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International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS)
Journal of International Society of
Life Information Science

Vol.14, No.1, September 1996
ISSN 1341-9226
ABSTRACTS & KEYWORDS

Anti-Aging Benefits of Qigong

Kenneth M. SANCIER
Qigong Institute, East West Academy of Healing Arts (Menlo Park, USA)
Abstract:

Clinical studies are reviewed to illustrate that qigong can improve the health of people suffering from different chronic medical problems that accelerate the aging process. The focus is on personal practice of qigong exercise to improve many functions of the body, improve health and reverse aging. Clinical studies suggest that a combination therapy of qigong and drugs is superior to drug therapy alone, as indicated in the case of two diseases, hypertension and cancer. Qigong therapy can complement Western medicine in many ways to improve healthcare.
Keywords:
anti-aging, blood pressure, brain, cancer, cardiovascular, cell culture, Chinese medicine, clinical, drug uptake, EEG, electroacupuncture, emitted qi, estradiol, exercise, health, hypertension, internal qi, lung, medical, meditation, meridians, mice, microcirculation, mind, preventive medicine, Qigong Database, qigong, qi, senility, sex hormones, stroke, testosterone, tumor, ultrasonic, Voll, waiqi.



The Frequency Change in Alpha Waves and the Appearance of theta Waves during Qigong and Meditation

Kimiko KAWANO, J.M.SHI and L.Y.DUAN
Information Processing Center of Medical Sciences,
Nippon Medical School (Tokyo, Japan)
(Recieved on January 5, 1996, Accepted on February 9, 1996)
Abstract:

The Electroencephalographies (EEGs)of 38 Qigong practitioners (20 Chinese and 18 Japanese) and 29 non-practitioners were measured. During Qigong, an increase in theta waves and alpha waves is reported. However, theta waves appeared in the EEG of only eight Qigong practitioners in the resting state (21.1%), of six (21.4%) while emitting Qi (28 experiments), and of seven (36.8%) during Qigong meditation (19 experiments). Those appeared broadly in a period of double or triple wavelength of theta and only a few times during an experimental session of about ten minutes. As compared with the theta appearance rate of non-practitioners which was 37.9% during receiving Qi from Qigong practitioners, that on the Qigong practitioners was not very large. Also, the theta waves during Qigong did not increase from those during resting.
The power spectra indicate that the peak frequency of alpha waves during Qigong increased. For 38 Qigong practitioners, the mean value was 9.55+/-0.14Hz during resting with eyes closed, and those increased to 9.74+/-0.18Hz while emitting Qi and to 10.05+/-0.22 Hz during quiet Qigong meditation. These data included Qigong practitioners whose alpha frequency decreased with respect to the resting state, seven during external Qi (26.9%) and seven during internal Qi (41.2%). Their alpha frequency in the resting state was greater than the average. These results were compared with those from eight TM practitioners whose alpha frequency slightly increased during meditation, and with two priests whose alpha frequency decreased and whose theta waves appeared during Buddhist meditation. These results suggest that the level of consciousness in Qigong practitioners corresponds to that of TM practitioners who meditate by chanting a mantra in the mind. The alpha deceleration type may correspond to the Buddhist meditator. However, there is no correlation between the deceleration type and the theta appearance type.
Keywords:
EEG, alpha wave, theta wave, frequency, Qigong, meditation
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An Experiment on Unknown Subconscious Information Transfer with Auditory Brain Evoked Potential

Masahiko HIRASAWA and Mikio YAMAMOTO
Div. of Radiation Research, National Institute of Radiological Sciences (Chiba, Japan)
(Recieved on November 15, 1995, Revised accepted on December 13, 1995)
Abstract:

In order to verify that a subject's brain is able to identify selected sounds, even if the subject can not identify the selected sounds significantly by the normal auditory sense, a series of trials were performed on the subject who tried to identify the sound selected previously at random by computer while listening to four sounds generated during trials. This paper will demonstrate that the subject's significant shift of latency was detected on his auditory brain evoked potential peak while he listened to the selected unknown targets, and will suggest the possibility of unknown information transfer in the subconsciousness.
Keywords:
subconscious, extrasensory, information transfer, brain evoked potential, P2 peak latency




An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement

Masahiko HIRASAWA 1, Mikio YAMAMOTO 1, Kimiko KAWANO 2,1 and Akira FURUKAWA 1
1 National Institute of Radiological Sciences (Chiba, Japan)
2 Nippon Medical School (Tokyo, Japan)
Abstract:

A sender and a percipient were separately located in two sense-shielded rooms and extrasensory transfer of information attempted during which the electroencephalogram of the percipient was measured. The sender sent information during the randomly selected first or second half of a two-minute period, while the percipient attempted to guess both the information sent, and the sending time zone. Over 20 trials, the percipient was unable to guess the correct sending time zones with any statistical significance, but did show a statistically significant difference in the alpha wave amplitude in the electroencephalogram between sending and non-sending time zones. This suggests the existence of the extrasensory information transfer in the subconscious.
Keywords:
subconscious, extrasensory, information transfer, electroencephalogram, alpha wave amplitude
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Evaluation of the Effects of External Stimulations on the Human Body: Analyses Based on the Square Wave Voltage Responses

Kiminori ITOH
Inst. of Environmental Science and Technology, Yokohama National University (Yokohama, Japan)
Abstract:

Convenient parameters were given to evaluate the effects of the external stimulations on human body, on the basis of analyses of the human meridians using square wave voltage responses. Besides the conventional parameters which show the "Qi" flow or the activity of the autonomic nervous, a parameter was introduced to represent the balance of whole meridians.
Keywords:
square wave voltage response, meridians, external stimulations, Qi, autonomic nervous, balance of the meridians
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The effects of healing on the continuous response to the rectangular pulse current measured at the various acupoints(1)

Itsuo KURAMOTO, Seiya UCHIDA, Yasutami TSUDA, Hisanobu SUGANO
Life Science Inst., MOA Health Science Foundation (Fukuoka, Japan)
Abstract:

Excluding the visual and auditory sensations of the subject, the changes in the rectangular pulse current when applied on the various acupoints were measured under healing in 18 trials. Healers consisted of four males and six females, while the subjects were four males, and four females. The results were analyzed statistically, and it was found that the parameters of response, the BP and AP, changed synchronously as healing began. This result suggested that the existence of unknown energy other than five sensations.
Keywords:
healing, meridians, rectangular pulse current, synchronous change, suggestion
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Physiological Measurements under Qi-gong Anesthesia
Yoshio MACHI 1, Chu Wei ZHONG 2
1 Dept. of Engineering, Tokyo Denki Univ.
2 Shanghai City Qigong Institute, Shanghai TCM College
Abstract:

In China, one of the branches of qi-gong is external qi-gong and this is an accepted traditional oriental method used for a method for curing diseases such the same as the western medical method. Qi-gong anesthesia is included as one type of the external qi-gong. However, the mechanism of this qi-gong anesthesia, is not sufficiently explained. In this paper, we present the results of the measurement of both persons; one being a qi-gong master, Professor Chu, the other the qi-gong receiver, we also discuss the mechanism.
Keywords:
Qi-gong,Anesthesia,Brain wave, Alpha-wave, Phisiological Measurement,Theta-wave,Heart Rate, Respiration
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Imaging of Mind using Positron Emission Tomography
Masatoshi ITOH 1, Hiroshi MIYAZAKI 2, Yasuo TAKAHASHI 2
1 Div. of Nuclear Medicine, Cyclotron Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University, (Sendai, Japan)
2 Laboratory of Neuroinformation Science, Tohoku-Gakuin University(Sendai, Japan)
Abstract:

Qigong is a type of meditation originating in China and shares some common features with yoga and zen Buddhism. Our aim was to introduce scientific imaging technology in order to describe this unique state of mind by simultaneous recording of positron emission tomography and EEG. Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) images obtained by using [15O]water were transformed onto the Talairach-Tournoux's coordinate using brain standardization techniques. A statistical analysis of regional cross correlation between rCBF and EEG frequency fractions was examined to identify possible brain regions which related to qigong meditation. Eight right-handed normal subjects who served as a control compared with eight qigong professionals. The slow EEG waves (the delta) accompanied a general reduction of rCBF at resting condition and vice versa. The results of the control subjects document the effects of psychological tension or relaxation in rCBF during PET measurements. EEG slow waves in the qigong professionals on the contrary, accompanied increases in rCBF in deep brain structures. The right amygdala correlated with both EEG theta and alpha and the left hippocampus with delta. No remarkable positive correlation was found in the neocortices as a whole. These results support that qigong meditation is a state of mind that departs from ordinary thoughts traveling into the depth of consciousness.
Keywords:
Positron Emission Tomography, Cerebral Blood Flow, EEG, Brain Standardization, Qigong, Limbic System
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A case of examination in PK/ESP ability
Mami KIDO
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tohoku-Gakuin University (Sendai, Japan)
Abstract:

The paranormal ability such as PK and ESP of a Japanese boy was examined. The computer employed random number guessing game and electrophorsis experiment suggested that his ability is so called psy-missing one. Biophysical measurement by near-infrared photometry and by a single square voltage pulse method indicated some changes of oxygen metabolism in the brain and autonomic nerve system at metal bending or clairvoyance.
Keywords:
psychokinesis(PK), clairvoyance, electrophoresis, near-infrared photometry, oxygen monitor, single square voltage pulse method, autonomic nerve system, random number guessing
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The Function of the Brain using EEGs during Induced Meditation
Kimiko KAWANO 1 and Kouhei N. KUSHITA 2
1 Information Processing Center of Medical Sciences, Nippon Medical School (Tokyo, Japan)
2 Dept. of Radioisotopes, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (Ibaragi, Japan)
Abstract:

The Buddhistic meditation (Zazen) is practiced with eyes half closed and prolonged respiration. For the sake of investigating these effects of the brain, forced meditation using a blindfold and with hyperventilation was tried.
An analysis using electroencephalograms(EEGs) had the following results. 1)The blind condition produced many alpha waves over all channels (it means inhibition of brain activities). 2) The lag time of the alpha waves between the occipital and frontal region (tau m) was prolonged by the forced respiration. 3)The frequency of the alpha waves became lower during hyperventilation. These changes in the alpha waves seemed to show a superior condition during the deep Zen-meditation.
However, the original traces of the EEG at that time frequently showed many slow waves around the delta and theta band, and the subject told of feeling almost faintish. The strong suppression of the brain seems to be delta a dangerous condition.
Keywords:
EEG, alpha waves, Zazen, induced meditation, hyperventilation
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An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sense Shielding Condition
Mikio YAMAMOTO 1, Masahiko HIRASAWA 1, Kimiko KAWANO 2,1, Nakahiro YASUDA 1 and Akira FURUKAWA 1
1 National Institute of Radiological Sciences (Chiba, Japan)
2 Nippon Medical School (Tokyo, Japan)
Abstract:

The objective of the experiment is to verify whether a tohate performed by a master of qi-gong depends on his suggestion or not. When the master performed the tohate for his pupil, with the master and his pupil separately positioned in two rooms, each of which was located on a different floor of a sense-shielded building, the master's acting time and his pupil's response time were recorded. The time differences between the master's acting time and the pupil's response time were one sec and less, 6 times in 16 trials. This result implies that all tohates do not depend on the master's suggestion and unknown transmission of tohate acting, since the same event by chance as the result described above gives a probability of 0.0058; the value is of sufficient significance on approximate synchronous timing between both performances of some tohates.
Keywords:
qi-gong, tohate, sense shielding, suggestion, extrasensory
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Evaluation of Therapeutic External Qigong from a Viewpoint of the Western Medicine
Tetsuzo AGISHI
Dept.of Surgery, Kidney Center, Tokyo Women's Medical College (Tokyo, Japan)
Abstract:

Therapeutic efficacy of the external qigong, one of the prevailing popular medicine in the Asian countries including Japan, is evaluated by means of the modern western medical technologies which are supposed to present an objective guide-line for judgement. Furthermore, a mechanism for its efficacy is tried to be explained by the modern western medical order. A total of 30 external qigong therapies was applied in 20 patients with arteriosclerotic obstruction. A therapeutic effectiveness rate was 83.3% for subjective symptoms such as cold leg, leg pain at walking or leg pain at rest, 90.0% for a rise in the leg temperature measured by a thermography, 72.4% for improvement in a plethysmography and 64.7% for improvement in peripheral blood flow by an ultrasonic Doppler flow metry, respectively. These were more favorable than anticipated. However, the mechanism for inducing therapeutic efficacy is absolutely unundersdandable within the modern western medical paradigm.
Keywords:
qigong, qigong therapist, arteriosclerotic obstruction, subjective symptoms, objective findings
• Study on Analyzing Methods of Human Body Functions Using Various Simultaneous Measurements (VSM)
by Bio-Emission Group
Results of the First Year of the 5-Year-Project of Science and Technology Agency of Japan
We have done many experiments including below themes in the first year.
1. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sense Shielding Condition
2. An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement
3. An Experiment on Unknown Subconscious Information Transfer with Auditory Brain Evoked Potential
4. An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement (Part II)
5. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sensory-Shielding Condition (Part II)
* A video segment "toh-ate" shows Remote Action in the actual experiment.
[AVI file: 621k]
6. Attempts to Develop an in vitro Experimental System for Detecting the Effect of Stimulant Emission using Cultured Human Cells

Researches in the First Year
1. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sense Shielding Condition 1)
The objective of the experiment is to verify whether a tohate performed by a master of qi-gong depends on his suggestion or not. When the master performed the tohate for his pupil, with the master and his pupil separately positioned in two rooms, each of which was located on a different floor of a sense-shielded building, the master's acting time and his pupil's response time were recorded. The time differences between the master's acting time and the pupil's response time were one sec and less, 6 times in 16 trials. This result implies that all tohates do not depend on the master's suggestion and unknown transmission of tohate acting, since the same event by chance as the result described above gives a probability of 0.0058; the value is of sufficient significance on approximate synchronous timing between both performances of some tohates.

2. An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement 2)
A sender and a percipient were separately located in two sense-shielded rooms and extrasensory transfer of information attempted during which the electroencephalogram of the percipient was measured. The sender sent information during the randomly selected first or second half of a two-minute period, while the percipient attempted to guess both the information sent, and the sending time zone. Over 20 trials, the percipient was unable to guess the correct sending time zones with any statistical significance, but did show a statistically significant difference in the alpha wave amplitude in the electroencephalogram between sending and non-sending time zones. This suggests the existence of the extrasensory information transfer in the subconscious.

3. An Experiment on Unknown Subconscious Information Transfer with Auditory Brain Evoked Potential 3)
In order to verify that a subject's brain is able to identify selected sounds, even if the subject can not identify the selected sounds significantly by the normal auditory sense, a series of trials were performed on the subject who tried to identify the sound selected previously at random by computer while listening to four sounds generated during trials. This paper will demonstrate that the subject's significant shift of latency was detected on his auditory brain evoked potential peak while he listened to the selected unknown targets, and will suggest the possibility of unknown information transfer in the subconsciousness.
4.An Experiment on Extrasensory Information Transfer with Electroencephalogram Measurement (Part II) 4)

A sender and a percipient were located separately in two sensory-shielded rooms, and extrasensory transfer of information was attempted while both were connected to electroencephalographs. The sender transmitted information without using the senses during a randomly selected half of a two-minute period. The percipient attempted to guess both the content and the time period. Over 20 trials, the percipient was not able to guess the correct sending time with any statistical significance. However, a statistically significant difference was observed in the alpha wave amplitude in her electroencephalogram between the sending and non-sending time zones. This suggests the existence of extrasensory information transfer in the subconscious. This extrasensory information transfer is not completed just after the reaction in the sender's brain, but is composed of two reactions. The first reaction occurs in the occipital to parietal region of the percipient and is followed by a reaction in the frontal region.

5. An Experiment on Remote Action against Man in Sensory-Shielding Condition (Part II) 5)
The indication that the phenomenon "tohate" performed by a qigong master is caused not only by his suggestion was reported in our first paper at the ISLIS Symposium, March 1996. The issue was re-examined in following three experiments. Experiments 1 and 2 were done under randomized and blind conditions.
Experiment 1: When a qigong master performed a remote tohate action, the master's (sender) qi-emitting motion time and his pupil's (receiver) response motion time (start of recoil) were recorded. The sender and receiver were separated in two rooms of a sensory-shielded building, with the receiver on the 1st floor and the sender on the 4th. Coincidence frequency within +/-5.5 sec was 16 (expected value is 7.88) of the 49 trials. It is statistically significant and the risk is 0.0008. This suggests that there is an unknown communication mechanism between the sender and receiver.
* A video segment of "toh-ate" [AVI file: 621k]. This movie filmed on May 16, 1996 shows scenes of the qigong master's (sender) qi-emitting motion (4th floor) and his pupil's (receiver) response motion (1st floor) in the actual experiment.
* "Toh-ate" looks like "waiqi", but it is not the same. "Toh-ate" is a term from Japanese traditional martial arts. "Toh-ate" is seen as a powerful signal by psi. However, we don't have complete theories explaining "toh-ate" or "waiqi". Therefore, the difference between "toh-ate" and "waiqi" may exist only in appearance.
Experiment 2: Electroencephalograms (EEGs) of the receiver were recorded. The qi-emission was performed at a random time selected during a one minute interval by the experimenter. In 57 trials, the receiver showed a statistically significant difference between the emitting and non-emitting times in the alpha wave mean amplitudes of the EEGs for the right frontal part of the brain. This suggests that extrasensory information transfer took place and that it is related to the right frontal part of the brain.

Experiment 3: The sender and receiver were located in one room or shielded from sensory contact in two rooms, and their EEGs were simultaneously measured while tohate was performed. Analysis of the changes in multiple parameters of the EEGs from before to after tohate showed that both were more relaxed during tohate than at rest, and that suggests both had images during tohate, in addition to other information. The topographic patterns of the beta waves of the EEGs for both sender and receiver resembled each other during tohate.

6. Attempts to Develop an in vitro Experimental System for Detecting the Effect of Stimulant Emission using Cultured Human Cells 6)
The ability of certain individuals to cure various diseases and injuries using the effect of stimulant emission (ESE) has been argued for a long time, and the mechanism of the putative ESE is not clear. Moreover, it is widely believed that the existence of ESE itself is doubtful. However, assuming that ESE has a positive therapeutic effect, we designed simple experimental systems that may be able to detect the putative ESE by a colony-formation assay using cultured human cells exposed to chemical compounds or ionizing radiations that have a lethal effect on cell growth. We report here the results of two pilot experiments using G418 as a lethal compound and X ray as ionizing radiation. Although an enhancement of colony formation by ESE was not detected in the G418 experiment, a slight increase in the number of colonies formed was observed in the X ray irradiation experiment, possibly caused by the putative ESE.

References
1) YAMAMOTO M., HIRASAWA M., KAWANO K., YASUDA N. and FURUKAWA A.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 97-101, 1996.
2) HIRASAWA M., YAMAMOTO M., KAWANO K. and FURUKAWA A.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 43-48, 1996.
3) HIRASAWA M., YAMAMOTO M.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 32-37, 1996.
4) HIRASAWA M., YAMAMOTO M., KAWANO K., FURUKAWA A. and YASUDA N.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 185-195, 1996
5) YAMAMOTO M., HIRASAWA M., KAWANO K., KOKUBO H., KOKADO T., HIRATA T., YASUDA N., FURUKAWA A. and FUKUDA N.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 228-248, 1996.
6) YAMAUCHI M., SAITO T., YAMAMOTO M. and HIRASAWA M.: Journal of International Society of Life Information Science, 14, 266-277, 1996.

You exercised your will power and your ability to focus and your unconditional love when you incarnated yourself…and came here…to this planet to learn your lessons about compassion…about not judging…about loving yourself and others with unconditional love.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
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environmental refugees..."We may be beyond redemption,
Loved Ones…When American money is used around the globe to pollute the environment we are responsible for soiling our home and the homes of others…

...around this small planet others are suffering the consequences of our 4 wheelers on the highways going 70 miles an hour to get more items driven by greed…

...greed for stuff we are bombarded with advertising to purchase to make our life meaning full…

...stuff like new cars and more clothes and plastic water bottles…

Loved ones…Kiribati's President, Anote Tong, says his country may already be doomed by global warming - and he wants New Zealand to consider the issue of environmental refugees.

"We may already be at the point of no return, where the emissions in the atmosphere will carry on contributing to climate change, so in time our small low-lying islands will be submerged," Mr Tong said yesterday in Wellington.

Kiribati's highest point of land is just 2m above sea level, and under "worst-case" scenarios it will be flooded by the Pacific this century and its 94,000 people will have to be re-settled in other countries.

Mr Tong, a graduate of the London School of Economics, said climate change "is not an issue of economic development, it's an issue of human survival".

He told a press conference marking World Environment Day, which Wellington hosted for the United Nations, that changes were obvious in his country: "Things are happening we did not experience in the past.

"We may be beyond redemption, we may be at the point of no return where the emissions in the atmosphere will carry on to contribute to climate change to produce a sea-level change that in time our small low-lying islands will be submerged.

"Villages that have been there over the decades, maybe a century, and now they have to be relocated. Where they have been living over the past few decades is no longer there, it is being eroded."

UN Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner - also in Wellington for a closely packed itinerary - said it was difficult for island nations to watch as the effects of climate change took hold.

"It's a humbling prospect when a nation has to begin talking about its own demise, not because of some inevitable natural disaster ... but because of what we are doing on this planet," Mr Steiner said.

The world must find the "collective purpose" to combat climate change, and everyone on the planet must take their responsibility seriously, he said.

Kiribati is made up of 33 coral atolls in three main groups.

"Every second week when we get the high tides, there's always reports of erosion," Mr Tong said. The rising sea was contaminating the water aquifer and time was running out.

"To plan for the day when you no longer have a country is indeed painful but I think we have to do that."

Prime Minister Helen Clark told the ABC there was already a small community from Kiribati in New Zealand: "If the worst happens no doubt they would be bigger".

Mr Tong said the worst possible scenario meant his country had 50 or 60 years: "I think we have to [leave], in fact I've appealed to the international community that we need to address this challenge.

"It's a challenge, I think not for any one single country but I think for the whole global community.

"Maybe we have a few decades to address this but we believe that we should begin to address the issue yesterday."

Mr Tong said New Zealand offered opportunity, "but I think from our own perspective ... it is important that if our people were to relocate, they should do so as trained, skilled people rather than people coming here and adding to the problems, their own problems and to the national problems".

Planning for migration needed to start now to find a new home and a new future for the people of Kiribati.

Loved Ones…consider reining in your desires for more stuff…I suggest sitting quietly and going within and bring forth the particle of the inner Christ and love yourself and love others…this will bring you quality of life...loved Ones...learn your lessons with the least amount of pain.You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,

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Our Planet is here for us to create a loving habitat for all our brothers and sisters
Loved Ones…we are all brothers and sisters within this planetary environment…we are all linked together on this shrinking earth…let us all recognize we are one…Let us create a loving habitat for all humanity thru loving acts…including habitat for humanity

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You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers

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