Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On issues of religion, I happen to believe in genuine Freedom of religion, and that means there's room in my belief system for other people to practice whatever kind of religion they want, even if it's eccentric or unpopular. I also believe in personal liberty, meaning that I respect individuals' rights to determine in their own personal way whatever system of belief serves them best.
Remember: If you don't believe in freedom of religion for OTHER people's religions, then you don't believe in it at all. My beliefs intersect with many religions and religious figures. |
Ron Garner
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 Is there a difference between religion and spirit?
RELIGION VERSUS SPIRITUALITY
Webster's dictionary defines religion as, belief in a divine or super-human power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe, and, expression of this belief in conduct and ritual.
Spirituality is concerned with the spirit or the soul, often thought of as the higher part of the mind; showing much refinement of thought and feeling. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 The following description is drawn in part from The Encyclopedia of Religion: a push toward ultimacy, deepest truth, and transcendence that provides norms and power for living. When distinct patterns of behavior, a shared history, codified doctrines, rituals, and sacraments are built around this type of depth dimension, the resulting structure consi-tutes "religion" in a recognizable form. Organized religion generally refers to an organization of people who share a prescribed set of beliefs, ethical standards, and rituals, usually taking the form of a legal entity. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 People have asked me if I'm a member of some specific religion with pristine dietary practices, but the answer is quite simply that I have arrived at my own spiritual practice and I choose to respect my body and mind as tools for creating a better future. I actually came to this conclusion mostly on my own, and have since found that it is aligned with the spiritual paths found in virtually all world religions. It all makes sense, too: You simply can't be a highly spiritual person if you're consuming angry cow meats and altered dairy fats! |
Gregg Braden
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 Like the people of the Taos Pueblo cloaking their spiritual beliefs in the traditions of modern religion, is it possible that we've masked a great secret as well? Could something as simple as our heartfelt belief really hold so much power that mystical traditions, the world's religions, and even entire nations were built around it? Just as native wisdom has been hidden in the plain sight of another tradition, have we done the same with what has been called the most powerful force in the universe? The answer to each of the questions is the same: Yes! |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| When distinct patterns of behavior, a shared history, codified doctrines, rituals, and sacraments are built around this type of depth dimension, the resulting structure consi-tutes "religion" in a recognizable form. Organized religion generally refers to an organization of people who share a prescribed set of beliefs, ethical standards, and rituals, usually taking the form of a legal entity. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 The only difference is that it is called therapy, not religion. But it is religion in the name of therapy. In fact, the real therapy is not to pull individuals out of the depths but to plunge into them, where the basis for depression lies. They will never know how good life can be once they rid themselves of their deep pain.
Today's therapy essentially says: "Look on the bright side of things," or, "Just get over it." It is what our parents told us as kids: "Stop complaining and get on with it. Don't always look on the gloomy side. There is a positive side to everything. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Oppressed by a pervasive sense of foreboding and hopelessness, growing numbers of Americans will turn to religion and spiritual alternatives in search of meaning and support. Mysticism, cults, and movements that promise contentment in the postphysi-cal world will hold out great promise. Unfortunately, at least some of these groups, along with many mainstream religions, will end up poisoned by the same divisiveness and vulnerability to despotic overthrow that unsettle the secular landscape. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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| The term religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or spirituality, but these latter terms are more closely associated with personal conviction or a personal belief in the sacred or holy, not necessarily associated with organized religion.
Repetition compulsion—A repetitive pattern of flawed thought, feeling, and/or behavior that has dire consequences for health and wellbeing. Unresolved difficult experiences or emotions create impressions in the subconscious mind that lead to repetitive, negative tendencies of thought, feeling, and behavior. |
Ron Garner
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| Spirituality sees human beings as one with God, and understands that everything is connected. religion focuses on an external power, while spirituality focuses on the power within. Spirituality invites us to understand our thoughts and feelings as reflections of the source of creation in our lives.
Oddly enough, the great teachers of the religions have taught that: "the kingdom of God is within you."7 They have tried to show the way. But, religious groups have missed the point. |
David Steinman
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 And to grow spiritually in the context of whatever religion or God you believe in you had to be an environmentalist. And even green patriotism has to go through God. So everyone would have to go on this journey. But I also had to free myself; or, rather, open myself up to a different kind of influence on spirituality and religion and maybe even my super-critical spy-eye way of seeing things. I was trying to apply an American Midwest street-grid mentality to a city, region, and people that defied straight lines. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Relaxation Response basically builds on a general technique that virtually every religion and meditative practice has used for eons, but without the religious trappings.
"All the major religions use prayer, generally repetitive words in a singsong, or almost chantlike rhythm," Benson says. In fact, the early research on the Relaxation Response used repetitive phrases like Hail Mary, full of grace for Roman Catholic research subjects and Shalom or Echad for Jewish ones. |
Charles Barber
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 Psychoanalysis had become the scientific religion of choice.28 (And beyond that, genetics, in the aftermath of Nazi experiments, had become a bad religion.) And now we are way back to Galton. When in doubt, genes are the cause.
But Aplysia has told us that in one stroke, we can do away of all these artificial distinctions. "Nature and nurture stand in reciprocity, not opposition," as Harvard psychiatrist Leon Eisenberg has written. |
Ron Garner
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| RELIGION VERSUS SPIRITUALITY
Webster's dictionary defines religion as, belief in a divine or super-human power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe, and, expression of this belief in conduct and ritual.
Spirituality is concerned with the spirit or the soul, often thought of as the higher part of the mind; showing much refinement of thought and feeling. |
| In matters of spirituality and religion, we were taught to listen to the minister, pastor, priest, rabbi, or sheikh. In matters of our health, we have been conditioned by our upbringing, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to go to the doctor because "The doctor knows best." But is this always the case?
We think we are free, in control, and well taken care of, but are we really? The answer in health, as in all other parts of our lives, is to think for ourselves. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You appreciate variety and diversity (of ideas, culture, nationality, religion, and so on) rather than thinking everyone in the world must conform to your own politics, religion or beliefs.
You are not easily influenced by advertising or propaganda, and you think for yourself rather than defaulting to whatever everybody else is doing.
In school, you academically outsmarted the average student (and many teachers, too). |
Ron Garner
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| We live in a universe of creation that has nothing to do with religion, but everything to do with the spirit of belief. And that is what is exciting about it. When we think we can, to the point of believing it, we create the life we want, which includes a healthy body, mind, and spirit. We are mini-creators. We create our own lives. We create our bodies. The thoughts that constantly circulate in our heads are reflections of our beliefs, and our beliefs do the creating.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There is no proselytizing, and no one is pushing any religion or spirituality. No one is pushing a certain New Age philosophy at all. In fact, being here is notably comfortable, and the people come from all backgrounds, countries, religions, cultures and healing modalities, and they coexist in a community that works.
The spiritual element here is powerful and available, but it is optional. You can come here just for the healing foods. You can come here just to sit in the chlorine-free hot tubs that are kept clean through the use of ozone treatment and effective microorganisms. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The Federal Trade Commission now says I cannot practice my religion. I cannot promulgate my religion. I cannot talk about my religious beliefs.
My next paragraph talked about how I believe the FTC has expanded their suppressive and restrictive orders on me personally. I go on to talk about my opinions about how the FTC is suppressing me. The FTC told me, "The following paragraph is inaccurate. You are falsely representing the issue." Well, excuse me Mr. FTC, these are my opinions of how you are treating me. This is how I am feeling; this is what I believe to be true. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In fact, medical authorities are as fervently divided and heated about this issue as some people are about religion or politics. Generally, there are two opposing camps—the insistent doubters from the traditional medical establishment and the ardent believers from the integrative or alternative medical community.
"If you ask a conventional physician, hypoglycemia is a rare, practically nonexistent malady," Dr. Ronald Hoffman observes.
"The next time you go to a doctor, try asking him or her if the symptoms you experience are due to hypoglycemia. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 He used to joke with others that we got along famously as long as we didn't discuss religion or politics. Today Danny might have added nutrition to that list, as it has become another hotly debated issue often generating the same high level of emotions as the topics of religion and politics. If you find yourself entering into such a potentially confrontational conversation regarding any aspect of diet and nutrition, my advice to you would be to do as my old friend Danny and I attempted to do, and just not go there.
Of course, invariably we did go there and you probably will too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You appreciate variety and diversity (of ideas, culture, nationality, religion, and so on) rather than thinking everyone in the world must conform to your own politics, religion or beliefs.
You are not easily influenced by advertising or propaganda, and you think for yourself rather than defaulting to whatever everybody else is doing.
In school, you academically outsmarted the average student (and many teachers, too). |
Devra Davis
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 After his discharge, he became a pacifist and a critic of religion and reactionary politics. In 1923, while in his mid-twenties he arrived in the United States as a married physician. In 1930 he left his position as a pathologist at Loyola Medical School in Chicago to work at the cancer research laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia—a facility that was heavily financed by Irenee du Pont, head of the DuPont Company.
Hueper's first contacts with DuPont were encouraging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Well, that's saying that we all know it's in every culture in every religion -- every civilization throughout all of history and all time -- you are what you eat, and it really begins to come home to roost.
There's a good friend of mine, Doug Evans, who's one of the great spiritual entrepreneurs on the whole planet. I mean, this guy is absolutely a powerhouse of energy and concentration, and he's a raw food person and an organic person. He has a saying, and that is, "Genius is self-bestowed. Mediocrity is self-inflicted. |
Jack Challem
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 Meanwhile, as I looked at the world around me, I became dismayed by the increasing polarization in politics and religion. To me, these negative changes in the larger world reflect the increase in bad moods and behavior we experience in our personal encounters. The sociologist in me kicked in, and I started to think about how our national mood had deteriorated, along with our eating habits.
Over the years, I've been lucky to know and talk with many researchers and psychiatrists who have a keen understanding of how nutritional deficiencies or imbalances affect mood, perceptions, and behavior. |
Walter Last
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 Those who are religious become spiritual by following the highest ideals of their religion, while those without a religion follow their own highest ideals and their higher guidance. On the higher levels of consciousness, religion and spirituality merge. In Christian terms, for instance, we are advised to "seek first the Kingdom of Heaven" and all else will be given us. In spiritual terms, this means to seek first and follow our higher guidance to manifest spirituality, then we can expect health and happiness to result as a natural by-product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The First Amendment, which protects both Free Speech and religion, offers no real protection against the criminals at the FDA, who have for decades attempted to suppress alternative philosophies that actually help people heal.
After nine years of protracted legal battles, and the expenditure of countless millions in taxpayer dollars that funded the prosecution efforts, the Church of Scientology achieved a victory in the courts, and the FDA was forced to return the E-meters. |
KC Craichy
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 Many of the following studies refer to religion, but keep in mind that religion is man-made. Spirituality is a more accurate term when referring to a personal relationship with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
¦ Increases Longevity—Regular attendance at religious functions may be telated to longevity. Researchers combined the results of 29 studies that included information about the religious habits of nearly 126,000 people. They found that people who had more religious involvement had lower mortality and increased survival rates compared with those who did not. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Indeed, they've played a prominent role in mythology and religion. The ancient Egyptians, for example, considered the ear a receptacle of life's breath. They believed that the "air of life" entered the right ear, while the "air of death" entered the left. And the Egyptians, like people in many other ancient cultures, pierced their ears, believing that metal kept evil spirits from invading the body. Centuries later, sailors pierced their ears thinking it would improve their eyesight. |
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