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One is just about ready, the other one is a huge project that will take several months to complete, but we want you to be involved from the get-go. What we’re creating is something so massive and so exciting, and something that we believe has never been done before!

Here’s a little sneak preview of what’s coming:

With several billion “creators” on this planet, whatever you are creating is not done in isolation. What would happen, we wondered, if we could teach millions of people the “how to” of conscious creation?

Then, what if these millions focused their new creation muscles on creating a better world for everyone? Could the conscious thought and action of a single individual ripple through the world and result in a major (and positive) transformation?

We believe the answer is YES. For now, however, we’re just asking the questions. It’s a theory, and theories must be tested.

That, in a nutshell, is why we’re doing what we’re doing…

Is this a pie-in-the-sky fantasy? If we truly thought it was, we wouldn’t be putting nights and weekends into this project. You can’t build a castle until you start laying the bricks.

As I said, we will unveil more of our plan in just a few days…so keep an eye on your Inbox!

Since our featured article is on gratitude, let us say that we are so incredibly grateful for all of you who have opened your hearts and computers to us, and have come along for the journey! This endeavor would be nothing, if it weren’t for all of you brave souls out there, trying to make a big difference in your own lives. It takes a great deal of courage to take a quantum leap forward by looking within (and without) for dramatically new ways of thinking about the role you play in this game we call Life.

So, Thank you!

Sincerely,
Ron and Jessica LaRock

There are many positive effects that it produces, all of which are equally important:

• If you experience gratitude, it will literally raise your energetic vibration, meaning the frequency of your energy field will increase. This will take a feeling of being “in the dumps”, and help you feel almost instantly better. The more gratitude you express, the better you will feel—guaranteed! (See the Gratitude Prayer below.)
• If you raise your vibration, this will make you a far more powerful magnet to attract whatever you desire. By “tuning in” to a higher frequency, you are aligning your energy with the energy of the things you desire. Because like attracts like, aligning your energy serves to draw these things to you.
• When you express gratitude, it spreads to the object of your gratitude (another person, your old junker car, your plants, your dog) and then they feel and behave better.
• When someone else feels better because they receive your gratitude, they will spread that positive vibration to other people and things around them.
• And the cycle continues…so theoretically, it could affect the entire planet! Why not? Everything is made up from energy, and all energy is connected at a quantum level. So a tiny ripple of gratitude could begin in Kansas with a smile at a cranky cashier in a grocery store, and then spread from person to person until it reaches Mainland China. (Be sure to check out the GoGratitude link at the end of this article.)

You may not believe the part about your car, but I have heard stories about cars that are making horrendous noises, and should have just died on the side of the road. But with some gratuitous coaxing from their drivers, they actually make it home and then crap out in the driveway. I have never had a car break down on me (well, okay, once…but that was before I knew anything about the power of gratitude).

Whenever I remember to, I will say “Thank you” to my car for being such a great car. Sure, our cars break down occasionally—but it always happens in the driveway. In a world of infinite possibilities, I choose to believe this is a direct result of my gratitude. It’s up to you whether you choose to believe it or not. Personally, I’d rather believe that I will never be stranded. We now know that our beliefs form our reality, so I should be far less likely to get stuck somewhere if I don’t believe I will.

A very close family member told me just the other night that he appreciates me very much, not only for my accomplishments, but also because I stuck with him through some hard times over the years. He spoke for a couple of minutes about this. And I felt wonderful afterwards! I never knew he felt this way about me before, and I was so grateful to him for expressing his feelings. I told him that by saying that, he just raised his vibration. He replied, “Okay, I’ll see your vibration, and I’ll raise ya one!” Had we continued, we could have both been flying by the time we were done! (Unfortunately, we were interrupted by another call.)

How and when should we express gratitude? Simply put, always. Most people express gratitude for what they currently have, such as a delicious turkey dinner on their table once or twice a year. I would suggest that you should continue to do that, but also to express gratitude for what you don’t yet have (or don’t have enough of), as if you already have it. This does two things:

1. By expressing gratitude, you are becoming a more powerful manifesting magnet.
2. You are telling the Universe that you fully expect to receive that which you have requested. In essence, you are expressing your trust (or faith, if you prefer that word) in the Universe, which makes it far more likely that the Universe will “deliver the goods”.

One of the best ways to express gratitude in your daily visualizations is to say, “I am so happy and grateful now that the Universe is bringing me ___________.” The “now that” part is critical for expressing a belief that you already have what you want, and that you fully expect to have it soon. That may sound contradictory, but trust me, it works! You can also say, “I am so happy and grateful now that I have _________ in my life!” And this can apply to what you already have, as well as what you want to manifest. Both of these are extremely powerful statements, and if they’re said (and felt with emotion) on a daily basis, you will see increasing occurrences of these people or things in your life. Of course, there’s more to the story than just saying that (we’ll tell you more in just a few days!). But it’s a very potent addition, or beginning, if you’re a newbie to the process of consciously creating the life you desire.

And don’t forget: Whatever you want more of, give it away. This works for anything—love, money, support, your time and energy, and of course, gratitude. Give it away, and it will come back to you ten-fold, or even a hundred-fold. But be sure to give it away graciously. If you do it just to get, or you do it with conditional strings attached, or you do it begrudgingly, you will lose most of the power of giving. So give it freely and happily.

Lastly, we couldn’t mention gratitude without bringing up Dr. Masaru Emoto’s Messages From Water research. This scientist has been studying and photographing crystals formed in frozen water for over a decade. He discovered that his results depended not only on the quality of the water (i.e., tap or spring), but also on what stimulus he exposed it to. For instance, if he played beautiful classical music around the water, afterwards he would see stunningly beautiful and perfectly formed crystals. If he played heavy metal rock music, the crystals formed would be ugly, misaligned, and deformed.

Dr. Emoto then wondered what would happen if he wrote certain words on paper that he taped to bottles of water. He was stunned to discover that the words “You make me sick!” and “I want to kill you!” resulted in grotesque crystal formations. Then he tried another experiment:

“I particularly remember one photograph. It was the most beautiful and delicate crystal that I had so far seen—formed by being exposed to the words ‘love and gratitude.’ It was as if the water had rejoiced and celebrated by creating a flower in bloom. It was so beautiful that I can say that it actually changed my life from that moment on.” – Dr. Masaru Emoto, The Hidden Messages in Water.

Here are some of the amazing photographs Dr. Emoto has produced:

One of the most compelling questions asked in the film What The Bleep Do We Know was:

“If thoughts can do this to water, and our bodies are made up of 70% water, just imagine what our thoughts are doing to us!” (I’m paraphrasing.)

And that is the power of gratitude. Use it wisely, and use it frequently. You will be amazed at what starts happening in your life, almost immediately!

Must See! Take a look at what one woman did with her amazing experiment called GoGratitude, reaching almost 70,000 people just in the last ten days. You won’t be disappointed when you see her Flash Presentation on Gratitude:

This is an awesome 42 day project for GRATITUDE. The objective is to reach a million people willing to send a Wave of Gratitude around the planet & experience major changes in your own life! Pass it on!

Click on this link to see the fantastic flash presentation and to participate in the GoGratitude Wave!

Unlimited power source that defies Quantum Physics?

Turning Quantum Physics on its head.

Dr. Mills first appeared in the news in 1991 when he claimed he was able to unleash energy by ‘shrinking’ the hydrogen atom’s electron orbit, forming what he called the ‘hydrino’.

Too good to be true? Dr. Mills, who also studied electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, claims to have found a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. The prototype generates up to 1,000 times more heat than conventional fuel.

So what’s wrong with cheap, clean energy? The principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head. What has much of the physics world up in arms is Dr Mills' claim that he has produced a new form of hydrogen. In his "hydrino", the electron sits a little closer to the proton than normal, and it is in the formation of these new atoms from traditional hydrogen (a common building block of water) in which huge amounts of energy are released in the form of heat.

This is scientific heresy. According to quantum mechanics, electrons can only exist in an atom in strictly defined orbits, and the shortest distance allowed between the proton and electron in hydrogen is fixed. The two particles are simply not allowed to get any closer. The problem is that according to the rules of quantum mechanics, the idea is theoretically impossible. "Physicists are quite conservative. It's not easy to convince them to change a theory that is accepted for 50 to 60 years. I don't think [Mills'] theory should be supported," said Jan Naudts, a theoretical physicist at the University of Antwerp.

Steven Weinberg, a 1979 Nobel laureate in physics at the University of Texas at Austin, argues that quantum physics shouldn’t be so easily thrown away. The idea of the ground state, (or minimum orbit of an electron where it can’t get any closer) "is a fabulously well-tested mathematical theorem. I would bet my life on it."

The electron's position should be seen as a "cloud" of probabilities extending from the nucleus itself out indefinitely that collapses into its most probable orbit when observed, Weinberg said. While "of course a theory can be wrong," and "we don't turn a blind eye to anomalies...you don't throw away 75 years because of an anomaly you don't understand.”

The Mills model treats the electron as a definable object that can be manipulated. The electron, in his conception, travels as a two-dimensional disk of charge and wraps around a nucleus like a fluctuating soap bubble. He calls the bubble an "orbitsphere."

According to Dr. Mills, there can be only one explanation: quantum mechanics must be wrong. "We've done a lot of testing. We've got 50 independent validation reports, we've got 65 peer-reviewed journal articles," he said. "We ran into this theoretical resistance and there are some vested interests here. People are very strong and fervent protectors of this [quantum] theory that they use."

Independent scientists claim to have verified the experiments and Dr. Mills says that his company, Blacklight Power, has gathered more than $25 million dollars from investors to bring the idea to market. And he claims to be just months away from unveiling his creation.

Chaos breaks out, and it’s not Quantum Chaos

Dr. Mills's theory, known as classical quantum mechanics and published in the journal Physics Essays in 2003, has been criticized most publicly by Andreas Rathke of the European Space Agency. In a damning critique published recently in the New Journal of Physics, he argued that Dr. Mills' theory was the result of mathematical mistakes.

Dr. Mills argues that there are plenty of flaws in Dr Rathke's critique. "His paper's riddled with mistakes. We've had other physicists contact him and say this is embarrassing to the journal and [Dr. Rathke] won't respond," said Dr. Mills.

While the scientists argue about the theoretical implications, those wanting to exploit the technology are pushing ahead. Dr. Mills will not go into the details of who is investing in his research but rumors suggest it is a range of US power companies. It is well known also that NASA's Institute of Advanced Concepts has funded research into finding a way of using Blacklight's technology to power rockets.

“Something real is generating energy there,” said Dan Mears, president of Technology Insights, an energy consulting group in San Diego that investigated BlackLight for a year in 1996 on behalf of Oregon Electric PacifiCorp.

PacifiCorp subsequently signed on as an investor in BlackLight, followed shortly by the Mid-Atlantic utility Conectiv.

According to Prof. Maas, a chemist at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, the first product built with Blacklight's technology, which will be available in as little as four years, will be a household heater. As the technology is scaled up, he says, bigger furnaces will be able to boil water and turn turbines to produce electricity.

In a recent economic forecast, Prof. Maas calculated that ‘hydrino’ energy would cost slightly more than one cent per kilowatt hour. This compares to an average of five cents for coal and six for nuclear energy.

"If it's wrong, it will be proven wrong," said Kert Davies, research director of Greenpeace USA. "But if it's right, it is so important that all else falls away. It has the potential to solve our dependence on oil. Our stance is of cautious optimism."

Meditation on the Mind

While science has long known that meditation alters a person’s brain-waves, new research indicates that it actually may change the brain as well.

A new study by researchers from Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows meditation actually increases the ‘grey matter’ in the brain (the part that performs the thinking or reasoning in the brain).

In the study, these changes were found to be most pronounced in the areas of the brain which are important for sensory, cognitive and emotional processing.

According to Jeremy Gray, assistant professor of psychology at Yale, "What is most fascinating to me is the suggestion that meditation practice can change anyone's grey matter," Gray said. "The study participants were people with jobs and families. They just meditated on average 40 minutes each day; you don't have to be a monk."

"Most of the regions identified in this study were found in the right hemisphere," the researchers said. "The right hemisphere is essential for sustaining attention, which is a central practice of Insight meditation."

They said other forms of yoga and meditation likely have a similar impact on cortical structure, although each tradition would be expected to have a slightly different pattern of cortical thickening based on the specific mental exercises involved.

Want to learn more? Check out our page on Meditation.

Always have your children on your mind?

Recent research indicates that mothers may ACTUALLY always have their children not only on their mind, but IN their mind. Researchers have discovered that in mice, cells from the fetus can migrate into the mother’s brain and develop into brain cells.

The discovery comes from Gavin S. Dawe of the National University of Singapore and Zhi-Cheng Xiao of Singapore General Hospital. While scientists have known for years that fetal cells can enter a mother’s blood stream, and in the case of humans, remain there for up to 27 years, this new research indicates that they may actually cross the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain. The blood-brain barrier acts as a protection mechanism to prevent most compounds from entering the brain.

Not only did researchers find the cells entering into the brain, but also, much like stem cells, they actually developed into what seemed like neurons, as well as other brain-related support cells. In addition, they found that the number of cells that took up residence in the mother’s brain increased dramatically in those mothers that had damaged brains.

While research is still ongoing, the implications for treating brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s is dramatic. Instead of drilling holes into the brain, cells could simply be injected into the blood stream and allowed to migrate to the brain on their own.

Xiao also points out that research is still needed to “determine whether there are any behavioral or psychological implications.” Maybe my mother was more right than she knew when she said that we “drove her crazy.”

A: The concept of black holes has been around from the time of Einstein. Do black holes actually exist? Most physicists believe they do, basing their views on a growing body of observations. While black holes can’t actually be seen, the effect they have on the surrounding space can be observed. In fact, present theories of how the cosmos began rest in part on Einstein's work and predict the existence of both singularities (the collapsed core of a star) and the black holes that contain them. Yet Einstein himself vigorously denied their reality, believing, as did most of his contemporaries, that black holes were a mere mathematical curiosity. He died in 1955, before the term "black hole" was coined or understood and before observational evidence for black holes began to mount.

Einstein's general theory of relativity describes gravity as a curvature of space-time caused by the presence of matter. You can view space-time as a blanket spread out on your bed. If you place a baseball on the blanket, it forms a ‘dent’, or curvature, in the blanket. Now if you roll a marble along the blanket, it will travel along in a straight line. But when it gets to the edge of the ‘dent’, it will roll down into it. The bigger the ‘dent’ (like with a bowling ball) the deeper and steeper the sides, and the faster the marble will be pulled into the ‘dent’. This ‘dent’ or curvature in the blanket, is what relativity defines as the gravity well. The larger the object (or more massive), the deeper the curvature of the space-time continuum, and the steeper the sides of the curvature it forms. If the object’s curvature is fairly weak, Newton's laws of gravity can explain most of what is observed. Take for example, the regular motions of the planets. Very massive or dense objects generate much stronger gravity. The most compact objects imaginable are predicted by General Relativity to have such strong gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape their grip.

But what is a black hole?