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Google+ For Business Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:23:00 +0000

On November 15th, Google+ finally rolled out business pages. Now the platform not only enables companies to create pages, but also encourages businesses to grow their following. “I expect brands will notice this and will build marketing plans around it,” said Bradley Horowitz, Vice President for products at Google+ in an article for reinforces the potential of the social network for marketing purposes.

On the day Google announced the release of Google+ business pages, hundreds of media outlets covered the story and drew attention to its importance. While many reporters and bloggers viewed it as a great improvement to Google+’s feature set, some decided to take a more controversial angle, viewing the story through the lens of a facebook rivalry.

HOW TO GET STARTED

1. Visit http://plus.google.com/pages/create to create a Google+ Page.
2. Follow the wizard (it's much like Facebook's Page Creaztion wizard)

3. Choose the most appropriate option to classify your business. You'll be able to select from the following options:-

* Local Business or Place
* Product or Brand
* Company, Institute, or Organization
* Arts, Entertainment, or Sports
* Other

4. Customise your public profile. The profile basic basics include your tag line (think of it your business' elveator pitch) and an image (your company logo is a great option). Keep your tag line brief but descriptive.
USING GOOGLE+ FOR BUSINESS ON YOUR BLOG & WEB SITE

To place this "Add me on Google+" widget on your blog or web site simply add this script to your blog or web site. <script type="text/javascript">mbgc='f5f5f5';ww='320';mbc='cecece';bbc='3F79D5';bmobc='3b71c6';bbgc='4889F0';bmoc='3F79D5';bfc='FFFFFF';bmofc='ffffff';tlc='cecece';tc='6a6a6a';nc='6a6a6a';bc='6a6a6a';l='y';t='Add_me_on_Google+';fs='16';fsb='13';bw='100';ff='4';lu='6a6a6a';pc='4889F0';wh='340';b='s'; pid='109337308226786599928';</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgetsplus.com/google_plus_widget.js"></script>

To insert a Google+ Feed widget insert the following code:- <iframe frameborder="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" src="http://stream.pluswidget.com/google-plus-widget/iframe/107927865479255490235/?width=300&height=500&shell_bg=333&shell_text=fff&shell_links=4D90FE&post_bg=1e456d&post_text=fff&post_links=4D90FE&scroll_bg=1e456d&scroll_handle_text=aaa" width="300" height="500"></iframe>

Be sure to insert your own Google+ ID number in the appropriate place. Accessing your Google Plus user ID is simple:

Accessing your Google Plus user ID is simple:

1. If you look at the URL in the address bar, it should look something like this:

https:://plus.google.com/109337308226786599928/posts

2. The long numerical string in the URL is your Google+ ID. Here is mine from the URLabove:

109337308226786599928

Hope this information was useful. If so, please feel free to follow Spencer Print on Google+

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:57:00 +0000

2012 - A Window to A New Beginning

There are so many negative posts & articles on the Internet about 2012, such as Comet Elenin, Pole Shift, Niburu, Anthrax Threat, Swine Flu , Project HAARP, Corona Mass Ejections etc. What if 2012 was a window on a new age in consciousness?

Genuine Mayans believe in the change in consciousness that is coming. I went to the Yucatan Peninsula last year & visited many Mayan ruins. I was honored & fortunate enough to have my own personal native Mayan guide at Ek Balam. He spoke & could read Mayan. He told me that he, & many other Mayan were really annoyed at the way that Hollywood was portraying the Mayan Calendar & 2012. He told me that 2012 was a window to a new level of consciousness.

This is the same thing that Mayan expert, the late Ian Lungold, was saying years ago, before 2012 became such a major topic. He explained that the Mayan step pyramid explained the evolving states of consciousness through the ages. Each step was shorter, reflecting the increasing speed at each step of change. It's all part of the plan of the consciousness/divine.

Time to Make a Difference!

The evil elite in this world are spreading these fears, trying to keep us locked & trapped in this awful & evil reality. Now, all over the world, people are asking questions, & waking up to who they truly are.

It is worth noting that Religion has played a key roll in this control & fear.Christianity has hijacked the true Jesus. According to the Gnostic Apostle St. Thomas, the Divine/God is within all of us. We do not need Bishops or organized religion to mediate with God. It is no wonder that the Council of Nicaea decided to keep this book out of the New Bible. I wonder how many souls would have been saved if this book had been part of the New Bible? What a better world we might now be living in We are all part of the same consciousness, and if we harm another person, are we not harming each other?

Mankind is capable of such beauty & love, yet also of such atrocity. As Buchenwald Concentration Camp survivor Elie Wiesel so eloquently put it "Even in the depths of despair & atrocity there was still humanity"

I hope that we are returning to the Golden Era to which we once belonged in, a state we are meant to be in. It's time to end the endless cycle of wars, & hating people because they have different views, or colour of skin. We should be celebrating our differences, not using them as an excuse to hate.

These differences are contributing to the experience of the whole. I can feel in my heart that this change will happen, & nothing the elite can throw at us will stop this change.

Even findings in Science are confirming this change in consciousness, are true spiritual selves. Quantum Physics says that everything is connected.

Sometimes I feel so frustrated & sad at the vast population's indifference to all the evil that is happening. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

Its' time for us all to say "enough is enough, no more wars & killing, & controlling what people can say & think.

The Banks caused this economic crisis. This has resulted in people losing their jobs, & in many cases, having their houses re-possessed. To add insult to injury, the banks are re-possessing the houses. BP and other oil companies continue to poison our oceans, & in all probability suppress Free Energy or more affordable & cleaner alternatives.

It's all about control & enslaving us, & creaming off everything for the elite few.

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Media Starting To Take Notice

As this CNN Report says, the Media treated the Wall Street Protests as a joke, but are now having to take the protests seriously. The protests are spreading across many cities in the USA. At last Americans are waking up getting up off their backsides & saying no more!. For too long they have seen their democracy eroded with draconian legislation like the Patriot Bill.

The Arab world has shaken itself from it's shackles, will the American people do the same? As the video asks below, Is this the American Spring? I hope so, if it is, there is hope for us all. It's time to take back our planet & democracy.

Is This The American Spring?

Mobile Trends

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:48:00 +0000

I run a UK based Print Agency and have been looking for alternative ways to generate income for the company. This is due to the current economic recession in the UK. Companies are tightening their purse strings and one of the first things they cut back on is marketing. This a bad strategy, I believe that in such economic downturns companies should promote themselves more than ever, in order to stay ahead of the competition. Companies are having less print & are looking for alternative ways to make their goods & services. Businesses now use digital
media, such as the Internet, particularly social networking, such as Twitter, & Facebook.

However, there is another medium, that is set to explode & change the way we do business for ever. This is mobile phones & other hand held devices.

This mobile technology is the new technological revolution & is set to be the biggest change in the way in which we do business since the Internet

(& before that, the invention of the Desktop PC).

It is believed that within 4 years more people will be browsing the Internet on mobile devices than on their desktop PC's.

Worldwide there are currently 5.282 Billion people who subscribe to mobile phones. It is clear after studying mobile trends for a while that this

development was something that businesses ignore at their peril. Need convincing? If so, here are more very significant facts:-

1. Twitter is now used by 13 percent of U.S. adults online, up from 8 percent in November, as more older Americans embrace the service.

Among Twitter users who own cell phones, 54 percent have used the mobile devices to access the social-media service, according to a report today by the Pew Research.

2. There are 277 million mobile Web users in China, up 43 million in six months. This amounts to 65.9 percent of total web users in China 420 million, the majority of these also access the Web via PC or laptop, but 11.7 percent of Web users exclusively use mobile to access the Web
(this works out about 49 million – or more than the number of people that live in Spain).

3. 90% of the Chinese population aged between 14 & 15 have mobile phones. Out a total population of 1.4 billion that is a potentialy huge audience .

4. The growth in mobile phone usage is growing faster than the usage of Desktop PC's ever did.

5. At the end of 2009 almost 530 million users browsed the mobile Web on their handset. This is forecast to rise to over 1 billion by 2015. IDC (December 2009) estimates there were more than 450 million mobile Internet users worldwide in 2009; this will pass the 1 billion mark by 2013.

6. It is inevitable that mobile access to the Web will overtake PC access at some point (assuming the present expansion of 3G networks and availability of Internet-ready phones continues) is that mobile phone penetration outnumbers fixed Internet users 5:2. In the developed world, only 21 percent of people have Internet access, lowest in Africa at 9.6 percent. The price of
fixed broadband in developing countries remains prohibitively expensive. (all figures from the ITU estimates, October 2010)).

I could go on, but it is obvious that mobile marketing is something that businesses must consider. Can your business afford to get left behind on this bandwagon?

Hence I have been looking into a novel way to use this technology. I eventually came up with a service called Talking Product Videos. This service takes still images & clip art of animals, caricatures, & products, & makes them talk on videos for Email, Internet pages, DVD, & more importantly, on mobile phones.

These videos are great for charities. Imagine the power for instance of a Sheltered Dogs Home using a video of a dog asking to be homed, to peoples mobile phones. They are also great for promoting Environmental issues. For example, I have a used talking Seal to promote petition to stop drilling of the Arctic, & a talking Orang Utan to promote a petition against Deforestation. Using Wireless Bluetooth technology they have also been used to send business adverts to potential clients, in shopping malls. This technology sends the mobile video adverts to anyone's mobile phones within a 100 metre radius inside the mall. In addition my videos were sent to journalists mobile phones, to attract them to a big Christian exhibition at Sandown Park in Surrey, UK .

Lastly, I have been asked to provide video ring tones for the Chinese mobile market, by 2 world leading mobile content providers, Vringo, & ZGroup Mobile. Given the fact that 90% of Chinese people aged between 14 & 50 have mobile phones, this is a huge potential.

The one advantage that mobile marketing has over print is that it has global potential. I am able to sell my Talking Product Videos in every country, not just the UK. The world is my oyster.

So please investigate mobile marketing & unlock it's potential.

A PDF detailing more facts on mobile trends, can be read, & downloaed from my web site at this link.

Talking Product Videos can be found on my web site at this link.

They are split into the following categories:-

Ringtones
Business Advertisments
Ethical
Caricatures
Greetings

Last but not least, here's a little teaser. A mobile video sent out as part of a Promotion, featuring an invite to the recent Royal Wedding.

Stop the HAARP Project Now!

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:43:00 +0000

I have been promoting ethical issues, particularly the dreadful oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's blatant disregard for the wild life & inhabitants of the Gulf were a disgrace, not to mention the long term effects it might have for the whole planet. When will corporate greed ever cease?

However, for the last 6 months I have been investigating the HAARP project, which could have repercussions for the whole of mankind, far worse than the Gulf Oil spillage. If used wrongly, it could be the most devastating weapon since the Atomic Bomb. The High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokoma Alaska-jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy-is part of a new generation of sophisticated weaponry under the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate,

HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating "controlled local modifications of the ionosphere". Scientist Dr. Nicholas Begich-actively involved in the public campaign against HAARP-describes HAARP as: "A super-powerful radio wave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere (upper layer of the atmosphere) by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything-living and dead."

Dr. Rosalie Bertell depicts HAARP as "a gigantic heater that can cause major disruption in the ionosphere, creating not just holes, but long incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from bombarding the planet." According to Dr. Rosalie Bertell, HAARP is part of a integrated weapons' system, which has potentially devastating environmental consequences: "It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere. It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate military nature. The military implications of combining these projects is alarming. The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening. The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a device for repairing the ozone layer. In addition to weather manipulation, HAARP has a number of related uses: "HAARP could contribute to climate change by intensively bombarding the atmosphere with high-frequency rays. Returning low-frequency waves at high intensity could also affect people's brains, and effects on tectonic movements cannot be ruled out. More generally, HAARP has the ability of modifying the World's electro-magnetic field. It is part of an arsenal of "electronic weapons" which US military researchers consider a "gentler and kinder warfare".

Do we really want to have such a technology in the hands of the American military? I think not, just look at the so called non existent weapons of mass destruction in the Iraq War. They will stop at nothing to achieve their end game. I cannot believe that this dreadful project isn't getting more attention, it should be stopped in it's track at the United Nations. It's bad enough polluting our oceans, now were messing about with our weather systems. Enough is enough. Please research HAARP on Google, find out for yourselves, & spread the word. Please pass this post to anyone you know who is concerned with what we are doing to our planet.

In the meantime, here's my video take on it, and a few others to start you off.

Jesse Venture - Investigative Journalist & Ex Minnesota Governor

Investigation into Weather modification & Earthquakes by Dr. Rosalie Bertell

I am a Spiritual Being

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:48:00 +0000

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. I do not feel the need to attach my beliefs to any doctrine.

I believe that before the big bang there was just a consciousness (call it God if you like, or divine being) in the form of energy. Without matter this energy could not experience things & thus evolve. It thus exploded (big bang) and matter was created. Hence we are all part of the divine being, & we all contribute to it's experience (good or bad) & help it evolve.

We are all connected and thus we effect others in ways unimaginable.

This is why I do not follow religion, whether Christian or Muslim, or any other. I believe that religion fails us miserably and that it is just a means of power, money, & controlling people. I am a sentient intelligent being & I prefer to make up my own mind.

To me, people like monks who take a vow of silence, & Trappist monks are missing the point of being here. By remaining isolated they are not experiencing anything, & thus not contributing to the divine being. They are missing the point of the creation. I watch quite a few of the Christian channels on Sky, & I find their attitudes patronising & self righteous. To say that we won't go to heaven if we don't believe in Christ is wrong. I don't believe that God is found in some building, He is in all of us and we all need to realise that we are all divine, we are so more special than we know.

Is this not what the Gnostics believed. Gnostics believed that human beings, though locked in this material body, have a spark of the higher spiritual reality within. This spark, if fanned into a flame, can liberate us and help us evolve back into spiritual perfection. This happens through a process of self-discovery, in which you discover your divine identity, you separate from the world by ‘stripping off ’ the consciousness of the physical body, and you finally experience the kingdom of light, peace, and life.

Religion has held mankind back for centuries, causing so many conflicts and so much persecution, just look at the Spanish inquisition for instance, & the conflict in the Middle East.

I believe that the Christian church has hijacked the true Jesus for their own agenda, and we have ended up with a Jesus born out of compromise, thus losing the real message of his teachings. He was a being that had reached God consciousness, a soul that was at one with the divine being.

We are all part of the divine. Quantum physics is teaching us that although atoms may be light years apart, they are connected. We are all part of the universe, & instantly connected. If the Universe is a hologram, then each atom contains the whole universe. This may sound crazy, but that's how holograms work.

Jesus was trying to teach us that we can all reach this enlightenment, and be connected with the universal force/God/ Devine Being, call it what you like. His teachings were so radical, it is no wonder that they were watered down by the Church. With the new interest in spiritual issues, perhaps we can embrace the teachings of Jesus as they were originally meant. Maybe it is time to strip away all the religious trappings and ceremony and discover the true Jesus.

More than ever, in these troubled times, where religious differences are used as an excuse for hatred & war, we need to embrace Jesus's teachings of love, compassion, & forgiveness. It is so sad that the words & teachings of this great soul have been used to justify persecution, war and hatred.

It doesn't matter to me if he was the so of God (I personally think he had reached God concsiousness, and was not the Son of God), or whether he rose from the dead. What matters to me is his teachings,and the fact that he went through such awful suffering, knowingly, for our salvation. The time is now ripe for mankind to truly grasp the meaning of his ministry and reach enlightenment, to achieve God consciousness. This will be the true second coming!

With the new findings in quantum physics these are very exciting times. More and more evidence is coming out supporting the theory of multi dimensions and even the possibility of mind being separate from the brain, and the possibility of some form of life after death (spirit world).

Maybe a new age is dawning, & with sites like this, we can all connect and create a true world wide community, believing that we are not black, white, English, Indian, Muslim, Christian, but divine beings that are the same, & part of the divine consciousness.

I would like to point all religious & political extremists to this video .

The video is one of the most moving & poignant speeches I've ever seen, direct from Buchenwald. Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel delivers the speech to President Obama and speaks with dignity and great wisdom. This speech should be compulsive viewing for all politicians and religious extremists. Enough is enough, the hatred must stop. We should all learn to celebrate our differences and not use them as an excuse for war & persecution. As he so eloquently puts it, even in a terrible place like Buchenwald, hope is eternal and can be used to celebrate the beauty of the human spirit.

THE MESSAGE TO ALL MANKIND IN CONCLUSION

Celebrate our differences and not use them as an excuse for war & persecution. Strip away religion,colour, race, country, & realise that we are all connected and part of the divine. As a civilized species we cannot simply go on making the same old mistakes.

I initially posted this article on a site I was invited to join,

"The Truth about Islam". I am not a Muslim, to be honest, I was a little nervous about posting it, wondering what reaction it would get. I need not have worried, the response was great. I think that any post should stimulate response and ideas, & hopefully get people thinking about things that they perhaps might not think about.

Bear this in mind. Everything you see, hear, touch , & feel is simply a signal that is processed internally & interpreted by the brain. As a recent cosmologist on the "Things we don't already know- Are we real?" TV program, how do we know we are real?

Now supposing you could have your brain hooked up outside your body. You would see you brain, but it's only an optic signal interpreted by your brain as an image. Hence, by reasoning, how do you know your brain is real?

The implications of a holographic universe are shattering, if true, & would change our perception of reality, and our long held scientific beliefs. If it is true, we can have the power to cure ourselves, even create our own reality. I believe that Jesus once said (after walking on the water?) "I tell you the truth. The person that believes in me will do the same things I have done. Yes! He will do even greater things than I have done".

This could be interpreted as we can create our own reality? We all know that if we are feeling depressed we feel poorly, if we are happy, we feel fit and full of energy. Could we literally heal ourselves?

How often do dreams seem real? How many people have had near death experiences. Perhaps life, dreaming, & afterlife are just variants of the holographic universe.

If we have the possibility to create our own reality, it is worth thinking about the loads of articles that are appearing about 2012. Ian Lungold (Mayan & Mayan Calendar expert) & Gregg Braden believe that the Mayans charted the evolution on consciousness on this planet. The gap between each step in development is decreasing as time goes on.

Evolution is speeding up! I feel this myself, it's as though the days are getting shorter,like time is speeding up. Ian Lungold & Greg Braden believe that we are approaching the final stage in the evolution of consciousness according to the various stages in the Mayan Calendar.

The Earth's magnetic field is decreasing (Earth's pulse is increasing) and we will be exposed to energy fiieds as we approach the centre of the Galaxy. Could this release the pineal gland (third eye) and could we turn into a new being, with a new heightened level of consciousness? This might (as Gregg Bradden & Ian Lungold believe) mean we could create our own reality, especially if the universe is an hologram.

No one knows the truth for sure what the truth is. Religions think they do, but I don't believe they do.

Every soul has its own unique journey. You should never be told to pray to or to witch faith you should follow. Our journey on the earth plane is a journey to learn. We must find our own path. I guess the only thing that matters is love and respect for each other.

FREE Video Email Service

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:17:00 +0000

I have been looking for a Video Email service at a reasonable price when I stumbled across
iWowWE.

The video email service is FREE & you can also use it to track who opens your message.

Why not go along to this link & register for FREE.

Of course, there's always the opportunity to insert a Talking Product Video int your email, as in this sample below.

Environmentally Friendly Printing

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:19:00 +0000

I actively promote "Environmentally Friendly Printing", & one of my main suppliers has invested heavily in a AniColour Press.

Benefits to the Environment of AniColour Press

1. The new Anicolour press will save over 1.5 million sheets of paper per year in reduced set up sheets. Their competitors will use between 250 & 400 sheets of paper setting a job down to colour, whereas the Anicolour Press only uses 15 sheets.

2. Due to the 35% increased productivity of the machine they therefore use less electricity to print each job

3. 1.5 million sheets of paper equates to approximately 32 tonnes of paper. During the manufacture of paper, each ton will need over 1000 litres of water to produce it, and enough electricity to power a house for a week.

In addition, the heating in their factory utilises Inverta technology, which is the most cost effective way of heating a premise.

Lastly, due to the fantastic suite of machines they have, there will be 360 less trees that need to be cut down every year!

So, for a very competitive price on short to medium litho print runs, & huge benefits to the Environment, please call me on 01432 870528 for a quote, or email me at mike@spencerprint.co.uk.

Lastly, please feel free to browse & download at your leisure, my "Environmentally Friendly Printing" documents on my Scrid directory.

You will find spec sheets on recycled papers, a carbon offset calculator, and other "Green Printing" related documents.

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Christmas Greetings

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:37:00 +0000

Christmas greetings to all from Spencer Print & Talking Product videos. This Talking Product Video message features an assortment of characters, including a moaning mop, a busy saucepan, a lorry, a puffy cat, and a rebellious glove puppet.

Part of the video is dedicated to the Republic of Ireland football squad, who were so shamelessly treated by FIFA & it's moronic president Sepp Blatter. The days of sportsmanship & decency in football have gone forever, oh for the good old days!

For more Talking Product Videos please see the app at the bottom of my blog site. Altenatively, please view my Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/spencer456cometh

Subscriptions to my Youtube channel would be most welcome

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Christmas Greetings video message to all, featuring many characters, from Talking Product Videos at http://tinyurl.com/yaoaws9

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The Intention Experiment - Join & use thought to make a better world. Quantum processes in biological systems at http://tinyurl.com/yexcxep

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Governments are suppressing FREE ENERGY. View article & videos at http://tinyurl.com/ykvlr5f and follow link to take action

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A moment of solitude & peace leading to a connection with Mother Earth

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:37:00 +0000

I've had an awful bug the last couple of says, my ears feel like their going to blow up & even the wind blowing sounds like a hurricane. I somehow managed to resist the urge to go back to bed with some aspirins. I achingly stepped out of my pyjamas & dressing gown, put my clothes on, & decided to take my 2 dogs for a walk, to get some fresh air. Luckily I run my business from home in the heart of beautiful Herefordshire, & I am only a 5 minute walk from the River Wye.

On this outing, I paused on a bank high up with a breathtaking view of the River Wye & all it's glory. I closed my eyes for what seemed ages and taking deep breaths, I took in the sounds of nature, the birds singing, the insects chirping, the movement of the grass below my feet, & the wind brushing against my face. It was as though nature had taken the time out to breathe on my face, the wind was so invigorating. I then started to sense the Earth as a living force. I was reminded that the Earth is very much alive, how often, due to the stressful lives, we in the West do not take the time to sense this energy, in a moment of tranquillity and peace. We do not take the time to feel our connection with Mother Earth and Nature. Maybe we should all take the time to rediscover this magical bond that so many indigenous people share with Mother Earth. Think for instance of all the trees there, how old they are, & the memories and feelings that they have absorbed during the centuries. We are all energy fields, so it stands to reason that all this greenery must be alive.

In 1966, Cleve Backster performed an experiment that should have revolutionised the way we think about plant consciousness. He rigged a dracena cane plant (above) up to a polygraph test in order to work out its rate of water consumption however, the result was not as expected. The results of the polygraph test showed a much more human like response. A lie detector is used on a person in such a way that when they detect a threat to their well-being they produce a physiological response. The concept behind them is that they stress human thinking and emotional reactions. When Backster even thought about setting alight to a leaf of his plant he found the following reaction.

"Then at thirteen minutes, fifty-five seconds chart time, the imagery entered my mind of burning the leaf I was testing. I didn't verbalize, I didn't touch the plant, I didn't touch the equipment. The only new thing that could have been a stimulus for the plant was the mental image. Yet the plant went wild. The pen jumped right off the top of the chart".

From this point on Backster started a succession of experiments that he believed showed that the plant was in tune with his emotions. He could leave the plants alone for a length of time and sit in a bar, talking with friends and the polygraph test would measure the ups and downs in the conversation that Backster was experiencing.

This was not only true of Backster's emotions, when he poured boiling water down his sink, killing all of the microbe life that lived there, the plant responded, violently reacting to their deaths.

Backster reached the conclusion that the polygraph tests showed that plants have primary perception. He doesn't call it extra-sensory perception in the way that we would if a human were to exhibit signs of being able to read the emotions and intentions of those around him, as he doesn't see that plants have the basic senses in the first place.

Experiments with polygraphs have in fact been replicated by numerous academic laboratories worldwide, some of which are cited at the end of Backster's book. Since his original experiments in the 1960s, plant electrophysiology has advanced a great deal, and simplified tone-emitting devices are now commercially available which validate the concept of instantaneous bio communication, at least between plants.

This all comes back to the findings in quantum physics (as posted in my other articles on Pledging for Change) and the beliefs of indigenous people, that we are all connected, to nature, & Mother Earth.

I know I felt this connection, albeit too briefly, as I stood quietly and took in the moment. When I decided, reluctantly to go back, I felt re-vitalised and no longer felt so poorly & lethargic. We all need to find those moments, to re-connect with Mother Earth, and to appreciate her beauty, and that if we kill just a small part of her, we are killing a part of ourselves. The Mother Earth is a living energy, and she is sick at the moment. Like all living things, as survival is the driving force of nature, if we do not act to cure her ourselves, she may take the initiative, and shake off the cause of her ailments, mankind. There is so much beauty in this world, man is capable of such beauty also, it would be such a shame if we waste it all

New Environmental Initiative - Leapfrog Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:49:00 +0000

Leapfrog Revolution
We as a society and a species have been selfish for too long, and now we are beginning to reap the rewards. For too long we have plundered the planet with little thought of the consequences to planet Earth, and indigenous people. Religious, financial, & political institutuiions have failed us miserably in ethical issues. Politicians ignored the "Green" movement for ages, simply because, in the past, global warming was not a vote winner. The evidence of global warming is mounting and yet they still drag their heals over the issue, as USA still hasn't ratified the Kyoto Agreement.

It has become more and more evident to me that the only real people who can make a difference is you and me. Together, united, we can be a powerful voice that the politicians can't ignore!
We need to help reclaim the planet and save the lives of future generations, by bringing about radical change.

We need to call for a change in economic models, a change in environmental thinking, a change in our understanding of how we impact on one another and a shift in consciousness.
The change that's needed is not a simple progressive change that we see every day, rather it requires people and organisations to take a leap, a leap of faith to lead when the world is crying out for leadership. It requires us to leapfrog the ‘same old’ and make bold positive change for the long term sustainability of humankind, for the environment, for peace.
This involves bringing together poweful organisations that have traditionally competed with each other, for the greater good of humanity.

This initiative has been started by fellow Pledging for Change member Gary Scholz of http://www.high-ideals.com

The initiative is called "Leapfrog Revoloution" and Gary is looking for help

Through financial support
Through technical support
Through public relations support
Through creative and artistic support
Through any other support you are able to offer

To view Gary's brave initiative, you can browse and download his "Leapfog Revolution" document in PDF on my Scribd directory at http://scribd.com/doc/19763547

Alternatively, you can view it on line at Gary's new "Leapfrog Evolution" web site intiative at http://www.leapfrogrevolution.com/

If you would like to offer your support to the initiative, please email Gary at
garyscholz@bigpond.com

Please take time to read the initiative in full as it is a very worthwhile venture.

Many thanks,

Mike Spencer
Pledging For Change
http://www.pledgingforchange.com/profile/MikeSpencer
Together We Can Make A Difference

Experimental Paper Mill Update

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Spencer) — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:07:00 +0000

Quite some time ago I posted an article about Bio Regional's Mini Mill, an experimental plant using straw to make paper.

The last update on their web site was posted in April 2009, which is as follows:-

Progress has been made in developing BRMM’s proprietary technology. During 2007-8 with the support of grant funding from the Technology Strategy Board (formerly DTI), BioRegional MiniMills has commissioned and operated a 10% scale plant to demonstrate the Company’s proprietary black liquor gasification technology at Ahlstrom’s Radcliffe Mill in Manchester.
Ahlstrom generate black liquor from their pulp mill and although this is currently safely disposed of, they are seeking a more cost effective and sustainable alternative, which is why they are hosting the plant on site.

In 2008, the technical team, led by Philip Hartwell, succeeded in demonstrating that the BRMM process can generate energy and recover chemicals from black liquor in line with theoretical models. The team is currently carrying out a seven month work programme to be completed in the Autumn of 2009. The objective is to overcome operational issues with the aim of running the black liquor process continuously for five days. This would prove the technology sufficiently to proceed to building the first full-scale plant. In January 2009 the Northwest Regional

Development Agency awarded the Company a grant for R&D to support this work.
In addition BRMM have been developing a new pulping process. A one third scale twin screw pulping unit was installed in Manchester to trial straw pulping. They are currently testing the BRMM proprietary pulping unit with wood chip in trials supported by Scottish Enterprise and
Forestry Commission Scotland.

For further information please go to this link

Altenatively please phone BioRegional UK on o2084 044880

or email info@bioregional.com