Your Aura And How It Affects Others

by Gregg Prescott, M.S. in5d
Have you ever noticed people who simply make you feel good by just looking at them? Have you ever observed someone for the first time and knew there was something off with this person, even though that particular person never said a word to you?

As more experiments are conducted within this field, we are finding more and more astonishing results. For example, Russian professor Konstantin Korotkov found that upon death, the human aura will continue to change for approximately 72 hours after being pronounced clinically dead.
Korotkov stated, "We are developing the idea that our consciousness is part of the material world and that with our consciousness we can directly influence our world."

You can't hide your aura

Everything you know and see can boil down to energy. Plants, trees and even inanimate objects such as gemstones, can exhibit an aura. Your aura is a body of energy generated around you. It is basically the world's best detector of human emotion and can show the "real you" no matter how hard you try to hide it.

For example, I was at a conference a few years ago and noticed the aura of the woman who was taking publicity photos. Her aura was a dark red. I asked the woman I was with if she could see this photographers aura as well, and she confirmed the same color. I then said to the photographer, "Hi, how are you doing?" to which she responded how she was out late the previous night and was really tired today. Her aura, however, said that she really didn't want to be there that particular day.

Even without seeing her aura, one could sense her energy, which may be more apparent to empaths than to others. Perhaps empaths are more sensitive to the auric field?

Empaths and the auric field

Your aura reflects the energy that you are currently experiencing as well as your overall psyche and emotional state of being.

Empaths are affected by other people's energies and have the innate ability to intuitively perceive and feel other people. While we all have this ability, some people are more in tune to it than others.

This, in turn, may help to explain how auras and energies can affect other people for what seems to be no apparent reason. For example, an empath will take on the energies of everyone, including the good, the bad and the ugly energies. A skilled empath will acknowledge them and will know how to discharge or deflect these energies while most people unknowingly absorb them.

Kirlian photography of the aura

Through Kirlian photography, the human aura can be photographed. The colors of your aura reflect the colors in the chakra system. The lower three chakras are red (base chakra), orange (sacral chakra) and yellow (solar plexus chakra) while the higher four are green (heart chakra), blue (throat chakra), indigo (third eye chakra) and violet (crown chakra).

Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939 accidentally discovered that if an object on a photographic plate is connected to a high-voltage source, an image is produced on the photographic plate. The technique has been variously known as "electrography", "electrophotography", "corona discharge photography" (CDP), "bioelectrography", "gas discharge visualization (GDV)", "electrophotonic imaging (EPI)", and, in Russian literature, "Kirlianography".

How the color of your aura can help you

As mentioned, the aura follows the colors of your chakras and will give you an idea of where you are at and what you can do. Keep in mind that there are no "bad" aura colors because we can learn something from each color. If your aura is in the lower three chakras (red, orange or yellow) then chances are, you are undergoing physical plane experiences that relate to survival, sexual or emotional issues.

If you would like to learn how to see your aura, then watch the following video (learning how to see your aura starts at the 1:22 marker):

How fear affects your aura

Your auric energy field has been challenged and conditioned to view society from a fear perspective because when we live in fear, we are easily controlled by those in power. When we are constantly thinking about bills, societal expectations, ego, materialism or sexual issues, then our auras will reflect either red, orange or yellow.

If there was no such thing as money, then chances are, most of us would have green, blue, indigo or violet auras with the exception of those who have bad intentions whether there is money or not.

By removing the fear and addressing any lower physical plane issues, you will see a change in your aura's colors to those on the astral plane (green, heart chakra) and spiritual plane (blue, throat chakra; indigo, 3rd eye chakra and violet, crown chakra).

You may notice that your aura varies from one color to another. For example, my aura is either green or blue. Chances are, you aura may fluctuate from one chakra to the next, but it will be an adjacent chakra. In other words, if your aura is orange one day, it might be either red or yellow on another day. It takes a lot of inner work to reach the higher auric planes but it's something that anyone can accomplish.

It all begins within.

The Rodin Coil: Is It The Greatest Discovery of All Time?

Free energy is easily one of the hottest topics in the world within alternative news. While mainstream news continues to ignore the growing interest around the subject, alternative news outlets are providing new information about the inventions, science, mathematics and suppression of free energy technologies. We even covered the subject in our new documentary The Collective Evolution III: The Shift

The trouble with the advancement of free energy as it stands now lies in a couple clear areas.

1. The current corporate powers and systems of our world would lose mass amounts of profit and control over people if they no longer required them for their energy needs. We’re talking about using this technology in cars, homes and businesses. This leads to mass suppression of the technology.
2. Certain devices do in fact defy the currently understood “laws” of physics. Many are having a very tough time opening their minds up to the idea that what we once understood about something could have changed or is now updated. This same issue is prevalent in other areas of science as well.
3. Many inventors are either being killed or silenced and some are too concerned with credit, patents and profits for devices to really come into fruition more easily.

However, these hang ups are not stopping the spread of information surrounding not only the science but also the reality of these devices. In what could be one of the greatest discoveries of all time, Marko Rodin has created a 3-dimensional model of the mathematical language of nature.

“They say mathematics is the language of god, but until now nobody has been speaking god’s language”.

As stated by Marko Rodin and his volunteers, the Rodin Coil has the ability to completely transform our world given what it is capable of. The challenge is, regardless of the fact that his work has been peer-reviewed by some of greatest and most prestigious names in science, there is still a tremendous lack of attention being put toward their work. But there is a silver lining to this, one of the reasons why is because Marko and his team do not want to sell out to private interests and corporations who might suppress, change or think only about profit when it comes to this work.

Practical Implications Of This Technology

• Inexhaustible free energy
• An end to all disease
• Produce unlimited food
• Travel anywhere in the universe
• Build the ultimate supercomputer
• Obsolete all existing technology

“Our goal to create a grassroots energy and technology revolution by turning this knowledge over to the public in an open-source project. Science museum exhibits for kids, a simple book, a simple DVD, that’s all we’re looking to do. We want to turn it into the hands of the people to produce and save the whole world”. Marko Rodin http://www.markorodin.com/

More Free Energy Research

Multiple Scientists Have Confirmed The Reality of Free Energy

World Renowned Physicist Explains The Reality Of “Free Energy” & How It’s Accessible

Note: If you have, know of someone or can get us in contact with people working on or who have free energy technologies, please contact me at joe@collective-evolution.com as this is of great interest to us.

Sources:

http://www.markorodin.com/

http://rense.com/rodinaerodynamics.htm

QUANTUM THEORY PROVES CONSCIOUSNESS MOVES TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE AT DEATH

A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe“ contains a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever.

The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.

Lanza is an expert in regenerative medicine and scientific director of Advanced Cell Technology Company.

Before he has been known for his extensive research which dealt with stem cells, he was also famous for several successful experiments on cloning endangered animal species.

But not so long ago, the scientist became involved with physics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics.

This explosive mixture has given birth to the new theory of biocentrism, which the professor has been preaching ever since.

Biocentrism teaches that life and consciousness are fundamental to the universe. It is consciousness that creates the material universe, not the other way around.

Lanza points to the structure of the universe itself, and that the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be fine-tuned for life, implying intelligence existed prior to matter.

He also claims that space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding.

Lanza says that we carry space and time around with us “like turtles with shells.” meaning that when the shell comes off (space and time), we still exist.

The theory implies that death of consciousness simply does not exist. It only exists as a thought because people identify themselves with their body.

They believe that the body is going to perish, sooner or later, thinking their consciousness will disappear too.

If the body generates consciousness, then consciousness dies when the body dies. But if the body receives consciousness in the same way that a cable box receives satellite signals, then of course consciousness does not end at the death of the physical vehicle.

In fact, consciousness exists outside of constraints of time and space. It is able to be anywhere: in the human body and outside of it.

In other words, it is non-local in the same sense that quantum objects are non-local.

Lanza also believes that multiple universes can exist simultaneously. In one universe, the body can be dead.

And in another it continues to exist, absorbing consciousness which migrated into this universe.

This means that a dead person while traveling through the same tunnel ends up not in hell or in heaven, but in a similar world he or she once inhabited, but this time alive. And so on, infinitely. It’s almost like a cosmic Russian doll afterlife effect.

This hope-instilling, but extremely controversial theory by Lanza has many unwitting supporters, not just mere mortals who want to live forever, but also some well-known scientists.

These are the physicists and astrophysicists who tend to agree with existence of parallel worlds and who suggest the possibility of multiple universes.

Multiverse (multi-universe) is a so-called scientific concept, which they defend. They believe that no physical laws exist which would prohibit the existence of parallel worlds.

The first one was a science fiction writer H.G. Wells who proclaimed in 1895 in his story “The Door in the Wall”.

And after 62 years, this idea was developed by Dr. Hugh Everett in his graduate thesis at the Princeton University. It basically posits that at any given moment the universe divides into countless similar instances.

And the next moment, these “newborn” universes split in a similar fashion. In some of these worlds you may be present: reading this article in one universe, or watching TV in another.

The triggering factor for these multiplyingworlds is our actions, explained Everett. If we make some choices, instantly one universe splits into two with different versions of outcomes.

In the 1980s, Andrei Linde, scientist from the Lebedev’s Institute of physics, developed the theory of multiple universes. He is now a professor at Stanford University.

Linde explained: Space consists of many inflating spheres, which give rise to similar spheres, and those, in turn, produce spheres in even greater numbers, and so on to infinity.

In the universe, they are spaced apart. They are not aware of each other’s existence. But they represent parts of the same physical universe.

The fact that our universe is not alone is supported by data received from the Planck space telescope.

Using the data, scientists have created the most accurate map of the microwave background, the so-called cosmic relic background radiation, which has remained since the inception of our universe.

They also found that the universe has a lot of dark recesses represented by some holes and extensive gaps.

Theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton from the North Carolina University with her colleagues argue: the anomalies of the microwave background exist due to the fact that our universe is influenced by other universes existing nearby. And holes and gaps are a direct result of attacks on us by neighboring universes.

So, there is abundance of places or other universes where our soul could migrate after death, according to the theory of neo-biocentrism. But does the soul exist?

Is there any scientific theory of consciousness that could accommodate such a claim?

According to Dr. Stuart Hameroff, a near-death experience happens when the quantum information that inhabits the nervous system leaves the body and dissipates into the universe.

Contrary to materialistic accounts of consciousness, Dr. Hameroff offers an alternative explanation of consciousness that can perhaps appeal to both the rational scientific mind and personal intuitions.

Consciousness resides, according to Stuart and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose, in the microtubules of the brain cells, which are the primary sites of quantum processing.

Upon death, this information is released from your body, meaning that your consciousness goes with it.

They have argued that our experience of consciousness is the result of quantum gravity effects in these microtubules, a theory which they dubbed orchestrated objective reduction (Orch-OR).

Consciousness, or at least proto-consciousness is theorized by them to be a fundamental property of the universe, present even at the first moment of the universe during the Big Bang.

“In one such scheme proto-conscious experience is a basic property of physical reality accessible to a quantum process associated with brain activity.”

Our souls are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe – and may have existed since the beginning of time. Our brains are just receivers and amplifiers for the proto-consciousness that is intrinsic to the fabric of space-time.

So is there really a part of your consciousness that is non-material and will live on after the death of your physical body?

Dr Hameroff told the Science Channel’s Through the Wormhole documentary:

“Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state.

The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”.

Robert Lanza would add here that not only does it exist in the universe, it exists perhaps in another universe.

If the patient is resuscitated, revived, this quantum information can go back into the microtubules and the patient says “I had a near death experience”‘

He adds: “If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”

This account of quantum consciousness explains things like near-death experiences, astral projection, out of body experiences, and even reincarnation without needing to appeal to religious ideology.

The energy of your consciousness potentially gets recycled back into a different body at some point, and in the mean time it exists outside of the physical body on some other level of reality, and possibly in another universe.

http://theviralpost.com/quantum-theory-proves-consciousness-moves-to-another-universe-at-death/

Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses

Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses, say health experts

Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high- and middle-income countries

An Okiufa boy in Papua New Guinea. Grains long harvested by indigenous communities are gaining popularity in developed countries. Photographs: AFP/Getty

Unprecedented levels of chronic non-communicable diseases are prompting calls to revert to the diets of our ancestors to regain lost nutrients.

It is believed that such a shift would help to improve society's relationship with the Earth and restore human and environmental health.

"The rise of the industrial model of agriculture has contributed greatly to people being disconnected from the food on their plates," says Sarah Somian, a France-based nutritionist.

Many traditional and non-processed foods consumed by rural communities, such as millet and caribou, are nutrient-dense and offer healthy fatty acids, micronutrients and cleansing properties widely lacking in diets popular in high- and middle-income countries, say experts.

Indigenous diets worldwide – from forest foods such as roots and tubers in regions of eastern India to coldwater fish, caribou and seals in northern Canada – are varied, suited to local environments, and can counter malnutrition and disease.

"For many tribal and indigenous peoples, their food systems are complex, self-sufficient and deliver a very broad-based, nutritionally diverse diet," says Jo Woodman, a senior researcher and campaigner at Survival International, a UK-based indigenous advocacy organisation.

But the disruption of traditional lifestyles due to environmental degradation, and the introduction of processed foods, refined fats and oils, and simple carbohydrates, contributes to worsening health in indigenous populations, and a decline in the production of nutrient-rich foodstuffs that could benefit all communities.

"Traditional food systems need to be documented so that policymakers know what is at stake by ruining an ecosystem, not only for the indigenous peoples living there, but for everyone," Harriet Kuhnlein, founding director of the Centre of Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment at McGill University, Canada.

Since the early 1960s, economic growth, urbanisation and a global population increase to more than 7 billion have multiplied the consumption of animal-sourced foods – including meat, eggs and dairy products – which comprised 13% of the energy in the world's diet in 2013, according to the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya. Farm-raised livestock consumes up to a third of the world's grains, the institute notes.

Agricultural expansion, some of it to cultivate more grains, accounts for 80% of the world's deforestation, says the UN Environmental Programme.

With the global population expected to rise to some 9 billion by 2050, 50% more food must be produced to feed these people, depending on whether there is a healthy ecosystem. "When environments are destroyed or contaminated, this affects the food they can provide," Kuhnlein says.

Indigenous food systems – gathering and preparing food to maximise the nutrients an environment can provide – range from nomadic hunter-gatherers such as the Aché in eastern Paraguay, the Massai pastoralists in northern Kenya, and herding and fishing groups including the Inuit in northern Canada, to the Saami of Scandinavia and the millet-farming Kondh agriculturalists in eastern India.

But the trait these groups share is a keen knowledge of how to eat nutritiously without damaging the ecosystem. "Indigenous peoples' food systems contain treasures of knowledge from long-evolved cultures and patterns of living in local ecosystems," says an FAO-supported study on indigenous food systems, nutrition, and health co-authored by Kuhnlein in 2009.

In recent years, grains such as quinoa, fonio and millet – long harvested by indigenous and rural communities in developing countries but increasingly overlooked by a younger, richer generation that prefers imported foods – have instead grown in popularity in developed countries.

Research, marketing and donor-funded financing have helped raise awareness of the ability of these high-protein grains to reduce cholesterol, provide micronutrients and lower the risk of diabetes. "Because of the many health benefits of these forgotten, or until [recently] unknown foods, valuing the wisdom of indigenous cultures [and] earlier generations is vital for reducing disease and inflammation," Somian says.

Marginalised farmers

 A street vendor hawks a bundle of yams in Lagos, Nigeria. The tubers, which can be boiled or baked, are rich in vitamin C

The Kondh community in Odisha state traditionally grows up to 16 varieties of millet, according to Debjeet Sarangi, head of Living Farms, a local NGO that has worked with marginalised indigenous farmers since 2005.

But millet-growing among the roughly 100,000 Kondh, who are spread over about 15,000 villages, has dropped by nearly 63% from an estimated 500,000 hectares in 1975 to more than 200,000 hectares in 2008. This is because land is being converted to paddy in exchange for government-subsidised rice programmes offering refined white rice, even though it carries health risks.

"When there is so much malnutrition existing in the area, why do you replace land which has been growing nutritious food [with rice paddies]?" says Sarangi, whose NGO reported in 2011 that 75% of under-fives in Kondh weighed too little for their age, and 55% were too short for their height group, a sign of chronic malnutrition.

Another so-called superfood declining in popularity is spirulina, a type of cyanobacteria that grows in ponds and is a staple in many traditional food systems, such as among the Kanembu in Chad.

Spirulina has the potential to boost immunity, reduce inflammation, decrease allergic reactions, and provide a healthy source of protein, according to the Langone Medical Centre of New York University in the US.

"There is a deep irony in the fact that many dieticians are advocating [traditional and indigenous foods and diets] and yet [the] modern [western] diet is what is being pushed on tribal peoples around the world, with devastating results," Woodman says.

"We have lost our primary relationship with our world around us," says Dr Martin Reinhardt, assistant professor of Native American studies at Northern Michigan University.

Native American elders historically planned seven generations ahead when creating food systems, teaching each generation that it was their responsibility to ensure the survival of the seventh, says Reinhardt, an Anishinaabe Ojibway citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa Native American people in Michigan state. They did this by hunting and gathering only what they needed, conserving resources such as wood and water, and protecting food biodiversity.

But when Native Americans were forced to assimilate, historical access to this nutritional knowledge was lost, Reinhardt points out. According to the special diabetes programme for Indians, run by the US federal government's Indian health service , the 566 registered indigenous peoples in the US have a diabetes rate nine times higher than the national average.

Similarly, rates of the disease among First Nations and Inuit groups in Canada are up tofive times higher than the countrywide average, according to the government's federal health department.

In Laos, northern highland minorities such as the Yawa, Htin and Khmu traditionally eat forest-based diets, including wild pigs, birds, bamboo shoots, banana flowers and yams rich in vitamin C. But in recent decades the Laos government has moved thousands of people from the highlands to towns for economic reasons, documented in a 2012 reportby the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

"Communities [have less access] to natural resources than before," says Jim Chamberlain, an anthropologist and former World Bank consultant based in the capital, Vientiane. He says their traditional diet relies on forests and the move has led to a decline in nutritional status. Malnutrition rates in Laotian under-fives are among the highest in south-east Asia.

While reinstating traditional food systems is key for everyone's health, as well as for the environment, the lack of a market to support superfoods poses serious challenges, advocates say.

In northern Canada, many of the fishes rich in omega-3 fatty acids – a staple in the traditional diets of Arctic tribes – spawn and live in waters increasingly tainted with mercury, according to the government.

Deforestation worldwide, often to make way for large-scale agricultural production, curtails the nutrients that can be gathered from forests.

Much environmental destruction is a consequence of modern society's detachment from its food systems, says Reinhardt, who co-ordinated a UNM project called decolonise your diet, which ran from 2010-12 and aimed to teach people the link between food, culture, health and the environment.

"Humans can, and need to, reconnect with nature in such an intimate way as to depend on it for survival," he says. "I hope we have not yet passed the thresholds [of what the earth can tolerate]."

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/feb/03/indigenous-diets-fight-modern-illnesses

A look at Hamilton’s new co-operative grocer: The Mustard Seed

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Ana Qarri
The Silhouette

Friday, Jan. 24 marked the grand opening of Hamilton’s first community-owned grocery store.

The Mustard Seed, located on 460 York Boulevard, offers an alternative to student favourites like Fortinos and Metro. Along with typical grocery products, the co-op will focus on selling local and organic food.  A user-owned grocery store, The Mustard Seed allows its shoppers to have control over how their grocery store is managed and maintained. To become shareholders, shoppers purchase memberships which are sold per household, but are not mandatory to shop at the co-op. Having a membership gives the household voting rights on decisions like where the co-op’s produce is purchased, and the impact that the co-op wants to have on the larger issues.

Co-operative grocery stores were commonplace in the late 1800s until World War II. The emergence of capitalism led to fewer co-ops being established and a larger focus on privatized for-profit companies. The influence of the co-op on bigger private firms can still be identified in branding and marketing techniques often attempting to capitalize on the image of the community member you’re well acquainted with, or the local farmer you can trust. Over the last few decades, there’s been a resurgence of co-ops as community members have begun to recognize the need for healthier food and the importance of supporting locally-owned businesses.

The idea of establishing a co-operative grocery store in Hamilton came to business-owners Emma and Graham Cubitt when they visited one in Vermont, and were convinced that a co-operative could be an equally successful undertaking in Hamilton.

Emma and Graham had been sitting on the idea of opening a co-op in Hamilton since 2010, and eventually gathered a group of approximately 40 supporters and volunteers to help them in making it a reality. As of Friday, the community-owned store had over 1,250 registered members with the number still increasing.

The Mustard Seed is not only owned by the community, but it was also built by a group of more than 200 volunteers. They painted walls, installed shelves, cleaned floors, and together built Hamilton’s first community-owned and community-made grocery store.

It has a modest size for a store that plans to serve thousands of costumers, but the warm colours and the rural chic interior design give it an open and welcoming vibe.

I visited the store on its second day of operations. Even though the weather was dismal and I myself considered not leaving my house, The Mustard Seed was buzzing with costumers, staff members and volunteers.

I was even greeted at the automatic door (which had broken earlier that morning) by a friendly face who had taken on the role of makeshift door-slider. Graham invited me to talk about the collective idea and vision behind The Mustard Seed.

He describes the co-op as a “democratic business model.”

“In other companies, some people purchase more shares so they have more votes,” he explained. “Whereas at co-ops like The Mustard Seed, everyone is given equal shareholder participation and status. Here, we make decisions as a business together,” Graham added.

“Every year, we’ll have a general meeting, and make a vision of how our co-op operates, how we want to impact our community.”

It’s the direct consumer engagement with the store that makes it an appealing business model in a society where companies are always trying to find ways to “connect” with their buyers. The Mustard Seed is committed to its customers and its customers are committed to its vision.

The store isn’t only making locally and environmentally-conscious decisions about food. The majority of the resources used to build and maintain the space are equally supportive of Hamilton’s businesses and initiatives. Everything from the staff uniforms to the music played at the store comes from local places and local people.

The Mustard Seed is the perfect place for students to become more engaged with the Hamilton community. It provides opportunities to volunteer for a community organization, as well as be part of decision-making processes about the well-being and direction of many local initiatives. The co-op promises to be a great contact point between students and the greater community. Graham stated that he’s already seen some student involvement in the building and opening of the co-op, and he would love to see more in the future.

“We’d love for students to be involved, we know they’re only here for a period of time, but volunteering or shopping at the co-op can be a great way to get integrated to the community locally. We also hope our products will be affordable options for students.”

The Mustard Seed has planted itself in downtown Hamilton at a crucial and almost strategic time in the city’s rebirth. Although Hamilton’s steel-producing years are behind it, the city is slowly transforming into a hub for artists and innovators where support for local organizations is becoming the norm. In a city that’s redefining itself by encouraging local groups to create local solutions for local people, a grocery store co-op seems like a natural next step, combining collective control over healthy and local food options with Hamilton’s community-driven business models.

Homemade deodorant - from Apple Tree Wellness

From: Apple Tree Health and Wellness

Have you ever wondered how you could replace your deoderant with something more natural and better for you?! Marcelle has found the answer!

Homemade deodorant

I started overhauling my beauty products a couple of years ago, replacing my moisturisers and eye make up removers with coconut oil, using apple cider vinegar as a great hair conditioner, but the one that would always let me down is deodorant. I knew it was important because all the lymphatics for the arm are processed in the nodes right there in your axilla. I have tried lots of options, crystals (?!), salts, you name it, eventually settling on just using baking powder, because well, it works! But lets be honest, there is nothing fancy about it and a girl likes a bit of fancy sometimes! There are lots of recipes online but here is the one that works for me:

¼ cup baking soda
¼ cup arrowroot
3 drops of Young Living Lemon Essential Oil*
3 drops of Young Living Lavender Essential Oil
4 drops of Young Living Rosemary Essential Oil
Enough coconut oil to mix into a paste.
*all Young Living essential oils available at Appletree Health and Wellness.

Combine all ingredients until a thick paste is created and then store in an airtight container. It takes about 10 minutes to make and you only need to use a tiny amount each time. I will say that it may take a few months until you have detoxed from the other ingredients contained within store-bought deodorants but I am happy to report a fresh smelling and toxin free axilla!

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Lucid Dreaming

THE MIND UNLEASHED on 26 January, 2014 at 10:20





Here are 10 things you (probably) never knew about the wonderful phenomenon of lucid dreaming, the ability to have conscious awareness during dreams…


1. THE FIRST LUCID DREAMS WERE RECORDED BY ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

The Egyptians were an advanced civilization which coalesced around 3150 BC – more than 5,000 years ago. According to Jeremy Naydler, author of Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the Sacred, they believed in three bodies: Shat (the corpse body), Ka (the living physical body) and Ba (the soul).

Ba was often represented in hieroglyphics as a human-headed bird floating above the sleeping body or corpse. Naydler notes that “…the Ba is the person but in another form. The Ba could be defined as an individual in an out-of-body state.” Was the Ba actually the lucid dreaming consciousness?

Robert Waggoner, editor of The Lucid Dreaming Experience, believes so: “…I was struck by the concept of the Babeing the part of one that flies during sleep, trance and after-death states… Many of us have had that experience, whether we call it an OOBE or a lucid dream, of flying around our sleeping body.

Robert Waggoner, editor of The Lucid Dreaming Experience, believes so: “…I was struck by the concept of the Babeing the part of one that flies during sleep, trance and after-death states… Many of us have had that experience, whether we call it an OOBE or a lucid dream, of flying around our sleeping body.

“For lucid dreamers, trance journeyers and OOBE-ers, the Ba may represent in a historic sense, the first depiction of a ‘mobile awareness’ separated from the physical host. Interestingly, this mobile awareness, this Ba, seems naturally connected to flying – a common and seemingly universal part of lucid dreaming. Though thousands of years separate us from the Ancient Egyptians, perhaps some of their ancient knowledge remains in our collective unconscious…”



2. ONE IN FIVE PEOPLE LUCID DREAM EVERY MONTH OR MORE.

In 1988, Snyder & Gackenback conducted a scientific survey which found that 20% of people claimed to lucid dream frequently (every month) while 50% of people had done it at least once in their lives. So lucidity is not so rare, even if most people don’t know the technical name or induce such dreams deliberately. It actually seems quite normal to have spontaneous dream control – especially as children.

One possible reason for this is that children are more prone to nightmares which can be highly vivid and emotionally intense. This awakens the part of the brain responsible for self-awareness, and gives the young dreamer a moment of clarity to realize “hey – I must be dreaming!” Some children use this knowledge to wake themselves up, while others transform the nightmare into a pleasant guided dream.

When I first discovered lucid dreaming in my teens, I was excited to tell my best friend Michelle about it. “Oh I’ve been doing that for years,” she told me. For as long as she could remember, she would use her imagination as she went to sleep and visualize whatever dreamscape she wanted. Then she would just pop into it and experience dream control perfectly naturally.

It may be surprising how many people you know are already lucid dreamers – you just never happened to ask them about it. Since I launched this website a lot of friends have told me they have the occasional guided dream. Pete has controlled his dreams since he was a child too – another natural lucid dreamer.

At the other end of the spectrum, a handful of people have written to me saying they always lucid dream every single night since childhood, and they sleep very poorly as a result, feeling like their brain never properly shuts down. I really can’t relate to this; for me, lucid dreaming is always a conscious choice or a welcome accident, but never a burden. But when any behavior starts to disrupt your everyday life, then it is a problem that needs addressing – and I urge anyone in this position to seek specialist advice from a doctor who can help.
3. WHEN YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES IN A LUCID DREAM, YOU CAN WAKE UP.

When I was younger I used close my eyes to escape from nightmares. When I was frozen with terror it occurred to me that none of it was real, and I had a moment to squeeze my eyes shut tightly and shout “WAKE UP!”

Now I never end a lucid dream prematurely if I can help it. But that doesn’t stop me from accidentally closing my eyes in the dream (out of force of habit, not because they’re dry or I need to blink…) This almost always causes me to return to my physical body. Apparently, this is not true for everyone, but it sure is for some.

Luckily, if you do wake up by accident, there is a way to resume the dream from where you left off. As long as you keep your body still (so as not to disturb the sleep paralysis mechanism) and close your eyes immediately, you should find yourself back in the dream and fully lucid. It’s like changing channels on the TV. For a few seconds, both realities exist and you are free to flick between them.
4. LUCID DREAMERS CAN “TALK” TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD.

In 1975, the British psychologist Keith Hearne achieved a world first: he recorded the eye movements of Alan Worsley as he slept and engaged in a lucid dream in the lab. Crucially, the two men had agreed upon a pattern set of eye movement signals beforehand. By moving his eyes inside the lucid dream, Worsley was able to communicate with Hearne in the outside world, while he was dreaming.

This remarkable experiment proved, for the first time ever, that consciousness in dreams was indeed real. Later, EEG readings were able to record ahigh frequency GAMMA brainwave state in lucid dreamers, which provided further evidence of this unique state of conscious awareness. However, it was Hearne’s experiment, later replicated by Dr Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University, that showed us it really is possible for a dreamer to “talk” with a waking person in the outside world.

But what about the other way around? Can we send messages to a dreamer while they sleep? Could a two-way conversation be achieved?

Actually, yes – to a degree. When we sleep, our brains are largely ignorant to most of what’s happening in the outside world. However, for survival reasons, we do have the ability to retain some awareness and be responsive so some types of external stimulus. So, if someone gently prods you in the rib while you sleep, you will often feel the prod in the dream, albeit under a different interpretation (perhaps something as strange as a rat biting you in the side).

Perhaps not surprisingly, this effect seems to be more prominent during lucid dreams and false awakenings, when your self-awareness is much more intense. For instance, when it’s raining noisily in the real world, I experience heavy rain in my lucid dreams, too. It’s easy to verify this by looking for the stimulus when you wake up.
5. LUCIDITY ARISES FROM A SPECIAL PART OF THE BRAIN.

The neuroscientist, J Allan Hobson, has theorized about what happens in the brain when a dreamer becomes lucid. First, we recognize that we’re dreaming, and this stimulates the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain which is responsible for self-awareness and working memory. This area is usually deactivated during REM sleep – which explains why it is not typical to realize that we’re dreaming or remember all of the detail without serious effort.

Once lucidity is triggered, the dreamer treads a fine line between staying asleep, yet remaining conscious enough to remember they’re dreaming…

Interestingly, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is uniquely associated with the subjective experience of deciding when and how to act. In Susan Blackmore’s wonderful pocketbook, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, she explains how this region is directly connected to free will – and how this may be an illusion created by our own complex brain processes. She also discusses self awareness and the contentious problem we have when we try to pinpoint the location of our conscious inner self.
6. LUCID DREAMING CAN BE MAPPED AS A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

Susan Blackmore’s work highlights another important feature of lucidity: that it may be a special state of consciousness distinct from any other. Can these individual states be mapped? Some scientists believe so.

Here is a diagram Pete whipped up based on Blackmore’s conclusions and the existing theories of human consciousness. Although it is extremely difficult to know the relevant dimensions, it is possible to visualize how these conscious states might be mapped in a vast multidimensional space. Note how some states are easy to reach (being wide awake, false awakenings and dreaming) while others are far away (deep sleep, sleep paralysis and mystical experiences).




7. CERTAIN VITAMINS WILL INCREASE YOUR DREAM INTENSITY.

Vitamin B6 (also known as Pyridoxine) plays a key role in brain and nerve function. Healthy adults need just 1.3 mg of Vitamin B6 each day and this can be acquired through foods like bananas, carrots, oranges, spinach, fish, chicken, liver, beans, eggs and nuts. However, to achieve the dose necessary for greater dream intensity, take a 100 mg supplement such as Nature Made Vitamin B6.

So, what happens in your body when you take this supplement? Vitamin B6 converts Tryptophan into Serotonin, which produces much more vivid dreams. You may wonder why you can’t just take a Serotonin supplement, as there are plenty available. Unfortunately, the blood brain barrier wont let it in directly; the conversion has to take place in the body.

To boost your chances further, eat foods containing Tryptophan around the same time you take your B6 pill, a few hours before bed. Tryptophan-rich foods include cheddar cheese, chicken, salmon, lamb, eggs, white rice, flour and milk. So, there really is something to be said about cheese dreams.
8. LUCID DREAM ORGASMS CAN BE REAL.

Scientists have found that lucid orgasms can sometimes be accompanied by a real physical response, including increased heart rate, changes in vascular tissue and other muscular reactions. Sometimes, however, it’s purely in the mind – although this doesn’t make it any less real to the dreamer in their super-sensory dream environment. There is also heaps of anecdotal evidence to show that men who experience a lucid dream orgasm also ejaculate in real life.

The problem many people find is that it’s difficult to hold onto conscious lucidity until the critical moment. Lucid dream sex is highly arousing and beginner oneironauts will most likely wake up before the experience has even got going. In this way, sexual lucid dreams aren’t ideal for beginners, yet they’re usually the ones most motivated to seek them out for the novelty value.
9. MEDITATION IS PROFOUNDLY LINKED WITH SELF-AWARENESS IN DREAMS.

There is a proven scientific link between meditation and lucid dreams. I find that the more frequently I meditate, the more I recognize when I’m dreaming. For all it’s simplicity (switching off conscious thought) meditation helps me to reach blissful places of relaxation and insight. It also helps to me enter altered states of consciousness at will (great for Wake Induced Lucid Dreams) as well as increase my physical self-awareness and visualization skills (for Dream Induced Lucid Dreams.)

There is one thing I frequently rave about on this site and that is brainwave entrainment. This was the key in my learning how to meditate. First in the form of binaural beats, and now in the much more powerful form of isochronic tones, brainwave entrainment is a scientifically proven way of molding your brainwave frequencies, to produce altered states of consciousness on demand.

The most notorious application for audio entrainment is meditation – and this delivers us very close to the lucid dreaming state. I highly recommend beginners invest in a good entrainment MP3 or CD to kick start their internal voyages in meditation. My favorite is the Lucid Dreaming MP3 with Isochronic Tones by Meditation Power.
10. TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS PRACTICE LUCID DREAMING ON THEIR PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT.

Tibetan Dream Yoga is the original form of lucid dreaming. It is a philosophical practice created in Tibetan Buddhism at least 1,000 years ago.

Just like lucid dreams, the aim of Dream Yoga is to awaken the conscious self from within the dream state, which they call “apprehending the dream”.

However, Buddhist monks have more esoteric goals in mind. Their aim is to harness the power of the conscious dream state and then complete a number of set tasks to take them to the next level, including:
Practice sadhana (a spiritual discipline)
Receive initiations, empowerments and transmissions
Visit different places, planes and lokas (worlds)
Communicate with yidam (an enlightened being)
Meet with other sentient beings
Fly and shape shift into other creatures

The ultimate goal in Tibetan dream yoga is to apprehend the dream, then dissolve it completely. Deprived of physical stimulus via the sleeping body, and conceptual stimulus via the dreaming mind, they can observe the purest form of conscious awareness through profound meditation in a lucid dream.

For step-by-step tutorials on lucid dream exploration, check out The Lucid Dreaming Fast Track, my digital course for beginners and beyond.

Credits: Written by Rebecca Turner of www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com

Image Credits: BinauralBrain.com