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Last Vision Quest

by Jean Eisenhower

I’m not looking forward to dying, but when I go, I’d prefer it be by mountain lion.


Death should be a last experience of life, not one more of technology, whether fast as in a car crash, or slow as in needles and tubes, monitors beeping and motors keeping organs alive for years.


No, I can think of no better way to go than knowing I am at that very moment sustaining the life of another living being, especially one as beautiful as a mountain lion.


Too many in my family have died of Alzheimer’s Disease.  My grandmother I watched go for a full fifteen years, the last ten of which she seemed to have no recognition of sound or movement or her very own life, much less recognition of her family and our caring for her.  None in my family want this to be our fate, yet we wonder:  How do we help another dodge the law to achieve our lbreak from a mindless “life”?


I have notified my family that if the time comes I am like my grandmother, or otherwise unable to respond to others and care for myself, I want to go on a “vision quest.”  I may not have that understanding then, but they may tell the authorities with conviction that that is indeed what I demanded.


They are to take me deep into whatever mountain range is convenient and help me to the highest possible place, far off the trail, within the mountain lion’s seasonal habitat.  There we may have a ceremony.  They may hug me, wish me a good journey, and go away.  Leave me no food, no shoes.  I do want a good sleeping bag, since at this moment I cannot imagine tolerating the cold (allow me this idiosyncrasy as another last request), but leave me no tent.

If you want, you may return in two weeks or so to gather my remains, or simply verify that I am gone.  But you are not to come back sooner or try to change my course.


I may die of cold or starvation or even a fall, should I be ambulatory and try to move around.  But the most glorious way to die, if I am lucky, will be by major predator – such as the mountain lion.


Few of us have had the pleasure of seeing a mountain lion in the wild, even though the animal used to have the largest range of any native mammal in the western hemisphere.  Also known as cougars, it is the second largest cat in North America, second only slightly to the jaguar.  Despite its size and weight, it moves with rolling grace, with hardly a sound. Stalking its prey, it often approaches very close before charging swiftly to make a kill.  The attack is made toward the head, to break the animal’s neck.


Mountain lions do not usually attack human beings, especially if deer, their favorite food, is available.  But if a human being were an easy target, such as myself, then there is no reason to believe the mountain lion would not take advantage, as most predators are also opportunists by nature.


If I had any awareness of myself and my surroundings, I believe the pain of the attack would be easily outweighed by the thrill.  Perhaps I would be surprised as, in a flash, a lion would be at my neck.  Or maybe, despite failing faculties, my senses would come alive in the solitude and silence of the wilderness, and I would smell and hear as sensitively as wild things.


Sitting or lying quietly, I might hear the cat from a distance pause, then slowly approach, pads settling softly on the forest duff, its breathing intermixed with the breeze.


Then the charge.  In the silent blink of an eye, the huge body would be at mine.   One-hundred fifty pounds of warm fur, perfect muscle, not breath and bounding hunger.  If I am lucky, I will see its eyes, intent, without malice, about the deed it must do for every meal.  It has been a killer since its fluffy spotted babyhood.


The house cat I tried as a child to cuddle, too aloof, resisting, would be upon me now with a vengeance. Soft fur, and warmth, its weight would surprise me. And its teeth would sink with perfection, consummating our exchange.

Before the warm rush of blood which would make me cold if I could feel another minute, I would perhaps inhale the big cat’s breath. In adrenalized alarm, I would gasp as the big cat, in exertion, exhaled its hot breath – sweet, rich, but not with the oxygen I would otherwise need.


Before it broke my neck, perhaps a low sound would emerge from deep in the cat to my ear, anticipating its satiation.  Fur on my neck, like a lover, almost purring.  Claws embracing.  Its stomach even then churning chemicals to make me part of it.

Its heart would beat calmly then, after mine had ceased, slow and steady, sixty beats per minute, as the owner licked its paws and cleaned its face and departed to nap, as it has for thousands of years.


Art copyright Asante Riverwind 1987
Text copyright Jean Eisenhower 1987


Asante and I produced our art and writing in 1987, though we wouldn’t know each other or begin our collaborations until 2002.


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49 Years, No Soap

It’s been 40 years since I quit using soap on anything but my hands.

The idea began with a doctor who, in my 20s (50 years ago), told me to never use soap on intimate parts. “Your skin has oil ducts for a reason. Don’t use chemicals to remove what Nature designed. Just water.” So I quit using soap. End of problems.

One morning ten years later, in my 30s, as I used copious amounts of lotion all over my body, as I did every day, I wondered whether I could quit using soap all over me.

It would be totally contrary to every bath commercial I’d ever seen in my life, of watery soap bubbles running down the shoulders of a happy, beautiful naked woman.

I would see if I could go soapless on the whole of me. I would just use water and scrub with a loofah to remove dead skin cells, excess oil, other natural exudations, and dirt. And hope to feel a different sort of clean in my newly naturally cleaned skin. But I didn’t just feel as good; I felt much better.

Loofah is naturally antibacterial and smells like loofah even after a year, whereas a damp used washcloth can smell pretty terrible after a single day.

After the first day of using no soap, I knew I’d never subject myself to that habit again. (What has the culture been doing to us?!)

Next I tried quitting soap on the soles of my feet, using only water and a foot brush. My athletes foot went away forever.

For my armpits, I used a separate loofah and water. (Afterward, a sprinkle of baking soda, maybe essential oil, or nothing.) Totally fine.

Soap dries out our skin, creating microscopic cracks for bacteria to thrive in, excrete in, and make us stink. Healthy skin, allowed to do its natural thing, can heal those microscopic cracks, giving bacteria no easy home.

After that, I needed to decide whether to stop my daily face regimen. Since I was a teenager, with excessively oily skin, prone to acne, I’d used a dermabrasion treatment every day of my life. My skin stayed smooth and very young looking, because it had to constantly renew itself. I tried replacing the product with a scrubbing glove, but that seemed to require enough pressure to made me worry I’d stretch my skin too much. So I quit using the glove and returned to my daily dermabrasion – until I was a nomad and quit taking daily showers. Then I used it much less, but still used it.

I tried to quit using shampoo on my hair, as many women have successfully, and as was the norm before advertising, but I soon returned to it, enjoying the sensation of stripped locks. I satisfied myself that I was using it less.

My face and scalp were the only parts that did not go totally product-free; and to this day, my face and scalp have been the hardest to rid of Lyme Disease.

40 years, no soap.

I wish everyone could know how easy and inexpensive it is to heal their illnesses and irritations on their own.

While saving money on lotion, soap, laundry, medicines and doctor visits.

And be free of the fantasy that our medical, media, and education systems are actually working for our health.

Do less to your body, be healthier.


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Meditation Amazement

I recently began practicing meditation again, hoping to be successful and dedicated for the first time.

Of course, maybe I’ve always been meditating, and I’m just stuck on some rigid idea of what it is.

In any case, I began again sitting with a series of meditation recordings a few days ago.

I didn’t in particular like any of them. But one of them grabbed my attention the next day – the one about relaxing every part of your body.

I used to do that in high school, when I studied dream interpretation, and wrote my senior research paper on dreams.

(It seems I was so relaxed than. But of course, I had few responsibilities other than schoolwork, which I loved. I enjoyed quiet privacy in my room for hours every afternoon. I practiced drawing and studied whatever caught my attention. I danced many hours a week. Nice memory.)

The other evening, instead of relaxing, my body, I paid attention to each part. They each felt nicely in the middle.) I felt skin tension, musculature, bones, blood flow, imagining lymph flow – and moving on to the next part of me.

I loved every toe. And the exercise felt so informative. Not boring at all.

Then my brain began generating essays that felt like a gift from my spiritual helpers, and off we went….

I did wonder whether I should reject those gifts in favor of the meditation practice, but I decided this is simply meditation in process.

As an experienceer, writer, documentarian, and activist, I recognize this is one form of Buddhist meditation I happened to read about recently: to be aware in whatever is your daily life.

My most recent teacher said to not get hung up on any particular expectation, because sometimes our helpers want something else for us. I agree.


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Healing during a Pandemic

I’m not convinced this pandemic is actually caused by a virus.  This NYC doctor relates information that questions the assertion by governments all over the world:

And my personal experience as a mind control subject and now a targeted individual suggests that governments lie to manipulate and control, and look at us:  isolated in our homes – most of us.

Not me.

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I’m sitting in Nature as often as I can, a nomad now, traveling from low desert in the winter to high mountains in the summer – all within Arizona!  (I think my total mileage this year will be less than 5,000 miles.)  I’m visiting a FEW friends who also doubt The Story, missing many other friends, missing visiting even family.

I have Morgellon’s Disease now – which worries me a bit more than this prescribed panic/pandemic.  Even though I almost never visit doctors, this year I’ve been prompted to visit quite a few in search of a blood test – and NONE want to help me!

Morgellon’s Disease seems to be Lyme Disease with complications – or nano tech, we assume, added by the scientists involved in biowarfare.  I have photos of all sorts of strange items I’ve found growing out of my skin on my YouTube channel, ParadigmSalonVideo; ParadigmSalon.net; and Facebook page, MK & TI Awareness and Support.

Of course, I don’t want to take any pharmaceuticals for this – but NONE has been offered to me.  And all my attempts to get a blood test for the spirochetes that are at the center of the disease – spirochetes related to syphilis and called “extremely stubborn.”  They continue to spread all over my body.

I was treating this externally first, since it presents as a skin condition, but after a month or so, I was feeling worse and developing new symptoms:  palsy in my hands, brain fog, and worsening heart issues, so I backed off.  Soon I read that the disease can be forced to go internally and affect the heart, nervous system, and brain, so I quit all external applications and turned to internal anti-microbials:  garlic, ginger, vinegar, Vitamin C, etc., and I quit all sugar.  No maple syrup in coffee.  No wine at night.  No chocolate (except for tiny “cheats”).  All my food is fresh and local or organic, prepared by me.

I have no idea whether I’ll heal myself.  After all, this disease is “stubborn,” and doctors are busy with other things now, and I don’t trust them anyway.  And if I did cure this, or find a way to successfully keep it in check, I’m still a mind control subject, which I don’t believe I’ll ever heal, and this is a really shitty thing to live with.

So I’m just biding my time here on planet Earth, waiting for my spiritual Helpers to give me guidance, which lately has been:  Just observe.  And so I am.

I’ve told everyone I know:  Do not take me to a doctor or hospital under any circumstances.  If I die of this, so be it.   I’ve had a good life, sort of.

I’m going on 68 this summer.  I’ve accomplished things that have helped others.  I’m content.

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FREE Sacred Plant Webinar

Hello Friends,

cannabis_the_future_of_medicinePlease join me in listening to this free webinar about the healing potentials of this sacred plant – which should be easily available to us all:

https://thesacredplant.com/docuseries/?ref=c805cd1f-60a5-415d-81a3-0b99756e2e19

  • one presentation each day for seven days, with each presentation available for 24 hours.

I’ve participated in this sort of educational experience many times in the last years, and find this a very generous offering – always TOP-quality researchers and presenters, which I can attend for free, on my schedule, even while doing other things.

I hope you enjoy this as well.  And please share your thoughts about it in comments below.

I’ll be listening – I hope and assume – from a forest location….  Talk with you soon.

Love and healing to us all ~

Jean


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Buh-bye, Obamacare! Hello, Health Care Sharing

buhbye-obamacare-hello-healthcare-sharing-image1This is reposted from http://www.greenmedinfo.com
/blog/buh-bye-obamacare-hello-health-care-sharing.  Written By:  Louise Habakus

The Affordable Care Act doesn’t work for everyone.  Here’s how to opt out of Obamacare and enroll an alternative solution.

Since leaving our corporate jobs, my husband and I have spent an obscene amount of money on health insurance that never covers … anything. On the rare occasion that I go in-network, the appointment is usually a dud … punctuated by the scripts I won’t fill, the treatments I decline, and the follow-up appointments I won’t make.

So when I took a look at what the Affordable Care Act says my family must now pay, I knew we were done. I had reached the point beyond which I will not be pushed.

When it comes to health insurance, the Habakus family is sending a pink slip to government and industry. I’ve found a solution for my family that’s also a tangible rejection of the current system.

Obamacare Doesn’t Work For Everyone

If you have individual coverage, if you had a plan that was canceled thanks to Obamacare, if you’re young, and if you’re ineligible for subsidies, then you’re probably paying a lot more.

To make matters worse, your doctor might be among the over 214,000 providers exiting the Obamacare exchanges — about 25% of all professionally active physicians.

I’ve kept our insurance this long because, well, you know … someone might need a limb reattached. But I haven’t been applying critical thinking to this decision.

Until now.

The prospect of paying twice as much for less of what I want finally got my attention — along with the knowledge that the pharma-government-insurance complex will deliver more changes that I won’t like.

But There’s a Lot More at Stake Than Money

With traditional health insurance, I wonder about entering into a situation I may really regret. Once you choose one of their “can’t-go-out-of-network” doctors and walk through those hospital doors with your child …

YOU’RE ON THEIR TURF

And make no mistake — you are no longer in charge. It’s not always possible to say, “No, thanks.” The institutional response to disagreement about health care treatment has become increasingly Draconian.

Imagine, God forbid, your child is very sick and the hospital is insisting on “lifesaving,” standard of care medical interventions that you are unwilling to pursue. The only person standing between you and a total nightmare is your physician. Now let’s assume you chose the doctor because she takes your insurance. Will you be surprised to learn that she’s not on your side?

If the hospital won’t discharge your child, you can’t leave. It happens all the time. It happened to me. Once Child Protective Services is called, you’re in big trouble. Legal medical kidnapping is a growing problem. (Tune into Fearless Parent Radio™ on December 17).

WHY I’M KICKING MY INSURANCE TO THE CURB

I will no longer participate in a system that incentivizes me to use health care I do not want.

I will no longer subsidize health care that conflicts so fundamentally with my values and beliefs.

I will no longer support a hidebound industry with zero innovation, bad customer service, and obscenely high executive compensation.

I no longer feel safe with traditional health insurance coverage. The dynamic has become adversarial. I want more control.

I refuse to pay one more dime into a dysfunctional, overpriced, abusive, unethical, damaging, and totally broken system for insurance coverage that I stand on my head to avoid at all costs.

Big words, but now what?

Ways to Opt Out of Obamacare

If you procrastinated like I did, then you’re probably scrambling to figure out your options. There are different ways to scrap Obamacare. It’s completely legit, but you have to do your homework. I learned that:

Huh? What’s a Health Care Sharing Ministry?

It is a cost sharing arrangement for medical expenses among people who hold similar religious beliefs. It is not insurance; no one assumes responsibility for your medical bills. It is exempt from Obamacare. There are four “grandfathered” options. Three are open to practicing Christians and one is for people committed to religious liberty.

THEY SHARE SOME SIMILARITIES

  • Individuals and families pay a monthly share.
  • Payments are made to members with approved medical bills.
  • Members adhere to certain lifestyle guidelines, including abstention from tobacco and illegal drugs, and sign a statement of faith or belief.
  • Certain expenses may be excluded (i.e., those associated with pre-existing conditions, preventive care, vaccinations, dental, vision, birth control, abortions, STDs, and infertility).

THERE ARE ALSO IMPORTANT DIFFERENCES

  • Monthly share amount
  • Extent of financial risk and maximum amount shared per medical need
  • Central payment or direct sharing to members
  • Use of in-network providers
  • Sharing for alternative treatments
  • Incentive discounts for achieving specific health goals

Why We Chose Samaritan Ministries

Samaritan Ministries International is an Illinois-based not-for-profit corporation that started sharing medical needs in 1994. As of November 2014, there are 39,000 participating households with 129,500 members (up 62% in the past year).

We chose Samaritan for several reasons:

First, it’s well run. Here’s their 2012 Form 990. We spoke with current members who rave about it. I couldn’t find any online complaints. When I asked our agent for dirt on Samaritan, he mustered a feeble defense for insurance. He admitted that he’s losing customers to it: “It really works.” I love that Samaritan contracts with The Karis Group to negotiate discounts — typically 40-45% — on our behalf.

Second, it works for my family. We agree with Samaritan’s philosophy of health care and its member requirements, including regular church attendance.

Third, Samaritan’s guidelines offer more control over our health care choices. Its rules are the simplest. Members select their own doctors and hospitals, and can travel out of state for procedures. It includes visits to licensed alternative practitioners, including naturopaths. Alternative treatments and “prescriptions” are subject to an additional approval process except for cancer treatment which can be 100% alternative up to the $250,000 maximum. Samaritan is evaluating the equivalency of alternative medicine in more areas.

Finally, instead of paying Blue Cross, I’d rather be part of a community that sends checks to real people to help lift financial burdens during their time of medical need.

Samaritan is definitely not for everyone, however. Read its FAQs and Guidelines, or call 888-268-4377 #2. Here’s what I wanted to know.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

The monthly share is:

  • $405 for 3+ person families
  • $360 for 2 person families
  • $250 for widowed or divorced parents with children
  • $180 for singles.

Young adults aged 25 and under pay less. There is a one-time $200 membership fee.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Members identify themselves as self-pay patients when they go to the doctor or hospital. Most providers are cash-friendly and many like avoiding insurance hassles. Sometimes cash-pay prices are lower than insurance rates.

Members are eligible to receive up to $250,000 in medical bills per qualifying event, after paying the first $300. Discounts are applied to the $300 first. Members are not terminated for having too many medical events.

When members submit medical bills, they are added to the prayer list so everyone can begin praying. After verification, Samaritan publishes qualifying needs in the monthly newsletter and then they are assigned. Each member is asked to send the full amount of his monthly share amount to a single member with an approved need, along with notes of encouragement.

WHAT ARE THE TAX CONSEQUENCES?

Checks from members are considered gifts, but Samaritan ensures that amounts do not exceed the IRS annual gift exclusion (currently $14,000).

Missouri amended its income tax code to allow a full personal deduction of health care sharing ministry expenses. The deductibility in other states is unclear and not recommended.

This is a useful article from the Journal of Accountancy about the tax implications of religious exemptions from the health care individual mandate. Applicants should discuss concerns with their tax advisors.

FOR NEEDS ABOVE $250,000, THERE’S “SAVE TO SHARE”

The optional “Save to Share” program addresses catastrophic medical expenses. Beyond the main points listed above, this is what clinched it for my husband.

Up to one-half of available “Save to Share” funds — currently about $5.5 million — can be shared for any single qualifying need above $250,000.

Participants pay a $15 annual administrative fee and set aside an annual amount based on household size:

  • $399 for 2 parent families
  • $266 for single parent families or couples
  • $133 for individuals

No payment is made unless there is a qualifying need. The largest need during Samaritan’s 20-year history was $1.5 million; it was reduced to $750,000 through negotiations. No one in “Save to Share” has ever been cut off due to insufficient funds.

AND PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, LIKE AUTISM?

Samaritan will publish medically-necessary treatment for qualifying injury or disease ordered by a licensed practitioner. If any member, including a child with autism, has an eligible medical need, such as a concussion following an accident, the expense can be shared in the same way that the ER visit of a hemophiliac would be shared after sustaining a cut. The cause of the ER visit is the cut not the hemophilia. Ditto for a broken bone due to a fall for someone with osteoporosis.

Autism as defined in the DSM isn’t treatable, but medical conditions in autism are. So there’s no sharing for ABA, social skills, or communication deficits, but yes to colitis or Lyme disease. Detox and supplements must directly relate to the eligible medical or injury diagnosis and prescribed by the provider. Hyperbaric, physical, occupational, speech, vision, and analogous therapies related to injury or disease are publishable.

A condition is no longer pre-existing when a member has been symptom- and med-free for 12 months. Cancer is 7 years for that particular type of cancer. Type 1 diabetes and heart disease are always pre-existing. Prescription expenses for the first 120 days are shared. ADHD meds are excluded.

Providers may be asked to complete a verification form regarding pre-existing conditions.

WHAT IF …

If you’re not in “Save to Share” and your medical expenses exceed $250,000, or you have a pre-existing condition, the Special Prayer Needs ministry may be able to help. Members share on a free will offering basis. Recent medical bills for a little boy with cancer totaled $300,000; members voluntarily contributed the balance. This is based upon the extra generosity of members and cannot be relied upon.

If someone on your list stops sharing, his amount will be reassigned the following month.

If there are more medical needs than shares, Samaritan will use a prorating method. For example, if there’s enough for 90% of publishable needs in a given month, then 90% of each need will be published for that month. If prorating occurs three months in a row, Samaritan’s Board will propose a share increase.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants can begin membership the day they sign up online. The first month’s share is paid by credit card and the completed application, including the pastor’s signature, is due within 10 days. Medical needs cannot be published until the form is submitted.