Research is continuous on the effects of minerals found in the earth on the body and psyche. I often used to encounter New Agers who were so happy that they were disconnecting from the evil mundane universe and that they were living in a gentle high where nothing really seemed to matter. They were always chagrined when as an Elder being approached for comment or advice I suggested that they take a zinc supplement. Their symptoms were not those of a spiritual high, but of a zinc deficiency. And a zinc deficiency is easy to acquire in a country that destroys its land with agrichemicals, and never puts back into the land what it takes out.
It seems that it should be obvious that the body is made from elements of the earth, transformed by plants and animals before being eaten by people. But even aware people don’t consider the needs of their body because the mind has been so self promoting as the most important thing in life. It isn’t, as every advanced meditator knows, and the body needs particular elements and compounds before spiritual work can be effective. And remember, if you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?
The trace element selenium has been shown to be very effective in preventing and halting prostate cancer, which certainly affects the ability of the body to do spiritual work. This is not likely to be widely publicized. The expensive drugs and procedures are.
I would think it an obvious fact, universally true, that the body of any 3D creature that lives on any planet, anywhere, is going to be made of the elements that comprise that planet.
Well, all life on Earth is based on a single type of genetic code. Yet if life arose from some primeval soup, as many biologists believe, then it is strange that creatures with different kinds of genetic codes weren't produced. The random putting together of components ought to have produced several different results.
Francis Crick won the Nobel prize for his work in helping to discover the structure of human DNA. Not even the great Randy of the Skeptical Inquirer could accuse him of being ignorant of science, or of being a flake given to hallucinations, i.e. seeing things that skeptics can’t see.
Crick and Leslie Orgel have pointed out that molybdenum is a pretty rare element on Earth, but it is essential to the workings of many enzyme systems in humans. Check the trace minerals in your multi-vitamin. But a rare element is obviously not likely to be part of an evolutionary system that developed by chance.
These two scientists have now seriously proposed a theory called ' Directed Panspermia' in which they say that life on Earth originally developed on a planet where molybdenum was plentiful.
The molybdenum anomaly puts at risk a pure Darwinism that has Homo Sapiens evolving from primitive life forms. The 12th planet theory that humans were created here from humanoids by advanced geneticists from a planet where gold was a scarce element, may get a boost if the 12th planet is found to be rich in molybdenum. Current humans have just over 20 genes that are not present together in any other DNA. That too sort of crimps a 100% evolution from other critters on the planet. So the human evolution lineage has a dual set of problems to explain, molybdenum as essential to the enzyme systems and the genes nothing else has.
In view of the recent fuss about Temple’s book The Sirius Connection, I would like to check the molydenum in the Sirius star system, well known to the Dogon tribe of Mali thousands of years before the invention of telescopes.
I have written recently about the ability of certain chemicals to extend the experience of what constitutes consciousness, and their connection with the founders of the great religions and the folklore of ancient peoples.
Chemistry is very important to the spiritual worker, even if he or she isn’t into alchemy. Little differences have big results. The human skeleton and teeth benefit greatly from calcium fluoride in the rocks that is extracted in tiny amounts by running water in streams. It has always been a valuable mineral in water, ever since lapping at the local stream was the way to go.
But by just calling it fluoride, and depending on the ignorance of the average American, the people of this country have been incrementally poisoned since the end of World War II by sodium fluoride put into toothpaste and water.
Sodium fluoride is not calcium fluoride. It is a chronic poison and a major ingredient of rat poisons. It does nothing but harm to the body. All the ‘research’ that says otherwise has been produced by the people touting it. It is a waste product of the aluminum industry and the atom bomb industry. Just the sort of thing to persuade the gullible public to consume in water or toothpaste.
Huge profits from what used to be thrown away. Great system. After all it worked with all those tons of sawdust in the lumber mills which suddenly became legally edible by being called ‘natural fiber’ and turning up in American bread. All the scientific research that pinpoints the problems caused by sodium fluoride has been given the silent treatment by the media, as is not unusual. They would hate to lose ad revenue from the toothpaste companies. But the average person with some degree of fluoride poisoning is not likely to be performing well in spiritual practices, particularly because of the effects of the chemical on the pineal gland and IQ.
Most people think of lithium, if at all, as something given to struggling people in strait jackets, but that is lithium carbonate. Lithium orotate or aspartate has extremely beneficial effects on the human body. We need to learn just a little chemistry to avoid the commercially based destruction of our abilities.
If even Nobel prize winners are now looking to outer space for the source of life, and using the trace elements of planet Earth as evidence, maybe some of those of us with memories as Star folks aren't so far out after all. By avoiding widely available poisonous substances we may even live long enough to see some of our ideas verified by science.
