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DO FLIES CAUSE GARBAGE?

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Louis Pasteur, the eminent French chemist who invented pasteurization, the process of heating milk and foods to kill bacteria, was convinced that germs cause disease. In his early experiments with bacteria he attempted to grow bacterial cultures on fresh fruit–without success. However, he did succeed in getting bacteria to grow in cooked soup.

A contemporary of Pasteur was a man named Antoine Beauchamps. Beauchamps questioned the Pasteur theory that germs cause disease, observing that flies do not cause garbage. Rather, that garbage attracts the flies. Further, Beauchamps asserted that if you kill the flies, the flies will return as long as the garbage remains. So it is with the human body.

Two conditions must be present for an infection to occur in the body:

1/ The body must be weakened by something OTHER THAN the bacteria. This is obvious in that bacteria like streptococcus, tuberculosis, pneumonia, etc, are present all around us and throughout our bodies, and yet we are not always sick.

2/ There must be “food” for the bacteria to feed on in the body.

Healthy cell tissue, like the fresh fruit in Louis Pasteur’s experiment, offers the bacteria nothing to feed on. All bacteria are scavengers. Like flies, bacteria eat ONLY dead, toxic, rotting or decayed tissue. Virus, bacteria, fungus, etc, attack the body only AFTER the body has become weakened by accumulated “garbage”.

For example, colds and fevers are NOT caused by germs. These are symptoms of the body’s effort to cleanse the toxins from the body.

BACTERIA FEED ON BODIES WHICH ARE ALREADY WEAKENED BY TOO MANY TOXINS WHICH CAUSE THE BODY TO DECAY.

It follows that the prevention and cure of disease is not just to “kill the flies”– we must clean up and get rid of the garbage in the body upon which bacteria feed! When the body is clean, the body’s natural defense against disease and bacteria (the Immune System) is strong enough to defend it from illness.

In epitaph to Louis Pasteur, at the time of his death, he admitted that he had been wrong about his “germ theory” of disease.

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Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS, by Lawrence R. Spencer

 

 

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PAINTING LOVE AND LIGHT

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Vermeer: Portraits of a Lifetime bookThis documentary film (below), narrated by Meryl Streep, is a academic analysis of many of the paintings of the Dutch master artist, Johannes Vermeer. Throughout the film the question is asked of the “expert” commentators, all of whom are technical experts in the mechanics of oil painting, “What makes a Vermeer painting a Vermeer painting?” Ironically, none of the “experts” know the answer to this simple question. In my book Vermeer: Portraits of a Lifetime“, I reveal the simple, yet profound answer to this question.  Support independent publishing: Buy this e-book on Lulu.

Vermeer and his wife, Catharina, had 15 children. All but one were daughters. The subjects of Vermeer’s paintings are almost entirely of his wife, and daughters. Nearly all of his paintings were created in his own house, owned by and shared with his mother-in-law, Maria Thins.  The male subject of many of his paintings is his best friend and neighbor in Deft, Holland — inventor of the microscope and the camera obscura — Anthony van Leeuwenhoek. (seen in the paintings The Geographer and The Astronomer, et. al.)

Technical analysis notwithstanding, what the “experts” fail to comprehend is that Vermeer painted his beloved family members and dearest friends in his own home.  In addition to technical expertise, the visual aid of the camera obscura — which revealed the hidden patterns of light in objects — Vermeer painted love of his family, his home, his life, his personal universe.  What makes “a Vermeer a Vermeer”?  Love and Light.

I will be traveling to visit the home of Vermeer in Delft for the first time in a few weeks.  I am very much looking forward to seeing and feeling his love and light.