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Why Doctors are Idiots: 150 Years of Disatrous Advice on Children's Health (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These days, instead of doctors simply being full of nonsense, they are suddenly a very real danger to your personal freedom. Before, they were just peddling health nonsense. Now they hold the keys to your freedom and the custody of your children. Refuse to go along with new mandatory vaccination programs in New Jersey, for example, and you can be arrested, imprisoned, charged with a crime and have your children kidnapped by Child Protective Services. How dare you disagree with the High Priests of medical dogma! Personally, I don't necessarily mind doctors being full of crap.

Behind the scenes at Natural Products Expo West - A "brutally honest" Health Ranger Review Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Now, I'm a big believer in personal freedom, and I don't give a hoot if people go suck on burnt tobacco in their own homes or cars, but when THEIR smoke gets in the way of MY lungs, then I'm going to say something about it. Next year, I might bring a gas mask and have a picture taken in front of the Expo West logo, surrounded by smokers. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. FDA censorship in full swing at Expo West Many vendors were complaining to me about the FDA censorship at the show.

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

Society has condemned the act of smoking so much that many smokers already feel deprived of that sense of personal freedom they need to feel in order to make their own choices in life. If you are a sensitive person, be aware that a nagging spouse, a doctor, and the warning written on cigarette packs that smoking is harmful to your health may make you feel ridden with guilt. When all of this external pressure succeeds in making you give up smoking, you will continue to feel deprived of your free will and, therefore, look for other more socially acceptable forms of addiction.

Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means Ron Garner See book keywords and concepts

When we read and practice "the four agreements," they will revolutionize how we understand ourselves and act in our relationships, and we will gain personal freedom. When we were born, of necessity we depended on our parents for survival, protection, and direction. We accepted their rules and ways of thinking. As we grew older, we went to school and took direction from our teachers. Then, when we got a job, we took direction from the boss; we had to if we wanted to stay in the job.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

Sen argues that personal freedom can effectively promote other kinds of freedom, and touts freedom as both an ends and a means to global development: "There are two distinct reasons for the crucial importance of individual freedom in the concept of development, related respectively to evaluation and effectiveness." The concepts and tools that Sen holds as essential to global development are, in essence, also the most basic: choice, ownership, and personal freedom. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D.

Tyranny in the USA: The true history of FDA raids on healers, vitamin shops and supplement companies Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We did this knowing that we would not only risk our livelihood, but our personal freedom as well . We were told again and again that the FDA had the unlimited resources of the federal government at its disposal, and that an organization with fewer than 5,000 members had no chance of winning an all-out war with them. To further terrorize the Life Extension Foundation and its founders, the FDA, with the help of various corrupt law enforcement bodies, filed 56 criminal charges against Foundation officers Saul Kent and William Faloon.

BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams Ray Dodd See book keywords and concepts

They described personal freedom as the ability to awaken from an unconscious dream and live powerfully, moving through the world with conscious choice: an artist of life. The path to personal freedom was a quest to break the chains of belief that dream the dreamer, invisibly running the BeliefWorks. The naguals assisted their students along this path by escorting them through three layers of understanding they called: The Mastery of Awareness, The Mastery of Transformation, and The Mastery of Intent.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

The concepts and tools that Sen holds as essential to global development are, in essence, also the most basic: choice, ownership, and personal freedom. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Penguin Press, 2005) To be born on the earth today is to be the subject of a giant craps shoot. If you're among the lucky small minority, you're born into a family as affluent as middle-class North Americans, Europeans, and Japanese.

The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe See book keywords and concepts

Opinion polls show that most Americans expect their personal freedom to diminish in the years ahead. We imagine that our children will grow up less free, less healthy, less safe, and less prosperous, inhabiting a starving, overcrowded world strangling in toxic fumes and poisoned waters. No wonder psychologists report an unprecedented rise in clinical depression among all age groups—a phenomenon Marilyn Ferguson dubbed "The Great Depression" in her book The Aquarian Conspiracy.

BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams Ray Dodd See book keywords and concepts

Three Masteries: Three layers of understanding taught by the teachers of Toltec wisdom—the naguals—on the path to personal freedom. The Mastery of Awareness, The Mastery of Transformation, and The Mastery of Intent. Toltec: An ancient culture that thrived in what is now the pyramid ruins of Teotihuacan in the high midlands of Mexico. Not specifically a race or a religion, they practiced a unique way of life and were considered by the farmers and artisans of the area to be men and women of knowledge.

In the Toltec Wisdom tradition, the naguals (teachers) attempted to lead their apprentices to a plateau of realization they called personal freedom. They felt that most human beings weren't free—not because they were slaves or restricted by the laws of society, but because they were chained by the rules they had agreed to in their own minds. Rules that describe how life is. Confining rules that create conflict through unconscious judgments, opinions, expectations, and assumptions. Laws that prevent enjoyment of life's most succulent fruit, the juiciest mangos.

Eventually I began mentoring others so they too could find "personal freedom" and put the power of belief to work. A Little History According to anthropologists, the Toltec Indians disappeared without much of a trace approximately 900 years ago, and so the story of the Toltec described to me by Luis and many others was endlessly fascinating, yet puzzling. Much of their account is missing from historical or archaeological textbooks. This is not totally surprising, however, considering that those who are victorious write history.

If we develop an unconscious allegiance to fear, we lose our personal freedom," explained Luis. "We hold back so we can easily work within the system that domesticated us. We develop a habit of reacting and constantly defending what we know. We become a slave to an image of perfection that feeds the belief, I'm not enough. We are not free to choose what to believe because fear is in charge—not useful or true fear, but fear based on lies." Luis said that the word Toltec means craftsman or artist. "The Toltec thought your life, no matter what shape it was in, was your masterpiece, your art.

Food Fight Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen See book keywords and concepts

Play the Choice and Freedom Cards The food industry often cites threats to personal freedom and choice when condemning proposals for change. Consumption of food is one of the most fundamental liberties people can enjoy. —Mike Burita, Center for Consumer Freedom39 The personal liberty argument has been used by the tobacco industry for years. By restricting access to, availability of, or price for something like cigarettes or food, personal freedoms are restricted, so the argument goes.

Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele See book keywords and concepts

Americans who are skeptical of anything that smacks of big government fear that a universal health plan would restrict personal freedom. But the market system already has done that. Those with health insurance often can go only to physicians or hospitals approved by their plans, unless they are wealthy enough to pay the fees out of their own pockets. Many Americans fear that it would cost too much, even though the market system already has given the United States the world's most expensive health care with little to show for it.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

To purely rely on big corporations or big government to set our policies and priorities has proven to be disastrous to the environment and taxing to personal freedom. We are going to have to create stronger but more flexible institutions which will navigate us through the turbulent waters of change. Our new direction must begin at home. Communities sharing resources and talents could form nodal points for communicating globally, over the net and through travel, new ideas and green technologies that can benefit everyone.

Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control Stanton Peele See book keywords and concepts

The invasion of personal freedom represented by drug testing is now regularly excused on the grounds that its purpose is therapeutic and not punitive, and that it is used simply to help those who have the medical problem of drug abuse. In 1986, one New Jersey school board instituted testing because, it said, drug abuse was epidemic in the school district. A state judge declared the board's universal drug-testing program unconstitutional, since he felt that the five percent of the student body that had sought substance abuse treatment did not justify testing all students.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

Ir is usually applied to a deep and essentially philosophical anxiety about the world in general or personal freedom. (See existentialism.) animism (an-uh-miz-uhm) The belief, common among so-called primitive people, that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind are alive and have feelings and intentions. Animistic beliefs form the basis of many cults. (See also fetish and totemism.) anthropology The scientific study of the origin, development, and varieties of human beings and their societies, particularly so-called primitive societies.

The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss See book keywords and concepts

Along with these attitudes and practices, a new morality has been struggling to emerge, one that places a great deal \)f emphasis on personal freedom, inner awareness, independence, equality of the sexes, and the open experience/expression of feelings in the "here and now." I feel that I have also been lucky on this side of sexuality and love, for throughout my life I have shared many warm and loving encounters with women whose bodies and souls seemed to be able to merge passionately with mine.

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

The basic appeal of decriminalization is to reduce the harm of criminal punishment and respect personal freedom and privacy, while avoiding offensive commercialization. The basic flaw in decriminalization is that it does not make allowance for pot users who cannot or will not grow their own. The result is to create an illicit black market for cannabis that is neither regulated nor taxed, leaving many of the same basic enforcement problems as prohibition. These problems can be avoided by legalization, under which cannabis could be legally sold, taxed and regulated like alcohol or tobacco.

Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America E. Richard Brown See book keywords and concepts

Kass, a professor of medicine and bioethics, goes on to condemn "excessive preoccupations with health" such as "when cancer phobia leads to government regulations that unreasonably restrict industrial activity or personal freedom."112 Individual failure has long been used to explain why the poor and racial minorities use many physician and dental health services, especially preventive ones, less than more affluent groups do.

The Cancer Industry Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

Others are concerned over the erosion of personal freedom, forcefully demonstrated by the closure of this unconventional clinic. One of the Representatives who was especially responsive was Guy V. Molinari of Staten Island, New York. He had learned about Burton's treatments from Elaine Boies, a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, whose husband Jack was treated by Burton in 1984-85. Jack, a college English teacher, died of metastatic prostate cancer in early 1985, but before he died he experienced an "amazing improvement" (Boies, 1988). He had arrived in Freeport in a wheelchair.

World Without Cancer G. Edward Griffin See book keywords and concepts

But, in the end, they inevitably find themselves merely supporting a larger bureaucracy through increased taxes, paying higher prices for their consumer goods and losing one more chunk of personal freedom. There are almost no exceptions to this rule, as will be obvious if one but reflects for a moment on the results of government entry into such areas of economic activity as prices and wages, energy conservation, environmental protection, health care and so on.

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

The most practical policy is thus likely to be the one most consistent with principles of personal freedom and civil liberties, namely to let Americans grow their own cannabis at home, just as they might grow tomatoes, apples or grapes or brew beer or wine. The inducements to home cultivation should not be exaggerated: in Alaska, where it was the one legal way to get marijuana before 1991, pot continued to be sold illicitly at prices around $250 an ounce, proof that many pot smokers are quite disinclined to grow on their own.

Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control Stanton Peele See book keywords and concepts

A code of liberated personal behavior grew and with it the idea that drinking should accompany a full life: drunkenness was taken as a sign of personal freedom. Some influential examples of this code were the Hollywood film and the notorious bohemian lifestyle that grew up in Greenwich Village.17 Prohibition was repealed in 1933, and the idea that we should prohibit the sale, production, and use of alcohol disappeared from the American scene.

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy E. D. Hirsch See book keywords and concepts

It is usually applied to a deep and essentially philosophical anxiety about the world in general or personal freedom. (See existentialism.) animism The belief, common among so-called primitive people, that objects and natural phenomena such as rivers, rocks, and wind are alive and have feelings and intentions. Animistic beliefs form the basis of many cults. (See also fetish and totemism.) anthropology The scientific study of the origin, development, and varieties of human beings and their societies, particularly primitive societies.

The Practical Encyclopedia of Natural Healing Mark Bricklin See book keywords and concepts

With some honest effort, you will not only become much more effective in giving natural therapy at times of great stress but more effective at helping other people break out of chronic, day-after-day hang-ups that may be making their lives miserable or, at least, crippling their ability to enjoy personal freedom and happiness. What Is Psychotherapy All About? Before giving some guidelines on how to best utilize your innate capacity to help others who are troubled, let's sketch in a picture of what the kind of psychotherapy we're referring to is all about.

Bodymind Ken Dychtwald See book keywords and concepts

Along with these attitudes and behaviors, a new morality has been struggling to emerge which places a great deal of emphasis on personal freedom, choice, independence, equality of the sexes, and open expression of feelings. The more relaxed, casual life of a lover in this new generation offers excitement, a variety of intimate exchanges, and a relatively unbound lifestyle. Long-term commitment and stability are often sacrificed for short-term intensity and playful adventure as love and sexuality take on new shapes and meanings.

Quantum Consciousness: The Guide to Experiencing Quantum Psychology Stephen Wolinsky and Kristi L. Kennen See book keywords and concepts

Certainly, whether we called it awareness, mindfulness, observation, or witnessing, disciplines of the East, West, and Middle East have employed it in some way to help the individual enhance personal freedom. Whatever the name, the essence is observation. Thus the purpose of this first quantum level is to teach you how to observe your internal experience rather than fusing with it and being consumed by it. This observation gives you an experience of looking at your life events without judgment, evaluation, significance or preference.

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