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By Alexandra Browne-Hill.

How do you write about the death of a child? How do you ever come to terms with it?

Alexandra experienced the sudden trauma of being called to the hospital when her son Kieran was involved in a tragic accident while on a camping weekend with his friends. He passed away some days later. This book describes in detail her shock and her grief about the process she and her family went through, and which were written in a diary she kept. The traumas of the decisions to be made during Kieran’s hospital stay, the numbness, the longing, and the subsequent long journey to some acceptance and healing are written in all their rawness.

But mostly, this book is about the conversations she has with Kieran. She pours out her feelings of grief and longing, tells him of family events, and shares the changes his death has brought about for her family and herself. And Kieran appears to her in ‘Kieran form,’ giving her signs that he hears her and is a part of her life. He sends her messages through mediums, a magnificent rainbow, dreams, and whisperings of thoughts, smells, and feathers.

Yet, this book is not a depressing book to read. Yes, it is heart wrenching, a parents’ worst nightmare, and at times it is difficult to see the words for the tears that fill your eyes. But how uplifting it is to read about the unwavering support of Alexandra’s partner and her close neighbours, the difficult and rocky road travelled by her family, her journey towards acceptance—and the human ability to come out on the other side of a traumatic event, still able to live a meaningful and fulfilling life.

This book is written in the simple, raw language of a mother’s grief, not embellished in any way to make it more palatable or mystic. Yet, there is a beauty and honesty about this book that makes it compelling reading

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Craig Sim Webb

There are many benefits to dreams, as I have been showing in recent articles. Many people share with me that they have chronique insomnia and can’t get enough sleep let alone many dreams, so please see the call to action alongside this article for a suggested insomnia solution. Sometimes parents come to me wishing they could help their children resolve nightmares and night terrors, for which a new study is underway (see below). Therefore, I thought I would share a little more about the science behind sleep and dreams.

In 1953, Eugene Aserinsky of the University of Chicago noticed that the eyes of sleeping babies moved beneath their eyelids at certain regular intervals. This led to the discovery of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep periods, which occur at roughly 60-90 minute intervals throughout the night and which contain the dreams which are the most vivid and most often remembered. Since then, EEG (electroencephalogram) recordings, which monitor brain activity during sleep, have been used to map the various stages of sleep. These states are classified roughly into sleep onset (hypnagogia or stage 1 descending), non-REM sleep (deep sleep or stages 2,3, and 4), stage 1 ascending, and REM (or paradoxical) sleep. At the turn of the millenium, dream researcher Mark Solms showed that dreaming and REM sleep are controlled by different brain mechanisms so that dream experiences do not necessarily solely or exactly coincide with REM sleep alone.

Nightmares, Anxiety Dreams & Recurring Dreams

Almost everyone has experienced one or more dreams that contain anxiety or outright fear. These experiences can be quite traumatic or become recurrent. For some, unpleasant dreams or nightmares repeat in actual content. For others, the content may change while the theme remains the same, such as scenes of falling, or of being pursued, attacked, late or unprepared for class, a presentation or an exam. Some people even dream of being stuck in slow motion and unable to move, or of being naked in public, to name a few common themes. Research has shown that most recurring dreams are described as being unpleasant. Furthermore, many dream theories converge in their view that this type of experience is associated with lack of progress by the dreamer to recognize and solve related conflicts in life. Fear of nightmares from early in life, or other anxieties or misguided beliefs about dreams and the unconscious can block dream recall, but this can usually be overcome by learning about the useful nature of dreams and by recognizing that many nightmares, like a bitter but quite necessary medicine, represent opportunities for healing and insight, and can warn of psychological imbalances that we need to remedy, or of current behaviors or decisions that may soon become detrimental unless we change them, as exemplified in this dream by Stanford University pioneer sleep researcher and one of the discoverers of REM sleep, Dr. William Dement:

“Some years ago I was a heavy cigarette smoker, up to two packs a day. Then one night I had an exceptionally vivid and realistic dream in which I had inoperable cancer of the lung. I remember as though it were yesterday looking at the ominous shadow in my chest X-ray and realizing that the entire right lung was infiltrated. I experienced the incredible anguish of knowing my life was soon to end, that I would never see my children grow up, and that none of this would ever have happened if I had quit cigarettes when I first learned of their carcinogenic potential. I will never forget the surprise, joy, and exquisite relief of waking up. I felt I was reborn. Needless to say, the experience was sufficient to induce the immediate cessation of my cigarette habit.”

Fortunately, there exist treatments for nightmares that do not involve medication and which have shown to be remarkably effective such as dream re-scripting, voice dialogue work, dream lucidity, guided imagery, hypnosis and related approaches.

Sleep-Related Disorders

Other than nightmares, there are various sleep disorders which affect significant portions of the population. Insomnia, the inability to fall asleep or get enough sleep, affects up to one out of three Westerners (and perhaps more). It is often triggered by stress and results in worrying that inhibits proper sleep, but diet can also be a factor, with caffeine and chocolate (which contains theobromine) being two culprtins. Sleep apnea, actual lapses of breathing during sleep (mainly during REM sleep), is another common disorder often connected with obesity and/or intense snoring which results in excessive sleepiness during the day. It is harder to diagnose outside of the lab because the patient’s asleep while it happens and has little way of knowing about the source of the trouble (though devices have now been developed for home diagnosis). Sleep apnea may be one of the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome since the natural sleep cycle is often interrupted by unremembered microawakenings as the sleeper gasps for a breath. Sleep Paralysis is relatively common though rarely as a severe disorder. It can be triggered by being over-tired, and occurs during sleep when a person partially awakens but is completely unable to move for some period after waking. It can be somewhat frightening, though there is no particular danger involved. It has been associated with parasomnias which are a class of disorders that include nightmares (which often occur during long REM periods), sleep walking and sleep talking, bed-wetting, body rocking during sleep onset and teeth grinding (which all occur during non-REM sleep, the latter often being identifiable by worn down teeth or a sore jaw). Narcolepsy, often connected with sleep paralysis and vivid, frightening dreams at sleep onset, is characterized by irresistible daytime sleep attacks and collapsing at the onset of strong emotions (known as cataplexy) while remaining conscious (and so should not be confused with fainting). Night terrors are also in this class, and differ from nightmares in that they occur during non-REM sleep and are usually very intense so that the sleeper awakes in panic, often screaming, with heart pounding, and with less recall of dream content. These are more prevalent in children, and I hope parents of such children will join a current research study to test a new and very simple technique which is proving remarkably effective for such troubles (If you are interested, please send an email to ntstudy@dreams.ca.

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Craig Sim Webb, Executive Director of the non-profit DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca), is a physicist and dream and consciousness researcher/author/inventor with pioneering dream and lucid dream research at California’s Stanford University and Montreal’s Sacre-Coeur Hospital. Craig is an invited expert for major motion pictures, fortune 500 corporations, and over a thousand international TV/radio/print/online media. To find out about online dream mastery and lucid dreaming teleclasses, private consultations, or VisionQuest spiritual retreat adventures, email: training@dreams.ca

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Breathing Technique to Help Solve Insomnia

Quieting the mind and emotions before sleep is important not just to improve sleep but also to encourage less stress-related dreams, since worries or problems of the day can easily carry over into our dreams, which in turn also causes a more disturbed sleep. Craig Sim Webb, Executive Director of The DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca) hopes that readers will try a simple breathing technique to solve insomnia which often works wonders, and at the same time support a new study by briefly reporting their results at: www.dreams.ca/ibt.htm

Simple breathing solution for insomnia — follow these steps when you are ready to sleep:

1) Read through all these instructions once to first get an overview of the technique

2) Inhale as deeply as you can without being uncomfortable

3) Hold the inhalation as long as you can comfortably

4) While holding your breath, focus all your attention on successive body parts, one part during each breath cycle, starting with the feet (then with the ankles, shins, calves, knees, etc. on successive breaths)

5) Breathe out normally

6) Do not pause or hold the exhalation at all, but breathe in again immediately and repeat steps 1-4.

Using this technique, people often find themselves sleeping soundly before they even reach the chest or arms.

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By Damien Lafont

If you read this article you are probably one of those people who feel the connections around us and who feel there is something greater, something much larger than ourselves. We are indeed in a world made of connections and that is what gives us more energy and what makes us feel alive. The connections exist at different degrees and have different dimensions. There are connections with our past and our ancesters, with Earth and Nature or with animals. But immediately we think of connections between people, their mind, their ideas, their thoughts and consciousness.

The idea of a higher level of consciousness exists in ancient to modern forms of spirituality and philosophy. Many phenomenons also raise the question of a higher level of consciousness. Near death experiences (NDE), chamanism, out of body experiences, all of them open new perspectives. However, if the Eastern world and the ancient cultures have never forgotten the link with a greater spirit, the Western world has only started recently to make more efforts in this direction. Many projects like The Global Oneness Project[1], The Global Consciousness Project[2] or the World Shift Movement[3] aim to show the existence of this global consciousness. Other international initiatives participate in making people more connected through thoughts and ideas. A good example is the TED[4] inspirational talks with hundred of people who share their passion, show us the power of thoughts and suggest a higher connection.

Noosphere

Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher developed a comprehensive system. He asserted the essential inter-relationship of matter, space, and time; that objects may be understood as a series of events and processes. This concept was elaborated further to assert that the process of becoming constitutes the fundamental constituent of the universe. He stated: “nature is a structure of evolving processes. The reality is the process.” Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin gave a name to this “sphere of human thought”: the noosphere. Along Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a visionary French geologist, paleontologist and philosopher, the cosmic evolution, from the Big Bang up to now, presents nine levels of complexity, which can be grouped into three stages: the lithosphere (the “dead” matter), the biosphere (the “living” matter), and the noosphere (the “thinking” matter) which is organized by the software of the human brain and active by creative intelligence. The cornerstone of his theory is the structuration of universal evolution in layers, each describing how systems become more complex within one layer. Along with this complexification there occurs a progressive development of consciousness. Consciousness evolves to spirituality, its highest form. Ultimately there is a convergence into a higher consciousness that he called the Omega Point. Teilhard de Chardin passed away a full ten years before James Lovelock suggests that the Earth is actually a biological super-system. In his theory, the Gaia hypothesis – after the Greek goddess who drew the living world forth from Chaos – was chosen – Earth itself is seen as a single self-regulating biological entity, a superindividual being. He extends his reflection by questioning the link between the Gaia and the collective consciousness: “To what extent is our collective intelligence also a part of Gaia? Do we as a species constitute a Gaian nervous system and a brain which can consciously anticipate environmental changes?”

Science and noophere

In 1996, Roger Nelson developed the idea of attempting to register some indication of a global consciousness. It was the birth of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists and others, funded by private donations. He created an Internet-based array of continuously recording random numbers around the world. It resembles the placement of electrodes on a human head for electroencephalogram recordings. They collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world. The Global Consciousness Project is an effort to capture some indications of the presence and activity of a global consciousness. Their purpose is to examine subtle correlations that may reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world.

Their preliminary result shows that a large-scale group consciousness has effects in the physical world. Indeed, they observe structure in what should be random data, associated with major global events. When millions of us share intentions and emotions the network data show meaningful departures from expectation! Roger Nelson says that global consciousness “coalesces only when great events bring us together, make us focus and temporarily share understanding and emotion.” The network is affected when powerful events in the world cause large numbers of people to pay attention to the same thing. These effects can be observed during focus of a great deal of attention, for example an event of worldwide expression of compassion like at the memorial ceremonies for Mother Teresa. They explain the observed effects by the interconnections and interactions of human beings all over the world, just as the mind is formed by the interaction of neurons in the brain.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences[5] in the North of San Farncisco gives a logistical support to this project. This Institute goes beyond the observation of consciousness effects. They try to answer fundamentals questions like “Why this consciousness matters?” or “How to highlight these subjective insights people have reported during our history?” Their goal is supporting individual and collective transformation through consciousness research and engaging a global learning community in the realization of our human potential.

Physical effect

There are other physical expressions of this global connection. Rupert Sheldrake[6] highlights the structures and experience that were common to many people in the past and that we can connect with. These structures constitute a sort of organized fields. These fields are organizing patterns that transmit information through space and time by a process of resonance. Within what he called a morphic field, the mind learns new ways of doing things by an unconscious connection with the world at large.

Bernard Werber, French writer, remind us an old idea suggesting we can tune in on the noosphere channel through our right brain. Hence, our creativity would be often our ability to tape into the infinite ressources of the noosphere. The information would be potentially accessible to everybody, however some of us would have a better ability to be the receptor and translator of the messages.

Technology

Some people are going beyond the intereaction between the noosphere and the physical world and see a link between the Internet and the noosphere. We can even hear that the noosphere comes from the meeting between human beings and new technology. According to this view, when human communiation reaches its highest level of intensity, it will take on a physical form, the noosphere. David Woolfson says: “The opportunity to shift upwards to this next level of our collective development has been enabled by the recent and on-going revolutions in information and communication technologies. For Lorenzo Hagerty, in The Spirit of the Internet, this creation is the result of the “symbiosis between humans and the technology we are creating.” According him, we are able to develop the solutions required by the problems raised by our new technology and the global ecological disaster only by expanding the current limitations on human consciousness. He describes different aspects of spirit as manifest in the Internet community. In 1996 Francis Heylighen founded the Global Brain Group[7], created to discuss the emergence of a global brain out of the computer network, which would function as a nervous system for the human superorganism. He is working in particular on the development of collective knowledge and intelligence, and its application to the emerging intelligent web, or “global brain”: “Society can be viewed as a multicellular organism, with individuals in the role of the cells. The network of communication channels connecting individuals then plays the role of a nervous system for this superorganism, i.e. a “global brain”. In this group we can meet Joël de Rosnay or Peter Russell who are involved in other global projects.

Here, there is probably a misconception of what is the noosphere. We should be careful to well separate the physical effects and its true nature vibrating at a higher level. Of course, this planetary communication is an interlinked system of consciousness and information and participes to change our relationships to space and time. But can we consider the Internet as the frame allowing the creation of the noosphere? That is not sure and it is probably to give a lot of credit and importance to science and technology! The noosphere is definitively more than a physical grid through which we are all connected. Seeing the noosphere simply as a grid gives us a wrong idea, a ‘flat’ idea. The noosphere has different levels in which space and time are not linear and exist all at the same time.

Beyond science

Researchers want to accumulate scientific evidences for an interaction among human beings. The GCP has shows that human consciousness and emotions have effects in the physical world. We can acknowledge their efforts to measure physically the effect of a global consciousness. However, as we have seen, the connection is probably far beyond the physical world. There is indeed a natural limitation of science to approach the noosphere: We don’t have the tool yet to study the the noosphere which by nature belongs to another dimension. Why? Because we don’t have to understand it, we don’t have to explain it. It must be felt, as we feel love. Our connection to the noosphere is a matter of heart and soul. If technology plays an important role to bring people together, the awareness comes first from the heart. It is therefore not too late to admit that science is maybe not the best way to access the full range of human experiences.

Manifesting

Some people like David Woolfson, co-initiator of the Worldshift movement, argue that our ability to communicate globally “gives rise to the opportunity to create a unified global consciousness”. For them, the noosphere is created and now is growing from more connections. Thus, the noosphere appears to be a goal to reach or a final achievement. However, if we consider that we are already part of the noosphere, nothing has to be created. Rather, it is something we can connect with. I think it is more a question of manifesting rather than creating. It is all about manifesting what exists already, what we already know deep into our heart. It is to manisfest what we knew before coming on the Earth, i.e we belong to the noosphere.

Your own way

The question is therefore how to manifest our connection with the noosphere? We can find the connection by taping into what is already present within us. That’s what is all about in the ancient master’s teaching and wisdoms. We can draw on past worlds and cultures. For centuries, Eastern thinkers followed a different path than our. Through Tai Chi, Yoga or martial arts, they approached the human being both through mind and body. To evolve, every individual must return to fundamentals roots like breathing, movement, balance and meditation. All these techniques having one unique goal: to help us toward our enlightment. When we place ourselves at the soul level, we realize we are part of this energy and there is no inner or outer, but only different ways to re-connect our higher self. We can do that through the active ways like transmitting, teaching, or being a connector or we can do it through the contemplative ways like meditation. We all do this in a different way. We just have to choose our one way in which we get in the heart the easiest.

Teachers

We also have teachers, guides, angels and masters to support us. They are always around us, accompanying our journey. They just wait for us. Whoever they are, they all teach us to give more importance to what we feel, to change the way we are acting, and to realize that each of us is connected to a great spirit. We can see many examples all around the world: Kiesha Crowther, Barbara Marx Hubbard[8], James Redfield[9], Dan Millman[10] and many others. All have their own words, their own approach, but all of them show us the connections. Those people are only few examples of individuals who are part of the process of revealing our true nature, our true being. James Redfield, for example, in his beautiful book the Celestine Prophecy shows this energetic connection between people and the existence of a higher level of consciousness. He also teach us how to be aware the synchronicities which are manisfestations of the noosphere.

What makes the message of these teachers so powerful is their ability to think ahead and to be heard by the whole world. That’s what is really new. A new level certainly made easier through to the new technologies. It is what shows us everyday Lilou Mace[11] who interviews the most inspiriting people on this planet. She shares the wisdom of amazing teachers of life who care about the others, who care about the world and its future. They are things we can do to join this group of people dedicated to change the consciousness. If we take a look at all her interviews, we see a link between all these teachers:  They all share universal values of love and compassion. She is using a perfect word describing who want to be part of her amazing journey: co-creator. To co-create is exactly what we need do. We create our future, but not alone. We create it all together. And what puts everybody together is love.

Soul, heart and love

The noosphere is more than a “planetary thinking network”, an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global network of instantaneous feedbacks and planetary communication. All these descriptions forget the spiritual part: the soul. The noosphere is indeed not only a sphere of thoughts but also a sphere of souls. For Chardin, the convergence was not a convergence of merely minds or bodies but of heart: “It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts.” Indeed, one thing often forgotten is that in the vision of Chardin, the noosphere would surround the Earth unified by love.

The world is moving

Today, many of us are waiting for a shift. We can feel this shift in consciousness, but we have no idea when the change will happen at a global scale. We may have perhaps one, five years or perhaps more to be prepared for this shift and to learn more about our universal connections. When will be the defining moment? Are we approaching the omega point that Chardin was so excited about?  Is the humankind crossing a threshold? Nobody can tell. Kiesha Crowther[12], shaman also called “Little Grandmother” says it well: “Not one human being on this planet, knows exactly what is going to happen. Not one.” Yes the world is changing. When we travel the world or take a rapid tour on the Internet, we can see the emergence of ideas, projects and networks dedicated to love and humanity more frequently than before. We can even feel this awakening. More and more people are awake and take opportunities. It looks like they are getting prepared. It is like knowing that something must change. They feel the need to transmit what they have learnt or simply what they feel. They don’t really know why they do it, why their commitment is total. But they know that it’s important and powerful. Many people are actively engaged to change the world in a positive manner. They have different voices, different backgrounds but the same energy is driving them. And this energy is direct to a unique and beautiful goal: to combine our heart for a better world. Until now chocks or negative events triggered the evolution of consciousness. Now, people are born with this awareness, with this universal consciousness. That is the big change: Now the change comes from within.

Indigo and Crystal

This new generation is often called indigo or crystal children who are more sensitive and more aware than those of any previous generations. What distinguishes them the most from the rest of the people is their sensitivity. This sensitivity to feelings and sensations is at a global level. They recognize themselves in everyone and everything. They care about the world, they care about the Earth, they are activists, artists, they feel the need to express what they feel. A common feature is that they cannot turn off their emotion and sensitivity. They are driven by both inner and outer energy. They are probably the connectors between the human energy and the noosphere. As connectors, they are often in contact with the other side, with other beings, spirits, guides or angels. They are often taught or already know that alone we cannot make it. All of them know that what gives meaning is heart and love. They know with every fibre of their being that they can change the world, they can make a difference. They feel the emergency for change. And they are changing the world.

Now

Today, the consciousness starts to grow in all different way. It’s something happening on the planet right now. It’s to each of us to determine a course of action in order to be part of the next step of our evolution as human beings. We don’t have to be a master, light keeper, mystic or shaman to understand we are not alone. There is nothing to buy nothing to sale. The opportunities are limitless because we have an amazing and untapped capability of changing the future. What can we do? The answer is to share our thoughts, our visions and our feelings. Of course, love is the central element. Love is the key. What we need to do is not only to let go our old view of reality and the world, but also to deeply feel in our heart that we are all connected. We don’t have to change our way of thinking, but our way of being. Little Grand Mother resumes it well: “We were born into a way of thinking instead of feeling.”

Some of us seem to dream of a noosphere. But we are already connected! We are living inside this sphere of souls. To look at the bigger picture, to see and feel it, we have to see more than just with our eyes, we have to feel more than with our body, we have to live from the heart. Indeed, it is not a question of knowing, it is a question of being. It is not the time of mind and knowledge, but the time of heart and love. It is time to remember who we really are.

Damien Lafont is a Certified Mental Trainer and tennis pro based in Los Angeles, California.  He works with athletes on developing the mental skills needed for them to perform at their best.  To find out more about Damien, please visit www.damienlafont.com

CALL TO EVOLUTION

-          Take time everyday to meditate

-          See the connections

-          Be truly prepared for what’s coming up

-          Pay attention to your dreams, to your day dreams

-          Write a list of what you can change

-          Give love

[2] http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

[3] http://www.worldshiftmovement.org/

[4] http://www.ted.com/

[5] http://www.noetic.org/

[6] http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html

[7] http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/gbrain-l.html

[8] http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/con/

[9] http://www.celestinevision.com/

[10] http://www.peacefulwarrior.com/

[11] http://www.liloumace.com/

[12] http://littlegrandmother.net/

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Imagine a place with an unlimited sense of inspiration and ideas. Nestled in the hills of northern Italy, Damanhur is the physical embodiment of this ideal. This spiritual eco-community is a unique, living laboratory actively manifesting a dream.

Damanhur’s foundation is its location: it is situated in the Piedmont region of northern Italy about 30 miles (50 km) north of the city of Turin. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the Valchiusella valley, bordering on the Gran Paradiso National Park. Its location was chosen because it is the site where four Synchronic Lines intersect. These great rivers of energy connect the planets of this Universe and flow around our planet Earth carrying thoughts and ideas. The only other place in the world where four Synchronic Lines meet is Tibet.

Every year, thousands of people visit Damanhur to experience the social model and study the philosophy, but what sets Damanhur apart from other eco and spiritual communities is the depth of their research into the arts, health and medicine, ecology, Selfica and Spiritual Physics, plus their greatest, ever-growing achievement, the Temples of Humankind. Often called the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” the Temples were dug by hand into the stone mountain by the people of Damanhur.

A unique experiment gives birth to a new social model

The vision of Damanhur was born with Oberto Airaudi (b. 1950), also known as Falco—Damanhurian citizens take on animal names to symbolize their willingness to renew themselves through a playful attitude and to recognize their profound contact with nature.

It all began with a dream Falco had when he was about 10 years old. The physical manifestation of this dream started towards the end of the 1970s when Falco and a group of thirteen spiritual researchers found the perfect place in which to begin their social experiments. Today, Damanhur Federation of Communities counts one thousand citizens and friends in Valchiusella, as well as centers, citizens and friends in many countries around the world.

The Federation is comprised of nuclear communities with around 20 people living in each of them. Friends of Damanhur live in the surrounding valleys and regularly participate in federation activities. Community life encourages the creation of a social model based upon solidarity, respect for others and the environment, and the sharing of ethical and spiritual values.

Life in action—action through play—play integrated into life

A center for spiritual, artistic, and social research known throughout the world, Damanhur practices a philosophy based on action, optimism and the idea that every human being lives to leave something of themselves to the others and to contribute towards the growth and evolution of the whole of humanity.

This desire to contribute has opened the doors to Damanhurian research, making it available to everyone. Damanhur has a medical center, arts and wellness center, a school for children, and an open university for spiritual development. Damanhur welcomes many visitors coming for courses, treatments and guided tours to its various communities which specialize in certain fields of ecological and social research.

Another way to experience Damanhur is as part of the Spiritual People. The Spiritual People is a container of energies, talents, shared experiences, and ideals, functioning in harmony with humanity and with the spiritual eco-system in which it is immersed. It is the seed of a possible Renaissance of peoples and cultures, established in order to recreate on Earth groups of “enlightened” people and to spread knowledge and talents from the spiritual heart of humanity. Being part of the People is a spiritual link which is activated with one’s will. Spiritual People and guests alike are invited to celebrate various rituals and ceremonies throughout the year, including solstices, equinoxes and the full moons.

While Damanhur is a center for spiritual development, cutting edge research, artistic expression, and new social models, more than anything it is the Temples of Humankind that attract visitors and spiritual seekers alike.

What would it feel like to visit the great pyramids right after they were completed?

Dedicated to the divine nature of humanity, the Temples of Humankind is a three dimensional book which recounts the history of humanity across multiple planes of existence. The Temples are more than a work of art—they are a path of reawakening the Divine Spark, each Hall is a living conduit connecting all the energies of humanity that travel via the Synchronic Lines.

As Daniela Biancolini, architectural inspector for the Italian Heritage Ministry, has said: “Nothing like this exists outside of the films of Indiana Jones.”

The Temples were excavated and constructed in secrecy for more than 16 years. Then the secret was betrayed and, after several years of petitioning to save the Temples in the absence of an Italian law legalizing underground construction, they were opened to the public in 1994. The Temples have several halls, all of different shapes and measures, dedicated to the different elements and to various aspects of the history of humanity dating back more than 20,000 years. A walk through the Temples is overwhelming to the senses, with all their mosaics, glassworks, wall-paintings and sculptures that recall mythology, ancient knowledge, and visions.

“I don’t believe one could come here [to Damanhur] and see it with his or her own eyes and not be profoundly affected. Astonishing that such a thing exists and most people on Earth have no inkling of it!”—Richard Grossinger, Anthropologist.

Energetically, the Temples are reinforced with tons and tons of metal structures in the walls in accordance with the application of an ancient spiritual technology called Selfica. Traces of Selfica can be found in Egyptian, Etruscan and Celtic cultures, and among ancient Arabs. It is believed that Selfica was widely used in Atlantis. This discipline allows the creation of structures based on the form of the spiral and the use of various materials—such as metals, colors, inks, and minerals—capable of hosting intelligent energies. These energies, called Selfs, can interact with and support life processes that aid in our human development.

While the Temples of Humankind, today, are a living tribute to all of humanity and beyond, the vision for it is not yet complete. The next big step in the construction process is being actively planned. A new temple, the Temple of Peoples, will serve as a meeting place and cultural conservatory for all the people of the world. There is no doubt that the citizens of Damanhur will continue to build not only for themselves, but for everyone else.

An active commitment for a sustainable world

Life in Damanhur is busy, as practical work is seen as the most important form of meditation. The practical application of Damanhurian principles is brought into the physical world of action via sustainable choices and models on all levels: social, political, economic and spiritual. This message spurs citizens of Damanhur to create a completely different world based on the wisdom and self-determination of the people.

In addition to their work inside the federation, Damanhurians are working for the common good of all people: in politics, where they have come to make up a substantial part of the local government; in voluntary work and health care, where the doctors are using traditional and alternative healing methods side-by-side; and in agriculture, where self-sufficiency is an aim. So far, this aim has been reached in providing 70% of water supplies for bathrooms; in obtaining 35% of electricity supplies from photo-voltaic installations, solar panels and small hydro-electric turbines; in obtaining90% of the supplies for heating with wood from healthy woodlands; and in the use of, and research into, renewable energy.

In 2005, Damanhur received a UN award as a model for a sustainable future, emphasizing how, as a spiritual community, it is successfully integrating with the local society. Since Damanhur cannot be copied, the goal is to help build a network of communities—to inspire others to explore their own unique possibilities and create a society of communities exchanging with one another. For this reason, one of the courses offered by the university is, “How to Create a Successful Community,” which shares the knowledge and experience drawn from more than 30 years in Valchiusella.

Other courses offered by Damanhur are aimed at developing the human potential. A fundamental aspect of Damanhurian philosophy is that Man carries a divine spark within him, and can evolve to realize this divine nature. Where Atlantis represented a time when Man was more aware of belonging to larger spiritual eco-system, many of our faculties since then have lain dormant. Many of the Damanhurian courses are aimed at reawakening inner senses, restoring man’s connection to the divinity within.

One of these faculties is the ability consciously to travel and collect information in the astral world. Another is the ability to remember one’s previous lives and see the present incarnation in the light of the soul’s mission. All courses have been specifically developed in Damanhur and are based on the teachings of Falco relating to ancient knowledge, and elaborated on by the research of Damanhurian citizens.

Damanhur and the future

As Damanhur continues to evolve in the world of spiritual and eco-communities, it is becoming a role model for others. The possibilities seem endless for this influential community. The majority of people who witness this community in action encounter a loving and peaceful experience that stays with them and encourages them to find ways to incorporate the lessons learned into their own communities.

“The intention of Damanhur is to serve as a point of light on the planet, a place to inspire people, to live in harmony with each other, with the earth and to make their dreams come to life. Damanhur is a testimony that things that seem impossible can really come true, through devotion and action.”—Quaglia, Damanhurian citizen.

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Jessi: So what you’re saying then is that when we have masses of crowds directing a lot of emotional energy to one focal point – like toward the royal family standing on the palace balcony, or toward the religious symbols on an altar – then the energy of the crowd goes through those symbols or those symbolic royal entities and is transferred to and absorbed by beings in the astral realm who are connected with those symbols or those symbolic individuals. So that is how the “gods,” the entities in the astral realm who are at the root of the global New World Order conspiracy, draw energy from humanity – or rather, it’s one way they draw energy from humanity. It’s actually a form of vampiring because humanity is the worse for it.

David: Yeah. It’s all about frequency. If you can get the focus of worship, say a symbol or whatever, to vibrate in its energy field in compatibility with these entities – for instance, because they are symbols of these entities – then there is an energetic attachment which allows the vampiring to take place. So they get people to focus upon symbols of the entities, and then this energetic connection is made, and away you go.

Jessi: What about the excuse that the gods have always given us through religion, that “It’s all good because humans send the gods worship, and then in return the gods protect you and bless you and it’s a symbiotic relationship, a mutually beneficial relationship.” What about that old argument?

David: Gods and anything to do with gods are always an expression of mind. They’re never ever an expression of consciousness. Consciousness knows that we’re all one infinite awareness expressing itself in different ways, having different experiences, but we’re all the same one. A consciousness that knows it’s one does not worship and does not wish to be worshipped because it knows that everyone is the same one awareness.

Once you get into the realms of mind, particularly the left side of the brain and the way that works, you are immediately into hierarchy. And the reptilian brain within humans, one of its behavior traits is hierarchical structures of power. That’s not me saying this. This is mainstream science.

Thus anything that says, “I am the God and you are the worshipper,” is in mind. Either it’s ignorant or it’s malevolently manipulating that situation. Well, that’s another form of ignorance, of course, because that’s what evil is. Evil is just extreme levels of ignorance, of knowing what you are and what this whole thing called life is.

So religions are mind. Think the infinite consciousness goes into a church and worships itself? It’s ridiculous. Mind does that. I’ve been feeling for years that one of the genetic manipulations that took place within humans – all the ancients talk about it – is that one of the vertebrae in the neck was taken out so that humans can only look up. Because that’s what we tend to do. We look up at something you mentioned: celebrities. We look up at the church deities. We look up at the politicians like Obama. Goodness me.

So what is all that a sign of, an expression of? Of “I am little me, I have no power, I’m just Joe Public.” That’s the program and the perception of self in the world that we have to take on so that we’ll be good little slaves and won’t be any trouble. This is why I don’t talk or write about the five-sense level of the conspiracy, which I do in great detail, without bringing in all this area of the nature of reality and who we really are, which is consciousness.

We are not our name, we are not our job, we are not our family background. They’re our experience. What we are is consciousness having that experience. That’s the way out of here, by realizing that and tapping into that level of awareness inside, intuitive knowing, then we’ll start to break out of these vibrational prisons of mind, which is what the whole control system is designed to enslave us within.

Jessi: Another way that you could answer that question, that I think you would agree with, is that if the gods are there to help us as long as we feed them and serve them, then they’re certainly not doing a very good job of it, because we’ve got this global conspiracy going here where everybody is becoming more and more enslaved. So what kind of stewardship is that if stewardship is what the worship is supposed to support? I have a master’s degree in Eastern religions, and according to my research, every religion has had human sacrifice at some point in its history. How benevolent are beings who require human sacrifice? It’s not a symbiotic relationship, what we have with the gods. We are being used.

David: That’s a very, very interesting point because one of the traits of these entities which I’ve picked up in my research of the same area is that they demand human sacrifice. That’s one of the gimmees. They demand human sacrifice. Why? For the reasons we’ve discussed, energetic and all the rest of it. That’s why you rightly say that wherever you go in the ancient world, you find human sacrifice.

Jessi: That’s why religion tells us it’s a sacred and holy thing to suffer, right? Suffering in the name of religion provides energy to the gods.

David: Oh, yeah, of course. You’ve got to be poor to be spiritual. You look at religion, you look at the Eucharist and stuff like this, all this drinking the red wine, the blood of Jesus and eating the flesh in the form of bread, it’s just a symbolic, satanic ceremony which in the black mass is done literally.

When people have asked this question – it’s understandable if you come from only the five-sense view of this – they say about religion, “Why would a loving God allow this to happen? Why would a loving God do this?” A loving God’s not doing it. These entities are doing it. That’s why they’re doing what they’re doing.

Jessi: These entities don’t even have the right to call themselves God. God must be the infinite which is the source of all of us. If they indeed were God, they would be infinite, and they wouldn’t need worship to prosper. They wouldn’t need to feed off the energy of others.

David: Well, the gods thing comes from the perception of possibility, what they can do. There are stories about the Second World War – planes were landing in areas where no planes had ever been seen before. The people there looked upon the people in the planes as gods and actually started religions about them. It’s like no one can do that, so they must be gods. That’s where it all comes from. Compared with us, these people are technologically very advanced. But they’re spiritually dead. They’re very clever, but they’re not wise.

Cleverness without wisdom is virtually the most destructive force you can come across. That’s why we have the world that we do. It’s clever in some ways within a limitation of cleverness. But it’s not wise. It’s very clever to be able to make an atomic bomb, but it’s not very wise to do so. It’s wisdom that this world is missing because it’s not conscious, because it’s manipulated to not be conscious.

But you can start to become conscious. To do that you have to let go of preconceived ideas which edit your reality. Let go of belief, which is an extreme form of a preconceived idea. Let your intuitive knowing be your guide to what is and what isn’t, not what some other people are telling you that you should believe. Releasing preconceived ideas starts to tease open the mind and let consciousness in.

When that happens, it starts a process of dominoes falling. You become more and more insightful and able to see the world for what it is, because you’ve moved your point of observation from simply seeing through the five senses – that’s like being in this world and of it. You’re starting to move your point of observation where you’re looking into this world. You might not be able to see it literally with sight from that perspective, but you’re getting it through insight and awareness and intuitive knowing. Suddenly you see things happening in the world that were happening before, but now you can see them when you couldn’t before.

That’s why the whole structure is as it is and works so hard to keep us in a dumbed-down, non-conscious state. As people now start to awaken in ever greater numbers, they’re being bombarded with drugs and additives in food to destabilize them mentally and physically. It’s no coincidence that the graph of childhood behavior problems and the graph of chemical additives in children’s food part is the same. Nor is it a coincidence that the symptoms of behavioral changes in a child caused by food additives are exactly the same symptoms of a condition that they’ve come up with called Attention Deficit Disorder.

So they destabilize children mentally and emotionally by chemically rewiring their brain. When they manifest the behavior expressions of that, they say, “We must drug them to treat it.” That’s another problem-reaction-solution we’re looking at there – a gimmick the power elite use whereby they create a problem that will generate the public outcry they want, that will allow them to haul out the “solution,” which is the change they wanted to impose on people in the first place.

Jessi: Why do they want to destabilize everybody physically? What is the purpose in that? How does that serve them?

David: Well, they want you just intelligent enough to serve them and be a slave to them, but not conscious enough to see what’s going on. As I was told 21 years ago when I started consciously on this journey, a vibrational change was coming, an information change in effect in the wave form fabric of this universe. It was going to act like an alarm clock to wake people up from their coma, their amnesic state, their trance. There was no sign of that happening whatsoever when I was told about this 21 years ago. But it’s happening.

I go all over the world speaking, and I’m interacting with the world all the time. There’s a massive awakening going on. People you would have thought, “Never her,” or “Never him.” They’re waking up to this. The entities we’ve been talking about knew, as did their hybrid gophers, that this was coming, and they’ve been preparing for it. It’s no coincidence, again, that this control system is now throwing everything at us in terms of destabilizing us through food additives, through radiation, and all these endless things that they’re doing – drugging children at any opportunity, forcing these light bulbs on us which are vibrationally extremely distorting.

That is happening to keep us from getting the full potential impact of this vibrational change that’s going on. That’s what they’re doing. This is as much an attempt to defend the power they already have as it is an attempt to grab more power. They’re throwing everything at us now because they can’t just go along as they were before. Because people are now beginning to see it. They’re becoming more conscious, and when you become conscious you start to see it. They’re now basically building the dyke and sticking their fingers in it to try to as much as possible to mitigate the effects of this vibrational change upon human awareness.

I remember the day when I couldn’t fill a phone booth talking about this information. Now, people are turning out in droves, and mainstream people are coming to talk to me now because they’re interested in what I have to say and what is going on in the world. We’re at the point where the moveable object is coming face to face with the irresistible force which is this vibrational change that’s starting to tease open human minds to consciousness, to their true self.

So the next few years are going to be very, very challenging, because we’ve got a massive, if you like, cornered rat here that is going to do everything it can to hold onto its power. But this is a cusp of enormous change. The walls are coming down, though it won’t seem like that for a few years yet. But they’re coming down. It’s a done deal. It’s happening.

Jessi: I think everybody who’s been following this subject for a few years has seen huge changes in the public awareness of the New World Order agenda. It’s amazing when we read your books, seeing how you’ve connected the dots, how the world starts to make more sense. Your latest book, by the way – Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More – goes deeply into your new ideas, which we didn’t even have time to touch on here. Thank you for illuminating so many points today and for your groundbreaking research and your courage and energy in speaking all around the world to help wake up humanity. You’re making a profound difference. We thank you, and it’s been a real pleasure talking with you today.

David: It’s been a pleasure. Thank you very much.

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The Invisible Crazy Makers

How Our Toxic Environment Affects Mental Health

Part Two

By Genita Petralli

In my previous article, The War on Drugs has a New Battleground: Your Doctor’s Office, I pointed out the destructive influence that psychiatric drugs have on your body, brain and mind, as well as on the environment and the community we live in, being responsible for a significant percentage of violent crimes—such as murder, aggravated assault, home invasions and nearly all school shootings; suicide, car accidents, domestic violence calls—and the decline of productive citizens due to the disabilities they cause.

It certainly wouldn’t be fair to expose this enormous problem that is tearing away at the very fabric of humanity, by which we are all affected, without providing solutions to minimize and, hopefully one day, extinguish it permanently. These solutions would, of course, have to relieve the cause of the symptoms that send people to psychiatrists and doctors who will prescribe them psychiatric drugs, as opposed to utilizing the brilliant capacities of western medicine’s diagnostic tools to help identify the root cause of the patients’ symptoms and heal the conditions.

There is no truly scientific, empirical evidence to prove that Bipolar exists, or any of the other conditions based on labels, given as a result of subjective diagnosis, that are used only to justify prescribing drugs. However, there is certainly an epidemic of adverse mental health symptoms today, and there are two very prominent reasons why: the toxic food and water we ingest, and the environment we live in. So, this article will focus on what I call the invisible crazy makers; the neurotoxic and endocrine disrupting chemicals in our food, water, air, and soil that are robbing millions of people of their mental health and landing them in psychiatrists’ offices in droves. It is my hope that, once people know how harmful these chemicals are, they will begin to practice environmental hygiene and protect their bodies and minds from these substances so that they can reclaim good mental and physical health.

At Shangri-La, we call this Green Mental Health Care. To give an example, if a patient were to go to a doctor complaining of profound mood swings and frequent agitation, they would most likely be labeled Bipolar and given a toxic cocktail of drugs to mask the symptoms. However, a more productive and ethical medical practice, and one that produces far better patient outcomes at a fraction of the cost, would be to run metabolic and functional lab tests. In addition to many possibilities, two specific areas of concern, given today’s world, would be toxic bioaccumulation of neurotoxic excitatory and endocrine disrupting chemicals in our food and water, and blood sugar and adrenal function. Adrenal fatigue alone can cause extreme mood swings and, when you combine that with aspartame or caffeine, and a processed food diet promoting blood sugar dysregulation, you have a good case for mood swings and many other adverse mental health symptoms. There are very well established and successful ways of responding to symptoms of adrenal fatigue, blood sugar dysregulation and malnutrition psychosis (caused by a nutritionally inadequate, processed food diet) which would relieve the mental symptoms via healing of the physical underlying causes. And yes, many people today with full bellies are suffering from malnutrition psychosis! Given the toxic load of many processed foods and chemically contaminated water, people are ingesting products that can actually take more nutrition to detox and metabolize than they provide the body!

The next installment in this series will focus on how to detoxify thoroughly from each category of toxic assault listed below, and then, after that, I will discuss how to get off psychiatric drugs safely and with minimal transitional discomfort if you are already on them. However, contained herein is the information you need to get started right away on the path to living life to the full capacity with which you were born—and thriving!

Most everyone knows that the majority of the chemicals noted in this article are linked to every cancer imaginable as well as other life threatening diseases such as diabetes, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, obesity, fibromyalgia, lupus, liver, and heart disease, but few are aware of their impact on mental health. That is what this article intends to shed light on. Please keep in mind, as you educate yourself about these highly toxic chemical bullets, that I am only exposing their adverse effects on mental health. However, they should be avoided for many other life- and quality-of-life-threatening reasons. I urge women of child bearing age, pregnant women and new parents to truly become Invisible Crazy Maker Police to provide the best developmental environment for your children and protect them from the mental and physical suffering these chemicals cause.

I would like to note here that exposure to neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors can create addictive biochemistry as well and can be the root cause of addiction to any legal/illegal drug or alcohol. When a person is chronically symptomatic—psychologically, physically or emotionally—they will reach out for relief. It is human nature. One must find the root cause of the symptoms, which most of the time is diet and environment related toxicity—and remove the cause of the symptoms to correct the metabolism and heal addiction. Remember, under the skin a drug is a drug—the body does not care if man has legalized it, it is still toxic and it will be destructive to the biochemical processes that sustain life—your life. All drugs carry a very high risk potential for disease, and they ALL take away from quality of life.

The Invisible Crazy Makers – Identified!

Primary routes of human toxic exposure:

GI/intestines (food, water, drugs—including “medications”)

Lungs

Skin

Types of toxic chemicals with significant impact on mental health:

A neurotoxin is an organic or synthetic substance that destroys neurons—the cells of the brain and nervous system.

An endocrine disruptor is an organic or synthetic substance that disrupts or harms the endocrine glands—heart, adrenals, thyroid, pituitary, parathyroid, sex glands, pancreas—that produce the hormones your body requires for instructions on how to function, both mentally and physically.

Most common neurotoxic and endocrine disrupting chemicals in our environment and their sources:

Pesticides: all conventional foods and many water sources

Hormones, drugs, and antibiotics: conventionally raised meats

MSG, Aspartame, sugar, and 2000 plus other food chemicals: processed foods

GMOs: conventionally grown produce, meat, and processed foods

Artificial sweeteners (Aspartame): processed foods, candy, gum, baked goods—they are everywhere!

Fluoride, chlorine, psychiatric drugs, chromium-6: tap water

Bisphenol-A, parabens and phthalates: food and water containers are the major source, however, these endocrine disruptors can be found in children’s toys, common household wares, most anything plastic

Mercury/heavy metals: vaccines, amalgam tooth fillings, high fructose corn syrup, fish, nose sprays, eye drops, cosmetics. Mercury is showing up in more and more places—it makes one wonder how it is getting there?

Mold and fungus: airborne

Where are the Invisible Crazy Makers and what do they do?

When pesticides were first tested for safety and toxicity, the focus was on their cancer-causing potential: most of them are very carcinogenic. Evaluation of the extent of their neurotoxicity (or potential to cause nervous system and brain tissue damage, and their safety for use under that umbrella of consideration) was really not given much attention. Today we have epidemic anxiety, panic attacks, ADD, and depression as well as hyperactivity and deterioration of mental functions as a result of their accumulated effects. Pesticides are only now beginning to get the real scrutiny they deserve for their neurotoxic properties and contribution to epidemic mental health symptoms, symptoms that were rarely heard of, especially in children, just fifty years ago.

It was clearly the monied power of the chemical companies that gained approval for neurotoxic chemicals—used in bio-warfare tactics to subdue the enemy—to be repackaged as pesticides and added to the foods you eat today.

The descriptions of the four most common classes of pesticides are cited from the Environmental Protection Agency’s website—this is not hippie stuff, this is straight out of official government documents, although I am one very disaffected hippie!

Neurotoxicity of pesticides used on YOUR food, causing adverse brain function abnormalities, and adverse mood, focus, intellectual, and behavioral changes

Organophosphate pesticides. Organophosphate and carbamate pesticides act primarily at the synapses, altering the regulation of the transmission of the signal from one cell to the next. These pesticides affect the nervous system by disrupting the enzyme that regulates acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. Most organophosphates are insecticides. They were developed during the early 19th century, but their effects on insects, which are nearly identical to their effects on humans, were discovered in 1932. Some are very poisonous—they were used in World War II as nerve agents.

Organophosphates kill insects by interfering with cholinesterase, an enzyme required for the proper functioning of acetylcholine. Acetylcholine regulates nerve cell communications. Organophosphates inhibit cholinesterase to cause toxic levels of acetylcholine, which then creates the continual cell firing which results in death of the neuron. Inhibiting enough cholinesterase can cause paralysis and numbing. Organophosphates deregulate acetylcholine neurotransmitters and damage dopamine receptors. This is a big contributor in the learning disabilities for which children are given drugs today.

Also, since acetylcholine facilitates nerve communications in the brain and is responsible for helping to build neuro-nets of memory during study, it is likely that their incineration by over-toxicity is going to cause loss of neurochemical communications involved in learning and retaining information. When you learn, you create neuro-nets made of neurons that retain that information. If you can’t retain that information because you are constantly killing the cells, as well as inhibiting new cells from developing, it is going to be very difficult to learn and be able to recall the information. Furthermore, it takes a certain amount of calm to be able to focus, and who can focus with all this firing going on in their heads? Damaging dopamine receptors can cause elevated dopamine which will create symptoms, from OCD to learning disabilities, and clumsiness to mental lethargy. Many children experiencing hyperactivity, hyper emotionalism and hyper sensitivity have high dopamine levels which are likely due to the damage to receptors and possibly even to the enzyme required to regulate them.

For a study on damaging effects of organophosphates on the dopamine system, visit: Pesticides On the Brain: The Environmental Factors Behind Parkinson’s Disease.  Another very well researched study is published here regarding how organophosphates dysregulate dopamine signaling, glutamatergic neurotransmission, and induce neuronal injury markers in the striatum area of the brain.

Organophosphates are neurodegenerative neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors, both of which have significant impact on mood, learning, and behavioral neurochemical mechanisms. The toxic effects of organophosphate poisoning will vary not only with the route and extent of exposure, but also the chemical structure of the agent and other general health, diet, lifestyle, environmental exposure, and genetic and, even more so, epigenetic influences.

The EPA named organophosphates and carbamates the most threatening of all insecticides, yet they account for approximately half of the insecticides used today. Animal tests of organophosphates show that a small single dose on a critical day of fetal or newborn development can cause permanent damage in neurotransmitter receptor levels in the brain, and hyperactivity. Mothers-to-be and moms with the little ones at your ankles, step away from conventional produce—it is damaging your children’s’ brains, and yours and the child’s peace of mind!

Chlorpyrifos is the most widely used pesticide in the United States and is an “organophosphate banned for most home and garden uses because of its threat to children’s health, but which is still used in agriculture. Chlorpyrifos have been shown to decrease DNA synthesis in the developing brain (reducing protein synthesis and cellular development), reducing total brain cells”.[1] Epidemiological data shows that 82% of adults and 92% of children have measurable concentrations of the primary metabolite of Dursban (Chlorpyrifos) (3,5,6-TCP) in their urine.[2]

Please visit the Pesticide Action Network for an introduction to the link between chemicals and learning disabilities. By the way, Chlorpyrifos cause cell loss in the prefrontal cortex (and many other areas of the brain).This alone can account for learning disabilities and what you’re able to do with information if you get a chance to learn it!

Warning for women of child bearing age—please read this article: Long-Term Effects on Hypothalamic Neuropeptides after Developmental Exposure to Chlorpyrifos in Mice. This is an extremely enlightening article regarding the neurotoxic effects on fetuses and young children and offers scientific data linking lack of focus (ADD), hyperactivity etc. directly to pesticides.

Organochlorine insecticides were commonly used in the past, but many have been removed from the market due to their health and environmental effects and their persistence (e.g. DDT and chlordane). These insecticides are still being found in human tissues, umbilical cords, milk and other body fluids. Therefore, they still pose a great threat to our mental health and should be tested for, along with the other more common ones used today. They are also still approved for other than agricultural uses.

Organochlorine pesticides act primarily by altering the movement of ions across the nerve cell membranes, thus changing the ability of the nerve to transmit (and receive) an impulse. I call this altering of nerve communication a “chemical lobotomy.” In a standard lobotomy, a knife is used to cut communication between nerve centers of the brain: in the case of toxic poisoning, chemicals are used to produce the same effect.

Pyrethroid pesticides were developed as a synthetic version of the naturally occurring pesticide pyrethrin, which is found in chrysanthemums. They have been modified to increase their stability in the environment. Some synthetic pyrethroids are toxic to the nervous system.

To find the most commonly used pesticides in your area go to www.pesticideinfo.org or visit Australia’s list of registered pesticides or google “pesticide use report (your state or country).”

Hormones, Drugs and Antibiotics

Below is a list of hormones, drugs and antibiotics that are used in the livestock of animal farms-for-food and their potential effect on mental health.

rGBH is a hormone used to increase milk production in dairy farm cows. It is an endocrine disruptor as well as a potent carcinogen.

In addition to rGBH, the natural and artificial hormones used in beef production today are the three naturally occurring—Oestradiol, Progesterone and Testosterone—and three synthetic which are—Zeranol, Trenbolone, and Melengestrol. These hormones are transferred to the consumer and are not only directly linked to cancer, but are endocrine disruptors which negatively affect the hormone balance in the brain chemistry of the consumer, thus resulting in adverse mental and emotional stability. A healthy body will produce the hormones it requires for healthy functioning in its environment; when synthetic or natural exogenous hormones are introduced, it creates an imbalance in the organism (human) and symptoms will result.

Antibiotics used on cattle and other farm animals intended for consumption are transferred into the body of the consumer. This is known to cause not only antibiotic resistance, but many other health issues, such as Candida Albicans which causes a plethora of mental health symptoms including depression and anxiety.

Most human exposure to dioxins comes from animal fats. Dioxins are neurotoxins which impose oxidative stress on the nervous system and brain, causing death to neurons; ergo, potential mental health issues, depending on level of exposure.

Aspartame, MSG, artificial sweeteners, sugar, coffee, 2000 plus food chemicals

Aspartame (Nutrisweet, Equal, Spoonful) converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which causes metabolic acidosis. The methanol toxicity produces identical symptoms to multiple sclerosis. Because of this, many people are being misdiagnosed as having MS. A few years back, I had a patient that was diagnosed with MS. She did the Body Burden Detox, eliminating aspartame entirely from her diet while taking nerve- and brain tissue-nourishing targeted nutritional therapies, modified her diet to support healing, engaged in mild exercise, and she was well inside of two months.

Aspartame has been found to be the progenitor of other conditions such as lupus and even epilepsy because it causes seizures.

Aspartame is a potent neuro-excitotoxic, endocrine disruptor and is one of the most prevalent deleterious toxic chemicals on the market today. It is added to thousands of processed foods, drinks, gums, candy—even children’s vitamins! It is the most problematic substance ingested by my patients and, with its discontinuance, comes relief from mental health issues ranging from acute anxiety and chronic depression to mood swings and schizophrenic symptoms such as hallucinations and voices. Aspartame degenerates neurons (killing brain tissue) and damages the liver and kidneys. Because of this, and its plethora of adverse effects on the brain and nervous system, it is by far the most dangerous food additive on the market.

Here’s a short list of the conditions it is linked to: fibromyalgia, lupus, multiple sclerosis, cancer, diabetes, tinnitus, lack of focus, anxiety attacks, blurred vision, paranoia, depression, memory loss, slurred speech, headaches, shooting pains: seriously, ANY neurological disorder or degenerative disease. If you have ANY condition, you would be well served and increase your chances for recovery tremendously by discontinuing all neurotoxins in your diet, personal hygiene, home and work environments, with aspartame at the top of the list!

Many books have been written regarding the neuro- and excito-toxic health risks linked to Sweet & Low and Splenda. Sucralose belongs to the same family as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and DDT. It is linked to a plethora of very serious symptoms and conditions such as brain lesions, enlarged kidneys and liver, skin reactions, joint paint—the list goes on! If you don’t have enough information to be removing these very dangerous and mental health robbing artificial sweeteners completely from your diet, I suggest you pick up Sweet Misery—it’s a good start.

NutraSweet, a former asset of Monsanto, has developed a newer, more toxic version of aspartame: Neotame. What is possibly worse is that the food labeling requirements required for aspartame do not exist for Neotame. Neotame does not have to be listed on the ingredients for processed foods; not even USDA Certified Organic foods, nor Certified Kosher products with the letter “k” inside the circle.

Neotame is manufactured by combining aspartame with 3,3-dimethylbutyraldehyde, which was added to block enzymes that break the peptide bond between aspartic acid and phenylalanine, thereby reducing the availability of phenylalanine.

This is direct from the Material Safety Data Sheet for butyraldehyde of 3,3-dimethylbutyraldehyde: “The substance is toxic to blood, liver, mucous membranes, upper respiratory tract, skin, central nervous system (CNS), eye, lens or cornea. Repeated or prolonged exposure to the substance can produce target organs damage.” It is absolutely criminally irresponsible that the MSDS report for this substance states that it may be harmful if absorbed through the skin, yet the FDA has determined that it and aspartame (under the Neotame label)—which has proven to be linked to adverse mental health issues, neurological disorders, brain tumors and disease—does not have to be listed on the labels of foods that you may eat.

Since this product is new to the market, and its health risks will not be easily traced because it is not on labels, I cannot report any direct links to mental health issues. However, it is considered to be more toxic than aspartame, so, without the data, common sense should be sufficient for you to completely avoid this chemical.

MSG and Asparate are neurotoxic excitotoxins that are found in thousands of processed foods and drinks and in many restaurant dishes. These chemicals cause brain damage at even low dosages, as well as endocrine disorders—hormonal imbalances, obesity and reproductive disorders—behavior disorders and neurodegenerative disease. Symptoms include anxiety, panic attacks, inability to focus, learning disabilities, headaches, flushing, dizziness, A.D.D., A.D.H.D., insomnia, restless leg syndrome, rage, hostility, mental “dullness”, and heart palpitations which cause anxiety and fear—this is a short list.

Microscopic photograph above shows normal brain area called the arcuate nucleus which is a collection of neurons in the hypothalamus. Photograph at right shows same area after exposure to MSG at 1 g/kg. White areas are dead brain cells resulting from the MSG exposure.[3] Brain tissue death results in brain function decline and adverse mental health symptoms.

Sugar is neuro– excitotoxic and disrupts the endocrine system. It is, in my opinion, the true gateway drug. Diets high in sugar, especially at an early age, lead to many neuroendocrine disorders, including adrenal fatigue and hypoglycemia. The symptoms of these disorders send tens of thousands of people to psychiatrists’ offices. Instead of receiving an ethical medical work up and diagnostics to determine the root cause of the anxiety, depression, mood swings, rage, hyper-emotionalism, and so forth, that diets high in sugar are known to produce, they will receive, usually, a cocktail of drugs that will push them into the revolving door of toxic drugging called medicine by the pharmaceutical and psychiatric communities. However, most of the time these symptoms will develop at middle and high school and your young sufferer will find their relief in street drugs.

The addiction to sugar is actually interchangeable with alcohol, because they both unleash a cocktail of GABA, serotonin and beta endorphins in the brain which, at first, may be very appealing, but the exaggerated release of these natural feel-goods comes at a very high price. The “high” is short lived and the come-down can be agonizing. You have also “emptied your tank” of the raw materials required to maintain a sufficient steady flow of these God-given goodies. Sugar travels identical biochemical pathways in the brain as alcohol, which explains the high intake of sugar and coffee (which releases glycogen from the liver) for which members of Alcohol Anonymous are known. This is also the underlying causation of alcoholism being a progressive disease in that community—when it doesn’t have to be.

Excess caffeine causes irritability, mental fatigue, anxiety and insomnia. If you must have it and you are not symptomatic, keep it to one cup a day of organic, and have it after lunch when your blood sugar is nice and stable for the day. I never understood why people want to jump out of bed and cancel out that nice, calm, rested feeling for a coffee buzz!

Food colorings are mostly made of petroleum products. They are linked to brain tumors, hyperactivity, anxiety and inability to focus.

There are over 2000 food chemicals being put in processed foods—many of which the food companies don’t have to put on the label! Of course, I could never do justice to this topic in an article—it would require a tome at least a mile wide to document the historic and current damage done by chemicals used in your food—to rob the health of your mind, and to the animals and the struggling earth that are subjected to their harmful toxicity. Leave it to say that all of them, from preservatives to food colorings, have an enormous negative impact on your mental and physical health. They are all toxins that were never meant to be in your body, so don’t put them there!

In part two of The Invisible Crazy Makers, I will expose the neurological health risks promoting adverse mental health symptoms linked to GMOs, tap water, BPA/phthalates, mold and fungus and then introduce how you can effectively detox your body and mind of all environmental and dietary chemicals that have accumulated in your body. Body Burden detox is the holistic medical treatment that will be required in the near future, even more so than today, to maintain good physical and mental health!

Call to Evolution – A Green Body & Mind

1.       Discontinue conventional produce and processed foods and eat only organic

2.       Do not use artificial sweeteners of any kind including xylitol

3.       Reduce sugar intake to a minimum: sugar is the gateway drug!

4.       Get tested for pesticide body burden if you are symptomatic or live in a high risk area—then read our next installment for how to detox them effectively from your system and repair the damage they cause

5.       Get active about changing laws regarding what can be put in and on your food. Two excellent places to start and to continue to educate yourself regarding the health risks associated with the chemicals being put in your food, air and water are The Environmental Worker’s Group at www.ewg.org and the Institute of Responsible Technology at www.IRT.org

The Invisible Crazy Makers

How Our Toxic Environment Affects Mental Health

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)

Monsanto and all the other chemical companies that have participated in the development of GMOs have, literally, opened Pandora’s Box. There is no telling how bad it is going to get, but one thing is for certain, it is very bad now and this bio-technology has the ability to destroy the earth, to the point of its not being recognizable, nor recoverable. It has many ethical scientists more than concerned—they are alarmed. New micro-organisms are being created that have the ability to produce new viruses and bacteria for which your immune system has no defense. GMOs have already been linked to liver and kidney damage, birth defects, sterility, miscarriages, organ damage, GI damage (including digestive problems and far more severe problems) and, of course, in the spirit of this article, they are linked to neurological disorders and impairment in fetal nervous system and brain development as well as in the developing brains of children. They are also linked to neurological damage in adults. This damage potentially translates to mental health symptoms.

The percent of total land area planted in biotechnology in the US is 63%. GMOs now constitute a majority portion of US soybean, maize (corn), and cotton. Other GMO crops gaining acreage yearly are rapeseed, wheat, potato, tomato, sugar beet, sugar cane, and rice. GMO crop produce is used as part of the toxic mixture of processed foods, drugs, antibiotics and the hormones that animals raised for food are provided in their abusive diet. You can find out what foods they are in—so you can avoid them—at the GMO Project website published by the European Union at http://www.gmo-compass.org.

If you are eating GMOs, you could be producing pesticides, one day, inside your gut!

Because GMOs are everywhere, and their potential for disease and for, literally, mutating humans has been clearly established, I strongly encourage you to visit the most active, educational and productive (in the way of getting rid of them everywhere) site on this subject: Scientist and GMO expert Jeffery Smith’s www.responsibletechnology.org.

And don’t be fooled: if a product is labeled “natural,” it could have GMO products in it.

Tap Water

Fluoride: Albert Schatz, PhD.:—“Fluoridation . . . it is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has.” Professor Albert Schatz, Ph.D. (Microbiology), discoverer of streptomycin and Nobel Prize Winner.

Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd: “I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable.” Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd is the former President of the American Medical Association.

Fluoride is linked to calcification of the pineal gland, hormonal imbalances, brain damage, genetic DNA damage, thyroid disruption, diminished IQ, inability to focus, Alzheimer’s disease, sleep disorders, infertility, cell membrane blockage, serious oxidative stress on neuron tissues, and is documented as having been used to make prison populations docile—making them mentally lethargic without any sense of purpose or passion.

Chlorine: Doctor Patrick Flanagan, named at age 17 as one of the Top 10 Scientists in America by Life Magazine, recently advised in his book, Elixir of the Ageless, that: “Drinking tap water is a slow form of suicide, today’s tap water is yesterday’s toilet water, too thin to plow and too thick to drink. Chemicals (chlorine and fluorides) used to treat water are positive charged cationic electrolytes that are potentially destructive to the colloidal balance when ingested into the human system. As one result, people die . . . inch by inch, not really knowing what is wrong!”

Dr. William Campbell Douglass, M.D., head of Georgia’s oldest (five generation) practicing medical doctor family, began warning his patients against drinking chlorinated tap water during the early 1970′s:  “. . . Chlorine is a very strong oxidizing agent, like bleach, and its effect on the blood vessels is one of destruction . . . it kills our cells . . . ”

There are many other volatile organic chemicals, and cleaning and antibacterial agents, as well as psychiatric drugs, now showing up in tap water—just the three I’ve commented on above should be enough to stay away from it.

It is also unwise to inhale the chlorine gases produced by the hot water in a shower. The best way to avoid this route of toxic exposure is to get a shower filter that removes the chlorine and other volatile organic compounds.

Bisphenol-A, Phthalates and Parabens

Bisphenol-A. Food and water containers are the major source of exposure; however, these endocrine disruptors can be found in children’s toys, common household wares, makeups and personal hygiene products.

Bisphenol-A (BPA) mimics the female hormone, estrogen in the body and is linked to “feminizing” men. While actual physical changes begin to occur, such as male breast enlargement, emotional changes occur as well.

BPA has been linked to brain damage in developing brain tissue. Estrogen in the neuron regulates viability and development. While mimicking the actions of estrogen in developing neurons, at very low doses BPA completely inhibited the activity of estrogen, harming the growth and reducing the presence of neurons.

The bottom line is that BPA changes brain chemistry and structure. This chemical is also linked to insulin resistance, which leads to blood sugar dysregulation, causing a myriad of mental health issues.

Phthalates are found in blood bags, children’s toys, detergents, solvents, cosmetics, hair sprays, nail polish and perfumes. The Department of Public Health in Japan concluded, after laboratory studies on rats, that phthalates were highly toxic, particularly neurotoxic, and caused neurological disorders. They inhibit the outgrowth of nervous tissue (neuro-net density) which, in turn, inhibits brain development in both the fetus and young child, and also inhibits the brain’s ability to develop, repair and protect itself from oxidative stress. Phthalates have a degenerative effect on nerve fibers, causing them to fragment and then die. Remember, anything that is neurotoxic adversely affects the nervous system and brain and can cause adverse mental health symptoms.

Parabens are used as preservatives and are found in cosmetics, shampoos, lotions, fragrances, shaving gels, personal lubricants, topical/parenteral pharmaceuticals, spray tanning solutions, and toothpaste, and are used as food additives.

While being directly linked to cancer, new research indicates that parabens may lead to hormonal disruptions. This is not surprising, as parabens are yet another estrogen mimicker.

In low doses, parabens have shown developmental and reproductive toxicity, ranging from birth defects, to developmental delays in children, to infertility, and to organ cancers. Also, at low doses parabens have caused endocrine system disruption, meaning the body’s natural hormones (chemicals that carry messages across the body to manage growth, tissue repair, and reproduction) are affected. This also indicates a potential for mental health decline, as any endocrine disrupter directly affects brain and nervous system function. Other health concerns are neurotoxicity, ranging from developmental delays to chronic nerve degeneration diseases.

An important example of how dishonest marketing companies that use cheap toxic chemicals in their products deceive organic consumers:

“. . . a concentrated paraben-based preservative (used in personal hygiene products) is ‘Lonicera Caprifolium’, otherwise listed as Japanese Honeysuckle, Honeysuckle Flower Extract, Honeysuckle Extract, etc. Unwitting consumers are fooled into assessing a label as miraculously innocent and pay premium prices to purchase what appears to be a wonderfully green product. More often than not, products that contain ‘Honeysuckle Flower Extract’ (and, truly, could any ingredient sound more gentle?) also make the false claim ‘NO PARABENS’ all over the label and marketing materials.

Since I began making noise, a few have shifted marketing language to state, ‘No synthetic parabens.’ Tricky.”—Eliza Moriarty at www.organicconsumers.org.

Mercury/Heavy Metals

Mercury and lead are the leading toxic heavy metals to which people today are typically exposed. Mercury is in vaccines, amalgam tooth fillings, high fructose corn syrup, fish, nose sprays, eye drops, even Hershey’s chocolate. Mercury is showing up in more and more places: it makes one wonder how it is getting there.

Mercury is known to degenerate neurons, damaging the brain and central nervous system. It is the second-most (non-radioactive) toxic element known to man. It is linked to autism, anxiety, irritability, aggressiveness, mood swings, anti-social behavior, excitability, paranoia, hallucinations (schizophrenic symptoms), depression, heightened perception of stress, hyperactivity, hyper-reactivity, and loss of focus and concentration. It is also known to decrease memory, cause loss of function in various brain regions, and emotional instability. Children are particularly at risk to develop symptoms due to mercury exposure, as well as to all other chemicals, because of their size, the fact that their blood/brain barrier is not fully developed, and their bodies are relatively clean (direct access). Their livers are not fully developed and, therefore, are not very efficient at removing the toxic burden, which causes bioaccumulation and advancement of symptoms. To see a video from the University of Calgary depicting exactly how mercury destroys brain tissue at extremely low dosages, visit this You Tube video to find out more

Click here to view the embedded video.

Common foods found to contain mercury:

Lead: The most common routes of exposure to lead are chips and dust of old paint; drinking water, dust, air, mini-blinds, imported foods, old or imported toys, air, soil near heavily trafficked roads and various substances used in some hobbies.

Lead toxicity is linked to brain damage, memory loss, confusion, inability to concentrate, mood disorders, depression, mental fatigue, inability to retain information, inability to focus, anger and learning disabilities.

Mold and Fungus

Mold and fungus infections are typically contracted via living, playing or working in a mold infested area. People in wet and warm climates are at a higher risk. Symptoms include: confusion, brain fog, shortened attention span, difficulty concentrating and paying attention, slowed reflexes, disorientation, dizziness, vertigo, memory loss, impaired learning ability, hallucinations, shock, anxiety, and depression.

Candidas Albicans produces 79 distinct toxins that can cause a broad range of symptoms. These tend to become chronic, because the toxins, in addition to the plethora of neurological symptoms they cause, also adversely affect the immune system. Candida can be directly linked to sugar and processed food diets, antibiotic use, mercury toxicity and many psychiatric drugs. These decrease gut motility, creating an ideal environment for proliferation of the fungus. Candida overgrowth is becoming a fairly common diagnosis today. It is the practitioner’s job to address the degree of overgrowth and the areas it is affecting, while also helping the patient reduce it to healthy levels. Candida has been linked to severe, chronic depression; anxiety, paranoia, panic attacks, multiple sclerosis symptoms, insomnia, mood swings, lack of concentration, headaches, drowsiness, and mental and physical fatigue. I have witnessed Candida infections to be debilitating conditions in my patients, proving to be not only the root cause of the above symptoms, but also the cause of addictive biochemistry related to alcohol addiction and the addictions that are fostered by attempts to self-medicate the symptoms that Candida produces.

Due to the toxins they produce, undiagnosed and untreated yeast and mold infections can advance into many more serious diseases such as cancer, degenerative diseases, heart disease, and serious neurological diseases such as lupus, and multiple sclerosis.

Now where do you think the root cause of your symptoms is hiding?

This is an exhaustive list of symptoms for which many people will go directly to a psychiatrist, seeking drugs to alleviate them, never knowing that one or a combination of these toxins in their food, air, water, home and lawn care, personal hygiene or lifestyle products used is the cause of their suffering. Nor will they ever get the opportunity to address toxic exposure as the root cause, thus allowing progression of the condition, while simply masking the symptoms at a very high price. This is a very sad scenario, because the drugs will stress or even damage the liver and brain almost immediately. The lack of treatment of the root cause, in combination with the potent toxicity of the drugs prescribed as treatment, will often set the person on a dark course of gradual loss of health and quality of life, that ends in suffering and tragedy.

Each and every one of the invisible crazy makers I have discussed in this article has the potential to cause adverse mental health symptoms. However, the story is not fully explored until you consider the cross-contamination and added potential for disease and mental health decline caused by these reactive chemicals in the same environment—your body. These chemicals were not tested in living organisms, each having their own chemical structures in addition to, typically, three hundred plus exogenous toxic chemicals coming into contact with each other. This reality exposes a whole new level of concern.

If you are symptomatic, your quest for health in today’s toxic world would be better served if you started your healing journey by considering what you should be taking out of your mouth as opposed to what you should adding to it. The common practice today, when one becomes symptomatic,is to search for something to take to alleviate the symptoms—whether over the counter or holistic, it doesn’t matter; you should be first considering what to stop taking into your body.

Also, keep in mind that, if you go to a doctor, it is likely that none of what I have just exposed will be addressed—you will be treated by the standards of care which Big Pharma now owns and will be given yet another toxic drug that will only add to what is likely the root cause of your condition— your body’s very healthy reaction to toxic overload. The symptoms are telling you these toxins don’t belong there! So please take them out! You will be initiating a healing event for yourself and the planet!

At the end of the day, it is up to you to do your homework and submit to the reality that you must take out all toxic exposures in your life, and eat right, get sun, exercise, sleep seven to eight hours a night, and drink clean mineral-rich water to initiate and support a healing event.

And then, to advance your health to total protection from the symptoms and diseases that bioaccumulation (body burden) causes, be sure to read the upcoming article in this series, Staying Sane in a Toxic World: Detoxification of Dietary & Environmental Toxins—Never Suffer from Bioaccumulation Again! for explicit instruction on how to detoxify yourself of these and all other toxins discussed in this article.

Shine, brothers and sisters, shine!

Genita Petralli

Call to Evolution – A Green Body and Mind

1.       Discontinue all GMO foods and any food that could be suspected of containing them

2.       Check to make sure all the plastics you use are BPA / phthalate free and reduce use of all plastics to a bare minimum – reduce – reuse – recycle!

3.       Don’t put anything on your skin you wouldn’t eat! Use only truly non-toxic, organic personal hygiene products.

4.       Drink filtered re-mineralized alkaline (pH 8.0+) water

5.       If you suspect mold, get an air test in your home or work place and remove the area infected. Ozonators properly used can be very beneficial. You should also get a heavy metal test done on yourself and take appropriate action (read the upcoming article regarding Body Burden detox in Veritas) when you get the results. An alarming 90% of the population is suspected to be mercury toxic today.

Genita Petralli H.H.P., N.C., M.H., Founder and Medical Director, Shangri-La Organic Retreat and Health Spa: A Green Body & Mind Healing Center, is a nutritional biochemist and licensed healthcare provider. She is the author of four books in the field of addiction and orthomolecular neurochemical rehabilitation for legal/illegal drug addiction. Alcoholism: The Cause & The Cure was endorsed with a foreword written by the legendary late Dr. Abram Hoffer M.D., PhD.

If you would like a free copy of the pamphlet version of her book, Green Mental Health Care—Staying Sane in a Toxic World, please visit www.BioSanctuary.com.

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[3] Environmental Neurotoxicology Research Project. University of South Florida, Tampa. 1997 Richard Pressinger (M.Ed.)

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