Review finds diet soda to be health destroyer

S.O.T.T: The researchers wrote: "The negative impact of consuming sugar-sweetened beverages on weight and other health outcomes has been increasingly recognized; therefore, many people have turned to high-intensity sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin as a way to reduce the risk of these consequences. However, accumulating evidence suggests that frequent consumers of these sugar substitutes may also be at increased risk of excessive weight gain, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease."...read more>>>...

The JFK Assassination, 50 Years Later

S.O.T.T: Today, November 22nd, 2013, marks 50 years since the Day America Died. A tragic event for most Americans and for ordinary people the world over who choose peace over war, equality over injustice, and happiness over greed, the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pivotal in setting the United States on its current path towards doom. In our recent SOTT Talk Radio show we reflected on the life of a man who dreamed of a better world, and was making that dream a reality until assassins' bullets killed the American Dream that sunny November day in Dallas, Texas. Half a century later, it's common knowledge in the U.S. that JFK's murder was ordered by a powerful cabal. And yet, successive U.S. administrations have refused to release documents that would fill in the remaining gaps. Who exactly carried it out? And on behalf of whom? How did they organise it? And why did they do it? Despite the passing of time, the 'suiciding' of key witnesses, the barrage of misinformation and disinformation, and the 'loss' of crucial documentation, excellent research has enabled others to form a cohesive and reasonably objective narrative that counters the official propaganda and places the assassination in proper historical context....read more>>>...

Quote for the Day

"When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless." -- Byron Katie

Have YOU Been Here Before?

New Dawn Magazine: Belief in reincarnation is one of the oldest and most durable of human traits, so old and persistent, in fact, that the psychologist C. G. Jung went so far as to call it an archetype. “Rebirth,” Jung wrote, “is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. These primordial affirmations are based on what I call archetypes.” This meant for Jung that regardless of its truth or falsity, the idea that we have lived previous lives and will, after our deaths, return in other lives, is somehow ingrained in our psyche. We are, to use computer-speak, programmed to think it, and although not all of us accept the idea, it seems to share prominence with other fundamental ideas about the meaning of death and what, if anything, happens to us after it. These ideas seem to be surprisingly few...read more>>>...

Walking through Your Fear

Daily Om: The situations, activities, and individuals that frighten us remain static. Their relative intensity does not change. Fear, on the other hand, self-magnifies. It is when you are afraid and envisioning all that might go wrong that the energy underlying your fear grows. A tiny flicker of anxiety can easily develop into a terror that manifests itself physically and eventually paralyzes you into inaction. Though frequently, in walking through that fear, we discover that the strength of our fright was out of synch with reality. And we learn that doing what frightens us can lead to great blessings. Confronting your trepidation head-on will help you accept that few frightening scenarios will ever live up to the negative disasters that we sometimes play out in our minds.Though fear is literally an evolutionary gift meant to sharpen your senses and energize you during times of great stress, it can nonetheless become a barrier that prevents you from fulfilling your potential by causing you to miss out on rewarding, life-changing experiences. During the period before you face your fear, you may have to deal with a barrage of negative thoughts and emotions... read more>>>...

Image Of The Day

Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, ACT
Image Matthew James 2009

Recommended Categories On A Light In The Darkness #1

For those of you who are not familiar with the layout of A Light In The Darkness, on the left hand side column of the blog there is an INDEX section with numerous categories of posts listed there ... this constitutes the 7 year ongoing library that has been created here on A Light In The Darkness

As a new feature here on A Light In The Darkness we are going to commence adding some RECOMMENDED CATEGORIES .... from time to time ... below are the first three. each word is hyper-linked to the Index Category. So all subject matter with come under the category description:

RECOMMENDED CATEGORY LIST #1
1.  HEALING
2. BUDDHISM
3  LAW OF ATTRACTION 

More recommended categories soon ....

Are we all PSYCHIC? Scientists believe that animals - including humans - have a collective consciousness

Daily Mail: Some may call it coincidence, while others call it a sixth sense but why do people think about someone right before they call, for example, or ‘have a feeling’ something is about to happen before it does? It may be due to something called collective consciousness - a term used by certain scientists to describe the practice of humans, and animals, sharing behaviours and ideas with each other telepathically. A report in 2010 claimed to have proved the presence of this consciousness and, by default, psychic abilities in humans. But these claims divided opinion and more recent reports dismiss them as nonsense. The idea of a collective consciousness was first presented by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1893. Durkheim’s definition related more to a shared understanding of certain morals and social norms based on people either imitating others, explicitly passing on these behaviours to one another, or agreeing certain ideals in order to feel accepted...read more>>>...

 

Inspiration For Today

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Coming Soon: A Biometric Fingerprint Scan Just to Leave the Airport?

‘TSA ‘detention pods’ currently being rolled out at major airports across the U.S. have biometric and object-detecting capabilities, according to promotional material from Eagle Security Group, the company that manufactures the devices. As we reported yesterday, the pods, which critics have likened to cattle grids, are currently in place at Syracuse International Airport as well as Atlantic City International Airport terminal exits. These portals were designed and approved by TSA which is important,” said Syracuse Airport Commissioner Christina Callahan. Travelers enter the pod where they are briefly detained before a green light shows and they are allowed to leave the terminal.’

An Insight Into The Psychic Senses

The Psychic Senses which are basically the ‘language translator’ from information being sent to us from higher dimensions … which are responsible for converting or ’downgrading’ this information into a form we understand on this planet. Each of The Psychic Senses are closely linked to one of the five senses. Now, we ALL have these Extra Sensory Perceptions … we just need to become aware of them … and this is done by a series Psychic Workouts to encourage these senses to come to the surface in a clearer way than we are accustomed to. The PSYCHIC SENSES are classified as follows:

We need to be aware of what are known as THE PSYCHIC SENSES … or the ‘7 CLAIRS’ … these are our extra sensory perceptions (ESP) and are linked directly with each of our normal five earthbound senses …SIGHT, TOUCH, TASTE, HEARING, SMELL … the human way of deciphering the Five Sensory World we exist in as human beings.

Clairvoyance or "Clear Seeing", is the ability to see anything that is not physically present, such as objects, animals or people. This sight occurs "in the mind’s eye". Some mediums say that this is their normal vision state. Others say that they must train their minds with such practices as meditation in order to achieve this ability. Some clairvoyant mediums see a spirit as though the spirit has a physical body. They see the bodily form as if it were physically present. Other mediums see the spirit in their mind's eye, or it appears as a movie or a television programme or a still picture like a photograph in their mind.

Clairaudience or "Clear Hearing", is usually defined as the ability to hear the voices or thoughts of spirits. Some Mediums hear as though they are listening to a person talking to them on the outside of their head, as though the Spirit is next to or near to the medium, and other mediums hear the voices in their minds as a verbal thought.

Clairsentience or "Clear Sensing", is the ability to have an impression of what a spirit wants to communicate, or to feel sensations instilled by a spirit.

Clairsentinence or "Clear Feeling" is a condition in which the medium takes on the ailments of a spirit, feeling the same physical problem which the spirit person had before death.

Clairalience or "Clear Smelling" is the ability to smell a spirit. For example, a medium may smell the pipe tobacco of a person who smoked during life.

Clairgustance or "Clear Tasting" is the ability to receive taste impressions from a spirit.

Claircognizance or "Clear Knowing", is the ability to know something without receiving it through normal or psychic senses. It is a feeling of "just knowing". Often, a medium will claim to have the feeling that a message or situation is "right" or "wrong."

COPYRIGHT  MATTHEW JAMES 2011 - EXTRACT TAKEN FROM INTENSIVE MEDIUMSHIP TRAINING WORKSHOP NOTES

Your brain 'sees' things even when you don't

S.O.T.T: The brain processes visual input to the level of understanding its meaning even if we never consciously perceive that input, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The research, led by Jay Sanguinetti of the University of Arizona, challenges currently accepted models about how the brain processes visual information. Sanguinetti, a doctoral candidate in the UA's department of psychology in the College of Science, showed study participants a series of black silhouettes, some of which contained recognizable, real-world objects hidden in the white spaces on the outsides. Working with John Allen, Distinguished Professor of psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Sanguinetti monitored subjects' brainwaves with an electroencephalogram, or EEG, while they viewed the objects.

"There's a brain signature for meaningful processing," Sanguinetti said. Participants' EEG data showed the signature, a peak in the oscillating brainwaves that occurs about 400 milliseconds after the image was shown, called N400. The participants in our experiments don't see those shapes on the outside; nonetheless, the brain signature tells us that they have processed the meaning of those shapes," said Mary Peterson, a professor in the UA department of psychology and Sanguinetti's advisor. "But the brain rejects them as interpretations, and if it rejects the shapes from conscious perception, then you won't have any awareness of them."...read more>>>....

UFOs appear in formation over Fayettesville, North Carolina, 8 November 2013

Strange lights appeared over Fayetteville, North Carolina on November 8, 2013. At first there seemed to be one stationary light from an unknown source in the sky, then two more appeared and the three lights moved in formation. The YouTube uploader described it as: "[at] first look[ing] like [a] comet falling from [the] sky, then lights appeared in formation."

Extreme Tornado Outbreak In The Midwest- Catastrophic

Houston Anthropologist Reveals Irrefutable Proof that Recorded History Is Wrong

Conscious Life News: Evidence Found Across the Globe of Highly Evolved Human Species from before the Ice Age, Demand Scientific Recognition of our Past that Depicts Societies of Advanced Technology and Culture. Houston anthropologist, Dr. Semir Osmanagich, founder of the Bosnian Archaeology Park, the most active archaeology site in the world, declares that irrefutable scientific evidence exists of ancient civilizations with advanced technology that leaves us no choice but to change our recorded history. An examination of the age of structures across the earth reveals conclusively that they were built by advanced civilizations from over 29,000 years ago.

“Acknowledging that we are witness to fundamental proof of advanced civilizations dating back over 29,000 years and an examination of their societal structures forces the World to reconsider its understanding of the development of civilization and history,” explains Dr. Semir Osmanagich. “Conclusive data at the Bosnian Pyramid site revealed in 2008 and confirmed this year by several independent labs who conducted radio carbon testing dates the site at 29,400 +/-400 years minimum.” ... read more here>>>...

Quote For The Day

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."-- James Baldwin

It's Been Quiet On Here ....

My apologises for no blog posts in the last three weeks. I am currently recovering from a serious medical condition in hospital. Only now am I feeling at all well. I will begin adding posts again over the next few days. Thank you for being so patient with me, the last three weeks have been extremely touch and go for me. But now I'm back ... I'm still in hospital recovering but I now have my laptop with me - Matthew James