Dear Youngman:

Greetings.

> I didn't get the chance to go to a nursery yet, but after reading your
> email today, I went ahead and planted some plants mom had that
> probably weren't going to make it into the ground. There are some
> rosemary, begonia, and other plants (mostly ornamental at this point;
> it's all I have) in the ground now in my little garden.

Rosemary is a culinary herb (though I haven't personally used it).  I took
a quick look on line, and like just about any herb is associated with
certain health benefits.  One article said that it was basically an
anticarcinogen.  I've had rosemary in the past but didn't cook with it.

> It has been
> very dry here recently. I had to water the ground for a long time
> before the water would collect a little. I really enjoyed getting in
> the dirt!  The feel of the soil, getting the weeds out, starting a
> compost pile, turning the dirt, watering it, sweating and being in the
> sun, I loved it all, and I am really looking forward to being able to
> plant things we can eat.

When I was going through what was perhaps the worst time of my life
mentally, God called me outside and nursed me in the garden.  To this day,
at times I may not feel working in the garden, but when I get there, I feel so good--and
before I know it, it is time to go in.  The mosquitoes are the ones that
usually let me know what time it is.

> What happens if you plant seeds at this time of year? I have some of
> those heirloom tomato seeds. My mom said they would not have time to
> bear fruit if they are planted this late in the season.

They may not have time but you could still experiment.  I threw that first
potato in the ground well into the summer time and still got a harvest. 
When you don't know that you can't do something, you do it and oftentimes
succeed.  It will cost you a seed or two to give it a try.

>> This year, I've been looking at those plants that, "refuse not to
>> grow".
>
> After reading about the broad-leaved plantain weed, i went out looking
> for some in our yard. I noticed we hardly have any weeds at all (I
> don't know why this is). I've seen the plantain before growing in the
> cracks of the driveway before, and we used to have bamboo and
> cattails, but they are not here any more. I am thinking about going in
> some of the fields behind our neighborhood and collect and identify
> some weeds to make a weed garden, just too see what happens. I have
> cleared out a nice little patch of soil by the side of the house for
> it. We also have big pine trees-- I just told mom about pine-needle tea.
>
> I tried some grass too. There wasn't much substance to it, but I think
> it is amazing that you can live off of it. I bought a copy of the
> Encyclopedia of Country Living. What a fascinating book!

Carla Emery died in 2005, but God used her to do modern mankind a
wonderful favor by writing that book before she died.  She also wrote
another book--may I ask you *not* to get it or read it?  Ms. Emery was
once the victim of "unethical hypnosis" and wrote an encyclopedia about
that too.  I don't know if there is another book like it in the world. 
In it, she goes back in time and breaks the subject down all the way to the current day and
horrific government experiments and programs.  The masses are hypnotized
and charmed and bewitched.  FOR YEARS, I've been seeking to find out what
happened to me mentally.

You may remember my comment about "recovering from mental illness by
steady application of the scriptures".  I am convinced that every American
has something wrong with them and, through the years, I've sought to find
out what.  Television is a hypnotic trance medium that puts suggestions
within a person that manifest in the person's thoughts, feelings, and
behaviour--and like other victims of hypnosis, the victim of television DOES
NOT KNOW that some outside force has tampered with his soul.  Now you take
this wicked hypnotist and send him around the world being translated into
every language--the results are devastating beyond degree.  The horrors
incalculable.  This hypnotist is there from the cradle to influence the
way that a person views and approaches life.  It even influences his speech patterns.

I have a book entitled, "Losing Our Language."  We do not know how to
talk.  Five minute newsbites and trash tv and fake scholarship have taken
away our language abilities.  Many of us do not have the intellectual
ability to go back and read.  We must be spoon fed our information or we
don't get fed.  The past concerning how we've come to our current
situation is dark.  The present happenings are dark.  I try to look from
the border and put a few pieces together in order to warn.  I've read very
little of the hypnosis book and little more than the title of "Losing our
Language"--it is not necessary to read many things.  Oftentimes the
concept is enough.  That which is without the temple, measure it not, it
is given to the Gentiles.  Don't touch it.

>> I just planted yarrow which I've previously purchased dry at the
>> health
>> food store--it helps the immune system, as I recall.  Well, I looked
>> it up
>> and it is supposed to be invasive.
>
> Is it invasive in the garden, or on the body?

Invasive in the garden.  It appears to be one of those "refuse not to
grow" plants.  If you get peppermint, you'll need to keep it contained or
it will be everywhere.  Put a little piece in the grass and it will shoot
out underground all over the place.  I have a patch of grass to get up now
because I left some pieces of peppermint in there when I was pulling it
out.  You can bury a container in the ground with no bottom or something
to contain it.

>> I like those kinds of plants.  I want
>> to specialize in food crops like that and those that will bring up
>> trace
>> minerals.
>
> Why are you interested in the trace minerals? It sounds like they
> would be useful for medicinal purposes to me. Would some of these
> minerals be an important regular part of one's diet?

YES!!!!!!!  America's food is being grown off of what I'll call synthetic
fertilizers, NOT GOOD SOIL.  When American farmers farm, they use liquid
fertilizers, not dung.  The worms can't even eat these synthetics.  The American 
diet is woefully
deficient in trace minerals.  Some of these minerals are necessary
for a healthy reproductive system and other things.  They are trace, but
they are needed.  This is why people take vitamins--I don't take vitamins
but even health food people suggest this because of the lack.  I have a
book entitled, "Empty Harvest" with a provocative picture on the
front--vegetables with no color, just the outline.  I haven't read the
book so I can't suggest purchasing it but here is a review of it that
gives the jist of it--

Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
"Is our nation's 'bread basket' becoming a dead basket?" The authors of
this book contend that we are breaking down our soil ecosystem and that
modern-day agriculture is out of sync with nature. Artificial soil
produces artificial food. Today's mineral-deficient soil may be "one of
the greatest original sources of disease." This book is divided into two
uneven parts, with each author--Jensen is a nutritionist and Anderson an
ecologist--responsible for a part. The book lacks footnotes, which would
lend it more legitimacy, and it could be better focused on its main
maessage of the interconnectedness of human and earth. But it asks
questions, makes accusations, and suggests solutions that should be heard.
Recommended for public health or nutrition collections in public
libraries.
- Diane M. Brown, Univ. of California at Berkeley Lib.


I do not use any synthetic liquid fertilizers.  I use dung from the farm for my
compost and to work into the soil.  I also make "weed tea" and "leaf
tea"--just seep the weeds and raked up leaves in water for a few days or
seeks and pour it on my plants.  I fertilize my ornamentals the same way.  I also occasionally
use a urine water which contains nitrogen and other nutrients that plants like.

> In the past week, I've been eating a lot less refined sugar, corn
> syrup, and bleached flour foods. Instead, I'm eating organic rolled
> oats, nuts, fruits, beef, yogurt and milk. I never had a huge appetite
> (I'll eat but I always seemed to get full quickly), but I've been
> getting hungry eating these natural foods. After eating them, (the
> rolled oats and yogurt especially), I feel overall much better. I feel
> more energetic and awake and lighter in my stomach.
>

Terrific.  God made whole things.  I like things to look like what they
are.  We came up with our own needs chart based on how we read the
scriptures and it is simple.  We divided the body into the following

Flesh
Bone
Blood

And we eat based on what each needs.  Flesh for flesh (if no flesh nuts/grain  or bean/grains combination), dairy for bones and all kinds of vegetables for
blood.  There are plants that are fairly rich in protein and calcium (like
comfrey and amaranth for protein) and we note those as we go along and try to have them in the
garden in the event that we need them.

You mentioned feeling more awake, more energetic.  When we are full, the
opposite is true.  It makes one sluggish and tired.  

After experiencing cramping in my calves at night, I
began to keep bananas in the house (I oftentimes cut half of one onto my
cereal which is quite tasty) for the potassium.

>>  I find that these types of plants don't much care about what
>> kind of soil they can make it--I like that.  My common reed looked
>> dead--but I just saw three little shoots sticking up today.  I look
>> forward to
>> eating some (it has potato-like tubers.  It's one of the refuse not to
>> grow and considered a pest plant).  It's growing in my rain garden
>> that
>> gets its water from the sump pump.  I'll look up if the water is
>> potable--I probably hear that it isn't--but I think I should live if
>> I eat
>> from these plants...what do you think?
>
> We don't have basements here in Houston,

Why?

so I looked up what a sump
> pump is usually used for. As I understand it, water from around the
> house seeps through the walls, and collects in a place where the pump
> can pump it to your lawn. Is that correct?

Yes.

I read that the water can
> be salty and leech minerals out of brick. I don't know if it's
> suitable to use to water plants that you would eat,

Okay...probably not.

but I doubt eating
> plants raised in sump pump water would kill you!

Just maybe put them in a "clean area" of the garden to rinse them out a
little before I eat them.

Unless there are
> poisonous chemicals in the concrete or fired bricks. Do you know if
> the stems of plants filter out chemicals?

They do.  I think it may have been Cherynobyl or some other nuclear plant
where plants were used to effectively clean the chemicals out of the
ground.

That makes me wonder if
> pesticides used in the earth (as opposed to sprays on the plant) make
> their way into the water or flesh of fruit.

I'm sure that they all do.  There are foliar fertilizers.

 >> We have all kinds of little plants scattered all over the place.  My
>> garden is not gorgeous, but it is interesting.   How is your gardening
>> going?  Tell me what you are doing and how you like it.
>
> I really am enjoying getting in the dirt. I'll keep you updated. Thank
> you for your help.

Great.  You're welcome--and please tell me what you learn so that I can
learn it too.

>> For every 10 minutes of reading (or other near point work)
>> look at an object 10 feet away and focus
>> for 10 seconds.
>>
>> 10-10-10.  As a student, you do a lot of studying.  If there is no
>> object
>> in the room 10 feet away, you can look out of a window.
>
>
> I am doing this now. I had not realized that ten seconds of looking at
> something only 10 feet away could be so beneficial.
>
> I had a friend who told me about "eye exercises." I do them from time
> to time. Move your eyes up and down about a dozen times, and then side
> to side a dozen times, and then diagonally each way the same number of
> times. You can finish by rolling them in a circle a few times.

Strengthening the muscles.  Good.


> Thank you for forwarding the email from Rebuild Your VIsion. I had
> never known that eyesight was something that could be regained. I have
> been blessed to be the only one in my family not to need any sort of
> eyesight correction, but I will remember 10-10-10 to keep them
> healthy.

Yes.  The 10-10-10 and your other exercises.  We do a lot of near point
work nowadays.  Even outside gardening, you can look off into the distance and
focus.  There are exercises that can not be done just by looking.  If you
sign up for the free Rebuild Your Vision newsletter, you'll get a couple
of them.  I read that there is a such thing as what I'll call, "super
eyes".  You can build up good eyes and only do the exercises a few times
weekly or maybe (?) even monthly.  I had 20-20 vision ALL MY LIFE until I
turned 40.  It's as if the body says, "That is enough abuse!  I give
up!  Go get your glasses!".  My mother began her descent, as I recall,
well after 40 and now uses reading glasses.


> I have also read that vitamin c prevents animals (in
> particular guinea pigs) from getting cataracts. I will have to try
> some of this pine needle tea from our pine trees!

Interesting.  They say that parsley is a phenomenal eye food, better than
carrots and FULL of iron for your blood.  I have some outside.  It's easy
to grow and you can cut it up on your salad.  It loves to be cut back. 
Take off flowers or it will slow down growth and maybe turn woody.

> In the beginning, man did not eat meat. The herbs and fruit were
> plentiful and healthy. But now, many animals are good for food. Do you
> think the nutritional needs of a man changed after the fall? Would
> there be any benefit to avoiding meat products? I would doubt it,
> because God specified in the law which meats were good for food, and
> which ones were not.

Rise Peter, slay and eat.  Every creature of God is good and nothing to be
refused if it be received with thanksgiving.  I personally love
cheeseburgers, steaks, ribs, bacon, sausage, etc. (although there are many
contaminants in our gmo food supply).

In our food chart, we eat flesh for flesh, but some people, like "vegans"
are somehow able to get by with vegetables--but they don't do well without
come kind of fat or oil.  Their children get sick or don't grow right. 
The children of Israel ate manna and made it.  If you have to eat a
vegetable diet, know what your body needs for flesh and grow it (nut/beans and
grain/potato/etc.).  I have long desired a nut tree for my yard--this is a
good reminder to keep seeking it out.  I like looking at the diet of
"primitive" peoples though I cannot always follow their model--one group primarily
survives off of blood and milk--yuck!  I love milk, and for a while, it
was the main part of my diet until I began to fatten up.  Many peoples eat
blood and I don't know why--maybe from every continent.  Blood sausage in
Europe, blood pudding, a blood sauce in an Asian country...why...I just
have to assume that it is the spirit of the devil.

In time, I'd like to learn more about the blood/circulatory system.  I've
read that salt water can be used, at least for a little while, as a
transfusion when there is loss of blood. Maybe the "primitives" are
getting salt and nutrients from the blood.

Goodbye for now,
Mephibosheth