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It is hard to capture the synchronicity of this next post. I can only assure you that I was working on integrating these things for this book and this post from a healer came through in answer to my directed thought or intent-ional request. Intent is a vital element of magical operations. Here is my response to this post I believe helped me integrate these thoughts.

“Hi

Yes, the energy lattices are most interesting.

Last night I was writing about the homeopathic tincture that when diluted enough times has none of the actual original poison in it and yet that poison lattice or intelligence remains. There is some rudimentary consciousness, such as allows
the muons separated in deep mines at Sudbury to communicate, in all energy. It is affinitely connected across space and time as I have written about at great length before. I was discussing the Cyanide in peach pits that Laetrile utilizes, to be specific.

Now I find this response including a sigil visualized in another dimension by a healer on this seldom used site. By your thought of healing and taking the negative energy of the sick person away from them and encasing it where that energy will not return you are doing something like Dr. Masaru Emoto has scientifically replicated with water crystals. Crystalline structural intelligence is a major part of the shaman’s work throughout over more than a million years as I see it. In his work we find the crystals respond to music or thought and convey a range of emotions or beauty. Your thoughts are an evidence of synchronicity that helped me clarify my thoughts this morning. Integrating all these things is something I will now do.”

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 7, 2002

In the first half of May, I went through two remarkable changes. One was physical and the other involved emotional recall.

The physical one was what I thought was flu and a heavy dose of it. It was accompanied by a surreal shivering never experienced before or since. The recall was of a family I knew in my school days more than 20 years ago.

I imagined them not during the school years, when I knew them, but much earlier. I got images of all three children as handsome creatures having just come into this world. I saw the hospital, their home, and so forth. It was incredible.

The middle child, a boy, was in my year in secondary school, but only a passing acquaintance. We were mostly in different grades and subjects. I never met either of his sisters, though I knew who they were.

In mid-May, just as I came out of this experience, the boy reappeared in my life. I ran into him in a betting shop, mind you, not in the same town as our school days. We never approached each other. He is shy, and though I am not gregarious either, I saw no percentage in turning back the clock 20 years.

Like me, his face retains youth and a casual appearance at the expense of vocational and social progress. A likeness of his older sister passed me in the street in late May, and in late August I saw an uncanny resemblance of his younger sister in the city center.

What does it all mean? I’ve never crossed paths with anyone else from my school days. Have I inadvertently led them to the same level of weak-living mediocrity that I always fashioned for myself? Or is it vice versa? And why this nexus with them, of all the possibilities?

Elliot

Elliot, whenever we have an experience, like tripping over a curb, it is accompanied by thoughts and feelings. In the case of the curb, we might feel clumsy or embarrassed. Our thoughts and emotions are what the experience is all about.

We wouldn’t have known you feel unfulfilled if you hadn’t told us. That feeling is what your experience is about. You were unwell, so it was natural to think about your mortality, your purpose on the planet, and what you haven’t done.

Those feelings have been underlying your life, waiting for a moment to express themselves. You’ve stood in a line for 20 years, and the line isn’t moving. You’re being given a chance to acknowledge you don’t have to stand in that line.

The only people who don’t have a similar crisis are people doing what they know they should be doing with their lives. Those people understand what Thomas Traherne meant when he wrote, “Eternity was manifest in the light of day, and something infinite behind everything appeared.”

Wayne & Tamara

The Full Package

On Friday the 13th, my boyfriend said he only loved me 99 percent, and he wanted someone he could love 100 percent. He doesn’t know which 1 percent is missing.

However much I talk to him, he sticks to his guns. I’m not angry, just confused as to where he’s going to find another woman daft enough to give up everything for him, with the same hopes and ambitions, tastes and friendships.

Do you think he’ll come back to me when he feels the need for love and affection again?

Morgan

Morgan, sometimes 1 percent makes all the difference. A 1 percent difference in functional DNA is all that separates us from the chimpanzees. That tells you that 1 percent can be everything. One percent can be the difference between right and wrong.

Who wants a man who needs to be argued into staying? You want a man who knows you have the 1 percent which makes all the difference to him.

Wayne & Tamara

About The Author

Authors and columnists Wayne and Tamara Mitchell can be reached at www.WayneAndTamara.com.

Send letters to: Direct Answers, PO Box 964, Springfield, MO 65801 or email: DirectAnswers@WayneAndTamara.com.

We set out walking along a route where one foot walks on a sidewalk that is slowly accenting to higher levels, whilst the other foot walks on the road. We will get to a point where we have to make a choice. Do we raise ourselves up onto the side walk and continue to ascend, or do we keep both feet on the road, on the lower level?

If we stay on the road, we will keep in the gutter and when it rains heavily, we may get washed away. We also risk being hit by careless drivers.

If we decide to keep both feet on the sidewalk, we can walk in safety and watch all the wonderful scenery.

We cannot go though life in doubt of the truth, with one foot in one camp and another in a different camp. Life makes us make choices. The high path is one with safety and wonderment. The low road is thwart with many dangers, so why take risks?

Walk in peace and harmony on the high side of life via…….. the “curb of negativity” and keep your mind out of the…… “gutter press of sensationalism.”

There is solely; One Earth we all live on and One life in our physical finite identity…….. When we all live as One…..

We ALL prosper.

About The Author

Michael levy was born in Manchester, England on the 6th March 1945. After many life experiences and a successful business career he retired to Florida in 1992. In 1998 Michael established Point of Life, Inc., as a vehicle to project his philosophy and spiritual understanding. The website www.pointoflife.com and the associated newsletter (Point Of Life Global Newsletter) are visited and read by thousands of people around the world every month. Michael is a frequent speaker on radio, television(just a few examples UK; BBC, ITV4..USA; NBC, C-Span, ABC, Howard Stern Show) and he is now a host on Voice America.com radio. He also holds frequent seminars sharing and discusses his views about the purpose of life, finding the peace and enjoyment that lead to a healthy, stress-free life. In just a few years he has become a world renowned poet. In 2002 Michael was invited to become a member of the prestigious Templeton Speaker’s Bureau. Michael Levy is the author four books “What is the Point? “Minds of Blue Souls of Gold” “Enjoy Yourself - It’s Later Than You Think” and “Invest with a Genius.” Michael’s poetry and essays now grace many web sites, Journals and Magazines throughout the world.His philosophies have become a major source of Truth, Wisdom and Love for many people. Just one example from many…….. The Royal Collage of Psychiatry has recently published two of his works. He has recently become a host on the Point Of Life Show at Voice America.

E-mail: mikmikl@aol.com

I write and talk a lot about dreams. Primarily because I knowwe serve an awesome and amazing God, who gave us dreams for an awesome and amazing purpose. We all have a dream to do something great, go somewhere incredible, achieve the unachievable, beat the unbeatable or meet the “unmeetable.” Unfortunately, more often than not, most dreams remain unrealized; silenced by fear and doubt. What’s needed is a renaissance to recapture the spirit and belief we once had as children. We need to remind ourselves in all that we desire to be,have and do… “I can, if Ibelieve I can.”

My aim is toinspire as many people as possible to passionately pursue and do their dreams. Revitalize your dreams. Start today. Don’t just dream; dream BIG dreams! Put them in your heart, then put them on the wall, refrigerator, mirror … wherever you’ll see them often. Remind yourself you are more than worthy of everything your heart ever imagined. Believe, then diligently commit to a plan to achieve.

Resolve to live a life that ends the way you want it to; and don’t you dare, I say don’t you dare… die with your dreams still inside you.

Fran Briggs is the founder of The Fran Briggs Companies andis “a motivational speaker of the inspirational kind.” She isthe author of severalarticles, manuals and books including her latest, “Seedsfor Success.” This prominent voice of motivation speaks to audiences of children and adults of all ages and backgrounds with the aim of inspiring them to their respective levels of greatness. Fran can be contacted at Fran@franbriggs.com. Website: www.franbriggs.com

Sites will take extraordinary steps to get every possible page into Google to enhance their page rank. In the case of the Google cache, this tactic can sometimes come back to haunt sites, particularly sites selling products

Google Cache

Google copies everything it can get its dirty little spider robot on. Google stores these copies in a cache. The cache is simply a copy of all previous web pages for the link in question. If you search for something on Google, each result returned for the search has a “cached” button at the end of the link. Click the “cached” link and you will see previous copy of the page. Often, what you see is an older version of the page.

If you sell products on your site, do you really want Google copying old pages and making them available? Put another way, do you really want customers to see the old prices of the products you are selling? Many sites change prices or information during the year as a reflection of selling cycles, etc. If your prices are at their high point in September, do you want customers clicking the cache link and seeing lower prices listed from July? Probably not.

Don’t Get Cached!

Keeping Google and other search engines from copying your pages is fairly simple. It requires a bit of meta tagging, but nothing difficult. To stop the process, simply add the following meta tag to your site:

The robots for all search engines relying on meta tags should stop copying your site. Lately, YahooSlurp has been acting odd, so make sure you keep an eye on it after it crawls your site.

To get rid of pages that have already been copied, you should just contact the search engine in question. They will usually delete the copies, but they aren’t particularly quick.

Adding pages to Google, Yahoo, MSN and any other search engine should be a definite goal for every site. Before storming down that road, just make sure you understand the consequences of old pages appearing in the cache.

Halstatt Pires is a search engine optimization specialist with http://www.marketingtitan.com - an Internet marketing and advertising company in San Diego offering meta tag optimization services and link popularity services.

Nominated for 20 Emmys and 6 Golden Globes, including Best TV Series - Drama, CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) quickly rose to become the number one show on television following its Fall 2000 premiere. The brainchild of creator Anthony Zuiker, the show follows the investigations not of traditional TV detectives working the streets, but forensic scientists who unravel complicated crime mysteries in their ultra-modern laboratory. Either the #1 or the #2 Nielsen rated show since the start of its second season, CSI has helped CBS to reemerge as the #1 network television station, spawning (similar to predecessor Law & Order) two series spin-offs CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. Each exciting hour-long episode begins with the theme song “Who Are You” by The Who, a song more than befitting of a show where criminals are aggressively tracked down, sometimes years after committing their crimes…

CSI focuses on the Las Vegas Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigation nightshift unit headed by Gil Grissom (William Petersen), a quirky outsider whose obsessive quest for the facts and dedication to his work dominates his life. The CSI team is composed of a number of individuals with differing backgrounds and personalities - single mother Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) specializes in blood-splatter analysis, the highly competitive Nick Stokes (George Eads) specializes in hair and fiber analysis, recovering gambling addict Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) specializes in audio/visual analysis, and the rambunctious Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) specializes in materials and element analysis. Throw in hard-nosed homicide captain Jim Brass (Paul Guifoyle), CSI understudy Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), and lab coroner Al Robbins (Robert David Hall) and all the ingredients are present for a show wrought with suspense, drama, and tension. As transients from all walks of life travel to Las Vegas to enjoy the wonders of its adult playground, increased levels of crime accompany them, and the team at CSI is determined to stay a step ahead of the criminal element…

The CSI (Season 4) DVD features a number of dramatic episodes including the season premiere “Assume Nothing” in which the CSI team investigates a series of murders involving couples. When one couple meets another in a bar, and the second couple turns up dead, the police suspect a tandem of serial killers are on the loose… Other notable episodes from Season 4 include “Jackpot” in which a severed head is mailed to the CSI coroner, Dr. Robbins, from Jackpot, Nevada, and “Early Rollout” in which the CSI team investigates the execution-style murder of a porn star and her husband while the CSI also suffers from some internal difficulties…

Below is a list of episodes included on the CSI (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 70 (Assume Nothing) Air Date: 09-25-2003
Episode 71 (All for Our Country) Air Date: 10-02-2003
Episode 72 (Homebodies) Air Date: 10-09-2003
Episode 73 (Feeling the Heat) Air Date: 10-23-2003
Episode 74 (Fur and Loathing) Air Date: 10-30-2003
Episode 75 (Jackpot) Air Date: 11-06-2003
Episode 76 (Invisible Evidence) Air Date: 11-13-2003
Episode 77 (After the Show) Air Date: 11-20-2003
Episode 78 (Grissom Versus the Volcano) Air Date: 12-11-2003
Episode 79 (Coming of Rage) Air Date: 12-18-2003
Episode 80 (Eleven Angry Jurors) Air Date: 01-08-2004
Episode 81 (Butterflied) Air Date: 01-15-2004
Episode 82 (Suckered) Air Date: 02-05-2004
Episode 83 (Paper or Plastic) Air Date: 02-12-2004
Episode 84 (Early Rollout) Air Date: 02-19-2004
Episode 85 (Getting Off) Air Date: 02-26-2004
Episode 86 (XX) Air Date: 03-11-2004
Episode 87 (Bad to the Bone) Air Date: 04-01-2004
Episode 88 (Bad Words) Air Date: 04-15-2004
Episode 89 (Dead Ringer) Air Date: 04-29-2004
Episode 90 (Turn of the Screws) Air Date: 05-06-2004
Episode 91 (No More Bets) Air Date: 05-13-2004
Episode 92 (Bloodlines) Air Date: 05-20-2004

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the CSI (Season 4) DVD.

Can you protect your computer from all possible viruses and other invasions?

The quickest answer to this is “no.” It’s just flat impossible to protect your computer from all viruses, registry attacks, worms, spyware, malware, popups, and other such nasties.

That’s the bad news.

The good news is that you can clean up and protect your computer against almost all of these undesirable intruders.

The first thing you need to do is download a program called Mozilla Firefox. It’s a newer and better browser than anything offered by those guys in Seattle. For one thing, hackers have been concentrating their efforts on Microsoft products like Internet Explorer and MSN Explorer. This makes these browsers more likely to be attacked, whereas Firefox, at least as of this writing, seems more secure. And it does offer great popup protection.

Another thing you will like about Firefox is a feature called Tabs that lets you have numerous Web pages up at the same time with the ability to click back and forth between them. For example, you could have your favorite site, eBay’s home page, a phone number directory, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and your favorite blog all loaded at the same time … then just click amongst them as the moment moves you.

Here’s what you’ll really like about Firefox. It’s free from the Mozilla.org, which is a sort of consortium of public-minded software engineers who develop and distribute freeware (free software). Mozilla is also responsible for a great, free email program called Thunderbird.

Thunderbird is a fast and efficient way to get and send email and has great spam filters. I’ve personally been using it for more than a month and haven’t gotten a single piece of spam mail to date. Compare this with the stuff you get when you use other free email services such as MSN Hotmail.

Before you install either of these programs, you will want to rid your computer of any nasty software it has fallen victim to. A good way to do this is to download another great, free program, Ad-Aware SE from Lavasoft (Lavasoft.com). This program detects and eliminates objects such as a registry invasion. The Webopedia defines your registry file as “a database used by the Windows operating system (Windows 95 and NT) to store configuration information.” A registry invasion happens when a “free” program changes your registry to automatically load spyware or some undesirable program. For example, a Web site called I-Mesh allows you to download free programs, share files, and search for music and videos … but will alter your registry file to incorporate a service called GAIN (GAIN Publishing) that you may find very annoying.

Ad-Aware will also find and eliminate known data-mining programs, aggressive advertising, parasites, and scumware, as well as selected traditional trojans, dialers, malware, browser hijackers, and tracking components.

You can also find and eliminate spyware with a program called Spybot Search & Destroy. It’s available free at spybot.info/en/index.html. Install this program and then click on Search & Destroy and it will scan your hard drive in a matter of moments and then show you a list of “problems” it has found. It also tells you the type of problem, for example, “registry change.”

Once the scan completes, all you have to do is click on a button titled “Fix selected problems.” Spybot will first create a restore point (in case you delete something you wish you hadn’t) and then fix all the problems that are check marked (if there is any problem you do not want fixed for some reason, just remove the checkmark next to it).

Finally, there is a great anti-virus program you can also get free. It is AVG Free Anti-virus and is available at Grisoft.com. AVG will scan your hard disk, then report and eliminate any viruses found. In addition, it automatically downloads information on new viruses from time to time to help keep you protected. This automatic download service is free as well.

Have you heard about HD radio technology? It makes AM sound as good as FM and FM sound almost like you were listening to a CD … and its free! To learn more about this amazing new technology, just go my Web site, http://www.hd-radio-home.com, to get all the buzz. Douglas Hanna is a retired marketing executive and the author of numerous articles on HD radio and family finances.t .

A relatively new concept in the online world is “Virtual Real Estate Investing“. Everything from using the internet as an avenue to make more money in real estate to online games such as SecondLife seem to be included in the popular definition of this term.

To separate fact from fiction, I asked Bryan Ellis for comments. He’s the man many consider to be the father of this new form of investing.

“I began using the term ‘virtual real estate investing’ in the late 1990’s when I realized the clear similiarities in profit strategies, regardless of whether the “real estate” is “virtual” or “physical” said Ellis.

An example of the similar nature of “virtual” and “physical” real estate Bryan Ellis likes to point out is the methods of making a profit from domain names compared to physical real estate. He points out that control of a domain name or even a specific web page is much like controlling a real estate property ” those assets can be monetized in similar ways: By selling them for a profit, by leasing them, by offering advertising, etc.

The parallels really are obvious. Consider this: If you own a piece of real estate in a desirable neighborhood, your real estate has value because other people are interested in that location. Similarly, ownership of a desirable domain name is valuable for the same reasons. In either case, you could sell or lease the asset and turn it into cash.

In our next installment of this series on virtual real estate investing., Bryan Ellis will share the internet analogies to the physical concept of real estate development.

A representative payee is a third party Social Security pays your disability benefits to on your behalf. The representative payee is responsible for ensuring your bills for food, clothing, and shelter are paid on a monthly basis. Here is what you need to know about representative payees for Social Security.

A representative payee is intended to help individuals who are unable to manage their finances due to a disability. Social Security benefits are paid directly to this third party on behalf of the disabled individual. A representative payee can be almost anyone you choose: a spouse, family member, friend, or non-profit organization can all handle your Social Security benefits on your behalf. Your local Social Security office can appoint a representative payee for you if they feel you are unable to manage your finances for yourself. This causes problems for some disabled individuals that do not want a third party managing their money.

If you have a representative payee and want to become your own payee, there is only one way to do this. You must have a doctor that is familiar with your situation fax a letter to your local Social Security office stating that you are capable of managing the Social Security check for yourself and do not require a representative payee. Once the local Social Security office has this documentation from a doctor or psychologist, it takes about thirty days for the local office to process the payee change for you.

If you would simply like someone else to be your payee, that person needs to visit the local Social Security office with their identification and fill out the application to become your representative payee. To learn more about Social Security benefits visit the website “Social Security Laid Bare” using the links below.

Jack Burton specializes in helping people understand Social Security programs for Retirement, Medicare, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Disability Benefits. The website Social Security Laid Bare presents information on all of Social Security’s programs in an easy to read format, without technical jargon. For more information visit Social Security Laid Bare: http://www.socialsecuritylaidbare.com

My father died when I was nine. He left behind my mother and four children aged between seventeen years and nine and no money. Sure I missed him but at nine I didn’t really have much idea about death or loss. I know it sounds selfish but what I really missed was our old lifestyle. We had to move house because we lived in a company house and couldn’t stay there anymore. We had to give up our car because that was provided by the company too. All we could afford was a run down council house. It was small and cramped and didn’t have much in the way of fences so we felt we had neighbours right on top of us. This was all salt to the wound of our grief, all these niggly things that had now become our life. I don’t know why my father didn’t take out life insurance, all I know is that he didn’t and we bore the consequences of that decision for a long time.

It has made me wonder why so many people roll their eyes when the words ‘life insurance’ are uttered out loud. Sure I can understand not wanting to contemplate a scenario that would require you or your family to actually need it but that is no excuse for ignoring it altogether and not planning ahead. Imagine, just for a moment, your family’s life if the worst was to happen and you didn’t have life insurance?

The purpose of life insurance is to guarantee an income to your spouse and children if you were no longer able to contribute to their welfare like you do now. Think about it, if something were to happen to you, could your family afford to live in your current home? Would there be enough money to maintain their current lifestyle? Would the cost of a funeral become a burden? Would your spouse be able to support your family easily? Or would the stress and grief and financial burden of loosing you cause unendurable hardship for them?

Maybe you think that because you have saved and invested wisely and setup a solid foundation that despite missing you, your family would be OK financially. The reality is that it is unlikely. This is particularly true for families with young children. This is often a time where families are still struggling to become established and often debts are high, savings low, caring for children is costly and income may not be at its peak or perhaps one partner is out of the workforce to care for the children. Of course, it is this time when funds are often stretched that life insurance is most needed but often that very fact puts families off from the regular commitment of insurance premiums.

But the good news is that it makes you a good candidate for term life insurance because it is the most inexpensive form of life insurance around. The premiums for term life insurance are worked out based on your age and health and is usually purchased in terms of a specific number of years - 1, 5, 10, 20 or whatever period you would prefer. The upshot is that term life insurance has the highest coverage for the lowest premiums.

While term insurance is not ideal for older individuals as prices go up substantially with age, it is the a great solution for younger couples or families who have high debts including mortgages, life expenses and dependants. The insurance can cover you while your children grow and the mortgage is paid off. By the time the policy expires you will more than likely have invested, paid off your major debts and no longer have dependants.

So Who Needs to be Covered with a Life Insurance Policy? Given that insurance is really about income protection - providing funds when you can’t - you would normally cover whoever is contributing to the family finances. So first up, make sure the primary income earner is covered. If this income disappeared then you want to make sure the ongoing family needs are covered.

But don’t stop there. If your spouse looks after the children full-time and something were to happen to them, how would you fund childcare? Insurance could cover that additional cost. So if any secondary income is relied on to cover expenses either through income or an unpaid contribution then that person should also have an insurance policy.

Do you need to get life insurance for your children? Generally, this is only advised if you can’t afford funeral expenses (generally about $5000). Otherwise, there is no reason for children to be insured as they do not contribute to the family income.

Having life insurance not only gives you peace of mind knowing your family will be taken care of after you or your spouse has gone, it may well be one of the best financial decisions your family could make.

Specialist term life insurance advice is crucial for anyone contemplating taking out a life insurance policy. Get the information you need so that you can be confident you are choosing the right policy for you and your family. Get the latest Life Insurance Policy information.