Rethink HIV/AIDS!

Just watched the movie ‘House of Numbers’ and was blown away. It’s time to revisit the faulty science that led to our current view of one of the leading infectious diseases this world faces. I never thought I would consider myself an HIV denialist, but watching the movie and reviewing other literature makes doubt the scientists and politicians that created the landscape of HIV testing, diagnosis, and treatment that exists today. Lives are being played with, people being diagnosed with something and being given prognoses that are not true. People need to be told that living healthy lifestyles can nullify any positive test result they may receive.

I wish I would have known this when I tested ‘positive’.

TAKING THE STING OUT OF THE NETTLE!

Stinging nettle is one of my favorite herbs! People complain about being stung by it, but that is only one of the ways you can enjoy its healing properties.

Learning to Fly

So, midterms week is over. I don’t think it is just my imagination that these exam weeks are getting harder and harder. I made it through, though, as usual.

Today was the most beautiful end to the week I could have hoped for. A bright, sunny, Spring day in Portland. Not a cloud in the sky, not a worry in my head.

I decided to skip the gym, and instead read in the herb garden at my school (by the way, the best school in the world! National College of Natural Medicine!!). As I sat in the grass reading, 2 baby blue jays hopped by, flapping their wings but only getting a few inches off the ground. The mother-bird came flying by a few seconds after, trying to teach her little ones how to succeed at getting off the ground. 

It was one of the most beautiful moments. So often we forget about the innocence of the animal world around us, what really matters, and what our real challenges should be. 

Thank you little birdies for making my day.

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“When we have to do with an art whose nature is the saving of human life, any neglect to make ourselves masters of it becomes a crime.” -Samuel Hahnemann

I guess this describes why I push myself past all limits in learning. By the way, Samuel Hahnemann is the founder of homeopathy, a very powerful healing tool that is greatly misunderstood. Despite what Western docs would want you to believe, he was such a powerful healer and so instrumental in bringing truth to the poisons and harshness of modern medicine, that his statue, in Washington D.C. is the only statue dedicated to a physician in our nation’s capital.

Such a beautiful song! I have not been able to stop listening lately.

‘You will survive, will never stop wonders

You and sunrise will never fall under

We should always know that we can do everything.’

On Kindness (We were born to be good!).

“If a man’s only tool is a key, he will imagine every possible problem to be a lock.”
– Abram Maslow
“The initial mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place? How did I reach the window, the walls, the fireplace, the room itself; how do I happen to be beneath this ceiling, and above this floor? Oh, that is a matter for conjecture, for argument pro and con, for research, supposition, dialectic! I can hardly remember how. Unlike Livingstone, on the verge of darkest Africa, I have no maps to hand, no globe of the terrestrial or the celestial spheres, no chart of mountains, lakes, no sextant, no artificial horizon. If ever I possessed a compass, it has long since disappeared. There must be, however, some reasonable explanation for my presence here. Some step started me toward this point, as opposed to all other points on the habitable globe. I must consider; I must discover it.”
– Louise Bogan, Journey Around My Room
“We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot
But it is the emptiness inside
That holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house
But it is the inner space
That makes it livable.”
– Dao De Jing