[Note: I published this article on 12/12/2019 about two weeks before news of the coronavirus first broke.... talk about timing. And then two months later Parasite won the award for Best Picture of the Year.
I am not a scientist. I am not a doctor. I am not a materialist and normally I write about how we are eternal Spirits inhabiting a physical body and topics of a more spiritual nature realting to the soul and higher consciousness. But in this article I will digress and focus more on the physical level. I do not feel we are hopeless slaves to these parasites. Our Spirit is all-powerful and can override any such influences. I apologize for the somewhat negative nature of this article. This are is outside my wheelhouse, but I felt it necessary and important to write. Please see my other articles for a more balanced and a more positive perspective! But in this article we are going to dive into the wormhole, so to speak. I also apologiize for this long disclaimer and introduction, but if I don't include it, people will criticize the imbalance and the bigger picture of what is left unsaid will cause what is said to be taken somewhat out of context.
I do not know how life evolved here on Earth. I do not know if the material from the many articles I present here is indeed fact or not. I don't necessarily believe the findings of the articles and I certainly don't believe the evidence is conclusive, incontrovertible proof as such. But in researching the topic, I felt the findings and speculation of scientists are relevant. Accept the info that resonates within you as truth and disregard the rest.]
Energy. Life force. We all need it to live. Life feeds upon life. The so called circle of life. The life cycle where creatures age and die (and are born again and again). The food chain. But where does all this energy come from? Cells within cells within cells in a fractal, holographic array or matrix.
From worm to sperm and back again to worms? At a more microscopic level we burn energy from our body cells where it is stored. Our bodies contain trillions of cells which collectively make up what we call us. Each cell in our body is a living organism in its own right and is powered by its mitochondria. So just who is in charge of us? Our brain cells? Or maybe even parasites within us? There's a war going on inside of us every minute of every day. Our body is a battleground for trillions of microorganisms living inside us. Viruses attack us constantly
What about the smaller ones that live within us on a daily basis? Can viruses and parasites can hack into the nervous system via the spine and send signals to the brain such as 'feed me more sugar'? I definitely believe that's the case. And what better way to infiltrate and influence us -- living undetected inside our bodies as microscopic microbes. They have managed, with stealth, to be invisible to the naked eye for millennia.
Some cells and organisms are exceedingly clever when it comes to being deceptive and manipulative in order to get what they need or crave. There are predator-prey relationships. There are host-parasite relations. Organisms employ all kinds of deceptive tactics such as mimicry. As humans we like to think we are at the top of the food chain and immune to any deception. Life here on earth is survival of the fittest. Who would sponsor such a sick, twisted demented, barbaric system? And yet we seem to think that everything will be magically wonderful when we die and go to the loving light.
The Gnostics called the Chief Archon a delusional false god of this world, a sort of mind and energy parasite. He was depicted as a serpent with the head of a lion, and is sometimes depicted as a worm. Could it be that these titan ancient astronauts came from other dimensions or outer space to seed life here on Earth? Some scientists believe in panspermia and that a virus or microorganisms from outer space seeded and contaminated life here whether from a meterorite or comet. Some scientists believe we crawled out of the ocean and evolved from wriggling worm-like sea creatures. Whether or not that is true, we do in a sense evolve from a worm-like sperm in our mother's womb to eventually become humans. As humans, we have trillions of microorganisms living within our bodies, sometimes as parasites and some in a friendly, symbiotic relationship. Some humans even have intestinal worms. There are things we can take to ameliorate the situation, such as wormwood. When we die, our bodies are devoured by worms. Some near death experiencers travel through a tunnel or wormhole to go into a loving white light, but many are told they must return to earth, in most cases against their will. In mythology, the ouroboros is a serpent or worm that devours its own tail in a circle as a symbol of eternity (and probably reincarnation). And now that I am retired after chasing my own tail in a circle for most of my life, I can honestly say the biggest enemy I face is boredom. And boredom is when everything in your life seems boring. Well, what is it that bores? You guessed it. Worms!
But there is no denying we live every day washing our bodies with soap and water to keep them free from disease. We also rinse off and cook our food. We need to dust to keep our environment clean from germs. We even give our computers anti-virus systems so they'll be bug free. From archaeon to archon. From egg to ego. From cell to self. From gamete to gamer. Or is it the other way around? Which came first? The ego or the egg? The gamer enters the game. This all begs the question: can we go from parasites to paradise?
The Gnostics wrote about archons that parasite our energy. The Chief archon they called the demiurge. He steals our light-power. But in the end he will fail and we shall be triumphant. The truth is that this is all a game we are playing with ourselves. Infinite Awareness has fabricated a multi-player virtual reality game for its own amusement, curiosity or edification. None of it is permanent. It is in a sense just an elaborate, persistent illusion or dream. It is a divine drama, a cosmic play. So don't fret. Please keep that in mind as you read the screenplay and the various roles the characters play whether villain or hero..
It seems these buggers, these parasitic worms, don't like info coming out about them.
Some info is from the original woman who wrote me. She flushed parasites from her system with a liver flush. Other info is from the French couple in Australia. I am also in contact with a man who believes he has an astral spider entity attached to his neck area that is draining him of energy. He says he can see it with his third eye. He has consulted many doctors and healers, but has not been able to permanently rid himself of it yet. Another woman I am in contact with had many attachments which she was successfully able to expel with a hypnosis session from Calogero Grifasi. [Update: Since publishing this article, I found in my old emails one from a woman, Catherine, who had written me over four years ago and had mentioned the parasites and some anecdotes she has been using.] Another anonymous emailer sent me some links to info as well. He has been harassed by what he calls off worlders for many years now. These entities talk to him. They play us like video games and don't feel our suffering. So I will share info from these various sources at the end of the article.
When you think about it, our whole existence is centered around the struggle for energy. In the movie The Matrix, Agent Smith compared mankind to a virus destroying earth. And, in turn, we are constantly at battle with the parasites from within and without. Germs. Viruses. We have to take baths and shower on a daily basis just to wash off the dirt and germs. We have to wash our food, wash our dishes. Vacuum, clean and dust our homes. And when we sleep at night we fight off having nightmares where we are often attacked by "the dream police". But it doesn't end there. I have written at length on this site about the spiritual parasites, what the Christians call demons. The Gnostics spoke of the Demiurge and archons, so called rulers. The Sumerians talked about the Anuna or anunnaki and the Gallu or shades.
I often write on this web site about the phenomenon of archons. Archons are the rulers the Gnostics wrote about. The chief archon or ruler was termed the Demiurge. These archons rule over our world and steal our energy in the form of light-power. This has been reflected in and drawn from much folklore such as the vampire whose deadly bite enables it to live forever by stealing the life force of humans. Or undead zombies who often have become infected from a parasite like a flesh eating viurs and consequently feed off human brains. Why are these folklore so persistent throughout nearly every culture and era? Is it because they contain some truth in them? The popularity of the zombie apocalypse meme has perhaps never enjoyed more success than it currently does with shows like The Walking Dead.
The web site GnosticWarrior has been on the leading edge on reporting the connection between the archons and worms: "Yaldabaoth and his creations are referred to as the serpent which I have discussed before were once written as worm before the Latin Church Doctors had doctored the original Greek texts that simply read worm. Therefore we know Yaldabaoth is a type of human parasite or worm who seeks to rule and or be the Chief Archon over humankind which is further discussed in the Apocryphon of John where he is called ignorant darkness;"
These archons are indeed mind parasites as well. Some Gnostic groups described the Demiurge as having the body of a serpent. Others depicted it more like a worm. The Bible describes Satan as a serpent or dragon. It also mentions tortured souls "where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched."
I also recall one near death experience by James N which begins, "I went into a tunnel and was met by dead friends and relatives. I was taken to see a worm working controls of big cylinders, that had every animal and peoples you could think of, and they were going down the cylinders from adults to babies. There were fish also. I remember seeing all kinds of fish. As I was walking toward the worm, I heard a voice say, 'you go back and be a better man.' I felt so warm and loved I didn't want to go back."
But in this article I'd like to focus more on the physical parasites, what we might call worms, ticks, leeches. You can see them in the videos of the alternative rock band Tool in videos like Vicarious or in songs like Ticks and Leeches. Or in prominent Hollywood movies like Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, Alien, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, etc.
There is a Rosicrucian-based book named The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians, by Magus Incognito. Part III, The Soul of the World, talks about the Demiurge or World Soul. It begins:"The Germ within the Cosmic Egg takes unto itself Form. The Flame is re-kindled. Time begins. A Thing exists. Action begins. The Pairs of Opposites spring into being. The World Soul is born, and awakens into manifestation. The first rays of the new Cosmic Day break over the horizon... The Rosicrucian concept of the World Soul—the First Manifestation—corresponds to similar conceptions found, in various forms, in most of the ancient occult teachings of the several great esoteric schools of philosophy. In some philosophies it is known as the "Anima Mundi," or Life of the World, Soul of the World, or World Spirit. In others it is known as the Logos, or Word. In others, as the Demiurge."
"This World Soul is spoken of in the Second Aphorism as "The Germ within the Cosmic Egg," inasmuch as it is regarded as the tiny germ within the egg which gradually increases in size and complexity, and takes upon itself Form and Activity. The symbol of the Cosmic Egg, of which the World Soul is the Animating Germ, is a very old one... The Dark Light once more bursts into Flame throughout the form of the World Soul, and the new Universe begins... "
"The Rosicrucians further hold that it is not correct to think of the World Soul as having been created "out of nothing" by the Eternal Parent, and still less so think of it having been created from the substantial essence of the Eternal Parent by division, separation, or partition (such ideas being held to be logically impossible and fallacious). On the contrary, it is held that the World Soul exists as an IDEA of the Eternal Parent—just as, in a day dream, or a reverie, or a full dream, we may picture a Thing as in being. Or in other terms, even the World Soul exists merely as a PICTURE in the Infinite Imagination of the Eternal Parent, and at the last is but a SHADOW of Reality, and not Reality itself."
"The World Soul, at the Dawn of the Cosmic Day, may be said to be like a dreamer freshly awakened from a deep sleep, and striving to regain consciousness of himself. It does not know what it is, nor does it know that it is but an Idea of the Eternal Parent."
" Germination is a term associated with the coming into being and growth. Germination: "The beginning of growth, as of a seed, spore, or bud. The germination of most seeds and spores occurs in response to warmth and water." Spores and germs are also associated with viruses and parasites
Our world is made of energy and waves. Light waves, sound waves, etc. When you look at the very nature of wave forms, especially sine waves, they are very serpentine. When we leave the infinite void to take form it is due to movement, vibration. Wave patterns. Very small and simple at first like an inch worm. Worms react to movement and vibration, especially sound vibration. We have met the enemy and it is us. The devil inside. We are the aliens?
From the book Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena and Vibration by Hans Jenny: Events then, do not take place in a continuous sequence, in a straight line, but are in a continual state of constant vibration, oscillation, undulation and pulsation. This also holds true for systematized structures. On the largest and smallest scale, we find serial elements, repetitive patterns — and the number of fiber stromata, space lattices, and reticulations is legion. Again, periodic rhythms are a dominant feature of the animal kingdom. The metamerism of the various phyla is a case in point. It is the operation of this law that gives many worms, arthropods and vertebrates their special characteristics."
"The round shapes and their ring formations can be recognized; The round shapes display radial ribs; so do the "worms"; they even undergo actual segmentation (Figs. 152, 153).
If the amplitude is increased
(a crescendo for the ear) the form creeps hither
and thither like a worm. (See also 153.)"
While writing this article, I was following links to bacteria and parasites. I stumbled upon these terms: archaea and archaeon. Archaeon, the singular form of archaea, is very close to the word 'archon'. This may be due to the fact that 'arche' means original or beginning'. According to Merrian-Webster Dictionary, "As a prefix, arch- appears in a number of titles referring to positions of superiority, such as archduke and archbishop. Ultimately deriving (via Latin and French) from the Greek verb archein ("to begin, rule"), it can also mean "chief " (as in archnemesis) or "extreme" (as in archconservative)." And, accordingly, the greek word archon means ruler. In many ways unknown to us, these bacteria are indeed rulers over our bodies. Wikipedia states, "Archaea (/ɑːrˈkiːə/ (About this soundlisten) or /ɑːrˈkeɪə/ ar-KEE-ə or ar-KAY-ə) (singular archaeon) constitute a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. Archaea were initially classified as bacteria, receiving the name archaebacteria (in the Archaebacteria kingdom), but this classification is outmoded."
A BBC article There is one animal that seems to survive without oxygen states, "It is microscopic, looks a bit like a jellyfish, and survives in a place that would kill every other known animal species." The article goes on to say, "Many of these lifeforms – such as bacteria and archaea – are still living happily without oxygen today.
In 1836, Andrew Crosse, an early pioneer and experimenter of electricity, reported to the London Electrical Society regarding the accidental spontaneous generation of Acari insects while conducting experiments on the formation of artificial crystals after being exposed to electrical current.
He wrote, "My dear Sir -- I trust that the gentlemen who compose the "Electrical Society" will not imagine that I have so long delayed answering their request, to furnish the Society through you, as its organ, with a full account of my electrical experiments, in which a certain insect made its unexpected appearance... It would be superfluous to attempt a description of these little mites, when so excellent a one has been transmitted from Paris. It seems that they are of the genus Acarus, but of a species not hitherto observed. I have had 3 separate formations of similar insects at different times, from fresh portions of the same fluid, with the same apparatus. As I considered the result of my experiment rather extraordinary, I made some of my friends acquainted with it, amongst whom were some highly scientific gentlemen, and they plainly perceived the insect in various states... on the 26th day, each figure assumed the form of a perfect insect, standing erect on a few bristles which formed its tail. Till this period I had no notion that these appearances were any other than an incipient mineral formation; but it was not until the 28th day, when I plainly perceived these little creatures move their legs, that I felt any surprise, and I must own that when this took place, I was not a little astonished... Out of about a hundred insects, not above 5 or 6 were born on the south side of the stone... I have had 3 separate formations of similar insects at different times... In the course of some months, indeed, these insects so increased, that when they were strong enough to leave their moistened birthplace, they issued out in different directions, I suppose in quest of food; but they generally huddled together under a card or piece of paper in their neighborhood, as if to avoid light and disturbance... I have not observed a formation of the insect, except on a moist and electrified surface, or under an electrified fluid."
Although the acari are not worms per se, they definitely fit the bill as being insects in the form of parasites/mites/ticks. This seems to maybe tie in with cymatics. I think the arc-hons have to do with the movement that created the duality we experience. The two poles and the oscillation or arcing between the poles is associated directly with the arcing of electricity. This could also be the secret meaning behind the freemasonic symbol of the arch(way) between two pillars (or poles). Interestingly, the word acari has as an anagram 'arcai', very close phonetically to archai, archaea and archons.
Personally, I sometimes wonder if argon isn't somehow related due to its strong etymological connection to the word 'archon'. The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is nitrogen, with oxygen second. Argon, an inert gas, is the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere, comprising almost 1 percent. Argon, in this scenario, would be the infamous 1% that people bandy about. Some of the scientific articles say the mitochondrial parasite which invaded the cell didn't need oxygen to breathe. Maybe they were able to thrive with the help of the one percent argon gas? Argon is also used in arc welding and artificial lighting.
Or do we receive signals from a larger collection of larger cells like the earth or the sun or the world soul or universal mind? Or what some call God? Is there order or is it a chaotic free for all? Well, we know that there are energetic relationships between organisms. Some are symbiotic, mutually beneficial. Some are more parasitic in a predator-prey type dynamic where one in killed and its life force is consumed. What happens when we die? Near death experiences suggest the soul or spirit carries on in another dimension. Where does the energy come from to sustain that energetic body? Very little is reported and known about that. What energy powers those dimensions? Those who read my article on the so called void know that science has somewhat recently discovered a quantum level or zero point field which contains an almost infinite energy. It is made of what is said to be 99.99% emptiness or empty space. Or is it just that our instruments are too weak to detect it? Or it is too small to see? Theoretical physicists also throw around the terms dark matter and dark energy. Where does this energy come from? Is it sucking energy from a parallel universe? Or maybe higher dimensions are sucking energy from ours? Very little is known right now. We also go to sleep at night to rest and recharge our batteries. Why do we run out of energy? Why is there an energy crisis? Is it by design or is there a very real problem? According to scientists, it is due to entropy. The universe and all things in it is running down. But energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes form. So it must be going somewhere. It is just constantly being passed back in forth in a Game of Thrones style consumption of energy and life feeding off each other, but ultimately, at the biggest picture, itself? Perhaps this is the meaning of the world symbol of the ouroboros, the serpent biting its own tail in a neverending, eternal circle? Sometimes it is shown as two serpents biting each others' tails. Also similar to the caduceusm, the symbol of the medical community, DNA, two serpents intertwined on a pole. This could also look like a mobieus strip turning in on itself like the infinity symbol. Or a spherical torus ever folding in on itself in perpetual motion. That could look like the ying yang symbol. The Tao philosophy includes the idea of tai chi, energy flow.
What is the point, the main purpose of it all? Is there a method to this madness? Is it a necessary evil?
In previous articles, I have discussed the Gnostic belief that archontic false rulers are mental and energetic parasites of humanity, stealing our light power. They claimed the chief archon and creator of this world was Ialdabaoth, commonly referred to as the Demiurge. They said he was ignorant, blind and delusional. I recently came across a similar phenomenon but from the Native American perspective. Paul Levy is the author of Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil. Paul asserts a virus named Wetiko is responsible for the madness of mankind.
Paul describes the wetiko virus as a collective psychosis of humanity. "Our species is clearly in the middle of a mass psychic epidemic, which I call “malignant egophrenia” and Native Americans call “wetiko.”
"In the Native American’s usage of the term, those who have become wetikos are individuals who have “lost their wits,” which connotes not only being out of their (right) mind, but also not knowing what they are (“unwittingly”) doing. To not know what they are acting out implies that they have been taken over by something other than themselves, which is acting itself out through them. It is as if their self has become corrupted such that they are “no longer themselves.” The mythology surrounding the figure of wetiko can be read as an expression of the phenomenon of a powerful, transhuman spirit that can take possession of people’s body and mind."
"Wetiko/malignant egophrenia is a “psychosis” in the true sense of the word, a “sickness of the soul or spirit.”
"Giving myself creative license once again (for this certification does not have an expiration date), we quickly realized that malignant egophrenia could be shortened to ME disease, which sounded like and suggested what it meant. The name “ME disease” is pointing to the very essence of what the problem is, that is, the grasping on to an imagined “me,” a sense of an independent egoic self, which doesn’t exist in the way we think it does. This clinging on to a false sense of self, this self-contraction around a false identity, is itself both the source of and the expression of wetiko/malignant egophrenia —hence ME disease."
"Though Jung wasn’t familiar with either of the names “wetiko” or “malignant egophrenia,” from his voluminous writings it is clear that he was very much tuned into this archetypal psychospiritual pathology of the soul. He was continually pointing at wetiko/malignant egophrenia when he would write about “the germ” of psychological evil. He emphasized the importance of developing a “container” (a word which, revealingly, has multiple meanings: to include, hold together, have capacity for, control, restrain and limit) in which to catch such troublesome and malevolent spirits...
Though the place where wetiko/malignant egophrenia exists is impossible to locate, at the same time, it is critical that we attempt to delineate its properties. Unlike a physical virus, the wetiko/malignant egophrenia bug cannot be isolated materially, but its characteristic signature can be detected and seen in the peculiar operations of a psyche that is under its spell. To not recognize the existence of the wetiko/malignant egophrenia germ—“to say it doesn’t exist”—allows the psychic infection to act itself out unrestrained. Being “always somewhere” is to be nonlocal, which means that it is always around."
A great youTube channel is Journey to the Microcosmos. They have a great epsiode where they ask the question, Are our cells more than ourselves? "First, and most simple, the prokaryotes. Single-celled and lacking organelles, the ones you’re most familiar with are bacteria. For hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of years, prokaryotes were the only life on our planet. And, for clarity, the earth is only four and a half billion years old. 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and ask the question, "Are our cells more than ourselves?"
Life on Earth emerged at least three and a half billion years ago as prokaryotes. These are the simple unicellular organisms. They have a membrane on the outside and a wash of cellular machinery inside, all mixed together and touching, and sharing the same environment. This worked, certainly. Life chugged along this way for nearly half of the history of life on earth. But then, 1.8 billion years ago, something remarkable happened. Something that led to a tremendous shift in the scope and complexity of life. Something we should all be grateful for because, without that leap, we would not exist. Cells started to...contain cells. Now this isn’t generally how it’s talked about in science class. There you hear that Eukaryotes have quote “membrane-bound organelles.” These are areas of the cell that are separated from the rest of the cytoplasm by membranes, just as the cell itself is separated from the rest of the universe by its membrane. It turns out, different activities require different conditions, and these cells within cells allow for those different conditions. That, in short, is the secret of Eukaryotic success. But how did it happen? Well, over decades of study we have determined something shockingly peculiar. Something so odd that it makes us kind of mad that we now discuss it as if it isn’t the miracle it is. 1.8 billion years ago, a cell consumed another cell...but then it didn’t digest it...it let it reproduce inside of it, and they lived together, and, over time, became the same organism. Or did they?....
This is what we call “Endosymbiotic Theory.” Mitochondrion appeared when the consumed cell was adapted to live in an oxygen rich environment and chloroplasts appeared when the swallowed cell was photosynthetic. This idea was deeply controversial when it was first proposed, but as data have continued to come in, endosymbiotic theory has been able to explain more and more about the realities we find. For example, that chloroplasts have their own DNA which they use to create the proteins required for their function. This is another single-celled organism with endosymbiotic algae. It's a testate amoeba. A kind of amoeba that builds itself a shell. This species, like some kind of sculptural artist, pulls bits and pieces of mineral from its environment to create these amazing looking homes. You can see the amoeba extending from the opening of the shell and you can see the green algae in its cytoplasm. Just like Paramecium bursaria, the algae use sunlight to produce food sharing it with the amoeba while the amoeba provides protection. Some unicellular organisms don't need oxygen for growth. Indeed the presence of free oxygen can affect them negatively or even kill them. These organisms are known as anaerobes. Such as this one, Metopus. It is an anaerobic ciliate we find in pond sediment and it has an endosymbiotic relationship with methanogenic archaea. Now we haven’t talked much on this channel about archaeans, but they are the third domain of life, along with bacteria and eukaryotes and, like bacteria, they are prokaryotic. We can’t wait to do our episode on them someday soon....
When we look at the algal cells in P Bursaria, we’re forced to ask if those cells are part of the organism, or if they’re simply cells of one species living in the cells of another. If that’s the case, it’s worth asking whether the mitochondria in you are you at all, or if they are just another extremely successful species of prokaryote that is particularly reliant on its host cell. As we look deeper and deeper down, the line between organisms is harder and harder to find. Which is why, if you think hard enough you might begin to feel like our cells are more than just ourselves."
1. Arrival
BBC's David Attenborough has a good show called First Life which takes a look at how life first evolved on Earth. It consisted of two episodes, Arrival and Conquest. These scientific BBC shows are pretty much saying the life that came out of the seas -- and eventually would have become us (had the anunnaki not intervened) -- were worms or worm-like.
"And that is the basic body plan of almost all the animals that are alive on Earth today.
It had taken 3,000 million years for multi-celled organisms to appear for the first time.
They had heads and tails and segmented bodies.
2. Conquest
"Last time I saw how, 600 million years ago, simple cells evolved into the first multi-cellular animals.
In this programme, I investigate what happened next.
I will look for evidence in both fossils and living creatures of what happened in that far, distant past, when the fundamental features of modern animals were being established for the first time.
One group, the arthropods, were the great pioneers.
They were the first big predators... 600 million years ago, the world was very different from the planet we know today.
The land was entirely without animals or plants.
But the oceans were teeming with life.
The first proto-animals were immobile organisms that lived on the sea floor and extracted their nourishment from the water flowing around them.
But once animals developed mouths and the ability move, evolution took off.
Canada's Rocky Mountains.
Here we can find evidence of a sudden explosion of life when animals started to evolve with astonishing rapidity.
It happened during a period called the Cambrian.
And it began 542 million years ago.
During the next 10-20 million years, animals increased in numbers, diversity and size as never before.
And as they got bigger, so they became more complex..."
"The Burgess Shales, that astonishingly rich treasury of Cambrian fossils, contain the remains of just one particularly rare species that may well have been the very first animal to make that move onto land.
It was not, as you might think, an amphibian, it was not even a true arthropod, but one of their far distant cousins.
This little creature, from the Burgess Shale seas, is thought to be the ancestor of the very first creature that went on to land.
It's called Aysheaia.
And we don't have to imagine what it was like in life, because there's a creature, that seems to be almost identical, that is alive today.
It lives in many parts of the tropics, including the rainforest, here in Queensland, Australia.
It's nocturnal and seldom seen.
It spends most of its time hidden away inside rotten logs. "
"Ah, it's nice and wet! Certainly, er, perfect for what we're looking for.
You need local expertise to find one.
I generally find that it's just from the outside of the, er, core of the tree.
All nice and Oh! What is that? Ooh, look at that.
And this enchanting little creature is what we were looking for.
Sometimes called a velvet worm, or to give it its scientific name, Peripatus.
If there is such a thing as a living fossil, this surely must be one of them.
Because it seems to be almost identical with that fossil, Aysheaia, which we saw in the Burgess Shales.
It looks at first sight like a worm.
But of course no worm has legs.
In fact, it seems to be halfway between a worm and an insect. Aysheaia, of course, lived in the sea.
But this little creature lives on land.
And it has one further attribute, which Aysheaia could not have had.
It has tiny little holes all along its flanks, which enable it to breathe air.
So this is one of the first creatures that moved on to land, 540 million years ago.
Velvet worms may have been the first animals to set foot on land, but they have hardly changed during the following half-billion years..."
"Among the ancestors of all the insects, spiders, the scorpions, the shellfish, the crustaceans, the shrimps, the sponges, there's just one tiny little creature, very insignificant, which we human beings might think is perhaps the most important of all. Because this is the first creature to have the sign of a backbone, and thus, therefore, is probably the ancestor of us all. It's a tiny, worm-like creature called Pikaia. It was not a fearsome hunter. It had no teeth for attack and no external skeleton for defence. But Pikaia did have something new. Instead of an external skeleton, it had an internal one, a thin gristly rod, the beginnings of a backbone. It, or something very like it, was the ancestor of all vertebrates. From such a creature as this, the first fish evolved. Some of them, living in swamps, started to gulp air and wriggled up onto the land. They gave rise to moist-skinned amphibians. Some of them developed scaly, impermeable skins that enabled them to colonize the driest places they were the reptiles. And from them came the birds. And the mammals..."
"Life originated in the oceans. After an immense period of time, some creatures managed to crawl up onto the land. Those animals may seem to us to be very remote, strange, even fantastic. But all of us alive today owe our very existence to them."
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology wrote, Worm genomes reveal a link between humans and distant relatives
An interesting scientific abstract was written by George (PJ) Perry is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Biology and a faculty member of the Ecology and Bioinformatics & Genomics interdisciplinary graduate programs at Pennsylvania State University. His group's research is broadly concerned with human and nonhuman primate evolutionary ecology and genomics. He writes, "Our understanding of human evolutionary and population history can be advanced by ecological and evolutionary studies of our parasites. Many parasites flourish only in the presence of very specific human behaviors and in specific habitats, are wholly dependent on us, and have evolved with us for thousands or millions of years. Therefore, by asking when and how we first acquired those parasites, under which environmental and cultural conditions we are the most susceptible, and how the parasites have evolved and adapted to us and we in response to them, we can gain considerable insight into our own evolutionary history.1, 2 As examples, the tapeworm life cycle is dependent on our consumption of meat,3 the divergence of body and head lice may have been subsequent to the development of clothing,4, 5 and malaria hyperendemicity may be associated with agriculture.6 Thus, the evolutionary and population histories of these parasites are likely intertwined with critical aspects of human biology and culture."
The LiveScience article You Share 70% of Your Genes with This Slimy Marine Worm states, "People have more in common with deep-sea worms than one might suspect. Over 500 million years ago, humans and certain worms shared a common ancestor, and people still share thousands of genes with the worms, said scientists who recently sequenced genomes from two marine worm species.
"The results suggest humans and acorn worms, so called because of their acorn-shaped "heads," are distant cousins, said the researchers, led by Oleg Simakov of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Okinawa, Japan. The researchers analyzed genes from two acorn worm species: Ptychodera flava, collected off Hawaii, and Saccoglossus kowalevskii, from the Atlantic Ocean."
The article Evolution from Worms: 70 Percent of Human Genes Trace Ancestry to the Acorn Worm explains, "Worm genomes reveal a link between humans and distant relatives"
The Independent article Humanity evolved from wriggling sea creatures with large mouth and no anus posits, "Humankind evolved from a bag-like sea creature that had a large mouth, apparently had no anus and moved by wriggling, scientists have said.
The microscopic species is the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humanity and lived 540 million years ago, a study published in the journal Nature said.
The creature is named Saccorhytus, after the sack-like features created by its elliptical body and large mouth, and its existence was identified from microfossils found in China... “Saccorhytus now gives us remarkable insights into the very first stages of the evolution of a group that led to the fish, and ultimately, to us.”
The Saccorhytus microfossils were found in Shaanxi Province, in central China, and pre-date all other known deuterostomes.
Most other early deuterostome groups are from about 510 to 520 million years ago, when they had already begun to diversify into vertebrates, sea squirts, echinoderms – animals such as starfish and sea urchins – and hemichordates – a group including things like acorn worms.
The creature had small conical structures on its body which may have been the evolutionary precursor of the gills we now see in fish."
Vermes ("worms") is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals.
A 2011 Discover magazine article Did Parasites Drive Human Evolution? ponders, "But what if factors other than climate, like the food available nearby or the viruses, bacteria, and parasites native to the area, also had an effect on various human populations' genetic toolkits? It's a fascinating question, but, given that we have to reconstruct all this supposed evolution from the current state of modern genomes, finding an answer isn't easy."
"Humans evolved from a five-centimeter-long worm-like creature that wriggled in the sea more than 500 million years ago, scientists have learned.
The extinct Pikaia gracilens has been confirmed as the oldest known member of the chordate family, which includes all modern vertebrates including humans.
It gave rise to the panoply of vertebrate animals alive today - fish, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals.
When Pikaia was first discovered in 1911 scientists assumed it was related to leeches and earthworms.
But a new study has now confirmed what many experts suspected, that the creature was a primitive ancestor of animals with spinal cords."
According to the LiveScience article You Share 70% of Your Genes with This Slimy Marine Worm: "Clearly, acorn worms look nothing like people; the worms have no limbs and breathe through slits in their guts. But they share approximately 14,000 genes with humans, scientists found, comprising about 70 percent of the human genome. These genes can be traced back to an ancestor of both acorn worms and humans that lived more than 500 million years ago, during a period known as the Cambrian explosion."
The BBC documentary Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell was a very insightful show which showed us what life inside our body cells actually looks like. "Drawing on the very latest cellular discoveries, for the first time this epic film brings the interior world of a human cell to life. Working with world experts in cell visualization, molecular biologists and cutting-edge CGI animators, viewers experience a thrilling and scientifically accurate cinematic extravaganza into the hidden, magnificent world of the cell." When one watches the documentary one realizes that these viruses are actually more like zombies in that they are not alive. They are the undead and they are hacking the cell in order to take control of it, spread the infection throughout the body and take it over.
From the documentary: "Cells are the basic building blocks of living tissue, and the smallest units of what makes us human.
And yet
beneath the surface of every one lies a world stranger than any in science fiction.
A world in which a billion microscopic machines all play their part, working in concert through every second of our life.
Every one of us is made of 120 trillion cells, and every one of those cells is different.
But they contain the same instructions."
"Cells are a bit like babies.
When they're born, they all look the same but they change very quickly.
In different countries they learn to speak different languages, and our bodies are like that - some cells speak 'heart', and some cells speak 'liver'.
The workers of this incredible world are proteins, chains of complex chemicals that can lock together to transform into spectacular machines.
Others work to create incredible structures, like the internal skeleton that holds the cell together.
These great trusses are constantly adjusting to stresses and strains, building and rebuilding to give the cell its shape and strength.
Then there are the motor-proteins, haulage workers that use the cell's skeleton as highways to deliver food, chemicals and the essential building materials of life to wherever they are needed.
They are just one of the astonishing micro machines that keep this bustling community healthy.
"Scientists are asked all the time, how do things in a cell know how to get where they're supposed to go to do their job? And for sure cells are very chaotic and things are bumping into each other and most of that's just random.
But enough things get where they're supposed to go that the entire system works.
And powering all this activity are the cell's power stations.
Inside these free-floating structures called mitochondria, turbines spin at over 1,000 times per minute
recharging billions of tiny chemical batteries.
Everything we do, every heartbeat, every movement, every thought, is powered by the batteries charged by these cellular power stations.
And everything in this world works to a master plan.
And the plan is protected deep in the heart of every cell.
The nucleus is the vault containing the instruction manual for life.
DNA. DNA is a chain of chemicals, organised into genes.
Each gene holds the instructions to build a specific protein."
"The double helix contains over 20,000 instructions that tell our cells what to make and when, how to organise not just our cells, but our entire bodies.
The double helix has become the icon of the 21st century, and it's pretty amazing stuff.
There's six feet of DNA in every cell of the body.
And if all of those bits were set out in a straight line, they'd reach to the moon and back thousands of times.
But this crucial chain of chemicals would be useless without an army of microscopic machines that endlessly travel its length, repairing it and transcribing it, turning the DNA into instructions that the cell can understand.
Once a gene has been copied, the instructions are carried outside the nucleus.
Here, mobile factories read them and turn them into proteins.
Up to two million different kinds, each with its own specific shape and purpose.
And little goes to waste in the cell.
Used and faulty proteins are tagged for recycling then chewed apart by powerful roving shredders called proteasomes, reducing them to tiny building blocks for new proteins.
But each cell is also part of a wider neighbourhood of cells, all continually communicating with each other.
Fragments of shredded proteins are constantly transported to the surface.
Here, they are presented for inspection
to be monitored by the guardians of our body's immune system:
our white blood cells.
These roving soldiers check the protein fragments for signs of damage or infection.
And for the moment, everything is in order.
Every single human cell contains this world of breathtaking complexity, organised by the nuclear machines at its heart, ceaselessly working from instructions written down in our DNA."
"But our cells are under constant attack, and this cell is about to face an ancient enemy
in an encounter that starts with an event so commonplace,
you seldom even notice it.
Every day our bodies are constantly bombarded by these invisible critters, bacteria and viruses.
But we have our skin, it's our first line of defence that keeps them out.
But we have Achilles heels - we have openings to the outside world, our mouths, our noses, we touch things, we rub our lips, we rub our eyes or wipe our nose.
They can get in.
And once they're in, they're in.
Inhaled from a sneeze, an alien army is being carried into our body. A million invaders, hellbent on destruction."
"This is one of our most common enemies - the adenovirus.
It's a masterpiece of design, and each one has a single aim
to breach a cell's defences
and reach the nucleus.
Once inside, any one of these viruses can take control of the cell and reproduce 10,000 times over. The result could be anything, from the common cold to pneumonia - even death.
But our bodies are prepared.
As the viruses approach the cell, they are met by a cloud of resistance.
Antibodies, Y-shaped proteins that identify alien intruders patrol the space between our cells, looking for viruses.
Recognising the invader, they lock to the virus's armour plating, shackling them together, making the viruses easy meat for the white blood cells that feed on alien invaders like these.
Antibodies and white blood cells form the front line of our immune system. The immune system is certainly amazing, and it actually evolved to see invading microbes and get rid of them.
But that's just one part of your body's defences. Our DNA encodes all these other features that help us to fight against virus at every single step.
Despite the body's early immune response
hundreds of thousands of viruses make it through to our cell..."
"But the largest deliveries require a special key before they are allowed into the cell. These protein keys are recognised by teams of mobile sentries that continually roam the surface. This sophisticated system is designed to keep harmful molecules out of the cell. But over billions of years of evolution, the adenovirus has evolved its very own key, etched into the end of these projecting fibres. Antibodies still cling to the some of these fibres, blocking many of the counterfeit keys - but not all. One by one, sentries all over the cell's surface are fooled. And the virus army quietly slips inside. In this ancient battle for the cell, it's round two to the virus."
So, how far back does it go, this cat and mouse game, this battle between cells and viruses? Every indication suggests it goes right back to the origins of life on Earth.
Wherever life started, very early on there was a divergence, two different strategies that life followed.
One of them was to become more complex, to become cells, to become, ultimately, organisms like ourselves.
The other way was to remain simple - to become viruses, and to exploit those cells to their own ends, to replicate themselves."
"Beneath the surface, the cell prepares to receive the deadly invaders.
Fooled into thinking that the virus is an important nutrient, special proteins slot together to form a spherical mould.
They pinch out a bubble of cellular membrane, wrapping the virus inside.
Finally, a separate protein pinches the bubble free, delivering the virus into the cell's interior.
Unwittingly, the cell has just taken a large step towards to its own downfall.
Every single member of this invading virus army has the weaponry to ultimately destroy this cell.
Its protein shell is a multi-layered cloak of deception, which has still more surprises in store.
And at its heart, it carries a tiny string of DNA, its ultimate weapon.
It's a masterpiece of evolution and design.
And yet scientists still can't decide if it's actually alive or dead. At the level of large animals like ourselves, the difference between living things and non-living things is very obvious.
Come down a level, though, to cells, and it becomes a bit more ambiguous.
For our own cells, of course, you can still tell immediately that they are alive.
Come down another level, though, to the virus, and it's no longer obviously alive.
They don't look alive.
Yet they behave perhaps as if they are. They behave with a sense of purpose.
A virus isn't strictly alive, it can't make more of itself on its own.
It only can replicate if it uses parts that it hijacks from a cell..."
"How do viruses know how to invade our cells, how to break and enter the nucleus itself? We know that viruses and cells co-evolved together over long periods of time, but it's more than that.
We're actually surprisingly closely related.
It turns out that the viruses that attack us are actually made from bits and pieces of our own cells.
As our cells were evolving, as our nucleus itself was first coming to be, so these viruses were cobbled together from bits and pieces, and they can attack our nucleus because they're made of the same stuff..."
"Working together, the body's immune system finally prevents the viral infection from spreading. It's one more battle in an unending war. The struggle between viruses and ourselves is evolution, but it's co-evolution - both sides have to change. It's a bit like an arms race - one party gets better weapons, the other party has to match them. Even though the individual cells are fighting this epic battle against viruses, remember, you have trillions of cells. And so even if one cell loses its war, most of the time the organism wins and we get better. The war is over. For now. Although many cells have been lost, there are many more healthy cells waiting to replace them. And at the heart of each one lies an identical copy of our DNA. Inherited from our parents, and their parents over countless generations, our DNA connects us to a family tree that stretches back over three billion years, to the very first cell,a cell that existed long before humans, long before mammals, long before the dinosaurs. It's a lineage that connects us to every living creature and plant on Earth. We are all descended from a single prehistoric ancestor, a cell containing the single strand of DNA that started it all. But the virus is as old as we are. It has evolved alongside us, forcing us to adapt, to change or die in a deadly game of cat and mouse. This eternal arms race has driven our evolution and made us both stronger. We wouldn't be what we are today were it not for this battle with our ancient enemy. The story of the cell is a story of innovation and change, and because viruses continuously force cells to change, they actually aid their adaptation to different environments. And for that reason they've also helped shape us, they've made us who we are. Every minute of every day, this battle with the virus rages within seven billion of us. Though we are rarely aware of it, we fight each other, change each other, improve each other."
Richard Dawkins explained the title for his book in the introduction. "The best way to explain the title is by locating the emphasis. Emphasize 'selfish' and you will think the book is about selfishness, whereas, if anything, it devotes more attention to altruism. The correct word of the title to stress is 'gene' and let me explain why. A central debate within Darwinism concerns the unit that is actually selected: what kind of entity is it that survives, or does not survive, as a consequence of natural selection. That unit will become, more or less by definition, 'selfish'. Altruism might well be favoured at other levels. Does natural selection choose between species? If so, we might expect individual organisms to behave altruistically 'for the good of the species'. They might limit their birth rates to avoid overpopulation, or restrain their hunting behaviour to conserve the species' future stocks of prey. It was such widely disseminated misunderstandings of Darwinism that originally provoked me to write the book. Or does natural selection, as I urge instead here, choose between genes? In this case, we should not be surprised to find individual organisms behaving altruistically 'for the good of the genes', for example by feeding and protecting kin who are likely to share copies of the same genes. Such kin altruism is only one way in which gene selfishness can translate itself into individual altruism. This book explains how it works, together with reciprocation, Darwinian theory's other main generator of altruism."
"Let me repeat and expand the rationale for the word 'selfish' in the title. The critical question is which level in the hierarchy of life will turn out to be the inevitably 'selfish' level, at which natural selection acts? The Selfish Species? The Selfish Group? The Selfish Organism? The Selfish Ecosystem? Most of these could be argued, and most have been uncritically assumed by one or another author, but all of them are wrong. Given that the Darwinian message is going to be pithily encapsulated as The Selfish Something, that something turns out to be the gene, for cogent reasons which this book argues..."
"... I should perhaps have gone for The Immortal Gene. The Altruistic Vehicle would have been another possibility. Perhaps it would have been too enigmatic but, at all events, the apparent dispute between the gene and the organism as rival units of natural selection (a dispute that exercised the late Ernst Mayr to the end) is resolved. There are two kinds of unit of natural selection, and there is no dispute between them. The gene is the unit in the sense of replicator. The organism is the unit in the sense of vehicle. Both are important. Neither should be denigrated. They represent two completely distinct kinds of unit and we shall be hopelessly confused unless we recognize the distinction. Another good alternative to The Selfish Gene would have been The Cooperative Gene. It sounds paradoxically opposite, but a central part of the book argues for a form of cooperation among self-interested genes. This emphatically does not mean that groups of genes prosper at the expense of their members, or at the expense of other groups. Rather, each gene is seen as pursuing its own self-interested agenda against the background of the other genes in the gene pool—the set of candidates for sexual shuffling within a species. Those other genes are part of the environment in which each gene survives, in the same way as the weather, predators and prey, supporting vegetation and soil bacteria are parts of the environment. From each gene's point of view, the 'background' genes are those with which it shares bodies in its journey down the generations. In the short term, that means the other members of the genome. In the long term, it means the other genes in the gene pool of the species. Natural selection therefore sees to it that gangs of mutually compatible—which is almost to say cooperating— genes are favoured in the presence of each other. At no time does this evolution of the 'cooperative gene' violate the fundamental principle of the selfish gene... "
"Now, given that natural selection for selfish genes tends to favour cooperation among genes, it has to be admitted that there are some genes that do no such thing and work against the interests of the rest of the genome. Some authors have called them outlaw genes, others ultra-selfish genes, yet others just 'selfish genes'—misunderstanding the subtle difference from genes that cooperate in self-interested cartels. Examples of ultra-selfish genes are the meiotic drive genes described on pages 235-237, and the 'parasitic DNA' originally proposed on pages 44-45 and developed further by various authors under the catchphrase 'Selfish DNA'. "
Richard Dawkins coined the now viral term meme in his book The Selfish Gene: "The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme* If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word meme. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. If a scientist hears, or reads about, a good idea, he passes it on to his colleagues and students. He mentions it in his articles and his lectures. If the idea catchs on, it can be said to propagate itself, spreading from brain to brain... "
"When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell. And this isn't just a way of talking—the meme for, say, "belief in life after death" is actually realized physically, millions of times over, as a structure in the nervous systems of individual men the world over.' Consider the idea of God. We do not know how it arose in the meme pool. Probably it originated many times by independent 'mutation'. In any case, it is very old indeed. How does it replicate itself? By the spoken and written word, aided by great music and great art. Why does it have such high survival value? Remember that 'survival value' here does not mean value for a gene in a gene pool, but value for a meme in a meme pool. The question really means: What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment? The survival value of the god meme in the meme pool results from its great psychological appeal. It provides a superficially plausible answer to deep and troubling questions about existence. It suggests that injustices in this world may be rectified in the next. The 'everlasting arms' hold out a cushion against our own inadequacies which, like a doctor's placebo, is none the less effective for being imaginary. These are some of the reasons why the idea of God is copied so readily by successive generations of individual brains. God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. "
Some other interesting excerpts from the book:
"Humans and baboons have evolved by natural selection. If you look at the way natural selection works, it seems to follow that anything that has evolved by natural selection should be selfish. Therefore we must expect that when we go and look at the behaviour of baboons, humans, and all other living creatures, we shall find it to be selfish... It is important to realize that the above definitions of altruism and selfishness are behavioural, not subjective. I am not concerned here with the psychology of motives. I am not going to argue about whether people who behave altruistically are 'really' doing it for secret or subconscious selfish motives. Maybe they are and maybe they aren't, and maybe we can never know, but in any case that is not what this book is about. My definition is concerned only with whether the effect of an act is to lower or raise the survival prospects of the presumed altruist and the survival prospects of the presumed beneficiary... An apparently altruistic act is one that looks, superficially, as if it must tend to make the altruist more likely (however slightly) to die, and the recipient more likely to survive. It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise."
"First some miscellaneous examples of selfish behaviour by individual animals. Blackheaded gulls nest in large colonies, the nests being only a few feet apart. When the chicks first hatch out they are small and defenceless and easy to swallow. It is quite common for a gull to wait until a neighbour's back is turned, perhaps while it is away fishing, and then pounce on one of the neighbour's chicks and swallow it whole. It thereby obtains a good nutritious meal, without having to go to the trouble of catching a fish, and without having to leave its own nest unprotected.
More well known is the macabre cannibalism of female praying mantises. Mantises are large carnivorous insects. They normally eat smaller insects such as flies, but they will attack almost anything that moves. When they mate, the male cautiously creeps up on the female, mounts her, and copulates. If the female gets the chance, she will eat him, beginning by biting his head off, either as the male is approaching, or immediately after he mounts, or after they separate. It might seem most sensible for her to wait until copulation is over before she starts to eat him. But the loss of the head does not seem to throw the rest of the male's body off its sexual stride. Indeed, since the insect head is the seat of some inhibitory nerve centres, it is possible that the female improves the male's sexual performance by eating his head.* If so, this is an added benefit. The primary one is that she obtains a good meal.
The word 'selfish' may seem an understatement for such extreme cases as cannibalism, although these fit well with our definition. Perhaps we can sympathize more directly with the reported cowardly behaviour of emperor penguins in the Antarctic. They have been seen standing on the brink of the water, hesitating before diving in, because of the danger of being eaten by seals. If only one of them would dive in, the rest would know whether there was a seal there or not. Naturally nobody wants to be the guinea pig, so they wait, and sometimes even try to push each other in.
"Predators too tell lies. Angler fish wait patiently on the bottom of the sea, blending in with the background. The only conspicuous part is a wriggling worm-like piece of flesh on the end of a long 'fishing rod', projecting from the top of the head. When a small prey fish comes near, the angler will dance its worm-like bait in front of the little fish, and lure it down to the region of the angler's own concealed mouth. Suddenly it opens its jaws, and the little fish is sucked in and eaten. The angler is telling a lie, exploiting the little fish's tendency to approach wriggling worm-like objects. He is saying 'Here is a worm', and any little fish who 'believes' the lie is quickly eaten. "
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"Some survival machines exploit the sexual desires of others. Bee orchids induce bees to copulate with their flowers, because of their strong resemblance to female bees. What the orchid has to gain from this deception is pollination, for a bee who is fooled by two orchids will incidentally carry pollen from one to the other. Fireflies (which are really beetles) attract their mates by flashing lights at them. Each species has its own particular dot-dash flashing pattern, which prevents confusion between species, and consequent harmful hybridization. Just as sailors look out for the flash patterns of particular lighthouses, so fireflies seek the coded flash patterns of their own species. Females of the genus Photuris have 'discovered' that they can lure males of the genus Photinus if they imitate the flashing code of a Photinus female. This they do, and when a Photinus male is fooled by the lie into approaching, he is summarily eaten by the Photuris female. Sirens and Lorelei spring to mind as analogies, but Cornishmen will prefer to think of the wreckers of the old days, who used lanterns to lure ships on to the rocks, and then plundered the cargoes that spilled out of the wrecks. "
Parasites of all types have long been known to exert fascinatingly insidious influences on their hosts. A species of microscopic protozoan parasite called Nosema, which infests the larvae of flour beetles, has 'discovered' how to manufacture a chemical that is very special for the beetles. Like other insects, these beetles have a hormone called the juvenile hormone which keeps larvae as larvae. The normal change from larva to adult is triggered by the larva ceasing production of juvenile hormone. The parasite Nosema has succeeded in synthesizing (a close chemical analogue of) this hormone. Millions of Nosema club together to mass-produce juvenile hormone in the beetle larva's body, thereby preventing it from turning into an adult. Instead it goes on growing, ending up as a giant larva more than twice the weight of a normal adult. No good for propagating beetle genes, but a cornucopia for Nosema parasites. Giantism in beetle larvae is an extended phenotypic effect of protozoan genes.
And here is a case history to provoke even more Freudian anxiety than the Peter Pan beetles—parasitic castration! Crabs are parasitized by a creature called Sacculina. Sacculina is related to barnacles, though you would think, to look at it, that it was a parasitic plant. It drives an elaborate root system deep into the tissues of the unfortunate crab, and sucks nourishment from its body. It is probably no accident that among the first organs that it attacks are the crab's testicles or ovaries; it spares the organs that the crab needs to survive—as opposed to reproduce—till later. The crab is effectively castrated by the parasite. Like a fattened bullock, the castrated crab diverts energy and resources away from reproduction and into its own body—rich pickings for the parasite at the expense of the crab's reproduction. Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail. In all three cases the changes in the host, if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite, must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes. Genes, then, reach outside their 'own' body to influence phenotypes in other bodies. To quite a large extent the interests of parasite genes and host genes may coincide. From the selfish gene point of view we can think of both fluke genes and snail genes as 'parasites' in the snail body. Both gain from being surrounded by the same protective shell, though they diverge from one another in the precise thickness of shell that they 'prefer'. This divergence arises, fundamentally, from the fact that their method of leaving this snail's body and entering another one is different. For the snail genes the method of leaving is via snail sperms or eggs. For the fluke's genes it is very different. Without going into the details (they are distractingly complicated) what matters is that their genes do not leave the snail's body in the snail's sperms or eggs. I suggest that the most important question to ask about any parasite is this. Are its genes transmitted to future generations via the same vehicles as the host's genes? If they are not, I would expect it to damage the host, in one way or another. But if they are, the parasite will do all that it can to help the host, not only to survive but to reproduce. Over evolutionary time it will cease to be a parasite, will cooperate with the host, and may eventually merge into the host's tissues and become unrecognizable as a parasite at all. Maybe, as I suggested on page 182, our cells have come far across this evolutionary spectrum: we are all relics of ancient parasitic mergers. Look at what can happen when parasite genes and host genes do share a common exit. Wood-boring ambrosia beetles (of the species Xyleborusferrugineus) are parasitized by bacteria that not only live in their host's body but also use the host's eggs as their transport into a new host. The genes of such parasites therefore stand to gain from.... "
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"I think that cuckoo nestlings must be doing rather more than just 'fooling' their hosts, more than just pretending to be something that they aren't. They seem to act on the host's nervous system in rather the same way as an addictive drug. This is not so hard to sympathize with, even for those with no experience of addictive drugs. A man can be aroused, even to erection, by a printed photograph of a woman's body. He is not 'fooled' into thinking that the pattern of printing ink really is a woman. He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper, yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman. We may find the attractions of a particular member of the opposite sex irresistible, even though the better judgment of our better self tells us that a liaison with that person is not in anyone's long-term interests. The same can be true of the irresistible attractions of unhealthy food. The dunnock probably has no conscious awareness of its long-term best interests, so it is even easier to understand that its nervous system might find certain kinds of stimulation irresistible."
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More ordinarily, selfish behaviour may simply consist of refusing to share some valued resource such as food, territory, or sexual partners. Now for some examples of apparently altruistic behaviour. The stinging behaviour of worker bees is a very effective defence against honey robbers. But the bees who do the stinging are kamikaze fighters. In the act of stinging, vital internal organs are usually torn out of the body, and the bee dies soon afterwards. Her suicide mission may have saved the colony's vital food stocks, but she herself is not around to reap the benefits. By our definition this is an altruistic behavioural act. Remember that we are not talking about conscious motives. They may or may not be present, both here and in the selfishness examples, but they are irrelevant to our definition.
Laying down one's life for one's friends is obviously altruistic, but so also is taking a slight risk for them. Many small birds, when they see a flying predator such as a hawk, give a characteristic 'alarm call', upon which the whole flock takes appropriate evasive action. There is indirect evidence that the bird who gives the alarm call puts itself in special danger, because it attracts the predator's attention particularly to itself. This is only a slight additional risk, but it nevertheless seems, at least at first sight, to qualify as an altruistic act by our definition.
The commonest and most conspicuous acts of animal altruism are done by parents, especially mothers, towards their children. They may incubate them, either in nests or in their own bodies, feed them at enormous cost to themselves, and take great risks in protecting them from predators. To take just one particular example, many ground-nesting birds perform a so-called 'distraction display' when a predator such as a fox approaches. The parent bird limps away from the nest, holding out one wing as though it were broken. The predator, sensing easy prey, is lured away from the nest containing the chicks. Finally the parent bird gives up its pretence and leaps into the air just in time to escape the fox's jaws. It has probably saved the life of its nestlings, but at some risk to itself...
"If it is species that are competing in what Darwin called the struggle for existence, the individual seems best regarded as a pawn in the game, to be sacrificed when the greater interest of the species as a whole requires it. To put it in a slightly more respectable way, a group, such as a species or a population within a species, whose individual members are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the welfare of the group, maybe less likely to go extinct than a rival group whose individual members place their own selfish interests first. Therefore the world becomes populated mainly by groups consisting of self-sacrificing individuals."
"To be strict, this book should be called not The Selfish Cistron nor The Selfish Chromosome, but The slightly selfish big bit of chromosome and the even more selfish little bit of chromosome. To say the least this is not a catchy title so, defining a gene as a little bit of chromosome which potentially lasts for many generations, I call the book The Selfish Gene. "
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"If the 'purpose' of DNA is to supervise the building of bodies, it is surprising to find a large quantity of DNA which does no such thing. Biologists are racking their brains trying to think what useful task this apparently surplus DNA is doing. But from the point of view of the selfish genes themselves, there is no paradox. The true 'purpose' of DNA is to survive, no more and no less. The simplest way to explain the surplus DNA is to suppose that it is a parasite, or at best a harmless but useless passenger, hitching a ride in the survival machines created by the other DNA."
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"Whenever a system of communication evolves, there is always the danger that some will exploit the system for their own ends. Brought up as we have been on the 'good of the species' view of evolution, we naturally think first of liars and deceivers as belonging to different species: predators, prey, parasites, and so on. However, we must expect lies and deceit, and selfish exploitation of communication to arise whenever the interests of the genes of different individuals diverge. This will include individuals of the same species. As we shall see, we must even expect that children will deceive their parents, that husbands will cheat on wives, and that brother will lie to brother. "
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"Survival machines of different species influence each other in a variety of ways. They may be predators or prey, parasites or hosts,competitors for some scarce resource. They may be exploited in special ways, as for instance when bees are used as pollen carriers by flowers. "
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"What is the selfish gene? It is not just one single physical bit of DNA. Just as in the primeval soup, it is all replicas of a particular bit of DNA, distributed throughout the world."
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"Within each one of our cells there are numerous tiny bodies called mitochondria. The mitochondria are chemical factories, responsible for providing most of the energy we need. If we lost our mitochondria we would be dead within seconds. Recently it has been plausibly argued that mitochondria are, in origin, symbiotic bacteria who joined forces with our type of cell very early in evolution. Similar suggestions have been made for other small bodies within our cells. This is one of those revolutionary ideas which it takes time to get used to, but it is an idea whose time has come. I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes. One cannot really speak of 'evidence' for this idea, but, as I tried to suggest in earlier chapters, it is really inherent in the very way we think about how genes work in sexual species. The other side of this coin is that viruses may be genes who have broken loose from 'colonies' such as ourselves. Viruses consist of pure DNA (or a related self-replicating molecule) surrounded by a protein jacket. They are all parasitic. The suggestion is that they have evolved from 'rebel' genes who escaped, and now travel from body to body directly through the air, rather than via the more conventional vehicles—sperms and eggs. If this is true, we might just as well regard ourselves as colonies of viruses! Some of them cooperate symbiotically, and travel from body to body in sperms and eggs. These are the conventional 'genes'. Others live parasitically, and travel by whatever means they can. If the parasitic DNA travels in sperms and eggs, it perhaps forms the 'paradoxical' surplus of DNA which I mentioned in Chapter 3. If it travels through the air, or by other direct means, it is called 'virus' in the usual sense. "
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"What about other games in human life? Which are zero sum and which nonzero sum? And—because this is not the same thing— which aspects of life do we perceive as zero or nonzero sum? Which aspects of human life foster 'envy', and which foster cooperation against a 'banker'? Think, for instance, about wage-bargaining and 'differentials'. When we negotiate our pay-rises, are we motivated by 'envy', or do we cooperate to maximize our real income? Do we assume, in real life as well as in psychological experiments, that we are playing a zero sum game when we are not? I simply pose these difficult questions. To answer them would go beyond the scope of this book... The theory of games and the Prisoner's Dilemma had not been invented in those days but, with hindsight, we can see pretty clearly"
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"Nobody would ever claim that a bacterium was a conscious strategist, yet bacterial parasites are probably engaged in ceaseless games of Prisoner's Dilemma with their hosts and there is no reason why we should not attribute Axelrodian adjectives—forgiving, nonenvious, and so on—to their strategies. Axelrod and Hamilton point out that normally harmless or beneficial bacteria can turn nasty, even causing lethal sepsis, in a person who is injured. A doctor might say that the person's 'natural resistance' is lowered by the injury. But perhaps the real reason is to do with games of Prisoner's Dilemma. Do the bacteria, perhaps, have something to gain, but usually keep themselves in check? In the game between human and bacteria, the 'shadow of the future' is normally long since a typical human can be expected to live for years from any given starting-point. A seriously wounded human, on the other hand, may present a potentially much shorter shadow of the future to his bacterial guests. The 'Temptation to defect' correspondingly starts to look like a more attractive option than the 'Reward for mutual cooperation'. Needless to say, there is no suggestion that the bacteria work all this out in their nasty little heads! Selection on generations of bacteria has presumably built into them an unconscious rule of thumb which works by purely biochemical means. "
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So, when a fluke makes a snail secrete an extra thick shell, the fluke is not doing the snail a good turn unless the fluke is bearing the economic cost of thickening the shell. And we can safely bet that it isn't being so generous. The fluke is exerting some hidden chemical influence on the snail that forces the snail to shift away from its own 'preferred' thickness of shell. It may be prolonging the snail's life. But it is not helping the snail's genes. What is in it for the fluke? Why does it do it? My conjecture is the following. Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal. But survival is not the same thing as reproduction and there is likely to be a trade-off..."
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"The advantages of being in a club of cells don't stop with size. The cells in the club can specialize, each thereby becoming more efficient at performing its particular task. Specialist cells serve other cells in the club and they also benefit from the efficiency of other specialists. If there are many cells, some can specialize as sensors to detect prey, others as nerves to pass on the message, others as stinging cells to paralyse the prey, muscle cells to move tentacles and catch the prey, secretory cells to dissolve it and yet others to absorb the juices. We must not forget that, at least in modern bodies like our own, the cells are a clone. All contain the same genes, although different genes will be turned on in the different specialist cells. Genes in each cell type are directly benefiting their own copies in the minority of cells specialized for reproduction, the cells of the immortal germ line."
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"Let me end with a brief manifesto, a summary of the entire selfish gene/extended phenotype view of life. It is a view, I maintain, that applies to living things everywhere in the universe. The fundamental unit, the prime mover of all life, is the replicator. A replicator is anything in the universe of which copies are made. Replicators come into existence, in the first place, by chance, by the random jostling of smaller particles. Once a replicator has come into existence it is capable of generating an indefinitely large set of copies of itself. No copying process is perfect, however, and the population of replicators comes to include varieties that differ from one another. Some of these varieties turn out to have lost the power of self-replication, and their kind ceases to exist when they themselves cease to exist. Others can still replicate, but less effectively. Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks: they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries. It is their descendants that come to dominate the population. As time goes by, the world becomes filled with the most powerful and ingenious replicators.
Gradually, more and more elaborate ways of being a good replicator are discovered. Replicators survive, not only by virtue of their own intrinsic properties, but by virtue of their consequences on the world. These consequences can be quite indirect. All that is necessary is that eventually the consequences, however tortuous and indirect, feed back and affect the success of the replicator at getting itself copied.
The success that a replicator has in the world will depend on what kind of a world it is—the pre-existing conditions."
The section where Richard says the DNA is a parasite makes me wonder if the DNA is probably the instructions that contain our life script maybe with certain codons turned on and off like computer code (code-on)? But the viruses and worms have DNA too.... maybe to override the original instructions. They are hacking the system and hijacking the code perhaps.
The LiveScience article entitled Mitochondria Were ‘Parasites’ says, "The University of Sydney research investigated the bacterium Midichloria mitochondrii- named after helpful Star Wars microbes, called Midi-chlorians, that live inside cells and grant the mystical power known as The Force. It has revealed that mitochondria may have entered our cells though a parasitic bacterium that used a tail to swim and could survive with almost no oxygen.
The work, published in this month's issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution, challenges traditional explanations of how the ancestors of mitochondria first entered our cells between one and a half and two billion years ago. It also sheds new light on a process recognised as one of the major transitions in the history of life on earth.
"Our results challenge the paradigm - shown in every biology textbook - that mitochondria were passive bacteria gobbled up by a primordial cell," says co-author Dr Nathan Lo from the University of Sydney's School of Biological Sciences.
"We have found instead that the mitochondrial ancestor most likely had a flagellum, so was able to move, and possibly acted as a parasite, rather than prey, on early eukaryotic cells," added Dr Lo, who collaborated with scientists from Italy and Spain on the research....
"Mitochondria are actually highly reduced bacteria, with their own set of DNA, that reside in our cells. It has long been thought that this relationship developed when an ancient eukaryotic cell engulfed the mitochondrial ancestor.
"But there is still mystery around the question of how exactly the mitochondrial ancestor was engulfed, and how it survived in the oxygen-poor atmosphere of early eukaryotic life."
"The peer-reviewed journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology recently published a most remarkable scientific paper. With 33 authors from a wide range of reputable universities and research institutes, the paper makes a seemingly incredible claim. A claim that if true, would have the most profound consequences for our understanding of the universe. Life, the paper argues, did not originate on the planet Earth.
The response?
Near silence.
The reasons for this are as fascinating as the evidence and claims advanced by the paper itself. Entitled Cause of the Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic?, the publication revives a controversial idea concerning the origin of life, an idea stretching back to Ancient Greece, known as panspermia.
The scientific orthodoxy concerning the origin of life is called abiogenesis. This suggests that at some point in the earth’s early history, conditions were favourable for the creation of complex organic chemistry that, in turn, led to the self-organisation of the first primitive life forms."
An article for Quanta magazine asserts, "Scientists have traditionally thought that viruses were relative latecomers to the evolutionary stage, emerging after the appearance of cells.
"They rely on cellular machinery to help with their replication, so they need to have some sort of primitive cell to make use of that machinery," said Jack Szostak, a biochemist at Harvard University and a Nobel laureate. In other words, viruses mooch off cells, so without cells, viruses can't exist.
But some scientists say the discovery of giant viruses could turn that view of life on its head. They propose that the ancestors of modern viruses, far from being evolutionary laggards, might have provided the raw material for the development of cellular life and helped drive its diversification into the varied organisms that fill every corner of the planet.
"These giant viruses are the perfect example of how a world of simple virus-like elements could evolve into something much more complex," said Eugene Koonin, a computational biologist at the National Institutes of Health. Koonin described his theory for a viral origin of life in a paper published in June in the journal Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews.
He and others are accumulating evidence that viruslike elements spurred several of the most important stages in the emergence of life: the evolution of DNA, the formation of the first cells, and life's split into three domains—Archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. Archaea and bacteria are all unicellular organisms, and eukaryotes emerged after an ancient fusion event between an archaeon and a bacterium.
"We repeated every experiment ten times because this virus was so weird," Abergel said. "We kept thinking we had made a mistake."
With a staggeringly high number of genes, approximately 2,500, pandoravirus seemed to herald an entirely new class of viral life. "More than 90 percent of its genes did not resemble anything else found on Earth," Abergel said. "We were opening Pandora's box, and we had no idea what might be inside."
Some researchers say that means they deserve their own branch on the tree of life, creating a fourth domain that would leave the other three—Archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes—largely intact."
"Viruses revealed to be a major driver of human evolution
Study tracking protein adaptation over millions of years yields insights relevant to fighting today's viruses
Date:
July 13, 2016
Source:
Genetics Society of America
Summary:
The constant battle between pathogens and their hosts has long been recognized as a key driver of evolution, but until now scientists have not had the tools to look at these patterns globally across species and genomes. In a new study, researchers apply big-data analysis to reveal the full extent of viruses' impact on the evolution of humans and other mammals.
Their findings suggest an astonishing 30 percent of all protein adaptations since humans' divergence with chimpanzees have been driven by viruses.
"When you have a pandemic or an epidemic at some point in evolution, the population that is targeted by the virus either adapts, or goes extinct. We knew that, but what really surprised us is the strength and clarity of the pattern we found," said David Enard, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the study's first author. "This is the first time that viruses have been shown to have such a strong impact on adaptation."
One of the BBC Horizon episodes asked Why Do Viruses Kill? It actually makes the point that viruses are what are driving evolution of mankind and all of earth. Here are some relevant excerpts:
"If you ask me whether the virus is alive or it's dead, my answer is yes. Now, you may say, that's not an answer. But I think it is, in fact. A virus goes through a phase that's non-living. It's floating around, and it's as dead as a ping-pong ball. When the virus gets into a cell, it begins to have the attributes of something living. While the virus is inside the cell, it can be looked at like a living entity. It is once a virus infiltrates a cell that they reveal their potential, because this is where they reproduce. They have to replicate inside a cell. They can't just grow, if you give them growth medium like a bacterium could, for instance. They have to find a particular cell that they can enter, and replicate in. That particular place can be a plant cell, a microbe in the sea, or a cell in your nose. The virus takes it over, forcing it to manufacture more virus particles. It does this with tremendous efficiency. You could imagine a virus being minute as compared to a human cell. Yet this small virus particle will kill the cell, and reproduce 100,000 copies of itself within six hours. When the cell has manufactured all it can, the virus can take a more devastating turn, causing the cell to explode, scattering millions of new virus particles..."
"So, the virus wants to spread from cell to cell. What we're looking at here is the virus spreading from the top down to the bottom, across a lawn of cells that it can infect. The green dots are individual virus particles and these larger aggregates of green, like this, are factories where new particles are being produced. They're spreading down. Here is a new cell that's just becoming infected. A factory has now reproduced, new particles are being made, and those are then coming out and spreading to another cell further down. This prodigious ability to replicate means there's no escaping viruses..."
"In this half-litre of water, there are more viruses than there are people on the Earth. We're probably looking at about 30 billion or so viruses in this half-litre of water. Probably more than 100,000 different kinds of viruses. And so It's about 22 parts per 1,000, sea water..."
"Viruses are one of the dominant life-forms in the oceans. It's not things like the fish that are driving the oceans, it's things like the viruses. Those are the things that are really driving ocean ecosystems. Viruses kill 20% of all the living material in the sea every day, releasing their contents for other organisms to use. If there were no viruses in the ocean, things would just stop. Things wouldn't grow. There wouldn't be food for other organisms. And they're not just in the sea. Viruses can be found anywhere. Viruses can survive vacuums, they can survive ultra cold, they can survive desiccation and they're so small that they aerosolise, so the air that we're breathing right now, that's going to be full of viruses coming off the ocean, because they're just suspended all the time. They're so small, they're no different than water vapour, almost. Viruses are the most abundant life-form on Earth. If you laid all the viruses on the planet end to end, they would form a line 200 million light years long. To understand why there are so many, we have to go back to the beginning of life on Earth..."
"In the 1970s, scientists discovered a third category of life that was entirely new to science. They called it archaea, meaning 'the ancient ones'. The trick is not to lose the bottle in the hot springs. It is a single-cell form of life that is really quite amazing. We know in these hot springs if it is acidic and really hot, that there really isn't even any bacteria. It is all archaea. If you were using this as a hot tub, you would be poached alive very quickly, but if you are an archaea, you HAVE to live in these environments. Many scientists believe archaea are the earliest form of life, older even than bacteria. But Professor Young was looking for something else. To our surprise, no one had ever come to look for the viruses that live and replicate in these hot springs. He uncovered something remarkable. The archaea were riddled with viruses. It has been a rock'n'roll ride looking at these new viruses because they are completely different to any viruses we have ever seen before on this planet. An ancient life form with ancient viruses, this discovery convinced Professor Young that viruses are much older than we previously thought. What we think now is that viruses certainly are ancient, that they were here when life was first evolving. Some of us even push it further and speculate that viruses actually preceded cellular life as we know it today. Viruses have been infecting life from the moment it first emerged. They're a huge evolutionary driving force. They have helped determine what has lived and what has died. Viruses play such a critical role in the evolution of life, it is hard to imagine that life could have evolved on this planet without viruses. As complex life-forms like plants and animals began to evolve, the viruses found their way into them too. Over millennia, viruses have come to dominate the world, infiltrating every type of living thing. To do so they had to find a way to do the one thing a simple packet of genes can't do alone. Move... As neither viruses nor plants can move by themselves, viruses evolve to infect those species which can..."
"It continues the cycle that way. This is one of myriad methods that viruses use to spread. They can co-opt our most basic actions. Viruses like hepatitis B use our need to reproduce to pass themselves on. Other viruses have even evolved to manipulate our very behaviour to their own ends. The rabies virus gets into the brains of those it infects, making them aggressive, actually encouraging them to bite and pass it on. The flu virus has an equally ingenious transmission mechanism, one that is highly efficient and practically unavoidable. If we believe the idea that coughs and sneezes spread diseases, then of course when you are infected with the respiratory virus it attacks that very part of your nose and then induces you to sneeze. It has engineered a way to jump out from one host to another which, for a tiny virus, is quite a big barrier to overcome. Flu forces you to unwittingly pass it on..."
"Viruses can transmit so effectively that they have infiltrated every living species in the world, and we are no exception. I think it is remarkable, each person walking by has a plethora of viruses in them. They have at least four viruses, everyone, me included. We will have an enterovirus, a chicken pox virus, a herpes virus, a wart virus as well. Throughout our lives, we suffer a continuous onslaught. Over a lifetime, one would be attacked by probably 500, 600, 1,000 different viruses of all kinds of families.Each of these has a different way to attack its host..."
"The most deadly virus of all hides in dogs, rodents and bats. Rabies is probably the only virus that I know that can cause death in 100% of victims. The reason for that is, of course, it invades the central nervous system..."
"The combination sometimes is overwhelming. Although viruses infect each and every one of us, somehow life continues. That's because if a virus has been around for a while, our immune systems have a chance to adapt and build up protection..."
"They can change their structure, so they're always one step ahead of a vaccine. They can mutate. And one virus does this with incredible efficiency..."
"But then the virus will change, and next year we'll have a slightly different virus, or some time in the future we may have a radically different virus. So we're always having to make new vaccines to combat the new strain that arises. Alongside mutation, influenza exploits another ability of viruses. We can be infected by more than one virus at a time. And if these viruses meet, they can swap their genes around, giving birth to totally new viruses. This process is called re-assortment. It's formed by two swine viruses co-infecting the same cell, shuffling their pack of genes, and a new variant coming out that has got genes derived from both parents. That's what I like to call "viral sex", because it's like two parents mixing their genes up together and making a new type of progeny..."
"I think viruses don't really want to kill us, if you see what I mean. It's not much advantage to them if they're replicating in us and suddenly we fall over the table. You know? They can't transmit onto someone else. Every virus has to strike a fine evolutionary balance between being able to replicate successfully and multiplying so much it destroys its host. In reality, when you go and look in nature, you actually see that many viruses don't kill their hosts. They've evolved with their hosts so that they're living in a wonderful symbiosis of being able to still replicate without destroying their host, because it really doesn't make any sense to kill the home that you need to make more of yourself. You know, even the viruses beloved of medical students like Ebola, Lassa, they're not huge killers. They're not killing 80% of people or anything like that. So it's a very exceptional virus that kills more than about ten per cent, and most viruses kill many, many, many fewer than that. The most successful viruses infect millions but kill few..."
"But constraining viruses completely, if even possible, is an impulse we should resist. Viruses actually have been very important in the development of you and me. So on the one hand, we still have the enemy. On the other hand, we know viruses have been good for us. It's a sentiment shared by many. Our lives and viruses are intertwined. They are a major and important component of all ecosystems of this planet and I don't think anyone could imagine how life could have evolved, or could even operate today without the presence of viruses. And all life includes us. We don't know, actually, how much we are dependent on the viruses that infect us. Or replicate in us. We think of them as pathogens, but actually, we very, very likely are highly co-evolved together. Our immune defences have been shaped by the threat of viruses. But, equally, the threat of our defences make the viruses evolve. Science is beginning to reassess our relationship with viruses and their role in shaping life on Earth. And I like to think that we're actually here to support the replication of viruses and everyone's been thinking of this backwards."
"In July, scientists reported that a strange protein courses through the veins of pregnant women. No one is sure what it’s there for.
What makes this protein, called Hemo, so unusual is that it’s not made by the mother. Instead, it is made in her fetus and in the placenta, by a gene that originally came from a virus that infected our mammalian ancestors more than 100 million years ago.
Hemo is not the only protein with such an alien origin: Our DNA contains roughly 100,000 pieces of viral DNA. Altogether, they make up about 8 percent of the human genome. And scientists are only starting to figure out what this viral DNA is doing to us.
Aris Katzourakis, a virologist at the University of Oxford, and his colleagues recently published a commentary in the journal Trends in Microbiology in which they explored the possibility that viral genes that produce proteins like Hemo are affecting our health in a variety of unexpected ways...
Most of our viral DNA comes from one group in particular: retroviruses, a group that includes HIV.
A retrovirus invades a host cell and inserts its genes into that cell’s DNA. These viral genes co-opt the cell’s machinery, using it to make new viruses that escape to infect more cells."
"You've got an ancient virus in your brain. In fact, you've got an ancient virus at the very root of your conscious thought.
According to two papers published in the journal Cell in January, long ago, a virus bound its genetic code to the genome of four-limbed animals. That snippet of code is still very much alive in humans' brains today, where it does the very viral task of packaging up genetic information and sending it from nerve cells to their neighbors in little capsules that look a whole lot like viruses themselves. And these little packages of information might be critical elements of how nerves communicate and reorganize over time — tasks thought to be necessary for higher-order thinking, the researchers said.
Though it may sound surprising that bits of human genetic code come from viruses, it's actually more common than you might think: A review published in Cell in 2016 found that between 40 and 80 percent of the human genome arrived from some archaic viral invasion. [Unraveling the Human Genome: 6 Molecular Milestones]
That's because viruses aren't just critters that try to make a home in a body, the way bacteria do. Instead, as Live Science has previously reported, a virus is a genetic parasite. It injects its genetic code into its host's cells and hijacks them, turning them to its own purposes — typically, that means as factories for making more viruses...
Shortly after a synapse fires, the viral gene known as Arc comes to life, writing its instructions down as bits of mobile genetic code known as RNA, the researchers found. (A synapse is the junction between two neurons.)
RNA is DNA's messenger and agent in the world outside the cell's nucleus. A single-strand copy of code from DNA's double helix, it carries genetic instructions to places they can be useful. (And, interestingly, viruses tend to store their genetic code in RNA, rather than in DNA.)
Following the Arc RNA's instructions, the nerve cell builds "capsids" — virus-like envelopes — around it. Those envelopes let it travel safely between cells, and it does just that, entering neighboring neurons and passing its packet of genetic information along to them, according to the studies... Bizarrely, Arc seems to have made the jump from virus to animal more than once. The researchers found that Arc genes in humans and other four-limbed creatures seem to be closely related to one another. The Arc genes in fruit flies and worms, however, seem to have arrived separately.
The next step for this research, the outside experts wrote in the companion article, is to bring experts in neuroscience and ancient viruses together to work out the mechanisms for just how Arc arrived in the genome, and exactly what information it's passing between our cells today."
Is it just coincidence that the gene is called Arc when the Gnostics called the false rulers 'archons'?
"... The star of Shepherd’s research is a protein called “activity regulated cytoskeletal” protein or Arc. By carrying out memory tests in Arc-deficient mice, Shepherd and his colleagues have shown that Arc is essential for memory. “If you take the Arc gene out of mice,” Shepherd explains, “they don’t remember anything.” These mice initially appear to be capable of learning, but they aren’t capable of retaining these memories. “If you come back an hour later or a day later, there’s just no consolidation.” Based on these studies, Shepherd believes that Arc is a critical piece of the brain’s conversion of memories from short-term to long-term storage...
Through mouse experiments, they also found that Arc proteins behave like viruses, “infecting” cells just like real viruses do. Shepherd found that Arc capsids released from one neuron are able to share their RNA with another neuron, similar to how viruses share RNA.
Which raises an important question: how did a protein that behaves like a virus end up in humans? Shepherd adds, “The closest sequence [to the Arc gene] in fish is an active retrotransposon,” which are pieces of genetic material that can jump from one part of a genome to another. He thinks the Arc gene was randomly inserted by a retrotransposon in an ancestor of both fish and land mammals over 350 to 400 million years ago. He concludes “Once it was incorporated into the genome it became repurposed.”
Together, these studies show that Arc is a viral-like evolutionary remnant that is extremely numerous in the areas of the brain associated with memory formation, and helps control memory. But we don’t yet know the purpose of this viral-like mechanism...
The way Shepherd sees it, “Arc is really the intermediate between the environment and the wiring of the brain.” He explains that any time you encounter something new, or the brain needs to learn something new, Arc expression is enhanced...
Furthermore, Arc is probably not the only gene of its kind. Shepherd thinks there are another 50 genes in the genome that have similar viral structure or origins. It’s unclear whether these other proteins could be involved in memory, or if there’s similar viral-like processing or pathways in other cell types."
"Sometimes, these stowaway sequences of viral genes, called "endogenous retroviruses" (ERVs), can contribute to the onset of diseases such as cancer. They can also make their hosts susceptible to infections from other viruses. However, scientists have identified numerous cases of viral hitchhikers bestowing crucial benefits to their human hosts -- from protection against disease to shaping important aspects of human evolution, such as the ability to digest starch."
Changing the actual DNA sequence is not the only way our gene activity is affected. In the article Epigenetics: The Science of Change Bob Weinhold writes, "The word “epigenetic” literally means “in addition to changes in genetic sequence.” The term has evolved to include any process that alters gene activity without changing the DNA sequence, and leads to modifications that can be transmitted to daughter cells (although experiments show that some epigenetic changes can be reversed)...
"For nearly a century after the term “epigenetics” first surfaced on the printed page, researchers, physicians, and others poked around in the dark crevices of the gene, trying to untangle the clues that suggested gene function could be altered by more than just changes in sequence. Today, a wide variety of illnesses, behaviors, and other health indicators already have some level of evidence linking them with epigenetic mechanisms, including cancers of almost all types, cognitive dysfunction, and respiratory, cardiovascular, reproductive, autoimmune, and neurobehavioral illnesses. Known or suspected drivers behind epigenetic processes include many agents, including heavy metals, pesticides, diesel exhaust, tobacco smoke, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, hormones, radioactivity, viruses, bacteria, and basic nutrients."
The Wired article People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid begins, "MOST OF THE cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking "superorganisms," highly complex conglomerations of human cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses.
"That's the view of scientists at Imperial College London who published a paper in Nature Biotechnology Oct. 6 describing how these microbes interact with the body."
Another Wired article Humans are made up of more microbes than human cells begins, "Our bodies are made up of more microbes than human cells, according to a study carried out by more than 200 researchers from 80 universities. The finding is part of a five-year study headed up by the Human Microbiome Project. It revealed that, of the 100 trillion cells that make up a human body, around one in ten are actually microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. The results are being released in a series of reports in the journals Nature, Genome Biology and PLoS. "The human we see in the mirror is made up of more microbes than human," summed-up the Human Microbiome Project leader Lita Proctor. "
Science Daily released the June 5, 2008 article Humans Have Ten Times More Bacteria Than Human Cells: How Do Microbial Communities Affect Human Health? "Source:
American Society for Microbiology...
Summary:
The number of bacteria living within the body of the average healthy adult human are estimated to outnumber human cells 10 to one. Changes in these microbial communities may be responsible for digestive disorders, skin diseases, gum disease and even obesity...
"FULL STORY:
The number of bacteria living within the body of the average healthy adult human are estimated to outnumber human cells 10 to 1. Changes in these microbial communities may be responsible for digestive disorders, skin diseases, gum disease and even obesity. Despite their vital importance in human health and disease, these communities residing within us remain largely unstudied and a concerted research effort needs to be made to better understand them, say researchers June 3 at the 108th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.
"This could be the basis of a whole new way of looking at disease. In order to understand how changes in normal bacterial populations affect or are affected by disease we first have to establish what normal is or if normal even exists," says Margaret McFall Ngai of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"Researchers have long suspected and researched the role that beneficial microbial communities within humans, known collectively as the human microbiome, play in health and disease but only recently has molecular technology reached the point where they can truly begin to identify and characterize all the species that make up an individual's microbiome."
Admittedly, this article seems to contain outdated data. A more recently published National Center for Biotechnology Information white paper, Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body, states, "Reported values in the literature on the number of cells in the body differ by orders of magnitude and are very seldom supported by any measurements or calculations. Here, we integrate the most up-to-date information on the number of human and bacterial cells in the body. We estimate the total number of bacteria in the 70 kg "reference man" to be 3.8·1013. For human cells, we identify the dominant role of the hematopoietic lineage to the total count (≈90%) and revise past estimates to 3.0·1013 human cells. Our analysis also updates the widely-cited 10:1 ratio, showing that the number of bacteria in the body is actually of the same order as the number of human cells, and their total mass is about 0.2 kg."
The BBC article More than half your body is not human begins, "More than half of your body is not human, say scientists.
Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists.
Understanding this hidden half of ourselves - our microbiome - is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson's.
The field is even asking questions of what it means to be "human" and is leading to new innovative treatments as a result."
The web site Sciencing.com says "Examples of Parasitic Bacteria: If bacteria can infect a host, multiply inside the body and eventually spread to another organism, it exhibits the behavior of a parasite. Many bacterial diseases do this. In particular, food-borne illness such as salmonella exhibit this behavior. Other examples of bacteria that act as parasites are those which cause sexually transmitted diseases."
"By now, the idea that gut bacteria affect a person’s health is not revolutionary. Many people know that these microbes influence digestion, allergies, and metabolism. The trend has become almost commonplace: New books appear regularly detailing precisely which diet will lead to optimum bacterial health.
But these microbes’ reach may extend much further, into the human brains. A growing group of researchers around the world are investigating how the microbiome, as this bacterial ecosystem is known, regulates how people think and feel. Scientists have found evidence that this assemblage—about a thousand different species of bacteria, trillions of cells that together weigh between one and three pounds—could play a crucial role in autism, anxiety, depression, and other disorders...
"Scientists have found that gut bacteria produce neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and GABA, all of which play a key role in mood (many antidepressants increase levels of these same compounds). "
Cell.com reveals in its article Gut Microbe to Brain Signaling: What Happens in Vagus, "The gut microbiota has emerged as a key player in health and disease. Here we discuss the vagus nerve, which connects the visceral organs and the brain, as an important communication pathway for the gut microbiota to influence brain and behavior."
Science magazine says, "The study reveals “a new set of pathways that use gut cells to rapidly communicate with … the brain stem,” says Daniel Drucker, a clinician-scientist who studies gut disorders at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who was not involved with the work. Although many questions remain before the clinical implications become clear, he says, “This is a cool new piece of the puzzle.”
If one considers the etymological connection between the word 'worm' and our most important terms here on earth, it is quite interesting, if not staggering. Wikipedia says, "Worms have played major roles in world mythology and its associated literatures. ... Although more usually used to describe the common earthworm, the English language word "worm" derives from Old Norse orm and Anglo-Saxon wyrm, meaning "serpent" or "dragon". The history and Etymology for worm is Middle English, from Old English wyrm serpent, worm; akin to Old High German wurm serpent, worm, Latin vermis worm.
worm (n.)
Old English wurm, variant of wyrm "serpent, snake, dragon, reptile," also in later Old English "earthworm," from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (source also of Old Saxon, Old High German, German wurm, Old Frisian and Dutch worm, Old Norse ormr, Gothic waurms "serpent, worm"), from PIE *wrmi- "worm" (source also of Greek rhomos, Latin vermis"worm," Old Russian vermie "insects," Lithuanian varmas "insect, gnat"), probably from root *wer- (3) "turn"...
The root of the word WORM would be 'wor'. Also related are WER-, VER- and VIR-. the dictionary says wor- is related to the words "our" and "we", probably "your" as well. WOR-ms are VER-min. In OUR WOR-ld or uni-VER-se we use WOR-ds to communicate VER-bally in VER-ses. We all have to WOR-k for a living to gain WOR-th and survive in this prison WAR-d. What could be WOR-se? But don't WOR-ry. In an act of WAR (a synonym for WOR) we consume food as energy for our VIR-ility. We have VIR-uses within us that go VIR-al trying to take that VIR-ility like vampires or WER-ewolves. I should WAR-n you that because of this our WOR-th is WOR-sened and we become WOR-n down When we die, we go through a WORM hole or time WAR-p where we are told we will be judged in a VER-dict by the god we WOR-ship.
Incidentally, Judith Kwoba pointed out to me in our interview that the word 'gene' is connected to the Watchers. I thought about it for a second and immediately realized this is true. The words 'genie' and 'jinn' are related to 'gene'. Genious too. The jinn are sort of like spirit guides that have been assigned to watch over us. They follow us around and keep track of everything 'bad' we do and report it.
After doing R. Wayne Steiger's show, a very astute listener wisely commented to me, "I find it interesting worm comes from serpent and snake. After quitting processed foods, sugar and chemicals back in 2013 and doing a parasite cleanse, I really started to wonder about the Adam and Eve story. Was the eating of the fruit a way for a parasite to enter our gut and change the way we think? Since cleaning up my gut it really seems like a portal. A literal worm hole..."
I find it curious that wormwood, of Revelations fame is also a Greek word is believed to "refer to a plant of the genus Artemisia, used metaphorically to mean something with a bitter taste.[3] The English rendering "wormwood" refers to the dark green oil produced by the plant, which was used to kill intestinal worms.[3] "
You say it's farfetched? Well, consider the fact we are in a perpetual struggle with organisms and viruses that live within our bodies. Yes, some bacteria are considered friendly, but there are also unfriendly bacteria that make us sick. Many take flu shots every year to combat viruses. Inside us, we have a constant battle raging between white and red blood cells. I would venture to say that the number of people who have parasites is much higher than doctors let on. In fact, one woman I mentioned this to wrote, " I have been tested for parasites by 2 different doctors and 2 different tests. One said I had a lot of parasites, the other said none."
Just how prevalent are worms? In mythology, there is the Ouroboros (OUR-oboros), the serpent or worm that devours its own tail and encircles the world. Compare Our-obros with this spelling of Demiurge: Demiourgos. Wikpedia says, "The ouroboros or uroborus (/ˌ(j)ʊərəˈbɒrəs/, also UK: /uːˈrɒbərɒs/,[2][3] US: /-oʊs/) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon[4] eating its own tail. Originating in ancient Egyptian iconography, the ouroboros entered western tradition via Greek magical tradition and was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy. The term derives from Ancient Greek: οὐροβόρος,[5] from οὐρά (oura), "tail"[6] + βορά (bora), "food",[7] from βιβρώσκω (bibrōskō), "I eat".[8] The ouroboros is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth. The skin-sloughing process of snakes symbolizes the transmigration of souls, the snake biting its own tail is a fertility symbol. The tail of the snake is a phallic symbol, the mouth is a yonic or womb-like symbol... In Gnosticism, a serpent biting its tail symbolized eternity and the soul of the world... The "world serpent" in mythology: In Norse mythology, the ouroboros appears as the serpent Jörmungandr, one of the three children of Loki and Angrboda, which grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth. In the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok, such as Ragnarssona þáttr, the Geatish king Herraud gives a small lindworm as a gift to his daughter Þóra Town-Hart after which it grows into a large serpent which encircles the girl's bower and bites itself in the tail. "
There are scientific articles claiming humans evolved from a worm creature. And consider life comes from a sperm and an egg. Sperm wiggling around like worms with a head, a body and a tail. And the egg is like an ego or cell containing life. Days 22-28 (Week 3) Baby (embryo): The baby measures about 1/12”. It looks like a little worm. It has a segmented end and appears to be slender and long. By now, there is a heartbeat.
Scientists have said that worms and snakes are unrelated, but it is still somewhat controversial. An Australian Geographic article entitled The Twists and Turns in Snake Evolution states, "New research has shed light on the evolution of snakes finding that the earliest snakes were likely both eel-like swimmers and worm-like burrowers... 'There is controversy over which environment drove the origin of snakes: the earliest snakes may have been eel-like swimmers or worm-like burrowers,' says Alessandro Palci, from Flinders University, who led the new study."
Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr) or Siegfried (Middle High German: Sîvrit) is a legendary hero of Germanic mythology, who killed a dragon. The most important works to feature Sigurd are the Nibelungenlied, the Völsunga saga, and the Poetic Edda. Richard Wagner used the legends about Sigurd/Siegfried slaying the dragon in his operas Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. In Wagner's opera Siegfried, the main character fights a dragon. In the original German libretto though it is called wurm. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun. Tolkien calls the dragon Scatha a "long-worm" but does not explicitly explain the term.
| Mime (stops working) Heart-breaking bondage! Toil without end! The strongest sword that ever I forged for the hands of giants fit would be found: but he it was made for, the insolent boy there, he strikes and snaps it to bits, as though I toiled for his sport! (Mime throws the sword on the anvil in ill humor, puts his arms akimbo, and gazes meditatively on the ground.) There is a sword that he could not shatter: Nothung’s fragments he would not defy if I could forge the mighty pieces that all my craft knows not how to weld! Could I but shape the weapon, I should win the wage of my shame! (He sinks further back and bends his head in thought.) Fafner, the dragon grim, dwelleth in darksome lair; |
Vorspiel und Erste Scene (Der Vorhang geht auf.) (Felsenhöhle im Wald; drin ein natürlicher Schmiede herd mit einem grossen Blasebalg. Am Amboß davor sitzt Mime, eifrig an einem Schwerte hämmerd.) Mime (einhaltend) Zwangvolle Plage! Müh’ ohne Zweck! Das beste Schwert, das je ich geschweißt, in der Riesen Fäusten hielte es fest: doch dem ich’s geschmiedet, der schmähliche Knabe, er knickt und schmeißt es entzwei, als schüf’ ich Kindergeschmeid! (Mime wirft das Schwert unmuthig auf den Amboß, stemmt die Arme ein, und blickt sinnend zu Boden.) Es giebt ein Schwert, das er nicht zerschwänge: Nothungs Trümmer zertrotzt’ er mir nicht, könnt’ ich die starken Stücken schweißen, die meine Kunst nicht zu kitten weiß! Könnt’ ich’s dem Kühnen schmieden, meiner Schmach erlangt’ ich da Lohn! (Er sinkt tiefer zurück, das Haupt nachdenklich neigend.) Fafner, der wilde Wurm, lagert im finst’ren Wald; |
In the book Demonology and Devil-Lore Moncure Daniel Conway writes, "In the great Epic of the Nibelungen Lied we have probably the shape in which the Northman’s dream of Paradise finally cohered,—a Rose-garden in the South, guarded by a huge Worm (water-snake, or glittering glacial sea intervening), whose glowing charms, with Beauty (Chriemhild) for their queen, could be won only by a brave dragon-slaying Siegfried. In passing by the pretty lakeside home of Richard Wagner, on my way to witness the Ammergau version of another dragon-binding and paradise-regaining legend, I noted that the old name of the (Starnberg) lake was Wurmsee, from the dragon that once haunted it, while from the composer’s window might be seen its ‘Isle of Roses,’ which the dragon guarded. Since then the myth of many forms has had its musical apotheosis at Bayreuth under his wand...
"This veiling of the Serpent, significant of a great deal, is characteristic even of the words used to name it. Of these I have selected one to head this chapter, because it is one of the innumerable veils which shielded this reptile’s transformation from a particular external danger to a demonic type. This general description of things that wind about or turn (vermes, traced by some to the Sanskrit root hvar, ‘curved’), gradually came into use to express the demon [336]
serpents. Dante and Milton call Satan a worm. No doubt among the two hundred names for the Serpent, said to be mentioned in an Arabic work, we should find parallels to this old adaptation of the word ‘worm.’ ...
"The Lambton worm comes out of the well very small, but it afterwards coils in nine huge folds around its hill. The hag-ridden daughter of the King of Northumberland, who 'crept into a hole a worm And out stept a fair ladye' did but follow the legendary rule of the demonic serpent tribe."
In Paradise Lost, Milton writes, "O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare To that false Worm"
From Dante's Inferno: "Cerberus, monster cruel and uncouth, With his three gullets like a dog is barking Over the people that are there submerged. Red eyes he has, and unctuous beard and black, And belly large, and armed with claws his hands; He rends the spirits, flays, and quarters them. Howl the rain maketh them like unto dogs; One side they make a shelter for the other; Oft turn themselves the wretched reprobates. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm! His mouths he opened, and displayed his tusks;
Not a limb had he that was motionless. And my Conductor, with his spans extended, Took of the earth, and with his fists well filled, He threw it into those rapacious gullets. Such as that dog is, who by barking craves, And quiet grows soon as his food he gnaws, For to devour it he but thinks and struggles, The like became those muzzles filth-begrimed Of Cerberus the demon, who so thunders Over the souls that they would fain be deaf "
For his service to his country E.R. Eddison was made Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1924, and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1929. In his book The Worm Ouroboros E.R. wrote, "But the King, steadying himself against the table and clutching the edge of it till the veins on his lean hand seemed nigh to bursting, cried in short breaths and with an altered voice, "By these figures drawn and by these spells enchanted, by the unction of wolf and salamander, by the unblest sign of Cancer now leaning to the sun, and by the fiery heart of Scorpio that flameth in this hour on night's meridian, thou art my thrall and instrument. Abase thee and serve me, worm of the pit. Else will I by and by summon out of ancient night intelligences and dominations mightier far than thou, and they shall serve mine ends, and thee shall they chain with chains of quenchless fire and drag thee from torment to torment through the deep." ....
"Like a black eagle surveying earth from some high mountain the King passed by in his majesty. His byrny was of black chain mail, its collar, sleeves, and skirt edged with plates of dull gold set with hyacinths and black opals. His hose were black, cross-gartered with bands of sealskin trimmed with diamonds. On his left thumb was his great signet ring fashioned in gold in the semblance of the worm Ouroboros that eateth his own tail: the bezel of the ring the head of the worm, made of a peach-coloured ruby of the bigness of a sparrow's egg. His cloak was woven of the skins of black cobras stitched together with gold wire, its lining of black silk sprinkled with dust of gold. The iron crown of Witchland weighed on. his brow, the claws of the crab erect like horns; and the sheen of its jewels was many-coloured like the rays of Sirius on a clear night of frost and wind at Yuletide. ...
"The blessed Gods," said she, speaking yet lower, "have shown me many hidden matters which the sons of men know not neither imagine. Behold this mystery. There is but One Gorice. And by the favour of heaven (that moveth sometimes in a manner our weak judgement seeketh in vain to justify) this cruel and evil One, every time whether by the sword or in the fulness of his years he cometh to die, departeth the living soul and spirit of him into a new and sound body, and liveth yet another lifetime to vex and to oppress the world, until that body die, and the next in his turn, and so continually; having thus in a manner life eternal...
"Juss said, "Thy discourse, O Queen Sophonisba, is in a strain above mortality. This is a great wonder thou tellest me; whereof some little part I guessed aforetime, but the main I knew not. Rightfully, having such a timeless life, this King weareth on his thumb that worm Ouroboros which doctors have from of old made for an ensample of eternity, whereof the end is ever at the beginning and the beginning at the end for ever more."
In his book Legends of the Gods E.A. Budge writes, "The Legend of the Creation is found in the third work which is given in
the papyrus, and which is called the "Book of overthrowing Apep, the
Enemy of Ra, the Enemy of Un-Nefer" (i.e., Osiris). This work
contained a series of spells which were recited during the performance
of certain prescribed ceremonies, with the object of preventing storms,
and dispersing rain-clouds, and removing any obstacle, animate or
inanimate, which could prevent the rising of the sun in the morning, or
obscure his light during the day. The Leader-in Chief of the hosts of
darkness was a fiend called Apep who appeared in the sky in the form of
a monster serpent, and, marshalling all the fiends of the Tuat,
attempted to keep the Sun-god imprisoned in the kingdom of darkness.
Right in the midst of the spells which were directed against Apep we
find inserted the legend of the Creation, which occurs in no other
known Egyptian document (Col. XXVI., 1. 21, to Col. XXVII., 1. 6).
"The first spell is an incantation directed against reptiles and noxious
creatures in general. The chief of these was Apep, the great enemy of
Ra, who took the form of a huge serpent that "resembled the
intestines," and the spell doomed him to decapitation, and burning and backing in pieces. These things would be effected by Serqet, the
Scorpion-goddess. The second part of the spell was directed against
the poison of Apep, and was to be recited over anyone who was bitten by
a snake. When uttered by Horus it made Apep to vomit, and when used by
a magician properly qualified would make the bitten person to vomit,
and so free his body from the poison. "
He translates one of the Egyptian incantations or spells to dispel Apep the wormlike serpent enemy of Ra: "III. Then the majesty of this god spake unto Thoth, [saying] "Let a
call go forth for me to the Majesty of the god Seb, saying, 'Come, with
the utmost speed, at once.'" And when the Majesty of Seb had come, the
Majesty of this god said unto him, "Let war be made against thy worms
(or, serpents) which are in thee; verily, they shall have fear of me as
long as I have being; but thou knowest their magical powers. Do thou
go to the place where my father Nu is, and say thou unto him, 'Keep
ward over the worms (or, serpents) which are in the earth and water.'...
"Horus hath smitten it with his magical spells, and he who was in sorrow is [now] in joy. Stand still then, O thou who art in sorrow, [for] Horus hath been endowed with life. He coineth charged, appearing himself to overthrow the Sebiu fiends which bite. All men when they see Ra praise the son of Osiris. Get thee back, Worm, and draw out thy poison which is in all the members of him that is under the knife. Verily the might of the word of power of Horus is against thee. Vomit thou, O Enemy, get thee back, O poison..."
In the book of Isaiah, the Bible calls Jacob a worm. Isaiah 41:14 (KJV) "Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel."
It is true we are all stardust. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But we also go from worm to womb to wormhole. And the worms consume what is left.
vermis, noun anatomy A narrow, worm-like structure found in animal brains between the hemispheres of the cerebellum; it is the site of termination of the spinocerebellar pathways that carry subconscious proprioception.
If the cerebellar vermis looks like a worm then perhaps the energy signature or template of the cerebellar vermis before it formed into matter may have looked like a worm. So in a sense we have a worm regulating our thinking, emotions and what we regard as fantasy or real. There's the R-complex, the reptilian brain. There's a mammalian brain. How about a vermin brain? In the book of Job, 25:6, it says, "How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?" And what to make of the serpent that protrudes from the foreheads of pharaohs?
"Galen went to great lengths to refute a view that was apparently circulating in his time (but whose originators or protagonists he did not mention) according to which the pineal gland regulates the flow of psychic pneuma in the canal between the middle and posterior ventricles of the brain, just as the pylorus regulates the passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Galen rejected this view because, first, the pineal gland is attached to the outside of the brain and, second, it cannot move on its own. He argued that the “worm-like appendage” [epiphysis or apophysis] of the cerebellum (nowadays known as the vermis superior cerebelli) is much better qualified to play this role (Kühn 1822, pp. 674-683; May 1968, vol. 1, pp. 418-423). "
THE MOVEMENTS OF THE WORM:
The Cerebellar Vermis Through the Ages
Gert-Jan C. Lokhorst,
Faculty of Philosophy,
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Galen on the Motions of the Cerebellar
Vermis
2nd ct. Galen, De usu partium VIII: the ‘worm-like appendage’ [vermis superior cerebelli] can open and close the canal [aqueduct
of Sylvius] between the middle [third] and posterior [fourth]
ventricles in order to regulate the flow of pneuma between these
ventricles. The pineal gland does not regulate the flow of pneuma.
Galen’s theory. The aqueduct is open when the vermis is contracted (left) and closed when the vermis is stretched out (right).
3rd–4th ct. Invention of ventricular localisation theory, according
to which fantasy is located in the anterior ventricle [lateral
ventricles], reason in the middle [third] ventricle, and memory in
the posterior [fourth] ventricle. Porphyry? (233–304), Posidonius of Byzantium (4th ct.), Nemesius of
Emesa (ca. 400).
9th ct. Hunain ibn Ishaq (809–873) mentions Galen’s theory about
the movements of the vermis and the ventricular localisation
doctrine in one breath (The Book of the Ten Treatises on the
Eye, Second Treatise).
10th ct. Costa ben Luca (864–923) regards the vermis as a valve
that regulates the alternation between thinking and remembering (On the Difference between the Spirit and the Soul; translated
into Latin around 1130; very influential).
The Anterograde Movement of the
Vermis,
3.1 First Stage,
Identification of the vermis with the pineal gland. The pineal gland
was accordingly said to regulate the flow of pneuma between the
middle [third] and posterior [fourth] ventricles.
9th or 11th ct. H
. unain, The Book of the Ten Treatises on the Eye,
Second Treatise (9th ct.) as translated in Constantine the
African’s Liber de oculis, ch. 5 (11th ct.): the passage between
the middle and posterior ventricles is closed and opened by “an
obstacle whose shape is similar to the cone of a pine, which the
anatomists call the worm.” Problem: The comparison between the vermis and the cone of
a pine does not occur in Meyerhof’s (1928) translation of the
Arabic text.
10th ct. Ibn al-Jazz¯ar (†980) says that “the worm, which the
anatomists call the pineal gland,” opens the passage between the
middle and posterior ventricles when it is necessary to store and
retrieve memories (Treatise on Forgetfulness and its Treatment).
3.2 Second Stage
The vermis was said to regulate the flow of pneuma between the
anterior and middle ventricles. It was later identified with the
choroid plexuses in those ventricles.
11th ct. Avicenna, Canon, book 3, part 1, treatise 1, ch. 2: the
vermis is located above the middle ventricle [third ventricle plus
aqueduct].
11th ct. Idem, De anima I.5 and III.8: the vermis controls the flow
of spirit between the anterior ventricle [lateral ventricles] and the
middle ventricle [third ventricle plus aqueduct].
The posterior worm (Galen) and the anterior worm (Avicenna)
13th ct. Albert the Great, (De spiritu et respiratione, Book I,
Treatise II, Chapter IV), Richard the Englishman (Anatomia):
there are two interventricular worms, one between the anterior
and middle ventricles (Avicenna), and another one between the
middle and posterior ventricles (Galen, Costa ben Luca, “Haly
Abbas,” etc.).
1316 Mondino dei Luzzi (†1326) identifies the vermis as described
by Avicenna with the choroid plexus in the lateral and third
ventricles (Anothomia, 1316). This was the dominant view until
the 16th century.
1521 Berengario da Carpi (†1530) locates all psychological faculties in the lateral ventricles and says that the two vermes, i.e., the choroid plexuses in the two lateral ventricles, regulate the alternation between fantasy/thinking/memory by contracting and extending themselves (Commentary on Mondino, 1521).
4 Stopping the Vermis
1536 Niccol`o Massa (1485–1569) points out that Mondino’s vermis
or vermes are different from the cerebellar vermis described by
Galen. He does not say that any of these vermes move, maintains that the ventricles are filled with aqueous liquid rather
than spirit, and does not present any ventricular localisation
doctrine (Introductory Book of Anatomy, 1536).
1543 Vesalius rejects all ventricular localisation theories, criticises
Mondino and his followers for having misunderstood Galen’s
account of the vermis, and rejects the idea that the cerebellar
vermis functions as a valve (Fabrica, Book VII, 1543).
5 Recent Developments
The cerebellar vermis turns out to play a role in cognition and affect
after all. The cerebellar vermis is a part of the “limbic cerebellum.”
Surgery that involves it leads to the so-called “posterior fossa
syndrome.” (See J. D. Schmahmann, “The role of the cerebellum in
affect and psychosis,” Journal of Neurolinguistics 13 (2000) 189–214,
for references.)
The book In the Mind’s Eye: Thought Pictures and Ethereal Presences states, "Robert Fludd was an Oxford esoteric philosopher and one of the leading Rosicrucians, and published his thoughts about human consciousness and its relationship to the macrocosm of divine creation in his spellbinding book, Utriusque Cosmi (Of this World and the Other), in 1617-19. Sheet 3 In the beautiful plate entitled ‘Vision of the Triple Soul in the Body’, Fludd has disposed the faculties in haloes around the profile of a man with suitably enlarged and sensitive external organs: a luminous single eye, a prominent ear, a hand raised to display the fingertips, swollen sensual lips. The senses radiate into a series of concentric circles labelled the world of the senses ( Mundus sensibilis), and these are hyphenated to a constellation of animae, or souls, inside the cranium: on the left , the sensitive soul, of which the circumference is interlaced with the imaginative soul. Another bridge or hyphen leads upwards from this to another planetary system, the world of the imagination (Mundus imaginabilis), where, in good Neoplatonist fashion, all is shadow — the rings of this system, the ‘Umbra Terrae’, or shadow of the World, are all shadows of the elements. Fludd writes, ‘[this] soul [is] called the imaginative soul, or fantasy or imagination itself; since it beholds not the true pictures of corporeal or sensory things, but their likenesses and as it were, their shadows.’ Shadow is a key concept in the history of the imagination; the Platonist idea of shadow has done heavy duty in conveying the character of thoughts that are not produced by direct sensory impressions or experience. And shadows’ affinities in the shadowlands of the imagination lie with smoke, vapour, cloudiness: these phenomena can help summon the insubstantial character of spirit and the emergence of ideas. For Fludd, shadow is also original chaos from which form comes forth ex nihilo or out of nothingness. Two of the magnificent engravings in the earlier part of the book that deals with the creation of the world show roiling clouds in a ring, embodying the first stage of emergence from darkness visible. They are then followed by rivers of fire. This apocalyptic murk will persist as the visual expression of the imagination’s products: darkness was essential to the success of a séance, for example. In Robert Fludd’s diagram, a delightful wriggly little worm, labelled ‘vermis’, no doubt a microcosmic avatar of the great Worm of the cosmos, connects these interlooped worlds of imagination to the faculties of cognition and judgement (aestimatio) with their orbiting satellites — ratio (reason) in the center of the brain, with intellectus (intelligence) and mens (mind) as its outer rings. These radiate toward the angels and the Trinity, in full glory above to complete the Mundus Intellectualis. At the back of the head, two more conjoined souls appear, designated Memorativa and Motiva — Memory and Motive Force, Fludd explaining that the motive soul controls involuntary motion. These are dependent aspects of memory that interact with the sensible world — that remember and safeguard its features. Visionum, or the capacity to envisage, appears here, as part of memory. "
The Discover magazine article Meet the Parasites That Control Human Brains states, "Join us as we share tales of some of the creepiest parasites around — those that control the brains of their human hosts, sometimes leaving insanity and death in their wake. These are the tales of neurological parasites."
"The Feline Parasite. Toxoplasma gondii tops the list as the most famous — and most controversial — neurological parasite. This tiny protozoan doesn’t look like much more than a blob, but once it makes its way to the brain, it can radically alter the behavior of hosts like rats, cats and, yes, even humans...
The Amoeba of Madness. If you’re hiking in the wilderness, stay away from warm, stagnant bodies of fresh water, no matter how thirsty you are. These inviting little ponds often play host to Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba species with a taste for human brain tissue.
N. fowleri can spend long spans of time just hanging around as a cyst, a little armored ball that can survive cold, heat, and dry conditions...
Once it’s burrowed into its host’s brain tissue — usually the olfactory bulbs — N. fowleri sprouts a “sucking apparatus” called an amoebostome and starts chowing down on juicy brain matter. As the amoeba divides, multiplies and moves inward, devouring brain cells as it goes, its hosts can go from uncomfortable to incoherent to unconscious in a matter of hours...
The Virus That Brings Fear. We’ve all been warned to stay clear of wild cats and dogs, and never to bother animals we find wandering the streets of a city. Friendly as they might look, they could easily be carrying the deadly rabies virus, which doesn’t always cause the telltale mouth-foaming — though it does alter its victims’ brain functions in profound ways...
The Parasite of Sleep. In the villages of sub-Saharan Africa and the wilds of the Amazon, the tiniest insect can bring a sleep that leads to death. The tsetse fly loves the taste of human blood, and it often carries a parasite known as Trypanosoma, whose tastes run more toward human brains."
TVTropes.org is an awesome web site. The fantastic website TVTropes.org has identified a trope it calls The Worm and it lists many real life examples of the trope. One could spend hours or days there. They have identified zillions of tropes that are used in movies and television shows. And they give examples of the tropes in anime, film, literature, music, mythology, games and real life. They have several interesting tropes connected to parasites that I'd like to mention. Somes of the examples they give overlap. One trope they call "The Puppeteer Parasite". They list quite a few occurrences of the meme in action in real life.
"Toxoplasmosis is a very real parasitic infection (caused by the protozoan toxoplasma gondii)
In humans, it is now believed that infestation with the parasite may change the personality of infected humans, making men more aggressive and less fearful, while making women kinder and more promiscuous. It may also increase the chances of getting into a car accident, and there is some evidence (although far from conclusive) that it may be linked to schizophrenia and increased risk of suicide. It is suspected that between 30 and 60 percent of the population of the world is infected, albeit asymptomatic.
The same parasite typically infects rodents and alters their brain chemistry significantly-incidentally, this is why it changes human personalities. The alterations it makes are actually necessary to reproduce: it can only infect rats and mice, but it needs cats innards to breed, so it changes the brain chemistry around to that its host is attracted to the scent of cat, rather than repelled as normal. Then it gets eaten and the whole process starts again when the cats defecates.
Horsehair Worms infect grasshoppers and praying mantises while young, then influence their host to go to the water when they are ready to rip through its chest and begin their free-living existence. This is a cricket, but same difference.
A species of fluke infects snails, then extends its eggsack into the antenna of the host, then causes the snail to position itself so that its antenna where a bird can easily see it. The bird then eats the infested antenna (swollen to look like a worm) and becomes infected. See it here!
One species of parasite causes ants to crawl up to the top of a plant, bite the edge of a leaf, and just sit there. This greatly increases the chance they will be eaten, allowing the parasite to spread.
There are 400 documented species of fungus within the genus Cordyceps — each specific to one species of insect — which infest the hosts and then force them to chill out somewhere where they can catch the breeze and never move again for the rest of their lives, so that the fungus can grow out of their heads and spread more spores to start all over again. Another one infects flies and makes them grip a blade of grass and flap their wings until they die of exhaustion, taking a slightly more active role in spore-spreading.
Cordyceps unilateralis targets ants, forcing its ant host to climb to a position that overlooks their own nest, so that the entire nest will be infected when the ant dies and starts scattering spores. However, the ants themselves have evolved a mechanism in response to this, so that any time an ant starts showing symptoms of infection the rest of the ants will carry it a long way away so it can die without threatening the nest. This must be the plot for at least five sci-fi horror movies and definitely one video game.
The mushroom involved in the example of Parasect of Pokémon above was explicitly named to be Ophiocordyceps sinensis, which is indeed treasured as a medical mushroom in east Asia.
Fungi residing in the human digestive tract can make their hosts feel very uncomfortable unless they eat enough sweets to satisfy the fungi. And you can get infected by simply eating infested bread...
Even friendly bacteria and fungi in your gut can get a bit too busy for comfort sometimes. Some people experience a condition called "Auto Brewery Syndrome", in which the yeasts that naturally colonise your intestines overpopulate, and in thanks for being fed plenty of delicious sugar, produce larger amounts of alcohol than normal. Fortunately, it's treatable with antibiotics, but people with this condition can get drunk merely from eating sugary or starchy food, and don't need to consume alcohol at all to get the intoxicating effect.
There's a species of barnacle of the genus Sacculina that infects female crabs and grows tentacles into its brain. It then lays eggs in the crab's egg sac, which swells up with baby zombie-making barnacles to infect other crabs with. And if it gets into a male crab, it turns him into a female crab.
Xenos vesparum is a parasite that lives in wasps. It enters a young wasp as a larvae and grows while the wasp stays small and becomes infertile. When Xenos mating season comes, it forces its host to fly to a special place, where the Xenos in this area meet. Now the males kill and leave their hosts and mate with the females. The female now forces its host into hibernation and in the spring flies it to a wasp colony where the parasite larvae can find their own hosts. Then the female kills its host. And nobody knows how they do it.
The phorid fly infects fire ants by laying its eggs into their thorax. During development, the larva moves to the ant's head and directs the ant to move a safe distance away from its colony while simultaneously devouring its brain. Using digestive enzymes to separate the head from the body, the larva continues to pupate within the ant's decapitated noggin until its ready to emerge from its grisly cradle and continue the cycle anew. They are also responsible for the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) among honey bees.
A certain species of wasps, Glyptapanteles, uses caterpillars as living nurseries. However, one of the eggs contains a larvae that never reaches maturity. Instead, it turns the caterpillar into a zombie, and when its siblings pupate, the wasp larvae uses the caterpillar as an undead guardian which violently lashes out at predators.
The pram bug, Phronima spp. The females of these deep-sea crustaceans lay their eggs inside of something (usually a type of sea squirt known as a salp), and pushes the salp around like a baby carriage. They were once thought to be the inspiration for the Aliens in the Franchise/Alien franchise, although Word of God states that that's not true.
The Crypt-Keeper Wasp takes this to the next level by the virtue of being a hyperparasite i.e a parasite whose host is another parasite. Specifically, the Crypt-Keeper Wasp attacks the Gall Wasp, a type of wasp that targets trees and forces them to create hollow chambers rich in nutrients where the insect deposits its larvae. After infecting a host, the Crypt Keeper larva makes its victim drill a hole that's too small for its own escape and once the large wasp is trapped inside the wedge, the insidious Crypt Keeper eats its host from the inside out and burst out of the gall wasp's forehead into the world."
Another trope TvTropes.org indentified as the "Parasite Zombie". The real life examples given are:
"YES, Real Life! Scary as it sounds, there are certain parasites and other critters that can take over another critter, making them effectively their own personal zombie.
Of particular note is Leucochloridiom paradoxum, which completely turns a snail into its slave. It first fills the snail's body cavities so it can't retract its antennae/tentacles, then forces it to move out into the open where birds can find it. Since the infection also makes the antennae look like tasty caterpillars instead of nasty snail bits, this ensures the bird eats said antennae - and then gets infected itself. Though not mind controlled, of course.
There are also fungi that make zombies. Cordyceps unilateralis is one that takes over ants and, after a short time, has them climb as high as they can so the fungus can germinate and spread its spores onto more ants. To comfort the paranoid (and players of The Last of Us), cordyceps has no such effect on human brains... indeed, certain variants of the fungus have very useful medicinal properties.
Another fungus nicknamed the "Insect Destroyer" does the same thing to flies.
In fact, there's fungi like this for most insect species. It's a major part of rainforest ecology.
There's also the nematomorph Gordius robustus which infects crickets as part of its lifecycle and mind controls them into jumping into water so the worm can lay its eggs (drowning the cricket). It's of particular note because the worm is actually several times longer than the cricket.
Too many parasites to list here cause dramatic behavioral shifts in their hosts that enable part of their lifecycle. Consider Rabies and Distemper: the only reason they aren't a zombie plague is that the infected animals don't die.
If they had the two-day incubation period of a cold, they would be zombie plagues. That and somehow not attack other infected animals
Zombie ladybirds, controlled by a parasitic wasp. Around 25% of victims can actually survive the experience.
There's another species of wasp that does this to caterpillars. Some of the wasps larvae eat the poor thing from the inside-out, while others control its brain. The caterpillar attacks anything nearby by violently flailing at them with its own body. When the wasp larvae exit and pupate, the caterpillar spins webbing around them, and then dies.
Toxoplasm is a parasite that has a lifecycle that involves moving from mice to cats and back again. Cats are infected when they eat infected mice. The mice have their minds warped by the parasite so that they are attracted to cats. This decreases their life expectancy considerably. There's a theory that this is the reason the Crazy Cat Lady exists. It is unproven if the parasite is capable of affecting human behavior to any large extent, but if it does, the supposed changes to behavior the parasite causes in humans (surrounding themselves with cats) increases the likelihood that they will be eaten by cats when they die."
Another trope TvTropes.org identified they call the "Mind Virus". Real life examples they give:
"In Real Life, there's a sociological model known as Memetics, which posits that information and culture behaves like genetics ("meme" being the informational analogy of "gene")—that units of information transmit themselves from mind to mind. There's other competing sociological models, some of whose proponents point to Memetic Mutation as an example that Memetics isn't a viable model.
The early stages of ants infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, AKA the zombie fungus. The ant is physically unchanged, but begins exhibiting odd behaviors like seizing out of its nest, climbing up the nearest suitable plant, and chomping down on a leaf so hard that it remains fixed there permanently while the fungus grows. As the fungus progresses, however, it takes over the ant's body physically as well as mentally - as fungi tend to do with decomposing organisms.
The lancet liver fluke is capable of controlling ants as well. Normally, ants retreat into their nest at night, but when a fluke gets in control of one, it causes the ant to climb up to the top of the nearest blade of grass and clamp its jaws down on it in hopes that the parasite's next host - a large herbivore - will mistakenly consume the ant along with the grass. However, the ant doesn't die as it does with the fungus; if it isn't consumed by an herbivore, it will instead climb down from the grass at dawn and continue to go about its daily ant activities, only to climb back up the grass at the next sunset.
Humans infected with Toxoplasmosis, a protozoan found in cat feces, have been shown to have several oddities in their behavior (up to the point that Crazy Cat Lady might ought to be renamed Toxoplasmosis Infectee). Infectees can develop mental symptoms that resemble schizophrenia, and some, particularly men, are known to lose their aversion to the stench of cat urine such that a dirty litterbox no longer bothers them. Toxoplasmosis also has an acute disease phase which resembles more traditional ills, with fever and malaise and the like, but it's the latent phase which is this trope.
Humans aren't the only ones who are affected by the infection. Rodents with Toxoplasmosis in their brains spend an excessive amount of time running around to draw attention to themselves and completely lose their fear of feline scents, even seeking them out. This serves to get the Toxoplasmosis into a cat, which is where it really wants to be.
Rabies is best known for its "furious" state, in which the virus drives the host to actively and violently seek out victims to bite. This is, of course, to ensure its own transmission. The other thing it's known for is hydrophobia, an irrational fear of water (which serves no purpose other than to weaken the infectee such that they will die sooner and infect fewer new victims).
The phenomenon termed folie à deux, or "shared psychosis/shared psychosis disorder". For those who are susceptible to madness, simply being around another unstable person can not only trigger a psychotic episode but can cause their form of madness to come to resemble the other person's, meaning that a form of mental illness normally thought of as self-limited suddenly becomes contagious.
The Green-banded Broodsac is a parasitic flatworm that uses land snails as a intermediate host to get to their real host of birds. The broodsac accomplishes this by forming large broodsacs in the snail's tentacles (preferably the left one) filled to the brim with cercariae (free swimming larvae) to look like a fat, juicy caterpillar and reduces the snail's ability to sense the change in lighting so that it will mistakenly crawl up into a high place, thinking it's night time, and let a bird rip off the tentacle to allow the broodsacs to develop to adulthood in the bird's insides to start the cycle again.
Prions. They are misfolded proteins, and they cause normal proteins to also misfold. All known prions cause neurodegenerative diseases in mammals, including Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD), bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease," or BSE), and kuru."
The Cosmos magazine article An in-depth look at the Devil Worm asks, "How do you survive living a kilometre-and-a-half underground? The “Devil Worm” may be about to reveal its secrets. US researchers have sequenced the genome of the microscopic Halicephalobus mephisto, which was hailed as the deepest-living animal ever found when it was discovered in an active South African gold mine in 2008. Scientists were stunned that it was thriving in an environment thought only suitable for microbes, with high temperatures, little oxygen and high amounts of methane. It was named in honour of Mephistopheles, a subterranean demon from the medieval German legend Faust, but is better known by its equally appropriate nickname."
bedbugs -- Furniture, wallpaper, mattresses, and clutter provide nesting spots for these small, flat insects. They like to live near people or pets, and they come out while you’re asleep to feed on your blood.
lice -- These insects live on your blood. There are three types: head, body, and pubic.
scabies -- A mite that digs into your body and lays eggs causes this condition. You get it from skin-to-skin contact with an infected person. S
pork tapeworms -- You can’t get these bugs from eating pork, unless it’s raw or undercooked. Both people and pigs carry them, but they’re spread when you swallow the eggs from tainted food and water. You can also get them if you come in contact with the feces of someone who has them. They infect the intestines and brain, which can lead to a disease that causes headaches and seizures, called cysticercosis.
brain-eating amoeba -- People in the U.S. don’t have to worry as much about this parasite as people in Southeast Asia do. The bug, also known as N. fowleri, lives in warm freshwater, and it enters the body through the nose. It causes a condition that destroys brain tissue called primary amebic meningoencephalitis.
Toxoplasma
This bug makes its home in meat, water, and infected cat feces. It causes an illness called toxoplasmosis, which can feel like the flu.
An August 3, 2017, Psychology Today article Mold Toxicity: A Common Cause of Psychiatric Symptoms asks, "Could your depression, anxiety and brain fog and insomnia be due to mold toxicity?" The article states, "Toxic mold based illness is a very prevalent and under diagnosed condition that can manifest in many different ways, including with symptoms that are exclusively psychiatric, such as depression, anxiety, attentional problems, brain fog and insomnia. Vulnerability to mold toxicity is only present in 25% of the population, who in most cases, have a genetic predisposition which inhibits their clearance of biotoxins."
Amen Clinics released an article Does Mold Affect Your Brain? "We’ve all heard of mildew, and some of us know about black mold, but do you know what mold can do to your health? Mold is actually a toxin, and it releases toxic gas and spores into the air. When the toxins enter your body, via skin or air, the toxic gases cause a disturbance in many organs, including your brain.
"Often confused as just allergies, or “just being out of it,” mold infections can affect cognitive function, especially in the frontal cortical area.
"Is it Mold Toxicity or Stress?
When mold toxicity occurs, many dysfunctions can occur, and add psychological distress, or feelings of “craziness.”
"Since the 1950’s when drywall began replacing plaster, high-efficiency, energy-saving appliances are smaller and more airtight for many houses. This has increased the reports of mold infections and their drastic indicators.
"Scary Symptoms of Mold Infection or Mold Toxicity:
Psychological distress
Exhaustion
Changes in touch or sensation
Muscle weakness
Vertigo
Coordination problems
Mental fog
Breathing problems
Digestive issues"
National Geographic ran an article, Zombies are everywhere. Parasites mean you could be one too. In the wild, insects, worms, virus, and fungi turn animals into hyper-specialized zombies. Which ones can take over humans? The article seriously points out, "Zombies are real, and nature is teeming with them. Fungi take over the brains of ants, wasps paralyze cockroaches—a practice called zombification. 'Scientists have found that fungi, bacteria, wasps, and worms do it,' says Matt Simon, author of the new book Plight of the Living Dead. 'It’s extremely widespread across the animal kingdom. '
"Speaking from his home in San Francisco, Simon explains how a species of parasitic wasp made Darwin doubt the existence of God; why zombies in the movies were originally inspired by the symptoms of rabies; and what parasites get out of their excruciating manipulations. Nature is full of examples of creatures that take possession of other creatures."
A good PBS documentary was a NOVA special by National Geographic called Creatures of Light where they studied bioluminescent and biofluorescent creatures such as "the infamous anglerfish with its luminous lure" and the "light-packed viperfish, one of the deep's most ferocious predators".
"When threatened, certain species shoot bright flashes of light to stun and confuse their enemies. There's a lot of animals that actually can release their luminescence that way. So you can have something like a shrimp that will spew luminescence out of its mouth like a fire-breathing dragon and temporarily blind its predator while it pulses away into the darkness."
"But mates aren't the only creatures light attracts. Many fish use light to lure food in, as does the most notorious bioluminescent creature of all.'What is that?' 'It's so pretty'. Remember that ugly angler in Finding Nemo? 'Good feeling's gone.' (screeching) That lure is actually meant to attract another fish or another little shrimp that comes to gobble it up... (screaming)...and then finds itself engulfed in this living mousetrap of needle-sharp teeth."
"Land critters have evolved their own special ways of using light. Take the glowworm, for example. Like anglerfish of the deep, thousands of these fly larvae light up the roofs of these caves in New Zealand like the night sky to lure in a meal. The starry ceiling fools prey like flies and moths, which are attracted to the light. As they fly upwards, they get trapped by the glowworms' sticky, threadlike snares."
"In 1885, a French biologist working on a firefly cousin called Pyrophorus deciphered the chemistry responsible for their magical glow. He determined it's the result of a reaction between two chemicals, which he named for the fallen angel Lucifer, the light bearer. One chemical, luciferin, acts as the fuel, kind of like gasoline. The second, luciferase, is an enzyme, which fires the reaction like a spark plug. When the chemicals are mixed together in the presence of oxygen and some other key ingredients, they react, and the excess energy is given off as light. Over the last century, this light-producing reaction has been discovered scattered across the entire natural world, both above the surface and beneath the waves. That's how readily available these ingredients are. The actual chemicals differ from creature to creature, but the basic mechanism of fuel and spark is the same from flies and worms to jellies and fish, to snails, even mushrooms. The reaction is so common, it has evolved independently on different branches of the evolutionary tree more than 40 separate times. You find it from single-celled bacteria up through things like starfish, jellyfish, up through the vertebrates, fishes. It's evolved so many times in so many different lineages. I mean, if it wasn't important to the organisms, you wouldn't see it all over the tree of life. When it comes to the survival of a species, nothing holds a candle to light."
"But living light turns out to come in a variety of flavors, and back on their ship in the Solomon Islands, the scientists from the American Museum of Natural History are now preparing to study an altogether different type. Unlike the bioluminescence of the deep, this second kind found in shallower waters doesn't produce light of its own. Rather, it absorbs light from an outside source, soaks in its energy, and spits it back as a different color. It's called biofluorescence. And anyone who's ever danced under a black light or watched fingerprints light up on a crime show is familiar with the concept. Fluorescent chemicals absorb light in a unique way. Down at the atomic level, light jolts electrons into more energetic orbits around the nucleus. When they fall back to their original state a few billionths of a second later, the electrons re-emit, or fluoresce, the light back at a lower energy level, giving off a different color. Fluorescent animals work the same way, only their special chemicals, typically fluorescent proteins, are built into their skin and other tissues.
"Biofluorescence is an odd property because the animals don't actually produce any light. ** You shine one color light and they'll produce a second color of light. And it's a pretty rare phenomenon. That's because unlike bioluminescence, biofluorescence requires a special set of conditions to occur in nature. It needs sunlight to make light, but not sunlight as we know it up on the surface. When it hits earth, sunlight contains all the colors of the rainbow, as light going through a prism reveals. Each color is the result of a different wavelength of energy. But once the light hits water, things get interesting. Water acts like a filter, and the different wavelengths are only able to penetrate to certain depths. Long wavelengths, like reds and oranges, fade out first, then yellows and greens, and then finally, a sea of blue. And this pure blue light turns out to be the perfect trigger for fluorescence. So they take the blue light that's coming to them in the ocean and they convert it to greens and reds, and that gives them this color, this contrast."
"Armed with blue lights and yellow filters, the team started seeking out fluorescence closer to home, in aquariums. Hey, this guy right here. They found it everywhere, all the way up the food chain... In seahorses... Rays... ...and even some sharks... I saw the shark glowing like crazy. All have been hiding their true colors in plain sight."
" 'Why didn't anybody see this?' and you know, you probably just think it's a bright fish, right? You don't know it's fluorescing until you start looking. Once you start looking, then it's all over the place... Unlike human eyes, many fluorescent fish seem to have built-in yellow filters. The filters block out the ambient blue in the water, letting the vibrant colors of fluorescence stand out. This world that's been hidden to us may be plain as day to the fish."
"Beneath these breakers, in warm tropical seas, this fascinating creature lives and hunts endowed with powers of hypnosis. To protect itself from predators, a cuttlefish can disguise itself at will. But when it's looking for a meal, it does something even more amazing. Controlled by the animal's nervous system, these moving bands of color captivate a wary crab. Special cells in the skin expand and contract to produce a mesmerizing light show that lulls its prey into a deadly trance. When it's close enough it snatches its prey with two long feeding tentacles. And hypnosis pays off."
"The Santharian Drape-Silk spider has a venom that paralyzes its prey without killing it, keeping it alive and the venom can also be used as a sort of truth serum because of the euphoria it creates.
The broadclub cuttlefish, similar to anglerfish, uses light to catch its prey by putting on a flashing stripe show to hypnotize the prey.
According to the National Geographic Society, "A cuttlefish can use its nervous system to change color at will. Not only can the cuttlefish blend in by shifting its hue, it can hypnotize prey....before snatching it with two deadly tentacles."
"4.) Spiny-Headed Worm -- Like the Euhaplorchis Californiensis, the Acanthocephalans is a gut dwelling parasite. More simply known as the thorny-headed or spiny-headed worm, the adult worm dwells in the guts of a common bird known as the starling. This worm can vary in length as it can be several millimeters and grow up to ten centimeters (almost four inches long). Like other parasites, the worm lays its eggs inside the bird and those larvae travel out through the bird’s feces. From there, they look for innocent pill bugs (or roly polys) on the forest floor. When the pill bug eats the eggs unknowingly, the larvae from the spiny-headed worm starts taking over its body and eating the pill bug from the inside out. Eventually, the worms begin to take over the pillbugs brain, and alter the brain’s chemistry to make them love light. Instead of hiding under rocks, which is normal behavior for a pill bug, the bug starts to roam around out in the open. This makes the pill bug easily exposed for a bird to snatch up as food and once again, the starling’s sharp eye finds them and eats them and the cycle continues."
According to Wikipedia, "The sanshi 三尸 "Three Corpses" or sanchong 三蟲 "Three Worms" are a Daoist physiological belief that demonic creatures live inside the human body, and they seek to hasten the death of their host. These three supernatural parasites allegedly enter the person at birth, and reside in the three dantian "energy centers", respectively located within the head, chest, and abdomen. After their human host dies, they are freed from the body and become malevolent ghosts.
The pernicious Three Corpses/Worms work to harm their host's health and fate by initiating sicknesses, inviting other disease-causing agents into the body, and reporting their host's transgressions to the gods. The Three Corpses are supposed to keep records of their host's misdeeds, ascend to tian "heaven" bimonthly on the night of Chinese sexagenary gengshen 庚申 "57th of the 60-day cycle" while the host is sleeping, and file reports to the Siming 司命 "Director of Destinies" who deducts a certain number of days from the person's life for each misdeed. One way of avoiding this bureaucratic snitching is to stay awake for the entire gengshen day and night, thus preventing the Three Corpses from leaving one's body (a belief later assimilated into the Japanese Kōshin 庚申 tradition).
For a Daoist adept to achieve the longevity of a xian "transcendent; immortal", it was necessary to expel the Three Corpses from the body. Since these evil spirits feed upon decaying matter produced by grains being digested in the intestines, the practice of bigu "abstinence from grains and cereals" is the first step towards expelling them. Bigu alone will not eliminate the Three Corpses, but weakens them to the point where they can be killed with waidan alchemical drugs such as cinnabar, and ultimately eliminated through neidan meditation techniques."
[My extreme cautionary note: Cinnabar is a toxic mercury sulfide mineral with a chemical composition of HgS. According to another Wikipedia article, "In Chinese alchemy, elixir poisoning refers to the toxic effects from elixirs of immortality that contained metals and minerals such as mercury and arsenic. The official Twenty-Four Histories record numerous Chinese emperors, nobles, and officials who died from taking elixirs in order to prolong their lifespans. "]
"The Chinese terms sānshī and sānchóng compound sān 三 meaning "three, 3; several, many" with shī 尸 or 屍 "corpse, dead body; ritual personator representing a dead relative during Chinese ancestral sacrifices" and chóng 蟲 or 虫 "insect; worm; bug"....
The text differentiates the mythological Three Corpses from the intestinal jiǔchóng 九蟲 "Nine Worms", which seem to be based on observations of harmful parasites such as roundworms or tapeworms (Cook 2008: 844). The text explains that the Nine Worms are the physical counterparts of and acting agents for the Three Corpses (Arthur 2013: 82). They are:
The "ambush worm" (fuchong 伏蟲) saps people's strength by feeding off their essence and blood.
The "coiling worm" (huichong 蛔蟲 [now meaning "roundworm"]) infests the body in pairs of male and female that live above and below the heart, consuming their host's blood.
The "inch-long white worm" (cun baichong 寸白蟲) chews into the stomach, weakening the inner organs and damaging the digestive tract.
The "flesh worm" (rouchong 肉蟲) causes itching and weakens the sinews and back.
The "lung worm" (feichong 肺蟲) causes coughing, phlegm buildup, and difficulty in breathing.
The "stomach worm" (weichong 胃蟲) consumes food from its host's stomach, causing hunger.
The "obstructing [or "diaphragm"] worm" (gechong 膈蟲) dulls the senses, induces drowsiness, and causes nightmares.
The "red worm" (chichong 赤蟲) causes stagnation of the blood and pneuma, heaviness in the waist, and ringing in the ears.
The "wriggling worm" (qiaochong 蹺蟲) causes itching sores on the skin and tooth decay. (tr. Cook 2008: 846)"
An article from Natural Food Pantry reveals, "For his work on the aerobic and anaerobic metabolic processes in cells, Dr. Otto Warburg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology Or Medicine in 1931. He suggested that cancer cells “live in hypoxic, very low oxygen, and acidic conditions and derive energy from sugars by fermenting them the way yeast does”. Dr. Warburg stated, "No disease, including cancer, can exist in an alkaline environment." As cancer progresses, the body becomes more and more acidic as its pH drops below 7.35. His discoveries were revolutionary for their time, and contributed greatly to what we know about cancer today.
The pH scale ranges from 1 (highly acidic) to 14 (highly alkaline), while your body’s pH usually hovers between 7.35 and 7.4. Unfortunately, most of the foods that people consume today are full of sugar, preservatives, and genetically modified organisms – which all contribute to acidity in the body. The most alkaline foods are vegetables, as well as some fruits, grains, nuts, and alkaline water. Helping your body neutralize some of its acidity is crucial for maintaining your overall health.
While many years have passed since Warburg’s publications and studies, his discoveries still hold true today. Cancer can be partially attributed to prolonged exposure to toxins, especially in cells that haven’t been nourished, oxygenated, hydrated, and cleansed. And of course, as Warburg discovered, cancer cells cannot survive in an alkaline environment.
To maintain your health and keep your body at its best, it is very important to keep your body nourished with fresh, wholesome foods, and hydrated with clean, alkaline water.
Alkaline water is one of the best things you can do for your health. Stop illness in its tracks by nourishing your body with clean, wholesome ingredients."
You might find some PH strips at your local drugstore to check your PH levels and whether your body environment is alkaline or acidic. Athough they are sufficient to tell if your body environment is alkaline or acidic, it is difficult to ascertain the exact color shade to determine how much. There are digital meters which can give you the exact number.
Here is a colored food chart listing foods from alkaline to acidic.
Here are some of the excerpts I received from the Canadian woman beginning in March of 2018.
"We get it from our mother and father.
This bacteria is responsible for regulating the acid in our stomach. When it's killed: it dies, it gives a headache but comes back stronger and in larger number. When you take an antibiotics; it mutates! They didn't identify all the strains of helicobacter pylori.
There is no antichrist, there are antibiotics. That's what is killing us...We kill them, they kill us. I would bet that sounds and frequency affects our guts first.
That is the most fascinating bacteria. Sugar, processed food, alcohol, coffee...is something to consider when it comes to diet.
A small octopus. You don't know until it hits you..."
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I was tired to be sick. I stopped all my medications except the one for arthritis. I went gluten and sugar free for a month and then I flushed my gallbladder and liver. Man...
I followed the protocol (apple juice during a week, fasting for a day and then...Epson salts, grapefruit juice and olive oil). Online, plenty of people are doing it. My husband checked on me that night but I was fine! Just had a nausea about 1 am. But, I was not sick...
The day after, I flushed gallstones (it's color green lime) and on the second day, I flushed more than a hundred liver stones. I wore my playtex and a mask...digged in "IT". I collected all of the stones, washed them and found a parasite called "fluke". It's a vampire, a bloodsucker. I'm now doing my own protocol for parasite. I kept my stones to show to my doctors "my chronic pain". I was not absorbing anything nutritive from my food. I feel 10 years younger. My hair curls like when I was younger, my skin is a lot better and my energy is back.
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Yes, 10 years and I'm sure that you would feel the same. The real aliens who are dangerous are the ones inside us (bacteria), H.G Wells knew!
Today, I removed the old mulch from the yard, transplanted my purple iris so they could be all at the same place near the anvil. We have a natural rock shaped like an anvil. I also put bone powder, magnesium salts on the small patch that I'm going to use to grow peas and mini-squashes. I want to grow sunflowers also. I'm not spending a summer in the doctor offices.
What do the doctors say? I don't give a shit what they say. Chronic pain doesn't exist: bad gut bacteria and parasites exist. They only take bloodwork, send me to have Xrays (radiations) to tell me that everything is fine. I am taking my own life in hands because doctors...screwed up mine. I should have been treated for drug addiction and I ended up on lithium. Now I have arthritis. There is nothing that men destroyed that nature can't fix.
I had a vivid dream (in color) in the following days. I was flushing huge insects...The day after, a potato bug was walking on the wall in front of me and I told myself "Ok, bugs...". Then, I started to read about flushing my system and my husband just went "Ok..." with it. He couldn't believe when I flushed my gallbladder: green lime rocks! Damn! I documented everything but I don't share the pictures because this is too personal...and gross! LOL!
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You won't believe this one. Like you know, I've flush a half pound of liver stones. I also found liver flukes in my "self-healing experiment". I've research them and I must have had them since I'm little since all meat eaters have them to some extent. I also grew up in a camp by the St-Lawrence river and it's an organism that lives in fresh water; I was always in the water. I've always had nausea when eating too much sweets when I was a kid. I also loved fish and fresh water fish might be contaminated. Millions of people have that and they go from your stomach to your liver and kidneys.
Like aliens, flukes live on rocks on your liver. They live on the liver stones produced by our bad eating habits and lifestyle. Too much sweets, too much fats, too much stress, too much estrogen (in the chicken) etc. They also absorb all your minerals, your B12 and the most important: magnesium. Then, you get constipated. To avoid that curse, you drink coffee and coffee...makes you nervous and is bad for your hormones balance. They live from your mistakes and your misery. Because they actually eat your liver pieces by pieces. As the liver is the filter of the body...diseases rise up. Mental disorders, dementia and so many other sad things. Chemotherapy kills the liver and they are now starting to treat patients with high serum vitamin C adn CBD oil. Depression is to have an overstock of parasites of all kind.
I was looking for natural options to get rid of my "evil guests" aka "the flukes" because they hatch 4000 eggs a day. Wormwood, black walnut, cloves, garlic, ginger, neem powder. Then I looked for herbs and seeds to heal my liver, to allow it to regenerate. I found Milk Thistle, anise, dandelion, lemon, chamomile, mint and the list is long.
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"It's hard for a human being's ego to admit to be ruled by smaller beings, little bacteria, parasites and fungus. But it does rule us...They are the real reptilians! Full moon, mood swing, alchemy of love; they rule!
If you know how the moon affect human's behavior, women's fertility, I guess you can understand that a small being is also sending a message...it's AFFA code to tell us: "Without us, you're nothing but an empty shell". After all, these little beings that we find disgusting were here before mammals...They were in the ground, laying their eggs on the lawn hoping for a host or a shelter for their babies. The liver Flukes is in the water and the Ascaris in the soil. Veggies, fruits...anything.
You might want to look at the face of this little being! Once we die, they return in the soil and life goes on for them!"
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"They strategically make their nests near the pudental nerve (buttock). They come in our water and meat but nest in our flora (fungus) and then install themselves near the principal nerves of the body for pain. When you starve them...the nests hurt you. Tooth aches, ear aches, acne, muscle pain, headache, stomach pain. "
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"This info is not from the Greys...I have a Reptoid being in my house and he's funny as hell. He made me purchase a suppositories with CBD and coconut oil, a lidocaine gel for tatoo (all organic) and he told me to take Red Clover and fenugreek. He wasn't talking before but now, he doesn't stop. I know what voices are and these are not voices. He said that Karma is necessary even for reptoid beings. The trap is for all souls...and what is on the moon is just a tiny part of it. Sorry, he talks or think very fast. He has a message for you and I don't know what it means: green, yellow and blue... I'm not sure what those messages for me mean.... I think maybe he is sending mixed messages.... ie there is a soul trap but karma is necessary ... getting souls to believe in karma is a huge part of the trap imo... I'm not sure that he's a reptoid...I keep seeing 4:44 (quatre, quatre, quatre --- cat cat cat). All he said is that we're all reptilian and related to the Ancient serpent race. He's funny as heck... The reason why there is a soul trap on the moon is still a mystery to me. They are greys mutilating cats, dogs and humans. They don't work with these guys... He's a lyran... Aliens are not our friends. They were never, they use us as lab rat and they are cruel. However, they read our emails...so..."
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"We are told a lie that we have disease when the fact is that the water is contaminated, the animals are sick and we're not given the right education to get rid of these parasites. They are sensitive to the moon, so they act on our moods."
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Tapeworm: "Am I glad to say that I finally saw a huge piece of that predator! I didn't take a picture because I don't like to look at the pics after. It's a bit traumatizing to see what is inside of you. I found however a pic that is going to show you what it looked like (color and the segment).
Fibercon, Male Fern extract (not the leaves), magnesium, a ton of pumpkin seeds during weeks, a lot of water, a Apple cider vinegar instead of coffee in the morning. What will make it weak is during a month, is clove, tumeric, fennel.ginger, peppermint, carraway powder. I made my own caps purchasing empty caps on Ebay (veggie, not made with bovine gelatine caps). A healthy diet, exercise, once a month...an enema with celtic salt and spring water.
It's going to make a person fart like crazy as soon as you start the clove, peppermint, fennel, tumeric...but it wants to discourage you. So, the best is to just ...fart and say "I'm sorry". Better sorry than dead. I'm 117 pounds, 5"6 and I look like a squeleton. I have muscles loss because this parasite feeds on Vit C and B12. L-Orthinine is important also.
It hacks your immune system so bad that you become allergic to...everything. Ear pain, you loose your earing, your vision because you don't assimilate your food.
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That worm Wayne, looks like the snake that is around the symbol for the medical profession symbol (pics attached) and like a...freaking movie strip. Why in the hell this worm is so hard to detect and so hard to remove? Male Fern is mostly the only hope to remove it and it's got to be done by step. I had to eat grape jelly on my toasts this morning.
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More I read about bacteria and viruses and I understand that the real gods are tiny tiny tiny and inside our body or inside our "temple". Every living organism has it own consciousness, own purpose and is trying to reach a goal.
If you want to see "demon of sugar" face, google "Helicobacter Pylori". It grows with all the sweets that your mother or grandmother in my case would bake for you at Xmas. Then in winter, everybody would get a cold or influenza. Autism in now believed to be caused by an overgrown of this bacteria in the wound of the mother. High Fructose corn syrup and cie!
H pylori is a beneficial bacteria because it regulates the acidity in your stomach and we are what we eat...It protects us and works with other demons: candida albican is evil. It's a fungus and fungus can't die.
When you have too many of these evil creatures which in fact, are allowing you to live...you have die off and you can be sick because they release toxins and your liver. The liver (the liver - Le foie in French sounds like "foi" which means Faith (fate) in English) is the most important organ of the body. Right now, doctors are prescribing acid blockers and PPI to everyone who have acid reflux instead of changing their diet. These meds remove acidity from the stomach and H. Pylori thrives in an alkaline stomach. In an alkaline stomach, they're quiet and make babies to go colonize the intestines and other organs. We act, the human race, exactly like bacteria and fungus.
If you happen to read about H. Pylori (which have a green color, witch is green...), you'll understand why humanity is "screwed". This bacteria screw itself in the organs of your body and it releases an ammonia like substance.
We are given candies, ice cream, chocolate (Willy Wonka) as kids. We go for coffee and alcohol when we reach 13 years old. We start to change, our skin, hair and behaviour change when we reach puberty. The bacteria balance or imbalance in our guts lead our behaviour. Drugs and (pot is the worst because it creates sugar craving) lead our eating habits and behavior. The moon plays a role in that...ask any women who suffer PMS.
Now, what the GMO are going to do to us...it's going to modify us. Men who decide of these things think that they are "inspired" but in fact...there is an invisible world (spirits, entities, aliens) who manifest when they eat and drink alcohol or use drugs. Spirits are guided by a force that we can't explain and aliens are no different than us. We are all one.
For me, understanding the world around us means that we have to understand what is inside of us. I don't think that eating animals (healthy animals) is bad for us if we allow them to be happy, But, feeding them with cheap nutriments and hormones is deadly for all forms of life: plants-insects-animals and the most stupid animal: Us. Men grow breasts and woman grow a beard with hormone imbalance. If we're not attractive or attracted...we don't reproduce. If we become all sterile because of the plastic and chemicals in the water; we certainly won't make it.
If there are such things as reptilians eating us: they're "screwed" by H. pylori. You can eradicate that bacteria, it will kill you because it's essential.
Mental illness, cancer, aggressiveness, sex appetite...everything depends on the balance in our guts. Drugs would be the first thing to eliminate in a better world. B12, magnesium and Vit D deficiency is not genetic or hormonal: it's about balance. Drugs affect the liver...I know that. Alcohol too...If the "demiurge" has a plan, I hope that he's not only good in planning but also good in micro-biology.
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"flushing your liver. I really felt like a force inside of me was forcing me to clean my inside. It wasn't a big deal to do the flush, it's to re-establish a good flora and good habits that are difficult.
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Then, I thought about my art classes where I learned years ago that many artists in the 19th century were drinking absinthe and that this liquor was giving a high back then. It's forbidden in the States because the pharmaceuticals would go bankrupt and addiction is already bad as it is. But...the ingredients of the absinthe are wormwood, lemon zest, anise, chamomile, angelica, coriander seeds...etc.It's available online. I try to make my own with a bit of vodka and distilled water. I don't drink but it can kill the bastards: I will.
I believe that a "high" is obtain when you kill a bunch of parasites inside of you. It's just a die-off. Mushrooms are poisonous to parasites, and sadly: chemical drugs are what they are: poison.
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I then re-started my car and in my head I asked them what they wanted to listen. But it the same time, I wondered if they knew that I had flushed liver flukes...and pinworms lately. Then I heard "Turn the radio on where it is". It was Heart "Kick it out" and they told me that Cannabis was the best thing for parasites and that CBD oil and vitamin C high dose was the best thing to get rid of the little buggers. They also told me that soon, CBD oil would be affordable and legal everywhere because of the parasites problems and parasites causes cancer. That't why Serum Vit C and CBD oil works for cancer. They told me that very fast, it came like a lightning in my head.
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That detox is really challenging. It's a lot of pains, crazy pains. I never thought that as a mechanism of defense, parasites would secrete toxins that attacks the nerves. I found out that if I apply Biofreeze on my left buttock, the "shameful pain" dissapears. It means that these toxins targets the pudental nerve.
I had tooth aches (teeth nerves), muscle pain like crazy, a rib that was extremely painful and now it's gone. Only my left buttock is a problem. What we call TMJ is just...worms mating. I know it's disgusting, but I just can't help myself being like "What is the hell?". What do doctors do, why isn't there more research? The answer is that...the pharmaceutical would just go bankrupt is people would start to detox, eat better and to exercise. I started to develop the muscles of my arms, it's terrible the loss of tone that my body endured. I took 10 years in 3 years. Birth control and estrogen...best food for parasites.
I hope that you're going to introduce the detox phenomena and the possibility that some aliens (a branch of the greys) are studying all the diseases that the parasites that we carry (from birth) without even care.
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But back on the gall bladder thing--I think Lisa Rene has an article somewhere on her Energetic Synthesis site about how many etheric implants are along the liver gall bladder meridian. Its the major detoxification pathway for the body so it makes some sense implants would be placed there."
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The importance of taking L-Orthinine when you cleanse is top priority. The secretions that it does when the die are toxics.
Some people on Forum for IBS, Crohn's disease and Celiac reports sometimes that their poop smells like ammonia. That's the tapeworm that secretes ammonia, it's its waste...
It's imperative that we start to talk about that because doctors don't have a freaking clue! People are dying, kids have ADHD: the pinworms nests in the brain! All diseases are related to worms, protozoa and bacteria. The food, the hygiene and exercising are so important.
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I think that Dr. Clark is well intended and really intelligent. However, you can't spend your life killing life because these little organisms are older than dinosaurs. They were in the water before the first alien put feet on earth. I take a break of killing the little beasts and take turmeric capsules because I have a cyst on the side of my forehead, small but painful. What cysts are...simple: bacteria feeding larvaes.
When you kill or pass parasites: they do like in the movie Aliens. They make nests on your body. Some of them secrete toxins and it may lead to nephropathy (knees or neck). There is no such things as diseases...only parasites. Jim Marrs was right on about Pharmaceutical. If science would put more effort on our diets and on research to control worm and parasites infestation among pigs, sheeps and cows...the word cancer wouldn't exist and they wouldn't make any money poisoning us with medications.
You have to clean up your system but accept that you're a vehicule for these little beings...like a whale in the ocean. Have you tried sliced plantains fried in coconut oil, powdered with cinnamon? We don't eat spicy enough. Cumin, curry, cayenne...that type of spices just kill the "offspring". It's a bit Eugenic but eh...Alzeihmer's, cancers, dementia are all related to parasites.
I know the work of Hulda Clark but I don't know about the other guy. When you look at all the properties of essential oils, herbs and flowers: they all kill parasites. The goal I think, is to increase our immune system, stop the junk food, limit the meat intake and to exercise to most we can.
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Hey, I found disturbing things about the tapeworm. We all have it but when it gets out of control, it consumes your nutriments and you can eat tons of things and never gain weight. Did you know that actors and actresses have consumed tapeworm larvae to keep their waste? We live in a sick world, I'll tell you.
I happened to read about that ugly parasite and it can be 25 feet long. Male Fern is an herb that once combined, may kill the bastard. I have Male Fern in my backyard and plan to attempt to flush it. I eat like a pig and I am skinny as heck. I lost a lot of my muscle tone and lose my energy in the middle afternoon. Traditional medicine can't detect that prehistoric parasite. It probably killed all the dinosaurs :)
Hulda Clark doesn't talk too much about the tapeworm but Chineses...know about it.
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In our rivers, we find a snail who becomes the incubator for liver flukes (that's what attack the liver, gallbladder and even lungs) and then, that snail releases the incubated larvae in the fresh water. We send our dogs play in the water, some people swim in lakes and you know what: we have holes. The nose, the eyes, the ears, the anus and vagina. They make their way in...and if it's not by the rivers, it's by the meat that we eat on the grill that wasn't cleaned for more than 6 months. In other words, we are doomed to die and to be sick because of these little parasites.
We can live long though if we add spices in our food, like in India and Mexico. The problem with spicy food is that it contains oxalates. Plant food contains oxalates, which is a defense mechanism from certain plants to protect themselves from instinction. Oxalates contribute to kidney stones...when combined with other food. Everything on earth was created to limit our lives to a certain number of years.
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By the way, if you ever study parasites and liver flukes (that we all have...), you'll understand what is the "Flu" and why all the medications or sicknesses have "Flu like symptoms" (flukes, flu likes). Also, we should question ourselves about the fact that cancer (which is a crab...a bug, a parasite) is on the rise."
"For me, the worms are the KEY to understand where we live, and to understand as well what is the exact nature of the human body/avatar we are locked in. For me, the real power (where the decisions are made) hides itself in the microscopic world.
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I was born with an Angioma on my left hand. I have a so-called “incurable” disease. But a few months ago, the pain was unbearable and I decided to find a treatment for myself (a little bit like the movie « Lorenzo's Oil »).
In order to find a treatment, I went back to “the basics” and I decided to study at the start the human cell. I wanted to do so for a long time because I felt there was a Matrix secret hiding behind those CELLS. The word CELL in bird language has the intriguing meaning of JAIL, PRISON, etc.
This Angioma is today a blessing because a few months ago my quest led me to find a real treatment for myself. I have been taking some Neem powder for 6 months, and the pain is completely gone today. But this quest has also led me to something even more important: the WORMS and the incredible reality of this Matrix...
There is a real “split” today between the researchers: most of them want to research an exit out of the Matrix “outside”, in the 3D projection. On the contrary, we believe that the Matrix’s exit can only be found in the microscopic world.
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During my research, I have put a lot of things together, and especially a document in French. But I have a felling that what I am saying in that document is very dangerous, and I am not too confident on the reactions of the Matrix. This is why xxxxxxxx and I have decided to share what we have discovered with only 4 people (including Marc, and you today) and we want to remain anonymous.
"I discovered that the human body (and all the organic matter) is bacterial in nature: our body is 100% composed of secert polymorphic microscopic dots (called Microzemas or somatids) that turn into bacteria when our immune system is attacked. This is the nature of the living: the polymorphism of the micro demons ...
Screen shots 2 Aliens, demons, archons, etc. : ALL are 3D metaphors of what is really happening (at a microscopic scale) inside our human bodies. And it is a very secret and ancient knowledge. At the start of my research, for example, I realised that:
Medusa looked like the bacteria salmonella,
The Kraken looked like the bacteria heliocobacter (responsible for gastric cancer),
The Leviathan looked like the bacteria Campylobacter (responsible for diarrhea),
The bacteria Staphylococcus Epidermidis (just been discovered; more aggressive than golden staphylococcu) looked like the aliens in the movie “Encounter of the third kind”,
The worms in the movie Dune looked like another microscopic human parasite (the internet says it is the golden staphylococcu, but I think it is a human skin parasite). On the left, a PHOTO of the movie “Dune”, and on the right a photo taken by a microscope of a human parasite,
The aliens in the movie “Arrival” looked like the Bacteriophages,
The demon serpent Apep, venerated by the Egyptians, looked like a Tapeworm,
Screen shots 3 Big Pharma, Louis Pasteur’s lies and the birth of modern medicine: Pastor's Praises (1822/1895) are heard all
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"Big Pharma, Louis Pasteur’s lies and the birth of modern medicine: Pastor's Praises (1822/1895) are heard all over the world and he is considered one of the most prestigious heroes of the human race, an essential reference. Although the vaccination adventure began in the late eighteenth century with the English doctor Edward Jenner, it is Pasteur who remains the father of vaccination, and it is with him that began a long procession of lies . https://reseauinternational.net/pasteur-sauveur-ou-imposteur/ Modern medicine has essentially been created by Pasteur, a stooge of Illuminatis, who will develop Microbism, a theory that dominates medicine today. For Pasteur, the microscopic granulations inside the human body do not exist and the basic unit of all organic life would be the cell ... For Pasteur, the cell is aseptic (it is clean), and any disease would come from a specific microbe coming from the OUTSIDE of the human body (the microbes are exogenous). And it is the dust of the air which would convey the microorganisms responsible for the diseases.
This allows Pasteur to become famous, and Big Pharma to make substantial financial profits by inventing vaccines and antibiotics. Between 1869 and 1872, Pasteur stated three erroneous basic postulates that still serve as the basis for vaccination: The first considered that asepsis reigns in our cells, the second is that each disease corresponds to a specific agent, microbe or virus, against which we can protect ourselves with a vaccine (the disease has only one cause, so only one remedy). Finally, the immunity is obtained by the production of antibodies in response to the introduction of antigens contained in the vaccine and these antibodies confer protection. https://reseauinternational.net/pasteur-sauveur-ou-imposteur/ For Pasteur, a microbe would be immutable. It could not change except by accidental mutation and and in general to become resistant or more aggressive.
By denying the bacterial polymorphism, Louis Pasteur and Big Pharma will reign a medical dictatorship of unprecedented unique thought. In addition, the existence of microscopic bacterial granulations and the true nature of the living are hidden from humans. The goal of the elites is very simple: to make the population docile, ignorant and sick by selling expensive drugs and treatments that are useless and with numerous side effects.
Antoine Bechamp (French scientist) CONTRADICT Louis Pasteur: OUR BODY IS OF A BACTERIAL NATURE when our immune system is aggressed. For Dr. Antoine Béchamp, The basic unit of all organic life is the microscopic granulation (much smaller than a human cell), which he calls "Microzyma". This granulation located inside the human body (but outside the human cell) is only visible at a magnification of at least 750. "One must know that there exists, within all living matter, tiny animated granulations of the Brownian movement, that is, of a kind of perpetual dance." http://www.alain-scohy.com/microzymas-et-veritablebiologie.html Today, Big Pharma reigns terror and lets no one get in the way. The stakes are huge. But he is financial, just as he is "spiritual" ... A very interesting link: "The biggest killer: the scam behind modern medicine": http://leonoury.blogspot.com/2009/02/biggest-killer-scam-behind-modern.html
The microzymas are announced by Hippocrates 400 years before Christ: "In the interior of the body exists an unknown agent who works for the whole and for the parts which is both one and multiple". Dr. Alain Scohy: The French doctor struck off the Order of Doctors for offense of opinion explains in detail what are the microzymas, these organisms discovered by Béchamp, what role they play in the body and demonstrates massive errors (volunteers?) of the Pasteurian Medicine.There is a silicium crystal inside all the microzymas that contains all our genetic information, inherited or acquired. This gives us the ability to erase negative programming, and replace them with positive programming at will; it's like on the USB key of a computer, the information is inscribed on the heart of microzymas."
"Somewhere in the microzymas, you find something that is similar to anthills, hives. Ants have a relative individuality, it is the anthill that has an identity; the ant works for everything. " "Microzymas can cling to particles in suspension, in the air or in the water. Microzymas are, like humans, made of water. But we find in the heart of each of them, a silicon crystal that allows them to store billions of information. They need to function an essential molecule. L-ascorbic acid (or vitamin C). They communicate with each other telepathically, or by chemical reaction like ants. They travel and use as "flying saucers" the dust.
Gaston Naessens: a second character is Dr. Gaston Naessens, French biologist, who will "rediscover" in the 1940s the existence of microscopic granulations. The scientist is developing a microscope to observe entities of very small size, which he called somatides (Antoine Bechamp's microzymas). "According to his observations, somatids are transformed according to the state of the immune system of a person. Somatids would be the smallest living entity known and the "fundamental organizational element" of living organisms. https://www.lelibrepenseur.org/les-somatides-par-gaston-naessens/ "Somatids are" rediscovered "now as Nanobacteria or Nanobe. The Somatids are not recognized by the current medicine because to see them, it is absolutely necessary to use the somatoscope of Naessens, the only optical instrument that grows 30000x the living. The best optical microscopes only grow to 1800x and electron microscopes kill the living. Somatids disintegrate rapidly (less than 30 minutes) after the death of the carrier organism (human blood). Somatids live in symbiosis with humans, as reported in StarWars for "Midichlorians" (or Chloridians of Wilhelm Reich who feed on "Orgone".)
The microscopic granulations that make up our body are like a capital of matter. A material that is neutral at first, and that remains so if our immune system stays healthy.
But the organic matter, the microscopic granules, are polymorphic and can be transformed "at the least attack" into bacteria, thus into a micro demons. It is the nature of the living ... To lower their vibratory frequency, the Elites attack the IMMUNE SYSTEM of the populations. What can these attacks be on the immune system? 1-The attacks can be "interior and self inflicted": our memories if they are full of anger or sadness, negative thoughts in general, stress, our diet, etc. 2. But these attacks, more vicious and hidden, can be outside: Wi-fi, 5G waves, chemtrails, industrial, food, etc.
The microscopic granulations that make up all living matter are dormant bacteria / demons, waiting to be awakened by our bad habits, or by external pollutions; like a boomerang Karma ... We must therefore understand the true nature of diseases: most diseases are inflammation caused by bacteria. For example, heat disease is not due to accumlation of cholesterol in the veins and arteries (official cause), but to inflammations caused by bacteria.
To understand the living, one must have access to the true aspect of things. We are dealing with a Machiavellian Matrix, that hides the true face of its microscopic “demons/bacteria”. And it takes a long time to search Google to find the "real" photos of bacteria; the most recent and most detailed photos, taken with the most modern electron microscopes, are the most difficult to find because they show the true face of bacteria: a demonic face ... Some people think that microbes or bacteria no individuality of their own ... whereas I think that they are supremely intelligent and that they are the same "demons and archons" who control us.
Those are two photos of the same bacteria. One is taken with a non-performing microscope and the other the most modern electron microscope. Microscopes: The Elite has a technology that is much more advanced than the one it gives to the public: we give humans toys for children as a microscope! Microscopes that only magnify the living. So that men do not discover the true nature of their bodies, and where the true demons of the Matrix are hiding. That's why the technology that the Elite gives us will always be that of a 4-year-old ... The true biology is based on the study and objective OBSERVATION of the living!
A “side story” on the movie “Star Wars” (I can’t help myself): The movie “Star Wars” is another movie about the micro biotic. And everyone takes Georges Lucas's “Midchlorians” for the mitochondrias living inside the human cell. It is not. Georges Lucas, in secret, talks in his movies about the overpowering microscopic granulations that are outside the human cell: the microzymas or somatids, and not the mitochondrias . Those microscopic granulations that create all the living, and in which hide the “Archons and Demons”. As a result, the Matrix, that constantly tries to mislead us, can put in images in “Starwars” movies one of its biggest secrets, with complete impunity.
" May the Force be with you ! The Force is this source of power for Jedis knights in the Star Wars universe. We learn in the first episode, The Phantom Menace (1999), that the Force has a material support, some strange microscopic organisms called mid-chlorines. In the Lucas Gorges movies, the Midchlorians are beings that are able to speak to the Force. The Force manifested itself through midchlorians allowing sensitive individuals to manipulate it. The level of mid-chlorine, used to determine a person's affinity for the Force, could be tested
simply by means of a blood test. Legend has it that the mid-chlorians came from a planet in the heart of the galaxy, where life was also created. The mid-chloriners allowed to preserve one's consciousness after death.
interview of Georges Lucas by James Cameron: Georges Lucas explains that the next three Star Wars films would have explored the microbiotic world, that Episodes 7 to 9 would have explained the Midchlorians and the Microbiotics ... “There is this world of creatures that work differently from us. I call them Whills. And the Whills are the ones who control the universe. They feed on the Force. He goes on to explain that the individuals in this very, very distant galaxy were "vehicles to transport the Whills ... and that the conduit is the midi-chlorians. The midi-chlorians are the ones who communicate with Whills. The Whills, overall, are the Force”.
I believe that the human race is “zombified” by the worms. The worms that are controlling: our nervous system, our brain, our desires, our fears, our ego (they are the ego), and so many other aspects of our lives. The worms that are supra intelligent and supra controlling. The humans are for me like the zombified Alaskan crabs, more or less zombified by the worms. We live already amongst the “walking dead" because of the worms. We are the walking dead. And our elite is zombified by very powerful worms that are leading the human race to extinction in order to repeat over and over the same cycle of events.
All the animals are zombified: the human beings are no better. The Alaskan crabs give us an idea of what we are living as humans.
The solutions: anti parasitic treatments. The Neem: the secret Tree of life
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II. Are we more microbial than “human”? The human body is composed mostly of bacteria. There are probably fewer human cells than bacteria in a human body. A few examples:
« Talk Overview: Losick poses the question “Are we more microbial than human?” There are 10 times more bacterial cells on and in us, the human microbiome, than human cells and 100 times more types of bacterial genes than human genes. These bacteria certainly influence our health, and Losick wonders if they also might influence our behaviour ». https://www.ibiology.org/microbiology/human-microbiome/ More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Understanding this hidden half of ourselves - our microbiome - is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases. “More than half your body is not human” https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43674270
https://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/microbiome-health/meet-your-microbiome
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312734.php
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https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/07/24/frontiers-in-aging-neuroscience-bacteria-found-in-alzheimersbrains/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325782/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29383983
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Worms inside the human body
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-bd&channel=trow&biw=1584&bih=884&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=M6tbXZ62DcT1rQG4IygBA&q=worms+inside+human+body&oq=worms+inside+human+body&gs_l=img.3...30066.30066..30407.. .0.0..0.0.0.......0....1..gws-wizimg.omeAp1DwMyQ&ved=0ahUKEwjem7mIgJHkAhXEeisKHT4wA0QQ4dUDCAY&uact=5
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I believe that the human race is “zombified” by the worms. The worms that are controlling: our nervous system, our brain, our desires, our fears, our ego (they are the ego), and so many other aspects of our lives. The worms that are supra intelligent and supra controlling. The humans are for me like the zombified Alaskan crabs, more or less zombified by the worms. We live already amongst the “walking dead”
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The solutions: anti parasitic treatments. I am going to send you another document about it The Neem: the secret Tree of life
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III. The power of the worms: I looked in the entire Internet to find people who were thinking like us. And a couple of months ago, I found only one trace, only one person, who did talk about the power of the worms. In a blog called gnostic warrior. The Gnostics don’t think we can get out of the Matrix, and I think they are wrong. This first article summarises it all...
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/07/can-humans-be-controlled-by-tinyparasites?fbclid=IwAR0xqwgZpQX4RKVjKIt5KdXAq_nWlUgz99XEy_s-pZpdbpaa3F01AL6HJCI 2nd article
https://gnosticwarrior.com/wormwood.html?fbclid=IwAR13866JSfDz5ei52Q7SQfge19RMuPy79qJ8G6Upi0xFll9TU3guM8PO8A#more-19804 3rd article
https://gnosticwarrior.com/serpent-is-a-worm.html?fbclid=IwAR2PVaxQQyDk_EFcF7anf3hO4KTRLqtc5kHCYkEkq5CxOVPznex-RwtMIQ#more-17039
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4th article https://gnosticwarrior.com/hercules-strangles-theserpent.html?fbclid=IwAR0nLiWqooWM9JiVdn5uhG5weiJ5qSj2x2i73nsQ8UP-lPMRRYk3Yxzz23s#more17889
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“The "dream time" explains the origins of their world, Australia and its people. This complex notion designates a parallel space time as well as the Time of Origins and thus refers to both a present sacred dimension and the past”.
« The Aborigines think that a long time ago the earth was flat, black, lifeless. Spirits who were underground or in the sky in the larval state awoke, came out of the earth or fell from the sky and, through their actions, created life and relief”.
“These beings could change shape at will, move from a human form to a half-man half animal, and had extraordinary physical abilities since an ancestor Ver can fly, a fish walk and talk. Before disappearing they gave life to an animal or plant species that bears his name: dingo, kangaroo, witchetty larva, snake liana” ...
“It was these demiurges who instituted rites and social rules. The Dream is at the origin of everything, it gives an explanation to all the phenomena (like the rain, the cycle of the seasons, ...), it is therefore the Law”.
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“Pumpkin seeds, Nan Gua Zi are sweet in flavor and neutral in nature. They enter the meridians of the stomach and large intestine. It is above all a very powerful natural dewormer, which can act as well on parasites (Sha Chong) such as tapeworms, but also pinworms, roundworms, hookworms”.
The following is from an email I received...
A man from Hong Kong wrote me, asking for help with a spiritual crisis he has been having for the last two years. He believes he has an etheric implant in his neck. He wrote, "And it is hiding inside my neck. Omg. There are many different types of jellyfish entity/implant/creature I have seen the “astral” ones which don’t carry a shape. They are astral jellyfish and most healers can see it clear it. They are just creatures in astral dimension. For me though, Mine seems to be more a “technology weapon” from a different source . It seems like a more targeted weapon. Targeted on me."
Interestingly, this is where the movie The Host depicts the jellyfish-like parasites attaching to its human hosts, although they claim humans are the parasites. When I showed him the video clip from the movie, he said, "Oh shoot. Mine is very much the same. Except it’s bigger and stronger ."
Here are some excerpts from his emails: "I am sorry for writing directly and urgently. I am stuck in a spiritual crisis. And having intense suffering for 2 years
Right now I really don’t know what’s happening to me spiritually, energetically mentally. I am now in Australia seeking for clarity after traveling around the world.
Right now, I have - a weird thing inside my neck which causes me heavy spiritual dissociation (no memory. No thoughts. No emotions. emotional and mental body not grounded in the physical)
- the weird thing is also connected to my brain and nervous system
- energy depletion
- the thing looks like a colorless plasma blob, with tentacles. Tightly inside my neck right now. Most of my Méridien, blood flow, energy flow inside my body blocked. Cannot. Breathe. This thing jump inside of my body in december last year, when I had a spiritual opening and out of body experience in India.
It’s not a demon or normal entity. And I have visited shamans/spirit release/healers/people and they don’t know what it is. I have been travelling the world (India, Hong Kong, bali, USA. UK) and no one knows what it is.
The few versions I heard are Bio engineering with parasitic consciousness implanted - lower dimensional being jellyfish
- alien implant (they want to investigate human life)
- Nano dna poisoning
- extra-terrestrial
I did clearings, energy healings, meditation (my awareness cannot go below my neck), chi medicine, qigong, accupuncture, Akashic clearing. Brain scan and spine scan. Quantum healing. Working on myself, Release emotions. nothing works.
I just did 12 holographic kinetics + energy session with an experienced healer yet no effect on me. After intense suffering for 2 years.
Only a few months ago I start to realize:
- I have been following a false guru with ego. he shot some power into my body in our first encounter 2 years ago, without my consent. Causing fight or flight, dissociation since then.
- I have been taking too much pain from parents
- I am highly sensitive but now I am heavily dissociated
- I carry some pure energy yet egoic mind.
My true soul comes from a place of true compassion and purity. People merge with nature and they manifest with color and sounds.
I also had 2 near deaths last year where one time I was saved by grandma and another by Jesus (both in golden spirit form)
So right now, I let go of all my family/friends/ old spiritual friends and seeking assistance and clarity.
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I saw it with my third eye one.The thing in my neck is like the below one in black But mine is much bigger stronger and colorless And tightly inside my neck.
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And it has been an intense suffering for 2 years since I met my ex guru... Am really weak now sleeping 15 hours and 3 hours don’t make a difference to me
And I can only sleep eat and (sometimes talk).. I have been travelling around the world but no one knows what it is. It’s very uncommon.
I kind of feel this nasty thing has been following me after i received the “energy blast” my ex guru. The energy transfer was so strong that I was connected to thunderstorm. With this kind of energy, I could attract anything from the universe. But obviously my body cannot handle this energy after several months of high in 2017 my physical and energy declines sharply and suffering until then.
I just know my ex guru is not a normal being and he plays dangerously with the power/energy... Seems no one knows what the thing in my neck is that is causing me so much torture... I saw almost all types of doctors. Western doctor Chinese doctor neutrologist psychiatrist psychologist.
Western doctor: no need worry too much just anxiety
Chinese doctor: weird energy flow
Others said I am fine but I am totally not... Sometimes It feels like a super lonely and desperate journey. Non stop harvesting...Wayne I don’t wanna die
These days I can only eat and sleep. Completely depleted
All my lower parts including reproductive organs are shaking... nothing really works for me now
There is still a weird alien thing inside my neck.
I still cannot breathe, energy depletion and dissociation (the alien thing is pushing part of my soul out of my body)
Right now I have 2 options
- go back hk and China, take intensive accupuncture treatments to sustain my life
- try to connect with someone who can connect with Mother Earth, try using earth energy for full healing...
I did walking in the grassland and grounding yoga (if I have energy) everyday for several months straight but no use.
There is a terrible thing inside my neck... I just tried something and I know I am seriously in a crisis. I did some energy sessions with friend/healers. I can feel energy coming inside my body.
Then it’s leaving after 10 minutes. I am seriously in a crisis being hijack by an inter dimensional thing inside my neck... Sigh after this crisis I just look a lot of people are just interested in my money not in my well being
Did I tell you that I was charged 10k usd by a healer in shasta, California.
And then so many healers they don’t know they are doing, essentially....
I have a session with calogero tomorrow but I wonder if I should cancel or postpone it first
I am at an depletion stage so hypnosis may not have effect on me now...
It’s not a physical thing. Yet it’s something hiding inside my physical body and sucking myself energy. I can feel it’s presence literally... I was about to kill myself this morning. Totally depleted... I just did accupuncture. And will continue to fight on... Just now I was thinking , I must get well and regain my full state
These 2 years are crazy
- 2 near death with heart almost stop
- attack by demon and black magic, lost body consciousness
- full penetrated by astral spiders, high fever
- complete dissociation - my spirit leaving my body and my mind
- fake guru shoot me a lot of energy inside my body which causes internal explosion
But I am still alive
Gosh I must regain all my power, energy and health.
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I am still figuring out what is inside my neck
- it is latching inside my neck
- it would suck my energy
- it create confusion/doubt energy interference
- it was pulled out once in April but it came back in
- when a friend sent everything back to “source”, it didn’t go and hiding behind my back
- It’s not a normal entity or implant.
- it came inside me in shanghai after I had a out of body/spiritual opening/went to another dimension in India
Meanwhile I will keep working on my physical well being.
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I went to see the same Guy in August for second time but that didn’t work unfortunately. Long story short. In April I was brought by a friend to see a village guy in Bali. He asked me to hold a small stone on left hand.
Then he uses his right hand to touch my back. He sent me energy. While he sent me energy he also asked me to push everything out through my hand
I can feel/see black and colorless energy leaving from my head + neck to the hand and then go out
That day all my energy. Thought and feelings come back. (But my neck is empty)
Then the second day. This thing jump back inside my neck.
This is the first time (April 2019)
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The second time in August - we tried the same but it didn’t work. I could only feel “one leg” is moving inside my body. Very weird sensation
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Sorry and thank you."
An anonymous emailer has been experimenting with a lot of different herbs. When I mentioned that I was writing an article on parasites based on emails I was receiving, he coincidentally had just started investigating the same phenomenon and had begun trying different things.
He has been brewing tea from Ashwagandha (Withania Somnifera) which is supposed to be a third eye activator and pineal Gland decalcifier to cleanse and open. He says it much milder than others and allows him to have very lucid dreams. He gave some to me, I tried it and did have a vivid dream about both my father and brother who have recently passed on.
"I continue to use herbs including turmeric, oat straw, ashkawanda occasionally, Jalapeños, kefir and also a combination of ginger, honey and lemon tea to fight off allergies and related brain fog but the antibacterial gel tabs and the acidophilus gel tabs appear to really attack the parasites best...I feel a little tummy ache myself from the ginger tea so I will hold back a bit from everything and drink coffee, take a few tablespoons of magnesium citrate and drink lots and lots of water to move the die off through my gut and out through my feces.
I think die off is scary but it may mean you are over the target... I definitely feel I am over the target... The vice are still in my head but my own internal voice is less subdued."
"I am going to get a HEPA filter to get rid of spores and mold in my room. The A/C Heater Filter could go a long way to overall health improvement and maybe even chem trail metals and/or other toxins."
"I thought I was being attacked by bed bugs when I was laying down and realized it was not bed bugs but parasites under my skin.... I took an anti parasite pill and an acidophilus pill around lunchtime. I also took frank some diced ginger tea with a bit of lemon and honey... I wonder if the combination of the anti parasite pill and ginger really gets them screaming to get out? Parasite Kryptonite.... Laughs... if those parasites are causing all kinds of havoc... I am giving them back some of their own medicine... "
My friend Nadia sent me a link to an article listing the 12 best essential oils for parasite cleaning, saying, "I used oregano oil to clear my SIBO" Link. He said, "I am with them on ginger, cinnamon and camomile but most of the others are nasty tasting.... I wish I could sample some of the ones I have not tried... Parasites are an offense to the gut and mind function and maybe worse if chem trails make parasites stronger and more capable of controlling life forms on earth... "
He recently texted to me, "The Toxoplasma Gondii May be the primary parasite that is the root cause For triggering schizophrenia (voices in our head) Think how targeted individuals Could be controlled through these voices. I have been fighting voices..." When one of his texts contained a mispelling, he wrote, "Somehow these parasites trigger responses when we give up on tasks we are programmed to do... Even to the point of telling us to kill ourselves or to die... It is a pervasive thought for those in the military but I am certain it is what makes the slaves show up to work each day... Any unique or unusual thought is stifled just as the spellcheck cancels unusual words... It takes deliberate focus to override the mental correction transmitted through parasites... ai... microscopic metals that help broadcasts from the off worlders to our brains... "
"The reward and punishment aspect of the arc virus may very well be the negative voices I hear in my head. I can’t help but believe these viruses or parasites could be what is being programmed into us by the off worlders? The chips found in some targeted individuals may amplify the signal?"
"I have been thinking about your discovery of parasites and applied it to targeted individuals: I am in a way summing up where my thoughts armrest going...
"There are parasites that talk to a part of our brain. Remember Mac attacks or chocolate is calling my name? The off worlders control most every person this way in much the same way. They can’t read your mind but if they can subtly manipulate your impulses... without having to speak in internal verbal commands... then there is no need for stronger interference.
We are more or less owned by off worlders. If the off worlders can control our diet then they can control us with sugary drinks, pasta and bread. If more subtle simple gut parasite and harmful gut bacteria sugar cravings do not work to manipulate us (My gut feeling) then they use verbal voice commands through brain parasites (intuition) to control us.
They will also follow more closely those who can refuse their commands (think of all the soldiers killing themselves either from voice commands to do so or through shame... especially when they can get a compromising photo or video to control them).
The easy answer is to exhaust our lives doing as our gut or intuition tells us. It is what our owners (who think of us as slaves, pets or Sims) would prefer but if that doesn’t work then they may turn to harsh demands.
If the voice is hateful, just a craving for a taco, or intuition... know you are being tamed and gamed like a Sim. But if you want to free your mind... one would need to get rid of the brain parasites and gut parasites (who mostly crave large quantities of sugar/glutens). We may have to learn to like...Eat and drink sour and bitter things? There are other methods but getting rid of voices, brain fog and ringing in our ears requires action.
If you do Free your mind of brain fog and gut/mind control... then you have to think for yourself... No more getting messages to change lanes while driving... You have to be more conscious and aware of danger... of not depending on your instincts or gut...
It is easier to eat a Big Mac with fries and slug down a large diet soda. Then go back to doing as you are told. I am just not sure if that is what I want to do though. If whatever it is that controls me really had my best interest at heart, why would they resort to self harm to get me to comply?
Knowing the craving and demands are pure manipulation... it is difficult to know what is programmed into my DNA or piped into my mind and gut through parasites? I think it is at least worth a look into discovering what life could be without being a slave to cravings?"
"Magnesium and boron are two important minerals that I sometimes take that if taken in very large quantities have a negative impact but in lesser quantities improve brain health. The lesson is moderation in all things...
"I find that our foods have been depleted of magnesium and boron from modern farming methods using fertilizer. I am low in vitamin D and find that Vitamin D in foods is reduced with low levels of minerals. Only if I take very high daily levels of boron and or magnesium and other minerals then the studies begin showing negative effect. Too much or too little magnesium can raise dementia risk. Moderation in everything. Anything we overdo may have consequences. The herxheimer effect is a good barometer to help us determine when we are hitting the target but may have gone too far. We may have flu like symptoms because of pathogens, bacteria and parasites dying in our body... Herxheimer symptoms are great indicator that we have hit the target but then need to flush out the toxins dying of. Magnesium and salt with lots of water are great ways help our bodies flush out the die off. Lots of water and adding acidophilus into our body helps the body add new good bacteria into our body...
But if it isn’t broke... don’t fix it. For me, I have times brain fog, low level of Vitamin D, voices in my head asking me to do self harm and ringing in my ears. Mostly the voices and ringing are aggravated by high levels of pain. When the brain fog or ringing subside, that is a positive clue that I am on the right track. The best way for us to use different herbs and minerals is to pay attention to the clues our body is giving us.
I feel empowered by some of the supplements, I have started using and also herbs, flowers and other natural materials that I have been adding to my teas. I attribute having had the least lost days of work from allergies, in several years, from adding vinegary Drinks and ginger tea to my weekly intake. I believe some of the other herbs and other plant matter have reduced my brain fog. There has been a definite improvement in my brain function and lucid dreaming. I think as long as I am conscious of when a herxheimer reaction is present, then I can address it with magnesium, salt and lots of water. I also believe just being more conscious and grounded can also help in many areas of my life.
One area of concern for me is that of allowing voices in my head from either meditating, parasites, my diet, and supplements or legal but natural medicinal substances. When I get negative voices then I feel I am getting close to eliminating the parasites, just aggravating the parasites or am I just empowering them?
It is hard to know if I am doing what is best for my health but I like it best when I can reduce the negative voices. Ones telling me to kill myself have been significantly reduced since I have been addressing the voices since adding legal herbs, teas and vinegary drinks into my diet. They switched gears and tell me that I am a loser now. Believe me... that is better... and even those voices are not as intense and not as frequent....
Paying attention to how herbal and natural foods and minerals impact our overall physical/mental/sexual/ health seems the best path for now. I believe that moderate use of natural substances are a better risk than using drugs that must kill rats to be certified as drugs. At least, I feel like I am doing a better job... Time will tell.
While searching for the term 'oregano' in my emails, I just now came across emails written to me from Catherine in September, 2015, more than four years before my publishing of this article. She wrote,
"Everything began to unravel, as I became a Targeted Individual...
Ever since then, I have struggled to overcome the Archons that have hijacked my mission. At first, they seemed like benevolent helpers, but gradually, as the blocks around my awareness dissolved, The Light exposed their deception. In particular, I became aware of a hidden and most insidious form of Darkness - a parasitic "bug" implanted when I was around 12 years of age. This device, along with other physical forms of parasites, enable the Influence of Darkness to be exerted more directly. For this reason, undergoing a parasite cleanse on a regular basis is essential, in addition to Invoking The Light to dissolve any influence they may try to elicit. I am not surprised that many of the NDEs and other experiences you describe in your article mention worm-like creatures - a sure sign of parasitic invasion within a host.
Truly, "Archons" arrive in "threes" and I have been struggling to overcome three beings (one female and two males). The female poses as the "bug", one male poses as St Michael and the other as a Lucifer-like character (classic religious archetypes). So far I have managed to overcome the latter male and return him to True Original Source. Every day I continue to make great progress, as my True Light Frequency builds.
As you mention in your article, and as I reveal in my book, a form of counterfeit light exists. Counterfeit light can exist only in a counterfeit existence. Our entire existence is counterfeit - the only existence where Light and Darkness co-exist in the form of energy. My book describes this existence as a "Projection". By definition, a projection is an impression, a copy of the original, which interestingly, harmonises with the Gnostic view. Only where Light and Darkness co-exist, may something perfect create something imperfect, as illustrated in the revelation of "Sophia, an aeon from source, accidentally creating the Demiurge by mistake". Interestingly, my experience with the Archons is very similar to how you describe Sophia's experience: "They attacked her, just like parasites, draining her energy. Changing her thinking. Over and over she would have to cry for help from to the Eternal Realms, who eventually rescued her, gave her enough "Power" to get back to outside the range the archons can attack."
She further wrote, " I do my own energy clearing, and in truth, transcend working with energy by effectively raising my Light Frequency exponentially. In recent years I have realised the importance of purifying the physical form. I have done a lot of research on the subject. You can visit your local health shop and get a herbal remedy for doing a parasite cleanse. I am in Australia and the one I use is Paracea Forte, but you can find such remedies online as well. Other supplements you can take include Selenium and Digestive Enzymes. I do a water fast every few months and avoid sugar and dairy as much as possible. I found a wonderful product called Phood by PlantFusion - a completely plant based meal replacement - which you can practically live on, which would be easier than a water fast. In the morning I take a "health tonic" of freshly squeezed lemon juice, a tiny sprinkle of habanero pepper and a few drops of oil of oregano. I bought an ozonator and drink ozonated water every day. You must take a little at first (the "die off" can be intense) and work your way up to a cup or more a day. Also I bought a "Basic Zapper" to wear! But the most important health product in your arsenal must be Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth. It removes all of the heavy metals, toxins and pathogens we are exposed to every day."
"Of all the ways to eradicate parasites, this one is the best. I don't know why I didn't think of it until now, since I credit this remedy to finally ridding myself of a parasite that has been in the body for more than twenty years. (I used to love rare steak and sushi!) Certainly, not anymore, since I have adopted a liquidarian diet most days of the week and vegetarian for one to three days a week.
...My personal efforts to rid my body of parasites lasted over a period of five years until The Light guided me to my ‘secret weapon’. I came across the website https://thedetoxdudes.com/suppositories/. A few of you may cringe at the thought, but if you have a persistent parasite problem, this remedy will knock it out of the park as it did for me—homemade suppositories. You can make them easily with coconut oil (the kind that solidifies) and an ice cube tray. (For optimum comfort, select one that produces ice cubes that are more cylindrical than square.) Melt the coconut oil and fill the ice cube tray to half, and then place it in the freezer until it solidifies. Then add a few drops of a tincture of wormwood and freeze-dried black walnut hulls and food grade clove oil (both available online from iHerb). Cover it over with more melted coconut oil and place it back into the freezer. When you are ready to use it, remove the tray from the freezer and let it sit for a minute or two before administering. Many more helpful tips can be found at the Detox Dudes website."
There's definitely some good feedback in there to consider. I found a product that seems even better than Phood. It is called Naturade Vegan Smart All-in-One. I searched to find what vegans are missing from their diet and what supplements vegans need to take. The article says: B12, Vitamin D, Omega 3's, Iodine, Iron, Calcium, and Zinc. Phood only has 2% Calcium and 2% Iron. Iodine isn't listed. Zinc doesn't say what percentage (so probably very low). Not sure about Omega-3's. Naturade Vegan Smart All-In-One may even be better since it has higher percentages per serving (except for calcium(?) which I can get if I mix with unsweetened coconut milk instead of water). With two servings you can get 100% of all the items the article listed plus amino acids and 25-30g of protein per serving. I mix two scoops of the chocolate flavor with a banana, chocolate almond/coconut milk and about four cubes of ice and pulse it on my blender. The only real downside I see is it contains 5-6 grams of sugar per serving which really isn't TOO bad in exchange for all the other necessary nutirents it contains. My local HEB grocery stores sells it for $35 per container (15 servings) while I can usually get it from Vitacost.com about $22 with the 15-20% off coupons they offer.
I also ordered a product called ParaNix that contains 19 all natural ingredients including black walnut hulls, clove buds, diatomaceous earth, garlic bulb, male fern root, myrrh gum, peppermint leaf, pumpkin seeds, turmeric root and wormwood.
On 9/16/2020 I sent a link to an article my friend who met the Demiurge during his NDE. The article is "Animals' magnetic 'sixth' sense may come from bacteria, new paper suggests". He replied, "That is that AI Demiurge program using Bacteria and Viruses to direct the slave planet."
Zeolite
I have been very intrigued with Zeolite as a means to remove heavy toxins from the body. Zeolite is used by farmers to reduce mold and other parasites. It also chelates metals through the blood/brain barrier. I am not sure if the archons will even be capable of communicating with the parasites without metals and the why behind so many aluminum and mercury vaccines as well as radiation from 5g. I will be taking these products which claim to be the world's best heavy metal detoxifier: ZETOX LIQUID ZEOLITE SUSPENSION and ZEOLITE PURE Full Body Detox Cleanse. There are also zeolite air and water filters you can get. I think it might be really helpful in detoxing the body of heavy metals. Heavy metals are probably how the parasites (archons) communicate better, maybe through the conductivity of the metal.
Some of the advertising regarding Zeolite: "Safe, Gentle, Effective Energy Booster That Supports Gut Health, Mental Clarity, Healthy Inflammation Response.
A three-dimensional framework produces net negative charge that traps environmental pollutants and is balanced by the exchangeable cations Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphate.
"The clinoptilolite attracts positive minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and iron. These common positive cations then are displaced by heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, lead, barium, nickel, and arsenic to be safely removed from the body.
"Smaller Ions such as Mercury and Cadmium are pulled deeply into the cage of the zeolite and held securely for safe elimination.•Allows for selective chelation.
"Removes heavy metal toxins and radioactive isotopes: Micronized zeolite has the perfect molecular structure for capturing and removing heavy metals from the body without removing healthy ions and minerals. It also does an incredible job of removing radioactive isotopes after exposure has occurred. By removing these toxins, the immune system is able to increase for better health and wellness. Many people report feeling increased energy, clarity and vitality after removing heavy metal build-up..
"Zeolite AV is a major breakthrough in natural cancer and anti microbial therapy. Zeolite AV (Anti-Viral) is a potent natural remedy against most types of cancers including, breast, prostate, skin, lung, brain, leukemia, circulatory system, as well as cancers of organs and glands. Zeolite for Cancer zeroes in on cancer’s signature as an acidic, positively charged aggressive agent, and traps it in it’s honeycomb structure, where it can be excreted during normal elimination."
Zeolite has been claimed to be effective for fighting cancers, coronavirus and vaccines. The suspended Zeo particles are the substance that chelates radiation. I suspect zeolite would be helpful in protecting us from all kinds of radiation, including 5-G. And it just might be effective against any harmful, toxic heavy metals that might be in river water in case the water supply gets compromised. And also potentially helpful against any toxic heavy metals or toxins in vaccines.
Food-grade hydrogen peroxide
I received an email 9/18/2020 which recommends food grade hydrogen peroxide to get rid of parasites. Food-grade hydrogen peroxide may be another way to kill the parasites!
He wrote, " On the YouTube channel, Red Letter Media, Mike constantly references the Star Trek pilot "The Cage" as his favourite. Recently seeing your description of it and how the episode outlines the illusory matrix of physical reality, I finally decided to watch the show. Boy was I glad I did! It so perfectly captures the non-human force which designed the matrix and their parasitic dependency on consuming the energy of human emotion. When the temptress/goddess told Pike "What good is controlling your mind? For how long can you keep it up; ten minutes, an hour?" I had to pick my jaw up off the floor; a mainstream TV show just explicitly stated the method of human liberation from illusion. It was as though Sri Ramana Maharshi wrote the line.
"A lightbulb went off when one of the crew mentions that this obsession with replaying the emotions "stored on the thought-record" was somehow transferred to humans, from this subterranean race. Scientists say every human being has been endowed with the reptilian brain (R-complex). I understand this as the thinking, rational function of consciousness which is only active when the perceiving/awareness function is not. An ancient Chinese alchemical text says that as essence (consciousness) is stabilized, emotions are forgotten. This is why the spiritual discipline of continually clearing the mind of thoughts is so viciously hated by these non-human, non-organic beings. They cannot feed off a human who no longer provides emotional responses to their fabricated 'physical' scenarios. I have noticed a similar change in myself, as I have become far less emotional the further consciousness crystallizes. I have discovered another, more tangible way, in which humans are provoked/compelled to provide emotional sustenance for these beings..."
He also wrote, "As you so rightly mention on your site, the spirit of awareness - our divine spark - is all powerful and can override absolutely anything. This is, of course, because consciousness is everything; reality being that awareness in awareness of itself, as your site conclusively proves. When I picked up that cross of spiritual discipline in 2012, that focused intent made the spirit strong enough to begin the process of resurrecting the body. Before this could happen, that body needed to be purged of all non-living non-organic material. I didn't know this at the time, but I was chalk full of it. The same non-living non-organic material that the archons are made of, if what I’ve read is true.
"When I was an infant, my mother fed me cream of wheat as was customary. My stomach became so swollen and painful that they took me to the hospital where a test diagnosed me as a Celiac. I have stayed away from gluten my whole life as a result, but never regained full health. I have always been half-sick, as though I was being constantly drained by a leech. Just a few months ago I came face-to-face with that leech. A friend of mine mentioned food-grade hydrogen peroxide as a powerful detoxification agent for the body. I was hitting a plateau in terms of my health recovery, so decided to give the protocol a shot. After a few weeks on the highest dose I began to see what looked like strands of rope in my stool. Those strands became larger in size until the truth was obvious: I have been infested my entire life by parasites in the form of worms. It explained why no matter what dietary changes I made, I was not getting better. Food-grade hydrogen peroxide was the only thing strong enough to fully kill and expel them.
"This was confirmed when I read your article "As the Conqueror Worm Turns". You mention that the Chinese knew decaying matter from grains fed ‘them’ (thus my Celiac diagnosis; I didn't have a gluten sensitivity, I had a worm/parasite which became supercharged by gluten). In that same paragraph it says that abstaining from grains wasn't enough (it wasn't until I used food-grade hydrogen peroxide that they were expelled). It also says that they are only fully destroyed through meditation (which is why I only started to become sick and detoxify when I began to discipline the thinking mind). Also of note is where the text describes weichong as consuming the host's food, making them hungry. As I have continued to expel more and more worms, I find I need less food to feel satiated.
"After watching "The Cage", I noticed a very obvious pattern between parasites, the sugar cravings they create, and emotions. My mother has been addicted to sugar all her life, with no desire or willpower to resist. Being born with parasites, it's clear that being formed in her parasitically infected body was how I inherited them. Over the past few years she has indulged her sugar and grain cravings more and more. As a result, her stomach has become enormously distended - much like mine was after eating wheat as an infant. My mother has always been extremely emotional, and has only become more-so the larger her stomach has grown. Every book or TV program she consumes is highly emotionally charged, especially with heartbreak and fear (the Archon’s favourite, apparently). To perfectly prove this correlation, the more worms I expel the less my belly protrudes, and my previous emotional outbursts have been replaced by mental serenity. With that clarity I look back on everyone I've met and the pattern is the same; the people I know who are highly emotional, all have addictions to sugar, and many have enlarged stomachs while the rest of their body is relatively lean.
I am proposing that parasites/worms are a biological tool used by the Archons to make human beings more susceptible to emotions, thus increasing their food supply. I cannot deny my direct experience of this and hope I've done a fair job in explaining this conclusion. It makes perfect sense physiologically though. Emotions are described as coming from the stomach/gut, thus people get “shit scared” in times of great fear. Doesn’t it make sense that a stomach parasite could be designed to stoke that fire? There are then two sources from within man to stimulate emotion, an origin in the R-complex of the brain (thinking mind) and now the stomach worm. The non-human entities then have twice the food with the same number of people.
"I'd like to contribute this awareness of food-grade hydrogen peroxide to you, and if you deem it worthy, the readers of your website. Nothing I have tried even comes close to it as a way to rid the body of parasites and worms, even compared to very high doses of wormwood/clove/black walnut. As you also have noted, all bacteria/viruses/parasites are anaerobic and cannot survive in the presence of oxygen. Food-grade H2O2 is basically water with an extra oxygen molecule. Studies have shown that it is the best way of increasing the oxygen content of the body, even more than through the lungs. It is also the most powerful alkalizing agent for the body, far more than any fruit or vegetable, the book "The Truth about Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide" elucidates. The "Streisand Effect" also proves that food-grade H2O2 goes against the anti-human agenda, as it is vilified by the medical establishment despite thousands of people using it safely for decades. I urge you to read the book, as it will clear up any questions you may have. Another work on the subject - called "The One Minute Cure" - is also excellent...
"Hydrogen peroxide from a drug store contains stabilizers and additives which are poisonous. Many people suspect this is done to prevent people from drinking it, not to increase shelf life as they claim. It is very important that anyone who wishes to try food-grade hydrogen peroxide read the book. I find it's very important that they understand the entire picture so they are as informed as possible. The website is http://www.foodgrade-hydrogenperoxide.com. It contains critical information about proper protocol dosage, the science of how it works, the true source of alkalinity, how it's not a supplement but a basic vital nutrient, etc.
"I personally use 35% H2O2 and dilute it according to page 78 of that book 'The Truth about Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide". That way one bottle lasts a very long time, making it one of the most cost effective cures available. I stayed at the highest dose (25 drops, three times daily for a total of 75 drops per day) for over a month even though the author recommends three weeks. Currently I take 20 drops, three times daily for a total of 60 drops. This is higher than people suggest, but I've done so without any adverse side effects. Properly diluted and taken either an hour before or three hours after a meal, food-grade H2O2 is incredibly safe in my experience.
"To make 3% hydrogen peroxide from 35% you would add 11 parts of distilled water. That said, 3% concentration is used for disinfecting surfaces and fruits/vegetables, foot soaks, and skin treatments - not for taking internally. The concentration of food-grade H2O2 which you ingest for detoxification is far, far weaker; under 0.3%. As for where to get some, it's quite common at local health food stores.
That site has a page which lists stores across the country who carry it."
The food-grade hydrogen peroxide is an interesting observation. It is extremely important that you follow the purging instructions on page 78 of the book. Keep in mind the federal government's GRAS (generally recognized as safe) concentration for hydrogen peroxide is 0.05%. If anyone else has tried a properly diluted dosage of food grade hydrogen peroxide to rid parasites, please let me know how that experience went.
I also have read that there has been some success with Ivermectin which is usually used for horses and deer to get rid of parasites. But horses are way bigger than humans so once again the dosage would need to be diluted tremendously to be way less.
I received some great feedback after appearing on R. Wayne Steiger's podcast show and briefly presenting a very brief summary of this article. He wrote, "I find it interesting worm comes from serpent and snake. After quitting processed foods, sugar and chemicals back in 2013 and doing a parasite cleanse, I really started to wonder about the Adam and Eve story. Was the eating of the fruit a way for a parasite to enter our gut and change the way we think? Since cleaning up my gut it really seems like a portal. A literal worm hole..."
I asked him what cleansing he did. He replied, "I did a number of things: aloe Vera juice, Rick Simpson oil(pure terpenes), coffee enemas, diatomaceous earth, cayenne pepper tincture, pure turpentine.... I can’t remember if there was more. I still am chemical free, sugar free and processed food free. I only use herbs for medicine and home cook and prepare all meals."
The worms are also very prominent in Hollywood movies and as hooks or catchy melodies that are known as ear worms in the music industry.
The first one that comes to mind for me is Steven Spielberg's the E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.
Perhaps the biggest blockbuster series of all time, Star Wars, features in the very first episode The Phantom Menace what are called midichlorians that control the force. Here is the dialogue from that scene. "Master, sir, I heard Yoda talking about midichlorians. I've been wondering...What are midichlorians?" "Midichlorians are a microscopic life-form that resides within all living cells." "They live inside me?" "Inside your cells, yes. And we are symbionts with them." "Symbionts?" "Life-forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the midichlorians, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to us, telling us the will of the Force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you'll hear them speaking to you."
This is a major reveal here by George Lucas and he wanted the midichlorians to play a much larger role in his last trilogy, but when Disney obtained the rights, they did not include it and this pissed George off tremendously.
Dune has the giant sand worms that harvest the spice. The enemy are called the Harkonnen. If the 'h' is silent it would sound a lot like Archon. Even not, the word 'arkon' is embedded.
In fact, real parasites served as the inspiration for many of our classic Hollywood movie Alien. Perhaps the most classic scene from a horror movies is the one in Alien where the worm or parasite is within Sigourney Weaver. The article 'Meet the ocean parasite that inspired the movie Alien' says, "Meet a parasite that can create its own mobile nursery for its young, a parasite that is thought to be the inspiration behind the chest-bursting xenomorph in the film Alien. Meet Phronima, the pram-pushing, barrel-riding parasite. These tiny creatures are found throughout the world's oceans."
Worms are prominently featured in other shows such as Stargate SG-1, Prometheus, The Hobbit, Slither, Tremor and Star Trek The Next Generation episode The Host as well as the movie The Wrath of Khan.
The Matrix featured The Sentinels.
In the movie Pink Floyd The Wall, the lead singer of the band, Pink, wants to stop the show and is put in a prison cell, and placed on a trial presided over by a Worm known as Worm Your Honor. In the song Waiting For the Worms he is urged to "follow the worms".
In The Matrix Agent Smith tells Neo: "I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops an equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet. You are a plague."
I am currently watching a Canadian television series called Lexx: The Dark Zone Stories which prominently features worms throughout the series in the form of what are called Satellite worms and Cluster Lizards. Fandom says, "They are extremely dangerous carnivorous predators with an appetite for living creatures and a particular fondness for brains. They are capable of moving at high speed by rolling into a "wheel" by bending backwards to curl their mouth towards the tip of their tail. A fully adult Cluster Lizard stands well above human height even with a large segment of their tail still on the ground..... After infecting a human host, the satellite worm takes control over the person's mind. The satellite worms operate in a matriarchal colony that is controlled by the Queen of the satellite worms. The Queen has the ability to take the appearance and form of other humans, such as Wist and Zev. Killing the Queen is sufficient to destroy all of the other satellite worms and release their mind control over any infected hosts."
"I need to watch things die from a good safe distance.
Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies.
You all feel the same, so why can't we just admit it."
Analysis: An incredibly revealing song and video. Perhaps the band Tool is under the influence of these parasitic entities or perhaps they are aware of the parasitic archons and entities that feed off us and are letting us know through their music?
Analysis: Alex Grey's artwork is influenced by his DMT experiences. He collaborated with Tool to produce these videos. The song Vicarious is about parasites which feed off us. In the video they are depicted as worms, ticks, leeches and octopi-squid like creatures.
And here is a clip from the official music video from the band Puscifer, a side project of Tool lead singer Maynard James Keenan, and obviously a play on the name Lucifer and sex. He used to be in a side band actually called Tapeworm with Nine Inch Nails lead singer Trent Reznor. The song is called Potions and the character in the song is plagued by what looks like a tapeworm, while he is singing about the Devil.
"Lo! ’t is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.
Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly—
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
That motley drama—oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.
But see, amid the mimic rout,
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
Out—out are the lights—out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."
This Edgar Allan Poe poem narrated by Vincent Price reveals angels watching as theater the horrific drama or play of Mankind returning over and over again. The mimes in the form of god are consumed by the conquering worm, i.e. death... or perhaps the archontic element since some Gnostics described the chief archon as a worm.
Many in the NDE community spread the message that all is beautiful and loving once one goes through the worm-hole and into the white light at death. Guides, loved ones, angels and even God await the newly departed soul. However, there is a lot that is not talked about openly. I have found a few dozen cases of NDEs where aliens were involved.
Ruth said, "I was taken to special entities who looked like the usual grays, but they had lots of wrinkles on their faces. They called themselves the Counsel, and said they were part of a group called 'soul recyclers' helping souls to re-incarnate."
James N said, "I was taken to see a worm working controls of big cylinders that had every animal and peoples you could think of...and they were going down the cylinders from adults to babies....Fish also....I remember seeing all kinds of fish....As I was walking towards the worm I heard a voice say....you go back and be a better man..I was told by many the light was the creator/god....and the worm was a angel giving rebirth.."
There are many NDEs which say the Light Being is a collective soul comprised of billions of human souls. This kind of makes it sound like the World Soul or Universal Mind we have heard about. Others talk about merging with the Light or 'God'.
This NDEr named Israel says that an angel named Lamdiel explained to him the evolution of our
planet and that this wonderful evolution means all humans are going to be bound within some
super being, the being who is the hateful god of the Old Testament: " I was excited. "Who is that giant spirit? I felt as if my heart were racing although I was in
my astral body. The angel smiled, then slowly answered my question. "It is going to be a
strong, huge, high intensity spirit from the third level of existence, from the forces level. That
spirit is going to bond Himself with all of humanity on the planet Earth. "It will create a huge
new entity--one that will improve your lives tremendously and forever. This huge spirit is
quite well known to humanity on Earth. Many people, unknowingly, already are craving to
bond with Him. They consciously pray for His help, and love Him. In some part of their
subconscious minds all people on Earth already know it. And whether they believe in any
established religion or not, in times of great need most humans recognize His existence. They
call him: God, Elohim, Yahave, Allah, the Heavenly Father, and many other names."
So what are the solutions to this epidemic? Can we go from parasites to paradise? I believe we can. The Gnostics wrote about archons that parasite our energy. The Chief archon they called the demiurge. He steals our light-power. But in the end he will fail and we shall be triumphant. The truth is that this is all a game we are playing with ourselves. Infinite Awareness has fabricated a multi-player virtual reality game for its own amusement, curiosity or edification. None of it is permanent. It is in a sense just an elaborate, persistent illusion or dream. It is a divine drama, a cosmic play. So don't fret. Please keep that in mind as you read the screenplay and the various roles the characters play whether villain or hero. Within the game, there are different levels to the problem and various solutions for each problem. There is a spiritual level, a mental level, a physical level, etc.
For the big picture solution at the spiritual level, please read my article, The Fine Game of Nil: The So-Called Void of Non-Duality and Pure Awareness. The ultimate solution is to achieve liberation from the reincarnational cycle. Avoid the white light at death. Learn to recognize what the Tibetans called the clear light of the your pure, clear awareness. It has no color per se, it is just lucid. One can choose to take form in a better realm such as the Buddhic realm or what the Gnostics called the Pleroma or Eternal Light Realms. But perhaps an even better option is the so-called infinite void, to not take form at all and transcend duality altogether, go beyond time and space. To do this one should make this a way of life, an every day practice, by learning to recognize one's pure awareness through meditation. The best state to be in is one of independence, fulfillment and being content.
Other states like that of feeling love may indicate a neediness. Desire also comes from a state of lack. Taking form and exploring and living life is a gamble because there is pleasure and pain, joy and suffering. Are you feeling lucky? There are unknown uncertainties in exploring the unknown unchartered territory. In duality, limited, finite resources causes competition. Life in a polarity-based duality is a zero sum game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. For every winner, there is a loser. Actually, now there are only a few winners, the one percent. The rest squalor in poverty slaving their lives away just to make ends meet.Those who go to the light and feel love are perhaps reporting a feeding and exchange of energy between entities. Why does the light sometimes force souls to go back against their will? Maybe it wants more of something whether knowledge, entertainment etc. The best place might be the void where there is reported to be neutrality, contentment and no movement, feeding, energy displacement etc. If there are unlimited resources outside time and space in the void via infinite potential energy then entropy would not be a factor. But nonduality can be thought of as better since it is neutrality, a concept of nil or zero, or splitting even, but there is peace and contentment which sounds nice. And some have even reported joy and euphoria.
At the energetic level, there are various solutions that have been proposed and being utilized. Spirit attachments and etheric implants may be hindering your energy level and keeping you in a mental fog. Through hypnosis or meditation one can command entities to show themselves and remove all implants. Accupuncture might help with the flow of energy.
As we saw in the real life examples of zombie parasites in nature, there is a very real level of mind control. In society, this plays out in the form of political and religious leaders. It filters out into the media in news, articles, commentaries, etc.television shows can be an effective way to dumb down the masses and placate them. Give them their bread and circus. Let them vicariously live out their secret fantasies. But, through seduction, they actually help encourage those desires. The opinions of celebrities and talking heads sway public opinion and form mindsets and trends. So a powerful defense is to turn off your television if you have one, or better yet, throw it away. The parasites rely on feeding off of negative emotions like fears, anger, doubts, doubt, sadness, regret, desire, envy, greed, sexual lusts. So it is critical to keep a positive mind and practice positive thinking as much as possible. Meditation keeps the mind clear. One can work towards a positive goal by helping others instead of constanrly thinking only of yourself. Connecting with nature can help tremendously. Read or listen to material that help to awaken and keep one enlightened. Be creative. Write, paint, play music, sing, dance. Listen to uplifiting music like classical music rather than the dissonant, destructive, distorting tones of heavy metal.
At the physical level, it is best to follow an alkaline based diet as acidic foods help viruses and bacteria thrive. Exercise frequently. It is important to stay away from sugar, processed foods, too much dairy, soft drinks and to eliminate or limit meat (especially red meat).
Many solutions were provided in the emails I received. In recap, they included Neem, pumpkin seeds, Nan Gua Zi, essential oils, and anti-parasite pills with ginger. Wormwood, black walnut, cloves, garlic, ginger, neem powder. herbs and seeds, Milk Thistle, anise, dandelion, lemon, chamomile, mint Fibercon, Male Fern extract (not the leaves), B12, magnesium, a ton of pumpkin seeds during weeks, a lot of water, a Apple cider vinegar instead of coffee in the morning, Clove, tumeric, fennel.ginger, peppermint, carraway powder, a healthy diet, exercise, once a month...an enema with celtic salt and spring water. Essential oils, herbs and flowers: they all kill parasites. Increase our immune system, stop the junk food, eliminate or limit the meat intake (especially red meat) and exercise.
Use herbs including turmeric, oat straw, ashkawanda occasionally, Jalapeños, kefir and also a combination of ginger, honey and lemon tea to fight off allergies and related brain fog but the antibacterial gel tabs and the acidophilus gel tabs appear to really attack the parasites best...
After writing this article, I soon discovered Zeolite which I think can be pretty useful and effective in getting rid of heavy metals and toxins. The parasites probably use the heavy metals to communicate. And food grade hydrogen peroxide is another valuable option in getting rid of the parasites. But you asolutely have to do your research on what the proper dosage is or it can poison the body. You must dilute it with distilled water down to a safe concentration that the body can handle.
Get a HEPA filter to get rid of spores and mold in the room. The A/C Heater Filter could go a long way to overall health improvement and maybe even chem trail metals and/or other toxins.
Anti parasite pills and acidophilus pills, diced ginger tea with a bit of lemon and honey. Oregano oil, ginger, cinnamon and camomile.
A flu bomb consisting of 1 Whole Lemon, 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar, 1/4 tsp Cayenne Powder, 1 Minced Clove of Garlic, 2 tsp Raw Organic Honey, 1 tsp Grated Ginger, 1/2 tsp Tumeric Powder, 1 cup Echinacea Tea.
And Catherine wrote, "I have realised the importance of purifying the physical form. I have done a lot of research on the subject. You can visit your local health shop and get a herbal remedy for doing a parasite cleanse. I am in Australia and the one I use is Paracea Forte, but you can find such remedies online as well. Other supplements you can take include Selenium and Digestive Enzymes. I do a water fast every few months and avoid sugar and dairy as much as possible. I found a wonderful product called Phood by PlantFusion - a completely plant based meal replacement - which you can practically live on, which would be easier than a water fast. In the morning I take a "health tonic" of freshly squeezed lemon juice, a tiny sprinkle of habanero pepper and a few drops of oil of oregano. I bought an ozonator and drink ozonated water every day. You must take a little at first (the "die off" can be intense) and work your way up to a cup or more a day. Also I bought a "Basic Zapper" to wear! But the most important health product in your arsenal must be Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth. It removes all of the heavy metals, toxins and pathogens we are exposed to every day." She also provided a recipe for a homemade suppository consisting of melted coconut oil, wormwood, freeze dried black walnut hulls, and food grade clove oil.
Another successful methodology is aloe Vera juice, Rick Simpson oil(pure terpenes), coffee enemas, diatomaceous earth, cayenne pepper tincture, pure turpentine... only use herbs for medicine and home cook and prepare all meals.
Additionally, we exercise can exorcise your demons. Tai chi movements can help with the flow of energy. Take time to go on daily walks and commune with nature. It helps to ground and to recharge the battery with fresh, pure energy. Take cold showers and wash off the impurities with water. Some people use a towel to block the the third eye. You could even sleep in a Faraday "cage" at night to avoid electrosmog. Being off the grid or away from electronics where you sleep can help. Eat a healthy, clean diet. Avoid eating meat, especially red meat. I recommend a vegan diet of fruits, nuts and vegetables. Or even a non-killing diet. We can flush our system of any potential parasites. I am taking IntestinalPro right now with a probiotic (non-dairy strawberry yogurt because I can't stand the bitter taste of Kombucha) to flush out any potential parasites living in my intestines. Other items reputed to help are the neem tree and wormwood. Update: I took the IntestinalPro for a couple weeks. It was very mild. I didn't notice any worms in my stool though I didn't go digging round looking for any, ha. I did get sick though so be forewarned if you decide to do it. For me, it was still worth it just to have the peace of mind that I am parasite-free.
Do the Archons control us through viruses and parasites? The Demiurge is in the business of creating disease. He acts as a filter that distorts the orderly light into chaos and dis-ease. And his archon minions behave like a virus in that they are said to copy or replicate themselves. They have no real power of creation themselves. It's crazy how much viruses have shaped and continue to drive our evolution, thinking and behavior. Some scientists say the viruses are driving our evolution. We have co-evolved with them. They are a part of us. With the discovery that viruses may have preceded and formed human life as well as driven our evolution, and seemingly continues to do so in a symbiotic relationship, one must wonder are viruses and bacteria / parasites helping us or controlling us? I think it is highly likely the Demiurge uses the bacteria, viruses, parasites etc to control us through our thoughts and emotions to keep us ignorant and dumbed down in order for the archons to keep feeding off us.
I don't know how accurate the findings of the various articles presented throughout this paper are. Who knows?
I believe we are eternal Spirits and evidence from near death experiences, out of body experiences, psychedelic experiences, and deep meditations of mystics support that.
98.5 percent of our DNA is so-called junk DNA which, as of now, has not been known to serve any useful purpose. Knowing that DNA contains instructions, could it be possible that DNA codons (code-on) contain the computer code for our life scripts? And any changes to that script gets updated through viruses? A post I read on a subreddit forum stated, "Ancient aliens speculates that viruses are introduced into the atmosphere chronically from space debris."
My friend who had a near death experience and met a demiurge wrote this to someone telling him there are no spirit beings:
"Everything has a spirit or spirits. They are orbs of mostly gray, but some are brilliant light or white. Psychopaths are rare human spirit orbs that have no light at all in them. Each spirit orb has an influence and feeds surrounding orbs its energy, equivalent to mixing paint buckets. Each orb spirit has nearly invisible mechanical gears (think 'amoeba') that influence their host body (human/corporation/school/church/animal/tree/rock/ car/ broom/ etc... ).
"Everything has an orb of influence that feeds and feeds off of the other orbs. The orbs tend toward absorbing more light than dark (around 2/3 light). While rare, there are more bright light orbs (think auras) than there are solid dark orbs. You know or have met some bright human or perhaps animal whose aura was so bright it made you smile or whose dark energy dragged you down. They do feed and are fed by one another.
"You can see Light or Darkness in people, animals, plants, inanimate objects. But if you believe or not, it doesn’t matter -- If you are kind, compassionate or filled with joy, your light will feed others light. If you are cruel and lack compassion or joy, you will influence others with your darkness. Just because spirits are not physical does not make them nonexistent."
I wonder if concepts or emotions that we call fear, drama, conflict, panic, depression, sadness, lust, greed, anger, hatred, etc are actually spirits (call them demons, archons, shadows, parasites, whatever) but they are spirits just as love, kindness, compassion, peace, joy etc are actual spirits. That must be the case I would think. And you can choose to entertain each of these spirits or not, or allow them to manifest/dwell within your being and grow (or dissipate). And, in reality, based on his description of our "souls" and spirits looking like amoeba with gears, some spirits may just be parasitic in nature.
It can be difficult to be filled with joy especially while Rome is burning all around you (global pandemic). But we must reserve time in our day for activities like meditation or creative aspects like art, music, singing, dancing, writing, taking walks in nature, having a laugh with friends, and helping others.
We have to achieve pure detachment at the end on the events we are going to witness if we want to get out of this matrix. Have peace, calm, understanding of the game, not to get surprised, to remain calm at all cost, and to be ready to "depart" if and when the right time comes, if it comes to that.
The Gnostics wrote about archons that parasite our energy. The Chief archon they called the demiurge. He steals our light-power. But in the end he will fail and we shall be triumphant. The truth is that this is all a game we are playing with ourselves. Infinite Awareness has fabricated a multi-player virtual reality game for its own amusement, curiosity or edification. None of it is permanent. It is in a sense just an elaborate, persistent illusion or dream. It is a divine drama, a cosmic play. So don't fret. Please keep that in mind as you read the screenplay and the various roles the characters play whether villain or hero. The archons and physical parasites are just playing the role of villain and providing the necessary conflict and drama for the resistance. For the big picture solution at the spiritual level, please read my article, The Fine Game of Nil: The So-Called Void of Non-Duality and Pure Awareness.
Good night. Sleep tight. And don't let the archons bite!
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT a Doctor! I am NOT a medical professional or expert! I do NOT have a degree in medicine! I am NOT licensed! I am NOT a nutritionist! I am NOT a scientist! I am just a retired computer programmer, a curious philosopher, an avid researcher, and a very mediocre writer, at best. Please consult your doctor and nutritionist before trying any diet or medication mentioned in this article. This is not medical advice. I have not tried nor had personal success with any of these remedies.