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New Zealand New Zealand's UFO files: examples

Hundreds of previously classified reports detailing claims of UFO sightings and alien encounters have been released by the New Zealand military. Here are some examples:

By Paul Chapman in Wellington 3:21PM GMT 22 Dec 2010

1. A man who in 1995 met the giant alien with size 440 shoes says the being told him that on dying humans ascend as hydrogen atoms. “You will remain in hydrogen form for 150 years. Then it will change to sodium.”

2. Sinister forces reported to be criss-crossing the sky over Auckland, the country’s largest city, with what looked like aircraft contrails in May 1999. “A vast many people in Auckland will suffer flu-like sickness,” the alarmed writer warned.

3. In one of the earliest reports, a UFO enthusiast wrote in to say that a witness had described seeing a “strange bowl-shaped object” fall from a clear sky. “As the object fell it made a hissing sound, hit the wharf pier he was standing on, and then bounced high and landed on a government survey vessel.”

4. A writer reproduced what were described as samples of alien writing.

5. A woman reported seeing a large round or oval object, glowing with a bright reddish light, in April 1998. “Weather conditions were calm, although there was a sensation of light rain falling on the woman’s arm,” the file says.

Top scientist resigns from post – admits Global Warming is a scam

As reported by the Gateway Pundit:  Top US scientist Hal Lewis resigned this week from his post at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  He admitted global warming climate change was nothing but a scam in his resignation letter.

From the Telegraph (because for some reason the Liberal Media here in the U.S don’t like this stuff getting out).

The following is a letter to the American Physical Society released to the public by Professor Emeritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
6 October 2010

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it…

Source: http://redwhitebluenews.com/?p=7670

Kanye West’s “Power”: The Occult Meaning of its Symbols

Kanye West’s “Power” is a short, almost stationary video that manages to tell a profound story in symbolic language. By decoding the occult meaning of the symbols present in this moving tableau, the viewer discovers who really holds the “power” in the world and understands the story of Kanye West’s initiation. We will look at the meaning of those symbols as they appear in the video.

Rapper and producer Kanye West has always found a way to stand out from the crowd. His video Power is no exception. It differs from the MTV norm in many regards, whether you look at the content or the form. The duration of the video, the filming style and the subject matter are quite distinct from today’s typical rap videos as it is short (1:43), filmed in a single shot (compared to the one-shot-per-second standard of music videos) and is very rich in archetypal symbolism.

Director Marco Brambilla sought to depict the concept of power in the form of a “video tableau”, a moving painting that slowly reveals itself to the viewer with a continuous camera movement. The director seem to have perfected this technique in his previous creation, Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard Hotel in New-York city. The symbolism present there is simply overwhelming. Here it is:

For Power, Brambilla went for a neo-classic aesthetic, but still created a piece full of symbolic and cultural references. As it was the case for paintings of the neo-classic era, each object, each symbol and each detail in the video conveys an important meaning, a meaning that is needed to understand the entire story. As we will see later, many symbols in the video have a deep occult meaning and many of them point to Freemasonry and Mystery schools. By doing so, the director clearly states what type of power is being presented in the video. We will therefore look at the meaning of the symbols displayed in the video as they appear in the shot. If you haven’t seen it, here it is:

Symbols of the Video

The video starts off with a close-up of Kanye West with glow-in-the-dark eyes, as if he was “illuminated” from within. He stands between an infinite row of Ionic columns, which represent “wisdom” in Masonic symbolism.

Kanye with illuminated eyes between rows of twin pillars

Two Pillars

As regular readers of this site already know, the occult meaning of the twin pillars is ancient, profound and present in the symbolism of almost all mystery schools of History. There are many layers of interpretation attributed to the two columns, but one constant is always present: The pillars represent the entrance – the gateway – to the world of the initiate. Behind the columns can be found the key to the Mysteries and, consequently, the source of true power. This concept has been used for in many cultures and schools of thought.

The two columns called the “Pillars of Hercules” in Ancient Greece stood at the gateway to the sphere of the enlightened

“The city of the philosophic elect rises from the highest mountain peak of the earth, and here the gods of the wise dwell together in everlasting felicity. In the foreground are the symbolic pillars of Hercules which appear on the title page of Bacon’s Novum Organum, and between them runs the path which leads upward from the uncertainties of earth to that perfect order which is established in the sphere of the enlightened. “
– Manly P. Hall

Pillars of Hercules in Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis” as a gateway to the New World

Two pillars leading to Jacob’s Ladder in this Masonic tracing board

Masonic initiate standing between the twin pillars as the third pillar, in the same fashion as Kanye West in the video.

In Power, Kanye is standing at the mouth of the gateway to the “sphere of the enlightened,” right at the border of the corrupt and decadent material world. So, right from the start of the video, the director reveals the true nature of power in this world: It is not your democratically elected officials, but those who consider themselves to be behind those pillars. One of the most significant lines of the song is

“In this white man’s world, we the ones chosen”

Does Kanye’s “white man’s world” refer to the hidden rulers, the Illuminati, who are hidden behind those pillars? Did they choose Kanye West and give him Power by permitting him to become an influential figure in the entertainment industry? Was he chosen to become one of them? The next symbol might shed some light into this.

Horus

Horus pendant on Kanye’s chain

The next thing that catches the viewer’s eye is most probably that gigantic chain with Horus’ head as a pendant. Horus is an ancient Egyptian deity that has an extreme importance in occult mysteries. Considered to be the Sky god, he is more often represented with the symbol of a single eye.  The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection and royal power from deities, in this case from Horus or Ra.

“Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis, was called “Horus who rules with two eyes.” His right eye was white representing the sun while his left eye was black representing the moon. According to Egyptian legend Horus lost his left eye during a fight with his murderous uncle, Seth, to revenged his father’s death. Seth tore out his nephew’s eye but lost the fight because the assembly of the gods declared Horus the victor. The eye was reassembled by the magic of Thoth. Then Horus gave the eye to Osiris who experienced rebirth in the underworld.”
– Jordan Michael, Encyclopedia of Gods

Horus, god of the sky

The importance of the “one-eye” in occult symbolism has been highlighted in many articles on The Vigilant Citizen. The All-Seeing Eye found on the Great Seal of the United States and many other occult symbols originate from the Eye of Horus.

The Eye of Horus as depicted by the Golden Dawn Mystery School

The symbolism of Horus is especially of great importance in Freemasonry, as the path of an initiate through the Masonic degrees is described as the process by which the Eye of Horus is opened.

So Kanye stands at the gateway between the corrupt world of the profane and the exclusive world of the illuminated, wearing a Horus pendant, an unmistakable symbol of the Mysteries. One might say: “Well maybe Kanye just likes Egyptian things.” Maybe so, but in the context of this video, where all details are important and extremely meaningful, Horus becomes another piece of this symbolic puzzle.

Horned Girls

The entrance of the gateway of pillars is guarded by two horned albino girls holding a staff. Their features are very reminiscent of depictions of Isis and Hathor, goddesses of ancient Egypt. Another allusion to Egyptian magic.

Kanye standing between two horned female figures

Isis and Hathor crowning Queen Nefertari. Both goddesses were depicted with bovine horns on their heads.

Isis was the mother of Horus (discussed above) and was the goddess of motherhood, nature and magic. Hathor was also considered as a maternal deity while also being the goddess of music, dance and fertility. Both Isis and Hathor were known to welcome and protect the dead during their journey to the afterlife, a concept that is particularly interesting in the context of the video.

Hathor holding a sceptre with Pharaoh Ramses II

“The goddess (Hathor) […] manifests two aspects of her divine power: first of all, she participates in the afterlife rite of passage, by means of which the deceased attains eternal life, and, second, she demonstrates her special connection to the Egyptian king. Hathor is rightly called a royal goddess, and in this role she is linked in various ways to the life of the pharaoh. Often the pharaoh would call himself the oldest son of Hathor.”
–  Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism

Kanye, perhaps symbolizing the Pharaoh, is standing at the gateway to eternal wisdom, about to be executed/assassinated/sacrificed under the watchful eyes of Hathor, the “royal goddess.” Are the goddesses welcoming Kanye “behind the veil,” protecting him in this rite of passage to immortality? In occult circles, new candidates must symbolically die and be reborn to complete their initiation process. Is Kanye being killed an allegory for his initiation?

Sword of Damocles

Sword hanging above Kanye West’s head

While doing some preliminary research on this video, I came across an article on MTV.com titled Kanye West’s ‘Power’ Video: A Cultural Cheat Sheet. Here’s what it says about the sword hanging above his head:

“Dragonlance: An image of a sword descending into a crown hovers over Kanye’s head, bringing to mind Volume Two of Douglas Niles’ series “The Crown and the Sword: The Rise of Solamnia,” in which Sir Jaymes Markham commands the orders of the Rose, Sword and Crown.”
– Kanye West’s ‘Power’ Video: A Cultural Cheat Sheet, MTV.com

Really? The director of this neo-classical themed video, was inspired by an obscure fantasy novel released in, like, 2006? Seriously? Good job, MTV, in keeping our youth clueless. The descending sword is more probably a reference to the Sword of Damocles, a pretty widely known legend.

Wenceslas Hollar’s depiction of the Sword of Damocles

“The Damocles of the anecdote was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BC tyrant of Syracuse. Damocles exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging directly above his head by a single horse-hair. Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods and beautiful girls and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate.

Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant fear in which the great man lives. Cicero uses this story as the last in a series of contrasting examples for reaching the conclusion he had been moving towards in this fifth Disputation, in which the theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life. Cicero asks “Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?”

– Source

The tale of the Sword epitomizes the constant danger faced by those in positions of power. Kanye stands there, in a state of  impending doom, knowing he can be executed at any time. Right after we see the sword of Damocles, a figure appears holding a dagger and attempting to stab him. The assassination will not happen by dagger, however, as two other figures leap out of nowhere holding swords to accomplish the “Killing of the King.”

Killing of the King – The Initiation

Ritual initiation represented in a display of geometry and symmetry

At the ending of the video,  the decadent women and the dagger-holding assassins all disappear as two swords are about to hit him. Are we sacrificing the King?

The concept of regicide is reflected in the single’s cover art. It depicts Kanye’s severed, crowned head with a sword firmly jammed into it. Apparently Kanye was king and he got killed. Is this a symbol for a Masonic ritual? Note the stone on which Kanye’s head is placed. Is it the “perfect ashlar” of the Masons that represents the state of a perfected initiate?

Covert art of Power portraying the killing of Kanye West as a king.

A perfect ashlar in a Masonic lodge. In Masonic symbolism, the candidates start their journeys as allegorical “rough ashlars” and, through knowledge and wisdom, smooth out their edges in order to become a perfect ashlar.

Some occult researchers have stated that the “Killing of the King” is the name of a Masonic rite of passage to obtain the 33rd degree (see “King Kill 33″ by James Shelby Downard & Michael A. Hoffman II). Semi-interesting sidenote: King Kill 33 is also the name of a Marilyn Mason song, with rather interesting lyrics. Another sidenote: Researchers have reported that  Killing of the King rites often happens in public, as more witnesses give more power to the ritual, hence … JFK. A completely crazy theory?… DYR (Do your research).

Back to Kanye and his standing … the two swords flying towards him never actually touch him but instead form a triangular shape above his head, possibly hinting to a “symbolic” killing and not an actual one. Notice the position of the crown above Kanye’s head. The combination of those elements form an interesting image.

Masonic Square and Compass

In Conclusion

To sum up the the video, Kanye stands at the border between Masonic knowledge and the decadence of the mundane life, represented by lustful and gluttonous women, lounging around eating grapes. Kanye says “goodbye cruel world / I see you in the morning“, as he has been “chosen” to take part in an initiation process that is often metaphorically described as a “long night,” followed by a glorious awakening as a new being. In order to accomplish this, Kanye needs to kill his old self and be ritualistically reborn. Once this is done, true power is within his grasp.

This “moving painting” is definitely a multi-layered artwork, with many levels of interpretation: the first level is a commentary on power by using timeless symbols taken from ancient art; the second level describes a Masonic initiation with a ritual murder and an imminent rebirth.

This video lasts a mere minute and forty-three seconds but it manages to give the viewers plenty to ponder on and many symbols to decode. Looking at its meaning from a pop culture point of view, it is interesting to note that this short-film, intended to be viewed by the general public (especially young people), describes the concept of power with overt Masonic symbolism and occult references. This causes the uninformed viewers to unconsciously associate those symbols with the concept of Power, while “those in the know” get the “insider’s wink” sent by this video. Power ultimately becomes another piece in the on-going process called the “Revelation of the Method,” where the true source of power gradually and subliminally reveals itself to the world and occult rituals take place right in front of the public’s eyes.

How long before the complete revelation?

“The clock’s tickin’ / I just count the hours”

Source: http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=4576

We, the Arcturians – Norma Milanovich

We, the Arcturians is a significant book, perhaps even considered important and influential in the recent history of the channeling of ETs, and has made the author into something of a star in the New Age movement.  It has been and is still popular.  It went through many printings, is easily found, and is oft-cited by others.  Published in 1990, its author is Dr. Norma Milanovich (with two friends, Cynthia Ploski (www[dot]chasingthemagdalene.com/about_author.htm) and Betty Rice), and it describes her experience channeling various entities called Arcturians, said to be aboard a spaceship near Earth.  These ETs claim to be fourth-density beings from the Arcturus star system who have come to aid earthly humanity transition to the next realm.

This book (I read the fifth printing, Athena Publishing, 1993, for I paid one cent plus shipping from a used-book dealer) is hailed as an inspiring message full of love and hope from our benevolent brothers of higher realms.  Having read this praise of the book, my expectation was to encounter a lot of airy-fairy love, light, and wondrous joy in the pages, but that’s very far from the impression with which I was left.

Quite notably, David Wilcock described this as the first book of channeled literature that he wasn’t skeptical about, and in fact, though he does not admit it directly, I believe (see Channel Watch 009) that this book imprinted him strongly with ideas that formed and still make up many of his core beliefs.  I’m sure he’s not exceptional.  Wilcock read The Ra Material after We, the Arcturians and described Ra as confirming the Arcturian material.  This was as astonishing to me as it may be to you by the time you finish reading this article.  Wilcock later came to believe that he, himself, is an Arcturian “wanderer” present on Earth to provide spiritual teaching to humanity.

Milanovich’s experiences took place in the late 1980s, while she was an assistant professor of Education at the University of New Mexico, and described herself as an “‘inside’ member of the educationally elite.” In her home, which she shared with her husband, an aerospace engineer, she made the contact via automatic keyboarding on an old PC capable of non-graphical, text-only display – no internet connection back then.  She says that the “networks of the psychic world were still relatively unfamiliar” to her then.  Her contact sessions generally involved two female friends who were present to record the material.  It became the book, which is presented as questions and answers, edited only to cut out personal material and to organize it into topics for better continuity.

Here is the gist of the book’s content.  As you read, remember that this is the 1980s, and note how the material forms the basis for the concepts repeated by so many channelers today.

Who/What Are the Arcturians and Why Are They Here?
The Arcturians say, basically, that they are 4D and that we Earthlings soon will be.  They say they’re here to help us with this natural, evolutionary step from 3D to 4D.  “It is we who have been guiding you for many earth centuries.”  They say that our transition would be made easiest if all negativity on humanity’s part would stop.  From what we’ve learned from Ra, The C’s, and Marciniak, this would be true, since negativity feeds our 4D STS controllers.  However, this notion of “stopping negativity” has since been expanded and twisted by others into the message, “pay no heed to the negative.”  Rather than recognizing it for the purpose of understanding and protection, and possibly to aid people calling for help amid the horror, the overwhelmingly popular current message of Wilcock and many channels is “detach from the drama and think good thoughts” or “don’t acknowledge the dark powers and they can’t hurt you” which, as you know, we of this forum tend to disagree with most vigorously.

The Arcturians say they’re working on a plan formulated by the Ascended Masters of the Universe, commanded by Jesus the Christ (also called Sananda).  Milanovich and one of her two partners were raised strongly Christian, suggesting a programmed religious bias and lexicon that is showing through here.  The Arcturians don’t often use these Christian terms and, in fact, state in the book that they bear no bias in favor of Christianity.  Though “Ascended Masters” often simply means “4D entities” in a lot of channeled material, the Arcturians place members of that alleged group “higher” in their scheme of things – more on that later.  As we know, Ascended Masters and Sananda (an entity claimed to be channeled by many) are now common on today’s New Age landscape.

This Plan of the masters includes the now-familiar aspects of helping anyone who is ready or near-ready to “ascend” to make the transition to 4D and to prevent humans from self-destruction.  Note that helping only those who are “ready or near-ready” is another tenet of Wilcock and others, which presumably excludes an awful lot of people.  According to Ra, the vast majority of Earthly humanity will have to repeat third density, so the near-ready would appear to be a highly exclusive group.

Arcturian Society and Mission
The Arcturian description of their environment agrees with the Ra/Cassiopaean picture of 4D in many respects (“we digest energy and frequencies as though they were foods”), though there is heavy emphasis on the physical aspects of it – something to which most readers can more easily relate.  The ETs go into great detail (that still didn’t form, for me, a very clear picture) about their own society.  I was most dismayed to find that it was far from the “heavenly” depiction that I expected.  Descriptions of Arcturian society absolutely involve controlling, ruling, judging, credentialing, formality, requirements for leadership roles, etc.  These concepts are very much at odds with the notion of service-to-others polarity as described by Ra and the Cassiopaeans.  These concepts hit hard and fast and alerted me early that these Arcturians were almost surely not an STO source.  It’s perhaps most surprising that most reviewers of this book don’t see it that way at all.  They tend to be blind to the clearly STS aspects of Arcturian society, no doubt because, as STS beings themselves, they don’t regard or even see such leanings as negative, divisive, hierarchical, in violation of free will, etc.

An interesting phenomenon I noted was that even when the Arcturians described something in “neutral” terms, the authors placed an STS spin of their own on it!  For example, the Arcs conveyed that their system of education is about advancing to greater and greater vibrational frequency – seems fine, but the advancing was not described as the acquisition of knowledge, application of knowledge, gaining of experience and wisdom, but though by a means that is something like programming (which reminded me immediately of the “direct knowledge transfers” that some such as Sheldon Nidle claim to receive).  The authors took this system to be like our hierarchical system of grades, even though the Arcs said clearly that their educational methods were not about being higher or better or passing or failing or competing, just natural progression (though it wasn’t explained how outside programming was natural).  It was clear from this interpretation of the authors that they were not, at least at that time, practicing the basic techniques of discernment that we so often discuss on this forum.

The Arcturians said that there were other civilizations engaged in this aid work for our planet, and that each star fleet sent to Earth is in charge of a different part of the birthing process (transition to 4D) for the planet – ascension being a new beginning, or birth.  Their particular expertise is claimed to be “curriculum of the mind.”

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Our main assignment is the programming of messages and information into the minds of those Earthlings who have given us permission to communicate with them…

Ra and the Cassiopaeans have made it clear that STO sources do not “program” people.  There is no free lunch.  They teach by encouraging self-study.  In fact, it was Laura’s revelation that the C’s were actually leading her through deprogramming of false concepts.  Programming is particularly associated, in fact, with STS, with disinformation, with CoIntelPro, with mind control by vectoring attention and shaping attitudes, telling you what to think and what is permissible to think.  Ra explained how channels, especially beginners who don’t know about tuning or grooving, even those of positive orientation, can make contact with negative sources.  Ra referred to Orion STS as “the crusaders.”  The following quotation is from The Law of One: Book I of The Ra Material:

RA:  I am Ra.  It is entirely possible for the untuned channel, as you call that service, to receive both positive and negative communications.  If the entity at the base of its confusion is oriented toward service to others, the entity will begin to receive messages of doom.  If the entity at the base of the complex of beingness is oriented toward service to self, the crusaders, who in this case do not find it necessary to lie, will simply begin to give the philosophy they are here to give.  Many of your so-called contacts among your people have been confused and self-destructive because the channels were oriented towards service to others, but, in the desire for proof, were open to the lying information of the crusaders who then were able to neutralize the effectiveness of the channel.

Well, that would certainly explain why human channels of mixed orientation repeat warnings of danger, yet also allow clearly STS concepts without filtering.  They don’t even recognize the concepts as STS.  In Milanovich’s Arcturian material, I think truth, lying information, STS philosophy, and the unknown, in roughly equal measure, can be discerned.

What Are They Here to Teach Us?
The Arcturian “curriculum” drives home again this idea that one should not regard the negative, which is repeated and repeated by so many channels today, never thinking that this very attitude may be benefiting STS quite directly.  Few seem to consider that turning away from the darkness may only allow it to grow.  See this concept in the Arcturians’ promotion of what they call “reverse friction.”

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…removing all blockages to smooth energy flow.  Learning much of the negative and lower forms of energy makes it hard to progress to higher levels of thought and manifestation (of ideas). So, one must learn to eliminate this subject.

The Arcs offered light meditation and positive-thinking exercises to help readers with establishing reverse friction.  The exercises seemed designed to keep one in a positive frame of mind, open to possibilities, and an “appreciation of God,” which they describe as “all there is,” light and darkness, yin and yang, etc.  To me, the exercises resembled common self-calming techniques that amount to self-programming, rather than the elimination of programming that is so essential to beginning to understand and know the self.  I believe that the Arcturian-given techniques provide more of a buffer against experiencing the reality of one’s environment than a conscious integration and understanding of it.

In what I have noticed to be “typical 4D STS style,” the Arcturians constantly far more than is asked.  In the Ra books, Ra would answer a question and the questioner might ask, “can you explain again a different way?” and Ra would oblige.  The pithiness of the Cassiopaeans is a trademark.  The Arcturians, however, often ended an apparent answer with, “That may be a bit confusing, so let us explain further…” and go on for pages.

STS and STO are not discussed by the Arcs as clear concepts even though we are supposed to be in the density of polarity-choice-making and they are supposed to be in the density of polarity-choice-made.  This is highly suspicious to me because I think an STO source would want to make clear that there is a danger from the opposite kind of source.  An STS source would logically want to hide the fact that “higher beings” might not all be love and light.

More Revelations of Arcturian Society
The Arcs reinforced, for me, the suspicion that they are STS in nature by describing “ranks” in their society, “Elders” who set “standards of appropriateness” regarding “the usage of manifestation powers” and that there is a “range of behaviors that are acceptable for (each) frequency.”  This simply drips with the concept of control, abridging free will, and even suggests the “need” for control in a society of riff-raff that aren’t “civilized” enough to control themselves and behave appropriately!  Yes, folks, many readers believe this book is a message of resounding “love.”  To me, it sounds more like right-wing extremist philosophy (law and order reigns, leaders make the rules for everyone, correct and incorrect behavior is dictated, call the system “freedom and democracy”).  I’m perfectly serious when I say that anyone whose heart warms at these ideas must be an authoritarian at heart.  What else could they be?  What does this say about the make-up of the New Age fans who have spouted reviews such as ” I found myself … awed by the gentle, loving God-like presence and energy they emminate.” – “The Arcturians are the most loving and nonjudgemental beings you can possibly imagine.” —  “Compassionate ET’s helping humanity” – and “The Arcturians, speaking through Norma, have sent Earthlings a gentle message regarding their purpose for being here.”

There are additional, powerful suggestions that the Arcturians are a negatively polarized society.  P. 186 mentions that a certain part of their spaceship is “most vulnerable in the event of an attack,” though they also state that they’re not prone to attack due to their reputation being “highly technologically advanced.”  Further, they say, “this reputation has lent centuries of peace to our civilization and we are pleased to say that it is not fear that keeps lower vibratory souls from attacking us, but wisdom.”  I see a bunch of contradictions there.  Firstly, if they’re 4D STO, according to the C’s, they don’t have to have contact with 4D STS (the most logical attackers) if they choose not to.  Secondly, if they’re 4D at all, how can they be vulnerable to attack from “lower vibratory” souls, unless “lower vibratory” means something other than 3D and lower.  Ra states that 4D is naturally invisible to 3D.  And wouldn’t the “wisdom” not to attack 4D Arcturians likely be more attributable to 4D STS than 3D STS?

And what of secrets – hiding of truth – that core activity of STS?  Secrets are something we 3D types know and relate to very well.  They’re everywhere.  One wouldn’t expect much secrecy in a 4D STO environment – privacy maybe, but not secrecy.  The Arcturians say they possess the means to detect the telepathic exchange of “classified” information, particularly aboard their vessel, though they’re quick to say that such activity is not a problem for them.  So is a lack of trust among STO entities common then?  Do STO entities classify information from each other?  Who knows, they may, but still this kind of thing is surely more at home in STS environments.

Arcturian Technology and Activities
Some of the technology the Arcs claim to possess are (Star Trek-like) molecular transfer of objects, vaporization of objects and recreation at a later time, engergization of objects that can then be stored within other solid objects such as stone, and even the replication of life forms (like cloning but done from something like a molecular blueprint).  They claim to be able to transport beings of other races aboard their spaceships, and can implant “knowledge” directly into them (again, Sheldan Nidle claims to have received this treatment).

Does that sound familiar?  Milanovich and friends were given detailed instructions by the Arcs on how to make a 3D image of what they look like.  The result was very close, I thought, to the common depiction of a Gray alien!  The Arcturians practically implicate themselves as the source of the frightening alien abductions, painfully recalled by so many humans!  They say they’ve executed this transportation aboard ship and direct implantation of “knowledge” with Earth people, who:

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are being prepared to work with us in the higher realms and on Earth assignment… These people are assuming the roles that were written with us between embodiments…  Each of these souls has gone through an awakening process that it irreversible, once the programming for their missions on Earth has been revealed…  We have spent many hours… giving them instructions in their dream states.  They have recollections occasionally, of strange things that have occurred to them in the nights.  What they are actually remembering is the interaction with us.

The Arcs claim that, in this way, they “help the souls on Earth to advance.”  Despite the claim that they have permission to carry out these deeds (granted between incarnations), they also make clear that at least some of these people have no conscious knowledge of what has happened to them, other than vague, dream-like memories.

On Page 248, Milanovich asked, “Do you do medical experiments on the people who visit your spaceships?”  The Acrturians replied that, with permission, they sample tissue, liquid, and electromagnetic vibrational quality of individuals to measure their frequencies.  “Their minds tend to block this from memory, despite being full participants.  If they remember, it comes out as fear that blocks out the real truth.”

To me, this all sounds like merely another perspective on abductions.  But, when asked outright about abductions, they denied it was them, but rather was “our sisters and brothers who ride on companion ships” whom they called “the Physicians of the Universe.”  Are you rolling your eyes about now?

Further suggestion that the Arcturians may actually be the dastardly Grays (or at least one variety of such) of popular legend is their own claim that they are the ones who’ve supplied technological secrets to the military.

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We have given many secrets of our technology to some in your military and to scientists of different countries…  We consider these to be forms of gifts.

Other forms of gifts are adornments, and many of the star children are already wearing these gifts on their bodies.  These have dual purposes… They not only serve as an object for beautification, but also as energy transmitters.  Perhaps one might call them communication devices…  These gifts are not detectable by the average person.

What the hell?  Communication devices?  Energy transmitters on the bodies of star children?  What on Earth for?  Lots of questions are raised by this admission.  Why would STO beings see to placement of undetectable transmitters on people?  Negative implications are much easier to imagine.  The Arcs go so far as to describe Earthlings “in tune” with their communications are “always on our screens, and they are well protected.”  Near the beginning of the book, in fact, they said they’d be watching “on their screens,” everyone who was reading this book.

Much more difficult to imagine would be any justification for turning technological secrets over to military forces, whose very purpose is to kill.  This is an STS world, after all, and the Arcturians surely know that, having been through 3D and duality themselves.  Logically, then, they know that advantages of technology in the hands of military powers will automatically be used to the detriment of that power’s opponents.  The Arcturians called this information transfer a “gift.” Remember that 4D STS engage in attempting to influence humans in the philosophy of service to self.  What military on Earth would serve others with advanced, secret technology?

When they were asked by Milanovich about rumors that ETs had approached the U.S. government.  The Arcs said that they had, but were met with hostility and deceit (a statement repeated often by Galactic Federation channels today).  “We have met with many presidents and premiers.”  Interestingly, they stated that they’ve been consistently turned over to militaries in such cases, making them ask, “who’s really in charge?”  They described exchanging information with militaries “on an equal basis.”

Why would the Arcturians do this, considering that, in this book, they also claim to understand that the militaries are negative?   They say that “a regimented approach to obeying orders when one’s heart doesn’t agree, as in the military, is barbarism and controlling.”  They explain that any system that doesn’t allow individuals to express freedom and will does not support the “God concept.”  Yet, they give tech secrets to our militaries and have a “restricted” area on their own vessel for “Elders” only, ironically called “That which bestows the truth and light on all.  Even a malfunctioning BS detector should be going off about now.

They added that they are actually prevented by governments and militaries from introducing themselves publicly.  That doesn’t make sense to me because if they are STO they would not be wanting to infringe upon free will by going public to people who didn’t ask for their presence.  On the other hand, we suspect that technologically powerful STS ETs may indeed want to land on Earth, and that there would be no way that governments and militaries could actually stop them.  Such action, though, would likely be resorted to only if the control system maintained by their earthly human minions were on the verge of collapse.  Ra explained that this is because they prefer to control via proxy, so as not to violate the free will distortion of The Law of One and attract more negative karma than necessary – but it is a possibility that they would engage in direct conquest if they had to.  Isn’t it odd that the Arcturians actually said “prevented” from going public?  To me, that means they would land if they could – or had to.  What could be the secret power that is preventing them or simply discouraging them from landing?  Could it be this natural pressure of The Law of One?

So, nowadays, the Arcturians say, they hook up more with people who seek them out (which is more along the lines of respecting free will and thus avoiding the pressure of the Law of One) and that the media of their teachings are education, medicine, arts, and entertainment institutions.  All of these areas are known to us, of course, as possible organs of disinformation and gate-keeping.

An interesting note:  the Arcturians say they’ve also established connections with “the civilizations of Middle Earth.”  Assuming they don’t mean Tolkien’s fictional land, this could very well be the subterranean civilization alluded to by so many channels.  The C’s assure us that these “underground” people are completely under the thumbs of STS controllers.

The flow of admitted (and apparently STS) behavior continues unabated throughout this entire book.  The Arcturians claim to be dosing Earth with energy from crystals to advance our “consciousness revolution.”  As we adjust to the energy levels, they increase the dose.  Ra explained that The Confederation of which it is a part (the “good guys”) sends telepathic aid to those of us who evolve consciously enough to begin to call.  That’s a far cry from dosing the whole planet with crystal-energy beams without being asked, yet, it seems clear that revelation of such “dosing” is accepted as “good” by an awful lot of readers, many of whom have probably read Ra, but not examined the material carefully – especially the issues of free will and the importance that STO entities place upon not violating it.

Effects of the Arcturian Contact on the Authors
At one point, the Arcturians turn the table on Milanovich and friends and ask a question of their own, to “gather more data from you.”  Milanovich called the Arcs “masters of psychology,” as they always seem to know just what to say and how to keep interest and curiosity high.  Sounds like manipulation to me.  They asked Norma, Cynthia, and Betty for permission to take them on a journey.  On Page 218, the ladies give the Arcs permission to “instruct” them.  “We will begin to do some minor programming with each of you,” they say, and proceed to get the ladies breathing, imaging, and intoning in sync.  The Arcs claim that the “masters of the highest spiritual orders on Earth” are actually rendezvousing with them to help them achieve “high states of ecstasy quickly…”  The Arcs promised the women collective powers of seeing long distances with their help and the ability to predict and get information on “a more sophisticated wavelength.”  This passage was frightening to me, as it reminded me of the archetypal “deal with the devil” in which someone is promised gifts in exchange for nothing – though a heavy price later becomes evident.

In Ra Session 15, January 30, 1981, Ra stated:

I am Ra…  It is important to allow each seeker to enlighten itself rather for any messenger to attempt in language to teach/learn for the entity…  This is not in balance with your third density.

They specified “in language.”  How do you think this applies to “programming” as the Arcturians did?

Furthermore, in Ra Session 22, February 10, 1981, such direct transfer of information was discussed.  First, what happens when a group of people produce a call for help?

QUESTIONER:  Who or what group produced this call and what action was taken by the Confederation?

RA:  I am Ra.  The calling was that of Atlanteans.  This calling was for what you would call understanding with the distortion toward helping other-selves.  The action taken is that which take part in at this time:  the impression of information through channels, as you would call them.

Ra then explained that technical information was not, at first, transmitted.  It was later, but people quickly turned it to purposes of serving self, in fact going to governmental purposes, and we know what a nightmare that is – to have essentially secret technology in the hands of those in power.  Thus, such transfer was considered an error.  Ra explained that is was blamed upon:

RA: … “the relative naiveté of those members of the Confederation members who felt that direct transfer of information would necessarily be as helpful for Atlanteans as it had been for the Confederation entity…

We remind you that we are one of the naïve members of that Confederation and are still attempting to recoup the damage for which we feel responsibility.”  [/i]

To me, this sounds like a pretty clear indictment of using direct-transfer of information on earthly humans, and not something likely to be repeated by the STO side.  Channeling words, yes.  Directly transferring knowledge, no.  Clearly, the danger in taking such a shortcut is that the receiving entities have not the experience nor the wisdom to handle it.

The women explained that their psychic powers increased somewhat, manifesting in unexpected and uncontrolled ways — they did not describe any truly significant effect of this.

The Arcturians returned to explaining their mission, in ever greater detail, to help humanity ascend.  They build the reader’s sense of reliance upon them with statements like, “There is no way you can do this yourselves.”  Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence!  They relayed the words of other big-shot entities such as Monica, Head of the Tribunal Council of the Ashtar Command,” and stated, “we are in the process of assisting our beloved commander, Sananda.”  This sudden association with the dubiously dynamic duo of Sananda and Ashtar (see Channel Watch 007) struck me as just plain odd.  So, the Arcturians thus allow their communications to be categorized with, or at least tied to, those of all the Galactic Federation sources.  Their name-dropping of Master Kuthumi seems to be an attempt to create a tie-in with the Ra gang, who quoted quite a bit of Kuthumi in the beginning of Volume 1 of The Ra Material. Kuthumi in this book claims to have been one of the Apostles and communicated directly with “the Command” after Jesus’s death.

In a rather frightening moment, all of a sudden sounding stern and perhaps annoyed with all the questions, the Arcturians communicated, “You ask why we are here on Earth?  We OWN the Earth.  We have been here from the beginning of time.”

Where that come from, I don’t know.  They had been consistent about their own planet in their own star system up until that point.  They then explained that their physical Earth bases are “located primarily in your countries of power.”  What happened to “we’re here to help?”  Well, they do get back to that.  Ra explained that earthly humanity really went downhill in the second minor cycle of the current major cycle (that would be the period 25,000 to 50,000 years ago) because of two major screw-ups:  allowing the ascendancy of the concept of money over barter; and allowing growth of the concept of individual and group ownership of property.  Though Ra points out the predominance of these concepts out as fundamental boo-boos, how many modern Earth people even consider them dangerous to the soul?  Heck, some so-called “prosperity preachers” of Protestant Christian sects even say that money is a sign of God’s favor and that poverty is the result of sin.

More from the Arcturians About Our Present and Future
In clear agreement with Ra, the Arcs said that those who choose not to raise their vibrations with the approach of the transition will have to “exit the Earth plane” and reincarnate on another planet.  They also said, “Many souls will be exiting before the year 2000, as the decade of the 90s has been reserved for the cleansing.”  Not so good timing, and the giving of calendar dates in prophecy has proven to be a bright red flag.

When asked about other helper civilizations, the Arcs named Lyrans, Orions, Alpha Centaurians, Sirians (who they say build the pyramids – oh, how many have claimed to have done so!), Hydrans, Pleiadians, and others that they say are pointless to name.  They’re all here for the big event, the harvest, or whatever you like to call it.  The Arcs cited some general forms of chaos as signs of this event’s approach, resulting from rising anger among those who unconsciously realize they’ve lost their chance to ascend.

As the book winds down, they get Biblical again, claiming that Sananda/Jesus will appear, his radiance to be witnessed by all upon Earth at the same time (this is echoed in the Ashtar Command material currently).  The “chosen” ones, the light children will rally around him, and others will tremble.  This could describe, in my opinion, any savior or any anti-savior.  Other biblical language comes forth: “son of God, ” “the lamb,” “Father’s house has many rooms,” “His father’s kingdom,” and even a line-by-line interpretation of Psalm 23.

The beginning and end of We, the Arcturians, have these brief and loose tie-ins to other channeled material, particularly to the Christian-flavored Galactic Federation entities.  It seemed baffling.  However, with reflection, I think it was done deliberately because it serves as endorsement for these names, and practically invites the impressed reader to seek out material associated with these names.  Just look at how prevalent these names are in modern channeling and how many alleged channels claim to be in contact with them.  In my opinion, a non-discerning seeker could easily be led into a labyrinth of non-critical New Age works both real and manufactured that contains a plethora of conflicting ideas, dead ends, cul-de-sacs, and endless loops that could easily consume their attention and energy for many years, all the while putting said seeker at risk for fatigue, confusion, and maybe susceptibility to the closer orbits of STS teachers.

Norma Milanovich Today
Norma Milanovich went on to produce two lesser-known books, Sacred Journey to Atlantis and The Light Shall Set You Free.  The latter emphasizes the need to educate the world to an enlightened state before it is transported to the Fifth Dimension.  Today she is something of a worldwide, New Age celebrity.  She promotes UFO reality and continues to channel a variety of “celestial beings,” does lectures, workshops, conferences, “spiritual journeys,” and has even presented before the UN Parapsychology Society.  Though the Arcturians never presented any information regarding the matrix control system on Earth, she seems to have been made aware of aspects of it via other channeled entities and has presented lectures on the subject of government conspiracy.  She is identified as the “primary guru” of The Trinity Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing “education restructuring” in the US.  She is also the president of her own Athena Leadership Center (http://www[dot]athenalctr.com/) of upscale Scottsdale AZ:

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Athena Leadership Center exists to serve people worldwide to achieve their maximum potential through understanding spiritual enlightenment, the connection between body, mind, and Spirit, and that everything is energy (Light).

Athena Leadership Center specializes in individualized personal empowerment, prophesy from the Ascended Masters, Light Ascension, Feng Shui, ground-breaking and innovative wellness solutions, and worldwide sacred journeys and conferences, proven to expand and raise one’s consciousness, which ultimately assists in bringing peace to the world.

We seek to become an international center and clearinghouse for the highest level of truth. Thus, we pursue excellence and perfection in all that we do.

Those are inspiring words anyone would like to believe, but Ms. Milanovich is still lauded for We, the Arcturians, a book about which I’ve yet seen no other critical analysis, and which for me presents no clear evidence of positive orientation – in fact, quite the contrary.

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Throughout each year, a limited number of sessions will be available for participants to come to Scottsdale and work with Dr. Norma Milanovich in intensive 2 ½ day programs designed to:  Experience intensive
one-on-one transmissions with the Ascended Masters; Complete customized work with the Masters through inter-dimensional sessions that will assist individuals with their individual missions;  Assist individuals to identify blockages within that limit their spiritual attainment;  Obtain knowledge and solutions on how to work through their challenges.

In addition to the above, each individual will also receive:  A customized diagnosis and attunement on the QXCI that could include:    Emotional Clearings, Past Life Relationships and Unresolved Issues, Neurolinguistic Reprogramming for Significant Problems in One’s Life, Connections to the Cosmos and Universal Mind, Reprogramming Karma, Releasing Negativity, and Subconscious Anger Releasing Spiritual Attacks and Suppression, Increasing creativity, Improving Self-Confidence, Reversing the Aging Process, And much more!

Ms. Milanovich conducts these programs roughly monthly.  It will run you $3000 for three days (or $1500 each if you bring a friend), and they sell out quickly!  If you can’t afford such lengthy exposure to enlightenment teachings, you can talk to Ms. Milanovich on the phone for $150 per hour.

Source: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=2901.0

This Powerful Nutrient Improves Concentration by 60% and Fights ADHD

A clinical study in children with ADHD showed that they significantly improved both their clinical scores and identified EEG patterns when their diets were supplemented with krill oil for a period of 13 weeks.

The EEG patterns of the study participants were compared to a database of more than 400 children with an established ADHD diagnosis, providing ample comparative data.

Dr. Hogne Wik said, “This is an important observation identifying positive effects on the central nervous system (CNS) after supplementation of krill oil in humans. For the first time objective EEG-measurements — before and after a 90 day intervention period with krill oil—have confirmed observed improvements in a clinical CNS condition.”

NPI Center reports:

“… Krill is a pure, natural source of the health-promoting EPA & DHA omega-3 essential fatty acids and the naturally occurring antioxidant astaxanthin.”

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NPI Center October 13, 2010

I first started hearing about the benefits of krill oil — a high-quality source of animal-based omega-3 fats – for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) back in 2006.

The following year, in 2007, a clinical study examining the effects of krill oil on adults diagnosed with ADHD also showed positive results. In that study, patients improved their ability to concentrate by an average of over 60 percent after taking a daily 500mg dose of krill oil for six months.

They also reported a 50 percent improvement in planning skills, and close to 49 percent improvement in social skills.

These latest findings, which involve children and teens with ADHD, have not yet been published, but the results are again very promising. Additional clinical follow-up studies are also planned, to further investigate the beneficial impact of krill oil on attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

This is all great news!

Granted, of the 4.5 million American children who have been diagnosed with ADHD, an estimated 20 percent have likely been misdiagnosed, but an enormous amount of children do have neurological problems – the exact cause of which has yet to be teased out by science.

Diet and Brain Health

Unfortunately, the conventional drug treatments most often employed can do far more harm than good. Safe, effective treatment options are sorely needed for the millions of children and adults stricken with ADHD.

I’ve repeatedly said that one of the key factors to effectively treat ADHD is nutrition, and healthful omega-3 fats are a MAJOR component of a brain-healthy diet.

We know the food choices of most people today are incredibly poor, and you simply cannot expect a child to have normal behavior if he is fed refined grains, sugars, processed foods loaded with chemicals and genetically engineered ingredients, and juices and sodas instead of pure water.

Our modern diet also contains an overabundance of highly processed, damaged omega-6 fats while being deficient in omega-3’s.

Not only are processed omega-6 fats harmful in and of themselves, but making matters even worse, they also interfere with your body’s attempt to utilize the tiny amount of omega-3 fats that it gets.

When you add all these dietary factors together, neurological and behavioral issues are not far behind…

You simply cannot have a healthy functioning brain when the proper ingredients to develop or maintain a healthy brain are not provided, and animal-based omega-3 fats are essential for a well-functioning brain.

Krill Oil Benefits Those with ADD/ADHD

Certainly, we already know omega-3 fats are essential for proper brain function and as I mentioned earlier, krill oil, specifically, has now been shown effective for both children and adults with ADHD.

Previous research using fish oil has also confirmed that animal-based omega-3 fat can improve the symptoms of ADHD more effectively than drugs like Ritalin® and Concerta®!

If that’s not cause for hope, I don’t know what is!

This latest study included 18 boys, aged 7 through 11, who had been diagnosed with ADHD. The youngsters received daily krill oil supplements for a period of 13 weeks. When their EEG’s were compared to EEG patterns from a database of 400 other children with ADHD, the researchers were able to confirm beneficial changes in the children’s EEG pattern, and the parents also reported improved behavior.

According to Hogne Vik MD, PhD:

“This is an important observation identifying positive effects on the central nervous system (CNS) after supplementation of krill oil in humans. For the first time objective EEG-measurements—before and after a 90 day intervention period with krill oil—have confirmed observed improvements in a clinical CNS condition,” the NPI Center reports.

Omega-3 Deficiency and Hyperactivity

In this previous article, Theresa Gallagher discusses research from Purdue University, which found that children deficient in omega-3 had significantly higher incidence of hyperactivity, learning disorders, and behavioral problems.

Part of the explanation for this is likely due to the fact that dopamine and serotonin both play a role in ADD/ADHD and other mood disorders, and your dopamine and serotonin receptors are composed of the animal-based omega-3 fat DHA.

If you don’t have sufficient amounts of DHA in your blood, then your dopamine/serotonin receptors end up using man-made trans-fat molecules as a construction material instead.

However, trans-fats (damaged omega-6 fats) are shaped differently than DHA: they are straight while DHA is curved. This causes your receptors to become deformed and not work very well.

Now, if this scenario is repeated day after day, year after year, you could easily wind up with problems like depression and problems concentrating. But this problem can be far more severe than that in a child whose brain is still developing, which is why a healthful diet during the prenatal and infant stage is so incredibly important.

Signs of Omega-3 Deficiency

Omega-3 deficiencies have also been linked to a number of other health problems, such as:

• Dyslexia
• Violence
• Depression
• Memory problems
• Weight gain
• Heart disease and cancer
• Eczema and allergies
• Inflammatory diseases and arthritis

As related by Gallagher, there are more than 2,000 scientific studies demonstrating the wide range of problems associated with Omega-3 deficiencies.

Remember, the ideal ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats is about 1:1. But our Western diet, so chock full of processed fast food, has skewed this ratio to about 1:20 or even 1:50!

Common signs that you have an imbalance in these two fats include:

Dry skin	Alligator skin	“Chicken skin” on backs of arms
Dandruff	Lowered immunity	Dry eyes
Frequent urination	Fatigue	Poor wound healing
Irritability	Dry, unmanageable hair	Frequent infections
Attention deficit	Hyperactivity	Learning problems
Soft nails	Brittle, easily frayed nails	Patches of pale skin on cheeks
Allergies	Excessive thirst	Cracked skin on heels or fingertips

All Omega-3 Fats are Not Created Equal

Many insist that omega-3 from plant-based sources (ALA) are interchangeable with animal-based omega-3 (EPA and DHA), but this is simply not the case.

Plant-based omega-3 fats are highly beneficial and should also be consumed, but the evidence is very clear that they are not an acceptable substitute for animal-based omega-3 fats.

This is primarily related to the fact that your body does not easily convert the ALA in plant-based fats to the longer fats of EPA and DHA needed for brain and heart health. And if you have diabetes, are overweight, have high blood pressure or high cholesterol or are elderly, your body has even more difficulty converting these fats.

That said, even among animal-based omega-3 fats, there are differences that can impact performance.

What’s the Best Type of Animal-Based Omega-3 Fat?

In a perfect world, you’d get all the animal-based omega-3s you need from eating seafood. Regrettably, industrial pollution has contaminated most of the world’s fish stocks with a variety of dangerous toxins like mercury and PCBs.

This leaves marine oils, mainly purified fish oil, or krill oil, as alternatives. Personally, I take krill oil every day, and I’m convinced that it’s the best option for most people, for several reasons.

• Omega-3 in krill oil is bound in a phospholipid structure, making it far more bioavailable than fish oil. In fact, nearly 100 percent of the DHA and EPA in krill oil are immediately available to your body.

  The omega-3 in fish oil, on the other hand, are in a triglyceride molecule that has to be broken down in your gut into its base fatty acids EPA and DHA. Once the fatty acids are absorbed into your bloodstream, your liver then has to attach it to phoshphatidyl choline molecule for it to be used by your body.

  Because of this, your body can only absorb about 15 to 20 percent of it, while the rest is eliminated in your intestine. (This is also what causes so many people to “burp up” the fish oil taste, and not tolerate the fish oil very well.)

• Krill oil naturally contains the powerful antioxidant astaxanthin, which prevents the perishable DHA and EPA from going rancid. The vast majority of fish oil being sold is actually rancid before you even open the bottle, as it doesn’t contain this protective antioxidant, which prevents the DHA and EPA from oxidizing.
• Krill oil works at a lower dose. For the reasons mentioned above, krill oil is effective at far lower dosages, so you may only need one 500 mg capsule per day.

For more in-depth information about the inherent benefits of krill oil over fish oil, please see my recent interview with industry expert Dr. Rudi Moerck.

Additional Strategies to Relieve ADHD Symptoms

It is my sincere hope that people will begin to realize that drug therapy, if at all necessary, should be a very last resort, after all other options have been exhausted – especially when it comes to behavioral problems such as ADHD.

Clearly, animal-based omega-3 such as krill oil should be high on your list of natural treatment strategies. But there are also a number of other lifestyle changes that can significantly help.

So please, before you consider drugs, consider implementing the following strategies first:

• Eliminate most grains and sugars from your child’s diet. Grains and sugars both tend to cause allergies in sensitive individuals. Even organic, whole grain can cause problems in many children so it would be wise to give them a grain holiday and see if their behavior improves.
• Replace soft drinks (diet and regular), fruit juices, and pasteurized milk with pure, clean non-fluoridated water.
• Minimize your use of nearly all processed fats, especially trans fats as they disrupt nerve cell intercommunication.
• Avoid all processed foods, especially those containing artificial colors, flavors and preservatives, which may trigger or worsen symptoms.
• Clear your house of dangerous pesticides and other commercial chemicals. Pesticide exposure has been linked with ADHD.
• Avoid commercial washing detergents and cleaning products used on clothes, and replace them with naturally derived cleaning products with no added perfumes, softeners, etc.
• Spend more time in nature. Researchers have found that exposing ADHD children to nature is an affordable, healthy way of controlling symptoms.
• Investigate sensory therapy and emotional wellness tools. Instead of looking for a quick fix, encourage ADHD sufferers to talk, and find out what emotions are causing issues. You may want to consider the energy tapping techniques to improve emotional coping and healing.

Source: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/20/omega3-fat-useful-to-improve-adhd.aspx