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With the suggestion that the last common genetic ancestor is a hyperthermophile, the role of temperature on the origins of life is important. The lower temperature limit in water is limited by the phase transition from liquid to ice. This is a problem because the density of ice is lower than that of water and the increase in volume on freezing will cause the cell structure to become disrupted in the same way that pipes burst in the winter. The lower limit for bacterial growth reported so far is -20°C, which is the temperature at which intracellular ice is formed. Adaptation to the cold requires a considerable salt content to depress the melting point of water the Don Juan Pond in Antarctica, which has a saturated CaCE solution, preserves the liquid phase at temperatures as low as —53°C. 

In THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN, Don Juan seems to have taught Carlos to smoke the mushrooms, which might provide a... 

Castaneda C. (1968). The Teachings of Don Juan A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press. 

I recalled that there is an instance in The Teachings of Don Juan where the Peyote entity, Mescalito, holds up his hand, and in its palm Carlos Castaneda sees a past incident in his life. 

In the mid-1700s a number of scientists experimented with and attempted to isolate element 74 by treating ores of other metals with reagents. One problem was that tungsten was often confused with tin and arsenic. It was not until 1783 that Don Fausto de Elhuyar (1755-1833) and his brother Don Juan Jose de Elhuyar isolated a substance from tin ore that they called wolframite. They named it after the mineral in which it was found. At about the same time the Swedish named it tung sten, which means heavy stone in Swedish. This explains the potentially confusing use of W for the symbol for tungsten. 

Tungsten w 1783 (Vergara, Spain) Don Juan Jose de Elhuyar and Don Fausto de Elhuyar (both Spanish) 153... 

No Honeycat. Hercules, Don Juan, Squirrel, Jupiter, but no Honeycat. ... 

It was around this time that Priestley discovered soda water. Fixed air (carbon dioxide) had long been known to chemists, and Priestley had experimented with it a little. One day he had the idea of trying to dissolve the carbon dioxide in water. He succeeded and found that the water fizzed. Priestley gave some of the soda water to friends and then went on to other kinds of research. Some years later the British Navy expressed interest in the use of Priestley s sparkling water as a remedy for scurvy, but naturally it was unsuccessful. However, soda water quickly became popular in other circles, even earning praise from Lord Byron, who wrote the following stanza on the back of the manuscript of his poem Don Juan ... 

The de Elhuyar brothers afterward went to America and in 1788 Fausto became Director of Mines of Mexico. Don Juan Jos6 died in Bogota, Colombia, but at the outbreak of the Revolution Don Fausto returned to Spain. His reason for leaving Mexico may be inferred from the note found at the end of one of Andrbs del Rio s papers ... 

Soon after this Seminary was founded in 1777, two brilliant and promising youths of Basque and French lineage, Don Juan Jose de Elhuyar y de Zubice (1754-1796) and his younger brother, Don Fausto, were commissioned to study abroad. Don Juan Jose was sent by the King... 

The Seminary of Vergara. It was here that Don Juan Jose and Don Fausto de Elhuyar carried out their remarkable analysis of wolframite, which resulted in the isolation of a new metal, wolfram, or tungsten. Among the professors at this Seminary were L.-J. Proust, Francois Chabaneau, and Fausto de Elhuyar. ... 

Ryden, Stig, "Don Juan Jose de Elhuyar en Suecia (1781-1782) y el descub-... 

Spanish botanist, physician, and ecclesiastic who devoted his life to studying the natural history of northern South America. He investigated the cinchona (or chm-chona) forests of Colombia (New Granada) and collaborated with Don Juan Jose de Elhuyar in developing its mines. He stated that the gold m the ores of Choco cannot be separated from the platinum except by amalgamation (87)... 

What motive would a 4-D Don Juan have Insubstantial women with incompatible genes and ova would not seem like desirable targets. 

Both in operation and in terms of study, this route is complicated by our predominant cultural bias of not really paying much attention to our bodies. Our bodies are too seldom thought of as sources of information. Researchers in humanistic and transpersonal psychology are just beginning to find out that the body has a wisdom of its own—a brain of its own, as it were—that can provide us with information about ourselves and external reality and process that information. Carlos Castaneda, for example, has told me that in Don Juan s system, a sorcerer considers his body a major source of information about the world around him the sensations in his body will tell him a great deal about events that otherwise would not be perceived through ordinary sensory channels. 

Don Juan, the Yaqui man of knowledge, puts it quite succinctly "I think you are only alert about things you know" 10. ... 

Psychologically, loading means keeping a person s consciousness busy with desired types of activities so that too little (attention/awareness) energy is left over to allow disruption of the system s operation. As Don Juan told Carlos Castaneda 10, people s ordinary, repeated, day-to-day activities keep their energies so bound within a certain pattern that they do not become aware of nonordinary reali ti es. 

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