Re: October BD Conference Update
Allan Do you expect to have a Power Point presentation projector available? I have just got my talks PP ready. Looks like a great conference cheers Glen Allan Balliett wrote: Please x-post!! The Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming Conference: Traditional Nutrition and Restorative Farming The conference that combines Secrets of the Soil with Growing for Market - exploring the wonders of the Universe while learning to make a Better Living by Living Better! October 4 - 6, 2002 * Loudoun Co, VA Three days of fun, food, and wisdom near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Presented with Support from the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship and the Biodynamic Association of America SCHEDULED SPEAKERS AND WORKSHOP LEADERS (by TOPIC) SPECIAL PRESENTATION Howard Shapiro, Founding member of Seeds of Change and author of the inspirational Bantam Press book, Gardening for the Future of the Earth: GROWING WITH NATURE GLEN ATKINSON (Garuda Biodynamic Consulting) Glen spoke for us in Charles Town, WV a couple of years back. Many people who attended that event have already signed up for this conference for a chance to spend more time listening to the wisdom of this prominent New Zealand progressive biodynamic practitioner. His interest has been mostly focused towards developing Steiner's Biodynamic agriculture and medical indications using his understanding of traditional Astrology. This has lead to a simple yet innovative theory and philosophy as a basis for many practical activities, which take the form an astrological and biodynamic horticultural consulting business, using a specially developed homeopathic essences system to bring out the best in both people and plants. from his web page (http://get.to/garuda). Put succinctly, Glen will teach you how to make homeopathic remedies of Steiner's preps that will make your agricultural prep applications faster and more effective. Dr. ELAINE INGHAM (Soil Foodweb Inc) Leading researcher in methods of enhancing the life in the soil to the benefit of the crops growing in it and the people eating those crops. All the buzz about compost tea has come from Elaine's work and evangelism. MARK SHEPARD Mark has much practical experience in developing perennial food systems (tree crops) for both animals and the human community. ALTERNATIVE NUTRITION and HEALING MARK PURDEY A tireless researcher, Mark is an organic dairyman from the U.K. who has found the real source of Mad Cow disease. What he has discovered will both relieve you and terrify you. Mark was the recipient of ACRES USA's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. WILL WINTER A featured speaker at last year's ACRES USA conference and a leading writer and speaker on holistic animal health JERRY BRUNETTI, (Agri-Dynamics) Maximizing pasture health and human health. SUBTLE ENERGY: BIODYNAMICS / COSMICULTURE / ORGONOMY HUGH COURTNEY, (The Josephine Porter Institute) Hugh makes most of the quality BD preps used in America. Brewer of the Pfeiffer field spray and compost starter. He will teach you how - - and WHY! - - to use them! Dr. JAMES DeMEO, (Orgone Biophysical Research Lab) Author of Saharasia. Leading researcher with the Reich Cloudbuster HUGH LOVEL (Union Agricultural Institute) America's foremost biodynamic teacher, author of A Biodynamic Farm for Growing Healthy Vegetables and America's leading practitioner of Cosmiculture, REGISTRATION: CONFERENCE FEE $125 for full-paid pre-registration. $150 at the door. The conference is located 70 miles from Washington DC and 20 minutes from Dulles Airport. To make reservations: Call (540) 668-6165 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Late breaking information at our web page: http://www.gardeningforthefuture.com (still under construction at the time of this announcement) OPENINGS STILL EXIST FOR Workstudy exchange for Conference Fees !!! The Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming Conference 36824 Pinehill Lane, Purcellville, VA 20132 (540) 668-6165 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.gardeningforthefuture.com --- Part 1.2 Type: Macintosh File Name: bdconf2002a.pm Part 1.2.2 Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) Encoding: base64 -- Garuda Biodynamics - for BD Preps, Consultations, Books Diagrams See our web site @ http://get.to/garuda
Re: The Wizards weekend
Dear Robin, Sorry for the delay in answering your post, things have been very busy in the period since the Wizards workshop. Your idea of never being able to prove anything seems to me to have some merit, but before you can develop a theory to falsify, it becomes important to observe the phenomena that you are trying to theorise. It was pointed out to me some time ago that we are very good at observing phenomena, but very poor at developing theories. You only need to look at how various fields of scientific thought change the theory because newly observed phenomena do not fit into existing theory. It is time that some research was done to see if it is possible to disprove the present theories of how radionics works. The point of whether radionics is a placebo effect can easily be answered by measuring the effects of radionics on plants. If it was a placebo effect you would expect for it not to have an effect on plants or soil.general consensus from the Wizards conference was that in most instances there was definite improvement in plant growth, resistance to insect attacks, increase in the brix of plants and a general improvement in the ability of plants to withstand drought conditions. As to the question of "is radionics really all that it promises to be, or yet another mystical phenomenon that only exists for those who already have faith that is works'.I think that you could say categorically that if you were to approach radionic experiments from the basis that it does not work that you would get experimenter bias where the experimenter is able to influence the result of the experiment, however when researchers in Germany tested 14 SE5 Radionic instruments in forestry work it was found that technicians could use radionic instruments provided that they followed the protocols. As to how we might measure and devise experiments I am sure that a good Bio-metrician would be able to advise the methodologyof the research and the methods for measuring the results. The German Forestry researchers chose to measure the light intensity in the forest, on the basis that if the radionic broadcast had worked that there would be more shade due to the increased folige. Another method that you could test Radionic broadcast may be the method used by the Polish forestry researcher Jerzy Macurzack to test the effects of geopathic stress zones. The method was very elegant. Firstly the geopathic stress zones were identified by the use of a geomagnetometer. Along the the stress zone were placed a series of containers filled with a super- saturated solution of sodium chloride. In the adjacent neutral zone an equivalent number of containerswith the other half of the salt solution were placed. They were left for a period of time and then the salt solutions were allowed to dry naturally. The crystalline patterns showed that there was a definite difference in the solution that had been exposed to the geopathic stress zones as compared to the solution exposed to the neutral zone. An instrument that measured the emission of photons was then used to compare photon emissions from the two samples. The resultwqs that the samples exposed to the geopathic stress zones emitted on average 6 times as many photons as the samples from the neutral zones. This experiment proved conclusively that you could use salt solutions to measurethe effects ofsubtle energies.I could probablyfind you several other experiments that have tested the effects of subtle energy, if you are interested please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The conensus, I felt after having been both a presenter and participant at this workshop, was that the technology of radionics showed great potential to not only ascertain and diagnose plant and soil health but to also affect and alter them.John Pannan conclusively proved this with his skillful use of the Don Mattioda analysis and broadcast instrument. I feel thatit is possible build a case to de-mystify field broadcaster technology and fit it into existing electromagnetic theory, totally able to be measured by existing instrumentation. At this point in time I am not able to sort out the role of intent in all of this, however it may be possible to measure the action of intent toinfluence salt solutions.That is the subject of this year's research work. Sincere regards from the Land of the Wizards of Oz James Hedley Radiasesthesia and Radionic AnalysisRadionic Insect and Parasite controlBioethical Agriculture Consultant Original Message - From: Robin Duchesneau To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Re: The Wizards weekend DS, The Radionics Wizard weekend must of been very interesting indeed. The world of subtle energies certainly can spike our curiosity. I have to admit, though, thatI like to keep a grain of skepticism when it comes to certain subject. Because,I'd only heard a bit about
MARK PURDEY Fwd: pilferers and plagerists, et al
Hi Allan, I've just been corresponding with Mark from Wisconsin about plagerists which you are apparently debating at the moment on BD Now. This arose after a Colorado journalist had given oxygen to some plagerists of my work - despite having interviewed me at length, he obviously decided that his journalistic license and success would personally prosper if he donated all of my work to a few docters rather than just a mere farmer !!! Please publish the enclosed letter which i have just written to Mark - if you want. It seems that he has suffered the same outrage in his past. take care , Mark Subj: Re: Franklin Carter Article FYI there is another part of this just pri... Date: 15/07/02 20:03:10 GMT Daylight Time From: mailto:MadCowPurdeyMadCowPurdey To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi mark, Yea, please put up my comments to BD Now about the plagerists and cuckoos which seem to currently predominate the whole scientific scene. I am so bloody angry right now with this kind of treatment. It will be great to meet with you and share our many common interests and frustrations !! please send on the following paragraphs too, as this whole issue needs to be sorted out on behalf of so many genuine, more humble scientists ( and artists ) worldwide. It seems to be the people with passions - like yourself with glycoproteins, etc - who invariably become the people who make the true advances in scientific knowledge at the end of the day. But these creative thinkers are ironically the ones whose intuitive energies and insight gets vampirized - simply because they are totally open with their research and findings, wanting to share and discuss any new knowledge which they unearth on their investigative journey, etc. But sadly this open approach ends up destroying them. For most of the sociopathic, sharp suited ,senior scientists - if you can call them scientists - are more interested in becoming front page 'media tarts' than following their supposed pursuit of scientific research and advancement. Time and time again it is this same incestuous clique of expertise who choose to abuse their position of power, considering it their god given right to hijack every iota of original observation amongst their students, outsider scientists, etc, and then cuckoo it out as their own discovery to the uninformed public. It is not uncommon to watch those same experts use any opportunity that they can grasp to publicly discredit the very originator of the work that they have just plagerised. Its sick. Having chosen to farm like yourself - instead of carrying on up the ladder of mainstream academia - I have regularly found my own original work becoming primetime prey for these vultures ! They consider it a walk over to plagerise a mere farmer - no second thoughts about breaking all the rules of scientific ethics. Despite having published peer reviewed, copyrighted scientific journal articles to my name ( with acceptance dates, etc ), my former vindictive critics are right now regurgitating out my precise hypotheses from the ealy 1990s under under their own name !!! Just recently I found myself subjected to the mother of all plagerist assaults. After some high profile media publicity surrounding my BSE research findings, the UK government's Minister of Research , Baroness Haymann, invited me to submit a three research proposal designed around my working hypotheses. The government assured me that the work would be funded providing the project was formulated upon sound scientific protocols. I teamed up with reputable academic universities, and the proposal took me about 300 hours to prepare. After sitting on my proposal for one and a half years - by which time the public interest in my work had waned - I was appalled to get my study rejected for a host of irrational, irrelevant unscientific reasons. One reviewer of the study had actually misread the number of samples I was taking per cluster area by twenty times less than the actual number that I had proposed. The government scientists then trumped this erroneous critique up as their key k nock down point on which my grant was rejected. Even If I had only proposed to take one sample per cluster area - as this idiot was stating - they could have simply advised me to take more !!! Salt was truly rubbed into my wounds when I read how the government had subsequently invited this same idiot to sit on their most senior spongiform advisory committee. Worse still, my requests for personal data held on me which I filed via the Data Protection Act, revealed that the government had actually given a grant award for pursuing my work. Who had they given it to ? the very reviewer of my work who had made such an ill founded rejection ! The government had therefore tricked me into handing over the fruits of my thousands of miles and pounds of self funded donkeybacked research, so that their own tame
24-hours later: Re: Thun's Working with the Stars 2002 (?)
I still maintain that optimism that we can all work together to make the world a better place. Does anyone else have a copy of this little book and could they find the time to give me Thun's coming dates for Northern planting period? Post here or to me off-line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Allan If you have a copy this (can't find mine...), would you mind telling me when the next Northern planting period begins and ends? Thanks -Allan
FW: Franklin Carter Article FYI there is another part of thisjust printed
Title: FW: Franklin Carter Article FYI there is another part of this just printed Subject: Fw: Franklin Carter Article FYI there is another part of this just printed Chronic Wasting Disease: Infectious, Transmissible or Contagious? There is a big difference! by Franklin Carter, President, Santa Fe Research, Fort Collins, Colorado The truth about how little is known has been covered up by theories presented to the public as facts, and in fact, so little is known for certain after all this time is precisely because the popular theories have been taken for truth by the politicians and rule-makers within the European Union. --Dr. David Brown, Cambridge University, England, in an interview in February 2000 about BSE (madcow disease). This perfectly describes where we are today with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer and elk in the United States, and most especially, Colorado. Why this has happened is beyond me. Is it fear, greed, ignorance, rivalry among professionals, laziness on the part of the media? How can science be so overlooked in such a scientific problem? I believe a great part of the public fear has been brought about by the complete ignoring and mis-understanding of the simple difference in the definition of the words infection, transmissible, and contagious. They are not synonyms. I repeat, they do not mean the same thing. They describe separate processes. Stedman's Medical Dictionary states: Infection: Endoparasitism, multiplication of microorganisms in the body proper. Transmissible: Capable of being transmitted (carried across) from one person to another, as a t.disease, an infectious or contagious disease. Contagious: Commumicable: relating to contagion, transmissible by contact. These difference, while looking almost the same to you and me, when applied to biological science, are tremendous. Let's look at the scientific research on these differences as it relates to CWD. I think by now almost everyone knows CWD is caused by prions. Prions are pieces of protein. They are made by the body as a normal process. They are not infectious microorganisms. The prions causing CWD are abnormal, and because they are abnormal, they cannot be broken down by the body as are normal prions. Normal prions exist in the body for less than one hour. These abnormal prions are not broken down at all and accumulate in the brain, causing the madcow symptoms. Yes, CWD is transmissible from one deer to another or one elk to another. At the present time the only scientifically proven way to transmit CWD is by injecting infected brain material from one animal to another or by feeding infected brain matter. There are no scientific studies published that absolutely show transmission by contact of one deer to another, much less from deer to elk, cattle, horses or people. The same is true for elk. It has not happened in over thirty years of research. We know that CWD has been studied at least forty years here in Colorado by people at Colorado State University Veterinary School. The reason for so little success is precisely because it was so hard to transmit. They tried for years to transmit the disease by putting a CWD deer or elk in a pen of healthy animals. If it was contagious, they would have had a pen full of CWD animals. It did not happen. Research finally showed you must feed or inject infected material. If it was infectious or contagious, it would have been very easy to transmit from one deer to another. These are sound, scientifically provable facts. Yes, we need to eliminate the CWD animals, but the killing of perfectly healthy deer and elk has to stop!!! It is the program of stupidity. Anyone of average intelligence should have been able to look at the published scientific facts and realized there was no need to go on a slaughter rampage. If this is the best thinking our money can buy, it is time to try some new people. Let's stop scaring each other. Let's stop scaring the ranchers that they will lose all their cattle if there is a deer or elk with CWD on their land. They have been there for at least thirty or forty years, and the number of CWD animals still remains at about three to five percent of the wild deer or elk population. If CWD was infectious or contagious, we would have had tremendous numbers of CWD animals. We have had no known cases of BSE in Colorado or any other state with deer and elk populations. All of this fear should not have happened and must be stopped. There is a proven scientific fact called the species barrier. This barrier is nature's way of preventing everything from dying from one disease. This barrier (I will call it a law) is why you do not get sick when your pet gets sick. This is why people raising chickens do not get Avian Influenza, Newcastle disease, or any one of several other contagious diseases. This is why cattle people do not normally come down with cattle diseases. Diseases are normally
