➥g-force, is a measurement of the type of force per unit mass – typically acceleration – that causes a perception of weight, with a g-force of 1 g (not gram in mass measurement) equal to the conventional value of gravitational acceleration on Earth, g, of about 9.8 m/s².
➥Human tolerance
When vibration is experienced, relatively low peak g levels can be severely damaging if they are at the resonant frequency of organs or connective tissues.
To some degree, g-tolerance can be trainable, and there is also considerable variation in innate ability between individuals.
Aircraft pilots (in particular) sustain g-forces along the axis aligned with the spine. This causes significant variation in blood pressure along the length of the subject's body, which limits the maximum g-forces that can be tolerated.
Positive, or "upward" g, drives blood downward to the feet of a seated or standing person (more naturally, the feet and body may be seen as being driven by the upward force of the floor and seat, upward around the blood). Resistance to positive g varies. A typical person can handle about 5 g0 (49 m/s²) (meaning some people might pass out when riding a higher-g roller coaster, which in some cases exceeds this point) before losing consciousness, but through the combination of special g-suits and efforts to strain muscles—both of which act to force blood back into the brain—modern pilots can typically handle a sustained 9 g0 (88 m/s²)
Yet, "this-here" is continuously trying to retrieve, implement and manage the elsewhere predesigned escaping strategy— before the utilisation of the D.E.A.T.H. (Departing Earth Ascending to Heaven) method.
* An allowance of time granted to a debtor during which he or she is free of at least part of his normal obligations towards the creditor.
Unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.
גִּיל • (gíl) m (plural indefinite גִּילִים)
age, period
joy, happiness
A male or female given name, Gil.
《道德經》第四十五章
81之一 『減七十三/X』
वेद मेष राशि (वेद रामी)
大成若缺，其用不弊。
大盈若沖，其用不窮。
大直若屈，大巧若拙，大辯若訥。
躁勝寒靜勝熱。
清靜為天下正。
Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-five — C. Ganson
45
The most perfect seems imperfect,
but it endures with constancy.
The greatest fullness seems empty,
but it cannot be exhausted.
The most straight seems twisted.
The most skilful seems clumsy.
The most eloquent seems awkward.
Movement overcomes cold,
stillness overcomes heat.
The serene and passive are guides for all.
Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-five — James Legge
45 (Great or overflowing virtue)
Who thinks his great achievements poor
Shall find his vigour long endure.
Of greatest fullness, deemed a void,
Exhaustion never shall stem the tide.
Do thou what's straight still crooked deem;
Thy greatest art still stupid seem,
And eloquence a stammering scream.
Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat. Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under the heaven.
Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-five — Arthur Waley
45
What is most perfect seems to have something missing;
Yet its use is unimpaired.
What is most full seems empty;
Yet its use will never fail.
What is most straight seems crooked;
The greatest skill seems like clumsiness,
The greatest eloquence is like stuttering.
Movement overcomes cold;
But staying still overcomes heat.
So he by his limpid calm
Puts right everything under heaven.
Monday, December 27, 2021
The six-word mantra for overcoming anxiety:
face, accept, float, let time pass
— Claire Weekes, Dr Hazel Claire Weekes MBE
Scientist, soprano and fear-fighter
A scientist by nature, Claire Weekes loved the physicality of singing. (Illustration by Lucy Fahey)
A pioneer of modern anxiety treatment who explored the possibilities of cognitive therapy, Dr Hazel Claire Weekes wrote: "Self Help For Your Nerves" (1962), which went on to sell more than 300,000 copies. Based on her own experiences of panic and anxiety, she developed a treatment that today be might called mindfulness.
Critical of Freudian psychoanalysis with its emphasis on sex and tracking down the original cause of distress through talk therapy, Weekes boasted of getting patients off ‘the old Viennese couch … [and out] into the world’. She believed that fear was the driver of much nervous suffering, and that many had simply been ‘tricked by their nerves’. An original cause certainly needed attention if it was still fuelling distress, but Dr Weekes discerned that often it took second place to people’s fear of "the state they were in".
Doctor Weekes exposed fear’s vast menu of bewildering and distressing symptoms and became famous for explaining the mind-body connection. People recognised themselves in the words she used, borrowed from her patients: ‘All tied up.’ ‘Headaches.’ ‘Tired and weary.’ ‘Palpitations.’ ‘Dreadful.’ ‘Nervous.’ ‘Sharp pain under the heart.’ ‘No interest.’ ‘Restless.’ ‘My heart beats like lead.’ ‘I have a heavy lump of dough in my stomach.’ ‘Heart-shakes.’ The nervous system seemed infinitely inventive. Then, bewilderment and fear of ‘what happens next’ took over.
Yet far from being possessed or crazy, Claire Weekes explained to her readers that they were ordinary people who could cure themselves once they understood how their nerves had been ‘sensitised’ and then, by following some simple steps, learn to control the savage flame of fear. ‘It is very much an illness of your attitude to fear,’ she counselled in Peace from Nervous Suffering (1972).
Claire Weekes was effectively treating the panic attack before it even had a name. She also believed that fear is the common thread that runs through many different psychological ‘disorders’, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, general anxiety disorder, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), to use the formal diagnostic terms that had yet to be invented in her time. In this sense, Weekes anticipated contemporary ‘transdiagnostic’ approaches to mental health that acknowledge the commonalities across supposedly separate disorders. Mrs Weekes credited her scientific training with allowing her to see what she called ‘the trunk of the tree’ rather than being distracted by the branches.
Sunday, December 26, 2021
布袋
布袋 Hotei & Santa 聖誕老人
布袋, Hotei is one of 七福神, the Shichi Fukujin, the seven Japanese Shinto-gods of luck. He is the god of happiness, laughter and the wisdom of contentment, and is the patron of the weak and children, fortunetellers and bartenders. 布袋, Hotei is distinguished by his body of generous proportions and round stomach exposed beneath loose robes. His big belly is a symbol of happiness, luck and generosity. On his back, he carries a huge linen bag containing precious things and gifts of good fortune, including children. He also holds 団扇、うちわ • (uchiwa) ←うちは (utifa) an uchiwa, a flat fan of Chinese origin used by ancient chieftains as an emblem of authority and wish-granting. He may sit in an old cart drawn by boys, as the Wagon Priest, and can be compared with मैत्रेय, Maitreya, 彌勒菩薩 the Buddhistic Mi-lo-Fo (彌勒佛).
布袋, Hotei、奥村政信 (1686–1764)、1708年
In Chinese Buddhism, he is known as 布袋 Bùdài, the Loving or Friendly One. He was a 僧侶 wandering 禪 Chan Buddhist monk who lived in the ninth century. At his death between 901 and 903, he recited a poem that revealed to the world that he was in fact the Bodhisattva Maitreya in disguise. Maitreya, Chinese Buddhists believe, is the future Buddha, who will return to the world and bring innumerable individuals to salvation. This concept of hope for the suffering, combined with Budai’s pleasing, human features, made him a most popular Buddhist deity. It was not until the sixteenth century that he was canonized as the sixteenth and last Chinese Bodhisattva.
According to Chinese legend, he carried a sack of candy to give to children. He is sometimes worshipped as a god of good luck and prosperity. He is always represented as very stout, with the breast and upper abdomen exposed to view. His face has a widely grinning or laughing expression, and he is also known as the Laughing Buddha. He stands in the first of the halls of a Buddhist monastery. Because of his constant good nature, he has become the symbol of philosophical contentment.
As soon as Christmas approaches, children around the world have Santa on the brain. They anxiously wonder if they have been overly naughty or sufficiently nice, and eagerly daydream about their potential gift hauls. But exactly how did the jolly, bearded North Pole resident evolve into the cultural icon we know today? Here are some facts about that evolution:
1. He was real, sort of
Folklore may have turned Santa Claus into a toy distributor who mans a sleigh led by eight flying reindeer, but he is actually based, loosely, on a real person. Born around the year 270, St. Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra, a town in what is now Turkey. He earned a reputation as an anonymous gift giver, says MSNBC, by paying the dowries of impoverished girls and handing out treats and coins to children — often leaving them in their shoes, set out at night for that very purpose. Since his death, Nicholas has been canonized as the patron saint of children.
2. He's only been 'Santa Claus' for 200 years
A Dutch tradition kept St. Nicholas' story alive in the form of Sinterklaas, a bishop who travelled from house to house to deliver treats to children on the night of Dec. 5. The first anglicizing of the name to Santa Claus was in a story that appeared in a New York City newspaper in 1773.
3. Satire first sent Santa down a chimney
In his satiric 1809 book A History of New York, Washington Irving did away with the characterization of Santa Claus as a "lanky bishop," says Whipps. Instead, Irving described Santa as a portly, bearded man who smokes a pipe. Irving's story also marked the first time Santa slid down the chimney, says the U.K.'s Independent.
4. "Twas the Night Before Christmas" introduced the reindeer
Clement Moore's 1822 poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas — which is now more commonly referred to as "Twas the Night Before Christmas" — was first published anonymously in the Troy, N.Y., Sentinel on Dec. 23, 1823. The 56-line poem introduced and popularized many of Santa's defining characteristics — chiefly, that he drove a sleigh guided by "eight tiny reindeer."
5. Coca-Cola created the modern Mr Claus
When Father Christmas first began showing up in illustrations, he wore many different coloured robes: Green, purple, blue, and brown, among others. Beginning in the late 1800s, it became popular to outfit Santa in a red suit. Artist Louis Prang depicted him that way in a series of Christmas cards in 1885, and The New York Times reported on the red garments in 1927. But the modern image of Santa Claus as the jolly man in the red suit was seared into American pop culture in 1931 when artist Haddon Sundblom illustrated him that way for a widely-circulated campaign for Coca-Cola.
6. The department store Santa is a 120-year-old tradition
In 1890, Massachusetts businessman James Edgar became the first department store Santa, according to The Smoking Jacket. Edgar is credited with coming up with the idea of dressing up in a Santa Claus costume as a marketing tool. Children from all over the state dragged their parents to Edgar's small dry goods store in Brockton, and a tradition was born.
7. Santa was a bachelor until the late 1800s
The first mention of a spouse for Santa was in the 1849 short story A Christmas Legend by James Rees. Over the next several years, the idea of Mrs Claus found its way into several literary publications, like the Yale Literary Magazine and Harper's Magazine. But it wasn't until Katherine Lee Bates' widely-circulated 1889 poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride that Santa's wife was popularized. ("Goody" is short for "Goodwife," or "Mrs.")
Santa Claus by Haddon Sundblom
Sunday, December 26, 2021
"No influence exceeds the will of an individual if it works with and chooses the spirit of truth.
For, it is the spirit one chooses that determines the result for that individual, whether in materiality, mental attainment, or spiritual unfoldment."
ECRL 2829-1
Santa & the Magic Mushrooms
Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita, especially Amanita muscaria variety muscaria
The Shamanic Origins of Christmas Traditions
The origin of the story of Santa Claus and Christmas tradition can be traced to several origins, the most famous one being the story of Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century Greek saint known for his generosity. Another theory links Santa Claus’ red and white colour scheme to a genius Coca-Cola advertising campaign. Yet, elements of Santa Claus’ tale and life, especially from the very popular ’Twas The Night Before Christmas’ poem recited every year by millions around the world, reveal a different story.
When one thinks ofChristmas and this time of year, one immediately imagines the colours red and white, from the gift wraps to Christmas sweatshirts and of course Santa Claus famous red and white attire. A red and white scheme is clear in the context of this holiday and the traditions surrounding it.
Santa Claus’ archetypal image can be dated to hundreds if not thousands of years, even found in the most unpredictable places and times.
Since pre-Christian times, this time of year has always been a time of festivities and celebration, with music, dancing, banquets, and gatherings.
Germanic peoples, for example, had the Midwinter festival, Yule, which occurred around the Winter Solstice (21st December). Also, the Romans had the festival of Saturnalia, an ancient festival in honour of the god Saturn, held on the 17th of December through to the 23rd of December.
In Siberian and Arctic regions shamans dropped into locals’ homes with a bag full of magic mushrooms as presents in late December.
“Santa is a modern counterpart of a shaman, who consumed mind-altering plants and fungi to commune with the spirit world”, he says, “as the story goes, up until a few hundred years ago these practising shamans or priests connected to the older traditions would collect Amanita muscaria var. muscaria, noted for their hallucinogenic properties, with the main psychoactive constituents being the neurotoxins ibotenic acid and muscimol — a local variety of the mushroom was used as an intoxicant and entheogen by the indigenous peoples of Siberia and by the Sámi, and has a religious significance in these cultures— (the Holy Mushroom), dry them, and then give them as gifts on the winter solstice,” according to John Rush, an anthropologist, and instructor at Sierra College.
Amanita muscaria is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere under conifers and birch trees, just like presents found under the Christmas tree by excited and happy children. This explains the tradition of the Christmas tree and the gifts, wrapped in red and white, placed under the tree just like the magic mushrooms.
As amanita muscaria is classified as poisonous, this might explain why the shamans of that time initially hang the freshly harvested Amanita muscaria to dry on tree branches, just like the colourful ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Santa’s flying reindeer have a similar connection to the Amanita muscaria mushrooms. Reindeer, in general, are common across Europe and Siberia, and just like the human inhabitants of these areas, they too consumed mushrooms. Harvard University biologist Donald Pfister suggests that Siberians who ingested the mushrooms may have hallucinated that the grazing reindeer were actually flying.
Research has shown that reindeer do in fact have a fondness for the Amanita Muscaria. Deputy editor of the Pharmaceutical Journal, Andrew Haynes, wrote in 2010 that animals deliberately seek out the red and white spotted mushroom in their habitats, as they “have a desire to experience altered states of consciousness” Haynes also wrote, “for humans, a common side-effect of mushrooms is the feeling of flying, so it’s interesting the legend about Santa’s reindeer is they can fly.”According to The Sun, Haynes even claimed that reindeer seek out the mushrooms to “escape the monotony of dreary long winters.”
“At first glance, one thinks it’s ridiculous, but it’s not,” said Carl Ruck, a professor of classics at Boston University. “Whoever heard of reindeer flying? I think it’s becoming general knowledge that Santa is taking a ‘trip’ with his reindeer.”
To add to things, Rudolf’s red nose might have been a representation of the Amanita muscaria, while the idea of helper elves assisting Santa in making children happy might go back to the spirits encountered by the shaman during a mushroom trip.
One historian, Ronald Hutton, told NPR that the theory of a mushroom-Santa connection is flawed. “If you look at the evidence of Siberian shamanism, which I’ve done,” Hutton said, “you find that shamans didn’t travel by sleigh, didn’t usually deal with reindeer spirits, very rarely took the mushrooms to get trances, didn’t have red-and-white clothes.”
Yet Rush and Ruck disagree. According to the two researchers, the shamans did actually deal with reindeer spirits and the ingestion of mushrooms is well-documented. Siberian shamans did wear red deer pelts, but the colouring of Santa’s garb is mainly meant to mirror the colouring of Amanita mushrooms, Rush added. As for sleighs, the point is not the mode of travel, but that the “trip” involving the transportation to a different, celestial realm, Rush said. Sometimes people would also drink the urine of the shaman or the reindeer, as the hallucinogenic compounds are excreted this way, without some of the harmful chemicals present in the mushrooms, which are broken down by the shaman or the reindeer, according to Rush.
“People who know about shamanism accept this story,” Ruck said. “Is there any other reason that Santa lives in the North Pole? It is a tradition that can be traced back to Siberia.”
All theories of the origin of Christmas traditions could have some elements of truth, and with that said, this excerpt from James Arthur’s ‘Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion’ probably best summarizes the Santa magic mushroom theory.
“So, why do people bring Pine trees into their houses at the Winter Solstice, placing brightly colored (Red and White) packages under their boughs, as gifts to show their love for each other and as representations of the love of God and the gift of his Sons life? It is because, underneath the Pine bough is the exact location where one would find this ‘Most Sacred’ Substance, the Amanita muscaria, in the wild.”
《道德經第四十三章》
天下之至柔，馳騁天下之至堅。
無有入無間，吾是以知無為之有益。
不言之教，無為之益，天下希及之。
Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-three — C. Ganson
43
The softest will penetrate the hardest.
The non-existent will penetrate the existent.
By this, I know the value of being passive.
This is teaching without words,
an achievement without direct action.
In all the world few know this.
Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-three — James Legge
43 (The universal use (of the action in the weakness of the Dao))
The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest; that which has no (substantial) existence enters where there is no crevice. I know hereby what advantage belongs to doing nothing (with a purpose).
There are few in the world who attain to the teaching without words, and the advantage arising from non-action.
Dao De Jing Chapter Forty-three — Arthur Waley
43
What is of all things most yielding
Can overwhelm that which is of all things most hard.
Being substanceless it can enter even where is no space;
That is how I know the value of action that is actionless.
But that there can be teaching without words,
Value in action that is actionless,
Few indeed can understand.
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Carte française des lieux et hauts-lieux énergétiques.
Hormis les 100 cathédrales, ajoutées d'office (mais dont beaucoup reste à détailler), il y a plus de 550 lieux décrits sommairement sur le plan énergétique, partout en France. Tous ou presque sont activables selon les protocoles habituels en prêtant attention à la pollution et aux charges diverses sur les lieux.
Comme indiqué en légende, les couleurs donnent une estimation de la qualité vibratoire du lieu, après activation : noir, lieu mort/très pollué, bleu, vibration normale, classique pour un lieu énergétique, bleu foncé, excellentes vibrations, violet, lieux exceptionnels ou hauts-lieux, jaune clair, très hautes vibrations, lieux uniques et rares dans le monde.
Cette hiérarchie, discutable, selon les pollutions, la météo locale, permet toutefois d'avoir une idée des fréquences en présence. Toutes les indications sont puisées dans des sources disponibles sur l'Internet et les livres de géobiologie habituels : Altenbach, Cardinaux, Landburg, Lipnick, Prat, etc.
L'ensemble des phénomènes n'estsont pas recensé pour chaque endroit. Nombre de menhirs et églises — activables per se — restent à rajouter.
