Saturday, October 18, 1997 12:39 PM
Sunday, October 19, 1997 1:24 PM
...Sigh...
'Allo!
Was working this door blueing thingie with my tribe, and well, you know
how these things go... some of us are too warm, while others remain
freezing...
So we have decided to re-modify our amulets for this purpose on a
personal basis, which brings up of course some important things...
...for one, that's a funny place for one's "Ianus", and, two, I bet when
Achilles's mother picked him up by his and dipped him in th' river, I
bet it was darned cold, weren't it?...
(O yarrow, who causes loves to last for seven years, Is thy name
Permanence in this realm, too?)
...er, okay, there are probably some more straight forward ways of
saying same, aren't there, ie amulets to keep one from freezing to death
don't sound too blasted difficult, or too much of a departure from those
I have discussed in regards to water purification...
...since I have been reminded the world consists of two doors, Indoors
and Outdoors...
But yeah, I'd still search Callimachos's epigrams about kissing
doorframes and Gnats and all of that, amongst many other mythical
treasures, for clues...
Of course these are Solar functions, of Apollo and his cogntes... (uh
oh, futures in rotten vegetables to throw at Chroni have just gone
through the roof, having been recently demoted from mythographer to
science officer (yuk!) by several of our Higher Powers... (giggle)
Oh, well, "centralization of Anything is a strategic
vulnerability"--(Chronos Apollonios)
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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Sunday, October 19, 1997 11:00 PM
As the Vegetables Talk to Me
Salutations!
Fortunately, shaman is one of the few pre-dilections that may be
actually able to have a bona-fide religious experience in the produce
section of the local supermarket (giggle).
So there I was, shopping for pumpkins to enchant when I had the
near-adventure of noticing that those funny looking things that look
like they're sort of two gourds having had their halves glued together
(ok never mind that the acorn squash looked like a macrophage) finally
struck me as having something in common with the Yew berry...
This after looking at a whole bag of Buckeye nuts (horse chestnut,
Castanea sp.) and thinking either that's a chimpanzee's bald butt, or it
looks like a yew berry, too, kinda.
Now the Yew tree yeilds Taxol, regarded by science as a potent albeit
toxic anti-cancer drug. I seem to recall reading this of Horse Chestnut
that something along this line could be extracted carefully, perhaps the
Saponins in it.
The Yew berry goes through a progression that to Ecclectics/
Signaturists/ Shamans (: see "Ethnobotany of the Hopi") might suggest
the process of cellular maturation whereby the rampant cells finish a
lifecycle and perish; of the whatever-cucurbit-that-was, looks like
those ornamental gourds, really, I am reminded of what I read in the
Richter's catalog that a related cucurbit, Snake Gourd, Trichosanthes
sp., was receiving careful attention as an anti-aids and probably
anti-cancer drug...
Not like the bigwigs don't publish whole huge books full of 'em... Maybe
anything so generic as an oxygen deficit has a 50-50 chance whatever the
yarb?
And what of the also-pointy acorn as our saga continues?
Dunno, but I did hear the Yews of the Pacific Northwest were being
overexploited for taxol at an alarming rate last time I heard...
Something to think about as I watch the paint peel...
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
*****
Monday, October 20, 1997 12:42 AM
Darn Those Monkeys Dept.
Hola!
This in todays paper: (I'm not kidding)
Headless frog embryo could lead to clones for organ
transplants
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LONDON (AP) - British scientists have created a frog embryo without a
head, a technique that may lead to to the production of headless humans
clones to grow organs and tissue for transplant, The Sunday Times
reported.
None of the embryos grown by scientists at Bath university were allowed
to live longer than five weeks, the newspaper reported in it early
edition Saturday.
But the scientists believe the technique could be adopted to grow human
organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers in an embryonic sac living in
an artificial womb.
Many scientists believe human cloning is inevitable, following the birth
of the sheep Dolly, the world's first cloned mammal, at a laboratory in
Scotland.
Scientists at the Roslin institute in Edinburgh created Dolly using
cells from the udder of a dead sheep.
The Sunday Times said the two techniques could be combined so that
people needing organs for transplants could have their organs "grown to
order" from their own cloned cells.
The genetic composition of grown organs would exactly match those of the
patient, eliminating the threat of rejection.
Growing partial embryos to cultivate customizd organs could bypass legal
restrictions and ethical concerns, because without a brain or nervous
system, the organisms may not technically qualify as embryos.
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...but they could easily qualify as scientists, who have the very same
qualifications, as well as the very same method of bypassing legal
restrictions and ethical concerns...
...while the preceeding article is found on the very first page, I found
the following article on the very last...
Chimpanzee perfects organ transplants without
donors
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Washington D.C. (AP)
The National Institute of Health today reported that several of its
researchers perormed the world's first organ transplant without a donor.
Proceeding in accordance with instructions received some weeks ago in a
communication from a Chimpanzee known colloquially as *Cheetah*, workers
were able to materialize organs into the spaces where they had been
removed, mere seconds after removal.
Cheetah confided in reporters that this miraculous breakthrough had been
a synthesis of prior work by Kirlian Photography researcher, Ion
Dumitrescu, herbal cures for auric Phantom Pains found in books by Maria
Treben, and the proceedures of the Alchemic art of resurrection,
Palingenics or Palingenesy. Cheetah subsequently asserted that the idea
was entirely his own, while hanging from his tail and relentlessly
pointing his hairless bottom at photographers.
"It's really pretty straightforward", said the Chimpanzee, "the pattern
is still there in the aura", you "just have to make some stuff stick on
it".
Noted occultists confirmed that such a stunning variation on Palingenics indeed
constituted a “remarkable advancement in the feild”.
Reporters enquired whether the self-organization theories of Ilya
Prigogyne had adequate relevance to the phemonena to serve as a key to
understanding it, but the press conference came to an early close due to
a fist-fight between a Cheetah and a reported who had inexplicable
locuted "Chimpanzee" as its diminutive, "Pansy"
Earlier in the conference, Cheetah commented on today's news of the
first cloning of a headless frog embryo: "Chroni Apolloni's been doing
this same thing with the sheep for years, that's usually how he gets
dates"
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...And it makes me wonder...
Robert Plant, "Stairway to Heaven"
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
Monday, October 20, 1997 2:12 PM
OH: Re: Signatures of Organs
Hi All.
Thanks, that really was insightful IMHO.
Deepak Chopra says some of these same things also, I was very taken with
the anecdote about the recipient of a heart transplant who unknowingly
took on on the unhealthy habits of the previous owner, pri to me very
spiritual introspection, as well as his idea that digitalis causing
hallucinosis was really the heart hallucinating and then sending this as
information to the brain.
It tends to make things sound more confusing, and maybe they are, if the
bodymind is capable of turning one disease into another, yet it may not
only be the reason most of us are showing vital signs right this moment,
why ungodly medicines can be made to work at all, but also why we Can
approach and accomplish healing through the mind...not to mention it
sounding consistent that Moxibustion way be turning virtually any
ailment into a simple blister.
Actually seems like it can readily be used to simplify things too.
On the more complicated side, though, it does seem to shout that there
are alot of things that don't get, and wouldn't, taken into the
consideration when the ethical and moral issues get weighed out.
Even as much as the basic Kirlian work seems to get neglected, there is
still probably even more... like the one where when the aura fades from
the leaf, one goes back to the tree to see if the phantom returned
there... or it it was ever missing. Or the one where we stop to wonder
why when they cut the hole in the leaf that it shows a double of the
leaf, and not the whole tree. Or...
Or gene expression. A clone may be genetically identical in DNA, but the
RNA could easily be different... if we even shortcut to such a silly
assumption that holographic information carried by these biomolecules
wasn't taking precedence anyway... Or that a brain and spinal column are
requisites for intellence anyway...
So what could happen when an organ from a body without a brain or spinal
column starts sending these kinds of messages to the recipient's brain,
a total comatose state, maybe?
Putting as you did really makes me think... I mean there's probably
going to be some serendipitious irony that if you use plant signatures
to aid transplants, like Lungwort to aid lung transplant, and Liverwort
to aid liver transplant, and so on, you're using plants that would heal
the organs and make the transplants unnecessary...
...but I never thought of that before; I was given like one or two herbs
to offset organ or tissue rejection, and then I stepped right in the
myth of scarcity dogma again... Thanks for bailing me out of it!
Maybe the signature is the finger pointing someone in the direction of a
certain path? (or the fickle finger of fate...)
I think magical banishing herbs could purge organs of these records of
personality, but there may still be ethical and moral questions in what
the stuff actually is. I also wonder if things like Moxibustion or
Navaho *Unravelling Ceremonies* could do the same?
...
and then I have similar questions; maybe Hunting Medicines have this
power where they process meat for eating. I don't have to many problems
when I have to resort to eating really populous animals like beef or
pork, but if eat, for example, venison, I can tell you the age of the
deer, the caliber and the composition of the bullet, and how fast it was
going. It's terrible. I'm not given to object empathy or telemetry or
whatever, so I have to wonder on this one somewhat...
About plant signatures:
That's a really interesting reference you made about that story
about the Yew, about the Underworld. One of the things the berry does
tend to resemble also is the iris and especially the pupil of the eye.
(Interesting too that it goes through a color change along with its
shape change. May actually be a specific for colorblindness in
homeopathic form?) Thanks.
Peace!
Chronos Apollonios // ~~The World Seed Fund,
c/o Abundant Life Seed Foundation, PO Box 772, 1029 Lawrence St., Port
Townsend, WA 98368~~Rex Research, PO Box 19250, Jean, NV 89109
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