Salt of the Earth

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact. "When they first got to know the geologists, the family would accept only a single gift ~ salt. (Living without it for four decades, Karp said, had been "true torture.") "Asked by an astonished Peskov whether she was not frightened to be out alone in the wilderness after dark, she replied: "What would there be out here to hurt me?" (not afraid of salt either, obviously)

History of Salt

As far back as 6050 BC, salt has been an important and integral part of the world’s history, as it has been interwoven into the daily lives of countless historic civilizations. Used as a part of Egyptian religious offerings and valuable trade between the Phoenicians and their Mediterranean empire, salt and history have been inextricably intertwined for millennia, with great importance placed on salt by many different races and cultures of people. Even today, the history of salt touches our daily lives. The word “salary” was derived from the word “salt.” Salt was highly valued and its production was legally restricted in ancient times, so it was historically used as a method of trade and currency. The word “salad” also originated from “salt,” and began with the early Romans salting their leafy greens and vegetables. Undeniably, the history of salt is both broad ranging and unique, leaving its indelible mark in cultures across the globe.

Salt motivated the American pioneers. The American Revolution had heroes who were saltmakers and part of the British strategy was to deny the American rebels access to salt.

Civilian distress over the lack of salt in the wartime Confederacy undermined rebel homefront morale too.

Salt also had military significance. For instance, it is recorded that thousands of Napoleon's troops died during his retreat from Moscow because their wounds would not heal as a result of a lack of salt. In 1777, the British Lord Howe was jubilant when he succeeded in capturing General Washington's salt supply.

"Similarly, throughout history the essentiality of salt has subjected it to governmental monopoly and special taxes. Salt taxes long supported British monarchs and thousands of Britishers were imprisoned for smuggling salt. French kings developed a salt monopoly by selling exclusive rights to produce it to a favored few who exploited that right to the point where the scarcity of salt was a major contributing cause of the French Revolution. In modern times, Mahatma Gandhi defied British salt laws as a means of mobilizing popular support for self-rule in India."

In 2200 BC, the Chinese emperor Hsia Yu levied one of the first known taxes. He taxed salt. In Tibet, Marco Polo noted that tiny cakes of salt were pressed with images of the Grand Khan and used as coins. Salt is still used as money among the nomads of Ethiopia's Danakil Plains. Greek slave traders often bartered salt for slaves, giving rise to the expression that someone was "not worth his salt." Roman legionnaires were paid in salt—salarium, the Latin origin of the word "salary." Merchants in 12th-Century Timbuktu, the gateway to the Sahara Desert and the seat of scholars, valued salt as highly as books and gold.

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RON: That’s why I would like to connect the essence of Elias with salt. ELIAS: Ah! Very good! Two points!

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"according to the British Medical Journal, the real serial killer sits in a shaker on almost every table in Britain."

"SALT hidden in food kills millions of people worldwide. This is the ethical justification for public health interventions in salt consumption. The US Institute of Medicine recommended government intervention to reduce salt intake."

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You may consume whatever you choose, and in actuality no substance that you consume in itself incorporates any action intrinsic to itself. What you believe creates the response. Elias

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food beliefs

Audacity

Audacity: Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional. Fearlessness, intrepid daring. The willingness to take bold risks. Fearless daring; intrepidity. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention. An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness. Bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints. Audacity means extraordinary boldness, courage or chutzpah.

"The first quality that is needed is audacity." Winston Churchill

"Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear." Publilius Syrus

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." John Dewey

"Success is the child of audacity.” Benjamin Disraeli

“In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

OPERATION MAGICIAN

The biggest and most audacious robbery in history - grabbing diamonds worth £200million from the Millennium Dome...... 7~11~2000

The Millennium Dome in Greenwich, London, became the scene of Britain's biggest attempted heist. The Millennium Star, (Originally 777 carats in its rough state) a one off diamond and a set of rare BLUE DIAMONDS on show at the attraction... In the most audacious attack seen on British shores, they drove a digger into the Dome and tried to steal the diamonds worth £300 million.

It started with a "particularly audacious raid on a security van in NINE ELMS". At a meeting of detectives hunting the Nine Elms robbers, a detective inspector who had recently visited the Dome quipped: 'Maybe they are after the Millennium jewels?'

.....Just across the river, Terry Millman was sitting in a transit van. He appeared to be taking a break from road repairs; in fact, he was monitoring police transmissions on a sophisticated scanner....."Attack, attack, attack!" Millman screamed into the radio as the JCB hit the approach road at 9.30am. Donning his gas mask, Betson accelerated through the perimeter fence and crashed into the dome, careering towards the MONEY ZONE. As Ciarrocchi lobbed smoke bombs to confuse the scattering visitors, Cockram and Adams leapt out with sledgehammers and a nailgun. Terry Millman twice ran into trouble with police while driving stolen vehicles. The first time, he was caught for drink driving; the second, he hit another car and had to flee the scene. Gang member Terry Millman - who died of cancer while awaiting trial - used the name 'T. Diamond' when he handed over £3,700 in cash to buy the getaway speed-boat at a yard in the seaside town of Whitstable, Kent. In the weeks before the raid two aborted attempts were made to steal the diamonds. On October 6, 2000 the plan was called off after the speedboat developed engine problems. A month later on November 6, the second raid was cut short when the THAMES TIDE meant a getaway would be impossible.

Built to resist the force of a 60-ton ram raid, the explosive-resistant glass was also designed to foil any 'known tool' for at least 30 minutes. Cockram, however, he had the answer. The idea was to weaken the glass with three shots from a powerful Hilti nailgun. Robert Adams would then use a sledgehammer to break the 'warmed' glass. As Adams smashed his way through, the plan appeared to be working to perfection. The world's most fabulous collection of diamonds was within arm's reach in just 27 seconds. 'I was 12 inches from pay day,' Adams later said. 'It would have been a blinding Christmas.' Within three minutes the gang should have been ferried by the 55mph speedboat across the Thames

Millennium Dome Raid

*they had no weapons, and nobody was hurt during the arrest*

video documentary

book: Diamond Geezers: The Inside Story of the Crime of the Millennium

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Tel told me a story once about how he knocked down someones house by accident in Portugal, with his converted fire engine. (He rebuilt it.) Along the same "transport" lines, he drove through Moroccan/Spanish customs once on a tractor.....

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"Not one individual within this forum presently this day incorporates all of their focuses as what you now in this present moment would consider to be moral, good, ethical individuals. Regardless of how right you view yourselves to be now, you all incorporate some scoundrel within your focuses. And why? For you choose to be engaging this physical reality to explore and to experience, and if your purpose is to experience, why shall you not choose a tremendous variety of experiences? Let me express to each of you - for I remember and am quite pleased with the remembrance! - I may express to each of you that those scoundrels, those knaves, those individuals that you view to be dark and evil are quite colorful, and they perceive themselves to be quite right also and would view you to be quite wrong; for this is what motivates all of you, your rightness in whatever you do. And the scurvy knaves believe themselves to be quite right also and within their rights to be generating whatever choices and actions that they incorporate. They do not view themselves to be scoundrels; they do not view themselves to be wrong. They view all other individuals to be wrong, as many of you do now. "It is not I that am wrong - it is the rest of the world!" The rest of the world is not wrong, either. You merely incorporate differences in your perceptions, and this motivates you in different actions. The significance is to recognize that your rightness in whatever you generate is associated with your truths, and your truths are not wrong but they are YOUR truths, and they are not absolute to your world." Elias #1496

Walk on the Beach at Dawn

Moscow

I appreciate timing and procrastinating! I've been having an obsession with maps for a few weeks and wanted some old random ones to cut up and rearrange into a collage or something not quite decided yet. A couple of days ago had an urge to go and find some old maps. The lady in the 2nd hand shop was rearranging the book shelves when I asked for any old maps. She said Well, coincidentally, and handed me a half dozen old maps that were right there to hand, she was going to throw them away, thinking Who is ever going to walk in here and buy a map of Moscow in Russian?

So I thought I'd add Moscow to the group story, and googled Moscow dog legs (because I'd had the maps spread out on the floor, and all the dogs walked all over them, so I took photos of where the dog legs pointed to, because dog legs had already popped up in the group story) and found an article about stray dogs on the Moscow metro. I posted on FB and Fionn commented, I'd forgotten how entranced she is with Russia, and how I love her London tube series of paintings. Then coincidentally I started getting posts on my FB newsfeed from a Russian guy, in Russian.

Jib had asked me the other day if there were any deer syncs, and sure enough an email followed the next day from Dad, saying he had ten deer on the lawn (and that moments like that made it all worthwhile). The amout of times his emails sync with something or other is extraordinary.

True to synchronistic form, he sent an email mentioning Moscow.

"The deer here are also a menace to any gardener. Need at least a 4'6" fence. 5' better. They, too, cause numerous accidents on roads. I know of two people in Connecticut who hit deer late at night, crashed, and both ended up in Sharon hospital with broken hips. Both were friends - J.C., English and ex RAF pilot, then BEA. The other Juan Carlos (Cortes, actually, not Carlos) de Ayala who knew Rasputin (he was a ballet dancer who studied in Moscow) and was (Juan is dead now) related to Queen Elizabeth I, and many members of European royalty. True - I have been to his house and seen documentation, photos etc. to confirm. For instance he was at Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands wedding (saw the photo - Uncle Juan - we called him Uncle - in his fine regalia). Any road, for all the royal blood he couldn't avoid a deer on Route 7 just north of Kent, CT and ended up in hospital. Pity he's gone. A very interesting chap. He also stood in for Tyrone Power and did the bullfighting scenes in "Blood & Sand".

I didn't know that he knew Rasputin. The photo is me with Juan in CT, 1985.

Because the System is Really Us ~ And I Feel More Alive Than Ever

In Spain there is a new euro tax on prescriptions. One or two extra euros a year wouldn't affect me as I hardly ever need anything, but some people need many every day, Cystic Fibrosis people for example. The following is from a person with cancer:

"Meanwhile, we can go proud and happy to our pharmacies to disobey this death tax. The only thing we have to do is say at the pharmacy that we are not going to pay this tax, and pharmacists offer us a form where we point out our act of disobedience. Fill it in and we will only have to pay the value of the prescription. We all do this and we are going to collapse the systems with our forms of life. Of course the Government will try to charge us later, possibly even penalizing us even more. But when the time comes we will return to refuse. We disobey over and over again, because the system can not do anything. ***Because the system is really us.*** The more we ignore and be more conscious of this, the sooner we can remove these criminals from the top and start to build the world in which we really want to live us citizens. I've already started to do so. And I feel more alive than ever."

Elias on physical action: "the energetic expression is more powerful but it is important in relation to you as a physical species that you also equate a physical focal point, therefore physical actions. What drives change is the corrective energetic expression but what drives the corrective energetic expression is the physical focal point. Individuals within physical focus en masse require a physical action or a physical figurehead so to speak to remind them objectively that they are interconnected. By yourselves individually you forget how interconnected you are and how powerful your energy is for you have created a design of a reality, a physical world in which you express yourselves as separate entities. Therefore the reason that it is important and in a capacity necessary that you generate physical action and a figurehead so to speak, a spearhead, in that it allows all of you en masse to express that interconnectedness and validate it by recognizing objectively that you incorporate common cause, common direction, and it allows you en masse to focus in a particular direction rather than being scattered individually. Therefore I would express to you: yes it is important to incorporate physical action. It is also important to incorporate a spearhead so to speak in which the energy of tremendous passion can be focused in specific directions. It also empowers the individual. When the individual perceives or feels that they are a part of a collective they feel more empowered. They recognize the power of the collective and that they are a part of that which allows them to recognize. their own individual power in more strength than they automatically would individually." Elias"

The Mouse and the Three Kings

The time travelling mouse is back. He landed on the microwave with a little bang two evenings ago as I was standing at the kitchen table. I froze and glanced up, and he froze and stared at me. I wondered if he would like a Marie biscuit, and then he dashed behind the microwave (and I haven't seen him since).

Coincidentally, Eric mentioned rodents in the new group story thread earlier that day. Later, while I was looking for an old post about the mouse, I found an old email with this mouse photo on from an old mouse sync with Maggie in Cairo, so I resent her the email. Coincidentally within half an hour of me sending the email, she saw a mouse in her bedroom!

The time travelling mouse that used to visit me (the one who would only eat Marie biscuits) had an energy fleck of Arkandin. Coincidentally, we've been expecting (in the group story) Baltazar to time travel from Tartessos (the pope recently said that the wise men came from Tartessos, Andalucia) for the Three Kings Parade, which is tonight.

And coincidentally, on a thread on Maggie's father's page, we were talking and syncing about Tartessos, the Guadalquivir river, and Doñana National Park and a crop circle photo from google earth appeared on my wall ~ in Doñana National Park. The other picture is an old Egyptian game that caught my eye ~ looks a bit like a Marie biscuit doesn't it?

to be continued.....

Story

"The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact, the modern novelist presents us with dull facts in the guise of fiction. Many a young man starts in life with a natural gift for exaggeration, which if nurtured in sympathetic surroundings, might grow into something really great and wonderful." Oscar Wilde

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth. ~Rumi

"Consider your present self as an actor in a play; hardly a new analogy, but a suitable one. The scene is set in the twentieth century. You create the props, the settings, the themes; in fact you write, produce, and act in the entire production— you and every other individual who takes part. ~ Seth

"The Metaphysical Master Class shall take many different forms, but among those forms shall be your opportunity to interact with us by statements, and by story, and by the idea that we shall borrow from your society and from the other things the channel does with regard to as what you call 'movies.' For you shall be telling your own stories as you would tell the story of a movie. And you shall in that sense, thus then, in these interactive master classes, pitch your story to us. The idea thus then that these will be three minute pitches. We give you this information now to give you time to prepare for the upcoming year of 2013 to get your story straight." Bashar

"You were born a great magician, and with the gift of magic you create your personal story." Miguel Ruiz

The Story, 2013 ~ The Surge Team Coils