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		<title>DIY Shed Plans, Car Financing Calculator, Los Angeles Web Design</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Car Financing Calculator</b><br />Car loan calculators only supply you quotes of the monthly car repayments. With there being additional variable factors that have an effect on your car loan repayments such as your age, career, money making capacity, credit score and also other mortgage loans taken from banking institutions. Car loan calculators cannot look at every one of these varied factors. The brighter aspect of a web based <a href="http://www.needcarcredit.com/payment-calculator">car financing calculator</a> is that they supply you with speedier car loan package quotes as well as evaluations between preferred car loan suppliers. It will save you considerable amount of time as well as effort and you don&#8217;t need to pursue auto loan brokers constantly. Merely a simple google search can supply you a number of totally free car loans estimates after which you will discover estimated car loan repayments using a dependable regular monthly vehicle repayment calculator online. </p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.woodworkingplansntips.com/shedplans/diy-shed-plans">DIY Shed Plans</a> Made Easy</b><br />The economic instability in the recent years US has caused many citizens to slow down on their service purchases. To reduce expenses, a lot of people choose to accomplish home projects on their own rather than hiring a professional. One can easily use the internet to search for construction procedures and among the most searched nowadays are shed plans and some related facts such as if the shed can hold lawn equipments, guns and ammunition, and more. </p>
<p><b>Professional <a href="http://virtualclick.com/identity-design/web-design">Los Angeles Web Design</a></b><br />Los Angeles web design experts play a very important role in creating an attractive and proficient website for many businesses these days. Because internet has become a part of almost every consumer?s daily life, they expect the businesses they patronize to have an official website. In fact, online communication, research, and even shopping has been used more and more by a lot of consumers meaning companies with websites definitely have an edge when it comes to promoting and growing their business. For a more effective website, the ease of navigation, customer information security, and presence of FAQs page should be taken into consideration. Last but not the least, customer satisfaction should be guaranteed by having usable and valuable contents.</p>
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		<title>What a Large Amount of Companies no Longer Have</title>
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A current investigation demonstrates business tools which might be largely vanishing the current year. Looks like the Mains Fed Water Coolers are grabbing the place belonging to the time-honored plastic bottle kinds.
Here are several other gadgets which have been speedily turning out to be out of date inside the office as an outcome swapped by [...]]]></description>
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A current investigation demonstrates business tools which might be largely vanishing the current year. Looks like the <a href="http://www.mains-fedwatercoolers.co.uk/">Mains Fed Water Coolers</a> are grabbing the place belonging to the time-honored plastic bottle kinds.</p>
<p>Here are several other gadgets which have been speedily turning out to be out of date inside the office as an outcome swapped by others: </p>
<p>- USB Hard Drives &#8211; they&#8217;re swapped by online document storage in addition to information streaming<br />
- Compact Discs &#8211; virtually vanished in every forward-looking desktop as these ended up being primarily swapped by USB Hard Drives<br />
- Chunky Calculator &#8211; swapped by Smartphone&#8217;s features<br />
- Desktop Phones &#8211; the lot is mostly pulled off by the mobile phone lately<br />
- Shredder &#8211; seldom used as not as much paper is being utilised in workspaces on account of their attention about being a lot more eco-friendly<br />
- Rubbish paper baskets &#8211; getting environmental as we pointed out beforehand &#8211; places of work at this moment extend recycle bins and so the time-honored trash bins are removed<br />
- The horrible desktop PC&#8217;s &#8211; these heavy, massive pieces of equipment are witnessed less and less concealed underneath the computer desk or maybe taking too much space on it &#8211; the novel laptop computers and cloud networks appear a lot better along with are extremely helpful.<br />
- Diaries &#8211; they currently are traded in as a result of the abilities within the Smartphone&#8217;s and also laptop computer systems<br />
- Rolodexes &#8211; an added fatality of the Modern cell phone<br />
- And evidently &#8211; the plastic bottle H2O office coolers &#8211; making available an boundless quantity of chilled or possibly warmed H2O, the mains fed water cooler have grasped their station as they are surely a lot more efficient as well as save tons of funds for the company</p>
<p>You plus your associates in all probability have a lot of gear still enduring in your desktop that you no longer use. Take a peek and think about all that has grown to be vanished.</p>
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		<title>Using Music for Meditation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In meditation we are trying to quieten the mind. If we can stop the usual thoughts of the mind we can go from our ordinary, mundane consciousness to a more peaceful state. Meditation music can play an important role in helping to calm the mind and enable us to go to a quieter space. Most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In meditation we are trying to quieten the mind. If we can stop the usual thoughts of the mind we can go from our ordinary, mundane consciousness to a more peaceful state. Meditation music can play an important role in helping to calm the mind and enable us to go to a quieter space. Most beginners to meditation feel that it is almost impossible to stop our own thoughts. (Not for nothing has our mind been likened to a mad monkey!) However it is possible through practise, right preparation and various different techniques that will help us.</p>
<p>A particularly useful exercise is to harmonise our breathing; by focusing on our own breathing it enables us to quieten the mind. However there are times when our mind is still very restless; perhaps because of a busy day or a weight of problems. This is where music can be very helpful to our meditation.</p>
<p>Firstly meditative music can help to drown out any extraneous noises that can easily disturb us. We should not feel we have to go to a Himalayan cave to meditate, we can meditate even in the midst of a busy city, yet unfortunately modern life can be noisy. This is beyond our control but meditative music is one thing we can use to overcome this potential problem.</p>
<p>Secondly music can have a big effect on our emotions and state of mind. Obviously for meditation we need to choose music which is composed and performed in a meditative fashion. Rock music is good for energising ourselves, but hopeless for meditation. However the right meditation music will raise our aspirations from the mundane and make ourselves more receptive to the inner poise and peace within. Sri Chinmoy says:</p>
<p>&#8220;Each time we hear soulful music, we get inspiration and delight. In the twinkling of an eye, music can elevate our consciousness.&#8221;</p>
<p>When meditating to music there are two approaches we can take. The first is to concentrate intensely on the music listening to each note. This is effective because it takes us out of ourselves and gives us something to focus on. However we should make sure we are concentrating with our heart and not the mind. What we mean by this is that we do not listen to music with our intellectual mind to examine and listen for wrong notes. We are merely focusing our a aware and allow ourselves to be absorbed in the meditative flow.The second way of meditating music is to not pay any attention specifically to the music but just feel it as inspiring background music.</p>
<p>There will come a time in our meditation when we wish to meditate in absolute silence and we will not have any need for music. However especially when we are beginners music can be a very useful tool that helps us in our meditation.</p>
<p>It is interesting that many of the great music composers often had experiences that could be described as similar to meditation, even though they did not consciously aim for it. For example when Handel composed the Hallelujah Chorus he stated that.</p>
<p>&#8220;Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it, I know not. God knows.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Richard is an economics teacher in Oxford and is a member of the  Sri Chinmoy Centre. Richard is a keen cyclist competing in races across the UK he also edits a site about the music of Sri Chinmoy</p>
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		<title>Subconscious</title>
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We have been taught that it is a dark place that keeps deep dark
secrets about ourselves that could destroy our peace of mind at the
very least, and our lives at the very worst.  And quite possibly it does.
But, that is not its only function.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The subconscious is a scarey thing to comtemplate for some people.<br />
We have been taught that it is a dark place that keeps deep dark<br />
secrets about ourselves that could destroy our peace of mind at the<br />
very least, and our lives at the very worst.  And quite possibly it does.<br />
But, that is not its only function.</p>
<p>I think of it as a vast library full of books that has all my memories in it.  It is not a dark place at all.  There are bright pleasant lights, beautiful carpets and comfortable armchairs<br />
there.  I enjoy to my visits!  Yes, I know there are some books that have<br />
unpleasant memories and maybe some that have dark secrets, but I<br />
know that when I visit there I am in control of what books are opened<br />
and read.  I know it is my choice and so my visits are comfortable and<br />
relaxed.  Sometimes when I go there I ask for specific memories.  A<br />
couple months ago I was trying to recall the name of a town.  I had been<br />
there are several occasions and I had sent mail to a relative that<br />
lived there.  But I just couldn&#8217;t recall the name of that town!  The only<br />
thing that came to mind was the word wood and I knew there was more<br />
to it than that.  So, I went into my library(the subconscious) and talked<br />
to the librarian there.  I calmed my breatheing, stilled my mind and<br />
relaxed my body.  Then I told her that the name of that town was stored<br />
there and I reminded her that I had been there and seen the name and<br />
I had written the name myself.  I pictured the town in my mind and then<br />
I asked that it be given to my conscious mind.  A few minutes later I<br />
found myself thinking of trees and so I thought maybe that was a clue.<br />
So, I started thinking about different kinds of trees and a second later<br />
the name of that town popped into my head; Birchwood.</p>
<p>The subconscious does intrude itself on our conscious lives and it takes<br />
control to make it behave the way we wish it to.  If we allow it to run<br />
rampant it does have the ability to hurt us.  But, we need the sub-<br />
conscious to remain healthy in our body, mind and soul.  The thing to do<br />
is to train the subconscious.  Train it to work with us and not against<br />
us.  The reason it works against us is because of the things it has<br />
already been told.  For those of us with low self esteem, the sub-<br />
conscious tells us the things we have always thought about ourselves.<br />
When we go there and tell the subconscious the truth about ourselves<br />
it will reprogram itself to believe the new things we are saying and will<br />
tell us those things which in turn will build self esteem.</p>
<p>Set apart some of each day to spend with your subconscious mind.<br />
First thing in the morning is a good time.  Tell it what you want to hear<br />
from it throughout the day and gradually you will replace the bad<br />
messages with good ones.  As you develope this healthy approach, I<br />
believe that even the deep dark bad secrets it keeps won&#8217;t have the<br />
effect on you that they have in the past.  It is all a matter of<br />
perspective after all!</p>
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different ways of thinking.  It is important to me to think outside the<br />
box or the matrix if you will!  I do not believe and accept everything I<br />
see, read, or hear.  Some things I have found to be truths for my own<br />
life and those things I pass on to you.  My maxims are &#8220;think for<br />
yourself&#8221; and &#8220;listen to your whole self, body, mind and soul!&#8221;  I have<br />
found that if I do those two things I am always happy!  The goal of my<br />
web site is to supply those of you that have made the choice to go<br />
natural with quality products!</p>
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		<title>Dialogue on Astrology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been the noble profession of philosophers, social critics, and general thinkers to explain an idea using a story or a tale.  By using characters, or dialogue, a writer can explain their thoughts, dreams, or ideals.  On the contrary, though, many have used fictional stories as a method of propaganda, to spread [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It has been the noble profession of philosophers, social critics, and general thinkers to explain an idea using a story or a tale.  By using characters, or dialogue, a writer can explain their thoughts, dreams, or ideals.  On the contrary, though, many have used fictional stories as a method of propaganda, to spread lies to the general public, that the ruling class is considered more trustworthy.  Few would be able to wholly understand all the suffering and pain caused by the governments of the world.  And only few would be able to believe it.  The greatest cause of failure to achieve justice and peace in our world today, is that the common people are convinced of the lies of the media, the police, the government, and the big corporations.  However, I am digressing from the purpose of this article&#8230;  Here, I will attempt to draw some arguments out that I have against the idea of astrology.  I hope it is as enjoyable as it is enlightening&#8230;</p>
<p>Argon:  It is because of the distress that our class of men, known as astrologers, has been receiving, that I call this meeting.  The faith has been called into question by the men of this modern world.  We must now decide how we shall survive.</p>
<p>Texca:  But there is another important matter of inquiry.</p>
<p>Argon:  Yes?</p>
<p>Texca:  Can Astrology truly be used as an accurate method for predicting the future or discovering the past?</p>
<p>Argon:  I will say what I once told my apprentice&#8230;  If you can convince people that you are predicting the future or discovering their past, then you are doing it.  The physical universe is cold and inanimate.  What is true objectively is non-existant.  If you can tell someone what you discover, through cards or books, and they respond positively, then your powers must be true.  That is the only way that I can see it.</p>
<p>Larkaz:  As far as the recent skepticism of doubters, it must be met virulently.  We have made a thousand predictions.  Fortunately, the media has taken it to publicize the thirty or so that have come true.  It brings a sort of reliability to our profession.</p>
<p>Argon:  When we give personal readings, we must tell them something that they can connect with.</p>
<p>Texca:  Horrid vagueness is perhaps the best tactic at our disposal.</p>
<p>Opal:  Well, what is it, more specfically, that we can tell people, so they are convinced that we know the truth?</p>
<p>Argon:  We must ask ourselves: what are the things that commonly go on in the lives of people?</p>
<p>Larkaz:  Conflict.</p>
<p>Texca:  Money.</p>
<p>Opal:  Love.</p>
<p>Argon:  In what way can we give a prediction in any of these areas, so they are believed?</p>
<p>Opal:  We can say that something will happen today, or in the coming week, or weeks, involving something in regard to conflict, money, or love.</p>
<p>Larkaz:  For conflict, we can say that the person will have a betrayal of some sort, or that they will be given the opportunity to break one of their commitments.  It is impossible for two friends to coexist without one of them saying or acting negatively towards the other, even if it is in the least.  And being given the opportunity to break a commitments could be anything.  If you are committed to a lover, it is not hard to find others whom interest you, and if you are committed to a friend, it may be tempting to profit from their loss.  By seeing these opportunities, which had existed all along, they are seeing the truth of our statements.</p>
<p>Texca:  As far as money goes, we can say a multitude of things.  Either an opportunity for person or business investment looms ahead, or at this present time, money may be more tight than usual, or more abundant than usual.  At the first sign of an expensive cost, they will see the truth of the statement that money is tight, and at the first sign of incoming wealth, even if it is a common, routine employment check, they will see the truth of the statement that money is abundant.  As far as business investments go, they can see anything as a business investment, whether they are simply buying some product in a store, or they are loaning money to a friend, things which are hardly uncommon, they are seeing the validity of supernatural prediction.</p>
<p>Opal:  For love, we can say that an old romance may come back in to their lives, or they will be meet someone new who will have a lasting impact on their lives.  Both of these things are common.  For instance, how many old romances do each of us have?  Countless.  And even just a chance meeting with one, or a phone call, or even someone mentioning them, or just even the thought of one, will be enough for a person to think, &#8220;Yes, I had an old romance come back into my life briefly.&#8221;  When it comes to meeting someone new who will have a lasting impact on their lives, that is perhaps the most vague of them all, but most enticing.  If someone can give them a light for their cigarette, and they forever remember that incident, they may very well confide in themselves, &#8220;Yes, it is true that this person had a lasting impact on my life.&#8221;</p>
<p>Argon:  As I said, vagueness is our tactic, but coupled with interpretation, we become unstoppable.  &#8220;A commitment,&#8221; or &#8220;a business opportunity,&#8221; or &#8220;meeting someone new,&#8221; &#8212; these are all horribly vague words, but we must tell people to interpret them in their own regard.  A friend of mine predicted that a woman would become pregnant in two months.  When she explained that she had a hystorectomy and could not bear children, he covered his mistake by saying, &#8220;You will have an addition to your life, either a pet or a friend will become part of your household.  Interpret it as you have to.&#8221;</p>
<p>Texca:  How is that vague, though?  I mean, if you say, &#8220;You will have a business opportunity in two weeks,&#8221; how is that vague?</p>
<p>Argon:  Well, compare it with something specific.  If we were giving out helpful readings, we would say something like, &#8220;You know that guy John?  He&#8217;s going to come to you Tuesday, at six o&#8217;clock, and he&#8217;s going to ask to borrow two hundred dollars.  If you let him borrow this money, don&#8217;t expect to see it again for three weeks.  He&#8217;s going to spend it on a drug binge, but he&#8217;ll get you back once he cleans up.&#8221;  See, if we said something like that, maybe we could be accurately described as real predicters.  But go on and try to say something like that to someone, and they&#8217;ll say you&#8217;re crazy, because nothing you say has anything to do with their lives.  Or maybe they&#8217;ll be so stupid, they&#8217;ll think, &#8220;Oh, by John, he meant Bert, and by drug binge, he meant television set, and by two hundred dollars, he meant fifty dollars, and by three weeks, he meant one weekend.&#8221;  Remember, vagueness and interpretation.</p>
<p>Larkaz:  We can spread our ability to predict through various facets.  Astrology.  We can have newspapers publish our predictions for people, based on the time of the month they were born.  We can always throw in some psuedo-science, by saying some astrological bodies or whatever have gravity on you more during those times &#8212; despite the fact that they have the same pull on everyone else, too.  There&#8217;s also Tarot Card readings.  Based on a card, we can make some vague prediction and suggest the listener to use interpretation when hearing it.</p>
<p>Opal:  But it doesn&#8217;t seem like we&#8217;re offering much help by this method at all.</p>
<p>Argon:  What do you mean?  We&#8217;re telling them the truth.  Once they hear it, they look for.  They look for things that happen everyday, every hour, and they&#8217;re going to see it.  Once they have prove that our prediction is true, they&#8217;ll come back &#8212; and so will their money.</p>
<p>Opal:  For all the value we actually give, we may as well say, &#8220;This is life.  Things happen.  Sometimes you&#8217;ll have conflict problems, looming money disputes, or possible love affairs.  These happen every day, sometimes every hour.  Good luck.&#8221;  After all, that is what we really are saying.</p>
<p>Texca:  We&#8217;re not saying that.  We don&#8217;t say, &#8220;You&#8217;ll have conflict problems.&#8221;  We say, &#8220;In a week and a half, you&#8217;ll have to choose the loyalty of an old friend or a new lover.  Choose wisely.&#8221;  We don&#8217;t say, &#8220;You&#8217;ll have money disputes.&#8221;  We say, &#8220;Someone you barely know will come to you for money.  Choose wisely.&#8221;  We don&#8217;t say, &#8220;You&#8217;ll have possible love affairs.&#8221;  We say, &#8220;Next month, you&#8217;ll light up a romance with a beautiful, attractive lover.  Be careful.  If you are not assertive, they may try to take advantage of you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Opal:  So, we are basically rephrasing the plain, dull truth, to make it look attractive, so we can fill our pockets?</p>
<p>Texca:  We are telling people what they need to hear.</p>
<p>Argon:  If we didn&#8217;t tell someone that a business investment was coming up, they might miss out on a great opportunity.</p>
<p>Opal:  How can we help?  We don&#8217;t actually know if it is a good deal.  We don&#8217;t know if they will get ripped off.  And hell, saying &#8220;choose wisely&#8221; won&#8217;t help them a damn bit.</p>
<p>Argon:  But we do know one truth.  We know that this is life, and things happen.</p>
<p>Opal:  If that&#8217;s all we know, then we know no more than the person we are predicting the future to.</p>
<p>Texca:  That seems like an accurate approximation.</p>
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<p>Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been writing essays and poetry on social issues which have caught his attention for several years. His website <a href="http://www.punkerslut.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.punkerslut.com</a> provides a complete list of all of these writings. His life experience includes homelessness, squating in New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, getting expelled from college for &#8220;subversive activities,&#8221; and a myriad of other revolutionary actions.</p>
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		<title>How Can Better Breathing Banish Stress?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One form of natural stress relief is meditation techniques, which often involves the use of specific breathing techniques.  This stress relief technique helps calm the mind and create an overall sense of peace and relaxation.</p>
<p>Meditation doesn&#8217;t need to have a spiritual or religious agenda.  To be more precise, it is a natural treatment for stress and anxiety that is accomplished by getting the mind, body, and spirit in balance.</p>
<p>To achieve this, a person using meditation as a form of natural stress relief should first find a quiet place.  There are no strict rules regarding body positioning when meditating, but many people who use meditation as natural stress relief use the lotus position. Which is sitting with the legs crossed while keeping the back straight and the shoulders level.  No matter what position chosen when using meditation for natural stress relief, it is best to keep the spine straight throughout the meditation process.  This encourages circulation and makes it easier to breathe in the deep, slow fashion that is often necessary for meditation.</p>
<p>After finding a quiet place to perform meditation, and after assuming a position that is comfortable, it is time to begin this process of natural stress relief.  Some people prefer to remain quiet while meditating.  Still others close their eyes and hum or make other repetitive noises to help clear their minds and to block out thoughts and outside noises.</p>
<p>Many prefer to use specific breathing techniques and specific thoughts in order to reach a meditative and relaxed state.  One method is to focus on each individual part of the body. Give your self permission to relax until your entire body is relaxed.  At the same time, this method calls for taking a few deep breaths.  After these initial breaths, subsequent breaths should be inhaled to the count of four, and then exhaled to the count of eight.</p>
<p>There is no limit to the number of times meditation can be used. This natural stress relief technique can be used as often as necessary and for as long as needed because it does not have the negative side effects of medication.  In fact, it is possible to gain relief from stress and anxiety with just a one-minute session of meditation, though 20-30 minutes of meditation is most common.</p>
<p>Many studies have been performed on the use of meditation as a form of natural stress relief.  These studies have shown that meditation does, indeed, lower the biochemical byproducts of stress.  Meditation has also been proven to reduce blood pressure and heart rate, as well as increase favorable brain waves.  This is unlike many stress-relieving medications, which may temporarily reduce feelings of stress, but can cause long-term harm to the body.</p>
<p>Studies at the Mind-Body Medical Institute, which is affiliated with Harvard and several other Boston hospitals, has found that meditation causes several biochemical and physical changes associated with relaxation, including changes in heart rate, metabolism, blood pressure, respiration, and brain chemistry.</p>
<p>With all of the positive research surrounding meditation and relaxation breathing techniques, it is easy to see why thousands of people use the techniques every day to relieve stress and improve living.</p>
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		<title>On Stephen Hawking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was introduced to the theories and the work of Stephen Hawking about three years ago, in high school. At the time I was an eager student, and had a very interesting form of &#8216;attraction&#8217; torwards the sciences like physics, mathematics, and astronomy. I kept hearing the words &#8216;black hole&#8217; on television, social conversations, among [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was introduced to the theories and the work of Stephen Hawking about three years ago, in high school. At the time I was an eager student, and had a very interesting form of &#8216;attraction&#8217; torwards the sciences like physics, mathematics, and astronomy. I kept hearing the words &#8216;black hole&#8217; on television, social conversations, among friends and family, and literally everywhere I was around. People said that it was an early stage of this new branch of astronomy, and scientists were still going with small steps torwards the truth about black holes.</p>
<p>Stephen Hawking contributed a lot with his theories about the black holes of our Universe. Besides being a genius with a lot of courage and determination (no to mention his huge disabilities), he was a thinker, a logical hybrid of science and philosophy. There is something about Stephen Hawking that trespasses normality and randomness. Not only he proved wrong Albert Einstein, but his simple formed and yet enigmatic questions like &#8216;Does God play dice?&#8217;, mentioning an understatement about black holes, have such deeply indirect answers like &#8216;God sometimes throws dice where they can&#8217;t be seen&#8217;, which is truly indifferent at religion, as it is to science, but have a deep meaning.</p>
<p>What I like and respect most about him is the amazing energy and willingness to go forward on great matters; when people probably would prefer to die rather than even live, not to do scientific discoveries and study the Universe in a physical state of being where you can&#8217;t even have the energy to speak yourself.  I come to think that even if he made considerable mistakes, the amazing turn up he caused to our scientific discoveries and the way he showed how fare the human mind can go alone, make him mathematically and logically a great contributor, not only to today&#8217;s science and technology, but also to our human society.</p>
<p>There is nothing more than respect, gratitude, and admiration for that physically impaired man with a great desire for more and determination.  Lastly, the Universe should have had a beginning. If not, then I hope that it never has an ending. Who knows&#8230; If time is not real and does not come to an end, another Stephen Hawking will come along and find out.</p>
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		<title>Energy Enhancement Meditation and the Hercules Labour of the Augean Stables</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Twelve Labours Of Hercules Or Heracles Symbolises That Which Is Neccessary On The Path Of Enlightenment
This technique of Energy Circulation and Grounding is referred to in the 12 Labours of Hercules. Ancient teachings taught now in many different cultures, here in the form of  a mythical story, thousands of years old,  which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Twelve Labours Of Hercules Or Heracles Symbolises That Which Is Neccessary On The Path Of Enlightenment</p>
<p>This technique of Energy Circulation and Grounding is referred to in the 12 Labours of Hercules. Ancient teachings taught now in many different cultures, here in the form of  a mythical story, thousands of years old,  which enable &#8220;The Son (Hercules) of God (Zeus or Deus)&#8221; to get married to the daughter of the king of the underworld. To integrate the Crown Chakra with the Base Chakra or how to become enlightened.</p>
<p>All ancient myths refer to hidden levels of meditation.</p>
<p>Throughout history, simple stories and symbols containing many levels of psychological meaning have usually not been destroyed by the prevalent Religion as have been the competing religions temples and texts. In particular The Herculean Labour of the cleaning of the Augean stables refers to the cleaning of the Base Chakra with a River of Energy.</p>
<p>The Fifth labour of Hercules.</p>
<p>In the past, psychologists have only worked on one painful experience at a time by providing a meaningful theory by Freud or Jung and then examining the problem. Through understanding the problem, it is released and the client adjusted back into society in his proper place. He may still be neurotic because only one problem has been solved.</p>
<p>The same with ancient lives. We may travel back to, see and fix one life problem in one of our past lives, but what about the other thousands of life-times, each with their own traumas, deaths and problems.</p>
<p>This ancient meditation available in many cultures all over the world, teaches how to remove all of the traumas, deaths and problems as simple negative energy. You do not have to see the problems. They are simply grounded as Negative energy. Learn how to simply, &#8220;Ground the last dregs of your VITRIOL!&#8221;</p>
<p>There is an ancient Greek myth about Hercules, (a Son of God, Zeus or Deus), wanting to marry Persephone the Daughter of the King of the underworld. The Crown Chakra wanting to combine with the Base Chakra. Shiva combining with Shakti. A Human Being becoming Enlightened.</p>
<p>He needed to ask her father&#8217;s permission. When he did, her father was pleased to marry his daughter to the son of Zeus, but first he must perform 12 tasks. The 12 labours of Hercules.</p>
<p>The fifth task was to clean out the Kings stables &#8211; The Augean stables. Hercules said, &#8220;No Problem,&#8221; but when he saw the stables, he realised what a mountainous task he had taken on. There were thousands of horses and they had been creating manure for hundreds of years. Just like we, ourselves, create and absorb pain and Karma over thousands of lifetimes.</p>
<p>At first, he tried to dig the manure, examining every turd. Just like the psychologists and past life therapists of today. But after one month he had got nowhere. He had only cleared a small hole in a mountain of shit.</p>
<p>After much thought, he then projected to change the course of the river Styx, the river we cross when we die, through the stables. When he did this, the stables were quickly cleaned as the river washed all the manure away.</p>
<p>Deep Rivers of Energy lie hidden deep within us. As we learn to access and then to use them. So, All our History. All our pain can be dissipated and washed away</p>
<p>This story teaches basic methods whereby the mountains of manure within us can be removed, painlessly, without examining every turd.</p>
<p>The whole mountain can gradually be moved and our History painting which has been painted brushful by brushful, day by day, can be returned to the clean white sheet we were when we were born.</p>
<p>We are full of a lot of &#8220;History&#8221; not only from this life, but also from previous lives. Our ancient guided meditations can truly remove this Personal History so that all painful memories can be dissipated and our energies can then start to flow in their natural courses, once again.</p>
<p>And It&#8217;s A Painless Process Because these Ancient and Successful meditations work at The Level Of Energy.</p>
<p>It is not enough to pick up one piece of shit and examine it and say &#8220;Ah yes, this was the pain I absorbed when my father died. Or in that lifetime when I continued on such a stupid path.&#8221;</p>
<p>We need to be able to transmute it all!</p>
<p>Also the Labour of Hercules involving the Hydra. As Hercules chopped off one head with his sword another 2 grew back in its place. The Hydra symbolises the mind. Its heads the many negative thoughts we have which need to be dissipated.</p>
<p>The Dragon/Hydra always Symbolises Kundalini Energy.</p>
<p>The method of Energy Circulation is an ancient and hidden technique preserved in Taoism and Hindu Kundalini Kriyas.</p>
<p>It is the most gentle and effective tool for all those who want to increase their energy, their evolution, their genius.</p>
<p>The same energy circulation meditation&#8230; &#8220;With This Technique, Your Evolution Will Increase With Every Energy Revolution To Create A Revolution In Your Evolution.&#8221;  &#8211; Paramahamsa Yogananda On The Kriyas Of Kundalini of India, of Kriya Yoga, of Babaji, the 2000 years old sage in the Himalayas, of Sri Yukteswar and Lahira Mahasaya.</p>
<p>The same energy circulation meditation&#8230; The Alchemical Meditations of Hermes Trismegistus from the Emerald tablet or from the Sufi Dun Nun, the Egyptian, he who took, &#8220;The Path of Blame&#8221; symbolized by the Sufi Naqsbandi Fountain at the Alhambra at Granada in Spain.</p>
<p>The same meditation&#8230; The Five Elemental Paths of the Ki of Chinese Alchemical Taoism symbolized by the Yin Yang Symbol.</p>
<p>Ancient and Effective Techniques of Meditation include for the Gaining of More Energy &#8211; Meditation, Shaktipat, Energy Circulation, The Kundalini Kriyas, The Five Elemental Paths Of The Chi Of Chinese Alchemical Taoism, The Grounding Of Negative Energies, V.I.T.R.I.O.L and The Art Card Of The Thoth Tarot, Access To Kundalini Energy, Strong Psychic Protection, The Merkaba, Pyramid Protection, Power Tower Protection, the Creation of the Antahkarana, Soul Fusion, Monadic Infusion, Logos Infusion for the Painless Removal Of Stress, Trauma And Negative Emotion.</p>
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		<title>Astrology &amp; The Bible: Age of Aquarius</title>
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This is an excerpt from the book, The Many Waters by Lauretta Lueck. It is important to bring to your attention the main premise of the excerpt.
The prophesies that were written thousands of years ago are about to become a reality. The Age of Pisces; &#8220;two days&#8221; being a thousand years; the third day dawning [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Introduction</b></p>
<p>This is an excerpt from the book, <i>The Many Waters</i> by Lauretta Lueck. It is important to bring to your attention the main premise of the excerpt.<br />
The prophesies that were written thousands of years ago are about to become a reality. The Age of Pisces; &#8220;two days&#8221; being a thousand years; the third day dawning &#8211; the Age of Aquarius; the End of Time &#8211; The Tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ; are explained by Lueck in this exciting excerpt. She reassures us that we are not seeing the end of the world, but rather the beginning of a new age. With calm and eloquence she explains the meaning of each &#8220;age&#8221;, as it is written in the Bible, and reveals what the real meaning of the Second Coming is.</p>
<p><strong>The</strong> prophecies of the Bible were written thousands of years ago by prophets who walked with God, and now their words are about to become reality. We have experienced wars and rumors of wars, famines and natural catastrophes, but finally, after two thousand years of sorrows, peace and good will are close at hand.</p>
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<blockquote>&#8220;Take heed that no man deceive you&#8230;these are the beginnings of sorrows, but the end is not yet&#8230;and the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come&#8230;.&#8221; Matthew 24:4-14</p></blockquote>
<p><b>THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS</b></p>
<p>From the earliest of times, and maybe even as early as Adam, the mental giants and men of renown noticed that in the night sky there was a pattern to the stars and order in the heavens.<br />
Their mathematical minds went to work and somewhere and sometime in that distant past, the Zodiac was established in cultures around the world.</p>
<p>Astrology was the original astronomy, and blended in with it was prophecy and clairvoyance. Most astrologers of the time were also seers, as was Abraham, who was well known for his ability in counseling kings, and Moses, the greatest of them all, who learned his craft in an Egyptian palace.</p>
<p>It was during these ages that our Bible evolved, and throughout the scriptures in both the Old and New Testaments the signs of the times are prominent.</p>
<p>In astrology, a Great Year is the time it takes the planet to pass through the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac. This is 25,868 years, but there is no clear line between each sign, which is called a Great Month and lasts approximately 2000 years and a little beyond that. For simplicity, the months are calculated at the beginning and end of each millennium.</p>
<p>The night that Jesus was born, apparently the Age of Aries the ram ended and the Age of Pisces the fishes began. Aries was the age of battle. It was a war-saturated age and the Jewish tribes of the time were no exception. They were as bloodthirsty as they were religious and the chosen people of Israel, from whose lineage Jesus would come, were inclined to forget their LORD on occasion and worship the ram.</p>
<p>In the Age of Pisces, Christianity was born and the awareness of humility and charity. The early Christians used the symbol of the fishes scratched on the walls of their secret hiding places for other Christians during the Roman persecution, and Jesus referred to his disciples as &#8220;fishers of men.&#8221; In the Age of Pisces, the struggle has been for freedom from war and persecutionand a struggle it has beenespecially between good and evil.</p>
<p>When Jesus spoke of the Jewish temple, of his body, and how both would be destroyed, it was also meant as a sign of the times. That dark and terrible night there was an earthquake and the temple was rent down the middle. His physical body was dead, and the Age of Pisces became the Beginning of Sorrows.</p>
<p>For two days Jesus was in the grave. He brought in the Age of Pisces of Peace on earth and good will to all, but for &#8220;two days&#8221; and two thousand years (the Age of Pisces) there would be no peace or good will while his spirit was gone from our presence.</p>
<p>In God&#8217;s time, one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.</p>
<p>The Son of man [Jesus] was put through a physical death by the forces of evil, but the seed of the serpent only managed to &#8220;bruise his heel.&#8221; The world can never destroy evil, as it is a dimension of God, but we can &#8220;bruise its head&#8221; and keep it under control. For two thousand years (two days), our world has been torn down the middle, like the temple, between good and evil and we have been spiritually dead like the body of Christ, but the third day is dawning! It is the spiritual resurrection of the Son of God, and there will be peace on earth and good will to all.</p>
<p>The time has come and it is NOW! It is NOT the end of the world as many people fear and the messengers of doom have prophesied. On the contrary, it is the beginning of a New World Order. Jesus will be King of kings and Lord of Lords, not in body, but in the Spirit of God. In astrology, it is known as the Age of Aquarius.</p>
<p><b>THE END OF TIME: The Tribulation</b></p>
<p>The scriptures in both the Old and the New Testaments tend to run the Age of Sorrows and The Tribulation together, and that has caused confusion and misinterpretation within the Christian denominations. It has resulted in false prophesies concerning the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ; and No, the world is not going to end just yet, and Jesus is not coming back in a physical body againever. Nor is the Second Coming going to take place next week, next month, or ten years from now.<br />
Because religion and science have never been the best of friends, the Bible&#8217;s account of the beginning and ending of the heavens and the earth has never been associated with science&#8217;s theory of the expansion and contraction of the universe.</p>
<p>(In the Bible, Day and Night have many interpretations. Day: light; knowledge; salvation; a beginning of time. Night: darkness, ignorance or evil; death; ending of a day or time period.)</p>
<p>Our planet is nearing the end of the Age of Sorrows, and a New Age of peace and good will is beginning. The first spiritual ruler of this era will be born (if he hasn&#8217;t already) in the new Zion and will be a BRANCH from Jesse, the father of king David of biblical times. He will rule the world in the spirit of Christ, and evil will be chained for the duration of the Age.</p>
<p>If one of our days is as a thousand years of the Light, one thousand years of the Light would be, in our time in the New Age, 36,500,000 years. I don&#8217;t think we will have to concern ourselves with the tribulation or the end of the cosmos just yet.</p>
<p>Our planet has been given another chance to become a paradise on earth, but for that to happen we have to be &#8220;born again,&#8221; as Jesus said. As we were born in the body, so we must also be reborn in the spirit, in cosmic union of body and soul. To be fully alive we can&#8217;t have one without the other.</p>
<p><b>When and how will this New Age begin?</b></p>
<p>It has already begun. There still are wars and calamities beyond imagination, but there is also an awakening of souls long dead and a longing for spiritual wisdom. There is a growing awareness of the power of thought and how it can affect the body and soul, whether for good or evil, and we are questioning the purpose in life.</p>
<p><b>Is there a purpose?</b></p>
<p>Over the course of time, our planet will discover its role in the cosmos, but the most profound change will occur in the nation where the physical birth of Jesus took place. From this nation the ruler of the New Age will be born, and he will set the world on its path toward peace and good will to all. No, it is not Jesus, but a servant of the Lord of Lords, endowed with the spirit of the Prince of Peace.</p>
<p>In the Old Testament book of Zechariah, the prophet is told by an angel of the LORD that the soul of Joshua, who was once a high priest, would be sent forth to be the Lord&#8217;s servant known as the BRANCH. The Son of God brought us back to paradise on earthphysically, mentally and spiritually.</p>
<p>In the New Age, beginning with the Age of Aquarius, the message of the kingdom of God and heaven that is within us will be preached and taught throughout the world, and it will go on for eons of time. It will last as long as the breath of God, during the continued expansion of the cosmos, and through the contraction, near to the point of zero.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;and then shall the end come.&#8221; (Matthew 24:14)<br />
This is NOT the return of Jesus, but rather of the spirit of Jesus through the reincarnation of Joshua, The BRANCH.</p>
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		<title>Payoffs for Not Succeeding</title>
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 What you may exclaim??  Before you dismiss this statement read the following explanation on what payoffs you might be gaining from not succeeding.
Ask yourself the following questions.
1.  What do I get to avoid?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Strange as it may sound, there are payoffs when we don&#8217;t succeed.<br />
 What you may exclaim??  Before you dismiss this statement read the following explanation on what payoffs you might be gaining from not succeeding.</p>
<p>Ask yourself the following questions.</p>
<p>1.  What do I get to avoid?</p>
<p>-Responsibility, love, success, visibility, etc.</p>
<p>2. Who do I get to punish and/or love?</p>
<p>-Parents didn&#8217;t love me enough.</p>
<p>-I will not be happy to punish mom and/or dad, who wants me to be happy.</p>
<p>-Childhood was really awful&#8211;nobody cares anyway no matter what I do.</p>
<p>-I won&#8217;t let my parents say, &#8220;I guess we didn&#8217;t do so badly after all.&#8221; i.e. parents are assuaging their guilt by owning my success.</p>
<p>-I will not do better than my parents because I don&#8217;t want to upstage them&#8211;because I love them.</p>
<p>-I will not do better than my boss because I don&#8217;t want to upstage him/her.</p>
<p>-I will not do better than my husband because I am afraid I will loose his love.</p>
<p>3. Righteous emotion or real feeling?</p>
<p>-Guilt, anger etc. I will not express the emotion honestly and let it go.</p>
<p>-I will complain to everyone, but the person who is involved who can do something.</p>
<p>4.  What guarantee am I holding out for?</p>
<p>-Promise me that it will work, without my need to work or change, before I will make a commitment to succeed.</p>
<p>-Promise me I will be &#8216;front page news&#8217; if I succeed.</p>
<p>5.  Am I manipulating with Self-pity?</p>
<p>-Am I playing victim so everyone will feel sorry for me.</p>
<p>-Am I being a martyr, so I can suffer in silence.</p>
<p>6.  Am I feeling Better-than or Less-than?</p>
<p>-You don&#8217;t realize how great/or less than I am.</p>
<p>7. What am I afraid of loosing if I succeed?</p>
<p>8. Am I avoiding to strive for my success because I fear failure.</p>
<p>-I will be embarrassed if I fail, therefore, I won&#8217;t strive for my deepest desires.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, &#8220;Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?&#8221; Actually, who are you not be be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There&#8217;s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won&#8217;t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It&#8217;s not just in some of us; it&#8217;s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we&#8217;re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.&#8221;  Marianne Williamson  (Sometimes attributed to Nelson Madela as he quoted Marianne Williamson in one of his speeches.</p>
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