The one thing that all entities have in common is that they feed on your energy. A person who has many entities or a couple of huge ones will generally have low energy. Some people who have serious entity infections will feel cold a lot, but that alone is not an indication for entities. The general rule is the more entities you have, the less energy and vitality (prana) you have. Entities can cause physical problems in the part of the body or the chakra where they are stuck.
Most entities will eventually cause physical disease and problems. Extreme entity infestation could in the worst case scenario lead to premature death as the entities will deplete your life force and / or wreck vital organs. I would like to point out that we are talking about a shamanic concept of disease here, and not what is “believed” to be the cause of disease according to traditional medicine. Shamans see disease in a very different way and treat it in a completely different way. The results can be quite stunning at times. If a problem is caused by entities it is quite easy to deal with. But not every physical problem is caused by entities! But the good news is that entities can be dealt with, and that you don’t have to keep them!
The more advanced and cunning entities have another agenda altogether: to cause separation. As entities are demonic beings, they loathe Oneness and try everything to separate you from the Oneness with God/Goddess/All-That-Is. They achieve this by pushing your buttons and creating negative emotions in you, such as despair, apathy and unreasonable fear. In some cases when a person is being “possessed” by very powerful entities or demons their character will change drastically, as the entities influence them, and in the worst cases even run their lives! You can be sure that entities are not going to create a life of prosperity, abundance and joy for you! The opposite is the case. Their agenda is pain! The more you are in despair, the further you will drift away from your natural state of enthusiasm and joy which is close to Oneness. Therefore entities will try to create such situations in your life that will cause you maximum pain. And, they try to lead you astray spiritually wherever they can, leading you to false teachers, and scaring you of the real ones who could help you! They will rebel if you start to work with the healer and will try to manipulate you to go back to disempowering religions. Their purpose is to keep you from finding your power, which would make an end to them! While you have entities you will never fully get into your power nor to the Oneness!
If you seek out a healer or teacher who has real power, meaning the power to remove entities and demons, or the power to help you find the Oneness, the entities will do everything to prevent you from getting there! Your car may suddenly break down, a family problem arises, or you may get freaked out and suddenly fear the healer. As astral beings the entities can hear your thoughts as if you spoke them out loud. They know exactly what you are up to, what you fear, etc. Entities know every one of your buttons and every one of your weaknesses and will exploit them mercilessly! If you are a lazy person, they will manipulate you with your tendency to be lazy. So instead of going to a healer you stay at home and waste your time in doing nothing. If your tendency is being a coward, they will tell you the healer is “dark”, and whisper in your ear that you should look for somebody more gentle and “angelic” — probably leading you to a false teacher or an evil person wearing the cloak of “love and light”. They may lead you to false teachers and quacks, and to those who have no real power but put up a struggle when you do something that can make a real shift in your life. I have seen this happening in my own life and in the life of friends countless times.
It is easy to dismiss entities, but once you have felt them stirring in you, or putting up a struggle when you begin to do true spiritual work, or wriggling about in your body as the shaman pulls them out, once you have experienced that you will turn into a believer too!
Some entities will try to destroy specific aspects of your life, such as your relationships, family life, or your health. Entities can make people angry, violent, and act totally out of character. A person with willpower, integrity and a strong spiritual connection will not easily be taken over by entities, but the weak-willed, the already violent and angry, and those under the influence of alcohol and drugs will fall prey to entities’ manipulations very easily. People who haven’t integrated their shadow and are in ego are also more susceptible to entity control! A word of warning: never engage in conversation with your entities, neither out loud nor mentally! If you do you will soon develop a co-dependent relationship with your entities, besides you run the risk of being hauled off to the loony bin!
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just added 30-day mortality measures for heart attack and heart failure patients (separately). These are the first actual patient outcome measures to be included in this national, voluntary, hospital-specific public reporting database. In addition to the rates themselves, the site compares the rates to the national average (better, about the same, or worse).
The rates are also risk-adjusted to even out differences in the underlying morbidity of patients. The 30 days include patients who die outside the hospital, because there are also differences in how quickly hospitals discharge patients. This is, however, a potential source of error, because it's fairly difficult to capture deaths that occur outside the hospital. Last time I checked, there was a substantial time lag before such information was available via national data sources. If readers know how hospitals typically get such information, I'd be interested.
Thanks to Tony Chen of Hospital Impact, and one of my fellow World Health Care Bloggers, for pointing out the Healthcare 100 blogs, indexed by rankings in Google, Bloglines, Technorati, and eDrugsearch. The World Health Care Blog is number 47, and The Antidote is number 58! Lots of other blogging colleagues/buddies of mine are there as well; check it out.
A story in the NYTimes today reports that oncologists are still trying to find ways to profit from treating their patients with expensive drugs, even though Medicare has cracked down on such profits two years ago (by limiting the markups docs can charge to 6% above the cost of the drug).
Doctors can get around the limitations in reimbursement by simply offering drugs to more patients, whether or not they'll benefit from them.
“There’s pretty good evidence at this point,” said Dr. Richard Deyo, professor of medicine at the University of Washington and an expert on health care spending, “that there are plenty of patients for whom there’s little hope, who are terminally ill, whom chemotherapy is not going to help, who get chemotherapy.”
Some doctors claim that the Medicare limitations are going to result in a lack of access to needed drugs for patients in rural areas, for example, although an unspecified federal commission cited by the article found this not to be the case.
In such a climate, how common are honest conversations between doctors and patients about the risks and benefits (not to mention the costs) of chemotherapy in terminally ill patients? I'd like to see studies on utilization of chemotherapy in settings where oncologists can't profit from use of the drugs (and I'm not sure where those are, given multiple payers, including Medicare, available in most care settings in the US), compared to those where they can. The extra-credit part would be comparing real health outcomes - not 5-year survival! - in different settings.
Baffling news from the recent American Society for Clinical Oncology meeting, about which the public should probably not yet make too much of a fuss; however, the NY Times chose to report on it, so there you are. Here's my take on what I've read in today's article.
Researchers presented an analysis of pathology samples from a study that had previously shown that breast cancer patients classified as positive for the HER-2 gene allowed them to benefit from treatment with trastuzumab (Herceptin). Another look at the HER-2 positive samples showed that 20% of them were actually HER-2 negative - and yet half of those women benefited from treatment with trastuzumab, a drug that specifically targets HER-2.
This could mean any (or more than one) of three things, none of which we have enough information at this point to be confident:
- the tests (immunohistochemistry - for the protein - and fluorescence in situ hybridization - for the gene) are worse than we thought
- trastuzumab is not as specific to HER-2 as we thought (suggesting that women with HER-2 negative tumors could also benefit)
The studies described are small, and even those at the meeting (including the Times writer) did not have the benefit of all the methodological and data details we would in a peer-reviewed, published paper. In other words, these findings are meant to be chatter amongst investigators, and to suggest directions for more definitive research: for example, why did the women in the early studies test positive for HER-2, and negative now? were there other genes involved that could affect the results of the tests and/or the activity of trastuzumab? I'm not a molecular biologist, or an oncologist, so I'll stop there.
Regarding the NYTimes story itself, if it had fallen clearly into the excitement-of-science category, perhaps - perhaps - I'd have been OK with it, but there's a little too much hype offered up front by a National Cancer Institute scientist, suggesting that the results are potentially "practice-changing."
The Kaiser Family Foundation has posted a compilation of health care-related excerpts from the recent Democratic candidate debate in New Hampshire.
My fellow blogger Orac, an oncologist, has a great post (from back in April; somehow I missed it) on why screening for cancer is a complicated issue that should be approached with cautious weighing of risks and benefits. And here's his Part 2, with specific reference to breast cancer.
Be sure to read the comments - surprisingly, all were supportive - and check out the 9-minute video offered in the first post by Tracy of Dr. Barry Kramer (full disclosure: he's my former boss).
Opponents and supporters of Trump&apos;s travel ban make their cases ahead of Supreme Court hearing | Health Life
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the administration’s travel ban, dozens of interested parties – including states, business groups, foreign-policy experts and religious groups — have weighed in with friend-of-the-court briefs. Here’s some of what they are saying.