Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm

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However, the clinical and prognostic significance of such mild degrees of retinopathy has been questioned, 12– 14 because these alterations appear to be largely non-specific arteriolar changes, except in young patients in whom modification from a normal retina should raise doubts. However, it seems to me over-thought, oozing with name dropping, pseudo intellectual with a myriad of references. Cynthia talks through how our fear of dying is problematic (and what a different approach to death could look like), what it truly means to live virtuously, and whether or not she’s hopeful for the future. Thus, the eye, with its easily accessible vasculature, may indeed be a window to the heart, but knowledge about some unique vascular features is necessary.

They are handpicked and all pass Sue's quality test, but since they are natural stones there will be some variation in appearance. Besides such morphological criteria, functional alterations might be even more relevant and may play an important role in future diagnostics.Muiesan ML, Rizzoni D, Salvetti M, Porteri E, Monteduro C, Guelfi D, Castellano M, Garavelli G, Agabiti-Rosei E. At the core of this wisdom is the Platonic adage, "Beauty is the splendor of the True," which expresses the primordial, intimate and inalienable relationship between the Real and the Beautiful. While acute and severe hypoxia leads to infarction, chronic hypoxia leads to an increase in Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1alpha ( Figure 7) and thereby to an up-regulation of a number of molecules such as endothelin-1 (ET-1) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

At present, because of the often early diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, grades 3 and 4 are very rarely seen. One of the reasons people have fallen away from the spiritual path, it seems to me, is that theologians and philosophers make it way too complicated, erudite, and confusing. Probably not the most interesting or helpful reading for the dispositionally skeptical or the “absolutely certain” of any theological tradition. This site includes The Eye of the Heart’s pictures, online articles, slideshows, excerpts, reviews, table of contents, and more.The retinal BF is auto-regulated 2 and therefore—within a certain range—is independent of perfusion pressure (PP).