The heart is called Yi [unified power] becuz when intent moves, spirit is agitated; qi is dispersed. Qi is the Mother of spirit; Spirit is the child of qi. The Mother as qi is the horse that guides/conducts the river chariot (yin spirit) in the water (yin jing). Once your mind is away from the lower Elixir Field, your Qi will be led away from it and be consumed. By gathering the Shen into the lower tan tien then the Qi follows it there. Light of eyes descend as Yang fire inner yin qi line
nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and fewer than half read even one, according to data from YouGov and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Since the early 2000s, leisure reading has plunged by nearly 40 percent, a decline mirrored in falling reading scores and broader academic performance.
https://isreview.org/issue/85/it-cant-happen-here/index.html
https://workdaymagazine.org/three-times-workers-resisted-fascism-in-minnesota-history/
The Silver Shirts, founded on January 30, 1933, as a paramilitary organization by
journalist and Christian mystic William Dudley Pelley, the group also
faced opposition in Minnesota, where the informal Anti-Defamation
Council was organized to investigate antisemitism. In 1936, journalist
Eric Sevareid began reporting on the Silver Shirts for the Minneapolis Journal, hoping to raise the alarm, although he felt his editors were framing the organization as unserious.
His series in the Minneapolis Journal was the first major exposé of the anti-Semitic fascist activity in the state and was something of a bombshell. “Anti-Semitism is the outstanding feature of the Silvershirts,” Sevareid wrote. He spent many “hair-raising evenings in the parlors of middle class citizens who worshipped a man named William Dudley Pelley, devoted to driving out the Jew from America.” They claimed a membership of 6,000 in the state. “They sang the praises of Adolf Hitler and longed for the day when Pelley should come to power as the Hitler of the United States.”16
“It was an unbelievably weird experience,” he recounted a decade later.17 At first Sevareid’s editor refused to believe him until he was able to gain admittance to a Silver Shirt meeting. His editor returned to the office and demanded: “Get me a drink, quick! God, I feel I’ve been through the fantastic nightmare of my life.” Sevareid “took them seriously, as a cadre of fascism, and we proposed to expose them in a series of articles.”
Somehow it was leaked to a group of “liberal rabbis and wealthy Jews” that the Journal was about to publish Sevareid’s series, and the group asked the Journal to “withhold the story” fearing it would “abet a virulent form of anti-Semitism.” Their attitude, Sevareid thought, could be summed up as, “It would be better to ignore the madmen and pretend they didn’t exist.” Despite the opposition, his editor published the stories, “not as I wanted written, as a cry of alarm, but as a semi-humorous exposé of ridiculous crackpots who were befuddling otherwise upright citizens.”18 Nevertheless, after the first article appeared in print, the Minneapolis Journal sold several thousand extra copies above its regular distribution.19
What Sevareid wasn’t prepared for was the unrelenting hostility that he received from the good Christian, middle-class readers of the Journal. “I was threatened by telephone and letter every day to such a point that my family was alarmed for my safety and my brothers wanted to sleep, armed in my apartment.” He got no relief at work, “Odd characters, fuming and bridling, would march to my desk in the city room, and demand to know whether I was a Christian or a Bolshevik.”
In Teamster Politics, union activist, communist organizer, and historian Farrell Dobbs wrote about the Union Defense Guard, which was a group of union members that mobilized to confront the Silver Shirts in 1938, four years after Teamsters Local 574 (also known as Local 544 in some sources) led the truckers’ strike that transformed Minneapolis into a union town. Dobbs was one of the initiators of the strike, which challenged the Citizen’s Alliance, an anti-union business oligarchy that was renamed to Associated Industries.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6761693/
heavy drinking may be the most common cause of potentially reversible hypertension in developed societies (Fifth Report 1993)...the preponderance of evidence suggests that moderate drinking is associated with lower risk of ischemic strokes (Van Gign et al. 1993).... A common manifestation of CAD [coronary artery disease] is angina pectoris,...Alcohol was widely presumed to alleviate angina by dilating the coronary blood vessels..... former drinkers had higher age-adjusted CAD and overall CVD mortality risk than lifelong abstainers, but the difference disappeared when adjusted for other traits. Among current drinkers, lighter drinkers had the lowest risk for both total CVD (i.e., cardiovascular diseases [CVDs]) deaths and CAD deaths
Researchers have also suggested that red wine, in particular, might protect the heart, thanks to the antioxidants it contains. ...hard cider contains antioxidants like polyphenols and vitamin C from its apple base, which can help fight free radicals, similar to or even more than green tea or orange juice in some studies,... the body processes ethanol in stages, converting it first to toxic acetaldehyde, then to less harmful acetate (acetic acid), which is eventually broken down into carbon dioxide and water, though a small amount is excreted directly; Acetaldehyde occurs naturally in coffee, bread, and ripe fruit, and is produced by plants as part of their normal metabolism. It is also produced by oxidation of ethanol and is popularly believed to be a cause of hangovers from alcohol consumption...Acetaldehyde exposure fromcoffee is significantly lower (orders of magnitude) than the amount of acetaldehyde produced in the body during the metabolism of even a small amount of alcohol...Polyphenols in red wine and coffee may stimulate Acetaldehyde [AcAld] formation by acting as pro-oxidants in the presence of Heme/Mb/Meat....after the consumption of a red meat-rich diet with red wine, the fecal AcAld level significantly increased as compared to the levels associated with a diet of fish + wine, or red meat without alcohol.
EtOH is the chemical abbreviation for ethanol,...Regarding colorectal cancer, a 13-fold greater amount of OH radicals is reportedly generated in human feces after a high meat and high fat diet with few vegetables, as compared to that after low meat and low fat diet with sufficient vegetables [45]. Persistent colonic ethanol, which is maintained for several hours after drinking [46, 47], may react with the OH radical generated in the colon to form AcAld.
browned fried foods generate acetaldehyde and other toxic aldehydes from the breakdown of fats (lipids) and sugars at high heat, which are reactive compounds linked to inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and cancer; these aldehydes get absorbed by the food and can be consumed, making oil choice and cooking methods crucial for reducing risk
Lead author, PhD student Chengyi Ding (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care), said: “Our findings suggest that people with cardiovascular disease may not need to stop drinking in order to prevent additional heart attacks, strokes or angina, but that they may wish to consider lowering their weekly alcohol intake...."
Nearly half of U.S. adults have some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD), with recent data showing around 48-49% affected, largely driven by high blood pressure, while globally, CVD causes about 32% of all deaths, with heart attack and stroke being the biggest killers. In the U.S., approximately 121.5 million adults deal with CVD, a figure expecting to rise to 60% by 2050...
the supposed benefits of alcohol consumption may actually be attributed to other lifestyle factors that are common among light to moderate drinkers....Consistent with earlier studies, investigators found that light to moderate drinkers had the lowest heart disease risk, followed by people who abstained from drinking....The study included 371,463 adults—with an average age of 57 years and an average alcohol consumption of 9.2 drinks per week—who were participants in the UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database and research resource containing in-depth genetic and health information.... less than six pints of medium-strength beer or just over one bottle of wine – could potentially confer some protective benefits.
The studies, however, had some major flaws, including that people’s drinking was generally categorized only by their current behavior.
“A lot of people who don’t currently drink are people who used to drink heavily, or who have health problems that led them to quit,” said Keith Humphreys, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and the Esther Ting Memorial Professor. “That skews the data, making moderate drinkers look healthier by comparison.”
“Any amount of alcohol increases your risk of certain cancers, especially those along the digestive tract – mouth, throat, esophagus, colon,” Humphreys said. “And for women, alcohol increases the risk of breast cancer.”
Alcohol is metabolized to AcAld by alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzymes, and then to acetic acid by aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). High incidences of oral, esophageal, stomach and colon cancers have been observed in ALDH-deficient subjects..., the results suggest that the AcAld enhancing effect observed in the model reaction could occur in vivo by the combination of red meat and wine....However, heavy drinkers of wine have high incidences of gastric cancer, as revealed by epidemiological studies in France, Portugal and Paraguay [17–19]. Prospective studies in large populations demonstrated that persons who preferred wine were more likely to develop colon cancer [20, 21]. Processed meats such as sausage, ham and salami are suspected to be higher risk factors for both gastric and colon cancers than red meat [2–4]. Other epidemiological studies suggested that the co-consumption of alcohol and red meat synergistically increases the colon cancer risk [22, 23].
Weird how only ONE news channel for local news reports this?
“In the past 10 years or so, in my practice, I’ve added alcohol to the list of substances I recommend my patients either reduce or eliminate from their diet,” said Randall Stafford, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and director of the Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices.
Stafford and his colleagues said the choice to tip back a beer or forgo alcohol – like many lifestyle decisions – should involve weighing the risks and benefits of your behaviors. But they think the public should be made more aware of those risks, which include an increased risk of cancer from drinking moderate amounts of alcohol.... ethanol, the type of alcohol found in beverages, metabolizes into a compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA and other cellular components. When acetaldehyde builds up in the body, it can damage cells throughout the digestive system and beyond....
Because acetaldehyde accumulates more quickly in people with the ALDH2 variant, they are at an increased risk of alcohol-related diseases, including cancer and heart disease, even at lower levels of alcohol consumption. This specific genetic variant is overwhelmingly concentrated in populations of East Asian descent, where frequencies can be as high as 40-50%...While about 40% of the South American Indian populations (Atacameños, Mapuche, Shuara) were ALSO found to be deficient in aldehyde dehydrogenase isozyme I (ALDH2 or E2)
“If you have this mutation, one drink can be the equivalent of four or five for someone else in terms of how much acetaldehyde accumulates,” he said. “For those individuals, the safest choice is to avoid alcohol entirely.”
Alcohol Industry is spreading fake medical news? NO alcohol is good for the heart
The World Health Organization has made it clear that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, mainly due to the risk of cancer increasing from low levels of drinking, as Professor Britton mentions in this film
But when you take into account OTHER factors like excercise, diet and smoking - then alcohol is NOT healthy at all - at any dose...
Red wine drinkers probably have healthier OTHER life style factors.... (not smoking, not obese, exercise and better diet)...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital say they have found that drinking alcohol in light to moderate quantities can actually be good for heart health due to the impact it has on the brain’s stress systems.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2816830
lowering alcohol intake to mild to moderate level was associated with a 23% reduction in the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events compared with sustained heavy drinking. The most substantial risk reduction was observed in the outcomes of angina and ischemic stroke.
Meaning Findings of this study provide crucial evidence of the cardiovascular benefits of reducing alcohol consumption in people who drink heavily.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001341
The available evidence suggests no risk to possible risk reduction when alcohol is consumed in low amounts (such as no more than 1 to 2 drinks a day) in regard to coronary artery disease, stroke, sudden death, and possibly heart failure.
16 files that had initially been posted on the Justice Department’s public website have disappeared without explanation, including one that showed multiple photographs of Trump with Epstein.
Why isn't Sarah Ransome considered a credible witness? She is quoted in Newsweek stating she met with a fellow victim of Epstein for coffee - a victim who was on her way to "servicing" Drumpf and Epstein at Epstein's NYC mansion? Sarah Ransome then had her family and herself threatened, so she "retracted" via email and she fled to England. Once in England Sarah Ransome explained "why" she had "retracted." And thus the corporate-state corruption continues.
"I also know she had sexual relations with Trump at Jeffrey's NY mansion on regular occasions as I once met Jen for coffee, just before she was going to meet Trump and Epstein together at his mansion."
The Trump Epstein Cover-up Is Already Failing
A recording from Allison Gill and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
They read the above Sarah Ransome quote and point out that Drumpf's name was REMOVED or redacted from the "data dump" for the above quote!! Wow...
Remember how Joseph (Genesis 39:11-12) in the Old Testament fled Potiphar's wife, when she lustfully sought him? He ran from her as fast as he could!
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
in 1st Corinthians 6:19-20 we're instructed to flee sexual immorality as our bodies are temples of the Lord;
everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. https://biblehub.com/interlinear/matthew/5-28.htm28 I however say to you, that everyone looking upon a woman in order to lust after her already has committed adultery with her in the heart of him.
The Greek word for “looks” is a present participle which refers to a continuous gaze.3 He speaks about the person who gazes to satisfy his or her lustful desires.
the Greek word usually translated “lust” in this passage (ἐπιθυμέω; epithumeô) is precisely the word for “covet” (Hebrew חמד) in the Tenth Command in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), which says:
You will not covet your neighbor’s wife.
https://www.jasonstaples.com/bible/most-misinterpreted-bible-passages-1-matthew-527-28/
Jesus is even able to use the word of himself:
“And He said to them, ‘I have lusted [ἐπιθυμέω] to eat this Passover with you before I suffer!'” (Luke 22:15)
This is what I thought until I had a conversation with an elder who had a completely different take on Matthew 5:27 - He said the correct translation of the greek word instead of "lust" is "covet" - He also said Jesus is referring to married women here apparently because adultery can only happen when a married woman is involved. He said Jesus here is talking about looking at a married woman with the intent to covet her and not about looking at an attractive woman. Can you beloved souls kindly comment on this?
“anyone who looks at a woman in order to covet her.”
https://www.bereanpatriot.com/why-lusting-in-matthew-527-28-doesnt-make-all-men-adulterers/
it specifically condemns those "looking upon a woman in order to lust after her." Note that this isn't a case of someone just happening to look at a woman and feeling instinctive, unthinking attraction. It's someone who sees a woman and makes a conscious, intentional decision to ogle her for the purpose of their own sexual titillation.
Job says in Job 31:1, “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?”
“If my step has turned from the way, or my heart followed my eyes.” Our hearts are prone to follow what we put before our eyes. How did it start with Eve? “when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes”
19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.d
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
This chapter examines Jesus teaching on adultery in Mt. 5.2730, within the context of contemporary rabbinic discussion of adultery. It argues that certain biblical texts with the mindset of a traditional heterosexual male may help to unlock the meaning and coherence of that text. The Babylonian Talmud Tractate Niddah provides a fascinating parallel to the saying of Jesus in Mt. 5.2730. In a work on masculinity and male spirituality, James Nelson argues that men have become the victims of patriarchy. Ishmael refers to masturbation as adultery of the hand. Ishmael interprets the seventh commandment as prohibiting masturbation, and R. Tarfon recommends that the hand that touches the penis be cut off as punishment. This he understood to be preferable to the pit of destruction. Concerning the criterion of continuity and discontinuity with Christianity, New Testament writers uphold and interpret the seventh commandment.
OK the AI answer is below:
https://www.leathersmithe.com/politicshandcraftsenvironme/the-psychedelic-experience.pdf
A friend told me about the Timothy Leary version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (linked above).... when I saw qigong master Chunyi Lin healing ghosts - he mentioned sending them into the brightness....
That voidness is not of the voidness of nothingness, but a voidness at the true nature of which you feel awed, and before which your consciousness shines more clearly and lucidly.
[That is the state of mind known as "Sambhoga−Kaya." In that state, you experience, with unbearable intensity, Voidness and Brightness inseparable − the Voidness bright by nature and the Brightness inseparable from the Voidness − a state of the primordial or unmodified consciousness...
When body and mind separate, you experience a glimpse of the pure truth − Subtle, sparkling, bright, Dazzling, glorious, and radiantly awesome....
Float back to the unobscured, primordial, bright, void state of your intellect....
So in terms of noncommutativity - what I call the "virtual photons of the magnetic moment" is what Gurdjieff calls the "center of gravity" of a person - where their spirit as frequency of light interacts with their soul. Tibetan monks would feel a recently deceased body to see where it stays warm the longest - that is where the spirit left the body and explains the frequency of light of the spirit when it left the body via the "center of gravity" - or what Daoists call "Yi" or intention.
By studying Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality we know the "small universe" meditation then purifies the "yin shen" yin qi red light blockages (of Hell) into "blue light" yang qi via the "yang shen" (golden light) of the "clear light" - the Yuan Shen of the "clear light" or "light of no light." The "clear light" is this superluminal listening process whereby the "yin qi" of the Left eye goes to the "yang qi" of the left ear and the "yang qi" of the right eye goes to the "yin qi" of the right ear.....
The conscious recognition of the Clear Light induces an
ecstatic condition of consciousness such as saints and mystics of the West have called illumination. The first sign is the glimpsing of the "Clear Light of Reality,"
The clear light is actually also the Yuan Qi - so it is the quantum nonlocal information that is also precognitive and thus call the "Fa Shen" in Ch'an Buddhism so that "Fa Shen" means the Dharmakaya.
法身說法 [fa shen shuo fa]—The Dharmakāya (法身 [fa shen]) Preaching the Dharma (說法 [shuo fa]) — [Terminology] See Appendix to the entry on Dharmakāya. (Dharmakāya) [Terminology]
The Dharma−Kaya is the highest of the three bodies of the Buddha and of all Buddhas and beings who have perfect enlightenment. The other two bodies are the Sambhoga−Kaya or "Divine Body of Perfect Endowment" and the Nirmana−Kaya or "Divine Body of Incarnation." Adi− Kaya is synonymous with Dharma−Kaya. The Dharma−Kaya is primordial, formless Essential Wisdom;
the phrase "the teaching master of the Mahāvairocana Sūtra (大日經 [da ri jing]) attained accomplishment" is considered the original Dharmakāya (本地法身 [ben de fa shen]). Furthermore, in various commentaries by the school's masters, it is sometimes explained as Dharmakāya, sometimes identified as Self-nature Body.
So the brightness of light is achieved via the Golden Light seen externally while the qigong master sees the blue light internally, thereby accessing the virtual photons or Fa Shen Emptiness as the clear light of no light... the Dharmakaya
New International Version (2011)