Who Is In Charge Of Your Body?

Where does the influence of the mind begin and where does it end? How much can we take charge of our body and its functioning? To a certain degree we are the master of our life. Since we choose how we react when life deals us cards that we would prefer to not be handed. So is it true that we are also the master of our body? Can we influence how are body uses our food for example?

This line of thinking happened after reading an article on a Dutch website while researching auto-suggestion and how to change habits. The article stated that by a simple and very effective experiment you can raise the energy available to you. It said the following:

Before you begin a meal, take time to tell your body and the food that the energy of the meal is not for storage (in fat tissue) but to be used by your muscles and organs. You will notice that you have more energy, and loss of weight will follow soon after. When the weight remains fairly the same, it is time for the following phase: ask the body to release all excessively stored energy and make it available for muscles and organs.

If this is true, what I rationally can see as such, it opens up more ways that we can be in charge of our bodies. How about telling your body to remove warts? Or grow blond hair instead of the grey hair that has been progressively taking the blond hair over?

I am curious about the experiment mentioned. Steve Pavlina often says how we need a 30 day period to change a habit. I think it would be interesting to tell all my food to be used on organs and muscles and not for storage.

Would it change my level of energy?

Would I loose weight?

What is your bet on that happening?

P.S. on December 28th I found out that Abraham through Esther Hicks has a new video on you tube called Think and Get Slim, Natural Weight Loss. It is from 240 minute video on natural weight loss. Here is the question from  woman that has tried every diet, done every exercise, and still cannot lose weight.

Your mental attitude is all that you need to effectively loose weight!

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Visualization as Method to Fixing Yourself or not?

RED, originally uploaded by placbo.

Here is one way to visualize by Rob of iwishicouldtellyou. I am curious how you deal with visualization.

I have often visualized to create things like more space, work, or easy material things such as another wheelbarrow for the garden, someone to fix the shed in the garden. Sometimes I find that I visualize because I cannot and will not accept reality as it is. Then I complain about the lack of space in our boat, I am unhappy since I like to do things so work would be more than welcome. It is a sort of fix mechanism.

On the other hand the wheelbarrow materialized within two days and the person to fix the shed appeared one year after. When it is fun things with less weight attached I can see it as a game.

I am now at a place where I visualize for indeed the wheelbarrow or projects that I am in. Just the first small step ahead that I would like to make. I visualize that and accept whatever comes. And then again: I am often wondering if everything in my life is happening in a perfect way, who needs to visualize to create and what for? Can I feel what I really need?

Have you ever asked yourself these questions:
1. What do you visualize?
2. Why do you visualize?
3. Did anything happen when you visualized?

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Impressions from Elsewhere?

Communication in every day life uses words. We all use a different kind of communication too. Intuition, sixth sense. It may also be called hunches, the paranormal or perhaps channeling. The kind of communication that is send and received without words. Perhaps in feelings or impressions that are so strong that I cannot ignore them.

We are all connected and influence each other, whether you like it or not. Whether I am aware of it or not. It will happen. Perhaps you know the feeling that someone is looking at you. When you do look up you will see that this is indeed true. The look of this person can be felt by you. Try for yourself to look at someone with the intention that the person will look at you too. Fascinating. Especially because sometimes they do look at you in return.

Impressions are personal and I make up my own interpretation of what it might mean. I read a lot of books to understand and learn about what was happening to me. None of the books gave me the full answer that I needed. The experience of this other world is always mine. My perception of the world was not always mentioned in books. I read things that did not happen with me.

How does this work with impressions? For instance when I enter a room and I don’t feel happy there. Or I sit in a chair and I get cold, awfully cold. I react almost from instinct and will probably leave the room or sit some place else. If only I could listen to this kind of feelings more often. I have noticed that I begin to doubt what I feel. I begin to reason and brush it away, like a fly sitting on my face.

We are all born with this inbuilt instinct or sixth sense. When I grew older I got busy. Most of all in my mind and I thought to much that I forgot what I felt about certain places or people. I began to doubt my natural instinct. Got convinced that I don’t really feel it any more and I taught myself to ignore it. I needed time to think and survive in this world of words and actions. Feelings become overlooked.

Children are still using that instinct and will listen to it. What to do with a 2 year old son that joins on a visit to the hospital? Our next door neighbor is lying in a room and she is well known to him. He simply refuses to go into the room and waits for one hour at the door. Just waits and is happy waiting there. He is not persuaded by anything. What happened? I don’t know. He had a reason and maybe there was no reason. He decided to listen.

Impressions from elsewhere. How do I know? Are they really from elsewhere? They can also be from within me. Hard to tell. With me impressions are something that is making a connection with something inside of me. Almost welling up from inside of me and then a kind of fusion happens. Imagine a sperm cell entering the egg. The sperm invades and then merges with the egg. My feelings and impressions are like that. I enter a room and suddenly IT happens. I feel a fusion with someone or something. That is all I know.

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Listening to Hunches

It sounds so easy, it seems so natural and still I have a hard time trusting it. My hunches and feelings. I doubt what I feel and I want to brush it aside. One example. I once had astrology students and each took a real life issue to look at. A man took the anger in his life. On a scale from 1 to 10 his anger was in the higher echelons. He looked at his horoscope and it did not get him anywhere.

We begin a discussion about his anger, exploring his horoscope. And then I feel the need to get the aura-soma bottles on the table. The bottles with the numbers of his birth date. That is the hunch. Then my mind and reason interfere, I go: “This is crazy, I am doing astrology here, not aura-soma bottles. No way. That will not look too good if I do that. What good will it do?” I doubt and doubt about it. Reason and argue with myself. By now I know from experience that this is a hunch and a strong one too.

I take the four bottles of his birth date. Remember that we are talking about anger and in aura-soma terminology anger could be translated in the color red. The bottles on the table are either red, pink or magenta. No other color in there. I would say that 80% of the bottles holds red in it. This makes a valid point for this man. Red is the color of both passion and anger. What happens if you do not live from passion, when your passion is blocked? You turn into one angry young man. Frustrated because you do not get what you want and what you need to be happy.

I am glad that I did listen. It was an addition to the conversation. Things like this are more than a coincidence. I am learning to listen to hunches like this every day. IT is there and I can feel it. Will I use it? That is the real question. My fear is sometimes too big to open my mouth. My impressions are not always ‘easy’, like the hunch for the use of aura-soma bottles. What about using my other impressions? Will I tell? And if I tell, will they believe me? That fear can be enormous. I loose myself often in wondering about it. Why me? Is it real? How do I know?

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Normal, Abnormal, Paranormal

The question: “What is the difference between normal, abnormal and paranormal? is just waiting to be answered. Has been on my mind for a couple of years now. Not all the time, but now and again when things happened in my life. This is my answer just for today.

I first looked at the etymological meaning. A normal thing to do.

1650, “standing at a right angle,” from L.L. normalis “in conformity with rule, normal,” from L. normalis “made according to a carpenter’s square,” from norma “rule, pattern,” lit. “carpenter’s square” (see norm). Meaning “conforming to common standards, usual” is from 1828. Online Etymology Dictionary – Normal

Hmm, interesting the word normal only came into existence around the year 1650. Were regulations coming more into fashion so that the norm became more to the front then before?

How about abnormal?

1835, replaced older anormal and abnormous (1742) under infl. of L. abnormis “deviating from a rule,” from ab- “off, away from” + norma “rule” (see norm). The older forms were via O.Fr. anormal (13c.), from M.L. anormalos, from Gk. anomalos, from an- “not” + homalos, from homos “same.” The Gk. word influenced in L. by association with norma. Online Etymology Dictionary -Abnormal

I definitely like abnormal much better. Especially the not-being-the-same-part of the explanation. It is almost an old fashioned way to say that we are all individual.

Paranormal is the last:

1930, from para- (q.v.) + normal.
Online Etymology Dictionary -Paranormal

This is not enough to satisfy me, another source is wordwebonline. Normal is conforming with or constituting a norm or standard. Abnormal is not normal, regular or conforming to a norm. It can also be much greater than the normal! Paranormal is not in accordance with scientific laws.

What it comes down to is that normal is the usual, abnormal is beyond the usual and paranormal is way beyond the usual. I would not want to be normal and conform with the norm. I understand that you need to buy a ticket to ride on the bus, but there is so much more that does not need to be conform or follow the rules and regulations or scientific standards. How about being open for other possibilities? For things that are not scientifically approved? I am.

I am interested, to say the least, in the myriad of possibilities that opens up when leaving behind the regulations and the scientific standards. At the risk of being seen as abnormal that is.

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Tonight I Pray and Wish For

I read this somewhere:

‘Be silent about great things; let them grow inside you.’ – Baron Friedrich Von Eisel

I am taking my time like a chicken with her egg. No need to hurry, it has to grow and will come out when ready. Inspired by Catherine, I’m putting the first glimpses of my egg out there.

Tonight I pray and wish for:
* courage to communicate with Bill about my egg
* inspiration for my test astrology report for a website
* love and peace of mind
* a good Sunday without a vis-a-vis-confrontation with my old co-worker
* a nice ride on the bike in the Sun to work
* blessings for everyone in need of one
* nice coffee before I leave in the morning
* a good hair day

Two days later: I wrote to Bill, the report will be done tomorrow, peace of mind definitely, vis-a-vis confrontation happened while coming out of the toilet (!), no bike ride there was a hailstorm so I went by car, blessings still going, nice coffee before I left and a good hair day. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I am a happy radiant woman.

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Wanting to Test your Intuition?

I found an interesting link to play The garden of Dreams and the Halls of Healing here.

The garden of dreams is a research project of the Institute of Noetic Sciences to test and train your intuitive abilities. The halls of healing contains three games that test the roles of intention, attention and intuition in intentional healing. You also have the possibility to mentally do a healing on a cartoon person.

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In Awe of My Inner Cells

There is a whole world inside of me. It is alive, an impermanent ever changing universe. An amazing miracle is happening on a cellular level, in the inner cell. The best thing is that it doesn’t need any of my interference. If I would interfere, boy that would bring about chaos in all of me!

Have a look at this inspiring breathtaking 3 minute animation created for Harvard Biology students called The inner Life of a Cell. An 8 minute version with voice-over explanation of the cellular processes is available at this link.

It leaves me in awe of my inner cells and their inbuilt wisdom.
I love my skin, I love my hair, I love my organs, I love my blood, I love my nerves, I love my hormones, I love my glands, I love my immune bodies, I love my womb, I love my body liquids, I love all of my cells. Thank you for making me day after day.

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Match of Inner and Outer Reality

I make sense of my world and what is going on. It is there all the time.
Reality as I see it externally: my body, my house, my street, my city, the world.
Or my inner reality: my skin, my organs, my blood, my cells, my oxygen, the invisible part of me.

To understand reality I have objective vs subjective senses; the good old sight,
hearing, taste, smell and feeling. A continuous flow of impressions all coming into
my life. Just too many to get all at once.

To make sense on a personal level I have the subjective sense. The hardly noticeable and very quiet.
Never speaking loud, always subtle and waiting for me to make contact:
the sixth sense, the inner self, the intuition, inner guidance, subconscious.

I am lucky that I found the telephone number so I can ring.

In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears it ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility for the meaning of such a comparison.
Albert Einstein -
The evolution of physics, 1938

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Astronomical History As Told By Zecharia Sitchin

Astronomy and astrology are these days not really on speaking terms, so to speak. Once this was different when astronomers were also astrologers. I read the book The 12th planet by Zecharia Sitchin about exactly this.

He gives an outline of the history of astronomy that fascinates me. It got me to reading about Sumerian clay tablets, Akkadian Seals. I studied Japanese language and culture, but I now wish I would have studied Arabic, Sumerian, Akkadian or any language from that area instead. Anyway, this is my way of dealing with this information here and now.

Sitchin also mentions that the solar system once had a 12th planet and that travelers from the stars arrived eons ago. They also supplied astronomers and others of that time with information about the universe, the planets and the stars. Sitchin gives a lot of evidence on this and I like to explore this further.

Background Sitchin

So, who is Mr. Sitchin? What did he do? What does he have to say about the origin of the solar system and the astronomical views in Sumer and Babylon?

Wikipedia publishes several pages on Zecharia Sitchin. Here is one that talks about the controversy of his theories. Russian born Zecharia Sitchin was raised in Israel. As a boy he was reprimanded for taking the stories of the Bible literally. It is from that time that he becomes fascinated with the Nephilim or the Gods that visited Earth from Heaven. As far fatched as it may seem, Zecharia began a life long quest to find evidence that indeed Gods visited Earth from another place somewhere in heaven. Together with a legion of scholars he studied the archaeological remains as well as Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite, Canaanite and other ancient texts and epic tales. They increasingly confirmed the accuracy of the biblical references to kingdoms, cities, rulers, places, temples, trade routes, artifacts, tools and customs of antiquity. Sitchin began asking himself

“Is it not now time to accept the word of these same ancient records regarding the Nephilim as visitors to Earth from the Heavens? … All the ancient people believed in gods who descended to Earth from the heavens. The tales were not given credibility because scholars saw them as myths.
Sitchin -
The Twelfth Planet, p. vii

Sitchin on Astronomy

Before checking on the Sumerian information that he found during his investigation he reviews the history of our knowledge of Earth and the heavens around it. Here is a short outline of what he writes, or at least I am trying to be brief here… [1]

Sitchin began writing about the seven members of the solar system that were in use for centuries. The planets being Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Earth was not counted as a planet, because ‘it was believed that these other celestial bodies circle Earth – the most important celestial body created by God, with Gods most important creation, Man, on it.’ Reference is made of the several world views that were used earlier in history.

Different views Ancient astronomers

Most traditional astrology works with the concepts of Ptolemy who lived in the second century AD. He was convinced that the Sun, Moon, and five planets moved in circles around Earth. Other ideas from that time are that the earth is flat and vaulted over by the distant heavens. The planets were moving through the star covered heavens around planet Earth. This astronomy predominated for over 1300 years until Copernicus put the Sun in the center.

Nicholas Copernicus is credited with the discovery that the Earth is only one of several planets in the heliocentric, Sun centered, system. Copernicus pored over the writings of Greek astronomers who preceded Ptolemy, such as Hipparchus and Aristarchus of Samos. 2000 years before Copernicus ‘these Greek astronomers listed the planets in their correct order from the Sun, acknowledging that the Sun, not Earth, was the solar system’s focal point. The heliocentric concept was only rediscovered by Copernicus, and the interesting fact is that astronomers knew more in 500 B.C. than in A.D. 500 and 1500.’[2]

Sitchin explains how the astronomers in 500 B.C. could be so well informed. His best suggestion is that they could draw on Mesopotamian sources. Hipparchus confirmed in his writings that his studies were based on knowledge accumulated and verified over many thousands of years. The most acknowledged source of Greek astronomical knowledge was Chaldean [3].

Sitchin mentions that the Old Testament also ‘was replete with astronomical information. Joseph compared himself and his two brothers to twelve celestial bodies, and the patriarch Jacob blessed his twelve descendants by associating them with the twelve constellations of the zodiac’. [4]

The scope of Mesopotamian astronomy on which the early Greek astronomers must have been vast. Sitchin is sure that many of the later texts were more astrological than astronomical in nature. The heavens and the movements of the planets appeared to be of much importance to kings, temple priests and the people of the land in general. ‘The purpose of the stargazing seemed to be to find in the heavens an answer to the course of affairs on earth: war, peace, abundance, famine.’

Babylonian and Hellenistic astrology

A certain R.C. Thompson compiled and analyzed hundreds of texts from the first millennium B.C. and he was able to show that the astrologers of the time were concerned with the fortunes of the land, its people and its ruler. To make the statements that they did, they needed comprehensive and accurate astronomical knowledge without which no omens were possible. They said things like: ‘When Jupiter goes with Venus, the prayers of the land will reach the heart of the gods’. Or ‘If the Sun stands in the station of the Moon, the king will be secure on the throne.’ The Babylonians and Assyrians kept accurate ephemeris, the tables listed and predicted the future positions of the celestial bodies. They were familiar with comets, meteors, and other celestial phenomena and could calculate the relationships between the movements of the Sun, Moon, Earth and predict eclipses. They followed the motions of the celestial bodies and related them to Earth’s orbit and rotation through the helical system, this is the system we still use today. So in the Hellenistic age they had knowledge of this, over 2000 years ago!

Professor George Sarton wrote ‘Chaldean Astronomy of the last three centuries B.C.’ [5] and found that the future positions of the celestial bodies were computed by two methods. One used in Babylon and an older one from Uruk. The Uruk system was more sophisticated and more accurate than the latter system.

A specific Akkadian seal from around the third millennium B.C. is used by Sitchin to explain what symbols were used for certain celestial bodies. What does Sitchin have to say about this seal? This seal has the catalogue number VA 243 and is said to be in the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin.[6] There is controversy over the meaning of this seal, opinions vary considerably.

According to Sitchin this seal ‘departs from the usual manner of depicting the celestial bodies. It doesn’t show them individually, but rather as a group of eleven globes encircling a large, rayed star. It is clearly a depiction of the solar system as it was known to the Sumerians: a system consisting of twelve celestial bodies’. The star is a symbol for the Sun and all the 11 orbs are indicating the planets. Many scholars have commented on the theory of Sitchin and as always people are either against or approve of it [7].

Sources:

[1] This piece of text is based on the pages 178-203 of the 12th planet-book.

[2] In 1530, Copernicus completed and gave to the world his great work De Revolutionibus. He claimed that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly: a fantastic concept for the times. It is to be noted that other ancient Greek astronomers, Aristarchus and Nicholas of Cusa, did have ideas similar to those more fully developed by Copernicus but they were rejected in favor of the geocentric or earth-centered scheme as was espoused by Aristotle. Picture and information taken from Eric Weisstein’s world of Scientific Biography.

[3] “Chaldean” was used by several ancient authors to denote the priests and other persons educated in the classical Babylonian literature, especially in traditions of astronomy and astrology. Quote from Encyclopedia Britannica online.

[4] Quote taken from the book The 12th planet, page 183. I have found this to be correct. The story of Joseph can be found in Genesis 37 where Joseph has two dreams. The 12 sons of Jacob can also be found in Genesis 49. Several articles on this are here and here.

[5] The book ‘Chaldean Astronomy of the last three centuries B.C.’ has not been found available. There is mention made of it in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Jul. – Sep., 1955), pp. 166-173. I did find a book called ‘Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries b.c.’ by George Sarton, Dover Publications ISBN: 0486277402.

[6] ‘The twelfth planet’, page 204.

[7] More information on the seal can be found on these websites: http://www.ianlawton.com/mes6d.htm,

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/01jan/annunaki.html,

http://jcolavito.tripod.com/lostcivilizations/id14.html,

http://www.lauralee.com/vanflan.htm

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