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| Mounted Animal Tooth Found in Wishing Well. Source: Miami Herald link below. |
Archaeologists in Germering unearthed a 3,000-year-old wooden wishing well, the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection said in a Dec. 20 news release. Unlike today’s coin-filled fountains, this well was filled with over 100 well-preserved artifacts.
At the bottom of the 16-foot well, archaeologists found a variety of items that appeared intentionally placed. Considering the depth of the well, the artifacts may have been ritual offerings or religious sacrifices made during a long drought, archaeologist Marcus Guckenbiehl said in the release...
Here is the link.
3,000-year-old wishing well full of relics found in Germany | Miami Herald
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A recent excavation of a historical estate on a Caribbean island found stories from the past hiding in plain sight in wooden posts and rectangular stones...
The researchers found evidence of a vast animal mill preserved under an access road, likely used to crush sugar cane. Measuring about 50 feet across, a circular structure was unearthed with indications that wooden rollers wrapped in iron and pulled by oxen or mules had been used to crush sugar cane and collect the sweet juice inside later refined into sugar loaves...
Here is the link for more about that.
Martinique excavation finds evidence of animal mill, slavery | Miami Herald
Years ago when I traveled, I visited a Caribbean Island and took a little tour to the remains of a sugar plantation. I also remember talking to a local who told me about a Spanish colonial coin he found on one of his daily walks along the beach. He said he kept it a shoe box under his bed. When I was there it seemed like the island had been only lightly metal detected at that time. I found a many local coins, a little gold, and some 18th century artiacts, including military buttons, grapeshot, musket parts, etc. Some of the areas I detected back then is now more developed and could not be detected today. I talked about some of that before.
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I am reading a book, or should I say rereading a book (Healing Words, by Larry Dossey, MD), since I read it at least once before several years ago, about the medical benefits of prayer and meditation. The book tells how Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked and became known among the natives as a healer. Here's the story as told.
Early in the sixteenth century, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca became shipwrecked and stranded on the Texas coast and feared being killed by the natives. He and two fellow survivors spent several cold winter nights sleeping naked in a pit they dug. De Vaca and his colleagues had lost everything - yet they not only survived but underwent an amazing transformation: they emerged from the pit with the power to heal. On their way westward, their fame went ahead of them. The natives would bring their sick, and de Vaca and his friends would heal them. They were thus able to travel unharmed, eventually making their way back to Mexico City, the seat of Spanish civilization in the New World
The author writes, De Vaca's ability to heal was preceded by a profound emptiness, a shipwreck of both body and spirit, a dark night of the soul during which he did not know if he would survive. A miracle was born not out of his doing, but from the unconscious depths of his being.
(Dossey provides his sources as being Sierra 74, no. 5, 1989, and The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca, by Haniel Long, 1992.)
The book explores healing alternatives outside of the kinds of physical interventions that characterizes most of modern medicine. Dossey discusses factors and reports the results of studies on the healing effects of prayer and meditation as well as spontaneous healings.
The medical establishment is rooted in a materialistic philosophy although you can find some holistic physicians that consider mind, and perhaps spirit, as well as body. I've experienced healings as the result of prayer, and seen many more, and know that some of you have also experienced remarkable healings in response to prayer.. For example, after years of failed orthopedic treatments and deciding against a last-ditch surgical pain management option, I was healed after much prayer. Would an x-ray show any changes? I doubt it, but the pain is gone, and I was able to resume normal activities. That is just one example.
The government's Covid response did not take into consideration the mind or spiritual aspects. As I wrote this, I realized clearly for the first time that the government recommendations regarding Covid were in conflict with my deeply held philosophical and religious beliefs.
While Dossey's book does not take a religious perspective. It comes from more of a scientific perspective. He discusses a wide variety of religious and non-religious practices. You might be familiar with the relaxation response and studies on TM by Bensen, for example. Anyhow, you might be interested in this book on mind and spirit as they relate to healing. Footnotes and appendices provide access to the results of many controlled studies.
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Looks like the surf will be increasing today.
Good hunting,
TreasureGudie@comcast.net