The Executioner’s Axe

My speech for freedom was a success,

and thank darkness for a cloudy night.

de-masked above a dying crowd.

I roared about the actions necessary,

should we desire an end prettier than the starving crows…

It seems to me that the powers which confine us,

are afraid as wild youth as it nears its end.

Natural life will always be the outcome.

So that my eyes may dry and hate subside –

my axe no longer need divide,

My axe chips as does my soul whenever a revolutionary’s crippled.

This is how an executioner prays:

Heritage Day

Today is my last day

There is a headline,

my face

it says;

Heritage Day

Two: I learned how to live with being a liar

Three: I came as a foreign being full of love

Six: I inherited the art

Seven: I will never forget

After all

3 months before they expected me I was ready

13 years before I was

they weren’t

my family

The wardrobe whispered the call of majesty

I obeyed my longing eyes

past the dioors and my goodbye suit

Heritage day:

Two: It wasn’t always sunny

Three: How to fake the smile through heartache

Four: How to cause the same

Five: My clothes are cheap

Six: I am unworthychocolat_l

and on the top right hand corner of the screen

A phrase in white paint screams out at me

Heritage Day:

One: My skin colour murdered my first love

Three: My father Died of a broken heart

Four: You saved mine

Five: Our life was puzzled together by vibes and muted sentences

Palm on palm now

My eye lids find their space

No tears left in me

My heritage day is eternal

Consciousness Evolution Kymatica (the foundation)

‘Evolution –

And for a very good reason…

You are evolving.

Stop blaming everybody and everything else!!

Quit panicking about global tyranny and natural disaster and Pay Attention!

The human embryo repeats the evolution of all species.

It then sheds its lacuna which is the embryonic fur.

And at last, shows the characteristics of a human child.

The human body is a community of approximately 50 trillion cells.

Everything the body does, the cell does as well.

Earth has its own electromagnetic generation just like the human body.

as well as the speed of orbit and rotation.

The Earth’s resonant frequency starts at 7.83 Hz …

Ultimately, the greatest discovery of our Earth is its consciousness.

Consciousness is the creative force of the entire universe.

 Our universe does all of these things.

As we bare through history with oceans of information,

yet barely a drop of wisdom,

we have to understand,

how we lost our self…’

Much love

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A Story of A Blue Sun

Just a poem written for someone 🙂 very late one evening!

They said was what made the world red
And red being the color of love… meant that everything yellow
was good for a smile and a dance
But his color was blue
So he thought it true
When the world would tell him he couldn’t

One evening he slowly
he though to himself a miserable thought
that all was lost at bright yellow’s high cost
and about love he completely forgot
With his sad face on his chest
and a torn heart at his breast
he continued to walk on home

Until one day while shinning sadly on us
a stranger figure appeared before him
and she seemed to like his blue light
she told him that one day blue would take yellow away

His heart trembled gently
with wild butterflies in his sight
when she looked at his blue with her eyes
and such a surprise for the color of those eyes were so
and loving
and blue

so since that day
he smiles broad and brightly
and holds his love tightly
and he says’
blue is the color of love”

For K.

Contemplating Consciousness

“Like a flash there is presented to his consciousness a clear conception (a vision) in outline of the meaning and drift of the universe… He sees and knows that the cosmos… is in fact… in very truth a living presence. He sees that instead of men being, as it were, patches of life scattered through an infinite sea of non-living substance, they are in reality specks of relative death in an infinite ocean of life. He sees that the life which is in man is as immortal as ‘God’ is; that the universe is so built and ordered that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world is what we call ‘love’, and that the ‘happiness’ of every individual is in the long run absolutely certain.” – ‘Cosmic Consciousness’ by Richard M. Bucke

Many people refer to this state as Christ Consciousness, Super consciousness, Illumination or Satori.

According to many philosophers and some scientists, the ultimate goal of every human being is to get to a level of Cosmic Consciousness… This is usually depicted as the 7th Chakra (or the 1st depending on how you work with them) known as – Sahasrara: The Crown Chakra.

The Wikipedia definition of it is as follows:

Sahasrara, which means 1000 petalled lotus, is generally considered to be the chakra of pure consciousness, within which there is neither object nor subject. When the female Kundalini Shakti energy rises to this point, it unites with the male Shiva energy, and a state of liberating samadhi is attained. Symbolized by a lotus with one thousand multi-coloured petals, it is located either at the crown of the head, or above the crown of the head. Sahasrara is represented by the colour white and it involves such issues as inner wisdom and the death of the body.

The great news is that anyone willing to learn and practice the rise of consciousness stands a chance to achieve a state of Cosmic Consciosness.

The way I see it is that; within us are the building blocks, the bricks necessary to get to Sahasrara and Kundallini is the cementing factor, stabilizing as it goes and setting in stone the progress made by our subconscious.

Contemplating consciousness always takes me back to the first time I ever met one of my primary spiritual teachers.

I was nervous; as managers often are when they have a complaining customer. However his first response to me before I had even introduced myself was, “Oh my! What a wonderfully developed Third Eye you have there.” I immediately thought this man was some sort of looney, apologized for the bad service, spoke to him a little about Jean Paul Sartre and carried on with my night.

For about three weeks, he would come by at least once a day to chat to me, until I started to take in a bit of what he was actually saying. Not long after this he offered to teach me if I would be willing to work, and as uncertain as I was… I accepted the offer.

He’s a single chap of about 65 years of age… never married because his love (like mine) was just a little unattainable… he is also the head of Philosophy at a university close to where I stay and it was through him that I got to learn so many wonderful things about that which is far greater (meaning more fun and interesting) than the self.

Once upon a day I used to base my life on the things I had and didn’t have. I liked to fuel my ego with silly things like how much alcohol I could handle or how many girls I could interest, what clothes I was wearing, how many piercings I had or how good I was at flaring (useless skill of throwing around a bottle of alcohol and catching it).

All I know is that Kundalini is one of my favorite phrases, and I am never too tired, drunk, moody or busy to have a good chat about her path and role in our lives if we are willing to give her the life and strength to proceed and to make a change.

I was going to spend some time talking about the Super Conscious, but then I realized that it would be a very arrogant thing to do, as that would be like assuming that I have already obtained it…

I just feel the need to say this:

When the world becomes way too burdensome… I believe that we should focus on the spot just above the crown… the real sanctuary, the mightiest teacher, the place where spirit and self become one… because Kundalini does not stop halfway through as she is not meant to stay within, she is meant to be pushed ever forward, towards the light, there at the pinnacle of our potential awakening!

Like – With – Like

“I am a wonderful help to women
The hope of something good to come
I harm only my slayer
I grow very tall, erect in a bed
I am shaggy down below
The lovely girl grabs my body, rubs my red skin
Holds me hard, claims my head.
That girl will feel our meeting!
I bring tears to her eyes!
What am I?”

(Old English Riddle)

Whatever were you thinking?

Nose wipes

An Onion

A grater

A bowl

Steps 1, 2, 3 and 4

Steps 5 and 6

Steps 7, 8 and 9

Step 10

Wipe away your tears lad!

How’s that for magic?

Of Wood Nymphs and Samodivas

Nymph: (Greekνύμφη, nymphē).

In Greek mythology a Nymph is a minor female nature deity associated with a particular location or landform. Nymphs are generally seen as divine spirits who animate nature. Usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis. They are believed to dwell in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and also in trees.

According to many sources including one very interesting essay extracted from the Scientific Works of the University of Rousse – 2008, Volume 47, Series 5.3’; the myth of the Samodiva was born with the fall of the Bulgarian empire. According to this source the natives believe in the reality of once mythical maidens, but also seek a logical explanation to these legends. They believe that during slavery, groups of 3 women from every region in and around the Balkan areas fled into the forests and remained there.

In mid June when the young shepherds took their herds out, it was well known that young ladies would descend from the depths of the forest, to steal a man of their choice as their groom.

This groom however, was only kept until the end of August (According to Bulgarian folklore on August 29 of every year the sun would slice through the day and the night, making them equal).

Thereafter the young man was banished and sent back to his village partially because having to provide food for him as well was very difficult. Shortly after the groom returned to his village it is said that he would die from either a severe illness or depression. Hand in hand with the groom’s death goes the birth of his child (usually male). The child of a Samodiva apparently had extremely good genes especially concerning his/her physical attributes. The sons of these maidens grew with them until they were strong enough to be sent out as freedom fighters, the girls remained with their mothers in the forest and continued to preserve the bloodline.

Many of the great Bulgarian poets and writers (most of whom were freedom fighters) record various encounters with the Samodivas throughout their journeys. Their descriptions of these ‘deities’ are astonishingly similar to those of the Wood Nymph.

Keep in mind that I am not claiming the Wood Nymph and the Samodivas to be the same… I’m only pointing out that the theory of their existence is not completely farfetched.

As a Bulgarian, the myth of the Samodiva makes me extremely proud to be a woman. Five hundred years of hiding and breeding in secret, telling stories and remaining ‘wild’ and uneducated for the sake of preserving the blood line… No romance, just perseverance… it is no wonder that there is no written record of these times. During the Ottoman rule our alphabet was scarcely used… the poets and writers start springing up just before the fall of the Ottoman Empire and technically this makes us a relatively new country.

A new country with a deep history, a nation so closely linked to nature, so rich in mythology; a mythology that is being forgotten, when for centuries women and men sacrificed their lives daily just so that a Bulgarian would never wonder where he/she came from.

The point is that whether we are talking about Wood Nymphs or Samodivas, we should always try to go a little deeper and decide for ourselves whether mythology is really just a bunch of stories as many people perceive them to be.

‘I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge

That Myth is more potent than history

That dreams are more powerful than facts

That hope always triumphs over experience

That laughter is the only cure for grief

And I believe that love is stronger than death’ – R. Fulghum

When Things Go Pear Shaped

According to ‘Wikipedia’ the consumption of pears as a source of food and their growth in cool, constant climates extend as far back as prehistoric times. Although they predate, nourish, boost and inspire (some of us), one will seldom find an enthusiastic five year old blabbering on about how tasty pears are or that pears just so happen to be the favorite of all fruits. Strawberries, cherries, plums, nectarines, raspberries and oranges seem to dominate as leaders of the ‘favorite fruit’ and to top it all off we (the dominant species on the planet) have decided to curb the demand for pears even more by describing our unexpectedly awkward moments as having gone ‘pear shaped’.

In 1864 Mr. Wesley Vernier painted none other than ‘The Great Californian Pear’… story goes that this pear was loved, fussed over and cared for by a Mr. C. Hova of Los Angeles as it weighed a little over 4lbs; I often find myself staring into the computer screen at the sight of this painting for comfort but what moves me most is not the size or shape of this pear but rather her color:copper.

Now copper is closely related to two rather popular metals; silver and gold… While people prefer gold and silver due to their ornamental and decorative values and uses, this third metal in the eleventh group of the periodic table is also (like the pear) most ancient and useful… It is used in architecture, art and in some museums you may find archaeological artifacts made of copper. All this ties up with a one simple truth about our modern lives; what isn’t fashionable is readily discarded.

Pears are yummi and copper is pretty, but what is even prettier is seeing people who manage to detach from the fashionable and focus on what is genuinely good and the best place to see this happening is on a very new facebook group founded by two incredible individuals who took it upon themselves to begin a sort of ‘silent revolution’… here people get to share the goodness of their day to day experiences to inspire others to seek out the good rather than just focusing on how pear shaped their flawless plans for the future have turned out to be.

If you have just about had it with the queerness of your present circumstances then maybe it’s time to focus on the copper side of life, where ‘the good stuff’ flow freely, I on the other hand take it upon myself to help the copper lovers keep the good spirits even when pears seems awfully unappealing at times.

For those interested in the Copper Age please utilize this link:


On Earth As It Is In Heaven

Münster Cathedral’s astronomical clock. Detail.

Dawkins received mostly luke-warm responses, the majority of which were uncertain. As a result of this travesty of the scientific method, Dawkins claims himself triumphant and moves on to discredit homoeopaths. I’m quite familiar with negative opinions of astrology ranging from sceptical to scathing, but I’m particularly disappointed when a scientist refuses to employ their own methods to arrive at a conclusion, rather than falling into the pit of prejudicial opinion. I believe Dawkins in spite of his intelligence is not so different from fundamentalist religionists – both believe that their understanding and perception are the only viable ones available and all other beliefs are the subject of contempt. Sometimes the belief is so strong that the contempt can afford to be polite.

Chartres Cathedral Stained Glass

medieval astrological medicinal chart

To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.

Zodiac floor. Basilica of St Denis, Paris, France

Navarasa – Nine States of Mind

Shringar(Erotic) Rati Delight Pale Light Green
Hasya (Humorous) Hasa Laughter White
Karuna (Pathetic) Shoka Sorrow Grey
Raudra (Terrible) Krodh Anger Red
Veera (Heroic) Utsaha Heroism Pale Orange
Bhayanaka (Fearful) Bhaya Fear Black
Bibhatsa (Odious) Jugupsa Disgust Blue
Adbhuta (Wonderous) Vismaya Wonder Yellow
Shanta (Peaceful) Calm Peace White

Navarasa: Reimagined Photo by Kiran Mirsa

Adbhuta : Surya (Sun)

Karuna : Chandra, (Moon)

Veera : Kuja, (Mars)

Hasya : Budha,  (Mercury)

Shanta : Guru, (Jupiter)

Shringara : Shukra, (Venus)

Raudra : Shani,  (Saturn)

Bhayanaka : Rahu and (North Node)

Bhibhatsa : Ketu. (South Node)

Battle of Carthage (698)

Eclipses are endlessly fascinating and there are a few ways to interpret them. This particular eclipse is extraordinarily dramatic and the visual impact, mapped is rich in significance both during the period of the eclipse but also the events augered by its duration and place of maximum eclipse.

What is generally known as The Battle of Carthage was fought in 698 between a Byzantine expeditionary force and the armies of the fifth Umayyad Caliphate. There were, in fact, several battles s in Carthage over the centuries, but one of them was decisive and the wreckage became part of the Caliphate.

One might expect such an occurrence to have generated details for posterity.  The fact is that the battle of Carthage in 698 AD JC. was a complete demolition.  The Arab general, Hasan ibn al-Nu’man  was annoyed that he had to defeat the Carthaginians twice. There was no thought of settling in the city under the Caliphate,. The city was razed to nothing after a siege. The harbours were filled with dirt and rocks, the fields burned, all farms, crop and livestock were killed. Even the aqueducts which supplied the city with its only fresh water supply were demolished.

The most curious element from an astrological point of view is that the eclipse that one might naturally associate with the event actually occurred at the end of the year, 08 December 698. Nevertheless, I’m pleased that this eclipse brought my attention to the events because it soon becomes evident that the battle of Carthage, while certainly not the only victim of the Islamic Caliphate, was more like the root than the flower in terms of a sequence. With a duration of 10m28s and a path of visibility that reaches modern-day Kazakhstan, we need to look at what ensues and not only at what has passed.

Considering the Chart of the Year preceding the battle of Carthage, we find that the Sun exalted in Aries is the Lord of the Year. However, Mars himself is Peregrine and conjunct Saturn. The Libra Ascending makes Carthage the weaker partner in conflict and the Lady of the Ascendant is Venus in the 8th house of Death. The ‘ordinary’ people of the 6th house have an exalted Jupiter as their Lord, but the Jupiter conjunction with the N. Node is not auspicious.

The duration of the eclipse was 10.5 minutes, which translates to 10,5 years of influence,  The Arab siege of Carthage marked the end of Christianity in the Atlas Mountains countries of North Africa. Carthage was the centre or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now the Tunis Governorate in Tunisia. But the work was not yet finished. The waves of Arab and Berber invasions had no intention of backing down or holding back. They wanted not only North Africa, but also the Iberian Peninsula.

If we study the events surrounding the incursion of Berber-Arab armies into the Iberian peninsula in 709-10, we find that this leads to Muslim domination of the region that would last 800 years. Witness the fateful Battle of Guadalete and the Arabs’ advance north, and consider both the immediate legacy of the invasion and its overall impact on European history.

This brief article attempts to consider a relevant and very striking eclipse that not only augers for events several years into the future but also describes current events. Time is, of course, a continuum. When we examine celestial events such as this, an understanding of history is crucial. The complete destruction of the historically important city. Carthage is one part of an even larger event. With the conquering of the Iberian Peninsula, the final presentation of the Byzantium Empire was finished in North Africa and most of the Meditteranean. This displacement by the Caliphate would have momentous influence not only on the region but on Western Civilization as a whole. Out of the extreme violence, Islam and Europe would exchange ideas for a very long time.

The Sino-Vietnamese War of 1799 – I

6th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Portrait by Castiglione (1688-1766) an Italian, formerly known as Giuseppe Gassilionio, who was systematically trained as a young student and has solid artistic knowledge

The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was officially founded in 1636 in what is now Northeast China,. The dynasty had been successful in most respects and was wealthy, relatively stable and feeling secure within the confines of the Middle Kingdom and beyond.

On 08 August  1775, there was an impressive Annular Solar Eclipse, the path of which was easily seen in Southern China, Hong Kong and Macau, then continued across Vietnam on its way to the eastern regions of the Bay of Bengal. Probably the most striking feature was its relatively long duration, estimated to be more than 4 mins.

If we look towards 1779, four years later, there were momentous events which are some of the most remarkable in military history. Moreover, what happened is sometimes compared to the Tet offensive in the Viet Nam War of the 1960s and early 1970s. While they are not by any means identical, the similarities between the two events, separated by nearly 170 years, are striking.

The Tet offensive on January 30, 1968, was launched by combatants of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People’s Army of Vietnam directed at the South Vietnamese Army, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centres throughout South Vietnam. The name of the offensive comes from the Tết holiday, the Vietnamese New Year when the initial large-scale attacks took place.

In part, this article follows a conversation with a fellow traditional astrologer, regarding the validity of the expected range of influence derived by the length of the eclipse itself. Here, we would expect some sign that eclipse was indeed a portent of a given event or not.

Let’s examine the details of the eclipse. It passes over very few countries, over the open Pacific Ocean, until it hits Taiwan, Hong Kong and South China. It then passes over Hanoi. Mundane astrologers sometimes use the astrological chart either of the dates of foundation for the city or else the quality assigned to a region by Classical sources. We don’t have any Western sources for historical Hanoi or North Viet Nam. What we are given is a variety of dates based on modern occurrences, such as political events. Clearly, this would be useless when considering the Vietnam of the late 18th century.

I chanced upon a Vedic source which looks to be promising and the author states that North Vietnam/Hanoi is under Aquarius/Shatbhisa and China is under Taurus/Kritika. You can find the complete list and the explanation of how the signs are derived at  Rta Swar  (ॠत_स्वर)  Let’s proceed with this in mind and see how it plays out in a major conflict with China.

The chart is for the Hour of Mars and the Day of Jupiter. The Sun is in his Joy in the 9th House. The charts Almuten is the Moon in Cancer. The first clue is that Taurus (China) is in the 7th House of open enemies and the Lord of Taurus is in the  8th House of Death in a Mercurial Sign with Saturn. From this alone, we can see the potential threat to the established order Vietnam may be interpreted by the MC in Virgo.  Jupiter is Lord of the Ascendant in a weak sign and retrogrades in the 4th House. opposing Venusian Taurus. The symbolism of the empty house is hard to ignore, even if there is no precise astrological consideration that covers this situation.

Map of Vietnam 1829 (?)

The Lord of the Ascendant is in his Fall in Cancer and the string of the eclipse planets in the Ninth House is a heady mix.

“In the middle of the night on January 25, Quang Trung’s force took the outpost at Son Nam in Nam Dinh province defended by the Le king’s followers, who had been celebrating the New Year. It then rapidly seized one after another of the forts defending access to the capital. On the third day of Tet, January 28, the Tay Son surrounded the important post of Ha Hoi, some 20 kilometres southwest of the capital. Caught off guard, the Chinese defenders there surrendered with their arms and supplies.” (https://www.lonelyplanet.com/vietnam/history#72278).

The Chinese forces must have been in a state of complete shock. The Vietnamese strengthened their defences using trenches, minefields, pit trap and bamboo stakes concealed by straw and anything else that would conceal the pits.

Summer Solstice – 2018

Here’s wishing my readers, friends. family, colleagues and clients a blessed Summer Solstice! This is a time of celebration and contemplation no matter what your path may be.  This chart is set for Greenwich Mean Time, so this chart can also be used to suggest, particularly for the next three months, the mood and tendencies for this particular time zone.

This festival has a great variety of expressions around the world, but it is always a Solar festival. This is the day when the Sun is at it’s strongest, in the sense that it is the longest day and thus the shortest night. From now on, we slowly begin to turn inwards, having basked in the light and warmth of the Sun

A man jumps over a bonfire during festivities marking Ivan Kupala Day, a pagan summer solstice celebration, in the village of Fadino on the Irtysh River in 2017. PHOTOGRAPH BY DMITRY FEOKTISTOV, TASS,

This is the Cancer Ingress. In the chart posted you will find that in most respects it is favourable. The Sun is in the House of the Good Spirit with Mercury, Mars is in his Joy in the 6th House.. like a tiger in a cage, he is restrained from doing great harm but is also well placed for surgery or other forms of healing that require any kind of incision,.

Venus in Leo is not well-placed in the 12th but is otherwise in fair condition, with some caution regarding the opposition to Mars. She disposits the Venusian Moon in Libra. Both of the Superior (Social) Planets are retrograde and considering that Jupiter is in Scorpio. he is restrained from doing what he does best.

The Lingering Mystery of the 911 Prediction

For many people, the events of 9/11 are considered clear and fully explained. Whether these people are in the majority is another question, Still, I have no intention of addressing the still-mounting number of theories, except to point to the level of uncertainty, the improbable nature of much of the official story and the vast array of alternate theories about what happened on that bright September day in New York 17 years ago.

It should, however, be borne in mind that whoever was the mastermind of the attack has not been revealed to this day. That in itself is a great mystery since the usual purpose of such attacks id to draw attention to a specific cause or to exact some form of an ultimatum. This was hitherto the way terrorist attacks worked. They usually conveyed a specific threat, yet to be delivered, or involved the taking of hostages to be used for leverage during bargaining. Anonymous terrorist attacks were virtually unheard of before the events on 9/11 in New York. We do know that Osama bin Laden stated that he admired the attack but couldn’t take credit for it.

The astrological community was quick to tally who had been able to predict the event, with many saying it would be impossible to predict the precise date and the exact place. To the best of my knowledge, nobody did just that.

Just as mysterious as the details of the event itself is the astrological prediction of the event, which was overshadowed by the attention on Robert Zoller, who was at the time riding on a wave of great astrological celebrity, in no small part due to his many contributions to traditional and particularly Medieval Astrology. Even today on Astrology Restored he is listed as “the world’s leading proponent of Medieval Astrology.” In the same place, he is credited with the prediction of the attack on New York,

This is the graphic representation of the Total Solar Eclipse of 11 August 1999 to which Zoller refers. One of the most fundamental rules for the judgment of an eclipse is that it must be visible to have any influence on a given area. In this case, although it is a very impressive eclipse, it is not visible on US soil. In fact, the maximum point of this eclipse is over Romania, on the other side of the world. It does, however, pass through several European and Middle Eastern countries and onward to Pakistan and India, as far as the Bay of Bengal. The duration of the eclipse was 2 min 23 s.

This detail is one of the most perplexing elements in Zoller’s prediction. It simply wouldn’t qualify, yet he is meticulous in explaining the time frame of the alleged effect. The 1999 eclipse apparently has an effect that lasts 30 months. He doesn’t say why. However, we are fortunate to have his own words, on the larger topic, published in his Nuntius newsletter. He writes

Again, there is no reason given for this specific information. I cannot imagine how it could have derived from consulting the eclipse alone. This account could have been written by anyone with an understanding of current events., as has been noted by others No date is given. No specific location is given. It’s would appear to be a useless prediction from that point of view because the most important utility of prediction is to warn or offer preparatory information.  The US and the Western world was bracing for terrorist attacks, such as had already occurred. Elsewhere, Zoller had warned of Chinese forces working with Al Qaida in the desert, which proved to be incorrect.

That refers to so many countries, many of which are in a constant state of tension  It’s a throwaway line and ultimately tells us nothing. We are curious to know what else Zoller might have used but didn’t mention. Zoller could have used several other tools available to Mundane astrologers, such as various Ingress charts, Planetary Phases. Profections, Primary Directions, Lunations,  Revolutions and more. If he used any of these I’m not aware of it.

So, if he is telling us that the time range of the eclipse is 2.5 years, that would fit the (approx) 2,5 minutes of duration of the eclipse. But I repeat: the eclipse did not fall on US soil, we still have a wide time frame and the eastern seaboard is a massive area. Why did he not consult other elements? If he did, he doesn’t mention them with any coherence. If he was certain of the attack, why did he not warn anyone in a position to get the word out so that thousands of lives would be saved? Why does he initially make the prediction as if as a casual observer, only to claim it was really a prediction?

There were two Lunar Eclipse in 1999, one on 31 January with maximum eclipse in the Philippines and the other on 28 July with maximum eclipse seen in the central Pacific. neither of these is mentioned by Zoller or any other astrologer, to the best of my knowledge. There was an Annular Solar Eclipse across Western Australia on 116 February 1999, with the maximum eclipse Again, the lack of visibility in N. America would rule out any interpretation of an event in New York. Yet Zoller refers to another eclipse that didn’t stretch to N. America either.

He had predicted the election of George W. Bush, referring to him as “a younger less experienced member of the House of Bush.” It’s a prediction that many people from all walks of life might have made with confidence. but it stands out because the language reads like a mimicry of prophets such as Nostradamus. It’s as if we are being thrown off the scent at every turn, left wondering if there was anything to find in the first place.  Below is a chart for the eclipse set for New York, even though it was not visible from anywhere in the Americas.

We see that Saturn and Jupiter are moving into Superior Conjunction. This occurs approximately every ten years and has been considered of great astrological importance since antiquity. This [henomene marks a new epoch. This consideration is crucial in most Mundane readings of this type. It hasn’t happened yet, but it soon will on 31 May 2000 The 12th House of hidden enemies is the point of the eclipse. Mars is in perfect opposition to Saturn. As with the eclipse itself, which places the stress om the alleged enemies of the US. Venus is her Fall and Retrograde, and Lady of both Saturn and Jupiter. I have no way of knowing if Zoller consulted a chart anything like this, but it seems likely considering his emphasis on the eclipse.

Below is the chart for the first plane crash into the WTC. I add ir here to see, even in a general way, what Zoller might have envisioned.  What was he looking at that would convince him that the attack would be from Muslim fundamentalist? Islam is under Venus and the eclipse was in Leo. There really is no reason why Zoller would consult such a chart. unless it was after the fact. I leave it here for those wishing to examine this chart.

This is by no means intended as a person or a professional attack on Robert Zoller, who has a well-founded reputation as one of the most important astrologers of his generation. However, readers have raised these questions and I thought it best to put out there for an explanation and an opportunity for discussion. Moreover, when a high profile astrologer makes such a prediction, they must expect to be questioned on how the prediction was made. The eclipse needs to be explained anew or disqualified as part of a prediction if, in fact, a prediction occurred in the first place.

The one astrologer that predicted the attack to the exact day was a popular but unpretentious astrologer named Lynne Palmer who wrote: ““Avoid terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001” in her almanack. Robert Hand recognizes hers as the only accurate prediction but has not been able to discover how she arrived at such an accurate conclusion.

As a footnote, there is another way of looking at this, but I see no evidence that Zoller did so. The eclipse cuts through countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. This is a complete list of the countries who felt the wrath of the US military, but none of them was proven to be responsible for the 9/11 attacks. The scapegoat was primarily in Iraq and then Afghanistan.  This was the question I asked at the time.

If you google this subject, you are sure to come upon a critique of this alleged prediction at http://www.skepticreport.com/sr/?p=535. The writer states that ” In fact, whenever Zoller was precise, he was wrong. Whenever he was waffling, he now claims accuracy. ” These are harsh words, but, as always, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


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We here at The A.V. Club continue to bask in the afterglow of our unexpected cameo in last night’s episode of The Simpsons. But how did it come about? How did a reference to our humble publication end up in this most venerable, beloved and influential of pop-culture institutions? For an answer, we emailed Matt Selman, the episode's writer, who was kind enough to give us the following explanation for our appearance:

“I love it when The Simpsons references specific real world things that people are passionate about.  It's what drew me to the show when I was just a fan, and I love putting those specific references in now that I have some power over these things.  To include The Onion and The A.V. Club is an honor.

I was writing an episode about Marge feeling awkward and uncool around the new mom next door.  I remembered a friend of mine's father had recently thought an Onion article was real, then feeling lame afterwards when he found out the truth.  I thought this was perfect for Marge, who probably wouldn't know what the Onion is, and this misunderstanding would be a great awkward and embarrassing moment for her.

When we were rewriting the script in the room, the fantastic Matt Warburton then pitched the double-embarrassment that Marge, after not knowing The Onion was fake, trying to roll with it, and playing along that The A.V. Club was also made up.  To me, it was a super character moment that came from a real situation.  That we could reference the beloved institutions of The Onion and The A.V. Club made it even more fun.

The hard part, that we didn't think about, was that in order to show The Onion we would have to write Onion-quality jokes for Marge to think are real.  This was intimidating.  I hope the ones we put in are ok.  We weren't making fun of The Onion, we were just trying to do what they do.  Much tougher.  I wanted to put in one headline about a "Local Man" but forgot.

One more thing.  I am a huge fan of The A.V. Club.  I read it often, and think its tone and depth really speaks to me.  Sometimes I look forward more to The A.V. Club because it makes me feel smart, as opposed to The Onion, which is so funny it makes me feel stupid.”

[Paul Harvey voice] And now you know the rest of the story!


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ISSUE 32
WINTER 2000/01
Peace Matters index

goddesses of peace

ONLINE contents

- goddesses of peace
- cluster bombs
- kid's tv preventing violence
- reactionary forces
- peacemaking in Cyprus
- remembering the holocaust
- conflict transformation

Wellington Arch seen from the Artillery monument at Hyde Park Corner, London

AS THE 20th century came to its final close, the Wellington Arch at London's Hyde Park Corner has, according to English Heritage, 'been saved from ruin and returned to its full glory'. The removal of this 172-year-old monument from the 'Buildings at Risk Register', following the completion of a £1.5 million restoration project, was celebrated with fireworks in mid-December.

Built in 1828 and originally intended as a ceremonial gateway to Green Park and Buckingham Palace, the arch and its completion was taken over by a committee then organising a national monument to the Duke of Wellington. In 1846, when he left public life after losing the Tory party the election, a massive and wholly disproportionate equestrian statue of the Iron Duke was set up on the arch. The public outcry that followed showed how fickle fate can be. The statue of the victor of Waterloo (albeit with a little help from the Prussian army) was unceremoniously despatched to Aldershot.
Fifty years later, just two years before the English once more joined in battle with the Prussians (though this time on opposing sides), 'Peace descending on the Chariot of War' was erected on the long-vacant arch-top. It has now been splendidly restored.

Further treats are in store for visitors to London in the spring, when the final phase of the restoration of the arch's interior will be completed. Here visitors will be able to view exhibitions about London's war memorials. A leaflet, first in a series 'on London's distinguished heritage of public memorials and sculptures', is already available, based on a tour of 13 major war memorials in central London. Visitors and locals alike have so far passed by most of these without a glance, let alone understanding.

Many public sculptures are in fact worth a passing glance. Some even have entertainment value: spot the Kaiser's whiskers on the dragon slain by St George on the Cavalry Memorial, or wonder at the memorial given by the grateful Belgians, begun over a year before the war had even ended! Most public monuments are displays of self-aggrandisement, power or justification, and 'war memorials' aren't all that different. At one time they also provided a meaningful and helpful focus for the bereaved, but today even that function is long gone. Only their project to justify war remains.

Now that the British Legion allows mere civilians (is this the product of desperation?) to take part in the march past the national war memorial, the Cenotaph, on Remembrance Sunday, the march grows ever longer as anyone wishing to be associated with the spectacle joins in. The public mostly ignore the British Legion's peculiar appeals - 'The Poppy can only continue with your help. Please help to keep it alive - always and for ever'. Institutions, on the other hand, manifest a strange kind of political correctness: they put up notices or make announcements indicating that 'There will be a one (or two) minute silence'. These, too, are mostly ignored, except when television cameras are on the scene. Politicians and television presenters appear each with a 'compulsory' red poppy, but the buttonholes of people outside the studios are significantly bare.

Far below the goddess of peace on the Wellington arch, in a shady and neglected corner, lies an unusual statue of a dead soldier. Few war memorials have dared such a representation. Here what could have been a powerful statement against war - surrounded as it is by the more sentimental imagery of the Royal Artillery's official memorial - ends up saying very little of war's terrible truth. Not surprising - it's not what war memorials are supposed to express

Some 600 miles to the west of Hyde Park Corner, atop a somewhat grander triumphal arch in Berlin, stands another chariot of war. It bears another goddess of peace, whose power, given the circumstances, is seriously in doubt. It only took a few years after its erection for peace to be shattered, when Napoleon marched through the Brandenburg Gate and took the war chariot and its passenger away with him to Paris. However, it was a short absence, thanks to the Iron Duke whose magnificent equestrian statue now languishes in obscurity: his feats at Waterloo enabled the Kaiser to recover the war chariot and return it to its place. A lesson had been learned: the goddess was renamed 'Victory'. Once she looked defiantly towards France; later, perhaps enviously, she stared into West Berlin. One might fancy that today, newly polished and again surrounded with institutions of power, Victory can see past the tanks of the Soviet war memorial and, on a clear day, catch a distant glimpse of our own goddess of peace. On top of her restored arch, in the middle of a London traffic island, Peace on the Chariot of War gazes nowhere in particular as the hired German submarines patrol Britain's coast.

Jan Melichar


Victor Webster

Victor Webster was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In the summer of 1986 Victor and his family moved to San Clemente, Ca. where he attended High School. After graduation he attended Saddleback junior college and then went on to become a Stock broker. He later owned and operated an import/export company and then slowly transitioned into acting after moving to Los Angeles in 1998. Victor is currently best known for appearing as Carlos Fonnegra in Continuum, which has just been renewed for a second season.

Victor can be found on Twitter.


The Vacant Chair

Multi-medium, variable dimensions

‘The vacant chair’ is part of Bang Nhat Linh’s long term practice, in which, the whole process reflects “the surveys into the depths of memories, history, submerged psychological spaces, and of oblivion…”, in which “war memorabilia are taken from their original contexts to be placed within a new context, or they are positioned in a relationship with human as communicable and interactive objects…”

‘The vacant chair’ is a multi-layered video installation. It is an intimate narrative, whereby social issues derived from modern history of a turbulent Vietnam are unveiled: the wounds, tolerance, optimism, as well as the special relationship amongst those who remain. From a broader angle, it suggests an universal sense of existence and death, particularly the limited nature of the human race… On the other hand, through the act of transforming a powerful symbol of war into a symbol of love and loss, the work steps out of its geographical context to tell a universal story of all humanity. ‘The vacant chair’, therefore, is a song of humanity, and for humanity…

*’The vacant chair’ is a popular song during the American Civil War written by George F. Root in 1861 based on a poem by Henry S. Washburn. The song signifies the loss and emptiness of those who lost their loved ones in the Civil War, it specially gained empathy from both the North and the South of the United States during the war.

This is version 2/2 of the artwork, was on display at “SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now”– Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan in 2017, curated by team of the National Art Center, The Mori Art Museum and 4 independent curators from Southeast Asia. Previously it was exhibited at Địa Projects Dong Khoi and Nha San Collective (Hanoi) in 2015 (curated by Le Thuan Uyen). Version 1/2 was presented in Exhibition “Mien Meo Mieng” at Builmusset, Umea, Sweden (curated by Tran Luong).


Thursday, 20 September, 2018

Ontario woman accidentally steals vehicle from Walmart parking lot

Ontario woman accidentally steals vehicle from Walmart parking lot Ontario woman accidentally steals vehicle from Walmart parking lot
Melinda Barton | 14 July, 2018, 02:55

The woman rented a black Nissan Sentra compact sedan from an Enterprise outlet, drove it to a Wal-Mart about two kilometres away and went shopping, explained the National Post.

Police are advising drivers who have cars that use fobs to not leave them in the auto as this makes them much easier to steal, even if it is accidentally.

After renting the vehicle, MacKay said the woman drove three or four minutes to the local Walmart where she did some grocery shopping. The owner of the vehicle left his fob in the auto, enabling the woman to drive away. Upon exiting the store, she climbed in a black Nissan - the vehicle was open and the key's were in the ignition - and drove home.

"The manager ... proceeded to ask her where she went after leaving the vehicle rental two weeks ago".

The man however, found that his vehicle was missing after he had finished his shopping, and reported it stolen to the Cornwall Community Police Service. She then drove that vehicle to a nearby Walmart to do some shopping.

The auto started right up and she drove off because the vehicle, much like her rental did not use a key to start the auto, but a key fob.

But little did she know she was actually seated behind the wheel of someone else's auto.

"Once inside, the woman spoke to the manager and commented about how unkempt the inside of the vehicle was and the fact that there was a set of golf clubs in it as well", the Cornall Community Police Service said on its Facebook page.

"The manager and the woman, who was now confused and a wee bit embarrassed herself, returned to the auto rental company and contacted police, providing the information for the Infiniti and what took place", the post stated. "The woman was not impressed and handed over the keys". There sat the Nissan Sentra, exactly where the woman had parked it two weeks earlier.

Police in Canada are reminding drivers not to leave electronic key fobs sitting in unattended vehicles, after a woman in Ontario accidentally stole a auto for two weeks having mistaken it for her rental auto. Police stressed: "Never leave a key fob in a vehicle unless it's being driven".

Fortunately, nothing bad came out of the ordeal - and all parties involved have a wacky story they can tell to their friends and family members.

And so began the sleuthing, as the auto rental manager and the embarrassed renter started retracing her steps, beginning in the Walmart parking lot.


Bermuda Island

Bermuda Island

This article is about our discoveries in Bermuda that are past simply the tourism attractions and opportunities. As we continued investigating the island amid our numerous visits, we began to uncover parcel more data like how was the island Bermuda shaped as it would turn out? How did people land here? Indeed, the glow and agreeableness of the individuals activated us to get some answers concerning their experience and society, the neighborhood traditions and conventions, and numerous different points of interest.

We began burrowing more profound to comprehend the historical backdrop of Bermuda, how the British settlement occurred path back in the mid 1600s, how the tourism business began developing and alongside it the International business that through the years made Bermuda one of the wealthiest nations on the planet. The greenery of the island excessively offers something other than what's expected and astounding that we rarely discovered any place on the planet.

How was Bermuda shaped?

Despite the fact that Bermuda on most maps resembles a spot, as you take a closer view, you will see that the state of the island is similar to a fish snare, twisting the close south-west end and the stem broadening towards northeast. Really Bermuda is not a solitary island. It is a group of approximately 180 islands and situated in the North Atlantic sea. Some of these islands are tiny to the point that they are fit just for fowls' homes. The aggregate territory, including all these modest islands is minimal more than 21 square miles. Just around 20 of these islands are occupied and seven of the bigger ones are joined by extensions and thoroughfares to the principle Bermuda island.

Bermuda is really a volcanic rock made as a consequence of a volcanic ejection from the sea floor exactly 100 million years back. From the ocean bottom up to 200 feet underneath the water surface, it’s all volcanic rock. The remaining piece of the island up to what you see over the surface is limestone, shake that comprises of seashells and corals. The most astounding purpose of Bermuda called the Town Hill is around 260 feet over the ocean level and is situated in Southampton Parish. The limestone shakes that shaped the upper piece of Bermuda islands have had a critical impact in the life of Bermudians. It's a stone that is characteristically delicate and can be effectively cut with even saws. Anyhow, it gets to be hard with an introduction to air. Bermudians have utilized this stone to make the white glossy streets in the island that are only cleaned limestone.

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An Insider Perspective to Launching Promising Opportunities

28 Nov An Insider Perspective to Launching Promising Opportunities

An Insider Perspective to Launching Promising Opportunities
Valerie Martinelli, MPA

Part of my mission of coaching women to fill the gender gap is also to inspire girls to seize each opportunity to fulfill their dreams and not be discouraged by what they may be currently observing in society. Some believe that we need to focus solely on younger generations and what we can bestow to them, however, if we cannot provide them better lives and opportunities then we are setting them up for failure. So, how can teach girls that they can fulfill their dreams without worry of failure, gender bias, and an uneven playing field?

Role Models and Mentors

By giving mothers the opportunity to succeed then it offers them the ability to care for their families. Children who grow up in poverty are more likely to remain in poverty throughout adulthood. Aside from that, girls need to see that they can be whatever they want when they grow up. By filling professional roles and ranks with women, they will have the roles models and mentors that they need. When girls do not see women in STEM, science, corporate boards, entrepreneurship, and more they think that they cannot or should not be occupying those professions. I coach women to provide them with the skills and tools necessary to be successful with the additional objective of closing the gender gap. If a little girl sees her mom taking her career seriously and succeeding then she is more likely to believe that she can do the same and will set big goals for herself. It is important that current generations serve as role models and mentors for younger generations. The biggest part of closing this gender gap is giving the current workforce the skills it needs to be successful before we can even implement the tools necessary for younger generations. It is impossible to make progress and create change if there isn’t an action plan or a strategy to make our country, businesses, economy, and society a productive, dynamic, and successful one.

Educational Opportunities

If girls are afforded equal opportunities in school, they can achieve and succeed academically because they will have the necessary support system. Girls should be empowered through equal opportunities, including sports, art, music, and science. Giving them an outlet to learn more, learn and build new skills, make new friends, and discover more about themselves also develops their confidence. Fostering their confidence is a huge factor for any future success because then they will not shy away from new experiences, challenges, and they will have the resilience to deal with any possible setbacks. It is the resilience that will make them stronger well into adulthood because they will bounce back easily from any disappointments, difficulties, or obstacles that life brings.

Educational opportunities also deliver problem-solving skills. The capability to solve problems readily and easily later in life will be beneficial in college and in the workplace. Interpersonal relationships and businesses can fail due to poor problem solving skills. Poor problem-solving skills can lead to issues not being recognized, not being dealt with appropriately, or in a timely or efficient manner. This is also a top interpersonal skill that employers seek and it is also one in which men have had an advantage because they tend to dominate the process and use it as an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and ability. Women tend to talk it out and rely on their communication skills before deciding on a solution. Gender differences are normal and a part of life; however, it is in the known gaps that men have an advantage.

Leadership Opportunities

Girls also need to be provided outlets to hone their leadership skills. Once they become teenagers, most girls’ feel that it is more important to fit in with their friends than it is to be who they are and stand up for what they believe in. In other words, girls can have good leadership skills at a young age and those skills typically are lost when they begin to shift and focus on other things in life that puberty, life, friendships, and school bring. As a society we also are not doing enough during this time period to help them maintain these skills into their twenties. Once they are in high school and college, they shift their focus once again and what is an awkward time for most teenage girls can develop into poor leadership skills if they are not given the outlet to continually learn how to become leaders who can be successful, productive, dynamic, and happy. By not enhancing these skills we also are not enhancing their confidence. Girls may be too shy to speak up in class, take on an activity or a project, or an extracurricular activity. In addition, they still are not seeing enough female role models to understand that they too are capable of these things and to inspire them into these roles.

My Mission

I would like to inspire girls into these roles and believing that they too can be all that they wish if they work hard and learn the skills that are necessary. By coaching women with the objective of closing the gender gap, it is providing mothers, aunts, sisters, and more the skills necessary to teach girls what they need to learn to have equally successful, productive, and happy lives. It is important to me that we teach them that the world does not belong to men and achievements aren’t exclusive to them either. If they have the confidence and the skills and believe that they too strong, smart, and dynamic then they will have the confidence to fulfill their dreams and continue to pay it forward by inspiring others. Ladies, by working together we can continue to inspire future generations to fulfill their dreams and we too, can ensure that their wishes come true.

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Consuming too much Sugar may Interfere with your Central Nervous System

To explain what sugar can actually do to your brain, let’s begin with the thought triggering your requirement for sweetness.

Sometimes, it happens in the afternoon that your brain, that technically works on sugar, begin giving hints of hunger. To satisfy these cravings, the brain tends to activate a string of neurons, known as the reward pathway.

This reward pathway works to pump up the neurotransmitter dopamine into the brain.

In a matter of minutes, you develop a craving for chocolate or that sweet muffin that you glanced at during lunchtime.

If you decide to work on this craving, the reward pathway shifts mode. It then pumps chemical like beta-endorphins to your brain. These chemicals eventually produce feelings of happiness and pleasure.

The Role of Sugar

A lot of names come into your mind when you think of the word “sugar”. Dextrose, lactose, fructose, maltose, all of these are a different name for sugar. In fact, sugar is said to have at least 50 different names.

What sugar does to your brain

But the real question is, is sugar bad for your health?

Essentially, two types of sugar can be found in your body; the good sugar which occurs naturally in vegetables and fruits and the “bad” sugar that is a part of candy, sweetened sodas, baked goods and other items.

Your body actually requires good sugar, particularly to regulate its nervous activities. As soon as you eat a sugar-loaded meal, it starts breaking down. All the proteins, carbohydrates, glycogen, triglycerides, and fats are eventually converted to form glucose.

Glucose is so important for the cells to function that the deprivation of it can cause loss of consciousness and death of the cells. Hence, your body has derived a system to store glucose in the form of reserve and use it at the time of shortage.

All the cells in your body require energy to work. Even the neuronal cells in the brain forming the delicate structure of the brain require it. The basic source of energy for the brain is derived from glucose.

Did you know that your brain alone utilizes around 20 percent of your daily energy intake?

Not only is sugar important to carry out different nervous functions, but is a treat to your taste buds as well. As soon as you eat something loaded with sugar, the taste receptors in your body get activated.

These receptors send signals towards the brain, setting off an entire cascade of stimulation. As soon as the dopaminergic pathway gets activated, it compels you to carry out the “YUM!” signal.

This particular pathway initiates in a cell cluster present at the base of the brainstem. The area goes by the name of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and is seen extending all the way through the lateral part of the hypothalamus and making its way into the nucleus accumbens present in the forebrain.

Behaviors that trigger the release of dopamine neurotransmitter within this particular pathway is known to create feelings of high motivation.

RELATED: Is caffeine affecting your blood sugar?

Glucose is critical for the cells to function and survive. It is also responsible for stimulating the reward pathway going on in your brain, the pathway that makes everything feel like rainbows and unicorn.

Life is good with sugar, except that too much of everything is essentially bad.

An important question that needs to be answered is that how much sugar can you safely consume?

According to the American Heart Association, the safe upper limit for women is 6 teaspoons of sugar per day. For men, the upper limit is restricted to 9 teaspoons per day.

What sugar does to your brain

In addition to the naturally occurring sugar that you consume in your diet, you are estimated to consume almost 22 teaspoons of added sugar on average.

This causes your reward pathway to keep getting stimulated, eventually desensitizing the dopamine receptors. This leads to a feeling similar to addiction in which your body starts requiring high amounts of dopamine to achieve the same pleasant feeling.

Hence, your body eventually starts demanding more amounts of sugar, in the form of food and drink, to carry out the same response. As the sugar consumption increases, the chances of obesity, particularly childhood obesity, increases.

A diet with high levels of sugar and saturated diet can induce different fundamental changes in the brain. These changes together with the increase in neurotransmitter dopamine can cause detrimental effects on your brain.

Learning and Memory

Studies have indicated that consuming a diet rich in saturated fats and sugar can increase the oxidative stress and induce cell damage. In 2010, a study was carried out at the Perdue University in which it was successfully shown that consuming a diet rich in sugar and saturated fats for three days can impair the functions of the hippocampus.

Since the hippocampus functioning gets impaired due to sugar, the mice that took part in this study had impaired learning and memory and were not able to find food within a maze.

Other studies have also illustrated that the brain, hippocampus, in particular, is extremely sensitive to a high-energy diet.

The addiction to sugar is real. The pathway involved in causing addiction is similar to the reward pathway. A continuous increase occurring in the release of dopamine neurotransmitter causes desensitization.

What sugar does to your brain

Hence, your body starts demanding more consumption to get the feeling of pleasure. A cycle in which dopamine release leads to reward and the feeling of motivation is initiate, which is hard to break

Depression & Anxiety

Once you get addicted to sugar, any attempt to break the addictive cycle may come with consequences such as irritability and mood swings.

Elimination of all the additive sugar from the diet can cause the symptoms similar to that of a drug withdrawal. Sugar withdrawal is real and is characterized by symptoms such as anxiety, depression, headaches, cravings, and sometimes chills as well.

RELATED: Why should you avoid sugar?

Cognitive Deficits

Eating a diet loaded with sugar for a longer duration of time can lead to alterations in your gene expression. This can affect everything, from the neurotransmitter functions to their receptors, even the basic functionality of the cells.

Studies have suggested that the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is greatly affected by sugar. This factor is present in the cortex, hippocampus, and the forebrain and is essential for the process of memory and learning. It also supports the existing neurons and stimulates the development of new synapses.

What sugar does to your brain

BDNF along with all the important functions it performs can be impaired by the excessive consumption of sugar.

Hence, it is not surprising to know that a relation between lower amounts of BDNF and diseases like depression, Alzheimer’s and dementia has been proved.

Continued research in neuroscience is providing valuable information regarding the effect of sugar on the brain. Further knowledge gained from research may also lead to changes in the ways to treat these cognitive disorders.

What can you do?

So, what is it that you can do to protect your brain from the harmful effects of sugar?

According to the experts, there is nothing much to do except trying to eat it in fewer amounts.

However, if you have already developed an addiction to sugar, meditation exercises can help to build focus and improve willpower.

Omega-3 fatty acids, usually found in the fish oil, have been shown to exert Neuroprotective functions in some clinical trials. These fatty acids have also been found to boost hippocampus function which is normally impaired in sugar addiction.

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by Sam Buntz

“You know then that it is not the reason
That makes us happy or unhappy:
The bird sings. Its feathers shine.” –Wallace Stevens, “Of Mere Being”

Psychologically, there are few things more damaging than the belief that one is living in a closed system. The notion that discursive thought can arrive at all possible answers—and that the universe is a system in which all possible questions can be resolved—is not only arrogant but, in a fundamental way, unscientific and irrational. For a specific example of this wrongheadedness in action, we can consider the search for an equation that can explain the entirety of existence—a “Theory of Everything.” Of course, most scientists engaged in the quest for this theory don’t consider why there should be an equation that describes all of reality, in the first place—for some reason, in their understanding, reality isn’t comprised of heterogeneous fragments, but forms an ideal whole: the four fundamental forces of nature need to resolve into one force, and the masses of all particles need to receive their values from one specific particle, and so on. I understand why I believe that reality forms a whole, or why a Roman Catholic believes this to be the case—but I have no idea why theoretical physicists like Stephen Hawking or Lawrence Krauss believe this to be the case. And I have never heard them explain themselves in a coherent way.

The idea that all things must, in some fashion, be unified or have a single purpose behind them comes from the imagination, from an intuitive sense, from faith, from strange inner suggestions about the shape the cosmos should take—it does not come from pure logic or reason. To suggest that it does is, in a way, highly unreasonable: pure logic doesn’t determine what we look for, but is only a method of pursuit. The ground of our first principles remains occult—and I italicize that word in order to suggest all of its meanings.

Within a closed system, completely defined by one equation, expectations never shatter. The world is pictured as clockwork—clockwork we haven’t studied yet, and clockwork we have. Minds reduce to physical patterns, immense chemical billiard games—the experts just need to figure out the angles and trajectories. Meanwhile, we live in rigid structures, rigidly defined. We are like the mouse in Kafka’s parable, complaining that its passage through a maze continues to narrow day-by-day—until a cat tells the mouse that it only needs to change its direction… before gobbling it up.

It is interesting that societies officially predicated on rationalism—societies, which made a dogma out of the belief that we were living within a solved system, determined by a final equation—devolved into madness and the starkest irrationality. They ended up replacing the transcendent mystery of the cosmos—a mystery that beckons humanity to seek for its solution, even as it confounds reason’s attempts to do so—with an image of the mundane human ego, projected and grotesquely enlarged on a million propaganda posters and flickering screens: Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un and all the other classic instances of ultra-secular personality cultism.

Somehow, in seeking to magnify the imperatives of the human ego, we narrow the world—and can continue narrowing it indefinitely. By refusing to ground the human spirit in a transcendent reality—one above yet intersecting with space and time—these ostensibly “rational” and scientifically minded regimes managed to constrict that spirit virtually to a point. While attempting to celebrate the human spirit by projecting it into the form of one human leader and the ego of that leader, they denied it and crushed it. They created a gross parody of religion, mirroring the worst forms of fanaticism faultlessly. It’s fair to say that overtly non-secular and theocratic regimes—like that of Iran—actually do the same thing: they substitute the minds of power-hungry, ego-driven clerics for the transcendent or for the God to whom they supposedly appeal. Without imagination, without openness to possibilities yet unrealized, reason becomes a noose: it can only tighten, hanging its most devout votaries.

The Healing Balm of Indifference

by Sam Buntz

Is This Philly’s Sound?

by Sam Buntz

I’ve never heard anyone describe the kind of music created by The War on Drugs, Strand of Oaks, or Kurt Vile as, specifically, a “Philly Sound” or the “Philly Sound” or anything like that—though I have read articles in which all three of those bands/artists have been compared to one another. (Technically, the classic “Philly Sound” is probably Philadelphia Soul, anyway—but we’re talking about what’s happening in the Now). That being the case, maybe it’s time to finally draw some lines and say what’s what? The boundaries between where one “sound” ends and where another begins have always been pretty arbitrary—like the way far-flung cultures divide the spectrum of visible color differently (one person’s blue is another person’s green). Yet, let’s take a shot at defining the sound, anyway, despite all that.

These three groups/artists all strike me as being part of “Cosmic American Music”—as the alternative country legend Gram Parsons named it. There’s a sense of expansion—canyons and plains implicit in the soaring synths and delay-heavy, reverb-heavy guitar, the visions of early pioneers (which is funny, considering the music is emanating from the East Coast)—along with a sense of smallness, of being a tiny person lost in a swirling, vast Domain. Both these feelings strike at the emotional core of so many Americans’ lives. Walt Whitman, probably the greatest American poet (along with Emily Dickinson), expressed the darker mood—the sense of smallness or contraction—writing in “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life”:

Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath.”

Although these Philly artists are using the idiom of rock, they all get what Whitman’s talking about. “There’s just a stranger living in me,” sings Adam Granduciel in The War on Drugs’ “Eyes to the Wind”—expressing the same feeling of desperate self-separation as Whitman, searching and failing to find his “real Me.” But it’s really the feeling-tone of the music, the guitar and synth-based soundscapes that convey this experience: the lyrics hint at it, but you can’t really find it without absorbing the sound.

In the liner notes for a re-release of The Last Waltz, Harold Bloom praised The Band and Bob Dylan for capturing a certain strain of “spiritual loneliness” in American music. The loneliness is “spiritual” because it’s creative—you’re isolated somewhere out in the vast terrain of America, yet despite all this, you sense massive creative potentialities hidden in your lonely self, which you then convert into musical or poetic realities. These Philly groups definitely access the same vein of “spiritual loneliness” (just read about the recording process for Strand of Oaks’ Heal and The War on Drugs’ Lost in the Dream—both albums emerged from intense periods of solitude and creative effort), and Dylan fans like Granduciel and Vile would probably enjoy the comparison. Strand of Oaks’ Timothy Showalter (who really is the band) belts out, “I was lonely / I was having fun” as a pre-chorus on “Goshen ’97.” Specifically, he’s having fun making music, and the loneliness propels that creative activity. You need to fill that inner emptiness up—just like the pioneers, filling empty deserts and plains (except that those weren’t, strictly speaking, empty: there were actually Native Americans there—though that’s an issue or five away from the subject of this article, obviously). Although those lyrics aren’t, as written, poetry, they take on the quality of poetry when they become transfigured by the music in which they find themselves embedded.

None of these bands have lyrics that would transfer really well to the page—as is true in the vast majority of cases (Dylan’s always been the big exception to this rule, to some degree). Their words are crafted to work with music, not with the silent rhythm of a reader’s mind. But they’re still interesting: Granduciel and Vile’s lyrics capture the hum of thoughts drifting casually through a tired or distracted brain, and include the kind of things you tend to hear your subconscious muttering when you tune into it. Here’s Vile: “You could say I been most all around / But honey I ain’t goin nowhere / Don’t worry bout a thing / It’s only dying / I live along a straight line / Nothing comes to mind.” So, yeah… Whatever that meant. And here’s Granduciel, in a somewhat more coherent mode: “I come to my soul / Walking in the downtown / Talk to my soul / They won’t get lost inside again / On my way / I can see it the darkness coming my way / Well we’re here / Don’t get lost inside /Yeah, you won’t get lost inside at all…” It’s a little like Samuel Beckett… and it makes sense: it’s the same sort of conversation-with-your-own-soul that Whitman used to have, part of his search for the “real Me” or mystic “Me, Myself”. But it doesn’t really become art until it fits into a musical context. (It’d be wrong not to note that.)

A great album to compare with the work of these Philly bands is The Joshua Tree (Showalter’s on record as being a U2 fan; and I’d be surprised if Granduciel and Vile were going to slag off The Edge). Tracks like “In God’s Country” and “Where the Streets Have No Name” definitely get at that delay-laden, American Sonic Expanse—despite having been composed by non-Americans, of course. U2 was consciously trying to explore America with that album, and The War on Drugs, Vile, and Showalter all testify to the accuracy of U2’s musical observations—they’re the denizens of the America U2 explored back in the ’80s, even though they’re living in Philly and not halfway between Texas and a mysterious desert Nowhere. They inhabit the same psychological and spiritual landscape… The Irishmen staring out across the Western Shore were right—they had the perfect vantage point from which to contemplate (what it should be fair to call, without a hint of corniness or irony) the American Spirit.

But, as indicated in some of the above, life in this soundscape America isn’t just a lonely drag. There’s a spiritual bigness that goes along with the feeling of smallness. Whitman could go from the despair of “As I Ebb’d with the Ocean of Life” to the triumphant, cosmic expansion of “Song of Myself”: “I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.” Whitman is mystically becoming everything—and, listening to some of these albums, you get the sense that that could happen, considering the guitars’ capacity to evoke really large spaces. These new Philly sounds are an unexpected blessing in these dark days, and the fact that an ancient, storied state like Pennsylvania still has the juice—and can still launch us, musically, into this kind of psycho-spiritual headspace—is enough to cheer at least one former resident.

A Most Excellent World

by Sam Buntz

There is nothing more difficult for the imagination than to guide a story through utter darkness to a happy conclusion—a believably happy conclusion. We tend to think that King Lear is pretty great—but even it, unimpeachable masterpiece that it no doubt is, only leads us through extreme darkness to an end-point that is yet extremely dark. When it came to finding peace and rest and last, the Bard had no trouble in guiding his comedies to terminate in pleasant dreams—but to start where Lear ends, and to somehow weave the chain of events round to light, without boring the audience with metaphysics or shocking its fundamental credulity… this was beyond even the Bard’s capabilities (as was depicting sainthood). It may be that Life itself is the only story that dares the worst before reaching the best…  For instance, it’s not too hard to author a story in which the hero surmounts a history of petty thievery or the death of his own family to achieve something noble and good.  But it is difficult to create a “hero” who can really rise through genuine, extreme, personal darkness — through murdering his own family or ordering a massacre — to somehow attain redemption.  That taxes the imagination.

To some extent, you could argue that Dante achieved this great goal—since, as a character, he goes from initial despair in a “dark wood” to a final Vision of God. But, of course, all the real bad boys are left squirming in hell. To depict their redemption would’ve been more to the point—an ultimate tribute to and of the imagination. After all, Dante the Pilgrim was only ever a little off course… To make things clearer: it would be difficult for a human being to write a series of novels, plays, or movies successfully detailing the spiritual evolution of the soul of Hitler or of Ted Bundy, in the afterlife or in numerous future incarnations, in the hells and in our world, culminating in ultimate redemption and rebirth. Is there an imagination capable of authoring that story? I believe there is—to speak of Divine Imagination. But I leave the question with you.

Part of the difficulty in attaining this quest, or even getting it off the ground, lies in evoking a transcendent world—a “most excellent world”—using material dredged from a world that, to all appearances, is actually quite anti-transcendent, quite mundane, even pretty terrible. It is a kind of imaginative alchemy—the conversion of dross to gold—that only the most genuine creators can attempt. Dante gave it one of the all-time great shots, ladling on the special effects and the psychedelic, angelic choreography in his Paradiso, and you could praise Blake, Wordsworth, Rilke and others for their equally convincing intimations of immortality. This at least—putting aside the spiritual evolution of former tyrants and serial killers—is possible. It is within the imagination’s reach. (The Palme d’Or-winning Tree of Life managed to do this very effectively, to select a more recent example). If “faith” is allowed to still have a meaning, I think it means resting in the knowledge that the bridge of Divine Imagination will eventually span the chasm between the scattered shadows of the mundane world and the true daylight of the whole, the complete, the “most excellent” world.

‘A Certain Tone of Feeling’ and ‘The Pen of the Gods’

by Sam Buntz

“A Certain Tone of Feeling”

I write about politics on my blog sometimes—and I always regret it. It’s not just that I have a penchant for second-guessing myself (which I do) but that I ultimately feel like, by spouting political jabber, I’m only buying into another moth-eaten conception of the “Good Life”—yet, a conception, always, at bottom, cold and inhuman. To take two extremes: Libertarianism and Communism both, in their popular expressions, are devoid of any feeling, any real hint of sympathy for the human race. In making their critiques, wrath is typically the resonant tone (wrath against exploiters or presumed exploiters and wrath against moochers or presumed moochers)—and wrath is always its own undertaker. The Collective and the Individual, as features of political textbooks, are both abstractions… the coldest, hardest abstractions. A purely mental “love” for humanity is really no love at all. To the contrary, only a special quality of feeling, like longing or devotion, can awaken the intellect to loftier perceptions—or make any of its twisting designs valid.

Living in Ayn Rand’s utopia or in Karl Marx’s utopia, we would be confronted with a strange situation—a fine-tuned adjustment of all externalities, leaving us, despite all promises, with no real inlet to our actual selves. The terrain of the psyche would still remain wild, despite the fact that the outer world had been “solved”: the inner self would be a baffled, chained passenger rotating on one ideal wheel or the other… Sympathy in all things—it’s an old Romantic truth, which the pundits of today (like the pundits of all ages) can never accept. But it’s still true—what Whitman said: “Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral.”

By getting political about this or that—even if I manage to cloak the politicking in jokes and ironies and self-conscious, fundamentally insincere attempts to provoke—seems contrary to these purposes. I’m leaving another, more important function unfulfilled—and it’s not just a function that I assume I’ve been assigned to fulfill in one way or another. It’s the primary duty (if I may modestly say so). The notion that we can somehow engineer human-heartedness is a pipe-dream—we can make it easier, by adjusting certain social conditions, but there is no formula and never will be. Only a person, acquainted with solitude, with silence, and with the inward reaches of the self, can ultimately access that tone of sacred feeling. It’s probably harder to come by than we assume.

“The Pen of the Gods”

If life is—contrary to some appearances—a story, and not just a fit, a frenzy, and a nightmare; if life has an author or even is an author… then, I sit content, “calm and composed before a thousand universes.” I think I really do believe that’s the case, and I find it genuinely astonishing. If the story really can swoop through the grossest absurdities, the worst atrocities, and somehow, in the fullness of time, still make sense, I am utterly humbled and amazed. If, in the beginning, everything was perfect and stayed perfect, obviously the story wouldn’t have been a story… But if the story can dare all things—can actually, at one point or another, weave through all possible digressions, all genuine variations of cause-and-effect, and all forms of stark nonsense—and still, in the end, remain a good story… well, then I tip my hat to the author or authors (considering that we, each of us, might be one of them) and play whatever part the pen has assigned. That’s more than good Stoic philosophy—it’s a commitment to decent writing.

I’m trying to keep awake and ready for the next twist in the Fable. I know it won’t be the scheme I’ve projected—since it’s never been—and part of the point of the Story is to baffle our expectations, to fulfill its own narrative demands rather than those of our own cheap-seat comments (we’re both spectators and characters, apparently). In Henry James’ “The Beast in the Jungle” the twist is that there is no twist—nothing really happens to the main character, despite the fact that he expected something would, all his life. That Nothing is the Something that happens. And why isn’t that good enough for me… or you? Who am I to say it isn’t? But, of course, now that I’ve guessed that possible outcome, I’m hoping the Story won’t be so crude as to give me the very ending (or non-ending) I’ve been anticipating. I have more faith in the authors than that—I think the writers’ room will come up with something, even if it requires multiple incarnations as a catfish or a grasshopper or a speed freak. The sordid and mundane will be made meaningful in that long-awaited fullness of time. Oh, Divine Pen—blur no word, blot no line!


Research Paper on Rugby

Rugby is the term used to describe a family of collective ball games whose rules were derived from the football played at Rugby School in England in the first half of the nineteenth century. Codified for the first time in 1846, the Rugby School Rules or Rugby football was definitely separated from other footballs in 1863, when the Football Association was created. The federation (Rugby Football Union) was founded in 1871.

After the rules have been adopted, Rugby Football had its dissemination all over the world since the 1850s, it was then mixed with local practices to create, in the second half of the nineteenth century, Gaelic football in Ireland, Australian football, Canadian football or American football.

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In 1895, clubs of northern England left the Rugby Football Union to create the Northern Rugby Football Union (NRFU), which became in 1922 the Rugby Football League. In 1906, the rules of the NRFU decrease the number of players in each team from 15 to 13, which allows to distinguish the two games by the rugby league and rugby XV titles.

In the twentieth century, many variations have been developed to more extend the practice of rugby. There are versions for example where the tackles are prohibited, other adapted for handicapped, and others performed on sand or snow.

If you have decide to write a research project on rugby, you must learn some rules. First of all, you have to know is that the subject of your research paper must be unique, and to there should be a reasonable cause to study the topic. You must find out if there already are some publication on your topic (or similar topics). It is always useful to conduct a thorough literature review before you take on a new project.

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Different Types of White Collar Crimes

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The term ‘white collar crime’ was first popularized in the 1930s and refers to a non-violent act that an individual or corporation is being prosecuted for. There are a handful of different crimes that fall under this category, including embezzlement, forgery, and bribery.

The penalties for most white collar crimes vary depending on their severity, but in many cases the accused party will be subject to jail or prison time, fines, and restitution. It should be noted that the majority of people charged with white collar crimes are first-time offenders who have never had any interaction with the criminal justice system. With this, many people who are charged with white collar crimes knew that they were being investigated by the government.

Below you will find more information on white collar crimes, including definitions of the most common types.

Most Common White Collar Crimes

  • Bribery

Bribery is one of the most prosecuted white collar crimes in Oklahoma. Bribery occurs when an individual illegally gives another person an item of value in exchange for that person changing their opinion or providing them with an item that they otherwise would not have received.

  • Embezzlement

Unfortunately, crimes of embezzlement have risen in popularity over the years. Embezzlement occurs when a person takes another person’s money or property for their own gain. An example of this would be a bank employee stealing money from a customer’s account.

  • Extortion

Extortion takes place when an individual illegally takes property from someone else by actual or threatened force, fear, or violence.

  • Forgery

Forgery occurs when someone alters or creates a written object, such as a check or credit card, and attempts to use it to commit a fraud.

  • Fraud

An individual may accused of committing fraud when they knowingly misrepresent a fact or item in order to gain a benefit for themselves. This may include falsifying a statement or document.

  • Perjury

Perjury takes place when a person intentionally lies, either in writing or orally while under oath.

  • Tax Evasion or Tax Fraud

This white collar crime takes place when an individual intentionally fails to claim income or property on their tax return.

The above are examples of the most common white collar crimes punishable by law. If you or someone you love is being accused of committing a white collar crime in Oklahoma, it would be in your best interest to contact a lawyer from Atkins & Markoff today. Our attorneys are committed to working closely with each and every client, offering them the best representation possible.