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Peace With Cancer: Shamanism as a Spiritual Approach to Healing by Myron Eshowsky
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Peace with Cancer presents unique and spiritually empowering methods of approaching cancer and other chronic illnesses. Instead of going to war with our disease, this book shares a shamanism-based model that works at restoring balance, harmony and peace to our approach to illness.
Over the past 30 years Myron Eshowsky, M.S. has done counseling and healing work with thousands of individuals. Watching his own father struggle with and ultimately succumb to cancer deepened his commitment to explore the spiritual, physical and environmental terrains of illness. This book draws upon that journey and his work with individuals diagnosed with cancer, including survivors of Chernobyl, Viet Nam Vets, people with AIDS, leukemia and many other cancers and acute conditions.
“Filled with heart and integrity, the rituals in this book are absolutely brilliant.”
– C.Michael Smith,PhD., author of Jung and Shamanism.
Based on his work with indigenous healers from around the globe, the model of healing Eshowsky presents is not an alternative to Western medical treatment but a complement to it. The spiritually based healing techniques are designed to help us excavate deeper truths, bring healing to the soul and make peace with our life and death. This well-researched, experiential-based book is a must read for anyone who’s been diagnosed with cancer or a chronic illness, friends and family of those affected by disease, and professional healers.
“…provides tools for addressing both body and soul in multi-leveled healing processes that address the emotions of helplessness, depression, and psychic distress that are associated with poof outcomes in cancer treatment.”
- Michael Winkelman, PhD., author of Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing
Visit myroneshowsky.com for more information about Myron Eshowsky and information about his healing work and upcoming events.
The Lost History of Hemland
Posted by: | CommentsFascinating article about development in Afghanistan over the last century.
The Lost History of Hemland by Adam Curtis
G20 Street Report — Martial Law Comes to America
Posted by: | CommentsInstitutions in America are becoming so weak that a police state must be instituted to protect the attendees of such conferences from peaceful protesters. I imagine the police there must have loved cracking the heads of a few “anarchists”, and others accused of no crime. Paranoia and panic is prevalent, and the police presence and response belie an plan to overwhelmingly crush the faintest whisper of dissent related to these corrupt institutions. Why do they fear so much? The people are our neighbors, our countrymen. What are they hiding and plotting? The implementation of a carefully thought out police state seems clear. They have the surveillance teams in place, the crowd control weapons, the conditioning of the populace to accept that the streets are not theirs to walk through. See, this one guy in a suit, he’s coming by, and he’s so much more important than you, that he demands military protection. This is all sickness and craziness….
Street Report from the G20 by Bill Quigley
Project Censored’s Top 25 Censored News Stories
Posted by: | CommentsGood information here about news that major media outlets have either overlooked or deliberately suppressed.
Russia says it tracked hijacked Arctic Sea all along, but questions grow over cargo
Posted by: | CommentsThis is an interesting article from the Times out of Britain. Those following this story will recall that there have been rumors that the “pirates” worked for Israel, and the cargo referenced was thought to be missiles or weapons headed for Iran. I’ll post any more information about this that I come across.
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Russia’s top general hinted yesterday that the ship allegedly hijacked by pirates earlier this month may have been carrying a secret cargo, as it emerged that the country’s Navy tracked the vessel throughout its journey.
President Medvedev sent the Russian Navy to find the Arctic Sea after it apparently disappeared while passing through the English Channel en route to Algeria from Finland. However, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow now says that Russian and international agencies had monitored the ship throughout its strange three-week voyage.
General Nikolai Makarov, the Russian Army’s top general, said that the military would search the vessel thoroughly after it had docked at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. “The motives behind the seizure are not wholly clear. We do not know what it is carrying,” he told reporters. “All we know is that it is carrying timber, but an investigation should determine whether it is carrying anything else.”
The Foreign Ministry said that a preliminary search had uncovered no suspicious cargo, but it admitted that there were many “blank spots” in the investigation.
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It did insist, however, that the authorities knew where the ship was throughout its mysterious voyage. “Of course, the dry cargo carrier with a displacement of more than 7,000 tonnes was never missing. Its movement was being followed and its co-ordinates were being reported from several sources, including our foreign partners,” the ministry said.
The saga also took a bizarre new twist when the ministry disclosed that the ship’s captain had tried to pass off the Arctic Sea as a North Korean vessel when it was intercepted by the Russian Navy. This is the first time that investigators have implicated the crew in the mystery.
The ministry said that the captain “unexpectedly claimed” to be in charge of a ship called the Chongdin 2 that was carrying timber from Cuba to Sierra Leone. Russian diplomats in Pyongyang checked with North Korean officials and were told that the Chongdin 2 was docked at a port in Angola at the time.
“In view of this information, the command of the Russian Navy decided to examine the ship and the examination confirmed the surmise that it was the Arctic Sea,” the Foreign Ministry said. It gave no indication of how the captain knew of the other vessel’s existence or why the Navy was unable to identify the Arctic Sea from its markings.
The Arctic Sea was listed as carrying timber worth $1.3 million (£800,000), but Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor-General’s Office, said: “We do not rule out the possibility that they might have been carrying not only timber. This is why we need to examine the vessel – so that there are no dark spots in this story.”
It even cast doubt on its own initial version of events, that an armed gang had seized the vessel on July 24 and taken the crew hostage. The ministry said that it was “still unclear whether the initial capture of the ship … and subsequent events are links in the same chain of piracy or not”.
The ship and its 15-man crew, all Russian, left Finland on July 22. It was declared missing for more than two weeks after apparently being boarded by an armed gang in Swedish waters. Mr Medvedev sent warships and submarines from the Black Sea Fleet to hunt for the Arctic Sea, telling commanders to take all necessary measures to find and free the vessel.
It was intercepted by the anti-submarine ship Ladny on August 17 near Cape Verde, off the West African coast, about 2,500 miles off course.
Eight men are in custody accused of piracy and kidnapping. The Foreign Ministry has described them as two Russian citizens, one Latvian, one Estonian and four stateless persons.
Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
Posted by: | CommentsThis is an interesting story that has received virtually no major media airplay.
Excerpt from the article:
Edmonds, an FBI language specialist, was fired from her job with the FBI’s Washington Field Office in March 2002. Her crime was reporting security breaches, cover-ups, blocking of intelligence, and the bribery of U.S. individuals including high-ranking officials. The “state secrets privilege” has often been invoked to block court proceedings on her case, and the U.S. Congress has even been gagged to prevent further discussion.Edmonds uncovered, for example, a covert relationship between Turkish groups and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), who reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in return for withdrawing the Armenian Genocide Resolution from the House floor in 2000.
Human Rights Watch Report on the Extermination of Homosexuals in Iraq
Posted by: | CommentsHuman Rights Watch studied the terror inflicted on homosexual men and women in Iraq, and the campaign of murder waged against them. Read and be horrified. I ask that you meditate on compassion as you read this.
Did Mossad Hijack Russian Ship to Stop Iran Arms Shipment?
Posted by: | CommentsWow…here’s an intriguing story straight out of a James Bond movie.
From the Jerusalem Post:
The mystery surrounding the hijacking of a Russian freighter in July has taken a new twist with reports claiming the pirates were acting in league with the Israeli Mossad secret service in order to halt a shipment of modern weapon systems hidden on board and destined for Iran.
Proof that America is a Sick Country
Posted by: | CommentsBy Dave Lindorff
8-24-2009
You see, here’s the thing. When you hear about the sick, twisted things that America’s torturers have been doing, courtesy of President George W. Bush and Vice President Darth Cheney, you have to remember that the US military and the CIA were not really all that reliable when it came to picking up the real terrorists. In fact, their batting average was pretty lousy.
According to even the Pentagon’s own reckoning, for example, probably 85% of the captives being held at Guantanamo over the past eight years were not terrorists at all, and a fair number–probably the majority–weren’t even fighting anyone when they were captured. I’m sure that the averages at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, or at the secret prison in Iraq are no better. The military was offering bounties in Iraq and Afghanistan for alleged terrorists, you see, and probably still is, but in both of those lawless, tribal countries, many people have used the offer to settle old feuds, turning in people they wanted to punish or dispose of, and many others just turned in random people to get the reward money.
Remember this when you hear about torture tactics that we are learning were used by our side–things that make waterboarding sound like a walk in the park. We’re now getting confirmation of things that we journalists were hearing rumors of earlier: faked executions using blanks, faked executions in neighboring rooms, followed by threats of the same to a person who had just heard the screams and a shot in the cell next to him, threats with an electric drill, and now perhaps the worst yet–the threat to kill a captive’s children. And of course there is the already disclosed case of a captive who had his genitals cut with a razor, and generous use of tasers in places on the body designed to cause maximum pain. That, and of course there are a lot raped captives (including young boys), and a lot of bodies yet to be dug up of captives who were simply killed during torture….
For the rest of this story, please go to:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
