Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby's Total Health Newsletter #32. Week ending Jan 3rd, 2010
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1. That Magical Feeling Of Love
2. Need Help? Commit A Crime And Go To Jail
3. Technology, Where Will It End?
4. More Uses For Pomegranate (MRSA breakthrough)
5. More On That Pasteur And Rabies Article I Wrote
6. What's In A Word?

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This Week's Quote:

"Try to give genuine smiles to all--friends, family, strangers alike. Half the secret of youthfulness lies in that. If you have a contagious smile that wells up from your true inner being, you are youthful."

- Paramahamsa Yogananda

And when you're done reading this week's Letter From Serendipity,
better make SURE you read this all the way through!

If that gives you a thirst for the new knowledge, try this too Bankers vs. The People

1. That Magical Feeling Of Love

What is love? One of the oldest questions in the philosopher's repertoire.

Yet it's not a pointless question: to love and be loved has been shown over and over to impart significant health benefits. Married couples live longer, on average, than non-married. Those who are divorced fall somewhere in between; so truly, the old adage is correct "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"!

Those of you who have read my book "Virtual Medicine" will know I accept the scientific evidence that we exist as a Hertzian energy field. It's real; it can be measured with sensitive magnetometers up to 15 feet away from the body.

I suppose at least one aspect of "love" is concordance, harmony and resonance with this field, shared between two people. It's hard to imagine loving someone if their "vibes" are wrong, meaning you will get dissonnance instead of harmony. That's just plain old fashioned physics!

But there is something else, surely? We are, I believe, a being which is not bound by the laws of physics: the spirit or soul has no wavelength, no mass, no space, no location in space and time. It's those properties, or rather lack of properties, that makes the spirit what it is: immanent, immaterial and non-locational. It is vast and encompassing, far beyond the confines of a body.

What does love mean at this level?

Love, as spirit, is not something you HAVE or that you DO; love is something you ARE. You BECOME love. It is our nature. To exist we need to love. We are alive, conscious and sentient to the degree that we can experience love.

Feeling and manifesting love exudes very palbable energies, even if love is not exactly those energies. You can feel it round someone in love.

In the years between my first and second marriages there were encounters with women so vivid and so charged with love, that people would walk up to us on the beach or in a restaurant and actually take the trouble to say to us they could "feel" our love from several hundred feet away!*

I felt humble and realized I was learning something about love, even after I had lost it. Thought and postulation can manifest as something real in the material universe. Love is not time, space or energy but can influence these to a great degree.

So love has some kind of field effect. In Christopher Bird and Peter Tomkins' wonderful book "The Secret Life Of Plants" there is a wonderful story (chapter 2, I seem to remember) of a man who rigged his house plants to a galvanometer (like a lie detector) and found that whenever he and his girlfriend made love in the forest, 80 miles away, the plants all reacted at the precise moment of orgasm.

Careful timing proved this to be true,

People quote stories like this in hushed awe of plants and their powers. But I say what does this tell us about ourselves, our powers, that we can spread our energy and emotions up to 80 miles into the surrounding environment? Surely we are blessed.

Love is the most intense and spiritual state to be in. That's why temples in India are covered in what we would call obscene postures but they considered to be divine moments of sexual thrill. Let's have an end of dirty, limited thinking and embrace our sexuality as we do our artistic creativity.

[*One of the loves I referred to was a Japanese/Indian dancing beauty called Shakti. Her appearance in my life was like a flash of light when the flame of love had burned low. When we were together in a restaurant everyone slowed down eating or stopped and watched us!

Here is her website: shakti dancer I wanted to marry her but she insisted it be kept secret, because of her career as the sensual (presumably "available") woman. I didn't like that and in the end it sank our affair. That was my lucky break, because I got to marry Vivien instead, who is a far more loving woman, with a heart of gold, the gentleness of silver bells and a smile of pure starlight!]

2. Need Help? Commit A Crime And Go To Jail!

That's where all the doctors are. Apparently many doctors in the US are switching to correctional care medicine. Well, they are comfortable with criminals like the state boards, the FDA and the Pharma trade; why not join real life murderers and crooks too! Nobody inside, even on death row, could even come close to the antics of the board of Merck for serial killing with Vioxx.

Lies and deliberate deception, designed to foist their dangerous product on the unsuspecting public. They were guilty of deliberate and premeditated killing. Why aren't they in jail too?

How is it that when a holistic physician administers IV peroxide and the patient dies, the charge is murder, even though the patient clearly died of their cancer; yet when orthodox doctors kill with dangerous medication, incompetence and errors, they are judged above the law?

One thing I know for sure: if all orthodox doctors who killed with blunders (most of them) went to jail, there would hardly be any practising physicians left to prescribe pharmaceutical junk. So they are protected, of course. Mustn't tread on the money hose, eh?

Here's the story I found:

http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/23/news/economy/healthcare_doctors_in_prison/index.htm

3. Technology, Where Will It End?

Is there such as concept as the end of technology? Probably not. But it's getting scary, where we are headed.

On the face of it, each new technological breakthrough means to achieve more and live better. But does it?

My latest encounter is with the "dongle", the little cell phone device (see image) that plugs into your laptop computer and enables you to dial in and get online, no matter where you are (known technically as a USB modem). This is not the same as so-called "hot spots" in certain coffee boutiques. This is just like a cell phone, it dials in from anywhere it can see a cell phone tower and you log in. Unlike hot spots, you can move around and still stay within range.

Things have now reached the stage where you can drive your car along the freeway, logged on to skype (which is free), and talk to someone in Africa, New Zealand or India, most places in the world, as you drive (hands-free, of course!)

It's both empowering and leads to concerns about stress. There is only so much a brain can do in a day, only so many stimuli before fatigue sets in, only so much communication before you overload.

We need to ration our exposure, until the physiology of technology gets clearer. We just don't know what the long-term effects are (I'm not talking about radiation exposure here but psychological stress).

I recommend you create deliberate down time. Do not answer your cell phone after certain hours. Do not answer emails, except at certain hours of the day, otherwise you'll be smothered. I now get over 100 emails a day, sometimes more. It's exhausting and difficult to keep up. Yet people assume you are disrespectful if you don't answer.

What is a person to do? I'm not a technophobe but I remain cautious about giving up my life to all these gadgets and toys.

4. More Uses For Pomegranate (a MRSA breakthrough)

Those of you who bought my eBook "How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics" will know the power of plant antioxidants and specific plants in conquering infections (if you don't have the epoch-standard eBook, it's time you bought it).

In a series of experiments, the team at Kingston University in London found that the infection-fighting power of pomegranate rind was boosted by combining it with vitamin C and metal salts and this combo could even overcome infections caused by highly dangerous methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.

The researchers developed a topical ointment that can successfully attack a range of drug-resistant pathogens. It is a good example of combination therapy, which prevents organisms from developing resistance as easily as happens with just one compound, such as a drug.

Their tests showed that pomegranate rind plus metal salts, such as copper sulfate, was the most effective combination for treating MRSA, while adding vitamin C to those two components was most effective against other common hospital infections.

The findings were recently published in two journals: British Journal of Biomedical Science and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

So a good case for pomegranate rind in the medicine cabinet. Note, however, this is not related to the well-established health benefits of pomegranate juice. The rind (pericarp) contains very different chemical compounds to those found in juice.

5. More On That Rabies And Pasteur Article I Wrote

There was a bit of a stir a few weeks ago when I chose to defend Louis Pasteur against ignorant attacks from "holistic" health bigots. There is no question Pasteur's vaccination against rabies works and has saved many from a truly horrible death.

Now an interesting new study has shown something rather remarkable: the rabies vaccine seems to protect against monkey AIDS (SIV or simian immune deficiency virus). It triggers neutralizing antibodies and a strong T-cell response.

Big surprise!

The vaccine didn't entirely block the infection, but showed it can protect against disease. The antibody activity against the virus was significant. What's more, it only took two shots (two immunizations). Could this be the start of a real breakthrough against AIDS?

The study is published in the current issue of the journal Vaccine.

SOURCE: Thomas Jefferson University, news release, Dec. 14, 2009

6. What's In A Word?

Decorum.

Means rightness and propriety; correctness in behavior; good taste. It can be used in the plural: the decorums of polite society. It's a pity we hardly ever hear this word any more, singular or plural.

It surfaces in an old Latin saying by Roman lyrical poet Horace: dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori. This translates as "It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country." Wilfred Owen, the World War I poet, described this as the "old lie". He saw enough sweet young bodies torn to tatters with high explosives not to swallow the platitudes of an earlier generation.

The line has been a commonplace in modern times throughout Europe. It was quoted by Simon Fraser, the 11th Lord Lovat immediately before his beheading on Tower Hill, London in 1747. Lovat was part of the Scottish Roman Catholic uprising against the Protestants in 1745, which is still glamourized as Scots vs. English, though most of the troops that fought against Bonnie Prince Charlie were in fact fellow Scots. They didn't want to go back to Catholic religious burnings.

Coincidentally, a scaffold for spectators viewing the beheading of Lovat collapsed, leaving 20 dead! Some irony, what?

So, that's all for this week!

Be well; find the sacred in all you do, otherwise don't do it!

Prof.

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