Magical Surgical Tour

Times Online - Health reports today that tour operators are offering tours to India for surgery and in-country reconvalescense.

Sounds like a great idea. The idea of post-op recovery on a beach somewhere is a very attractive.

I suppose the operators and the patients have to contend with concerns about health standards and all that. Still, the doctors there probably went to the same med schools as your doctor down the street. That's what our family found to be the case in Mexico with a neuro-surgical specialist we had occasion to see. I imagine the institutions would have to cover Western type malpractice insurance and al that, but that shouldn't be much of an issue.

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South Koreans Clone Human Embryo

This news story isn't necesarily a good news story: South Koreans Clone Human Embryo.

What we are not generally told is that in the body, in the DNA, on the chromosomes we have something called telameres. The telameres age as the body ages. Half way in life, the telameres are at half size, more or less.

If we clone a cell, it shares the current state of the telameres. The cloned cells will not start with fresh telameres like a new born. The cloned cells will have the telameres of the donor. So if you clone a 50 year old, the off spring will have 50 year old telamers and half the life expectancy of normal offspring. That is if the theory is correct. In reality, we don't know for sure, but the promoters of cloning arentt telling the whole story: we are not told about this unresolved risk.
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Whose pain is it anyway?

Little light on the posting these days because of so many other things going on. Monday night I went to a Healing Touch Practice Group at Spiritual Directions here in Calgary. I had not been there before. We were seven practitioners and we had a very good session.

I noticed something that I had heard about but not fully realized for my self. When giving a treatment, you the healer can feel pain. The question is, is the pain yours or the client's? Here's a rule of thumb: If it goes away, it's the client's. If it stays, it's yours.

At one point I felt a very severe pain in the lower back. I get that from time to time, so I didn't think too much of it, only that it came on awfully quick and jsut disappeared after a while. I wondered about this and tried to repeat the movements I had done when it occurred. Of course, I felt nothing in my back. I simply channeled the client's pain. She obviously needed to get rid of it because the pain was quite strong. I am thinking the pain stuck in me because I wasn't grounded well enough.

If you're familiar with Ayurvedic thinking, I can tell you that since I am a two-dosha type with Vata as the strongest element, lack of grounding is a common problem for me. I tend to be well connected to the above and beyond, less so to the core. Recognizing this, I may be able to carry the awareness with me and actively ground myself more frequently. Should make me more of a down to earth regular sort of a guy. If that's what I need.
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Invincibility: A Quality of Pure Consciousness

"Love is the ultimate reality. It is the truth at the heart of all creation."

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).

Today's featured thought is Invincibility, one of the Qualities of Pure Consciousness. This is not about invincibility in a martial sense. By definition a warrior puts himself in harms way. I would think that the road to long life is more secure if that kind of behaviour is avoided altogether.

By cultivating a peaceful disposition we can manifest a peaceful existence, which in a sense makes us invincible.

Someone who is completely at peace with himself will manifest only beneficial outcomes.

Life will be essentially problem free and that person becomes, for all intents and purposes, invincible.
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