Siouxsie and the Banshees - Red Light
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Spinnerette :: Ghetto Love
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The Distillers ; Drain The Blood
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SPINNERETTE :: Baptized By Fire [Official Music Video]
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How to make, Holiday Sushi Candy
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  • Bakery pound cake
  • Powdered mini donuts
  • Marshmallows
  • Fruit Streamers
  • Fruit Roll-Ups
  • Fruit Snacks
  • Swedish Fish

1. Cut pound cake and mini donuts into sushi-sized pieces. Separate Streamers and make into a "roll."

2. Wrap with Fruit Roll-Ups. Top with Fruit Snacks and Swedish Fish.

Enjoy!

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One Spirit Book Club
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Book Club. My mother was a member & soon I will be too. X-citing. I'm such a nerd. ;)



quote
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)


I went to the cafe' yesterday and had a marvelous time..
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..with the allotted time I had, I chose to sit in the neighborhood cafe' and read..

GEMINI horoscopes for Thursday July 31, 2008
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Thursday, Jul 31st, 2008 --
Even if you are satisfied with your daily life now, you have the capability to make it better by focusing your mind. Instead of drifting along in daydreams, take control of them by gently nudging your thoughts in the direction of more positive images. You are what you think, so improve your day by changing the images that color your attitude.

Durian Fruit, Borneo, Indonesia, 1997
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A wild durian fruit from the rain forests of Borneo is cut open, its vivid red flesh exposed. Wild durian has a spiny green exterior, emits an infamous rotting stench, and is mainly eaten by birds.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Borneo’s Strangler Fig Trees," April 1997, National Geographic magazine)


How to Make Éclairs
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Éclairs may look like a fancy and expensive dessert, but they are easy to make. A shell of choux dough (containing only butter, water, flour, and eggs) contains a cream of choice (coffee- or chocolate-flavored pastry cream, custard or whipped cream) and is topped with icing. Homemade éclairs will impress guests and make any meal special.

Makes 8 Éclairs.

  • Pastry
    • 1 cup water (284ml)
    • 1/2 cup butter (118ml)
    • 1 cup flour (235ml)
    • 4 eggs
  • Custard Filling
    • 1/2 cup sugar (117ml)
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt (2.5ml)
    • 6 tablespoons flour (88ml)
    • 2 cups whole milk or half and half, do not substitute low-fat milk (474ml)
    • 4 egg yolks, or 2 eggs
    • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (10ml)
  • Glaze
    • 2 tablespoons butter (30ml)
    • 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate (57g)
    • 1 cup powdered sugar (100g)
    • 2 tablespoons boiling water (60g)

CUSTARD

  1. Make the custard first.
  2. Separate eggs and add them to a small mixing bowl. Or add the 2 eggs, if using, to a small mixing bowl.
  3. Beat eggs in small mixing bowl.
  4. Add sugar, salt and flour to a saucepan. Whisk together.
  5. Stir in milk or half-and-half.
  6. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil.
  7. Boil 1 minute.
  8. Remove custard from flame.
  9. Temper the custard by pouring a small amount into the eggs in the small mixing bowl.
  10. Whisk custard and eggs together.
  11. Add egg and custard mixture to the remaining custard in saucepan.
  12. Whisk together.
  13. Bring to boiling point.
  14. Cool custard and blend in vanilla.
  15. Cover custard with plastic food wrap and chill.

PASTRY

  1. Add 1 cup water to saucepan.
  2. Add butter.
  3. Bring to a boil.
  1. Bringing water to a boil.
    Bringing water to a boil.
  2. Add flour and stir in with a sturdy spoon.
    Adding flour.
    Adding flour.
  3. Cook flour mixture for 1 minute.
    Cook flour mixture for 1 minute.
    Cook flour mixture for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
  4. Add the eggs one-at-a-time.
    Add the eggs one-at-a-time.
    Add eggs, one-at-a-time, beating well after each addition.
  5. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230C).
  6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  7. Ready to bake.
    Ready to bake.
    With pastry tube squeeze out 4-inch (10cm) fingers onto prepared baking sheet.
  8. Bake 15 minutes, then turn the temperature down to 325 degrees F (165C), and bake for another 35 minutes. The eclair shells are done when they make a hollow sound when tapped.
  9. Let cool.
  10. Insert plain pastry tube into pastry bag.
  11. Fill pastry bag with custard filling.
  12. Slice baked éclairs in half vertically. Insert pastry tube into éclair and fill with custard.

    • Alternatively, split éclair pastries vertically in half. Spread custard filling between halves. Place the halves together.
  13. The finished éclair.
    The finished éclair.
    Drizzle with chocolate glaze.
  14. Chill until ready to serve.


GLAZE

  1. Melt shortening and chocolate together in a small saucepan.
  2. Add powdered sugar and boiling water.
  3. Stir until smooth.
  4. Drizzle over éclairs.
TIPS
  • To make lazy éclairs make cream puffs instead. Drop the dough by tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet. Bake. Slice cream puffs in half, fill with custard, drizzle with chocolate glaze.
  • Éclairs can also be filled with sweetened whipped cream.
  • Cream puffs can also be filled with ice cream.
  • Both éclairs and cream puffs use the same pastry. The only difference is how the dough is shaped.
  • If travelling with the dessert: after separating top from bottom scrape out any of the "doughy threads" and bake again for 5 to 7 minutes to crisp up the inside. Then fill.
  • Can also be filled with cooked then cooled pudding. Instant pudding doesn't work nearly as well.

Things You'll Need

  • Baking pans
  • Parchment paper or silicone baking liners
  • Saucepans
  • Pastry tube
  • Plain pastry nozzle
  • Sturdy spoon or spatula
  • Plastic wrap
  • Mixing bowls
  • Measuring spoons and cups
  • Oven mitts

Yoga
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Venerable Vajrayogini is the female Buddha of wisdom and great bliss.

She is the Queen of the Dakinis (female tantric enlightened beings)

The instruction of Venerable Vajrayogini is the most profound teaching of Highest Yoga Tantra.




7 Reasons to drink green tea
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7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea


Yahoo News - Posted Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 10:30 am PST

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants--long linked with heart protection--would be enough incentive, but wait, there's more! Lots more.

CUT YOUR CANCER RISK
Several polyphenols - the potent antioxidants green tea's famous for - seem to help keep cancer cells from gaining a foothold in the body, by discouraging their growth and then squelching the creation of new blood vessels that tumors need to thrive. Study after study has found that people who regularly drink green tea reduce their risk of breast, stomach, esophagus, colon, and/or prostate cancer.

SOOTHE YOUR SKIN
Got a cut, scrape, or bite, and a little leftover green tea? Soak a cotton pad in it. The tea is a natural antiseptic that relieves itching and swelling. Try it on inflamed breakouts and blemishes, sunburns, even puffy eyelids. And that's not all. In the lab, green tea helps block sun-triggered skin cancer, whether you drink it or apply it directly to the skin - which is why you're seeing green tea in more and more sunscreens and moisturizers.

STEADY YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE
Having healthy blood pressure - meaning below 120/80 - is one thing. Keeping it that way is quite another. But people who sip just half a cup a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension than non-drinkers. Credit goes to the polyphenols again (especially one known as ECGC). They help keep blood vessels from contracting and raising blood pressure.

PROTECT YOUR MEMORY, OR YOUR MOM'S
Green tea may also keep the brain from turning fuzzy. Getting-up-there adults who drink at least two cups a day are half as likely to develop cognitive problems as those who drink less. Why? It appears that the tea's big dose of antioxidants fights the free-radical damage to brain nerves seen in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

STAY YOUNG
The younger and healthier your arteries are, the younger and healthier you are. So fight plaque build-up in your blood vessels, which ups the risk of heart disease and stroke, adds years to your biological age (or RealAge), and saps your energy too. How much green tea does this vital job take? About 10 ounces a day, which also deters your body from absorbing artery-clogging fat and cholesterol.

LOSE WEIGHT
Oh yeah, one more thing. Turns out that green tea speeds up your body's calorie-burning process. In the every-little-bit-counts department, this is good news!


The 7 Laws of Psychic Energy
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The Seven Laws of Psychic Energy

"These laws of energy are not alterable. These laws have always been and will always be in existence."


Sources: Silver Birch, White Eagle, Sathya Sai Baba, Barbara Brennan, Leslie Flint, George Meek, Arthur Findlay, Anthony Borgia, George Meek, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir William Crookes, Dr Robert Crookal, Sir William Barrett, the Rev C Drayton Thomas, Rev. Johannes Greber, Geraldine Cummings, Allan Kardec, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Dr Ian Stevenson, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Helen Greaves, Stainton Moses, et al.


Traditional secular scientists are now in agreement with the spiritual scientists and have conceded that all visible matter and invisible waves in the world can be reduced to 'vibrating energy'.

Below you will find laws of energy taken from information accumulated over the last few hundred years of documented human experience.

When I first started doing research into psychic phenomena I was looking for psychic laws. I found that although the laws existed by imputation, no one had hitherto formulated specific universal psychic laws.


We have laws for everything - civil and criminal laws to conduct human behavior, laws of physics describing the forces which regulate the universe, laws of biology and other laws.

Accordingly, now for the very first time it is proposed that specific laws be codified about psychic energies - not just those which operate in the physical world but energies that also transcend the physical world.


Whilst more than half of the people of the world to-day will readily attest to the validity of these laws of energy it may take some decades for these laws to be universally accepted.


1. First Law of psychic energy:
All 'solid' objects are vibrating energy.
Unseen waves are also vibrating energy- sound, radio, electricity, light, television waves, microwaves, x-rays, gamma rays and psychic energy waves.

2. Second law of psychic energy:
The mind is an 'energy station' which creates transmits and receives energy.

The will (of the mind) can change the form of energy. Thoughts, which are waves of energy, can be transmitted to and from human minds within the earthplane and to human and other entities in the afterlife in a process called telepathy.

3. Third law of psychic energy:
All living humans have a body made up of vibrationary energy which is a duplicate of the physical body and will survive physical death.
This vibrationary energy body invisible to physical eyes can change form but can never be destroyed and retains consciousness.
At the time of physical death, the duplicate body will have reached a certain vibrational level and will go to an energy sphere that can accommodate those vibrations.
Selfless spiritual service increases the vibrational energy of the duplicate body.

4. Fourth law of psychic energy:
The afterlife has different levels of energy which form different spheres according to the speed of vibration.
The faster the vibrations of a sphere the higher and more spiritually evolved are the entities which reside there.

5. Fifth law of psychic energy:
The more spiritually evolved a being is the brighter the energy of the aura.

6. Sixth law of psychic energy:
Slowing down the speed of the atomic vortices of the energy will result in materialisation. Speeding up the vortices will result in de-materialisation


7. Seventh law of psychic energy:

 Energy is a 'boomerang' - the energy you give out will return to you.


Victor Zammit (May 2001)

Psychism
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Psychism is not a power. It is the ability to sense and interpret energy READ MORE:


Just because you can 'see' the train coming does not mean you can stop the train. Hopefully, however, you can get off the tracks.

Psychism is natural.

That does not mean that it is easily understood. Many begin their psychic exploration through games but it is not a toy. The warnings which come to us through the ages should be well heeded. If you just want to become more accepting of the intuitions you receive from time to time, that would be like a walk in the park. This excursion into nature is usually without the need for extreme caution. Digging deeper into the psychic energies through your own will is like going hiking in the mountains. This is also natural, but there are things which you will need for your journey and to ignore them is to travel at much greater risk.
It is wise to be cautious.

One reason for this is because 'if you don't know what it is, then it could be anything.' This can lead to very strong reactions to what you sense or feel and the actions you take because of those reactions can, at times, undermine you in all areas of your life. Also, how you interpret the 'shadows' within your sensing is strongly based in your personally rooted belief system. If you are caught within the net of good vs evil, then every darkness will be interpreted as a demon trying to catch you in their web. If you are attracted to drama, then your interpretations will be dramatic. What in truth is just sensing a problem with a car rapidly becomes interpreted as a high speed car crash with injuries.

All that being said, psychism is a natural part of personal growth and inner development.



Telepathy
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Telepathy is the ability to read thoughts, usually surface thoughts. Telepathy is fairly common to some degree. The most common type is between close family or friends and manifests as answering questions before they are asked, knowing when a family member is thinking of you, or thinking about them and they call. Slightly less common is the ability to read the surface thoughts of strangers. Even less common is being able to read the deep or subconscious thoughts of people, friends, family or anyone else. It is not, however, completely unknown. If you have the disconcerting habit of knowing everything about a person when you meet them, you are at least a highly gifted telepath. In crowds this may manifest as "white noise" or constant buzzing in the ears (brain), accompanied by a feeling of pressure on the brain. This is due to the constant noise of all of the thoughts of others that one is unable to block. Many highly gifted telepaths are unable to live in highly populated areas, and an apartment complex is a nightmare. They are also prone to intense headaches. This gift may or may not be related to proximity. For strangers, it is usual that the person must be close by (though not always the case). Family seems to be instantly accessible, due to the non-local nature of the gift, speed of light laws do not apply. Strong thought, as in a disaster or violent attack, may be picked up without prior knowledge of the person at all, if they are in the vicinity or there are enough people concentrating on mentally screaming at the top of their lungs. This gift also manifests more strongly if one really desires something (a strong focus of will or emotion). To block out the noise, shielding must be practiced constantly, and the person should put up permanent shields around their home. To develop this gift, one should focus on an individual and relax, allowing whatever impressions one is receiving to come through. Write them down. This is best developed with close friends or family. Telepathy can manifest in three ways. A sending telepath can not "hear" the thoughts of others, but instead broadcasts his/her own thoughts to anyone even remotely sensitive. A sending telepath can influence others, without being aware of it, by strongly desiring something. A danger is that one who is a sending telepath, without any of the other gifts, has a tendency to be self-centered and demanding, and petulant when they don't get their way. A receiving telepath can "hear" but can't send, others don't pick up their thoughts. This person might believe the voices, thoughts, or impressions of ideas to be internally generated, and might doubt his/her sanity. As is often the case, the thoughts are incongruous, and seem to come from nowhere, but the individual can not distinguish the internal thought from the external. Most common is one who can both send and receive, and the response is usually enough to convince the person that s/he is not crazy, though the gift might be hidden out of a fear of being unusual, especially if the person's church mistakenly equates the gifts with possession. The "voices" or impressions gathered by the telepath are relaying accurate, verifiable information based on the consensual hallucination we call reality. Ask. The information is usually pretty mundane, and the telepath, upon thinking about it, can learn to tell that the thought did not originate in his/her own brain (for example: "I need to remember the ice cream" when the individual is allergic to ice cream and is talking to someone on his way to the store.)



WARNING WARNING WARNING

If one is hearing voices counseling them to murder or warning that the toaster is influencing our thoughts by controlling the television, then some mental health care is definitely in order.

(Related Gifts: Mind Healing {20-30% of the population})

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)


INTRODUCTION

For better or worse, the sermon for which Edwards is probably most famous—or infamous—is the one preached to the congregation of Enfield, Massachusetts (later Connecticut) in July 1741. Anthologized in high school and college textbooks, Sinners represents in many persons' minds the bleak, cruel, and hell-bent outlook of Edwards and his Puritan predecessors. But of course such a representation is only a caricature, for Sinners, if it represents anything, stands for only a small part of Edwards's view of the relationship between humankind and God. As a specially crafted awakening sermon, Sinners was aimed at a particularly hard-hearted congregation. But, at the same time, the awakening sermon and all it expressed—the awful weight of sin, the wrath of an infinitely holy God, and the unexpectedness of the moment when God will execute justice—were integral to Edwards's theology. This sermon, therefore, deserves to be studied and meditated on for its ownsake, but also as part of a larger vision of the spiritual life.

We are in the process of preparing this text for publication in the Works of Jonathan Edwards Online, which currently features some 25,000 pages of Edwards manuscripts. Until the text is ready, please click here to download a PDF file of the document_



I ♥ The History channel..

saving this for myself so that I may read it at my leisure.


You Are From Jupiter
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You Are From Jupiter



You are exuberantly curious - and you love to explore newness.

Enthusiastic and optimistic, you get a kick out of stimulating intellectual discussions.

Foreign cultures and languages fascinate you. You love the outdoors, animals, and freedom.

Chances are you tend to exaggerate, so try to keep a lid on that.

If you do, you'll continue to be known for your confidence, generosity, and sense of justice.


Kundalini
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Kundalini

Kundalini is a psycho-spiritual energy, the energy of the consciousness, which is thought to reside within the sleeping body, and is aroused either through spiritual discipline or spontaneously to bring new states of consciousness, including mystical illumination. Kundalini is Sanskrit for "snake" or "serpent power," so-called because it is believed to lie like a serpent in the root chakra at the base of the spine. In Tantra Yoga kundalini is an aspect of Shakti, the divine female energy and consort of Shiva.


The power of kundalini is said to be enormous. Those having experienced it claim it to be indescribable. The phenomena associated with it varies from bizarre physical sensations and movements, pain, clairaudience, visions, brilliant lights, superlucidity, psychical powers, ecstasy, bliss, and transcendence of self. Kundalini has been described as liquid fire and liquid light.


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