How did we begin, 4 billion years ago, after the big bang

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How did we begin, 4 billion years ago, after the
big bang?
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The planets were inhospitable
Microbes on the Moon Inhospitable
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But somehow cellular life forms began, in a
simple way.

• Simple cellular life forms.
• No nucleus.
• The DNA swims freely in the cell.
• Prokaryotes are single celled organisms.
• Pro before karyote nucleus Before nucleus.
• They belong to the Monera Kingdom.
• Bacteria are Prokaryotes.

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For two billion years the bacterium was the only
life form on Earth
Anthrax bacilli
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A lot goes on inside a cell
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Life - the properties of living things

• The ability to reproduce
• The ability to respond to environment
• The ability to maintain an inner state
• To grow
• To develop
• To adapt

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Reproduction was carried out by cell division
parent and daughter carried the same genetic
pattern. Nothing new in the mix.1100 divisions
might give rise to a mutation.
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Sexual reproduction, although fun, is SLOW in
comparison with fission.
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Sperm penetrating ovum.Did the earth move for
you?

• Adding another set of genes to the mix produces
  unthinkably vast possible rearrangements of the
  material.
• But is slow. Long gestational period, growth to
  adulthood and reproduction age.

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Divide and rule!

• E coli 0157mitotic division.
• In 48 hours one E-coli can multiply into the
  millions and mutate by 2.
• It would take 8million years for humans to match
  this rate of mutation/evolution

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Division of labour and symbiosis

• Non-photosynthesising bacteria traded
  protoplasmic protection for sugar in inviting
  photosynthesising bacteria under their skin.
  These became integrated into the host cells as
  chloroplasts.

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Photosynthesis

• Reduced the levels of carbon dioxide in the
  atmosphere and released oxygen.
• Took on the job of nitrogen fixation
• Thus making the planet habitable for the
  evolution of protists such as Fungi, Plants and
  Animals.
• Bacteria continued on their own great wheel of
  evolution, taking every opportunity, making the
  hostile hospitable, clearing paths

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Bacteriophage!

• unblocking the drains of evolution.
• The DNA is free-floating within the cell, which
  has a tough wall, rigidly structuring and
  supporting, shaping and protecting the cell. This
  is the target of medical combat.
• Bacteria got names, which became synonymous with
  diseases.

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Streptococcus, the tough cell wall rigidly
structuring and shaping, protecting the cell.
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Yersinia pestis Plague
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Leptospira interrogans
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The culprits of epidemic infectious diseases

• However, Bacteria are organisms in their own
  right.
• They have their own vital force and energy
  patterns.

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Well leave this and talk about Domestication for
a minuteI suggest that Domestication
isSubjugationByAdaptation
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PREREQUISITES FOR DOMESTICATION of animals

• Diet economic to feed quick to grow.
• Not finicky in food preferences.
• Not carnivores as food to growth ratio is too
  high and humans dont eat carnivores much.
• Dont mind breeding in captivity. No fancy
  rituals!
• Herd animals have innate hierarchy, so are used
  to dominance.
• Pack animals can tolerate another pack in an
  overlapping area.
• Temperament not nasty crocs, grizzlies
• Not nervous and panicky, programmed for instant
  flight.

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So we havent domesticated
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But we have domesticated or tamed
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Aborigines

• Remained a Stone-Age people.
• Remained hunter gatherers.
• Australia had sufficient food supplies for the
  Aboriginal population
• Australia had no large native mammals to
  domesticate.
• Without contact with these animals, Aboriginals
  remained free of the following diseases

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Diseases which evolved originally from animals,
and are now confined to humans

• Smallpox
• Malaria
• Plague
• Measles
• Cholera
• Tuberculosis

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A life on the open road.

• It is the domestication of animals that has
  enabled the proximity necessary for the
  transmission of bacteria from animal to human
  hosts. The hunter-gatherer life is healthy -
  faecal parasites and bacteria are left behind.
• City life breeds rats, parasites, poverty, and
  thereby disease.

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Humans have domesticated bacteria to do the
following

• Leach copper out of ore
• Degrade sewage
• Create vitamins K and B12
• Create anti-biotics
• Used in the study of genetics, and genetic
  engineering
• Produce enzymes
• Break down starch for brewing and textile
  production.
• Lactic acid bacteria used for yoghurt and cheese
• Acetic acid bacteria breaks ethanol into vinegar.

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Bacteria however, have domesticated us.

• Inside our own bodies we are outnumbered by other
  species by 91.
• We think we are the bosses.
• But in fact bacteria are far better survivalists
  than us. They adapt faster, evolve faster, the
  communicate over their whole democracy faster.
• We co-exist with microbes symbiotically.

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Life is a nonzero-sum game

• More than one person can win.
• More than one person can lose
• CO-OPERATION is the key. No man is an island. He
  is a colony of cells and microbes. He is part of
  a community, a city, a nation. He is a subset of
  his ancestral diseases.
• When we cooperate within these worlds we benefit
  the whole more than the individual selfish cell.
• ALTRUISM VERSUS SELFISHNESS

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A worldwide decentralised democracy.

• The concept of Species is inappropriate for
  bacteria which have the ability to receive and
  permanently incorporate any number of genes from
  each other or the environment.
• Strictly speaking all bacteria are one organism,
  and as such, are capable of genetic engineering
  on a planetary scale.
• - Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan in Microcosmos.

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WHAT IS THE LANGUAGEOF BACTERIA AND VIRUSES?
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MINERAL AND ANIMAL KINGDOM LANGUAGE

• Times
• Dates
• Structures
• Belonging
• Expanding
• Building
• Creating/ Destroying
• Power
• Empty

• Victim/aggressor
• Manipulator
• Struggle
• Survival
• Subjugation/ One-up-manship
• Violent animal gestures
• Protective nature of mother with young

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Signs of bacteria

• In a patient needing a bacterial remedy we will
  see a history of fevers, inflammatory disease,
  childhood illnesses, digestive upsets, muscular
  rheumatic pain. This is common to us all, as is
  bacterial illness.

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BACTERIAL QUALITIES

• Altruists - work for the common good
• Opportunists
• Fast Reproduction
• Contagion
• Communication
• Colonization
• Commensalism

• Helpful
• Symbiotic, Co-operative
• Creative
• Strategists
• Evolutionary
• Genetically flexible
• Social
• Democratic
• Overcrowding

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VIRAL QUALITIES

• Desire to influence,
• Control, take over.
• Infect.
• Intimacy
• Force
• Hide
• Change, mutate
• Information

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PATHOGEN QUALITIES

• Toxicity
• Speed
• Migration
• Aggression
• Quick reacting
• Quickly evolving
• Survivalists

• Pathogens are the most acute, fast, voracious
  and vicious members of their group.
• Like the alkaloids in plants - pure vital
  substance.
• A little of a pathogen goes a long way.
• Evolved and adapted for maximum efficiency.

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What turns bacteria into pathogens?

• Interference e.g. surgery
• Overcrowding
• Lack of nutrition
• Poor living conditions
• Some bacteria, anthrax and clostridia botulinum
  are naturally highly toxic. The work they do
  produces toxins which most humans have
  insufficient vitality to overcome.

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In the case taking

• We may be confused by the fact that the patients
  seems stuck on the fact level.
• They talk of nothing but disease in some way.
• The miasm seems to be very strongly represented.
  This is because the miasm is the disease. The
  Vital Expression is Source language, yet we are
  confused because it seems like Fact level.

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Example of Melissas Medorrhinum case

• Woman with allergies
• LANGUAGE
• Rubbery, gooey, snot, stretchy, sticky
• Gross
• Stream, river,
• Slime, mushy
• Dripping, shooting out
• Constant.
• Epidemic. Spreading.
• Cant. Nothing works. Stuck.

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Disease state

• In the beginning it was difficult to get out of
  the Fact Level. She talked of nothing but the
  allergy.
• Then Melissa realised that this was a nosode
  case, a Monera case.
• The remedy is a Disease state, so the Vital
  Sensation is a disease sensation and it is
  chronic - she uses the words Constant,
  never-ending.
• Epidemic.

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Source language

• She describes the output of her diseased bacteria
  - all the snot and goo.
• She is not fit enough to give them a home, so
  they are constantly reproducing in order to get
  out and find a new home. It is never-ending!

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What I gleaned from this case

• Was the girls insistent negativity - cant cant
  cant. Nothing works. Stuck stuck stuck.
• And it reminded me of a Streptococcus case I
  have.
• I think a Vital Expression for a nosode must be
  to do with movement, evolution, going somewhere,
  changing - it has to do with motion. Bacteria are
  in constant motion.

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Streptococcus case

• Themes of routine, boredom, sitting and waiting
  Movement, restlessness, desire to move, go to
  extremes
• Fake, acting, real
• I can be who I choose.
• It is me and it is not me. I would like to see
  the life of famous people but to be just behind
  this so that nobody sees me, but be a part of
  it just for one life period

• There are so many opportunities
• My sensation of Routine is of a car stopped at
  the lights.
• Waiting.
• Go to an Extreme place, somewhere dangerous.
• Fear, loathing of this little black leeches
  suck blood

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What would be her

My horror would be when I would finish life as a
sales lady in a sweater shop and not many
customers. To sit on a high stool and just wait.
It would be horrible.

What does that sales lady feel like in her body?

Her muscles hurt because you have to sit in one
position all the time. Just watching the clock.

patients muscles hurt severely since chicken
pox

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Movement

• This is the communication, commensalism living
  together - eating at the same table,
• The colonization, the genetic flexibility.
• It is about movement.
• To be still is to die. Boredom. Frustration.

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Bacteria are the engine of evolution.

• The evolutionary tool of healing
• And the wheel must keep turning.
• Bacteria are pushing us to evolve.
• This is how the Miasms are useful to us how
  disease is useful to us, a necessity in fact.

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And what is the Sensation of this?

• There is something about movement, motion. This
  connects with the bacterial need for evolution.
• Evolution is a need for change. We can see the
  hectic state of tuberculosis here.
• Possibly because of this need for movement,
  there is something about speed, hurry, or
  slowness, the sensation of everything moving very
  slowly around one, or of things being speeded up,
  whizzing, vibrating like a standing motor.

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Sensations continued

• When we think of life being speeded up to a pitch
  that we cannot imagine, then we get jumps in
  time, and a confusion of the sense of time and
  place.
• Perhaps we have a sense of being lost in
  well-known places, or of well-known places
  looking different, or we get a sense of deja vue,
  or of repeating actions we have done earlier.

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Tuberculosis Syphilis

• Nelson Mandela
• Bishop Desmond Tutu
• George Washington
• Goethe
• Descartes
• Beethoven
• Chopin
• The Bronte's
• Chekhov
• Tina Turner

• Nietzsche
• Flaubert
• Isak Dinesen
• Abraham Lincoln
• Oscar Wilde
• Van Gogh
• James Joyce
• Robert Schumann

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Syphilitic and Tubercular MiasmsThe Genes of
Creativity
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