--> REPPED: Some interesting new warnings are surfacing about the possibility of life on earth contaminating the study of life on Mars and, simultaneously, the possibility that life on Mars could contaminate life on earth when probes someday bring samples of material back from Mars. When we talk about life here we're referring to microbial life, not large organisms like animals or flying creatures.
Is this threat of cross-contamination of microbial life a legitimate one? Are these scientists right to be concerned about it? |
| In fact, it may have been microbes from Mars that catalyzed life on earth in the first place.
And that would make us all Martians, right? |
| I do support caution when it comes to possible cross-contamination between Earth and Mars, but let's realize it is this cross-contamination that is most likely responsible for seeding life on earth, Mars, and other planets in other solar systems. Comets carry the seeds of microbial life. And when comets slam into planets, those seeds are not entirely destroyed. In fact, there was a recent study showing that microbes are capable of surviving these enormous impacts that scientists once thought would kill every living thing. |
 With very few exceptions in the form of a few bacteria that use other metals in its place, almost all life on earth needs iron to survive.
Parasites hunt us for our iron; cancer cells thrive on our iron. Finding, controlling, and using iron is the game of life. For bacteria, fungi, and protozoa, human blood and tissue are an iron gold mine. Add too much iron to the human system and you may just be loading up the buffet table. in 1952, eugene d. w e i n b e r g was a gifted microbial researcher with a healthy curiosity and a sick wife. |
 If nature were not able to cure itself from disease, life on earth would have vanished millions of years ago. All the forms of vegetation, including the trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables, as well as all the animals and insects down to the smallest amoeba and bacteria, are equipped with highly sophisticated defense mechanisms to maintain their own and the planet's existence.
Man's immune system is the most sophisticated among all species and can develop immunity to any invading organism. |
 All raw foodists agree that returning to a living foods diet is crucial for the future of life on earth (human life, plant life, animal life, etc.). And all raw foodists also agree that consuming raw living foods is an important foundation for spiritual growth and the evolution of human consciousness.
If that last phrase seems odd to you, I'll ask you to suspend disbelief and learn more about raw foods before deciding what's true about it. I can tell you from experience that it IS true: The more living foods you eat, the higher your vibration becomes. |
 Following a brief battle with the disease, he died—just as he believed he would—before reaching the 76-year mark of life on earth.
There are numerous case histories that suggest that the power of a belief can be "inherited" if it's accepted and held by others. The studies show that beliefs can even be passed on from one generation to the next. If they're positive and life affirming, the ability to perpetuate them for many generations is a good thing. |
 You do need the sun—there is no life on earth without it. But you're not choosing between no sun and all the sun you want. Regular intermittent exposure year round allows you to build up some melanin, which will buffer you from overexposure. Now-and-then sun exposure raises your vitamin D levels. Also, your skin type dictates how much sun you can tolerate. Avoid sunburns and think of sunscreen as a tool that helps to prevent sunburns and can reduce sun damage. The charts in chapter 5 will show you how to maximize sun exposure and vitamin D and minimize risk. |
 The first of Aristotle's fundamental elements of earth, air, fire, and water, soil is the root of our existence, essential to life on earth. But we treat it as a cheap industrial commodify. Oil is what most of us think of as a strategic material. Yet soil is every bit as important in a longer time frame. Still, who ever thinks about dirt as a strategic resource? In our accelerated modern lives it is easy to forget that fertile soil still provides the foundation for supporting large concentrations of people on our planet. |
| The more we learn about the unbelievably complex, immensely varied, and yet simultaneously simple origin and development of life on earth, the more it looks like a miracle, and one that is still unfolding.
The miracle of evolution. |
| In fact, they may even superimpose upon us the frightening premonition that the future of life on earth is at stake. Yet the new world is just beginning. The abolishment of outdated principles of living that have kept mankind limited and fearful for centuries leaves behind a mess of scattered pieces of knowledge that no longer make any sense. The views, which I have presented in these last few chapters, are certainly not the final answer to the puzzle of health and illness. As a matter of fact, any viewpoint is a limitation, whereas our true potential is unlimited. |
| Remember how almost every form of life on earth needs iron to survive? Well, one of the exceptions is also one of the most common probiotics, a bacterium called Lactobacillus, which uses cobalt and manganese instead of iron—which means it's not hunting yours.
Your digestive system is a veritable jungle, with hundreds of species of bacteria competing for survival—most of them working with you, but a few of them ready to work against you if they have the chance. |
 C
Allow
constantly rising emissions
650 ppm
Threshold for elimination of most life on earth...
Six degrees
5.1-5.8°C
Allow very high emissions
800 ppm
The table illustrates how hopelessly inconsistent current climate policies are - even of some major environmental groups. The European Union has mentioned (though not formally adopted) a 550 ppm target, whilst at the same time demanding that global temperature rise be kept below two degrees. In all likelihood, as the table shows, 550 ppm means four degrees plus runaway positive feedbacks. |
| Clearly, the target we need to aim for depends on what level of risk we are prepared to accept - bearing in mind that failure means runaway global warming and the destruction of most of life on earth.
Most of this discussion will sound complex and arcane to just about everyone except specialists in the subject. But it shouldn't. This is actually the key question currently facing humanity - far more important than terrorism, crime, healthcare, education or any of the other everyday concerns that fill up our newspapers and television screens. |
| And judging by carbon isotope ratios in rocks spanning the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary, we are already about halfway to the kind of searing global heatwave that was experienced then by life on earth.
The likely role of methane hydrates in causing this heatwave also offers another worrying lesson for humanity. Vast amounts of the same methane hydrates still sit, quietly biding their time, on subsea continental shelves around the world. |
| Already - independently from any change in the world's climate - we are living through what biologists have termed the sixth mass extinction of life on earth (the fifth was the extinction of the dinosaurs and half of all other life at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary). Due to combined human pressures from habitat loss, hunting, pollution, resource use and the introduction of invasive species into new areas, natural species are already becoming extinct at a rate 100-1,000 times greater than the normal background rate of loss over evolutionary time. |
 Because the brainstem continues to develop for several months after birth, what happens to us emotionally during the few months of life on earth can affect our heart function, most of our survival mechanisms, and our brain development. When we discuss breathing difficulties and heart problems later in the book, we must think about the brainstem and the memories it holds. These ailments speak of preverbal trauma and therefore may dictate where we eventually will have to go in psychotherapy. |
| I will quote further because what he states in a neuro-philosophic way dovetails precisely with our clinical observations: "Already, the individual has recapitulated, while in the womb, the physical evolution of all life on earth. Now it is racing through the stages by which life evolved mentally."9 The stages are "from mindlessness to shadowy awareness to consciousness of the world, to consciousness of self."10 Each new level is an elaboration of the previous lower level until we arrive at full consciousness. |
| Later heart disease can begin its life before we begin our social life on earth. Love not only makes the world go round, it makes the brain function the way it was meant to. All this transpires during the critical period where experience will change the brain in numerous ways, often permanently.
The only thing that is curative is to go deep down in the brain and relive the prototype—the basic personality set even before birth, the crucible for the later neurotic superstructure.
No amount of fulfillment later on can replace an early deficit of love and caring. |
| When you make that mental leap—when you think of the amazing gift of your health and your life in the context of all the nearly incomprehensible forces of the universe pulling toward chaos—it reorients you, imbuing you with a deep respect for the immensely beautiful and intricate design of life on earth. Life that has been created and re-created again and again through billions of years of trial and toil. Something so complicated and time-consuming that it has to be a labor of love. |
 Earth's species in both beneficial and destructive ways and we seek to promote lifestyles that lead to social justice, sustainability, and ecological security for all the life on earth and in so doing, we live with conscious intent;
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 He simply implied that chance, not Divine intervention, was responsible for the character of life on earth. In his 1859 book, The Origin of Species, Darwin said that individual traits are passed from parents to their children. He suggested that "hereditary factors" passed from parent to child control the characteristics of an individual's life. That bit of insight set scientists off on a frenzied attempt to dissect life down to its molecular nuts and bolts, for within the structure of the cell was to be found the heredity mechanism that controlled life. |
 They carry with them the vitality of health and life - the vibrant Sun energy that nourishes all life on earth. By taking in the energy of vibrant Sunfoods you can overcome any health challenge. The Sun is a transformer. By eating Sunfoods you can improve your life in every way. When your health improves, every other aspect of your life improves simultaneously.
To strive for health, wealth, happiness and success is as natural to your creative urges as it is natural for a tree to strive for its maximum fulfillment, In
Nature, there are no limits to what you can have, be or do. |
 The monocultures of those varieties that are valid from the commercial point of view have shaped modern agriculture, which works as a means of rapidly eliminating life forms, impoverishing the soil, and destroying the systems that support life on earth. The worst thing, Deb goes on to say, is that, despite the plethora of empirical evidence on the adverse consequences of large-scale industrial agriculture, this has become the model to follow for agricultural development in all the countries that try to emulate the Western model of growth.2 The absurd idea (it is a contradiction in terms! |
| The meeting opened to the apocalyptic tones of Edward Goldsmith, who took everyone aback with his forecast that life on earth would come to an end within a few decades. The manner in which the founder of the magazine The Ecologist began his speech may have been a little rhetorical, but considering the situation in which our planet finds itself today, perhaps he was not too far from the truth. |
 THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL: THE CELL
The cell is the base unit of all life on earth, from the humblest bacteria to more complex organisms such as human beings, who are made up of over 60,000 billion of them. This tiny structure measuring from 10 to 100 |xm (a micron is one one-thousandth of a millimetre) is one of Nature's masterpieces, a puzzle of stupefying complexity that continues to fascinate the scientists seeking to unlock its mysteries. The cell has not yet given up all its secrets, but we now know that a disturbance in its functioning may lead to the development of cancer. |
| About 600 million years ago, cells made a "decision" that had the most far-reaching consequences in all of evolutionary history on the nature of life on Earth: they began to cohabit, thus forming the first multicellular organisms. This was a radical event in the very "mentality" of the cell, since cohabitation implies that the survival of the organism takes precedence over that of individual cells. The constant search for improvements in order to better adapt to changes in cell environment could thus no longer be done at the expense of the organism's other cells. |
| As we have said, one should not be too surprised by the cancer cell's capacity to adapt; this adaptive mechanism is the very basis of life on earth. Even less evolved cells are often capable of finding the means to resist obstacles, as is seen in the return of diseases caused by the birth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
STARVING A TUMOUR BY BLOCKING BLOOD VESSEL FORMATION
Is there some weakness in the armour of tumour cells that might allow us to better our chances of destroying them? The answer is yes. |
 Human blood is about 25 percent seawater, and practically 85 percent of the life on earth comes from and lives in the sea. Murray's work was to use the minerals in the sea, which added up to ninety trace elements. He used a diluted saltwater mixture in orchards, pastures, and gardens. In his book, he pointed out, "It is possible to build up the immunity to staph, viral, and fungal infections in plants. When we grow corn, wheat, oats, etc. with the sea solids, and feed them to animals, we see changes. |
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