Lynne McTaggart
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 The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena has recorded at least 350 such instances of stigmata resulting from identification with christ. Saybrook University psychologist Stanley Krippner and his colleagues witnessed this firsthand with Brazilian sensitive Amyr Amiden. As soon as their talk turned to Jesus christ, red spots and drops of blood appeared on the backs of each of Amiden's hands and on his palms and forehead. |
Peggy O'Mara
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 First Church of christ, Scientist, Crown Point, Indiana, is one of several thousand worldwide branches of the First Church of christ, Scientist. It is not a public information resource on the Christian Science Church.
The Christian Science Church takes no public position on social issues, relying on its individual members to inform themselves and to act individually. This includes the issue of vaccination, on which Christian Scientists are under no church dogma to act but are free to make their own decisions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 By the way, for the record, "Cavalry" means military units who are mounted on horseback, and "Calvary" is the name of the hill upon which Jesus christ was crucified. So if you scream, "Go Calvary!" then you are, in effect, acting as the pep squad for the people who killed christ.
Frustrate. Note that this word has two "R" letters: one after the "F" and another after the "T." The letters are there to indicate that you should pronounce them. So I don't want to hear "Fustrate" any more (without the "R"). The word is "Frustrate" with a very obvious "Fru..." at the beginning. |
Lynne McTaggart
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| The phenomenon of stigmata, in which religious fervor produces blood, bruising, or wounds on people's hands, feet, and sides that mirror the wounds of christ during his crucifixion, are a form of intention. The Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena has recorded at least 350 such instances of stigmata resulting from identification with christ. Saybrook University psychologist Stanley Krippner and his colleagues witnessed this firsthand with Brazilian sensitive Amyr Amiden. |
Peggy O'Mara
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| First Church of christ, Scientist, Crown Point, Indiana, is one of several thousand worldwide branches of the First Church of christ, Scientist. It is not a public information resource on the Christian Science Church.
The Christian Science Church takes no public position on social issues, relying on its individual members to inform themselves and to act individually. This includes the issue of vaccination, on which Christian Scientists are under no church dogma to act but are free to make their own decisions. |
Lynne McTaggart
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| As soon as their talk turned to Jesus christ, red spots and drops of blood appeared on the backs of each of Amiden's hands and on his palms and forehead.65 A similar situation occurred during the three weeks before Easter Sunday with a young African-American Baptist girl who had been profoundly moved by a television movie about the crucifixion and was preoccupied with Christ's suffering. She bled on the palm of her left hand two to six times a day.66 Krippner knew of three Anglicans who regularly developed stigmata. |
Anne Harrington
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 Of the women who rose to leadership in the mind-cure movement in this period, none became more visible than Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of The Church of christ, Scientist, or Christian Science. Born on a farm in Bow, New Hampshire, in 1821, Eddy was raised in the strict Congregationalist Church the time but soon began to rebel against some of its less congenial teachings. She was particularly disturbed by the concept of predestination (the idea that the saved and the damned have been predetermined by God), which she found impossible to reconcile with her belief in God as love. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 In the Near Past (eastern Mediterranean to Arabia), the Christ's-thorn or ilb (Z. spina-christi) bears small, oblong fruits with the taste and texture of apple. Christ's crown of thorns is believed to have been made from this tree. Ziziphus lotus bears the "lotus fruits" of ancient mythology. Ziziphus mistol from the Andes yields edible fruits that are used for alcoholic beverages. The African buffalo thorn (Z. mucronata) is an important source of fruits and traditional medicine in rural areas. Origin & history Southeastern Europe to China. |
Mark Lynas
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 The name (meaning christ Child in its capitalised Spanish form) was first applied to the warm current by Peruvian fishermen who noticed that it tended to arrive around Christmas, decimating their usually productive cold-water fisheries. There is nothing new about El Nino's appearance or the destruction it can cause: ENSO-related droughts over a thousand years ago have been blamed for the collapse of the Moche civilisation in the Peruvian coastal desert, whilst in the nineteenth century El Nino helped trigger the drought which killed millions in British India. |
Anne Harrington
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| Eddy's church, the Church of christ, Scientist, was established in 1879. And her Massachusetts Metaphysical College, dedicated to training people to work as Christian Science "practitioners," or healers, received its charter from the state in 1881.21 It was not supposed that practitioners healed others directly; their job was to help their patients overcome the illusions that cause them to suffer and, through prayer and dialogue, enable them to experience their true natures, not as material creatures but as ideas of divine Mind. |
Joseph Campbell
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| With His own ring my Lord Jesus christ has wed me, and crowned me with a crown as His bride.
"The robe with which the Lord has clothed me is a robe of splendor with gold interwove, and the necklace with which He had adorned me is beyond all price." 85
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Departure of the Hero
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. Here the whole sense of the life is epitomized. Needless to say, the hero would be no hero if death held for him any terror; the first condition is reconciliation with the grave. |
Ray D. Strand
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 I do not have a fear of dying because of my faith in Christ: to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.20 But after practicing medicine over three decades and seeing so many disabled patients, I do live with a nagging concern of being trapped in my body. I have patients with Alzheimer's dementia who have not recognized their spouses or kids for more than a decade, and yet their general physical health is still good. Walk through a nursing home and you will understand why I am so concerned. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| The dietary laws in the Old Testament reflect the customs of the time, but then Jesus christ came and moved his followers away from the law."
Although modern Christians like Dr. Asquith don't follow the old detary laws, a few Christian groups have delved deeply into the Good Book and have taken to heart what they believe to be the key to proper Christian eating.
When Pigging Out Was Risky
The terms clean and unclean crop up more than 30 times in chapter 11 of Leviticus in the Old Testament, the critical passages from which Seventh-Day Adventist and Jewish leaders derived dietary laws. |
Devra Davis
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 The twenty-page pamphlet began by pointing out that while cancer has been a recognized medical problem since eight centuries before christ, in the modern era patterns of the disease had shifted radically. Medical x-rays, dietary deficiencies, tobacco and drinking habits, sunlight, and toxic chemicals all played a role. When it came to cigarettes, Hueper took the view that while smoking could be a cause of cancer, its role was easily exaggerated by those eager to downplay the impact of toxic chemicals. |
Anne Harrington
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| Once these truths were recognized, he concluded again and again, all such problems could be countered with positive thinking, the great secret of psychology and the Gospels alike:
[S]ome people who firmly believe that Jesus christ healed the sick in the First Century find it difficult to believe that this same power operates today and especially for them. The age of miracles is past, they say sadly. Healing is now done through scientific medical means . . . (and usually they add piously) though faith helps. . . . |
Joseph Campbell
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| Yours in the bowels of christ,
Cotton Mather
(Reprinted by Professor Robert Phillips, American Government and Its Problems, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941, and by Dr. Karl Menninger, Love Against Hate, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942, p. 211.)
108 Matthew, 22:37-40; Mark, 12:28-34; Luke, 10:25-37. Jesus is also reported to have commissioned his apostles to "teach all nations" (Matthew, 28:19), but not to persecute and pillage, or turn over to the "secular arm" those who would not hear. |
| The Buddha beneath the Tree of Enlightenment (the Bo Tree) and christ on Holy Rood (the Tree of Redemption) are analogous figures, incorporating an archetypal World Savior, World Tree motif, which is of immemorial antiquity. Many other variants of the theme will be found among the episodes to come. The Immovable Spot and Mount Calvary are images of the World Navel, or World Axis (see p. 40, infra). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Christ.
Frustrate. Note that this word has two "R" letters: one after the "F" and another after the "T." The letters are there to indicate that you should pronounce them. So I don't want to hear "Fustrate" any more (without the "R"). The word is "Frustrate" with a very obvious "Fru..." at the beginning.
It's really not that difficult to pronounce. If you can say, "Fridge" or "Freezer" or "Fries" then you can say "Frustrate." But for some reason, some people can't, which is very fustrating for everybody else. |
Charles Barber
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 There are sixteen churches in town: denominations include Methodist, Evangelical, Lutheran, the Disciples of christ, Catholic, Presbyterian, Gospel, Baptist, Jehovah's Witness, Presbyterian, as well as the Manjushri Tibetan Center. You can buy used cars at Merrill's Garage; books at the Corner Bookstore; and Iowa Amish baskets and jams at the Screen Door General Store. The celebrated quilters Marianne Fons and Liz Porter run a quilting supply store at 54 Court Avenue, on the south side of Winterset's historic town square. |
| And the neurotics are significantly less work, too—it's a lot easier to talk in a relaxed fashion with someone about their marital problems, their self-esteem issues, their financial woes than it is to attempt to manage people who think that satellites are shocking them from outer space; who hallucinate about having sex with Jesus Christ; who imagine they are the love child of Sammy Davis Jr. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Lashner, B. A., christ, M. L., Hanauer, S. B., Vanagunas, A., Harig, J. M., Keshavarzian, A., Robinson, M., Sellen, J. M., Weinberg, D., Vidican, D. E., Flemal, K. L., and Rademaker, A. W. (1997). Short chain fatty acid rectal irrigation for left-sided ulcerative colitis: A randomized, placebo controlled trial. Gut. 40, 485-491.
111. Andoh, A., Bamba, T., and Sasaki, M. (1999). Physiologic roles of dietary fiber and butyrate in intestinal functions. JPEN J. Parenter. Enteral Nutr. 23, S70-S73.
112. Wong, J. M. W., De Souza, R., Kendall, C. W. C, Emam, A., and Jenkins, D. J. A. (2006). |
Joseph Campbell
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| Nay, but if any one is righteous like thee, I thus take a crown and come to him, but if he is a sinner, I come in great corruption, and out of their
35 Antiphons of the nuns, at their consecration as Brides of Christ; from the Roman Pontifical. Reprinted in The Soul Afire, pp. 289-292.
PL. XXIII. The Chariot of the Moon (Cambodia) sins I make a crown for my head, and I shake them with great fear, so that they are dismayed.' Abraham said to him, 'And art thou, indeed, he that is called Death?' He answered, and said, 'I am the bitter name,' but Abraham answered, 'I will not go with thee. |
Devra Davis
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| In the century after christ, Claudius Ptolemy had advanced the idea that the sun circled the motionless earth. This view agreed neatly with the church fathers' sense that humans stood at the center of the divine world. In the seventeenth century, Galileo Galilei observed that the tides changed because the earth turns round every day as it circles the sun—an opinion that the Polish astronomer Nicolai Copernicus had offered earlier that same century. |
Pam Montgomery
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 It is said that it was a crown of hawthorn that was placed on Christ's head, giving it the status of being the tree closest to God and thus unable to be corrupted.
Hawthorn's greatest and most renowned gift is its healing relationship to the heart. On a physical level hawthorn improves circulation, lowers blood pressure, and reduces palpitations and arrhythmia as well as serving as a remedy for degenerative heart disease and heart failure. As a heart tonic hawthorn is preventive for all manner of heart conditions. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer, wrote the earliest surviving description of Greek agriculture about eight centuries before the time of christ. Even the largest Greek estates produced little more than needed to feed the master, his slaves, and their respective families. Like Ulysses' father, Laertes, the early leaders of ancient Greece worked in their own fields.
Later, in the fourth century bc, Xenophon wrote a more extensive description of Greek agriculture. By then wealthy landowners employed superintendents to oversee laborers. |
Joseph Campbell
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| For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. |
David R. Montgomery
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| By the time of christ, grain from the surrounding land could no longer feed the city. Two hundred thousand tons of grain a year were shipped from Egypt and North Africa to feed the million people in Rome. Emperor Tiberius complained to the Senate that "the very existence of the people of Rome is daily at the mercy of uncertain waves and storms."6 Rome came to rely on food imported from the provinces to feed the capital's unruly mobs. Grain was shipped to Ostia, the closest port to Rome. Anyone delaying or disrupting deliveries could be summarily executed. |
| By the time of christ, accelerated erosion in the foothills and uplands led to agricultural abandonment of the watershed. Slow forest regeneration suggests depleted soils, and later agricultural settlements were concentrated along previously unoccupied floodplains and coastal valleys. The uppermost layers in the long sediment core revealed that the primeval rainforest actually dates from the time of the Spanish conquest, when the indigenous population of the area again declined dramatically—this time felled by disease. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Other Names: Serpent's Tongue, Christ's Spear
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Flavonoids: including among others quercetin-3-methyl ether-7-diglucoside~4' glucoside
The constituents of the drug have not been thoroughly investigated.
EFFECTS
See Erythronium americanum.
INDICATIONS AND USAGE
See Erythronium americanum.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages.
DOSAGE
Mode of Administration: See Erythronium americanum. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Other Uses
Frankincense, along with gold and myrrh, is renowned as one of the gifts of the Magi to the infant christ. It is often burned as incense, a practice dating back to the Egyptians, who burned it at sunrise to honor Ra, the sun god. Its smell is said to calm and clear the mind. Its essential oil is used in perfumery. It is included in skin-care products such as creams and lotions to prevent wrinkling of the skin. |
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