Middle Path - Central Way

How can one know that there is a middle (center) if they have not been to the limit?

How does one know they have found the limit?
Perhaps when the middle and the limit become the same...?

The Rock Stars of India

LSD = cure for stupidity

California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008

Purpose of Act:
This Act is an exercise of the police powers of the State for the protection of the safety, welfare, health, and peace of the people and the environment of the State, to protect the industrial and medicinal uses of cannabis hemp, to eliminate the unlicensed and unlawful cultivation, selling, and dispensing of cannabis hemp; and to encourage temperance in the consumption of cannabis hemp euphoric products. It is hereby declared that the subject matter of this Act involves, in the highest degree, the ecological, economic, social, and moral well-being and safety of the State and of all its people. All provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of these purposes: to respect human rights, to promote tolerance, and to end cannabis hemp prohibition.

This is a volunteer-driven proposal to bring a close to the prohibition of cannabis and hemp for commercial production.

This proposal aims to (full text version):

• Re-legalize Cannabis Hemp, within the state of California, for (a) industrial products, (b) medicinal preparations, (c) nutritional products, (d) religious and spiritual products, and (e) recreational and euphoric use and products.

• Provides for amnesty, immediate release from prison, jail, parole, and probation, and clearing, expungement, and deletion of all criminal records for all persons currently charged with, or convicted of any non-violent cannabis hemp marijuana offense.

• Restores Cannabis medicinal preparations to the list of available medicines in California, and encourages medical research of Cannabis medicine.

• Allows for the non commercial cultivation and consumption (with quantity limitations) of Cannabis marijuana by adults 21 and over.

• Allows for commercial crop cultivation, research, and development of Cannabis hemp for industrial applications.

• Protects medicinal cannabis patients, caregivers, and physicians. Prohibits taxation of medicinal cannabis. Prohibits California law enforcement personnell from aiding or assisting in the enforcement of federal cannabis hemp marijuana laws

• Restores and allows for the use of Cannabis for spiritual and religious practices.

• Allows for the use of Cannabis for recreational or euphoric purposes by adults 21 years and older.

• Protects jobs of medicinal cannabis patients and other cannabis users. Prohibits the testing for inert and/or residual cannabis metabolites for the purpose of employment or other impairment. More Info

• Requires the development of a uniform standard of impairment based on performance testing, to restrict persons from operating a motor vehicle, heavy machinery, or other conduct in a manner that would affect public safety.

• Allows for the commercial cultivation, license, sale, taxation, and regulation of cannabis hemp marijuana in a manner analagous to California's wine industry model.

In order to get this on the 2008 ballot, the proposal is required to have over 400,000 signatures. Here is a website where you can find out about volunteering to get signatures: volunteering information.

Other websites with helpful and interesting information:

• Youth Federation
• History of Cannabis|Hemp - 10,000 years of cultivation; the Emperor Wears No Clothes
• Hemp Initiative on MySpace
• Manitoba, Canada's Agriculture Information
• Hemp Museum Online
• the Billion $ Crop - Cannabis|Hemp Article from Popular Mechanics
  
• Richard Davis' Hemp Museum Video
• Hemp Paper Supply - vote with your dollars -> print on hemp
• Carol Moran - CEO of Living Tree Paper says, "hemp can 'single-handedly stop worldwide deforestation.'" (from About.com's 'Pot For Paper')
  

Gayatri Mantra

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः ।

तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यं ।

भर्गो देवस्य धीमही ।

धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

Word-by-word explanation:-

• om The mystical Om syllable.
• bhū "earth"
• bhuvas "atmosphere"
• svar "light, heaven"
• tat "that"
• savitur devasya "of Savitr, the god" (genitives of savitr-, 'stimulator, rouser; name of a sun-deity' and deva- 'god' or 'demi-god')
• varenyam accusative of varenya- "desirable, excellent"
• bhargo "radiance, lustre, splendour, glory"
• dhīmahi "may we attain" (1st person plural middle optative of dhā- 'set, bring, fix' etc.)
• dhiyaḥ naḥ "our prayers" (accusative plural of dhi- 'thought, meditation, devotion, prayer' and naḥ enclitic personal pronoun)
• yaḥ pracodayāt "who may stimulate" (nominative singular of relative pronoun yad-; causative 3rd person of pra-cud- 'set in motion, drive on, urge, impel')

ALOHA

Bioenergetics - Presentation of a New Paradigm

Please enjoy a PDF version my presentation. I gratefully share the information I have gathered in the hopes of opening further and more willing discussion of the potential development of human understanding of itself and nature/reality.

Bioenergetics - the Foundation and Structure of the Human Energy Field

Greening Being Freeing

This man grows food for a living in a small number of private plots (17, to be exact) within 5 miles of his house in Portland. He rides to 'work' on his bike. He is in the news. He is living dreaming being.

Seeing is believing.

Living is being freeing.

OMG - Can I has Kitty?

Agarwood - Holy Tree of Ancient Mystery

The Agarwood, or Oud Tree is relatively unknown, almost extinct and yet it's history and mystique can capture the spirits and dollars of people around the world. What is this sacred oil and why is it so special?

Trygve Harris, an aromatherapist, writer and researcher writes about the biblical 'aloes' or oud tree and its truly sacred oil:

Agarwood—Gem of Truth










and here is where I get mine from - Eden Botanicals

ee.brownrabbit.org

The End of America - Naomi Wolf's Perspective

The Myth of Movement

the Asian Secret Society

Mushroom Patches Awaken