Who Am I? I’m A Creator, A Free Thinker…

 Who am I?

By Cathy Eck

Who Am I?

This is my last post for a while.  I assure you that everything you need to get mentally and emotionally free is on this site and Gateway to Gold.  But you have to work at it.  You have to want freedom more than you want air to get it.  Reread old posts; what you understand will change as you let go.  You’ll often think that I changed the material, but I probably didn’t.  You changed.  Letting go happens in layers.

Challenge your thoughts/beliefs, even if your mind is telling you with absolute certainty that what you’re experiencing or thinking is true.  Let go of positive beliefs, not just negative ones.  I talk about this in my article on the Triangle Process.  As you let go, you’ll answer life’s biggest question, “Who Am I?”   But don’t confuse what I’m saying with the eastern practice of asking that question over and over again.  My work has nothing to do with eastern teachings and practices.  People often get confused by that.  I didn’t understand this eastern confusion for a long time.  I had to mentor people who had it.  Then I put what I learned from working with them into the Gold Circle material.  They had what I call a True Self clone, and this was keeping them from letting go.  They learned the truth from some teacher or guru, or even studying someone’s writing intensely; and they put the learned truth into their false mind.  That blocked them from connecting with their real True Self.  Then they read and learned what I was saying like that would get them free.  They weren’t actually letting go.  They told themselves that learning was letting go.  It isn’t. You can’t learn your way to your True Self.

I didn’t have that issue; I had never been a follower.  I didn’t even have much of a persona.  I could never lie very well.  So I didn’t understand what was going on with these people.  But I did want to help them get free; I felt that their desire for freedom was sincere.  I had to go into their illusion to understand why they were so stuck.  That period of research and mentoring others became the Gold Circle.  The clone is the masculine part of our false mind that can pretend to be our True Self.  It learns how to sound like a True Self, but it isn’t the True Self.  Clones confuse a lot of people these days.  Most of those popular spiritual teachers and gurus are very strong clones and that means that they project a lot.  Religious leaders are also clones who project sin on their followers.  Also progressive politicians are very strong clones that project a whole lot on their followers.  Their followers don’t realize what is happening.  It’s cruelty masked as caring.

Thus people who follow them come to believe that they don’t know who they are when they actually do completely know who they are.  They simply took a projection from a so-called spiritual teacher or charismatic leader.  In the Gold Circle, I help people let go of the clone voices that they put in their minds, and they start to realize that they do know who they are.  I can’t stop these clones from doing what they do.  They have the right to do what they want.  But I can tell you how to get free of them; then you return to your True Self.  You don’t need their truth; you had it within you all along.

You didn’t arrive on earth wondering who you were.  You were curious and alive…a True Self.  You saw someone walking, you watched them, you took the risk, and you walked.  You heard people talk, and you learned to speak and matched words to objects, people, and experiences.  Learning and life were fun.  But you were never supposed to learn beliefs or get a belief system of any kind.

Recently, I heard on television that children’s brains are completely fired up until they start answering the question “I am…?”  They start creating a false identity, labeling themselves; and their brain appears to shut down.  As people get older they identify with their beliefs and their belief systems; they really start to shut down.  That is the start of what I refer to as the clone mind.  But I don’t talk about it much in the free material because it is very confusing.  Explaining the clone, and exposing popular clones, required that I put together a systematic way of approaching the subject.  It requires people to really want to do get free and not just be casual about letting go.  So the Gold Circle was born.

If you don’t have much of a clone, the free work will probably be all you need.  Either way, I require that people do my free work first, so do that and see if you are still stuck when you are done.  You need to already be letting go when you enter the Gold Circle.  I don’t teach the basics of letting go in that program.

That being said, I want to give you one big caution as you read my free work.  You were trained to learn and memorize what you read.  Stop IT!  Don’t learn what I’m saying.  I write to expose what is false.  I teach you how to let go by using your emotions and win-win logic.  Practice what I’m saying, and do it as you read.  Read slowly, and stop when you feel emotions; take the time to let go.  The more you practice, the easier it gets.  It’s a new way of using your mind and emotions.  It goes against what you have been trained to do.  Witness the emotions until you are free of that belief.  If you don’t know what I mean by witnessing, check out https://gatewaytogold.com/meditation-for-the-western-mind/.  Letting go can take minutes or days.  It depends on how much you’ve believed your beliefs in the past.  It depends how feminine you are to others.  It depends on how much you believe the clone voices in your mind.

Letting go is easy; the illusion is very complex.  Those who are winning in the illusion don’t want us to escape.  This project for me has taken a lot longer than I thought it would.  I had no idea that I would run into so many tricks and traps, but I did.  So I had to deal with what came up; and that is why Gateway to Gold has developed into my main site with different paid programs.  However, don’t disregard what I’ve published here.  No Labels No Lies is the meat and potatoes of letting go.  Keep working at it until you completely understand what I’m saying.

People taught you to see what they saw.  You learned there was danger, suffering, problems, and disease.  You came to believe that you could get hurt, or you could hurt someone.  You learned to judge and compare.  This didn’t make sense, but you figured that those who came before you must know the truth.  They didn’t know the truth, they knew their beliefs; and they believed that their beliefs were the truth.

You were given the knowledge of good and evil (the shit that caused us to fall).  Good now had an opposite…EVIL.  You learned to hate and fear other humans.

We see what we hold in mind…what we believe.  How do we get back to who we once were?   It seems impossible.  Their beliefs appeared to get stuck in our minds.  How did that happen?  We asked, and they answered.  They gave us reasons for why we were stuck; and those reasons were all lies.

“You were born sinful.  Your memories of perfection are imaginary…visions of heaven.  Go to church to make sure you get to heaven when you die.”  What a crock of shit!  The east wasn’t any better…they gave you karma and a caste system.

Your character was slowly constructed.  You learned to be good and worthy so you could get a good-paying role in society and work hard.  “Life isn’t meant to be easy,” they say.

Knowledge consumed your mind.  Those who memorized the most knowledge got the best roles.  They’re called experts.  I call them clones.  Clones are great in the illusion; they are worthless once we want freedom.  Creative thinkers sound strange in the illusion.  Philosophers look lazy.  Artists starve.  Inventors can’t afford to create their inventions unless the inventions please “The Man.

Your pure thinking and true goodness was replaced by an illusion built of beliefs in which you were judged on your ability to blindly follow.  When you got to the point where you feared judgment enough, you turned away from your True Self.

A True Self is labeled evil by false selves.  The false self believes that creativity is for people with nothing else to do.  No one can see your thoughts anyway; it’s what you do that counts.  You conformed, but then you wondered, “Who Am I?”

Had Enough?

Maybe you attended workshops, saw therapists, and did processes and practices; yet you didn’t find the answer.  One day, you learned how to let go.  You let go of your beliefs regarding social protocol, religion, disease, problems, culture, and sin.  You released society’s rules from your mind.  You realized that others, even experts, had nothing to offer you anymore.  Slowly…you started to remember,  “I’m a creator.  What I think is what I become.”

Your problems came from accepting beliefs and then fixing the effects of those beliefs.  You finally knew which way to go.  You just had to keep letting go more and more until your mind was free.  But it is hard to trust such an insight.  No one is letting go.  Nearly everyone is learning…putting more crap in their mind.

The illusion runs on good/evil, right/wrong, or win/lose.  The illusion is false…powerless.  It’s believed by nearly everyone…but it isn’t real.  It’s projected from our collective beliefs.  You arrived with the truth, and you didn’t lose it.  You can’t screw up letting go.  You can’t let go of truth.  So you have nothing to lose by letting go, ever.

Any thought/belief that has an emotional component is false, even if the whole world believes it’s true.  Your mind desperately wants you to believe that thoughts that feel bad are true, but you fight that temptation.  You let those thoughts go.

Holy Shit!  You aren’t a fucking sinner.  The more you let go, the more you despise competition, oppression, and domination.  You’d never harm another.  You won’t even judge another anymore.  You realize that a true thought is win-win for everyone.  No belief system can be true.  Belief systems separate us.

You realize that those who have masculine (authority) roles make the rules.  The judging God was actually a human being…a false, power-tripping leader who imposed his illusion, where he wins and we lose, on everyone else in the name of God.  You don’t want to even play good roles in the illusion — they always harm someone.

Leaders in false masculine roles often look like True Selves because they project their judgments and the unwanted half of their beliefs on to people in feminine roles.  You now see and hear the false masculine’s incongruence.  The leaders see enemies, evil, suffering, poverty, and disease because it’s inside of them.  It’s not true; it’s their illusion…their reality.  Underneath their mask is a powerless human who’s lost.  They’re pawns of the illusion fixing their own projections.  We should ignore them, not follow them.

We were programmed to see a physically-focused perspective of reality which blinds and confuses us. We look at the quality of people’s doing and ignore their thinking.  Sadly, false thinking looks normal.  True good comes from a pure mind.  When our mind is impure, we can look good by doing the right things; but we aren’t truly good.

The illusion told us that it could give us what we already were.  The illusion only lies.

When we can no longer stand the illusion, we let it go.  As we let go of the judgments, labels, beliefs, and knowledge/expertise, we’re left with the truth.  We remember who we are.  We’re creators who bring our ideas to life for the benefit of everyone.  Keep letting go; don’t stop until you get to freedom.  It’s your birthright.

Validation That You Are Going Toward Freedom

Going the right way?

 By Cathy Eck

New Thought

The New Thought movement made it much more difficult to follow the path of initiation.  It made thinking our way to success, wealth, and a hot, sexy body spiritual.  Jet planes and mansions now proved mastery.  Many teachers made whatever their false self liked a sign of spiritual mastery, and other false selves grabbed on for that ride.  Spirituality is big business.

New Thought teachers/preachers speak truthful ideas and thoughts to false selves who memorize them creating a spiritual-looking false clone of their True Self.  These leaders promote their beliefs as the truth; people throw their True Self under the bus to follow these charismatic leaders.

People have more beliefs than ever.  They view their beliefs as right and true.  They impose them on others without questioning themselves.  People have adopted spiritual practices only to become more judgmental and more inclined to fix the effects of their thinking.  Finding the cause often seems like too damn much work when a little internet research and a swipe of the credit card can appear to solve anything.  We forget that science has limitations.  We will eventually run into a dead-end that we can’t fix.

There are moments in my own inner work that I think, “I could just fix that effect and people would find me much more believable.”  They wouldn’t notice my inauthenticity.

But I’d notice my inauthenticity.  Those who stick with this work often feel their progress doesn’t seem to matter.  People can’t see our True Self if their own illusory veil is too thick.

Signs or Validation

Most people look for signs to determine where to go.  As we purify our mind, we stop looking for signs.  Instead we receive validation that we’re going the right way.  It’s often a small insight, but it keeps us going.  If you’re serious about this path, forget about others and what they think of you.  Keep score of the improvement within your own mind.

In time, material things do come to initiates.  This isn’t a path of abstinence or lack.  Our health will improve; diseases will disappear.  We’ll have more energy and even look younger.  We’ll have the abundance we need and want if we just keep our eye on our own mind and let go.  Our desires will be fulfilled naturally when we have no beliefs that block them.

When we put the purity of our mind first, everything works organically.  We become truly good and right, but we don’t use that for power over others.  This was the secret of the true initiates.  But religions and the occult put the physical reward first; they created the entrance to hell by falsely defining good and right and attaching rewards to their false rules.

Validation:  You’re Going the Right Way If:

1)  Using your will to fix or get anything seems like too much work.  You only want to use your will to let go of your thoughts and beliefs.

2)  False desires are falling away.

3)  You don’t want to judge people or gossip.  It feels bad to judge anyone.

4)  People who others look up to don’t impress you.  Talent or beauty that’s used by the false self is no longer attractive.

5)  You notice when you’re projecting on others.  You feel when others are projecting on you; you do a better job of rejecting their projection.

6)  You find yourself courageously standing up for your True Self or standing up for the True Selves of others.

7)  You don’t label emotions.  When you hear a thought that generates emotion, you know it’s false.

8)  You don’t look for inspiration or motivation outside of yourself.  You feel more internally creative.

9)  You aren’t looking for approval from others; you want to please your True Self. You’re no longer a fake nice person or a people pleaser.

10)  You can’t lie.  It’s physically painful.

11)  You aren’t paying experts (doctors, lawyers, therapists, psychics, trainers) anymore.  You were only wanting them to tell you what you already knew.

12)  You avoid self-help workshops and no longer read voraciously to find answers.  Validation comes to you naturally now.  Insights come when you let go.

13)  You’re starting to see the illusion as false.  Roles become obvious, authority looks impotent, and the notion of good and evil looks silly.  False just looks false.

14) You no longer feel guilt, grief, or shame.  You don’t take responsibility for other people’s emotions.

15)  You let go of beliefs; you don’t want to impose them on others anymore.

16)  You find yourself calm and happy for no apparent reason.  You don’t hold others responsible for your joy.

17)  Competition isn’t attractive…win-win is.

18) False self connections don’t look like love anymore.

19) You can create things with a single thought or a vision in your mind.  You don’t have to hammer at a thought with affirmations or visualize what you want for years to force your desires to manifest.

20)  You’re more loving, more compassionate, and more genuine.  You realize that anyone trying to be positive, spiritual, healthy, or good has an impure mind that they’re trying to cover up with physical actions.  You have nothing to hide so you hide nothing.

21)  You realize that your purpose was to find your Self not to be somebody in the illusion.

22)  You love your inner world.  You use your imagination to create beauty and joy, not disease and suffering.

When we let go, we gently and organically move into our perfect life; the painful things of the past now seem like an illusion…a dream.  We don’t long for things or people anymore; we know that our True desires will come to us.  We become calm, accepting, and courageous.  Letting go becomes a way of life; and our True Self/God is no longer up in the sky.  It’s within.

We realize that the truth has all the power and the false has none.  If we live and speak the truth, we break up the illusion for ourselves and others.  We eventually see a different, more perfect, world.  We’re going the right way.

I Don’t Know What I (They) Believe?

By Cathy Eck

What Do I Believe?

People often say to me, “I don’t know what I believe.”  They also say, “I don’t have any beliefs.”  These two comments are the main reason the illusion thrives.

The fact that our thoughts and beliefs create our reality was hidden for a very long time.  During that time, people accepted all kinds of beliefs as explanations for how life worked.  In more recent times, it became known that our thoughts do create our reality; but we simply put that truth on top of our already accepted beliefs.  People try to consciously control their mind to get what they want.  Sometimes they think one thing and say another; that causes projection, which causes relationship hell.  Or they say something they don’t like, and then say, “I don’t believe that,” or “Cancel.”

If we really don’t believe something, we won’t think it or say it.  We don’t have to cancel our words.  In fact, as we move toward freedom, we find it impossible to be incongruent.  Our thoughts, words, and actions will all line up.  Then we often realize that we still have beliefs that people don’t like when we speak truthfully.  We have to let those beliefs go too.

Who’s Creating Our Life?

People of all religions say,  “When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade,”  Even atheists say it.  But no one asks a very important question, “Who in the hell is life?”  “Who gave us those fucking lemons?”  A religious person might say, “God tempted us;” a New Ager might say, “The universe taught us a lesson.”  But the comment implies that we didn’t create our life.  We aren’t free if we don’t create our life.  We’re Life’s slaves.

If we’ve accepted complete responsibility for our lemons, we’d say, “I gave myself lemons, so I made lemonade.”  But no one says that.  One of the best ways to find beliefs about anything is to find out why we say what we say.

When someone dies, we say: “Now they’re in a better place.”  Really!  We don’t know that.  What we know is that their body is in the ground or an urn.  We don’t have a clue where their mind/spirit went.  If we think/speak that belief, we believe something like earth ain’t so great.  We can’t get beyond suffering unless we die.

Now people will say to me, “I don’t really believe that shit.  I just said that because I wanted them to feel better.”  You’re trapped.  First of all, you’re taking responsibility for their emotions; their emotions are caused by their thinking.  If you say what another wants to hear, you’re putting them in the masculine role.  You’re giving them power to create in your life because what they want to hear is more important than what you want to say.

Our social protocol is carefully designed to make sure that we have no power over Life.  Listen to what you say, and you’ll uncover hidden beliefs.  Listen to what others say, and you’ll discover what they believe.  The mystery drains from Life real quick.

Why Did I Say That?

If we’ve had religious or self-help training, we often train our mind to be quiet or to say the right things.  But trained quiet isn’t real quiet.   Being trained to say the right things might be automatic, but it’s not authentic.  It’s the effect of being highly socialized.  The highly socialized no longer speak what they believe or think; they speak what they believe others want to hear.  Some people have told me that they actually put their attention so completely in other people’s minds that they know what that person wants to hear.  They’re proud of this when they should feel horrible.  I suspect that it’s what most psychics do, but they don’t realize they’re doing it.  Quite honestly, we don’t have any business in another person’s mind.

Letting go of our fake social beliefs is very important.  We’re then admitting that our True Self is what belongs in society.  What doesn’t belong are social customs designed to make everyone alike and predictable.

The highly socialized do what is politically correct even if they resent it.  Their Universe or God or Life isn’t some supernatural being although they’ll say they’re trying to please God.  Their false God is actually everyone they’re trying to please — a whole shitload of human beings.  They live life as if everyone is God and they’re no one…a slave trying to please humanity.

Waking up requires us to realize that what humans want from us is not what God wants from us.  We don’t know what God wants from us unless we’re living from our True Self; we only know what others have said God wants from us.  They say that God rewards and punishes…nope, people do that.  They say God judges; no, people do.  The biggest trap is created by people who tell us that God wants what actually fulfills their needs and desires while simultaneously keeping us small and submissive.  This doesn’t just happen in big business, big religions, or government, it happens in families.

Fake Gratitude

When I was an entrepreneur, I felt thankful for the business that came my way.  I told my clients, not God, what they meant to me.  My words came from within; they were authentic.  Today, I bank at Wells Fargo; they train their employees to pretend gratitude.  It never feels good.  My son and I will do anything to avoid having to talk to a teller.  But most people don’t feel so they think the person means what they say.  Robots applaud other robots.

The reason that our false self says or does anything is because it was taught to do it.  It’s a robot.  When we take the memory out of a robot, we get nothing.  When we take the robotic memory out of a person, we get the truth…an authentic human being.

Dealing with Fragile Egos as Characters

fragile ego

By Cathy Eck

Fragile Egos

When someone holds their beliefs as absolutely true, they become a “fragile ego.” Fragile egos exist at all levels of society.  We have to let them break to get free.

Fragile egos send a clear message:  “If you obey me, I’ll reward you.  If you disobey, I’ll punish.”  They’re clones of the Old Testament false God (imaginary leader of the illusion) who believe they’re good people with the right to judge and punish.

Whoever disagrees with them is evil or bad.  Their biggest fear is exposure.  They lie and impose their beliefs on others in order to look powerful while hiding their belief that they’re weak.

The most dangerous fragile egos wear a nice mask causing them to look like a True Self.  They say and do what the illusion considers good; they generally look happy and calm.  They believe that what you do, not how you think, makes you good.  Good, by their definition gets rewarded.  That’s how the illusion works.

But the true world doesn’t work that way.  Rules and projection don’t exist outside the illusion, we manifest what we believe.

Underneath the fragile ego’s mask is an emotional storm; their actions aren’t congruent with their thinking.  They’re filled with rules and beliefs.  When we disobey or say, “No,” to their demands, their emotions roar.  They don’t see their OWN thinking as the cause of their emotions.  They blame the feminine role because their Adam-and-Eve based mythology gave them the right to.

The fragile ego projects their responsibility and emotions outward.  In fact, when we’re conditioned by fragile egos, we often become overly responsible.  We take responsibility for their emotions because they claim we’re the cause.  We aren’t.

The Wall

In mentoring, I call the eruption of the fragile ego, “hitting the wall.”  Letting go looks impossible.  Strong religious, scientific, or political views look absolutely true.  Arguing with the fragile ego does no good.  The fragile ego repeats its knowledge, rules, and beliefs like a robot.  It sees evidence that supports its thinking; it’s sure it’s right.

We only see evidence because we believe the cause.  We hold a really strong belief, but it’s still false.  If we let go of the causal belief, we’ll see different evidence.  When we try to challenge fragile ego beliefs in ourselves or others, psychological reversals kick in.  The thoughts clearly generate emotion, they’re not win-win, and they’re taking us away from freedom; but we can’t remember that the emotion means false.  Until we routinely catch this in ourselves, we won’t catch it in others.

They’re Characters

Our OWN fragile ego consists of voice recordings acquired from others who forced their beliefs into our mind.  We did feel emotions when we first heard their words; but we were afraid to challenge them.  Their words are NOW constantly squatting in our mind.

After letting go for awhile, we do come to know that the recordings are false.  And yet, people tell me that the fragile ego is still running their life.   They still behave as the fragile ego would want them to behave or say what the fragile ego would consider socially or politically correct.  They still can’t be themselves.

An Exercise

Imagine yourself in the center of your mind; see the fragile egos who have limited your life with beliefs, rules, and knowledge in the periphery of a giant circle looking at you.  They’re keeping you from leaving the circle.

Review old memories in your mind. Bring up fragile ego encounters from the past. Let the fragile ego characters slowly replay the scene.  Discriminate and let go as they talk.  Also let go of any judgments or reasoning that arises in your mind about these characters. Judgment on your part keeps you stuck to them.  You might never see them again; but when you clean up their character in your own mind, you won’t meet that same sort of person again.  Of if you do, you’ll stay powerful.

You can take this even further.  We tend to think that we must change the real life fragile ego characters or get them to stop judging us.  But many of them will never change or stop judging.  Are you going to wait until they change to live your life?  I hope not.

Step into their character within your own mind.  Speak their beliefs, and feel their emotions arise when they speak something false or judgmental.  Assume they can discriminate and let go, and do so.  It’s your mind!  These are your characters! You have the power to clean up their words in your mind.  In this way, we change the past.

See if this fragile ego still has power over you.  If so, ask yourself, “Why?”  Let go of the reasons that your mind gives you.  Clean up more memories.

You aren’t affecting the real life person in any way — good or bad.  When your mind is clear, they won’t bother you.  Their beliefs will only affect them.

Our false minds were meant to be creative containers, separate and distinct from others people’s minds, so we could all create independently.  We’ve never had the right to impose our beliefs on others.  We only do it because others did it to us.

When you realize that you don’t deserve their judgment, they don’t have power over you anymore.  When you understand that their rules are false, they don’t apply to you.  If they say that you’re hurting them, you don’t take it in.  In fact, I’ll often say to fragile egos, “You’re telling me what I should believe; how can I be hurting you?”

Fragile egos can be difficult.  But we can get through that wall if we take our rock hammer and chip away one belief or memory at a time.  Eventually, we’ll break through their highly tinted glass.  We’ll escape their influence without fighting them.  When we clean our OWN mind, they lose their false power.  They can’t harm us anymore.

Labels: The Seeming True Self Destroyer (Part I)

Ambigram NO Labels NO Lies

By Cathy Eck

If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that beliefs are disruptive lies that come disguised as the truth.  That’s why we accept them into our mind without discriminating.  We give others our beliefs with the intention of controlling or helping them because we can’t see beyond the belief to recognize that it’s false.  Labels are simply a collection of beliefs that we either hate or love.  Like beliefs, we often accept them without discrimination.

To escape the illusion, we must have precision in our words.  That precision supports us in seeing the difference between something illusory and something true.  The triangle process is a good way to develop word precision.  It helps us get real and identify what’s truly happening when words are exchanged.

The meaning of words is often reversed or confused in the illusion.  Beliefs are treated as if they’re true.  The false God is treated as the Creator; occult is confused with initiation.  Goodness, in the illusion, becomes obedience to authority.  Winning morphs into success when another loses.  The illusion is all about level confusion.

Labels beg for word precision.  If you don’t have word precision, you confuse and harm others.  We do to others what was done to us until we recognize that what was done to us was false.  People in the illusion label people for eternity.  They say, “You’re incurable.”  You’re a victim of wackadoodle disease.”  “You’re an idiot.”  “You’re ugly.”  “You’re fat.”  “You’re a Smith and will always be a Smith.”  “You’re an Asian, gay, or Hispanic.”  The one label that would not harm us, we rarely use, “You’re a human being.”

Labels also go the other direction, which is just as bad and more seductive.  “You’re a genius.”  “You’re beautiful.”  “You’re the Dali Lama.”  “You’re a saint.” or “You’re an old soul.”

Then there are the labels that we give ourselves.  After I sold my technology business, I decided I wanted to go naked — not without clothes — without labels.  People would, of course, ask me what I did.  I’d say, “Nothing.”  No one could accept that.  “Are you a housewife?  A mother?  A retiree?  A homeless person?  A fucking antisocial idiot?”  They wanted me to own a label dammit.

Eventually, we figure that if we’re going to get labeled anyway, we’d better label ourself.  “I’m an artist.”  “I’m a Muslim.”  “I’m a sufferer of wackadoodle disease.”  You watch, someone labeled hypochondriac will think they have that disease!  “I’m a fighter for truth.”  “I’m an engineer.”  “I’m shy.”  The very way we speak labels by saying “I am” or “You are” gives them permanence, making change difficult or impossible.

Labels Can Feel Like Murder

We must choose our wording carefully when discussing labels.  When someone asks what I do?  I answer in a temporary way.  Currently I mentor people and write.  In that way, I’m not defined by my current activity.  But our friends and family are often unkind and more permanent in choosing their labels.  They say,  “You’re so…..  You’re a ……  You always …..  You never…..”  They believe that what they see in us is true; it’s not.

I learned to watch my language carefully in business.  If I defined someone by their errors, I’d destroy a very good employee.  With my children, I learned the same lesson.   I didn’t want to ruin my perfect child.  In the masculine role, I had to discriminate between true and false constantly.  It took lots of practice.  We all behave as false selves at times.  We live in a fucking false world.  That’s reality.  But that isn’t who we are.

I learned that the truth looked like this, “You’re acting irresponsible today.”  The person was acting in a false way.  If it was my projection, the situation went away.  I avoided breaking my precious mirror.  If they were asking for help without knowing it, I offered help.  Often people do shitty things to us or behave in ridiculous ways because they’re asking for help without knowing it.  Letting go and then speaking in this way healed 80% of the situations.  The others were not correctable by me because they showed me something that they were reflecting for someone else in their life.  They wanted me to fix their handler; and I couldn’t do that.  But I could help them let go from the feminine role.

But one caution, this isn’t about saying the prettier words.  It’s about knowing the person isn’t inherently what they’re doing in this moment.

You Are vs. You Are Acting

You are acting… is a statement that opens the door to discover causal beliefs.  We can’t fix or find the cause of a problem if we think the problem is true — truth is immortal.  We don’t make friends or love someone by labeling them in a permanent way with “You are…”  We put them up against a wall when we do that.  No one can fix or change the truth.  We must admit something is false to let it go.  That is the secret of letting go.  Knowing that the words we thought or heard weren’t true.

If a doctor says, “You’re incurable,” find a new doctor.  If a teacher labels you ADD, get a new teacher.  If your preacher projects his sin on you, for God’s sake run like hell and find your True Self.  Sadly, people marinate in the soupy projection  of false masculine roles until they believe that the stone cast upon them was deserved.  It changes them forever and locks them into the illusion without an exit.  The only way to escape the label is to realize that it’s false.   We were just not acting like ourselves.  Or the person who said it was seeing their own reflection.

Once we realize that we’re just an actor, we can release the role we’ve played.  We can return to our own life path and find the happy ending to OUR own story.  We don’t have to live with our labels anymore.


Do People Still Get Scarlet Fever?

Is scarlet fever making a comeback?

Scarlet fever, a historic disease, is making a comeback in a select few countries and scientists are unsure why.

Whether or not this trend will continue into 2020 remains to be seen, but affected countries and the public health community should rally to address this re-emerging threat head on..

Is scarlet fever going around 2020?

Measles, scarlet fever among infectious diseases to watch for in 2020.

Can scarlet fever go away on its own?

Scarlet fever is usually of mild intensity and goes away on its own in about a week without treatment. Scarlet fever is caused by Group A beta haemolytic Streptococci. In mild cases this might not cause complications but in severe infections there might be life threatening complications.

How common is scarlet fever today?

Scarlet fever, like strep throat, is more common in children than adults. It is most common in children 5 through 15 years old. It is rare in children younger than 3 years old.

Can a child go to school with scarlet fever?

Children who have strep throat or scarlet fever should not go to school or to daycare for at least 24 hours after starting antibiotics. The best way to prevent scarlet fever is to wash your hands often. Don’t share eating utensils, linens, towels, or other personal items.

Is scarlet fever itchy?

The rash spreads over most of the body and is what gives scarlet fever its name. It often looks like a bad sunburn with fine bumps that may feel rough like sandpaper, and it can itch. It usually starts to go away after about 6 days, but might peel for several weeks as the skin heals.

Is Scarlet Fever an emergency?

There are usually no further problems once your child receives treatment. If untreated, scarlet fever can cause other serious health problems. Be sure to contact your child’s healthcare provider right away if your child ever has a sore throat with a rash.

How many times can you catch scarlet fever?

The symptoms of scarlet fever will only develop in people susceptible to toxins produced by the streptococcus bacteria. Most children over 10 years of age will have developed immunity to these toxins. It’s possible to catch scarlet fever more than once, but this is rare.

What are the long term effects of scarlet fever?

In general, appropriately diagnosed and treated scarlet fever results in few if any long-term effects. However, if complications develop for whatever reason, problems that include kidney damage, hepatitis, vasculitis, septicemia, congestive heart failure, and even death may occur.

Why is scarlet fever rare now?

The rash of scarlet fever is caused by a toxin that the strep bacteria produce. Scarlet fever once was common among children ages 2 to 10, but now it is relatively rare. The reason for this remains a mystery, especially because there has been no decrease in the number of cases of strep throat or strep skin infections.

Do schools have to report scarlet fever?

Schools, nurseries and other child care settings should promptly notify their local HPT of suspected scarlet fever outbreaks. GPs and other health practitioners caring for patients with scarlet fever should also report suspected outbreaks to their local HPT.

Is Scarlet Fever back in USA?

Scarlet fever is not a reportable disease in the U.S., and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not track the condition. Scientists there are aware of the spike in cases in some jurisdictions, but a spokeswoman said officials have not heard of an increase in the United States.

What is the mortality rate of scarlet fever?

Historically, scarlet fever resulted in death in 15-20% of those affected. However, scarlet fever is no longer associated with the deadly epidemics that made it so feared in the 1800s. Since the advent of antibiotic therapy, the mortality rate for scarlet fever has been less than 1%.

What’s the difference between strep throat and scarlet fever?

When the bacteria infect the throat, the illness is called strep throat. Streptococci can also produce a toxin which results in a distinctive skin rash. When this occurs, the illness is called scarlet fever.

Is scarlet fever caused by poor hygiene?

The disease was very common in Britain in the 1800s and spread quickly due to cramped housing and poor hygiene – and was a death sentence. Nowadays, it lasts no more than ten days once treated with antibiotics and is less serious.

How long is scarlet fever contagious for?

Scarlet fever lasts for around a week. You’re infectious up to 7 days before the symptoms start until 24 hours after you take the first antibiotic tablets. People who do not take antibiotics can be infectious for 2 to 3 weeks after symptoms start.

How bad is scarlet fever?

Although scarlet fever was once considered a serious childhood illness, antibiotic treatments have made it less threatening. Still, if left untreated, scarlet fever can result in more-serious conditions that affect the heart, kidneys and other parts of the body.

How many cases of scarlet fever are there?

Since 1999, a total of 9,400 cases of scarlet fever have been reported in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 300 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) and 600 cases of necrotizing fasciitis have been reported during this period.


Does social networking encourage jumping to conclusions?

Jumping to conclusion as tic tac toe
Jumping to a conclusion has a place as an ability, not as a practice

What is Jumping to conclusions?

Jumping to conclusions (officially the jumping conclusion bias, often abbreviated as JTC, and also referred to as the inference-observation confusion[1]) is a psychological term referring to a communication obstacle where one “judge[s] or decide[s] something without having all the facts; to reach unwarranted conclusions”.[2][3] In other words, “when I fail to distinguish between what I observed first hand from what I have only inferred or assumed”.[1] Because it involves making decisions without having enough information to be sure they are right, this can give rise to bad or rash decisions.

It is quite possible that by the very name of the tendency or practice, we may be inclined to classify JTC as something bad.  It is true, JTC can be bad as a practice, but in some cases, where it is exercised as evidence of intuition, it could even be something exceptionally good.  As a general principle, it is important to remember, that human beings are capable of several tendencies, but we settle upon certain ways of thinking as a matter of practice.  Jumping to conclusions could be an occasional, even useful, act but it does not qualify as a good practice.  We should rather aim for simplicity, steadiness, and thoughtfulness.

 Social networking and Jumping to conclusions

We typically interact with a news or a piece of information on social networks for no more than a few seconds.  It would be rare to find a person who interacts with a matter even for a few minutes.  In such a rush to reach for judgments, it is simply too easy to be conclusive with insufficient facts, and it is also possible to become stubborn in the face of social pressures, for or against.

It is no secret that social networking is not the ideal way to consume information.  There is the ever-growing volume of information, the inexhaustible diversity of views, and an endless avenue for debate.  Indeed, these are the very things that happen on social networks.  They continue to fuel the masses’ addiction to information.  They have become the perpetual occupation of the waking hours of billions of mankind.

The danger is when not only everyday persons but institutions and governments become part of the social networking setup.  In a tweet or a Facebook post, what a teenager says and what a newspaper says become the same.  And indeed, who is to say, if one or the other is without error?  That is a subsequent concern.  The more significant matter is the false equalization of all and everyone.  In this regard, I appreciate the view of Mr. Tom Nichols, the author of Death of Expertise.  He says:

“These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything”
― Thomas M. Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

On social networks, it is very easy to state an opinion as a fact and have those opinions gain traction by means of popular support.  Facts can be manufactured on social networks.  Skepticism, superstition, disbelief, and cynicism all play their role in creating an environment.  In the interest of keeping peace, one may adopt a permissive attitude but we can also not forget that unscrupulous ones can take advantage of a good man’s permissiveness.  In the overabundance of society and excess of democracy on social networks, one might start to become more and more self-centered, finding it to be a position of reason and safety.

Why the phenomenon of jumping to conclusions?

Reaching a sense of certainty produces a feeling of satisfaction in the human mind.  Prolonged uncertainty makes us uneasy unless one is willing and able to exercise patience over extended periods of time.  Looking for many such moments of confirmation whereby we can feel good about our conclusions, we might be getting into the mindset of looking for what continues to support our views.  What ends up happening is, we start a chain of events in our minds of looking for this satisfaction-through-confirmation, and eventually, we are beholden to some views as-well-as the community that is a proponent of those views.

Our minds also work not only in terms of specific bits of information alone but also meaningfully connecting them to make patterns.  These patterns help us understand, help us perceive, help to communicate.  Jumping to conclusions becomes fairly easy when there are established patterns and predictable outcomes.  This starts to fail when diversity and volume of information start to exceed our mental patterns and we are left with difficult reconciliations.

It is not bad or wrong to have views.  We need them.  We have them.  The problem arises when we have jumped to the conclusion on a certain view or a community and become incapable of ever re-examining our stances.  This flexibility is not a weakness.  It is the mark of strength and fearlessness, for if we truly have come upon some truth, it will stand no matter how many times it is examined and re-examined.  We need not harbor fear over the truth in our minds.

Having said all these things, there is one thing still left to say as an example.  When a leader of the peoples shows inflexibility and unwillingness to listen as a mark of his powerful authority, it is a reason to be alert.  In his time, Jesus Christ was firm on one thing – he was the Messiah and that God’s Kingdom will rule the earth and heaven.  Today, there are men far less than him who are claiming that he was wrong and that they instead can lead mankind to a better proposition.  In specific matters, what they say can seem absurd or make sense, but overall there is a deviation from some central teaching.  And therein lies the point!  If we are to identify a leading idea or a leader of a people, we need to identify the central teaching.  In that examination, we should personally take time, and we should not jump to conclusions!

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House poised for vote to roll back mortgage regs

House poised for vote to roll back mortgage regs

Consumer advocates are lashing back against a Republican-backed bill they say would open the door for the brand of reckless lending practices that led to the financial crisis of 2008.
The House is expected to vote Wednesday on the Portfolio Lending & Mortgage Access Act, a bill introduced by Rep. Andy BarrAndy BarrGOP lawmakers ask acting inspector general to investigate John Kerry Overnight Energy: Biden will aim to cut US emissions in half by 2030 | Oil and gas leasing pause on public lands will last at least through June Fed to form committee focused on climate risks to financial system MORE (R-Ky.) that the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) says would weaken federal rules that took effect last year to ensure a borrower’s ability to repay a loan.
“Not only does it open the door to past, but it opens the door to the past with a legal shield that’s not merited,” Yana Miles, CRL’S policy counsel, said of the bill.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations, part of the government’s answer to the crisis, provide exempt small and rural banks from certain mortgage standards the agency created to prevent bad lending practices, while still providing them a “safe harbor” protection from federal penalties and lawsuits brought by borrowers who have defaulted on their loans.
Barr’s bill would extend that safe harbor to all banking institutions and provide flexibility supporters say is needed for rules that are now too restrictive and have caused community bankers to decrease or eliminate their mortgage businesses.
“Borrowers have to jump through hoops to show they have the ability to repay a loan,” said Joseph Pigg, senior vice president and counsel for the American Bankers Association. “If a bank is willing to make loan and hold it on their books, they have the credit risk and interest rate risk. If the bank is willing to make a loan to that customer, that really should be the only hoop they have to jump through.”
For a qualified mortgage status on a loan, under CFPB’s rules, a borrower’s debt-to-income ratio has to be 43 percent or less; the loan’s points and fees have to be less than or equal to 3 percent of the loan amount; the loan must not contain any risky features like negative amortization, interest-only or balloon payments; and the maximum loan term has to be less than or equal to 30 years.
“Our members want to stay in business for the long-term, so they are only going to make loans that can be repaid,” Pigg said. “What we saw during the financial crisis was that lenders — many of which were non-banks — made loans and didn’t care if they were repaid because they would sell the loans right away.”
The Portfolio Lending & Mortgage Access Act, he contends would provide a safety valve to keep that from happening again.
According to Barr’s office, a loan would lose its protection in the safe harbor created by the proposed legislation if it's securitized or sold into the secondary market.
In a statement to The Hill, Barr said his bill would give banks and credit unions greater discretion over their mortgage lending decisions if they are willing to keep those loans in portfolio and assume 100 percent of the risk.
“The current one-size-fits-all, top-down, Washington-directed mortgage lending rules are limiting loans to creditworthy individuals, and contributing to consolidation and closures among community banks and credit unions,” he said, later adding that his bill would "expand the dream of homeownership and grow our economy while protecting the health of the financial system and taxpayers from future bailouts.”
Though banks would only remain protected if they held onto the loan, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) said consumers would lose key protections altogether.
Under the ability to repay rule, Barry Zigas, CFA’s director of housing policy, said a lender has an affirmative obligation to meet reasonable expectations that a borrower can comply with the terms of the mortgage presented.
“That may seem commonsensical and something banks would have a natural indication to do, but we know from the financial crisis there were too many financial institutions that bypassed that and presented loans that put borrowers almost in an immediate risk to not be able to repay the loan.”

The House Rules Committee passed a resolution Tuesday night by a 7-1 vote to move the bill to the floor. One amendments offered by Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) will be considered at that time. The amendment clarifies that the safe harbor protections don't apply to banking institutions whose failure might trigger a financial crisis.

At its meeting, the committee received a letter from the Executive Office of the President saying Obama's senior advisors would recommend the president veto the bill if it were to make it to his desk.

The House is expected to vote Wednesday evening.


Question: How Can Education Be Used As A Tool To Solve Social Problems?

What problems can education solve?

Education can cure economic inequality.

And poverty.

And racism and sexism and homophobia.

And it can bolster our national security..

What are some social issues in schools?

Consider this list of 10 major challenges currently facing public schools, based on the perspective of many involved in the world of education today.Classroom Size.Poverty.Family Factors.Technology.Bullying.Student Attitudes and Behaviors.No Child Left Behind.Parent Involvement.More items…•

What are the major problems in schools?

School problems: what to expect School problems can show up as poor academic performance, lack of motivation for school, loss of interest in school work, or poor relationships with peers or teachers. School difficulties range from minor to severe, might be very short-lived or last for longer.

What role can school play to solve the social problem?

Role of a School in Solving Social problems: They acquire various problems solving skills and techniques by working together. They can teach students to make healthy food choices and decrease the number of unhealthy food options available to students during their school time.

What are the ways to solve social problems?

Solution of the social problems are : Poverty-By providing education, skill training and job opportunities in a society. Increase the education budget. Provide them with scholarshipsand opportunities, to get the best achievable education from the top universalof the world.

What are 3 social issues?

Types of social issuesSocial stratification.Economic issues.Social disorganization.Public health.Age and the life course.Social inequality.Education and public schools.Work and occupations.More items…

What measures should be taken to solve the social problems and evils from the side of students?

Social problems and evils can be minimized in many ways, and the first and foremost is making people educated. With the spread of education, social awareness can be increased. The problems and evils can also be minimized, making strong laws by the government against them.

What is the role of education on solving world problems?

We get to know the world around us through education. It helps us build opinions and develop a perspective of looking at life. It forms the groundwork of any society and is one of the most important elements in addressing social problems.

Does education solve world problems?

While education empowers individuals and provides them access to more opportunities, education cannot stand alone or solve all problems. … Through formal education, individuals gain a better understanding of the world around them and their place in the world.

What are the common problems in school?

Problems May Include, But are Not Limited to:Disorganization/feeling overwhelmed.Eating right and staying healthy.Failing to manage money.Failing to network.Homesickness.Not resolving relationship issues.Poor grades/not studying or reading enough.Poor sleep habits.More items…

How do social issues affect students?

Such problems, including homelessness, teen parenting, substance abuse, child abuse, and youth suicide, complicate students’ efforts to learn. Other social problems, such as vandalism, school violence, and the dropout rate, are exacerbated when students feel alienated from the school structure.

How do we solve the problem?

Here are seven-steps for an effective problem-solving process.Identify the issues. Be clear about what the problem is. … Understand everyone’s interests. … List the possible solutions (options) … Evaluate the options. … Select an option or options. … Document the agreement(s). … Agree on contingencies, monitoring, and evaluation.

What are 10 social issues?

With this brief introduction we shall now proceed to look into the top ten social issues that have made an impact on this entire world.Obesity:Smoking:Youth Alcohol Usage:Transportation:Poverty:Basic Needs:Homelessness:Homeless Population:More items…

What are examples of social issues?

Common Examples of Social IssuesPoverty and Homelessness. Poverty and homelessness are worldwide problems. … Climate Change. A warmer, changing climate is a threat to the entire world. … Overpopulation. … Immigration Stresses. … Civil Rights and Racial Discrimination. … Gender Inequality. … Health Care Availability. … Childhood Obesity.More items…

What are social problems in schools?

Issues include but are not limited to poverty, achievement motivation, dropouts, homelessness, teen pregnancy and parenting, eating disorders, obsesity, child abuse, substance abuse, physical and mental abuse, gang violence, bullying, HIV/AIDS, and suicide.

How is lack of education a social problem?

Lack of education arguably can lead to many social problems. Poor education can lead to crime, poverty, drug use and sexual risk taking. America as a whole is failing their citizens when it comes to education. … Sexual risk taking is prevalent amongst the poorly educated.

What are 5 social problems?

What are social problems?Anti social behavior.Poverty.Drug abuse.Prostitution.Racial discrimination.Alcohol abuse.Economic Deprivation.Political Corruption.More items…•

What are the types of social issues?

These are, for instance, communalism, casteism, regionalism, poverty, gender discrimination, population, environmental imbalance (different kinds of pollution, health hazards, etc.). Second, problems of deviance having to do with the adjustment of people to conventional ways of living.


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BACKGROUND: Smoking is a global public health problem. For this reason, experts have called smoking dependence a global epidemic. Over the past 5 years, sales of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, have been growing strongly in many countries. Yet there is only partial evidence that e-cigarettes are beneficial for smoking cessation. In particular, although it has been proven that nicotine replacement devices may help individuals stop smoking and tolerate withdrawal symptoms, e-cigarettes’ power to increase the quitting success rate is still limited, ranging from 5% to 20% dependent on smokers’ baseline conditions as shown by a recent Cochrane review. Consequently, it is urgent to know if e-cigarettes may have a higher success rate than other nicotine replacement methods and under what conditions. Furthermore, the effects of the therapeutic setting and the relationship between individual characteristics and the success rate have not been tested. This protocol is particularly innovative, because it aims to test the effectiveness of electronic devices in a screening program (the COSMOS II lung cancer prevention program at the European Institute of Oncology), where tobacco reduction is needed to lower individuals’ lung cancer risks. OBJECTIVE: This protocol was designed with the primary aim of investigating the role of tobacco-free cigarettes in helping smokers improve lung health and either quit smoking or reduce their tobacco consumption. In particular, we aim to investigate the impact of a 3-month e-cigarettes program to reduce smoking-related respiratory symptoms (eg, dry cough, shortness of breath, mouth irritation, and phlegm) through reduced consumption of tobacco cigarettes. Furthermore, we evaluate the behavioral and psychological (eg, well-being, mood, and quality of life) effects of the treatment. METHODS: This is a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, three-parallel group study. The study is organized as a nested randomized controlled study with 3 branches: a nicotine e-cigarettes group, a nicotine-free e-cigarettes group, and a control group. The study is nested in a screening program for early lung cancer detection in heavy smokers. RESULTS: The study is open and is still recruiting. CONCLUSIONS: Stopping or reducing tobacco consumption should be a main goal of any health organization. However, traditional antismoking programs are expensive and not always effective. Therefore, favoring a partial or complete shift to e-cigarettes in heavy smokers (eg, persons at high risk for a number of diseases) could be considered a moral imperative. However, before following this path, sound and reliable data on large samples and in a variety of contexts are required. TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT02422914; (Archived by WebCite at
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Secret of The Pyramids

The idea that civilizations progress from a primitive state to a  more advanced one is a fallacy that evolutionists try to apply to history.

If one abandons evolutionist nonsense and prejudice, and looks at the historical references and findings with an unbiased mind, what one encounters is civilizations that used highly advanced technologies.

Remains left from ancient Egypt, the Mayans and the Sumerians indicate that branches of science such as electricity, electrochemistry, electromagnetics, metallurgy, hydrogeology, medicine, chemistry and physics were used to a considerable extent.

Electricity was efficiently generated and widely utilized in ancient Egypt. The Baghdad battery and the first arc lights were used at that time. But was electrical generation limited to these in ancient Egypt?

A careful examination of Egyptian history immediately reveals the sophistication in perfect illumination. No soot has been found in the corridors of the pyramids or the tombs of the kings because these areas were lit using electricity. Relief carvings show that the Egyptians used hand-held torches powered by cable-free power sources.

The arc lamp used in the Lighthouse of Alexandria is further proof that electricity was used in ancient Egypt. The energy required to power the Lighthouse of Alexandria for 24 hours a day could only have been supplied by a regular electrical source.

The outer casing of the Great Pyramid was covered with white tufa limestone, so tightly built that not even a razor blade could fit between the blocks. The white tufa limestone does not contain magnesium and has high insulating properties. This insulation property prevented the electricity inside the pyramid from being released without control.

The stone blocks used inside the pyramid were made of another form of limestone containing crystal which is an extremely high electrical conductor and a small amount of metal, which allow for maximum power transmission. The shafts inside the pyramid were lined with granite. Granite, as a conductor, is a slightly radioactive substance and permits the ionization of the air inside these shafts.

When we look at an insulated electric cable, we see that conductive and insulation materials are used in the same way as in the pyramids.

The conductive and insulating properties of the pyramid are an example of flawless engineering. However, a source of energy is needed for electricity generation.

The Giza Plateau where the pyramids stand is full of underground water channels. The pyramids rise above limestone layers, the spaces between them being full of water. These special layers of rock that transmit electricity upward as they carry underground water to the surface are known as AQUIFERS. The high volume flow of the River Nile that passes through these aquifers produces an electric current. This is known as physio-electricity.

The pyramid’s underground chambers are granite conductors built within the rock charged with physio-electricity. This electric current is conducted directly to the upper part of the pyramid’s granite covered subterranean chambers. Granite is a very good conductor of electricity.

The electromagnetic field that forms at the bottom of the pyramid is transmitted in concentrated form to the upper layers of the pyramid. On the top of the pyramid there was a gold capstone gold being an excellent conductor of electricity. This section is no longer there in our day. This means the top of the pyramid has lost its structure of flawless geometry. This gold capstone facilitated a conductive path for the transfer of negative ions to the ionosphere. This way a current was generated.

How does it serve to move the electromagnetic field on the ground through the help of an aquifer?

An identical form of this technology, employed in Egypt 5,000 years ago, was used by Nikola Tesla, an inventor of electric technology in the early 1900s, in a tower he constructed in the United States of America.

Tesla, the inventor of such fundamental electric technology as the alternating current, electric engine, radio, the laser and radar, was successful in simultaneously transmitting sound and pictures between continents in the Wardenclyffe tower he built between 1901 and 1917. He did not use an external source of electricity for this, and even applied wireless power transmission technology.

Tesla had also built his tower above an aquifer and discharged the negative ions from the aquifer to the tower. The electromagnetic technology used in Tesla’s famous tower is identical to the electromagnetic field set up in the construction of the pyramids. Both systems generate negative ions and transmit them without the need for electric cables.

So for what purpose did the Egyptians use electricity?

Relief carvings clearly show that the Egyptians used hand-held bulb-type lamps powered by a cable-free electric source. These bulbs are reminiscent of Nicola Tesla’s descriptions to show that his alternating current was safe. At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Tesla transmitted alternating electric current through his body to light a bulb he held in his hand without using electrical cables.

This relief carving shows a wireless antenna. The Egyptians used antennae and cable-free energy for wireless communication. In the relief on the left is a carved transmitter, with a receiver on the left. This evidence indicates that the Egyptians used free wireless energy for communication purposes.

This relief carving shows a yarn manufacturing facility. The yarn Egyptians used for their fabrics at that time were as fine as those manufactured by machinery today. The Egyptians also used electric power in their weaving plants.

It was seen that many gold objects which have remained from ancient Egypt were in fact very finely gold plated.  Such perfect gold plating, as in these pieces, requires the use of electricity.

The total electromagnetic measurement made around the Great Pyramid is identical to that made during a thunder storm with lightning. There is a powerful electromagnetic field around the Great Pyramid. This may be observed through a simple experiment. When standing at the top of the pyramid with a bottle wrapped in damp cloth, sparks fly away from the bottle, as if one were on top of a high-voltage bobbin.

The pyramids have always been interpreted as the tombs of the pharaohs. But in fact, no inscriptions of any kind appear in the corridors of the Great Pyramid.  This suggests a functional building, rather than a mausoleum.

An empty stone chest was found on the central axis of the pyramid that archaeologists call the King’s Chamber. They claimed that this contained the coffin of the pharaoh, but that since this had been stolen it was now empty. But examination of the dimensions of the stone chest and the special location in which it was installed reveals a different state of affairs. That point is just where the missing part of the pyramid’s conductive structure ,and whole design, suggest it should be. If a superconductive material was installed here, the pyramid could manufacture enough electricity for all of Egypt. This superconductor is thought to have been the Ark of the Covenant, which was known to have been in Egypt in ancient times, and whose dimensions are just right to fit inside the stone chest.

The Prophet Moses  was adopted by Pharaoh and, according to historic records, was raised as an administrator because of his superior moral values, intelligence and abilities. One of the phases in leadership training in ancient Egypt was the teaching of all the secrets of Egypt and the knowledge of energy. In addition to its other properties, there are also various references to the Ark of the Covenant serving as a capacitor, and that this was the source of Egypt’s energy. The Prophet Moses  is known to have taken the Ark of the Covenant with him when he fled Egypt. According to historic references, one of the reasons why Pharaoh chased the Prophet Moses  right up to the last moment, and strove to catch him at whatever price, was the Ark of the Covenant because Pharaoh was aware that all the glory and magnificence of Egypt would be lost without electricity.

Historic references’ also show that Egyptian civilization reached its peak during the reign of Ramses II, who lived at the same time as the Prophet Moses. But those civilizations collapsed in less than 10 years after Ramses II, and Giza was even abandoned. The city, once the center of the civilization, remained deserted until the nest dynasty settled there.

Were the Egyptians the only society to utilize wireless electrical  technology?

The relief carvings left behind by the Mayans and the Assyrians also contain images of similar techniques to those applied in the pyramids.

All this information once again goes to demonstrate that there were no primitive people and societies in the past, as evolutionists would have us believe. In terms of civilization, more or less developed communities have lived side by side at all times throughout  history. A society that existed thousands of years ago  enjoyed a far more advanced technology compared to one living in the 20th century. And this shows us that development is not part of an evolutionary process, in other words, that there is no linear advancement from a primitive level of civilization to a more developed one in history.

Ancient Egypt is one of the most impressive civilizations established by mankind. Ancient Egyptians had such vast experience and knowledge that can not be the sequence of a primitive society. Among deviated idolater Egyptians, there were wise-men who had the wisdom coming from the times of  Prophet Noah  and Prophet Abraham . These Jewish wise-men used to employ the knowledge from the periods of previous prophets. One of such knowledge was the using of electricity for illumination.

The discovery of various wall carvings or friezes discovered in the Hathor Temple of Dendera Temple Complex in Egypt has revealed one especially fascinating piece of information about the ancient Egyptians. A large part of the friezes, examined below, are in the Dendera Temple Complex. These show that the ancient Egyptians obtained lighting by using bulbs and the arc light technique.

Close inspection of these pictures in the Temple of Hathor shows that high-voltage insulation was used, just like that of today; this is supported by a rectangular column resembling a light bulb (believed to have been used as an insulator and known as the Djed Column.) This astonishing resemblance to the light bulbs we use today is most striking.

It is a widespread belief in alternative science that our forefathers possessed a much greater technological knowledge than our schoolbook science is willing to accept. Many of those theories are lacking serious foundation and are often based on overdrawn speculations, like the Manna machine I discussed before. But the theory that electricity was known and used in antiquity seems to rest on a much more stable foundation. Beneath the Temple of Hathor at Dendera there are inscriptions depicting a bulb-like object which some have suggested is reminiscent of a “Crookes tube” (an early lightbulb).

The key to the whole theory lies a few hundred kilometers east of Egypt, in today’s Iraq. There some strange pots were found. Some contained watertight copper cylinders, glued into the opening with asphalt. In the middle of the cylinder was an iron rod, held in place also with asphalt. The excavator who found the first of these pots in 1936 was sure: this is a galvanic element, a primitive battery. Reconstructions did indeed show that it was possible to create electricity with it.

Another key element for the electro-thesis is actually something that is missing. It’s a riddle where schoolbook science is capitulating. Soot. In none of the many thousands of subterranean tombs and pyramid shafts was found a single trace of soot, as we are told by the authors of the electro-thesis, although many of these tombs are full of often colourful paintings. But the primitive light sources the Egyptians knew (candles, oil lamps etc.) are always leaving soot and are using oxygen. So how DID the Egyptians get their light? Some rationalists are arguing with mirrors, but the quality of the copper plates the Egyptians used as mirrors were not good enough for that.

Many researchers in history have brought evidences forward that challenge or even destroy orthodox beliefs. Erich Von Daniken is one of those researchers bringing revelations such as the Ancient Egyptian Light bulb into the light challenging the orthodox belief that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and Direct Current. Lighting in ancient Egypt was provided using the classic bulbs we employ today. The Egyptian pictures show bulb-like devices with filament wires, a holder and current wires. The lamps had filaments permitting electric current to flow inside it.

The great Egyptologist John Gardner Wilkinson, pointed out that the ancient Egyptian “paintings offer few representations of lamps, torches, or any other kind of light.” Why—when they repeatedly illustrate almost every other Egyptian article? The answer lies in the fact that modern authorities are simply not looking for electric lights on the ancient monuments so they simply do not recognize them.

An ancient Egyptian goddess holding up electric filament lamps to read hieroglyphics

As we know today, certain ejectors (fluid entrainment pumps) (A) will produce a relatively strong vacuum, especially if a cascade arrangement is used for the pumps – i.e. several identical components are connected in series. If a glass bulb with two metal parts reaching inside (B), (C) is evacuated, a discharge will occur at a much lower voltage, depending on the size of the glass balloon (D). At a pressure of approximately 40 torr (40mm mercury column), a line of light will wind its way from one metal part to the other (E). If the evacuation is continued, the line widens further until it eventually fills out the entire glass bulb. Exactly what  the images in the underground chambers of the Hathor temple suggest.

As shown by the ancient reliefs on the walls of the Egyptian Hathor temple of Dendarah, the pharaoh’s priests, just as knowledgeable in science as in religion, must have known the secret of electricity. These reliefs show human figures standing next to bulb-shaped structures. It does not take a stretch of the imagination to recognize these objects as overdimensioned light bulbs. Snakes trapped inside these objects perform a wave-like movement. Do they symbolize electrical discharges? The snakes emanate from the central tip of a lotus flower. An accurate design from the physical point of view. After all, this is exactly the point where the field intensity reaches its maximum in a modern bulb socket. Thus, the lotus flower could be interpreted as the bulb socket, connected via the cable-like hose to some kind of energy store. The entire structure is supported by insulator type Djec pillars with arms, often directly connected with the snakes. Egyptologists refer to the illustrated items as “cult objects” without knowing their original meaning.

Model of an Egyptian “light bulb”

In this picture discovered on a tomb wall in the Dendera Temple, an electric cable is leading away from a lamp with three bulbs.

The Egyptian pictures show bulb-like devices with filament wires, a holder and current wires. In the picture below, the person is reading picture texts on the wall by lighting the surrounding area with the lamp in his hand.

One piece of evidence that Ancient Egyptians may have used electricity is the absence of any traces of soot on the interior walls of their tombs and pyramids. If—as evolutionist archaeologists maintain—they used burning torches and oil lamps for lighting, then traces of soot would inevitably have been left behind. Yet there are no such traces anywhere, not even in the very deepest chambers. It would have been impossible for construction to continue without the necessary lighting being provided nor, even more importantly, for the magnificent murals to have been painted on the walls. This strengthens the possibility that electricity was, indeed, used in Ancient Egypt.

The Djed Column, frequently encountered in Egyptian hieroglyphics, may symbolize such electrical equipment. The Djed Column may serve as a generator for light to be provided in this way.

Contrary to what evolutionists claim, the history of mankind is full of proofs that ancient peoples possessed far superior technologies and civilizations than had been believed. One of these proofs is the Ancient Egyptians’ knowledge of electricity.

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Building our future together

The idea for ‘7 Billion Presidents’ started with a question – How would a society where there is well-being for all look like? The answer to this was followed by a plan for an alternative economic model to replace capitalism, something we like to call ‘7BP economy’. This new model focuses on using profit companies make, to build a better life for all, instead of accumulating wealth for shareholders.

This is happening right now with ‘7 Billion Presidents’. With the profit of the products we sell, we invest in clean energy by installing solar panels in various public spaces. These panels also generate profit as the locations become climate-neutral. Therefore, we receive back the money saved from their electricity bills. This means all profit generated is then used to re-invest in more renewable energy. Anyone can be a ‘7 Billion’ President and join us in taking control over our future and growing this movement.

As civilians, we are already generating billions of profit. We aim to change the flow of this money back into society to improve all of our lives. “Build the new, and the old will become obsolete” is our strategy. As we are already doing most of the work for companies like: Uber, Airbnb and Wikipedia, we believe that making this transition can be done swiftly, if we all use our skills and talents to create products, services, companies and platforms.

We believe the best way is to start building this world ourselves, in trust and hope that others will continue to join and help us ‘build the new’ together.

Buckminster Fuller once said that “the secret of change is, not to fight the existing, but to focus all of your energy on building the new”. This is what we chose to do. We don’t wait for governments or big corporations to change.

We do this ourselves.

All of us.

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7 Billion Presidents renewable energy cooperation is owned by all the people on this little planet. This means that all* money generated is used to install more renewable energy till the whole world runs on renewable energy owned by all the people. After this everyone can vote what to do with the money generated by this energy cooperation.

Of all the money generated by every 7 Billion Presidents renewable energy project the local community can decide how to spend 21% of this money in the following way:


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Institution Building - The Prerequisites And Fulfilments

Dr. Vinayshil Gautam

Designation : -   FRAS(London) Globally acclaimed Management Consultant

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Civil life requires a network of institutions. Many of them have to be formal to enable order and orderly conduct of affairs. This is a no-choice situation. Concurrently, with formal institutions co-exist many informal institutions. They derive their strength from practises and social sanctions. Many times the retribution for deviation in informal institutions is far more severe than for deviant behaviour in formal institutions.

These are some of the many ironies of collective human life. Yet life has to go on and collective life has its own inexorable logic. Consider marriage, perhaps the longest lasting human institution born and nurtured in three basic human aspirations: the need to love and be loved; the propensity to demand exclusivity in certain emotions; the need to have identified fatherhood. Long before the civil governance emerged there are records of identified human couples living together and procreating.

It will be perhaps acceptable to suggest that civil society is itself an outcome of coded patterns of so called pre-civil society. This is a fascinating line of exploration and it may not be possible to pursue it in any detail in this text.

Closer to the focus of these columns it would be wiser to reiterate that institutions are central to civil behaviour. Not that institutions do not evolve, but there has to be, to the extent possible, a predictable and an identifiable method of evolution and change. Many theorists have cut their teeth in trying to decipher and design this change.

Very often when the theorists meet limitations the 'wags' take over. A'wag' is reported to have commented, "The trouble with institutions is, there are people in it". And people by very definition are both un-programmable and unpredictable (like all animate beings). There is a limit to the predictive validity of individuals. It is here that raison d'etreof institutions becomes really obvious. Given certain preconditions or processes, certain behaviour has to follow. This behaviour is a corner stone of a civil society and enables to bring to human existence a certain degree of specificity.

Institutions have a cycle. They acquire personalities and are allergic to perpetuation unless in some kind of rhythm and sync with the external environment. Thus it is that institutions go through the cycle of pre-launch, launch, crests and troughs, plateauing. Then the cycle begins again. At each stage there is a definite demand on the acumen, resources and willingness of those involved to keep the institution alive. The touch stone of effectiveness of this effort lies in the ability of people to grow and of systems and procedures to evolve to be in tune with the demands that will be made on it.

Above all institutions need commitment and pursuit of some higher order beyond just a search for 'loaves and fishes' for those involved.

Whether people like it or not, idealism is an essential part of responding to gross reality.

G M Trevelyan in his classical work - 'The English Revolution, 1688-1689' has opined that no institution will survive unless a few in it are willing to sacrifice, all they have' for it. It is a profound statement very often overlooked in the popular recipes prescribed for institution building. Practical gross reality has its space but so does idealism and one could just as well add spirituality. Materialism is a fact of life and spirituality is no less. It is a question of what one is capable of recognising and grasping.

Reference has been made in preceding lines to a cycle from pre-launch phase to plateauing. The cycle doesn't stop with plateauing. After the plateauing, when the process begins again, it could be triggered by a decline setting in. That decline, too, has to be met with conscious renewal if it institution is to survive. It is this renewal which has to be taken up in great earnestness to make it operative.

There is a whole craft of institution building and it may not be possible to elaborate all the stages of the process, in this text. The purpose of this write-up however is to point out that institution building in reality is a craft. In parts it is a science and in parts it is an art. Ultimately, it is what emerges from this effort and can be tangibly felt, that lends to it, its character of being a craft.

Institution building is at times a historical necessity. On other occasions it is a tribute to human effort. In either case it has its moments of frustration but the summation is always of fulfilment and a contribution to the cause it seeks to respond to.


Takt Time

Takt Time - Conductors Wand

What is Takt Time?

Takt time is the time given by the client to the manufacturer to pull out one piece of finished material from the plant.

In other words, it is the time (frequency) at which the manufacturing plant to complete one unit of its product.

We can also describe it as the demanded exit rate of a plant.

How to Calculate Takt time?

Calculate monthly average demand for the product/product family (we can calculate takt time for a product or a product family).

Calculate the Available working hours (planned working hours – downtime, change over time and other time losses). It is recommended to keep the time in seconds, if not in minutes.

It is the Time given per piece. So, divide the available time in a month by the demand for the month.

Takt Time

What it Takt?

Takt is a German word meaning the ‘Orchestra Conductor’s Wand’. The speed of the wand alters the rhythm and tempo of the orchestra. Similarly, in an orchestrated manufacturing process (Lean or flow production), this ‘Takt Time’ determines the speed at which the processes have to complete one component.

Here, the production manager adjusts resources to match the output of each of the process to match this time demand.

Note: It is different from Lead Time.


Drinking Water – Recycled From The Toilet?

Predictions of a world without water, which only a short while ago seemed cannot really happen, are all turning into reality. All the talk about humans robbing the environment of its natural resources is becoming crystal clear as we see the changes taking place right in front of our eyes. It is disturbing to imagine the legacy we are leaving behind for our children, all because of abusing nature.

US grapples with water shortages and in a desperate bid to overcome the crisis, is turning to solutions that are hard to stomach for most people.

Los Angeles mayor recently announced his proposal of turning sewage water into drinking water. This move comes at a stage when California is on the verge of its worst water scarcity crisis in decades. Even in San Diego, the city council has plans of starting a sewage water recycling project. Florida is also planning a recycling system that would pump 23 million gallons a day of purified wastewater into the ground; the water will travel to a supply well and will be taken back as drinking water.

Currently waste water is being recycled by many cities, such as San Diego and Denver, for use in irrigation and industries. Other cities such as Florida and Tampa Bay area desalinate seawater, which is actually more expensive than recycling.

Cities considering the sewage water recycling projects have a long way to go. This endeavor called as “toilet to tap” by critics has received heavy resistance in the past due to the “yuck factor” it involves as well as the cost.

According to industry experts, the idea of recycling sewage water, using intense filtering mechanism and chemical treatments, can provide water that is much purer than the tap water people are drinking now.

Orange County in California has launched a system in January, which produces around 70 million gallons a day, which is enough water for the yearly consumption of 500,000 people. The cost of construction is said to be $481 million and cost of operation $29 million a year.

This system has a three-step process. First, the sewage water is treated and then a microfilter is used to run the water, removing bacteria and solids. The next step is a reverse-osmosis treatment, which entails passing the water through a membrane filter to remove salts, viruses, pharmaceuticals and other material. The last step is to treat the water with ultraviolet light and hydrogen peroxide to get rid of any contaminants that remain. Then this recycled water is pumped into the ground where it gets mixed with the other water, and filters material like gravel, sand and clay.

A hairstylist in California, when asked what she felt about this, voiced the sentiments of thousands of others, when she said, “I would never touch it, nor would I give it to my dog to drink.”

Amidst all this rejection, there are some supporters too, who believe this is a necessary step that needs to be taken, although this process seems unsettling to most people. A person who has tasted this recycled water says, “it tastes like distilled water.”

The first people who will actually be tasting this are the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS,) who will be getting some of their drinking water from the toilet. NASA, after decades of testing, has perfected a system that transforms urine into water, which can be used for drinking, washing and food preparation. This machine is also said to suck in humidity from the astronauts.

As gross as this all sounds, the day may come, when people are left with no choice in the matter but to drink what is available in the form of water.


“The next generation is going to have a much healthier balance of screen time”: Interview with Cypher Coders founder Elizabeth

Elizabeth Tweedale

This Sunday 8 March, it’s Women’s Day. Throughout the whole of this week we will be spotlighting the stories of inspirational female founders and investors, to both open up a space to discuss shared challenges and possible shared solutions, as well as give more visibility to female startup players to smash the “you can’t be what you can’t see” hypothesis.

Cypher Coders, founded in 2016, teaches children aged 5-12+ years old through hands-on creative camps and courses. Founder and CEO Elizabeth Tweedale started Cypher with a mission to inspire children to learn this language of the future, with enthusiastic and trained teachers, in a way that gives both girls and boys a way to be creative and learn together.

We took the chance to ask Elizabeth about her predictions for how future generations will manage the balance between tech and ‘real life’, her thoughts on how today’s adults can implement coding in their jobs, learnings from her own entrepreneurial journey, and tips for budding entrepreneurs.

What were you doing before Cypher? Have you always wanted to start your own venture?

I would best describe myself as a serial entrepreneur. I’ve been interested in business since I was very young. When I was in year three of school, I started my own company selling friendship bracelets. I would bring string to school and teach my friends how to make their own bracelets. Then, they would make their own and sell them.

As I got older, my passion for entrepreneurship progressed. Prior to launching Cypher in 2016, I exited another business teaching kids how to code and co-founded an artificial intelligence company for the spatial adjacencies of people in the workplace (GoSpace).

As an edtech startup, Cypher focuses on teaching kids to code. But it’s also pushing forward the ‘women in tech’ agenda. Can you talk to us about the inspiration for this idea?

Having worked in the technology industry for a number of years, I’ve learnt first-hand that there is a major issue around diversity. I founded Cypher from the desire to encourage girls to develop technological skills and eventually pursue careers in this exciting industry.

But at the same time, I wanted to create something that was inclusive of both boys and girls as opposed to being exclusive to girls. I strongly believe that getting boys and girls to work together with tech creates a better outcome for both genders.

To get both genders interested in technology and developing coding skills, we base our entire curriculum off creative themes that appeal to both. When teaching code, we cover areas such as fashion, music, architecture, conservation and sustainability. We want to show that technology covers a variety of areas and make the experience as immersive and fun as possible.

What do you think we are missing out on by only marketing coding classes, schools and academies to boys?

The common perception of coding and technology as a career is that it’s very male dominated and not suited to girls and women. Unless we focus strongly on promoting the idea that technology impacts a plethora of areas and that there’s a unique opportunity for everyone, we won’t be able to improve gender diversity.

Initiatives like Cypher will help, but what do you think can be done to make tech something women do? And who should do it?

Understanding that technology is vital in all parts of a business is the first step in encouraging women to become more involved in coding and technology. In areas such as marketing, human resources and communications, there’s typically a higher proportion of female employees compared to STEM professions. However, technology is increasingly playing an important role in these fields.

As we enter the connected era, everyone will need to understand how to utilise digital solutions in their roles. As a society, we need to make it clear to women that technology is fundamental and that it’s not just relevant for men. Then more females will be involved in learning how to code or how technology works in association with what they are currently doing.

When hiring, do you have any measures in place to encourage female applicants? How do you manage positive discrimination?

As a business, diversity of all forms is important to Cypher, and we’re certainly proud that

90% of our core team is female. However, when hiring, we don’t really look at whether someone is male or female. We look at a person’s experience, talents and motivations, and whether they’d be suited to the role.

We do everything possible to support and accommodate their needs. Whether someone has a child or has a disability, we take all necessary steps to ensure they have the resources to do their jobs to the best of their ability and reach their true potential. For example, we offer flexible working.

Edtech is reaching children at younger and younger ages. How do you think tomorrow’s generations can balance tech with ‘real life’?

We believe that the next generation is going to have a much healthier balance of screen time. Nowadays, when children grow up, technology is so ingrained in everything they do – from the classroom to the home. Children today are very attuned to what’s happening behind the screen, understand the different types of screen time and that the interactions with the screen can change.

Also, because children are seeing adults interact with screen time, they’re starting to generate their own perceptions of what’s healthy and balanced. For example, they know not to use their iPhones at the dinner table. I believe that this way of thinking among children will continue to manifest in the years to come.

Everyone has their own examples of discrimination, but what has been your biggest challenge up until now as a female founder?

I think that there are so many challenges for female entrepreneurs, from raising investment to a lack of diversity on boards. I think that these issues will only continue to get better as we continue to talk about the problems we’re collectively facing. Celebrations like IWD are brilliant to shine a light on the incredible work done by women everywhere, but let’s not make it tokenism. There should be the opportunity to highlight all the great things happening every day, regardless of one’s gender.

What is your main motivation for when the going gets tough?

As a mother of three, my main motivation is setting a good example for my children. When I encounter challenges or obstacles in business or daily life, I want my children to be inspired by how I react to and deal with them. I want them to understand that you can achieve great things by persevering. My children get me through everything.

What would you say to a fellow tech entrepreneur who is thinking of launching their own venture? Any wise words to impart?

There are no rule books. So just go for it and do the things your gut is telling you. Even if people say you need to run a business in a certain way or hire this type of person, go with what feels right.

When you launch a business, it’s also important to embrace the journey and learn as you go along. As an entrepreneur, no two days are the same. So don’t be afraid to try new things and learn from them.