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Encounters
The magnificent churches and cathedrals along the Camino are shrouded in mystery and legend. Overlooking the town of Estella is an impressive modern Basilica. It is built on the hilltop where in 1085 shepherds were attracted by a cluster of stars. Hidden in a cave they found the image of the Virgin Mary. First of all a chapel was built, and then a Baroque church and finally in 1951 a star-shaped basilica recreating the intense light effect that was produced when the carving was discovered. In the interior a 14th-century Gothic image of the Virgin of the Puy from the 14th century is conserved.
After leaving Estella on a beautiful meandering path, Alyce walks ahead to the village of Villamayor. She finds the church open. An elderly man, who looks like a priest, appears from nowhere, asking her to come over. He showers her with blessings and prayers of protection, grabbing her by her shoulders and giving her a long hug. Alyce feels this wave of energy coming her way. What we don’t know at that time is that our friend from the US, Jim, met the same man at the same place only a few minutes earlier. He gives Jim a match to light a candle before a silver processional cross. Jim is at that moment overwhelmed by a truly spiritual experience, momentarily falling to his knees. That evening Alyce and Jim share their experiences with me, still moved by the encounter. But the next day we meet the man who runs the Albergue in Villamayor. He tells us he knows of no old man or priest in the village. The church is in fact mostly locked with the pilgrims often complaining about this. The real priest is in fact a young man. So who was the stranger giving blessings to the passing pilgrims?
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Days on the Camino
We’ve been on the Camino since July 30th, starting our walk along the Arles Route from Lourdes. We have met some fascinating people on the Way, while walking through drenching rain, searing heat and spending nights in Albergues with 30 strangers in the same room. Its an emotional topsy-turvy and especially during the first few days you ask yourself: Why am I doing this?
Since my first walk on the Camino in 2006 I’ve been hooked on this experience because this walk is so much more than just a hike. You can indeed walk this route like a physical endeavour but if you open yourself to the mystery of this path it will teach you so many things. Someone said to me yesterday that the Camino is an analogy of life. You have highs and lows, beauty and ugliness, pain and joy, company and loneliness. In the end you just have to go step by step and deal with things as they come. However, the feeling that you are being carried and guided by some higher force gets more intense as you go along. We are body and soul and the soul part is in the end what its all about.
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Reconnecting by walking the Camino
Tomorrow my wife Alyce and I are starting our walk on the Camino from the French town of Lourdes. Its time to walk things off again and to reconnect on many levels after a more than challenging year. For centuries, if not longer, countless people have walked these ancient paths mainly as an inner and outer spiritual journey. It is believed that prior to it becoming the mainly Christian St. James Way the Celtic people had walked these ceremonial paths in paying homage to the Earth Goddess.
Over the years I’ve walked several Camino routes alone, with a good friend, in a group and with my wife. I’ve been asked so why walk the Camino if you can go on a hike anywhere else? Whats the big deal? Why are so many thousands of people in modern times rediscovering this ancient pilgrimage route and taking time out to “walk things off”.
I’ve had some of the most interesting meetings with people from all walks of life on the Way. Some take time out after having lost a loved one, or having recovered from a serious illness or finding themselves at a crossroads in life. Others simply enjoy the walking. But nobody I know has gone home from the Camino without it having triggered something something in their lives. Its been a long tradition to leave a stone at these kilometre markings as a sign of respect to previous pilgrims, or to let things go that you no longer need in your life, or in memory of a cherished person.
During the Middle Ages it was common for at least one member of a family to go on the pilgrimage to “cleanse” the family line of “sins”. Many never came back. It was an arduous route in those times with many people dying of disease and illness. Today practically every town caters towards the pilgrims with good food and comfortable accommodation. The route is well-marked although every pilgrim will tell a story of having got “lost in the way.” It is part of the process of reconnecting, finding ones rhythm and getting back into ones own space.
This time we will be walking about 270 km over two weeks from Lourdes to Puenta La Reina, taking things as they come. We will keep you posted.
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“Glücks-erlebnis” – es kommt darauf an, wofür wir unser Geld ausgeben
Unser Glück ist das was wir an positiven Erlebnissen haben und nicht das was wir an materiellen Gütern besitzen oder haben wollen
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r stehen immer wieder vor der schwierigen Entscheidung: Geben wir unser Urlaubsgeld tatsächlich für einen Urlaub aus oder nutzen wir es, um neue Möbel oder Kleidung zu kaufen.
Für einige Tage erfreuen wir uns an den neuen Sachen. Es ist dennoch erstaunlich wie schnell der Reiz an dem Neuen verflogen ist und ein Frustgefühl hinterläßt – schon halten wir nach dem nächsten zu kaufenden Gegenstand Ausschau.
Wenn wir Menschen darauf ansprechen uns auf eine Erlebnisreise zu den Delfinen und Elefanten nach Südafrika zu begleiten, hören wir immer wieder: “Würde ich ja gerne mal machen, ist mir aber zu teuer.” Es ist eine Falle in die wir alle tappen.
Die beiden Forscher Leaf van Boven und Thomas Gilovich haben sich schon 2003 mit der Frage beschäftigt, ob es uns glücklicher macht, unser Geld in materielle Güter zu investieren, oder darin, etwas zu erleben, wie Urlaube, Konzertbesuche oder Restaurantbesuche.
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Nutrition and cancer
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
By Alyce and Reino Gevers
The sad truth about conventional cancer treatment is that little attention is being given to how big an influence nutrition and acidity in the body has on the outbreak of the disease. Cancer cells feed in an acidic environment and yet very few doctors and hospitals are looking at the connection between diet and cancer.
At the beginning of the last century, the processed food industry was still in its infancy. The connection between mass consumption of processed foods and the diseases of modern times such as cancer can be seen when looking at the slide from the New England Journal of Medicine. Processed foods include many substances such as unnatural flavors, preservatives sugars and salts that over the years form a toxic cocktail in the body, creating a fertilizer for cancer…
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The Profit Of Not Curing Cancer
Unbelievable from today’s perspective: Doctors actually pronounced smoking as safe. Today we are eating a junk food diet with too much sugar that is causing cancer, diabetes and many other diseases. In a few decades people will look back and say: How could this have been possible?
This is an article which I wrote that was published in Monetary Intelligence Magazine in March 2009. It’s clear that the hype we receive on a great many “studies and statistics” from our government agencies is misleading at best. As someone who has gone through her own cancer scare, this information makes me feel so abandoned by a country I love.
History of Errors
In the December 1959 issue of American Medical Association Journal, an editorial was published that boldly stated there was insufficient evidence “to warrant the assumption” that cigarette smoking was the principal factor in the increase of lung cancer. Who were the medical experts who authored such blatant falsehoods? Dr. Ian MacDonald, a prominent cancer surgeon, and Dr. Henry Garland, an internationally recognized specialist in radiology. These two individuals made national headlines with their claims. In fact, Dr. Garland specifically stated that…
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Muscle tension and stress
Thought I would reblog this as it fits with my previous article on reconnecting with the web of life
Psychological stress and tension affects us on many levels. A stiff neck and shoulders or back pain are typical symptoms.
When we face stress the body is flooded by stress hormones such as adrenalin, noradrenaline and cortisol. These cause the muscles to tighten up. In extreme cases the muscle fibres pressure the blood vessels causing circulatory disorder that can trigger inflammation.
A good circulation is particularly important to flush acidic waste or other products from cell tissue. Lack of nutrients and too much acidity typically cause fatigue and pain.
We might feel a stinging pain, sensitivity to pressure and limitation to body movements. Tense muscles or pain causes further tensing-up which puts us into a vicious cycle of stress and pain.
With most people doing office jobs we are top-heavy, meaning there is a lot of pressure and tension in the upper part of the body with the lower abdomen…
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30 Positive Things About Life
Nice thought of the day: If you have a purpose, stay focused and consistent and believe in yourself and your dreams, you can make them come true.
We all get upset every now and then and lose hope, think that things will never get better and we probably won’t have the life we’ve always been dreaming about.
But that’s not true.
Let’s not live in the prison of being sad and depressed because of momentous stuff, other people, daily problems or outer factors.
Positivity can be kept throughout the whole year and once you get used to this attitude towards life, you’ll become much more contented with who you are and the way things turn out.
You’ll be smiling more, will focus on the good stuff in your life and that will make you considerably more satisfied and peaceful.
Here are some things to keep in mind that will remind you of how good life actually is:
- Everything you don’t like about yourself and your life can be changed.
- Happiness is right here, in the present moment.
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Are you into conspiracy theory?
A broad cross-section of people I have come across lately believe in conspiracy theories. The argument mostly goes like this: The world is being ruled by a small group of people who decide and control most of the things that happen in the world today from political decision-making to technological invention.
Conspiracy theorists seem to have moved from the fringe to the mainstream. Here is the top 10 list of conspiracy theories compiled by Time magazine:
- The JFK Assassination
- 9/11 Cover-Up
- Area 51 and the Aliens
- Paul Is Dead
- Secret Societies Control the World
- The Moon Landings Were Faked
- Jesus and Mary Magdalene
- Holocaust Revisionism
- The CIA and AIDS
- The Reptilian Elite
Some conspiracy theories in history have in fact been proven true, like the Nixon cover-up in the Watergate affair, the Iran-Contra affair and the Libyan involvement in the terror attack on the Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. One of the most absurd allegations during South Africa’s apartheid era also turned out to be true many years later. Research was actually being conducted on a virus that would only kill the blacks.
But there is a need to be a bit more sceptical when it comes to some of the conspiracy theories out there. The common thread seems to be to find a way to explain in simplistic terms many of the events happening in a world of growing complexity. A lot of people have the tendency to form an opinion and then verifying what they believe with some information on the Internet. On closer scrutiny the article or website turns out to be a badly written diatribe of a single opinion without any valid sourcing or solid evidence
Take the story on the so-called “fake moon landing”. I cannot possibly imagine thousands of people working on such a complex space project over many years and all of them keeping a “fake made in a Disney film studio” a secret for decades. The world is so intricate and complex that the truth in the end always comes out. A cover-up, especially if many people are involved, simply doesn’t work. It is a human tendency to tell their family and friends “a secret.” Someone will always spill the beans.
The issue that needs to be addressed is the gullibility with which every half-truth, speculation and downright wacky theory is being claimed as truth while sound investigative journalism, scientific study or a judicial finding is being ignored or slammed as being part of this conspiracy thing. Part of the problem is that established media is not doing its job and has lost credibility by placing emphasis on superficial entertainment instead of being a watchdog on society and itself blasting some of these theories into the world without verifying the facts. A growing number of people feel alienated in a fast-changing society and are seeking simple answers.
Conspiracy theories first and foremost feed on fear. Here lies the bigger problem. Fear breeds irrationality and a victim mentality. It is just a short step away from blaming a religious or racial minority, the politicians, the media or anyone else for all that is going wrong in the world. It’s a “cop out” mentality of refusing to stand up and taking responsibility.
We have the freedom of choice on most things that matter. Health and personal happiness is a choice. It is a choice of what we eat, how we exercise, what we read, what people, family and friends we want to spend our time with and especially what information we are feeding our minds with.
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