I love Paris

Shields around the Metro entrance at The Lourve

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Ceiling at the Palace of Versai


Red Geraniums in a window box, how French

Mind over matter

Most people believe they will die from some disease.weather its cancer or heart disease.Here's the irony - of course, they will! Two hundred years ago, this was not a way of thinking. Cancer and heart disease are relatively 'modern' ills.
Long life is not in our 'genes' - it's in our perceptions.
This, from Dr. Bruce Lipton:
"Brace yourselves, for we are in for a wild ride. Frontier research in cell biology has finally acknowledged the mechanisms by which perception controls behavior, selects genes and can even lead to a rewriting of the genome. Rather than being the victims of our genes, we have been the victims of our perceptions. We are on the verge of a most radical and most wonderful upheaval of human civilization."
Many researchers now give credit to negativity and stress as contributors, if not actual 'causes' of the majority of disease states, especially in people under 80 years of age.
If you were to change your beliefs? Could you change your physiology, down to the cellular matrix? That is what I am working on. That is my intention.
Currently those who want to be fit and healthy focus first on exercise, second on nutrition and last, if at all, on our state of mind. The reality is the other way around, that is: MIND MEALS MOTION. In that order.
This article is according to Jon Benson Author of 7 Minute Muscle and Fit Over 40

Man's heart stopped for over an hour

The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for one and a half hours only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants, is fuelling ethical debates in France about when a person is dead.The 45-year-old man suffered a massive heart attack and rescuers used cardiac massage to try and revive him without success before transferring him to a nearby hospital.Due to a series of complex circumstances, revival efforts continued for longer than usual for a patient whose heart was not responding to treatment, until doctors started preparations to remove organs.It was at that point that the astonished surgeons noticed the man was beginning to breathe unaided again, his pupils were active, he was giving signs that he could feel pain - and finally, his heart started beating again.Several weeks later, the man can walk and talk."This situation was a striking illustration of the questions that remain in the field of re-animation ... and what criteria can be used to determine that a re-animation has failed," says a report on the case, published online by an ethics committee.
The case has stirred debate among medical professionals and daily newspaper Le Monde dedicated a full page to the subject under the headline: "The organ donor wasn't dead.""What is under consideration here is the status of a person, whether they are a patient who can be re-animated or a potential (organ) donor," said the ethics committee report.The hospital where the man was treated is one of only nine in France that are allowed to perform organ transplants on patients in cardiac arrest, in very specific conditions, under a pilot program launched in 2007. Elsewhere, organ transplants are possible on other categories of patients under older rules.The program, which was approved by the French agency in charge of bio-ethics, aims to help reduce the number of people waiting for a transplant by making it possible to take organs from new categories of patients.
The committee, made up of medical professionals involved in the revival of heart attack patients as well as organ transplants, held lengthy discussions on the case of the man on February 19 and a summary was later published on the AP-HP website.
"During the meeting, other re-animators ... spoke of situations in which a person whom everyone was sure had died in fact survived after re-animation efforts that went on much longer than usual," say the minutes of the committee meeting.

astrological happenings May to August 2008

During this time we will be experiencing a feeling of intensity, energetically for some this maybe a painful experience and for others a very enlightening time.It is a time of searching for Truth, enabling one to find “The Light of God/our Presence within”.It may feel like a right of passage, to the next level of consciousness; open to those who allow themselves to just be in the moment, being witness to the mechanisms of life, understanding that the drama is the stage show, and the production being a catalyst and the vehicle we sometimes need in order to enable us to awaken within, remembering who we truly are. And sometimes it feels as though it takes everything we have inside us, to really stop and dive down deeply internally, this can feel like a journey into the darkness in order to find the Light once again.
Transitioning through the essence of love through outer realms, surrendering to compassion while entering a wounding point being the healer and the healed and by doing so entering the reaping of past actions.Is this an activation of an awakening throughout the Collective, for it is only when we are fully conscious and bearing witness to what we are actually doing and have actually done in the past, our his-story that this healing of our great planet as a Collective can take place. We will be forced to look at and take responsibility for what we have been doing to our planet.Being a Taurus this astrological formation will be felt pysically/emotionally.
There is another very important thing happening astrologically right now as Saturn has just started its journey through the sign of Virgo and will remain in this sign until late July 2010.Saturn is considered the Lord of Karma and represents the gatekeeper who holds the keys and will not let us through until we have passed the testing ground. Testing us with all our lessons learned and represents dharma or cosmic order, and our work on this earthly plane through our responsibilities and obligations before we are allowed to ascend to a higher level. He is Lord of restriction, self-discipline and boundaries and structure, he can take away and deplete as easily as creating foundations to something, he is long term and represents the old wise man/wise old Owl.Virgo represents the Mythological figure Demeter who is the ruler of the seasons and is the goddess of our crops, grains and harvest. She represents the goddess of the earth, of agriculture, fertility, livestock and agricultural products.So with Saturn in Virgo for the next few years you can imagine the effects it will have upon our food supplies globally as we will find that one of the first things that is affected are our grains, so we will be forced collectively to rethink our strategies of food wastage and distribution and storage for the long term.New Moon, Full Moon, and Eclipse dates/times/signs:
May New Moon: Monday 5th, at 1017 pm, The psyche turns within looking to the things that keep you safe, secure and comfortable.Full Moon: Tuesday 20th, at 1211 pm, This full Moon is part of a Grand Square formation so something may come to a head with intensity and drama, or you are forced into action as the pressure has been building.
June: New Moon: Wednesday 4th, the mind chatter is in overdrive, bailout,bail out!
Full Moon: Thursday 19th, stay centred Relationships may feel very curly, find some space to breathe, and there you will find Truth. July New Moon: Thursday 3rd, day dreams are full of hopes and wishes, Angels watch over you, blessings in your sleep tonight.Full Moon: Friday 18th, Family and work are brought to the fore, finding and building the right structures to bring a better balance in your lives. August New Moon: Friday 1st, at 8.12 pm, at 09 degrees 32 mins of Leo. Then about 8 mins after this there is a Total Solar eclipse lasting for about 2 hours and 27 mins. So this naturally is a very powerful time. There are 6 planets all lined up closely together in a Stellium including the Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus plus the South Node and Vertex all in Leo, and close by Saturn and Mars in Virgo. Leo planets/Points oppose Chiron, Neptune and the North Node and quincunx Uranus sitting there rising right on the Ascendant, something very surprising is on its way.It feels like there will be great help needed, the Heart Charkas are opened out as the people who have more must give to the people in crisis. There may be great Earth movement around this time, this eclipse begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The Olympic Games may be affected, or the attention is drawn away from them, as things of greater importance are at play now. Full Moon: Sunday 17th, at 7 15 am, at 24 degrees 2l mins of Aquarius. Then about 7 mins before the Full Moon there is a Partial Lunar Eclipse. The Moon is conjunct Neptune, the North Node and Chiron, Pluto squares Mars exactly, and Jupiter Trines Venus, Mercury and Saturn and Uranus conjuncts the Vertex. Again this is very potent energetically and it feels like a shift has happened, the land/oceans may be involved, and it looks like there is a lot of hard work ahead for us.