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I'm reading a fascinating book called "The Nature of Substance, Spirit and Matter", by Rudolf Hauschka(pub. 1950)...an inquiry into the "primal nature of matter". Have I lost you yet? Nodding off? :D This book is great,
Science for non-scientists...
Anyway, here's some really interesting info on ...OIL!!!
This is from a chapter on Vitamins, this in particular is on Vitamin A:
"It is said that vitamin A is contained in oils, fats(especially fresh butter), fruits and blossoms. There is an essential connection between these various substances. Fruits and blossoms are products of warmth processes predominant in plants at the warmest time of the year. Oils are the clearest expression of warmth qualities, and in an earlier chapter we called them MATERIALIZED COSMIC FIRE(emphasis mine). From the chemical standpoint they are simply carbon skeletons clothed in a garment of hydrogen. Plant oils burn and thus reveal their latent fire. Animal fats and oil have the same character in their own special way. Whales, seals and other Arctic mammals are enclosed in an armour of fat that regulates the warmth organism of these dwellers in the icy depths.
What may we say is warmth's essental nature? We see it in its most primal form in the warmth-element of plants, reaching out to the highest levels of the summer atmosphere. We described how the plant-being floats up on wings of hydrogen to the outermost boundaries of the earth's air-mantle. All other physical warmth-phenomena repeats this process. Gases, fluids, metals - all heated substances expand. Expansion is as characteristic of heated minerals as growth is of living organisms under the influence of warmth.
When diets lack the stimulus supplied by oils, fats, fruits and blossoms, the organism fails to generate warmth and growth is inhibited. Quite clearly the periphery is the first part to suffer from such deprivation; the skin and sense organs begin to show unhealthy changes. We venture that vitamin A is NOT just this or that chemical substance, even though it is dependent on matter for support, but, rather, living warmth that has created an organic precipitate in fruits and blossoms, oils and fats."
Stoke your cosmic fire folks!
Swish oil
Eat oil
Wear oil
:)