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There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data article

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 11, 2022

Posted on October 4, 2021

There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data

A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements

By: Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng

Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone. An estimated $12 billion market, the location data industry has many players: collectors, aggregators, marketplaces, and location intelligence firms, all of which boast about the scale and precision of the data that they’ve amassed.

Location firm Near describes itself as “The World’s Largest Dataset of People’s Behavior in the Real-World,” with data representing “1.6B people across 44 countries.” Mobilewalla boasts “40+ Countries, 1.9B+ Devices, 50B Mobile Signals Daily, 5+ Years of Data.” X-Mode’s website claims its data covers “25%+ of the Adult U.S. population monthly.”

In an effort to shed light on this little-monitored industry, The Markup has identified 47 companies that harvest, sell, or trade in mobile phone location data. While hardly comprehensive, the list begins to paint a picture of the interconnected players that do everything from providing code to app developers to monetize user data to offering analytics from “1.9 billion devices” and access to datasets on hundreds of millions of people. Six companies claimed more than a billion devices in their data, and at least four claimed their data was the “most accurate” in the industry.

“There isn’t a lot of transparency and there is a really, really complex shadowy web of interactions between these companies that’s hard to untangle,” Justin Sherman, a cyber policy fellow at the Duke Tech Policy Lab, said. “They operate on the fact that the general public and people in Washington and other regulatory centers aren’t paying attention to what they’re doing.”

Occasionally, stories illuminate just how invasive this industry can be. In 2020, Motherboard reported that X-Mode, a company that collects location data through apps, was collecting data from Muslim prayer apps and selling it to military contractors. The Wall Street Journal also reported in 2020 that Venntel, a location data provider, was selling location data to federal agencies for immigration enforcement.

A Catholic news outlet also used location data from a data vendor to out a priest who had frequented gay bars, though it’s still unknown what company sold that information.

Many firms promise that privacy is at the center of their businesses and that they’re careful to never sell information that can be traced back to a person. But researchers studying anonymized location data have shown just how misleading that claim can be.

The truth is, it’s hard to know all the ways in which your movements are being tracked and traded. Companies often reveal little about what apps serve as the sources of data they collect, what exactly that data consists of, and how far it travels. To piece together a picture of the ecosystem, The Markup reviewed the websites and marketing language of each of the 47 companies we identified as operating in the location data industry, as well as any information they revealed about how the data got to them. (See our methodology here.)

How the Data Leaves Your Phone

Most times, the location data pipeline starts off in your hands, when an app sends a notification asking for permission to access your location data.

Apps have all kinds of reasons for using your location. Map apps need to know where you are in order to give you directions to where you’re going. A weather, waves, or wind app checks your location to give you relevant meteorological information. A video streaming app checks where you are to ensure you’re in a country where it’s licensed to stream certain shows.

But unbeknownst to most users, some of those apps sell or share location data about their users with companies that analyze the data and sell their insights, like Advan Research. Other companies, like Adsquare, buy or obtain location data from apps for the purpose of aggregating it with other data sources. Companies like real estate firms, hedge funds and retail businesses might then turn and use the data for their own advertising, analytics, investment strategy, or marketing purposes.

Serge Egelman, a researcher at UC Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute and CTO of AppCensus, who has researched sensitive data permissions on mobile apps, said it’s hard to tell which apps on your phone simply use the data for their own functional purposes and which ones release your data into the economic ether.

“When the app asks for location, in the moment, because maybe you click the button to find stuff near you and you get a permission dialog, you might reasonably infer that ‘Oh, that’s to service that request to provide that functionality,’ but there’s no guarantee of that,” Egelman said. “And there’s certainly usually never a disclosure that says that the data is going to be limited to that purpose.”

Companies that trade in this data are reluctant to share which apps they get data from.

The Markup asked spokespeople from all the companies on our list where they get the location data they obtain.

Companies like Adsquare and Cuebiq told The Markup that they don’t publicly disclose what apps they get location data from to keep a competitive advantage but maintained that their process of obtaining location data was transparent and with clear consent from app users.

“It is all extremely transparent,” said Bill Daddi, a spokesperson for Cuebiq.

He added that consumers must know what the apps are doing with their data because so few consent to share it. “The opt-in rates clearly confirm that the users are fully aware of what is happening because the opt-in rates can be as low as less than 20%, depending on the app,” Daddi said in an email.

Yiannis Tsiounis, the CEO of the location analytics firm Advan Research, said his company buys from location data aggregators, who collect the data from thousands of apps—but would not say which ones. Tsiounis said the apps he works with do explicitly say that they share location data with third parties somewhere in the privacy policies, though he acknowledged that most people don’t read privacy policies.

“There’s only so much you can squeeze into the notification message. You get one line, right? So you can’t say all of that in the notification message,” Tsiounis said. “You only get to explain to the user, ‘I need your location data for X, Y, and Z.’ What you have to do is, there has to be a link to the privacy policy.”

Only one company spokesperson, Foursquare’s Ashley Dawkins, actually named any specific apps—Foursquare’s own products, like Swarm, CityGuide, and Rewards—as sources for its location data trove.

But Foursquare also produces a free software development kit (SDK)—a set of prebuilt tools developers can use in their own apps—that can potentially track location through any app that uses it. Foursquare’s Pilgrim SDK is used in apps like GasBuddy, a service that compares prices at nearby gas stations, Flipp, a shopping app for coupons, and Checkout 51, another location-based discount app.

GasBuddy, Flipp, and Checkout 51 didn’t respond to requests for comment.

A search on Mighty Signal, a site that analyzes and tracks SDKs in apps, found Foursquare’s Pilgrim SDK in 26 Android apps.

While not every app with Foursquare’s SDK sends location data back to the company, the privacy policies for Flipp, Checkout 51, and GasBuddy all disclose that they share location data with the company.

Foursquare’s method of obtaining location data through an embedded SDK is a common practice. Of the 47 companies that The Markup identified, 12 of them advertised SDKs to app developers that could send them location data in exchange for money or services.

Placer.ai says in its marketing that it does foot traffic analysis and that its SDK is installed in more than 500 apps and has insights on more than 20 million devices.

“We partner with mobile apps providing location services and receive anonymized aggregated data. Very critically, all data is anonymized and stripped of personal identifiers before it reaches us,” Ethan Chernofsky, Placer.ai’s vice president of marketing, said in an email.

Into the Location Data Marketplace

Once a person’s location data has been collected from an app and it has entered the location data marketplace, it can be sold over and over again, from the data providers to an aggregator that resells data from multiple sources. It could end up in the hands of a “location intelligence” firm that uses the raw data to analyze foot traffic for retail shopping areas and the demographics associated with its visitors. Or with a hedge fund that wants insights on how many people are going to a certain store.

“There are the data aggregators that collect the data from multiple applications and sell in bulk. And then there are analytics companies which buy data either from aggregators or from applications and perform the analytics,” said Tsiounis of Advan Research. “And everybody sells to everybody else.”

Some data marketplaces are part of well-known companies, like Amazon’s AWS Data Exchange, or Oracle’s Data Marketplace, which sell all types of data, not just location data. Oracle boasts its listing as the “world’s largest third-party data marketplace” for targeted advertising, while Amazon claims to “make it easy to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.” Both marketplaces feature listings for several of the location data companies that we examined.

Amazon spokesperson Claude Shy said that data providers have to explain how they gain consent for data and how they monitor people using the data they purchase.

“Only qualified data providers will have access to the AWS Data Exchange. Potential data providers are put through a rigorous application process,” Shy said.

Oracle declined to comment.

Other companies, like Narrative, say they are simply connecting data buyers and sellers by providing a platform. Narrative’s website, for instance, lists location data providers like SafeGraph and Complementics among its 17 providers with more than two billion mobile advertising IDs to buy from.

But Narrative CEO Nick Jordan said the company doesn’t even look at the data itself.

“There’s a number of companies that are using our platform to acquire and/or monetize geolocation data, but we actually don’t have any rights to the data,” he said. “We’re not buying it, we’re not selling it.”

To give a sense of how massive the industry is, Amass Insights has 320 location data providers listed on its directory, Jordan Hauer, the company’s CEO, said. While the company doesn’t directly collect or sell any of the data, hedge funds will pay it to guide them through the myriad of location data companies, he said.

“The most inefficient part of the whole process is actually not delivering the data,” Hauer said. “It’s actually finding what you’re looking for and making sure that it’s compliant, making sure that it has value and that it is exactly what the provider says it is.”

Oh, the Places Your Data Will Go

There are a whole slew of potential buyers for location data: investors looking for intel on market trends or what their competitors are up to, political campaigns, stores keeping tabs on customers, and law enforcement agencies, among others.

Data from location intelligence firm Thasos Group has been used to measure the number of workers pulling extra shifts at Tesla plants. Political campaigns on both sides of the aisle have also used location data from people who were at rallies for targeted advertising.

Fast food restaurants and other businesses have been known to buy location data for advertising purposes down to a person’s steps. For example, in 2018, Burger King ran a promotion in which, if a customer’s phone was within 600 feet of a McDonalds, the Burger King app would let the user buy a Whopper for one cent.

The Wall Street Journal and Motherboard have also written extensively about how federal agencies including the Internal Revenue Service, Customs and Border Protection, and the U.S. military bought location data from companies tracking phones.

Of the location data firms The Markup examined, the offerings are diverse.

Advan Research, for instance, uses historical location data to tell its customers, largely retail businesses or their private equity firm owners, where their visitors came from, and makes guesses about their income, race, and interests based on where they’ve been.

“For example, we know that the average income in this neighborhood by census data is $50,000. But then there are two devices—one went to Dollar General, McDonald’s, and Walmart, and the other went to a BMW dealer and Tiffany’s … so they probably make more money,” Advan Research’s Tsiounis said.

Others combine the location data they obtain with other pieces of data gathered from your online activities. Complementics, which boasts data on “more than a billion mobile device IDs,” offers location data in tandem with cross-device data for mobile ad targeting.

The prices can be steep.

Outlogic (formerly known as X-Mode) offers a license for a location dataset titled “Cyber Security Location data” on Datarade for $240,000 per year. The listing says “Outlogic’s accurate and granular location data is collected directly from a mobile device’s GPS.”

At the moment, there are few if any rules limiting who can buy your data.

Sherman, of the Duke Tech Policy Lab, published a report in August finding that data brokers were advertising location information on people based on their political beliefs, as well as data on U.S. government employees and military personnel.

“There is virtually nothing in U.S. law preventing an American company from selling data on two million service members, let’s say, to some Russian company that’s just a front for the Russian government,” Sherman said.

Existing privacy laws in the U.S., like California’s Consumer Privacy Act, do not limit who can purchase data, though California residents can request that their data not be “sold”—which can be a tricky definition. Instead, the law focuses on allowing people to opt out of sharing their location in the first place.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has stricter requirements for notifying users when their data is being processed or transferred.

But Ashkan Soltani, a privacy expert and former chief technologist for the Federal Trade Commission, said it’s unrealistic to expect customers to hunt down companies and insist they delete their personal data.

“We know in practice that consumers don’t take action,” he said. “It’s incredibly taxing to opt out of hundreds of data brokers you’ve never even heard of.”

Companies like Apple and Google, who control access to the app stores, are in the best position to control the location data market, AppCensus’s Egelman said.

“The real danger is the app gets booted from the Google Play store or the iOS app store,” he said.” As a result, your company loses money.”

Google and Apple both recently banned app developers from using location reporting SDKs from several data companies.

Researchers found, however, that the companies’ SDKs were still making their way into Google’s app store.

Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment.

“The Google Play team is always working to strengthen privacy protections through both product and policy improvements. When we find apps or SDK providers that violate our policies, we take action,” Google spokesperson Scott Westover said in an email.

Digital privacy has been a key policy issue for U.S. senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, who told The Markup that the big app stores needed to do more.

“This is the right move by Google, but they and Apple need to do more than play whack-a-mole with apps that sell Americans’ location information. These companies need a real plan to protect users’ privacy and safety from these malicious apps,” Wyden said in an email.

This article was originally published on The Markup and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.

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Article by Dr. Patrick Jones of Homegrown Herbalist

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 11, 2022

What Does an Herbalist Veterinarian Take For Covid-19? Ivermectin or Herbs? Doc Jones Tells All!

POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 BY DR. PATRICK JONES AT HOMEGROWN HERBALISTS

I’ve recently received approximately a bazillion emails and texts with questions about the drug Ivermectin and its use in the fight against Covid-19 infections. I often scratch my head a bit when I get these emails as my company is called HomeGrown Herbalist, not HomeGrown Pharmacist. But I guess it’s not too surprising. I did spend many years sitting in dark lecture halls getting pharmacology facts crammed into my noggin by professors in veterinary school. Add to that the fact that I’ve used hundreds of gallons of Ivermectin over the past 30 years on cattle, horses, pigs, goats, and dogs but am also a naturopath and clinical herbalist (which should put me squarely in the camp of folks that eschew such pharmacological interventions) and I guess it becomes an interesting question.

So, what do I think about Ivermectin? Well, I think it’s a great wormer for livestock. It’s also good for lice or mange. You can use it in dogs too. I’ve treated lots of dogs for mange with Ivermectin over the years. Just don’t give it to collies. It melts their brains. It’s much safer in other dog breeds either because their brains are too hard to melt (Schnauzers and dachshunds) or they don’t have brains (Labradors and beagles).

Ivermectin is also approved for oral use in humans as a little pill for worms and mange and lice and such. Taken properly with a prescription for those conditions, it’s pretty safe. Taken improperly it’s good for causing nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension (low blood pressure), dizziness, ataxia (problems with balance), seizures, coma, and death. But don’t feel too bad about that. Lots of other “safe” pharmaceuticals have similarly bad effects if used improperly. Another nice benefit of having your doctor prescribe it is that he’ll make sure that any other meds you’re taking don’t interact badly with it.

But what about Covid-19? Doesn’t the Internet say Ivermectin kills Covid-19?

Yes, it does but the internet says a lot of really stupid and dangerous things. In fact, I recently read an article by the FDA warning people not to use Ivermectin for Covid that said a number of really flawed and incorrect things. I think it was probably bring-your-kid-to-work-day and some guy let his 7th-grade daughter write the FDA article so he wouldn’t have to. I’ve also seen a lot of articles on the internet that say some really inaccurate and dangerous things about how to “safely” use Ivermectin for Covid. But I digress… My point is that just because something is posted on the internet doesn’t make it gospel truth. Don’t even get me started on all the herbal misinformation that’s out there as well. Some of it is mind-bogglingly erroneous. If you want to really understand something, don’t use Google. Use Google Scholar or The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Then at least you can read real scientific studies and get some real information. Granted some of those studies are garbage as well, but your odds of getting real data are better than you’ll get from some blogger that knows what they’re saying is true because they saw it on Instagram or YouTube.

So, what does the real research show about Ivermectin? It shows that in test tubes Ivermectin has been very effective at interrupting viral replication of the Covid-19 virus in infected cells. I’ve also recently found some good studies showing Ivermectin being effective in real, live humans with Covid. So, from the studies I’ve read on the in-vitro and live human work that has been done, it seems likely that Ivermectin has real promise as a medication for Covid cases. So, if you can find a physician that will prescribe it and get the dosing right for you, it may be helpful.

What I’m not saying is that since there are some promising studies about human Ivermectin drugs, we should all go down to the local feed store and buy some injectable cattle wormer or pour-on delousing products that contain Ivermectin and treat ourselves. Those products aren’t formulated for use in humans and would be much riskier to use than the nice little Ivermectin pills your doctor would give you.

As it happens, I got Covid-19 a couple of weeks ago from this nice lady that likes to smooch me. So, did I run over to the vet clinic and grab some Ivermectin which I can buy wholesale for peanuts?

Nope. I didn’t.

Why not? Well, a better question is why would I? You see, I have lots of little green friends that have also had excellent studies showing good activity against coronaviruses. The fact is that plants have been killing coronaviruses for years and they have no idea that the exciting new Chinese one should be scarier than all the rest of them…they just think it’s a corona and kill it. Thank heavens for plant illiteracy! If they’d Googled “Covid-19” and found out how much better this corona is than the bazillion others they kill, we may have had a real problem.

So, because I’m an herbalist I chose to use herbs instead of Ivermectin to address my Covid adventure. There were several important factors contributing to this decision. First, given the choice between plants that my body knows very well how to process and which contain dozens of chemicals that do nice things or a synthetic cattle wormer that my body has no idea how to process and which contains only one chemical, I’m going to choose the plants. Second, I’m much too lazy to drive over to the vet clinic when I have a HomeGrown Herbalist Respiratory Preparedness Kit and a few other good tinctures in my cupboard.

So, what did I do exactly?

Well, the Mrs. started getting sick on Friday…just feeling dumpy and having a scratchy throat. So, of course, I started taking Immunity Support and Cold Away.

She didn’t.

The second day she was even sicker…achy, sore, and starting to cough. So I added INFXN-ShooFloo to my protocol.

She didn’t.

I told her I knew this nice herbalist that would poke the tinctures into her if she liked but she never got around to it that day…too busy working on projects in spite of her illness, like a good Idaho farm girl. The third day she was really sick, coughing like crazy and achy. One of my adult kids went to the drug store and bought a rapid Covid test. She tested positive. So, I added Artemisia annua, Pine Needle, and Chaga to my protocol, and called it “Doc’s 3 Amigos For The Respiratory System” At that point, she started taking her herbs too. We were taking all of the above about four times a day. Dosing can be found on any product page on the Info & Dosing tab.

The next day I was sick…really sore, achy, and worn out but with no respiratory symptoms. I took some Joint Support Formula and the aches and pains improved markedly. I also took some Respiratory – Cytokine Balance as it contains a lot of grape leaf which contains a lot of resveratrol which interferes with coronavirus cellular attachment and reproduction. At the end of the second day, I was done with the bug and felt pretty good. I was still tired for several days and would have a good cough or two once or twice a day but that was it.

My sweet wife, who was naughty and didn’t listen to the advice of the handsome herbalist she likes to smooch, was much sicker and had significantly more respiratory involvement. We used a lot of Respiratory-Coff which really helped the coughing. I also gave her Respiratory-EXP to get the goobers out of her lungs. Of course, she was getting the Artemisia annua, Pine Needle and Chaga, and other stuff mentioned above as well. She was much sicker than I was.

So, what do we learn from this in-depth corona case study carried out at the Jones house?

First, we learn that starting your herbs the day you think you’re exposed to a bug is a much better idea than starting your herbs three days after you’re sick.

Second, we learn that even though someone likes to smooch you, they may not always listen to you.

Third, we learn that herbal intervention is a continuous, evolving process. In other words, the herbs or formulas you need on day two may not be the same ones you need on day five (By the way, the Respiratory Preparedness Kit comes with detailed descriptions for each of the eight formulas and how, when, and why to use each one). We also learn that having the herbs on hand when you need them is a MUCH better idea than having to order them so they can arrive several days after you get sick. And, lastly, we learn that even if you’re too lazy to run down to the vet clinic and get some free Ivermectin, you can get better quite quickly if you have the right weeds around. :0)

By the way, speaking of preparing ahead of time, we will be having a wonderful online event this weekend (yes, it’ll be recorded if you can’t watch it all live). We’ll be having in-depth seminars on the immune system, auto-immune disease, leaky gut, herbal cleanses, and…wait for it…Herbs and the Respiratory System where we’ll go into great detail on how to fight all sorts of respiratory illnesses including Covid-19. The program is free for enrolled students in The HomeGrown Herbalist School of Botanical Medicine but is available to non-students as well. Personally, I’d recommend enrolling in the full program. There are more than 50 of these sorts of lessons there and, if you do the math, the low enrollment price of the school is pretty much a no-brainer. :0)

So, my advice is to fill your cupboard with herbs, fill your brain with great information and, perhaps most importantly, listen to your spouse…especially if what they’re saying sounds like a really good idea. :0)

I am doing this to keep my link with a great website, Homegrown Herbalists. I think this epidemic gets this business that at this time should be one of the things we all apply. There is a lot of information that supply lines will thin. Work on self-reliance. Doc Jones’ articles can help.

-Allison

Also available –

Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19

Ivermectin was NOT a product that was only used for animals. It was used to help combat river blindness on the African continent. The Nobel Prize was awarded in 2015 to Williams C. Campbell. The above is available at PubMed.gov, the United States government’s website of biomedical literature.

More articles are available when you use “ivermectin covid-19” in the browser at Pub.Med.gov.

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1 Cup will CLEAR UP Mucus & Phlegm in Sinus, Chest, and Lungs

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Posted on September 1, 2021

This is an informative video created by Dr. Alan Mindell, DC.

Also, Drs. Been and Napoleon Zuniga (who is no longer on Facebook for violations. Keep his name in mind and check often.) produced informative videos (Dr. Been has a website) on the coronavirus, how it gets into your body, and what to do about it. Removing mucus and phlegm from your respiratory system is a preventive that maintains good health.

My video suggests that humans should eat the way cows do: plant-based meals. A plant-based diet supports the immune system to protect the body against viral invaders. That means a lot of changes for many Americans. Is it true that the pharmaceutical industry has created solutions to all of our ills? Has death been eliminated? Are people free of side effects from drugs used for major illness issues?

Dr. Gary Null provides peer-reviewed articles on coronavirus. His radio show at twelve noon five days a week gives information on a level that is unlike mainstream media. The information encompasses health nationally and worldwide; covid; other pharmaceuticals and, above all, being conscious of plans in effect by those who consider themselves in power to subjugate the ninety-plus percent of the population that have less.

Look for the less-listened-to resources but discern what is being said. Misinformation abounds even among “trusted sources.”

Allison L. Williams Hill is an artist, designer, planner, healer, Integrative Health Coach, and inventor. She shares her work and services through

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“Do All Things In-Vesica”

Registered Medium and Spiritual Counselor, Certified Spiritual Healer, Church of Wisdom, and a member of the Holistic Healers/Healing Works Professional Association.

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Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Posted on February 27, 2020

Prayer by Allison L. Williams Hill

ir activities are, according to channeled information, the result of detailed discussions with all of the spiritual energies that come into their lives.

I personally find it difficult to reconcile some human behavior such as the man in New York who pulled his toddler daughter out of a vehicle on an expressway and, as others watched, raped her.

The Gnosis and the Law was a book gifted by my mother. Tellis S. Papastavro’s “…soul purpose in publishing this sacred book of illumined Truth was to expand the wisdom and knowledge of God on Earth.” I constantly refer to this book.

In this life, I had a stepfather who throughout the time I lived with him and my mother, would tell me I was not as smart as I thought. Who better than he, an adult, would know? I believed him. He may not have meant it to the extent I translated that, but I thought I was stupid. What if, in Spirit, he and I agreed that he would treat me the way he did so I could surmount any depreciating thoughts that would ultimately burden me to surrender my life?

I felt useless for many years but did what was expected of me. I made no effort to study to pass most of my exams, even the SATs, and God forbid that I ask for money to take the PSATs (“Whaddayahthink, I’m Rockefeller?!”), because “I was stupid.” That was my mantra. I felt and thought that I was stupid.

During a subway ride, a couple of black men told me I should not be reading science fiction. Rather, The Autobiography of Malcolm X should have been my chosen reading material. After that, I used paper bags to cover my books. I opted for peace and quiet rather than to hear more “suggestions.” What if all of the ridicule about all of the kinds of books I enjoyed reading were to strengthen me so one day I would write such books free of racial memory, conditions, and limitations? However, I copped out by hiding the covers of my books. Or perhaps those incidents only needed to happen a couple of times for me to remember them.

I planned to end my life in college. “In the Realm of the Senses” was playing in theatres. There was a scene in which a woman was cleaning blood from the shower walls. I felt I did not want to be someone that had to be cleaned after. I planned to wrap the top of the tub with plastic so that when I slashed my wrists, the blood would hit the cover and run into the drain. I would not, in my last minutes, want to cause anyone more work.

Everything was accounted for. The answering machine would warn callers so the odor of decay would not become offensive. All of my belongings would have been packed and labeled. I would not be a bother and create work for other people.

Feminine Energy by Allison L. Williams Hill

I was really depressed when on this day, I heard a voice say, “Look over there.” I turned to see what the Voice was talking about, let alone respond to a disembodied one. Everything looked the same. “Where?” I said out loud.No answer. The Voice distracted me. The Voice was the failsafe.

I do not intend for this to serve as a suggestion for anyone thinking of ending their life.Rather, if one is in that state of mind, please talk to someone, in or out of the home, or write to me.That was not the purpose of sharing this.If things get to that point, I hope you hear a Voice.I propose that all we endure as we develop serves a purpose.The purpose is not to harden us, it is not to break us down but to strengthen us, to evaporate all of that which would interfere with the reason we are alive: to recognize and live as the powerful beings that ALL of us are.We are all reflections of God.God is the multiplier and she created ALL of us.

Each of us is here for a reason. The Gnosis, or self-knowledge, informs us of our vastness. If that sounds too general and too hard to appreciate, good, because that is how big it is. We are the result of millennia of thought, of conception and, if you will, reverse the reverse engineering: read about the scientists’ efforts to identify DNA and the years of study to understand the minute building blocks that make us human beings through which we learn to understand the metaphysical powers and abilities that are gifts from God.

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“Caitlyn” Jenner

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Posted on February 26, 2020

A real woman displaying what real women experience.

Around the world, I suspect transvestites were comparing their accomplishments to the one formerly named Bruce Jenner. I think trashing might be more accurate. The technology is more for those who can afford it. Humans can probably look and act any sex they want. Now that people can change their looks, sex cannot be changed in the smallest part of our anatomy: DNA. The Jenner person is no more female than he was five years ago. The DNA says male; the body is male. It’s a male body with breasts.

I don’t know if a candidate has to undergo psychological examinations anymore. The interesting thing about the examinations is that it may have been used to hold doctors harmless; you passed so you are able to undergo surgery at your own risk. If you have the funds, plastic surgeons will give you anything you want. It may not include the hormone shots.

This carnal obsession with sex and gender is self-absorption at a spectacle level. Reality shows televise “spontaneous” comments of quasi-drama, to thousands of “anomata” (my made-up word for “anonymous people”), with participants gabbing in fillers as if they were talking to the anomata. Do you do this in your home ever? Now a new reality show, never done before, of a man who was formerly an Olympic star whose years are far behind him, who never studied anything beyond being in front of a camera and expressing cued feelings: ladies and gentlemen, Bruce Jenner. I heard later that the Jenner person wants to keep his penis so he can continue to have sex with women.

‘The hardest part of being a woman is figuring out what to wear.’*

I’ve watched thin-build, knuckle-dragging, deep-voiced (“Yeah, girlfriend!”) transvestites enter the women’s restroom in Penn Station. That was their triumph! I did not hear any screams or protests to have them removed. They apparently were not in there to rape anybody. Although, that may prove to be a successful disguise for one who would. They may have appeared as two immature males who were achieving a feat of such magnitude that they, in the eyes of the women in the restroom, could play handball on the curb.

The minds of people may be the result of GMO food consumption that has been freely flowing in the American food industry for over 40 years. The air we breathe, and the water we drink may be the reason women give birth to young men who, at two, ask for My Little Pony instead of G I Joe. Some believe that the Creator makes mistakes.

Some perceive it differently and rise to the challenge of living as both or none. Almost anything is possible. Despite this “claim” of being a woman, a Facebook slide show showed that Jenner missed the point:

(This article has the images https://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-hardest-thing-about-being-woman.)

The slide show included women with mastectomies, diseased vaginas; battered faces and bodies; with newborns, and hustling for their children.

I cried as I watched it. This is what all transgenders don’t get. This is the experience factor that varies per person – energetically, physically, emotionally, and mentally – that comes from living, not pretending or thinking. The jokes about them pretending they have periods. None were smart enough to teach women to use the Moon as the compass. Pretending to be like does not cut it.

Thank you, Rose McGowan.

https://www.advocate.com/caitlyn-jenner/2015/11/17/rose-mcgowan-caitlyn-jenner-we-are-more-deciding-what-wear

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Soul Portraits In-V

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

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Posted on February 23, 2020

Soul Portraits are artwork created by Allison L. Williams Hill using soft pastels on charcoal paper about information that draws from everything the soul did in all of its lifetimes.

Some soul portraits created for clients by Allison Williams Hill are featured on this page. They are the most in-depth of all of the art images because of the vastness of the soul. A soul portrait is an information that draws from everything the soul did in all of its lifetimes.

The information that comes is what is relevant to the person in this time, at this time. The artwork will show graphically and energetically what you need to know at this time. This art can be used for meditation as well. Soul Portraits are soul portraits for individuals, including myself.

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With Arthur Ford February 4 2017

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Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Posted on April 17, 2018

Meditation with Clem – 4 by Allison L. Williams Hill

The following were some of the notes taken during a channeling of Arthur Ford with Steve Smith, a teacher at Delphi University of Spiritual Studies at the Energies in 2017. Arthur Ford was a psychic who contacted Bishop Pike’s son and revealed Harry Houdini’s secret message to his wife Beatrice which was sealed before his death. Steve now channels Arthur Ford. His father, Marshall Smith used to. Marshall crossed over this January from an accident. I was saddened when I read about it. However, it is another step towards understanding our existence. We are Spirit. We continue after we separate from our bodies. I acknowledge our power. When we see Spirit in this dimension, they may appear as orbs or perhaps other shapes. But they are small. IF that is our natural state, think of how powerful we are to be able to manipulate a human body.

My husband, Clement Edwardo Hill, II, crossed over almost three years ago. Knowing our power does not diminish my need to go through human feelings and emotions. I still grieve.

I asked Arthur about suicide. I knew that if you commit suicide the state of feelings you were in at the time is the feelings you carry over. Arthur stressed to not do it. Some of what one has gained in the ascension process may be lost. The process begins again with this in mind. There are those who could choose their lives upon reincarnation. Others cannot. It depends on what you have accomplished in your quest to “go Home.”

Consciousness shifts affect the astral plane.

Use happiness

The Truth

The outside was created from within.

Put out in the world from love and the heart.

The world is reflecting back to us what is.

Love must change itself so that it can allow itself to become greater.

Change within the self first, then the outside will change.

Do a simple, loving kind act in each action one takes.

Ask Ego to join meditation – the solution to the Wandering Mind.

Look at your perceptions especially the negative ones. It is easier to work here (in the physical) because we have time.

Precognition – The ability to see future events. It may not be to be a foreteller. It may be about observing how it makes you feel. It may be about something going on within you.

Dementia- Resistance to wanting to know anymore.

MEDITATE

ASK

ACT

LOVE

(I intend to create a poster with those words crediting Arthur.)

When we correct/clear within ourselves, we clear it for the collective – those in the physical and those who have crossed over. (Isn’t that coooooool to know?)

Karma

Faulty thoughts

Change your karma, change your thoughts.

Choice

Why do you stop meditating? Use the time that you think you

are away to meditate.

Central to life- all else revolves around it.

Meditate on the heart.

Motivator: Why did you stop?Stopping isn’t negative, so don’t think of it as such.

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Food and Feelings

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Posted on April 16, 2018

Some movies include scenes with characters consuming foods or beverages while they are depressed, sad, or forlorn. Most of the characters are females eating foods that are usually avoided – loaded with sugar and/or dairy – as if the emotion is an adequate excuse to abandon common sense. Some drown themselves in alcohol. Male characters are usually shown consuming alcohol.

Does art imitate life? Do scenes like these reflect what people do or do they encourage people to do this when they are depressed?

Sugar from ice cream, chocolate, or pastry, or alcohol break down to glucose which affects the brain.

In spite of the increase in choices of foods and drinks available, after the consumption, after the slow, uncontrollable state of surrender, one sleeps and then reawakens. Whatever feeling or thought was there, being stuffed down or washed away, remains. It never left because it was never addressed.

In the last forty years, knowledge about personal growth and development has attracted a greater audience. The information was refined; it grew in subject matter and availability. More people have the opportunity to improve their lives if they wish. Others will not avail themselves because they are just not interested.

The feelings that bring you down, unless they are addressed, will remain. They may change in intensity, change in what they bring up, but they need to change. Otherwise, they will remain with you.

Use all of the available means to transform the issue. Eliminate the established impulse when the feeling is triggered and rises. We develop habits and they, depending on how often they are on automatic pilot, are difficult to identify and let go.

It has been written about before.It is nothing new.Pay attention to yourself.Watch; listen, and feel what you do.It will take time.Make the time to change your life.One minute at a time.It is something you may need to do for yourself each and every day.

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Mental Media

Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 10, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Posted January 17, 2018

I amuse myself in several ways, one is with revised scenarios in television and movies. I see and hear the old Dating Game television program with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass band’s tune.

The host with the “And heeere they are…!”

So, I have three bachelors and my last question is:

“If your penis could speak, what actor or singer would it sound like and what would it say?”

Choices might be made along racial lines. White men might choose Elvis Presley and imitate his voice. One might choose Michael Bolton and sing his response. The Three Don’s that would not be named: Don Adams, because of his Secret Agent Maxwell Smart association; Don Rickles, none too attractive voice, and Don Knotts for the same reason.

Black men might choose Barry White. His “Oh, baby, baby…” classic is a very appropriate response. Luther Vandross, known for singing, created a lot of “love music.” James Earl Jones has a nice booming voice and is most known for the voice of Darth Vader. That response could be very funny. William Marshall is good but depending on the ages of the contestants, he may not be well known. The last thing he did that I remember was Richard Daystrom on “Star Trek.”

I do like the man in the Velveeta commercial as a choice, “Smite, until you can smite no more!”

Lots of giggles but revealing responses. Maybe a couple of crazy answers will inform the final choice.

When I watched Harry Potter movies, I put Voldemort in another situation where he decided to go through a socialization period with either female muggles or liberated witches. The latter was a better possibility in a club for witches similar to Chippendales.

He decides to try his hand at strip dancing. Another stripper, sensing Voldemort’s duress when he does not have the appropriate attire, lends him a thong, a black one with sequins. Voldemort watches the other strippers to learn what he has to do. The witches are drunk, screaming, laughing aloud, and whipping their wands all over the place. The liquor is flowing in glasses from bottles in the air. The male waiters are getting their asses rubbed after they deliver the drinks, something they don’t have to do.

His turn came up, introduced as “Voldie!” Voldemort stepped on stage walking and attempting to get a beat move on. He duplicated moves he saw other dancers perform.

“You shot, we’ve seen tha’ tall ready!! Do somethin’ NEW!!” yelled an inebriated witch.

He looks into the face of the woman and creates his own move. He continued repeating it then fell back to what he observed. Witches are giggling, hurling – literally – insults and cracks at him. He exaggerated his moves, similar to what he did with his wand. Voldemort was getting into it.

‘Vol DEE! Vol DEE!! Vol DEE!!!” the witches yelled. They didn’t clap. Some of them manifested floating hands that did the clapping…and out of rhythm. Well, that happens when they’re drunk.

Voldemort continued to try. He worked his moves; his moves looked like he was suffering from spasms. He did not like heckling. He mustered up his patience to ignore it but it was weighing on him.

“ENOUGH!!! He screamed. The music continued, the floating hands clapped, and glasses clinked as if no one heard him.

“What?! After I cleared my shhhedjule fo’ thi’ snight?!” A drunken witch replied. Are you serious?” She hiccupped. Then she giggled. “Dance suh mo’, you black sequined wearin’ hunk!” MOVE IT!!!”

The other witches listened, laughed, and carried on. “MOVE it!! MOVE it” Sterling notes were floating in the air. Some had them in their hands because they wanted to slip them, well, in places they wanted to slip them into. Gold pieces tended to slip out of the thongs or into the pouches and chafed the dancers. Some attempted to get Voldemort’s attention with kisses and lip licking as they made noises as if they were eating their favorite dish.

Voldemort gave up. He waved his wand and laid waste to the place. The witches were still alert enough to zap out. Explosions erupted throughout the space. Fires flared and smoke billowed. The only other person left was the owner.

He pulled Voldemort to the side away from the flames, more for his own safety.

“Yo, V, you can’t do this! You said you had your temper under control, man!”

“You can easily remove this. You do have the magic to – “, Voldemort said, waving his wand.

“Tha’ tis not the point! My establishment provides a safe place where these women could ge’ their snar’ kon. They may not come back ’cause of wha’ you did. Ge’ tout!!”

And that ended Voldemort’s efforts and further desires to socialize, to engage in activities with the opposite sex. He thought they were crass and he was prepared to overlook them. However, there was a limit; he did not think he would reach it as quickly as he did.

Allison L. Williams Hill is an artist, designer, planner, healer, Integrative Health Coach, and inventor. She shares her work and services through:

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I lead workshops on nutrition, and offer individual and group health and nutrition counseling on weight management, emotional eating, self-image issues to professional women, caregivers, and healers.

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Post author By tortola92002
Post date October 8, 2022

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

posted January 17, 2018

“You must listen to me,” said Tom Cruise’s character in the “Edge of Tomorrow.” After watching Leah Remini’s Scientology series (available on Netflix), I thought of some of the roles he selected. I wouldn’t know if they were all in keeping with changing humanity by, perhaps, holding a mirror to its face. Maybe some roles were selected so he could pay the rates this religious institution requires for him to reach the top level. In a lot of his movies, his characters are the only ones aware of everything that is vile and no one else understands. He is ridding the world of EVIL. This is what the Church of Scientology claims to be doing in and for the world.

Well, it is still here. I think the only “evil” it’s concentrating on is money. Leah Remini’s series pointed out that every member must attend a presentation filled with videos exclaiming the changes the church is spearheading. Personally, I’ve seen none. Changes, that is.

Where was the Church of Scientology when:

· Hurricanes Luis and Marilyn devastated the United States Virgin Islands in 1995. I was living in the British Virgin Islands at the time and experienced both hurricanes, separated by seven days;

· Hurricane Sandy that moved up the eastern seaboard? It did billions of dollars in damage.

· Hurricanes in other parts of the world – Haiti, the most hit out of all of the islands and countries?

· Earthquakes that occurred all over the world? The 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran was where over 26,000 people lost their lives;

· Japan’s nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011?

· Typhoons in the Philippines?

· The 2004 Christmas tsunami in the Indian Ocean that claimed over 200,000 lives in Indonesia?

In the videos presented to members, one school in Detroit was presented with educational material. Only one school in the entire country? It only requires one school – to list a book at $20,000 times the total number distributed, transportation of presenters, etc. to document several thousands of donations from a non-profit organization.

I appreciate Leah Remini’s efforts and the raw experiences of former optimists who wanted to help change the world. Unfortunately, David Miscavige, a high school dropout who coveted the popularity of L. Ron Hubbard, grabbed power and was allowed to maintain it. The physical attacks on others in full view of other members are acts of his cowardice; someone always stepped in to protect Miscavige’s sorry ass. All of this makes no sense.

David Miscavige reminds me of the fictional character Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series: eager to take over something he had no hand in creating and ruling by fear to keep it. David Miscavige needs Tom Cruise’s money and all of the others’ “contributions” to maintain his position.

While looking at one of the episodes of the first season, “The Bridge”, I hope that the federal Attorney-General considers examining this corporation, operating as a non-profit religious institution that violates the human rights of every member who hoped to share in changing the world in a collective. It is a sham. Scientology is comprised of the indoctrinated, drugged, and coerced to completely ignore their own inner guidance which was what I thought they came to Scientology to explore. What a wonderful thought! Change yourself as you change the world! The witnesses, the people who experienced life inside that deception, wanted to change the world and themselves. But the markers that told them that they achieved the objective kept changing and moving further away. It seemed that Scientology’s existence requires people to buy in, pay up, obey, and nothing more.

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