10 Ways to Become More Conscious By Steve Pavlina, BodyMindSoulSpirit, Guest What does it mean to become more conscious? It is the progressive realization of conscious mastery over your mind. The challenge is that it takes consciousness to grow consciousness. But you needn’t worry about this because you already have the seed. So here are 10 ways to raise your consciousness: 1. Truth raises your consciousness. First, accept the truth. Secondly, speak the truth. lies you tell yourself. The more you’re able to accept and speak the truth, the more conscious you become. Yes, there may be consequences when you switch from lies and half-truths to the full truth, but highly conscious people know that crossing that bridge is well worth the effect. 2. Courage raises your consciousness. Courage is the gatekeeper between unconscious growth and conscious growth. A powerful guiding principle to adopt is, “Whatever I fear, I must face.” 3. Compassion raises your consciousness. 4. Desire raises your consciousness. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. it.
How Incomprehensible Could Extraterrestrials Be? A few days ago Paul Gilster, the author of Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration and the curator of Centauri Dreams , posted a thoughtful discussion of a blog entry I wrote (titled What's The Connection Between Deafness and SETI? ) His discussion and the resulting comments were fascinating, and in this post I want to carry on that conversation. I want to ask: Will extraterrestrials be so different from us as to be truly incomprehensible? I think the answer is no. And yes. In one of the comments, Christopher Phoenix argued that aliens could be so different from us as to be incomprehensible. "How can we expect to use extraterrestrials as a mirror for human behavior? Excellent point. Okay. Still, it’s fair to ask if an alien species might be so different from us that even our science wouldn’t be able to get a grip on it. I don’t think biology in itself would create that kind of radical incomprehensibility. Technology presents us with a more difficult problem.
Are You An Indigo? 11 Traits Of Indigo Children Are you an Indigo? “Indigo children” is the name given to the new type of human being born in this generation. Displaying amazing feats of intuition and intelligence beyond their years, these indigos have started to become a much more common concept within the spiritual community. This is a list developed by play therapist Jan Yordy, a former elementary school teacher and child counselor who has been working with parents and children for 25 years. As we go over the list, see if you resonate with any of these traits: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. THIS is what an indigo child looks like in action! As seen on Mind Openerz Share and Enjoy
Etymology Dictionary 11 Feng Shui Tips to Overcome Debt and Deficiency - OMTimes Magazine by Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac. “Allow things in your life which make your heart sing, feed your soul or nourish you on a daily basis.” In Feng Shui, its all about the chi (life energy). If you want to overcome debt, you just need to shift the energy to the right places. In Feng Shui, the middle left side of a room, as determined if you are standing at the room’s entrance looking in, is known as the health and family area. Enhancing the positive Qi energy in this area contributes to positive physical health and emotional relationships. 11 Feng Shui Tips to Overcome Debt 1. 2. 3. Predicting what extra-terrestrials will be like: and preparing for the worst 1. Introduction ‘Astrobiology is the study of things that do not exist.’ This well-known statement can be dismissed as flippant cynicism, but one might suggest that in its vernacular way it is struggling to grasp what on earth (so to speak) we might expect to find. Consider the presumed alternatives: will the extra-terrestrials be utterly familiar, completely alien (whatever that is supposed to mean) or is the search a complete waste of time? But all is not necessarily lost. Too much excitement; time to settle down. 2. (a) Terrestrial limits What we find here, therefore, will be a reliable guide to what we will find anywhere. Figure 1. Diagrammatic sketch of the carbaquist habitation box with respect to some principal parameters (pH, pressure, salinity, temperature). This is evident at the other end of the temperature spectrum. Another aspect of water is its solute content, and here halophiles (e.g. [24]) add another important dimension to the definition of the habitation box.
14 Ways To Raise the Vibration Of Your Home By Morgan Potts We cleanse our home energetically in order to welcome good, high vibration energy into your space, and clear away any negative vibes. This way, not only are our bodies vibin’ high and in total alignment with our dreams, but so is our home. A home filled with good vibes brings on better conversation, meditation, cooking, working, creativity and so much more. There will be less fights, misunderstandings, arguments and sadness. The place you spend most of your time should be a space you want to spend time in, and create beautiful things. Feel the energy, love your space, sink into its bliss! 1. Burning smudge sticks made from sage, or any other purifying herb, like lavender, or sweet grass is energetically purifying to the home. 2. Every few months it’s a great idea to go through your house and think about what things are truly necessary for you to keep. As humans we tend to collect way too many items that we will never EVER use. 3. 4. [Also read: 9 Healing Benefits of Music]
How do fireflies light up Fireflies or lightning bugs make light within their bodies. This process is called bioluminescence and is shared by many other organisms, mostly sea-living or marine organisms. Fireflies light up to attract a mate. To do this, the fireflies contain specialized cells in their abdomen that make light. The cells contain a chemical called luciferin and make an enzyme called luciferase. The luciferin combines with adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is found in all cells, to form luciferyl adenylate and pyrophosphate (PPi) on the surface of the luciferase enzyme. The wavelength of light given off is between 510 and 670 nanometers (pale yellow to reddish green color). The luciferin-luciferase chemical reaction has been used for years to measure the amount of ATP produced in cells and by various chemical reactions.
5 Signs You’re in a Toxic or Draining Relationship “Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” ~Billy Wilder I call these relationships toxic because our authentic self is withered away into someone or something else—forgetting all that was natural to you in the process. Little do we know that our desire to be agreeable and accepted is inhibiting the natural process of growth. While some difficult relationships can open our eyes to new perspectives and expand our awareness, some obviously shut us in and hinder our development. It’s important to know when you’re in a toxic relationship so you can choose something better for yourself. When I was in my toxic relationships, I ignored my intuition in favor of my logical mind, which told me that losing that person was worse than having him/her around. But our intuition knows best; unlike our mind, its only motive is our happiness. 5 Signs You’re in a Toxic Relationship These are 5 signs that you are in a typical toxic relationship: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Spleen The spleen synthesizes antibodies in its white pulp and removes antibody-coated bacteria and antibody-coated blood cells by way of blood and lymph node circulation. A study published in 2009 using mice found that the spleen contains, in its reserve, half of the body's monocytes within the red pulp.[5] These monocytes, upon moving to injured tissue (such as the heart), turn into dendritic cells and macrophages while promoting tissue healing.[5][6][7] The spleen is a center of activity of the mononuclear phagocyte system and can be considered analogous to a large lymph node, as its absence causes a predisposition to certain infections.[8] In humans, the spleen is brownish in color and is located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.[4][9] Structure[edit] The spleen, in healthy adult humans, is approximately 7 centimetres (2.8 in) to 14 centimetres (5.5 in) in length. Surfaces[edit] Visceral surface of the spleen Like the thymus, the spleen possesses only efferent lymphatic vessels.
8 Things You Didn’t Know About Death By Annie Kagan, OmTimes When my brother Billy woke me three weeks after he died, describing what was happening to him in the afterlife, I thought maybe I had gone a little crazy. How could my bad-boy brother, who died a tragic death, who had problems with addiction all his life, who didn’t live what most people would call a successful life, how could he be sharing secrets about life’s greatest mystery from another dimension? But as time passed, my skepticism turned to wonder as Billy taught me all about death. The List 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. About the Author When she was sixteen, Annie Kagan was signed by a producer from Columbia Records.
Symbols in books of alchemy Sources: Wd1426, Wd1421A, Wv149, Ws2541A Wd1426, a book of alchemical recipes, has caused us to add some additional symbols to our inventory of character entities: signs for substances antimony and sal armoniac; the elements fire and water; and the syllabics "subli-" and "precipi-" (found in sublimate, precipitate, etc.). We've also gone ahead and added the elemental symbol for earth, on the assumption that it will eventually appear in our books as well. Addendum, June 2002: Wd1421A employs the same set of symbols. Addendum, February 2003: Wv149 adds symbols for sulphur, oil, and ? Addendum, December 2003: added two symbols found in a strange non-chemical book Ws2541A, viz. salt and saltpetre Addendum, August 2007: added many symbols found in WN241 (img 195 for convenient table), and had also earlier been mostly found in another book (unidentified...) Addendum, Sept 2011: added some symbols from a chart of abbreviations from WB1088 Some sample transcriptions Alchemical signs Elements Metals