Syntropic
Antioxidative Microbes (SAM) Website
How I Became
Involved With
Syntropic Antioxidative Microbes
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Some
History and Background
So, to get on with our
story,
let's jump back for a moment to the year 2000, as that will best help
to
illustrate and illuminate the points that I wish to convey. Acting upon
inner guidance, I had started offering consulting services in late 2000
to companies and individuals, primarily in the realms of alternative
health, nutrition, antioxidant nutrition (including extremely low
molecular weight antioxidants that yield "active hydrogen"),
trace element nutrition, sustainable agriculture, and means and methods
of reaching greater levels of happiness, inner peace, health,
well-being
and vitality. It was also this same time period that saw the advent of
some of my first informational websites devoted to some of the various
topics that I have mentioned immediately above.
Frankly, up till that point, I had, for much of my life, had little
interest in microbes. While I was certainly nowhere near as aversive to
"bacteria" and "microbes" and the general world of
microbiology as are most modern Westerners (remember here that we live
in
a culture that is so aversive to microbes and "germs" that
consumers flock to purchase "hand sanitizers", which promise to
kill all microbes present on the skin…), my sole experiences
with
microbes until that point had been very few, and had consisted largely
of
the following:
- one or two very brief
attempts to homebrew beer (and mead, that is a
beer/wine made from wild honey) back in the 1970s.
- a brief period in the
1970s when I was raising livestock, and was
forced to learn a bit about livestock veterinary medicine,
including management and treatment of livestock diseases.
- a one-year period in the
1980s when I had tried my hand at
maintaining saltwater aquaria, at which time I was forced to learn a
bit
about de-nitrifying bacteria and detoxifying bacteria, as it was
essential to encourage the growth and proliferation of such microbes in
the gravel bed and the filter media of my saltwater aquaria with such
microbes if my fish and invertebrates were to have any chance of
flourishing, much less surviving!
And, beyond
that, about my only other involvement with microbes by the
year 2000 was a growing and dawning realization, and acknowledgment,
of
the tremendously important role that beneficial microbes play in the
gut,
that is, in the GI tract of humans and animals, and the importance of a
good gut flora to attain optimal levels of health, well-being and
vitality.
Beyond that, I had, at that time, zero interest in microbes, and
rather,
my primary interests during that period lay in nutrition (particularly
Paleolithic diets and partly-raw diets), including mineral and trace
element nutrition, and heart-centered methods of achieving greater
levels
of happiness, health and well-being. And, when I started receiving
nudges
and hints in early and mid-2002 that I might wish to start paying
greater
attention to the role of beneficial probiotic microbes in attaining
optimal levels health and vitality, and to their role in sustainable
farming, I largely ignored them, and, indeed, I kept saying to myself
something to the effect that I was "not very interested in
microbes". Well, Divinity had other plans for me, as we shall
shortly see...
Because I was initially rather reluctant to start working in the field
of
beneficial probiotic microbes, and because I was ignoring a number of
signs in the outer world and nudges on the inner level to start
exploring
this realm, I was literally dragged into this field by Holy Spirit via
a
whole slew of synchronicities, strange coincidences and odd events that
occurred between June 2002 and December 2002, and these magical
synchronistic events that kept pushing me into the realm of beneficial
probiotic syntropic antioxidative microbes included all of the
following,
and all within the same six month period:
- strange dreams that two
otherwise down-to-earth Old Order Amish
farmers of my acquaintance had about me (and that they subsequently
related to me in phone calls), wherein they somewhat awkwardly told me
that they were advised by angels in their dreams that they should get
rid
of their existing "organic soil consultants" and instead call
me and ask me to "teach them about how to create really excellent
soil for organic farming" and they further advise me that it had
something to do with "…really special
fermented (sic) soil
microbes."
- a mystical visionary
message relayed to me by a sober and stoic Old
Order Mennonite farmer who was an acquaintance and occasional
consulting
client (in the realm of raw Paleolithic diet and nutrition). He told
me,
somewhat reluctantly, that he had experienced a vision one night
wherein
he was "shown" that I would teach him and others about
"special probiotic microbes" that could revolutionize
sustainable farming and organic farming, and also revolutionize the
field
of human and animal health. He further told me that this was all
somehow
connected with fermentation, but not the type of fermentation seen in
brewing beer or wine. He was as mystified by the vision and message as
was I.
- an unsolicited
spontaneous comment offered by a spiritual
healer/intuitive colleague, to the effect that she had recently had a
dream that I was soon to start working with "…powerful
beneficial
microbes that exude amazing healing energies".
- several
dog-eared,
stained and faded copies of articles from
long-defunct magazines and journals about "magical agricultural
microbes that destroy toxins and remediate contaminated soils" that
two previously-unknown to me self-styled "researchers" mailed
to me; from what little they told me, they were intrigued by the
descriptions of the magical beneficial microbes and their properties,
but
were frustrated by the fact that the articles indicated that the
secrets
of the technology had been lost when the inventor had died in 1975.
- several
chance phone
calls from acquaintances asking me if I could
offer consulting advice and steering regarding their new-found interest
in beneficial probiotic microbes; three of them further mentioned
having
heard about certain types of beneficial microbes that exhibited
antioxidant properties and could possibly be used to remediate
contaminated soils and/or contaminated waterways.
- a
phone call from a
former chemical engineer-turned-organic-farmer in
Nebraska; he had initially called to inquire about retaining me for
some
consulting on trace elements as a supplement for human nutrition and as
a
farm soil amendment. However, during one of our calls, he happened to
mention that many years ago, back in the 1970s, when he was a
practicing
chemical engineer dealing with treatment of toxic industrial waste, he
had come across a strange proprietary microbial culture marketed by an
elderly and very-secretive inventor located in northern Nevada. While
the
inventor primarily marketed his proprietary microbial product as a soil
conditioner for farmers working with soils in relatively dry areas, he
had avowed that his microbial culture would also remediate toxic waste.
My caller told me that he had experimented with using the microbial
product to treat liquid waste streams containing toxic industrial
waste,
and that it had performed "astoundingly" in reducing levels of
toxins, and in reducing odor and corrosion of metal plumbing and other
metal equipment in the waste stream. He further told me that he had
continued to intermittently use this strange microbial culture product
in
his waste treatment design and engineering work until 1982, when the
product suddenly became unavailable. Upon protracted inquiry, the
chemical engineer had learned that the elderly inventor – who
was the
sole producer of the microbial culture and reportedly also the only
person who possessed the "formula" – had died in mid-1982,
and
it appeared that his mysterious formula had died with him. All my
caller
could remember of what the elderly inventor had told him was that the
product, a clear liquid, was produced by a lengthy fermentation, and
that
some key ingredients were cow manure, the urine from pregnant mares
(yes,
urine from pregnant horses!), and the two flexible membranes (aka
"lining") found inside the shells of eggs from chickens.
(Interestingly, a few years later, in late 2006, while presenting
several
lectures on uses of SAM beneficial microbes in agriculture over a span
of
several days at an Acres USA conference in Indianapolis, I met two
farmers, both from the northern Midwest, who had apparently also been
customers at one time of the elderly inventor, and who had used his
products on their farm soil until the product became unavailable.
- I had started to perform
some experiments in the latter half of 2002
with using ancient yeast cultures to create sourdough breads with
extremely long rising/fermentation times (on the order of five days),
on
the hunch that such long-fermented sourdough breads would exhibit
powerful beneficial nutritional properties.
- some
anomalous, but
ambiguous and confusing, tales about mysterious
beneficial microbes that exhibited syntropic (aka negentropic or
anti-entropic) and antioxidative properties that had emerged during my
web-based research on the topic of long-fermented sourdough breads.
Unfortunately, most of the information on the information that I could
find on the web about these microbes was confusing, ambiguous, often
contradictory, and even, at times, downright maddening due to the
obvious
deficiencies.
- finally, the finishing
touch was an intriguing phone call from an FBI
agent in the latter part of 2002, followed in short order by a
fascinating and illuminating meeting with two FBI special agents, a
meeting that ultimately lasted for several hours. Much of our
conversation centered around -- you guessed it – soil
microbes and means
of propagating soil microbes via fermentation! This "divine
intervention" in particular awed me, for it was an amazing display
of synchronicity!
Eventually, by late 2002, the cumulative mass and import of all these
above-mentioned magical strange signs and signals was too great to
ignore, and I finally "woke up and smelled the coffee", that
is, I paid attention, and in short order, based upon inner guidance, I
started researching a very unique type of beneficial probiotic microbes,
often found in the soil, which I quickly came to call "syntropic
antioxidative microbes"; for shorthand, I started to call this genre
by the acronym "SAM".
Once I had allowed myself to venture into this field, I learned rapidly,
because I am a mystic and an intuitive/clairsentient as well as a
scientist, and within a short time I was authoring websites, books and
articles aimed a demystifying and de-mythologizing the entire field, and
offering pragmatic guidance on applications for these microbes across a
number of realms. I was also in short order recognized as an
internationally-known authority on syntropic antioxidative microbes and
their applications in a wide variety of fields.
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