How to beTotally Healthy
Today, the risk of dying of anything before you are 40 is really very small. But starting at 40 you enter the zone of the 7 deadly diseases. How deadly are they? They kill more than 80% of us. (2) Can you guess what they are? Heart Disease - Cancer - Stroke - Diabetes - Arthritis - Osteoporosis - Alzheimer's.

The 7 deadly diseases will send more than TWO MILLION North Americans to an early grave this year!

I used to think that the definition of aging was to get one of these seven diseases and then to die. Imagine my surprise when I learned that heart disease, our number one killer, is a relatively new disease. The first modern cases of it were reported in 1912, and even then it was extremely rare. (3) How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot? What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, almost 30% of us succumb to it. (4) Same as with stroke, which killed very few a hundred years ago. Today, it's the number three killer. Alzheimer's wasn't even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are suffering from it. (5) And diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation. (6)

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong - in our lifetime. But, we're acting as if all of these diseases are just a part of the normal aging process. Not so! There is nothing normal about degenerative disease. Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary. And that's the tragedy!

When a plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes front page news for days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of cancer, you'd think there'd be more of an outcry. It's the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of every single month for an entire year. Year after year.

But here's the good news.

None of these diseases is inevitable. All of them can possibly be avoided or at least delayed - and in some cases even reversed, by taking a few simple steps which I'll share with you before we're done. Because of this, more and more of us will be living healthy lives all the way to a hundred and beyond.

How about you? Do you want to live to 100? With the way trends are going, you may reach 100 whether you want to or not. And that scares some people. We tend to think of old people as frail and sickly, but research on those who live to a hundred finds them "amazingly frisky". 84% function well, and 73% rate their health as good to excellent. So what is their secret? As a group, they like to walk, they are rarely overweight, and 52% take extra vitamins and minerals daily. (7)

If you want to join them, you'll have to adopt many of the same habits. And one of your first goals is to avoid the deadly seven for as long as possible.

Know thy enemy!

There is an adage in war. Know thy enemy. Each of us is being stalked by 7 mortal diseases. If we don't want to be cut down early, we need to find out more about these diseases so we'll better understand how to conquer them.

You have a different future to look forward to. You could make it through the danger zone to live healthy, strong and pain-free for years beyond the average person.

Remember, life is a game you win by finishing last. Great people in ages past, when life expectancy was a fraction of what it is today, were able to beat the odds and live long productive lives. Plato lived to 80, Leo Tolstoy to 82, Thomas Jefferson to 83, Thomas Edison and Ben Franklin to 84, Isaac Newton to 85, Michelangelo to 89, and Frank Lloyd Wright lived to 93. Just think what you could accomplish with a hundred years or more!

In the book "Hunza Health Secrets" are many practical ideas about good health. They would make a good ad for lowering your blood pressure. Eat more fresh fruits, and vegitables like tomatoes, broccoli, potatoes, lettuce, and corn. Eat less eggs, cheese, red meat, mayo, whole milk, and hot dogs.

Blood pressure is the force at which blood presses against your artery walls. It is recorded as two numbers.

140 Number when heart is pumping.
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90 Number when heart is resting.

A blood pressure consistly above 140/90 is considered high blood pressure.

Other test figures are total cholesterol above 240 mg/dL or HDL less than 35 mg/dL are at risk.

Overweight by 20 or more pounds for your body type.

A blood sugar of 126 mg/dL or more.

To find out more about any particular aliment, see Dr. John's Aliments on my home page, and then go to the Curezone for detailed advice.

[TBF GF[P BPHN by Phil Cutrara
[TBF GF[P BPHN the text read at the upper left hand corner of the frayed ancient scroll. The assignment for the class of aboriginal ancient text was to translate the scroll, and determine its date.

The first day of the class was still a couple of days off, and Jason Lassor had several more books to purchase for his class Languages of the World 404.

He decided to take this class because he had heard so much about Professor Kirt Wandergut. Every year before the fall semester he would travel to the Far East in search of ancient civilizations. This year his group of grad students had just got back from Jaluka a small excavation about 23 miles north of Aden.

In the Duquesne Caf?, Jason stopped to rest a while after his long day of shopping for books. It was ridiculous how expensive they all were, especially the language dictionaries for the ancient texts. He decided to see what was in the library that could help him with this much anticipated class.

The Duquesne library was one of the most unusual Jason had ever seen. You enter on the top floor, and there were four floors below. Most of the reference dictionaries were on the main floor, and they would tell you the origin of all the known words. Just for kicks Jason started to look up the first words of the scroll that would be his text for this year's elective.

[TBF what could it mean? The [ looked like a C and the others what they were, so adding an "A" for the vowel sounds the first word was CATABAFA. CATA usually meant by or down, if it was a "K" sound instead of a "C." Now what could BAFA mean...

Jason turned to the Bs in that huge volume. There to his amazement was the ancient Middle Eastern word that meant baffle. "Boy" Jason said to himself, "I hope the rest of the text will be as easy as this!"

The day of the first class had finally arrived and Professor Wandergut told the class how the course was going to be taught. He asked if any of the class had begun the translation. Jason was about to raise his hand when a young dirty blond hair girl began reading the first couple of sentences she had translated. There were a couple of things she said that did not make much sense.

It appeared that this text was a lot older than anyone had ever seen. It was written around the Era of Giants and the time of the Old Humans that lived for many centuries. One of the Old ones was talking about traveling through time, and knowing what was in the hearts of men.

Professor Wandergut said "Very good, Jean. I never had a student able to do so well with text as old as this one! But what we as a class need to do is to modernize the translation, so that everyone can find some interest in it. Let's begin at the beginning of the scroll and see how the class translates the text."

He then began with the first words that meant. "Life is a perplexing adventure where we can see what has been and what will be." Then he asked the class what would be a good translation for "JGRJG?" The students began plugging in the vowel sounds.

JaGRaGaJ was a new one for all of us. I heard some of the women in the class say the word meant "coming to form." But how could this fit into the context? Some of the guys around me began to say that the speaker was telling about time travel, and that when he came to another time he was like a ghost becoming solid.
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to be continued...

DETOXIFY OR DIE
I remember working for the Pittsburgh Athletic Association. My father's cousin, and my cousin also worked there at the spa. We helped members with the various treatments like the hot wet room, and the dry hot room.

From the earliest times humans learned that there were many benefits from sweating. Many herb doctors perscribed the "cold sheet treatment" for even the "incurables."

Another type of treatment uses the "Far Infrared Sauna." Here are some excerpts from the book "Detoxify or Die."
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DETOXIFY OR DIE
BY DR. SHERRY A. ROGERS, M.D.
FREE BOOK when you complete a sauna estimate request.

(Excerpts)

The Superior Sauna -- -- -- F I R S (Far Infrared Sauna) pg 199

What is the best way to get rid of toxic chemicals including pesticides, heavy metals and hydrocarbon residues when you cannot tolerate a sauna? When a sauna makes you feel weak, sick, have a fast heart rate, faint, dizzy, panicky, headachy or just plain miserable, what is the solution? The far infrared sauna. Thanks to improved technology, the far infrared sauna is far safer and infinitely more tolerable, because it uses a heat energy that penetrates tissues, triggering mobilization of chemicals from subcutaneous fat storage, directly into the sweat. This activating penetration allows for a much lower overall temperature to be used (as I'll show you later), one that is enjoyable and not torture.

But more importantly, you haven't forced the body to bear very high temperatures (160 degrees and higher), pulling chemicals back into the bloodstream where they can duplicate original symptoms. Instead they slip out the back door, so to speak, from just under the skin storage directly into the sweat. Over weeks and months there is an equilibrium, or chemicals that are stored in other organs slowly and safely disseminate throughout the body and eventually empty into subcutaneous fat. It is the chemical load that is stored beneath the skin that is the main area activated by the far infrared sauna.

Another thing I always worried about in a conventional sauna, even for a few brief moments I could stand one, was the fact that my eyeballs burned so much. I couldn't believe that intense heat on my corneas was good for them and feared triggering cataracts. To my knowledge, no studies have ever been done on this, but this high-temperature on the eyeball and lens cannot be good for them. It's unphysiologic. Anyway, I do not get that type of eye pain in the infrared sauna, only profuse sweating. And that is just the effect you want in order to release a lifetime of toxins from the body storage. The body gets rid of stored chemicals in stool, urine or sweat. The sweat route requires no drugs and is the most efficient and natural (man used to physically work and sweat before computers were invented). As the oldest of eight children I used to hesitate to recommend something as expensive as a home sauna. I was looking for treatments that were natural, but inexpensive and definitely not high-tech! But when you realize the lifelong incapacity and expense of diseases such as chronic pain syndromes, heart disease, chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraines, Alzheimer's, cancer or any others caused by chemical toxicity, a sauna is cheap. Let's face it: high tech pollution requires high tech solutions.

(1) Just add up the time and money you wasted getting diagnosed. (2) or add up the cost for a year of prescription medications and you will pay for it. But its advantages do not end there. (3) Once you have it, it's yours to use forever, for the world will never run out of ways to poison us. (4) The whole family can use it. (5) It is not only capable of providing the primary "cure" or solution for your current medical problem, but can free you from symptom producing medications. Since we're continually being bombarded by new chemicals every day, it is a tool to keep you "cleaned out" for life. It is a win - win situation.

I'm convinced that the far infrared sauna is something that everyone should do to restore health, and then continue to do on a less frequent basis to maintain the "cleaned out" state for the rest of their lives. It's therapeutic as well as prophylactic.

The Hot Solution for Body Pollution: FIRS pg 202

How can we bring aging and illness to a screeching halt? Better yet, how can we turn back the hands of time? By booting those nasty disease-causing chemicals out of the body. Sweat out the poisons is the answer, but not any old sauna or sweating program will do, in fact some are dangerous.

FIRS, the Only Sauna Proven Safe
for Elderly, Severe End-Stage Heart Patients pg 202

Many people who are sick, like heart patients, would never tolerate the extreme temperatures of regular saunas. In fact it would make them worse, raising blood pressure and heart rate, while triggering arrhythmias and shortness of breath. Clearly heat is contraindicated. Imagine a man with cadmium-induced arthritis and hypertension, or a woman with Mercury-induced shoulder pain and angina, or toluene-induced migraines and arrhythmia. When environmental chemicals create pain in addition to cardiovascular disease, as examples, what is the heart patient to do?

If you are like most people, you may have never learned much about the diagnosis of CHF or congestive heart failure. Yet it attacks more people each year than cancer, and it is as lethal as cancer. For with the diagnosis of cancer, the median survival (different cancers have their own survival rates, but if you average them all together) is six years. With CHF, the median survival is less: five years. When the diagnosis of cancer is made, folks feel eminent doom and urgency. But with CHF, it has received such scant press that it merely engenders a "So What?" response. It fosters no doom and gloom urgency.

In fact, even though congestive heart failure is more prevalent and more lethal than cancer, folks know so little about CHF that they do not concern themselves with preventing it the way they do cancer. CHF starts with any heart symptom you can imagine. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, angina, arrhythmias like atrial fibrillation, dyspnea (shortness of breath, beginning with the stairs and inclines), claudication (leg pain when walking), pedal edema (ankle swelling), pericarditis, cardio-myopathy (heavy metal or other poisoning of heart muscle), fluid in the lungs, recurrent pneumonias, bypass surgery (putting new coronary vessels in) or endarterectomy (roto-rooting or reaming out the old plugged arteries) can be the beginning that insidiously leads to congestive heart failure. The most common symptom shortness of breath, especially on stairs, inclines or while doing repeated deep knee bends, or jogging. An even worse sign is swelling of ankles at the end of the day, indicating a heart so overloaded that fluid backs up all the way to the leg vessels.

As with every illness, in "modern medicine" CHF suddenly, becomes a deficiency of a multitude of heart drugs. Drugs to control the rhythm, like calcium channel blockers (proven to cause shrinkage of the brain and loss of mental function as well as increase the risk of heart attack and cancer). And ACE inhibitors are often prescribed, known to cause bronchitis (chronic cough). Digitalis-type drugs like Lanoxin to boost the force of contraction, and diuretics or fluid bills to decrease the swelling and work of the heart (and known to cause worsening of high blood pressure and a chance of sudden death by heart attack) are some of the other drugs added to the brew.

See the rest of the selection at Far Infrared Sauna or: http://www.curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=285&i=159

Cure All Diseases
Dr. Clark follows up "The Cure For All Cancers" with "The Cure For All Diseases" where she expands her natural treatment techniques. She posted her book on the Internet except for some image details, and schematics. See the link on the right or:
http://drclarkia.com/books/The_Cure_For_All_Diseases.html

Incurable Program
Health includes a proper balance of nutrition, exercise, and rest. When a person becomes weak all these things can help one become better. In the case of serious illness, one must consider the "Incurable Program."

Drs. John Christopher and David Schulze devised programs to help those with the so called "incurable diseases."

"We have many times made the statement `There are no incurable diseases, but at times there are incurable patients.' The Creator has given herbs and assisting (holistic) therapies for every type of body malfunction; and if they are only used benefits will come, but if they are not used as directed they can be of no aid.

No one can truly tell a patient he has just so many days, weeks, or months to live. The scriptures are plain in saying that everything moves in its time and season; there is an hour to be born and an hour to die. We have seen cases where the person was told that he had only a few days to live. Many of these people are alive and well today, because they had faith to turn to the natural ways of healing and have been healed.

We have seen cases where the patients were lying helpless on the bed, so sickly they could not feed themselves, waiting for death at any moment. These people, by correctly utilizing the (holistic) healing program, are alive, active and well today."

See the right column for the link to the "Incurable Program" or: http://www.herbsfirst.com/ailmentsdescriptions/incurablespg.html for all the information.

Integrate Your Self: Body, Mind and Soul
There have been many paths I have taken to better integrate my body, mind, and soul. I participated in sports and our various teams won many championships in baseball, basketball, football, swimming, and cross country. I have degrees in psychology, computer programming, business management and religious education. I have taken many courses on religious education, and spent three years at Saint Andrew's Seminary. I have studied the religions of the world, and read many books by the noted scholars on Yoga, meditation, contemplation, and alpha biofeedback.

Various searches on the Internet provide me with new information on these subjects. Many of the techniques I use help me to better integrate myself and allow me to more easily stay on course to accomplish my goals. Some of the techniques deal with motivation, improvement, relaxation, stress reduction, nutrition, exercise, prayer, and friendship. Some of the life courses I have taken had names like: Life in the Spirit, Serendipity, Arica, Living Love, Silvan Mind Control, the Road Less Traveled, Holistic Health, and Healing.

I am continuously learning about Natural Health, herbs and supplements by watching The Save Your Life tapes by John Christopher, and Richard Schulze. I enjoy taking nature trips through the local woods to identify the various species of medicinal plants, and herbs. The Medicinal databases on the Internet help me identify the plants with their images, and information on the plants characteristics, and chemical makeup. The literature is documented, and tells where you can find our more from the Indian tribes that used these plants for many generations.

Nature also has a way to show you what plants are useful, yet you need to be aware that some things that other animals use are not good to eat by humans. Even some of the herbs that we take are not all beneficial or effective, and some more studies are needed to help us determine what is best to consume.

I have included on my homepage Dr. John's aliment list, James Duke's plant databases addresses and a plant course that will help us identify many of the species that are of interest to our obtaining good health.

HOLISTIC HEALTH
Alternative Health

Perhaps there are dimensions of knowledge in that those who know more about health become healthier. If anyone just relies on one model of health he is part of that mindset, whether it is Western medicine or any other. When a person takes the responsibility for his own health, he comes to realize that there are countless aspects to living a healthy life style.

Many health professionals use alternative health methods that combine chiropractic adjustments, massage, muscle testing, trigger point therapy, herbal and supplement treatments, scanner testing, zapping, micro current stimulation, acupressure, biofeedback, hypnosis, and many other approaches. Naturopathic doctors make extensive use of herbs and supplements. See: Dr. Suzann Wang, Naturopathic Doctor Effective healing without drugs. Herbs, nutrition, homeopathy, detox for fast relief from allergy, asthma, chronic fatigue, IBS etc. Offices: San Francisco area. Phone appts for U.S./Canada.
www.naturalhealthcalifornia.com

Traditional Chineese Medicine (TCM) professionals use blood test to help them plan a program of treatment. See: http://www.planetherbs.com/articles/evaluating_blood_tests_from_a_tc.html for examples on what to look for in a blood test. This article will tell you what the readings mean, and it contains comments that will help you learn more about the readings. Here are a couple of pages from the article.

EVALUATING BLOOD TESTS FROM A TCM PERSPECTIVE

The following is a list of common serological tests. The General Laboratory Values are first listed. The "optimum values" are what is preferred. In the left hand column you will find the Western medical problem; in the right hand column you will find the common syndrome most often found in combination with the medical problem and the elevation or depression of the blood chemistry.

Key: ^ & > = increased; more, heightened; intensified
< = decreased; less, diminished

BLOOD

RED BLOOD COUNT (RBC)
The red blood cell is a carrier of oxygen through the hemoglobin it contains. The RBC value measures the actual oxygen carrying ability of the blood.

General Laboratory Values: Male: 4.4-6.2 million cu.MM
Female: 3.8-5.4 million cu.MM

Red Blood Cell Increased In:
B6 Anemia Sp, Kid Qi Xu
Emphysema (check HGB) Sp, Kid, Lu Zi Xu; Lu Yin Xu
Respiratory Distress (check total protein) Kid Qi Xu; Lu Qi Xu
Adrenal Hyperfunction (check potassium) Kid Damp Heat
Cystic Fibrosis Sp Qi Xu; Liv Stagnation
Damp Heat

Red Blood Cell Decreased in:
Iron Anemia (check HGB) Sp Qi Xu; Lu Qi Xu
Folic Acid Anemia (check MCV/MCH) Sp Qi Xu
Hereditary Anemia Liver Dysfunction (check SGPT) Li Stagnation; Li Heat
Renal Dysfunction (check creatinine) Kid Qi Xu
Free Radical Pathology
General Picture of Toxic Metal Poisoning
Increased Decreased
Eosinophils, Bilirubin, BUN RBC, HCT, HGB, MCV, MCH

General Picture of Cadmium Poisoning (including toxic metal)
Increased Decreased
SGOT, SGPT, Calcium Phosphorous

General Picture of Mercury Poisoning (including toxic metal)
Increased Decreased
SSGOT, SGPT CO 2

General Picture of Arsenic Poisoning (including toxic metal)
Increased Decreased
Alkaline Phosphatase

RX: Toxic Metal Poisoning

Methionine, L-Cysteine, L-Glutathione - sulfur amino acids detoxify metals
Selenium/Vitamin E - anti-oxidant
Zinc -
Calcium/Magnesium - prevents lead particularly from depositing in body (^EOS)
Vitamin C - heat in bld; (^EOS; ^Uric Acid)
Garlic - helps to bind and excrete toxic metals esp. lead
Milk Thistle Extract - hepatoprotective; (^EOS; ^BUN; ^Uric Acid)
Isatis Formula - w/ infx; toxic heat in liver; (^BUN; ^Uric Acid)
Fiber Combination - removes toxic metabolites more quickly; broom effect
Siberian Ginseng Combination - adaptogenic; reduces metal and radiation poisoning

NOTE: After detoxification is achieved use an adaptogen such as American Ginseng, Siberian Ginseng, or Siberian Ginseng Combination one month per year is an excellent prophylactic measure.

HEMATOCRIT (HTC)
Hematocrit represents the packed cell volume of red blood cells. It is the percentage of the total volume occupied by packed red blood cells when a given volume of whole blood is centrifuged at a constant speed for a constant period of time. HCT is one of the most precise ways of measuring the degree of anemia. Hematocrit combined with serum iron and hemoglobin is a diagnostic tool for determining iron excess or deficiency.

General Laboratory Values: Males: 39-54%
Females: 35-48%

Hematocrit Increased In:
Dehydration Kid Yin Xu; Lu Yin Xu; Ht Bld Xu
Asthma Spleen Qi Xu; Kid Qi Xu; Lu Qi Xu
Emphysema Spleen Qi Xu; Kid Qi Xu; Lu Qi Xu; Lu Yin Xu
Respiratory Distress Kid. Qi Xu; Lu Qi Xu
Adrenal Hyperfunction Kidney Damp Heat
Diarrhea Spleen Damp Heat; LI Damp Heat

Rx. Hematocrit Increased

Capilaris & Hoelen Formula - Damp Heat (diarrhea; adrenal^)
Hoelen 5 Formula - Dampness (diarrhea; adrenal hyperfx)

Hematocrit Decreased In:
Parasites LI Stagnation; Liver Stagnation, Sp Qi Xu
Adrenal Hypofunction Kid Qi Xu
Anemias Spleen Qi Xu; Lu Zi Xu; LI Xu; Liver Bld. Def.
Digestive Inflammation Spleen Qi Xu; Damp Heat Spleen
Liver Dysfunction Liver Stagnation; Live Heat
Renal Dysfunction Kid Qi Xu
Rheumatoid Arthritis Spleen Qi Xu; Kid Qi Zu,
Rx. Hematocrit Decreased

Ginseng & Longan Formula - Qi/Blood Def (B 12 def; folic acid def; fe<)
Ginseng Nutritive Formula - Qi/Blood Def (B1 def; B12<; fe<)
Tang Kuei & Ginseng 8 Formula - Qi/Bld Def (B-12<; adrenal<)
Minor Bupleurum Formula - Liv Stag.; St Phlegm; (Liv dysfx; parasites)
Bupleurum & Cinnamon Formula - Liv Stag. w/Ht; (Liv dysfx; rheumatoid arthritis)

HEMOGLOBIN (HGB)
Hemoglobin is the circulating iron containing pigment, which carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues. It is a measurement of how earth feeds metal. Hemoglobin's ability to transport oxygen depends upon pH and the presence of ferrous iron. Hemoglobin is the most abundant protein found within the red blood cell. Hemoglobin level measures the amount of intracellular iron. Hemoglobin is synthesized in most bodily tissues but the liver is the largest heme producing organ. (The muscles being fed by iron as well as glucose - liver). In the bone marrow heme is transformed into hemoglobin. It is also a measurement of how the metal manipulates the wood.
It is important to note that infants have a higher hemoglobin level than adults. (growth/wood excess in infants). Hemoglobin is considered along with hematocrit, red blood cells, MCV and MCH in determining anemia. Ideally serum iron and ferritin will also be measured.

General Laboratory Values: Males: 13.0 - 18.0 G/DL
Females 11.5 - 16.0 G/DL

Hemoglobin Increased In:
Asthma Spleen Qi Xu; Kid Qi Xu; Lu Qi Xu
Emphysema Spleen Qi Xu; Kid Qi Xu; Lu Qi/Yin Xu
Adrenal Dysfunction Kidney Damp Heat
Diarrhea/Dehydration Spleen Damp Heat; LI Damp Heat

Serum Profile of Asthma
Increased Decreased
HGB, HCT Lymph
QBC, Eosinophils Potassium

Rx: Asthma
Homeopathic Remedy - Arsenicum Album; Pulsatilla; Phosphorous
Antronex - Liver Stagnation
Pancreatic Enzyme - Sp Qi Xu
Adrenal Extract - Kid Qi Xu
Calcium/Magnesium - will alleviate wiry pulse
Minor Blue Dragon Formula - Phlegm/Damp; Lu Qi Zu; ^EOS
Pinellia X Formula - Phlegm/Damp Heat; sinus; ^LDH, ^EOS, <

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On The Meaning of Easter
Happy Easter:

In the movie Jesus Christ, our Lord is haunted by the nightmare of men doing evil in his name, fighting wars, shooting at the enemy, being wounded, killed and all the time calling out His name for help. They all cry out, "Jesus, Jesus save us."

In later scenes through out the movie the devil tempts Jesus to give up His identity, and to just listen to him. There was the scene when Jesus goes out in the desert to prepare for His ministry when the devil tempts Him in many ways. The devil appears as a sensuous woman who tries to tempt him of material things like food, protection from harm, and the desire for power. The devil says if you just say it you can have the power to have all these things.

This brings me back to the idea that Dostoevsky was telling in the book called "The Brothers Karamazov." The chapters on the Grand inquisitor is called the most important piece in Western literature by most authorities because it brings up the conflict we have with doing good, and why Jesus saved us from our sins. Perhaps if you take a look at chapters 35 and 36, you will have much to think about concerning the reason for Easter.

"I MUST make one confession" Ivan began. "I could never understand how one can love one's neighbours. It's just one's neighbours, to my mind, that one can't love, though one might love those at a distance. I once read somewhere of John the Merciful, a saint, that when a hungry, frozen beggar came to him, he took him into his bed, held him in his arms, and began breathing into his mouth, which was putrid and loathsome from some awful disease. I am convinced that he did that from 'self-laceration,' from the self-laceration of falsity, for the sake of the charity imposed by duty, as a penance laid on him. For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone."

At the end of chapter 35 Ivan says to Alyosha, "My poem is called The Grand Inquisitor; it's a ridiculous thing, but I want to tell it to you." This is part of what he prefaces the poem.

"God points to the hands and feet of her Son, nailed to the Cross, and asks, 'How can I forgive His tormentors?' she (Mary) bids all the saints, all the martyrs, all the angels and archangels to fall down with her and pray for mercy on all without distinction. It ends by her winning from God a respite of suffering every year from Good Friday till Trinity Day, and the sinners at once raise a cry of thankfulness from hell, chanting, 'Thou art just, O Lord, in this judgment.' Well, my poem would have been of that kind if it had appeared at that time. He comes on the scene in my poem, but He says nothing, only appears and passes on. Fifteen centuries have passed since He promised to come in His glory, fifteen centuries since His prophet wrote, 'Behold, I come quickly'; 'Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, neither the Son, but the Father,' as He Himself predicted on earth. But humanity awaits him with the same faith and with the same love. Oh, with greater faith, for it is fifteen centuries since man has ceased to see signs from heaven..."

No signs from heaven come to-day

To add to what the heart doth say.

Bearing the Cross, in slavish dress,

Weary and worn, the Heavenly King

Our mother, Russia, came to bless,

And through our land went wandering.
And that certainly was so, I assure you...


He came down to the 'hot pavements' of the southern town in which on the day before almost a hundred heretics had, ad majorem gloriam Dei, been burnt by the cardinal, the Grand Inquisitor, in a magnificent auto da fe, in the presence of the king, the court, the knights, the cardinals, the most charming ladies of the court, and the whole population of Seville...

In the pitch darkness the iron door of the prison is suddenly opened and the Grand Inquisitor himself comes in with a light in his hand. He is alone; the door is closed at once behind him. He stands in the doorway and for a minute or two gazes into His face. At last he goes up slowly, sets the light on the table and speaks...

...But let me tell Thee that now, to-day, people are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet. But that has been our doing. Was this what Thou didst? Was this Thy freedom?'...

"'The wise and dread spirit, the spirit of self-destruction and non-existence,' the old man goes on, great spirit talked with Thee in the wilderness, and we are told in the books that he "tempted" Thee. Is that so? And could anything truer be said than what he revealed to Thee in three questions and what Thou didst reject, and what in the books is called "the temptation"? And yet if there has ever been on earth a real stupendous miracle, it took place on that day, on the day of the three temptations. The statement of those three questions was itself the miracle. If it were possible to imagine simply for the sake of argument that those three questions of the dread spirit had perished utterly from the books, and that we had to restore them and to invent them anew, and to do so had gathered together all the wise men of the earth -- rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets -- and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would not only fit the occasion, but express in three words, three human phrases, the whole future history of the world and of humanity -- dost Thou believe that all the wisdom of the earth united could have invented anything in depth and force equal to the three questions which were actually put to Thee then by the wise and mighty spirit in the wilderness? From those questions alone, from the miracle of their statement, we can see that we have here to do not with the fleeting human intelligence, but with the absolute and eternal. For in those three questions the whole subsequent history of mankind is, as it were, brought together into one whole, and foretold, and in them are united all the unsolved historical contradictions of human nature. At the time it could not be so clear, since the future was unknown; but now that fifteen hundred years have passed, we see that everything in those three questions was so justly divined and foretold, and has been so truly fulfilled, that nothing can be added to them or taken from them...

...They will marvel at us and look on us as gods, because we are ready to endure the freedom which they have found so dreadful and to rule over them- so awful it will seem to them to be free. But we shall tell them that we are Thy servants and rule them in Thy name. We shall deceive them again, for we will not let Thee come to us again. That deception will be our suffering, for we shall be forced to lie...

...For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. They have set up gods and challenged one another, "Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!"...

...For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance...

...In place of the rigid ancient law, man must hereafter with free heart decide for himself what is good and what is evil, having only Thy image before him as his guide. But didst Thou not know that he would at last reject even Thy image and Thy truth, if he is weighed down with the fearful burden of free choice? They will cry aloud at last that the truth is not in Thee, for they could not have been left in greater confusion and suffering than Thou hast caused, laying upon them so many cares and unanswerable problems.

"'So that, in truth, Thou didst Thyself lay the foundation for the destruction of Thy kingdom, and no one is more to blame for it. Yet what was offered Thee? There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness those forces are miracle, mystery and authority... But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous...

Mankind as a whole has always striven to organise a universal state. There have been many great nations with great histories, but the more highly they were developed the more unhappy they were, for they felt more acutely than other people the craving for world-wide union...

Freedom, free thought, and science will lead them into such straits and will bring them face to face with such marvels and insoluble mysteries, that some of them, the fierce and rebellious, will destroy themselves, others, rebellious but weak, will destroy one another, while the rest, weak and unhappy, will crawl fawning to our feet and whine to us: "Yes, you were right, you alone possess His mystery, and we come back to you, save us from ourselves!"... Too, too well will they know the value of complete submission! And until men know that, they will be unhappy. Who is most to blame for their not knowing it?"

There is much more to the story about Jesus' love for us, and how we are to be free in The Brothers Karamazov, so I hope you will study those chapters yourself, and then read the whole book to better understand the meaning of Easter.

Embody the truth and live in total freedom!

Sincere Regards,
Phil Cutrara

Computer Tools
Hello Computer User:

The other day I decided to see what I could do with my computer. Although it has a 200+ CPU, and a 1997 motherboard, I use many current programs to do much of the work. I use several older versions when I find out that they run better than the newer versions. Some examples are Copernic 2000, Mass Downloader, Download Accelerator, True Space 6 Demo, Win Amp 262 and 278.

There are over 10 thousand books on the Internet that you can download. I picked up a couple of chapters from "The Brothers Karamazov" and copied the text I wanted to read onto the clipboard then setup True Space 6 to convert the text to speech using a talking head wire frame to voice the words. I used a full sized head in the front dimension, and medium speed using the Microsoft Mike voice. In this way I could go about my house work and listen to the story being told.

Copernic uses dozens of search engines all at once to find the books you are interested in reading. Mass Downloader will download as many parts of the same book at once as your computer and network bandwidth will handle. I have downloaded movie clips using twenty one downloads at once. There is a speed up of the download well over the top rated speed of the modem, and the network card in my computer.

Another thing I tried is copying the text into a free Speed Reader. This program helps you speed up you reading. You can view the text 1, 2, or 3 words at once, and select the speed of the frames from 1 to 34 a second. You can also select the color of the background, and the color of the text. There are many similar Speed Reading programs that you can try. I just picked one of the easiest ones I saw, and began using it right away.

Happy Computing,
Phil Cutrara

What is a Weblog?
Hello PACC Members:

I see that several of you have visited my revived site now that I am on the Web 7/24 with a Weblog also known as a (Blog).

I also added a dozen links to my transitional PACC pages about the club and within the site. A Weblog is perhaps the easiest way to get a site going where you can show others your favorites; without actually putting out your Favorites on the Net as a file, which I will perhaps do. I also have a definition and an example of a Weblog on my homepage: https://philcutrara1.tripod.com/.

Most of the Weblogs are unique in style and context. Some quickly show you where the person is come from or there interests, experience and knowledge. There are catalogs of Weblogs categorized by author, subject and popularity.

Computer clubs are not just about computers anymore. Take a look and each day you will see a lot of changes.

Happy Webloging,
Phil Cutrara