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This was interesting.... The women all resemble each other and their eyes are all of the low percentage of the population category- except for the woman with sunglasses on.
I often wonder about the types who have light colored eyes....
Note they were afraid to come out and be known. All of us empath types (healers, shamans, wise ones, etc) were hunted down and horribly killed or tortured into silence.
"..finding women to participate was a challenge because many of them were afraid of “coming out,” especially in a country where they were far from the norm...."
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What do you think about this?
"Investigating the "Impossible" About 40 years ago, a group of microbiologists, behavioral scientists, and medical doctors in laboratories from UCLA to Russia proposed, based on their carefully conducted, independent studies, a completely heretical idea: that the brain, immune, and hormonal systems were connected -- and that emotions had a major influence on the body.
They were completely laughed at by the scientific and medical community. Some were denied tenure. They were sometimes shut out of university laboratories for their "psychological nonsense."
Nevertheless, they persisted with the idea, and with their tenacity and vision, as well as years of careful research in the laboratory, founded the field that we now know as psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI....Fortunately for us, these scientists persisted -- and paved a path that has had tremendous impact on our understanding of health and medicine. Forty years later, the fact that the nervous system, the immune system, and the endocrine system are connected is now a given, and nearly every day we are reading about exciting developments in these fields, such as the contributions of the vagus nerve in immune and brain communication, and the recent paper in Nature reporting the existence of functional lymphatic vessels in the brain -- something that again, was thought to be impossible. We've learned about the power of our own emotional states on our immunity -- and how our mental state plays a role in certain disease risks -- in some cases, even helping predict how long we live......" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-shamini-jain/hacking-into-healing-the-_b_7507928.html .."
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It seems the powers that be really want us to be miserable - emotionally - and then they won't let us express our misery. Instead - they teach us to consume things in order to pacify our misery. No wonder we ache and get sick...
I'm going to look into the reference they make about the vagus nerve. I have a syndrome involving mine. It may shed some light on why my body is struggling.
"Investigating the "Impossible" About 40 years ago, a group of microbiologists, behavioral scientists, and medical doctors in laboratories from UCLA to Russia proposed, based on their carefully conducted, independent studies, a completely heretical idea: that the brain, immune, and hormonal systems were connected -- and that emotions had a major influence on the body.
They were completely laughed at by the scientific and medical community. Some were denied tenure. They were sometimes shut out of university laboratories for their "psychological nonsense."
Nevertheless, they persisted with the idea, and with their tenacity and vision, as well as years of careful research in the laboratory, founded the field that we now know as psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI....Fortunately for us, these scientists persisted -- and paved a path that has had tremendous impact on our understanding of health and medicine. Forty years later, the fact that the nervous system, the immune system, and the endocrine system are connected is now a given, and nearly every day we are reading about exciting developments in these fields, such as the contributions of the vagus nerve in immune and brain communication, and the recent paper in Nature reporting the existence of functional lymphatic vessels in the brain -- something that again, was thought to be impossible. We've learned about the power of our own emotional states on our immunity -- and how our mental state plays a role in certain disease risks -- in some cases, even helping predict how long we live......" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-shamini-jain/hacking-into-healing-the-_b_7507928.html .."
Some musings...
It seems the powers that be really want us to be miserable - emotionally - and then they won't let us express our misery. Instead - they teach us to consume things in order to pacify our misery. No wonder we ache and get sick...
I'm going to look into the reference they make about the vagus nerve. I have a syndrome involving mine. It may shed some light on why my body is struggling.
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I was the only kid out of five and one out of seven who has green eyes…all my brothers and my sister have brown…Mom has brown…Dad had sky blue eyes…
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mine are green too. have yours changed colour since you were a kid? mine used to be very pale, often mistaken for blue or grey, but they have become darker in the past few years.
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My best guess: You chose to incarnate with them to see what it's like to "be" them and then to help them wake up when the timing is right.
Did you see the thread here where someone posted a poll for INFxs and the color of their eyes? The majority of us have light colored eyes such as blue and green and hazel.
Don't you find this intriguing?
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Ditto. I'm the only one in my family with green eyes for generations, everyone else has brown.
Apparently when I was born they were a deep blue, slowly changing to green by my toddler years. My eye color still changes, they go from pale green when I'm ill to a vibrant green when I'm pissed. I can put on a placid or brave face and yet my eyes will always give me away.
I find that very intriguing! I want to look into that further. My mother is from a rural area in Chile and used to tell me the old stories of folklore about green-eyed women. They were sought after as sacrifices to the earth mother for a fertile harvest. Their blood was considered healing and they were hunted for this as well. It was the same with blue eyes, although green was tied to the land and blue to the water. It's a little unnerving yet fascinating at the same time.
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Part of the reason for the consistently light eyes is the Holocaust.
Poland used to have a much more physically diverse populace before countless people were slaughtered and driven out, which has led modern day Poland to be more homogenous, physically speaking, with the emphasis that was placed on having fair features.They do all certainly also share a certain vibe, though. I see fear in their eyes.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland
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I’ll have to look at some old photos and ask my Mom…I have no idea. I know depending on what I am wearing can make them look more green or give them a blueish tint.
If I have been crying they turn bright, bright green.
I remember that thread yes. There was a very clear majority there.
My Son has steel blue eyes…his Mom had Brown…not sure of his bio-Dad…he’s still in Russia somewhere with his own family now.
A good portion of my ancestry comes from Poland…Sadowski I think it was…which upon coming to the US was changed to Sandusky.
The rest comes from Wales and Germany…a few other sprinklings of this and that.
Sensiko’s IRL last name is very clearly connected to witchcraft in Poland.
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Part of the reason for the consistently light eyes is the Holocaust.
They do all certainly also share a certain vibe, though. I see fear in their eyes.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland
This is very true…like I said above, Sensiko’s ancestors in Poland were very clearly tied to witchcraft.
Her own Father who was like 18 in WWII (he was already getting up there in years when she was born), they owned a good swath of land, horses, they were fairly well off I guess.
The Nazis took it all…they only reason they weren’t killed was the fact most in their family had light hair and eyes.
So it’s very true what you posted.
He had quite the story I guess…was captured by the Nazis…had to kill someone with a rock…crazy war shit…so sad.
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I can’t think of anyone who has green eyes in my family at all…cousins, aunts, uncles…maybe a cousin…idk….I don’t know them all very well.
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This is interesting! My mom also has same eyes as I do; hazel green eyes with a tiny bit of brown in the middle. Most of my relatives have either light blue or dark brown eyes, mostly light blue though. Dad has light blue eyes and little brother dark brown eyes. o.o Also my grand mother had light blue eyes (mom's side), grand father had dark brown eyes (mom's side) and dad's parents both had light blue eyes.
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The history of Western neuroscience may seem a dry topic to an outsider, a litany of impenetrable Latinisms and anatomical diagrams.
It is, in fact, a series of fascinating battles between different models of and metaphors for the way we think—foremost among them the concept of the “soul”, broadly defined in Christian thought as the incorporeal essence of a human being, and the basis for conscious thought.
The idea that the soul exists within a specific part of the human brain is, of course, no longer the subject of widespread investigation in the secular field of neuroscience.
“There is no hypothesis in that question, nothing that you can test—it is much too broad and not 'scientific' as such,” I was told by Sylvia McLain, a lecturer in biochemistry at the University of Oxford and prolific Guardian columnist.
The quest for the resting place of the soul served, however, as an important motivator for earlier generations of scholars, and continues to spur if not guide enquiry about the nature of our minds and bodies today.
“Asking broad philosophical questions like 'what is a soul?' can eventually lead to scientific investigation,” McLain noted. “Many of the early naturalists studied plants, animals, and the Earth to understand 'God's plan' or 'God’s creation.'”
A 17th-century illustration of the human soul by Johannes Amos Comenius.
Writing in 1567 with reference to trends in medical practice initiated by the Greek physician Galen of Pergamon centuries before, the French scientist Jean Fernel declared that the body was suffused with three “spirits”: “natural spirits” that arose from the liver and were transformed in the furnace of the heart to “vital spirits”, which were then distilled into “animal spirits” by the brain—specifically, within the intricate bundles of nerve cells known as the choroid plexus, which we now understand to be a source of cerebrospinal fluid.
These animal spirits were then discharged back into the body by the soul to act as its“servants and porters”, carrying orders to lower organs.
It’s a fabulously arcane model of the soul’s supposed relationship to the flesh that, among other things, conveniently parallels the church-sanctioned idea of a monarch, ordained by God to sit in judgement over the organs of society.
As with other thinkers of his time, Fernel was mindful of the consequences scientific speculation might have for the social order.
The idea of a host of specialised fluids under the direction of the soul remained popular well into the 17th century.
The French philosopher René Descartes authored one of the more controversial theories as to how the soul determined the distribution of these spirits, contending that it manipulated the body via the pinecone-shaped pineal gland in the middle of the brain.
A diagram of the brain by René Descartes, showing the pineal gland in the centre.
The pineal gland was, he suggested, suited to this purpose thanks to its central vantage point, suspended in whirling brain fluids “like a balloon captive above a fire”.
It served as both the recipient of sensory impressions and the motive force for bodily action.
The spurting of animal spirits through nerve channels from the senses traced patterns on the gland’s surface, Descartes proposed, giving rise to the experience of heat, pain and so forth.
The soul could then move the pineal gland to affect the flow, like a rudder—sending spirits gushing through the nervous system to other bodily organs.
Descartes’ theories were widely disseminated, but divisive—among other complaints, it was objected that as the pineal gland was present in the brains of dogs, cats and other animals, it could not be the vessel of the immortal human soul.
In 1713, the Italian anatomist Giovanni Maria Lancisi suggested an alternative in his Dissertatio Physiognomica: the soul must lie somewhere in the corpus callosum, a fat platter of white matter fibres that connects the brain’s hemispheres.
Spirits, he explained, flowed along certain of these fibres to the front and rear of the brain, joining the soul and consciousness to the rest of the body.
This theory was ultimately disproved when it was demonstrated that the corpus callosum could be sectioned, dividing the brain’s hemispheres, without depriving a patient of consciousness.
An image of the brain showing the corpus callosum in the centre.
As recounted in Marco Catani and Stefano Sandrone’s book Brain Renaissance, by the late 18th century scientists had begun to abandon the notion of a specific site for the soul or consciousness.
It was increasingly argued that the mind was a product of distributed networking, its faculties divided across organs that work in tandem.
Exactly how the impression of a singular consciousness is created when different aspects of the process are handled by separate parts of the brain remains a matter for debate.
While talk of a set of bodily coordinates for an incorporeal human essence has died down, some neuroscientists maintain that a particular organ of the brain serves as a hub, unifying the mechanisms that give rise to conscious thought.
In a speculative paper from 1995, Bogen noted that the formation of small lesions in the intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus “typically” brings about a coma.
By contrast, it is possible to infract upon or even remove portions of other brain organs, such as the cerebral cortex, without causing the patient to lose consciousness.
Bogen theorised that the intraluminar nuclei might control the inhibition or release of motor commands that originate elsewhere in the brain, via the striatum—that’s to say, they play a role in the consideration of an action before it is performed—but was unable to show how this occurs.
“Trying to look at consciousness may be like looking at the wind,” he wrote. “We see only the effects of the wind.”
Another study published in 2014 by Mohamad Koubeissi at the George Washington University in Washington DC suggests that the claustrum, a thin sheet of neurons attached to the underside of the neocortex, may help interweave the processes that make up conscious experience.
While medical imaging technology has advanced in leaps and bounds over the past few decades, the brain remains a mostly-misunderstood organ of daunting complexity.
According to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, its hundreds of trillions of synaptic connections vastly outnumber the stars in our galaxy.
Unravelling the origins of conscious thought may seem a fool’s errand, but this is unlikely to deter future generations of scholars—each unpicking the errors of their predecessors in hopes of finally uncovering the neurological functions that spark self-awareness.
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Crazy shit...
Amputees often feel eerie sensations from their missing limbs. These “phantom limb” feelings can include pain, itching, tingling, or even a sense of trying to pick something up.
Patients who lose an eye may have similar symptoms–with the addition of actual phantoms.
Phantom eye syndrome (PES) had been studied in the past, but University of Liverpool psychologist Laura Hope-Stone and her colleagues recently conducted the largest study of PES specifically in patients who’d lost an eye to cancer.
The researchers sent surveys to 239 patients who’d been treated for uveal melanoma at the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre.
All of these patients had had one eye surgically removed.
Some of their surgeries were only 4 months in the past; others had taken place almost 4 and a half years earlier.
Three-quarters of the patients returned the surveys, sharing details about how they were doing in their new monocular lives.
Sixty percent of respondents said they had symptoms of phantom eye syndrome.
These symptoms included pain, visual sensations, or the impression of actually seeing with the missing eye.
Patients with visual symptoms most often saw simple shapes and colors.
But some people reported more distinct images, “for example, resembling wallpaper, a kaleidoscope, or fireworks, or even specific scenes and people,” the authors write.
Then there were the ghosts.
Some people said they had seen strangers haunting their fields of vision, as in these survey responses:
PES patients describe the ghostly images they see with their missing eyes.
A survey isn’t a perfect way to measure how common PES is overall.
But Hope-Stone says there were enough survey responses to produce helpful data for doctors who treat patients with eye cancer.
“We can now tell whether certain kinds of patients are more likely to have phantom symptoms,” she says.
For example, “PES is more common in younger patients, and having pain in the non-existent eye is more likely in patients who are anxious and depressed, although we don’t know why.”
About a fifth of PES patients, understandably, said they were disturbed by their symptoms.
A similar number found them “pleasurable,” Hope-Stone says.
Doctors aren’t sure exactly why phantom eye syndrome occurs.
Since different patients have different symptoms, Hope-Stone says, “I suspect that…there may be a range of causes.”
For that matter, phantom limbs are still mysterious to doctors too. “Human perception is a complex process,” Hope-Stone explains.
Even when our sensory organs are gone–the vision receptors in our eyes, the pain and touch receptors in our hands–the nerves and brain areas that used to talk to those organs keep working just fine.
“Interactions between [these systems] may contribute to phantom sensations,” she says, although “the exact mechanisms are unclear.”
Even if they don’t know why it happens, doctors can warn their patients about the kinds of symptoms they’re likely to experience–and the ghosts they might see.
Amputees often feel eerie sensations from their missing limbs. These “phantom limb” feelings can include pain, itching, tingling, or even a sense of trying to pick something up.
Patients who lose an eye may have similar symptoms–with the addition of actual phantoms.
Phantom eye syndrome (PES) had been studied in the past, but University of Liverpool psychologist Laura Hope-Stone and her colleagues recently conducted the largest study of PES specifically in patients who’d lost an eye to cancer.
The researchers sent surveys to 239 patients who’d been treated for uveal melanoma at the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre.
All of these patients had had one eye surgically removed.
Some of their surgeries were only 4 months in the past; others had taken place almost 4 and a half years earlier.
Three-quarters of the patients returned the surveys, sharing details about how they were doing in their new monocular lives.
Sixty percent of respondents said they had symptoms of phantom eye syndrome.
These symptoms included pain, visual sensations, or the impression of actually seeing with the missing eye.
Patients with visual symptoms most often saw simple shapes and colors.
But some people reported more distinct images, “for example, resembling wallpaper, a kaleidoscope, or fireworks, or even specific scenes and people,” the authors write.
Then there were the ghosts.
Some people said they had seen strangers haunting their fields of vision, as in these survey responses:
PES patients describe the ghostly images they see with their missing eyes.
But Hope-Stone says there were enough survey responses to produce helpful data for doctors who treat patients with eye cancer.
“We can now tell whether certain kinds of patients are more likely to have phantom symptoms,” she says.
For example, “PES is more common in younger patients, and having pain in the non-existent eye is more likely in patients who are anxious and depressed, although we don’t know why.”
About a fifth of PES patients, understandably, said they were disturbed by their symptoms.
A similar number found them “pleasurable,” Hope-Stone says.
Doctors aren’t sure exactly why phantom eye syndrome occurs.
Since different patients have different symptoms, Hope-Stone says, “I suspect that…there may be a range of causes.”
For that matter, phantom limbs are still mysterious to doctors too. “Human perception is a complex process,” Hope-Stone explains.
Even when our sensory organs are gone–the vision receptors in our eyes, the pain and touch receptors in our hands–the nerves and brain areas that used to talk to those organs keep working just fine.
“Interactions between [these systems] may contribute to phantom sensations,” she says, although “the exact mechanisms are unclear.”
Even if they don’t know why it happens, doctors can warn their patients about the kinds of symptoms they’re likely to experience–and the ghosts they might see.
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Part of the reason for the consistently light eyes is the Holocaust.
They do all certainly also share a certain vibe, though. I see fear in their eyes.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland
Your quote says that poland became ethnically more homogenous because of the re-drawing of borders not because of the holocaust
It says the population decreased because of the holocaust (ie war in general and migrations etc)
Here's your quote again:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Poland
For many centuries, until the end of World War II, the Polish population was composed of many significant ethnic minorities. The population of Poland decreased due to the losses sustained during the Holocaust, and became one of the most ethnically homogeneous in Europe as a result of radically altered borders after the war.
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It's just a singular little quote drawn from a sea of information out there, not meant to be of terrible import. People with darker features were targeted during the Holocaust. It's sort of a Nazi thing.
