Sometime in the 1980s, Chief Adeyemi Olusola Lawson, a man among men, spiritualist, business and industry leader in Nigeria, told some of us acquainted to him that, very soon, we would live Three Earth Lives in One. He was sharing with us knowledge for The world as it could be or, if you like, Knowledge for the world of tomorrow.
The two labels are titles of books by Herbert Vollman who drew from the same source as Chief Lawson, who was educating my generation of truth seekers about creation, man, nature and the laws of nature. It is only now, about 40 years after, that some of us are beginning to understand what it means to live three earth lives in one. A gigantic cycle of events is closing in a world in which our earth is like a pin-point.
Enormous pressure from the closing cycle would forcibly drive other cycles to their closing, bringing to each person all the “carry-overs” of previous earth lives to confront and liquidate in this earth-life or be crushed by them. That is why many persons on earth today do not understand what is happening to them and continue to blame other persons, including governments, rather than themselves, for the inhospitable conditions under which they live.
As we rush from pillar to post every day, striving to keep our heads afloat in a literal ocean of multi-dimensional pressure, our kernels or spirits are taking unpresidented bashing which impact on the flesh, since the spirit forms and powers the body. Some of us are falling by the way side, dying. Some are killing themselves. Some do not know what they are doing.Psychiatric hospitals are over flowing with patients. Outside them, there are more persons who ought to be in for behaviour imbalance. Only persons who understand the laws of nature at work would be able to understand why many women are now walking in the street more than half naked,revealing what distinguish them from men, or why a man aged 45 will defile a girl of four years or man of 71 will take a girl of nine and prefer to spend the rest of his earth-life in jail. This week, the Commissioner for Special Duties in Jigawa State was accused of having sex with a house wife in an uncompleted building in Kano, about 237km or 147 miles distance. We are now all like chicken beaten by rain,cold and feverish, with no hiding place. Our bodies are hurt, dying prematurely and instalmentally.
On September 29, 2024, heart doctors world-wide and those persons who are concerned about the condition of the health of the heart invited us to spare sometime for our hearts. Many hearts are enlarged, too weak to pump blood all around the body,are themselves not receiving enough blood from the blood circulation to sustain their health and work, or murmuring to protest other in hospitable conditions for their existence such as having to work against high tension in the blood vessels and organs. I will invite attention to only a few of the red flags which stressful existence in a Three-in-One Earth Lives is weaving at degenerating hearts.
Red Flags
•The Nigerian Heart Foundation says about 80 per cent of Nigerians are hypertensive, a condition which may cause heart disease, heart failure and heart attacks, even strokes.
• Another source says about 7.2 million persons of Nigeria’s estimated 220million population live with hypertension, the highest cardio vascular burden in the country. This suggests there are about 100 million more cases of other heart-realated heart challenges.
•With an estimated 17.9 million deaths in 2019, cardiovascular diseases are leading causes of mortality globally, of which 85 percent were due to heart attacks and strokes. In 2021, there were 20.5 million cardiovascular deaths globally.
We learn from events around us, if we are wise. On August 26, 1998, at the age of 76, my father left the flesh due to Congestive Heart failure. Since then, I have taken heart health seriously. Heart health care should, quite naturally, begin with diet, since we are what we eat, and should involve a balancing of the emotions and avoidance of events which cause excessive fire storms in the heart. In Chakra or energy medicine, the heart is the seat of love. That means we must love and be loved in return, since the spirit spark in every-one, our being, meant to grow into a mature human spirit, is a split part of the universal love.
When Chief Lawson spoke of three earth lives in one, what he meant was that a time would come when we would come under pressure and stress than we were under at the time he spoke those words. Who, today, can say that time may not have come? In the mid-1970s when I went to the university, there were only five first generation universities in Nigeria, ( Lagos, Ibadan, Ife, Nsukka and Zaria).The country was easier to govern, there were jobs and there was peace. There were no organised bandits and kidnappers. Belief in the power of money had not reached a crescendo.Now, we have more than 200 universities and the country has fallen far wide apart. It is like drama on television to some of us when we hear that a former governor is hiding in the kaftan or Agbada of a serving governor to prevent arrest for questioning on alleged theft of about 84 billion Naira public money, and about 16 states governments are challenging legal existence of the EFCC. What that tells me is that, with 200 universities, we have been educating the brain and its intellect for erudition and not the spirit,that is man, for wisdom. We will reap a bumper harvest of that if the Supreme Court succumbs to the governors. For the coast would become clearer for us all to become financial criminals and increased the pains in our Three- in-One-Earth-life. The pains come From growing pressure of stressors in today’s existence. All around us, we observer and impact monumental stressors like hate, sloth,greed, hunger in the midst of food, poverty amid riches, intolerance rather than peaceful co-existence, competition in place of coporation and sharing,marriage break-downs, harrowing opposite gender relations, aggravated sensuality, daughters having children for their fathers, Septuagenarians defiling four-year-old baby girls, massive petroleum and currency mafia wars.
Solid minerals mafia wars are brewing. Globally, abandonment of the U.S Dollar for the Gold Standard of Yore may bring more poverty to Nigeria. Wise nations are stealing Nigeria’s gold with the co-operation of Nigerians and pouring their nationals into the country in a scrabble for Nigeria, the list is endless. These and many more events worse than them impact our psychic with stress every day. We gave rise to them as propensities in our egos which we have been carrying around over several incarnations. For Christians who do not believe in re-carnation, I would suggest a reading of Stephen Lampe’s The Christian And Re-Carnation, Ray Moody’s Life After Life and Richard Steinpach’s How is it That We Live After Death. For us all, the earth is a school where we are to learn about where we came from, who we are,where we would go after the earth, the road map between the earth and that place ( Paradise) , all the dangers on the way,and all the helps available to us. Our education does not teach us these things. Accordingly,we have several”carry-overs” in the syllabus at the end of every earth-life. Yet,to graduate from this earth-school,we must have accomplished answers to all these questions. That is why in the closing of the cycle, as in every final year in the university, we must scale all the hurdles of our existential carry-overs, and we are now obliged to live Three Earth Live In One. All our organs are impacted. This column will examine only the heart, being devoted to the 2024 World Heart Day
Thus, this conversation will be on some common ailments of the heart in Nigeria, and some of the natural or herbal medicines which may support their healings
Stress and the heart
Stress can contribute to heart-related problems in several ways: Directly, indirectly, behaviourally and aggravation of predisposing factors e.t.c.
These factors can cause a litany of problems such as…. Increase heart rate, release of stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol), faster and harder heart beat, constricted blood vessels, hypertension and heart rhythms disturbance, Inflammation, damaged heart and blood vessels, impaired the endothelium’s ability to regulate blood flow and blood pressure, reduced blood flow to the heart, gradual dead of muscles, altered heart structure and function.
Altered eating habits and poor quality foods choices, sleep disturbances, excercise demotivation, oxidative stress,hypertension,coronary artery disease,cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial infarction (heart attack),stroke, cardiac failure,and atherosclerosis.
Hypertension
A silent killer, it may be symptomless before its kills. I witnessed a case in the early 1970s as a sub-editor on The Daily Times newspaper.One Friday,I worked with a news editor on the national budget for publication next day. We left the office together,he for his home in Lagos Island, mine in Shomolu. From home that Friday night,he had to be taken to hospital. When I brought a copy of the Sunday edition, I was shocked to see his obituary announcement and photograph on the front page. I shivered for several hours.
Alhaji Alade Odunewu, one of the most well read columnist of The Daily Times would later write about his own near-death experience under the title Walking corpses. He developed a slight headache and went to hospital. His blood pressure was terribly over the bar.Doctor wondered why he had not died, and detained him. Thanks to several researches, we now have a deeper understanding of hypertension. They say we can break it into two types.
The first can be caused by nutritional deficiencies,the second by hardening of tissues and organs through which the heart pushes blood. The more hardened they are, principally by Calcium deposits, the more their resistance to blood flow, and the harder the heart has to work to push blood through them, causing elevated blood pressure or hypertension.
As for the type caused by nutritional deficiencies, Potassium deficiency and elevated of Sodium in the system are major culprits. Dr. Richard D. Moore, a leading nutrition researcher, educates us in the 386- page The High Blood Pressure Solution subtitled: Natural prevention and cure with K. Factor (K is the chemical formula for Potassium). He says the potassium-sodium (Na) balance regulate blood pressure at the cellular level. We are well educated, also, in The Potassium Factor by Dr. Charles Krebs, The Blood Presure Solution by Dr. Stetein Sinatra and Potassium: Health Benefits and Effects, by the National Institute of Health. We consume too much sodium in Mono Sodium Glutamate (MSG) and little potassium. In Africa, rich food sources of potassium include yam, sweet potato, banana, unripe plantain, avocado pear, pumpkin leaf, carrot, mango, pawpaw, cow peas, kidney beans, groundnuts, almonds, sesame seeds, cashew nuts, sunflower seeds, peel of unripe plantain and banana.
Arterosclerosis
This is the hardening of blood vessels by excess amounts of Calcium. Calcium and magnesium combine at a certain ratio compelled by The Law of Balance, a Law of Nature. When there is more Calcium than Magnesium, the excess calcium infiltrates soft tissues and organs causing, say, rigid blood vessels, frozen shoulders, constipation, cataracts, kidney, gall bladder stones, arthritis e.t.c.
Please note that arteriosclerosis is different from atherosclerosis. Both cause hypertension. While arteriosclerosis or hardening of the arteries can be corrected with increased magnesium intake, artherosclerosis, caused by atheromas or fatty deposits or plaque in blood vessels, can be resolved with blood thinners. These may include Vitamin E, Lecithin,( plentiful in soya beans), EDTA (Ethylenediamine Tetraacetic Acid), pomegranate, ginkobiloba, ginger, curcumin, Omega-3 fish oil, olive oil, orange peel, orange peel oil, Vitamin C, Flavonoids, Cayanne and Alligator pepper,flax seed oil, onion, garlic especially (Kyolic Garlic, about 50 times more powerful than natural garlic)e.t.c. Atheromas in the arteries are formed from various entities which include cholesterol, Triglycerides (blood cells), macrophages (imune fighter cells), calcium deposits. They may narrow or block artery passages, reduce blood flow, cause hypertension, heart disease and strokes.
Enlarged heart
Old persons who cough persistently without relief from standard conventional cough medicines may have enlarged heart.Cough may arise from the heart becoming too weak to pull blood back from the lungs after oxygenation, and the lungs struggling to expel the irritant back-ups. The heart enlarges for more power to push the blood through calcifications, blockages in the circulatory system and the state of hypertension they set up. The heart may be helped by Thiamine (Vitamin B1), other B-complex vitamins, Hawthorne berries, selenium, Vitamin C, Ubiqinol, CoQ10. Ubiqinol energises the heart. Dr Karl Foikers, leading researcher in this field since 1952, says heart problems begin when CoQ10 in the heart drops below 25 per cent . Hawthorne berries improve pump action of heart muscles. Thiamine and Garlic reverse enlargement of the heart, according to Rex Adams in Miracle medicine foods.
Angina pectoris
Sometimes, arteries which supply the heart with blood are blocked, reducing blood, nutrients and oxygen supply within the heart. This may cause chest pain called Angina pectoris in which a sharp pain may travel from the left shoulder blade, the scapula, right down the left arm. The heart is complaining that it is weak to do any hard work which may include climbing steerways or walking long distances. Ginkgobiloba, Gotu Kola and promegrante may join other heart remedies. Many Islamic schoolars and medics of yore recommended promegrante for heart and other health issues. In Pakistan, it is reported to have prevented several by-pass surgeries. Some of the Islamic propagators of promegrante health benefits were…Ibn Al Qayyim (1292-1350CE) IBN Sina (980-1337), AI Razi ( 865-923CE), AI Ghazali(1058-1111CE), Ibn Rushid ( 1126-1298CE)
Promegrant sells in Nigeria alone or as Pometeen, a combined properiatary blend with mangoteem, another health-sustaining plant medicine.
Palpitation
Years ago, my favourite remedy for palpitation of the heart was Mag Phos, a tissue or cell salt of magnesium phosphate. It was as effective for palpitation as Ferrum Phosphoricum was for blockages. Magnesium food supplements help this condition as it quietens the nerves spasms. Many persons world-wide have Magnesium defficiencies. That was why Carolyn Dean in the United States and others developed Ionic Magnesium which is absorbed into the blood from under the tongue. There are several Magnesium salts. Some are better absorbed into the blood stream than others.Consuming calcium supplements without counter balancing Magnesium salts may create a Magnesium defficiency and cause health issues such as palpitations of the heart, gall bladder and kidney stones calcifications in soft tissues and constipation.
Low blood pressure
The heart is weak, and can hardly generate the energy to keep “the river” of life, the blood circulation, flowing. It may kill faster than hypertension. On a mid-term basis, CoQ10 and Ubiqinol, should help underlying factors to be in check. These may include hypothyroidism ( low thyroid gland function) and low adrenal function. Hypothyroidism may improve with sea foods such as Dulse and kelp which provide iodine. Iodised salt may be tried. So should adaptogens. They raise or lower metabolic rate as desirable. In their ranks are Siberian Ginseng and Ashwanghandah. As for weak or burnt adrenal glands, the following are suggested…Licorice,Siberian Ginseng, Peruvian Macca, Astragalus, Cordyseps and Robust Roots, among others. The adrenals are shock absorbers of the body and should be healthier in persons who live multiple earth -lives in one. They are the organs, situated above the kidneys, which ensures that stress of everyday life does not kill us. In this earth-life, however, we are subject to many stressors than the adrenal glands of our ancestors had to cope with. These include about 4,000 health damaging, man-made chemicals in the foods chain, in the drink and in the air we breathe. There are so-called love or relationship questions, marriage upsets, financial vicissitudes e.t.c. In October 2024, a Nigerian medical report said that the rate of psychiatric admissions in hospitals had risen by 200 per cent. An increasing number of persons cannot cope any longer with the pressure of existence assailing them. That is what persons such as Saheed Fuhad or Mainland Lagos 98.3 FM Radio Station have been saying… Nigeria’s economy would throw up without, in my view, really knowing where the storms are blowing from…three or more earth-lives rolled into one final one. Such persons may compound their problems by becoming more agitated against their environment, not recognising that every-one forms his or her environment, believing they are at the mercy of any environment, battling for the dawn,today,of what only the dawn of tomorrow can bring. Today, they live not in the present, learning from the past to appreciate that many logs in the forests fell on top of one another in that distant past and must all be cleared for their paths ways to be clear again. Thus, as we are beaten to right shapes in the unyielding machinery of the laws of nature, we should be mindful of the impact on our health and our organs and, in particular, on our hearts to which the 2024 World Heart Day invited our attention.
