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Behind the Mask is the Freedom of Truth…

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The entirety of humankind has been through the very most tumultuous time in life, and lots of us are still going through it all. What no one is thinking about is the thing that has happened, and it is revealing as to who we are for real. Who we are for real is nothing short of Magnificent, even if it feels or appears to be otherwise. I Promise you each and all…it isn’t.

My friends, the one thing that not a lot of us can see or feel right at this moment is relief from the emotional ugliness that we have been feeling, and feeling due to the tangible awareness that is collectively ours at this time. There are so very many of us right this moment experiencing losses that are astounding on many levels, and the one level that it is most important that we understand that this is…

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History of Pumpkin Carving and Halloween (Samhain) – Stair na hÉireann – History of Ireland

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Without a doubt the most recognisable symbol of Halloween is a pumpkin carved into a jack-o-lantern. To understand the origins of how pumpkin carving began and what it really means we must first ta…

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Perspectives … by Kat Gray

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Caution,

There is a silence. 

A stillness, deep within. 

An absence of patterns, 

Where light and shadow blend. 

Harken, 

To the darkness

Of the Void of the Unknown. 

Hearing

Total nothingness

That thunders all alone. 

Travel into the pulsing of

Silent time or space. 

The quiet mind

brings calmness, 

Infinite, eternal grace. 

Born inside silence, 

Is the will___to be. 

Chaos becomes order, 

The holiness of life___

The unfolding of the Great Mystery.

10/16/2016

Kalo – Taro: Brother to the Kanaka Maoli

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The kalo lo'i in the Hana District ... taro patches of Keanae, Mau'i, Hawai'i
The kalo lo’i in the Hana District … taro patches of Keanae, Mau’i, Hawai’i

KALO (Taro): The life of Kanaka Maoli, the indigenous Hawaiian people, is linked closely with kalo, also known as the taro plant. Kalo is believed to have the greatest life force of all foods. According to the Kumulipo, the creation chant, kalo grew from the first-born son of Wakea (sky father) and Papa (earth mother), through Wakea’s relationship with his and Papa’s daughter, Ho`ohokulani. Haloa-naka, as the son was named, was stillborn and buried. Out of his body grew the kalo plant, also called Haloa, which means everlasting breath. Kalo and poi (pounded kalo) are a means of survival for the Hawaii people. By eating kalo as poi, one at a time as a ritual around the poi bowl (`umeke) at the center of the diners, the protocol of Hawaii is maintained. This is a ceremony of life that brings people together and supports a relationship of `ohana (family) and of appreciation with the `aumakua (ancestors).

Kalo From early times, kalo was the primary food of the Hawaii people, supplemented by other principal and traditional foods: breadfruit (`ulu), sweet potato (`uala), yams, greens, ferns, fruit, fish and seaweed (limu).

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A closer look at the kalo lo’i of Keanae, Mau’i

Taro came to Hawaii Nei with the earliest Polynesian settlers in their canoes and has been cultivated as a staple and staff of life from ancient times in the tropical and subtropical latitudinal band around the earth. Taro grows in tropical Africa, the West Indies, the Pacific nations and in countries bordering the Indian Ocean in South Asia. In Hawaii, where cultivation has been the most intense, in the early days there were more than 300 varieties of taro. Approximately 87 of these varieties are still recognized today, with slight differences in height, stalk color, leaf or flower color, size, and root type. Some of the local varieties are Mo`i, Lehua, Ha`akea and Chinese.

Taro, whose scientific name is Colocasia esculenta (or antiquorum) is cultivated both in the uplands as high as 4,000 feet, and in marshy land irrigated by streams. The plant is a hearty succulent perennial herb, with clusters of long heart or arrowhead-shaped leaves that point earthward. Taro grows on erect stems that may be green, red (lehua), black or variegated. The new leaf and stem push out of the innermost stalk, unrolling as they emerge. The stems are usually several feet high. Tiny new plants appear around the base of the root corm. The pua, inflorescence, is an open yellow-white tube, enclosing a spike covered with flowers.

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The whole plant:  the kalo (corm) and luau (leaves) are eaten, and the huli are replanted. Depending on the variety, all parts of this sturdy and vital plant are eaten. The leaves are cooked as greens, similar to spinach. The tubers are eaten baked, boiled or steamed, or cooked and mashed with water to make poi. The fibrous flesh of the tubers is tough and spongy, ranging in color from white, yellow, lilac-purple and pink to reddish. Most important is the starchy root with enough glutinosity to make quality poi. The stiffest poi is called locally “one finger” and the most liquid “three finger”. “Two finger” poi is considered the best by some. The planters know which kind of taro makes the best poi, which variety has the most tender leaves and which has the necessary medicinal properties.

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Taro is often fed to babies as their first whole and natural healthy food, as well as to the elderly, for its ease of digestion and high vitamin content. Some people call poi the “soul food” of Hawaii. Poi is eaten fresh or allowed to ferment for a few days, often for longer, creating a sour taste considered pleasant, acid, but not alcoholic. In the old days, a person might consume up to five pounds of poi per day. Several kinds of kalo had such special flavor and color that they were reserved only for the chiefs. It is said that Soviet astronauts ate dehydrated taro in space, adding water to the packets … instant poi!

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In the kalo and poi-based agricultural society, the people of ancient Hawaii were dependent on wetland taro. Great skills were needed to terrace, cultivate and irrigate the land along streams, as well as the social and political skills to maintain it. The planters of wetland taro were practicing engineers, building walls of earth reinforced with stone to enclose the lo`i (pond field). Along the banks of the lo`i were planted mai`a (banana), ko (sugarcane), ki (ti), and wauke (paper mulberry) for kapa cloth, also known as tapa. In the pond field, several varieties of fish were grown, such as `awa, `ama`ama, o`opu and aholehole. An acre of wet lo`i could produce 3 to 5 tons of food per year. Dryland taro was grown in the lower forests where the soil was rich and the rainfall sufficient. Stone borders surrounded these gardens and can still be found on a forest hike.

Today there are still functional lo`i along the Keanae, Wailua and Hana coastlines of Maui, as well as other locations throughout these Hawaiian Islands.

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In planting both wetland and dryland taro, the huli, the planting material, consists of a 1/2 inch thick slice of the top of the kalo (corm, from which derives the plant’s name) attached to 6 to 10 inches of the leaf-stem. These protrude above the water or dryland where planted.

The bottom of the corm/root is saved for cooking and eating, making taro a recyclable plant. In 6 to 12 months, depending upon plant variety along with soil and water conditions, the taro should be ready to harvest. Each parent tuber produces from two to l5 `oha, side tubers of corms, up to 6 inches in diameter. `Oha means specifically the suckers or shoots concentrically growing from the corm of the kalo/taro plant. Knowing this, it is easy to understand why the Hawaii family as a group is termed `ohana, which literally means “all from the shoots”.

Before kalo can be eaten, all parts of the plant must be cooked, in order to break down the needle-like calcium oxalate crystals present in the leaves, stem and corm. These could be extremely irritating to the throat and mouth lining, causing an acrid burning and stinging sensation.

Every part of Kalo can be used as either food or medicine.
Every part of Kalo can be used as either food or medicine.

Lu`au – Taro Leaf Lu`au is the name of the edible taro leaf, from the word lau, leaf. The lu`au leaf is another kinolau of Lono. Lu`au supplies high amounts of vitamins A, B and C, as well as calcium, iron, phosphorus, thiamine and riboflavin. The cooked corm and poi have fewer vitamins, but are an excellent carbohydrate source and have the ability to balance the pH factor in the body, as they are an alkali producing food.

The following are a few of the medicinal uses of poi and the kalo plant.  Poi is used to settle the stomach. Mixed with ripe noni fruit, it can be applied topically for boils. Poi can be mixed with pia (arrowroot starch) and taken for diarrhea. Undiluted poi is sometimes used as a poultice on infected sores. A piece of taro stem, haha, can be touched to the skin to stop surface bleeding. Some infections respond to the use of taro leaves mashed with Hawaii salt. This poultice can be applied to an injury, covered and wrapped with a large taro leaf. For a sting from an insect, the stem can be cut and rubbed on the afflicted area.

Mud from the taro patch was used as a black dye for lauhala and kapa cloth, while some leaf-stem juice yielded red dye. Also, diluted poi was used as a paste to glue together pieces of kapa cloth.

The kalo plant is said to be the hiapo, the number one sibling. It is also said to be the kinolau, the body form, of Kane, the procreator. The small round depression where the taro stalk meets the leaf surface is called the piko, from whence comes the name for the human belly button.

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Advice On The Secret To A Loving And Happy Marriage – by Khalil Gibran

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Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

 

From Khalil Gibran’s classic, The Prophet

Alzheimer’s Disease: Prevention, Tests, Screening | Berkeley Wellness

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William Jagust, MD, a professor of public health and neuroscience at UC Berkeley, explains new scans that look for signs of early Alzheimer’s disease, and how they are being used to develop new drugs to slow—and perhaps even stop—this cruel disease.

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On Buddhism and Psychodelics (Parts 1 through 3)

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Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZyeYH4xKoaY
Part 3: http://youtu.be/pcmwZdHA-iE

Buddhism and Psychedelics: A Community Discussion with Kokyo Henkel and James Fadiman

On Saturday, October 20, 2012, Rev. Kokyo Henkel and James Fadiman, Ph.D., engaged a diverse crowd in Santa Cruz with a discussion about the similarities between psychedelic and Buddhist experiences.

Rev. Kokyo Henkel has been practicing Zen Buddhism since 1990 at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, and Bukkokuji Monastery in Japan. He was ordained as a priest and received Dharma Transmission from Tenshin Anderson Roshi, and is currently the Head Teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center.

James Fadiman, Ph.D., author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (2011) has been teaching about, working with and doing research on psychedelic and entheogenic experiences for decades. He has taught at Brandeis, San Francisco State, Stanford, and is now at Sofia University.

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How One Simple Breathing Technique Can Induce Better Health | Wake Up World

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Believe it or not, there are different ways to breathe which have different effects on the body and our health. By simply working on our breathing technique we can induce good health, both physiologically and mentally. In this article I will explain how our breathing effects the human body. I will then off you a simple breathing technique you can practice yourself. By Guest Writer Lorraine Ereira

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Second Opening of The 999 Portal 09/18/2016: The Gift of Inner Peace & Healing of Conflicts — Love Has Won

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Posted by Gostica, 09/17/2016

Continues the journey into the very evolutionary planetary aspects of this month September 2016. We therefore have arrived in the vicinity of the second portal, that of 18/09/2016 (999), just out of the Hall of Eclipse. All the movements we are feeling inside and see outside are meant to ferry us into a new self, which lies dormant within us. This Self is our brightest part, our inner angel who requires to remind us of its existence.Thanks to these steps we will be able to complete a process of awakening that began as early as 2012. We are landing on the New Earth, which is above all an inner magical place. From the astrological point of view, this portal is characterized by masculine and powerful planetary aspects involving the Sun (vocation), Mars (action) and Uranus (flashing light) in the first place.

While in the First Portal 09.09.2016 planets gave shape to a real gateway to the new frequency of the Heart, this second one seems to be the integration of the same in individual and relational level, so to say collective.From Aries, the first cardinal sign, which acts as a door opener to what is to come, starts the ray of retrograde Uranus, planet of Light, which is to meet Venus in Libra (grace and harmony) to the same degree (23 °) . This activates the axis of the Relationship between “I Am and We Are”. And from here it all begins, from the level of the relationships that we weave with the loved ones.Uranus also forms a trine with Mars in Sagittarius(action aimed at the development of the mission of life), in its turn at 23°. The Male (Mars) and Female (Venus) are activated by the same frequency of Light to make peace between them, within us, in the alchemical marriage between the two cerebral hemispheres united through the body, and outside of us, which will show their weaknesses that can be seen and, if desired, healed. Its time to realize with sincere hart that the responsibility is always 50%. It ‘s time to unify the opposites within us. This is the greatest gift of the Second 999 Portal. The new heart frequency finds space inside a soul which tends to regard the unity as a life purpose. And everything is One and All exists In the One. There are no separations. Thus we find the Peace within and thus to bring Peace outside.Another important aspect, is the opposition between the Sun (sense of self) at 25° of the Virgin and Chiron (healing karmic / Inner Child) retrograde at 22° Pisces. This is another great opportunity for healing, when the Sun, which is our conscious part, looks upon karma, everything that is heavy and that we do not love in ourselves. Every time that we behaved as if we were our greatest enemies, remaining in clearly uncomfortable situations from an emotional point of view or existential or professional and we felt helpless, frustrated and seemingly unable to move.Now we will see it, and by bringing light and awareness in the darkness, in that fear, in that terror, in that uncomfortableness we will learn to love it. It will melt in that light and slip away. Then we just have to wait for the completion of the integration process, letting our whole human system to be aware of the change of consciousness. And there it needs training: breathing, meditation, self-observation, silence. So we get out of the reactivity and get into the choice.Beyond that, Chiron retrograde is involved in a multiple aspect with Mars and Venus. The inner strength (Mars) will ensure that in the process of awareness you will not fall into being the victim, which is the appearance in the shade of Chiron. Mars in this case is the inner voice that gives us discipline and presence.As for the Chiron in Pisces / Venus in Libra, it is a magical Quincunx, to find our way back after having sought for an entire time. And it is the way of grace and harmony, which makes every pain vanish.It will be an interesting journey, during which everyone will find what he is looking for a long time. Have a nice trip!

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