Olaf in Under World

Olaf, and his father, Jens Jansen, with the giant people of the Under World
Illustration by John A. Williams, courtesy of ssx

This is a real story of 95 years old Norseman, Olaf Jansen, who had been living alone, in an unpretentious bungalow out Glendale way, a short distance from the business district of Los Angeles, California. The story was given in detail to Willis George Emerson, as set down by himself in manuscript, just before his last breath, in his bed.

As said by Olaf Jansen to Willis George Emerson, before his death:

I leave in your hands. If I can have your promise to give them to the world, I shall die happy, because I desire that people may know the truth, for then all mystery concerning the frozen Northland will be explained.

There is no chance of your suffering the fate I suffered. They will not put you in irons, nor confine you in a mad house, because you are not telling your own story, but mine, and I, thanks to the gods, Odin and Thor, will be in my grave, and so beyond the reach of disbelievers who would persecute.

At first, I tried to rewrite Olaf Jansen's adventure, based on the book, The Smoky God, or a Voyage to the Inner World by Willis George Emerson, copyright 1908, in a single post. Because the book consists of 60 pages, I must devide the story, which I had edited, into two continous posts.

My intention to rewrite, and edit the story, in which I believe to be a real life story, is to make the story fits in two posts, and in honour of the late Olaf Jansen. If you are disbelievers of the Hollow Earth Theory, you may consider Olaf Jansen's story as just an old man's tale, and not less.

Sailing Far Beyond the North Wind

Olaf Jansen is a Norwegian. He was born, when his parents were on a fishing cruise in the Gulf of Bothnia, and put him to the Russian town of Uleaborg, at October 27, 1811. Olaf is the only son of Jens Jansen, a sailor who was born at Rodwig, near the Lofoden Islands. After marrying, Jens Jansen settled in Stockholm, Sweden. At the age of nine years old, Olaf was placed in a private school, in Stockholm, until he was fourteen.

In April 3, 1829, Olaf and his father left Stockholm, sailed with their little fishing sloop. Arriving at the town of Christiansand, they rested for two days. The sailing was aimed to load their little fishing sloop with ivory, instead of cod, herring, mackerel and salmon.

Jens was pleased with the sale of some ivory tusks, that he had found on the West Coast of Franz Joseph Land, during one of his northern cruises, in the previous year. He was then hoping to be fortunate enough to find some ivory tusks.

Arriving at Hammerfest (Norway), they remained there for a week, to collect an extra supply of provisions, and several casks of drinking water. In June 23, they arrived at Spitzbergen (Svalbard), and anchored at Wijade Bay for a short time, to catch some fishes. When a strong wind came up from the Southwest, Olaf saw numerous sea fowls, which darkened the sky. Jens took advantage of the wind, to sail to Franz Joseph Land.

Several days of sailing along the rocky coast of Franz Josef Land. Finally, a favoring wind came up that enabled them to make the West Coast. After sailing for a full day, they arrived to an open water, directly to the North. While in the East and West of them, there were numerous icebergs.

Jens Jansen was an ardent believer, in Odin and Thor. He frequently told Olaf, that Odin and Thor were gods, who came from far beyond the North Wind. Olaf still remember how his father explained, that in the farther northward, there was a beautiful land, which inhabited by the Chosen.

Why not sail to this goodly land? The sky is fair, the wind favorable, and the sea open, asked Olaf to his father.

My son, are you willing to go with me and explore? To go far beyond where man has ever ventured?, Jens asked his son. Very well, Olaf answered.

May the god Odin protect us!, Jens replied, and quickly adjusting the sails. Jens glanced at their compass, and turned the prow in due northerly direction, through an open channel. Their voyage had begun.

In an Open Water of The Arctic Ocean

Three days of sailing to northerly direction, they arrived in an island, and explored the island for a day. They found a large accumulation of drift wood on the northern shore. Some of the trunks of the trees were 40 feet long, and two feet in diameter.

After a day's exploration of the coast line of the island, they lifted anchor, and turned their prow to the North, in an open sea. Instead of the cold being intense, as they had anticipated. It was really warmer, and more pleasant than it had been while, in Hammerfest, some six weeks before.

When they both were sleeping, a fierce snow storm was raging, and the wind was driving their sloop at a terrific speed. In front of them, there was phenomenon of an Arctic fog. For more than three hours, they were struggling with the storm.

The little sloop, which was being driven forward at fierce speed, was shipping water, and the snow was falling so fast as to be blinding. Then suddenly, as if growing weary of its frantic exertions, the wind began to lessen its fury, and by degrees to die down.

After the storm, they found that, less than one third of their provisions remaining. While their water casks had been swept overboard, during the violent plungings of their boat. Two of our water casks were in the main hold, but both were empty. They had a fair supply of food, but no fresh water.

To ignore his thirst, Olaf washed his hands, and face, using the water from the sea. When the water touched his lips, he tasted no salt in the water. Olaf was startled by the discovery, and called out his father, Father! The water.. The water.. It is fresh!

What, Olaf? Surely you are mistaken. There is no land. You are going mad., said his father. But taste it!, said Olaf.

They made the discovery that the water was indeed fresh, without the least briny taste, or even the suspicion of a salty flavor. They filled their two remaining water casks. Jens declared that, it was a heavenly dispensation of mercy from the gods, Odin and Thor.

Looking at their compass, they found that, the northern point was pressing hard against the glass. In response to Olaf's surprise, his father said to him, I have heard of this before. It is what they call the dipping of the needle.

They loosened the compass, and turned it at right angles with the surface of the sea, before its point would free itself from the glass. And then pointed according to unmolested attraction. It shifted uneasily, and seemed as unsteady as a drunken man, but finally pointed a course.

With the needle free, they discovered, if it could be relied upon, that they were sailing slightly North by Northeast. Their course, however, was ever tending northward. Looking out the record in their logbook, they found that, they had been sailing eleven days since the storm in the open sea.

Running low on foods, and one of their casks of water had been exhausted. But, they found that, the water was now as salt as in the region of the Lofoden Islands, off the coast of Norway. This necessitated them to be extremely careful of the remaining cask.

The Smokey God

Olaf always noticed a single star overhead. For several days, when he looked for this star, it was always there directly above them. According to their reckoning, it was about the first of August. The sun was high in the heavens, and was so bright that Olaf could no longer see the one lone star, that attracted his attention a few days earlier.

Jens startled his son by calling Olaf's attention to a novel sight, far in front of them, almost at the horizon. It is a mock sun., Jens exclaimed.

I have read of them. It is called a reflection, or mirage. It will soon pass away., added Jens.

But, this dull red, false sun, as they supposed it to be, did not pass away for several hours. Clouds and mists would at times almost, but never entirely, hide its location. Gradually, it seemed to climb higher, in the horizon of the uncertain purply sky, as they advanced. It could hardly be said to resemble the sun, except in its circular shape, and when not obscured by clouds, or the ocean mists.

This sun had a hazy red, bronzed appearance, which would change to a white light like a luminous cloud, as if reflecting some greater light beyond. They finally agreed in their discussion, that this smoky furnace colored sun, in which whatever the cause of the phenomenon. It was clearly not a reflection of their Sun, but a planet of some sort, a reality.

The Land of The Giants

When Olaf felt into a sound sleep, his father shaked his shoulder and said, Olaf, awaken! There is land in sight!

Olaf sprang to his feet with an unspeakable joy. Far in the distance, directly in their path, were lands jutting boldly into the sea. The shore line stretched far away to the right of them, as far as the eye could see. The banks were covered with trees and vegetation.

Olaf cannot express his feeling of exultation at this discovery. His father stood motionless, with his hand on the tiller, looking straight ahead, pouring out his heart in thankful prayer, and thanksgiving to the gods, Odin and Thor.

In the meantime, a net which they found in the stowage had been cast, and they caught a few fishes that materially added to their dwindling stock of provisions. The compass, which they had fastened back in its place, in fear of another storm, was still pointing due North, and moving on its pivot, just as it had at Stockholm.

The dipping of the needle had ceased. Their many days of sailing had certainly carried them far past the North Pole. And yet, the needle continued to point North. They were sorely perplexed, for surely their direction was now South.

They sailed for three days along the shoreline, then came to the mouth of an immense river. It seemed more like a great bay, and into this they turned their fishing craft, the direction being slightly northeast of south. They continued to make their way inland, into what afterward proved to be a mighty river, which later they learned that, it was called by the inhabitants, as Hiddekel River.

They continued their journey for ten days, and had fortunately attained a distance inland, where ocean tides no longer affected the water, which had become fresh. The discovery came none too soon, for their remaining cask of water was exhausted.

They lost no time in replenishing their casks, and continued to sail farther up the river, when the wind was favorable. Along the banks, great forests miles in extent could be seen stretching away on the shore line. The trees were enormous in size.

They landed after anchoring near a sandy beach, and were rewarded by finding a quantity of nuts. It was about the first of September, over five months, since they left Stockholm.

Suddenly, they were frightened by hearing in the far distance, the singing of people. They discovered a huge ship gliding down the river directly toward them. Those aboard were singing in one mighty chorus that, echoing from bank to bank, sounded like a thousand voices, filling the whole universe with quivering melody.

The accompaniment was played on stringed instruments, unlike their harps. It was a larger ship than any they had ever seen, and was differently constructed.

Six gigantic men rowed to their little fishing sloop. They spoke to Olaf and his father, in a strange language, which later Olaf discovered that it was much like the Sanskrit language. From their manner, the six giant men were quite friendly. They talked a great deal among themselves, and one of them laughed immoderately. Finally, the leader motioned as if to ask, whether Olaf and his father were willing to leave the craft, to go on board with them.

What say you, my son? asked Jens. They cannot do any more than kill us. They seem to be kindly disposed, Olaf replied, Although what terrible giants! They must be the select six of the kingdom's crack regiment. Just look at their great size!

We may as well go willingly as be taken by force, said Jens, smiling, For they are certainly able to capture us. Within a few minutes, Olaf and Jens were on board the ship, and later their little fishing craft had been lifted bodily out of the water, by a strange sort of hook and tackle, and set on board as a curiosity.

There were several hundred people on board this mammoth ship, which was called The Naz, meaning, as Olaf afterward learned, Pleasure, or to give a more proper interpretation, Pleasure Excursion ship.

There was not a single man aboard who would not have measured fully 12 feet in height. They all wore full beards, not particularly long, but short cropped. The captain was fully a head taller than any of his companions. The women averaged from ten to eleven feet in height.

As Olaf was a lad in his 19th year, he was doubtless looked upon as a true Tom Thumb. Jens Jansen's six feet three did not lift the top of his head, above the waist line of these people. The men were clothed in handsomely embroidered tunics of silk and satin, belted at the waist. They wore knee breeches, and stockings of a fine texture, while their feet were encased in sandals adorned with gold buckles.

Olaf discovered that gold was one of the most common metals known, and that it was used extensively in decoration. Olaf and Jens were given specially into the charge of one of the men, Jules Galdea, and his wife, for the purpose of being educated in their language.

At the captain's command, the vessel was swung cleverly about, and began retracing its course up the river. The machinery, while noiseless, was very powerful. The ship was equipped with a mode of illumination, which later Olaf presumed as electricity, that yet had not been widely used in vessels, by the Earth's surface people at the year of 1829.

In the meantime, Olaf had lost sight of the sun's rays, but found a radiance within emanating from the dull red sun, which had already attracted his attention, now giving out a white light seemingly from a cloud bank far away in front of him.

It dispensed a greater light, than two full moons on the clearest night. In twelve hours this cloud of whiteness would pass out of sight as if eclipsed. Olaf learned that these strange people were worshipers of this great cloud of night, The Smoky God of the Under World.

The ship were sailing for two days, and reached the City of Jehu, a seaport town. The houses were large and beautifully constructed, and quite uniform in appearance, yet without sameness. The door casings were inlaid, and the tables were veneered, with sheetings of gold. Domes of the public buildings were of gold.

Vegetation grew in lavish exuberance, and fruit of all kinds possessed the most delicate flavor. Clusters of grapes four and five feet in length, each grape as large as an orange, and apples larger than a man's head. Olaf and Jens were staying in Jehu, for an entire year.

By the end of that time, they had learned to speak fairly well the language of this strange race of people. Their instructors, Jules Galdea and his wife, exhibited a patience that was truly commendable. One day an envoy from the Ruler at Eden came to see them.

For two whole days, Olaf and Jens were put through a series of surprising questions. The Ruler wished to know from whence they came, what sort of people dwelt without, what God they worshiped, their religious beliefs, the mode of living in their strange land, and a thousand other things.

The compass, which Olaf and Jens had brought, attracted especial attention. The fact that the compass still pointed north, although Olaf and Jens now knew, that they had sailed over the curve, or edge of the Earth's aperture.

Olaf and Jens were far along southward on the inside surface of the Earth's crust. In which according to Jens's estimate, is about 300 miles in thickness from the inside to the outside surface.

The great luminous cloud, or ball of dull red fire, fiery red in the mornings and evenings. Which during the day giving off a beautiful white light, The Smoky God, is seemingly suspended in the center of the great vacuum within the Earth.

The Smoky God held to its place by the immutable law of gravitation, or a repellant atmospheric force. Olaf referred to the known power that draws, or repelled with equal force in all directions. The base of this electrical cloud or central luminary, the seat of the gods, is dark and non transparent.

The Smoky God appears to come up in the East, and go down in the West, the same as does the Sun, on the external surface. In reality, the under world people believe that, The Smoky God, is the throne of their Jehovah, and is stationary. The effect of night and day is produced by the Earth's daily rotation.

Riding The Fly Wheels Vehicle

Olaf and Jens had given an account of themselves to the emissaries from the central seat of government of the under world continent. Jens had, in his crude way, drawn maps, at their request, of the outside surface of the Earth. Showing the divisions of land and water. Giving the name of each of the continents, large islands and the oceans.

Olaf and Jens were taken overland to the City of Eden, in a conveyance different from anything outside world. The vehicle was doubtless some electrical contrivance. It was noiseless, and ran on a single iron rail in perfect balance. The trip was made at a very high rate of speed.

They were carried up hills, down dales, across valleys, and again along the sides of steep mountains. The car seats were huge, yet comfortable affairs, and very high above the floor of the car. On the top of each car were high geared fly wheels lying on their sides, which were so automatically adjusted that, as the speed of the car increased, the high speed of these fly wheels geometrically increased.

Jules Galdea explained that, these revolving fan like wheels, on top of the cars, destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by the term gravitation. With this force thus destroyed, or rendered nugatory, the car is as safe from falling to one side, or the other from the single rail track, as if it were in a vacuum.

In The City of Eden

The surprise of Olaf and Jens was indescribable when, amid the regal magnificence of a spacious hall. They were finally brought before the Great High Priest, ruler over all the land. He was richly robed, and much taller than those about him, and could not have been less than 14 or 15 feet in height.

The immense room, in which Olaf and Jens were received, seemed finished, in solid slabs of gold, thickly studded with jewels, of amazing brilliancy. The City of Eden is located in what seems to be a beautiful valley. In fact, it is on the loftiest mountain plateau of the Under World Continent. Several thousand feet higher than any portion of the surrounding country.

It is the most beautiful place Olaf had ever beheld, in all his travels. In this elevated garden, all manner of fruits, vines, shrubs, trees, and flowers grow in riotous profusion. In this garden four rivers have their source, in a mighty artesian fountain. They divide and flow in four directions.

This place is called by the inhabitants the navel of the earth, or the beginning, the cradle of the human race. The names of the rivers are the Euphrates, the Pison, the Gihon, and the Hiddekel.

The unexpected awaited Olaf and Jens, in this palace of beauty, in the finding of their little fishing craft. It had been brought before the High Priest, in perfect shape. Just as it had been taken from the waters that day, when it was loaded on board the ship, by the people who discovered them on the river, more than a year before. After several interviews, the High Priest asked Olaf and Jens, whether they wished to remain in his country, or preferred to return to the outer world.

Jens replied It would please me, and my son to visit your country, and see your people. Your colleges. Your palaces of music and art. Your great fields. Your wonderful forests of timber. And after we have had this pleasurable privilege, we should like to try to return to our home on the outside surface of the Earth. This son is my only child, and my good wife will be weary awaiting our return.

I fear you can never return, replied the High Priest, Because the way is a most hazardous one. However, you shall visit the different countries with Jules Galdea as your escort, and be accorded every courtesy and kindness. Whenever you are ready to attempt a return voyage, I assure you that your boat which is here on exhibition, shall be put in the waters of the river Hiddekel at its mouth, and we will bid you Jehovah speed. Thus terminated Olaf and Jens only interview with the High Priest, the Ruler of the continent.

Read the second chapter here

Olaf in Under World (2)

This post is the second chapter of Olaf Jansen journey to the Under World. Read the first chapter here.

Life in Under World

Both Olaf and Jens learned that, the males do not marry, before they are from 75 to 100 years old. The age at which women enter wedlock is only a little less. Both men and women frequently live to be from 600 to 800 years old, and in some instances much older.

During the following year, Olaf and Jens visited many villages and towns, prominent among them being the cities of Nigi, Delfi, and Hectea. Olaf remember hearing his father remark that, the giant race of people in the land of The Smoky God, had almost as accurate an idea of the geography of the outside surface of the Earth, as had the average college professor in Stockholm.

In their travels, they came to a forest of gigantic trees, near the City of Delfi. Had the Bible said, there were trees towering over 300 feet in height, and more than 30 feet in diameter, growing in the Garden of Eden. The Ingersolls, the Tom Paines and Voltaires, would doubtless have pronounced the statement a myth.

The description of the California sequoia gigantea, pale into insignificance, when compared with the forest Goliaths, found in the Under World Continent. Where abound mighty trees from 800 to 1,000 feet in height. From 100 to 120 feet in diameter. Countless in numbers, and forming forests extending hundreds of miles back from the sea.

The children are not supposed to attend institutions of learning, before they are 20 years old. Their school life begins, and continues for 30 years. Ten years are uniformly devoted, by both sexes to the study of music.

The Under World people principal vocations are architecture, agriculture, horticulture, the raising of vast herds of cattle, and the building of conveyances peculiar to that country, for travel on land, and water. By some device, they hold communion with one another, between the most distant parts of their country, on air currents.

All buildings are erected with special regard to strength, durability, beauty and symmetry. A style of architecture vastly more attractive to the eye, than any Olaf had ever observed elsewhere.

About three fourths of the Under World is land, and about one fourth is water. There are numerous rivers of tremendous size, flowing in a northerly and southerly direction. Some of these rivers are 30 miles in width.

Olaf and Jens saw innumerable specimens of bird life, no larger than those encountered, in the forests of Europe, or America. Whether inland among the mountains, or along the seashore, they found bird life prolific. When some the birds spread their great wings, appeared to measure 30 feet from tip to tip, with great variety and many colors.

When Olaf and Jens were permitted to climb up on the edge of a rock, to examine a nest of eggs. There were five in the nest, each of which was at least two feet in length, and 15 inches in diameter.

After a week in the City of Hectea, Jules Galdea took Olaf and Jens to an inlet, where they saw thousands of tortoises along the sandy shore. These great creatures were from 25 to 30 feet in length, from 15 to 20 feet in width, and fully seven feet in height. When one of tortoises projected its head, it had the appearance of some hideous sea monster.

The strange conditions are favorable not only for vast meadows of luxuriant grasses, forests of giant trees, all manner of vegetable life, and wonderful animal life as well.

One day, Olaf and Jens saw a great herd of elephants. There must have been 500 of these thunder throated monsters, with their restlessly waving trunks. They were tearing huge boughs from the trees, and trampling smaller growth into dust like so much hazel brush. They would average over 100 feet in length, and from 75 to 85 in height.

There is a hazy mist that goes up from the land each evening, and it invariably rains, once every 24 hours. This great moisture, the invigorating electrical light, and warmth account perhaps for the luxuriant vegetation. While the highly charged electrical air, and the evenness of climatic conditions, may have much to do with the giant growth, and longevity of all animal life.

In places the level valleys stretched away for many miles in every direction. The Smoky God, in its clear white light, looked calmly down. There was an intoxication, in the electrically surcharged air, that fanned the cheek, as softly as a vanishing whisper. Nature chanted a lullaby, in the faint murmur of winds, whose breath was sweet with the fragrance of bud and blossom.

A Journey Home

After having spent considerably more than a year, in visiting several of the many cities of the Under World. And more than two years had passed, from the time Olaf and Jens had been picked up by the great excursion ship on the river. They decided to cast their fortunes once more upon the sea, and endeavor to regain the outside surface of the Earth.

The Under World people also generously offered to give Olaf and Jens, bags of gold nuggets, which some of them as large as a goose's egg. In due time, Olaf and Jens returned to Jehu, at which place they spent one month in fixing up, and overhauling their little fishing sloop.

After all was in readiness, using the same ship, the Naz, took Olaf and Jens along with their little craft on board, and sailed to the mouth of the river Hiddekel. The giant people were most cordially regretful at parting, and evinced much solicitude for Olaf and Jens's safety.

Jens swore by the Gods Odin, and Thor that, he would surely return again, within a year, or two, to pay them another visit.

Olaf and Jens were becalmed within an hour, after their giant friends had left them to return home. The winds were constantly blowing South, from the northern opening of the Earth toward, that which Olaf and Jens knew to be South, but according to their compass's pointing finger, was directly North.

For three days they tried to sail, and to beat against the wind, but to no avail. Whereupon Jens said, My son, to return by the same route as we came in is impossible at this time of year. I wonder why we did not think of this before. We have been here almost two and a half years, therefore, this is the season, when the Sun is beginning to shine in, at the southern opening of the Earth. The long cold night is on, in the Spitzbergen country.

What shall we do? Olaf inquired. There is only one thing we can do, Jens replied, And that is to go South.

Accordingly, Jens turned the craft about, gave it full reef, and started by the compass North but, in fact, directly South. The wind was strong, and they seemed to have struck a current, that was running with remarkable swiftness, in the same direction.

Forty days later, they arrived at Delfi, a city they had visited, in company with Jules Galdea and his wife, near the mouth of the Gihon River. They rested for two days, and were most hospitably entertained by the same people who had welcomed them before.

They laid in some additional provisions and again set sail, following the needle due North. On their outward trip, they came through a narrow channel, which appeared to be a separating body of water, between two considerable bodies of land.

There was a beautiful beach, and they decided to reconnoiter. Casting anchor, they waded ashore to rest up for a day, before continuing the outward hazardous undertaking. They built a fire, and threw on some sticks of dry driftwood. While Jens was walking along the shore, Olaf prepared a tempting repast from supplies they had provided.

After breakfast, they started out, on an inland tour of discovery, but had not gone far, when they saw some birds, which they recognized at once as belonging to the penguin family. Flightless birds, excellent swimmers, with white breast, short wings, black head, and long peaked bills, but, tremendous in size

They stand fully nine feet high. A giant penguin looked at Olaf and Jens with little surprise, and presently waddled. Rather than walked toward the water, and swam away in a northerly direction.

When Olaf and Jens were on an open, and iceless sea. They knew the so called South Pole was turned toward the Sun. Passing out, away from the internal electrical light of The Smoky God, and its genial warmth. They would be met by the light, and warmth of the Sun, shining in through the South opening of the Earth, and they were not mistaken.

Among The Ice Packs

Along the way, they encountered a hidden rock, or obstacle. The little vessel would have been crushed into kindling wood. At their consciousness, the atmosphere was growing decidedly colder. Few days later, icebergs were sighted far to the left. Jens argued, and correctly, that the winds which filled their sails came from the warm climate of the Under World.

They were soon amid the ice packs, and narrow channels. The compass behaved in the same drunken, and unreliable fashion in passing over the southern curve, or edge of the Earth's shell, as it had done on their inbound trip, at the northern entrance. It gyrated, dipped, and seemed like a thing possessed.

Suddenly, Jens shouted, Breakers ahead! Looking up, Olaf saw through a lifting mist, a white object that towered several hundred feet high, completely shutting off their advance. They lowered sail immediately, and none too soon.

They found theirselves wedged between two monstrous icebergs. Each was crowding, and grinding against its fellow mountain of ice, like two gods of war contending for supremacy.

Olaf and Jens were between the lines of a battle royal, the sonorous thunder of the grinding ice, was like the continued volleys of artillery. Blocks of ice larger than a house were frequently lifted up a hundred feet, by the mighty force of lateral pressure.

For more than two hours, the contest of the icy giants continued. It seemed as if the end had come. The ice pressure was terrific. They were not caught in the dangerous part of the jam, and were safe for the time being. Finally, the grinding of the ice ceased, and within a few hours the great mass slowly divided, and right before them lay an open channel.

For the next 45 days of their time was employed, in dodging icebergs, and hunting channels. At last, there came a morning when Jens said, My son, I think we are to see home. We are almost through the ice. See! the open water lies before us.

There were a few icebergs, that had floated far northward, into the open water, still ahead of them on either side, stretching away for many miles. Directly in front of them, and by the compass, which had now righted itself, due North, there was an open sea.

What a wonderful story we have to tell to the people of Stockholm, continued Jens, while a look of pardonable elation lighted up his honest face.

And think of the gold nuggets stowed away in the hold!, Olaf spoke kind words of praise to his father, for his fortitude, endurance, for his courageous daring as a discoverer, and for having made the voyage that now promised a successful end.

Olaf was grateful with the wealth of gold, they were carrying home. While congratulating theirselves, on the goodly supply of provisions, water they still had on hand, and on the dangers they had escaped. They were startled by hearing a most terrific explosion, caused by the tearing apart of a huge mountain of ice.

It was a deafening roar like the firing of a thousand cannon. They were sailing at the time with great speed, and happened to be near a monstrous iceberg which to all appearances was as immovable as a rockbound island. It seemed that, the iceberg had split and was breaking apart, and it began dipping from them.

Jens quickly anticipated the danger, before Olaf realized its awful possibilities. The iceberg extended down into the water, many hundreds of feet. As it tipped over, the portion coming up out of the water, caught their fishing craft like a lever on a fulcrum. Threw it into the air as if it had been a football.

Their boat fell back on the iceberg, that by this time had changed the side next to them, for the top. Jens was still in the boat, having become entangled in the rigging, while Olaf was thrown some 20 feet away.

Olaf quickly scrambled to his feet and shouted to his father, who answered, All is well.

Horror upon horror! The blood froze in Olaf veins. The iceberg was still in motion, its great weight, and force in toppling over would cause it to submerge temporarily. Olaf fully realized what a sucking maelstrom, it would produce amid the worlds of water on every side.

Was this the end of our struggles and adventures? Was this death? All these questions flashed through Olaf's mind in the fraction of a second. A moment later, Olaf was engaged in a life and death struggle.

The ponderous monolith of ice sank below the surface, and the frigid waters gurgled around him in frenzied anger. He was in a saucer, with the waters pouring in on every side. Olaf lost consciousness.

When he partially recovered his senses, and roused from the swoon of a half drowned man. Olaf found himself wet, stiff, and almost frozen, lying on the iceberg. But, there was no sign of his father, and their little fishing sloop.

The monster berg had recovered itself, and, with its new balance, lifted its head, perhaps 50 feet above the waves. The top of this island of ice was a plateau, perhaps half an acre in extent.

Olaf loved his father well, and was grief stricken at the awfulness of his death. He railed at fate, that he had not been permitted to sleep with him, in the depths of the ocean. Finally, Olaf climbed to his feet. The purple domed sky above, the shoreless green ocean beneath, and only an occasional iceberg discernible.

His heart sank in hopeless despair. Olaf cautiously picked a way across the berg, toward the other side, hoping that their fishing craft had righted itself. Dared, Olaf think it possible that his father still lived? It was but a ray of hope that flamed up in his heart.

But, the anticipation warmed the blood in his veins, and started it rushing like some rare stimulant through every fiber of his body. Olaf crept close to the precipitous side of the iceberg, and peered far down, hoping, still hoping.

Olaf made a circle of the berg, scanning every foot of the way, and he kept going around, and around. A part of his brain was certainly becoming maniacal, while the other part, was perfectly rational. Olaf was conscious of having made the circuit, a dozen times.

While one part of his intelligence knew, in all reason, there was not a vestige of hope. Some strange fascinating aberration bewitched, and compelled him still to beguile himself with expectation. The other part of his brain seemed to tell him that, while there was no possibility of his father being alive. If Olaf quitted making the circuitous pilgrimage, if he paused for a single moment, it would be acknowledgment of defeat, and he felt that he should go mad.

Hour after hour, Olaf walked around, and around, afraid to stop and rest, yet physically powerless to continue much longer.

Horror of horrors! To be cast away in this wide expanse of waters, without food or drink, and only a treacherous iceberg, for an abiding place. His heart sank within him, and all semblance of hope was fading into black despair. Then the hand of the Deliverer was extended, and the death like stillness of a solitude, rapidly becoming unbearable, was suddenly broken by the firing of a signal gun.

Olaf looked up in startled amazement. When he saw less than a half mile away, a whaling vessel bearing down toward him. Evidently, his continued activity on the iceberg had attracted their attention. On drawing near, they put out a boat, and descending cautiously to the water's edge. Olaf was rescued, and lifted on board the whaling ship, a Scotch whaler, The Arlington, which had cleared from Dundee, in September, and started immediately for the Antarctic, in search of whales.

The captain, Angus MacPherson, seemed kindly disposed, and possessed of an iron will. When Olaf attempted to tell the captain, that he had come from the Under World. The captain and mate looked at each other, shook their heads, and insisted to put Olaf, in a bunk under strict surveillance of the ship's physician.

Olaf was very weak for want of food, and had not slept for many hours. After a few days rest, he got up one morning, and dressed himself. Without asking permission of the physician, or anyone else, and told them that he was as sane as anyone.

The captain again questioned Olaf concerning where he had come from, and how he came to be alone on an iceberg, in the far off Antarctic Ocean. Olaf replied that he had just come from the Under World, with proceeded to tell how his father and himself had gone in by way of Spitzbergen. Which later come out by way of the South Pole country, whereupon Olaf was put in irons.

Olaf heard the captain tell the mate that, he was as crazy as a March hare. Also that Olaf must remain in confinement, until he was rational enough, to give a truthful account of himself. Finally, after much pleading and many promises, Olaf was released from irons.

Olaf then decided to invent some story, that would satisfy the captain, and never again refer to his trip to the land of The Smoky God, at least until he was safe among friends. Within a fortnight I was permitted to go about and take my place as one of the seamen.

Later, the captain asked Olaf for an explanation. He told the captain that his experience had been so horrible, that he was fearful of his memory, and begged the captain to permit him, to leave the question unanswered, until some time in the future.

I think you are recovering considerably, the captain said, but you are not sane yet by a good deal.

Permit me to do such work as you may assign, Olaf replied, And if it does not compensate you sufficiently, I will pay you immediately after I reach Stockholm, to the last penny.

Olaf finally reaching Stockholm, after four years, and eight months of journey. He found that his mother had died the previous year. One day, Olaf told the story, in detail to his uncle, Gustaf Osterlind, who later landed him, in a mad house, where he remained there, for 28 years.

In October 17, 1862, Olaf was released, and became a man over fifty years old, whose only known record, of a madman with no friends. Olaf returned to the life of a fisherman, for the next 27 years.

In 1889, he came to America, and settled in Illinois, near Batavia, for 12 years. He later moved to Los Angeles, in March 4, 1901, and became new acquaintance of Willis George Emerson, who should be the one to edit his story, a disbeliever of Hollow Earth Theory.

For Olaf Jansen himself, the climax of his wonderful travels, and strange adventures was reached, when the Scotch sailing vessel took him, from an iceberg on the Antarctic Ocean.

~ THE END ~

Mind Over Matter

E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality Paperback by Pam Grout

Extrasensory Perception

The term mind over matter refers to the belief, that the mind is more powerful than the body. Mind processes information from the five physical senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Mind is comprised of the conscious, unconscious and subconscious mental state. While, matter is the substance of a physical object.

Mind over matter relates to the use of extrasensory perception (ESP). ESP is the intuitive knowledge which cannot be obtained from the five physical senses, and is also referred to as a sixth sense. ESP can be said to be the knowledge needed to learn how to properly ride a bicycle.

ESP refers to the knowledge, and mind over matter is the utilization of that knowledge. The abilities of mind over matter, in which refers to psychokinesis (mind movement), include, telekinesis, self healing, levitation, teleportation, astral projection, telepathy, and etc.

I had already described several of my abilities of mind over matter, in my previous posts, Kundalini Reiki self healing, my astral projection to Saranjana City, and my telepathic conversation with my late sister in afterlife post. In this post, I only describe the abilities of mind over matter, involving telekinesis, and levitation, in which I am about to learn.

Telekinesis is not a Gift

According to the author of book, Unleash Your Telekinetic Ability: Three Fundamentals, telekinesis is not a gift, where once you have it, you always will. Although the ability is inside of you, the ability must be used, or will be forgotten, similar to any other abilities.

Telekinesis is derived from the Greek words of tele (distant), and kinesis (motion, movement). Telekinesis refers to the ability to influence (move) an object mentally, or using just your mind. While, telekinetic refers to a life form capable of utilizing telekinesis. There are three fundamentals of telekinesis that must be practiced in order, if you want to unleash your telekinetic ability, in which are, focus, energy and force. (web archive of uyta.com, in Feb 19, 2004)

Telekinesis and Levitation

The telekinetic girl, Riana, performed a levitation, and watched by Deddy Corbuzier, in the back stage, after the magic talent show, titled The Next Mentalist, in November 24, 2013.

Levitation is derived from Latin word, levitas, means lightness. Levitation is a phenomenon of psychokinesis (telekinesis), by rising of objects, people, and animals into the air with using only mental means, or mind over matter. In the Gospel of Matthew 14:25, the Lord Jesus Christ performed a levitation, when He walked on water.

According to a theory by Mark D. Holt, in 2001, both telekinesis and levitation explained the ability to control, and manipulate gravity. People have their own personal gravitational field, just like the Earth, but on a smaller scale. The gravitational field would allow our body to work in a similar way to a magnet, pushing and pulling objects. Our brains would allow us to regulate, or control the ability in the same way, that it regulates our other body functions.

Riana, performed a levitation above Bow Vernon, an Indonesian magician.

Information from this website will show you the step by step on performing levitation. But, you must first awakening your kundalini energy, in order to perform a levitation.

Because according to the author of the website, there are three chakras which can be used to perform levitation. The first is the root chakra (coccyx), the second is the 4th chakra (heart), and the third is the 6th chakra (the third eye between your eyebrows).

Note:

This post is dedicated to the telekinetic girl on the video, The Sacred, Riana, who performed a live magic of teleportation, in December 1, 2013, with a title of Witch Myth.

I will write more about this post, mind over matter, if I had already mastered the skills of telekinesis, levitation, teleportation, and etc, to prove myself that, mind over matter can be explained and learned.

Kundalini Reiki Self Healing

Kundalini
Image is courtesy of Riaz Padamsee

What is Kundalini?

Kundalini, in Sanskrit language means snake, is often described as a sleeping snake, that is being coiled up at the base of the spine, in the triangular shaped of coccyx (tailbone), in three and a half coils. Kundalini as a sleeping snake, is a dormant potential force, or a residual power of pure desire, in human body.

According to an ebook, Kundalini Reiki Manual by Paul Crick, healthypages forum moderator, kundalini means certain healing channels, and chakras have been opened, to gain access to the Earth's energy, as a part of universal energy.

Does it mean, kundalini should be awakened first? Yes, it does. We should awaken our root chakra (the energy centre) first, in order to feel our kundalini energy. But, Paul said in his ebook, that one can awaken his kundalini energy with patiently, by following his instruction.

If you have mastered on your sixth sense, just like I did, it will be easier for you, to feel your kundalini energy, by focussing your mind on your coccyx, the centre of kundalini energy.

What is Kundalini Yoga?

Based on a treatise by Sivananda Saraswati, in 1935, kundalini yoga, a school of yoga, was influenced by the tantra, and shakta schools of Hinduism. In kundalini yoga, the students are taught to focus on awakening the kundalini energy, through regular practice of meditation, pranayama yoga, chanting mantra, and yoga asana.

The aims of kundalini yoga, which called by the yoga practitioners as the yoga of awareness, is to cultivate the creative spiritual potential of a human to uphold values, speak the truth, focus on the compassion, and consciousness needed to serve, and heal others.

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a spiritual practice developed by Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist, in 1922. Reiki healing technique is also called palm healing. A form of alternative medicine, by using Reiki practioners palms on the patients body.

Reiki practitioners believe that by using their palms, they are transferring universal energy of ki (qi, or chi).

Several translation are mentioned to describe the meaning of reiki. Some authors translate reiki as universal life energy. Reiki, in Japanese language derived from the words, rei (spirit, miraculous, divine), and ki (gas, vital energy, breath of life, consciousness). So, reiki means spiritual energy, vital energy, life force, or energy of life. But, there are also several translation of reiki such as, feeling of mystery, atmosphere of mystery, ethereal atmosphere, or spiritual presence.

What is The Difference Between Reiki and Kundalini Reiki?

Below I quote what Paul Crick said in healthypages forum:

Kundalini Reiki is not a form of Usui Reiki, it works with different energy, and the energy beings behind the modality are different, there are no symbols as the connection is direct.

The Kundalini Reiki treatments only take a few minutes to perform, there are no hand positions, you just put your hands on someones shoulders, and think Kundalini Reiki, you feel the energy start to flow, after a few minutes the energy will stop, and the treatment is finished.

This energy modality is simplicity itself to use and pass on, nothing complicated to get in the way of the energy flowing :-)

What is Kundalini Reiki?

In his ebook, Paul Crick described that, kundalini reiki is a simple form of healing and self development system, by opening, and strengthening the energy channel of the body, to direct the healing reiki energy to yourself and others, just by intention. Kundalini reiki was first coined by Ole Gabrielsen, a master of meditation.

Kundalini reiki is a direct result of Ole Gabrielsen many hours of Holy Communion with Master Kuthumi (Koot Hoomi), the Master Energies, the Chocan of the Second Ray, that is connected to crown chakra, and the temple of love, wisdom, and understanding.

The goal of kundalini activation leads to expand the state of universal consciousness, peace, light and love is not a future promise, but one of immediate possibility.

Scientific Perspectives

Reiki

There were several scientific studies to demonstrate the efficacy of reiki, in clinical practice. Several randomised clinical trials were searched using 23 databases from November 2007 until January 23, 2008. From 205 potentially relevant studies, the result only found nine randomised clinical trials, which met the inclusion criteria.

Two clinical trials suggested beneficial effects of reiki on depression. Overall, the study concluded that, the evidence is insufficient to suggest that reiki is an effective treatment for any conditions, and the value of reiki remains unproven. (Lee MS, et al. 2008)

Fibromyalgia, a condition of unknown cause characterized by chronic, diffuse pain, and tenderness to palpation at specific musculoskeletal sites. Fibromyalgia is the second most common rheumatologic condition after osteoarthritis, afflicting 2 to 4% of the general population.

A clinical trial was designed to investigate whether reiki is beneficial as an adjunctive treatment for fibromyalgia. The trial was conducted among 100 adults with fibromyalgia, in private medical offices, in Seattle, Washington, US.

Participants were devided into four groups, and randomly assigned to receive twice weekly treatment for 8 weeks, by either a reiki master, or an actor, to use direct touch, or distant reiki. The randomized controlled trial suggested that, adults with fibromyalgia are unlikely to benefit from reiki. (Assefi N, et al. 2008)

Kundalini

A study by Centre for Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, found that, the practice of kundalini yoga helped to maintain a perfect homeostasis, and can be used as a non-medical measure, in treating patients with mental depression. The pulse rate, and blood pressure in patients are also lowered after practicing three, and six months of kundalini yoga. (Devi SK, et al. 1986)

An article by The Research Group for Mind-Body Dynamics, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, California, US, explained about kundalini yoga meditation techniques for psycho-oncology, and as potential therapies for cancer, in patient perspectives.

Some trials was showed efficacy on all psychological scales using the kundalini yoga protocol, in treating obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), including anxiety, and depression, were also significantly reduced. Two depression specific kundalini yoga techniques are described in helping combat mental fatigue, and low energy.

There are also kundalini yoga techniques that yoga practitioners have used in treating cancer, as well as potential adjunctive therapies. A case history had presented rapid onset of acute relief from an intense fear, in a breast cancer patient using a kundalini yoga technique specific for fear.

Second case history in 1988, a surviving male diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, who had used long term kundalini yoga therapy, as part of a self-directed integrative care approach. (Shannahoff-Khalsa DS. 2005)

Yoga practitioners perform meditations, in order to increase the awareness of internal body sensations. A study was designed to compare two groups of meditators, Tibetan Buddhist, and Kundalini, with non-meditators. Compared to non-meditators, meditators consistently rated their interoceptive performance as superior, and the difficulty of the task as easier.

The results was provided the evidence against the notion that practicing attention to internal body sensations, a core feature of meditation, will enhance the ability to sense the heartbeat at rest. (Khalsa SS, et al. 2008)

Conclusion:
From several studies above, I conclude that by self practicing reiki, or kundalini yoga might gain better result in health achievement, and more effective, than only being an energy receiver from reiki, or kundalini yoga practitioners.

Personal Perspectives

In my own experiences, my wife turns out that, she had already known about awakening kundalini energy, although she never heard about the term of kundalini before. In my previous post, which titled, Afterlife, I described how my wife had her sixth sense be opened.

The therapist, who I thought was also a paranormal, who was trying to unlock my wife's, and her two colleagues's aura, explained to my wife about the centre energy in human tailbone. The therapist did not mention anything to my wife, and her two colleagues about kundalini energy.

The therapist only told to my wife, who became the only one who succeeded in unlocking the aura, to feel the energy that flew from her tailbone, raised up to her head, and then to her hands. My wife then felt that the energy was stopped, in all her fingertips, like an electric wave.

I was surprised that my wife knew about this before, although she never heard about kundalini before. I had also felt my kundalini energy, after I knew where the source of kundalini was located in my body. It is easy for me, because I had also my sixth sense be opened, and also with my first daughter, who had her sixth sense since birth.

The first time I explained about kundalini energy to my seven years old daughter, she did not even believe with what I was saying. I said to my daughter, You could also feel your kundalini energy, just think about the energy, which is hidden in your tailbone!

Watch this and feel it!, I put my left palm, about 10 cm in front of my daughter's face. There is hot air comes from your palm, Dad, said my daughter.

You could also do it too! Just think on your tailbone!, I said to her. But not by putting your hand in your ass. Just think about the energy! Feel the energy raised up to your head! You will feel your head is tickel and bigger. And then the energy stops in your fingertips, as you also felt tickel in your fingertips, I added.

You are right, Dad. Hi..hi..hi, said my daughter while trying to hold her laugh. I felt my daughter's kundalini energy. I never thought that I could also teach my own daughter to feel her kundalini energy, although I am not reiki, or yoga practitioner.

Note:
If you want to read, or download the ebook Kundalini Reiki Manual by Paul Crick, just google it! You can also email me if you want, or by placing your email in the comment form below. I will email you the 24 pages ebook, in which only 238 kB in size.

Link Between Passive Smoker and Lung Cancer

A chest X-ray showing a tumor in the lung (marked by arrow).

Lung cancer, an abnormal and uncontrolled growth of the cells in tissues of the lung, is the most common cancer in the world. I had described this in my earlier post, that lung cancer contributed 12.7%, or 1,608,055 new cases, in 2008. The death rate was 18,2%, or 1,376,579 cases of cancer death worldwide.

Cigarette smoking causes mostlung cancers. The more cigarettes to smoke per day, and the earlier age of starting to smoke, the greater the risk of getting lung cancer. Other risks include, high levels of pollution, radiation, asbestos exposure, and first degree family history of any cancers especially lung cancer, may also increase the risk.

The most common symptoms of lung cancer, include:

• A cough that does not heal, and even gets worse by coughing up blood.
• Wheezing, or hoarseness, due to shortness of breath, a breathing difficulty, which involves a sensation of difficult, or uncomfortable breathing, or a feeling of not getting enough air.
• Chest pain, discomfort or pain that you feel anywhere, along the front of your body, between your neck and upper abdomen, that does not heal.
• Regular problems of having pneumonia, or bronchitis.
• Swelling of the neck and face.
• Suddenly of having weight loss, due to loss of appetite.
• Always suffering from fatigue, although was not doing any hard works.

There are many types of lung cancer. Each type of lung cancer is treated differently, because the cancer cells grow, and spread in different ways. Treatments depend on the stage, in which include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery. (MedlinePlus)

Link Between Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer

Passive smokers, or second hand smokers, are people who are exposed by environmental tobacco smoke from an active smoker. Environmental tobacco smoke is also known as pollutants from smoker's lung.

Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, is generally believed to increase the risk by 25%, of coronary heart disease (CHD), and lung cancer among never smokers. The increased risk is based primarily on meta analysis, and is still controversial due to methodological problems. A researcher, James E. Enstrom, with his associate professor, Geoffrey C. Kabat, was shocking the world, when British Medical Journal published his study, in 2003.

The study was based on cancer prevention study (CPS I) conducted by the American Cancer Society, among 118,094 adults, in 1959, and the follow up study until 1972. Enstrom then conducted the extended follow up, at the University of California, LA, until 1999, with focusing only on the 35,561 never smokers, who had a spouse, in the study, with known smoking habits.

The large study of Californians, which followed for 40 years, had found that environmental tobacco smoke was not associated with CHD, or lung cancer mortality, at any level of exposure. The study suggested that the effects of environmental tobacco smoke, particularly for CHD, are considerably smaller than generally believed.

Moreover, active cigarette smoking was confirmed as a strong risk factor for CHD, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), most commonly disease caused by tobacco smoke, such as, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis. (Enstrom JE, et al. 2003)

Smoker who lived until 95 Years of Age

My great grandfather from my mother side, was born in 1902. He was known as a heavy smoker by his sons, daughters, grandchildren, and great grandchildren. He died in 1997 at the age of 95 years, due to aging, and not from any diseases. My living grandmother, who was born in 1931, is the second daughter of my great grandfather.

In December 26, 1950, my grandparent was married. My grandparent who had just celebrated 62nd anniversary last year, are non smokers. After 82 years of living, my grandmother was never having any symptoms of CHD, or lung cancer. Also with my living grandmother elder sister (two years of age older), who took care of my great grandfather since the death of my second great grandmother, in 1987 (my first great grandmother died in 1957), was never having any symptoms of CHD, or lung cancer.

From the first marriage, my great grandfather had six daughters and four sons. My great grandfather did not have any children from the second marriage. Seven out of ten children of my great grandfather, are still living until I write this post. The seventh daughter died at a baby age.

Two sons, the third and forth son, who were also a heavy smoker, died because of lung cancer. I never knew the forth son of my great grandfather, because he died when my mom was still carrying me in pregnancy, in 1980. The third son died in 1998, a year after the death my great grandfather.

Then, you might wonder about me. Do I also a smoker? Yes, I do. Until now, I am the only great grandchildren who is an active smoker, after my elder cousin quitted smoking four years ago. Yes, I know the risk of smoking tobacco, and I want to quit smoking.

I found very hard for me to quit on smoking. Again, you might say, there is a way when there is a will. Perhaps someday, I will stop smoking. I started to smoke since I was graduate from high school, due to a broken heart. What? A broken heart can make people started to smoke? Infact, a broken heart can make people conduct a suicide.

Although, there was a dangdut song lyrics that said, better to have a toothache than a broken heart. But, for me, I prefer to have a broken heart than having a toothache. It's because you can still go to bed and sleep, although you had a broken heart. But, you could never get to sleep if you had a toothache

What Makes You To Have Cajuput Oil in Your First Aid Kit

Photo credit: arnistm.

Cajuput is derived from the old Bahasa Indonesia spelling, kaju putih, which means white wood. In old Bahasa Indonesia spelling, the letter of J is read as Y, while DJ is read as J. Cajuput (Melaleuca leucadendra Linn.) has many synonyms such as Melaleuca cajuputi Roxb., Melaleuca cumingiana et lancifolia Turcz., Melaleuca minor Sm., Melaleuca saligna B., Melaleuca viridifolia Gaertn., Myrtus leucadendra Linn, and Melaleuca saligna Gmel.

There are also many common names for cajuput, such as, ai kelane, bai qian ceng (白千层), bru galang, cajeput, cajeputol, cineol, elan, eucalyptol, gelam, ghelam, ilano, inggolom, irano, irono, kayu gelang, kayu putih, lren, ngelak, nggielak, sakelan, swamp tea tree, waru gelang, and white tea tree. Cajuput, Tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia Linn.) and Gum tree (Eucalyptus obliqua) are from the same family plant of Myrtaceae. Their leaves can be distilled to make an essential oil, in which have similar effects and smell.

Cajuput can grow on a barren land, heat resistant and can sprout back after a fire. Cajuput can be found from the lowlands up to 400m asl. Cajuput can grow near the coast, behind mangrove forests, in a boggy ground, or forming a small forest on dry land until wet.

Cajuput tree is 10-20 m high, multi-layered leather stem, white with grayish colored of its irregular exfoliate skin surface. Small stem with branching that hang down. Single leaf, quite thick like leather, and short stalk. The leaves when squeezed, or crushed will smell of cajuput oil. (Sentra Informasi IPTEK)

Cajuput Oil

Cajuput oil is a volatile oil from the fresh leaves and twigs of cajuput. It used as a stimulant, rubefacient in rheumatism, muscle and joint pain, flavoring, stimulant, antiseptic, expectorant, and anthelmintic. Precautions to use by pregnancy women, breast feeding mom, and a person with hypersensitivity to tea tree plant. (Medical Dictionary)

Minyak Kayu Putih Cap Lang

An Indonesian original product manufactures, in Jakarta, Indonesia, which is found in 1963, has been exported through out the world, and is found to be sold online on Amazon.com.

Cajuput Oil vs. Insects

I had described how I used Minyak Kayu Putih Cap Lang to get rid of head lice naturally on my previous post.

Though in the bottle of Minyak Kayu Putih Cap Lang is only said to help relieve muscle aches, abdominal pain, flatulence, nausea, and itching from insect bites. But, I managed to use it to treat eczema, and itcy rashes that I often suffered.

So far, I could not find any referrences on scientific evidence which indexed in PubMed. Only a study by Malaysian scientists who demonstrated aerosol spray of cajuput oil effects against dangerous mosquitoes. But, this 2012 study explained to what I had been experinced in my early post, on how a louse died from a single drop of cajuput oil.

An aerosol spray of cajuput oil was evaluated against the dengue vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, at low cost housing flats, in Section 10, Setapak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The study suggested that extracts of cajuput essential oils possess an adulticidal effects (the ability to kill adult heartworm as distinct from that used to kill the microfilarial, or larval stages), and could be considered, as well as to be utilized for future dengue vectors control. (Abu Bakar A, et al. 2012)

Cajuput Oil to Awaken from Unconsciousness Seizure

Back in May 28, 2011, after I watched Champions League Final football match between Barcelona vs. Manchester United, in local TV channel, my three years old son, Michael, experienced an absence seizure, due to high fever.

Absence seizures involve an interruption to consciousness, where the person experiencing the seizure seems to become vacant, unresponsive for a short period of time, usually up to 30 seconds, and slight muscle twitching may occur.

To avoid a tongue biting by my unconscious son, I used cajuput oil to awake him, by rubbing the oil all over to his nose and lips, because his mouth is blocked by his teeth. Not less in five seconds, he was awaken. Then, I took a warm water to compress all of his body. After that, I left him with my wife at 4 am, in the morning, to get an anti fever drugs in nearest pharmacy.

My mom always told me that seizure may be dangerous, if the kids were not being awaken first, before being taken to the hospital. In a case of tonic clonic seizures, death may occur on the way to the hospital, due to tongue biting, urinary incontinence, and the absence of breathing. My mom was experinced in dealing with seizures, because I often got seizures, when I was below the age of five years old.

Can I Drink Cajuput Oil?

Even though all cajuput oil manufacturers forbid the products for internal use, and only for external use. But, according to dr. Adji Suranto, SpA, an Indonesian pediatric, a member of Perhimpunan Dokter Indonesia Pengembang Kesehatan Tradisional Timur (Indonesian Doctors Association of Advanced Eastern Traditional Health), in Jakarta, cajuput oil can be used as an oral medication to treat colds, throat infection, worms intestine, cholera, colic and as a gargle for mouth cavity infections.

For internal use, one to ten drops of 100% cajuput oil, mixed with a grain of sugar cubes (about 4 grams), and dissolved in a glass of drinking water. When used as an oral medication, it should be dissolved first to pay attention on the proportion. But, if the oral medication is used excessively, it might lead to an increasing of heartbeat and excessive sweating. (Majalah Anakku)

Cajuput to Treat Diabetes and Obesity

A study is indexed on Journal of Natural Medicines, April 2013, Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 264-270, by Azis Saifudin, Shigetoshi Kadota, Yasuhiro Tezuka, from the Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan. The study demonstrated the water and methanol extracts of 28 Indonesian medicinal plants, in which among them were cajuput, for their protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP-1B) inhibitory activities.

PTP-1B is a negative regulator of the insulin signal transduction cascade, initiated when insulin binds to the insulin receptor. PTP-1B is used as a target for the treatment of impaired glucose tolerance, and type 2 diabetes. PTP-1B deficient mice are more sensitive to insulin, improved glycemic control, and resistance to diet induced obesity, than wild type control mice. (Liu G, et al. 2002)

With four other plants water extracts, the water extracts of cajuput at 2.05 μg/mL, exhibited strong inhibitory activity. The results suggest that, all 28 Indonesian medicinal plants may contribute for the treatment, or prevention of type 2 diabetes, and obesity through PTP-1B inhibition. (Saifudin A, et al. 2013)

How To Establish Good Relations with Your Mother in Law

My Wife with My Mother (left) at Surabaya Zoo

All my neighbours are always jealous with the relationship that my wife and my mother had. They thought that I was the one who became my mother son in law, because my wife is like my mom's own daughter.

Just like oil and water, so are your relationship with your mother in law. There are many ways to establish harmonious relationship, if you want to be prudent. Relationships with in laws are not easy, especially if you have different pattern of life and perspectives.

As our own parents, son and daughter in law are considered to have less life experience. Lifestyle differences may also be due to generational differences. Do not think that your lifestyles are the most correct. Try to observe your mother in law lifestyles! You may find many positive things that you can learn from.

Establishing good relationship with in laws are not as difficult as we might think. Try the following tips :

Do not compete with your mother in law.
However, your mother in law is your husband's mother. You and your mother in law are having different roles and positions. Respect your mother in law as if she is your own mother.

Make your mother in law as a model.
As the last person comes into your husband's family, you have much to learn how to interact with your husband's family. Marriage is not only to unite you with your husband, but also to unite your family with husband's family. You can learn from your mother in law, how to adapt with other husband's family members.

Try to live apart.
Having your own home after marriage is every young couple's dream. By living together with your husband, you will learn how to become a wife. Minor conflict with your mother in law can be avoided, and vice versa conflict between husband with your mother.

Note your mother in law's favorite food.
Whether you cook for yourself, or buy her favorite foods, it will give a positive effect on your relationship. She will regard your attention to her. This action will directly touch of her feelings. Especially if the food is made on your own. Although the taste is awful, but it will not be a problem. It has shown an attention.

Do not tell bad conduct about your husband.
Your husband is her biological son. There is no mother would able to receive bad note about her son. If you are in trouble with your husband, and wanted to tell her. State the issues by using words as smooth as possible. Despite it all, you and your husband alone that should be completed your problems without any intervention from others.

Do not expect your mother in law to change.
She is not your biological parents. You cannot force her to conform with you. If your mother in law is a widow, come to live with you in your own house, you are the one that supposed to adjust. You should take care and pay attention to her needs. As if you treat your own mother.

Your marriage with your husband has united two families. Good relations must be maintained. Even if you did not managed to establish good relations with your mother in law, teach your children to honor and cherish your in laws.

You should not to discriminate the love between your mother and your mother in law. Children should learn to respect and love the elders, your in laws, although they do not get the love in return. That is to proof our devotion to our parents.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving

Note: Above post is an edited repost from my inactive blog.

When Motion Creates Emotion

Primary emotions painting by Christina Boyt

Do you often feel bore? Was your daily activity boring you?

I felt the same way if you say yes for all questions above. And I guess everybody do have at least one boring day in their lifes.

So, how did you manage those boring days?

I assume you will start to make a new activity, or at least, you make your body moves, whether stand up or take a walk. You just make a motion to react with your boring activity.

Now, try this! Go outside! Stand up and look up to the sky! Give your best smile, a wide smile up to the sky! Then, imagine the greatest misery or sorrow you've ever had! Can you do it? Can you managed to bring back that bad memory? Why you cannot do it?

It all because our body did not support to creates that kind of emotion.

So, what is emotion?

I have already described this on my previous post. In Latin, emotion originally meant an inner turbulence, as in a storm cloud, which discharged its forces outward.

Can we control our emotion?

Since we are mentally healthy, we should manage to control our emotion. A simple change of our body's movement, a motion, believe or not, is managed to create another emotion. It depends on what kind of emotion do we exactly want.

An actor was one of best example, about person who managed to control emotion. But, I am not an actor.

Who said that everyone cannot be an actor?

Have you ever been felt angry, happy, or sad? If you have not been felt any of those emotions, you cannot be an actor. Because, even for a crazy person, is also having those kinds of emotions, in which can change every seconds.

Another example that I had described in my previous post titled, Frustrated Inc., it was you the one that makes yourself felt bore, or having any kind of emotions. So, you must not blame on anyone, or anything about the conditions you are having.

The way to forget about the conditions (emotions) you are having, is by starting new activities (motions). Some would call this as breaking the pattern, to make a new one.

Have you ever watched TV shows such as, Candid Camera, Just for Laugh, or any TV programs which intended to make a fool on someone caught on tape?

For example, a man who was being fooled, would be very angry at the moment, but when he was being told that he was on Candid Camera, he suddenly laugh.

How could that be happened?

At a moment the man felt very angry, but when he saw a camera, he suddenly laughed because he knew he was on a famous TV show.

Can you notice the motion that changes the man emotion?

It is when the man was pointed his eyes to the camera, after listening what the TV crew had said to him. A very simple motion that creates emotion.

Sekuat Hatimu by Last Child

A song from Indonesian band, Last Child, which dedicated for all mothers in the world. The lyrics contain many awaken words, especially for me. It really reminds me about, how my mom always gave her best for me.

Mom was always proud of me, and strengthened my heart by telling to everyone that I am a very good person, though in real, I am not that good at all.

The Original Lyrics in Bahasa Indonesia

Last Child – Sekuat Hatimu

Ku mohon hentikan air matamu mama,
bila ternyata harus putus sekolahku.
Dan ku pilih gaya hidup yang tiada,
pernah indah di matamu.

Tak mampu ku mengampuni diriku mama,
bila ku cerna harunya arti doamu.
Yang kau panjatkan untukku saat ku bawa diriku,
semakin dalam ku terjatuh.

*
Bila ku tak pernah sanggup untuk bangkit dari,
kegagalan yang tak seharusnya kau sesali.
Karna kenyataan hidup yang aku jalani,
tak seindah saat ku dengar engkau bernyanyi.

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Peluklah lelah jiwaku mama!
Yang terluka dipecundangi dunia.
Hanya kasihmu yang mampu lindungi lemah hatiku,
yang tak sekuat hatimu.

* #

Peluk hati kecil yang penuh dendam ini!
Ajari ku menghapus sebuah rasa benci!
Biarkan kasih lembutmu sentuh hatiku!
Ubah aku jadi buah hati yang dulu...!!

# #

The Lyrics Translated in English

Last Child – As Strong As Your Heart

Please stop your tears mama,
if turns out I should break up from school.
And I choose a lifestyle that never,
ever looked beautiful in your eyes.

I cannot forgive myself mama,
when I sensed every moving words inside your pray.
The one that you sent it to me when I took myself,
to let it fell deeper.

*
If I never able to awake from,
failures that you should not be regretted.
Because the fact of life that I live,
was not as beautiful as when I heard you sang.

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Hug my tired soul mama!
That injured manipulated by the world.
Only your love was able to protect my weak heart,
which was not as strong as your heart.

* #

Hug this small heart that full of vengeance!
Teach me to erase a hatred!
Let your love touched my heart!
Change me to become your once baby!

# #

I love you mama..

Water Therapy Scam?

My friend, Joko felt like vomiting after drinking 1.5 litres of water every morning. He complained to me, the one who had suggested him on doing water therapy.

I asked him, Since when did you do this therapy?.

Since I suffered from rheumatic and excess uric acid disease, about 3 months ago, answered Joko.

You are doing the water therapy for 3 months? How do you feel now?, I said to him.

I'm feeling much better now, the rheumatic that I'd suffered before, I've never experinced anymore, said Joko. But, everytime I finished drinking 1.5 litres of water, I felt like vomiting, added Joko.

You should not continue on doing the water therapy, if you had felt much better. You only keep drinking a glass of water after waking up, and drink when you are thirsty, I answered. What you should keep in mind, is the amount of water that you must consume in a day, beside other liquids you get from your foods, to avoid your body of getting dehydration, I added.

I never thought that Joko was actually doing exactly as I had told him 3 months ago, because lots of people had been considered water therapy as just hoax, and nothing but a scam.

People who considered water therapy was just a scam, are those who have not actually make a practice of doing the therapy, or they might have used the wrong steps.

The Laughing Cons

I arrived to this health article on Ask A Raffles Doctor, titled Is water therapy harmful to the body?, which answered by Dr. Stanley Liew Choon Fong, Specialist in Endocrinology, Raffles Hospital. Here is what I quoted from the article:

The concept that a large amount of water consumed in the morning can cleanse the bowel may be over simplistic. Most of the water we drink is absorbed in the gut, and then used by the cells in our body. The kidneys would excrete the excess water. So, very little water is left behind in the gut to clean the bowel. Otherwise, we would all be having diarrhoea after drinking a large amount of water.

There is no scientific evidence that water therapy has any specific benefits to people with hypertension or diabetes. In fact, healthy diet, regular exercise and keeping body weight in the healthy range are the best lifestyle modifications for people with hypertension and diabetes.

The one that made me laugh was the statement ...having diarrhoea after drinking a large amount of water. The statement was contrary with my previous blog post, based on my own experience to overcome diarrhea without any medicines.

Diarrhea occurs as a result of bacteria or foreign substances (toxic) that attacks the immune system in the gastrointestinal tract. Antibodies in the body reacts to the process of secretion.

Excessive secretion process will lead to dehydration. Acute dehydration can lead to death if not promptly addressed.

How much exactly the water intake in a day?

Here's what I quoted from American Cancer Society, within the article Hydrotherapy, which the page is now no longer existed or indexed by web archive:

The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Science reports that Adequate Intake (AI) of water is around 3.7 liters per day for adult men (over 18 years), and about 2.7 liters for adult women. For pregnant women, daily intake is about 3 liters, and 3.8 for nursing women. A liter is a little more than a quart, so for men, this translates to nearly 4 quarts a day. But this amount of water includes all the liquid in your food and drinks, not just plain water intake.

But.., at the bottom of the article..

Drinking very large amounts of water over short periods of time can lead to serious mineral imbalances in the blood, and death from water intoxication.

The statement above had made Usha Paana Chikitsa, the dawn water treatment, as hoax, or just a scam.

Usha Paana Chikitsa

Usha paana chikitsa, the dawn water treatment, is not good if continued for long. The chikitsa (treatment) is used only in particular diseases and conditions, in which not all people should start drinking 1.5 litres of water early in the morning.

So, water therapy is just for alternative medication, and not for daily habits. Your water intake should only be to fulfil your thirst. Drink only when you are thirsty! All things that are taken excessively might even turn out to be negative, and getting unbalanced nutritions to our body. Notice on your pee! If it's clear, means your body is well hydrate.

Humans are more than 50% water and die in a few days without it. Space scientists eagerly search dry planets for traces of water. Nephrologists spend most of their time thinking and worrying about urine, which is mostly water.

When the heart fails, we drown from too much water. Now we are confronted by the bizarre prospect that water is the cure for hereditary diseases that grotesquely bloat the kidneys with … water.

Dr. Jared J. Grantham, The Kidney Institute, University of Kansas Medical Center

Water Cures: Drugs Kill: How Water Cured Incurable Diseases by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj	Water the Ultimate Cure by Steve Meyerowitz

References:

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
Therapy for Polycystic Kidney Disease? It's Water, Stupid!

Water and Sea Salt Therapy
Water Cure
Cancer Testimonials (archive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_therapy

Update: July 17, 2024