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"A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, 'Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.  Jesus did not answer a word.  So his disciples came to him and urged him, 'Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.'
 
He [Jesus] answered, 'I was sent ONLY to the lost sheep of Israel.'  The woman came and knelt before him.  

'Lord, help me!' she said.  

He [Jesus] replied 'It is not right to take the children's [Jews] bread [blessings and miracles reserved for them] and toss it to their dogs [the Canaanite, or the Philistines].'  
'Yes, Lord' she said, 'but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table.'    
Then Jesus answered, 'Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.'   And her daughter was healed from that very hour.   (From the NIV Bible, Matthew 15:22-28)"


"I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel":  

Jesus also said:  "These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: 'Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.'  (From the NIV Bible, Matthew 10:5-6)"  

And when Jesus told his disciples to go "to all nations" and teach them the words and baptize them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit (Mathew 28:18-20)
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/01.22/01-depression.html

HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Depressed get a lift from MRI
Brain scanners please manic-depressives
By William J. Cromie
Harvard News Office

Both the patients and psychiatrists were startled. Manic-depressives undergoing brain scans, not a really pleasant experience, came out of the machine happier than when they went in.

One severely depressed woman left the scanner laughing and joking. It was totally not like her. After a 20-minute scan, another woman happily asked a researcher, "What did you do to me?"

Aimee Parow, the researcher, told Perry Renshaw, director of the Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric affiliate of Harvard Medical School, where the scanning was done. The research team was trying to determine how the brain chemistry of manic-depressives differs from that of people who are free of the problem. Nobody expected to find such a happy result. "It was amazing," Renshaw comments.

He described what happened to Bruce Cohen, president and chief psychiatrist at McLean. "I was excited but skeptical," he recalls. "One part of me said, 'It's unlikely.' But another part said, 'Why not?' People go in and out of depression on their own. Electromagnetic fields generated by the scanner could nudge a depressed brain back toward normal."

It was decided to investigate the surprise further. Under the direction of Michael Rohan, an imaging specialist, 30 people undergoing treatment for manic depression, known as bipolar disorder, were selected for a scanning experiment.

To make sure it was the electromagnetic fields generated by the scanner that were lifting spirits and not other aspects of patient treatment, 10 other patients underwent sham scans for comparison. Finally, to take into account the placebo effect, 14 healthy people were scanned. (The placebo effect causes people to feel better just because they are getting medical attention.)

Twenty-three people with bipolar depression (77 percent) felt better after scanning than before it. Only three (30 percent) of those who received sham scans said they felt better. Four of the healthy comparisons (29 percent) reported that the scans elevated their moods.

Mood improvement

"It's a small and preliminary study based on an accidental discovery," admits Cohen, who is also a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "But our results suggest that the electric fields produced by certain types of brain scans are associated with mood improvement in people with bipolar disorder."

"We were surprised at our good fortune in discovering this effect, and we are excited about the initial findings," adds Rohan.

The next step is do a larger study to answer such questions as how long the effect lasts, and how such scans make bipolar people happy.

When asked how long the effects of the happy machine lasted, some people said hours, others, days. One woman said she felt better for a week. Cohen says he hopes that a study that yields more definitive results can begin as early as next month. Such experiments should separate the effect of anti-depressant drugs taken by some of the subjects.

The researchers are intrigued by the fact that all of the manic-depressives not on medication responded favorably, as opposed to two-thirds of those taking drugs. Cohen doesn't know why, but he speculates that "medication may reduce the sensitivity of brain cells to the electromagnetic fields. If that turns out to be so, we may be able to raise the intensity of the fields."

The type of scan used is known as Echo-Planer Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging, or EP-MRSI. It uses low-intensity magnetic fields to produce three-dimensional images of the brain's chemistry, which reveal various abnormalities in its nerve-cell activity. The specific timing and amplitude of the magnetic pulses induce electric fields that may match the natural electrical firing rhythm of brain cells, Rohan and Cohen speculate.

"The pulses travel from right to left trough a thick cable of nerves that coordinate activity between the two halves of the brain," Cohen explains. The two halves perform different tasks; for example, the right hemisphere is considered more involved in spatial processes like map reading, while the left is more dedicated to logic and language in many people. "In depression, the two halves of the brain may get out of balance, and the electromagnetic pulses may restore the balance," Cohen says.

Head hits of happiness

Researchers at Harvard Medical School and elsewhere are experimenting with another technique that uses electromagnetic pulses to treat depression. Called transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, it involves holding a figure-of-eight-shaped wand near a person's head. Two coils of wire on the wand generate a strong magnetic field that induces electric currents in brain cells.

"We believe that TMS works by normalizing disturbed levels of brain activity," says Alvaro Pascual-Leone, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. In experiments at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, he and his colleagues lifted the spirits of depressed patients who are resistant to anti-depressant drugs.

"TMS uses electric fields that are more localized and much stronger than EP-MRSI," Cohen notes. "Some patients have reported feeling discomfort and there is a some danger of causing seizures with TMS that does not occur with our system. However, it may be that the two methods use different techniques to achieve the same result."

Neither scanners nor wands are ready for general use yet. If more experiments show widespread effectiveness at relieving depression, the electric fields may be better medicine than drugs. Anti-depressants can have disturbing side effects, including fatigue, anxiety, loss of libido, and increased blood pressure. They usually take weeks to work, and sometimes they don't work at all. So far, the scanning technique seems free of the side effects of drugs and TMS.

However, brain scanners that fill a large room and cost a million dollars or two are not a very practical alternative. McLean researchers have begun working on the design of a smaller, much cheaper device. "We plan to test a tabletop scanner in a study of a larger number of patients," Rohan says. Someday, he speculates, patients may be able to get their depression eased during a 20-minute nap at a doctor's office.

Those not suffering depression received as little benefit from scanning as those who underwent a sham treatment, ruling out the possibility of getting a quick hit of happiness at your doctor's office to brighten up a bad day or prepare for a dreaded meeting.

part 1:

Before I begin on how to tell signs of neg possession in children, I thought I should discuss a little about my own situation.  Unfortuneatly, I have a nephew who was diagnosed with autism and ADD quite early in childhood.  Most of my family members had accepted what seemed to be a horrible reality and tried to work hard to teach him to speak, except of course the father who to the end couldn't -- would not accept it.

My nephew's autistic like behavior appeared quite early on at around 2-3 months of his birth, as he appeared oblivious to his surroundings and did not look where we were pointing to.  Unlike other children, his language skills weren't progressing.  He also had the typical behavior of autistic children of repetitively watching things spin around.  However, he was different than other autistic children in being able to see "eye to eye" and showing tremendous amount of love and adoration and interacting with other children, which autistic children were known to lack.

Slowly however, the situation worsened, he started laughing to himself uncontrollably unable to stop.  His mother, without flinching, said immediately, that there was something wrong with his brain -- now I know MOST mothers would think a thousand times before coming to this conclusion about their own children, but not this mother.   As his behavior deteriorated, so did his appetite, he started losing weight, he was constantly getting colds and fevers and he was becoming more and more unmanageable and one could clearly see nervous strain.

The mother kept him up late at night beyond midnight, playing loud music  - claiming he wouldn't sleep without the loud music.  He was getting skinnier, but the mother would say, it's because he's so badly behaved, he doesn't eat and would hand him a fruit.  Many times the mother would refer to the boy as "my enemy's son".  My brother who quietly tolerated this for 5 years, noticed strange smells when he returned from work which he could not explain.  He tolerated it because the woman admitted that whenever they have a fight, she does "things" to the child.  When he demanded to know what, she refused to answer.  He also realized that the boy spoke more and was more well behaved when he was with him and behaved insane when he was with her and demanded to know why.

To our relief, the mother decided to leave permanently for India all of a sudden, just after the 5th birthday of the boy and as we were beginning to get more and more suspicious and intolerant of her behavior, the day of Mother's day this year.  She wanted to take the boy, my brother refused, then she made a "prediction" that the boy would come to her anyway.  After she left, my mother took over, she found the boy completely listless and broken and unlike what the mother said, the boy would sleep without the loud music, completely tired at 9pm.

Right after she left, every Friday and Monday at exactly the same time, around 9pm, he would start having crying fits and running across the room almost as if in pain. He would cry until his voice became completely hoarse, he would drag himself across the floor. He would take a strange breath, start looking at us strangely, his nerves in his legs and arms would start twitching and he would look to us helplessly, it was almost like something else were forcing him to stand up.  He would then jump around the room uncontrollably.  My brother who was meditating for a long time, noticed that when he did a mantra, he calmed down, but didnt make anything of it at that time.

When we took him out, he wouldn't look around at the environment, always looking down oblivious to his surroundings. When he moved to our house, he couldn't even say his own name or speak any sentences, we thought it was definately autism.  He was constantly listless or hyperactive, one day he even climbed on the second floor balcony literally without any consciousness of what might happen had he fallen.

But one night my brother was meditating and literally heard a voice telling him that his wife was a witch.

Noone in my family could believe it, not even my brother.

(to be continued)

What evidence is there to support you claim that they are magnetic in nature and not just energy?

I personally don't see the relation to magnets and negs