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COLONY
AN
UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE LEADS TO SOME
PROFOUND PHILOSOPHY
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Please see the
article "Degrees of Awareness -
Making a Positive Impact", which is
extremely relevant to the aims of this
site.
and
John Lennon - in
the Collective Consciousness – Being
Real.
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COLONY
She first noticed the itching after
returning from a trip to North Africa.
Then the sores came - red blistery
things.
At first she thought it was skin cancer
because the area she noticed it first
appear on was where she had most caught
the sun - the top of her chest.
But this was also the area she had
applied lots of cream to, and she knew
that her skin did not like cream, and
that it could cause all sorts of issues
using it.
Then she realised that it was spreading -
like a living thing, and now included
brown mole things and some white patches
- so she knew that the heat of the sun
plus the moisture from the cream had
provided an ideal environment for
something other than herself to flourish
on her skin.
She started treating it with rosemary oil
which dried it out quite well, and also
pulled out a lot of muck - like an
astringent cleansing effect.
Then as it continued to spread down her
body, particularly under her breasts, she
continued to add more treatments,
alternating them as seemed fit.
Vinegar, salt, athletes foot powder, plus
tea trea oil and other disinfecting baths
to ensure that every bit of her was at
least given an antiseptic treatment.
She didn't want
to go to the doctor because she knew she
would either be given a greasy cream
which would tend to make it worse, or
some nasty medicine
to try to attack it from the inside out.
She already had other medical
issues that would be made worse by taking
antibiotics etc.
Her immune system and general metabolism
were already struggling, and her gut was
probably not in balance either.
She was doing her damndest to counter all
this with an excellent diet and didn't
want any medicine that would blow all
that, unless it became absolutely
essential.
So she continued with her regime, and
with wearing loose clothes that covered
her skin well but didn't make it too hot,
and with doing lots of washing.
She chose a few sets of clothing and 2
towels that she kept re-washing and
re-using rather than risking anything
possibly spreading into other clothes.
She appeared to be getting on top of the
thing. It had spread quite a lot,
but then seemed to be really drying out
and dying back.
The awful sense of something crawling was
gone for the moment.
But while some bits were certainly dying
out, there were still fresh bits breaking
out even in the midst of dry areas,
plus bits still trying to spread,
suddenly appearing somewhere else.
The next thing she added to her regime
was bicarbonate of soda - to make her
skin dry and alkaline - not a conducive
environment, plus she kept up with
the oils inbetween whiles for antiseptic
and astringent purposes.
She noticed that if she
attacked one area afresh, she could
actually feel a squirming somewhere else
on her body, as if different parts of the
colony were
somehow communicating with each other.
This actually helped her to find
new bits that she handed yet noticed, and
apply her treatments there as well.
She tried to meditate, something she
usually found easy, and loved to do a lot
of, but there was a denseness blocking
the pathways it seemed.
Also when she visualised any natural
environment, something that had always
brought her peace and joy before, she
felt afraid.
Something seemed to scream
"No!" No hill, no trees,
no sand, no water, what!?
It was as if her mind was rejecting
nature now that her body had been invaded
by it.
She knew from her nutritional studies
that the DNA of our gut bacteria affects
us, even how we think. If it is out of
balance it has a negative effect on
our all-round well-being. So she supposed
the same might apply to a fungal
invasion. Further studies showed
that
unbalancing invasions of our guts
particularly can even cause our bodies to
produce substances which benefit them,
but not us!
The feeling of it affecting her
consciousness freaked her, and she
managed to get hold of some iodine.
(You can't get it in chemists anymore as
it seems someone has decided it is
dangerous for the plebs to have access to
it, but you can get it easily online.)
Applying this seemed to really knock it
for six, but it did cause her to go into
a kind of state of shock from the pain,
which lasted several hours,
so that all she could do was lie in bed
and use all her powers to try to calm
down.
She took selenium supplements to try to
help balance out all the iodine she was
putting into her system, and hoped that
it wouldn't affect her thyroid
negatively.
A whole layer of dried skin peeled off in
some areas but after several days she
could see new red bits popping up.
A second application helped again, but
still did not get rid of it completely,
and it had now also spread to other
places she could not apply it.
She decided she really had better visit
the doctor at this point. Sure
enough the doctor did give her a cream,
although she agreed that it was better
for her
not to have antibiotics. She said
that this cream should be okay because it
was not a steroid. She said that
sometimes steroid creams did make it
worse,
but that this one should be tried.
At first this cream did seem to
make it worse - the moisture just
provided a good environment for it - so
she returned to using
tea tree oil, mostly in her bath, and
rosemary oil with cotton oil to clean it
out. She also applied athletes foot
powder to keep it dry anytime she had to
go out.
These measure seemed to keep it pretty
much at bay. But she felt it very
hard to relax around others, so it was
easier to keep herself to herself as much
as possible.
She had felt reassured at least by the
Doctor saying it was only a fungal
infection and was not contagious unless
someone actually really rubbed up against
an affected area of skin, but she wasn't
a hundred percent sure the doc was right.
The doc said that the area on the
top of her chest was more due to sun
damage
and she should moisturise it, but she
herself was pretty sure that she needed
to get rid of all the other stuff before
applying moisturising cream,
and that the other stuff was definitely
on that part of her skin as well as all
the other many areas. The nature of
the growth differed quite a bit from one
area
to another, but in some areas it had
several manifestations, so she knew for
sure it was all part of the same thing.
Some bits were more wart like
and others more papule like. The
rosemary oil actually made the papules
burst and clear up substantially, but
then dried bits still clung on.
As all of her skin became more dried out
she found she could apply the cream the
doctor had given her more, and some
coconut oil, sparingly inbetween the
other
self chosen treatments. She was
quite worried about the effects of what
was happening to her skin on her overall
health and wanted to start
re-moisturising
as soon as possible, but had to do this
with great caution, bit by bit. At
one point she boiled up a lot of crushed
garlic and spread that over her skin
before going to bed, sleeping with it
under an old track suit a couple of
times. This seemed to have a really
good effect and did not dry her out too
much.
She felt much better both mornings after
she had done that. But if you ever
wanted proof that what we put on our
skins goes right into our bodies -
the fact is that each time she did this
it made her pass garlic smelling wind for
days afterwards.
This is why we need to be so careful what
chemicals we expose ourselves to -
externally as well as internally.
She was also ensuring she drank lots of
water to help clear things out from the
inside. She was actually quite
thirsty so this was quite easy to do.
She was also drinking a lot of herbal tea
to try to cut down on the sugar she had
in normal tea, because she knew that
undesirable things used sugar
in our bodies to grow. She soon got
to not even really like the taste of
sugary things anymore, and she also
decided to start cutting out milk,
as she knew this could also be an issue
for her, and it was easier to do now
along with her other dietary changes.
Not coconut milk though -
that is really good for you. The
medium chain fats from it are essential
for us, and do not make us fat. She
had started including this, and coconut
water,
in her diet when she had found out she
was hypothyroid about a year previously.
Coconut water is fantastic for
keeping hydrated.
She could now meditate fine again, so
felt it certainly had less of a hold on
her. She was feeling pretty tired
though, and struggled to keep up with
things
she wanted to do, so she eventually
relaxed about this and took some time out
to rest, especially when it was warm
enough to sit outside in the fresh air.
She did have some good days where she got
through lots of studying. She made
good progress on her nutrition course,
and also researched essential oils,
as she had felt drawn toward using some
others that she had. She found from
her research that she had been
intuitively wanting to use all the right
things.
So she followed through with using those,
and ordered a few more to add to her
collection. These oils have simply
amazing properties, and so many of them
are antifungal, cleansing, antiseptic,
detoxing, anti-inflammatory,
anti-spasmodic, and calming; plus they
smell and feel great. Some of them
also help
to rejuvenate the skin cells, so would
help repair her damaged skin. Many
of them have other hugely beneficial
properties too, such as boosting
the immune system, balancing hormones,
and helping the thyroid - all things she
could really benefit from.
They are also much more potent
antioxidants than fruit and veg, and a
few of them have some other fantastic
claims about things they can help us
with.
She was thinking a lot more about life on
earth, partly due to her nutrition course
(which included some exciting information
about epigenetics
and how we could switch bad genes off and
good ones on through what we ate &
drank, did, thought, felt, etc.), and
partly due to other studies she did
on the internet, including about the
essential oils. She felt she was
being called back to consider the meaning
of her life somewhat - what she was
doing,
or should be focusing on. The
information about microbes and plants
fascinated her, and she remembered that
she had done some shamanic work
with plants before - quite out of the
blue actually - and that she had had a
very vivid dream/vision about being told
she should work more with plants.
Chemistry was also something she had
always wished she had studied at school
because she did find it so interesting,
but you couldn't do it at her school
without
physics, and the mathematical side of
that would have been difficult for her.
The chemistry of how natural food
works for us is amazing,
and it is extraordinary how there is
always some specific food that could help
correct any problem, through providing
just the right nutrients.
It seems almost as if our Garden of Eden
has been made especially to suit us!
There are things that nothing else uses
but that are essential to us, and
everything we need to support a good diet
and human health is there.
All parts of plants have specific
properties and uses - roots, flowers,
leaves. The scents and colours of
things tell us a lot about them too.
She lay on the grass under the blue sky
one spring morning, when her skin problem
had well receded, and had a most
beautiful sensation
of reconnecting with Mother Earth at a
very deep level.
Our incredible planet
provides us with all the things needed to
sustain life, and yet we desecrate it -
digging into her body and leaving huge
scars,
shaving her skin of vast swathes of
forest, pumping out poisons into the air,
pouring pollutants into soil and water
that our own lives depend so
fundamentally upon.
The planet is really good at rebalancing
itself, adapting, regrowing, but not
under such continual and massive
onslaught.
We are like a fungus on her body,
changing her nature, and something she
might even want to fight off.
The humans in control don't seem to care,
they just want to make more money.
How stupid! What are they going to
do with it all?
There seems no point in owning anything
to excess, in fact it is probably quite
bad for us in the same way that consuming
anything in excess is.
If I had access to so much money, I would
spread it about helping others and
helping try to bring things more into
balance - I wouldn't hoard it.
But those in control don't seem to want
to help people, they seem to want less of
us. So they make wars, which also
make them more rich, and they feed us
poisons.
They put the toxic by-products of all
their nasty industrial profiteering, war
making, and plundering - into our food,
air, and water.
They even call us the "useless
eaters". So if you are
trusting enough to consume the things
they send our way, they will just laugh
it off,
saying that we deserve to be ill because
of it. Big pharma is suspect too.
Many medicines have nasty
side-effects, and keep you locked into a
cycle
that good nutrition might be able to get
you out of. For goodness sake do
your own research and take care of your
own health.
Take yourself out of their other
systems as much as possible too. Do
you really want to be perpetuating their
destructive ways and keeping them
in a position of control over us?
Financial systems can be collapsed
at any time, as they have been in the
past, so that banks can collect
properties
from defaulted loans, and then normal
business is restarted for the next round
of inflation then scoop.
(SHADOW OF MAN/WOMAN)
So, are humans a pox in the earth - like
a fungal colony out of control - or are
humans only here because of microbes in
the first place?
We are more microbe than anything else!
The microbes in our digestive
tracts contain far more DNA than is in
the rest of our bodies.
If they are in balance then the human
lives in symbiosis with them, but if they
are not balanced then the human gets
sick.
They affect what nutrients we can or
can't absorb, how well our body systems
work, and even how our brain works.
They can make us produce things that
support their growth more than ours, so
the bad bacteria can perpetuate
themselves more and more,
and squeeze out the good bacteria.
We can't function without the good
bacteria, as they perform necessary
actions on our behalf.
So human life on this planet is totally
dependant on microbes, and the huge
diversity of plant life, as well as the
sun, air, soil and water needed for any
of it to grow.
In fact we depend on some of it even to
make the oxygen we breathe, and to
process our natural by-products.
Did microbes even make us? Are we a
colony evolved into a more complex form
because of them? Are those among us
who are akin to the bad bacteria
taking over far too much control?
Can we detox by withdrawing from
engaging with their systems? Should
we truly take responsibility for our
health
on local and global social levels as well
as individually? As John Robbins
said recently, "Ignorance is not
bliss, it is subordination".
We know that the world is in imbalance at
every level, in our relationships with
each other on a 1:1 basis, as well as on
a community and global basis,
and that even in the natural world there
are imbalances. In fact the world
probably needs some level of imbalance to
enable dynamic existence,
though sometimes we label natural things
as either good or bad incorrectly, when
they are all a necessary part of the
whole.
All types of things need to co-exist in
order for the whole to thrive, and we
should celebrate diversity.
However, this does not mean we should not
strive to create more balance in our
lives, and at every level.
Life itself is self-organising - but that
depends on the 'good' side being able to
somehow keep its end up - so we can't all
just lie down and succumb
to the big bad bacteria / powerful
corporations & organisations - we
have to fight back - in the same way you
would want to re-establish
the health of the colony in your gut, or
on your skin - so that you can once again
thrive.
When we are balanced, then we can turn to
greater things - creativity and
inventiveness that makes sense - that
encourages and maintains balanced life,
that allows us to evolve sustainably
instead of landmining ourselves, so that
we, and our beautiful, amazing planet can
truly be the Garden of Eden,
and not some bombed out battleground.
Any colony that gets out of balance will
eventually kill itself because it kills
its very host.
Please care enough to open your eyes, get
informed, and stand up for the hope of
our world.
Please be healthy, keep on learning and
growing.
Footnotes:
It seems that many people are
picking up such fungal invasions from
polluted seas,
and that might be what happened in this
case, during a trip to North Africa.
Also the fact that the author's immune
system is already compromised
and her thyroid underactive, apparently
make her more prone to such things.
All the more reason to try to get more
educated on taking responsibility for
one&rsquos own health.
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suggested words to start with -
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Individually,
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collective subconscious - by meditating - then
thinking,
speaking, chanting, singing - whatever suits you
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the words, or phrases, to embed them.
Just tune
in at the same time as other people or groups.
Please see the article
Degrees of Awareness
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This article is very relevant to the aims of this
site.
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