From beyond the Asteroid Belt came some national, international and intergalactic jabber kicked off by this from Sancho Panza, who was born in the Dominican Republic and probably speaks all the romance languages and Latin better than I speak English:

Happy New Year to you both!

On 12/30/2011 9:43 AM, Waldo Hotz wrote:

Could this be the plan for a New World Order?

Replies encouraged.

This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960s. His family was more fortunate than most as they were able to bring a suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro’s newly formed revolutionary paradise.

Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers, potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn. This is a menu shared with family and friends nationwide, while celebrating the birth of our beloved America on the Fourth of July.

We began with a simple discussion about our country and the direction it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating from the rulers in Washington ..

But then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was unplanned. But it carried the weight of a freight train.

“You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist.”

We sat stunned. He continued, “Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a nationalist. Before the revolution he didn’t sound like a radical.”

The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected, “You mean just like Barack Obama?” He responded, “Yes, just like Barack Obama.” He continued, “We were all shocked as the government just continued to grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn in your guns. We all complied.”

“I remember my uncle saying after it started, ‘Castro will only nationalize some of the big industries, he will never come and take our family hardware store. ‘But that is exactly what happened, Castro started with the sugar mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us. And that nice, large four-bedroom home you own, it is now our property also, and you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of the house because others are moving in with you.”

The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson most Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their agenda and once in office they can take totally unexpected turns.

If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General Motors would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building block of a justice society would be evaporating just like it did in Castro’s Cuba in the early 1960s.

But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers are not charged with wrongdoing by the U.S. Department of Justice because their crimes are against whites. The bondholders of GM are stripped of their assets without due process by the government. Governmental leaders are bribed in full daylight only to have all investigation of the crimes stifled by the Attorney General. The U.S. borders are overrun with crime and illegal activity and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is important to protect the lawbreakers while the innocent are killed and overrun. When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are ridiculed and threatened as racists and bigots. They are sued by the very administration entrusted with enforcing the law.

Without the rule of law the U.S. Constitution is a sham. Without the rule of law our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only the well connected and politically powerful will be safe. As Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book, a culture of corruption has replaced honest government.

The only way this problem will be fixed is by massive citizen action. All honest citizens that want to be treated equally must come together and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven enforcement of law end now. And yes, it can happen here.

A year ago I made the statement that “I didn’t believe the President knows what he is doing.” My friend said “Oh yes he does” Back then I didn’t know what she meant. Today I realize she was right. He does know exactly what he is doing.

PLEASE SEND THIS TO OTHERS ONLY IF YOU WANT TO. … And may God save the United States of America !
　
Sancho’s reply to the fowarder:

Well, maybe to start enforcing the rule of law, G.W. Bush is prosecuted for mass murder, treason, hmmmm, maybe I can come up with other reasonable charges … how about terrorism? Oh, yeah, and everyone who voted for him and/or still support him is prosecuted as his co-defendant for same charges … Didn’t G.W. bail out GM and Chrysler? Oh, I already wrote about that this morning at my websites, replying someone like this wingnut who said Obama did this and did that. Not that I care a twit for Obama, but the people who attack him seriously need remedial courses in American History, or they could try just telling the truth. Like the Mexicans had not already overrun California, etc. when Ronnie Raygun was President, and nobody bashed him for it. Shit, Domingo, what’s the point in even getting involved in US politics? Oh, darn, you pushed Obama, now you are pushing Paul. Me, I’m hoping for an asteroid strike on D.C. when all the politicos are there – so much more thorough. I wonder how Fidel Castro feels about being likened to Obama? Bet he might have to scratch his noodle a bit over that one. Sloan

From another reciepient of Sancho’s forward, asking:

Fritz, Sloan Bashinsky is an undocumented “ALIEN” dropped here on Earth about 67 years ago to experience, in carne, what is like to be a human being… you know, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, etc., etc., etc……. apparently he never got used to the place… forgive him he’s not really human!

The Compassion of Dr. Ron Paul

 

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What I really hate is that they try to justify their bigotry/hatred with some cockamamie story based on religious or patriotic sentiments as if they were somehow the defenders of GOD and Country! They are being played(I should know… I was played too) and in the meantime Rome burns!

 

G. W. Bush, or perhaps I should refer to the real man in-charge, Dick Cheney, bailed out Wall Street… but the real bail out was done by the Federal Reserve to the tune of 16 trillion dollars to be spread all over the World(to the Central Banks of EU, etc.). Any time money is printed without any “real” basis to back it up you’re simply diluting the value of that currency… it is as if a thief came at night and went into your safe and left you 75 cents for every dollar you had in there! Except that these thieves cannot be stopped by getting a safer safe… you need to shine a light on what they are doing… that’s why I support Ron Paul and also for this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rv0Z5SNrF4&feature=player_embedded Paid political add by Domingo Pichardo

Ron Paul for POTUS 3023!

 My thoughts:

This video seems aimed to persuade Republicans that Paul can win African-American votes away from Barack Obama, so Paul can gain the Republican nomination. Not likely, though, Paul will ever win any Jewish votes after his newsletter accused Israel of being behind 911 and he dodged every question recently put to him about that from the news media. Even so, Paul makes mountains more sense than all the rest of the candidates combined.

My reply to Sancho and his correspondents:

Sancho’s reply:

Yes, I think getting laid and drunk is a better option but here is the thing: Two of us here are “happily married”, which means we don’t see much point on it… and the other two of you haven’t had it for so long that the excitement might just kill you!

So we better stick with politics! My Taoist feelers tell me that Ron Paul would cause Mr. Obama to contort himself into a pretzel trying to figure a way to convince people that he is the agent of change or the principled one! But who knows, Americans DID vote for GWB a second time… goes to show we are a nation of cretins …

 

My reply:

 

Actually, that’s sort of the name of the dominant species on my home planet – Cretan.

Have lots of digitalis for emergencies, but nothing that would help me drink a couple of beers, perferably with tequila chasers, and live to see the next sunrise.

The mother ship contacted me last night, but darn if I can remember what she said. Am about to lie down for another snooze, maybe she will try again.

Am not convinced any political forward I ever received, most from the far right, but some from other quadrants, was not jimmied in some way, or ways.

Sancho’s reply:

Hi Sloan! I just got off the phone with Waldo, the friend that keeps sending me the Obama is the antichrist emails! He, of course, is not the author of this junk but he loves to pass it on to me to irritate me… this one being about Cuba which is close by to you, I had the brilliant idea(not) of getting you to comment… like only know you how to comment! LOL

Anyway, he called to find out who you were and why he and his buddy Fritz were getting your emails… I told him that you were a friend of mine and I had invited you into the conversation because of your background and because I just wanted to bust his balls for copying me on his “patriotic” emails. Any way to make a long story short… I think it is best to not copy them on this anymore… they shoot strangers ’round here! LOL

Happy New Year!
Domingo

My reply to Sancho:

Waldo is not in love with ALIENS? Darn, I was starting to have what seemed like a little fun. Tell him I said he should come over and shoot you for dragging me into it, knowing I would not let it pass quietly. Some friend, Waldo must be thrilled if he called you. You actually have telephones in America? I’m impressed. They have lots of ways of disposing of people in this country, shooting being maybe in fifth place behind drowning, feeding to sharks, dynamite, stabbing, butchering and serving in tourist restaurants, maybe then shooting, hanging from the yardarm. You guys up there in the land of northern aggression might succeed in breaking your boredom by visiting bigpinekey.com’s Coconut Telegraph. Comments actively solicited there. You might want to poke From The Right a bit, his daily column usually is at the bottom of each day’s outing. He tosses around lots of statistics, hates Obama worse than most anything. Vicious anonymous attacks especially appreciated by the host of that blog, the ruthless, immoral pirate, Capt. Conch, who actually is a Klingon but he had a face transplant a few years back and now he looks sort of like, well, an real ugly pirate.

I usually can be reached at sloanbashinsky@hotmail.com

When Sandy Downs told me Christmas evening she had gone to Glad Tidings Tabernacle Church services in Key West that morning, I said I didn’t want to hear anything more about that church. She said Pastor Ernie had retired, another pastor was in charge now. I said I didn’t want to hear anything more about that church. She let it go.

Sandy and Pastor Ernie were buddies, and she and her family sometimes worked in the church kitchen preparing meals for homeless people. I got to know the church by being homeless and eating meals it had prepared, which was fine, except for associate pastors and church members talking down to homeless people who came to be fed.

I had direct dealings with two of associate pastors, who had lots to learn about the ways of Jesus and God; and I went to enough church services at Glad Tidings with the regular congregation to know it was not a church I figured Jesus would spend much time attending. They loved G.W. Bush and his wars, and had a high opinon of their standing with God.

The last Glad Tiding’s service I attended was at Sandy’s behest, maybe in 2008; she said she wanted me to give the church another chance. So I went, not happy about it.

Had nap dream yesterday of my investment fund in Birmingham being depleted and needing to go up there to deal with that. On waking, looked at my email account and found three quotes from my oldest Bashinsky first cousin Leo. I typed in my thoughts in CAPS.

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” Eden Phillpotts

www.ica.org.au/page_expression_priesthood.html – Cached

I opened the link and read a bit, then found out how to contact them and sent this, wondering if I would hear back, wondering if I was over-reaching, wondering if I will ever meet another person who has anything like the experiences I have:

From: keysmyhome@hotmail.com
To: headquarters@ica.org.au
Subject: Melchizedek calling/training
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:39:01 -0500

Maybe I will hear back from them, maybe not. Maybe it will lead to something, maybe not. Maybe this replenishes my Birmingham investment account, maybe not. Hard to figure Jesus, Michael and Melchizedek. And God. Impossible, actually.

The

Photo compliements my oldest Bashinsky first cousing Leo.

 

The Citizen reports today that Key West the Newspaper went out of business again, this time for good, and its Pubisher Dennis Reeves Cooper plans to move to a small town in the Brazilian rainforest. The blue newspaper, which promoted journalism “as a contact sport”, is no longer. R.I.P.

 

On similar theme, recent emails with Deer Ed of bigpinekey.com’s Coconut Telegraph:Morning after ho, ho, ho, Ed, wish I felt ho, ho, ho, but that’s beside the point of this inquiry.Can’t tell whether you seriously are looking at closing the CT, or you just wanted to stir the pot because you wuz getting bored.

Did any of the CT lovers who begged you to keep the CT going ever offer to pay you anything for that?

Maybe a rhetorical question, since I didn’t see anything along that line pubished.

Sloan

It’s true, Sloan, I’m burnt out after ten years. I wear the CT like an anchor around my soul. Someone did send me $5, but it’s not the money, it’s the 365 X 10 year work week that’s got me down.~Ed

 

Gosh, Ed, sounds like how I feel …I read today on the CT, you said you liked a reader’s comment that you do no-edit Sat and Sun, so you can have weekends off, but I know no-edit takes some work, too, only less work than full-edit days …Why not try taking Sat and Sun off altogether, just publish M-F, and tell CT readers no submissions made Fri or Sat will be considered for weekly CT, so you won’t have them trickling in while you are resting or whatever …

If you quit altogther, though, I will understand why and probably won’t bitch too much … but what about all of the CT addicts you have created? And what about the Sloan haters?

So many things to consider, but I would start with you, if allowed that freedom …

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You missed the point entirely, Sancho. When cornered with his own flub, Ron Paul did what all politicians do when cornered with their flubs.I preached cutting Israel completely off since just after 911. I opposed every US war after I woke up about Vietnam. I opposed John Kerry and both Bushes. I did not get my ideas from Ron Paul, of whom I had not heard, as I recall, before you told me about him.

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this utube is different from what you sent earlier to me, Sancho?

 

 

JUST FORGET ABOUT IT!!!

 

 

You invited me and the angels into this discussion, Sancho.

Now you tell me to forget all abou it, with exclamations, after I don’t swoon over Paul.Spock would say you are behaving illogically.

Just saw another TV news discussion re those Ron Paul newsletters, apparently he still has not come clean.

One fellow made an interesting comment, along the lines: to say Paul didn’t know what was in, or he didn’t read what was in, the newsletters was stretching it; as was to say Paul was a racist over what was written stretching it; but it showed Paul associated with fringe-thinkers he could not control.

I wish Paul had just said, yeah, we put that out, we believed then, that Israel was behind 911; wish we had not put it out. That he did not do that leaves me thinking, hmmm, he still believes Israel was behind 911. Back then, I would not have ruled that possiblilty out before Osama bin Laden boasted on videos that went onto the Internet that he and his gang had done it.

I don’t get the sense that Paul is a racist. Rather, it seems he trusts no foreign countries, and I can’t say I blame him for that. As I said before, I was moving his way until I saw the way he petered out over the newsletters.

In a way, this reminds me of Barry Goldwater getting called during his campaign on his relationship with the John Birch Society, and Goldwater would not back down on supporting extremism in support of democracy.

In a way, it also reminds me of my experience with Barack Obama before he secured the Democratic nomination. After a while, I knew something was seriously wrong with him and sounded the clarion.

I took three naps today, so far. Nothing from the angels on Ron Paul, so far. They will let me know, if I am not looking at him clearly.

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I wonder if my readership will go up now that the contact journalism sport lovers no longer have Key West the Newspaper to read? I wonder if my readership will increase if Deer Ed shuts down the CT? I wonder if I should head for Brazil? Like Jesus, Michael and Melchizdek would let me, even if I wanted to go there, which I don’t. Seems they have plenty of jungle around here they want me enjoy. Such a sense of humor – theirs.

I usually can be reached at sloanbashinsky@hotmail.com.

It’s been a very long time since I had a day off from writing for same day publication. Years. It also has been a long time since I had what I felt was a good Christmas. Maybe today will be better. Am having two new friends over to break bread at a late lunch. I met the younger couple earlier in the week. They drove up from Key West after we had exchanged these emails:

~I found your t-shirt in the thrift store [my 2009 Key West mayor's race capaign t-shirt, see home page of goodmorningkeywest.com]

And then decided to look into your campaign, and you. My girlfriend and I are recently arrived but maybe soon departing from your adopted home, KW. it seems as though very few people appreciate quality, truth, competence, integrity, personality, etc anymore, and have whole heartedly embraced mediocrity.

you seem different. my girlfriend and I would like to have a coffee or beer or something with you if you have the time and inclination. She, more than I, has suffered greatly from being real, and feels something going on your way. She’d also like to hear more about your time in Australia with the aborigines and your dreams and your inner spiritual journey.

our phone is 973-865-6247. She is presently pounding the pavement looking for that elusive bartender’s job, but we can meet up pretty much any time, if you have time, once you are done with your laundry.

Take care, good luck and hang in there with your endeavors. you aren’t crazy…..

Joe and Donia
Treewizard1@gmail.com

~You have more copies of that T-shirt than I. You two sound interesting. I live on Little Torch Key these days, but could drive down to KW to visit. Friday better for me than today or tomorrow. I like to hang out at Harpoon Harry’s. Perhaps late lunch while the morning shift, I call them my harem, still there. Here’s my landline, call me this evening or in the morning.

(305) 872-1705.

What is a tree wizard?

~you can have the TShirt when I leave the Keys. I ran into one of your supporters today at the health food store, so don’t lose faith. you have a secret underground army waiting in the wings, ready to give all, bear all, and bare all for the causes.

I would be happy to take a ride out to Little Torch to meet up if that is going to be easier than your coming here. I’d temporarily have to give up my coveted parking spot should I dare to move the car, but I wouldn’t mind at al getting off KW for a few hours, and it does seem a bit unseemly to worry about parking in Paradise…”. On the negative side, if we drive to you, I don’t get to meet your harem, and I’ve always wanted to know what a harem looks like…..

I’m giving your number to Donia, my partner, girlfriend, et al, to set things up. She is much more spiritual than I, or at least more articulate than I am about it. I prefer to chauffeur. And I am a tree wizard, an arborist, tree climber, and more…

We’ll talk soon!

Joe

Hi, Joe.

Maybe you have met Sandy Downs and her crew at Tarzan’s Tree Care? she used to be married to an aborist, who was Tarzan, climbed trees, and more …

What health food store, Help Yourself, I know Charley, Randesh and some of the other folks who hang out there, but didn’t know any were my secret followers, figured they thought I was seriously around any bends they could see on the horizon, although sometimes some of them come up here to be in nature for a while. I also know the owner of Sugar Apple, we have play some spirited chess games. He has a nice girlfriend.

Shortly after replying to you earlier today, wasn’t it?, it occurred to me that perhaps you two would like to get away from down there and come up here. Perhaps you’d like seeing my “farm” in the woods, and to meet my pet feral cat I got from the animal shelter down there because they said she was a varmint cat, which I sorely needed to live here due to big time woods rat community. First night she was in the trailer, Miss Kitty convened the rats for a prayer meeting with Jesus, and since then, they have stayed out of the inside of my abode, except for two or three very young ones who didn’t have better sense. Sometimes she treats me like one of the rats, sometimes she’s nice to me – a bit unpredictable lady, what’s new?

Spirituality is a nice name for mostly awful experiences, but if that were told straight out in the books that make authors rich and famous, or not, nobody would buy many of the books. I imagine that’s why so many people go to churches and retreats and to gurus and so forth instead. Count yourself fortunate you have a chauffer, and a lady one at that. You can meet my harem pretty easily I imagine by going into Harpoon Harry’s most any morning and telling the women servers Sloan sent you in there to meet his harem. Great bunch of ladies, they even put up with and sometimes even seem glad to see me come in there.

I await Donia’s call. Sort of sounds goddessy. Maybe she has a magic wand? I could use some help I hear often enough, feel in agreement usually, but not always with the precise help suggested. If you two arrive around meal time, there are some places nearby we can go that might not be up to Key West fare, but do in a pinch. Some of the harem around here, too. It’s a bit more rural up here than KW. Think almost redneck, but not entirely, except sometimes.

Sloan

I heard in dream just before rising last Sunday, “Something will happen next Sunday.” I awoke, realized that would be Christmas Day. Perhaps this meal with new friends, and perhaps with a brave old friend, is what was to happen today. Perhaps it is something else. Whatever, I imagine by tonight I might have a better grip on it.

Meanwhile, this younger couple look to me like they need some help fitting into Key West. He is an arborist, she says she is a terrific bartender, although i imagine she is plenty more than that, based on stories she told me about her own experiences with that which cannot be seen, heard or felt by normal human means. She said she spoke five languages. They conversed in French and Portuguese (Brazilian) when they were with me.

The fish is the sign for Pices, Jesus was Pices. Maybe some day it will be recognized in Christendom that he was not born December 25, or even in December. Maybe some day other things about Jesus will be recognized in Christendom, like his teachings, which Donia said the other night do not apply today, but she has an urge to eat fish.

Well, perhaps that’s enough jabber for today, other than Joe and Donia meeting me, and vice versa, was clearly arranged by the angels, just as my meeting Sandy was just as clearly arranged by the angels, but I’ve told that story before.

I usually can be reached at keysmyhome@hotmail.com.

Yesterday, from my old Alabama lawyer, white-water paddling (not just on this world) amigo, Hawkman:

Sloan,

Are you okay? I haven’t seen any post from you lately, before this one today. Just checking. BTW, when I had a physical recently, they asked me if I wanted the flu shot. I said I don’t usually get it , haven’t had the flu, and will stick with that protocol.

Hi, Michael.

I suppose I’m okay. The surgical incision now is almost healed, but it was a ride getting to here; nothing I do is straight forward any more. Wrote today to Sancho Panza of the wild ride my vasectomy reversal caused, and other far out stuff. You and I used the same doctor, after I told you about him. You had no wild ride afterward. I felt highly discriminated against. Might post that and this with you tomorrow.

Have only been posting to bham website when expressly told in dreams to do so, and that’s when I bother people who are related to Bham/Ala with email teasers for the Bham website post. Bother the rest of the victims, down here mostly, with teasers for posts to the Keys websites. If you want to be bothered with Keys stuff, let me know and you will be bothered with it – mostly local politics.

You doing okay?

Sloan

Yesterday, Sancho Panza sent more vaccine studies from around the world, part of which touched on autism being related to vaccines in some cases. It was a long thing he sent, which I am not using here, as it was to autism that I replied, then got carried off into other realms.

Morning, Sancho:

Along the wandering path I took to where I am today, wherever that is, I spent a great deal of time with people of various reputation re healing, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and was a patient and healer/therapist in training (apprentice), as it all was experiential with some reading and lecturing to provide general outline and overall understanding, as well as anatomical details where relevant.

Most significant from that re this you sent today was my training with John Upledger, D.O, of and at the Upledger Institute in West Palm Beach – crainiosacral therapy, he named his work. He started out as a regular D.O. and taught in a D.O. medical school, I think that was in Michigan. But as time passed, and he talked with and applied the old osteopathic methods to patients, he came to see D.O.s, by then almost the same as M.D.s in training and application, were treating symptoms mostly, not causes.

The old osteopaths, later chiropractors (perhaps together), learned of the cranial rythym, which is palpable on any part of a human body. Even now, I don’t think they know what it really is or does or serves, only that it is there and seems to be tied into the cerebral spinal fluid. They also discovered the bone plates, parietal, occipital, etc., float some with the crainial rhythm, and those plates, and the interior bones in the skull, and the pineal and pitituary glands can be “massaged” by very light touch – very light, and adjusted, even reset if out of alignment. This I learned to do somewhat, but was a neophyte compared to Upledger, who was seriously tuned in to all of that. He could pick up cranial rhythms from across a room.

He also learned, as had his osteopathic ancestors, that the osteopath crainiosacral “adjustments” and what was called unwinding, which was enabling a person’s body to following its own twists and contortions to where it needed to be in posture to release something hung up, very different from chiropractic adjustments, sometimes provoked serious emotional releases out of the unconscious, sometimes seemingly violent releases, related to prior trauma, physical, emotiional, mental, spiritual, including past-life/karma stuff. [I had one client/friend who, during a demonstration session, went to another solar system and into a star and came back and came out of it in grande mal seizure that lasted about two minutes before it ran it's course.]

Along the way, Upledger treated austic children not getting help elsewhere, and he said he got pretty good results after the tension/tightness in the cranial plates was released. Tension/tightness caused by the child’s defenses drawing the plates together in protection from perceived threat related to actual external threat, or past actual external threat. The drawing in put tremendous pressure on the brain, causing the autism, Upledger suspected, even as he got releases from other parts of these children, who came to trust him, I suppose because their soul knew he was on their side and trying to help them.

Also, he was able to stop their cranial rhythm, which anyone can do once taught out to do it, which took them into what is called a “stillpoint”, which I have experienced and induced in others, including children, many times. It’s relaxing and refreshing, feels good, can put a person to sleep or into a trance. You don’t stop the rhythm for long. The rhythm stops itself when you are onto something important in the “patient,” or you or the patient are talking or thinking about something important to the patient’s soul. That, too, I experienced many times working with people.

The point of all of this is, yes, probably chemicals cause autism, and lots of other medical, emotional and mental conditions. But Upledger was convinced soul trauma caused it, too. He told of a related case, a child born whose fontanels closed right after birth. Working with the child, he picked up the child was under psychic attack or interference, and to defend the child’s fontanels closed prematurely. The child was taken back through that, as I recall, experienced improvement.

Upledger was convinced lots of childhood problems, ADS, hyperactivity, attachment disorder, were caused by soul wounding. Also lots of adult problems, including many disease treated by medicine. Being a physician, he did not rule out chemical or physical trauma. He taught his work to lots of people. I was the first, perhaps the only lawyer he taught. Haven’t used it in quite a while now.

He had an interesting French doctor friend, who was the head of the department of osteopathy at the Paris School of Medicine. Jean Pierre Barral, I think was his name. I took four day training under him in Los Angeles. He tended to stay away from the psychosomatic side of it. Upledger told us of Jean Pierre, before I met him, had demonstrated at the D.O. med school in Michigan, as I recall the location, that he could see from across a room how a person’s internal organs were rotating, as an X-ray machine of some kind probably not used by M.D.’s showed he was describing it correctly. Jean Pierre not only saw but manipuated the patient’s organs from cross the room. The doctors present said he had rendered X-ray obsolete. And perhaps a bit more than that.

John Pierre discovered that organs have their own natural positions and rocking movement, which also can be adjusted. I learned a bit of that, but not enough to count today.

Try telling this stuff to a graduate from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, or to my M.D. eye surgeon daughter. Might not go very far.

I learned other ways than Upledger’s way to get into soul trauma pretty dark quick. Different kinds of physical manipulation, with and without out talking. Then, it moved past the physical touching to just talking and listening and feeling and sensing, and watching dreams, mine and the “patient’s”, and being on the lookout for the angels doing their own adjustments, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.

So much there is, perhaps the surface has only just been scratched. Perhaps a personal to Sloan example, which I was ruminating on earlier this morning, wondering if I might write about it in a post, and then came your email of autism and other stuff.

In 1990, I decided I needed to try to get my vasectomy reversed, the reasons important to me, perhaps not important to what happened. Through a first cousin pediatrian, I was referred to a Birmingham urologist my cousin had known in high school. When we talked, he said he had just learned a new micro-surgery technique he really liked. The surgery was scheduled. It was done. He said it went okay, after I woke up from the general anesthesia in the recovery room. I was to see him in two days for follow up.

The night before I saw him for follow up, I dreamt of passing out cold, like going under general anesthesia, as I heard, “You need to go back to the hospital so your surgery will be successful.” Next I know I am waking from what seemed like anesthesia, ejaculating. I thought, well, there go the micro stitches and the surgeon’s good work. When I told him later that same day at his office that I’d had a wet dream, he said he was not worried, the subconscious had a mind of its own. I did not tell him about passing out in a dream, of what I was told.

Then, it got more interesting. My testicles turned blue from blood clotting and swole up real serious, the left more than the right – almost the size of a baseball on the left side. This was not fun or calming. I called the doctor, he said he’d never had anything like that happen before. He had told me the recovery would be about the same as recovering from a vasectomy. I still did not tell him of any of the other, even as I now was convinced I indeed had undergone a second surgery, and it was physical, and probably psychic also.

It was about a month before my testicles were back to their normal unremarkable size, and it was months later that all the blue and clotting cleared up, the left testicle the last to return to “normal.” When I went to a lab, the results came back with live sperm. A bit on the low side countwise, but the doctor said plenty good enough. He told me after the surgery that he had kept cutting away at my tender parts, until semen came back with sperm, then he stitched up.

I finally wrote to him about the rest of the story in 2001. Didn’t hear back. I wouldn’t hesitate to use him again, if I needed his brand of work. A pro, him. But, as goes with my terrain, there was more to it than met the eye, and while I was shocked by what happened after he did his surgery, I believed it, becuase I’d already had plenty of weird stuff happen that nothing this world had to offer could explain. And there would be lots more of it.

Today, I told the angels I don’t have the kind of other world in this world experiences I used to have. I used to see their handiwork in this world ongoing, but now it’s rare that I see it, or maybe it’s manifesting differently, can’t say right now. They are all over me in dreams, though. They told me last night to publish what you had sent yesterday re vaccines being contaminated. I felt it was important when I read it, but didn’t know what to do with it just yet. Look what it opened up in Pandora, who knows if there is more? Might be, might not be.

Ciao

Sancho’s reply:

Sloan,
I am familiar loosely familiar with Craniosacral Manipulation as my niece was treated that way as an infant/child for a number of years… she is mildly autistic! I think the old therapist my sister drove a couple of hours each week for treatment, passed away but he did help my niece a lot throughout that rough time(got her to learn to communicate). There is definitely something to it but sometimes I wonder if the effectiveness of these treatments is more dependent on the ability of the practitioner rather than the soundness of the theory behind it. For example prayer has been documented to have an “effect” on various disease processes or surgical outcomes but I doubt that it has anything to do with angels or spirits because it seems to work regardless of which spiritual entity the supplicant invokes…. Christ, Buddha or Muhammad are as equally effective.

Too bad that you didn’t pursue this line of work to its mastery level… it seems that you have a natural affinity for shamanism(by any other name)!

Here is a cut-n-paste quip on your teacher Upledger from Wikipdedia:

Biodynamics Discovered

Towards the end of his life Sutherland began to sense a “power” which generated corrections from inside his patients’ bodies without the influence of external forces applied by him as the therapist. Similar to Qi and prana, this contact with what he perceived to be the Breath of Life changed his entire treatment focus to one of spiritual reverence and subtle touch.[9] This spiritual approach to the work has come to be known as ‘biodynamic’ craniosacral therapy, ‘biodynamic’ osteopathy, and ‘biodynamic cranial touch’ and had further contributions from practitioners such as Becker and James Jealous (biodynamic osteopathy), Franklyn Sills (biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and Charles Ridley (biodynamic cranial touch). [10]

The biodynamic approach recognizes that embryological forces direct the embryonic cells to create the shape of the body, and places importance on recognition of these formative patterns for maximum therapeutic benefit, as this enhances the ability of the patient to access their health as an expression of the original intention of their existence.

From 1975 to 1983, osteopathic physician John E. Upledger and neurophysiologist and histologist Ernest W. Retzlaff worked at Michigan State University as clinical researchers and professors. They set up a team of anatomists, physiologists, biophysicists, and bioengineers to investigate the pulse he had observed and study further Sutherland’s theory of cranial bone movement. Upledger and Retzlaff went on to publish their results, which they interpreted as support for both the concept of cranial bone movement and the concept of a cranial rhythm.[11][12][13] Later reviews of these studies have concluded that their research is of insufficient quality to provide conclusive proof for the effectiveness of craniosacral therapy and the existence of cranial bone movement.[14]

Upledger developed his own treatment style, and when he started to teach his work to a group of students who were not osteopaths he generated the term ‘CranioSacral therapy’, based on the corresponding movement between cranium and sacrum. He continues to teach this approach worldwide through the Upledger Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. Craniosacral therapists often (although not exclusively) work more directly with the emotional and psychological aspects of the patient than osteopaths working in the cranial field

My reply:

Of course the effectiveness is dependent on the ability of the practitioner.

Craniosacral work was one of several experiential healing disciplines I was given to experience and learn as part of my early shaman training.

Mastery is relative, before it was all said and done, I was sent in to try to help John Upledger with very serious stuff at the level of soul. Several attempts, no receptivity. That was in the early 1990s.

I thought the shaman training was tough, but it was pabulum compared to the ensuing priest training, which, in hindsight, probably began in the early fall of 1995.

During the killer dark night, 1997-98, I called Upledger himself, hoping he could help me. Beyond his range of experience. Beyond psychiatry’s range of experience. Beyond Christianity’s range of experience. Beyond any one I knew’s range of experience, including me. Nobody could help. I had to ride it out.

You might be surprised to be a fly on the wall watching me talk with someone who can’t get relief anywhere else. But then, it might not make any sense to you at all. Nor to anyone else, except the person I’m trying to help, and even he/she might not see any sense to it.

Sloan

I usually can be reached at keysmyhome@hotmail.com, but today I’m on vacation in Spain, tilting at windmills.

Driving up to Big Pine Key yesterday morning for breakfast at Coco’s Kitchen, the local social, gossip and solve-the-local-national-and-world-problems center, I heard an enthusiastic ad on a local radio station urging everyone to get their flu shots to stay well this coming winter. I thought, hmmm, I never had a flu shot and wonder if I would get the flu if I did have one?

I thought back to the last vaccination I had, if that is what it was, was a tetanus shot in early 2000 in Costa Rica, after I was chewed up a bit by a German shepherd. Before that, I thought the last vaccination I had was small pox in the early 1970s.

Because my father’s brother was my pediatrician, I received one of the early polio vaccinations. When years later, my freshman year at Vanderbilt, a wagon came around offering polio vaccinations with a more modern formula. I refused it despite heavy pressure from friends. Later, I learned that vaccine caused full-blown polio outbreaks in some people. Even later, I wondered if my soul, an angel, or whatever, had known I would get polio if I was re-vaccinated at Vanderbilt.

When I went to Nepal in the fall of 1995, I had no vaccinations before leaving the States. I had iodine tablets to purify the water I drank, but only used them once, choosing instead to drink bottled water for 50 cents a liter, or water boiled to death at the lodges in the highlands. Drank lots of garlic tea, too, which has antibiotic effect.

I treat a marginal case of diabetes with diet and not drinking alcoholic beverages. I treated lunacy with lunacy – a homeopathic approach. As I recall, the early vaccines were developed from the homeopathic model – treat like with like, although the two disciplines are not all that similar. For the most part, I try to stay away from doctors and pharmaceuticals, but sometimes it’s the way for me to go.

After all that ruminating, and then socializing and jabbering about altogether different stuff at breakfast, which left the world unchanged but me a little happier for the fun and cutting up, I drove home and found in my inbox a truly joyful holiday forward from Sancho Panza about vaccines containing all sorts of horrible pathogens, including cancer, HIV and so forth. In the early 1980s, I met an M.D. in Atlanta, who had written an article claiming AIDS was an American bio-engineered disease, developed as a weapon, which was first tested in Africa, then it managed to get loose.

Just when you think things couldn’t get worse, Sancho Panza strikes again. Can’t wait to see what discussion this creates at Coco’s later today. Maybe I will tell the dupiclate bridge club about it at the Marathon Senior Citizen Center when I play there this afternoon. Thursday is my main social outing.

I play with a MIT graduate, who worked at Oak Ridge as part of his masters program, before returning to MIT to get his PhD and teach a while, before going into the private sector and designing and building manufacturing and other facilities in the States and South America, and inventing stuff that made him a bit well-heeled. His main love right now is writing foreign intrigue spy-terrorist thrillers. He puts up with me at bridge, at which I ain’t holding a PhD. Maybe he will have something to allow on this below, or find some use for it in his latest novel in progress.

Alas, I fear this below might not be entirely invented. My dream maker told me to share it with others today.

Biopsychobabble started by Sancho Panza sending this to Dox Quixote. In real life, Sancho is a retired Lucent Technologies Scientist, fluent in lots of languages. In real life, Don Quixote survived Cervantes.
 

A lot of chatter goes on inside each one of us and not all of it happens between our ears. Researchers at McMaster University discovered that the “cross-talk” between bacteria in our gut and our brain plays an important role in the development of psychiatric illness, intestinal diseases and probably other health problems as well including obesity.

Why should it be that this purported “ability” of commensal gut bacteria to “develop” disease is not being studied on its flip side as an ability to develop and enhance the organism(its host) capabilities to adjust to a changing environment? Maybe even play a critical role in what the Taoists refer to as Wu Wei!

I would submit to you that in the final analysis ALL complex decisions ultimately rely on a gut feeling; the logical, reasoning mind or self cannot possibly exhaust all the probable outcomes or even keep track of all the variables, so in the end it takes a leap of faith and decides by no deciding… it flips a coin and lets the larger, more Earthly “brain” in our gut call the shot! We call that intuition and those who are good at it become seers, prophets and shamans!

I watched a documentary the other day about an expedition searching for the “tree dweller” people… a native group living far deep in the New Guinea jungle… I was surprised that they took as a matter of fact that the gut was the seat of higher intuition and spirituality a kind of supra mind… they also shared the Taoist belief that sexual intercourse is detrimental to a man’s vitality… very strange to find those two principles as part of a group of people living so far removed from civilization!

Cheers,
Sancho

http://www.latimesmagazine.com/the-california-cure-emeran-mayer-second-brain.html

“Call gastroenterologist Emeran Mayer a kind of mind reader. As director of UCLA’s Center for Neurovisceral Sciences and Women’s Health, Mayer heads a leading integrated-research program that investigates how digestive disorders arise from the connection between body and mind. Countless frustrated patients turn to Mayer after having seen many other specialists without satisfactory explanation of their symptoms—or effective treatment.
“Although I have so much research reasonability, I’m reluctant to give up my clinical practice,” he says,” because patients open up to me and tell me the most interesting stories.” Those stories also often offer amazing clues as to what might be the genesis of their diseases—for instance, he notes his patients often have unstable early childhoods. Coincidence?”
The enteric nervous system, located in the gastrointestinal tract, has as many neurons as the spinal cord and is sometimes called the body’s second brain. As much as 80 percent of our well-being might come from the complicated interplay between the brain in our head and the one in our gut, Mayer theorizes.
A native of Munich, Mayer says this topic has interested him since he was a college student in Germany and, in fact, led him to pursue medical school in the first place. His fascination has been fed by another interest, documentary filmmaking, which has taken him on expeditions to visit indigenous peoples in Brazil and New Guinea. He’s been struck by how this idea of the gut’s importance in health transcends culture and time.
“Interestingly, this concept is also shared by many ancient healing traditions, from the traditional Chinese-medicine classifications to ayurvedic to Hippocratic medicine.” While he emphasizes that “you have to be really skeptical” of putting too much faith in folklore and unproven theories, he also acknowledges that ideas that have persisted for “thousands of years” might well have something to them. Mayer, though, wants to move beyond theory to directly improving his patients’ health, which, so far, looks promising.
Says Mayer: “The most satisfying experience is to be able to help frustrated patients and give them a comprehensive explanation of the mind-brain-body interactions based on our clinical and preclinical research findings, teach them simple relaxation techniques or refer them to mindfulness training and make simple life-style recommendations.” Many show improvement after just one visit, he notes. “This is a very exciting time in medicine.” —Samantha Dunn 

Don Q to Sancho:

Darn, it just now occurs to me: you have a disconnect between the bacteria in your gut and your brain because the bacteria in your gut know all about angels and your brain doesn’t

Sancho to Don Q:

Yes, probably so… although Angelizing is your particular filtering mechanism… in Don Quixote’s World, there was no end to enchanters and wizards to do battle with… and let’s not forget Gargoyles, Leprechauns, Chupacrabas and of course all the inhabitants of Middle Earth, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins, Trolls and Hobbits, etc.

 

Don Q to Sancho:

In my world, it’s humans and what runs them behind the scenes, none of whose appelations do I recognize in your laundry list, although only very seldom do I go behind the scenes and encounter them eye to eye, so to speak .

Sancho to Don Q:

Fasting for forty days might do it… there is precedence! I have a friend whose friend swears that there is a shortcut through psychedelic drugs(natural and otherwise)… and he does agree with my theory… he is also a practicing attorney!

Good night, Sloan!

Don Q to Sancho:

Might help you, if you fasted for forty days. Would kill me, have diabetes controlled by diet. You really should stop recommending cures you have not tried on yourself.

Sancho to Don Q:

Sloan, I was not recommending a “cure” for you via fasting! You disappoint me… I thought you were steeped in Christian mythology! But I will stop sending you info regarding the connection between the Microbiota and the brain!

A now more awake Don Q to Sancho:

StoryCorpsJulio Diaz recorded his story in New York City just days after he was mugged in the subway. 

March 28, 2008

Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.
But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his evening took an unexpected turn.
He was walking toward the stairs when a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go,’” Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.
“You know, I just felt maybe he really needs help,” Diaz says.
Diaz says he and the teen went into the diner and sat in a booth.
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says. “The kid was like, ‘You know everybody here. Do you own this place?’”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Diaz says he told the teen. “He says, ‘But you’re even nice to the dishwasher.’”
Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”
“Yea, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.
Diaz asked him what he wanted out of life. “He just had almost a sad face,” Diaz says.
The teen couldn’t answer Diaz — or he didn’t want to.
When the bill arrived, Diaz told the teen, “Look, I guess you’re going to have to pay for this bill ’cause you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”
The teen “didn’t even think about it” and returned the wallet, Diaz says. “I gave him $20 … I figure maybe it’ll help him. I don’t know.”
Diaz says he asked for something in return — the teen’s knife — “and he gave it to me.”
Afterward, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”
Produced for Morning Edition by Michael Garofalo.

PS to Sancho

After the recent long upchucking, so to speak, I found myself return to yours:

“Fasting for forty days might do it… there is precedence! I have a friend whose friend swears that there is a short cut through psychedelic drugs(natural and otherwise)… and he does agree with my theory… he is also a practicing attorney! “

Your attorney friend might wish to find online in used bookstores: THE HIGH LEGAL ROAD: A New Approach to Legal Problems, by me, and Prisons & Freedom, by same me, and read them in that order. They paint the beginning of a different way than psychedelic drugs, although I would not say it is a short cut, nor would I say there is a short cut, which is what people who use psychedelic drugs might hope to achieve thereby, or simply to escape their current situation. Have known both types. Never used psychedelics myself, other than amil nitrite maybe three times, one hit each time. Yow! Didn’t view marijuana as psychedelic, more like booze. Neither did much for me but make me stupid for a while and feel bad the next day, or sooner. Ram Das spoke in one of his books of meeting an old fellow in India, who seemed seriously spirit-adanced. Finally, Ram Das gave the old fellow a gram of LSD, which he took down in one serving, savored it, apparently without being affected, said that would show Ram Das some of what was possible, but would not get him there.

Yes, some shaman traditions use indigenous psychedelic plants to accelerate shaman development, but it is done with respect and occasionally, and not habitually. I used to tell young people who found me interesting and could not believe I did not use psychedelics, that if they took drug-assisted trips without being under the wing of an adept shaman, they could pick up all sorts of not particularly kindly critters out there and bring them back riding piggy back, and they would never be the wiser for it. Didn’t seem they believed me, or maybe they just didn’t care. They were hooked on LSD, mushrooms and other stuff. It was a religion for them. Some even justified it by quoting Genesis where God gave Adam and Eve, wasn’t it?, dominion over the plants and animals. Those kids used the same argument for marijuana and tobacco, even though the Native Americans didn’t use marijuana and tobacco habitually.

I usually can be reached at sloanbashinsky@hotmail.com, but today am in rehab again, trying again to get over being human.