Appearing on Planet Waves by Eric Francis (found on an old adobe mission in California) “The power in all great human works to endure far beyond the workers’ life spans.”

13 Chuwen (Jan. 27^th) – “transformational monkey” – a highly creative “time weaving” type of

energy; it was a 13 Chuwen day in 2007 when the world’s top climate scientists announced

that climate change has been “firmly attributed to human activity”, as they called for drastic and

immediate action to address the issues associated with global warming. In their view this will be

the “biggest story of the 21^st century.”

(referencing the Maya's wisdom)

Today, I took part in an internet discussion on LinkedIn, which I rarely ever do...Do you believe in traditional Chinese medicine? Such as pulse feeling, acupuncture, etc. was the topic of the discussion appearing on a Medical Device group post.

Jim Capone, who states himself to be a Pharmaceuticals' Medical Device Consultant and Contractor had this to say:

"It's not complicated - it's called placebo (latin = I will please). While in some instances the placebo effect can be quite powerful, in others it is useless."

Often, when I hear comments comparing Acupuncture results to that of Western drug trials and their placebos, I find it is really quite humorous...uncomfortably so, in fact, considering the current noose lobbied by the boys & girls working on the wrong Pharm.

Still, I offer this for anyone who may be left over in that "Acupuncture is based on placebo" group. How does acupuncture work with such great success on injured horses, like those training for the top derbies in the World, if it is based on placebo?

I don't know any horses that talk like in Mr. Ed's case, nor am I a horse whisperer who can ask & hear what they "believe" about someone placing fine needles in their bodies.

However, I have seen and read numerous times, where acupuncture has been amazingly successful according to those working directly with champion horses....

Acupuncture was discovered more than 5,000 years ago and was recorded by the scholars of the first Yellow Emperor of China, making it one of the oldest medical data bases on the planet. The Ling Shu, one of the 4 classical texts, contains specific science relative to many of Einstein's theories that were yet to be discovered.

Whereas, many other forms of medicine in Asia were subjected to hundreds of gurus and various schools of thought, without a set of established governing rules, as does exist in Classical Chinese Medicine, which is what defines something to be scientific or based on belief. Asking if you "believe" in Acupuncture is like asking do you believe in Physics.

Most folks do not understand that TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is what came to the western world from Mao's China in the 1950 & 60s. I am sorry to inform many acupuncturist, but if you have never read, The Ling Shu, which is commonly referred to as the "Cannon of Acupuncture" then you are a Chinese Herbalist more than an Acupuncturist. TCM is an abridgement of Chinese Medicine, like a cook book recipe version compared to the indepth study of Classical Chinese Medicine, which focuses on the art of needling for best results, and herbs for adjunct therapy.

In the western world, this is often the reverse because most all the Graduate programs in the West, and in the East, teach TCM now, and not from the complete system of Classical Medical text regarding this subject.

The Year of the Black Dragon: "black" metaphorically suggesting masculine aspects of water, symbolized by a cresting wave, where Energy from far away has been building to spill, and rises and dispereses--where sand and rock meet with sky. To understand Acupuncture, one must understand how to tune an instrument, versus how to make an instrument. --j.a. knolls

When did Congressmen & Governors begin striving to create a society of Billionaires (Mitt & Newt) amongst themselves? What a brilliant "capitalistic act" like the one known around the World as "GREED" !

When the metaphorical boots need to be used, place them on either of two feet first, then the other; pick one of the two up, pull it back and let it Kick these corrupted fools to the curb with a NATIONAL Congressional REcall...

And continue this process until they can get it right, for the People. Where politicians looking for and exhibiting excessive personal gains are out of the elected position, so to prevent them from oppressing the creative people working to thrive here.

Perhaps, the makings of a Bluegrass song ?

Dear Luna, HAPPY NEW YEAR (2012) Year of the Black Dragon

Black : represents masculine aspects of water--symbolized by a cresting wave--meant to suggest a focus on the way water moves, or relates to its enviroment, as in being built to spill when a wave's energy rises and falls where the sand & rock meet with Sky.

j.a.k.

The cougars where we live cause the screams of mule deer at night, they shrek like a banshee's tone in the near distance...it's okay, or at least now, after the first go with it when I acutally thought our new neighborhood bordering the Deschutes National Forest was (perhaps!) hosting some transitional planes from beyond ... below is a sad story about a cougar being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or maybe that was the humans that killed it...? j.a.k.


May 31, 2008, Southern Oregon, according to ODFW statistics, is probably the area of Oregon with highest cougar populations per capita. Jeff, the father of these two girls, wrote me on June 1st, 2008, saying, "Yesterday, I killed a cougar in my driveway. My wife and several neighbors were having a yard sale. My wife let my girls ride their bicycles home to get a sack lunch and come back....[name] is 8 and [name] is 6. I have always been told I am overprotective, but when I heard the girls went home, I hurried off to check on them. Before I got 100 feet out the gate, I saw [the six year old] running frantically saying there is a mountain lion chasing [the 8 year old]. I went as fast as I could, hoping I would find [name] saying it ran off into the bushes, but as I approached I found a ghost-white 8 year old little girl staring at a cougar not 15 feet away. She was on the right side of the driveway and the cougar was 2-3 feet off the left side between two trees. I was riding one of the girls' little quads, and I pulled in between her and the cougar, [but] it did not even seem concerned. I asked [name] to stay behind me, and I let her go back up the hill to where the people were at the yard sale and told her to send Mom back with a gun. I stayed there about 5-10 minutes and the cat never turned or looked away until my wife came in the car, then she ran down the bank and went into a burrow where the creek carved under a tree stump. When another neighbor came, we walked around and scared it out and killed the cat. I was mostly concerned with the fact that it didn't seem to be frightened of humans. I am not small (6' 1" 275 pounds) and the cat was maybe 50 lbs (young female), according to "Jim Collum," Oregon State Trooper, who came out and picked up the dead cat."

--Writing found at OregonPhotos.com