~ Reincarnation

In the book I'm reading the author highlights the difference between reincarnation and transmigration of the soul. By the former he means returning to earth being reborn in human form. By the latter he means returning to earth in the form of trees, animals, birds, rocks, or human. Well, there're other definitions of these terms, but the important thing for me here is that Dr. Newton says he hasn't come across transmigration in his practice, which has been a good one!, and he was told that human souls live separately and reincarnate in human form only.

According to Edgar Cayce, humans are not reborn as animals.

However, according to many ancient beliefs and religions, we are.

From the http://animalcommunicatorforum.com/ I learnt that animals do change species when they return to earth. But I haven't found info about humans born as animals. Maybe I'll ask somebody on that forum.

I'm a bit confused now :) Nevertheless, it doesn't change cosiness of my reality=)

~Learning to respect

I want to learn to respect, especially my parents. All religions say parents must be respected, but I just don't feel the respect. I look at my parents like at people who gave birth to me this time and who know more about me than the others, and yet they don't know me, and there's nothing special, no that love I felt in my childhood, and I notice all their drawbacks and weaknesses.

~ 2 in 1: shame and gratitude

I feel pity and care for our planet, animals and plants, even stones and rocks! And I've already overcome that stage when I hated people for what they do to the world and themselves, although I still feel ashamed sometimes because of belonging to this group (humans). And many times I ask our planet, and animals, and trees to forgive us, humans, for what we've done, we've been doing, and are going to do, and will do, and thank the Earth for letting us live here.

Food/Thoughts/Interests

~ My current food habits

I eat once or twice a day, but I 1)overeat and 2) I eat very late, after 23, when I come home.

The body needs some rest, it sleeps at night, it doesn't work, thus all that undigested food, no good.

~My current food preferences

bananas !!!

tangerines !!!

parsley !!!

apples !

red pepper

green onion !!!

lettuce

buckwheat

No juice. It's not that I'm against it, no. But somehow I don't need it now.

~ Water: OK, 2 l a day

As I eat in the evening or at night, I can drink water whenever I want during the day, and I do.

~ Bronnikov

*This week, 8.02-12.02.10, I took part in a training to improve my sensitivity to energies, to give an impulse to developing the right side of my brain. It's a very short training, 4 hours a day, 5 days in a row, but even in this very short period I've experienced so much and I'm so grateful for that!

*Of course, I want to be able to see without eyes as can children in the video, to control my energy fields, to heal, but my current abilities are very far from these powers. The other trainees were more sensitive than me in the majority of exercises, my energy channels are seriously blocked :(. I'm happy I started to feel something, but with the help of visualisation while the exercise is on mere feeling. A lot to work on.

~ Physical exercise

I want to do something! Not that I know I should, I want to do it! A qualitative change.

~ Death

*I'm reading a book by Dr. Michael Newton on the life of souls after death of the physical body. He hypnotically regressed his clients to a point between lives--after death, but before birth. He shares the knowledge he got from years of research, i.e. of his hypnotherapy practice, in several books. Maybe they're popular in the US, but it's the first time I've come across them. Very interesting. And one of his patients told him an old but simple truth - the only important thing in this "material" world is our way of life and how we treat each other. Our social status, our circumstances don't matter at all, what matters is compassion and acceptance of others.

*According to the Vedic beliefs, everything natural has a soul - a human; an animal, a reptile etc.; a flower etc.; a stone etc. And depending on the 'sins' and necessities of each soul's development, the next time it's on Earth it chooses the right type of body. Well advanced souls don't return to the Earth. In Buddhism an advanced, enlightened soul frees from the Saṃsāra wheel of suffering (i.e. frees from being born on Earth again). So there's a goal in life - to become enlightened.

I believe in reincarnation, and so Newton's book is lying onto a well-prepared ground =).

~ 2012

I'm really interested in the "mystery of 2012", but I'm not afraid because I share the view about the qualitative change in (human) consciousness and appearance of a new human (the next level of our evolution, so to speak), which actually is a gradual process and is already happening (all the indigo and crystal children, more people awakening etc.). I hope there won't be any planetary alignment-specific natural disasters etc. on our planet, but I like the idea of the survival of people with higher levels of consciousness. Thus, spiritual growth is the path.

~ Animals and animal communication

*My dad read some books by Blavatsky 10-15 years ago, and I read several pages. It was very interesting but hard to understand. Later I was trying to understand the differences between man and animal (in all aspects) and found her essay "Have Animals Souls?". Much later I read different theories/beliefs, and now I believe everybody has soul.

*I've just learnt about animal communicators. It's amazing. The story about horses impressed me a lot. I'd love to be able to communicate with animals!

~ Dreams, sleeping, visualisation

*I've read a lot about the essence of dreams and the potential of using dreaming to change one's life. There're different theories and different ideas on that. Nevertheless many psychologists, psychiatrists, modern brain researchers, astral travellers, healers agree on the fact that something's going on there when we sleep, not just resting.

*Well, the body needs rest, of course. Those who experienced different unfavourable life conditions say hunger and thirst are not comparable with sleep deprivation. My personal record of staying awake is about 36 hours, and I felt really bad then.

*However, there's another important function of sleep. [B]est current hypothesis is that human require sleep to properly accumulate and apply what we learn. We need it to process all the new information we receive during the day. And information isn't just numbers or words, it's virtually everything - sounds/noises, movements, gestures... - all the signals from the world that we notice.

*Many say when you sleep your soul/astral body travels to different places or even different worlds, and one can learn to do it. I've read a book on how to start but I'm afraid to do it without personal assistance and support from somebody experienced. So I leave it for now.

*Then, they say it's the period of time when you can plan your future, receive answers, solve problems. If you want to learn a poem by heart, do it before you go to bed. If you're thinking over a problem all day long, you might get an answer/a solution in your dream or next morning or at one of the many microsleeps we have during the day. It works.

*Recently I've learnt one nice technique - instead of repeating affirmations (which don't work under many conditions) simply make a special why-question out of this affirmation and ask it yourself before falling asleep. For example, I am healthy becomes Why am I healthy? Our subconscious part will find its reasons and as a result you will become healthy with due time. I'm going to practise this one.

*One morning last week I woke up with a clear understanding of how to call myself when I want to communicate with the real I. Olen'ka. That's so sweet =) (it's a pet name for Olga)

*I haven't learnt to meditate yet, but when I close my eyes I start seeing many vivid pictures, one after another, or films or cartoons, in bright colours. I like it very much. But as I learnt at the Bronnikov centre training, there's a problem - I don't usually control it, it just starts. So I'm going to learn to give orders myself and stop it if I don't have a full control.

~ Aims and goals

The importance of having a goal in life has been talked over here and there, but still not everybody understands what he really wants to achieve - it's really hard to hear what your soul wants! I haven't realised what they are by now, but I have invented some nice goals for me =) and I'm happy about that =) But 1) I forget to think about them regularly and don't have a plan of how to achieve them, so the steps I'm taking may not coincide with my optimal path. 2) My goals are in the field of spiritual and physical development, I don't want to think about money while I have to.

get prepared to give birth =)

saint

Got a piano! Rönisch.

January 2010

~

buckwheat (sprouts and just soaked) !!! ~2.5 kg/month

red pepper (paprika) !!!

bananas !!!

lettuce (Iceberg, "салат листовой в горшочке") !!!

apples !!

parsley /dill /coriander (just a bit this month)

tangerines

pineapples

The list of items is getting shorter every month!

water at least 1 l a day, usually 2 and more

~

Felt cold several times, and it wasn't -24C, it was -15C. So it doesn't really depend on the weather per se, but on all these changes in my body and perception that are going on.

~

Found a nice way of washing hair: using shikakai (Acacia Concinna)

Not really raw, but still natural: boil several halves in 1 l of water for 15 minutes (the water becomes brownish), then let it get lukewarm, squeeze well the halves so that they give all their soapy properties to the water (the most important part is the inside).

~

Found a wonderful piano teacher and had the first lesson! Talked to one person who wanted to sell her piano and gonna get it next week!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Bronnikov and his method

Official WWW: http://bronnikov.ru/

Video: http://66.147.242.166/~methodbr/films/rus/bronnikov.ru_1997_256kb.wmv

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature .”- Joseph Campbell

Mimi Kirk

~11.01.10 Ekadashi. I drank 3l of water! And I didn't make myself do it, I was thirsty =)

~ Meet a 70+ y.o. vegan raw foodist Mimi Kirk.

In this interview she doesn't talk about eating raw, only about being vegan:

Here she talks about her raw diet:

Возрадуйся, душа 2

Первый раз побывала в церкви на отпевании. Очень понравилось пение и очень не понравились запахи. Я попрощалась с душой Натальи, которая, я уверена, была там же, и очень искренне просила у неё прощения, если я негативно на неё повлияла. Через полчаса после начала мне резко стало плохо физически, с мамой вышли на улицу. Через несколько минут это прошло и мы вернулись в церковь. После окончания я поехала на работу; я шла к метро и искренне благодарила всех и вся за многие вещи (например, Бога за такую красоту на улице и возможность мне видеть и наслаждаться ею), мне было эмоционально хорошо. Через некоторое время заметила, что ощущение груза, эмоциональной тяжести в животе, которое я испытывала с момента, как узнала о её уходе из жизни, исчезло! И сейчас, когда я пишу этот пост, я чувствую, что она меня простила. Мне кажется, что тот момент в церкви, когда мне стало плохо, как-то с этим связан; возможно, именно тогда она забрала у меня эту тяжесть.

Возрадуйся, душа

Только что первый раз в сознательной жизни столкнулась со смертью знакомого человека. Позвонил лучший школьный друг и сказал, что умерла его мама. Она страдала от рака, прошла часть химиотерапии. Но информация о сыроедении и методе Бройса дала ей надежду. Моя мама говорит, она держалась, не то чтобы с ярковыраженным оптимизмом, но не унывала. У неё была уже очень запущенная стадия рака, с серьёзными метостазами в лёгких. И вот в 18 часов сегодня её не стало среди нас. Аминь.

А что со мной? Сколько раз я читала и сама думала, что смерть - это не грустно, наоборот, душа встречается с Богом, испытывает чувство единения, бесконечности, Любви. Значит, и на Земле мы должны радоваться, что душа вернулась домой. Но я не испытываю радости. Пустота. И эмоциональная тяжесть в районе солнечного сплетения. Очень неприятная тяжесть. Хочется сложить руки, как ученики за партой, хочется ладонь держать в районе этой чакры. Когда ладонь убираю, становится тяжелее.

У меня появилось чувство вины. Вдруг, это я приблизила её уход? Вдруг, на химических лекарствах она прожила бы дольше? Я не знаю. Никто не знает, естественно. Другие скажут: "Да и что это за жизнь, когда всё болит?" Но меня эта мысль о возможности моей вины угнетает.

Слушаю мантры, православные молитвы, поставлю классическую музыку. Надеюсь, полегчает. Надеюсь, это только моя первая неправильная реакция, и сейчас я соберусь духом и смогу радоваться за неё и молиться. Я не умею молиться, но теперь есть повод научиться.

My 1st post in 2010

~ С Рождеством Христовым!

~ I got hooked on buckwheat sprouts. Yesterday I had no (raw) buckwheat left and ordered some on the web. Today I went to meet one of the assistants of that online store www.i-mne.com and while I was texting him on my way my fingers felt really cold - the first time this winter, finally! And it's only -15C.

~ I was given a CD of Rapid Portuguese Earworms (Musical Brain Trainer) as a present, tried it and couldn't listen to it. My reaction to music has changed a lot, and there are many examples (pieces of music, genres) I can't stand. I start feeling uncomfortable, and if the music doesn't stop - then really bad (emotionally). An unexpected thought came to my mind: we must have a right to quietness! And I'm not talking about housing areas from 23 to 7 (Moscow law)! But near the majority of Moscow metro stations one can hear several songs of different genres, usually very loud, and there are no rules about it, and nobody seems to care. I never cared, until now...

Propaganda =)

Ice Water: more pics

~ Don't depend on or be stopped by any government to be healthy.

(c) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BN2QB9xOMA&feature=sub

~ Avoid judging people against each other. Judge each individual against their own track record.

(c) Jen Hillhouse & happyolika

This is exactly what I've kept telling myself over many months.

Ice Water and Buckwheat Sprouts: pics

Ice Water: pics

I experimented with some schungite and SiO water. This is what I saw after 20 hours on the balcony. The very centre froze and got this beautiful shape of a hedgehog =D The rest was transparent. When the clear part melted, I took the 'hedgehog' out because this is the part where all the impurities are concentrated. The shape of the impurities when normal filtered water (not schungite, not SiO) freezes in a container is different. It's like a ball, rather irregular, without 'prickles'.

Why to drink ice water? I've heard of two ways of erasing information, deleting it from the water memory: distillation and freezing, and it's winter now! When you have water as pure as possible (in terms of its chemical, physical and informational contents) you can add your own information and make it healing, especially for you. =) Here it comes to the power of thought and words.

Ice Water

My freezer isn't big enough for the plastic containers we have, but there's enough room on the balcony. So, making use of the low temperature outside, I put several containers out there in the evening and in the morning got frozen water (ice with some water in the centre of the container - this is the part to be poured away as it's not suitable for drinking due to the saline concentration). And I just loved the taste! I don't make myself drink it, I want to drink it, and that's a big difference.

(RU) Ссылочка про воду

Russian Frost

It's the third day of real winter here in Moscow, snowy and rather cold. -23C in the afternoon going down to -28C at night. But neither my hands, feet nor my nose feels cold, and this is amazing! I remember very well our trip to the Vologda and Kostroma regions last January. It was -17-20C, and my hands and feet were cold in a minute or two, although I was wearing both gloves and mittens. It didn't help. These days I'm wearing rather thin gloves and it's absolutely enough for me.

It was a busy day. Used the underground many times, walked some 20 minutes to my aunt's workplace, talked to her for 5 minutes, then 20 minutes walking back to the metro station, 5 minutes on the metro, 15 minutes walking etc. And let me remind you, it was -23C...

I've just talked to my mum about my new perception, and she said she was going to tell me the same thing! Her nose used to get red very quickly, but not this winter. And both of us, we were enjoying every moment of walking in the street.

It must be the result of the blood vessels cleansing thanks to fruit and green vegetables during the last year, at least I don't see any other reason. Anyway, I like it!

December

~My list is growing less:

parsley !!! (some 200-300 g a day)

bananas !!

tangerines !

avocado!!

dill

green onion

garlic

lemon (juice)

coriander

green lettuce (4 different types)

pomegranate

dried apricot

sprouts

apples: would love to find some nonwaxed apples, but with this frost I go shopping to the supermarkets only

~

water-water-water

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Ekadashi

~

Went to that yoga centre and found out the prices and timetable. There is something for me there!

~

14/12/10 -16-20C, but I wasn't cold!!! Dressed properly, of course, but even my nose didn't feel cold... This real winter is going to last a week or so. He-he

~My second birthday with my raw foodism ideas. I'm more tolerant than a year ago. Last year it was friends at my place with only raw food (salads etc.), this time it was in a café, I invited them to fresh juice (it was a must :D ) and to whatever they would choose. The only exception was alcohol.

~Parcel from Uzbekistan received (dried apricots, almonds in shells)

~I'm more sensitive to noises and music. In my everyday metro journeys a pair of good headphones Sennheiser is an absolutely necessary thing due to the fact that I really need noise insulation... It's all too loud for me. Even at the cinema! o_O Among all the pieces of music I've got my preferences currently lie in music for the piano and/or symphony orchestra.

~There's a new yoga place not far from where I live! Want to pass by and learn the prices and timetable.

Music/ Dreams / Fast / Diet

I've been to a concert where my classmate Tatyana Kolesova was a soloist. She played the famous Tchaikovsky's Concerto no.1. The other hour it was Dvorak's cello Concerto, and it's the first time I've heard a cello solo not recorded. At first I didn't like it, but after some 5 minutes I felt something in the stomach area - the area which I perceive as the solar plexus chakra and which is the part of my body that gives me signals when I visit a sacred place. And there was a moment when I felt tears in my eyes... Who could tell me a couple of years ago I would enjoy classical music??? Well, I liked several pieces of music like Grieg's Morning mood but I wouldn't digest a classical music concert. "For the times they're a-changing", and I'm changing, too. (btw, I love this version of Bob Dylan's song)

I haven't learnt to meditate, not yet, can't organise, can't concentrate. But the images I already receive/see when I close my eyes while listening to some quiet and/or harmonious music or thinking good positive thoughts, - these images are great. Sometimes I can direct the stories, but usually I'm just passively watching and enjoying them. Sometimes they are full of colours, sometimes there are only a few colours, very seldom I see it in brownish&greyish&whitish. Usually the speed of actions is the same as I'm used to, ie not very high, but once in a while I receive images that alternate extremely quickly. Sometimes a new understanding of familiar ideas comes to me during this cartoon-watching experience.

My dreams are a bit different now. Sometimes when I wake up I physically, with my skin, feel what I was doing in the dream, for example hugging. It kind of surprises and puzzles me but for now I like it. =)

I can't fast more than one day :( The second day I feel too bad in the morning and a classical remedy glass of water doesn't help. But drinking 2-3 litres of schungite water a day is no longer a problem!

I tried eating a lot of nuts in the evening (mainly cashews that I ordered from London and pistachios, a bit of hazelnuts and walnuts) and yes, you can gain weight eating raw!!! (the question is Do you want to?)

99% of what I've been eating recently is:

-different sorts of apples (!!!)

-grapes (!!!)

-dried apricot halves (!!) (finally found a good supplier, untreated apricots)

-cabbage (!)

-carrots

-dill (!)

-parsley (!!!)

-green onion (!)

-melons (!)

-pomegranates (!)

-tomatoes

-cucumbers

-nuts

-lettuce

-persimmon (last year this month I was eating tonnes of persimmons, this year I've had maybe 5 pieces...)

Buckwheat, wheat, chickpea are bought for sprouting in winter.

Music, live

A schoolmate of mine is a gifted and internationally famous pianist. Every time she's in Moscow and gives a concert she invites us through vkontakte.ru (~Ru Facebook). Last Saturday I enjoyed a concert where they played Rachmaninoff's Piano concerto no.3 and Brahms's Symphony no.4. And during the first part (~50 min) I closed my eyes and tried to meditate. It was a fantastic experience! A good symphony orchestra and a piano live, it's what I really like. Each and every cell of my body was enjoying the concert and the harmony it brought.

Ecological footprint and Petroleum

Being a conscious consumer (or considering myself to be one) and trying to overcome the feeling of guilt before our dear planet, I'm on my way to lessening my ecological footprint and changing consumerism habits and I'm thinking about the (negative) impact I personally have on the world.

What I am doing or going to do:

~eat less as I am really consuming too much, enjoying a bit of this, a bit of that, and that thing over there please... while I'm already full after a couple of apples.

~make sure the lights are off everywhere when we don't need them as it's an old habit to turn on the light in the whole flat and the tv when I come home.

~try to avoid plastic bags ie try to persuade shop assistants in the supermarkets not to put each item in a separate bag but put several stickers on one bag with several items. Almost impossible: they keep telling me their boss will tell them off if they don't do that. Easier with the marketers.

~use double-sided copy and printing and scrap paper whenever possible. This is a big issue in my current job.

~transport. I move a lot around the city and use not only the underground but the marshrutkas several times a day. No solution now

~choose the greenest of the alternatives whenever possible. Here the budget constraints come into play. For example, just bought a couple of plastic containers from Ikea, not of wood or rattan nor textile mainly due to prices...

10 most surprising places to find petroleum here Comments are good as well..

Ok, in my case there's no toothpaste but tooth powder made of herbs only, but I still need the tooth brush, hm... After some months on a raw food diet one doesn't need a deodorant. No pillow is good for our health but sometimes I use it... And the glue and candles...

Not raw, not even vegan

I ate some khachapuri some time ago, and what surprised me was that it didn't seem too salty. Strange because my perception of spices had changed considerably and everything I had tasted (touched with the tongue, but not swallowed) was too salty/sweet/etc. As I like travelling and really hope to travel around the Caucasus some day I thought of trying a khachapuri when I was somewhere in Georgia, but now thanks to that good Georgian restaurant in Odessa, I can tick one more thing in life 'done' and continue lowering my psychological dependency on traditional cooked food.

October

This month I've decided to do some cleansing, for about 30-35 days. So I eat garlic, home-made tripharmacon (tansy, absinthe and cloves powder), pumpkin purée and seeds, lots of leafy greens (parsley, coriander, spinach, dill, lettuce, Iceberg lettuce, estragon), drink beet&carrot&apple juice every morning. In general this month I'm trying to focus on red food like red paprika or dark grapes but am not avoiding any other product whatsoever. And drinking water, yes, about a litre a day of schungite or silicon (Si) water already - a big progress for me.
Some people, including Victoria Boutenko, recommend drinking 'green cocktails'. They realised the importance of leafy greens in the human diet (their share "must" be about 45% (!) of the daily food intake) but didn't really enjoy eating them as they are, so they decided to use a blender. It's a nice idea for a raw green soup and I tried it once or twice but both my mum and I find it easy to eat leafy greens without any sorcery. 'Green cocktails' seem tasty, so we'll try them for sure =)

I think this book could be quite useful to me now :), it's in line with my own way of thinking.

Service to others

I have found an organisation I trust enough to transfer some 10% of my wages. Celebrity endorsement works! Well, it wasn't an advertising campaign, I was looking for information myself, but I found their website through a LiveJournal account of a famous Russian media person. Thanks, Татьяна Лазарева!
The fact that I already contribute somehow (very little, but better than nothing) to the society invigorates me to pass by beggars in the streets light-heartedly.

Raw stuff parcel

I've received a parcel from this raw foods shop in the UK. Door to door, fast enough! Just one week since I paid, no problems with the customs (anticipated, but highly hoped not to happen to me). Raw cashews, raw chocolate, raw nuts&seeds crackers... Lovely. A wonderful transition period =) (psychologically I still want some traditional food sometimes, every week less though, but haven't completely kicked it).

~

Programming

This is my favourite. I feel how true it is (как это правильно сказать по-английски?)

Eat mainly apples? No problem!

Meet Miss Appletarian

She stopped eating processed food at the age of 26, more or less my age now (I was 24 when I decided, and I guess I'll be 26 when I - eventually - say good-bye to processed food). Would love to learn more about this lady, her experience can be a real inspiration.

Some propaganda (EN, RU subtitles)

We have a choice every moment, indeed

Beetroot juice benefits

Beetroot juice
-to boost stamina
-to reduce blood pressure
-to use in treatment of different ailments