Home Archives Receive an e-mail [reminder & link] Physics of Change will feature information in specific sections each month. The information is intended to inform the readers of this newsletter. However, it is not advice!!  Any decisions made based on this information are to be done in a self-responsible manner. Mulai de Guise Publishing, LLC cannot be held responsible for any individual actions based on the information it presents. ~~~May 2007 Edition ~~~ Section 1 - Q & A Q: Has Ramtha talked about St. Germaine? Is he a real master? Are there women who have ascended? Will your book be available on amazon.com? A: He is called Count de St. Germaine. He is still a great master. We would not have heard of him 'recently' except for the famous meeting that was written about in the memoirs of Casanova. This dinner party took place several hundred years after St. Germaine was thought to have died or disappeared and that is how we know that he lived an immortal life and kept showing up in the aristocratic circles in France. This party was included in Casanova's memoirs because he had to discredit St. Germaine who he described as arrogant and having an unfair and hypnotic influence over the ladies at the dinner. And of course this was exactly how Casanova was described by his contemporaries. St. Germaine still lives today in a remote area of Turkey. He is a true alchemist who has developed and ingested an elixir that radiates his body into physical immortality. And in a documented story, he gave Marie Antoinette a vile of liquid for her headache upon her request. It was left on her vanity as she went out to attend a party. Her maid, who cleaned up her room after she left for the evening, saw the vile and drank it. When Marie came home that evening, she screamed when she saw her maid, as she had reversed her age to a young maiden and was unrecognizable. St. Germaine never gave Marie another vile of that elixir. Ramtha has told his audiences that no woman has become a Christ. However, that is about to change as the school continues to develop its student body. There are women masters that are ageless. Remember the stories in the Life & Teachings of the Master's of the Far East. And finally, my book will not be available on Amazon. I want the school and myself to receive the profits from this book. They pay quarterly and only if you reached a certain number of sales. Except for the very big sellers, Amazon is an advertising opportunity. Q: I love JZ's talk about Time Tiles. Can you talk about fieldwork, time tiles, and destiny? What is the best thing to do after finding the card? Would doing more fieldwork with the same card be redundant? Does attaching a specific time to the manifestation help? A: I want to generalize this answer so that anyone can benefit whether or not they have attended the school. A Time Tile is a specific outcome, goal, or desire that can be depicted in a two-dimensional drawing. It has a beginning and an end. It is not an on-going experience. I remember hearing this story of one of our students that loves to play "Texas Hold'em Poker." Before he went to play in a big tournament, he created a card that showed pocket aces, the best hand possible to make a big bet. He did his fieldwork exercise and found his card. When he was still in the tournament, and having survived 99% of those who had already been eliminated, he was dealt pocket aces - just like his card. He won that hand. Two hands later he was dealt pocket aces again - this would translate to astronomical odds. What was so interesting is that he lost just after the two hands of pocket aces were dealt. His Time Tile had expired. It had a beginning and an end. But as we can see he remained in the tournament until his Time Tile manifested and that was after 8,730 other entrants had already been eliminated. He went home with a huge check!! Fieldwork is a discipline we do blindfolded in a large field that trains us to focus on this drawing to the exclusion of the environment, time, and our physical body. The secret to manifestation is concentrated focus. And when this internal picture becomes 'more real' than the outside environment, then we have BECOME that desire, and it will manifest. The SECRET, now made so popular, is NOT what you say that creates reality. The secret is what you BECOME creates REALITY. This was known by all the pagan shamans, witch doctors, and elders of ritual magic. They would dance long into the night and in a deep, trance state they would accomplish what it was they wanted to know or become. Finding your card opens the door to this manifestation. However, you must walk through the door and that can be accomplished in several ways, the best being that you would continue to negotiate your life from this mindset of having already accomplished this desired reality. Those in school can add this new opportunity to their Neighborhood Walk and do it everyday at least once and more if possible. But anyone can "stay in character" and continue to operate within the characterization of this new reality. Every great actor knows how to stay in character for long periods of time. Doing fieldwork with the same card continues to reinforce that reality. It is not redundant. However, putting a date or a timeline on a manifestation translates to the brain and to the Observer that it is a reality in the future. When your focus is on, you ARE the new reality and that has no future. A timeline acknowledges a future desire and that will keep it in the future. Creating Your Day is a time tile with specific experiences for that day. However, I Create My Day to go all the way through the night and into the next morning. And I always say that "I awake refreshed and inspired to go out and create my (new) day." Section 2 - Breaking News THE EFFECTS OF BEING OUT OF BALANCE? BELTSVILLE, Maryland (AP) -- Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of America's honeybees could have a devastating effect on the country's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing its people to a glorified bread-and-water diet. Honeybees do not just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 percent of the tastiest flowering crops the country has. Among them: apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots of the really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons. In fact, about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Even cattle, which feed on alfalfa, depend on bees. So if the collapse worsens, Americans could end up being "stuck with grains and water," said Kevin Hackett, the national program leader for USDA's bee and pollination program. "This is the biggest general threat to our food supply," Hackett said. While not all scientists foresee a food crisis, noting that large-scale bee die-offs have happened before, this one seems particularly baffling and alarming. U.S. beekeepers in the past few months have lost one-quarter of their colonies -- or about five times the normal winter losses -- because of what scientists have dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder. The problem started in November and seems to have spread to 27 states, with similar collapses reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe. Scientists are struggling to figure out what is killing the honeybees, and early results of a key study this week point to some kind of disease or parasite. Even before this disorder struck, America's honeybees were in trouble. Their numbers were steadily shrinking, because their genes do not equip them to fight poisons and disease very well, and because their gregarious nature exposes them to ailments that afflict thousands of their close cousins. "Quite frankly, the question is whether the bees can weather this perfect storm," Hackett said. "Do they have the resilience to bounce back? We'll know probably by the end of the summer." Experts from Brazil and Europe have joined in the detective work at USDA's bee lab in suburban Washington. In recent weeks, Hackett briefed Vice President Dick Cheney's office on the problem. Congress has held hearings on the matter. "This crisis threatens to wipe out production of crops dependent on bees for pollination," Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said in a statement. Taken for granted A congressional study said honeybees add about $15 billion a year in value to the U.S. food supply. Of the 17,000 species of bees that scientists know about, "honeybees are, for many reasons, the pollinator of choice for most North American crops," a National Academy of Sciences study said last year. They pollinate many types of plants, repeatedly visit the same plant, and recruit other honeybees to visit, too. Pulitzer Prize-winning insect biologist E.O. Wilson of Harvard said the honeybee is nature's "workhorse -- and we took it for granted." "We've hung our own future on a thread," Wilson, author of the book "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," told The Associated Press on Monday. Beginning this past fall, beekeepers would open up their hives and find no workers, just newborn bees and the queen. Unlike past bee die-offs, where dead bees would be found near the hive, this time they just disappeared. ARCTIC MELT WORSE THAN PREDICTIONS (CNN) -- Arctic sea ice is melting at a rate far quicker than predicted by climate change computer models and could disappear completely before the middle of the century, scientists have warned. The study, published in the latest edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found that the actual rate at which summer sea ice had shrunk per decade during the past 50 years was more than three times faster than an average of 18 of the most highly regarded climate simulations. Retreating Arctic ice is considered a key indicator of the pace of global warming by environmentalists, and one that could have devastating knock-on repercussions for the wider climate, including warmer oceans and rising sea levels. Declining ice levels also poses a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, walruses and ringed seals. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which releases the third of three reports into the causes, consequences and mitigation of global warming in Thailand this week, the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by the latter part of the 21st century. But the research, conducted by the U.S.-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), demonstrates that the 18 models on which the IPCC has based its current recommendations could already be out of date -- and that the retreat of the ice could already be 30 years ahead of the IPCC's worst case scenario. "This suggests that current model projections may in fact provide a conservative estimate of future Arctic change, and that the summer Arctic sea ice may disappear considerably earlier than IPCC projections," said NSIDC's Julienne Stroeve who led the study. Climate change models of Arctic sea ice cover in September, the month when ice is usually at its minimum, suggest an average loss of 2.5 percent of ice cover per decade from 1953 to 2003. The worst case simulated by an individual model predicted a decade-on-decade reduction of 5.4 percent. Yet when scientists studied observable data for the same period, including shipping logs, aerial photos and satellite images, they discovered the actual figure for ice loss from 1953 until 2006 to be 7.8 percent. Furthermore, the rate of deterioration seemed to be accelerating, topping nine percent per decade since 1979. The discrepancy between computer modeling and reality is most likely due to the fact that simulations have failed to fully take into account the impact of increased levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere, the researchers believe. Models have typically attributed half of the loss of ice to greenhouse gases and half to natural variations in the climate cycle. But now, many believe the first factor could be playing a significantly greater role. Earlier this month NSICD scientists reported that winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was just 14.7 million square kilometers (5.7m square miles) -- slightly better than the all-time low 14.5m square kilometers (5.6m square miles) in 2006 -- but well short of the 15.7m average for 1979-2000. The Arctic is especially prone to global warming because of the dangers of the so-called "feedback loop" caused by melting ice. While ice reflects around 80 percent of the sun's heat, having a cooling effect, blue sea water can absorb up to 95 percent of solar radiation, warming up the sea and accelerating the melting process further. "While the ice is disappearing faster than the computer models indicate, both observations and the models point in the same direction: the Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing," said co-author Marika Holland of NCAR. CAN ICELAND BECOME CARBON NEUTRAL? Iceland's President Olafur Grimsson at the site of the Carbon Rock project at Hengill, Iceland, on March 19, 2007. About halfway between Iceland's capital city of Reykjavík and the small town of Hveragerdi, the smell of sulfur hangs in the air. White plumes of steam billow from deep under the earth into the blue sky, and moss covers the lava-strewn ground. It's a dramatic scene, and if Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson has his way, it will be the stage for the next big advance against global warming. Over the next two years, a team of scientists will try to inject carbon dioxide--charged water into the basalt beneath the ground through boreholes drilled by a nearby geothermal energy plant. The CO2 will, in theory, react with the porous rock and form a stable mineral that could remain in the rock for millions of years. If they're right, Iceland could not only render itself carbon neutral but also give the world a means of protection from the effects of CO2 emissions until they can be reduced. "Many people ask me, 'Will this project succeed?'" Grimsson says. "I don't know, but I doubt all these prominent scientists would be spending their time on it if they didn't believe there was a reasonable chance of it succeeding." This ambitious experiment in carbon sequestration landed in Iceland after scientists from Columbia University approached Grimsson. (The University of Iceland, the University of Toulouse and Reykjavík Energy, are the other partners.) Grimsson traces his interest in climate change to the 1980s, when he met a fellow legislator who saw trouble on the horizon: Al Gore.  Back home, Grimsson, 63, has witnessed Iceland's conversion from a coal-dependent economy to a nation that gets most of its heat from clean, renewable geothermal resources. "My job as a young boy was to get the coal for the house for my grandmother," he says, recalling Reykjavík's soot-black skies. "If Iceland could achieve such a radical change in one generation, enormous changes can succeed all over the world." Grimsson "wants to make Iceland an example of what can be done," says Sigurdur Gislason, a research professor at the University of Iceland. "We have enormous amounts of clean energy and a small society. You can do experiments here that you can't do anywhere else." Basalt sequestration is one of several efforts to boost Iceland's role in climate-change science, including research into soil carbon sequestration and hydrogen-powered transportation. And Grimsson isn't above doing some firsthand testing. "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I was the first person to exceed the speed limit in a hydrogen-powered car," he says. "I wanted to test its capability. Why not?" Section 3 - Older & Wiser Living to 100!! An excerpt from Dr. Sanjay Gupta CNN) -- Dr. Thomas Perls is a leading expert on aging, so I was a little nervous when he arrived recently at my house at 6:20 a.m. He was there to assess how the daily decisions I'm making are affecting my life expectancy. Minutes into our walk with Bosco, my Weimaraner, I was in trouble. Perls asked me how much sleep I'd gotten the night before. Perls has a Web site called www.livingto100.com, which has a detailed life expectancy calculator. The calculator factors lifestyle, nutrition and family history to come up with an estimate of how long you'll live. I had to admit I'd been in surgery until 1 a.m. and had only slept for four hours. Routinely not getting enough sleep subtracts 1 year from your life expectancy, according to Perls. Fortunately, I usually sleep more than four hours, and when I do sleep, I'm dead to the world. Dr. Perls liked my morning habit of walking Bosco. Even though he viewed the daily walk as a stress reliever, he considered my dual life as neurosurgeon and television correspondent as stressful. Subtract two years of life expectancy. Cutting back my work schedule to five days a week, instead of six, could add 1.5 years to my life. During breakfast, Dr. Perls quizzed me about the frozen omelet I was eating. It was packed with protein, but a little too much fat for his liking. He also wanted to know how much I was eating at other meals. The well-known gerontologist told me I should be able to cover my meals with my hand. Dr. Perls was pleased to see me brush and floss after breakfast. I didn't realize that flossing not only helps prevent gum disease but heart disease as well. Add 1 year. I run about three times a week. Add three years. Still, if I exercised every day, I could add five more years to my life expectancy, according to the calculator. Weight training is especially important, according to Dr. Perls. The goal should be "really building muscle because we really start to be so prone to losing muscle, and that is such an important part of slowing down aging and decreasing the risk for age-related diseases. So much seems to boil down to having muscle on board," Perls said. Lifting weights helps maintain bone density and also lessens the risk of falls, which can have catastrophic consequences in the elderly. Dr. Perls followed me into CNN Center. After an appearance on "American Morning," I rejoined Dr. Perls to talk some more about my family history of heart disease and diabetes. From there, I checked on patients at Grady Hospital where I'm a neurosurgeon -- stopped home briefly -- then drove to the airport to catch an afternoon flight to Los Angeles, California, for a late-breaking story. As I picked up my boarding pass, Dr. Perls gave me the verdict: according to his calculator, my life expectancy is 81 years. Not bad, but I was disappointed. My family history was probably the biggest thing dragging me down along with my 80-hour workweeks. But I took solace in knowing that if I improve my habits now, I can certainly add years to my life expectancy. So can you. The following is chapter 1 of "Chasing Life" by CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, published by Warner Wellness. Currently, most of us reach our physical peak between twenty and thirty and begin a steady decline after that. By seventy, we have lost 40 percent of our maximum breathing capacity, muscle and bone mass have declined, body fat has increased, and sight and hearing have gotten worse. We may want to chase life and live longer, but not at the expense of function, both of mind and body. Truth is, when it comes to extending life, remarkable progress has been made in the last century. In 1900, life expectancy in the United States was 47.3 years, but that was an average dragged down by the huge infant mortality rate. The three leading causes of death in the United States at that time were pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis, and diarrhea and enteritis. In fact, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935, workers were actually considered lucky to reach retirement age. The average life expectancy was 64 years when the federal government cut the first monthly Social Security check to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont. Of course, if you were lucky enough to make it to 65, chances were you'd live another 12.7 years, having beaten some of the early killers even back then. Ida May Fuller surprised everyone, including President Roosevelt. She lived to 100, while he only lived to the age of 63. By the end of the twentieth century, U.S. life expectancy had risen to 76.9, and it continues to inch upward. At this writing, life expectancy for women in the United States is 80.4 years; for men, 75.2 years. Public health measures such as ensuring clean drinking water and medical advances such as the discovery of antibiotics helped many more children survive into adulthood in the twentieth century. The challenge for science now is to help us survive and thrive in our golden years. The challenge is to help us chase life and also enjoy it. Already, advances in medicine and public health have changed our concept of aging. Our expectations have grown. Technology has given us new faith in what is possible. Now, not only do we expect to make it to our seventies and beyond, but we want to remain physically and mentally active for years to come after that. We want our sixties and seventies to be a new beginning, not the beginning of the end. The good news is research has made tremendous advances, and there are many things we can do right now to improve the quality and length of our lives. And there are advances on the horizon that are more than promising. Many researchers of aging prefer to consider what they call health span, not life span. They also use the term active life expectancy, meaning the number of years we can expect to live free of chronic functional impairments. The goal is to help you extend your active life. There is a lot of conflicting information out there, and I will distill it down for you and show the most effective choices you can make right now to improve your health and longevity. We all make choices every day that affect our lives. The sum of those decisions equals about 70 percent of the factors determining your life span. That fact alone should empower you to start making some changes that will increase your life span and your health span. Also, many choices you make as a young adult can have long-lasting consequences. Even at eighty, though, it is not too late to chase a longer, healthier life. I will shatter some myths along the way, and yes, I'll also talk about the cutting-edge science underway in labs around the world in such areas as stem cells, telomeres, nanotechnology, and more that may open the door to what some are already calling practical immortality. While I won't make you any false promises, you will be astounded at the small yet remarkably effective changes you can make today to put you on the path to chasing life. We will explore where longevity research is heading and what you can do now, based on the latest research. How much can we do to alter our life expectancies? The short answer is plenty. I've discovered some things that have already changed my own life. For example, eating well is important, no doubt, but eating less might actually buy you more years of life. All books will tell you to exercise, but it is the right types of activity, including upper body resistance training (no, not the StairMaster for sixty minutes every day) that will be of most benefit in the long run. Attitude makes a huge difference. Just the act of practicing optimism can help, as can spending valuable time every day decreasing your stress levels. I will show you how to do it reliably. Getting enough sleep at night and challenging your brain during the day in addition to socializing and maintaining hobbies all appear to be the keys to a longer, healthy life. I'll explain each of these keys to a longer life and the best ways to attain them. Many books offering health advice focus on a single area. They may tell you how to keep your brain healthy or how to maintain peak fitness or how to lower your stress or how to sleep better. Some of these books are very good, but common sense tells us that we need a balanced approach between diet and lifestyle. In this book, I will try to offer that. I will also try to make this book a clear and concise guide that rises above the clutter. Some of the advice may surprise you. For example, physical fitness can have a profound effect on your cognitive abilities later in life, and your mental outlook could have a profound effect on your long-term physical health. Taking lots of supplements, as many experts recommend, may not be effective whatsoever. Eating a low-calorie diet could trigger a cellular reaction that leads to a cascade of events ultimately leading to longer life. How much exercise and what kind you do can make a difference. Eating foods like dark chocolate and dishes containing the spice turmeric and drinking red wine, green tea, and even coffee can all help you live longer and healthier, with a dramatically sharper mind. Many in the scientific community are thinking about ways to alter the human life span. They are imagining great leaps in understanding aging and dreaming up ways to counteract it. In their brave new world science, we will be able to replace worn organs the way you replace the worn brakes on a car; special enzymes or genetic therapies will rejuvenate our cells; microscopic nanobots will circulate through our bodies, warning of future health problems, which can then be addressed. Researchers are predicting stem cells will someday prevent such degenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. These therapeutic advances could shatter what we now consider a human life span, extending it by decades or more. Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and inventor, thinks scientific progress is advancing so quickly, we will all be able to live forever if we can only make it a few more decades. Despite the flurry of activity in labs across the developed world, there is no magic elixir yet, leaving those of us who want to live longer, healthier lives to use the best information currently available as guideposts. Of course, there are no guarantees. People who live lives that are paradigms of clean living succumb to cancer, and others who spend years ignoring the best advice of doctors and others live into old age. After all, Jeanne Calment reportedly didn't give up smoking until the age of 117. While there are no guarantees, we are not destined to a life span similar to that of our parents. Although genetics do appear to play a role in how long we live, studies suggest our DNA accounts for only about 30 percent of how long we live. The rest is up to us. There are some simple rules that we all know, even if we choose to forget them from time to time. Nothing will matter unless you make a pact that you will adopt the best health practices that exist today. What will we eat? How much will we eat? Where and how will we live? Will we smoke cigarettes? wear a seat belt? ride a motorcycle? Do we exercise? Lifestyle does make a difference. An astonishing 46.5 million Americans smoke, even though it will result in disability and premature death for half of them. Nothing can stop aging, but we can take steps to increase our chances of living longer, healthier lives. I have looked at the burgeoning field of antiaging medicine. I will do my best to cut through the conflicting information out there and tell you what you can actually do right now and what treatments may be available in the future to help you age well. We already know from closely studying our neighbors in other developed countries that lifestyle choices can result in living longer lives. More than twenty other developed nations, including Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Sweden, have higher life expectancies than does the United States. Many people in those countries have already learned that something strange happens as our bodies get older. While the process of aging does certainly continue, the incidence of age-related diseases starts to slow way down. The incidence of cancer, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease becomes increasingly lower. It is almost as if our bodies and our minds realize that if they can get this far along, they could potentially go much longer and achieve a sort of immortality, which is the endgame of chasing life. ARE STEM CELLS THE NEW FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH? In Moscow, many prominent Russian citizens truly believe they have discovered something astounding, so much so that watchdog organizations overseeing the clinics are willing to turn their eyes the other way when it comes to enforcing the law. Despite the widespread knowledge of their existence, cosmetic stem cell treatments are officially illegal in Russia. You wouldn't know it from the Internet, though, where you can find Russian-language sites offering the treatments. Some stories have reported as many as fifty stem cell clinics in the Russian capital. Not surprisingly, most proprietors at these clinics prefer to remain in the shadows and didn't want to talk. That was not the case with Tepliashin. Tepliashin proudly showcasaes his clinics and describes the process: After a battery of tests, patients undergo an operation under local anesthetic during which he removes 5 grams or more of fat tissue from the abdominal area or the thigh. Technicians place the fat cells in a vial, where they are put in a solution and spun in a centrifuge. From there, the precious stem cells are extracted and placed in a special growth medium, where they are incubated. It turns out stem cells are located in many different areas of the body, including your bone marrow and even your fat. Once the cells have multiplied sufficiently, vials of stem cells are placed in a tank of liquid nitrogen to induce a state of hibernation, awaiting injection under the skin. This turns out to be a critically important point: because people receiving the treatments get injections of their own cells, there is no risk of rejection the way there would be with cells taken from fetuses. Tepliashin says his clients get their money's worth. More than looking younger, Tepliashin says stem cell treatments make people live longer, too, reversing the effects of stress, bad food, radiation from X-rays, and viruses. In short, these treatments help people chase life. Imagine a lifetime of eating cheeseburgers and absorbing sunshine on the beach without sunblock potentially reversed, according to Tepliashin, by using your own stem cells to simply rebuild and rejuvenate your damaged cells with fresh, new ones. It is certainly true that stem cell treatments have not undergone any of the sorts of clinical trials required in the United States and Europe that would confirm they are safe and demonstrate they are effective. Still, there appears to be no shortage of willing clients from Russia's moneyed elite and from elsewhere in Europe. In this one clinic there are as many as a thousand vials -- representing about five hundred paying customers. The price tag is not cheap: 10,000 to 25,000 for a course of treatments ($12,000--$30,000). These customers aren't willing to wait for a New England Journal of Medicine article to tell them what they think they already know that stem cells can not only stop them from getting older but can actually turn the clock the other way and make them biologically younger. Spring is in the air. EIGHT ways to minimize or eliminate hay fever symptoms. 1) Honey can tame hay fever symptoms in many cases. It has been reported to not only clear the sinuses but also to help control itchy and puffy eyes. The reason it seems to work so well is that is contains minute amounts of pollen. Each time it is eaten it has the effect of a small immunization. Homeopaths recommend a daily dose of honey from a source near your home. Most rural farmer's markets, fruit and vegetable stands, or health food stores will carry local honey. It is suggested that it is taken three times each day. 2) Stinging nettle is effective in treating symptoms. Freeze dried extract of its leaves made into capsules is the most effective form. 3) Inhaling steam with a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil has decongestant properties. 4) Vitamin C can be used just after an attack. 500 - 1000 mg three to four times each day as an antihistamine effect, calming irritating sinuses and eyes. 5) Quercetin can provide fast relief. Made from derivatives of flowers and fruit plants, Quercetin keeps the body from releasing histamines, thereby suppressing hay fever and cold symptoms. Typical dosage is 200 mg. taken just before eating. 6) When allergy season hits, the Ayurvedic healers of India swab their nostrils daily with sesame oil. Be sure to keep your sesame oil refrigerated to prevent rancidity. 7) For jammed-up sinuses from hay fever, jump on a trampoline, rebounder, or use a rope. This will boost your lymph system as health practitioners have suggested this for years. 8) Homeopaths often suggest sabadilla, made from a plant in the lily family. It is a sure fire sneeze stopper. A 30C tablet, taken once or twice should sooth the sinus passages and reduces other hay fever symptoms. ========================= Gold and Silver Reports ========================= Gold is up 2-1/2% over the past month, 15% over the past year, and 105% over the past five years. Silver has not changed over the past month, down 5% over the past year, and up 310% over the past five years. The ratio of silver to gold is 52:1. In the past, silver to gold was generally around 15:1. When this ratio adjusts, silver will leap to 3 or 4 times its current value at the time of its leap. When China and India's middle class gets established, silver will make this leap. It is not that far in the future!! $761 - $887.50 then above $1000. For silver, a price target of around $23.00 within the month of October is quite possible, both from a fundamental point of view and from a technical point of view. There is of course a possibility that we could have a little bit more consolidation and some small pullbacks, before we see the next "big rally," but are you going to wait? The consolidation pattern that we have seen over the past 12 months is very similar to the one we had before the breakout to the upside at the end of September 2005. Lars Lindgren, longtime silver analyst. Chinese central banker urges diversifying into gold, oil, metals Jim Sinclair's Commentary SHANGHAI, China -- China should "appropriately" increase its gold reserves and buy strategic resources such as oil and metals in order to broaden the investment channels for its huge foreign-exchange reserves, said People's Bank of China Vice Governor Xiang Junbo. Mr. Xiang's comments yesterday come amid increasing discussion about how China will choose to invest its foreign-exchange reserves, the world's largest at $1.2 trillion as of the end of March. He said his comments, made in a speech at Fudan University in Shanghai, represent his personal views and don't necessarily reflect the stance of the central bank. Chinese holdings of U.S. Treasury securities totaled $350 billion at the end of 2006, and credit-ratings agency Fitch Ratings estimates that the country holds another $230 billion in U.S. government agency bonds. Any decline in the U.S. dollar would hurt the value of China's foreign-exchange reserves, economists said, a prospect that has highlighted the cost of holding such a large portion of the reserves in U.S. Treasury bonds and has increased pressure to diversify. From legendary market analyst Richard Russell, publisher of the widely-followed "Dow Theory Letters," in the April 18th edition of his newsletter: "Under the current system of fiat money, the purchasing power of the dollar is virtually guaranteed to decline over time. Hopefully, compounding will keep up with, or beat inflation. But there is an insurance policy, and that insurance policy (not part of compounding) is gold. Have some gold. When all else fails, if or when the system fails, there is always gold. Some say great art, some say diamonds, some say real estate. But only gold is fully liquid. Only gold can be sold at any time, anywhere and in any quantity." "A generation is about 30-35 years in duration. In the last 35 years or since 1972 the dollar has lost 80 percent of its purchasing power. With the power of compounding knocking at the dollar's door, I expect the purchasing power of the dollar to be almost destroyed over the next 35 years, assuming that the dollar is even around by then. On top of everything else, millions of baby boomers will be retiring over the coming two to 30 years. The US government has promised them vast amounts of money in the form of Social Security and Medicare. The money won't be there. Those promises will either have to be altered or reneged on - or else vast amounts of fiat money will have to be created. Any way you look at it, the purchasing power of the dollar will be heading down - and probably accelerating in its downward path. The government can devalue the paper it creates, but there's one thing that no government can devalue - and that one item is gold. Thus five, ten, twenty years from now, people will look at today's gold prices and they'll say to themselves, 'Back in 2007 gold was as cheap as dirt. What was I thinking? Why wasn't I accumulating gold?'" . . . . and from long-time metals market expert and commentator Jim Sinclair, on his www.JSMineSet.com website this week: "Gold has taken out ($682) bringing into focus the minor $761 magnet. There is a feel to this that reminds me of the second move above $400 in the 70s when the runaway gold price moved into the run wild gold price move." Section 4 - Environmental & Social Impact SHORT SIGHTED FOR A CATASTROPHIC FUTURE HERBERT MEYER served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council. In these positions, he managed production of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimates and other top-secret projections for the President and his national security advisers. Meyer is widely credited with being the first senior U.S. Government official to forecast the Soviet Union's collapse, for which he later was awarded the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the intelligence community's highest honor. Formerly an associate editor of FORTUNE, he is also the author of several books. Currently, there are four major transformations that are shaping political, economic and world events. These transformations have profound implications for American business owners, our culture and our way of life: 1) Shifting Demographics of Western Civilization, 2) The War in Iraq, 3) The Emergence of China, and 4) Restructuring of American Business. This month's newsletter will expand on the Shifting Demographics of Western Civilization. Most countries in the Western world have stopped breeding. For a civilization that uses sex as a major advertising component, this is remarkable. Maintaining a steady population requires a birth rate of 2.1. In Western Europe, the birth rate currently stands at 1.5, or 30 percent below replacement. In 30 years there will be 70 to 80 million fewer Europeans than there are today. The current birth rate in Germany is 1.3. Italy and Spain are even lower at 1.2. At that rate, the working age population declines by 30 percent in 20 years, which has a huge impact on the economy. When you don't have young workers to replace the older ones, you have to import them. The European countries are currently importing Moslems. Today, the Moslems comprise 10 percent of France and Germany, and the percentage is rising rapidly because they have higher birthrates. However, the Moslem populations are not being integrated into the cultures of their host countries, which is a political catastrophe. One reason Germany and France don't support the Iraq war is they fear their Moslem populations will explode on them. By 2020, more than half of all births in the Netherlands will be non-European. The huge design flaw in the post-modern secular state is that you need a traditional religious society birth rate to sustain it. The Europeans simply don't wish to have children, so they are dying. In Japan, the birthrate is 1.3. As a result, Japan will lose up to 60 million people over the next 30 years. Because Japan has a very different society than Europe, they refuse to import workers. Instead, they are just shutting down. Japan has already closed 2000 schools, and is closing them down at the rate of 300 per year. Japan is also aging very rapidly. By 2020, one out of every five Japanese will be at least 70 years old. Nobody has any idea about how to run an economy with those demographics. Europe and Japan, which comprise two of the world's major economic engines, aren't merely in recession, they're shutting down. This will have a huge impact on the world economy, and it is already beginning to happen. Why are the birthrates so low? There is a direct correlation between abandonment of traditional religious society and a drop in birth rate, and Christianity in Europe is becoming irrelevant. The second reason is economic. When the birth rate drops below replacement, the population ages. With fewer working people to support more retired people, it puts a crushing tax burden on the smaller group of working age people. As a result, young people delay marriage and having a family. Once this trend starts, the downward spiral only gets worse. These countries have abandoned all the traditions they formerly held in regards to having families and raising children. The U.S. birth rate is 2.0, just below replacement. We have an increase in population because of immigration. In the U.S., the baby boomers are starting to retire in massive numbers. This will push the "elder dependency" ratio from 19 to 38 over the next 10 to 15 years. This is not as bad as Europe, but still represents the same kind of trend. Western civilization seems to have forgotten what every primitive society understands -- you need kids to have a healthy society. Children are huge consumers. Then they grow up to become taxpayers. That's how a society works, but the post-modern secular state seems to have forgotten that. If U.S. birth rates of the past 20 to 30 years had been the same as post-World War II, there would be no Social Security or Medicare problems. The world's most effective birth control device is money. As society creates a middle class and women move into the workforce, birth rates drop. Having large families is incompatible with middle class living. The quickest way to drop the birth rate is through rapid economic development. After World War II, the U.S. instituted a $600 tax credit per child. The idea was to enable mom and dad to have four children without being troubled by taxes. This led to a baby boom of 22 million kids, which was a huge consumer market that turned into a huge tax base. However, to match that incentive in today's dollars would cost $12,000 per child. China and India do not have declining populations. However, in both countries, there is a preference for boys over girls, and we now have the technology to know which is which before they are born. In China and India, many families are aborting the girls. As a result, in each of these countries there are 70 million boys growing up who will never find wives. When left alone, nature produces 103 boys for every 100 girls. In some provinces, however, the ratio is 128 boys to every 100 girls. The birth rate in Russia is so low that by 2050 their population will be smaller than that of Yemen. Russia has one-sixth of the earth's land surface and much of its oil. You can't control that much area with such a small population. Section 4 - DID YOU KNOW? Gasoline at $4 PER GALLON Coming to a Pump Near You. Most people are Unfazed by Rising Tab. Is it time to get a new vehicle? Whether it's $50 to fill up your Prius or $130 for the Ford Expedition, $4-a-gallon gasoline is coming to a pump near you. Fuel prices are rising at a pace not seen since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita knocked out a third of the U.S. oil refining industry in 2005. Gasoline consumption is climbing twice as fast as last year and will accelerate when summer travel begins late next month. "What we're surprised by is the increased demand," said James Mulva, chief executive officer at ConocoPhillips, whose refineries from California to New Jersey produce 56 million gallons of gas a day, enough to meet 14 percent of the country's needs. "Even though the price of gasoline is up, the demand is up," he said in an April 12 interview in Houston. Population gains and U.S. economic growth are causing an increase in fuel purchases, according to Orlando, Florida-based AAA, the nation's largest organization for motorists. The U.S. economy will expand at a 2.4 percent annual pace in the second quarter, up from 1.8 percent in the first three months, according to the median estimate of 74 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Gasoline use is rising almost 5 percent above the five-year average. --------------------------- What I have Heard But Have Been Unable to Confirm - To continue the report of last month's drought in Australia, 11,000,000 Australians are getting ready to evacuate Western Australia as a result of the worse drought in over 100 years. The crops are being plowed under and the domestic livestock in peril. If you watch this carefully, you might be better prepared if your area suffers a similar fate. -------------------------- Be prepared when you travel outside the USA. "The dollar's decline has taken place over a period of years, but more recent pullbacks have tested historical benchmarks. The dollar, which began to weaken broadly in early 2002, has fallen more than 50 percent from its October 2000 trading peak against the euro. It has recently come close to hitting its record low against the 13-nation currency and is near a 26-year low against the British pound. $1.3601 on 4/20 sticker shock." www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18235574/ Section 5 - Testimonials, Revelations, and Inspirational Stories and Quotes. Just read your book... My comment... Seriously, the book is like the New Testament. You put all the pieces of the puzzle together magnificently. Thank you. Jayne of many colors. THESE THINGS YOU SHALL DO...AND GREATER Spectacular. I was taught that being confused means you have a question. You have given me the knowledge and the answers to my questions. Thanks, Paul Kosir “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Prince"