Doctor Cass Naumann, DACOM, LAc. Original Spirit Healing Arts,PLLC

Oral spirokete infection as causation of Alzheimer’s

Up Your Oral Health Game with Salivary Testing: Part 2 We should be the principle healers of the body. We need to test for the keystone pathogens, viruses, and the genes that cause oral infections and systemic disease, and to truly up our game.

"When death is inevitable, the way of dying is important"

Everyone longs for peace in the world. They long to see humankind living in peace and harmony where there is no unrest or threats of riots, strikes and war, and they long to do something to help bring this state about, but don't know how to do it.

Realise that this state of peace and harmony starts with the individual and there is so much each individual can do to help bring it about. First of all learn to go quietly about your daily business, silently blessing everyone and pouring out love to them. By doing this you bring peace and harmony all around you. If you go around feeling annoyed with someone, or are resentful and quarrelsome and are a troublemaker, you are helping to bring about war. Stop and consider this a moment and you will realise what a tremendous responsibility you hold in your hands, how your individual behaviour can tip the balance of the world situation. When you can really take this to heart and do something about it, you will be doing your part to bring about peace in the world.

— Eileen Caddy
(Findhorn Foundation)

How Gut Microbiome Metabolism Serves a Critical Role in Immune System Modulation Can you imagine bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, all coexisting in perfect synergy? Well, that is exactly what we call a healthy microbiome or

Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia? The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past.

On the devotional path, they describe that the surrender is not just the goal, but it's the path itself. Surrender happens by grace and we prepare ourselves for that grace to manifest by these practices, which clean our heart, which clean our karmas, which free us from negativity and our own stories, and our own limitations that we put on ourselves, and the way we treat ourselves and others. That's how we prepare.

Because our deepest wounding, which is always a wounding around love, emerges relationally, it will be most effectively tended, repaired, and healed within a relational field. We are relational beings and all healing is relational in its essence.

The nature of this relationship, and that of the Other, is of the mystery and can take many forms, as a shapeshifter and trickster-ally. It can be astonishing and is sure to never look like we imagined.

The death of an old dream is an essential aspect of the death-rebirth journey, the dream of me and my life and the way it was all supposed to turn out. The invitation is to hold the shattered soul-pieces near and grieve all that we will inevitably lose on the path of awakening and healing.

It is these tears that are the alchemical aqua permanens, which water the seeds of new life. In tending these tears the broken pieces are not mended but revealed to be carriers of light, as they are, in their un-mended state. They are whole and complete in their brokenness, and not in need of being transformed.

It is the Friend, in whatever form It appears, that parts the veil and cleanses our perception, by way of mercy and grace.

That grace is not only the sweet and flowy kind that we cherish and long for – nurturing, holding, containment within the womb of the Divine Mother – but will at times appear in a more fierce and wrathful form, and will reorganize and take us to dust.

This is the grace of the alchemical yellowing, the putrefaction, which is also the activity of love, but is an emanation of its darker side.

It is a coming together of unity and multiplicity, solar and lunar, that reveals a vessel in which love is able to find its way here, incarnating through our bodies, emotions, and imagination.

Whether sweet or fierce, containing or reorganizing, each are grace, and will polish the heart with a unique fragrance of the divine.

Photo by Anton Maskimov

Podcast out today!

A few months ago I sat down with my friend to talk about GOING WITHIN:
we shared stories of awakening, our thoughts on consciousness, and our reverence for the path.

I share a little about the wisdom traditions I’ve studied and am devoted to
and my work with the integration process in the plant medicine community.

Themes are interconnectedness, humility, presence, and peace.

Out now on Spotify, YouTube, and Amazon Music.

A fail-proof trick to get your brain into the flow every morning, according to psychologists Psychology reveals how to train your brain to get into the flow every morning.

National Day of Prayer - A Call for Spiritual Unity

On the Full Moon
Wednesday August 30, 2023

From Sunrise to Noon in your respective Homelands and Territories

The National Turtle Lodge Elders and Knowledge Keepers Council are calling for a National Day of Prayer on the Full Moon Wednesday August 30, 2023.

This Call for a National Day of Prayer is in response to a Dream that Elder Stephen Kakfwi (Dene Nation) received, directing us that we need to offer a collective prayer, lifting our Sacred Pipes, Lighting our Sacred Fires, Sounding our Drums, Singing our Songs, and Praying for all our Relatives across Turtle Island who are suffering and facing challenges.

We ask that you join us from your Homelands and Territories on Wednesday August 30, 2023, as we lift our Pipes, light our Sacred Fires, sing our traditional Songs, smudge, offer our Sacred To***co, and offer prayers in our own traditions in a collective way.

In the spirit of Prayer and Unity,
National Turtle Lodge Elders and Knowledge Keepers Council

Grandmother Jane Meader (Mi’kmaw Nation)
Hereditary Chief Stephen Augustine (Mi’kmaw Nation)
Elder Ed Sackaney (Cree Nation)
Elder Harry Bone, LL.D., C.M. (Anishinaabe Nation)
Elder Allan White (Anishinaabe Nation)
Grandmother Florence Paynter (Anishinaabe Nation)
Elder Philip Paynter (Cree Nation)
Grandmother Katherine Whitecloud (Dakota Nation)
Grandmother Mary Maytwayashing (Anishinaabe Nation)
Knowledge Keeper Robert Maytwayashing (Anishinaabe Nation)
Elder A.J. Felix (Cree Nation)
Grandmother Patricia Felix (Cree Nation)
Elder Morris Little Wolf (Piikani Nation)
Grandmother Betty Ann Little Wolf (Piikani Nation)
Chief Darrell Bob (St’at’imc Nation)
Elder Dr. Barney Williams (Tia-o-qui-aht Nation)
Elder Stephen Kakfwi (Dene Nation)
Knowledge Keeper Antaurko Patsakamaq (Inka Nation)
Knowledge Keeper David Courchene III (Anishinaabe Nation)

MettaModernity: Solving Our Multi-Crises By Sourcing Intelligence In 'Embodied Wisdom' - Switch On Leadership: Transformational Leadership, Teams & Innovation Programs We can transcend modernity's attachment to analysis and abstraction—and the comforts and conveniences which cause so many of our problems—if we ground our intelligence in abiding and embodied care and so repair ruptured relationships

The Ostracon.
This is a 3,200-year-old attendance sheet taken at work in Ancient Kemet/Egypt. The New Egyptian hieratic script was written on limestone in red and black ink and provided information such as the date (season and number), the name of the worker, and the reason for being absent.
For example, on month 4 of Winter, day 24, a worker by the name of Pennub was absent from work because his mother was sick, and he had to take care of her.
Here are some of the other reasons provided for work absence:
1. Drinking with Khonsu
2. His daughter was bleeding
3. Libating to his father
4. Brewing beer
5. Building his house
6. Fetching stone for the scribe
7. With Khons making remedies
8. Making remedies for the scribe's wife
9. Suffering with his eye
10. Embalming Hormose
11. Strengthening the door
12. Embalming his brother
13. His wife is bleeding
14. The scorpion bit him
15. His feast
16. Offering to the god

The Northern Dipper Scripture: The Perfected Scripture of the Upmost Profoundly Numinous Northern Dipper That Prolongs Life and Affects Fundamental Destiny. Parting Clouds Daoist Press is thrilled to present its translation of The Beidou Jing, or The Perfected Scripture of the Upmost Profoundly Numinous Northern Dipper That Prolongs Life and Affects Fundamental Destiny. As its title suggests, this Scripture allows a glimpse into the complexities of D...

The Surprising Synergy Between Acupuncture and AI Now that I work in machine learning, I’m often struck by the parallels between this cutting-edge technology and traditional Chinese medicine.

Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything : Ervin Laszlo : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive NEW SCIENCE / PHYSICS“This important work unifies the realms of science and consciousness in a truly integral ‘theory of everything.’”--Ralph Abraham,...

Toward A Comprehensive Theory Of Subtle Energies

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Subtle realms and modern physics: not mutually exclusive

www.scientificexploration.org

These scientists explain the power of music to spark awe Many of us know that feeling of being transported by a song. Research reveals that listening to music can have profound effects on our mind and body.

Alan Watts - We As Organism A talk from the Philosophy and Society album found at at https://www.alanwatts.com/collections/seminar-series/products/philosophy-and-society

The Root of Zen: An Interview with David Hinton – Lions Roar Randy Rosenthal interviews award-winning translator David Hinton, whose new book, "China Root," goes deep into the Taoist origins of Chan (Zen).

There are two immensely popular and presumably categorical ways we often talk about social change: one, as a matter of "changing the world" and two, as a matter of "changing ourselves." Both ideas, temporarily demarcated here, are not mutually exclusive. In the former, the operative assumption is of a world that is agentially impoverished; a world that is mechanical and clunky and a mere reflection of the luminous intelligence of the human self. "Changing the world" riskily emphasizes an anthropocentric universe with miraculous human actors that are set against a 'background world' of things ultimately reducible to human sociality.

The other idea - that which focuses on "changing ourselves" - deifies consciousness as the very stuff that makes up the universe - and, in so doing, equates a sense of internal wellbeing and "alignment" with harmonious relations. This, of course, like its outward-facing counterpart, centralizes meaning, language, presence, and reflexion. It’s a matter of looking at the “man in the mirror”, getting our priorities straight before addressing the world outside of us.

Both ideas, depending on the same logic, are really the same thing: an apartheid of relations between the self and its context; an affective and desirous configuration of the citizen as a subject of entitlement; a reduction of experience to consciousness. That “we” can “change the world” either by acting upon it from a purity of ideas or by turning inwards is a move that ironically postpones ‘the world’, replacing ‘it’ with a totalizing artefact fitting to modern imaginaries.

What then? Should we not do something then? Should we put up our hands and feet and do nothing? The calculation that balances “failing to turn up” with “nothing happening” misappropriates agency as a human property, and – more critically – is unable to see that agency (or the capacity to respond to/enter relations with) enlists bodies in its ongoing flows and tides and ripples. Even the moral imperatives to address uneven circumstances and oppressive situations are matters of territory subject to and contingent upon ‘larger’ shifts and molecular events in and around us.

When I think about postactivism, I do not think about it as either a surer means to changing the world, changing ourselves, or doing nothing. I think of it as a disruption of the ways we imagine agency and becoming; as a release from sensorial domains and affective pathways that ritualize the familiar; and as a coming alive to other questions about what acting is indebted to. Postactivism is not a turning-inward or a turning-outward, since the architecture that guarantees the twain shall never meet is disarranged by a crack. Postactivism is the betweening of things, a glimpse of the glitch. Autistic perception. Postactivism is the call to congregate with disability as a site of generous undertakings and possibilities.

Postactivism is a turn of grace, a falling off the highway, a disruption of the pheromone trail. A cosmic risk that invites new problems and new questions: can we risk changing the world? Can we risk victory? What else is here?

Bayo Akomolafe

(Picture: Fernand Deligny's wandering lines)

My spiritual home.
You are invited!

To this day there are moments that I get goosebumps or find tears steaming down my cheeks- in awe of the wisdom teachings being shared in my language- by a living teacher- practitioner-scholar -
Sometimes translated in real time as transmission.

We are so incredibly blessed to have this opportunity in this time/place to hear, to study, to learn, to practice, to grow and serve together.

This is the most authentic brilliant tradition I’ve come across in my life.
I’d be happy to share my experiences with you- my journey, my heart.
To connect you to the other beautiful souls that make up parting clouds.

If you’ve been searching for an authentic lineage path- if you’ve been curious to learn more about Daoism- this is your invitation.

Parting Clouds Daoist Education is beginning a new study group. Our time together begins in September. Please contact us in the link in our bio. We look forward to expanding our group of dedicated practitioners, supportive Daoist family, and all-around great community.

"We can start our day with the happiness of a smile and the aspiration to dedicate ourselves to the path of love and understanding. Waking up this morning, I smile.
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."

https://www.chi.is/can-healing-be-stored-and-scaled/

Can Healing Be Stored and Scaled? Two New Papers on the Storage and Scalability of Healing Intention New research from Dr. Bill Bengston reports on the effects of healer treated water on Covid patients.

Podcast has launched!
A few weeks ago I had a day full of laughter and fun with my soul sisters and on the .

We talked holistic medicine, tree medicine, acupuncture, and so much more.

Give it a listen and let us know what you think.
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3QNFR2BLSn3Vdniimkuylc?

Harvard-trained psychologist: If you use any of these 9 phrases every day, ‘you're more emotionally secure than most' Emotionally secure people are confident and comfortable in their own skin. But it takes work to get there. Dr. Cortney Warren, a Harvard psychologist and bestselling author, reveals the phrases that the most emotionally stable people say every day.

There's a resort in Finland where you can camp in a glass igloo and lay back and watch the aurora borealis.

More details/photos: http://bit.ly/3miKwve

Worth a second listen…

‎The Emerald: The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized on Apple Podcasts ‎Show The Emerald, Ep The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized - Feb 20, 2023

We're being instructed by waves.

We're sentient beings made from atoms hiding behind a facade of box car biochemicals designed to hide the "magics" of the cosmos from our reason so we act/do/follow what the recipe requires. This allows the cosmic wand, the Source, to continue to direct our syncytium of atoms across space-time. From above and from below, the heavens instruct our cells how to properly behave to conduct the tissues in our bodies as the instruments which play the melodies capable of soothing our souls.

Frequencies create life and optimizing them is the business of optimizing you in a manufactured world!

Dr Jack Kruse: Deuterium, 4th phase of WATER, & cellular redox | Regenerative Health Podcast Dr Jack Kruse joins me to continue our discussion on WATER and its bio-physical properties as it relates to human health and disease. In this conversation Dr...

Obsessed with incense. And have been offering incense ceremony on occasion.
This looks like an epic experience.

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Il serait naturel qu'un nouveau-né reste sur la poitrine de sa mère pendant au moins une heure après la naissance. ☺️🙏🏽
C'est pourquoi le cordon ombilical ne fait que 50 à 60 centimètres de long, c'est suffisant pour que le bébé atteigne le sein de sa mère. Et maintenant, je ne parle pas seulement de sentiments positifs pour la mère et l'enfant, mais aussi du transfert de sang du placenta. Un quart du sang du nouveau-né est encore dans le placenta au moment de la naissance, et si nous laissons le cordon ombilical intact pendant au moins 25 minutes, le bébé absorbera le sang restant et ne souffrira pas d'anémie.🩷

How a Bit of Awe Can Improve Your Health Experts say wonder is an essential human emotion — and a salve for a turbulent mind.

You’re looking at the newest guest teacher and clinical supervisor at AOMA- graduate school of integrative medicine.

I’ll be teaching medical qigong in the doctoral program starting July.

I love Chinese medicine.
And qigong.
And medical qigong.
And academia. And teaching. And mentoring. And learning from all the places and beings everywhere.

To the next chapter….

Big sugar is bad for your heart. Not fat.
Eat more cheese.

Grana Padano Cheese May Lower Blood Pressure | Ingredient Solutions Italian researchers conducted a trial on 30 hypertensive adults over a 2 month period. They concluded that Grana Padano cheese may lower blood pressure

Reducing chemical exposure is what I call "low hanging fruit" when it comes to managing and becoming more resilient to stress in our lives. Our bodies react to chemicals and heavy metals as an invader and something that needs to be removed. This creates a stress response in the body - and if the body can't remove these invaders, they wreck havoc on our cells and tissues and organs creating more stress in the form of oxidative stress, inflammation etc.

As caregivers we endure A LOT of stress just by the context of our lives. Reducing exposure to stress is a major component of self care. We can't control the context of our situation but we can change how we live in it. Reduce chemical exposure, reduce our stress load.

It doesn't have to happen all at once - every little step counts.

Northern lights expected Wednesday night in US. Here's where and when to see the aurora.