Can’t remember how it began, I just remember it began. They called it the Alice Box, it was shaped like a Colonial Tea Caddy; a simple oak octagonal box with, brass findings and a black metallic key in the lock. I sat there and looked at the box, knowing my life would never be the same once I turned the black ominous key. Crime after the lockdown of the American City State took a turn for the worse, internal terrorists would not allow their freedom to be secured for their own safety; and I was the cop who was crazy enough to get mixed up in this mess. The Alice Box was made in cooperation with Alchemists and Scientist, maybe they believed this box could turn the steel metal of the city, back into its Golden Age. I looked at the key and finally decided I can’t turn back and I reached and turned the key. I began to feel a burning in my hand, I could not release the key from my grasp and I could smell my flesh burning, as the key melted away. My burned hand ached as I rushed to put it under cold water, and through the shimmering crystal water I could see a metallic gold tattoo of a key branded on my hand. I grabbed a towel to dry my hands and went back to look at that forsaken box and dried my hands over it. I then heard the click and then the grinding of gears as the box opened showing eight metal drawers, attached to the first drawer was a small piece of parchment. I hadn't seen paper since 2030, so I delicately lifted it up to read it. Its fibrous texture felt odd but yet comforting under my fingertips. The paper had a note written in very neat handwriting that said, “All good change begins with a single person, and a drop of heartfelt blood. Godspeed-M” I placed the paper back into the Alice Box, and a needle jumps out pricking my palm, dripping crimson life onto the paper. The Alice Box closes and my Journey for Freedom just begins.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Tea Time
I have never been a big tea drinker until I met my friend Katie. I enjoyed the theory of tea and my friend Eric and I would get a tea service when we went to the Russian Tea Room at NYC, ofcourse that is 12 a perso for a pot of tea and three cookies, but it is an experience. Anyway back to the topic, I decided to look into tea and its benefits, It seems our lovely Boston Harbor favorite has been really healy studied.
Black Tea, the most common type of tea consumed, is the second highest in anti-oxidants after green tea. This is you average tea bag, orange pekoe is a grade of tea, not a tea type. The anti-oxidant in tea is Theaflavin, which is a molecule known to scavange foe abnormal cellular bodies. Black tea is also good for the blood vessels by allowing the vascular sytsem to relax.
Pace University under the supevision of Dr Milton Schiffenbsuer studied that black tea has also a neutralizing viral attributes to it as wel. Purdue University has studied that Black Tea also aids the body in proper calcium absorbtion.
I also have my tea with a tablespoon of all natural, non pesticide non antibiotic honey. I thought since I have a lowered immune system that I would try to have a tablespoon of honey in the morning and at night. Honey is one of the most ancient of medicines, it is anti-bacterial and anti-microbial
I have decide to study honey Little as well infact it started me on a quest. Ayurvedic Medicines that Honey is one of the five nectars of long life and one of the five nectars often given to the Hindu Gods. The five nectars of the life are Honey, ghee or unsalted butter, Milk, Sugar, and Buttermilk/Yogurt. So I am going on a quest for health kick using an adaptation of the Five Nectars I will tell you how that goes.
*Their are four types of tea White Tea made from fresh young leaves non-fermented, Green Teawhich is regular tea leaves non-fermentes, Oolong Tea which a tea leaves semi-fermented, and Black Tea which are fermented leaves.
* Also for my Ky friends if you are looking for non-hormone non-pasturised milk I have a dear friend who can supply you also milk, butter and cheese. The cows are free range. My supplier also sells free range meat of Lamb, Chicken, Mutton, Pork and Beef www.willowhillsnaturalfoods.com
Black Tea, the most common type of tea consumed, is the second highest in anti-oxidants after green tea. This is you average tea bag, orange pekoe is a grade of tea, not a tea type. The anti-oxidant in tea is Theaflavin, which is a molecule known to scavange foe abnormal cellular bodies. Black tea is also good for the blood vessels by allowing the vascular sytsem to relax.
Pace University under the supevision of Dr Milton Schiffenbsuer studied that black tea has also a neutralizing viral attributes to it as wel. Purdue University has studied that Black Tea also aids the body in proper calcium absorbtion.
I also have my tea with a tablespoon of all natural, non pesticide non antibiotic honey. I thought since I have a lowered immune system that I would try to have a tablespoon of honey in the morning and at night. Honey is one of the most ancient of medicines, it is anti-bacterial and anti-microbial
I have decide to study honey Little as well infact it started me on a quest. Ayurvedic Medicines that Honey is one of the five nectars of long life and one of the five nectars often given to the Hindu Gods. The five nectars of the life are Honey, ghee or unsalted butter, Milk, Sugar, and Buttermilk/Yogurt. So I am going on a quest for health kick using an adaptation of the Five Nectars I will tell you how that goes.
*Their are four types of tea White Tea made from fresh young leaves non-fermented, Green Teawhich is regular tea leaves non-fermentes, Oolong Tea which a tea leaves semi-fermented, and Black Tea which are fermented leaves.
* Also for my Ky friends if you are looking for non-hormone non-pasturised milk I have a dear friend who can supply you also milk, butter and cheese. The cows are free range. My supplier also sells free range meat of Lamb, Chicken, Mutton, Pork and Beef www.willowhillsnaturalfoods.com
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Villains and Heroes
Have you ever desired the rescuing by a super hero, or ever read or watched in awe of a super villain? To deconstruct the human need for super heros and the human awe of the super villian, you have to decide its cultural origin. If you were born in the western world super heros have been part of our culture, whether it be D.C. comics or Marvel we have lived in a world of super constructs. The constructs of a super hero are culturaly western in belief, and in the 21st century influenced by juedo-christian ethics.
No matter what religion you adopted or where born into, the ethics and super structure of western world lays in the cultural ethics Christiandom; due to the Holy Roman Empire and the conquest of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. The view of our super constructs is based off of celestial inspirtation off of the cardinal sins and the blessed virtues, post 590 A.D. after Pope Gregory I ascended papacy. Comonly these sins and virtues are know as the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues. Our heroes and villains are created with the excess of these attributes which make them itriguing to western humanity.
The cardinal sins, post 590 A.D., are: Greed, Lust, Sloth, Wrath, Gluttony, Pride, and Envy. Western culture takes these seven ideas and makes them into cultural tabboos, creating a decadent need for them. Very often these are our vices, our naughty pleasures which we often partake in silence or in small groupings, due to there very nature. Our villains on the other hand thak them into excess, making them very decadent and very intriguing. Examples would be Lex Luther for the D.C. Universe whose conquest is to take over the world and obvious picture of greed; and another example would be Magneto from the Marvel Universe who is so confident in his mutanthood that he damns humanity to destruction, an example of excess pride. The construct of all supper villains falls under these vices, Jabba the Hut with Gluttony, Sloth, and Greed, to Harley Quinn with Lust and Wrath. It is their unrelenting and unremorseful use of these vices that intrigues the human spirit, often with repulsion but also a human need to watch and quitely route for them.
Our heroes posses celestail attributes which are ingrained in western humanity, these seven virtues are Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness, and Humility. These are the virtues that bring us close to the divine as pictured by western cluture. These virtues are found in excess in our Super Heroes, so culturaly we view them with divine attributes which inately make them "good guys". Most Super Heroes posses multiple attributes, bringing them closer to western celestial perfection. Superman we never see him copulate with Miss Lane, and he is very temperate with all manners of his life. Superman is diligent in his actions taking care of all problems, and often giving back to society as an act of charity. He is patient not willing to jump the gun and just act against Lex Luther, or kill him showing his kindness. Finaly humility Superman never flaunts being Superman after the deed is done, he goes back to being the mild mannered Clark Kent. The Marvel Universe tends to leave out all of the seven virtues to give more of a human feeling and appeal, but still will have an excess of one ore more of the virtues. Example would be Tony Stark with the moniker of Iron Man, yes he is a rich playboy, which removes chastity and humility; but he posses an excess of diligence, charity and kindness. It is an anti-capitalist thought to take a multi-billion dollar industry, and stop its manufacturing of armaments to save humanity.
Since super heroes have the ability to do some aweful things this brings to light the "God Clause". Since they are closer to being celestial in action, they then have God charecteristics. Many super heroes have the ability to see the "complete picture" and henceforth do things that one may consider rash or un-virtuious. They, like the divine, set on a different scale of time; as humans can only see the momement, super heroes see the big picture. This God Clause gives us the "ta-da moment", when we realize that the action was broader then our human visual timeline could percieve, such as we see and expect from our divine.
What draws us to these charecters is that they perform their actions with rebroach, the do it with out provication just because it is the right thing to do. This is often times the antithesis of the the human charecter but the archetypal paradigm found within all western super hero constructs. Humanity according to Christiandom is made in the "Likeness of God", and within Ancient Greek Mythos, man is created by the fire of the Gods. With both this being said and the theory of divinty, the divine posses all seven vices and all seven virtues; but humanity just has a peice of divinty within them. This gives humanity certain God characteristics, without giving them the excess that we find in our fictional super heroes and villains. This Fire of the Gods and Likeness of the Gods gives birth to morality and aspects perdetermined in our culture of the constructs of good and evil, and our comics play out to inprint the understanding of these western values.
In 590 A.D. a cardinal sin was removed from the catholic canon by Pope Gregory I, and that was the cardinal sin of Sorrow. The practical reason was that this was the beginging of the plagues that ravaged Europe, and the previous papal ruler had sucome to the illness. Europe was not only plagued by great illness, but also by great sorrow. I look at sorrow as the virtue that was left in the catholic Pandora's box. Sorrow was something left to humanity and within sorrow we often look for hope. Which allows us to look to the skies again for a celstial being to fly down and save the day.
How do we end this cycle of good verses evil, it seems that with attribute of sorrow we have created humanity in a cycular pattern without escape? We have created a co-dependance of divine through our need for salvation and in some times vindicatation, giving up on human will and relying on human faith. Many western ideas look at a catastrophic end or a celestial battle between the forces of good and evil, but what is a world without Superman?
No matter what religion you adopted or where born into, the ethics and super structure of western world lays in the cultural ethics Christiandom; due to the Holy Roman Empire and the conquest of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. The view of our super constructs is based off of celestial inspirtation off of the cardinal sins and the blessed virtues, post 590 A.D. after Pope Gregory I ascended papacy. Comonly these sins and virtues are know as the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues. Our heroes and villains are created with the excess of these attributes which make them itriguing to western humanity.
The cardinal sins, post 590 A.D., are: Greed, Lust, Sloth, Wrath, Gluttony, Pride, and Envy. Western culture takes these seven ideas and makes them into cultural tabboos, creating a decadent need for them. Very often these are our vices, our naughty pleasures which we often partake in silence or in small groupings, due to there very nature. Our villains on the other hand thak them into excess, making them very decadent and very intriguing. Examples would be Lex Luther for the D.C. Universe whose conquest is to take over the world and obvious picture of greed; and another example would be Magneto from the Marvel Universe who is so confident in his mutanthood that he damns humanity to destruction, an example of excess pride. The construct of all supper villains falls under these vices, Jabba the Hut with Gluttony, Sloth, and Greed, to Harley Quinn with Lust and Wrath. It is their unrelenting and unremorseful use of these vices that intrigues the human spirit, often with repulsion but also a human need to watch and quitely route for them.
Our heroes posses celestail attributes which are ingrained in western humanity, these seven virtues are Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness, and Humility. These are the virtues that bring us close to the divine as pictured by western cluture. These virtues are found in excess in our Super Heroes, so culturaly we view them with divine attributes which inately make them "good guys". Most Super Heroes posses multiple attributes, bringing them closer to western celestial perfection. Superman we never see him copulate with Miss Lane, and he is very temperate with all manners of his life. Superman is diligent in his actions taking care of all problems, and often giving back to society as an act of charity. He is patient not willing to jump the gun and just act against Lex Luther, or kill him showing his kindness. Finaly humility Superman never flaunts being Superman after the deed is done, he goes back to being the mild mannered Clark Kent. The Marvel Universe tends to leave out all of the seven virtues to give more of a human feeling and appeal, but still will have an excess of one ore more of the virtues. Example would be Tony Stark with the moniker of Iron Man, yes he is a rich playboy, which removes chastity and humility; but he posses an excess of diligence, charity and kindness. It is an anti-capitalist thought to take a multi-billion dollar industry, and stop its manufacturing of armaments to save humanity.
Since super heroes have the ability to do some aweful things this brings to light the "God Clause". Since they are closer to being celestial in action, they then have God charecteristics. Many super heroes have the ability to see the "complete picture" and henceforth do things that one may consider rash or un-virtuious. They, like the divine, set on a different scale of time; as humans can only see the momement, super heroes see the big picture. This God Clause gives us the "ta-da moment", when we realize that the action was broader then our human visual timeline could percieve, such as we see and expect from our divine.
What draws us to these charecters is that they perform their actions with rebroach, the do it with out provication just because it is the right thing to do. This is often times the antithesis of the the human charecter but the archetypal paradigm found within all western super hero constructs. Humanity according to Christiandom is made in the "Likeness of God", and within Ancient Greek Mythos, man is created by the fire of the Gods. With both this being said and the theory of divinty, the divine posses all seven vices and all seven virtues; but humanity just has a peice of divinty within them. This gives humanity certain God characteristics, without giving them the excess that we find in our fictional super heroes and villains. This Fire of the Gods and Likeness of the Gods gives birth to morality and aspects perdetermined in our culture of the constructs of good and evil, and our comics play out to inprint the understanding of these western values.
In 590 A.D. a cardinal sin was removed from the catholic canon by Pope Gregory I, and that was the cardinal sin of Sorrow. The practical reason was that this was the beginging of the plagues that ravaged Europe, and the previous papal ruler had sucome to the illness. Europe was not only plagued by great illness, but also by great sorrow. I look at sorrow as the virtue that was left in the catholic Pandora's box. Sorrow was something left to humanity and within sorrow we often look for hope. Which allows us to look to the skies again for a celstial being to fly down and save the day.
How do we end this cycle of good verses evil, it seems that with attribute of sorrow we have created humanity in a cycular pattern without escape? We have created a co-dependance of divine through our need for salvation and in some times vindicatation, giving up on human will and relying on human faith. Many western ideas look at a catastrophic end or a celestial battle between the forces of good and evil, but what is a world without Superman?
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Loss and Gain
In 2001 I lost both kidneys, I was very scared not know what was up and what was down; but within me a fire began to burn. I learned not to take life for granted and to savor every experince that is given to you. Most people dot realize that little miricales surround us, people move so fast that the forget the beutay and simplicity of divine creation. Like watering a plant and listening to the water rush and watching bead down from one leaf to the next. Today I held a rose up to my face and felt its velvety petals, smelled its rich persume and slowly seperated each petal to save for another experince. Working with that flower became a magical experince. Just stopping to smell the roses, can change your day.
I was always the child who needed to look at every plant, rock and shell I came across and ponder with such wonder and awe, but after kidney failure I realized how it came alive. It did not talk to me, but it spoke to me. Stopping and looking at the stars with childlike wonderment, smelling the honeysuckle like each time was my first time and hugging someone like I could feel their soul in me. This is when the world became magical to me, when my mundane world fractued and I realized the fragilty of all things even within myself.
So now I listen to everyones story, feel the skin of an apple peel, and look at the world with wonderment. This embracement of the world connected me with God, and opened my eyes to so much beauty. I lost a life that I was expected to have and gained a marriage withe the divine. It has helped me to connect and try to help so many people and as I heal them I slowly begin to heal myself. Ase Doc Hava
I was always the child who needed to look at every plant, rock and shell I came across and ponder with such wonder and awe, but after kidney failure I realized how it came alive. It did not talk to me, but it spoke to me. Stopping and looking at the stars with childlike wonderment, smelling the honeysuckle like each time was my first time and hugging someone like I could feel their soul in me. This is when the world became magical to me, when my mundane world fractued and I realized the fragilty of all things even within myself.
So now I listen to everyones story, feel the skin of an apple peel, and look at the world with wonderment. This embracement of the world connected me with God, and opened my eyes to so much beauty. I lost a life that I was expected to have and gained a marriage withe the divine. It has helped me to connect and try to help so many people and as I heal them I slowly begin to heal myself. Ase Doc Hava
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