Posted on 07/23/2013 7:55:25 PM PDT by Kip Russell
>> “Life doesn’t always work out as one plans in one’s youth.” <<
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That can be a good thing.
The Bible stated in a 5000 year old epistle by Enoch that the Earth and all of the planets were spheres.
He also accurately described their motion, millenia before telescopes were supposedly invented.
A wooden navigation device, found within the great pyramid, now commonly known as a celtic cross, proved rather well that the ancients had a firm grasp of spherical trig.
Yes. The knowledge gets lost and rediscovered time and time again. We’ve had many dark ages and renaissances.
Oh, and Enoch? Barley mentioned in the canonical books of the Bible. Ten references mostly genealogy and ages, and he had a city named after him, and he walked with God and was no more.
The epistle Enoch wrote didn’t make the cut, it’s quite literally non-Biblical.
I can relate to that.
The epistle of Enoch was recognized by Yeshua as Biblical, but 300 years later when the pagans formed the catholic church they kicked it out.
It’s the most informative book in the Bible from a geophysical point of view. The pagans didn’t like it because it told the whole truth about the “angels.”
You’re trying to get me to dig out my copy, aren’t you?
“...Thinking the positions of planets affect your life or personality is delusion.”
Can the Moon Affect Healing?
Added by Stasia Bliss on July 17, 2013
Las Vegas Guardian Express
We all know the moon can affect the tide and weather patterns, as well as a woman’s body, but what about healing? Recent studies have shown the moon can affect how quickly one recovers from surgery and even death rates. Why would this be?
In a study done for Acute aortic dissection (AAD) repair performed through the Cardiovascular Institute at Rhode Island it is shown there is lunar impact on recovery from cardiovascular surgery. In fact, the study reports a reduction in death rates during a waning moon and shorter stays in the hospital by up to four days during a full moon.
The ancients have always shown the moon to be a powerful force and would time ceremonies and the preparation of medicinal concoctions based upon it. It has been thought that the new moon offered a new ‘seeding’ energy and the full was for the harvest. The time between the new and the full would ‘draw’ or increase the potency of something, and the time between the full and the new could reduce or ‘pull out.’ For example, if you wanted to make a cleansing concoction, you would prepare it during the time from the full to the new – so the mixture would carry the potency of the reduction. In order to build a system up, the preparation would be made from new to full.
The chief of cardiothoracic surgery and co-director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Rhode Island says: “While there has been previous research of seasonal impacts on cardiovascular disease, there has not been any data about the effect of the lunar cycles on cardiac cases, until now.”
In the case of lower death rates during a waning moon, it would seem the patient was responding to the age-old knowledge which allowed the toxic to be ‘drawn’ out at that time, keeping their strength for recovery. As for the full moon and shorter hospital stays- wisdom would suggest the higher availability of energy in the atmosphere could contribute to feeding the vital essence in the body for someone who might otherwise be weak, allowing for quicker recovery and release from hospital care.
The full moon has long been a time for celebration and powerful ceremonies and in the modern world, always a more active time in the emergency room and the police department, so something is definitely up there. In North America the Farmer’s Almanac is a periodical which has been in print since 1818 and includes moon cycles as they affect weather, planting, harvesting, fishing, tides and health tips. The moon and how it affects us has long been a part of the world’s culture, though in this day and age, spending most of our time inside, rather than out under it – we have forgotten what people have inherently always known.
The moon is a powerful source in our skies and our reality. Without the moon, much would shift in the way of weather, tides and even healing on this planet. Women’s very nature is patterned after the moon, so it is no surprise that the nurturing influence of woman is also found in the cycles of the moon, as astrology has long pointed out – and now, finally, western medicine.
Written by: Stasia Bliss
Sources: The Telegraph; How to use Moon Cycles for Health and Healing; Life Coaching; The Old Farmer’s Almanac
http://guardianlv.com/2013/07/can-the-moon-affect-healing/
It is very fascinating reading, although a bit deep in things we rarely even consider.
Indeed! It’s been too long since I read it.
Are you speaking the distinction between "hard" and "soft" science fiction? If so, might I recommend Stephen Baxter? Given his proclivity for incorporating subjects as diverse as the Big Bang singularity of the past to his Timelike Infinity singularity of the future, the Great Attractor, naked singularities, and the Fermi Paradox, you might find his fiction interesting reading...I certainly do.
Even if you concede the very debatable notion that the Moon can affect you personally, that says nothing about the planets. The Moon doesn't even have a zodiac sign.
The planets are so much further away, and their gravitational influence on your body is so tiny, that it's overwhelmed by the gravitational effects of more local influences. As Carl Sagan said, the doctor standing next to the delivery table has more influence than the planets.
And that too ignores the fact even if you could feel the gravitational influence of the planets it couldn't have any sort of systematic effect on your fate or personality. That's just magical thinking. Completely irrational.
Actually, they did, and much more. The notion of ancient man and culture being ignorant and primitive is a canard. Read “Hamlet’s Mill”.
Yes, but that’s not what astrology is, any more than medicine is thinking that the temperature on the thermometer placed under your tongue causes your fever.
So astrology is the belief that your birth affects the positions of the planets?
I think you need to explain what you think astrology is.
Those scientists also allowed themselves to be bled by “doctors”.
I have just explained. Sorry that you did not understand my analogy of the reading on the thermometer not causing the fever.
Offering an analogy, especially one that doesn’t make any sense on its face, is not explaining.
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