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If the spirits move us . . .

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By Mike Masterson

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/apr/02/if-spirits-move-us-20120402/

Angel and Eric Brodsky

Angel and Eric Brodsky

LITTLE ROCK — A Bella Vista couple has spent the past decade traveling the world and capturing on film what they feel certain is clear evidence of spiritual manifestations in the forms of orbs and mysterious light forms.

Eric and Angel Brodsky use their organization-the Universal One Foundation-to produce a two hour film that I found remarkable. It’s called Dimensional Photography: Capturing Spirit in Pictures. The DVD set to music shows 442 unusual still photographs of these so-called orbs, which are floating circular balls of varying colors that constantly hover around us, as well as inexplicable lights captured on film and in digital photographs. Continue reading →

 

It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest

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Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking.
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
“The concept means we consider the soils, companion plants, insects, bugs—everything will be mutually beneficial to each other,” says Harrison.
That the plan came together at all is remarkable on its own. What started as a group project for a permaculture design course ended up as a textbook example of community outreach gone right.
“Friends of the Food Forest undertook heroic outreach efforts to secure neighborhood support. The team mailed over 6,000 postcards in five different languages, tabled at events and fairs, and posted fliers,” writes Robert Mellinger for Crosscut.
Neighborhood input was so valued by the organizers, they even used translators to help Chinese residents have a voice in the planning.
So just who gets to harvest all that low-hanging fruit when the time comes?

“Anyone and everyone,” says Harrison. “There was major discussion about it. People worried, ‘What if someone comes and takes all the blueberries?’ That could very well happen, but maybe someone needed those blueberries. We look at it this way—if we have none at the end of blueberry season, then it means we’re successful.”

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Essential oil and high blood pressure

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Essential oil and high blood pressure (hypertension) in aromatherapy

People that suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension) need to monitor their blood pressure regularly, since various health problems, like angina, strokes and thrombosis as well as arteriosclerosis, may be caused by this condition.

Gentle massage using essential oils in aromatherapy can have a most beneficial effect on high blood pressure, yet there are certain oils not to use during massage when suffering from hypertension.

Essential oils to be avoided by people suffering from high blood pressure  

Hyssop (contains pinocamphone)
Rosemary (very stimulating)
Sage (contains thujone)
Thyme (hypertensive – increase blood pressure)

Essential oils that can be beneficial in massage for people suffering from hypertension 

Clary sage
Lavender
Marjoram
Melissa
Ylang-ylang

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Facebook Marketing Tip

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Facebook can be another place to market yourself free of charge. Set up a page in addition to your friends space. On your page you can put your info about what you offer and how to contact you professionally. You can then send out invitations to workshops, events and even other events you are attending as a vendor. It is always good to help advents where you will be a vendor advertise, it can only help.

If you are a person that fields a lot of questions then I would also suggest setting up a group on facebook.

 

Marketing Tip for Arkansas Healers

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