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"There was at that time on the banks of the Rhone, in a forest situated between Avignon and Aries, a dragon, half animal, half fish, larger than an ox, longer than a horse, with teeth as sharp as horns, and great wings at either side of its body; and this monster slew all the travelers and sank all the boats. It had arrived by sea from Galatia. Its parents were the Leviathan—a monster in the form of a serpent that dwelt in the sea—and the Onager—a terrible beast bred in Galatia, which burns with fire everything it touches." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"The governments that allow this to happen? The banks, which demand interest on their loans? Or all of us who in one way or another support the present system? Can we stop pouring carbon dioxide into the skies, or do we love our energy-hungry lifestyle too much? Can we significantly reduce our use of fossil fuels, or are we too attached to our current technologies and to the comforts they bring? Can we stop acid rain? Or is the momentum of industrialization too great? Will we stop destroying the ozone layer?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Several months after landing in Fort Vancouver, on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington, Captain Simpson was the guest at another dinner party. Wearing the same suit, he remembered the pips, and presented them to the fort's leader. The "love-seeds" were planted in the spring of 1827. This intertwining of apples and grapes marked the beginnings of Washington's remarkably fertile fruit production—an American agricultural success story that has, in recent years, taken an unexpected turn." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Licking jackfruit goo off my fingers, I feel like I've triggered some pathways in hitherto cauterized memory banks. Not only does tasting fruits bring us back to childhood, it brings us back to earlier evolutionary moments. Enjoying these fruits instills a sense of kinship with the ancestral humans who needed them to survive in the forest. Seeing, tasting and encountering durians, taraps and jackfruits seems to reanimate a primitive dimension of our subcortex, making our pulse quicken the way it would've if we were swinging through the trees eons ago. According to Nancy J." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"They are stalwart supporters of consumer society; their culture is that of the office towers and factories of big business and of the banks and stock markets. Their values are those taught in the most prestigious schools and colleges of America. In 1999 this was the culture of some 48 percent of the American people: 93 million out of about 193 million adults, more men than women. Family income was $40,000 to $50,000 per year, situating moderns in the middle to upper income bracket." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Or, as D. banks McKenzie, founder of a home for alcoholics, wrote in 1875 about the role that the formerly addicted could play in the lives of the presently addicted: "They fully understand each other's language, thoughts, feelings, sorrows, signs, gripes, and passwords, therefore yield to the influence of their reformed brethren much sooner than to the theorists who speak in order that they may receive applause." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"When we accept these perceptions, they become our beliefs and we store them in our memory banks. From pre-birth to about age six, we are like computer hard drives, recording all our experiences and perceptions into our subconscious memories. And, just like computers, these beliefs become the programs that direct our lives. It doesn't matter whether they are really true or not; the fact that we perceive them to be true turns them into automatic programs that are the blueprints for our future life experiences. We download our parents' beliefs and behave accordingly." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In the banks Islands of the New Hebrides, if a young man coming back from his fishing on a rock, towards sunset, chances to see "a girl with her head bedecked with flowers beckoning to him from the slope of the cliff up which his path is leading him; he recognizes the countenance of some girl of his own or a neighboring village; he stands and hesitates and thinks she must be a Fig. 4. Ulysses and the Sirens mae;" he looks more closely, and observes that her elbows and knees bend the wrong way; this reveals her true character, and he flies." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Automated factories produce cars, electric motors, television sets, radios, cameras, computers, and digital watches with almost no input of human energy. In banks, offices, warehouses, and supermarkets, information technology is increasingly taking over functions previously performed by people. Accountants, lawyers, pilots, architects, draftsmen, doctors, engineers, secretaries, and others are being released from many of their routine tasks. The consequence is plain to see. The more developed nations are no longer heading toward full employment but toward ever-increasing unemployment." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The attempt to starve the garrison failed when Belisarius mounted the mills on boats in the Tiber, and "fastened ropes from the two banks of the river and stretched them as tight as he could, and then attached to them two boats side by side and two feet apart, where the flow of the water comes down from . . . with the greatest force ... so by the force of the flowing water all the wheels, one after the other, were made to revolve independently, and thus they worked the mills with which they were connected and ground sufficient flour for the city." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Stories circulate among fruit growers of industrial espionage, of spies breaking into seed banks and stealing rare clonal materials in the hopes of turning a profit. For that reason, the original navel orange tree and the Golden Delicious apple tree were enclosed within padlocked cages. Intellectual-property theft is rampant in the fruit world. According to the National Licensing Association, roughly one in three patented fruit trees are grown illegally." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"It was the drugstores, as well as four or five banks. One of the pharmacies on Civic Mills was inside the newly constructed Super Target, a store the size of an aircraft hangar that sold everything from furniture and clothing to choice-cut steaks. I walked through the doors, around the twenty checkout stands, past the Starbucks, to the pharmacy, where a large sign hanging over the counter said, live fully, feel your best. Of all the drugstores I visited in Iowa, Super Target was working the hardest to make medicines appear hip." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Gloria Fisher, eighty-one, said that she hears frequent stories about medications from the elderly residents of Davenport, an Iowa city of about a hundred thousand that sits on the banks of the Mississippi. Gloria meets with more than a hundred older residents a week as part of her work for a group called Senior Voice. She listens to the people and reports back to the city with their concerns. She often drops in on groups gathered to play cards, among whom a leading topic of conversation has become prescription drugs." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The poorest and most "Indian" families lived on the outskirts of Hojancha, where the rectangular street pattern gave way to winding paths and roads that often followed the banks of streams. In one such house Panchita lived. As we turned down Panchita's drive, I asked Elizabeth if she'd observed anything else. She thought a moment and replied. "Yes, two things. The first is—and this is just my impression—but I think that men live with less stress than women do. They don't tend to worry about the children . . . and we've all seen how common it is for men to have lovers outside the marriage." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Valuing Life When our Vietnamese guide and interpreter took us to the Old People's Center on the banks of the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, we asked its director two questions: "Who's the happiest person here, and who's the healthiest person here?" "Oh, that's easy," he said. "The answer to both questions is the same: her name is Ba Tham." We were brought to meet the eighty-two-year-old Ba Tham, an animated and colorful character with an absolutely glowing smile. "We hear you're happy," we said. "Oh yes," she replied. "I'm so happy." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"I understand that, in our age of data banks, many pharmacies keep track of what their clients are taking and their computers "red flag" possible adverse interactions. Physicians will soon have access to that information to inform their patients about potentially dangerous drug/supplement reactions. (Now that I have that off my chest, let's get back to Fran. . . .) After I determined which herbs and supplements Fran could safely take together, I suggested that she also change her diet and incorporate mental imagery into her daily routine." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"We are paying an extremely high energy price, as we cause our limited metabolic enzyme banks as well as our digestive enzyme banks to unnecessarily mobilize every time we eat cooked food. As we do this, we are rapidly deteriorating our bank accounts. The faster we use up enzymes, the faster we age, and the more susceptible we become to invaders. This rapidly depletes our reserves of both enzymes that could have been used for other, more important functions, not only shortening the length of life, but greatly affecting our quality of life as well." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"In the other, less than twenty years later, on the banks of Central Asia's Talas River, the Arab troops of Ziyad ibn Salih routed an army led by the T'ang general Kao Hsien-Chih. These two battles, Tours and Talas, have an obvious relevance to the question with which this book began: why China remained a coherent nation at precisely the same time that Rome's empire was atomizing into the nations of Europe." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The World Health Organization, the United Nations, international banks and the multinational pharmaceutical companies are all working in concert to make this happen. This group has already conspired to outlaw all health claims for products sold on the Internet. Testimonials are not allowed either. For more information, read the aforementioned Medical Mafia and any of Ralph Moss's books exposing the cancer industry, as well as Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives by James P." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, thick layers of river silt and rising sea levels put the Gulf's ancient shores and the banks of the Ur-Schatt beyond the reach of the archaeologist's spade. However, there may have been settlements like those at Abu Hureyra far up the Euphrates, where Stone Age foraging bands camped in desirable locations; they especially favored the margins of several ecological zones such as those on the Gulf coast, where the greatest diversity of food resources could be found." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"You can think of it as the Willie Sutton strategy: Willie Sutton robbed banks because that's where the money is; hospitals invest in their moneymaking product lines because that's where the profit is. Yet, when hospitals focus not on profits, but instead on providing care that helps patients, they often wind up being punished financially. Several hospitals around the country have experimented with integrated, supportive programs for patients with congestive heart failure. When you have congestive heart failure, your heart can't pump blood effectively, and fluid slowly builds up in your lungs." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Then the banks came and the insurance companies. Today the drugstores are everywhere. Money, money, money. We all know that the effort to make medications cheaper for the American citizens failed. The results? Today 23% of what Americans spend out of their pockets goes to health care (Health & Human, Services Department study, in Jan 2004). In other numbers, $155 trillion (Yes, Trillion!) were paid by people in the USA, or $5,440 by each individual person paid to Big Pharma and Associates. These are simple facts. A POSSIBLE SCENARIO What does all this information tell us?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"As we stood on the rim of the vast expanse of land that connects northern New Mexico with southern Colorado, we could see for miles across the fields that separated us from the great gash in the earth, the Rio Grande Gorge, which forms the banks of the Rio Grande. The high-desert sage was especially fragrant that morning, and as we began our walk, Joseph commented on the family of vegetation that covers the land. "This entire field," he began, "as far as our eyes can see, works together as a single plant." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Menacing banks of dark clouds form every May afternoon on the southern horizon as the temperature falls slightly. Solid masses of locusts cover the sun. Fine dust falls 3 from heaven. The clouds dissipate in violent winds that fell trees and blow off roofs. The winds die down as rapidly as they came, and the heat builds relentlessly. The poet Rudyard Kipling wrote in "Two Months": Fall off, the Thunder bellows her despair To echoing earth, thrice parched. The lightnings fly In vain. No help the heaped-up clouds afford, But wearier weight of burdened, burning air. What truce with Dawn?" - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Letters were sent to the world's seed banks. In 1996, a package of seeds arrived from the University of Ames, Iowa. They were planted by Windmill Point farm, and a melon patch has been set up behind the Notre Dame de Grace YMCA called the Cantaloupe Garden. Every year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) releases their "Red List of Threatened Species." Of the nearly twelve thousand plants that are facing extinction, most are angiosperms, and hence have fruits." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"For example, hydroelectric-power producers in Costa Rica pay $57 million annually to landholders and government to receive services provided by healthy flowing rivers and naturally strong river banks where the sediment and natural structures and beds stay in place. After all, a healthy flowing river can produce much more electricity than one that is degraded with erosion." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Communities will struggle to cope as summer drought gives way to winter downpours, sending floods surging through towns and villages as rivers burst their banks. Even in the current climate, over 4 million people and 2 million properties are at risk of flooding in the UK; these risks are expected to quadruple in a world nearing four degrees of global warming, with annual flood damage costs nearing £30 billion every year." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"The town was founded in 1925 as a tree-filled summer resort on the banks of the Meramec River, less than twenty miles from downtown St. Louis. Vulnerable to regular flooding, many of the town's first buildings rested on stilts. The town's troubles began on May 20, 1971, when Russell Bliss, a local contractor, collected used oil from Independent Petroleum Corporation and Northeast Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company, two small industrial facilities." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Practicing Reiki, or any technique or system of healing, is a little like being Captain Kirk and having access to the tremendous power of the phaser banks of the Enterprise. If techniques or systems of thought and feeling actually create their own morphic fields, then once you have properly grasped them as a possible reality, for example, you as a Reiki practitioner have access to the same power. That is perhaps why so many of the technique masters emphasize obeying the rules and following them just as they do." - Richard Bartlett, Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation (Get the book.)

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