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Hi SisterLura,
All of the stones I've purchased, I've gotten on ebay. I know that's probably not the most traditional way many people would choose to get their stones. But, so far, I've been pretty lucky and everything seems genuine. Usually the way I can tell if a stone is the real thing is by holding it in my hand right against my chest, and I can sometimes feel my heart quickening as I do this. Or I'll get a tingling in my forehead. It usually takes a little less than a minute for me to feel something. Sometimes I'll get a bit of a headache or even feel a little queasy if it's a really strong stone. This next one is going to sound silly -> Or sometimes I'll actually put the stone right at my lips and I swear I can feel the energy pulsing in my head when I do that. That also takes a little less than a minute for me to feel something. I guess everybody's different in how they're able to sense the energy of certain stones.
I know that probably doesn't help, because you obviously want to know if it's real
you buy it. I usually go off of the ebay seller's feedback to see how much business they do, and how many of their customers are satisfied with what they receive. If they're selling junk, it will definitely reflect in their feedback.
I purchased some Lemurian crystals late last year. I went to pick them up at the post office and on the ride back to my apartment, I had them sitting in the front passenger seat next to me, and I got this throbbing headache all of a sudden because the energy was so strong. I've purchased a few batches of Lemurian crystals and they've done this to me everytime I've gone to get them from the post office. I carried a few of them in my pocket after I got that first batch, and I felt like I was walking around in a daydream. That's how spacey they can make you feel. They're these crazy powerful healing crystals that are supposed to connect you to your Higher Self. I've seen people on ebay selling single Lemurian crystals for outrageous amounts of money ($10-$20 for just one!). If you decide to purchase some, there are some sellers in China who sell them in batches (you can get quite a few for a reasonable price). The only problem is that shipping will take about 2-3 weeks longer, but it's worth it. You can then spread them around your home if you feel like it.
As far as ebay goes, you mainly have to be careful of people who
selling the real thing but are overcharging for it. I've come across that more than anything. Compare prices between
sellers before you make a purchase, to make sure you're getting the best deal.
this one time that I didn't receive the right stone. About 6 months back, I purchased some Tourmaline tumbled stones, but this one seller sent me a few Apache Tears in the mix instead of all Tourmaline. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and figured she just made an honest mistake because they're both very dark colored stones. But if you hold Apache Tear up to a light, you can see right thru it like Smoky Quartz. But everything else I've purchased from her has been the real thing, so I didn't say anything. Maybe the Universe decided that I needed some Apache Tears and that's why the mix-up happened. :-)
Another powerful stone is something called Moldavite. Right after I purchased that piece of Bismuth, I bought a piece of Moldavite. It's crazy powerful. It gave me a headache for the first day or two and I also felt a little queasy because it was so strong. But that went away after I had gotten used to its energy. I think the Moldavite may have opened me up to being more sensitive to other crystals, because that's something new that I've been experiencing within the last year. My crystal spheres never even affected me to
degree. But you have to be careful because there are quite a few people on ebay selling fake Moldavite. The fake stuff looks like a molten Heineken bottle and looks
way too glassy
to be the real thing. I got lucky and found this one guy who is in New York who sells real Moldavite. I'm in Dallas and he's in New York, so I assure you I have no affiliation with him. If you want, I can private message you his ebay user id. I don't want to post it out here and then get in trouble for promoting someone's ebay business that I don't even have an affiliation with. I've also purchased some Herkimer Diamonds from him that were also the real thing.
So far, the only thing I've seen people try to fake on ebay is the Moldavite because it's in such high demand because it's so scarce. I think you're relatively safe with purchasing most everything else.
Lura, if you have some specific stones you're looking for, I can let you know certain sellers on ebay that I've dealt with, who I know might have what you're looking for. Or I can send you a list of sellers I've purchased from, who I know sell genuine items. Just let me know. :-)
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Thanksgiving Is Coming! What Are Your Plans?
Thanksgiving is on its way! Are you excited for this most-major of food holidays? Are you hosting this year? Or visiting? And what will you be cooking? We're throwing the doors wide open for suggestions, good ideas, and requests — we are about to bring you lots and lots of Thanksgiving inspiration, but we'd like to hear from you first! What do you need, this Thanksgiving season?
I personally am hosting a crowd of 12 this Thanksgiving, and I am looking forward to setting a pretty table, and cooking lots of delicious things. I am shamelessly and gladly outsourcing the turkey, though; I am buying a smoked free-range turkey from the pit-masters at a BBQ food truck down the street. This leaves me more time to focus on what really counts: The stuffing, the gravy, and the pies!
We've got lots of Thanksgiving inspiration coming up: A gravy tutorial, decor and tablesetting inspiration, and plenty of recipes of course.
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Simple dinner at home w/ my dad, sister & her fiance, & my daughter. Now I need to figure out something green to make, other than brussels sprouts or anything green bean related. Ideas?
QOTF, do you like kale? Or spinach? A creamed version or a lighter white-bean puree would at home on a Thanksgiving table.
We're visiting. Last year I was in charge of the next day breakfast treats, and made pumpkin muffins and cranberry sauce-sour cream muffins. If I get breakfast duty again this year, I may make a strata with leftover vegetables and I'd love to try the pumpkin cinnamon rolls featured on this site a week or two ago.
We have a big family party on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, then The Fella and I get to snuggle down for a quiet Thanksgiving day alone together.
My proposed menu: butternut squash galette with caramelized garlic & Parmesan, roasted Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, pan-seared kale with chile-spiced mushrooms. I might roast a game hen or small chicken, mostly as an excuse to make gravy. (The Fella is vegetarian; all the gray is for ME!) Also: beer for him, hard cider or perry for me.
I am also making an entire pumpkin pie for two people, as well as a mini-blueberry pie for me. You might hear us groaning with delight from several miles away.
@QueenOfTheFall: we usually have braised greens, like kale, for our holiday meals. It's especially good with added dried cranberries and toasted nuts!
Last year, my husband and I had the best Thanksgiving ever! Typically, we go to my parents' place (7 hours away) for the weekend before Turkey Day to do Thanksgiving with that side of the family, and then do Thanksgiving Day with his family, but last year, his crowd was going out of town and we weren't able to go with them, so it was just the two of us and our two furry children for Thanksgiving. We made Nigella Lawson's ginger glazed ham. We sat around in pajamas watching the parade, and then spent the rest of the day getting into projects we hadn't had time to get to and getting ready for our Festivus party which is always the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I'm a little disappointed we can't keep this tradition going again this year--his folks are in town, so we're heading their way for a pot-luck turkey centric meal. :)
I'll be at my in-laws for dinner. It will be 7 of us so rather modest in size. Not sure what I will be contributing yet but this has inspired me to check with my MIL today to collaborate on the menu.
QueenOfTheFall, kale with chile mushrooms (which I mentioned above) might suit your needs. It's simple to make, not fussy or heavy but very flavorful, and best of all on Thanksgiving, you can prep the components ahead and just toss it in a hot pan in a few minutes.
Here's a description of how I make it, but it's more of a basic outline than a recipe. And of course you can substitute some other green for the kale: spinach, chard, beet greens.
You can also doll it up with additional ingredients: Parmesan or cream, toasted nuts, crisped bacon or pancetta, breadcrumbs. For a much richer variation, I sometimes beat an egg with cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg and bake it in a buttered dish.
[Sorry, that should be "I sometimes beat an egg with cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, toss it with the mushrooms and greens and bake it in a buttered dish."]
Heading to the in-laws. Round 1 with mother-in-law's family, Round 2 with father-in-law's family, all in one day and a few hours from home. I've taken to calling it our Thanksgiving marathon.
This year, my parents are coming from Massachusetts and we're driving to Big Sur and eating Thanksgiving at at Sierra Mar at Post Ranch in Big Sur!
We are hosting this year, after taking last year off and really missing it! This year we are doing an all-pie theme. So everything will be served in some sort of crust. I think we probably won't need to eat for weeks afterward. Turkey pot pie, with lots of vegetables, potato gratin, cranberry tart (I'm using Sara Kate's version with hazelnut crust that she posted a few weeks ago), some other sort of veg tart that I'm still thinking about, plus spanikopita, bisteya triangles, and then for dessert: apple pie, pumpkin pie with graham cracker crust, and key lime pie.
Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of pie. I think we're having 16 people.
We're driving 7 1/2 hours (hopefully!) to be with my in-laws. Tons of kids and fun to be had. My daughter is thrilled.
I would love recipes of things that can be cooked ahead and that will travel well. We're needing to make a pie or two and I would love to contribute something to the actual meal. Thanks!
@cmcinnyc do you have the recipe or a link to the cranberry sauce muffins?
For the 3rd year in a row, friends and family will join me at a favorite neighborhood restaurant, where we do not have to cook, clean, worry about eating more than is served to us on a single plate, nibble leftovers afterwards, or feel guilted into eating something we don't like. It gives us all the time before and after the meal to do whatever we'd like away from the kitchen. We are able to leave the table fully satisfied without feeling overstuffed or guilt-ridden.
We'll be cooking dinner for the first time since we moved to our new city and home. Yay! Just gotta figure out the menu. I know you'll help me out with that, though.
@nbateman, I don't have the recipe w/me, but when I'm near my cookbooks I'll find it. It's a pretty basic muffin recipe using plenty of sour cream, almond extract, and a good Tbsp of whole-berry sauce on top, sprinkled with toasted sliced almonds. It is very good--and very indulgent.
First it was the family, then the extended family, now it's the extended family and all the folks from my wife's work that have nowhere to go this Thanksgiving. Total headcount of about 17, which means two birds for my group. The problem is that I smoke the neighbor's turkey as well as my own. I don't think I can get 3 birds in my smoker! It's good to know your cooking is well-loved. I'm glad that I'm relaxing on the side dishes.
The turkey recipe is based on the epicurious recipe "Barbecued Turkey with Maple Mustard Glaze". The skin is not very crisp, but in return you get amazing flavor.
One thing I miss about not making complicated side dishes: creole oyster stuffing. It's amazing.
Cook's Illustrated had a "Mashed potato casserole" that likewise looked heavenly. Maybe I'll have time to make that one. CI recipes are pretty streamlined.
I leave the day before Thanksgiving to spend the following 10 days at my father's house in France. Not sure if we're doing any sort of Thanksgiving meal though...
We are meeting at my 80 year old Mother's big house.
My mom is going to get the turkey. The fresh turkeys are arriving at The Trader Joe's in her neighborhood November 10. That seems an awful long time to keep a fresh turkey in the home refrigerator. I would love advice on this. Mom is leaning towards a frozen butterball from the safeway but she is willing to go to trader joe.
We have some family gluten free, some vegetarian, and some low carb.
Two and a half years after I moved to Seattle.....my family is finally coming to visit me! I'm very excited. Daunted at having 7 people over to my studio for Thanksgiving dinner (I'm sure there will be mishaps), but I'm looking forward to it!
I do need a few side dish recipes that can be made ahead of time and then finished in the microwave (or not need to be cooked) as my stove is teeny.
I'm hosting 4 to 6 people at my home. It's my very first time to ever host/cook Thanksgiving dinner in my entire life! I'm excited and nervous! We're smoking a turkey, and I'm making my mom's dressing recipe but other than that I'm open to new side dish ideas!
A sit-down potluck dinner for 16!! help! I'm a newlywed and this is the first time we're hosting thanksgiving. We're doing POTLUCK so we dont have to cook everything, but suggestions would be appreciated! I don't think we even have enough silverware for 16, ak! The more, the merrier, right?
Digging into a Tandoori Turkey!
My first year in graduate school, we were not able to get home for T-day (my favorite holiday) due to schedules and grading. I groused about this in a class the Tuesday night before Thanksgiving and the prof. said something I have never forgotten, "This is your family; if you are with your husband you are with your family." That really hit home. We embraced that T-day, and everyone after, no matter where we were, fully. Our Thanksgiving tradition is to have our thanksgiving, with our food traditions and our other traditions (1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice while things cook and the George C. Scott Christmas Carol after dinner). While we do things with friends all the rest of the weekend, Thanksgiving for us is an "our family" holiday. It is truly a time for reconnecting.
I am moving to a new apartment the week before Thanksgiving so I'll probably buy Thanksgiving in a box from a local restaurant, Hubers, that specializes in turkey and does a wonderful holiday boxed dinner.
We'll have some vegan guests this year, a first for us, so in addition to some of our traditional items (turkey, of course), we will be adding a number of vegan items to the table. That said, I'm desperately in need of suggestions ... found a stuffed acorn squash recipe, but not much more that was inspiring.
doing an all VEGAN thanksgiving for the 2nd time this year! so excited but may have more people this time so need suggestions. last year did stuffed acorn squashes, butternut squash pot pie, mashed potatoes, black eyed peas, sauteed broccoli. i need some killer dessert ideas. last year did moosewood's vegan chocolate cake, a pretty good pumpkin cheesecake and a terrible coconut cream tart. the more things i can do ahead of time, the better. thanks in advance for your help, kitchn! :)
I love those yellow napkins, where are they from?
To all vegan cooks: Get a decent vegan cookbook, "Veganomicon" for example is full of festive dishes!
Wow, it all sounds amazing! I'm in the UK, so clearly won't be doing anything, but I hope you all have a blast :-)
It's now our third Thanksgiving here in the UK so not as intimidated as I used to be, but we've somehow managed to expand the guest list to 14 this year!
We have to convert the living room into a dining room to seat more than 4, and the max we have ever managed to fit in that room for dinner was a friendly 12 with a simple one-dish menu.
I honestly have no idea how we can seat everyone, and I really want to have a sit-down meal :s
We are stationed in Korea. My husband's office is full of people who are here without their families or are single, so we're having everyone over to our apartment.


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The National Museum of the American Indian will open its first exhibit exploring the contentious issue of treaties between the U.S. government and Indian nations next week.
BATON ROUGE, La. Soon after arriving in Louisiana to cover the Senate race, Roll Call Associate Politics Editor Kyle Trygstad and I found out Republican challenger Rep. Bill Cassidy and Sen. Mary L. Landrieu would be campaigning at the massive alcohol-infused ritual of Louisiana State University football tailgating.
The National Museum of the American Indian will open its first exhibit exploring the contentious issue of treaties between the U.S. government and Indian nations next week.
Only one of the eight members of Congress who sit on the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission attended a Wednesday afternoon meeting on the design, the latest attempt to move forward the project now 15 years in the making.
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Pricey 3D TVs have not been flying off the shelves since their debut early this year, local retailers say, but that doesn't mean they won't be mainstream in a few years.
Gary Paul, owner of Paul's TV Sales and Service in Groton, and Barry Levinson, owner of Roberts Audio Video in New London acknowledge that sales have been lackluster for the sets. In March, both had anticipated the arrival of more content than "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland," but acknowledged Friday that today's buyer may not have much to watch for some time to come.
Right now, said Levinson and James K. Willcox, senior editor at Consumer Reports and an author of its Electronics Blog, only "maybe a million" sets have sold, compared to industry projections of 4 million. The sets cost anywhere between $1,600 and $4,300, retailers say. Of course, holiday deals could help push sales.
"If you're a movie buff and you're willing to spend the money, that's there for you," said Paul. "And videogames…. But broadcast TV: we don't have that much content (for 3D). Content is going to drive the acceleration of 3D. When there are 50 channels (to watch), people are going to buy it. But the lack of content is probably the reason people aren't really jumping toward 3D."
As the year progressed, only a handful of films have become available in 3D, with only three channels on satellite to pick from. Plus, 3D glasses must be worn to watch the sets, and they cost about $150 or more apiece and are not comfortable if the viewer is already wearing glasses, Willcox said.
One development that should push 3D from a niche to a mainstream product is that TVs larger than 40 inches are now coming 3D-ready, said Levinson.
"In another couple of years, (that new large-screen TV) is going to be 3D-ready whether you want it or not," he said.
A few years ago, it might have been hard to imagine reading devices becoming as commonplace as the Kindle is now, he added.
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This week's announcement that Toshiba will introduce a 3D set for which expensive glasses are not needed is not as promising as it might seem, added Willcox, because the sets are launching only in Japan, the screen size is small and there are "issues" with the viewing angle.
"Clearly, there's a push for 'glassless' 3D, but I don't think we're going to see it for some time," Willcox said.
Willcox and the retailers also noted that manufacturers have made deals with Hollywood studios so that only certain 3D movies can be viewed on their sets.
"It's bad for consumers," said Willcox. "Unless you bought that brand, you can't get that movie. It locks up those titles to specific manufacturers. It's reduced an already limited supply of 3D movies."
So, as the holiday season approaches, it may continue to be the "early adopters" of new technology and those needing a new TV who are buying 3D sets, Willcox said.
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Patient-controlled analgesia helps you control your pain by administering your pain medicine. It is often called "PCA." PCA uses a computerized pump to deliver pain medicine into a vein (intravenous, or IV) or epidural space (in your spine). Whether you have an IV PCA or epidural PCA depends on what you and your doctor decided was right for you. When you have pain, you simply press the button attached to the pump. The pump will deliver a safe dose that your doctor has prescribed. Only you should push the PCA button. Family and friends should never push the button.
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Eight Die On Kentucky Roadways Last Week (Mar. 12 through Mar. 18)
Date of News Release: 03/19/2007
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) - Preliminary statistics* indicate that eight people died in eight separate crashes on Kentucky's roadways from Monday, Mar. 12 through Sunday, Mar. 18, 2007.
Seven of the fatalities involved motor vehicles and four of the victims were not wearing seat belts. The seat belt status of two of the victims is unknown at this time. Two of the crashes involved the suspected use of alcohol. One of the fatalities was a pedestrian.
Single fatality crashes occurred in Bourbon, Caldwell, Jefferson, Laurel, Lawrence, Madison, McCracken and Pike counties.
Through Mar. 18, preliminary statistics* indicate that 125 people have lost their lives on Kentucky roadways during 2007. This is 11 fewer than reported for this time period in 2006. Of the 125 motor vehicle fatalities, 68 victims were not wearing seat belts.
Citizens can contribute to highway safety by reporting erratic drivers to the Kentucky State Police toll-free at 1-800-222-5555 (in the state of Kentucky only, does not work out of state). Callers will remain anonymous and should give a description of the vehicle, location, direction of travel and license number if possible.
*These statistics are still preliminary as KSP waits for all local law enforcement agencies throughout the state to report any crashes and fatalities that may have occurred in their areas.


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Author: mad-maudlin
Rating: NC-17
Genre: AU/Fantasy
Word count: 12,871
Summary: Sorcerer!Sherlock sets out to trap himself a pet dragon. Said dragon turns out to be far more interesting than he initially anticipated.
Why read it: Cause John Watson is a motherfucking dragon!!! As far as I'm concerned, that's head canon. Come on, it makes sense. We always knew he was part reptile anyway.
I just love the way this author portrays John as completely not human, but still the John we know and love. Except carnivorous.
Notes: This fic has a lot of warnings attached to it, so be sure to read them all. Personally though, I didn't find it as dark as the the warnings indicate it would be. It was actually humorous at times. Let me stress however, that that's my PERSONAL opinion.


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We know there's still a few more weeks left in 2013, but we're just so excited about all the dining events going on in Atlanta, we had to share them with you now. Plus, reservations go fast. Book the babysitter and get ready to pop bottles and tickle your tastebuds with these happenings on New Year's Eve. Call the restaurants or go online for reservations.
1. King + Duke, 3060 Peachtree Rd, Atlanta 30305
404-477-3500, kinganddukeatl.com
This place has been getting a lot of buzz, due to its trendy vibe (like the 24 foot open hearth) and the fire-kissed cuisine. The four-course prix fixe dinner is $70 per person and will give you one more dinner to remember this year. Complimentary champagne is passed around at midnight.
2. The Mill Kitchen & Bar, 590 Mimosa Blvd, Roswell, 30075
770-817-9345, themillkitchenandbar.com
Want to be closer to the ball drop but far from the city? The Mill Kitchen & Bar creates their own midnight balloon drop complete with champagne and a showering of "Mill dollars," discounts and freebies. The party starts at 10:30 p.m. with live music.
3. Gunshow, 924 Garrett St Suite C. Atlanta, 30316
404-380-1886, gunshowatl.com
If you eat with your eyes, you'll want to check out Gunshow. The special ticketed dinner has early seating times from 6:30 until 9:15 p.m. and it promises to be as much a show as an elaborate dinner serving eight dishes and two sweets. Tickets are non-refundable and $200 per person.
4. Park 75 at Four Seasons, 75 Fourteenth St NE, Atlanta, 30309
404-881-9898, fourseasons.com/atlanta/dining/restaurants/park_75
Chef Robert Gerstenecker is known for creating a seasonal "garden-to-table" menu, including items that he grows on the Four Seasons' terrace. Take advantage of the last fresh crop in 2013 with Park 75's three-course prix fixe dinner for $70. The champagne toast and DJ keep things going through the New Year.
5. Ri Ra Irish Pub, 1080 Peachtree St NE #1, Atlanta 30309
404-477-1700, rira.com/atlanta
If you want to start toasting early, Ri Ra is celebrating the Irish New Year at 7 p.m. with complimentary Black Velvet champagne. The benefit of getting there early is you skip the $10 cover, which begins at 9 p.m.
6. Smoke Ring, 309 Nelson St SW, Atlanta 30313
404-228-6377, smokeringatlanta.com
When champagne is overrated, toast to the New Year with moonshine. That's what Smoke Ring is offering in addition to live music by Sweet Auburn String Band.
7. UMI, 3050 Peachtree Rd NW, Atlanta 30305
404-841-0040, umiatlanta.com
You've heard the buzz. For an upscale, swanky dinner, the "UMI-kase" celebration is an exclusive eight-course offering. The price is $175 per person and includes a bottle of wine or champagne. Make this the last date of 2013.
8. Three Sheets, 6017 Sandy Springs Circle, Atlanta 30328
404-303-8423, threesheetsatlanta.com/nye
Three Sheets has three words: premium open bar. General admission is $65 or VIP tables with private bottle service are $80 per person. Grey Goose is sponsoring so expect a DJ, champagne toast and party favors.
9. Social Vinings, 3621 Vinings Slope Dr Suite 4110, Atlanta 30339
770-432-9772, greatfoodinc.com
For no cover or prix fixe menus, Social Vinings is offering a few special entrees like Whole Main Lobster and New York Strip on their a la carte menu. Then the bar turns into a party with live entertainment and of course, a champagne toast at midnight.
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What is the future of healthcare? How can it become health care vs sickness treatment? What role do technology and innovation play?
Healthcare costs are rising, the population is aging and medical needs are greater than ever. How can patients receive better quality care at an affordable price? How can we leverage technology to provide better and more affordable healthcare around the world?
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Albert IpOct 17 2011: Christina,
Your opening questions addressed a very important point which is missing in the discussion. Healthcare - caring of people in order to keep them healthy VS sickness treatment - remedies when health does not do its job. OK, there are diseases which attack healthy people too, but the bulk of the general practice is remedies to bad habits and poor health. Obesity related illnesses are an example of poor choices made by people - and I think it is the responsibility of health professionals to help people keep health.
This is just an early idea and there are many finer points to be considered to be qualified as a potential proposal. What if, just what if, doctors are paid on number of people they can keep healthy? Say a local doctor is paid a fixed sum to look after 1000 people in an area. If anyone is sick, the doctor has to treat the illness, no additional fee except in situation where the illness are preventable. But if all 1000 people are well and healthy, the doctor can have all his/her time doing "nothing" and yet still get paid.
The focus on treating sickness instead of keeping people healthy has missed the most important point in HEALTH CARE. It is about HEALTH, not illness nor its treatment! Yes, there are unlucky situations that we may have illnesses or diseases which are unrelated to the state of health. but If we are healthy, our immune system should protect us from a large number of avoidable illness. Sickness treatment is the complementary part (a smaller part) of health care.
Oct 18 2011: Your thoughts around health care and not sickness treatment resonate strongly. We take health for granted (in most cases) and as a result we are focused on restoring health when we lose it rather than making sure that we do not lose our heatlh in the first place. We definitely need the sickness treatment but the question is how can we can raise the importance of prevention, how can prevention become one of the key objectives of the healthcare system and then how can we get all participants to be aligned in the achivement of that objectives.
I think it is encouraging that more and more people are starting to think about prevention but more remains to be done.
Oct 18 2011: Christina,
When we are healthy, we take it for granted. Many do not pay particular attention to maintaining health. When illness strikes, it suddenly comes into focus the importance of health. The current problem of chronic disease is EXACTLY because the impact on our lives is in the "future" and there are always more "urgent" priority at hand.
The first thing that comes to mind is education. We need a public awareness that health is the most important asset anyone can have. Without health, there is no future.
The "health education" must include all the importance of nutrition, adequate exercise and mental health. Obviously it is easy said than done.
Money makes the world goes round. If there is money to be made in keeping people healthy, there will be people willing to find ways to earn that money. Look at the number of fitness companies, weight lost companies and the like. When the public understands health is an asset which needs maintaining, there will be people willing to pay for professional to help them keep healthy.
Calories in the supermarket are cheap, nutrition is expensive. In the time of economic crisis, I'm afraid the situation will get worse before getting better.
Oct 20 2011: Well said Christina.
There is a direct cause and effect regarding the alarming increase in cases of degenerative diseases directly attributed to lifestyle choices. The challenge is encouraging people to make healthy decisions today that have positive health outcomes many decades into the future.
Generally, humans are short-sighted: why forgo the instant ecstasy of that second or third serving of chocolate cake, or the joy of unprotected sex, when the rewards of restraint are so distant? We can't simply address the "demand" on our health care system without addressing the root cause of its "supply" issue.
Rewarding people today for health choices that have future positive outcomes is how "Behavioral Economics" is being leveraged with success around the world.
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There was a time when we believed in something called stuff. Stuff was solid, permanent, the building blocks of life. But the deeper we looked into stuff the less stuff we found. Today we no longer believe in stuff. Today we know that there is nothing solid, and what we call solid is simply an illusion caused by speed. A table, for instance, isn't really solid. It is in fact mostly empty space, but the atoms of the wood (which are not solid themselves) are racing through empty space so fast as to keep us from putting our hands or coffee cups in the spaces between them.
With the ending of stuff we might have decided that life was essentially spiritual, but this didn't happen. Instead we defined "spiritual" as that which does not pertain to stuff, even though we know that stuff doesn't really exist. "Spiritual" became the imaginary icing on an equally imaginary cake. This did not, as Epictetus would have hoped, set us free. It simply left us hopeless and despairing.
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What if you no longer saw the world as material, and no longer posited another world as spiritual? What of you just knew that the world is the way it is and no longer divided it up into competing camps of material and spiritual? What if you simply encountered every "thing" as a temporary manifestation of life? Would you then engage life in a new way? Would you then appreciate what is while it is? Would you then not hold on to stuff or spirit, but simply, humbly, gratefully, meet what is in the moment it is?
To live in this way is, for me, freedom— freedom from categories that divide life from life, and trap me in systems of thought that may have no bearing on reality at all.
So I would rewrite Epictetus proverb this way: "Only one who accepts that the essence or meaning of life is neither material or spiritual, but fundamentally empty and unknowable can be free." What do you think?
Jesus said, "When you know yourselves, you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty and you are poverty."
— Gospel According to Thomas (Christianity)
What does it mean to know yourself? If such knowing leads to the realization that you are a child of the Living God, then the knowing of which Jesus speaks is not the ordinary knowing of which you are accustomed. Knowing your name, your address, your family tree, your achievements—none of this knowing leads to such a realization. Neither does knowing you are of this or that gender, race, tribe, religion, or nationality. Neither does knowing you are wise or simple, rich or poor, old or young. None of your regular knowing leads anywhere.
There are three kinds of knowing. There is the knowing of facts that form the basis for mathematics and science, and facts that allow you to function in the world: your address, phone and social security numbers, email addresses and computer passwords. It would be difficult to function in the modern world without these.
Then there is psychological knowing: you have this or that neurosis, complex, addiction, prejudice, bias, preference, etc. This knowing is the stuff of your story, and the persona you create to live in and through that story. It never leads to divine realization because it never points anywhere but back to the one who makes it. Psychological knowing is a mirror, often a fun–house mirror, that gives you the illusion that you are who you say you are.
The third kind of knowing is the knowing to which Jesus refers in this Gospel. When you know yourself you see that the persona is, as the word itself says, a mask. You know there is a face behind that mask, and that the mask is not that face. When you know yourself you know that the first and second kinds of knowing are all in service to the mask, and not the face. Knowing this allows you to look behind the mask.
When you peer behind the mask, you glimpse the face. There is only one Face, and that is God's Face. The masks are many, but the Face is one. God's Face is your face, just as the ocean is each of its waves. You are not all of God's Face but you cannot be other than God's Face.
Knowing this you dwell in true wealth, for you are one with the One and hence free from the poverty of fear of death that robs you from all lasting joy. The poverty Jesus speaks of is not a lack of funds, but of truth. When you don't know who you are, when you identify with the mask rather than the Face, you live in fear of the mask's death. When you are the Face rather than the mask, you can enjoy the play knowing that when the show ends you do not.
"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord. "I am stuffed with burnt offerings…Your festivals of new moon and fixed seasons nauseate Me… when you lift of your hands to Me, I will turn away My eyes; though you pray at length I will not listen. Your hands are stained with crime, wash yourselves clean. Put away your evil from My sight; cease to do evil; learn to do good. Devote yourselves to justice: aid the wronged, uphold the rights of the orphan, defend the cause of the widow.
— Isaiah 1:11-17 (Jewish Prophet, 1213–1289)
Imagine yourself hearing the word of God from the mouth of Isaiah. What is this blasphemy? God is sick of our sacrifices? God hates our festivals? Why it was God who commanded these things! For a thousand years we were to worship God in these ways, and now they no longer work? What are we to do?
The prophets mark a sea-change in the spiritual consciousness of the Jews. God was never blind to injustice or deaf to compassion, but it was sacrifice and ritual that placated his wrath. With the prophets the people come to understand that it is not outward form but the inner conscience that matters. The former can be, and indeed was outgrown; the latter is something we cannot outgrow, and only hope to grow into.
Isaiah provides you with a guide to godliness. It is not enough that you cease to do evil, are you actively learning to do good? It is not enough that you cease to do injustice, are you devoted to justice? How are you aiding the wronged and protecting the powerless such as orphans and widows? Pray with your feet and you hands, not with your tongue.
This is the background to Jesus' teaching in Matthew that what we do to the least among us— those without the power to help us or to harm us— we do to Jesus as well. This teaching of Jesus was as shocking to his listeners as that of Isaiah was to his. And when we put them together, what do they reveal?
If God is infinite there is nothing that is not apart of God. When we act meanly to another, we act meanly toward God. When we cheat another, we cheat God. When we ignore the needs of the poor and the powerless we ignore God, for God is all that is.
In the days of the prophet the people could hide behind their rituals. In our own time many hide just as well behind their faith. Yet not all who call out, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, "but only they who do the will of my Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 7:21). And what is that will? Cease to do evil; learn to do good. Jesus may be more than a great Hebrew prophet, but he certainly is no less.
God says, "I fulfill My servant's expectations of Me, and I am with you when you remember me. If you remember Me in your heart, I remember you in My heart. If you remember Me in public, I remember you in public. And if you draw near to Me by a handsbreadth, I draw near to you by an armslength; and if you draw near to me by an armslength, I draw near to you by a fathom; and if you come to Me walking, I come to you running."
— Hadith (Islam)
There are at least two aspects of this hadith that deserve closer investigation: "remembering God" and "drawing near to God."
What is it to "remember God?" In Islam zikhir, the formal remembrance of God by calling out the ninety–nine Names of God, is an essential practice among Sufis and Muslim mystics. The Names are the attributes of God, the ways in which God manifests in the world and the ways in which we can imitate God by acting godly. So, in one sense, to remember God is to remember to act as God acts. But there is a deeper meaning to remembrance as well.
To re–member is to re–pair to make something whole again. Can it be that God is somehow broken and in need of repair? No. God is the whole that embraces and transcends all parts, so God in God's own self cannot be broken. But our conception of God, our connection with God, indeed our ability to imitate God by acting godly can and often is not only broken but shattered. This is why the hadith links remembrance with drawing near. We remember God, we repair ourselves to God when we draw near to God. And we draw near to God when we act godly.
Any movement of godliness, of drawing near to God by acting godly, no matter how small, elicits a far greater movement of God toward us. You cannot but feel God's love for you in this hadith: "Stretch out your hand to Me, and I will stretch out My arm. Walk even a step toward Me, and I will run a mile toward you."
Too often we imagine that we are so trapped in our own wickedness that God is lost to us. This is idolatry: we focus on our sins rather than God's love and ability to forgive those sins. By imagining we are beyond God's reach we are really saying we are greater than God. Such thinking is addictive and hard to break. So Allah does not say, "Break it," only "Reach out a little." God does not ask us to change ourselves, but only to make a move toward change. And that is never beyond our ability.
Let God do the running. Only walk toward God as best you can.
Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, "The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, "Look, here it is!' or 'There it is!' For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you."
— Gospel According to Luke, 17:20–22 (Christianity)
To the Pharisees Jesus' words could not but remind them of much older words uttered by Moses, "For this commandment with I command you this day is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say 'Who will go up for us to heaven and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?' Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, 'Who will go across the sea for us, and bring it to us that we may hear and do it?' But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it. (Deuteronomy 30:11–14). Both Moses and Jesus are challenging the ultimate obstacle to spiritual awakening—time.
The Pharisees challenge to Jesus is to enlist him in the illusion that the kingdom of God is something that is not yet. They believe that such a kingdom is coming, but as long as they imagine it to be in the future they never have to engage it here and now. Jesus refuses to put off the kingdom and says here, as he did for example in Mark, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand," (Mark 1:15). In other words time is finished for otherwise the kingdom cannot manifest.
Moses is saying the same thing: Do not imagine that you have to do something, go somewhere, achieve some goal in order to live the commandment, the word, the kingdom. There is nowhere to go, no time to pass. It is already in your mouth and your heart; it is already among you, within you. The kingdom of God and the doing godly is here and now or it is nowhere and never.
The Pharisees would prefer things to be otherwise. Chances are so would you. We don't want the kingdom to be here, now, and among us. We want it to be somewhere else that we might strive for it and have the excuse when we fail to live it that the struggle was too great for us. But there is no struggle. There is nothing you need do to achieve the kingdom; you already have it. You either live it or you don't, but there is no pretending that it is beyond you.
Jesus says the kingdom is not coming with things that you can see. Why? Because observation implies time, and the kingdom is here, now. The time you spend looking for signs is time you are not spending living the kingdom here and now.
Time is the great hideout of the faithful allowing us to wait upon rather than live out the kingdom of God. As long as we believe the kingdom is coming we never have to deal with the simple truth that it is already here.
When you don't display yourself, people can see your light. When you have nothing to prove, people can trust your words. When you don't know who you are, people recognize themselves in you. When you have no goal in mind, everything you do succeeds.
— Tao te Ching, Chapter 22 (Taoism)
So much of what you do turns out to achieve the opposite of what you intend. Why? There may be as many answers as there are actions to examine and perhaps excuse, but Lao Tzu, the author of the Tao te Ching, suggests that the problem lies not in the actions themselves but in the hubris behind them.
You want to shine, to be noticed, to "be somebody." Or perhaps you wish to stay in the shadows, to hide, to be nobody. Either way you are imposing your desire on reality and seeking to shape things in accordance with it.
When we are taught to be "somebody" the implication is really to be "somebody else." You are always somebody, but that somebody is often thought to be less than the somebody else you could be. So you imagine this somebody else and do your best to imitate her. No matter how good you get at this game, it is always one of imitation. The true you is hidden behind the somebody or nobody who are pretending to be. Lao Tzu says, "Give up the game and let your true light be seen."
When you pretend to be somebody else you always have something to prove, and proving it maintains the illusion that you are whom you pretend to be. The act of proving something requires you to shape your words to fit your conclusion. Everything you say is a kind of propaganda spinning reality to prove a point in service to your illusory somebody else. Lao Tzu says, "Give up proving points and live truth as you see it., then people will learn to trust what you say, even if they disagree."
When you insist upon knowing who you are, you are addicted to the somebody else you so desperately want to be. You can't know who you are because who you are is not fixed; it is living, flowing, surprising even itself. The somebody else is an image that can be known because it is dead, stillborn in fact. Lao Tzu says, "Give up the dead you and be the living you, and then people will see their own unfolding mirrored in you, and be drawn to you in friendship."
If you don't know who you are how can you have a goal? Only the somebody else has goals, and they are as dead as the somebody they are meant to support. To plan out your life before you have lived it is to abandon living it altogether. Life is surprise, living is moving from the unknown to the unknown. The known is always in the past—fixed, dead. Lao Tzu says, "Give up your goals and engage each moment fresh, doing what must be done without scheming and worry how it will serve your somebody else. In this you cannot fail."
Behold the universe and all that lives and moves on this earth in the glory of God. Release the transient, and find joy in the Eternal… The Spirit, without moving, outpaces the mind; the senses cannot touch Him and He is never beyond them... The spirit of life, all streams of action, flow into the ocean of His being…. See all beings in your own Self, and your own Self in all beings, and you lose all fear.
— Isa Upanishad (Hinduism)
How does the Eternal impact the temporal? How does the One Who Is Beyond relate to those whose reality is here and now? If there is such a boundary between you and God it cannot be breached, but perhaps the boundary is imagined only, and that God's eternality embraces and transcends your temporality.
This is the God proposed by the Isa Upanishad. Everything that is lives and moves in the glory of God. This is St. Paul's understanding of God as the One "in Whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). You are not apart from God but a part of God. Hence the Spirit, without moving, outpaces the mind for it is the field in which the mind emerges, races, and returns.
Just as fish may have no concept of water, and birds may not understand the reality of air, so you may not recognize the One in Whom you live, move and have your being. It is not your estrangement from God that makes God mysterious, it is your intimate unity with God that does this. Hence the spiritual challenge posed by the Isa Upanishad is to see God in, with, and as all things: to see all life as part of your truest Self, God. But how?
How can you use your doubt and separateness to transcend doubt and separateness? To overcome doubt by sheer will, to insist on faith without first facing doubt is simply to pretend to something you have not yet earned. You can pretend to faith and do so with such vehemence that no one will challenge you, but deep down doubt still lingers and threatens to erode the charade of certainty that masks and blocks true spiritual growth.
The way out of doubt is to move through doubt. When you are willing to doubt without hesitation, which means to doubt even your own doubts, that you enter a place of not–knowing where you are open to experiencing what is rather than what you fear might be or might not be.
When you honor doubt by exploring it fearlessly all other fears drop away as well. You discover your true Self; not the temporal and temporary ego that sees God as Other only, but the fully present and timeless Self that sees God as each and all, and that which is greater still.
Trusting God with a whole heart, your prayers are empty of wants and don't wants. Trusting God with a whole heart not a single thought of self arises. At each moment you simply trust your Father in heaven, whose love is infinite, and who gives you more than you could ever desire or imagine.
—Isaac of Nineveh (6th Century Syrian Monk)
What is it to be whole–hearted? The ancient rabbis noticed an anomaly in the Torah: an extra letter "vet" in the Hebrew word levavecha, "heart" found in Deuteronomy 6:5: "And you shall love the Ineffable One your God with all your heart." The normal spelling of "your heart" is levcha, so why the additional letter giving us levavecha?
It would never occur to the rabbis that God's word could contain a type–o; this misspelling points toward a deeper teaching: the two vets imply two fundamental inclinations (yetzer) in every human heart: Yetzer haRah and Yetzer haTov, an inclination toward selfishness and evil (rah) and an inclination toward selflessness and good (tov). To love God with all your heart means to love God with both inclinations.
Evil arises when selfishness dominates. Selfishness dominates when you imagine a deficient world locked in a zero–sum game winners an losers. As long as you live with this zero-sum delusion you cannot trust God or abandon your focus on self. Turning Yetzer haRah toward God is ending the delusion and knowing that "gives you more than you could ever desire or imagine." (see also 2 Corinthians 9:8).
There are two steps in turning your Yetzer haRah toward God. First, link it to justice and compassion, the primary attributes of Yetzer haTov. The rabbis taught that without Yetzer haRah you wouldn't marry, raise a family, or run a business. Why? Because each of these is rooted in self. Since the key is not to erase the self but to keep it free from selfishness, fall in love and treat your partner with utmost respect, raise a family and treat your children wisely and with compassion, and run a business just do so justly and honestly.
Secondly, practice trust through generosity. By giving freely from what you have, you realize that scarcity is an illusion. The more you give the more you trust the infinite nature of God's giving, and free the Yetzer haRah from the zero–sum delusion. As trust grows, Yetzer haRah takes its rightful place as vehicle for God's generosity, and in this way you become whole–hearted in your turning toward God and godliness.\
When the wise search for the nature of all things, they discover a simple and profound truth: everything is God's grace. Every being in the world, and the world itself, manifests the blessings and generosity of God.
—Philo (Jewish philosopher)
We tend to link the idea of God's grace with the idea of choice: "I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy (Exodus 33:19). But Philo is offering us a very different understanding.
To say "everything is God's grace" is to end the separation between grace and the object of grace. According to Philo, you are not graced by God, but rather you are God's grace. There is no distinction between grace and the object of grace: grace is not a verb but a gerund, the acting of God in the world as the world. If this is true not only of you but of all things as well, then evil, too, is the grace of God; and if evil is also the grace of God, our entire notion of grace and God's free will must be rethought.
God's grace is like the sun shining. The sun doesn't choose to shine; the sun shines because suns shine. The sun shines because that is what suns do; the sun shines because if it didn't it wouldn't be a sun. Just as you cannot separate shining from sun, so you cannot separate grace from God. This may be what Jesus was pointing toward when he said God "makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matthew 5:45). God doesn't discriminate.
We like to imagine a God of free will because we can then look upon grace as a reward. While we cannot earn grace we can at least be worthy of grace. But Philo and Jesus may be saying something else entirely. God's grace flows because of God's nature requires it to flow. If God is infinite and all-knowing, what choice can God have? God's very nature precludes choice as you and I know it. Choice is only possible when outcomes are unknown. Since there is nothing unknown to God, choice is meaningless to God.
God's nature is to be God, and that means to create, to manifest life in all its multiplicity. God is less the potter who can choose to throw a pot or not, and more like the sun which shines on the evil and the good. Choice is irrelevant to God.
The key to Philo's insight is to realize that all life is God's generosity, blessing, and grace: all life, the good as well as the bad, the joyous as well as the sorrowful. Everything that is, simply because it is, is part of the infinity of God. It cannot be otherwise, for if something were outside God's infinity, God would not be infinite. Everything you see is God's manifesting grace. No longer need we ask Where is God, but only look and see there is God.
Once Rama asked Hanuman, 'How do you look on Me?' Hanuman replied: "O Rama, as long as I have the feeling of 'I,' I see that You are the whole and I am apart; You are the Master and I am Your servant. But when, O Rama, I have the knowledge of Truth, then I realize that You are Me, and I am You."
—The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Like Jesus asking Peter, "But who do you say I am?" (Mark 8:29), Rama's query to his disciple Hanuman is a way of investigating the latter's level of spiritual insight. There are as many responses to this type of query as there are levels of awareness from which to respond. You may see God as King or as Servant, as Healer or as Tormenter, as Ultimate Truth or Ultimate Fiction. Neither Jesus nor Rama prefaces their questions with theological bias. Neither says, "Do you know I am God?" It is irrelevant to them who they are, what matters is who we see them to be.
Peter's response to Jesus, "You are the Christ," parallel's Hanuman's reply to Rama: When I look at You from the perspective of ego, I am separate from You. I serve You as a servant serves a master. They differ only in that Peter sees nothing beyond the dualism of "God above, humanity below," while Hanuman limits this level of insight to the egoic stage only, and goes beyond it to the nondual insight of radical unity.
Mystics aside, the West places duality at the heart of reality. Creation is an artifact made by God, and not to be confused with God. Hence we seek only to serve God, and those who claim to be God are thought to be heretics or insane. Both charges were laid against Jesus' when he followed Hanuman in stepping beyond the dualism and said, "I and the Father are one," (John 10:30).
To safeguard their dualistic outlook, Jesus is said by his followers to be unique, and by his detractors to be deluded. Unbound by dualism, and seeing that the infinity of God precludes there being anything other than God, the spiritually realized Hindu provides room for dualism even as it steps beyond it to the realization that "You are me, and I am You."
Hanuman is not saying that dualism is wrong, only that it is limited to the egoic level of spiritual attainment. The ego has its place in a system that transcends it, and the goal of a true disciple of God is to work through the egoic to the divine and to say with Jesus, "I and the father are one." It is on this level that religions unite in a common insight of nonduality. It is on this level that God is seen working in, with, and as the world.
The question you must answer is the same one asked of Peter and Hanuman: Who do you say God is? Regardless of how you respond, ask yourself this as well: Can there be more to God than this? And, if so, what is that more and how does it relate to me?
A season is set for everything, a time for every doing under heaven: A time for birthing and a time for dying, a time for planting and a time for uprooting; a time for slaying and a time for healing, a time for tearing down and a time for building up; a time for weeping and a time for laughing, a time for mourning and a time for dancing; a time for throwing stones and a time for gathering stones, a time for embracing and a time for shunning embraces; a time for seeking and a time for losing, a time for keeping and a time for discarding; a time for ripping and a time for sewing, a time for silence and a time for speaking; a time for loving and a time for hating; a time for war and a time for peace.
(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)
Nothing is withheld from you; all of life's dualities are laid out for you. To ask for one without its partner is to ask for fronts without backs, or mountains without valleys. To ask for one without the other is ask for half a life, bespeaking a failure of nerve that leaves you unable to truly live. Ecclesiastes is not offering you a safe path through life; rather he is sharing the simple truth that life itself is the path, and walking it will bring you face to face with both the holy to the horrifying. Your choice is not between one thing and its opposite. Your choice is whether or not to walk at all.
For Ecclesiastes the question is not why things happen, but when: Is this harvest time or planting season? Is this a moment for building up or tearing down? The key is act in accord with the moment, and in so doing to discover that the entire universe seems to collaborate in our doing. The Chinese call this wu-wei, noncoercive action. Your doing is effortless and choiceless, surrendering to the moment and trusting that this is God's will. You need not decide what you want, you simply need to know what time it is.
What time is it in your life? Is it time to tear or time to mend? A time to keep or time to discard? Don't ask, "What do I want to do?" Ask, "What is the moment calling me to do?" and then do that without hesitation or fear.
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Interfaith Spiritual Advisor,
Scarritt-Bennett Center
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Rabbi Rami Shapiro, PhD
Rami was a congregational rabbi for twenty years, and a managerial coach to several Fortune 500 companies for fifteen years. He currently teaches religion at Middle Tennessee State University.
The author of over a dozen books, Rami also edits Scarritt-Bennett's upcoming Archways series of interspiritual readers.


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Watching Ron Howard's film, you'd never guess that Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" is a high-spirited, suspenseful mystery thriller - mostly because those adjectives don't describe the 2.5 hour experience waiting for audiences at the Cineplex this weekend. In many ways it's an admirable film, elegantly crafted and decently performed; but it lost in the translation the one quality that made the book one of the hottest sellers of our time: fun. In its place, we are given self-importance and austere solemnity, a film that's as off-putting as it is engaging.
The plot revolves around the mysteries first revealed when Professor Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is called by the Parisian police to help crack the symbolic clues left when a curator at the Louvre is murdered. As it happens, the police have already fingered Langdon as the killer, and in an attempt to prove his innocence, he and cohort Sophie Nevey (Audrey Tautou) uncover layer after layer of cryptic clues and mysteries, many hidden in the artistic works of Leonardo Da Vinci. The chase leads to the religious theories so distasteful to the Christian church that they'd prefer you boycott the film, with roots so assumptive they encompass everything from Christ to the Holy Grail.
Let's face it: any secrets that will "shake the very foundations of mankind" aren't liable to be found in the Louvre, nor are the theories of the origins of the Christian faith entirely novel. In the novel, Brown wraps his exposition in the veneer of historical facts with indelible charm - almost daring the reader to stretch the boundaries of believability to the breaking point. That's part of what makes "The Da Vinci Code" such a bewilderingly fun read. But in the film, Brown's effective mixture of fanciful theories, historical fact and heart-pounding suspense is missing the latter two ingredients.
The blame goes, regrettably, to Ron Howard. We'll forgive him based on his prior work. His direction feels lugubrious, ill-fitting; it's as if he felt that the presence of Tautou required the optical effects and pacing of a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film. But "Da Vinci" does not adapt well to the methodical pacing and pensive mood of a meditative movie; here, it just feels long and entirely too self-important.
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