Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Epigenetics

Epigenetic research shows how things like diet and health can significantly affect which genes are expressed. Scientists think that it is the epigenetic rather than the genetic makeup of people that causes disease. Basically how we look after ourselves can significantly affect the likelihood that we get ill and can also affect the genetic expression of our children.

Epigenetic activation is caused by DNA methylation and histone modification, both of which serve to regulate gene expression without altering the underlying DNA sequence


http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Sufi Poet Hafiz Now is the Time

the great Sufi poet Hafiz (c. 1320-1389):

Now Is The Time

Now is the time to know
That all you do is sacred.

Now, why not consider
A lasting truce with yourself and God.

Now is the time to understand
That all your ideas if right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels
To be laid aside
When you can finally live
With veracity
And love.

Hafiz is a divine envoy
Whom the Beloved
Has written a holy message upon.

My dear, please tell me,
Why do you still
Throw sticks at your heart
And God?

What is it in they sweet voice inside
That incites you to fear?

Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time
For you to deeply compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know.
That everything you do
Is sacred.

Graham Handcocks Ayahuasca experience

http://www.disinfo.com/2013/01/giving-up-the-green-bitch-reflections-on-cannabis-ayahuasca-and-the-mystery-of-plant-teachers-by-graham-hancock/