Howdy from Houston. Fall is finally here, a welcome treat on the sultry Gulf Coast of Texas.

I apologize for missing the October Issue of "Through Your Body News." I was just swamped; the typesetter delivered her first draft of my book Body Brilliance: Mastering Your Five Vital Intelligences (IQs). The corrections were due in ten days. I'm thrilled to say my draft is done and the book is looking fabulous. I'm quite proud. We have quite a varied collection of articles for you this month. And notice the Big Mind Study group we're forming. Yes, it's in Houston, but take heart. As I travel around the country for book signings and gallery opening for Body Brilliance, I plan to lead Big Mind introductions, too. Even in your fair city. Perhaps you'd like to host one yourself. Just drop me a line...

Love your way and remember, be you. Enjoy the tang of cool crisp weather and fresh air.   

Love your way,
Alan Davidson

• The Artist's Way--Martin Waugh
• Anatomy of the Spirit with Carolyn Myss
• Subtle Math Turns Songs of Whales Into Kaleidoscopic Images
• Revisioning Agriculture
• Feed Your Head
• Raw Milk Is The Only Healthy Milk, Why Has It Been Outlawed?
• "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
• Emotional Freedom Technique May Prevent Smoking
• The Key to Successful Weight Loss
• Big Mind Meditation Study Group in Houston
• Your Monthly Astrocast by Michael Lutin

Martin Waugh combines art and science
to capture nature's infinite beauty.

Liquid Sculpture images are fluids in motion, frozen in time by a flash of light. They are droplets witnessed in mid-splash.

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Interviewed by Alan Davidson

Caroline Myss, PhD (pronounced Mace) is a pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness. With degrees in journalism and theology, she holds a doctorate in intuition and energy medicine from Greenwich University in Hilo, Hawaii—the country’s first such degree. Since 1982, she has worked as a medical intuitive: one who “see” illnesses in a patient’s body by intuitive means. Through her teaching she specializes in assisting people in understanding the emotional, psychological, and physical reasons why their bodies have developed an illness.

Alan Davidson: How do explain the chakras to someone who has never heard of them before?

Caroline Myss, PhD: Well you know I describe them as energy centers or databases that the body has and to put them in contemporary language, the body has seven major databases and just like a computer it contains the information of your life. Your thoughts, your attitudes, your opinions and these are stored in these databases and this data casts a vote into the formation of your body. Each of the chakras regulate the function of a part of our anatomy.

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By GRETCHEN CUDA

What do whale songs and wavelets have in common? Quite a bit, and the wavelets have nothing to do with water.

In a Northern California studio, Mark Fischer, an engineer by training, uses wavelets — a technique for processing digital signals — to transform the haunting calls of ocean mammals into movies that visually represent the songs and still images that look like electronic mandalas. (His art can be found at aguasonic.com.)

Mr. Fischer learned about acoustics by developing software for Navy sonar and the telecommunications industry. Years later, a serendipitous brush with whale researchers in Baja California led him to take a closer look at whales and the diversity of their intricate underwater communication. “I don’t think anyone has ever spent even a little time around a whale and not been amazed by it,” Mr. Fischer said in an interview.

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The future of our food supply is in our hands.

Each action we take in deciding which foods to buy, grow, or eat creates a very different future for ourselves and the Earth.

In our highly urbanized society, we are far removed from the sources and origins of the food on our table as we line up in supermarkets to buy slickly packaged foods about which we know very little.

But when we actively connect to our local food system, we regain a lost connection with how our food is grown. We can do this by asking stores and restaurants to carry locally- grown foods, buying foods directly from farmers, and even visiting the farms in our region.

To ultimately succeed in transforming our food system, we must initiate a campaign to promote a new vision of our agriculture that embraces ecological protection and social justice--a campaign to promote an agriculture and a food consciousness that is "Organic and Beyond."

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Add these healthy brain foods to your diet for a little peace of mind.

For an incurable disease like Alzheimer's, an ounce of prevention is worth much more than a pound of cure—it's priceless. Fortunately, a healthy dose of preventive medicine is as near as your local farmers' market. Fresh fruits and vegetables are proven winners in the fight to stave off dementia, and some research even suggests that these powerful plant foods may turn back the cognitive clock.

"Fruits and vegetables are like mutual funds," says University of Kentucky professor of neurology David Snowdon, Ph.D. "They're a big pot of literally thousands of compounds that offer protection against a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's disease." Snowdon, who has devoted his career to identifying factors that reduce the risk of Alzheimer's and other brain diseases, ranks fruit and vegetable intake number one on his hit list for middle-aged and older adults.

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by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Nutritional Scientist and Retired Raw Dairy Farmer Carlet Hoff

There is too little known among the general public about the benefits of raw milk, even though raw milk was the foster mother of mankind. Controversial seems to be a week adjective when considering the vehement rhetoric of individuals who lash out against it from miseducation and fear. The bacteria-phobia has no empirical base. There has been no clinical tests studying people drinking raw milk, that contains feared bacteria, to prove or disprove the theory that pathogens finding their way into raw milk can cause ill effects in humans drinking it. Even vegetative nutrients found in raw milk have been falsely blamed for ill effects. The crusade against raw milk has been lethal to the empirical evidence that raw milk and raw milk products are probably the most nutritious food most people can consume.

Pasteurizing milk, which is the process of cooking milk at a minimum 155 degrees F. for at least 15 seconds, gained popularity when farmers didn't have the technology to produce, package and deliver all their raw milk fresh. Pasteurization LENGTHENED the SHELF LIFE of milk. Suddenly, farmers were able to hold and transport their milk instead of dumping it or feeding it to the hogs. Until then the primary focus of milk was that it was a healthful food. With pasteurization, milk became a commodity, an economic issue, that generated Hollywood-like unscientific horror stories about raw milk spreading diseases.

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Young, gay Americans were arrested or detained across the nation this week as they continued their efforts to end
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

The Right to Serve Campaign continued to expand last week as more openly gay young Americans attempted to enlist in the armed forces. With our story being told in The New York Times, CNN’s Paula Zahn Now, and on BBC World Service, the young adults of our country are showing that we no longer accept this gross exercise of government sanctioned discrimination.

In the longest incarceration for Soulforce Young Adults thus far, Rebecca Solomon and Jesus Sanchez spent the night in an Austin, Texas jail and were released on bond after being charged with criminal trespassing.

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Self-Applied Acupressure Technique May Prevent Tobacco from Killing One Billion People
by Gary Craig

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- An easy to learn acupressure technique could curb the tobacco- related death toll. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) addresses the root of cigarette addictions, believed to be unresolved emotional issues. Gary Craig, the Stanford-trained engineer who developed EFT, explains, “In my experience working with smokers for more than a decade, they use cigarettes to tranquilize emotions. But conventional smoking cessations programs do not address smoking addictions at the emotional level.”

EFT claims an 80% success rate in reducing these emotional issues and a curbing of addictive urges are the frequent result. It can be learned freely by downloading the EFT Manual at http://www.emofree.com/downloadeftmanual.asp

Recently, the American Cancer Society (ACS) predicted that tobacco will kill 1 billion people this century. Tobacco is responsible for an estimated 100 million deaths since 1900. According to John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the ACS, reducing tobacco use would have the single largest effect on global cancer rates.

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What Does the Computer Program Do?

The Key to Successful Weight Loss, the first program ever to use the new technology of computerized EFT. It is obtainable on a CD which combines a major e-Book with an interactive computer program that helps you apply EFT to a variety of issues that affect your relationship to food. This program covers all aspects of handling emotional blocks to weight loss.

The Result?

You automatically reduce your destructive food cravings to a minimum and often eliminate them entirely through the use of EFT. You now eat in a manner that fully supports your weight loss – and you enjoy doing this!

The Key to Successful Weight Loss Software

Led by Alan Davidson and Marion Hirsch

Ken Wilber says, “Big Mind is by far the most effective technique for eliciting a satori (enlightened) experience within a few hours--guaranteed; I personally have never seen it fail yet.”

What— Big Mind, developed by Dennis Genpo Merzel Roshi, combines Zen meditation with the insights of such visionary western figures as Carl Jung, Fritz Perls, and Hal Stone (Voice Dialogue), enabling virtually anyone to experience their true enlightened nature, a realization they can further deepen through meditation. Big Mind explores the “voices” of the Self—such as the controller, the protector, the skeptic, and the innocent child; as well as the voices of the non-self—such as Big Mind, Big Heart, and non- seeking, non-grasping mind.

When— Four Monday nights—Starting Monday November 13th thru December 4th: 7:30 to 9:30 PM.

Please join us--Limited to Ten People Only

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Michael Lutin is the weirdly wonderful, wise and mad astrologer for VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE. He doses your planetary advice with humor and whimsy.

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