Lena Rocks

I got some grains for making water kefir and have discovered a beverage that I love so much that I want to share.  It’s such an easy thing to make and has all kinds of good probiotics that keeps the belly very happy. The grains also grow and multiply a lot so you have them to share with friends You can also use the kefir to mix with herbs or whatever you can come up with to make a very customized beverage.

I use one cup of water with one tablespoon of raw brown sugar with at least one tablespoon of kefir grains. The water needs to be non chlorinated since that can hurt the grains. You will need:

1. A wooden spoon (the grains do not like metal)
2. A strainer that is also not metal – plastic will work fine
3. A jar that is big enough to hold what you’re planning on making, some will use jars with lids but I like to cover it with cloth since I figure the grains can breathe better.
4. A couple of dried apricots, figs, raisins or other unsulphured dry fruit
5. Half a lemon gives a very nice taste to the final drink and putting some chopped ginger into the container before you refrigerate it gives it a very nice flavor.
6. Another jar to strain the finished drink into.

A 24 hour fermentation will give a sweeter drink, the grains convert the sugar and it becomes less sweet and more tangy the longer it is left to ferment. For me 48 hours is about right and then I bottle it up and leave it out for another 24 hours before refrigeration. I heard that you should not go over 72 hours since the grains can run out of food and starve

A couple of great websites where I learned a lot more about this can be found here:

http://www.weim.net/homeovet/Docs/water%20kefir.pdf

http://www.yemoos.com/waterkefir4tbs.html

If you want to try it for yourself I’ll be happy to send you some grains if I have extras – just email me and I’ll let you know. I’m looking into dehydrating them at the moment but they are still drying so I will have to experiment with that as well – seeing if they easily come back to life after being dried…  This has been some great fun since there are so many ways to use flavorings and different recipes along with intent…

Lena

My body does not like it when I eat white wheat and so I always look into alternatives. I would sometimes buy different kinds of healthy spouted breads until my dear friend Josh taught me how to make my own. It is so easy that I want to share the process. Lots of people who cannot tolerate white wheat seem to be able to digest this bread much easier, not to mention that it’s very high in many nutrients.

1. Start out with organic Kamut grains. I use about four cups dry for an 8×11 baking dish.

2. Soak the grains in water overnight and then drain. Rinse in cold water every 8-12 hours until they look done, when the spouts are out about 1/4″ to 3/8″. Doing mine on top or an orgonite plate it usually takes me about a day and a half…

3. Once the sprouts are done you want to add whatever spices or other flavors you want before you grind. I only use some Himalayan pink salt and that seems to be enough for me – I just sprinkle some on top of the grains.

4. Then you want to use a meat grinder and just grind up all the grains – they will turn into a very thick mush that you just drop into the baking dish that is prepared with some coconut oil to keep the bread from sticking. Blenders and mixers don’t work… I know cause I’ve tried… you need to have a grinder…

5. Flatten it all out to about 1/2′-1′ thickness and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 35-60 minutes. I like to bake mine a little longer since it gives it a nice texture and color.

Let cool down and cut into squares and enjoy! You can also use the same recipe with spelt or wheatberries or whatever grains you prefer. It freezes well so it’s easy to make a big batch and keep in the freezer.

Lena

There are so many additives one can try when making artsy looking orgonite and last year I got the sampler from this website:

http://www.earthpigments.com/products/mica-powders.cfm

You only need a small amount added to the resin and I think the results are beautiful since you get such a nice metallic sheen to the pieces. It’s affordable too – only $12 and you can make lots of pieces with that. I add the pigment before I add the hardener and that seems to work well with this kind.

The HHG’s are made with my usual metals, aluminum, brass, copper and titanium with added peridot, tourmaline, garnet, kyanite and selenite which I use in most of my decorative HHG’s.

Made a lot of TB’s this month… but they all look so much the same that I no longer take pictures of them though I did take a couple pics of a bucket that holds just about a hundred – I have filled quite a few of these buckets lately… cause it feels like things are speeding up and they are being deployed as fast as I can make them…

Did lots of mini’s to give away as gifts and also did some glow in the dark pieces for someone who was curious about them. I love the way they came out though I had a hard time photographing them in the dark. They all contain layers of brass, aluminum, copper and titanium along with plenty of garnet and peridot spicing up a Tibetan DT in the middle. I also put some pyrite in the bottom of the pyramid along with some tourmaline. Made HHG’s with clear resin and lots of glitter but only had one left by the time I got the camera out so the rest of them have already been given away and I’m sure they are working hard wherever they are

Enjoy!

The Blue Ridge parkway in North Carolina is well known for the amazing autumn colors when the leaves change in the fall. We had an amazing drive though it was raining and I managed to get some pictures of the trees looking like they are on fire. I was telling my friend Karen about how beautiful it was and she asked me to take pictures so I decided to share them with everybody

A little over a year ago Dennis and I went to a crystal show where we ended up getting lots of Lemurian crystals. He made a short video interview with the dealer and we just posted it on Youtube. Enjoy!

This has been such a busy month that I haven’t made as many arty pieces as I would have liked. Most of the ones below have already been sent to their new homes. A little boy asked me to make him an orgonite volcano and I played with glitters to see if I could make an HHG that would look anything like it. It doesn’t exactly look like a volcano but I do love the way it came out so I made some more in different colors along the same line. They do look very bright and cheerful
Another friend sent me a mold so I could make little dolphins but unfortunately the mold was rubber, not silicone and it melted into the pieces. I managed to clean some of them up and think they came out pretty cute, though I will not be able to make any more unless I find a better mold.
Had an idea for some different looking pendants and so tried to make them. I cast some little silver and copper pendants into resin and then made a backing with plain nano lemurian orgonite and a Lemurian seed crystal – love the way they turned out with the black background and will think about adding different gemstones in the next batch.

Had some fun the other day making my very first youtube movie. It is a slide show of pictures of one special Lemurian and I used a lightbox to get the colors showing it off.

Marcel Vogel was a scientist who worked for IBM.  He did a lot of experiments between nature/human and discovered something…

Marcel discovered that the greatest cohering agent is love.  This, of course, set him apart from his fellow scientists.  At a time when many still don’t acknowledge that an observer affects what they are observing, the notion of love was a totally unscientific idea.  Even when cloaked in the garb of a term like resonance it was unacceptable.  To Marcel, love was (and is) a pure force.  Certainly we experience it as an emotion, but this is our experience of something that is beyond emotion.  He likened it to gravity, an attracting and cohering force present at every level of existence.  Without this relationship an important aspect of scientific investigation is missing, preventing us from discovering and exploring the more, perhaps most, subtle aspects of life.

This is one reason why certain scientific investigations in the area of subtle energies cannot be readily replicated.  It is not always a matter of scientific protocol, but a matter of relationship.  Unfortunately many scientists would consider this to be some kind of inessential and perhaps bothersome epiphenomena.  Although such individuals are scientists, to Marcel, they were technicians attempting to prove what they already thought was true.  The true scientist is one who attempts to discover with childlike curiosity.  Too often we, all of us,  only want to confirm what we already believe.

Here are some pictures I took of one:

It has been an amazing summer and so much fun was had that I was too busy to make much playful orgonite.  Made lots and lots of TB’s and a few charging plates that have all gone to good homes

I tried making an experimental mini CB with small pipes and lots of nano orgonite with extra minerals in layers and it is really sweet.  The glow in the dark stuff is getting better but unfortunately it doesn’t glow bright for very long after a charge.