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Do Brain neurons emit Biophotons directly linked to our consciousness?

Posted by: on: November 25, 2017

Scientists Discover Biophotons In The Brain That Could Hint Our Consciousness is Directly Linked to Light!

Scientists found that neurons in mammalian brains were capable of producing photons of light, or “Biophotons”!

The photons, strangely enough, appear within the visible spectrum. They range from near-infrared through violet, or between 200 and 1,300 nanometers.

Scientists have an exciting suspicion that our brain’s neurons might be able to communicate through light. They suspect that our brain might have optical communication channels, but they have no idea what could be communicated.

Even more exciting, they claim that if there is an optical communication happening, the Biophotons our brains produce might be affected by quantum entanglement, meaning there can be a strong link between these photons, our consciousness and possibly what many cultures and religions refer to as Spirit.

In a couple of experiments scientist discovered that rat brains can pass just one biophoton per neuron a minute, but human brains could convey more than a billion biophotons per second.

This raises the question, could it be possible that the more light one can produce and communicate between neurons, the more conscious they are?

If there is any correlation between biophotons, light, and consciousness it can have strong implications that there is more to light than we are aware of.

Just think for a moment.

Many texts and religions dating way back, since the dawn of human civilization have reported of saints, ascended beings and enlightened individuals having shining circles around their heads.

From Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, to teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, among many other religions, sacred individuals were depicted with a shining circle in the form of a circular glow around their heads. (Aura?)

If they were as enlightened as they are described maybe this shining circle was just a result of the higher consciousness they operated with, hence a higher frequency and production of biophotons.

Maybe these individuals produced higher level of biophotons with stronger instensity because of their enlightenment, if there is any correlation between biophotons and consciousness.

Even the word enLIGHTenment suggests that this higher consciousness has something to do with light.

But one of the most exciting implications the discovery that our brains can produce light waves, is that maybe our consciousness and spirit are not contained within our bodies. This implication is completely overlooked by scientists.

Quantum entanglement says that 2 entangled photons react if one of the photons is affected no matter where the other photon is in The Universe without any delay.

Maybe there is a world that exists within light, and no matter where you are in The Universe photons can act as portals that enable communication between these 2 worlds.

Maybe our spirit and consciousness communicate with our bodies through these biophotons. And the more light we produce the more we awaken and embody the wholeness of our consciousness. (Or get more confused and disturbed?)

This can explain the phenomenon of why the state of a photon is affected simply by consciously observing it, as it is proven in many quantum experiments.

Maybe our observation communicates something through our biophotons with the photon that is being observed, in a similar fashion as quantum entanglement, like light is just one unified substance that is scattered throughout our Universe and affected through each light particle.

Of course, nothing of this is even close to being a theory. But asking questions and shooting such metaphysical hypothesis might lead us closer to the truth and understanding of what consciousness is, where it comes from, and what are the mysteries that hide within light.

References:
– http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/there-are-biophotons-in-the-brain-is-something-light-based-going-on;
– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267444/;
– https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08887;
– https://www.livescience.com/28550-how-quantum-entanglement-works-infographic.html;

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A plea for bees? Bees are dying in droves. And mail-delivery queens?

Posted by: on: November 25, 2017

A plea for bees? Bees are dying in droves.

Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis van Engelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature’s important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance.

Dennis van Engelsdorp. 2008 
Bee expert is Acting State Apiarist for Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture, studying colony collapse disorder — the alarming, worldwide disappearance of worker bees and Western honey bees.

What I’d like you to do is sort of, nod to the person on your right, and then nod to the person on your left. (Laughter) Now, chances are that over the last winter, if you had been a beehive, either you or one of the two people you just nodded at would have died.

Now, that’s an awful lot of bees. And this is the second year in a row we have lost over 30% of the colonies, or we estimate we’ve lost 30 percent of the colonies over the winter.

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Most of those losses are because of things we know. We know that there are these varroa mites that have introduced and caused a lot of losses, and we also have this new phenomenon, which I talked about last year, Colony Collapse Disorder.

And here we see a picture on top of a hill in Central Valley last December. And below, you can see all these out yards, or temporary yards, where the colonies are brought in until February, and then they’re shipped out to the almonds. And one documentary writer, who was here and looked at this two months after I was here, described this not as beehives but as a graveyard, with these empty white boxes with no bees left in them.

Now, I’m going to sum up a year’s worth of work in two sentences to say that we have been trying to figure out what the cause of this is. And what we know is that it’s as if the bees have caught a flu. 

And this flu has wiped through the population of bees. In some cases, and in fact in most cases in one year, this flu was caused by a new virus to us, or newly identified by us, called Israeli Acute Paralysis virus. (Nothing good ever comes from Israel?)

It was called that because a guy in Israel first found it, and he now regrets profoundly calling it that disease, because, of course, there’s the implication. But we think this virus is pretty ubiquitous.

It’s also pretty clear that the bees sometimes catch other viruses or other flus, and so the question we’re still struggling with, and the question that keeps us up at night, is why have the bees suddenly become so susceptible to this flu, and why are they so susceptible to these other diseases?

And we don’t have the answer to that yet, and we spend a lot of time trying to figure that out. We think perhaps it’s a combination of factors. We know from the work of a very large and dynamic working team that we’re finding a lot of different pesticides in the hive, and surprisingly, sometimes the healthiest hives have the most pesticides. And so we discover all these very strange things that we can’t begin to understand.

This opens up the whole idea of looking at colony health.
if you lose a lot of colonies, beekeepers can replace them very quickly. And that’s why we’ve been able to recover from a lot of loss.
If we lost one in every three cows in the winter the National Guard would be out. But what beekeepers can do is, if they have one surviving colony, they can split that colony in two. And then the one half that doesn’t have a queen, they can buy a queen. It comes in the mail; it can come from Australia or Hawaii or Florida, and you can introduce that queen.
And in fact, America was the first country that ever did mail-delivery queens and in fact, it’s part of the postal code that you have to deliver queens by mail in order to make sure that we have enough bees in this country. If you don’t just want a queen, you can buy, actually, a three-pound package of bees, which comes in the mail, and of course, the Postal Office is always very concerned when they get your three-pound packages of bees.
And you can install this in your hive and replace that dead-out. So it means that beekeepers are very good at replacing dead-outs, and so they’ve been able to cover those losses. So even though we’ve lost 30 percent of the colonies every year, the same number of colonies have existed in the country, at about 2.4 million colonies.
those losses are tragic on many fronts, and one of those fronts is for the beekeeper. And it’s really important to talk about beekeepers first, because beekeepers are among the most fascinating people you’ll ever meet.
If this was a group of beekeepers, you would have everyone from the card-carrying NRA member who’s live free or die, to the self-expressed quirky San Francisco backyard pig farmer. (Laughter)
And you get all of these people in the same room, and they’re all engaged and they’re getting along, and they’re all there because of the passion for bees.
Now, there’s another part of that community which are the commercial beekeepers, the ones who make their livelihood from beekeeping alone. And these tend to be some of the most independent, tenacious, intuitive, inventive people you will ever meet. They’re just fascinating. And they’re like that all over the world.

I had the privilege of working in Haiti just for two weeks earlier this year. And Haiti, if you’ve ever been there, is just a tragedy. I mean, there may be 100 explanations for why Haiti is the impoverished nation it is, but there is no excuse to see that sort of squalor. But you meet this beekeeper, and I met this beekeeper here, and he is one of the most knowledgeable beekeepers I’ve ever met.

No formal education, but very knowledgeable. We needed beeswax for a project we were working on; he was so capable, he was able to render the nicest block of beeswax I have ever seen from cow dung, tin cans and his veil, which he used as a screening, right in this meadow. And so that ingenuity is inspiring.

We also have Dave Hackenberg, who is the poster child of CCD. He’s the one who first identified this condition and raised the alarm bells. And he has a history of these trucks, and he’s moved these bees up and down the coast. And a lot of people talk about trucks and moving bees, and that being bad, but we’ve done that for thousands of years. The ancient Egyptians used to move bees up and down the Nile on rafts, so this idea of a movable bee force is not new at all.

And one of our real worries with Colony Collapse Disorder is the fact that it costs so much money to replace those dead-out colonies. And you can do that one year in a row, you may be able to do it two years in a row. But if you’re losing 50 percent to 80% of your colonies, you can’t survive three years in a row. And we’re really worried about losing this segment of our industry.

And that’s important for many fronts, and one of them is because of that culture that’s in agriculture.

these migratory beekeepers are the last nomads of America. You know, they pick up their hives;they move their families once or twice in a year. And if you look at Florida, in Dade City, Florida, that’s where all the Pennsylvania beekeepers go. And then 20 miles down the road is Groveland, and that’s where all the Wisconsin beekeepers go. And if you’re ever in Central Valley in February, you go to this café at 10 o’clock in the morning, Kathy and Kate’s. 

And that’s where all the beekeepers come after a night of moving bees into the almond groves. They all have their breakfast and complain about everyone right there. And it’s a great experience, and I really encourage you to drop in at that diner during that time, because that’s quite essential American experience. And we see these families, these nomadic families, you know, father to son, father to son, and these guys are hurting.

they’re not people who like to ask for help, although they are the most helpful people ever. If there’s one guy who loses all his bees because of a truck overhaul, everyone pitches in and gives 20 hives to help him replace those lost colonies. And so, it’s a very dynamic, and I think, historic and exciting community to be involved with.

Of course, the real importance for bees is not the honey. And although I highly encourage you, all use honey. I mean, it’s the most ethical sweetener, and you know, it’s a dynamic and fun sweetener. But we estimate that about one in three bites of food we eat is directly or indirectly pollinated by honeybees.

Now, I want to just illustrate that in the fact that if we look at the breakfast I had yesterday morning — a little cranberry juice, some fruits, some granola, I should have had whole wheat bread, I realized, but you know, jam on my Wonderbread, and some coffee — and had we taken out all those ingredients, — except for the almonds I wasn’t going to pick out from the granola — if we had taken out all those ingredients the bees had indirectly or directly pollinated, we wouldn’t have much on our plate.

So if we did not have bees, it’s not like we would starve, but clearly our diet would be diminished. It’s said that for bees, the flower is the fountain of life, and for flowers bees are the messengers of love.

And that’s a really great expression, because really, bees are the sex workers for flowers. They are, you know — they get paid for their services. They get paid by pollen and nectar, to move that male sperm, the pollen, from flower to flower. And there are flowers that are self-infertile. That means they can’t — the pollen in their bloom can’t fertilize themselves. So in an apple orchard, for instance, you’ll have rows of 10 apples of one variety, and then you have another apple tree that’s a different type of pollen.

And bees are very faithful. When they’re out pollinating or gathering pollen from one flower,they stay to that crop exclusively, in order to help generate. And of course, they’re made to carry this pollen. They build up a static electric charge and the pollen jumps on them and helps spread that pollen from bloom to bloom.

However, honeybees are a minority. Honeybees are not native to America; they were introduced with the colonialists. And there are actually more species of bees than there are mammals and birds combined.

In Pennsylvania alone, we have been surveying bees for 150 years, and very intensely in the last three years. We have identified over 400 species of bees in Pennsylvania. Thirty-two species have not been identified or found in the state since 1950.

Now, that could be because we haven’t been sampling right, but it does, I think, suggest that something’s wrong with the pollinator force. And these bees are fascinating.

We have bumblebees on the top. And bumblebees are what we call eusocial: they’re not truly social, because only the queen is, over winter. We also have the sweat bees, and these are little gems flying around. They’re like tiny little flies and they fly around.

And then you have another type of bee, which we call kleptoparasites, which is a very fancy way of saying, bad-minded, murdering — what’s the word I’m looking for? Murdering —

What these bees do is, they sit there. These solitary bees, they drill a hole in the ground or drill a hole in a branch, and they collect pollen and make it into a ball, and they lay an egg on it. Well, these bees hang out at that hole, and they wait for that mother to fly away, they go in, eat the egg, and lay their own egg there. So they don’t do any work. And so, in fact, if you know you have these kleptoparasitic bees, you know that your environment is healthy, because they’re top-of-the-food-chain bees. 

And in fact, there is now a red list of pollinators that we’re worried have disappeared, and on top of that list are a lot of these kleptoparasites, but also these bumblebees. And in fact, if you guys live on the West Coast, go to these websites here, and they’re really looking for people to look for some of these bumblebees, because we think some have gone extinct. Or some, the population has declined.

And so it’s not just honeybees that are in trouble, but we don’t understand these native pollinators or all those other parts of our community. And of course, bees are not the only important factor here.

There are other animals that pollinate, like bats, and bats are in trouble too. And I’m glad I’m a bee man and not a bat man, because there’s no money to research the bat problems. And bats are dying at an extraordinary rate. White-nose syndrome has wiped out populations of bats. If there’s a cave in New York that had 15,000 bats in it, and there are 1,000 left. That’s like San Francisco becoming the population of half of this county in three years. And so that’s incredible. And there’s no money to do that.

But I’m glad to say that I think we know the cause of all these conditions, and that cause is NDD: Nature Deficit Disorder. And that is that I think that what we have in our society is, we forgot our connection with nature.

I think if we reconnect to nature, we’ll be able to have the resources and that interest to solve these problems. And I think that there is an easy cure for NDD. And that is, make meadows and not lawns. And I think we have lost our connection, and this is a wonderful way of reconnecting to our environment.

I’ve had the privilege of living by a meadow for the last little while, and it is terribly engaging. And if we look at the history of lawns, it’s actually rather tragic. It used to be, two, three hundred years ago, that a lawn was a symbol of prestige, and so it was only the very rich that could keep these green actually, deserts: they’re totally sterile.

Americans spent, in 2001 — 11% of all pesticide use was done on lawns. Five percent of our greenhouse gases are produced by mowing our lawns.

And so it’s incredible the amount of resources we’ve spent keeping our lawns, which are these useless biosystems. And so we need to rethink this idea. In fact, you know, the White House used to have sheep in front in order to help fund the war effort in World War I, which probably is not a bad idea; it wouldn’t be a bad idea.

I want to say this not because I’m opposed completely to mowing lawns. I think that there is perhaps some advantage to keeping lawns at a limited scale, and I think we’re encouraged to do that. But I also want to reinforce some of the ideas we’ve heard here, because having a meadow or living by a meadow is transformational. That it is amazing that connection we can have with what’s there.

These milkweed plants have grown up in my meadow over the last four years. Add to watch the different plants, or insects, that come to these flowers, to watch that — and we’ve heard about, you know, this relationship you can have with wine, this companion you can have as it matures and as it has these different fragrances.

this is a companion, and this is a relationship that never dries up. You never run out of that companion as you drink this wine, too.And I encourage you to look at that.

not all of us have meadows, or lawns that we can convert, and so you can always, of course,grow a meadow in a pot. Bees apparently, can be the gateway to, you know, other things. So I’m not saying that you should plant a meadow of pot, but a pot in a meadow. But you can also have this great community of city or building-top beekeepers, these beekeepers that live — This is in Paris where these beekeepers live.
And everyone should open a beehive, because it is the most amazing, incredible thing. And if we want to cure ourselves of NDD, or Nature Deficit Disorder, I think this is a great way of doing it. Get a beehive and grow a meadow, and watch that life come back into your life.
I think that what we can do, if we do this, we can make sure that our future — our more perfect future — includes beekeepers and it includes bees and it includes those meadows. And that journey — that journey of transformation that occurs as you grow your meadow and as you keep your bees or you watch those native bees there — is an extremely exciting one. And I hope that you experience it and I hope you tell me about it one day.
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Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 90

Posted by: on: November 25, 2017

Notes and tidbits posted on FB and Twitter. Part 90

Note 1: I take notes of books I read and comment on events and edit sentences that fit my style. The page is long and growing like crazy, and the sections I post contains months-old events that are worth refreshing your memory.

Note 2: If you are Not tri-lingual, you will stumble on Arabic notes, written in Latin characters and with numbers representing vocals Not available in Latin languages.

Les Best-Sellers sont nommes pour des personnages deprimes qui se recontent des blagues

Une deviation de la jalousie: Ce mec m’ echauffe les oreilles avec ses lettre a toi. Tiens, il merite un duel.

Une folle. Encore une qui ne sait pas lire, mais qui a des opinions

Je ne te dit pas que je ne doute pas, je m’accroche. Moi, je ne m’accroche pas

Those Lebanese born on August 28 got their best gift in 2017: The Second Liberation Day of all the borders from extremist factions

Elle me rend fou. Non, je suis fou d’elle. Excusez mon Francais.

Je vais te mordre: Je suis tres jalouse. Si c’ est une affair de mordre, va pour cette sorte de jalousie

Quand les entreprises familiales sont nationalisees ou deviennent des societes anonymes, est-ce que les marriages entre familles marchandes cesseront?

Ce que les gens croient une vie peut se resumer a un espace d’un apartement, quand on retranche l’ egoisme indelebile

Beaucoup de litteraires se trouvent a la tangente du monde, jamais hors du monde.

Ce n’ est pas moi qui choisis les turbulances de ce monde. Nous y sommes. Mefie-toi, si tu les ignore, elles vont t’ emporter. Inevitable.

Cette sagesse trop prudente, prude, molle, coincee: ca ne me va plus. Je considere la betise comme une insulte.

Tous les contes sont feeriques, donc erotiques, cauchemars ou resurrections, toujours projets et liens.

Si on refuse les contes feeriques et qu’ on n’ en raconte plus, c’ est qu’ on rejette ce piege de la vie et on s’achemine vite vers le desir du suicide

L’ absence de foi consiste a croire que l’ on ne peut etre heureux au milieu de tant d’ accidents. La difference entre “on ne peut” et “on ne doit pas” discrimine les stoiques des moralistes qui implicitement croient en une religion

What counts is Not how we define our belief system. It is how we behave that demonstrate how we were trained and educated on a set of morals based on a religious doctrine.

La rage d’ aneantir surgit quand le desir s’ eteint et que l’ intelligence des choses cesse avant la vie

La maxime est le language de la passion, qui n’oublie rien mais n’ a pas le temps a perdre: le temps des gens amoureux, entre l’ eternite’ et le point de l’ instant,

J’ ai enfin appris a garder le devouement a une distance respectueuse: Je ne peux plus me hair pour survivre aux infamies

Le devouement cache l’ egoisme qui est la haine de soi: la plupart des gens exige que tu te hais toi-meme

To die for an abstract concept is far easier than to stick to facts and evidence and change our world view

La pensee’ est plus qu’ une action: C’ est la vie meme, qui inclue la fin, la mort

“Considerez ma mort pour mieux relire mes textes”. Les gens pensants livrent leur mort a l’ interpretation: leurs explorations du sens des mota, des symptomes, des reves, des textes, des infamies, des nuits sans fin.

Il faut prevoir une place pour l’ absurde, mais pas dans la mort: on lutte pour donner un sens a notre finalite’ 

La jalousie existe sous ses variations entre la mere at la fille, et entre le pere et le garson

Le gouffre du malaise et du non comprehension existe, sous des variations, entre la mere et le garson, et entre le pere et la fille.

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