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WITNESS TO SUZIE’S MIRACLE Part I Published October 28, 2003 By Wendy Ford In having witnessed the birth of our grand niece “up close and personal” in 2000 I thought I knew what it must be like to witness to a miracle. I was mistaken. It started out like any other Tuesday. Go to work and look forward to the Tuesday Night Potpourri/Meditation Class with Dr. David Strickler. Spending an evening with Dr. Strickler is always predictably unpredictable and I was looking forward to another experience.

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But something was different right from the beginning of that evening. Christine, myself and one other were present. Dr Strickler was in an unusually pensive mood and discussion centered around the uncertainty of what the future may hold for us personally and globally and how we might best prepare for the unknown. Strickler shared a very human side of himself that few are ever privileged to see.

As the evening progressed a member of our group (I’ll call her Suzie) spoke up and started to share a very personal, horrible, life-altering experience from her youth. The experience had very nearly ended her life.

Evidently Will had her survival in mind. Suzie physically survived but was left emotionally, spiritually and energetically shattered. Doctors told her she had permanent nerve damage.

Suzie has been searching her entire adult life for an answer to “why” and for a way to heal. She has been blessed with a wonderful husband and two beautiful daughters and just recently has become a grandmother for the first time. But Suzie has been in constant emotional, psychological, spiritual and physical pain for most of her life. Suzie petitioned Dr. Strickler for a ceremony or service for healing. Strickler was quiet and their gazes remained locked for what seemed forever.

Then there was a perceptible alteration in the room. The air seemed to thicken but yet remain soft.

The room became washed in a deep golden haze (it was dark outside and the blinds were drawn). A great feeling of safety and a love of such intensity filled the room it was almost as if the room became a gel. Very softly yet with a tone whose vibration boomed through my entire being David said, “Come.

Sit here in front of me.” Suzie slowly rose, still not breaking eye contact, and crossed the room to sit on the ottoman in front of David. She laid her hands in her lap, closed her eyes and took a deep cleansing breath. David remained seated at her left side. David then spoke a prayer whose words I did not understand consciously but to which my heart responded and opened. As David proceeded to work with Suzie he spoke words not for the ears but for the heart and soul. His hands were like those of an artist or sculptor as they worked.

He rarely physically touched her but never did without first letting her know where and getting her consent (mostly through almost imperceptible nods of the head as words were impossible to utter at such deep levels was he working). Being a student of Dr. Strickler’s, I recognized the chakra points and several techniques and was able to identify much of what he was doing.

It wasn’t so much the “what”; it was the “how” that was truly awe-inspiring. It was obvious David had become a “messenger”, a human, physical, living conduit through which Source or God itself was working. So powerful and pure was this link that it left no doubt we were in its presence. So profound and encompassing was the flow of unconditional love that Christine and I were affected by just being in the proximity. As David worked, I realized my breathing patterns had become matched with Suzie’s. I am accustomed to energy often moving through me as I work with my patients and am practiced at becoming a conduit for it to move through.

But this is when I am working one on one with them. I had never been witness to an event of this magnitude.

I was sitting on a couch about 3 feet from where they were, yet I “felt” the healing and reconnecting and repatterning taking place and “felt” the “old” patterns falling away and being disrupted. Was what I was experiencing for me, or for Suzie? I was seated where I could see Suzie’s face. As David continued to work I could see her entire face changing right in front of me.

Ten years fell away along with lines and wrinkles. The corners of her mouth which were usually slightly down turned were now relaxed and a quiet ghost of a smile started to appear. I could see her eyes moving rapidly behind the closed lids that were losing a bit of their sag and crow’s feet were taking flight. The only word I can think of is “angelic” for how she started to appear.

Her breathing patterns changed rapidly as the work progressed. From slow to short and rapid to deep and shuddering. At one point it was obvious Suzie was about to have a really big “breakthrough” or “release” of some kind and she was starting to fight it.

David had one hand on her forehead and the other on the back of her neck. In his soothing, deep voice he quietly said, “It’s OK.

I’ve got you. I’m right here. It’s OK.” That voice spoke to the deepest core of my being as well. That voice seemed to wrap itself around every cell in my body. The compassion and love of God himself was contained in those words and vibrations.

Both Christine and I sat with silent tears streaming unchecked down our cheeks as he continued to work and Suzie shuddered and her own never before shed tears started to flow. (Even now as I recall the feeling I find it hard to see the computer screen through misty eyes.) David then snatched at an invisible something at the base of her neck and both David and Christine heard a “pop”. David asked me to light a special candle and he placed his clenched fist over the open flame. When his clenched fist sprung open over the dancing flame I heard a “snap” and the flame jumped and seemed to flare then returned to its normal shape.

He left the candle burning for the remainder of the evening. David quietly told Suzie to take several deep breaths, wiggle her toes, move her fingers, open her eyes slowly. He sat with her for a while softly talking her “back” and getting her to move. He had her carefully stand up and when she listed slightly he touched her in the middle of her forehead and snapped his fingers.

She immediately came to center and was no longer off balance. When she made eye contact with me there was a brightness and clarity in them I had never seen before. She appeared more alive than I had ever seen her. She seemed to just glow with an inner peace previously absent.

Her shoulders were more square, she held her head higher; it was as if an invisible weight had been removed and she was able to fully breathe in the very breath of life for the first time. David then left the room and took a break for a while and the three of us just sat and looked at one another being unable to speak.

Suzie found her voice and quietly marveled that she could feel the bottoms of her feet for the first time in years and quizzically noted the base of her spine was cold. David came back in and asked Suzie to stand and close her eyes. He slowly walked around her like a master sculptor inspecting his work. Then he began working her aura (that invisible (to most) bubble of energy that surrounds each of us—our own invisible cocoon). Never physically touching her, his hands moved rapidly from area to area, smoothing an invisible rough spot, pulling out an indention, chiseling off a bulge, reshaping and fine tuning and re-inspecting until he was satisfied with the result.

At one point he put one of his hands at the base of her spine, the other above her head, and drew upward. She actually grew taller by about 2 inches.

Her entire posture and alignment changed. It was like she had been given an invisible chiropractic adjustment where she stood. (Believe me, as a physical therapist I KNOW postural alignment.) David put his hands at his sides and slowly walked around Suzie closely evaluating the results. He would squint his eyes or cock his head slightly, nodding from time to time in silent satisfaction or perhaps moving one hand almost imperceptibly to “fine tune” something. Lastly, apparently satisfied, David began to run a Middle Pillar with Suzie still standing.

Since my eyes are always closed during my own Middle Pillar exercise, I watched in awe as I witnessed the undulation of energies pouring in from “On High”. Suzie looked as if she were an empty vessel filling with the purest of pure energies. As if she had been badly dehydrated and the pure waters of creation were plumping up her moisture starved container. She just seemed to blossom right before my eyes.

Then, just as the room had altered at the beginning of the evening, it was suddenly “normal” again. But things that were different.

The air seemed crisp and clean (like after a rain when all of the dust and debris has been rinsed away). And there were three women who would never, ever be the same again.

One whose healing had been initiated and the two who were witness to this miracle. Never, have I experienced anything close to this. The compassion and love with which this took place was so much more than from our human, conscious level.

It felt as if there was a huge gallery of “others” sharing and supporting with a love like I have never experienced. It wasn’t creepy or scary or “other-worldly”.

What flowed through Dr. Strickler that evening can only be described as a “love” so profound and permeating and pure that even as a witness one could not come away untouched and forever changed.

I can truthfully say I was in the presence of God. As I try to describe what I witnessed on this extraordinary evening, words seem so inadequate. During the evening we knew no time and had no sense of how long anything took. We DO know that we started at about 6:15pm and the next thing we knew it was 10:30! It occurred to me after everyone had gone home that being witness to an event of this import is, in itself, a life-altering personal experience. I felt that I, too, had been blessed with a healing of my own.

We thank God and Dr. David Strickler for the great honor to being permitted to witness this miracle. May each of you be as privileged at some point in your life. We each experience little miracles in our lives every day. Keep your eyes, ears and hearts open for them. Don’t miss the obvious. Blessings to all, and may your Light continue to shine toward Truth, Wendy Ford.

Wendy Ford Born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Has lived in Newport News Virginia, Dayton Ohio, Owensboro Kentucky, Ft Lauderdale Florida and currently residing in the Phoenix Arizona area.

Professional Life: practicing Physical Therapist for over 40 years specializing in geriatrics in the home care setting. Successful thus far of surviving within the ever changing healthcare and delivery systems.

Personal Life: married for 39 years to someone who has accepted the faults, foibles, “idiotsyncrocies” of this individual and is patient and tolerant of the successes, failures and changes. Someone who is not threated by the continued seeking of knowledge and experiences leading to growth and discovery of who and what I truly am.

A welcome life partner. Spiritual Life: has been a student of Rev. David Strickler for over 22 years. Initially my petition be a distance-learning student and for the past 13 years granted the privilege of direct participation in his ongoing revelations, teaching and guidance.

A student who is blessed to be permitted to accompany my Teacher and mentor Dr. Strickler on The Path and so very blessed that The Life Power has seen fit to permit me to participate. To Ask, To Seek, To Knock. Posted on Author Categories Post navigation.

By Rebecca Kizer, Alex Mantica, Nate McNeill, Joseph Tobin and Stephan Jones IEEE Internet Policy Newsletter, June 2018 Why Li-Fi We live in a world that is increasingly connecting and communicating over the internet. The need for on-demand services and data is growing at a staggering rate.

Internet users demand high bandwidth activities such as business-level applications, video streaming, and online gaming at increasing rates. Furthermore, these services are needed wirelessly.

Users are increasingly mobile, which means that they need their data to be mobile too. Our current wireless technologies face many problems to meet this growing demand. Capacity, efficiency, availability, and security are all difficulties for Wi-Fi. It is possible to solve these problems without departing from Wi-Fi through the development of more powerful Wi-Fi technology, more complex encryption schemes, and the growth of ubiquity of Wi-Fi devices. 1 There is a different medium through which one could transmit data: visible light. Data traveling at the speed of light replaces data traveling over electromagnetic waves, specifically radio waves. 2 This is the idea behind Li-Fi—using visible light to send and receive data.

Vast quantities of data can be streamed through light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by varying the LED intensity faster than the human eye can track, thus making it seem like the light is always on to the human observer. 3 Li-Fi can help share the data load that Wi-Fi struggles to carry alone. The same lights that are used to illuminate our offices, homes, cars, and streets can connect us to data networks. Li-Fi is high speed, bi-directional, and wireless.

4 How it works All that is required for a coded communication is a binary system. A light bulb turned on and off repeatedly provides the potential for communicating ones and zeros. LEDs are high-brightness lights that can flicker on and off thousands of times per second. 3 Li-Fi is based on binary logic. When the LED is ‘on’ it transmits a ‘1’ and when it is ‘off’ it transmits a ‘0’.

5 The transmitted optical signal is detected and received by a solid-state photodiode at the user equipment receiver. 6 Li-Fi operates in a system that utilizes a controller to transmit data along with controlling the LED light bulb. The controller also controls the varied rate at which the LED is switched on and off, which is a critical component in data transmission with Li-Fi. The content that is streamed and encoded is located in the lamp driver, which is connected to the LED light bulb. The LED light bulb also contains a microchip that converts the digital data to light waves and transmits. 7 Along with the lamp driver, the microchip is also a critical component to the switching of the LED for data transmission.

A device equipped with a photodiode or photodetector (refer to Figure 1) is responsible for the receiving the streamed content through the light beam. Once received by the photodetector, the streams are amplified and then decoded into binary that is viewed as applications that run on devices enabled to use the internet. 8 Figure 1 - How Li-Fi Works.

Photo retrieved from Environmental Sensing and Kinetic Inductance The utilization of unnatural material in conjunction with LEDs indicates Li-Fi is a metamaterial solid state lighting topology. Environmental sensing tools are important to understand in a Li-Fi system due to the dispersive nature of light waves. The signal being propagated from the LED must have the capability to be received by the photodiode successfully regardless of the environment the system is utilized in. In choosing to select a proper sensor for successful signal reception by the photodiode, factors such as passive or active sensors, range, sensitivity, and drift must be accounted for. 9 The photodiodes within any Li-Fi system must be designed to be active, meaning the system requires a power supply for the sensors to convert the transmitted data into usable content. Range and sensitivity are critical to the environment the system is in, because Li-Fi requires a clear line of sight between the transmitting LED and the receiving photodiode for transmission to be successful.

Over time, the Li-Fi systems will suffer from drift, which is the gradual degradation of sensor performance. All these factors are critical to the sustained success of the system performance.

Kinetic inductance must also be accounted for due to the high frequency of light waves being used in the Li-Fi systems. Kinetic inductance is defined as the exhibition of the inertial mass of electric particles in alternating electric fields as an equivalent series inductance. 10 Researchers have encountered kinetic inductance in their attempts to develop metamaterial systems for extremely high frequencies. These tests generally have utilized conductors that are about 200 nm or less and have experienced a large amount of kinetic inductance in comparison to the geometrical inductance that normally scales with device size.

10 Li-Fi systems are unique, since the components and how they are utilized are innovative and consequently unique. Li-Fi uses colors of the visual light spectrum to successfully transmit data. The wavelength for visual light is between the ranges of 400-700 nm and corresponds to a band of about 430-770 THz.

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Due to the uniqueness of Li-Fi systems and the components being utilized, kinetic inductance is not a detrimental factor to the overall system performance. Modulation There are two categories of modulation techniques that are su itable for Li-Fi: single carrier modulation techniques (SCM) and multiple carrier modulation techniques (MCM). SCM was first used in intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) in communications using infrared. However, SCM is more straightforward than MCM to use in Li-Fi systems when moderate-to-low data rates are required.

11 Single carrier modulation techniques such as on-off keying (OOK), pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), pulse width modulation (PWM), and pulse position modulation (PPM) have all been proven to work with Li-Fi technology. The primary MCM technique that is suitable for Li-Fi technology is orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM is a technique that utilizes MCM and frequency division multiplexing (FDM). Some argue that the most promising modulation technique to ensure multiple access in a visible light communication (VLC) network is OFDM. The OFDM technique uses subcarriers to transmit simultaneously parallel data.

12 It has high spectral efficiency, robust multipath propagation, tolerance to channel delay spread, employment of multiple carrier transmission, and increased symbol duration. 13 The optical channel is then divided into multiple sub-channels equal to the number of fixed orthogonal subcarriers.

Conclusion It is true that Li-Fi technology is still in the development stages. Its inability to transmit across long distances successfully, and without great derailment from interference, is problematic.

However, the potential for high data transmission rates cannot be understated. As more research is done and as more technological advances are made, Li-Fi will continually make its way to the consumer marketplace.

By transmitting data through the visible light spectrum, light gains a duality of purpose: information and illumination. This level of efficiency and efficacy will not be ignored by a competitive market and Li-Fi will continue to grow in its prevalence. Part 2 of this article will discuss opportunities for and benefits to Li-Fi and contrast Li-Fi with Wi-Fi. References: 1 H.

Haas, “Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb.” July 2011. Available: 2 H. Burchardt, N.

Serafimovski, D. Tsonev, S Videv, and H. Haas, “VLC: Beyond Point-to-Point Communication” in Visible Light Communications, July 2014. Accessed March 3, 2018. Adwani and S. Nagtode, “LI-FI: Information transferring through LED’s” in 2016 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, and Optimization Techniques, pp.

2125-2127, 2016. Accessed November 29, 2017. 4 PureLiFi. “pureLiFi: Company.” 2017. Available: Accessed November 29, 2017. Mohta, and T. Choudhury, “The looming visible light communication Li-Fi: An edge over Wi-Fi” in 2016 International Conference System Modeling Advancement in Research Trends (SMART) 2016, pp. Available: Accessed November 29, 2017.

Safari, and H. Haas, (2017). “A wireless backhaul solution using visible light communication for indoor Li-Fi attocell networks” in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2017, pp. Accessed November 28, 2017. Damodaran, T.

Shaikh, and N. Taylor, “Using Mobile Phone Based Camera to Read Information from a Li-Fi Source” in 2016 21st International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) 2016, pp. Available: Accessed November 28, 2017.

Mercer, “Li-Fi explained What is it, how it works & why Wi-Fi might be a thing of the past.” July 2017. Available: Accessed November 30, 2017. 9 Parks, Michael. “Basic Electronics for Environmental Monitoring.” Mouser Electronics, 10 “Communications Engineering.” Kinetic Inductance - Communications Engineering, University of Oxford, 11 M. Haas, “Modulation Techniques for Li-Fi.” ZTE Communications, April 2016.

Available: Accessed November 27, 2017. Haruyama and M. Nakagawa, “Performance evaluation of narrowband OFDM on integrated system of power line communication and visible light wireless communication” in 2006 1st International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2006, pp. Available: Accessed November 27, 2017. Abdallah and N. Boudriga, (2016).

“Enabling 5G wireless access using Li-Fi technology: An OFDM based approach” in 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) 2016, pp. Available: Accesssed November 27, 2017. Alex Mantica Alex Mantica received his Bachelors Degree in Telecommunications with a minor in Marketing in 2017 from Ball State University.

He is currently obtaining his Master of Science Degree in Information and Communication Sciences at the Center for Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State University. There, he has found interest in researching new methods of mitigating traffic congestion within the radio frequency spectrum along with best management and leadership practices. He has accepted a position at a Healthcare IT consulting firm as an Analyst and plans to become a Project Manager after five years of experience. Jones, Ph.D., Director, Center for Information and Communication Sciences, Ball State University joined the Center for Information and Communication Sciences faculty in August of 1998. He came to Ball State University (BSU) from completing his doctoral studies at Bowling Green State University where he served the Dean of Continuing Education developing a distance-learning program for the College of Technology’s undergraduate Technology Education program. Jones was instrumental in bringing the new program on board because of his technical background and extensive research in the distance-learning field.

Prior to coming to higher education, Dr. Jones spent over sixteen and a half years in the communication technology industry. He owned his own teleconnect, providing high-end commercial voice and data networks to a broad range of end users. Jones provided all the engineering and technical support for his organization that grew to over twenty employees and two and a half million dollars per year revenue.

Selling his portion of the organization in December of 1994, Dr. Jones worked briefly for Panasonic Communications and Systems Company as a district sales manager providing application engineering and product support to distributors in a five-state area prior to starting doctoral studies. Editor: Susan Hyon Parker Susan Hyon Parker received her B.S. In Computer Science from Robert Morris University. She received her engineering education jointly through Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Nanotechnology.

She was a visiting student at University of Oxford and is presently a UK Engineering STEM Learning ambassador. She is Founder of NanoSchool.eu™, which places emphasis on opportunities to work on authentic research projects alongside academic and industrial scientists as well as engineers using distinctive design approaches. She is participating in Toulouse ESOF 2018 Science Forum and is member of the Nanotechnologies Industry Association. She has been an instructor with the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative since its inception in 2001. She is an active member of the IEEE Internet Initiative, IEEE Nanotechnology, IEEE Cybersecurity, IEEE Smart Grid Power & Energy Society. She has been a contributor to the IEEE ETAP Forum and Conferences and has been reviewing papers for the National Academy of Engineering - Engineer Girl Essay Contest. Her research interests include Sensor and Ad hoc networks, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Cyber Physical Systems, Vehicular Communications, Graphene, Renewable Energy, IoT and Future Internet Autonomous Systems and Propulsion and Aerospace Systems.

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