bailing out the overflowing acid and store it. God gave
you an emergency storage closet to hide your excess acid when all other methods
failed to dump it overboard. It is Adipose tissue. Of your 218 cells, it is the one
designed to store fatty acids. You have them all over your body, but men have
them most in their pot belly and love handles and women have them in their
thunder thighs and bubble buttocks. It’s not a pretty solution, but it is desperation
time for your poor, acid racked body. Under microscope, your adipose cells look
like flat balloons, but with a fill up of excess fatty acids they inflate and so do
you. This is called obesity! This is America’s epidemic, and it causes a lot more
health problems than just tight jeans.
There are only two general ways to correct this over acidification of your
body. The first is to stop building up the acid overload in the beginning.
Generally, there are four ways you make the body too acidic; Diet, Stress, Drugs
and Age.
We already know through the S.A.D. Diet, that we eat too much acid-forming
foods. Learn to eat more alkaline. Stress, and anxiety, personal turmoil, and
depression all cause acid forming hormones to retain body acid. Mental patients
are all extremely acidic in pH chemistry. Learn to chill out, meditate from the rat
race, take time to smell the roses and get proper rest. Deep breathing exercises
are absolutely your best medicine…and cheap! Drugs are mostly acid because
they need to change a healthy alkaline body’s chemistry to work. Chemotherapy
acid drugs are pure poison because cancer cells are usually less than 2% of your
body, so the theory is to kill many cells with the hope your healthy cells will win
the cellular war. Works out some times, but so does Russian Roulette. Age,
once we pass the age of 45-50, we should have fulfilled our promise in Genesis to
go forth and multiply. God gives us only so much time to hold up our end, then
He begins to naturally acidify our bodies turning us into ashes to ashes, dust to
dust as a means to clear the land for the next generation. You can postpone this
inevitable scene through the use of alkaline diet, lifestyle and vitamin/mineral
supplementation.
The second best method is to take the excess acid out of your body. One of
the easiest, less intrusive and feel good methods to do this is by using the Ionizer
Footbath. If you are generally healthy, using this 300 year old method will help
eliminate excess acid on a weekly basis. If you are suffering from any of the
Chronic Diseases of Diabetes, Obesity, Arthritis, Cancer or Heart Disease,
you need to do it daily. Remember to supplement after each treatment with
vitamins and minerals to restore the good “stuff” back into your system.
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www.Academy4Health.com
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