#ArthurCClark

On the receiving end--this is true for me.

"The medical cartel In 1860, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dean of Harvard Medical School, wrote that if the whole of modern medicine, as then practised, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. He was not a fringe voice. He was the most senior medical academic in America. And he was a visionary. Because what he saw taking shape in his era the drift of medicine away from nature, away from the patient, away from genuine healing and toward the management of symptoms for profit has since been industrialised beyond anything he could have imagined. What we call modern medicine was not built organically from the pursuit of human health. It was deliberately constructed. The Rockefeller family, whose fortune was built on petrochemicals, funded the Flexner Report in 1910 a document that systematically dismantled natural, holistic, and nutritional approaches to medicine and replaced them with a pharmaceutical-centric model that happened to be built on coal tar derivatives. The medical schools that refused to comply lost their funding and closed. The ones that survived restructured their curricula around the new model. That was not science. That was a cartel. And it has operated as one ever since. The suppression of knowledge about light and human health is one of the most consequential and least discussed casualties of that cartel. The relationship between sunlight, mitochondrial function, circadian biology, vitamin D synthesis, biophotonic communication within cells, and the prevention of virtually every chronic disease that now defines the modern health crisis, this knowledge exists. It is documented. It is reproducible. And it generates no pharmaceutical revenue. You cannot patent the sun. You cannot bill for grounding. You cannot build a subscription model around circadian alignment and organic food and the kind of deep, restorative contact with the natural world that human biology was designed for. So it was sidelined. Quietly, systematically, and profitably replaced with interventions that treat the downstream consequences of a population deliberately disconnected from the conditions required for genuine health. Big Pharma is not a science business. It is a dependency business. And the centralised medical system built around it.. the hospitals, the insurance architecture, the regulatory agencies captured by the industry they were created to “oversee” exists not to produce healthy people but to produce compliant patients." #BIGPharma #FlexnerReport #Rockereller #OliverWendellHolmes -----Kenny Carmody

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Credit: Classic Literature (Facebook) "In 1849, Dostoevsky stood blindfolded before a firing squad, having already made peace with dying, when a rider arrived with news that the execution was called off. It had all been staged, a piece of psychological cruelty ordered by the Tsar himself. Hours later, still shaking from it, he sat down and wrote to his brother Mikhail. The letter survives, and it's strange to read now, because you can feel a man trying to process something no framework he had was built to hold. He tells Mikhail not to grieve for him, that he isn't dejected, that he hasn't lost heart. Life, he writes, is a gift, life is happiness, every minute could have been an age of happiness. He says he understood this only now, at the edge of losing it entirely. What gets me about the letter isn't the relief in it, though there's plenty of that. It's the specific thing he fixates on afterward: not vengeance against the state that staged his death, not despair at the four years of Siberian labor waiting for him instead, but a kind of frantic gratitude that reads almost like a man trying to convince himself as much as his brother. He asks Mikhail to send him books. He worries about missing his family. He talks about the future like a person suddenly aware that he'd been sleepwalking through the concept of having one. He carried this moment for the rest of his life, wrote condemned men into his fiction again and again, characters facing the exact wall he'd faced, because you don't really get to set an experience like that down once you've had it. The letter is the first draft of everything he'd spend the next three decades writing about: guilt, mercy, the specific vertigo of a mind confronting its own ending and then, without warning, being handed its life back." #Dostoevsky

Credit: Facts They Don't Teach You (Facebook) "Farmers in Japan are using specially colored insect nets as another way to control agricultural pests without relying entirely on insecticides. The technology is based on how insects see and respond to color. Researchers have developed red-colored nets that can interfere with the visual cues used by certain small pests, including onion thrips, making it more difficult for them to enter crops. Unlike conventional insect nets, the effect is not based only on the size of the mesh. It also relies on the insects’ visual responses to the colored material. Researchers at the University of Tokyo tested red nets on Welsh onions and found that they reduced the invasion and damage caused by onion thrips. Field experiments showed that the use of red nets could reduce the number of insecticide applications by approximately 25 to 50 percent while maintaining commercially acceptable crops. The approach does not work equally well against every pest. Earlier Japanese field research, for example, found that red nets were effective against some thrips but provided little additional benefit against certain whiteflies beyond the physical protection provided by the mesh itself. Other Japanese agricultural researchers have also experimented with using color and visual patterns to influence pest behavior. Yellow trapping sheets with specific edge patterns have been developed to attract and capture whiteflies and other small agricultural pests. These methods are part of a broader approach to integrated pest management, where physical barriers, biological controls and targeted pesticide use can be combined rather than relying exclusively on chemical sprays." #GardeningHacks

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Credit: The Cosmic Dancer (Facebook) “Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” ~ Tao Te Ching [Art: Tracy Porter]

Credit: The Garden Almanac "Everyone calls it dew. The lawn has been running its own plumbing all night. Dew is sky water. It condenses out of humid air onto anything cool, blades and webs and the wheelbarrow you meant to put away. But on calm nights, roots keep pushing water up while the leaves have stopped using it, and the pressure needs somewhere to go. So the plant opens tiny relief valves at its leaf tips and edges and lets the extra out, one bead at a time. Botanists call it guttation. Tomorrow at sunrise, get low and check. A film all over the blade is dew. One round drop balanced exactly on the tip is the plant's own well water. Strawberry leaves hang theirs along the edge like a hem of glass beads. 🌿" #nature #guttation #dew

Credit: Ravenous Butterflies (Facebook) “The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” Leo Buscaglia Stanislaus Soutten Longley - Autumn.

#selfmastery

#parenting

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