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Help me receive the Lords healing
I am a teacher. My symptoms started just as I started teaching at the age of 46. I started having unbearable headaches and numbness in my arms and legs. I went to my personal doctor, he sent me to do a MRI. The doctor thought it was sinus problem so he referred me to an ENT doctor. After observing the image he told me it was CM and he immediately called Emory hospital. The doctor was skeptical of surgery because he did not think it was that serious. A couple months after I had a fall at work and the symptoms were more severe. I spent 18 hours at Grady Emergency Room. After a lot of doctor's visits and fights I had surgery in April of this year. Most of my symptoms are gone, however teaching is very stressful so I'm evaluating my future in the education.
Where abouts in the world are you? Have you travelled or had a change of climate etc?
Hi my friend zac was in a bad car accident, no one knows how it happened as he was lone in the car late at night and the person who discovered him only arrived after the damage was done, but he was ejected from the car with no other injuries aside from the brain, his story is intense and I don't want to spend my time writing it out without know whether you're even still responding to any of these reach outs anymore. I saw the last response was in 2016I know this is probably a long shot but I just read through all your comments back to people for the past hour or so...so if you are please write me back so I can share his story and hopefully help him out with your advice :)
I was the visitor who commented back on 6/21/17 that I had no more SP problems. Unfortunately it's back and I'm currently typing this in bed (3:46am). It didn't matter if I slept on my back, side, or stomach. I felt like something was holding me down. To be honest, these new episodes don't seem like the others. It's so strange.
Well,interesting comments to all,but it seems like an endless battle of feminism verses nonfeminism that continues to go in circles like most everything eles in this world,where does it stop? to who is right who is wrong,there is none the only one who knows the truth is God himself which seems like us humans like to be,when the real truth is summiting to God and his ways,but do we?no one in this world cannot know this because we live in a fallen world no matter what we think or do,everyone messes up even the amish,their is no such thing as being perfect for anyone to obey all that is in the bible,we can try,but we are still human and sinners.In the end the role plays however or whoever doing whatever is the book of revealation and what is written from God of what is supposed to happen and all this and more is part of it,we cannot stop it or change any of it,we just need to except it,the real deal here is to know Jesus no matter what except all he has done for us and pray and hope we go up to him and to repent of what is clearly wrong and displeasing to him and have faith in all he is.Amen and Amen!
I am fond of this ideas of how one does his or her best to find a way or a formula that can in fact help stimulate the human's IQ and expect it to raise it conspiracy of that of an intelligent person who's IQ is of 193. However it does provide us with a unique example of how sometimes nature takes a toll on us in regards to how much can we the mind of a human generate in order to achieve high intellect, but it wont be possible due to the fact that each individual experiment has some sort of effect towards the human mind even if it means possible death. That's my theory in describing the Flowers for Algernon. Algernon is not a medicine but a disease that can create drastic effects to the human mind.
Phantom smells and dizziness are very worrisome that must be checked by a doctor.
I first read TDGC in 1996. I knew it fit me like a glove, but I didn't know how to get out of the trap.
It meant more to me than the accumulation of (mostly worthless) therapists up to that point.
Last week, 21 years later, I was mingling at a large social function which my three siblings and mother were also attending. I had seen my mother and siblings when I came in and exchanged a hug and greetings. While mingling, my mother marched up to me and said angrily "are you ignoring me" to which I responded "no, I am ..." and she turned and stormed off.
For the first time in my life, ever, my automatic knee jerk response was NOT guilt and shame for how "mama felt" like she trained me to feel: responsible for her yucky feelings rooted in her disorder, that she tries to get me to put perpetual band aides on by making me feel responsible for her insecurity (which is exactly what Alice Miller points out in her book, what these mother's do when raising you).
Thank you God, Father in Heaven, and thank you Alice Miller (deceased), and thank you all my co-healers and understanders of this awful prison created by this drama that was placed on top of us to keep us bound as a bandage for our mothers who never did their own work, and made it our job to make them feel better because of their disorder.
I don't know about you, but I've got a pretty good idea, all my fellow travelers, that you, too, are sick of the brain washing that required us to wear Mama's bullshit. She can keep it and take it to her grave, it's not mine. Or she can work on it and heal it. But I am finished with that crap that was put on me, that is NOT mine.
Carl Schuch Strain
The maturity and excellent taste of your argument are truly admirable. I spend a lot of time on the internet, and I think I can safely say that if there were more people like you, there would definitely be a greater percentage of conversations through chat boxes that were actually genuine intellectual discussions, as opposed to vent boxes for the naturally vampiric leech-like organisms that have come to be the internet generation's main experience with activism. I do disagree with your condemnation of the writer of this article. I've seen too many anti-amish feminist hate-mongering articles with out of context quotes, along with their corresponding polar opposite, the fire-and-brimstone-threatening bible thumper articles notable for heavy use of exclamation points and a cheery 'God Bless!' at the end of a two page long speech about how feminism is the will of Satan. Frankly, this one was not that bad. And by not bad, I mean not disgustingly biased.
I agreed with the author up to a point, and then I found something that was a real turn-off. Allow me to explain what I found and how it relates to your comment.
Dancing is a language comprised of words. Dance moves are words, and a dance is a conversation. I absolutely loved this analogy! Could not be more right!
White people on the dance floor did not respect the author's dance space. This is a sad fact, but the author also makes it very clear that instead of communicating with the whites in a language they DO understand, she just removed herself from the situation and played the victim. This is where the author started to come apart for me. If dancing is a language, then there are many dialects. The author readily admits that the people on the dance floor are not fluent in her dialect yet she chooses to dance there anyway. An analogy for this could be perceiving someone to be rude just because they are a close talker (up in your face). They're not rude; they're just from New York or other close-talking culture! YOU are the one with the problem with their culture!
The author felt offended when whites attempted (failed) to adopt her dance moves. I am unclear upon reading whether the author was offended that they *tried* or offended that they *failed* or both. In any case, to take the author's analogy, this is like taking offense that someone who does not speak your language has attempted to say something in your language after hearing you say it. It also does not sound like the whites were making fun of her; they authentically thought she had some hype moves! So the author chose to be offended rather than flattered. If someone did this with words in a language, they would be perceived as racist. "You can't use my words because you aren't from my culture."
In conclusion, the author expected the whites to be fluent enough in her dance language to know what space on the floor is hers but when they show appreciation of her culture by mimicking it, she is offended. I just hope the author doesn't treat any children she has someday this way. After all, they won't come out of the womb fluent in any sort of cultural language. They will learn only what they have had a chance to mimic. The author is offended when someone who isn't already fluent in her culture attempts to adopt some small part of it, so unless she's racist, she will be offended by her own children.
I'm just taking the author's statements and drawing logical conclusions rather than what the author has done which is to present the facts and her feelings all interspersed without ever once considering that maybe her feelings are unjustified or that maybe she is the one who is racist. She ain't woke. She's the reason the schism between whites and blacks still exist: Because of blacks who erect a new kind of wall after the ones they're familiar with are torn down.
your panic attacks are most likely a symptom of the PTSD you suffer resulting from a near death experience. If you are no longer using you should be fine, there is no danger. If the panic attacks continue without use of Cocaine or any other drug, you must be honest with your shrink and she/he will treat you for the panic
The symbols and words that look ancient are sigils. They are used to make contact with the 4th dimension. These are not hallucinations. They are real and are used by psychics to access other dimensions. Seek them out, and you maybe able to manifest whatever your heart desires. Good luck!
love these, thank you so much for your hard work.
Did your family members pass away? My 28 yr old bestfriend was just diagnosed with this yesterday! Her symptoms have progressed over just a few months time!
Fasting enough causes psychosis. Professionally, psychosis is defined to be more than 10% brain use. LSD causes psychosis by blocking seratonin, the neurotransmitter of the inhibitory neurons in the brain that keep brain use down to 10% brain use. An MRI can show blobs of light travelling around in the brain indicating changing regions of brain use. The total volume of these blobs compared with the volume of the brain indicates the percentage of brain use. Vagal stimulation causes more than 10% brain use by the parasympathetic, also called muscarinic, nervous system overriding those inhibitory neurons. The psychosis of "nervous breakdown" is caused by enough stress overriding the inhibitory neurons. The unpleasant "breakdown" effect is when the "knowledge of good and evil" is too horrible for the uninitiated to endure. Esoterically, Adam and Eve caused each other's "knowledge of good and evil" by the vagal stimulation of massaging each others' "apples". The parasympathetic nervous system is "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil". Fasting eventually also causes "starvation ketosis", extra acetone in the blood stream, which increases neuron wall permeability which is then counteracted by the homeopathic response that also causes organic psychosis, increases of percentage of brain use. It is obvious that, esoterically, fasting was used to access the "spiritual world", psychosis.
close they version you have been using and reopen the PowerPoint attachment. This will make all of the items available again.
Ingrid
Voice dictation is not as smart as I would like and my proofreading is not as good as I would like.
Ingrid
I have been unable to figure out how to fix the reversed letters, so I changed question 9 to ask whether the sequence of nucleotides is the same, instead of asking whether there are any differences between the DNA molecules. This should avoid the problem mentioned in the above comment.
PE listed in the Teacher notes has a misspelled word. The second PE should read "...affect populations", not effect.
Dr Kenneth Blum is the foremost expert on addiction. It is low levels of dopamine that cause addiction traits
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103643/
Yes i took accutane in high school...interesting
Can you please email or post name of fb page? Rmurray@cbcsd.org
Did you find fb page for support?
You are absolutely correct that it is pure rubbish, however it is not a distraction. It is in fact very very real and it is working like a charm in keeping people ignorant, divisive, separate, afraid of each other and totally and completely unwilling to trust each other. As far as convincing people we are all one, well that a horse of another color because it is the Americans of European descent who are the ones who need to be reprogrammed in their thinking because they are the ones who think they are more special than anyone else. They are the ones who continue the myth of superiority of the races by teaching their children that because they are of European descent that they are superior because they conquered the indigenous people of America, and enslaved people from Africa as well as the people of color who were living in this country long before Europeans landed on these shores. Racial profiling by Euro American law enforcement officers against people of color is not a distraction. A distraction takes your mind off of the reality of racism. The family and loved ones of an innocent dead Black man at the hands of White law enforcement would not care to call racial profiling and classification of people a distraction when the reality of their dead loved one lying in the street is too real and incomprehensible to be imagined and brushed off as a distraction. Nor would having their middle school honor roll student wind up in juvie hall under a drug trafficking felony because he unknowingly stood beside a crack pipe on his way home from school that a random Euro American law enforcement officer happened to notice the crack pipe by the child foot from a block away! Definitely NOT a distraction when that child winds up getting the maximum sentence for drug trafficking by a racist DA and a racist Judge who believe the best place to put Black men and women is in jail. So please Visitor, let us keep it real because calling it a distraction can prove to be fatal to those on the non-European spectrum of the racial divide.
Law enforcement happens to be one of the worst groups collecting racial and ethnic information regarding American people. Giving them an exception to the rule is a guarantee that racial profiling will continue toward the detriment of any and all non-European Americans. In case you have not read the book by Michelle Alexander on the subject of The New Jim Crow and the Mass Incarceration of people of color or the book by Carol Anderson entitled "White Rage" I suggest you read them before you agree to any exceptions for the Law Enforcement and the Justice System in this country.
Also since when did people of mixed races become classified as White people? The last time I looked we had a biracial President who was catagorized by the government and news media and more importantly the average citizen as being African American and a Muslim elitist regardless of the fact that his mother was of European descent and his religious affiliation was Christian, As a matter of fact Mr. Obama was only referred to as being biracial a handful of times when it appeared to be in the speakers favor to mention that Mr. Obama was biracial. Also when people of mixed races were basically forced to one or the other unless they looked more white than Black they were automatically classified as Black regardless of what box the checked. Even I have been told what I was by ignorant racially minded people. The government classified me as Black because my mother was Black and it did not matter to them not one little bit that my father was white. By the same token the white person working behind a government desk would cross out the African American box I had checked and check the White box and tell me I was too white to be Black. Any mixed race person who is on the "light, bright, almost white" end of the racial spectrum is accepted as white unless their hair and facial features indicate they are of mixed races and anyone who has a little bit of brown in their skin or some extra kink in their hair or a broad nose and naturally big lips are automatically classified as Black.
Finally, banning Affirmative Action programs in education and in the work place is another guarantee that people of color will not be awarded scholarships, grants, and/or student loans for additional education, nor will they be found to be qualified for any job other than those at poverty level. Since people of color will not be needed to fill a quota there will be no benefit to hiring them when the "good ole boy" system is back in place and a flux of unqualified unskilled uneducated white people need jobs...well just remember back when America was "great", all you ever saw was white people with the best paying jobs and people of color were stuck in servile jobs as janitors and house keepers. Going back to the way things were is not progression it is regression.
Until the day ever comes when White employers will hire people based on their knowledge, skills, and work ethics, programs such as Affirmative Action will still be needed, for without those programs equality will go back to being an idea and an ideal rather than a reality..
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I've been seeing doctors since about March. March is when the ER told me about Chiari malformation. I had never heard of it. 1st doctor Gia Kahn Do didn't want to send me for an MRI. He said "why am I gna send you for something that can't be fixed?" I didn't believe what I was hearing. I had also researched how some doctors were insensitive to this diagnosis and I was actually living it. I'm 30 with 3 little girls whome I've raised pretty much by myself. Now this. How life can turn upside down inside out. The right side is 10mm and left side is 11mm. I'm just waiting on that phone call to see the neurosurgeon. Life feels like it's at a standstill. Hopefully Dr. David Jimenez sees me and everything goes smoothly after that. Just want some peace.
When I think about it, I can chalk this off as a dream, and any part of it or my conclusions as an inner dialogue playing out in my dream. So, that in mind, and remembering it's not real, I can say what I like ;)
The shadow guys simply reach out that way - they are remote not local. The evil feelings a side effect. The region they triggered they explained was via a polarised field. Midway along the side of your head (brain).
That region allows for easy interaction but readily has side effects in most. Control is important - for me it didnt quite work but I'm passive / friendly and got a clear line. Anyone else had the visuals of the cavern system and blue eyed peeps when they queried their actual nature? Those eyes are cool.
Hi, I have always had these experiences throughout my life. sometimes it occurs repetitively and sometimes, i would be fine for like a year and then it starts again. I'm African, from Nigeria actually, and here we believe in evil spirits. Honestly,I'm not convinced that it is a scientific issue. Growing up it used to happen when i sleep in the day time. So, I tried as much as possible not to sleep till night.
This is usually my experience: I open my eyes, try to lift my head but it seems something or someone is pushing me back to sleep.
I'm a christian so when it happens I begin to call JESUS though no one can hear me. I can actually move my hands cos i try to tap someone beside me but they don't respond. I really do not know what makes me snap out of it but when i do, my heart beat increases.
However, if the scientists can prove this to be a psychological or brain issue, it would be a kind of relief.
But then, how often is it supposed to happen? Is there a season for it? I had an automobile accident last week an since then, it has happened four times within the last week. Could it be because of the trauma? I would really appreciate a response. Thank you
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