My first ever lucid, inception-like layered dream.

I had my first ever lucid dream this morning. It was amazing. I was talking with all the subconscious characters my mind had created and laughing at how impressive their answers were. It's ridiculous how powerful our mind is and how little of that power we actually put to use.

Eventually I decided to get out of bed and get some serious work done, so I got up, grabbed a couple of dirty glasses from the bedroom desk and put them in the kitchen before going to the toilet to do "my business".

In there I heard some strange breathing noises very close to me... and I started looking around the room trying to figure out where they were coming from. It seemed to be the wall in front of me...?

I peered closer toward it and the noises surely intensified. I remember thinking, "what the hell is going on?" when suddenly I opened my eyes and I could see Marj laying next to me on the bed.

DOH! I was dreaming that I had gotten out of bed to go to the toilet. I thought, "who hasn't done that before?"

Chuckling, I touched the side of the bed, touched my face, touched the floor with my feet and thought "right, here we go again."

I put the dirty glasses back in the kitchen and as I walked through the toilet door I was met an image of Marj laying on the pillow next to me.

I was back in my bed again.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!" I thought to myself. After which I frantically touched all the items I could find by the bedside.

A dream in a dream. And all lucid.

Remind you of anything?

True story btw. And hilarious.

P.S. I've been "awake" for a good 8 hours now. If I suddenly see Marj laying on a pillow next to me I'm going to freak out.

A Quick, Simple Guide to Living Well & Staying Healthy

  • Be happy - smile, laugh, sing, dance, play, make love - do all the things that make you happy and don't care what others think.
  • Get a least 30 mins of sunshine every couple of days - it works wonders.
  • Half an hour of exercise every day may keep the doctor away - and you'll look & feel much better 10 years later too.
  • Stay hydrated with clean water - yellow to dark yellow urine is a sign you should maybe drink more water.
  • Organic, raw food - it's what we were eating all the way through our evolution until now, hence cancer and other modern diseases.
  • Be spontaneous - there's nothing more contracting to your being than doing the same thing, day-in day-out.
  • Love your family and friends - your family and friends are the support structure you can fall back on if anything goes awry. Tomorrow they may not be there.
  • Have a purpose - live your life knowing that you're contributing some value to the world. The moment you feel like your soul is stagnant or somehow atrophied then you need to question what it is that you're doing.

Did I miss anything? ;)

My Latest - Pineapple Chicken Bonanza

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I love making names for recipes. When I read them I always facepalm myself.

Bearing that in mind, here's my latest - the Pineapple Chicken Bonanza (I just facepalmed again) - SERVES 3-4:
  • two large chicken wings, thighs and breasts
  • 1 inch horizontal slide of the center of a large pineapple (minus the hard skin and "eyes"), diced
  • 1 large red pimiento sliced (the sweet pepper - not the bell)
  • half a red onion, diced
  • 2 diced chilis (you choose the type based on your taste)
  • 1 head of broccoli separated
  • cornflower with cold water mixed (you pick the amount - a quarter of a cup works fine with two tablespoons of water)
  • 4 tablespoons of clear honey
  • 1 heaped tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon salt (not heaped!)
  • pepper to taste
  • 3 spring onions, julienned
  • 1 can coconut milk (make sure it's all mixed before you add it!)
Here's what you do:
  • Heat up a large wok on maximum heat until it's very hot and then add oil
  • Wait until the oil starts evaporating and then swirl it around the wok to cover the majority of the inside
  • Add all the chicken and stir until the outsides have been cooked
  • Place a lid over the wok and leave it for a minute to steam
  • Place the onions into the wok and cook for another minute minute
  • Place the broccoli, honey, salt, pepper & pineapple into the wok and stir up for another few minutes
  • Pour in the coconut milk and stir for around 3 minutes
  • Add the sliced pepper and the spring onions and then the cornflower after mixing it with the water
  • Stir well and then serve with rice or fried rice (the fried rice is boiled and then left to cool, after which is placed into a plan and stirred in with a couple tablespoons oil and a pinch of salt for around 5 mins)

Enjoy!

We're Hiring!

This post is here to inform you of a job opportunity at easisell.com - a web marketing and design business that works with solopreneurs and small businesses to help establish and market themselves online.

We work with various businesses and handle different projects for a variety of clients. Due to recent client partnerships and new business we are now looking to expand our team.

I'm looking for an awesome graphic designer with basic to moderate website development experience to join my team (full time) and I'd like to interview you to see if you are a good fit. The core skills I'm looking for are:
  • Advanced Photoshop CS3 and above
  • Advanced Illustrator CS3 and above
  • Basic Adobe Lightroom
  • Basic to Moderate XHTML
  • Basic to Moderate CSS

The main tasks you will be responsible for are:
  • Graphic design, conceptualization to implementation

From time to time we might ask you to perform other tasks that are within the scope of your skills set.

The position is for full time (40 hours a week), from home, on a semi-flexi-time basis. This means that you will be required to work daily from Mon-Fri at 8 hours a day, but you can choose when you want to have breaks, as long as your time on tasks amounts to the daily quota. We would prefer, and at times we will need, for you to work within certain time frames so that we can collaborate on projects.

We'd like you to have enough flexibility to achieve work-life balance, all we ask is you are able to deliver what is asked and you are able to meet the reasonable deadlines we set for your tasks.

We would prefer it if you focus on this job and not work for other employers, however as long as you are able to give 40 productive hours every week and there's no conflicts of interest it shouldn't be an issue. We want you to be a part of our team for a long time.

We will be paying in British pounds (GBP). A Paypal account will be necessary to receive the money.

On top of that you can expect to get support from us regarding your personal and professional development. This includes access to resource videos, PDF's and tutorials and one on one training in certain aspects of the job.

After 3 months we will review your salary and change it according to your performance, and also give performance-based bonuses. You will receive more detailed instructions about guidelines and our expectations, (and training materials) during the job interview.

If you fit our criteria, and you are interested, please do the following:
  1. Email your portfolio or a list of your sample works to hireme@easisell.com.
  2. Enclose a cover letter, stating why we should hire you. If you want to contact me, you can do so anytime between 10 am to 10pm GMT. If you want to be successful in your application, you need Skype and a working microphone.

I am looking to hire immediately, so please don't delay. I look forward to hear from you! :)

When is something "simply unacceptable" to you? Is it when you read this?

Amnesty International USA: TAKE ACTION NOW!
Tomorrow, Israel and the Palestinian Authority begin their first direct negotiations in nearly two years. But there can be no sustainable resolution until the blockade of Gaza is completely lifted.
Help us send at least 10,000 postcards to the White House demanding action to lift the blockade of Gaza.

Dear Yeung,

The United States recently extended an invitation to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to re-start direct talks. Both sides accepted.

Tomorrow, Israel and the Palestinian Authority will begin their first direct negotiations in nearly two years. To say that a lot is riding on the outcome, would be the understatement of the century.

Divisions between Israel and Palestinians have made this one of the world's most intractable conflicts. The blockade on the tiny strip of land is about 130 square miles (approximately the size of Las Vegas, Nevada) and traps more than 1.5 million Palestinian men, women, and children within its boundaries. The Gaza Strip has served to spark more tension and hostility as well as worsen an already dire humanitarian situation. 

But we can do something about it. Your letters and postcards have a tremendous impact when we pool them together and deliver them personally. So that's exactly what we're going to do - all you have to do is sign and send a postcard

When we reach 10,000 postcards, we'll hand deliver them to the White House. Your postcard can help build the pressure that we need to shine a light on the people of Gaza.

Collective punishment in Gaza

That's the real horror of the blockade - it does not target any armed group, but instead imposes a vicious form of collective punishment on Gaza's entire population, particularly the most vulnerable - children (who make up more than half of the population in Gaza), the elderly, and the sick.

In addition to restricting Palestinians' movement from Gaza into Israel, the blockade has also severely undermined Palestinians' right to access: 

  • Clean water: only 5% to 10% of water available is fit for human consumption
  • Medical care: people with serious medical conditions are frequently delayed or denied exit permits to leave
  • Education: students are denied permits to leave even after being awarded scholarships and acceptance at higher learning centers
  • Food: the malnutrition rate among children is on the rise, and four in five Gazans are dependent on humanitarian aid
These acts are in direct violation of international human rights and humanitarian law and must be stopped. 

Amnesty members have the power to break this blockade! Sending a postcard can make all the difference. 


Christoph Koettl 
Crisis Campaigner 
Amnesty International USA


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200 miscarriages recorded from taking 2009 H1N1 vaccine...

MORE RUMORS AND DISINFORMATION
MAY HIDE THE COMING RISK:
H1N1 BEING ADDED TO SEASONAL FLU VAX!

News Item:

http://www.recombinomics.com/News/07151002/H1N1_Kirovograd.html
H1N1 In Kirovograd Ukraine Approaches Epidemic Levels
July 15, 2010
  
According to information "All Kirovograd, obtained from its own sources assurances from authorities that Influenza warming, no, supported by only one - epidemiological threshold (100 patients per 10 thousand population) has not yet crossed. But the number of patients currently is 86 persons per 10 thousand population.

The above translation indicates the level of ARI/influenza in Kirovograd, Ukraine is approaching epidemic levels.
  
News Item:

"A CDC study suggests that the resurgence of whooping cough is due to the vaccine causing an increased and more virulent toxin. The CDC acknowledges that whooping cough is recurring in highly vaccinated countries -- and that it is not just because some children are unvaccinated, although that can be a factor." 

According to the CDC:  "The reemergence of pertussis has been attributed to various factors, including increased awareness, improved diagnostics, decreased vaccination coverage, suboptimal vaccines, waning vaccine-induced immunity, and pathogen adaptation ... Pathogen adaptation is supported by several observations." In other words, vaccinating against the whooping cough pathogens has caused the pathogens to evolve with a more virulent strain.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/15/whooping-cough-kills-5-in-california-state-declares-an-epidemic.aspx

  News Item:
  
FDA Proposes Dangerous Vaccine Rule Change

http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/June-2010/FDA-Proposes-Dangerous-Vaccine-Rule-Change.aspx

From NVIC- National Vaccine Information Center: "This past spring, the FDA took a hands-off approach to Merck's admission that DNA from a lethal pig virus is contaminating doses of RotaTeq vaccine being swallowed by millions of newborn babies.1 Now the agency responsible for making sure pharmaceutical products do not hurt people is proposing a Rule Change to give one staff employee the sole authority to allow "exceptions or alternatives" when drug companies want to change vaccine ingredients, such as preservatives (like thimerosal) or adjuvants (like aluminum) or the amount of residual protein and antibiotics in vaccines."

Now let's go back to the head line of this article: "MORE RUMORS AND DISINFORMATION MAY HIDE THE COMING RISK: H1N1 BEING ADDED TO SEASONAL FLU VAX!"

While each of these articles is likely true, and symptomatic of a very sick "illness" miscare system, they also point to the possibility that we face another "flu season" (created in our opinion by the voodoo "science" of vaccination) with pandemic  potential. Yes, it is true that FDA has already approved the admixing of the "novel' H1N1 influenza vaccine into the seasonal flu vaccine!

"For the 2010-2011 flu season, which begins in the fall of 2010, the seasonal flu vaccine will include [sic] protection against the 2009 H1N1 vaccine." - http://www.flu.gov/individualfamily/vaccination/index.html

Over 3,000,000 -- that's three million -- emails were generated through our Action eAlert System telling national and state decision makers that we would NOT take the swine flu vax, and most Americans and people elsewhere in the world refused the H1N1 vax... no Pandemic. Wonder if that's connected? In my view, it is. And so, we have created a new NO FLU VAX Action Item to make sure the next weaponized vaccine does not create the next weaponized pandemic.

Take Action Here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4376

There is no significant scientific agreement that the influenza vaccine has any health benefits at all; much evidence it is harmful. For example, the only peer reviewed,  publishedmeta-review of various flu vaccine clinical studies (the Grier, King, Grier paper) shows statistically that there is no benefit. Additionally, we believe the record will show that there were at least 200 miscarriages associated with receiving the 2009 H1N1 vaccines (while in a "normal" fluseason there are from 0 to 7). Therefore we are justified in demanding the removal of these dangerous toxins from the health care system.

This is an urgent matter.

Dr. Rima Laibow

What will the Gulf be like 20 years from now?

The year 1989.

The day everything changed forever for residents of Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska.

What can Gulf of Mexico residents look forward to?

More of the same.


"You've done had some good luck and you don't realize it. We're Exxon and we do business straight."

Originally found in a http://brasschecktv.com email. Go there to subscribe to get more excellent information like this.

Save 220,000 Seals From Slaughter

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Canada is on the verge of implementing a gruesome plan to slaughter beautiful grey seals.


A proposal calls for killing more than 220,000 seals on Sable Island. The cull and disposal program would run at birthing time each year for five years.

Take action to stop this plan and prevent 220,000 Sable Island seals from being killed » 

The proposal itself is horrific. Baby seals would be shot, their carcasses would then be loaded onto dump trucks and incinerated.

Why is the Canadian government even considering this plan? The seals are being blamed for depleted fish populations -- even though scientists have pointed the finger at commercial over-fishing, not wild seals. 

Please help put a stop to this awful culling plan on Sable Island » 

Thanks for making a difference!

Andrea W.
ThePetitionSite

Stop the Sable Island Seal Slaughter »
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Take Action!
 

Ecological Holocaust & Corporate Censorship #BP

HOLOCAUST

The term is accurate in this context.

Holocaust = murder on a mass scale. 

Future videos will show exactly how appropriate this term is, but in short, not only has BP unleashed an uncontainable disaster of geologic proportions, it's also spraying tons of a highly toxic substance - coexit - at night, against the "request" of the EPA, not to contain the oil, but to mask the scale and scope of the disaster. 

This is not only creating a ecological catastrophe of unprecedented proportions, it will sicken and kill thousands, possibly millions, of people, contaminate drinking water, and damage crops and agricultural land. 

And make no mistake, this catastrophe is a major bonanza for the Oil Industrial Complex.

This includes pharmaceutical companies (more chronically sick people), agri-business (higher crop prices), and makers of genetically modified crops (watch for coexit-reistant seeds.)

This is not to mention all the interlocking oil companies which will: a) pick up BP's assets when it goes bankrupt (defaulting on its liabilities) and b) be able to pollute on a massive scale without so much as raising an eye brow. 

After all, BP has set the bar on destruction so high that every other atrocity will seem trivial in comparison. 

Click here to learn how you can help the families whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed by BP 

*Must Watch* Vaccines Not Safe for Children

While BP is busy poisoning the Gulf of Mexico (and perhaps all the world's oceans), the pharmaceutical industry is equally busy poisoning the bloodstreams and nervous systems of our very young. 

Their able assistants include the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the FDA, corrupt scientists, a bought and paid for Congress, a corporate cutout president and "serious" news sources like the New York Times. 

It's mind boggling. They lie without shame and without even bothering to craft half way plausible lies and yet people continue to accept the news media as a source of accurate information. 

If there are children in your life who are targeted as "profit centers" by the pharmaceutical industry, watch this video and share it with others and do your homework. 

At a minimum, don't allow unnecessary vaccinations (flu shots for example) and don't allow lazy, corrupt doctors to give your children multiple vaccinations on a single day because it's convenient for them. (And if you have a doctor like that, get a new one.)