November-December 2021 Transformation

American Meditation Institute

Transformation November - December 2021

The Journal of Yoga Science as Mind/Body Medicine

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How to live your life with purpose.

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Remember!

January 2022 will be National Conscience Month

Coordinating the Functions of the Mind Will Resolve

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ALL CONFLICTS Optimize your creative powers, p.13

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YOGA SCIENCE

FOUNDATION COURSE INCLUDING AMI MEDITATION A TRANSFORMATIVE PROGRAM

To Optimize Your Conscience and to Coordinate the 4 Functions of the Mind

Includes 36 Tools to Solve All of Life’s Challenges!

American MEDITATION Institute Bringing Yoga Science to Life

Foundation Course Overview The curriculum for the FOUNDATION COURSE is based on the award-winning book, The Heart and Science of Yoga® by Leonard Perlmutter

Seated AMI Meditation • Mantra Science Diaphragmatic Breathing • Yoga Psychology Mind Function Optimization • Easy-Gentle Yoga Lymph System Detox • Nutrition • Ayurvedic Medicine YOGA SCIENCE––WEEK 1 How to use the mind for the best choices How to create new, healthier habits Understanding pain as an agent for healing Increasing energy, will power & creativity Antidotes for worry, stress and depression AMI MEDITATION––WEEK 2 Systematic procedure for AMI Meditation Diminishing distractions with mantra science Learning the one-minute meditation Building focus, fearlessness, and strength BREATHING TECHNIQUES––WEEK 3 Breath as Medicine How breathing irregularities foster dis-ease Complete (three-part) yogic breath 2

YOGA PSYCHOLOGY & AYURVEDA––WEEK 4 How the mind supports optimal health The power of the present moment Building and healing relationships Introduction to Ayurveda EASY-GENTLE YOGA EXERCISES––WEEK 5 Yoga stretches to benefit: muscles, joints, glands and internal organs Physiological benefits of yoga postures MIND /BODY SELF-CARE PLAN––WEEK 6 The healing power of prayer The practical benefits of contemplation Creating a therapeutic self-care plan for yourself Learning to budget your time Integrating spiritual beliefs into daily life

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Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) The AMI MEDITATION Foundation Course was developed and is taught live on Zoom by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev). Leonard is a noted educator, philosopher, Yoga scientist and founder of The American Meditation Institute. He is the author of The Heart and Science of Yoga® and the mind/body medicine journal, Transformation. He is a direct disciple of Swami Rama of the Himalayas. Leonard’s lectures are enlivened by his inspiring enthusiasm, vast experience, humor and clear teaching style. He has taught at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The New York Times Yoga Forum, Kaiser-Permanente and the U. S. Military Academy at West Point.

A MI MEDITATION: Case Study Results In 2008, AMI conducted a retrospective case study of participants who completed Leonard Perlmutter’s AMI MEDITATION Heart and Science of Yoga ® Self-Care Program.

The findings included these positive, life-enhancing, health-promoting changes: • Significant reductions in stress and fear • Improved energy levels • Reduced cholesterol levels • Decreased anxiety and depression • Increased creative capacity • Diminished or extinguished • Lowered blood pressure • Diminishment of migraine headaches acute and chronic pain • Lowered heart rate • Decreases irritable bowel symptoms • Weight loss • Improved restorative sleep • Enhanced happiness and optimism • Increased breathing capacity

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The Albany Medical College designates this Live activity for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Registration Includes: Lifelong support, a 20-minute digital Guided Meditation, a copy of The Physiology of Easy-Gentle Yoga, and a subscription to AMI’s Transformation journal.

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NOVEMBER 2021 NOV 1 - DEC 6: GITA/YOGA PSYCHOLOGY see p. 5 Mon. Nights, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM

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DECEMBER 2021

ADVANCED TANTRIC HEALING “Yoga Nidra” Practices To Benefit Mind and Body Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev) –– AMI Founder

LEVEL II: This advanced two-week course provides important instruction on employing the subtle energy healing of Tantra, a system of powerfully effective tools for self-care and stress management. Each week you will be taught new skills that reduce the effects of stress, illness and physical exhaustion by purifying the mind and body. These deeply therapeutic practices minimize tension, facilitate energy flow, calm and train the mind, awaken creativity, enhance memory and retard the aging and disease processes by boosting the body’s innate healing wisdom. This course will provide complete instruction in the practices of yoga nidra, shitali karana, shavayatra, and tantric visualization.

DEC 11 & 18: TANTRIC HEALING/YOGA NIDRA

SATURDAY AFTERNOONS, 1:30 -3:30PM ET $125 (2 WKS) DEC 11 & 18 LIVE ON ZOOM

DEC 13 - JAN 17: GITA/YOGA PSYCHOLOGY see p. 5

This class is open to the general public and recommended for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

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THE CHAKRA SYSTEM

Balancing Subtle Body Energies Leonard (Ram Lev) and Jenness Perlmutter

Sat. Mornings, 10:30AM-12:30PM ET (2 wks)

JAN 24 - FEB 28: GITA/YOGA PSYCHOLOGY see p. 5 Mon. Nights, 6:30 - 8:30 PM ET (6 wks) Live on ZOOM

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Bringing Yoga Science to Life

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LEVEL II: The power to attain our own perfect health lies within each of us. It is simply a matter of attaining the necessary knowledge, and then cultivating our determination and will to employ the knowledge we have learned. This three-week course provides a detailed understanding of the meaning, anatomy, psychology and function of the ancient yogic chakra system. By learning to balance the chakras through the advanced mind/body medicine practices taught each week, you can increase your vitality and power of concentration, and rediscover your inner source of physical and mental health and well being.

MONDAY NIGHTS, 6:30 - 8:30PM, $195 (3 WKS) MAR 7- 21 LIVE ON ZOOM

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Ne w ! YOGA SCIENCE LAB How to Practice Meditation-in-Action Valerie Chakedis, Mary Holloway MT Prerequisite: Yoga Science Foundation Course

LEVEL II: In AMI’s Foundation Course, you learned that your thoughts are your most valuable asset. The Yoga Science Lab will help you examine your thoughts and expand your ability to focus your attention. The techniques learned in seated AMI Meditation are applied in every duty and responsibility throughout the day. This process is called Meditation-in-Action. As you experiment with the Truth reflected by your Conscience, you’ll develop decision-making skills that will enhance your confidence in all relationships. As you have already learned, to experience real freedom you must be centered in the present moment, know who you are, and follow your Inner Wisdom. Yoga Science Lab can help you achieve that freedom!

SATURDAY MORNINGS, 10:30AM -12:30 PM ET, $75.

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YOGA PSYCHOLOGY BHAGAVAD GITA STUDY Leonard (Ram Lev) and Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: In continuous six week installments this course presents the profound teachings of the Bhagavad Gita as a handbook on the science of life and the art of living. If you are seeking a manual or guide for the supreme task of living well in the world today, this ongoing study will provide you practical wisdom, meaning and purpose for your life. Each week Leonard and Jenness will teach you how to reduce stress and confidently enhance your health and creative abilities, while providing you a fresh, positive perspective on all your family and business relationships.

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FOUNDATION COURSE “The AMI Foundation Course literally changed the direction of my career as a physician. Practicing the tools that I learned in the course has transformed my work as a physician and helped me eliminate the burnout I was experiencing. I am practicing as a lifestyle medicine physician and am much happier in my work.

The tools are practical and help me to serve my patients better. Physicians! I urge you to prescribe this course to yourself so that you too can rid yourselves of burnout and frustration and create a happier, healthier life and career.”

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Living on Purpose

by Swami Rama of the Himalayas Fear is removed and life is enjoyed only when there is a purpose in life. We need to ask ourselves if life has a purpose. What is the meaning of life? Usually we begin asking this question when we have experienced a great deal of pain after suffering the loss of property or relationships. We've seen the 6

emptiness in getting more material wealth or fame or power. We’ve seen how fleeting the pleasures of those are. We’ve begun to say, “If wealth, fame, and power do not give happiness, then what does?”

Out of our pain we begin to suspect there is something more to life, that life is not

limited to what our senses experience. We may only suspect. Our knowledge of anything beyond the world of forms––that which we see and hear, and so on, still may be barely a whisper deep within us, but the possibility is worth exploring.

The exploration begins by establishing the philosophy that there may indeed be something more to life. That philosophy at least gives a direction. With a philosophy in place life takes on more meaning and immediately begins to take a different shape. The intention to learn more provides focus, and focus gathers energy. There is joy in that alone.

With only the vaguest of goals and our motivation still only a whisper, we begin to see the objects and relationships in our lives differently. They are no longer the center of our lives. The pain inherent in the loss of them, or in the fear of losing them, is not so intense.

Having such a philosophy suggests that life has a greater meaning than owning and keeping what inevitably changes. A sense of freedom grows. Gradually we begin to detect that it is not owning and keeping the things of the world that matters, but something else––perhaps giving and letting go.

Yet these thoughts remain only faint sounds within us, especially since we have heard all our lives so loudly and distinctly that acquiring possessions and wealth and power, and having sensory pleasures, are top priorities for living a good life. Nonetheless the faint inner sounds continue.

The second step is to reorganize one's life. As with all great transitions of mind and changes of old habits, the second step comes gradually, as personal capacity allows and grows. For instance, as the shift is made from a philosophy of acquiring objects to one of serving a greater purpose, our needs diminish. Materially, life becomes simpler and less burdensome. Following a philosophy that life may have greater meaning, we begin to see that we don't need relationships with others in the same ways. We don’t need others to give us something. We don't depend on relationships for what we can get from them. We can be more free in our relationships and the emphasis changes from needing and taking in relationships––whether marital, parental,

filial, or any other––to giving. Emotionally, life becomes lighter.

This philosophy and reorganization usually mean our lifestyles become less opulent and require fewer distractions. More is given away. Less is needed. Concerns for health change. Ironically it seems to be those who are most afraid of dying who do the most to hasten the process by eating rich, heavy foods, ingesting too much alcohol, and smoking. Their fear of death draws them to the sensory pleasures that bring death about more quickly. With a philosophy that says there is more to life, we naturally shift to a healthier diet and more exercise.

Other changes also come about. As we expand from the narrow viewpoint that the priorities in life are material and sensory wealth, to a greater view of life lived with spiritual purpose, then not only do we change lifestyle habits and relationships, but we see the world differently. When we no longer think we were dropped somehow onto this planet simply to get all we can, then we begin to see that all seven billion plus inhabitants of the planet are also living for greater purposes. Our sense of community changes.

Our family grows. We realize we are part of a global community, all brothers and sisters on a long journey, though on different paths.

No longer can we do work that might harm other people, or harm the world in which we all live. If we have jobs that pollute the environment, or create difficulties for other people, we will feel obliged to find other work.

At the same time we no longer feel threatened by the differences in other people.

If all seven billion of us are here for a higher spiritual purpose, then the differences in race, color, and beliefs are ultimately superficial. These differences, along with everything else happening on the planet, are serving the higher spiritual purpose. Race, color, and creed are parts of the various paths toward the same goal. The fear that these differences of race, color, and creed once held, that somehow people who were different and were somehow a threat to what is owned, disappear.

In Eastern philosophy this wide-angle reorganization of a person's life is called 7

dharma. One sense of the word dharma means to organize one’s life in such a way that individual action is in harmony with interpersonal relationships and with the community, local and global. It implies morality, righteousness, and virtue. A life that is led with unselfishness, harmlessness, compassion, non-possessiveness, and noncovetousness in personal relationships and toward the greater global community and Earth herself, is a spiritually healthy life. However, if a person is selfish, harms others, brings harm in some way to the community, and feels a sense of possession of things and people, such a person's life is contracted, and spiritual progress is hindered.

Another interpretation of dharma is the notion of destiny. Dharma is a person’s duty in life. Put another way, dharma is the path a person takes to best use this life to most effectively reach the goal of life.

A person’s dharma is related also to personal karmas and samskaras. What does a person need to earn, burn, and discard in order to move forward in spiritual life? What is the dharma that can effect that learning and burning? Whether that dharma is to be a carpenter, social worker, fireman, nurse, computer technician, mother or father, Californian or Italian, it doesn’t matter. From a general point of view, no dharma is better than another. From the standpoint of making spiritual progress, being a small scale vegetable farmer or street cleaner is as valid and efficient a dharma as being President or Pope. Each person has a dharma that best suits his or her spiritual needs.

It is vital then to look for and establish a personal dharma that provides an individualized set of values to follow and develop, and identifies those duties that will be helpful in the process of personal growth.

In this exploration of that which is beyond worldly life it is necessary to find a spiritual path. We all need a guidebook into the geography of the heart. We are all making a sacred journey to our true, divine natures.

Although that divine nature is truly so close and so known to us, it may also remain hidden in the tangled recesses of our thoughts and desires.

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the world come from the human aspiration to know the truth about our real identity. Within each of these systems are maps to that Truth that is shared by all. Some maps are written in Sanskrit, others in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, or Chinese. Some maps take sea routes, others overland or air. Some guide followers this way up the mountainside, others that way.

They all, however, come to the same pinnacle of Truth.

We usually find ourselves in those systems that represent our culture. Religions evolve out of cultures to serve the spiritual needs of people in the context of their lifestyles, environments, and histories. Islam emerged from a particular culture, history and community need. The same is true of Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and all the religious systems of the world. None is better than another. They merely reflect cultures, times, and needs. Hinduism in reality is a way of life and a philosophy of life. It is not a religion.

As the world has shrunk with sophisticated communications systems, it has become easier to share the knowledge of religious systems with other cultures. There has been a mixing of ideas and techniques that are benefiting people throughout the world.

The great interest in Eastern philosophies in the second half of the 20th century throughout the United States and Europe is an example of this sharing.

However, it is important to remember that spiritual disciplines that have become religious systems have been reinterpreted.

Institutions have emerged that have become something other than the spiritual imperative that gave rise to the institutions. Jesus said he was not creating a new religion; he was simply telling the Truth. A religious system developed and has sometimes concealed the Truth told by Jesus. The Truth is still there, but around it is this new institution and its particular interpretations of Truth.

Jesus said, for instance, “I am the way, the Truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me.” He meant that the way to eternal life, or Brahman, is by knowing the Atman, the pure Self that is embodied by all.

The institution that formed seized on the statement and used it as an institutional

bludgeon, demanding that people join that institution and take on its dogma or be doomed.

So is the case with Islam. Internal research of Islam has been done by the Sufis.

The Sufis have dived deep into the Islamic scriptures and emerged with gems of wisdom. I find that all religions have one and the same truth to share with their community.

The fortunate few who have realized this Truth know that it is priestly “wisdom” and “churchianity” that have created confusion.

The same phenomenon has happened in all spiritual systems. The institutions are meant to protect the Truth, and they grow to bind a community together. That’s the meaning of religion from the Latin ligare, to hold or bind together a culture or people of like beliefs. However, often the institution takes on a life of its own, ignoring the Truth it originally meant to teach. The institution and its leaders become more vital than the Truth itself. This leads usually to politics, prejudice, dogmatism, factionalism, and sometimes bloodshed with one religious group fighting another. The mentality develops that, “We have the Truth, you don’t. God is

with us, not you.” All manner of injustices and harm in the name of religion come from this attitude. The egos of religious leaders create a situation where their followers worship them, or fear them, and the purpose of the path is forgotten.

The desirable path is that which responds to the true spiritual needs of the individual, not to the demands of an institution, and not to the whims of institutional leaders. In truly spiritual systems both the institutions and their leaders exist solely to serve the spiritual needs of their members and followers.

Swami Rama of the Himalayas, in laboratory conditions at the Menninger Institute in Topeka Kansas, demonstrated that blood pressure, heart rate and the autonomic nervous system can be voluntarily controlled.

These demonstrations have been one of the major cornerstones of the modern Mind/Body Medicine movement. This essay is reproduced from “Sacred Journey” by Swami Rama, © 2002 by the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust. India.

The Practical Guide You’ve Been Looking For! Coordinating the Functions of the Mind Will Resolve

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3rd Annual National Conscience Month

ESSAY CONTEST For ALL High School Seniors $2,000. SCHOLARSHIP

January 2022 will mark the 3rd Annual observance of National Conscience Month. Throughout the month Americans from all walks of life will be imagining new ways to celebrate the benefits of using their Conscience to guide their thoughts, words and deeds.

Here’s a special opportunity for high school seniors across the nation!

You’re now invited to participate in a unique and creative way––by writing a short essay about using the Conscience. Think of a real situation in your life––or create an imaginary scenario––in which you allowed (or chose not to allow) your Conscience to guide your thoughts, words and actions. What were the results? Were there benefits? Or unexpected consequences? What did you learn from this experience?

One talented student will receive a $2,000. scholarship, awarded for an original essay of 1,000 words or less.

Submission Instructions: No membership or purchase of any kind is required to take part in the National Conscience Month Essay Contest. Essay submissions should be sent by email to ami@americanmeditation.org. Submissions should be sent as a PDF attachment. Submissions must be received no later than Friday, January 28, 2022. The contest winner will be notified by email. Submissions may be featured by the American Meditation Institute either online or in print in connection with National Conscience Month programming and promotions, and the right to reproduce submissions is reserved by AMI and its sponsors.

For complete information visit: ConscienceMonth.org.

E-mail essays to: ami@americanmeditation.org with name, address, telephone number and the name of your high school.

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We urge you to thoughtfully consider the value AMI has brought to your life, and to give generously to help us recover from the financial damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We understand that you too may be suffering financially, yet we must count on you to help us achieve our goal of $150,000.

No gift is too big or too small, and we thank you sincerely for your love and support.

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Optimize Your Innate Creative Powers

by Learning to Coordinate

The Four Functions of the Mind

By Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

UNCONSCIOUS Memory and habits

CONSCIENCE Discriminates, determines, judges and decides

BODY

5 SENSES AND LOGIC (MANAS) Asks “Should I do it?” or “Should I not do it?”

EGO Self-preservation defines pleasant and unpleasant as “good” and “bad”

To explain the workings of the human mind, Yoga Science presents a simple, conceptual diagram: a wheel with four spokes that turn it. The rim of the wheel represents the body, and its hub is the Divine Super Conscious Wisdom that is our deepest nature. The four spokes represent the Four Functions of the Mind: Senses and Logic (Manas), Ego (self-preservation), Unconscious (habits and memories), and Conscience (Buddhi). Ideally, these four functions work together in formulating every decision, large and small; but it is the Conscience that needs to have the last word if we are to live well and generously. In fact, it’s the Conscience that makes every decision (the other functions don’t have this capacity). But when the Senses, Ego, and Unconscious mind are clamoring loudly for attention, the contribution from the Conscience—offered in a steady, quieter voice—may be overlooked or overwhelmed. As a result, decisions may be made on the basis of incomplete or biased information. Continued on p.14 13

Your Conscience is the only Function of the the “how” of coordinating the Four Mind that has the power to discriminate, Functions of the Mind. This is not a moral determine, judge and decide. When you failing. It is simply a failure of education. We understand and employ this Truth, it will are neither aware of the enormous value nor become a profoundly positive influence in the straightforward process of training our determining the kind of life you live. This mind and living our life guided by the ancient teaching means that every decision Conscience. As a result, billions of people you have ever made, or will ever make, has worldwide unwittingly embrace lifestyle and will be made by your Conscience. That’s choices that eventually injure health, impair right. Throughout your entire life as a human peace of mind, inflict suffering on others, being, every choice you make is always limit possibilities, and eventually threaten authored by your Conscience. The body the very integrity of society and the Earth–– itself cannot act unless and until it’s empowall because we were never trained to use our ered by the Conscience. The other Functions mind in ways that can profoundly benefit us of the Mind—the Ego, Senses and personally, and humanity as a whole.

Unconscious Mind—possess the power to Contrast this bleak picture with the advise, but never to decide. Contemplate that quiet revolution that took place in India thoufor a moment. Just possessing this knowlsands of years ago. During that time, certain edge can be your source of women and men who tremendous creativity and deeply desired a more power in the world! rewarding life prayerfully But here’s the rub. listened to this Gayatri Since you, and most of your Mantra every day: “O, fellow citizens, were never Inner Dweller, Divine taught to regularly coordiMother, my heart is nate all Four Functions of enveloped in darkness. I the Mind, the ability of pray You will remove the your Conscience to reflect darkness from my vision, your Super Conscious and bring the illumination Leonard Perlmutter Wisdom is presently comof Supreme Truth by promised. Consequently, awakening, strengthening (Ram Lev) during the mind’s decisionand purifying the mind’s making process, the quiet whisper of the Conscience so that I can skillfully discrimiConscience is often overwhelmed by the relnate between passing pleasure and perennial atively loud and insistent voices of the Ego, joy.” We would do well to listen to that same Senses and Unconscious Mind. In that chalmantra today! lenging situation, the Conscience will still To effectively manage the daily avadecide what to do and what not to do (since lanche of information you face, and to solve it’s the only mind function that has that all your urgent challenges, you need only capacity), but its decisions will be based on learn to maximize the competence of your limited and possibly faulty input. However, most powerful instrument––your mind. each time you consciously enlist the When you coordinate all Four Functions of Conscience to guide your decisions and culthe Mind, the Conscience can reliably reflect tivate the cooperation of the Ego, Senses and your own Super Conscious Wisdom and Unconscious Mind, you will increasingly motivate you to think, speak and act much gain access to your Inner Wisdom. This is the more creatively than ever before. wisdom that will flawlessly guide your With your Conscience as your guide, thoughts, words and deeds, preparing you to you can act, not as a limited and habituated be skillful in every relationship and circumindividual, but as a vital instrument of the stance.

One all-encompassing Supreme Intelligence.

The great tragedy of our times is that so You will come to understand your true purmany of us do not understand the “why” or pose and begin living each day to fulfill it.

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“Regardless of challenging circumstances, YOUR CONSCIENCE can provide perfect guidance and imperishable comfort.”

And you will immediately begin to discover the creativity and will power that is required to solve all of your challenges. This transformational process is not fiction. It is a practical, scientific, reproducible methodology for attaining the summum bonum—the highest and ultimate good—of life.

But please, don’t believe me. Don’t accept on blind faith any advice I’ve presented in this book. Instead, be motivated enough to

turn your own mind-body-sense complex into a scientific laboratory and experiment with what you’ve learned. Test the knowledge I have shared. Only then will you know, and know that you know, that you already have everything you need to create a joyful, creative, healthy and rewarding life. I have every confidence in you.

“There’s an Urgent Crisis in our Country and the World, and

YOUR CONSCIENCE is the SOLUTION!” Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

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