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Spirit of the New Earth Vibration, page 2: The Alchemy of Transmutation
For fifty-plus year as a holistic doctor, it has been my role and privilege to serve at the physical level of life's domain and to bring the higher vibrations of Spirit into the lower levels of Life's expression in and through the human body. In keeping with the nature of that service, I have sought to elevate my consciousness, and that of those whom I have served, so as to gain insight beyond the surface of anatomical structure and physiological function and into the energetic world of the Spirit that creates the physical body and continues to maintain it through its years and decades of useful existence and service. To that purpose, I have written down my meditations and compiled them into a book which I entitled "SACRED ANATOMY," because to me the temple of the living God is sacred in all of its designs and functions.
It is with some reserve that I proceed in sharing this consideration in a public forum such as this, as it is highly esoteric and sacred, intended for the initiated. The consideration of our sacred anatomy, presented here in the form of a meditation on transcendent essences, is not a scholarly study of human anatomy and physiology–although those aspects are given due consideration for accuracy. It is rather a presentation of firsthand esoteric knowledge, as previously noted, and inspired visionary insight and revelation.
In that light, I will continue sharing excerpts focusing on the reproductive system and the hormonal glands of the gonads that produce the seeds that initiate the creative process that brings forth the human body—under the guidance and protection of the Spirit of the New Earth. In this excerpt I share my meditation on the role these sacred vessels and their function play in the transmutation of atoms to the rare substance that provides clothing for the spiritual body of the incarnate angel.
I believe It is our role as divine beings on the physical material plane to fuel the fire of ascension by which physical substance is transmuted and made rare for ascension. That fire is the transmuting fire of the Spirit of Love at the highest vibration differentiated and stepped down as the Spirit of the New Earth at the lower end of the energy spectrum, as we considered in the previous post—which I encourage you to read, if you haven't already, for the context it provides for this post.
The Spiritualization of Atoms
There is a remarkable and significant similarity between the shape and function of the Pineal Gland, with its mushroom-shaped head, and that of the male and female genitalia on the opposite end of the endocrine system. They both serve as pointed vessels for focused release of a unified radiant current. The sensation of intense pleasure during erection of both the glans penis and the clitoris, intensifying as orgasm begins to occur, is powerfully felt in the space behind the eyes where the Pituitary gland, with its anterior and posterior lobes–the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine embracing in the sixth plane of being–rests in the Sella Tursica of the sphenoid bone at the base of the brain. With the facilitation of the Hypothalamus, and the Limbic System just above it in the brain, the pleasure center of the brain, the Pituitary receives the release of the golden light of love emanating from Spirit through the Pineal Body, embracing it on its way to the eyes and forehead and creating the sacred alchemy which allows the fire of love to pour forth from within. The fire extends down and out through the sexual organs as well as outward through the eyes and permeating the entire body. All the cells in the body temple are permeated by the radiant outpouring of love and therein rejuvenated in the ecstasy of sexual orgasm.
With the outpouring of love's emanations comes a refinement of pneumaplasm as it is drawn into the core of the ascending flame where it is refined even further. This rarefied substance then rises to mingle with the substance of love contained within the heart. The heart provides a safe place for the alchemy of transmutation to take place. From this crucible, the substance continues on its journey upward reaching into the core and bringing the experience of heaven into the body temple. Upon touching the core of love in our heart of hearts, pneumaplasm acts as a connecting substance between earth and heaven through which the currents of love pour forth into the body-temple and through the body-temple into one's world. Thus are the atoms in the earthly plane of being spiritualized and lifted up into the realm of spirit.
The experience of this release through the eyes is especially unifying as the two look into each other's eyes to receive one another as angels while their union makes itself evident and powerfully felt. Such moments of sacred sexual intimacy reveal the state of ecstatic union with the Beloved, from Whom a rich outpouring of love is known throughout the temple in waves of delightful pleasure. In his instructions on the "seven seals" Uranda describes what occurs at this level:
Here thou seest the activity of the Gonad Glands (ovary or testis) in harmony with the Christ Center in the Sacral region of thy spine. Here it is that the active Spiritualization process begins, and as the body substance responds to the action of this Seal it is prepared for the ASCENSION.
This Seal has been variously called the Cave of Darkness, the Serpent's Seat, the Coil of Kundalini, the Manger of Birth (Bible), and by other names. As this transmuted substance begins its ascension through the Seven Seals, it is spoken of, all through the Bible, as the River of Life; and the Tree of Life which extends from one side of the River of Life to the other side represents the Positive and Negative phases of the Seven Seals, under or through which the River of Life is flowing. The Branches of the Trunk of the Tree extend from the Glands on the one side and from the Christ Centers in the Spine on the other side. (STM, Lesson Fifty-four)¹
Kundalini Shakti
The spiritualization of atoms in the ascending fire of transmutation was known to the ancient Hindu world as "Kundalini Shakti." Thomas Ashley-Farrand, an expert in the use of Hindu and Buddhist mantras, as well as in ancient Eastern religious ceremonies, sheds some historical light on this power center:
According to Hindu tradition, the nature of power is feminine. Although the consciousness that triggers spiritual activity is said to be masculine, it is powerless without the feminine energy that drives it. The shakti of kundalini, the feminine power cell lying in repose at the base of the spine, is dormant and latent in most of humanity. When it becomes active even in the smallest degree, we develop the power to heal, the power to see things not yet come, and other special gifts of the Great Feminine.
It is taught that the locus of feminine power in our own bodies is the great kundalini power cell, which lies at the base of the spine. Over the course of many lifetimes, this personal transformer powers our spiritual progress as its inherent shakti "awakens" and moves up the spine. As the kundalini shakti touches the pituitary and pineal glands, it activates them in new ways, making more energy available to them. Dormant brain power potential becomes active in a way that cannot be described in words.
Shakti represents the active energy of the divine that powers all forms of creation. In Hindu tradition, Shakti is anthropomorphized as the consort of Shiva [a masculine deity who directs the rising kundalini energy]. (From Mantra, Sacred Words of Power study guide.)²
These sacred vessels can be appreciated for the facilitation they provide in the process of ascension of atoms into the spiritual body of the angel incarnate. The simple ceremony of caressing them gently so as not to arouse the glands into contraction and orgasm, or simply being still during intercourse, helps to initiate the movement of the current within the ascending flame, drawing atoms from out of the body substance into the upward spiraling flow. In a rising current, atomic substance ascends before the throne of God in heaven, represented by the Pineal Body, to be transmuted by sacred alchemy into angelic light substance. Thus is union with the Divine attained through this sacred practice and ritual.
This is an alchemical fire that burns through and within the flesh but does not consume it. The Crown Chakra plays a role here as well. A single ascending current of golden substance begins to flow and can be felt moving up through the Pineal Gland of both lovers. In the midst of this sacred alchemy one suddenly knows the other as oneself. Flesh becomes vibrationally fused so that the partners feel what each other is experiencing and lose all sense of separateness, spiritually as well as physically.
This is, without exception, a most holy and powerful experience of union with the Beloved. Out of this union between two angels on earth comes a most exquisite, yet easy, release of love through a unified current of radiation as a portal is opened in heaven through which light pours out in ceaseless currents. These sacred times of worship, either alone or with another conscious angel, can be used to bring loved ones in our worlds, and our worlds themselves, into consciousness for blessing, healing and sanctification. Consciousness then becomes an extension of the altar, now sanctified by the oil of love, upon which we may offer the tithes of our world of service upward for healing and spiritualization. For anything that touches the altar is sanctified. Sexual intimacy is very much an integral part of our angelic function as co-creators with God, and we would continually know that and participate in ascension as we return these sacred vessels to their holy purpose. We do this by taking them into our priestly hands and celebrating our temple service to glorify God and to bless our world with shining light. ♦
The world would be transformed in a cosmic moment were these sacred vessels, now desecrated by abuse in darkened understanding, sanctified and returned to their sacred function. In the wake of such transformative change, spiritualized atomic substance would begin to ascend through the levels of being to find its way back Home in the Heaven of heavens before the throne of God, whose creating substance it is. In this sacred function, we as the Body of Man restored would fulfill and complete our primary purpose for existence: the return of praise and thanksgiving by way of spiritualized flesh to the Creator, whose world this is. This could only be done by divine beings, angels incarnate, who have come forth in a radiant apocalypse of light, and taken charge of the physical material world in the name of our Lord and King. It will never be done by "mere humans" eking out transient pleasure in self gratification. Such temporary pleasure is as nothing compared to the ecstatic pleasure of priestly function in service to the Lord of the Sacred Seven.
That said, the angel can come forth into conscious presence employing the alchemy of sacred sex as a path and means of opening the sacred seals to reveal the Presence of the One I AM. This path has been taken before in ancient days by Pharaohs who sought to achieve apotheosis through sexual intimacy with the High Priestess, through whom he received his power to rule with divine authority. It is a worthy and available path to those who would go that way in their transformation journey. We will revisit this topic later in the chapter on Sacred Sex. I invite and welcome your thoughts and inspirations. Until my next post in this series,
¹ URANDA, Steps To Mastership, Lesson 54.
² ASHLEY FERRAND, Mantra, Sacred Words of Power study guide
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The Role of the Thymus Gland Protecting the Body Temple
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ?" (1 Cor. 3:16)
In the previous post, I detailed the functions of the thymus as an endocrine gland as well as a key player in what I have called the "immune alliance" of the body temple. The following excerpt from SACRED ANATOMY continues to elaborate on this dual function with intricate details that describe a powerful and ruthless process, under the direction and control of the Spirit of Purification, whose primary role it is to protect the body temple. It is imperative, for the sake of the ongoing presence and expression of the Spirit of Life in and through our human capacities, focused in and operating through the Thyroid gland, that nothing is allowed to enter the Holy Place of the heart that would defile it or in any way diminish or hinder the governance of the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Love, focused in the Pituitary and Pineal glands respectively.
It is my intention and desire in publishing these excerpts from my book to provide enlightenment about the miracle of life transpiring in our bodies, which are, individually and collectively, the temple of the Living God on Earth. In reading this excerpt, one may come to appreciate more fully the intricacies and complexities of interaction and communication between the various parts of our anatomy and physiology, and therein be inspired to maintain a personal atmosphere that is conducive and supportive to the work of the Spirit of Purification in one's temple, so that Life may continue to manifest its radiance in the form of robust health and happiness. As stated earlier, the key to protection is a balanced immune system.
Protecting the Body Temple
The Thymus is probably the most powerful and active of all the seven endocrine centers when it is functioning in a balanced manner, and balance is the key here to a healthy immunity. In the healthy person there is just the right amount of immune response to repel infection or heal a wound, and just enough of the system involved to stop the response. There is neither over-active response nor under-active response as just the right amount and types of white blood cells and immune factors are recruited to meet and resolve each challenging "invader." An invader, as we have noted, is anything that is not "self" and therefore does not belong in the body-temple. Over-active response results in auto-immunity and allergies, for example, while under-active response makes the body susceptible to infection.
The key to a balanced immunity is the body's ability to distinguish between what is self and what is non-self. The job is usually easy as virtually every living organism and cell has its own unique set of "antigens" (surface molecules called "barcodes") that identify them. Early in life, through real encounters, the young immune system learns to recognize these barcodes if given the opportunity. That opportunity is all too often missed in early childhood where antibiotics are used indiscriminately. Should such use continue on a regular basis, the child will grow up to be an adult with an "immature immune system." Immature immune systems abound today with the widespread use of antibiotics, not only within the human system but also in the animals grown for human consumption.
On the other hand, where herbs, such as Echinacea, and phytonutrients found in whole foods rich in Vitamins A and C, are used to support the young immune system, it will fare well in its encounters with antigens and pathogens of all kinds and develop properly into a strong fortress as the child matures into adulthood. The problem arises when too much dependency is placed upon antibiotic medication, both in childhood and in later years. A weak and immature immune system is easily confused and overwhelmed by an onslaught of bacteria and viruses, many of them made stronger by adapting to antibiotics. The job of distinguishing between self and non-self becomes more complex as viruses, such as HIV which causes Auto-Immune Disease Syndrome (AIDS), take on the surface protein molecules (barcodes) of the immune cells themselves, leading lymphocytes into a battle with themselves and thereby completely destroying the body's ability to protect itself against opportunistic scavengers, such as bacteria, parasites, viruses, molds and fungus, many of which are produced by the body itself on site where their services are needed to clean up the debris of decay resulting from infection. Infection is the body's way of handling the pathology caused by invaders.
All this goes to say that our immune system, while powerful when balanced and educated through experience, is impotent when its delicate balance is disrupted and can even be left in a state of incoherence when not allowed to develop. Therefore a lot of effort and energy is expended by the body balancing white blood cells and immune co-factors to provide exquisite protection and defense against harmful invaders. Green, living foods are essential as a source of these co-factors.
The natural defenses of the immune system consist of an extremely elaborate and complex network of billions of lymphocytes, each one designed for a specific mission. These cells communicate with one another like construction crew members erecting a tall building. The result is a sensitive system of checks and balances that produces an immune response that is prompt, appropriate, fierce and effective, as well as self-limiting.
As we've noted, the thymus is joined by other organs keeping the body cells well fed, repaired and clean. Pockets of white blood cells (leukocytes, from the Greek leukos, meaning "white," but also "light" or "brilliant" or clear) can be found throughout the body-temple. The reticuloendothelial tissue of the tonsils, lymph nodes, spleen, and bone marrow are gathering sites for lymphocytes where cells grow and develop. Though not commonly recognized for this role, the largest immunological organ of the body is the intestine with its "Peyer's patches" cells embedded within its wall. It is estimated that twenty-five percent of the intestines is involved in immunity with an additional seventy to eighty percent of all antibody-producing cells being located in our digestive system. At any given time there are more than 100 trillion bacteria in our digestive system. The cells that comprise the body are outnumbered ten-to-one by foreign organisms in and on our bodies.
Leukocytes recognize foreign invaders and coordinate the natural defenses of the body. There are three different types of leukocytes, or white blood cells: Granulocytes, monocytes and lymphocytes, each group having its own function. They all originate in bone marrow and circulate from there by way of the bloodstream throughout the body. About half of them come to rest in the Thymus, where they continue to differentiate and mature before returning to the bloodstream. Hence they are called T lympho-cytes, or "T cells." These are involved in the inflammatory process and in destroying foreign invaders such as cancer cells. First to recognize the presence of foreign cells and infections, they recruit other cells and start up the immune response, releasing different classes of immune co-factors or bio-chemical signals that activate "B Cells" (blood-plasma cells), for example, to produce specific types of antibodies. Each B Cell is a self-contained factory that manufactures one specific type of antibody (immunoglobulin). These antibodies, large proteins, are programmed to identify invaders by their antigens (barcodes).
There are the "Killer Cells" that kill cancer cells and those carrying viruses. "Macra-phages" inform the white blood cells about the architecture of the invaders so that it can design the right antibody for the job, initiate immune response and scavenge dead organisms and cells. "Phagocytes" gobble up infected cells like "PAC-Men." Eosinophils kill parasites and "Mast Cells" chemically trigger other cells into action and are involved in allergic reactions. While many white blood cells recognize and react to specific antigens which starts a specific immune response against an individual class of invaders, other types of cells respond in a nonspecific manner, killing any and all invaders.
Much more could be said about our powerful immune alliance and its many checks and balances that keep its response measured and timely. It is fascinating, for instance, how the mother passes on her immune cells to her child, first by her blood stream and then by way of her colostrum-rich milk, emphasizing the tremendous value of supportive nutrition during pregnancy and breast-feeding after birth to give the infant all the support it needs in building its own immune alliance. This is true for the animal kingdom in general wherein each species passes on its collective immunity and adaptations to the progeny through the egg or the milk.
Much has been written on the subject of stress and the immune system, a system that actually "talks" to our nervous and hormonal systems and vice versa. All these systems are integrated as one, as we have noted, and work together in governing our emotional as well as physical feelings. Stress and fatigue depress the immune system while joy and laughter stimulate it. Balance in all aspects of our lives is what this is all about.
Perhaps we can learn something from our body's ruthless intolerance of non-self invaders of the body-temple in developing a sense of diligence in purging from our hearts and minds feelings and thoughts that are not true to our authentic Self but which invade our personal space without notice and threaten to defile our holy place within. The simple act of tagging them as not you, naming and acknowledging them as being there in your feelings but not identifying with them, allows them to be released into the purifying fires of the Spirit of Purification, where the energy maintaining them may be harvested and blended back into the circulation of Life in and through the body temple and the individual. In this is Life eternal.
One of my blog followers expresses poetically how his heart is like a furnace in this passionate response to my previous post:
My heart is a cauldron; a fuming, bubbling lava lake in the core of the volcano. Any thought, word, deed that happens to drop into its reach is decomposed, dissolved from its structure into its original component chemistry, purified, and recycled into the system.
My heart is a bottomless lake; the specific weight of any structure of thought, and emotion, drags it down, slowly, under its own weight; ever lower, deeper. Until, crushed by the pressure of the deep, it fragments, floating back to surface in the unrecognizable guise of its pristine origins.
My heart is a drop of pure elixir; the cure for all ills. The most concentrated, refined, the purest essence of ecstasy. It is the stuff of tears of joy. The product of the cellular absorption of the wonderful way all fits into a multi-dimensional Rubik cube.
Our body temples are created to accommodate the incarnate beings we are –"angels from the realms of glory," if you will. We are each a unique differentiation of the One Great Spirit, from whom we all spring forth through living flesh to appear on earth and co-create a heaven. The purpose of the incarnate angel is to accommodate the creative expression of the Spirit of God. In my next post, "The Angelic Gland," I will expand on this theme and show how our sacred energy anatomy facilitates this expression. If you have any thoughts or inspirations to share, please do so. My email address is below. Until my next post,
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"The Chalice of Collective Sovereignty"— Restoring Camelot
"I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems that there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders anymore. It is because they are no longer needed. The message is clear. You no longer want to be led from the outside. Every man must be his own leader. He now knows enough not to follow other people. He must follow the light that's within himself, and through this light he will create a new community. You see, wherever I go in the world, this to me is a general trend. I am aware of the fact that there are already people in existence today—take us—who really belong to a community which does not yet exist. That is, we are the bridge between the community we've left and the community which doesn't exist yet. —(Laurens Van De Post, A Walk with a White Bushman," 1986)
Democracy, as we profess to practice it here in America, is not working. Leadership from above-down is being rejected globally as people are awakening to their own inner spirit guidance. The paradigm of leadership has shifted from top-down governance to governance from within the individual, and the grassroots community.
In truth, we do not have a democracy here in America. Democracy is grassroots government: "Of the people, by the people and for the people." Our government leaders are elected to serve "we the people." They are our employees not our bosses, yet as a whole they do not serve the interests of the people but are beholden to their campaign donors and lobbyists. So, in reality, we do not have a true democracy here is America. What we do have in Washington, and on Wall Street, is a cartel of corporations enabled by an aggressively lobbied congress and empowered by an ambivalent, dictatorial, narcissistic president. It's a legal entity called "Corporate America," and its enterprises are raking in massive profits on the backs of "we the consumers." A paradigm shift is due and in the offing.
That shift will not come, however, without trade-offs and radical change. One trade-off is the relinquishing of our addiction to oil and to all the "stuff" produced by Corporate America. Liberty Mutual Insurance has a sensible slogan: "Only pay for what you need." We do need clean energy . . . and we could do without all the "stuff" we buy but don't really need. We don't really need wars, nor space travel. We do need to take care of our own here at home.
Another trade-off is the obvious need to let go of our old-school ways of being told what we can and cannot do. In other words, the safety net that lets us feel secure within the boundaries of "the law"– a law that has lost its sanctity as those in high places skirt around it, largely with impunity. The fact that the U.S. Supreme Court holds the position that a sitting president cannot be indicted on criminal charges speaks to the provision in our government for a dictatorship.
So, letting go of the way we've felt "safe" within a law-based governance is a challenge in light of the fact that not everyone has yet awakened to their inner spirit guidance. While there is wisdom in not burning all our bridges just yet, there is greater wisdom in building new bridges to the future, bridges that are vibrationally supported by the shift in cosmic energy toward a new paradigm of leadership. Because, as the new paradigm emerges, as it will, the old paradigm will continue to fail us, eventually collapsing altogether, leaving us to our own devices in a state of anarchy, if only for a transitional period. So, we are hesitant to let go of "the devil we know" in lieu of the one we don't — and rebellion is not the answer.
Where cities like Paris, France, and Hong Kong, China are in a state of turmoil as their citizens march in the streets in violent protests against injustice and corrupt leadership, only death and destruction will ensue.
The world has had Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi who have set the tone and the precedent for real change through peaceful non-compliance and non-violent resistance. Legendary Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh led the movement of non-violent resistance in Vietnam until he was exiled. He taught compassion as the only way to end terrorism. These men arose from out of the grassroots of the societies they sought to rescue from the murderous hands of bigots and tyrants.
This kind of leadership can be seen emerging throughout the global community today. This is what author Diana Durham speaks to in her book The Return of King Arthur, from which I have borrowed these excerpts for inclusion in Sacred Anatomy:
Speaking of her own personal transformation within the container of an intentional spiritual community that went through a transformation itself in the wake of the passing of its spiritual God-parent and leader, Diana writes:
THE CHALICE OF COLLECTIVE SOVEREIGNTY
There is a great fear of losing the sword—a fear of losing the tradition and forms that have embodied the truth for us, and a desire to try to preserve them in some way—to disobey Arthur's command. Twice Sir Bedivere, that most loyal and trusted knight, tries to hide Excalibur before finally obeying Arthur and throwing the sword into the lake. After all, if we don't preserve the sword, we might lose everything . . . .
Very often this is the way. The injection of spiritual reality brought by the great avatar, like Jesus or Buddha, one who is able to pull the sword of power, of spiritual authority, back out of the stone of fixed belief and tradition and wield it as a living reality, is turned after their death into a religion, a series of beliefs, a tradition. And people warm themselves on the little spark that still glows in the embers of that tradition, but they don't inherit the mantle of spiritual radiance. They have not become entrained into the understanding of what it really means to "Worship God"; they have not completed the quest . . . .
. . . . Thanks to Guinevere and Morgana (the heart's wisdom), Excalibur is not destined to become a sacred relic of past glory "stored in some treasure-house of mighty kings." The heart's instinctual knowing of what is right has overridden the fears and the structures of the mind, thus ensuring that Arthur's true legacy—the legacy of potency, of truth, as represented by his sword— has become a living possibility available within the subconscious mind for us all to draw on. It has not fossilized into a tradition for the elite to fight over—whether a political elite or a priestly elite; it is beyond the reach of corruption, and can only be accessed by the innocent and the true. Thanks to the quest for the Grail, thanks to the heart's compulsion to take on one's individual path and authority, the Round Table could become what it was a promise of. Our network could be transmuted from a community into a new and potent consciousness of oneness.
This is why no matter which thread of the plot we retrace to uncover the cause of Camelot's downfall, we find ourselves staring into the face of the feminine, whether it be the actions of Guinevere and Morgana or the quest for the Grail itself. Only the heart's wisdom knows how to take us from symbol to reality and carries the passion and assurance that will allow the "old order" to change and find renewal.
So we can begin to approach the meaning of the fulfillment of the Grail quest from a number of different—but related—angles. First of all, the finding of the Grail . . . means that the sense of personal separation from inner source—which I have also called the Grail King energy, love, or God—is healed. Once this happens, our dependency on a King Arthur mentor figure ceases, and we begin to live our lives from a direct sense of what fits, of what is ours to do. We can trust the compulsion of our heart because the heart realm is now operating as a direct "transmitter" of our own inner being and purpose. In this way, the heart realm is the place of connection, or oneness, with God or spiritual source, and once that consciousness of union with source is a grounded reality within us—once the ego that thinks of itself as the center of the universe is no longer dominant—then there is a basis for connecting deeply with others. The heart realm becomes the means of connecting with others, with one's "neighbor." Therefore, we also begin to share a sense of oneness with one another, and a sense of being—hologram-like—parts of a whole that also contain in miniature the design of the whole.
The sense of oneness with others, combined with the ability to discern direction for ourselves, enables the other meaning of the Grail to emerge, which is the aspect of collective leadership: the circle of many individuals forming one body.
Collective leadership is not possible while we are still dependent on a mentor figure both for our own sense of spiritual alignment and for a sense of direction. Nor is it possible unless there is a sense of oneness to bind us together—as well as the ability to discern for ourselves (as opposed to being subject to "peer pressure") what our actions need to be.
We remember that the individual sword—or sense of authority—is earned by going on a quest for the Grail. Perceval is given the sword on his first visit to the Grail Castle. The return of Arthur in a form of the return of many individuals wielding their individual swords—in other words, the condition of collective leadership—cannot come about until the Grail is found and this collective consciousness is formed . . . .(pp. 203-206)
The Grail is found in the legends, and finding the Grail symbolizes not only the individual experience of openhearted connection to spiritual source in oneself but also the emergence of the possibility of collective leadership. When Arthur throws that sword into the lake, a woman's hand reaches up to take it. A new opportunity has been fertilized: a new union between masculine and feminine, and the emergence of an era of collective sovereignty. When we talk about the rise of the feminine we are describing a crucial aspect of this new era. Obviously this new possibility has been emerging for some time in the form of the suffragettes and the women's movement. Closely allied with the struggle for equal rights for women was the civil rights movement in the United States. Leadership has been rising up from the grassroots, bringing immense changes and balancing out some of the injustices of society's myopic structures. Collective leadership implies both the roundness of the chalice cup—without hierarchy, containing all—the feminine; and the absoluteness of the sword, the element of individual responsibility required for true leadership: the masculine. (pp. 6-7)
What Durham is describing here is a renewal process of the Pituitary Gland that appears to be underway, both within individuals and the collective body of Man. As masculine/feminine energies find a way to work in harmony and balance within us as two in agreement in the Spirit of Love, individually and collectively, the Spirit of the Womb can then work its hormonal and alchemical magic of renewal on the planet. Camelot can then be restored where men and women partner together to provide a home for God on Earth.
This post brings this series on the spiritual significance of the pituitary gland to a close. I trust you have gained a deeper appreciation for your sacred anatomy. I will leave you with this powerful interview of Thich Nhat Hanh by Oprah Winfrey. Until my next post . . .
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"To love another person is to see the face of God"
This past Labor Day weekend, Bonnie and I watched PBS's presentation of Les Miserables in concert format and enjoyed every minute of this powerful musical. Jean Valjean's (Alfie Boe) last words before dying still resonate in my heart: "To love another person is to see the face of God." Wow! My eyes teared up as he sang this line, as they did throughout the story. I was moved by the music and the songs, especially when Fontaine (Lea Salonga) poured her heart out in "I Dreamed a Dream," and Alfie Boe, with his rich baritone voice, sang "Bring Him Home." But then, I'm a softy and tear up easily when sweet and caring words are spoken and acts of extraordinary generosity are portrayed in movies. Some scenes simply touch a tender spot in my heart of longing for life in our world to be as beautiful and full of simple acts of kindness and appreciation as portrayed in movies such as this.
I am blessed to have someone close to love and to share life with. It's a privilege I do not take for granted—although it is granted. Bonnie and I both acknowledge that we are truly a gift from Life to one another, a gift for whom I am deeply thankful, especially as we age together in a high-tech world that seems to be leaving us behind, and dear friends and family members are departing.
We have been gifted by Life in the many friends we've come to know over the years. I marvel at times at how we are naturally, though magically, drawn together by Spirit, occasioned by common interests and sheer resonance at times, and remain connected in spirit, though miles and oceans apart. We are clearly part of a global spiritual community that abides and serves the One in the larger Body of Man at a level clearly above the physical, yet includes the physical.
We are drawn together by Love, just as surely as the cells of our bodies are drawn together by Love and arranged by perfect design to function together in a controlled and purposeful manner as a true community—thanks to our wonderful Pituitary gland and the Spirit of Truth focused here— and the Spirit of Love focused in the Pineal gland . . . and the Spirit of Life focused in and by the Thyroid gland (which I will write about shortly) . . . and all of the other glands of our endocrine system that provide their unique focus for Life in the body. The word focus is the operative word here for the theme of this post, in which I am happy to share this except from my book SACRED ANATOMY.
A Collective Body
Whether we are aware of it or not, our function on Earth greatly impacts the balance of creation throughout the solar entity, just as the function of the Pituitary determines the balance of energy and chemistry in our bodies. How we use this sacred seal is crucial to the outworking of creative cycles throughout the body, as well as our relationship with others in our worlds. It is designed to honor and give focus for the Spirit of Truth. We use this seal correctly when our passion is for the truth of love in our momentary living.
It is the prayer of many who have vision, and who offer themselves as spiritual mentors these days, that we all become conscious of our true identity as angelic beings and aware of our mission and heavenly purpose so that we might play our parts with genuine authority in our collective role of wise stewardship, exercising loving dominion over the balance of Creation on this planet. A global awakening to this reality in the collective has occurred over the past few decades. What is being called for today, I feel, is a certain meekness of mind, a willingness born of true humility to be teachable and to explore together what is required of us during these historic and crucial days of completion and new beginnings as we move into the new millennium. When the mind is meek and teachable, still and open to explore new possibilities, the heart may feel free to open up and start trusting its perceptions and, more importantly, sharing its perspectives and understanding. It is with the heart's discernment that we feel our way through the darkness in this world. It is with her understanding and perspectives, based on spirit rather than structure, that we will forge a path to the "world waiting to be born" Scott Peck envisioned and wrote about. This is what true vision is.
It has been said, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." It also follows that where there is vision the people flourish. It is important, then, that those with vision, those who know and know that they know, by virtue of their own living the truth of love, come forward to shed light into the darkness of human misunderstanding and confusion. This is happening on a grander scale now than ever before. Everywhere I turn I see individuals living and speaking their truth with authority and assurance, even if not with pristine clarity as yet. There is much more to come in the way of purity of heart and clarity of understanding. There's no need to put this process on hold, however, until the heart is fully purified. As each one puts his and her piece of truth into the collective container of consciousness, the picture continues to clarify for all. It is the shining of one's light that the capacity for shining is transformed and clarified, as well as grows.
To use a biblical metaphor, one does not light a candle and place it under a bushel but in a place where it can be seen by men and where it will light up the entire room. We all have a part to play and everyone's part, without exception, is essential to the whole picture and to the inevitable outcome of the cycles of change presently underway on Earth. No one will remain untouched or unchanged by these re-creative cycles that are bringing us all together as One Body for the One Spirit we all love and seek to serve more fully.
In our love for the One and for one another, the true design of spiritual governance through a pattern of harmonic focalization would naturally begin to be unveiled and fleshed out on a basis that is acceptable to all who keep their I single in the Spirit whose design it is. That Spirit is not an elusive, inaccessible entity, but rather is closer than breath. It differentiates itself through each one of us, as it does in the natural world around us, in focalized patterns. Life is an organizing force that brings order and harmony out of chaos and confusion. The Universe attests to its creative genius.
We each focus a unique aspect and frequency of Spirit. We are drawn toward—and we draw to ourselves—those with whom we naturally resonate in Spirit at the core of our hearts. This is what I mean by harmonic focalization. To use a musical metaphor, some of us sing melodies in the life of a community and others of us sing harmonies around them. Those of us who usually sing harmonies sometimes find ourselves singing melodies with others, who perhaps usually sing melodies, gravitating toward us to harmonize—or coordinate—their parts with us. This is the organism rather than the organization model. It's the way things work in the Universe to achieve anything genuine and organic.
Nothing could be achieved in the physiology of the human body but anarchy and pandemonium without the focus of the Spirit of Love in the Pineal Body and the nurturing coordination of the Spirit of the Womb in the Pituitary gland. So is it with the collective body of humanity. Where Spirit is focalized and its differentiations coordinated in a pattern of design and control, the collective body temple comes together as a unified expression of divine love to provide a Home for God on Earth. This, I believe, is the healing the Body of God on Earth is in dire need of today, a process that appears to be underway.
I see a collective Body Temple rising in our midst today composed of incarnate beings of light the world around, men and women who have remembered who they are and why they are here, who give their utmost care and attention to the sacred in everyday life. All are invited to play a role in this temple, be it large or small. The Earth itself is being recognized once again for the Sacred Temple it provides for the continual praise and worship of the Creator in this Solar Entity, this Cathedral of the living God.
Speaking of individuals emerging who carry a current of love for truth in their writings, my friend and poet Diana Durham's book The Return of King Arthur, which is written around the theme of the quest for the Holy Grail, a myth full of symbolism that points to the reality of human experience, past, present and future, may well be the single most important book at the dawn of the New Millennium, certainly among the top ten. The author names, like no other author I have read to date, where we have been and how we have been wounded, where we are now and where we are headed—and naming the wound is the first step toward healing. Her chapter eleven, "The Chalice of Collective Sovereignty," is a must-read for every awakened human being on the planet at this time of global transformation and transition out of the old and into the New Era. I simply cannot resist sharing just a few of the many morsels of her wisdom here in this consideration of the collective body, and as a fitting closing to our meditation on the roles the Pituitary Gland and Spirit of the Womb play in our body temples. –(from SACRED ANATOMY)
Due to their length, I will publish the excerpts from her book in my next post, concluding this series on the Spiritual Significance of the Pituitary Gland.
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The Spiritual Significance of the Pituitary Gland
"If you continue in my word, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (Jesus)
I love it when someone says or writes something that moves me to re-think my beliefs — my belief about "the Truth" for instance, and how it makes us free. The word "truth" has acquired a rather dogmatic connotation. I have adopted a more philosophical meaning that's free of parochial baggage:
Truth is simply design and control.
Truth is what makes things and events what they are — shapes them and gives them purposeful function and freedom of movement. For example, the truth of a hand is its shape and flexibility, its main purpose being to hold things. "Hands are the servants of the body," someone once said. If it were to lose its characteristics, we could say the hand has lost its truth — along with its freedom of movement.
In the case of events, the truth is what's behind the facts that shapes them and gives them their meaning and purpose. Someone recently said that in order to find the truth you have to know the facts. Facts may lead to the truth, but facts are not truth. Facts are the surface play of events behind which lies their truth. Altering the facts with "fake news" does not change the truth. As the saying goes, the truth will out — and free us from deception.
All things have their truth, and when their truth is compromised, things break down and fail to function. If one uses one's hand as a hammer, for example, it will get damaged and eventually break down. Thankfully, we have pain to stop such abuse. When one goes to the doctor with a broken hand, the doctor will put it in a cast to stabilize it so that it can heal. Healing occurs as the truth of the hand returns to it — from within — freeing it from its limitations.
The truth of a human being is not the collection of concepts and beliefs acquired by the mind. The truth of a human being is the Spirit that informs our flesh, gives it design, control and freedom of movement; that enlightens our minds so we can see clearly what is true and what is false, freeing us from the limitations of preconceived concepts and beliefs. That spirit has been called "The Spirit of Truth."
This brings me to this new series of considerations on the spiritual significance of the Pituitary gland with excerpts from my book SACRED ANATOMY.
THE PITUITARY GLAND & THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
Underneath the brain is a saddle-shaped depression in the sphenoid bone called the Sella Tursica. The sphenoid is a large bone appearing in shape like a bat in flight forming the floor of the skull and connecting all the bones of the cranium together. Here the Pituitary gland (hypophysis) rests protected in her bony saddle, much as a queen upon her throne exercising loving but firm dominion over her queendom. In size and shape similar to that of a green pea, the Pituitary's domain is the entire endocrine system and the overall production of hormones throughout the body. It accomplishes all of this with the coordinating assistance of the Hypothalamus. For this reason it has earned the distinguished title of the "Master Gland" or "Mother Gland."
The Pituitary encompasses both masculine and feminine functions. Comprised of two lobes, anterior and posterior, this gland is suspended by a stalk attached to the Hypothalamus at the base of the brain, from which it receives decision-making commands regarding its own hormonal secretions. These commands are the positive creative emanations of the Spirit of Love. They are based in part on information about the surrounding circumstances received through the eyes by way of light, as well as through the other physical, mental and emotional senses. They bring the patterns of design and control for the manifestation of life in and through the body temple.
Pituitary gland seated in the Sella Tursica
The anterior lobe of the Pituitary (adenohypophysis) secretes most of the Pituitary hormones which stimulate growth, egg and sperm development, milk secretion, as well as determining the hormonal secretions of the thyroid, adrenal and gonadal glands and affects the growth of long bones, muscles and internal organs, all functions of the achieving masculine.
The posterior lobe of the Pituitary (neurohypophysis) stores and releases hormones from the hypothalamus that control Pituitary function, uterine contraction and milk release and blood pressure. It is concerned more with the mammary glands, stimulating the production of milk through the hormone prolactin, for example, and the kidneys by regulating the secretion of urine and body fluid levels in general, all functions of the nurturing feminine.
There are many functions in the body temple which this tiny but pivotal gland services. One of its most important ones is the production of growth hormones that regulate the cellular absorption of nutrients to control their development. Growth hormones also work with insulin in controlling blood sugar. Another function influenced by the Pituitary gland is the metabolism, the building up and tearing down of tissues and the burning of food for energy. This is likely its most important of services to the body, one which it carries out in partnership with the thyroid and adrenal glands by stimulating them to release thyroxine and glucocorticoid hormones. In fact, most of the production of pituitary hormones is for the purpose of stimulating other hormonal glands. Such hormones are called precursors because they are literally forerunners to the hormones that are produced by their facilitation.
An interesting function of the Pituitary, relating to its motherly role, is the production of oxytocin, a hormone secreted by the pituitary glands of both mother and baby triggered by the pressure on the top of the infant's head exerted by the hyper-extended surrounding tissues of the womb. This somehow gives a signal to the child to initiate the series of contractions in the uterus that push it out at the time of birth. At the same time it starts up the production of milk, the first food it will need after the umbilical cord is cut. One doesn't commonly think of the baby initiating its own birthing process. Nevertheless, here is a living example of the child of Love obeying the wise direction of its Mother, the Spirit of Truth working through the Pituitary gland, while exercising its freedom, based simply in how things work in the natural order and design, to set its own cycles in motion and therein assume full responsibility for all that follows this first step that initiates life in the conscious world.
THE SEAT OF WISDOM
In partnership with the Pineal gland, the Pituitary gland provides a focus in the body temple for the nurturing Spirit of the Womb, another name for the Spirit of Truth. These names aptly describe the function of this gland in the growth and maturation processes in the body, much as a mother wisely oversees the care and nurturing of her offspring. Here is the seat of wisdom where the impeccable design and absolute control bring the firm dominion of spiritual and corporeal governance into the affairs of the temple and beyond.
The essences of the Spirit of the Womb may begin to be perceived as we meditate more deeply upon the furnishings of the temple, represented in their metaphorical details in the story of the Ark of the Covenant. In front of the ark an altar was placed and on the altar a golden candlestick. This candlestick was unusual in that it held seven candles. It was so fashioned that out from the one central candlestick branched six other candles so as to form a candelabrum which held seven candles. The description of this candelabrum is remarkably detailed in Exodus (25:31-40).
And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knobs, and his flowers, shall be of the same….Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
The Menorah
First of all, the candlestick is made of pure gold, symbolizing the spirit and golden substance of love out of which the seven endocrine glands, along with the entire body temple, are made. It was a "beaten work" which means it was all made out of one solid piece of gold. As portrayed in this picture of the Menorah, the shaft, branches, bowls, knobs and flowers of this candlestick symbolize the endocrine system with its masculine and feminine hormonal glands, many of them almond-like in shape. They are blended together in this candelabrum just as both the man and the woman have masculine and feminine energies working within them.
A profound sense of awe comes over me each time I read this passage, arousing in my innermost core a sense of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine together in rapturous embrace — Father God received into the womb of Mother God. It is clearly apparent to me that present within our own body temples is the reality which this prophetic candelabrum symbolizes — the seven endocrine glands powered by the Spirit of Love focused in the Pineal and carefully coordinated by the Spirit of the Womb via the Pituitary, to make the Spirit of Life manifest in the body temple with all its majesty and glory in a continual ceremony of ascension. Here, indeed, is where divine Man was created and placed by the LORD God on the sixth day of creation. Not the mortal man we know today but divine Man, a state of Immortal Being which we have long forgotten but are beginning to re-member, not only in theory but in actual experience.
The first divine man . . . was created on the sixth day; that is, on the sixth plane of world being, where union takes place and the change from negative to positive is consummated. Divine man was to have dominion over all the earth, and everything on the earth. (Uranda, The Triune Ray)
Here is the positive radiation of love coming to focus in the masculine energy which gives its release potency and penetration. This description of "his shaft, his branches, his bowls, his knobs and his flowers" portrays the Divine Masculine in his positive, vertical presence in harmonious partnership with the Divine Feminine, drawing forth the creativity inherent in her responsive juiciness and elegant, nurturing reception and embrace of his seminal expressions of love at the sixth level of being where they were placed together in the Garden planted Eastward in Eden to dress and to keep it. She never tires in her role of preparing a fertile womb for their gestation, protection and maturation.
The Spirit of the Womb contains the very essences of the Creative Process at the sixth plane of being, a principle that is solely concerned with bringing forth the seeds of love through the cycles of conception, gestation, growth and development, and eventual harvest and birth. It is the role of Mother God, played so majestically and meticulously, looking after every last detail with as much care as she will show for the baby itself once it is born through her womb. It is the role of Father God empowering her and supporting her in every large and small way needed for their labor of love. Man, Masculine and Feminine, is the Mother of God.
This was not just an ordinary candelabrum for holding candles to illumine an otherwise dark temple. It was a ceremonial candle depicting the profoundly sacred and erotogenic anatomy of Man which is designed to facilitate creation, which itself was designed to facilitate the ceremony of ascension of substance before the throne of God in heaven as well as on earth. —-(Excerpted from SACRED ANATOMY)
Credits: Graphic art by David Stefaniak
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Q: How to format HTTP request to discord API? While this code works, it sends "Bad Request".
import socket, ssl
token = 'NzMyMzQ1MTcwNjK2MTR5OEU3.XrzQug.BQzbrckR-THB9eRwZi3Dn08BWrM'
HOST = "discord.com"
PORT = 443
t = 'POST / HTTP/1.0\r\nAuthentication: Bot {token}\r\nHost: discord.com/api/guilds/{702627382091186318}/channels\r\n\r\n'
context = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s_sock = context.wrap_socket(s, server_hostname=HOST)
s_sock.connect((HOST, 443))
s_sock.sendall(t.encode())

f = s_sock.recv(7000).decode()
print(f)

s_sock.close()

Note: this is not a real token.

A:
t = 'POST / HTTP/1.0\r\nAuthentication: Bot {token}\r\nHost: discord.com/api/guilds/{702627382091186318}/channels\r\n\r\n'

This is not a valid HTTP request. You essentially send (line breaks added for clarity):
 POST / HTTP/1.0\r\n
 Authentication: Bot {token}\r\n
 Host: discord.com/api/guilds/{702627382091186318}/channels\r\n
 \r\n

But a correct POST request would look like this instead:
 POST /api/guilds/{702627382091186318}/channels HTTP/1.0\r\n
 Authentication: Bot {token}\r\n
 Host: discord.com\r\n
 Content-length: ...
 \r\n
 <body, where size matches Content-length header>

I.e. you have the wrong path, wrong Host header, missing body and missing Content-length header. If you really want to write your own HTTP stack instead of using existing libraries please study the standards instead of just guessing how it might look - that what standards are for.

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August 15, 2015 by Shelly Palmer
Apple TV – The End of Days Will Be Slightly Delayed
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While only rumors can be reported about Apple's upcoming September 9, 2015 press event (happening on opening day of our Media Tech Summit in Las Vegas—thanks, Apple), it is widely believed that the company will announce the next version of the iPhone 6 (possibly the 6s or a new iPhone 7) and some new Apple TV hardware.
But according to some new, better rumors, Apple will have to delay the announcement of its "live" Apple TV streaming service until sometime in 2016 for two excellent reasons: (1) Apple is having trouble making content deals, and (2) Apple has no idea how much bandwidth it's going to need to deliver the service.
According to Bloomberg News, "Talks to license programming from TV networks such as those owned by CBS Corp. and 21st Century Fox Inc. are progressing slowly."
While the difficulty of these negotiations may have surprised Apple, no one in the TV business would have expected anything else. The consensus among those familiar with the negotiations is that Apple was or is mostly looking for premium content at below market prices. Unless something remarkable occurs, or some major TV executives go temporarily insane, this is not going to happen.
Apple will not only have to pay market prices for its television content, it will probably have to pay more – because at, or above, market compensation is the only evolutionarily stable strategy for the TV industry.
A good way to think about this is the predator/prey relationship enjoyed by rabbits and foxes. Most rabbits are faster than foxes. Why? The fox can always go hunting for another dinner; the rabbit does not get that chance. So it will be with the TV industry. Cut a bad deal with Apple TV and death is all but certain.
Wait! Apple TV is not the only game in town, and TV content producers and rightsholders have hundreds of other distribution options. "Death" is hyperbole, and a distribution via Apple TV is just another deal.
It is more likely that the TV industry is doing exactly what it should be doing: treating Apple with healthy respect. Apple is an unemotional destroyer of traditional business models. This deal will have to be substantially on the TV industry's terms, or TV needs to walk away.
For this brief moment in time, Apple may actually need the TV industry more than the TV industry needs Apple. It has been widely reported, and clear to anyone who follows Apple, that "television programming is a key part of Apple's strategy to use music, information and entertainment to keep the company and its devices at the center of people's digital lives." This is great news for the TV industry as long as it gets well paid and retains or, more importantly, has access to the data generated from user interaction with its content. In a data-driven future, advertisers and marketers will only care about content as a generator of actionable data. Nothing else will matter.
Broadcast vs. Broadband
Then there's Apple's other major issue. Broadcast infrastructure works great. Broadband infrastructure is a scarce resource. How will Apple assemble an infrastructure capable of delivering emotionally satisfying video streams on par with the three 9's, and in some cases four 9's, of service enjoyed by most cable customers? The public Internet was not built for this.
According to Nielsen, the average American watches approximately five hours of television per day. This number varies by age group and demographics, but not the way you think it does. So before you start thinking about what this five-hour number means, visit Nielsen or the TVB and have a look.
What you will learn is that completely new Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) will have to evolve before anyone can replicate the viewership capacity of broadcast networks using broadband technology. This is a nontrivial issue. That said, if Moore's Law and the Law of Accelerating Returns can be used to help calculate broadband distribution capacity, get ready for some serious streaming content.
So Why the End of Days?
Consumers don't care where their content comes from or how they get it. To consumers, it's all just video. On the other hand, we – the television industry – care deeply about how content gets from point A to point B. Commercials are priced very differently when you watch Law & Order: SVU in Primetime on NBC versus the same show in Primetime (or anytime) on TNT. The dollars are even more divergent when you watch the same show on demand (via your cable system) or when you watch on demand via a streaming service. The dollars are wildly different when you purchase a download at the Apple store (or anywhere else, for that matter).
The dual model, advertising plus subscription revenue, is based upon many different, mostly opaque, deals. Importantly, no one really knows how many people are watching any particular piece of content or who they actually are. Current measurement technology can give you a reasonable (albeit archaic) idea, but the business is largely built on turning pretty bad data into action.
When Apple TV really gets going, the system will have exceptional data, and turning it into action will be job one. This will include a dispassionate look at the value of each piece of content against its target. Make the cut, you win – but not big, just a win.
The Technology Promise
The original promise that technologists made to the content business went something like this: If you know exactly who is watching, one million people watching one million different things are as actionable as one million people watching the same thing.
So far, no company has been able to test this theory at scale. Not even YouTube. If this turns out to be true, it will be the end of days for the traditional business model – a model that remunerates future performance on the basis of past performance and a model that, on its best day, guesses at ROI.
In a precious, rare moment, Apple finds itself slightly weaker than any industry-watcher would have ever suspected. It can't strong-arm the TV industry on rates, and it really doesn't have an appropriate solution for content distribution at scale.
With excellent negotiations, the TV industry has a chance to evolve into a bigger industry (by viewership) than it ever was. If not, it can at least enjoy this delay to the end of days.
About Shelly Palmer
Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, co-founder of Metacademy, and the CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with technology, media and marketing. Named LinkedIn's "Top Voice in Technology," he covers tech and business for Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN and CNBC and writes a popular daily business blog. He's the Co-Host of the award-winning podcast Techstream with Shelly Palmer & Seth Everett and his latest book, Blockchain - Cryptocurrency, NFTs & Smart Contracts: An executive guide to the world of decentralized finance, is an Amazon #1 Bestseller. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.
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  protect_from_forgery

  def index
    ids = params[:format].split('/') if params[:format]
    @rooms = Room.all if not params[:format]
    @rooms = ids.map do |id|
      Room.find_by_id(id)
    end if params[:format]
  end

  def new
    @room = Room.new
    @house = House.order(:name)
  end

  def create
    @room = Room.new(room_params)
    @room.save
    @house = House.where(id: @room[:house_id]).take
    @data = {}
    @door_data = {}
    render :show
  end

  def show
    @room = Room.find(params[:id])
    @temperatures = Temperature.where(room_id: @room.id)
    @doors = Door.where(room_id: @room.id)
    @data = {}
    @door_data = {}
    @doors.map do |d|
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    end
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      @data[temp.created_at] = temp.value
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    @house = House.where(id: @room[:house_id]).take
  end

  def edit
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    @house = House.order(@room.house_id)
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  def update
    @room = Room.find(params[:id])
    @room.update(room_params)
    @house = House.where(id: @room[:house_id]).take
    @data = {}
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Q: Rake Default Task and Namespaces I have read through the docs and looked at quite a few examples but I am not clear on defaults and namespaces. (using rake, version 10.0.3)
First it seems, though I do not recall seeing this explicitly, that there can be only ONE default task regardless of how many are defined.  Apparently the load order (PROJECT_NAME::Application.load_tasks) determines the winner.  When I have struggled to create a namespaced default I have found that I have sometimes overridden the normal default for a rails app where:
rake

defaults to running the tests.
First here is the "rake -T" command:
$ rake -T a_name
rake a_name:a_task_1         # a_task_1
rake a_name:a_task_2         # a_task_2
rake a_name:b_name:b_task_1  # b_task_1
rake a_name:b_name:b_task_2  # b_task_2
rake a_name:default          # This is hopefully a namespaced default

When I run the namespace only which I am hoping is the "default" I get:
$ rake a_name
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'a_name'

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

I was expecting this to run the b_task_1 in the b_name namespace because I have declared it as the default
However, If I explicitly tack on the word "default" I get this:
$  rake a_name:default
a_task_1

Anyway I am thoroughly confused. Can anyone help clarify this for me...
namespace :a_name do

  desc "a_task_1"
  task :a_task_1 do
    puts "a_task_1"
  end

  desc "a_task_2"
  task :a_task_2 do
    puts "a_task_2"
  end

  namespace :b_name do

    desc "b_task_1"
    task :b_task_1 do
      puts "b_task_1"
    end

    desc "b_task_2"
      task :b_task_2 do
    puts "b_task_2"
    end

  end

  desc "This is hopefully a namespaced default"
  task :default => 'b_name:b_task_1'
end

A: You can define a task with the same name as your namespace. It is not as pretty as having the default task defined inside the namespace itself I think.
desc "runs bar & baz in foo"
task foo: ["foo:bar", "foo:baz"]

namespace :foo do
  desc "bar in foo"
  task :bar do
    puts "bar"
  end

  desc "baz in foo"
  task :baz do
    puts "baz"
  end
end

And that's how they get listed:
rake foo                               # runs bar & baz in foo
rake foo:bar                           # bar in foo
rake foo:baz                           # baz in foo


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<?php

namespace Magento\Customer\Test\Unit\Model\Address\Config;

class XsdTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @var string
     */
    protected $_schemaFile;

    protected function setUp()
    {
        if (!function_exists('libxml_set_external_entity_loader')) {
            $this->markTestSkipped('Skipped on HHVM. Will be fixed in MAGETWO-45033');
        }
        $urnResolver = new \Magento\Framework\Config\Dom\UrnResolver();
        $this->_schemaFile = $urnResolver->getRealPath('urn:magento:module:Magento_Customer:etc/address_formats.xsd');
    }

    /**
     * @param string $fixtureXml
     * @param array $expectedErrors
     * @dataProvider exemplarXmlDataProvider
     */
    public function testExemplarXml($fixtureXml, array $expectedErrors)
    {
        $validationStateMock = $this->getMock('\Magento\Framework\Config\ValidationStateInterface', [], [], '', false);
        $validationStateMock->method('isValidationRequired')
            ->willReturn(true);
        $dom = new \Magento\Framework\Config\Dom($fixtureXml, $validationStateMock, [], null, null, '%message%');
        $actualResult = $dom->validate($this->_schemaFile, $actualErrors);
        $this->assertEquals(empty($expectedErrors), $actualResult);
        $this->assertEquals($expectedErrors, $actualErrors);
    }

    public function exemplarXmlDataProvider()
    {
        return [
            'valid' => ['<config><format code="code" title="title" /></config>', []],
            'valid with optional attributes' => [
                '<config><format code="code" title="title" renderer="Some_Renderer" escapeHtml="false" /></config>',
                [],
            ],
            'empty root node' => [
                '<config/>',
                ["Element 'config': Missing child element(s). Expected is ( format )."],
            ],
            'irrelevant root node' => [
                '<attribute name="attr"/>',
                ["Element 'attribute': No matching global declaration available for the validation root."],
            ],
            'irrelevant node' => [
                '<config><format code="code" title="title" /><invalid /></config>',
                ["Element 'invalid': This element is not expected. Expected is ( format )."],
            ],
            'non empty node "format"' => [
                '<config><format code="code" title="title"><invalid /></format></config>',
                ["Element 'format': Element content is not allowed, because the content type is empty."],
            ],
            'node "format" without attribute "code"' => [
                '<config><format title="title" /></config>',
                ["Element 'format': The attribute 'code' is required but missing."],
            ],
            'node "format" without attribute "title"' => [
                '<config><format code="code" /></config>',
                ["Element 'format': The attribute 'title' is required but missing."],
            ],
            'node "format" with invalid attribute' => [
                '<config><format code="code" title="title" invalid="invalid" /></config>',
                ["Element 'format', attribute 'invalid': The attribute 'invalid' is not allowed."],
            ],
            'attribute "escapeHtml" with invalid type' => [
                '<config><format code="code" title="title" escapeHtml="invalid" /></config>',
                [
                    "Element 'format', attribute 'escapeHtml': 'invalid' is not a valid value of the atomic type" .
                    " 'xs:boolean'."
                ],
            ]
        ];
    }
}


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The government on Wednesday decided to transfer 0.5 <g data-gr-id="23">acre</g> of land belonging to the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) for setting up of a new police station at Cuttack, Odisha. A decision in this regard was taken in the meeting of the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, here.
"The Union Cabinet gave its approval for the proposal of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to transfer 0.5 <g data-gr-id="25">acre</g> of land belonging to the CRRI Cuttack to the Police Department, Government of Odisha," an official statement said.
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Q: Java inheritance overriding instance variable I am learning java. I have a doubt in inheritance. When a child class extends parent class and  parent class has a method which refers to a instance variable declared in parent. But the child class dint override this method and has declared instance variable with same name as the parent. In this case instance variable from child will be referred or parent will be referred. Below is the code snippet
class Parent {
    int a;
    Parent() {
        System.out.println("in Parent");
        a = 10;
    }
    void method() {
        System.out.println(a);
    }
}
class Child extends Parent {
    int a;
    Child() {
        System.out.println("in Child");
        a = 11;
    }
}

public class Test {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
        Parent p1 = new Child();
        p1.method();
    }
}

The output I get is
in parent
in child
10
Can someone please make me understand why its referring parent class's instance variable a and not child class's a.
Another  doubt is, I understood hiding the method, when there is a static method in parent and child class also has declared a static method with same signature. Here hiding means ? what method is getting hidden ? If its the parent method can you please explain me ?
Thanks in advance.

A: *

*Java instance variables cannot be overridden in a subclass.  Java inheritance doesn't work that way.

*In your example, there is no method hiding (or overriding or overloading) going on.

*There is hiding of instance variables though.  In class child, the declaration of a hides the declaration of a in parent, and all references to a in the child class refer to the child.a not the parent.a.
To illustrate this more plainly, try running this:
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
    child c1 = new child();
    parent p1 = c1;

    System.out.println("p1.a is " + p1.a);
    System.out.println("c1.a is " + c1.a);
    System.out.println("p1 == c1 is " + (p1 == c1));
}

It should output:
    p1.a is 10
    c1.a is 11
    p1 == c1 is true

This demonstrates that there is one object with two distinct fields called a ... and you can get hold of both of their values, if the access permits it.

Finally, you should learn to follow the standard Java identifier conventions.  A class name should ALWAYS start with a capital letter.

A: Instance variables are not overriden in sub-class. If you define a variable in your class with the same name as in your super class it's called shadowing of variables inheritance and polymorphism doesn't apply for instance variables. if you define method() in parent and override it in Child class. the below would invoke the Child's method() due to run-time polymorphism printing 11
 parent p1 = new child();

*

*invokes Child constructor

*with the super() call invoke's parent's constructor

*Print's "in the parent" and initializes Parent's a to 10

*print's in child and initializes Childs a to 11
    p1.method();// this invokes Child's method() during run-time

A: When you do this
Parent P1=new Child();
what JVM do is
               first  Initialize Parent()

                         ||

               second Initialize Child()

So , first Parent constructor get called and then child's , but the output value will be 11 , because p1 is referring to child's object.

A: As you are not overriding method() in child class, when the statement,
parent p1 = new child();

is executed, parent version of method() will be executed, and the only a value known to parent class is its own a. hence it will print a=10 (as it is on the stack at that time).
finally, you are just shadowing the variable a from parent class to child class.

A: The issue is you created a child instance and stored it in a reference of the parent. Hence, when your access the object's property, JVM refers to the parent's variable value.
In case, it would have been a child class's reference variables, you would have received the child class' variable value.
The above is a feature of Java.

A: As you create the Instance of Parent. so in run time the compiler call the parent object ,
try the Below code.
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
    child c1 = new child();
    c1.method();
}


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/*
 * @author: Necva Bolucu (@necvabolucu)
 * @author: Salih Tuc (@salihtuc)
 *
 * */

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;

import lbfgsb.LBFGSBException;
import lbfgsb.Minimizer;
//import lbfgsb.Minimizer;
import lbfgsb.Result;

public class Main {

	static PrintWriter pw = null;

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		try {
			pw = new PrintWriter(new File("outp.txt"));
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
			e1.printStackTrace();
		}

		JointModel.initialize();

		/* LBFGS-B part */
		Minimizer alg = new Minimizer();
		alg.getStopConditions().setMaxIterations(10000);
		alg.setDebugLevel(1);

		Result ret;
		try {
			ret = alg.run(new Function(), JointModel.tagFeatureWeights);

			double finalValue = ret.functionValue;
			double[] finalGradient = ret.gradient;

			System.out.println("Final Value: " + finalValue);
			Main.pw.println("Final Value: " + finalValue);
			System.out.println("Gradients:");

			JointModel.normalizeFeatures(finalGradient, "transition");
			JointModel.normalizeFeatures(finalGradient, "initial");
			JointModel.normalizeFeatures(finalGradient, "generalEmission");

			JointModel.updateProbabilities(finalGradient, JointModel.gradFeature2Index);
//			JointModel.updateGeneralEmissions();
			JointModel.tagFeatureWeights = finalGradient;

			Tools.printDoubleArray(finalGradient);

			for (String s : JointModel.transitionProbabilities.keySet()) {
				Main.pw.println(s + " " + JointModel.transitionProbabilities.get(s));
			}
			for (String s : JointModel.initialProbabilities.keySet()) {
				Main.pw.println(s + " " + JointModel.initialProbabilities.get(s));
			}
			for (String s : JointModel.coarseProbabilities.keySet()) {
				Main.pw.println(s + " " + JointModel.coarseProbabilities.get(s));
			}

			for (String s : JointModel.generalEmissionProbabilities.keySet()) {
				System.out.println(s + " " + JointModel.generalEmissionProbabilities.get(s));
			}

			Viterbi.tagging("outViterbi.txt");

		} catch (LBFGSBException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		pw.close();
	}

	protected static double[] createGradArray(HashMap<String, Double> transitionMap, HashMap<String, Double> initialMap, HashMap<String, Double> generalEmissionMap,
			HashMap<String, Double> emissionMap, HashMap<String, Integer> gradFeature2Index) {
		int size = gradFeature2Index.size();

		double[] weights = new double[size];
		int index = 0;

		for (String s : transitionMap.keySet()) {
			index = gradFeature2Index.get(s);
			weights[index] = transitionMap.get(s);
		}

		for (String s : initialMap.keySet()) {
			index = gradFeature2Index.get(s);
			weights[index] = initialMap.get(s);
		}

		for (String s : generalEmissionMap.keySet()) {
			index = gradFeature2Index.get(s);
			weights[index] = generalEmissionMap.get(s);
		}

//		for (String s : emissionMap.keySet()) {
//			index = gradFeature2Index.get(s);
//			weights[index] = emissionMap.get(s);
//		}

		return weights;
	}

	// This function is using for creating lattices.
	static int sentenceCount = 0;

	public static Node returnEndState(HashMap<Integer, Node> lattice) {
		Node returnNode = null;
		for (Node n : lattice.values()) {
			if (n.next.isEmpty()) {
				returnNode = n;
			}
		}
		return returnNode;
	}

	public static ArrayList<Node> returnEndStates(HashMap<Integer, Node> lattice) {

		ArrayList<Node> endStates = new ArrayList<>();

		for (Node n : lattice.values()) {
			if (n.isEndState) {
				endStates.add(n);
			}
		}

		return endStates;
	}

}


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Seemed to have taken care of the problem.
I've been getting an extremely large amount of traffic on this article since the rollout of Windows 10. I'm interested in knowing if this is an issue with Windows 10 and if it is solving whatever 'modern setup host' issue people are apparently having with Windows 10.