Articles – Lumin Story https://luminstory.org It is to shine light where it is dark Tue, 31 Mar 2020 03:18:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://luminstory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-lumin_story_favi-32x32.png Articles – Lumin Story https://luminstory.org 32 32 COVID-19 Survivors Can Save Lives https://luminstory.org/2020/03/31/covid-19-survivors-can-save-lives/ Tue, 31 Mar 2020 03:18:25 +0000 https://luminstory.org/?p=9419 Incredibly, the very people who have just suffered through COVID-19 are now in the best position to save the lives of others currently suffering from...]]>

Incredibly, the very people who have just suffered through COVID-19 are now in the best position to save the lives of others currently suffering from COVID-19. Their survival has created antibodies in their blood that doctors are hoping can be transferred into the very ill. This approach has been used previously in pandemics. What an incredible blessing that not only have these people survived, but they are now in a unique position to save the lives of others. And what better way to show their gratitude then through donating their blood. Here is a link to the form from Mount Sinai hospital. If you have had COVID-19 or know someone who has, and are in New York City or the surrounding areas, please fill this out: https://redcap.mountsinai.org/redcap/surveys/?s=RCC7FNHK3Y&_ga=2.66503334.980223437.1585623983-1215382931.1585623983

As stated on www.mountsinai.org:

The Mount Sinai Health System this week plans to initiate a procedure known as plasmapheresis, where the antibodies from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 will be transferred into critically ill patients with the disease, with the expectation that the antibodies will neutralize it.

The process of using antibody-rich plasma from COVID-19 patients to help others was used successfully in China, according to a state-owned organization, which reported that some patients improved within 24 hours, with reduced inflammation and viral loads, and better oxygen levels in the blood.

Mount Sinai is collaborating with the New York Blood Center and the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center laboratory in Albany, with guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and expects to begin implementing the treatment later this week…

]]> New Possibilities for Autism Treatment https://luminstory.org/2019/02/15/new-possibilities-for-autism-treatment/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 02:37:45 +0000 http://luminstory.org/?p=6202 While all of us may at times find our communication impaired, there are those on one extreme of the spectrum for whom it is nearly...]]>

While all of us may at times find our communication impaired, there are those on one extreme of the spectrum for whom it is nearly impossible. In this day and age we sometimes associate this with some form of autism. Mirrored in the Exodus narrative, the mystical strain of the Torah depicts the inner Egyptian exile (Egypt means ‘confinement and limitation’ in Hebrew) as an ongoing state imprisoned subjectivity, where one can’t express oneself or properly communicate. The image is of a person who is psycho-spiritually in the fetal position: head and chest are curled over between one’s legs, minimizing the distance between, in essence, placing the mind, heart, and gut into proximity as we are rolled into a ball. By contrast, the fully developed normative position of standing and being stretched out situates the intellect (head) above the emotions (heart/chest), which are in turn above the gut (seen symbolically as the seat of the instinctual or behavioral dynamics of a person). Yet, when they are conjoined with or subsumed by the gut, this is tantamount to saying the gut can determine our mental and emotional states. In the latest research into the treatment of autism, it has been provisionally demonstrated that the microbiome (an integral part of the guts management system), can influence the cognitive, emotive, and behavioral in children with autism. By undergoing a fecal transplant, the children studied exhibited marked reduction in their autism symptoms. For the famous 16th century Rabbi known as the Maharal of Prague, this is called redemption with ‘seed’ [or fertilization/germination] from another place. In other words, the transplanting of new material, new information that is foreign to the system can be the key to its positive transformation. Taken thus, this announced study serves as a significant echo of the universal message of Passover which connotes a person’s capacity to leap from silence to speech, from being closed-in to becoming opened up, as part of our personal development.

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