Pathways to Personal Freedom using the Silva Method is a compilation of fifty ideas to help uncover the ways of inner bliss that lay dormant within each of us. Happiness and Personal Freedom are concepts that most of us have taken for granted. Society teaches us to please others; look for approval and acceptance from others; check in with those who “know better” than we do; allow our negative thoughts to overtake our actions, our way of life and even health. Each Pathway starts with a quote to encourage thinking and inspiration to bring about a spark of insight that is already known but may have been forgotten along the way. What follows are suggestions and examples from the authors’ lives and experiences as to how to achieve bliss and inner harmony. Each will end with an affirmation to be recited in the present time to instill the ideas as if they are already in place and to help enhance this new way of thinking. Some of these ideas may be new and even foreign—but they have stood the test of time and used by many throughout the world. Jose Silva, Sr. was a pioneer in the study and application of mind control. His youngest daughter, Diana Silva-Mendez and coauthor, Robert Deutchman have put together this labor of love for the benefit of Silva Method enthusiasts, trainers, Silva graduates, and to all who seek to tap into their inner wisdom.
Racism and Discourse in Latin America investigates how public discourse is involved in the daily reproduction of racism in Latin America. The essays examine political discourse, mass media discourse, textbooks and other forms of text, and talk by the white symbolic elites, looking at the ways these discourses express and confirm prejudices against indigenous people and against people from African descent. The essays show that ethnic and racial inequality in Latin America continue to exacerbate the chasm between the rich and the poor, despite formal progress in the rights of minorities during the last decades. Teun A. van Dijk brings together a multidisciplinary team of linguists and social scientists from eight Latin American countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru), creating the first work in English that provides comprehensive insight into discursive racism across Latin America.
Abstract: Understanding the minimum energetic expenditure for a species across its life stages has practical value in predicting how species may respond to changing habitat conditions. Using a static respirometry, I measured the thermal sensitivity (Q10) and metabolic allometry of the round stingray, Urobatis halleri, based on their standard metabolic rate (SMR). A total of 33 individuals (mass range=0.03 – 0.86 kg) were acclimated for > 14 days at three temperature treatments (15°, 23°, 27°C) spanning the seasonal water temperature variation in Southern California. An average thermal sensitivity (Q10) of 3.2 was estimated for the round stingray across the range of experimental temperatures. The juvenile size class showed a higher Q10 coefficient (Q10=4.3) when compared to the adults (Q10=3.0). There was a negative relationship between this species mass-specific scaling exponent (b) and temperature treatment (b=0.99 at 15°C, b=0.86 at 23°C, and b=0.79 at 27°C). Metabolic Q10 estimations showed that the round stingray is relatively sensitive to the thermal fluctuations they experience in southern California. While a relatively high Q10 may allow this species the ability to optimize their daily net energy gain by exploiting the local thermal heterogeneity, a higher thermal sensitivity in juveniles could have adverse effects on the population fitness under a pervasive increase of ocean’s temperature. Because of the scaling exponent can be affected by temperature, modeling studies should consider correcting for this effect when using scaling relationships as an input for more precise bioenergetic models.
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