God has gone to great lengths to purchase us back from Satan and eternal death, and to give us Eternal life. The very least we could do is to take the time to learn how to receive these very great and precious promises.

2 Peter 1:4. by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

These promises were given freely, yet we have a responsibility to learn to receive and walk in them. They just don’t fall on us.

God’s Word tells us without faith it is impossible to please Him.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

So without faith there is no pleasing God, yet on the other side of the coin so to speak, with faith all things are possible.

Mark 9:23 Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.

Of course this is talking about Godly things. This has got to be our first step, coming to a knowledge and understanding of our inheritance.

Jesus said in the Gospel of Mark…

Mark 11:23-25. or assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will come to pass, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Jesus gave us an outline for believing and receiving in this section of Scripture. It would be to our benefit to take note of what He said. His words are the words of life. So let’s look at this Scripture and see the truth being imparted here.

First of all the first thing He said to do was speak to this mountain. We all have mountains in our life that seem insurmountable, Jesus said to speak to them.

You will notice He did not say to believe that you have them. He said to believe that you receive them, then you will have them. You have to receive the promise by faith first. Then you will see the manifestation. Many people believe they have to see a manifestation first in order to have faith, yet this is not what Jesus said. Believe that you receive them, then and only then you will have them. There is a difference in believing that you receive and believing that you have. I believe this is a great stumbling block in the body of Christ and many have fallen short of the promises of God not ever realizing where they missed it.

I know that there is a lot of teaching on the subject of faith in this later day. Some people have gotten into error and out of balance in their teaching, and many have taken things out of context, and gotten out of balance in their belief.
However God’s Word is still true and there are certain spiritual truths we must all know and understand in order to walk the walk of faith. Let’s try and stay in the middle of the road in what we believe and we’ll be ok.

I would like to take a look at the woman with the issue of blood. There is a very important spiritual truth taught here that we can learn from. I use this Scripture quite often because it is such a good example of someone receiving by faith.

Mark 5:25-34. Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years,
and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better, but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment; for she said, If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well. Immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the affliction. And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, Who touched My clothes? But His disciples said to Him, You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, `Who touched Me? And He looked around to see her who had done this thing.
But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.
And He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.

She said If only I may touch His clothes, I shall be made well. She said out of faith that she would be healed if she touched Him. That was the first thing that she did, she said.

There are 2 parts in everything we receive from God, the part that God plays and the part that we play. God never fails in doing his part, if we do our part we can be sure of an answer and the victory. The Word of God says in the book of Proverbs …

Proverbs 6:2 you are snared by the words of your own mouth; you are taken by the words of your mouth.

We need to start declaring out of a heart full of faith that the promises of God are true.
The victory is ours in Christ Jesus.

The second thing that happened was that she acted on what she had already spoken out of her mouth by faith. She actually went and touched the hem of his garment. We don’t have Jesus in the physical sense that this lady had, yet we have His awesome promises to stand on. We can depend on God’s Word to be true and faithful. It is our actions that defeat us or put us over.

After she had acted on what she said, she then received the manifestation of her healing, she felt in her body that she was healed.

It always happens this way. The feeling and the healing follow the coming and the doing. She said it first, she came for it second, then and only then she received and felt in her body that she had been made whole. That is when Jesus said to her … Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction. Jesus did not say His faith, but her faith is what made her well. Since Jesus said it was her faith, not His faith, but her faith that made her whole of her affliction we should take note and understand our part in things.
The last thing that happened is that she told. She came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. She declared it to all there that she was healed, and God was glorified.

Many people would say that this is being presumptuous, and that we don’t have the right to tell God anything. I would say to that, we are not telling God anything He has not already told us in His Word to tell Him. We are to line our words up with His words. We will never succeed if we don’t! We are not giving God orders, He has given us the orders and we are just following His instructions. We are not demanding anything of God, we are demanding of the devil. We are demanding he takes his hands off of God’s property in the name of Jesus according to God’s Word. It would only be presumptuous if we were trying to cajole God into something based off of our own desires or whims not lined up with what He has already said in His Word.
We must do as the woman with the issue of blood has done. Speak it, act on it, believe that you receive it, and tell it.

This is just one example of this type of faith in the Bible. We see many such examples of people receiving from God this way. I would like to encourage you to find the promises of God for your self. Then begin to meditate in them until they become real, and faith arises in your heart. Remember the promises God gave to Joshua …

Joshua 1:7-9. Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

Put God’s Word first place in your life, and just start acting like what He said is true. Praise God it is, but you will never know unless you … speak it, do it, believe that you receive it, tell it.
Put God to the test and see for yourself that He is faithful and just.

If you want to know for sure that you are a child of God, then I would like to invite you to earnestly pray this prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. Your word says, “…and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” (Jn.6:37), So I know You won’t cast me out, but You take me in, And I thank you for it. You said in your Word, “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Ro. 10:13).
I am calling on Your name, So I know You have saved me now, You also said, “…that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.” (Ro.10:9,10).
I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe He was raised from the dead for my justification. And I confess Him now as my Lord, Because Your Word says, “… with the heart one believes to righteousness…” and I do believe with my heart, I have now become the righteousness of God in Christ. (2 Cor. 5:21),
And I am saved! Thank You, Lord!
I can now truthfully say, I see myself as a born again child of God!

Glory to God!!!! Amen.

I was raised Catholic and was born again at the age of 17. I received God’s call into ministry at the age of 19 and began to prepare for ministry. I graduated from Rhema Bible Training Center in 1979. The Lord has called me to teach. My desire is to help others come to a deeper understanding of the truth and I have started a web site for this purpose called The Olive Branch; Please visit us for more free studies and resources to help you on your journey.
Mark Baker
http://www.olivebranchministries.us

Everywhere glaciers are melting at a quicker pace than at any decade since measurements were started, reports The Express. Glaciologists from the World Glacier Monitoring Service, which tracks 29 glaciers across 10 mountain areas, reckon that from 1850 to 1971 glaciers receded at a net average rate of 31 centimeters per year. Between 1970 to 2001 the amount receding jumped to 50 – 90 cm per year. Since then the avg. has constituted more than 1 metre per year. Last year reported the biggest losses thus far of 1.2 m.

Worldwide glaciers are withdrawing at the least as fast as those in this small representative group with possibly fateful outcomes for close by communities. In the short run there probably will be increased floodings, whilst in the not so distant future, water supplies could disappear, meaning noticeable water deficits.

Chamonix, with its large count of glaciers, the effects of global warming and the shrinking of glaciers will be sharply found. Perhaps this is why lots of companies, and individuals seem to be more cognizant of the topics so are therefore attempting to take measures to reduce their use of energy. One hopes it’s not too late to stop the upshots of global warming and insure a future for our children. So think about how you travel when you go to your ski accommodations.

Here are a few commonly held beliefs, or “myths,” that hold many of us back from achieving success…

Myth #1: I don’t have what it takes to be successful and wealthy.

Fact: Successful people were not born that way. In fact, many of the most successful people today had very difficult lives. They were regular people who wished for more. And they decided to do something about it – to change their circumstances. Anyone can do the same, including you and I.

Myth 2: I don’t have any experience or education in anything.

Fact: Many successful people started with no experience. Many of them also flunked high school and never had any college education.

The only way to get real education and experience in anything is by doing, by “starting.” Once you start doing it, you learn very quickly.

Think of all the things that you know how to do. Driving a car, riding a bike, playing sports, reading, writing, speaking…even walking. All of these things have one thing in common: at one time in your life, you didn’t know how to do any of them.

And despite how impossible it seemed at the time, you decided to do it anyway. It’s the same with everything in life. You learn by doing. You get experience by doing something a few times. Get started. Do it once, twice, three times and you’re already on your way to becoming an expert in no time!

Myth 3: To be successful, I have to start a business, and I’m just not cut out to be a businessperson. I don’t have what it takes.

Fact: Listen…I know a few people who can barely read or write. Yet they’re running their own businesses. It’s scary, I know. But think about it…right now, at this moment, you’re already several giant steps ahead of them.

The only difference between a person who’s thinking about starting a business and another who is running a business is just that. One of them is doing what the other is only “thinking” of doing. They both had the same ideas and dreams. They both probably had the same doubts and fears as well. But one of them decided to start anyway, to take action despite the doubts and fears. One of them decided that if other people could do it, then he could as well.

Myth 4: Money isn’t that important.

Fact: Tell that to the family who’s starving right now, or to the family who needs money for serious medical help for a member of their family. They’ll tell you how important money is.

We’ve been conditioned from Day 1 to believe that money is not important. We have been conditioned to believe that wanting money is wrong and unethical. And yet the entire world seems to run on money.

It is one of the biggest myths known to man. And it’s one of the main reasons why the majority of the people are not wealthy.

Money is simply a way to measure the amount of value you create for others. If you have a lot of money, it means you have created a lot of value for other people. If you don’t have the kind of money you’d like to have, that simply means that you just haven’t yet found a way to produce the kind of value for others that you’re capable of, or the value that you’d like to.

Just look around you at the countries or even cities that have lack of money. You’ll find that in these same places, there are usually more crimes being committed, more people taking advantage of others, more diseases, more suffering, more deaths, and none or very little education.

Money may not be the most important thing in life, but let’s face facts here… Money is pretty darned important in this day and age. It’s how you support yourself! It’s how you buy food, water, shelter, and clothing. It’s how you pay the medical bills. It’s how you help and support others around you, including your loved ones. And we both know that those are very important things.

And by the way, if you feel that it’s more important to contribute to others than to be rich, well guess what, when you have more money, you can contribute more! You can do much more for others and you can help a lot more people when you have more money.

Only good things can come from having more money.

Myth 5: Money must be made slowly.

Fact: Nothing could be further from the truth. The only way to make money is to make it quickly! What good is money if you can’t enjoy it right now instead of 20 years from now? What good is money if you can’t contribute to others now as much as you’d like to, instead of 20 years from now?

The quicker you make money, the quicker you can change your life and the lives of those around you – for the better. There are no rules stating that money should be made slowly.

The only way to make money is to make it quickly! You will also find that the more money you make, the easier it becomes to make more because you begin to shift your focus from survival to abundance and contribution, in the process. And that shift in focus simply attracts more wealth to you.

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Analyzing link popularity and its evolution one can suspect that another step further into its evolution for better search results might be on the drawing board on some of the most important search engines. If not, it will probably be soon. However this will not come as happy news for many website owners that have invested a lot of their time and effort, not to mention money, mostly, if not solely, in link exchanges for the purpose of increasing their link popularity. Link exchange service providers won’t be too happy either.

What could be this next big step? – you may be asking yourself

Before I answer this question you need to understand how I came up to this conclusion in the first place in order to fully understand it.

In order to provide their users better quality search results and keep their own resources from getting exhausted, search engines needed to put a stop, or at least slow down the use of doorway pages and link farms, among other techniques that they now consider spam. As a penalty they either lower their rank or in the worst of cases, ban them completely.

Search engine technology is becoming more complex and sophisticated every day due to advances in technology and also because since they are receiving an ever increasing amount of listing requests they need to keep up with this demand. Due to the large amount of these requests and their bulging data bases they need to get even more discriminating than ever before when they rank a web page. Ranking determines in the search results which are the most relevant and important pages to show first, second, third and so on, up to the last page. A page will be “rewarded” because of its relevancy to the search term in a query (inquire) and importance will be according to some factors including amount of content pages and most importantly, link popularity.

Link popularity used to be determined by how popular your website was or how many back links it had. Not anymore. Now you have to add “relevant” to the link equation.

What’s next? How about “link exchanges are not and will not be taken into account for increasing or even influencing link popularity”? Why not? What’s wrong with an innocent link exchange? ….you may be asking yourself.

Link exchanges – How innocent are them in reality?

Link exchanges are done for two basic reasons: traffic and link popularity. Naturally there is nothing wrong with getting visitors from other websites you exchange links with and vice versa. Also, if other websites recommend your website by linking to it, that makes your site popular. That means that your website is, at the very least, worth looking at. BUT can you honestly say that your website is popular because other websites have links pointing to your site and as a fair exchange you are ALSO linking to them? Are both you and them really linking to each other because your website and theirs have great or excellent content? You know very well that the answer is a resounding NO.

If you look at this in an objective way you can realize that your website have been made popular by artificial means, by “plotting” with other websites to get an advantage and not by the real value of your website’s content. And here is where the whole problem resides.

If other websites link to your website and they are not asking for a link in return that means that your website must have something that they consider valuable. This is true link popularity. But if you have to return the favor in order to keep your link in their sites, they do not consider your website of much value, just their link in your site. However for now this is being considered link popularity… but for how much longer?

If search engines want to show in their search results websites that are relevant and also popular for their own true value – they will still need to check to see how many back links they have and disregard those that are also getting a link back to them. These links cannot prove that these websites are linking to a specific site because they think that it has good or excellent content but because they want to take advantage of this search engine algorithm loophole. They will still get the traffic from the link exchanges but not the popularity status from them.

If this come to pass, and I believe that it will, sooner or latter, there will be many websites affected by this. Only those that get prepared will not suffer the consequences and will actually gain a lot from the change.

Who is to gain the most from this next step in the link popularity saga? The web searcher since he or she will be able to find a lot of content that other websites truly consider to be very valuable. As a side effect, website owners will see the need to make their websites more professional and with more and better content in order to gain popularity by getting linked from other sites..

People who may still want to trick the search engines instead of doing the right thing, will make arrangements with other websites in order to try to hide their link exchange schemes. Website A will link to B. B will link to C and C will link to A, closing the loop. When search engines begin spotting this and not taking them into account for link popularity, these websites will turn around and will probably make a bigger loop with ABCDE and F in order to keep from being spotted. However the more websites they introduce into this loop, more will be the risk of getting the loop broken somewhere and eventually disappearing completely. Eventually it will be much easier and less complex to simply make better websites and forget about cheating the search engines in order to gain link popularity.

If search engines want to offer optimum search results, they will have to make some radical changes that will affect many people in Internet related Industries in one way or another. When this come to pass there will be some winners (those that were prepared) but also some losers…

Start preparing now

If you want to be prepared for these changes you must start getting your one way links soon for your site, which, by the way, are more permanent than links from link exchanges. How can you get one way links?

1- Add your URL to the directories, under the category related to your topic. Better yet, to those directories that specialize in your topic.
2- Invite your visitors to link to your website. They will if they want to show your content to their visitors.
3- Send e-mails to other websites with similar characteristics as yours and invite them to link to your site.
4- Post a free link demand in the Link Popularity Directory and invite other webmasters browsing this directory to link to your website. Just let them know what kind of content you have. If they are interested, they will link to you.
5- Go to linkpopularitydirectory.com and get more tips on how you can get even more one way links for your website.

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There are names in many languages and cultures or even within each culture, separate cults with different names for ‘forces of nature’. Allies, guides, elementals, fairies, elves, gnomes, leprechauns and so the list would grow into the thousands. How many different dimensions or M-branes we might interact with at some level of our ‘cosmic soup’ is part of the question? There are different ways to access and varied levels or degrees of access. Not all are reliably replicable by the same techniques. Some element of consciousness exists in these ethereal forces which chooses not to communicate according to factors beyond the control of the soul or human who wishes such contact. Certain times are more propitious for such contact according to most beliefs that seek to relate with these forces. The differing brain wavelengths of people make separate variations of ritualistic methods necessary. A medium, sensitive, or psychic will have their own biorhythm to control and ‘center’ or ‘fix’ if they want to commune with any of these endless variations of force. At one level or dimension a force might appear a certain way but it too may be impacted by forces from another dimension. The shamanic ‘Tree of Yggdrasil’ has similar ethnic relatives such as the Hebraic ‘Tree of Life’ and though this universal ‘tree’ is more than the simple primary forces that constitute ‘allies’ it is necessary perhaps to know a lot more in order to see the nature of forces in general. We have the words of a ‘practical guide’ that uses few ritualistic or cultish prerogatives to guide us a little in this trek beyond the world we see that seems so important.

“According to some shamanic traditions of the northern peoples, the Upper, Middle and Lower ‘worlds’ comprised nine realms of existence and these could be indicated on the Tree of Yggdrasil.

At the top of the vertical column was a ‘heavenly’ realm, sometimes called Asgard, where celestial beings existed. Below it was the ‘Place of Enlightenment’ – the realm of the Mind, the Abode of Thought, and the fertile birthplace of Ideas. In the middle was the realm of material manifestation which was conditioned by Time, the Home of the personality self and of ego-consciousness {With conditioning galore and little ease of escape to find the essence of other more inclusive ‘realities’.}. Below was a subterranean realm, related to subconscious activity, where shapes were formed from thought patterns…

{N.B.-creativity and hallucination are closely connected. Right Thought or integrating the purpose of the creator with the created is part of the dynamic.} In the matter of using the primary forces with their North, South, East and West locations and Wind, Fire, Water, Earth expressions we must remember our perceptual starting point may limit these forces ability to allow their conscious reality to meld with our INTENT! Nothing is more important than intent to a practitioner of what has been known as ‘black arts’ to those who priests sought to keep ignorant of their own use thereof.}.

At the base of the column was a realm of inertia – the Place of Potential. It was sometimes referred to as ‘Hel’ – a Germanic word meaning ‘covering’, because it covered the deepest areas of the unconscious. It had none of the associations attributed to the fiery ‘Hell’ of the myths of later religions. {Plagiarizers and ridiculing epithet hurlers.}

On the horizontal plane were other aspects of being and of experience, which similarly formed part of the ‘hidden’ knowledge of the shamans.

The Runic shamans of the ancient northern peoples acquired ‘hidden’ {Trans. ‘occult’} knowledge by the use of angular symbols (Runes) which could easily be carved on wood or chiselled into stone. Contrary to modern belief (based on the conjecture of some anthropologists), Runes were not simply a secret code whose characters were used as substitutes for letters of the common alphabet. It is likely that the majority of Runic shamans could not read or write their own language, or Latin, which became the language of the scholar after the Roman influence. Runes actually represented patterns of manifestation and the laws responsible for shaping forms {N.B.AGAIN!} into which energies could find expression. They were – and are – symbols of a Cosmic language, and are valid on all levels of existence.

In the Runic ‘alphabet’, known as the Elder Futhark because it is considered the oldest of known Runic systems {Divinatory systems have been around since man first thought. The sticks of the I Ching and the black and white painted sides of coconut shells used by ‘Orisha’ worshippers such as voudou and Santeria, are probably far older than any European hominid, and certainly any white man.} and because the word ‘f- u-th-a-r-k’ is made up of its first six characters, there are twenty-four Runes. There are also just twenty-four possible paths between the nine realms indicated on the Tree of Yggdrasil. So the Runes can serve also as ‘travel permits’, enabling the Runic shaman to explore Inner Space, and as ‘passports’ to these other realms of existence within the Cosmic Web.

Shamans of Britain and Northern Europe were thus aware that the Cosmos functions at different levels of existence, and that these broadly correspond to various aspects of the mind. Such a concept was fairly widespread among indigenous peoples, and can be seen represented on certain tribal artefacts, such as the totem poles of the red-skinned Indians of western North America {Actually not red-skinned but’-the use of ochre as a spiritual protection among the Beothuk of Labrador led Europeans to ridicule all Indians in this manner. The same can be said for how the Kelts were portrayed as tattooed ’savages’ by Caesar.} and the brown-skinned Maoris of New Zealand, {Who with British help in the 19th century wiped out the last Kelts on the Chatham Islands.} or the specially carved crystal wands used by some American Indian shamans. {The sceptres of European royalty and popery.} These artefacts often depicted three principal ’spirits’ on top of one another, supported by an animal-like figure at the bottom. On a totem pole the top figure usually had wings to suggest an ability to travel far and wide. These figures could be used to symbolize aspects of the human being, of principal levels of awareness, and of conscious, subconscious, superconscious and even unconscious aspects of the mind.

Although these various states of the mind were not recognized by modern psychology until the end of the nineteenth century, shamans had personified them as ’spirits’ {Or aspects.} for hundreds of years. Kahuna shamans of Hawaii (once part of a mighty prehistoric continent called Mu, which disappeared under the Pacific Ocean during an ecological disaster when the Earth was pulled into a new and slightly longer orbit of the Sun) likened the subconscious to a ‘hidden’ spirit within the human entity which although it was not able to talk, experienced emotion and secretly and silently served the consciousness of the individual to whom it was attached.” (4)

There are many flaws in the argument or assertions about the lost continent or continental polar shift and ecologic or cataclysmic events. We shall deal with them later but at this juncture it is worth noting that the Mungo Man and other evidences of great antiquity to support Churchward’s theories of Mu have been proven archaeologically. He does an excellent job of deciphering the totem poles of the Haida nation in his book ‘The Lost Continent of Mu and I have found a stele at Chichen Itza that supports his Greek to Cara-Maya story of the destruction of Mu. There are many statues and artistic works in the area to support it as well as other esoteric symbols on the stele. My efforts almost landed me in a Mexican prison with no ‘rights’ as a Canadian or American resident. The author of this particular piece is right to focus on Hawaii and he might be amazed to know that the highest ‘northern’ (Hyperborean according to ancient Greek scholars) shamans, or the Druids have their most adept members in Hawaii. This was from a credible source, I trust. So just because he tried to make sense of the facts and made many mistakes does not diminish my respect for the passion and courage of Col. James Churchward. He tried to give mankind a truer picture of his roots and cultural footing. We must try to establish what relevance our past immoral behavior has for people of the future.

“The inspirational and creative level of the mind which operated at a higher state of consciousness was recognized as the province of a ‘higher spirit’ – a ‘High’ Self – which was immortal and which motivated the individual towards spiritual aspirations and noble deeds. It was considered to guide and inspire the ‘human’ self, for it had divine-like qualities…

Among shamans of northern traditions, however, was an oral teaching {The Bardic Tradition of the Bairds by which my genes do instruct.} that recognized a fourth intelligence – an instinctive and automative one which controlled and maintained the physical body, and which was responsible for its protection and survival. This intelligence operated at deep levels of unconscious activity {Partially, perhaps, the ‘history book’ of our genes according to Dr. Collins the head of the Human Genome Project.} and was likened to an animal spirit because its action seemed largely instinctive. Since it normally disappeared when the human being suffered death it was not regarded in the same way as the other ’spirits’…

Each technique has been effective within its own culture, but has derived from an earlier universal system of prehistory. By recognizing the parallels and integrating the principles into a single harmonic system in the spirit of the travelling shamans. I hope not only to get closer to the original system, but also to provide modern people with a clear path to the Cosmos of the shaman, thus securing a firm foundation from which Inner Space may be explored and the benefits shared.

Travelling shamans who went beyond the limitations of their own tribal customs recognized that no single group possessed all Truth {Thus the Kelts were into ‘Brotherhood’ rather than racial purity or ethnic ascendancy.}, and so journeyed from tribe to tribe and place to place seeking knowledge, gaining new insights, weaving what they learned into what they already knew, and imparting wisdom.” (5)

It is good to see that there are many people in every age who see that Inner Space and travel offer much insight. Despite the prevailing attitudes of the last 5,000 years that have sought to homogenize, enslave or create class hierarchies, and manage us for their benefit, the shaman’s road has borne wondrous fruit. In recent times the quantum (once derided as ‘atom-mysticists’) physicists and people like Lovelock, Campbell, Chopra etc., are our adept cells. The past had the De Danaan or their ‘brothers’ of the race of hominids we have just found near Lake Mungo.

“The Pre Ragnarok Viking Gods.

This section was inspired by Erik Linklater and the legends of the Orkney Islands, guided by Thor, and tested in meditation. It contains no material of German origin. Written 1989.

The Sagas were written by shamans and other leaders to define the social, spiritual and psychic objectives of the race. Where an image produced inspires Man and is acceptable to spirit guides, then those spirit guides will use the image as an interface and bring it to life, thus creating an archetypal God. The fossilised Gods of monotheism on the other hand are just political, mental or psychic control mechanisms stuck in time until dismantled. Spirit guides do not have a brain and need you to do their thinking and meditation for them. If one serves the Gods, then they will serve you. There are no free lunches. (Note written February 2000.)

When man can generate enough energy and responsibility for his actions, he will no longer need God or Gods. Until such time he needs a first rate energy source. The Viking Gods provide a first class source of energy, suitable for propelling man through enlightenment (as in Zen). They will help conquer the Zodiac and the Akashic Elements (Fire, Air, Water and Earth), and other Frost Giants of emotion.” (6)

These wise people were often called ‘messengers’ among the natives of North America and ‘gods’ among lesser ethnic groups who sought to create Olympians or other gods they could interpret for. When the last Mungo Man went to whatever planet or end they sought, we do not know. Was it when the genetic viruses took all the large animals like Mammoths and saber cats? No, because there were still mammoths on Wrangle Island 4,000 years ago. I don’t think the more advanced humans of the Mungo strain would have allowed US to do what we’ve done to our native ‘brothers’ and our own mothers and sisters. Perhaps I’m a dreamer or an idealist, maybe I’m like Heraclitus of Ephesus who shunned his position and power for the pursuit of some ludicrous and intangible ‘knowledge’. Maybe I’m an extreme individual and ‘neurotic’ or just a naive cultist of some kind. I’ve been called many different names or labeled a witch, agnostic, atheist, alchemist, and other things I probably am, as well. It would be difficult to put me alongside many others in a pursuit because I value and respect so many different people and approaches. Krishnamurti (sans Theosophists), Yogananda before he reached out to normative religion and even as the ecumenicist, Jung and the philosophers of ‘cell diffusion’ like Campbell. I hope you put me alongside these people or simply with those who wore my name so proudly in pre-Christian times – BAIRDS! These are my ancestral ‘allies’ or ‘guides’.

About the Author

Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
World-Mysteries.com guest writer

Online statistics shows that about 10% from online visitors make immediate purchase on the web site. Other 90% of visitors may leave your web site forever, without making any purchase. Do you want to lose 90% of web site visitors that were driven with so many efforts?

No!

Internet marketing has time-proven tool that catches targeted visitors on your web site and transform them into loyal clients. This tool is known as autoresponder.

Autoresponder is very similar to a mailing list. But its aims and functioning differ.

Mailing list is used to send the messages to its subscribers; autoreposnder GATHERS subscribers and then sends them messages.

For example, you got to the web site about University scholarships, and you are not ready to buy anything from this web site right now. But you see a pop-up window or subscription form saying something like, “Sign up here to get free and fresh updates on new scholarship programs”. Hm, you start thinking. If you are a targeted visitor and feel motivated to get a scholarship, you will surely subscribe to free updates about new scholarship programs.

So, you submit your name and email to subscription form of the autoresponder. You get free updates, and web site gets your name and email to the base of subscribers. Having your name and email, good marketers will find useful products and services to offer you in future. This is when web site is starting to get lifetime customer value from its visitors.

But be careful: do not terrorize your subscribers with useless offers. Otherwise they will unsubscribe from your list, and you will lose them forever.

Would you like to grow the base of your web site subscribers? Yes! Are these subscribers targeted? Yes! If they did not make a purchase on your web site from the first visit, it does not mean they will not do it in future. You just need to try other approach or other offer. The subscriber is bound to your web site now.

This is only the general idea about how autoresponders work. Look below to see how they can bring money to your web site.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE MONEY WITH AUTORESPONDERS

Using autoresponder you can:

1. Sell your own products and services more effectively.

2. Get more re-orders from your clients – if you sell something which needs ordering from time to time (health products, movie tickets), the autoresponder will keep in touch with your clients.

3. Generate more upsells – if your products/services have updates and upgrades, autoresponder will help you to motivate clients for buying the update or upgrade.

4. Create cross-sells – you can sell any complimenting products and services that have any relation to the major offer on your web site. Thus you give a bigger collection of offers, help your joint-venture partners to make more money and get your commission from it. And you have all rights to ask your partners for the same favor: sell something on their web site. In any case, you make more money.

5. Recruit and train affiliates – autoresponder is a perfect tool for educating and motivating your subscribers. They get more info with each new message, and you increase your web site credibility.

6. Ask for feedback from your clients – make it a usual practise to ask your clients once a month what they need from your web site. You do not even imagine how many good ideas they will give you for free.

7. Minimize refunds – when your customer gets more and more info that explains the real benefits and advantages of the offer bought from your web site, this client has less and less desire to ask money back.

WHAT FEATURES SHOULD A GOOD AUTORESPONDER HAVE?

You can use the maximum profits from marketing potential of autoresponder, only when this autoresponder has the following features:

- you can get unlimited number of autoresponders;

- you can add new autoresponders or edit the existing ones;

- you can choose and set up the mailing list to save the subscribers of your autoresponder (the system will save new subscribers to any mailing list you wish);

- you can program autoresponder by days, scheduling to send its messages the way you wish;

- you can make autoresponder messages in TXT and HTML formats, and add attachments to them (audio or even vide files);

- you can use a huge collection of macros elements to highly personalize your autoresponder messages;

- you can get full statistics about sent messages, new subscribers, unsubscribed users of autoresponder;

- you can import and export the subscribers to any base, or save them in a separate file.

When autoresponder has these features, you can easily turn a simple subscription process into a new source of loyal clients on your web site.

The benefits of using autoresponder are evident: you do not visitors from your web site, you grow your base of subscribers and clients, you can motivate your subscribers and client to get more targeted for your offers. Plus, autoresponder automates the whole process of gathering the names and emails from your subscribers, saving them into a database, emailing them under the set delivery schedule, transferring the clients from one base to another, etc.

So, if you do not have autoresponder on your web site, you are losing your profits. Think it over…

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The IGC are a non commercially motivated agency. The organization was established to allow an arena for concerned individuals to address questions also to advance collective interests in the multinational interactive sports gaming business, to ensure impartial and also responsible industry codes and procedures which improve end user faith in internet based gambling commodities and services, also to help as the sports betting trade’s extensive practise spokesperson moreover the Interactive Gaming Council provides a data base of operations.

The Interactive Gaming Council have established a reputation for encouraging reliability, integrity and in addition believability via the ethics it demands, and also its appeal for credible betting websites. The IGC regularizes offshore gaming by means of utilizing an extraordinary 10-step set of standards and also charges betting web sites a payment to exhibit the council’s logo. Vexed gamblers may moreover disclose their disputes to the Interactive Gaming Council.

The FTGA was set up in an effort to present a standard to reform the policies of networked sports betting businesses. The IGC trust that by affiliating with partners of good standing, they can forge an alliance of the fairest and professional offshore betting operations internationally. These are organizations who attempt to inspect the practises of on-line sports gambling and which should with luck work to relieve some of the trepidation due to the insecurity experienced by doubters. Online sports gaming websites are completely secure, due to the fact that private details are no longer needed and in addition the remuneration and the betting odds are equivalent to your familiar Vegas-type bet. They cut down travel time, but keep of a conventional gambling casino, but now you are in a position to bet in your home.

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Over the next 25 years the demand for electrical power worldwide is estimated to increase by a value of US$20 trillion. In light of this increase, a new lease of life has been discovered for coal fired power stations, which along with motor cars contribute greatly to the Greenhouse Effect.

New technology has been discovered to “catch” the carbon dioxide (CO2) before it enters the environment, thus helping reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. A power plant in Tampa, Florida U.S.A, has been established using this concept.

During the power producing process the CO2 gas is driven under heat and pressure. The CO2 is piped and then stored underground by drilling a bore into porous rock, such as sandstone. The hole is then capped by clay. This process is known as “Terrestrial Carbon sequestration”.

Carbon Sequestration The U.S Department of Energy defines “Carbon sequestration” as: “a family of methods for capturing and permanently isolating gases that otherwise could contribute to global climate change”.

Affordable and environmentally safe sequestration approaches could offer a way to stabilise atmospheric levels of CO2 without requiring the countries to make large-scale and potentially costly changes to their energy infrastructures.

Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Terrestrial carbon sequestration is defined as: “either the net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere or the prevention of CO2 net emissions from the terrestrial ecosystems into the atmosphere”. [Source: U.S Department of Energy]

Problems with Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration The problem with this concept is finding the right location to be able to drill into. A project is also planned in West Virginia as it has the suitable porous rock to drill into.

Australia has also been looking into carbon sequestration research as a way of tackling Greenhouse Gas emission problems, with projects underway in South Australia along the “Great Australian Bight”.

New coal-fired plants with this CO2 “catching” process are far more expensive than the traditional coal fired power stations, so there has been no rush to establish new plants at this stage unless politicians induce firms, to take on this technology. So far there is no indication that this will occur, so at this stage traditional polluting coal fired power stations are here to stay.

Alternative forms of Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Enhancing the natural processes that remove CO2 from the atmosphere is thought to be one of the most cost-effective means of reducing atmospheric levels of CO2, and forestation and deforestation abatement efforts are already under way.

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Choosing what works for you.

Camcorders have come a long way from the big bulky machines that
required an advanced degree to operate them. Now camcorders make
you think of a hand held trendy accessory that can easily be
brought to any event to capture the moment. As with all handheld
appliances, the element that keeps them going is the battery.
For every brand of camcorder, there is a specific type of
battery and a varying amount of battery life.

For each brand and model of camcorder, there is a specific
battery designed for that camcorder by the manufacturer. In
order to purchase additional batteries, you must know the make
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camcorders.

Camcorders typically use NiCD or NiMH batteries. Newer Lithium
Ion batteries are on the market for camcorders as well. They are
more ideal for camcorders because they must run multiple
applications which uses lots of battery power. To accommodate
this, traditional NiCD and NiMH batteries can be extremely large
and heavy, whereas Li-Ion batteries weigh much less and provide
the same amount of power.

Depending on the type of battery, whether it be NiCD, NiMH, or
the new Li-Ion battery, the type of camcorder charger needed will be very different. All
these batteries use different technologies and therefore charge
using different technologies. Many camcorder charger
manufactures have helped to overcome this problem by creating
universal chargers that charge all types of batteries in one
docking station. Another option is rapid chargers, which charge
batteries in a fraction of the time it takes traditional
chargers. For convenience, some chargers are also equipped with
a battery tester to measure the battery and avoid over charging.

Camcorders use lots of battery power, so it is important to
consider how it will be used before purchasing a camcorder
battery. Remember to take into account weight and frequency
of use to get the most for your money.