Griffin’s ‘joke’ abhorrent

The picture of Kathy Griffin holding the bloodied, severed head of the President of the United States is beyond words or description. How low can the liberal left Democrats go? It should remind all Americans of ISIS and how they chopped off the heads of innocent people and glowered over it as they proudly held the severed head in the air. The hatred in the hearts of Democrats across this country is almost palpable! This great country is better than that! We as Americans cannot let this type of display happen again.

Kathy Griffin should be banned from all TV immediately. If some people think she is a comedienne, I don’t know what planet they’re on. She is not even remotely funny and her sense of humor does not belong in America. I, for one, will never accept her pathetic apology. She knew what she was doing and did it anyway.

Melinda Kopp, Chittenango

The key to unlocking our memories

Have you ever wondered how it is possible for some people to have photographic memory? I do. And with time a clear answer came to me. After prolonged fasts and meditation I experienced flashes of buried memories since birth.

Shocking? Not so, we know that every cell in our body is a memory bank that can be retrieved or is accessible any time we choose. Better yet, how do we lose or give up this gift?

In my journey of rediscovering my true self or attempting to become more self-aware, I tapped into glimpses of memories since birth, when I first attempted to open my eyes. Yes, it freaked me out too. I confirmed it with my mother and relatives who were by my mother’s side when I was born. I first re-experienced an eerie feeling followed by seeing hazy blots of blood. I was born at home through a midwife.

Here is how our brain works: our mind works like a shutter in a camera. The minute you experience trauma, resentment or just escape into a whirlpool of thoughts, the shutter is activated, blocking our senses; what we hear, see, etc. from being registered or being accessed into our mem- ory banks. Similarly, during deep cleansing and self-awareness, the shutter is de-activated and all this with practice can be done at will, becoming more conscious.

My point is that it makes sense to maintain a healthy environment, especially for our kids because everything is registered and at some point acted out, verbalized, etc...

Society does not understand this concept for the most part. Everything that we experience through our senses is a form of energy; either destructive (scattered and with no purpose) or constructive (laser like with a purpose).

The younger or the less angry one exists, the more conscious we are of our innate gifts.

Amelia Wasiluk, Oneida