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essential to inquire and absorb information that will eventually
become part of ourselves, and put it into practice.
Then we need to ask ourselves, every single day, about how we
feel and to take it into account.
"I feel good": my mind and my body are relaxed; I feel my body
because energy circulates freely in my usual area of health.
"I don't feel very well": I am out of balance; I have to act...
before “I feel bad”
Whatever the state of health of our body, number of
"alternative" therapies - naturopathy, ayurveda, classical
homeopathy, acupuncture, osteopathy, phytotherapy, energy
treatments etc. - have been proven beneficial long before
allopathy... which continues every month to withdraw from the
trade an increasing number of its miraculous medicines that turn
out to be dangerous after 2, 5, 20 years and even more, of good
and loyal service.
While it is still possible to restore our balancing and defense
capabilities, we can prevent and cure ourselves by simple and
totally natural means as long as we will have faith in the healing
power of our own bodies. Intention and Faith are the main
actors of our healing (and we can even say that they are often
sufficient)
"Disease, without exception, without exception is the expression
of an imbalance”
"The disease is the result of a disharmony, a lack of
receptiveness towards the divine Forces. If you cut the relation
of Energy and Forces that support you, (doubt, bad mood, lack of
confidence), it is to movements of this kind that we should
attribute the cause of disease, and not to microbes» Mother
"Which is not recognized by Nature cannot be by our body”
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Calling Rain – on Cloud Seeding & Ancient Knowledge
‘Cloud seeding’ – artificially
provoking clouds to precipitate into rain - was first demonstrated
in the USA in 1946, when a scientist dumped 3 kg of dry ice from
a plane into a cloud, which promptly resulted in rain. Further
experiments followed, the new technology spread rapidly and
was embraced by India in 1951, when Tata Inc. created rain over
the Western Ghats by seeding clouds through ground-based silver
iodide generators.
In the 80s and early 90s, extensive cloud seeding was done in
Tamil Nadu to combat severe drought. More recently, Andhra
Pradesh carried out one of Asia’s largest such programmes. And
from last year, the technology is widely used in drought-stricken
areas of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Gujarat.
Today cloud seeding is practiced on every continent in over
30 countries. And although humans have affected weather
patterns for millennia through deforestation and uncontrolled
growth of cities, for the first time an actual industry has
developed to change the weather directly.
How it is done: Chemicals are dispersed by airplane –
including micro-lights - or by devices located on the ground.
They commonly are sodium iodide, dry ice (solid carbon dioxide),
sea salt (in warmer climates), liquid propane (to reduce fog in
airports), or desiccated ice-nucleating bacteria. A new
technology under research is infrared laser seeding.
Uses of cloud seeding: Its most obvious purpose is to avert
droughts, an increasing challenge world-wide. Other uses are the
prevention of hailstorms, even of cyclones and floods (by
inducing rain early on), or suppressing dust storms and massive
fires. Artificial rain is also used to ‘clean’ the air of pollution and
This column speaks of human efforts to bring down rain when it fails to fall…
News&Notes 30 th November 2013[525]
smog: China ‘created’ rain to improve the air quality during the
2008 Olympics in Beijing, and earlier this year Indonesia
considered cloud-seeding to reduce the calamitous smoke caused
by the Sumatra forest fires. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster,
Soviet pilots seeded clouds to remove radioactive particles from
clouds before they could reach Moscow.
Recent ambitious ‘weather modification programmes’
aim at altering entire climates: The U.A.E. is creating regular rain
storms in the Abu Dhabi desert, where it never used to rain. China,
increasingly plagued by pollution and acute water shortage, and
the largest user of cloud seeding, aims at reducing summer heat by
increasing cloud mass, and saving on energy required for the
cooling of buildings.
Finally there are lucrative reasons to cloud-seed, for private
enterprises like farms or hydropower stations, and snowpack
creation for skiing resorts as in USA and Alberta (Canada).
A double-edged sword: Beyond the immediate benefit of local
rain, too little is known yet about the wider impacts of this costly
technology. Major problems are the toxicity of the chemicals used
for environment and human health, and unwanted effects such as
uncontrollable precipitation over wide areas, snowstorms,
tornadoes, flooding etc. Other concerns are rain suppression - one
region ‘taking away’ the other’s rain - and years of droughts and
fires following an excessive drying up of the air. The industry lacks
efficient regulation, as the only international legislation is a treaty
forbidding cloud-seeding for hostile purposes.
Ancient Art of Rainmaking: Traditional societies all over the
world have known different ways of calling rain. Even if partly
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