They come in all different sizes, shapes and colours. The seed is an embryonic plant itself and the origin of nutrition. A plant goes to great lengths to produce each seed and fill it with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential oils and dormant enzymes. If you’re looking for a high quality, nutritious and filling snack, seeds are tough to beat. Let’s look at the ten healthiest seeds on Earth and how to consume them.
Few animals in zoos are actually endangered; the rest are showcased to the public for entertainment purposes. Gaston Lacombe’s “Captive” series aims to expose this.
He basically admitted what all of us who read the alternative media such as TrueActivist have known for a long time – the entire mainstream media is totally fake!
In light of the recent public anger over the Monsanto Protection Act, here’s a simple, printable list of companies that use Monsanto products. By avoiding products made by companies on this list, you can help ensure your money isn’t going to Monsanto and also watch out for the health of your family and yourself.
By Manly P. Hall – This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. Every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the human-energyother invisible and transcendent.
The latter consists of an ethereal counterpart of the physical form; it constitutes the vehicle of archæus, and may be called a vital body
This etheric shadow sheath is not dissipated by death, but remains until the physical form is entirely disintegrated. These “etheric doubles, “seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts.
Being much finer in its substances than the earthly body, the etheric double is far more susceptible to impulses and inharmonies. It is derangements of this astral light body that cause much disease.
Paracelsus taught that a person with a morbid mental attitude could poison his own etheric nature, and this infection, diverting the natural flow of vital life force, would later appear as a physical ailment. All plants and minerals have an invisible nature composed of this “archæus,” but each manifests it in a different way.
Are you weary from tossing and turning all night? Research shows these humble houseplant can help to clear indoor air pollution, inducing natural restful sleep.
Without considering assignments during school or homework, teenagers in the United States spend an average of nine hours per day interacting with digital media.
Parabens, a type of preservative used in personal care products such as shampoos, cosmetics and sunscreens, may cause cancer at lower levels than thought.
Honey and cinnamon are a powerful combination that can treat many conditions and illnesses. It has even been approved of by health experts and nutritionists. This all-natural mix has been used as an efficient folk remedy for thousands of years. Namely, the Egyptians used it in treatment of wounds, the Greeks to prolong their lifespan, […]
The most common killers in the United States are well known — heart disease and cancer. But there are other, less common causes of death that are actually much more typical in certain states compared to the nation as a whole.
Drunvalo Melchizedek, the passionate scientist, true master and prophet who came to show the world the changes that are coming and lead us to the higher consciousness, the transformation to the fourth dimensional world to protect ourselves from coming catastrophes as our planet earth is at the end of the cycle that is going on for thousands of years.
A Rowland Heights doctor was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in connection with the overdose deaths of three patients, capping a landmark case that was closely watched by medical and legal professionals across the country.
Farmers in North Carolina are likely to wake up Saturday morning with a new option for growing crops: Industrial hemp production is expected to become legal at the stroke of midnight.
A group of French physicists has optimized a type of ion thruster to significantly extend its lifetime: the new development made it sturdy enough to be able withstand a long trip into deep space. Such a thruster would require 100 million times less fuel than common thrusters that use chemical reactions to propel a spacecraft forward.
Legend has it that centuries ago a witch turned a would-be king of England and his men and knights to stone, which still stand and are among the Rollright Stones circle at Warwickshire. Now a new legend has cropped up: A 7th century AD skeleton recently unearthed at the site is being called the witch who turned the ambitious men to stone.
The woman stood between 4 feet 11 inches and 5 feet tall (about 152 cm) and was buried with a Roman patera or bronze vessel possibly used to cook offerings to the gods, a large amber bead and an amethyst set in silver. The patera is only the fifth found in England. She also had with her a large spindle whorl, which, with the patera, ITV.com says, indicates that “Rita,” the Saxon pagan Rollright Witch, as she is being called, was a spiritual woman of high status.
The person who found the grave is Charles Wood. He was using a metal detector at the Rollright Stones with friends. He explains to ITV:
‘This was more of a social event as we weren’t expecting to find much. The ground is difficult to dig and you normally just find bottle caps from the Rollright Fayre they hold here. When my metal detector made a faint murmur I knew I’d have to dig down deep, but thought it would only be a plough tooth that had been pressed into the ground. I got 14 inches down and a small bronze rim appeared, but it seemed in too good condition to be anything significant. As I dug further though I saw it had a handle and it soon became obvious it was a patera, which is a very significant find. There’s a myth around here of the Rollright Witch, and this find is certainly very interesting because of the spiritual element. I’m not saying anything for sure, but there’s no smoke without fire. It was a once in a lifetime find. I could detect for the next 14 years and not find anything like it.’
Anni Byard, a British antiquities official, said in a report:
“The location of the grave is of significance, and the items found with her were possibly religious in nature. She was definitely somebody of importance at that time, but this will take further investigation. We are currently trying to raise grants to examine the soil of the grave, this might be able to tell us something more.”
The Bronze Age Rollright Stones have much lore and myth surrounding them to this day. RollrightStones.co.uk is a website devoted just to the stone circle that gives the legend of the king and his entourage. The site says many stone circles in the British Isles were supposedly revelers petrified by God or the devil for dancing and fiddling or picking turnips on the Sabbath. The Rollright Stones legend is different.
There lived a king who aspired to rule England. He got as far as the Rollright Stones when he encountered a witch, possibly Mother Shipton of Shipton-under-Wychwood, who lived from 1488 to 1551 AD. (Mother Shipton is another story, but suffice to say she is England’s most famous prophetess who in childhood was a strange girl raised in a cave and who went on to become an accomplished herbalist and seeress who foretold many calamities of English history.)
The King’s Men stone circle at Rollright Stones (Photo by Midnightblueowl/Wikimedia Commons)
According to the legend reported by Rollrightstones.co.uk, the witch challenged the king:
“Seven long strides shalt thou take And if Long Compton thou canst see, King of England thou shalt be.”
The king continued on toward Long Compton, which is not far from the Rollright Stones, and as he strode along he shouted:
“Stick, stock, stone as King of England I shall be known.”
The King Stone at Rollright Stones in Warwickshire, England (Poliphilo/Wikimedia Commons)
When he hit his seventh stride, the ground rose up before him in the form of what is now sometimes called the Arch-Druid’s barrow. The witch said:
“As Long Compton thou canst not see King of England thou shalt not be. Rise up stick and stand still stone for King of England thou shalt be none; Thou and thy men hoar stones shall be And I myself an eldern tree.”
Then legend says she turned him into the King Stone, his men into the King’s Men Stone Circle and his knights into the Whispering Knights.
The Whispering Knights, a Neolithic dolmen at the Rollright Stones in the Cotswolds, England (Midnightblueowl/Wikimedia Commons)
Rollrightstones.co.uk says it is unknown what the king did to incur the witch’s wrath or why she turned herself into a witch-elder tree, which is said to still grow in a nearby hedge.
The site says folk tales tell of caves under the King Stone and King’s Men that are the haunt of fairies or the little folk who dance around the stones at midnight. When people go into the caves, tales say, they report being in the fairy realm for years but only a few hours have passed outside. Similar tales are told of other stone circles and megalithic monuments in the British Isles.
Rita’s remains and her grave goods were shipped to the British Museum in London for further study.
Featured Image: The skeleton of the Rollright Stone “witch” (News Team International photo).
Bok Tong Go, Chinese steamed rice cake, owes its unique flavor and texture to a fermentation process that sours the rice flour. Click here for recipe.
This recipe comes from the Golden Palace Seafood Restaurant on O’ahu, Hawai’i. Oh, how I love eating dim sum for breakfast, and especially my all-time favorite, Bok Tong Go, those slightly translucent, milky-white sweet rice cakes with the interesting texture. My brother, Jeff, and I grew up eating lots of these cakes while growing up in Hawai’i, Washington State and California. My parents were foodies, especially when it came to Chinese cuisine, and we learned our way around a Chinatown at an early age. In fact, the very first place we stopped in as we drove into San Francisco for the first time was the Golden Gate Bakery, where Mom and Dad bought a huge pink box full of beautifully steamed and baked treats. If you folks have never experienced a Chinese bakery or dim sum food, you’ve missed out big time and its definitely an experience for that bucket list.
Here’s the Bok Tong Go recipe from the Golden Palace … ah, I can still smell and taste these goodies as I write … wow. Enjoy!
Bok Tong Go
>> Step 1:
1/2 pound rice flour
1 cup water
Combine flour and water; cover with plastic wrap. Set aside at room temperature 3 days, until it smells slightly sour.
>> Step 2:
1 pound rice flour
1 cup cold water
1 cup sugar
2 cups hot water
Combine flour and cold water to form a claylike paste.
Dissolve sugar in hot water. Add paste to sugar water.
Stir fermented flour/water mixture from Step 1; add to Step 2 mixture. Mix well.
Remove 1/2 cup of this mixture and refrigerate (this becomes the starter for your next batch). Cover remaining mixture and set aside at room temperature 12 hours.
>> Step 3:
Vegetable oil to grease pan
1/2 teaspoon potassium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate solution
Prepare steamer: Bring water to a boil in a wok or large skillet. Place 12-inch steamer basket over wok. Grease 2 9-inch round cake pans (pie pans may be used, but this will give your rice cake a sloped side).
Add sodium bicarbonate to the fermented mixture. Pour mixture into pans. Place 1 pan into steamer for 30 minutes, then remove and steam second pan. Cool, remove from pans and slice.
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2018 Update: Due to several folks who complained that the above recipe didn’t work out so well for them, we have researched more and found the following alternative recipes for you to try.
Bok Tong Go
Alternative Recipe #1:This recipe uses Pandan leaves, which is a grass (like lemon grass) native to Asia. You can buy Pandan flavoring (which is green in color) at any Asian food store. It imparts a wonderful fragrant body to rice, especially when added to a pot of steamed rice during the cooking process.
“Make vegetarian meatballs with browned mushrooms instead of meat and you’ll be amazed by their hearty taste and perfect texture. Approved for use on spaghetti!”
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 lbs fresh white mushrooms, finely chopped
2 pinches salt
2 tablespoons butter
1 cup finely chopped onion
8 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup quick-cooking oats
2 ounces very finely shredded
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1 cup bread crumbs
1/2 cup chopped flat-leaf (Italian) parsley,
packed
4 eggs, divided
2 teaspoons salt
freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 pinches cayenne pepper, or to taste
2 pinches dried oregano
6 cups pasta sauce
2 tablespoons very finely shredded
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, or to taste
2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf (Italian)
parsley, or to taste
Directions:
This recipe’s ingredients is scaled to yield a servings amount of (8). The directions below still refer to the original recipe yield of (4).
1.
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms to the hot oil, sprinkle with salt, and cook and stir until liquid from mushrooms has evaporated. Stir butter into mushrooms, reduce heat to medium, and cook and stir mushrooms until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
2.
Stir onion into mushrooms and cook, stirring often, until onion is translucent, 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and stir garlic into mushroom mixture until fragrant, about 1 minute. Transfer mixture to a mixing bowl.
3.
Mix oats into mushroom mixture until thoroughly combined. Gently stir 1 ounce Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese into mixture. Add bread crumbs, 1/4 cup parsley, and 1 egg; season with salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and oregano. Mix together with a fork until crumbly. Stir in remaining 1 egg. Mixture should hold together when pressed.
4.
Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 4 hours. For best flavor and texture, refrigerate overnight.
They come in all different sizes, shapes and colours. The seed is an embryonic plant itself and the origin of nutrition. A plant goes to great lengths to produce each seed and fill it with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential oils and dormant enzymes. If you’re looking for a high quality, nutritious and filling snack, seeds are tough to beat. Let’s look at the ten healthiest seeds on Earth and how to consume them.
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