Steps Toward the Islamization of Knowledge

By Dr. Rosnani Hashim

A. Setting the Agenda

The first major step toward the Islamization of the curriculum is ensuring that the sources of educational purposes are drawn from the Islamic worldview, whether they be about the nature of the learner, the nature of the knowledge or the subject specialization, or contemporary life itself. The Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet should be the primary references in understanding the nature of the learner and knowledge, and results of empirical research - especially on the psychology of learning and the learner, which have been published and documented - should act as a complement.

The next step is the formulation of a clear philosophy of education based on the Islamic worldview. It is crucial to act as the educational guide for the state, school leaders, teachers, parents, and students.

Clear goals and objectives of education must be spelled out. They act as the "true North" of an educational compass and are vital in ensuring that the whole educational enterprise progresses toward achieving its intended goal and not wander about in search of direction. The concepts of `abd and khalifah have to be translated into operational terms. Those involved in drawing out policy and drafting the curriculum must be made aware of these important concepts. This does not mean that the curriculum of Islamic education is meant exclusively for Muslims, but due to the universality of Islam, Islamic education is applicable to and can accommodate all of mankind.

In this respect, the First World Muslim Conference on Muslim Education should be commended for coming up with a clear statement of an Islamic educational philosophy which aims:

at the balanced growth of the total personality of Man through the training of Man's spirit, intellect, rational self, feelings and bodily senses. The training imparted to a Muslim must be such that faith is infused into the whole of his personality and creates in him an emotional attachment to Islam and enables him to follow the Qur'an and the Sunnah and be governed by the Islamic system of values willingly and joyfully so that he may proceed to the realization of his status as the vicegerent of Allah to whom Allah has promised the authority of the universe.[1]

The third step is that the university or school curriculum should reflect the educational philosophy and, in fact, be the mechanism for achieving its goal. In particular, the hierarchy of knowledge (between fard 'ayn and fard kifayah) should be preserved in the curriculum. The revealed knowledge as core should permeate all subject matters or all faculties in the Muslim university. Therefore, a few courses from the revealed sciences have to be made into graduation requirements for all students, regardless of their specialization. The approach to teaching these sciences in the university definitely ought to be different from that of the schools, especially since university students are now more mature and capable of thinking and reflecting. Similarly, a few courses from the acquired sciences such as the natural sciences, the social sciences, and humanities must be required of our students, especially those specializing in the revealed sciences. A more integrated curriculum, but still possessing a core, should be adopted by schools and universities so that the problem of educational dualism is gradually eliminated. An integrated curriculum enables students to specialize in any of the revealed or acquired sciences from within the same school system. An effort ought to be made to introduce the Arabic language much earlier in the formal curriculum, especially since this is the universal language of Muslims and the language in which their knowledge is embedded.

B. Content and method

Knowledge, subject matters, or courses offered in the curriculum must be free from secular and Westernized elements that are alien to Islam. These elements - dualism, humanism, secularism, and tragedy - which are peculiarly Western and anti Islamic, must be isolated from our curriculum, then replaced with the Islamic worldview of tawhid (Oness of Allah). The curriculum should reinforce the following Islamic concepts:

1. The Islamic view of the Creator (tawhid, iman or faith, and God's attributes);

2. The creation of man and his purpose, namely, to worship Allah, to be His khalifah, to promote good and forbid evil, and to spread the message of Islam;

3. Man's relationship with the Creator, that is, his consciousness of Allah, accountability to Allah, to do good deeds, to worship and supplicate;

4. Man's relationship with others, which is to establish justice, to have respect for life, property, and dignity, to develop sound akhlaq (character traits), and to show religious tolerance;

5. Man's relationship with the environment which emphasizes his role as God's vicegerent, to work with harmony with all of Allah's creations, and to recognize or discover Allah through his creation;

6. Self-development, which provides room for self reformation and learning from past mistakes;

7. Man's destination, that is, to promote accountability by evaluating our role, understanding the Last Day and the Hereafter and their implications; and

8. Development of an Islamic ethos so as to create an environment conducive to Islamic practice.[2]

Therefore, it is obligatory for Muslim teachers to instill the Islamic concepts mentioned earlier in Muslim students, regardless of the subject matter they are teaching.

Inculcating these concepts and values indirectly through the subject matter, especially for the exact sciences such as mathematics or accounting, is not easy.[3] Therefore, teachers should inculcate them directly and through wisdom, especially when warranted by the classroom situation. This task should not be left to the teachers of Islamic revealed sciences alone.

Educational administrators and teachers should provide appropriate learning experiences, especially for moral and spiritual development.

New methods of instruction must be explored, and teachers or lecturers should be creative and innovative. The teaching of religious sciences must not be too dependent on traditional methods, such as memorization of classical texts, although certain fundamental knowledge needs to be memorized. Students must be exposed to the process of learning, including the scientific method and problem solving, and not just the product. Therefore, they need to be led to critical and sound thinking as called upon by Allah in the Qur'an. A balance must be struck between student centered and subject centered approaches. In this regard, an approach to teacher education that is consistent with the educational philosophy should be developed. The teacher education program pre-service and in-service - should also emphasize teacher personality development, in particular, the moral and spiritual, which have been nearly neglected. Teachers are the most crucial element in bringing changes in education, and they ought to know and be able to see the new direction. Pre-service teacher education programs seem to emphasize thinking skills and information technology but downplay the importance of foundations of education and personality development, especially moral and spiritual.[4]

C. Educational Evaluation

Evaluation is a powerful device for clarifying educational objectives. It is a process for finding out how far the learning experiences as developed and organized are actually producing the desired results and the process of evaluation will involve identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the plan.[5]

"Evaluation is the process for determining the degree to which changes in behavior are actually taking place."[6] Therefore it is important to dispel the notion that evaluation is synonymous with giving the "paper and pencil" test. Evaluation is also a powerful motivating force for learning. Students are influenced in their learning, and teachers are influenced in their teaching by the kind of evaluation expected.

Consequently, unless the evaluation procedure closely parallels the educational objectives of the curriculum, the evaluation procedure may become the focus of the students' attention and even of the teachers' attention rather than the curriculum objectives set up.[7]

This is true, especially with respect to moral and spiritual objectives. We should expect some changes in students' behavior since these are the objectives but, unfortunately, students will often score highly on paper and pencil tests but not exhibit the expected moral behavior. Thus the curriculum ought to be revised with respect to the learning experiences offered to them, the instructional method, and the kind of evaluation administered.

• Islamization of the Curriculum
• Curriculum
• Determining and Selecting: Educational Objectives
• The Islamic Philosophy of Education
• Problems with Existing Curriculum in Muslim Educational Institutions
  • a. Educational objectives
  • b. Content
  • c. Educational evaluation
• Islamization of the Curriculum
  • a. Setting the Agenda
  • b. Content and method
  • c. Educational evaluation
• Conclusion

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Dr. Rosnani Hashim Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the International Islamic University, Malaysia.

[1] S. M. Naquib alAttas (ed), Aims and Objectives of Islamic Education (Jeddah: King Abdulaziz University, 1979), 158-9. Italics added.

[2] I am indebted to the person who prepared and distributed this list during the Sixth World Conference on Islamic Education in Capetown, South Africa, 19-25 September 1996.

[3] See Rosnani Hashim, "Penyerapan Nilai Murni dalam KBSM" (The Inculcation of Moral Values in the Integrated Curriculum for Secondary Schools [KBSM]), paper presented at the National Seminar on Evaluation of the KBSM, Aminuddin Baki Institute, Layang Layang, Malaysia, 1997.

[4] The IIUM teacher education program does pay particular attention to these two domains of teachers' personality through formal halaqah (circles) and ibadah (worship) camp programs. In a halaqah, students are arranged in groups of 10 and each group meets weekly for at least an hour as scheduled in their class timetable to discuss selected topics of the 'ilm alShari'ah (science of Islamic law) of and group counseling. In the ibadah camp, which normally lasts for three days, students listen to talks, participate in workshops, perform congregational prayers, recite wird ma'thurat (daily session of frequently recited prayers) and the Qur'an and perform qiyam al-layl (night stand up prayer) together. See Rosnani Hashim, The Relevance and Effectiveness of the IIUM Diploma in Education Programme as Perceived by Student Teachers in the 1994/95 Session, unpublished research report. See also M. Sahari Nordin and Rosnani Hashim, "Non-formal Curriculum Programme in IIUM Diploma in Education Programme," paper presented at National Seminar on Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University Putra Malaysia, 1997.

[5] Tyler, 103.

[6] Ibid., 106.

[7] Ibid., 124.

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AZAB yang disediakan untuk diri...

Azab Neraka

Wahai diri yang tidak dapat menahan gigitan nyamuk dan serangga...bagaimana kamu dapat menanggung azabnya JAHANNAM !!!

(Petikan Tausiyyah Habib Omar Al Hafidz)

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YA ALLAH YA RAHMAN YA RAHIM, lindunglilah dan peliharakanlah kami, kedua ibubapa kami, isteri kami, anak-anak kami, kaum keluarga kami & semua orang Islam dari azab seksa api nerakaMu YA ALLAH.

Sesungguhnya kami tidak layak untuk menduduki syurgaMu YA ALLAH, namun tidak pula kami sanggup untuk ke nerakaMu YA ALLAH.

Ampunilah dosa-dosa kami, terimalah taubat kami dan terimalah segala ibadah dan amalan kami dengan RAHMATMU YA ALLAH……AMIN. …

.: Luasnya Neraka :.

Yazid Arraqqasyi dari Anas bin Malik ra. berkata: Jibrail datang kepada Nabi
saw pada waktu yg ia tidak biasa datang dalam keadaan berubah mukanya, maka ditanya oleh nabi s.a.w.: ‘Mengapa aku melihat kau berubah muka?’

Jawabnya: ‘Ya Muhammad, aku datang kepadamu di saat Allah menyuruh supaya dikobarkan penyalaan api neraka, maka tidak layak bagi orang yg mengetahui bahawa neraka Jahannam itu benar, dan siksa kubur itu benar, dan siksa Allah itu terbesar untuk bersuka-suka sebelum ia merasa aman
dari padanya…’

Lalu nabi s.a.w.. bersabda: ‘Ya Jibrail, jelaskan padaku sifat Jahannam.’

Jawabnya: ‘Ya. Ketika Allah menjadikan Jahannam, maka dinyalakan selama seribu tahun, sehingga merah, kemudian dilanjutkan seribu tahun sehingga putih, kemudian seribu tahun sehingga hitam, maka ia hitam gelap, tidak pernah padam nyala dan baranya. Demi Allah yg mengutus engkau dengan hak, andaikan terbuka sebesar lubang jarumnescaya akan dapat membakar penduduk dunia semuanya kerana panasnya.

Demi Allah yg mengutus engkau dengan hak, andaikan satu baju ahli neraka itu digantung di antara langit dan bumi nescaya akan mati penduduk bumi kerana panas dan basinya. Demi Allah yg mengutus engkau dengan hak, andaikan satu pergelangan dari rantai yg disebut dalam Al-Quran itu diletakkan di atas bukit, nescaya akan cair sampai ke bawah bumi yg ke tujuh.

Demi Allah yg mengutus engkaudengan hak, andaikan seorang di hujung barat tersiksa, nescaya akan terbakar orang-orang yang di hujung timur kerana sangat panasnya, Jahannam itu sangat dalam dan perhiasannya besi dan minumannya air panas campur nanah dan pakaiannya potongan-potongan api. Api neraka itu ada tujuh pintu, tiap-tiap pintu ada bahagiannya yang
tertentu dari orang laki-laki dan perempuan.’

Nabi s.a.w. bertanya: ‘Apakah pintu-pintunya bagaikan pintu-pintu rumah
kami?’ Jawabnya: ‘Tidak, tetapi selalu terbuka, setengahnya di bawah dari lainnya, dari pintu ke pintu jarak perjalanan 70,000 tahun, tiap pintu lebih panas dari yang lain70 kali ganda.’ (nota kefahaman: iaitu yg lebih bawah lebih panas)

Tanya Rasulullah s.a.w..: ‘Siapakah penduduk masing-masing pintu?’

Jawab Jibrail:

’Pintu yg terbawah untuk orang-orang munafik, dan orang-orang yg kafir setelah diturunkan hidangan mukjizat nabi Isa a.s. serta keluarga Fir’aun sedang namanya Al-Hawiyah.

Pintu kedua tempa torang- orang musyrikin bernama Jahim,

Pintu ketiga tempat orang shobi’in bernama Saqar.

Pintu ke empat tempat Iblis dan pengikutnya dari kaum majusi bernama Ladha,

Pintu kelima orang yahudi bernama Huthomah..

Pintu ke enam tempat orang nasara bernama Sa’eir.’

Kemudian Jibrail diam segan pada Rasulullah s.a.w. sehingga ditanya:

‘Mengapa tidak kau terangkan penduduk pintu ke tujuh?’Jawabnya: ‘Di dalamnya orang-orang yg berdosabesar dari ummatmu yg sampai mati belum sempat bertaubat.’

Maka nabi s.a.w. jatuh pingsan ketika mendengar keterangan itu, sehingga Jibrail meletakkan kepala nabi s.a.w. di pangkuannya sehingga sedar kembali dan sesudah sadar nabi saw bersabda: ‘Ya Jibrail, sungguh besar kerisauanku dan sangat sedihku, apakah ada seorang dari ummat ku yang akan masuk ke dalam neraka?’

Jawabnya: ‘Ya, iaitu orang yg berdosa besar dari ummatmu.’ Kemudian nabi s.a.w. menangis, Jibrail juga menangis, kemudian nabi s.a.w. masuk ke dalamrumahnya dan tidak keluar kecuali untuk sembahyang kemudian kembali dan tidak berbicara dengan orang dan bila sembahyang selalu menangis dan minta kepada Allah.(dipetik dari kitab ‘Peringatan Bagi Yg Lalai’)

Dari Hadith Qudsi: Bagaimana kamu masih boleh melakukan maksiat sedangkan kamu tak dapat bertahan dengan panasnya terik matahari Ku..

Tahukah kamu bahawa neraka jahanamKu itu:

1. Neraka Jahanam itu mempunyai 7 tingkat
2. Setiap tingkat mempunyai 70,000daerah
3. Setiap daerah mempunyai 70,000 kampung
4. Setiap kampung mempunyai 70,000 rumah
5. Setiap rumah mempunyai 70,000 bilik
6. Setiap bilik mempunyai 70,000 kotak
7. Setiap kotak mempunyai 70,000 batang pokok zarqum
8. Di bawah setiap pokok zarqum mempunyai 70,000 ekor ular
9. Di dalam mulut setiap ular yang panjang 70 hasta mengandungi lautan
racun yang hitam pekat.
10. Juga di bawah setiap pokok zarqum mempunyai 70,000 rantai
11. Setiap rantai diseret oleh 70,000 malaikat

Mudah-mudahan ini dapat menimbulkan keinsafan kepada kita
semua…..Wallahua’ lam.

Al-Quran Surah Al- Baqarah Ayat 159

Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang menyembunyikan apa yang telah Kami turunkan dari keterangan-keterang an dan petunjuk hidayat, sesudah Kami terangkannya kepada manusia di dalam Kitab Suci, mereka itu dilaknat oleh Allah dan dilaknat oleh sekalian makhluk.

Dari Abdullah bin ‘Amr R.A,
Rasulullah S. A.W bersabda:’ Sampaikanlah pesanku biarpun satu ayat..

SEPULUH ORANG YANG MAYATNYA TIDAK BUSUK DAN TIDAK REPUT DI HARI QIAMAT KELAK!!!

Disebutkan di dalam satu riwayat, bahawasanya apabila para makhluk dibangkitkan dari kubur, mereka semuanya berdiri tegak di kubur masing- masing selama 44 tahun UMUR AKHIRAT dalam keadaan TIDAK MAKAN dan TIDAK MINUM, TIDAK DUDUK dan TIDAK BERCAKAP.

Bertanya orang kepada Rasulullah saw : ‘Bagaimana kita dapat mengenali ORANG-ORANG MUKMIN kelak di hari qiamat?’

Maka jawabnya Rasulullah saw ‘Umatku dikenali kerana WAJAH mereka putih disebabkan oleh WUDHU’.’ Bila qiamat datang maka malaikat datang ke kubur orang mukmin sambil membersihkan debu di badan mereka KECUALI pada tempat sujud. Bekas SUJUD tidak dihilangkan.

Maka memanggillah dari zat yang memanggil. Bukanlah debu ‘itu dari debu kubur mereka, akan tetapi debu itu ialah debu KEIMANAN’ mereka. Oleh itu tinggallah debu itu sehingga mereka melalui titian’ Siratul Mustaqim dan memasuki Alam SYURGA, sehingga setiap orang melihat para mukmin itu mengetahui bahawa mereka adalah pelayan Ku danhamba-hamba Ku.

Disebutkan oleh hadith Rasulullah saw bahawa sepuluh orang yang mayatnya TIDAK BUSUK dan TIDAK REPUT dan akan bangkit dalam tubuh asal diwaktu mati :-

1. Para Nabi
2. Para Ahli Jihad
3. Para Alim Ulama
4.. ParaS yuhada
5. Para Penghafal al QURAN
6. Imam atau Pemimpin yang Adil
7. Tukang Azan
8. Wanita yang mati kelahiran/beranak
9. Orang mati dibunuh atau dianiaya
10. Orang yang mati di siang hari atau di malam Jumaat itu dari kalangan orang yang beriman.

Didalam satu riwayat yang lain dari Jabir bin Abdullah ra sabda Rasulullah saw: Apabila datang hari QIAMAT dan orang-orang yang berada di dalam kubur dibangkitkan maka Allah swt memberi wahyu kepada Malaikat Ridhwan:

‘ Wahai Ridhwan, sesungguhnya Aku telah mengeluarkan hamba-hamba Ku berpuasa ( Ahli Puasa ) dari kubur mereka didalam keadaan letih dan dahaga. Maka ambillah dan berikan mereka segala makanan yang digoreng dan buah-buahan SYURGA. ‘

Maka Malaikat Ridhwan menyeru, wahai sekelian kawan-kawan dan semua anak-anak yang belum baligh, lalu mereka semua datang dengan membawa dulang dari nur dan berhimpun dekat Malaikat Ridhwan bersama dulang yang penuh dengan buahan dan minuman yang lazat dari syurga dengan sangat banyak melebihi daun-daun kayu di bumi.

Jika Malaikat Ridhwan berjumpa mukmin maka dia memberi makanan itu kepada mereka sambil mengucap sebagaimana yang difirman oleh Allah swt di dalam Surah Al-Haqqah bermaksud ; ’Makan dan minumlah dengan sedap disebabkan AMAL yang telah kamu kerjakan pada HARI yang telah LALU itu.’

Dajjal Hancurkan Ummah -Pembaratan ILMU

Sumber: Kuliah Ad Deen

Pembongkaran Konspirasi Dajjal untuk hancurkan Ummah

Inilah yang cuba disedarkan oleh Dr. Ismail al-Faruqi (1921-1986), seorang tokoh pemikir dunia Islam dalam bidang Sains Sosial yang terkenal serta mahir semua jenis bidang ilmu tersebut seperti Psikologi, Antropologi, Sosiologi, Sejarah, dan sebagainya.

Beliau banyak mengkaji dan membongkar konspirasi Dajjal sejak berabad lalu untuk menghancurkan warisan sejarah tokoh-tokoh Islam. Beliau sedar bahawa ahli-ahli akademik berbangsa Yahudi yang berselerak di Harvard dan Oxford sedang bertungkus-lumus memadamkan sumber-sumber ilmu sarjana Islam dari pengetahuan pelajar-pelajar Muslim.

Antara pendedahan beliau adalah :

• Semua pemikiran-pemikiran pelajar Islam di universiti-universiti di negara Islam sekarang sedang mengalami proses pembaratan ilmu walaupun ilmu yang dipelajari itu sebenarnya berasal dari sarjana Islam.

• Pelajar-pelajar Muslim diasak dengan maklumat-maklumat buku rujukan yang diimport dari barat. Buku-buku itu tidak lain hanya menonjolkan kelebihan penulis Barat berbanding sumbangan sarjana Islam.

• Buku-buku rujukan cetakan univerisiti Barat secara berstrategi tidak meletakkan langsung sejarah tokoh-tokoh Islam yang menjadi pengasas ilmu tersebut. Misalnya bidang Psikologi, pengasasnya ialah Abu Nasr al-Farabi yang menulis buku bertajuk Opinion of Citizens of Uthopia pada 950M. Tetapi masyarakat tidak mengiktirafnya, mereka meletakkan tokoh Yahudi mereka sebagai pengasas iaitu Sigmund Freud yang hanya memperkenalkan teori Psikonalasis pada 1890-an.

• Pensyarah-pensyarah Muslim berpendidikan Barat adalah agen penyebab kepada proses pembaratan ilmu-ilmu sains sosial di negara-negara Islam. Mereka ini tanpa usul periksa terhadap apa yang dipelajari akan mempromosi semua idea-idea profesor-profesor mereka yang mereka jumpa di Barat untuk diaplikasikan kepada umat Islam.

Sehingga sekarang, pensyarah-pensyarah bidang Sains Sosial menjadikan universiti barat sebagai kiblat utama bidang mereka. Mereka berasa bangga sekiranya mampu berbicara hal ehwal teori sains sosial di depan pelajar-pelajar, padahal teori-teori yang dibanggakan itu sarjana Barat sebenarnya diciplak dari sarjana-sarjana Islam sendiri.

Menyedari akan tahap kritikal masalah ini, Dr. Ismail bersama rakan-rakannya telah menghimpunkan 315 orang cendekiawan Islam dari seluruh dunia dalam satu seminar di Universiti Jeddah, Arab Saudi pada April 1977.

Dalam seminar ini, masing-masing tokoh dalam bidang sains sosial masing-masing cuba memperkenalkan kaedah ilmu alternatif bagi menandingi pengaruh sains sosial barat.

Pada 1982, maka terlaksanalah satu gagasan baru yang dilancarkan untuk menyekat kemaraan unsur-unsur penipuan Sains Sosial barat. Gagasan itu diberi nama “PengIslaman Ilmu” (Islamization of Knowledge).

Gagasan ini diterima pakai di seluruh dunia. Malaysia adalah antara negara yang aktif menganjurkan seminar-seminar berkaitan gagasan tersebut ketika itu. Kebanyakan kertas kerja dikeluarkan oleh pensyarah-pensyarah luar negara yang berkhidmat di Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM).

Oleh kerana Dr. Ismail dilihat sebagai ancaman besar kepada strateginya dalam dunia Sains Sosial, maka satu konspirasi dijalankan bagi memastikan Dr. Ismail dan isterinya Dr. Louis Lamya berhenti dari berdakwah menggunakan gagasan ini.

Akhirnya suatu peristiwa dirancang di mana seseorang telah diupah untuk memasuki rumah Dr. Ismail bagi membunuh beliau sekeluarga. Dalam kejadian tersebut anak perempuannya Anmar al-Zein terselamat tetapi menerima 200 jahitan. Kes ini ditutup dan tidak dibuka semula walaupun diminta oleh sesetengah pihak. Sekarang ini, anak perempuan beliau bertanggungjawab menyebarkan baki-baki kertas kerja ibu bapanya di universiti-universiti Islam.

Dajjal tidak hanya menyerang dalam bentuk penguasaan ekonomi, teknologi, politik dan peperangan tetapi dunia pendidikan juga menjadi intipati utama dalam konspirasinya. Dunia pendidikan penting dikonspirasikan oleh Dajjal kerana ia merupakan dunia yang melahirkan cendekiawan yang mampu melaras bentuk-bentuk pemikiran diri sendiri dan orang lain.

Maka input untuk individu-individu yang bakal bergelar cendekiawan harus dibina dari akar umbi agar individu tersebut menjadi agen Yahudi tanpa ia sendiri sedari.

Mass Animal Death( Kematian Haiwan Secara Mengejut dalam Jumlah Yang Besar)

Negtive ions vs positive ions

Source of article:wee must know

Positive Ions vs. Negative Ions

2011 January 2

by wemustknow.koen

Positive charged ions in the atmosphere are the primary cause of many of the major health and soil problems associated with government and military barium salt aerosol from aircraft over the people and land of the United States and other countries. Barium salt and other chemical aerosol cannot be excluded as contributing, damaging irritants. Little or no consideration has been given to the matter of positive / negative ions by those managing the atmospheric projects.

Positive charged ions are to a large extent products and/or by-products of the government and military exercises and projects ongoing in the sky and in the air we breathe. Secret Military Projects – Aircraft Aerosol Spray http://lookupabove.tripod.com/chemtrailsoveramerica

Positive charged ions are present because of the activity, expressed in barium salt, military weather control and various associated and other radiation present in the atmosphere. The entire man-made atmospheric environment contributes to the excessive positive ion count.

Negative ions are not present in normal numbers because the conditions that generate negative ions have been limited, overcome and/or removed as a result of government and military activity in the atmosphere.

Tesla experimented with electromagnetic flux and studied the earth’s gravitational field. During his research he discovered that the ionization of the atmosphere would alter when it was charged by radio wave transmissions in the low frequency range of 10 to 80 hertz. Tesla also discovered that he could cause both positive and negative ionization of the atmosphere by manipulating the radio frequency. Further studies indicated that with positive ionization, people and animals became tired and lethargic and with negative ionization the effect was one of feeling active and energetic. It can be manipulated as a military and government tool.

Ions are floating in the air around us all of the time and have either negative or positive charged on them. Changes in their concentrations or in the ratio of positively to negatively charged molecules can have remarkable effects on plants and animals. It is known in science that ion depletion is the source of a wide range of human health problems, both mental and physical.

These air ions are important to you because if they have a high proportion of negative ions in the clusters you will feel lively, uplifted and enthusiastic. Too many positive ions in the clusters will have you feeling depressed, lethargic and full of aches, pains and complaints.

It is estimated that there are normally 1,500 to 4,000 ions per cubic centimeter. Negative ions are exceedingly mobile and the Earth’s surface has a negative charge; therefore, negative ions are repelled from the Earth. This repulsion creates a normal ratio of positive to negative ions in the range of twelve to ten. Normally, more positive than negative ions exist.

Negative ions are exceedingly beneficial for a person’s metabolism as a means of enhancing human behavior. They act in a complex mechanism to bring about hormone and biochemical reactions in the body and brain. It is impossible to get an overdose of negative ions, which act like pure water in washing away dirty poisons. Generally, the more negative ions you are exposed to, the better and more uplifted you feel.

Positive ions or the lack of negative ions may cause serotonin hyper-function syndrome or “irritation syndrome” involves sleeplessness, irritability, tension, migraine, nausea, heart palpitations, hot flashes with sweating or chills, tremor and dizziness. The elderly become depressed, apathetic and extremely fatigued.

Human mood disorders (depressions) are effectively treated with drugs which specifically block the re-uptake of serotonin into the presynaptic axon terminal, for example fluoxetine (Prozac) and Zoloft. This suggests that positive ions may play a part in this condition and the condition may be safely treated with negative ion therapy.

Average Ions present in air, 1 cm³

	Neg. Ions	Pos. Ions	Total
Clear Mountain Air	2000	2,500	4,500
Normal Land Air	1,500	1,800	3,300
Before a Storm	750	2,500	3,250
After a Storm	2,500	750	3,250
Typical modern office	150	200	350
Closed moving vehicle	50	150	200

Just as good benefits are provided by immersing yourself in negative ions, bad effects come from breathing air with high density positive ions. As indicated in the table above, before a storm the positive ion concentration becomes more than three times the amount of negative ions. If the barometer is falling in anticipation of a storm, brace yourself. Adults, children, and animals alike react testily to such bad weather, for ahead is the kind of day that may leave you most prone to illness or accident, stupid mistakes, and irrational blowing off steam. Positive ions are responsible. The full moon increases positive ion ratios, which accounts for the strange and aggressive behavior noted by police and medical services. Studies show that 75% of the population is noticeably and adversely affected by positive ion ratios, while increased negative ions tend to have a calming influence on these same people.

There is an impressive amount of evidence that connects low barometric pressure before storms with erratic behavior. This is a time where the positive ions in the air outnumber the negative ions by a ratio of over three to one. More suicide attempts take place, greater numbers and more serious accidents occur on the highways and in factories, and an elevated incidence of fainting spells seem to beset people. An analysis of the records of some 2000 public school students showed that their “conduct” marks sagged noticeably before a storm.

Positive ion air encourages increased physical discomforts ranging from headaches and nausea to the familiar rheumatic twinges that precede storms. Even the healing rate of wounds has been know to slow up, while the risk of infection accelerates. Tension and depression are certainly more common.

Conversely, negative ion air – when the weather is quite comfortable – not only stimulates morale but actually relieves certain chronic diseases. Experiments with negative ionization have shown marked improvement for sufferers from high blood pressure, asthma, and hay fever.

Positive ionization contributes to the cracking of “fringe personalities,” and sets off mentally ill minds. On summer dog days, when the positive ion index climbs, more neurotics slip across into pathological psychosis than at other times, psychiatrists agree. Sex crimes rise, as do all categories of crimes of violence, road rage, pilferage, bank hold-ups, and shoplifting become serious commercial problems.

How Air Ions Affect Us

Have you ever wondered why you feel irritable, jumpy, have aching corns, headaches, and seem overly anxious during that time just before a storm? A lack of negative ions and an excess of positive ions are the culprits. The storm’s onset produces an ion imbalance in the air before rain falls or snow settles down.

When relatively too many positive ions are present in the air before a storm, the positive charge is transferred in the air you breathe from your lungs to the blood, causing the blood platelets to release a hormone that quite strongly affects your moods, your joints and other physiological functions in your body. Some people exhibit arthritic symptoms. The weather really does affect your routine. The following is a description of how air ions act on the whole person; you being that person.

During fair weather the atmosphere field causes charged air ions to migrate, producing a flow of current. Humans have evolved outdoors immersed in this electric current, and scientists now believe that the current flow enhances various processes within our body, even to the cellular level. The same appears to be true even on the level of plants. People who work out-of-doors are at a distinct health advantage over those who are deskbound or labor inside factories.

The human body possesses a positive field, and a coupling or resonance between it and the Earth’s field takes place. Such a resonance between systems brings about a transference of energy and perhaps accounts for some of the “charging” effects of being outdoors during fair weather.

Studies have shown that the natural oscillation frequency of the atmosphere field of seven to ten hertz ( cycles per second) is the same as our brain’s alpha state, our most relaxed yet alert state of being. This natural field oscillation, coupling with your own brain waves, enhances your alertness and improves your reaction time.

On the other hand, the three to five hertz wave produced by weather activity were shown to cause an increased reaction time. Slow reaction time may be dangerous under certain circumstances. This lengthened time that it takes for a driver to respond to an emergency situation, for example, produces a 31 – 41 percent increase in traffic accidents, quite measurable by the National Safely Council.

Much of the waste products of cell renewal are expelled through the skin. A positive electrostatic field around us draws these surplus waste ions away from the body, permitting rapid and unhampered renewal of all cells. This effect contributes to your general well-being.

When oxygen is resorbed via the lung alveoli, the ionized molecules are taken up like the normal oxygen molecules and pass into the blood corpuscles. The red blood corpuscles, whose hemoglobin is oxygenated by the air during inspiration, receives also the ionized oxygen. The negative charge is carried throughout the body, whereas the positive charge may attack the blood platelets (thrombocytes) which in sensitive patients release their irritating hormone, serotonin.

Serotonin release produces dryness, burning and itching of the nose, nasal obstruction, headaches, dry, scratchy throat, difficulty in swallowing, dry lips, dizziness, difficulty in breathing, and itching of the eyes. Negative ions do not produce this unpleasant serotonin syndrome; they act directly on the respiratory enzyme, cytochrome oxidase and promote cell respiration.

All the tracheal changes attributed to positive air ions can be duplicated by the intravenous injection of serotonin. These effects can be reversed by treatment with negative air ions.

On the basis of these facts, it seems reasonable to postulate that positive air ions are ‘serotonin releasers’ and that a local accumulation of serotonin in the trachea is the immediate cause of positive ion effect.

Negative air ions reverse positive ion effects by speeding up the rate at which serotonin oxidase is oxidized. Like other oxidase systems, monoamine oxidase is thought to consist of dehydrogenase linked to a respiratory chain which may include cytochromes of flavins. Positive ionization of blood increased its serotonin release significantly.

With every breath, air ions are carried into your respiratory tract to be transferred across the lungs into the bloodstream where they are taken up by the thrombocytes. If they enter as part of molecules of oxygen, the negative ions or positive ions are transported by your red blood cells. Positive ions cause thrombocytes to release the allergy producing hormone serotonin (5-HT). Serotonin acts as a bronchial constrictor and slows the clearing action of the cilia thus allowing the mucus to thicken. If you are one of those many hay fever sufferers or have some other respiratory problem you’ll find that serotonin greatly aggravates your condition. There is less clearing of allergens and pollutants from your respiratory tract than from the lungs of others.

It is this powerful and versatile neurohormone, serotonin which is responsible for many of the unpleasant symptoms exhibited by persons breathing positively ionized, air. Some particularly elderly people may experience difficulty in breathing; asthmatics wheeze, rheumatic people feel their joints, and in general, sleeplessness or insomnia, irritability and tension are there for the asking. Hair and skin have an ‘electric charge.’ Migraine patients suffer with nausea and vomiting, and optical disturbances. Heart cases complain of palpitations, heart pain and oppression. Women before the age of menopause complain of hot flashes with sweats or chills. Hay fever patients get bad attacks of rhinitis with conjunctivitis, though this may not be the real hay fever season. Giddiness, tremor, and balance disturbances may appear, as well as diarrhea and a constant desire to urinate.

All this happens from stimulation of serotonin secretion by your being exposed to air containing high densities of positive ions. Since negative ions are able to reverse the effects of positive ions by speeding up the rate at which serotonin is oxidized by stimulating the action of monamine oxidase, it makes sense to stay in touch with quantities of negative ions whenever possible. As you will soon learn, this is done by employing negative ion generators and/or the application of negative hydrogen ions in liquid.

In general, exposure to negatively ionized air has been shown to increase oxygenation of the lungs, vital capacity, and ciliary activity. All types of beneficial responses take place as a result of friendly negative ions.

With negative ions you will experience a normalization of the activities of the endocrine glands, which plays an important role in reducing the effects of stress.

A shift occurs in your body’s indicators of the blood acid-base balance toward alkalinity. Your pH (power of hydrogen) should be 7.5 on the 1 to 14 pH scale. Health resides there.

A sedating and pain relieving effect is experienced if you have undergone surgery or suffered burns.

Brain wave studies show an increase in brain amplitude with better thinking ability, a shift of alpha activity to the frontal area of the brain for better conceptual ability, and a higher synchronization of the right and left brain hemispheres for a more even balance of the personality.

Your body undertakes a normalizing of metabolism of vitamins and an increase in both static and dynamic work capacity and endurance.

If you are a lactating mother you find yourself able to produce more milk of higher quality for your infant.

Healthy Places?

In recent past years you were able to go to a natural area of high negative ionization such as forests, mountains, beaches, and waterfalls. These were considered healthy places. All of that has changed. The government and military aerosol (chemtrail) activity in the atmosphere, over our cities and world has damaged and negated the ability of natural resources to produce healthy negative ions as before. The total effect is a great increase in positive ions on and around your body and in your total living environment.

All things, in the past, that had impact on natural environmental production of negative ions, for the well being of all kinds of life forms, is not of great consequence in today’s military chemtrail world. The military activity in the atmosphere ultimately has a lethal, destructive effect on the production of negative ions – the same negative ions humans and other life forms depend on for their very survival.

Weather and atmosphere is important in the production of negative ions. The Navy RFMP/ VTRPE chemtrail program uses a barium salt mixture aerosol in the atmosphere we breathe. The Navy program started over four years ago and hundreds of tons of barium salt has been sprayed into our air. You cannot make negative ions in a barium salt atmosphere that is radiated and contains an electrolyte. There are more factors making positive ions than there are factors making negative ions.

We are coming into a time when all living life forms and our farm soil will require negative ions to survive. Negative ions in the air decay within a few seconds of being created.

We have attempted to give you an understanding of the situation as we see it. If this situation does not change, every living creature on the earth will ultimately be effected. We believe the total situation before us does not have a good solution. We do not believe the government or military is deliberately attempting to hurt the people, but they have few options to the problems they face. We see mismanagement on a global scale, first expressed in illegal behavior and deeds.

Again, lack of negative ions and excessive positive ions cause illness. Negative ions can be used to treat illness and improve health.

1. Arthritis symptoms, hands, feet, knees, neck, symptoms may come and go, positive ions.
2. Joint disease, positive ions.
3. High blood pressure, positive ions.
4. Cancer, conditions set up by positive ions.
5. Sinusitis, positive ions.
6. Pulmonary tuberculosis, positive ions.
7. Peripheral neuritis. diseases of the peripheral nervous system, positive ions.
8. Stress symptoms, positive ions.
9. Negative ions can help kill bacteria and viruses. Positive ions encourage.
10. Mental instability, psychosis, mania, rage, clouded thinking with positive ions.
11. Pulmonary emphysema, positive ions.
12. Pneumonia, laryngitis, positive ions.
13. Dry hacking cough, positive ions.
14. Respiratory illness, positive ions.
15. Allergies / hay fever, positive ions.
16. Depression, suicidal thoughts, psychosis, mania, positive ions.
17. Nausea, general malaise, positive ions.
18. Road rage, anger, shooting rage, positive ions.
19. Asthma, positive ions.
20. Negative ions are as necessary as water and air to humans, animals and soil.

Our body systems will not adequately function without negative ions. Negative ions promote healing and good health to the total body and are utilized by all body systems.

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