In Response to Gaia team's Friday Five:

1) What have you seen today that is beautiful?
Gold tinged clouds with an orange sky during the sunset.

2) Who in your life is beautiful inside and out?
All life is beautiful.

3) What part(s) of nature do you find beautiful?
I find respite in the mountains and old growth forests.

4) Is there a piece of music or song(s) you think are beautiful?
you're beautiful

5) What color(s) are most beautiful to you?
I like blues and purples. I'm wearing a mauv-y purple today.
Pink in the sky is beautiful, and so is orange in the sky and blue in the sky and a white sky and a dark grey sky...

So, how do we conclude that even the crusty, polluted, corrupted places of earth and man are beautiful? Because it's all part of the divine plan. The plan that everything is just as it is supposed to be right now. Perhaps the corruption exists to shine the light on those dedicated enough to uncover it. Perhaps the pollution exists to give chances to people; chances to clean, care, dedicate, shine, and educate. I really don't know why all of it exists, but at least I rest with the knowledge that I'm where I'm supposed to be.

Tonight I saw Generation Rx, produced by Kevin Miller, hosted by my chiropractor in a graciously-lent auditorium at the local community college. Over twenty people signed up at his office to promise to come to the movie night. That's why he sought out a larger room to show it in than his office can provide.

I was ten minutes late and I was the first to show up. After another ten minutes, another of his patients arrived. He decided to show the movie anyway.

I've got some background knowledge about the subject matter of the movie. I wrote Sad for No Reason and put in a special section on why folks shouldn't depend on SSRIs to manage depression, and especially why children and teens shouldn't use this class of drugs.

This movie made all the research I'd done in the past year come alive. As a good documentary should, it enraged me, it saddened me, and I fought the tears of anger and grief.

Some notes:
Medicating children for profit is contrary to the Hippocratic oath.

How ironic that we make a false claim about biochemical imbalances and then the drugs we use to treat it actually give patients biochemical imbalances.

You won't be able to believe the fraud perpetrated on the American public if you're already a science believer.

Pharmaceutical companies saw children as an untapped market. They were simply a commercial enterprise.

8 of 13 of school shooters were taking psychiatric prescriptions.

In this society, mentoring takes a back seat to medicine.

ADD was coined in 1970. Having this new diagnosis allowed drugmakers to experience a rise in sales of Ritalin, which has been around since the '50s.

There was a 6-fold increase in the prescription of Ritalin between 1990 and 1994.

The profession keeps changing the diagnosis of ADHD. Doctors can't even accurately describe the symptomology of ADHD because medical boards keep changing it.

Psycho-stimulants (like Ritalin) cause brain atrophy. That's where your brain shrinks and acts like it's dieing.

There is no proof that Ritalin improves lives of children.

My favorite phrase from the narrator: "the shifting sands of adulterated science"

1 in 19 American children are on Ritalin. It's as potent as cocaine, and as addictive.

There was a second section on Prozac, fluoxitine. This is the part that really got me mad! Sometimes I wonder why drugmakers like Eli Lilly even make a trial before FDA approval of a drug. The results of the trial were so bad, they were swept under the rug and ignored and the drug was passed anyway. There were thousands of suicides during this trial of Prozac, and double that number of serious negative side effects.

The corruption was pinpointed to a regulatory group called DSM. Of the 170 DSM panel members, 56% have at least one financial tie to the pharmaceutical industry. This was uncovered in a book called "Science in the Private Interest."

It should be well known that the people who evaluate the safety of our drugs should be completely separate from those who manufacture it. But this is not the case. There is an abused loophole that allows parties with a vested interest a spot on the regulatory committies.

"They're robbing children of their souls!"

I am considering attending  Vast Sky/Big Mind conference this weekend, and I'm so excited! This conference will allow me to meet in person Bill Harris, Genpo Roshi, Ken Wilbur, and Bernie Glassman.

The same week I started Holosync, I had a dream of meeting Bill Harris in person. We were talking on the phone to each other, but then he walked into the same convenience store I was already in and I saw him. The overall feeling was that he is genuine, not a scheister, and truly wants to help evolve as many people as possible with his Holosync program. This dream is the foundation for enough trust in the company Centerpointe to be an affiliate and I started Live on Purpose web site because of my trust in Holosync.

Of course, Ken Wilbur is a major influential mind behind the original Zaadz, bought by Gaia.

Genpo Roshi and Bill Harris have been presenting together for perhaps a year, but I don't really know how long. Roshi's Big Mind process is said to change lives for the better. I believe it involves interviewing all the various parts of your mind to see what roles they play in your psyche, and possibly reorganizing their pecking order.

I see I need to secure a babysitter for two days to allow me to attend! Shouldn't be too hard!