The Greatest Story Never Told

        In this blog entry (which will be my last) I will provide a small glimpse of the greatest story 

available to mankind. Experienced daily, but unknown to the masses, the same drama 

unfolds on all major layers of holographic nature: atomically, physically, mentally, spiritually 

and on planetary/ universal level and on all time frames (second, minutes, hours, days, 

weeks, months, years, lifetimes and ages). The information is too large to grasp and too 

complex to put into words, thus revelation of a simple, well known myth may help to 

understand. If you are searching and reflect on this myth, everything else will follow by itself 

and you will be able to climb an amazing wall of ancient knowledge, which has been lost, but

not forgotten.

knowledge (fire) enters and exits matter (mater, water)

The myth that I choose reveals occult anatomy and true nature of man, the universal power 

of mysteries and of myth itself and it proves beyond any doubt that we live today in the 

mental ruins of ancient knowledge, not even knowing what it is that we lost and why we 

should have a need to get it back. I will then connect this myth to the greatest story never 

told, which is the greatest story of all ages because the story itself is not just a story and it is 

not just “great”, but the “greatest”, because there can be nothing even remotely comparable 

to it. It is the only story that can be told by humanity and which has been told throughout the 

ages in thousands of different forms, languages and styles. This master story is omnipresent 

in the world today, right in front of our eyes, in plainest sight, yet it lies concealed in deepest 

mysteries, carefully hidden from profanity by wise priests, protecting this information, guarding

it against destruction and alterations, preserving it for eternity, making it incorruptible, 

preserving its divine truth, making it available only for the honest seeker. If you have the right 

mental toolkit available, you will be able to decode all ancient myth, all fables, all fairy tales, 

scriptures and all Hollywood movies. There is a mother of all stories, a final boss of 

awakening, a highest mystical revelation, a key to the All.

Who is this man?

I will now fulfill a promise that I made in this blog earlier this year, when I announced that I 

would prove scientifically to the world, that Santa Claus is real and does exists. Yes, 

that is right, Santa Claus is real and he does exist - and he does not just exist in myth, in 

imagination or in the mind. He physically exists and does bring presents to all children. He 

does live at the North pole, he is helped by many elves, he has a sleigh that is pulled by 8 

reindeer, he does know our wishes and he does bring toys or coal down the chimney. And he 

is closely linked to what we today call “Christmas”. The nice side effect, once you receive the 

key to this wonderful myth, is that you will automatically solve the dilemma on how to 

communicate to children in a way that allows them to develop and cultivate the highest way 

of human understanding. Should we tell our children, that Santa is just a myth? After all, 

finding out, that mom and dad really bring the presents can be quite a disappointment for a 

child, and it doesn’t feel right lying to children in the first place, does it? Or should we uphold 

the myth as long as possible, so as not to disturb the romantic childhood? The answer to this 

dilemma is, that we can do both, because Santa does exist and he doesn’t, both is true. 

Children love to learn truth, and they openly accept a dual, seemingly paradox answer as the 

one above, because they are still in the right brain/ holistic thinking. Your great benefit of 

studying the below scientific facts will be that you also develop your right brain and start 

understanding myth/ scriptures.

The highest knowledge of humanity, 
condensed in 12 symbols

Living the ritual of Christmas/ Santa Claus today may be compared with a dance seen by a 

deaf man who does not hear the music to which the motion is timed and who has no clue 

about the characters who are performing. This is because, in our times, the myth has moved

 too far out of view. The ridiculous eschatology discussions (end times, heaven, hell, death,

 rebirth, etc.) of today are driven by a profound lack of proper education. It is not only that 

people today don`t know - they have also been trained to be unaware about their own 

ignorance and when they do become aware, there are some mechanism in place to make 

them feel scared. Eschatological rituals, such as Christmas, can only be comprehended by 

means of understanding myth. The myth alone may break mind control.

Let`s check – and scientifically explain – elements of the Santa Claus myth: 

• Santa lives at the North pole
• He is sometimes said to live on an island
• 8 (later 9) reindeer pull his sled
• He is surrounded and assisted by numerous elves
• He enters the chimney and brings toys (or coal)
• He knows the wishes of all children
• He is closely linked to Christmas

To understand this myth, we must look to the inside, and get acquainted with (occult) 

brain anatomy:

The red arrow points to Santa Claus

The Claustrum (Santa Claus) is located (lives) in the human head as part of the Cortex, 

which is at the very top (north pole) of the body. It is also origin of the term "Cloister" 

(German: Kloster), the place where monks and nuns go to live a secluded life and study 

scriptures.

white matter, "snow"

The Claustrum is surrounded by White Matter (snow) in the brain. Directly next to it can 

be found the External and the Extreme Capsule, which resemble a sleigh:

Santa`s sleigh

In the lateral view, The Claustrum is located below the Insular Cortex (Island).

Santa`s Island on the North Pole

It is also lateral to the Putamen (“consideration” - latin putare: "to consider, to think"), which 

is symbolized by the red capthat is worn by Santa Claus:

Santa`s cap

The Putamen is connected to the Substantia Nigra (latin: "black substance", coal), which is 

involved in the process of regulating reward and addictions and appears dark because it 

contains high levels of Neuromelanin.

If Santa brings coal, you have been naughty

A unique feature of the Claustrum is that there is a uniformity in the function of its cells, 

all Neurons do the same work (Elves help Santa).


Let`s now move deeper and correlate anatomy to astrology and to scripture (as above, 

so below, as within, so without):

The Claustrum is sagitally (anatomical term of location, compare: Sagittarius) located in the 

Cerebrum, and mythical Santa Claus appears in the night between Sagittarius (Horse) and 

Capricorn (goat), the night of the rebirth of the sun, as it reaches its lowest point on the 

horizon (winter solstice). After the night of Christmas, the days start getting longer again, 

it is the moment of spiritual rebirth of life on earth (nature does not yet expand visibly, but 

days are getting longer again) . You now know why you see Santa Claus riding a goat 

(Capricorn is the sea-goat, or zygote) on this old postcard:

Nordic Yulegoat - pure astrology

The suture of the skull (Sanskrit "Door of Brahm,") is the external entry point (chimney) of 

the planetary Santa Claus/ Christ, where he enters your head (roof top). The internal chimney

 is the human spine. The Claustrum releases an oily substance (Christ, greek: Christos 

"oil", Manna from heaven), which is a secretion (a secret/ a mystery) that is used as basic 

material by the Pineal Gland (Joseph, father of Christ) to secrete a yellow substance (honey) to the Pingalla (electric, male energy channel) and the Pituitary Gland (Mary, mother of Christ) to secrete a white 

substance (milk) to the Ida (magnetic, female energy channel).

The land of milk & honey

The oily substance (Christos) moves down the spine (chimney, River Jordan) to the Solar 

Plexus (Bethlehem, “House of Bread", of the Virgin”, Virgo). Here the oil is transformed into 

a psycho-spiritual seed (Ichtys, fish, Ictus, Jesus, Pisces) which then moves (swims) 

through the body (ocean, body of water containing saline fluid, human blood and sea water 

are chemically nearly identical).

The first internal biological process (miracle) the seed (Jesus) performs is to transform 

water and oxygen (spirit, breath, the holy ghust) into red cell “living” blood (wine) during 

the chemical fusion (wedding) in the lungs (Cana) which are connected to the blood 

circular system (Galilee). The psycho-spiritual seed (sun, fish, Jesus) later descends to 

the Sacrum (Kreuzbein = “cross bone”, Holy bone, archetype of the “devil”, ruled by Saturn, 

“Satan” an anagram of "Santa", Capricorn), the deepest point in the sun`s journey (abyss, hell).

The Sacrum - a reddish bone, archetype of the "devil"

On the dangerous and difficult way back to the head (promised land, heaven, Israel) the 

seed (chosen one, messias, hero figure, Horus, Krishna) must now try to leave the lower, 

animal body (Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrha), defeat animal (sexual) desire (Pharao, Judas,

Scorpius), cross the blood barrier (Red Sea) and climb the spine (Jacob`s ladder), which 

has 33 vertebrae (Masonic 33 degrees) to a place in the skull (Golgotha) where the Vagus 

Nerve (Tree of Life)/ Cerebellum and spine cross each other (cross). Here the seed is 

electrically charged (crucified), before it can head further up to the center of the Cerebrum 

(heaven).

Jacob`s ladder, where angels (electrical impulses) move up 

and down.

Jacob ("supplanter", "holder of the heel" = Adam Kadmon, the 

Cabalist man on Zodiac wheel) has his head on the stone (Petrus), 

the rock on which the Christian church was founded. The Jew Peter, 

which is Jupiter, ruler of the Age of Pisces.

It should now become clear that, in a Hermetic sense, during Christ`s mass (Khemet: 

Kresh Mes, Greek: Christos “oil”) within the body, the internal sun/son is reborn, just as the 

external sun is reborn at the winter solstice. Illumination works through a conscious, spiritual 

transformation from the lower mind (He Phren) to the higher mind (Iesous), the human 

body can be compared to a "lamp" (wordplay: lamb) belonging to god (wordplay  gad= tribe 

of Aries, “arise” at Vernal Equinox) and when this lamp is ignited by the process described 

above (exoterically at vernal equinox, esoterically at Passover), the grey matter (the dead) 

will be activated (reborn).

"Thou anointest my head with oil." The wise virgins now trim the wicks of their lamps and fill 

it with oil, before they meet their bridegroom.

The seed then remains 1 moon sign in a skull cavern (3 days in the tomb) and after three 

days proceeds upwards (ascends) to the Pineal (compare to Winter Solstice). Masonic 

(Masonry encapsulates the same information as Christianity in a different set of myth and 

symbols) Hiram Abif has thus created a "stone for the temple builders", a stone without the 

mark of the animal man (mark of Beast).

If repeated, the older, destroyed seeds/ stones can also be reactivated (the dead shall rise) 

and at some stage the electrical energy of the Sacrum (kundalini) is activated and the Queen 

of 7/ Sheba may rise to the Optic Thalamus (all seeing eye) and reactivate the Pineal (third 

eye), the "eye becomes single and the body is full of light". You have thus given 10%

(consciousness, left brain hemisphere, Mercury) to receive 100% (right brain, dark matter of 

the brain, unconscious, right brain hemisphere, Venus) and are part of the order of 

Mel-chi-tsadiq (black-energy-righteous person). Note how the universe, just like the human 

brain, contains 90% dark matter. As without, so within.

The serpent Mesi (mes, mas) represented the Gnostic Christ (solar energy active through 

the miniature sun in the earth center through the human "heart" - the heart of the brain is 

the Pineal). It consists of 7 souls (planets, colors, musical notes, chakras, cities, churches)

 + Iesous = 8. Now it becomes clear, why Santa`s sled is pulled by 8 reindeer – the sled is 

pulled by the Egyptian Ogdoad. The Vatican shows you this in the form of a white dove. 

Nothing new under the sun!

The Ogdoad is pulling the Capsules of the Claustrum

Santa Claus is thus the giver of the most supreme, divine gift in the human body, the raw 

material for the oil in the lamp of the magic genie.

I hereby complete Vatican genealogy for the "Newest 

Testament" and identify Santa Claus as...

....the grandfather of Jesus!

Why "X"-mas? The Vagus Nerve is cranial nerve no. 10 (roman X), see bottom right in 

the picture above. He is one of theelders before the throne.

This is what I teach my children:
"Santa Claus does exist! He is very real. And he knows whether you have been good or 

bad…”

Merry spiritual rebirth 2013!


Selected reading references:
Harris Ellett Santee - Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord
Metaphysical Bible Dictionary
Gerald Massey - Lectures
Gerald Massey – ancient Egypt, the light of the world
Carey: God-man
Carey: wonders of the human body
Phylotus: Esoteric Masonry
A. Boyd Kuhn - who is this king of glory?
R. Taylor - Devil`s Pulpit

The FEMA list of Presidential Executive Orders

On February 16, 1962, President John Kennedy signed several Executive Orders which would allegedly give certain dictatorial powers to appointed bureaucrats in the event a "National Emergency" should be declared by the President — whichever president is sitting in office at the designated time. At the president's discretion "in any time of increased international tension or economic or financial crisis", the E.O.'s could theoretically be enacted.

These E.O.'s signed by Kennedy would give authority to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to control: communications, energy, food, fuel, farms, transportation, highways, railroads, inland waterways and seaports, health, education and welfare, drafts citizens into work forces under government supervision; relocation of populations, designates areas to be abandoned as 'unsafe'; relocates communities, and controls all public storage facilities.

On February 27, 1962 Kennedy signed E.O. 11051 designating FEMA as the authorized agency to implement the above orders, and which authority can be re-designated by the original authority.

President Nixon signed E.O. 11490 combining all the above to be enacted in one fell swoop; on July 20, 1979 Carter added a few minor amendments to them; and, in June, 1994 then president Bill Clinton signed E.O. 12919, which appears to encompass all of the E.O.'s.

We have found no Executive Orders that would nullify any of the above, so it appears they are all considered to be on the books at the time of this posting.

Given there is no Constitutional authority for any president to declare a "National Emergency," we have wondered how the orchestraters of this plan expected to successfully execute the E.O.'s.

The plan for total control of every aspect of our lives has been under construction for a long time. As you read these executive orders, bear in mind that they mean nothing by themselves. They are not law, nor can they become law by and of themselves.

However, under legislation that is currently pending in most (if not all) states, they could potentially take on significant meaning.

The Emergency Health Powers legislation, pending in state capitols all across America — if passed — would give the governor the power to declare a state of health emergency by executive order. He then would be able to hand the reigns of power to whomever he chooses — including the state's emergency management agency, which could essentially act as an arm of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Apart from — and sometimes combined with — these Emergency Health Powers Acts are varying forms of "anti-terror" bills that are virtually redefining the words "terror," "terrorism," and "terrorist."

States are busy right now, creating their own versions of the federal Office of Homeland Security. These state offices will oversee the process and details of the implementation of these orders. That is why it is so critical to get the legislation stopped in the states. For more information, or to read the bills we've compiled, go to the War on Americans is in the States section of this website.

After you're done reading these executive orders, you might wish to print them out and take them to your state legislators, to emphasize to them the importance of defeating the bills that are currently pending, that would be the final piece needed to implement the controllers plans.

And now, the list:

• Executive Order #10995: Seizure of all communications media in the United States.
   
• Executive Order #10997: Seizure of all electric power fuels and minerals, public and private.
   
• Executive Order #10999: Seizure of all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control of highways, seaports and waterways.
   
• Executive Order #11000: Seizure of all American people for work forces under federal supervision including the splitting of families if the government finds it necessary.
   
• Executive Order #11001: Seizure of all health, education and welfare facilities, public and private.
   
• Executive Order #11002: Empowered the postmaster general to register all men, women and children in the U.S.
   
• Executive Order #11003: Seizure of all airports and aircraft.
   
• Executive Order #11004: Seizure of all housing and finance authorities to establish Forced Relocation Designated areas to be abandoned as "unsafe."
   
• Executive Order #11005: Seizure of all railroads, inland waterways and storage facilities, public and private.
   
• Executive Order #12919: Signs June 3, 1994, by President Clinton. Encompasses all the above executive orders.

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Researchers: Hair dyes have a direct connection to breast cancer

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Though dying their locks might seem like an absolute necessity for many women as they get older and the gray starts setting in, new research from Finland should give women everywhere pause, as it indicates that this apparently harmless beauty ritual could be linked to an elevated risk of breast cancer.

For her doctoral dissertation, researcher Sanna Heikkinen of the University of Helsinkiand the Finnish Cancer Registry, examined self-reported information from 8,000 Finnish women with breast cancer and a further 20,000 controls. Heikkinen observed a 23 percent increase in breast cancer risk for those who dyed their hair on a regular basis.

Earlier research similarly found that women who regularly dye their hair are at increased risk of other cancers, including brain cancer, bladder cancer and leukemia. British scientists have also issued warnings in the past about the dangers of both home hair dye kits and professional dyes applied at hair salons.

One possible explanation for the elevated risk is that certain chemicals in the hair dye react with other pollutants in the air to form tumors when used on a continuous basis.

A landmark study back in 2000, by researchers from the University of Southern California, and published in the International Journal of Cancer, found that women who dye their hair on a monthly basis double their risk of getting bladder cancer. They also found that the risk continues to increase with prolonged use, and that hairdressers who work with hair dyes professionally face an even higher risk.

These shock findings prompted an immediate review by The European Commission, the body responsible for drafting legislation for the European Union. The results of that review led to the Commission withdrawing support for hair coloring products in Europe. The Commission stated at the time that there was insufficient evidence proving the safety of hair dyes. While recognizing that a robust study confirming their safety would take years, they felt it was imperative to protect consumers in the interim by advising against the use of these products. They particularly expressed concern about the long-term effects of a chemical called para-Phenylenediamine, or PPD, which is commonly used in hair dyes.

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The CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) warns of the dangers of para-Phenylenediamine and notes, “Repeated or prolonged contact may cause skin sensitization. Repeated or prolonged inhalation exposure may cause asthma. The substance may have effects on the kidneys , [sic] resulting in kidney impairment.”

The European Commission’s recommendations raised concerns for many women at the time. As many as one-third of women in the United States routinely color their hair.

Several other health concerns are also linked to the use of hair dyes, including asthma and severe allergic reactions.

DIY hair dyes

Nonetheless, the reality is that very few of us have the courage to face getting older without helping nature along a little by covering the gray in our hair. Fortunately, there are several natural dyes available on the market, or if you want to be absolutely safe and create your own hair color at home, here are a few suggestions:

If your naturally blonde hair needs a color boost, try making a chamomile tea infusion as follows: Place eight chamomile teabags in a pot of water that has just been boiled, but has been removed from the heat. Allow the tea to steep for 30 minutes, then add a cup of yogurt and a few drops of lavender oil to the brew. Massage the mixture onto clean hair, leave it in for 30 minutes, then gently wash it out and allow your hair to dry naturally.

To restore the color to darker tresses, brew a pot of clean, organic coffee, using a dark, unflavored roast. Once the coffee has cooled, poured it into a basin, and working over the sink, work the mixture through all your hair. Leave it in your hair for 15 minutes, then rinse it off in the shower. You should be aware that some lighter hair may turn reddish rather than dark brown.

For those looking to restore their natural red, look no further than red hibiscus tea. Steep five of these tea bags in boiled water for 30 minutes. When the tea is cool enough, saturate all your hair with it. Leave it on for about an hour, then rinse and wash as normal.

Sources include:

DailyMail.co.uk 1

DailyMail.co.uk 2

Helsinki.fi

HealthScamsExposed.com

USC.edu

CDC.gov

Originally posted: https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-03-06-hair-dyes-linked-to-breast-cancer.html
Author: Tracey Watson

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The Bad Seed: The Health Risks of Genetically Modified Corn

BY CAITLIN SHETTERLY

JUL 24, 2013

With symptoms including headaches, nausea, rashes, and fatigue, Caitlin Shetterly visited doctor after doctor searching for a cure for what ailed her. What she found, after years of misery and bafflement, was as unlikely as it was utterly common.

The office of allergist Paris Mansmann, MD, sits on a grassy slope overlooking the Royal River, a wide waterway that originates in inland Maine and winds down across farmland and under train tracks until it hits the coastal town of Yarmouth, where it sloshes into the Atlantic Ocean. When I first came to Mansmann in February 2011, the river was covered with ice, and bare trees stood silver sentry on its shores. I was 36. I'd been sick for three and a half years.

During that time, when I wasn't working as a writer and theater director or being a wife and mother, I visited doctors and had tests. I told few friends or members of my extended family how ill I was, because I didn't have any way to explain what was wrong. I had no diagnosis, just a collection of weird symptoms: tight, achy pain that radiated through my body and caused me to hobble around (my ankles, I'd joke to my husband, Dan, felt like they'd been "Kathy Batesed," à la the movie Misery); burning rashes that splashed across my cheeks and around my mouth like pizza sauce; exhaustion; headaches; hands that froze into claws while I slept and hurt to uncurl in the morning; a constant head cold; nausea; and, on top of all that, severe insomnia—my body just could not, would not, turn off and rest. I visited every doctor who'd see me and tried everything they threw at me: antidepressants; painkillers; elimination diets (including a long eight months when I went without any of the major allergens, such as gluten, nuts, dairy, soy, and nightshades); herbal supplements; iodine pills; steroid shots; hormone treatments; Chinese teas; acupuncture; energy healing; a meditation class—you name it, I did it. Nothing worked. After I maxed out the available rheumatologists, endocrinologists, nutritionists, gastroenterologists, Lyme disease specialists, acupuncturists, and alternative-medicine practitioners in the Portland metropolitan area, I was sent to neurologists in Boston. All of my tests came back normal.

In late 2010, after a long and unhappy antibiotic treatment for Lyme disease, my newest GP (who's still my doctor today), Chuck de Sieyes, MD, announced that he was referring me to Mansmann: "Because I have no idea what's going on with you, and he's one of the smartest guys around. And frankly, I've had it!"

Mansmann had moved to Yarmouth with his wife and kids to be close to his parents, who'd retired in Maine. A third-generation allergist, he worked in his father's allergy clinic, at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, during high school. While in college at Saint Joseph's University, also in Philadelphia, he helped his dad develop two asthma drugs. Later, he headed an allergy and immunology clinic at a West Virginia hospital for 10 years.

Mansmann has a helmet of thick, graying hair and an intensely serious air. After escorting me into an exam room, he sat down across from me and promptly pushed aside my thick medical file. He'd read through it all, he said, but he wanted to hear the story from me. He listened patiently, asking questions every so often: When did my rashes flare? Was the pain an ache in my muscles, or did it feel deeper? Was I worse after I slept or at the end of the day? He seemed, as we spoke, to have all the time in the world. Then, with no pyrotechnics, he offered his theory: "I think it's possible you've developed a reaction to genetically modified corn."

Genetically modified corn? Everyone's heard of GMO corn, but I realized I didn't know what it actually was. Mansmann explained that starting in the mid-1980s, the biotechnology giant Monsanto began to genetically alter corn to withstand its herbicide Roundup—the goal being to eradicate weeds but not crops—as well as to resist a pest called the corn borer. These small changes in the DNA of the corn are expressed by the plant as proteins. It's those proteins, Mansmann believes, that can act as allergens, provoking a multisystemic disorder marked by the overproduction of a type of white blood cell called an eosinophil.

He swabbed inside my nose with a Q-tip, then placed the results under a microscope. "Take a look," Mansmann said. "See all those pink cells? Those are eosinophils." My nose, it seemed, was chock-full of them. When the immune system is working properly, eosinophils swarm certain invading substances, be they parasites or viruses, and work to eliminate them. Sometimes, however, an allergenic protein may prompt the immune system to release eosinophils. Then, it's as if a faucet gets turned on but can't be turned off—eosinophils just keep coming. Eventually they begin to leave the bloodstream and may infiltrate and damage the GI tract, esophagus, mucous membranes, lungs, the fascial system (the layer of connective tissue that surrounds the muscles, blood vessels, and nerves), and the skin—hence, the avalanche of symptoms. (Some allergists say that the best way to test for a true eosinophilic disorder is to look for the cells in the esophagus and GI tract with an endoscopy. But Mansmann thinks that once you have a preponderance of them in your nasal mucus, they're likely to be elsewhere.)

Mansmann's advice was to strip all corn, even that marked organic, from my diet. "It's almost impossible to find a corn source in the United States that doesn't have the [protein] in it," he said. The U.S. government started approving GMO corn and soybeans for sale in the mid-1990s, and today, 88 percent of corn, and 93 percent of soybeans, are the transgenic varieties. Moreover, Mansmann and others contend that due to cross-pollination via winds, birds, and bees, there's no such thing anymore as a GMO-free corn crop. He estimated that it would take from two to four months of living without corn for the eosinophils to cycle out of my body, and 
almost a year before I'd feel entirely like myself.

While I quickly discovered that blaming GMO foods for any kind of health problem is controversial in the medical and biotech worlds, what's beyond debate is the increase in the incidence of autoimmune disorders such as type 1 diabetes, lupus, and celiac disease, as well as of allergies. As for the latter, the National Health Interview Survey found, for instance, that since 1999, the number of children with food allergies has jumped by 50 percent, and those with skin allergies by 69 percent (and the increase isn't merely a by-product of fuller reporting by parents, experts say).

Allergenic eosinophilic disorders, however, aren't counted in that data. They were first identified about 20 years ago, according to a pioneer in the field, Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD, a professor at University of Cincinnati medical school and director of an affiliated center for eosinophilic disorders. "We're in the midst of an allergy and autoimmune epidemic," Rothenberg told me on the phone, "and the environment is the black box." Mansmann's GMO theory was "interesting," he went on, before quickly adding that "no one in conventional medicine will have the data" to prove it.

Back in 2011, though, I was desperate enough that I was willing to try the diet Mansmann recommended. After all, how hard could it be to give up corn? The answer was: way harder than I imagined. Corn was my Waldo, popping up everywhere: in tea bags, juice, and cheese culture; it lined my "to go" coffee cups and plastic bags of frozen vegetables; it coated my store-bought apples and was on the bottom of restaurant pizza—almost everything my family used, no matter how piously natural and organic, had corn in it. It came under the guise of dozens of names like "xanthan gum," "natural flavors," "free-flowing agents," "vitamin E," "ascorbic acid," "citric acid," and "cellulose," to name a few. Almost daily, I'd find a new culprit. "Damn, this toothpaste is full of corn!" Then: "Wait, our dish soap is made from corn!" Or: "Oh my God, iodized salt has dextrose in it!"

Not to mention the corn that is fed to animals whose meat and eggs I ate, whose milk I drank. I had to restrict my diet, Mansmann said, to vegetables, grains other than corn, grass-fed beef and dairy, wild fish, and game (if I was game). My husband and I threw ourselves into the corn-free diet with gusto: We began baking all our bread, we learned how to make our own flour tortillas and sweet treats like muffins and cakes. By luck, we met an intrepid farmer raising corn-free chickens (harder than you might guess, because chickens have literally been bred to get fat fast on corn). We eschewed anything premade and began gathering foods from local sources we could trust. I stopped taking every medicine or supplement with corn in it (which was most of them). Wherever I went, I took my own stainless-steel coffee cup.

The first thing I noticed was that my skin rashes began to dissipate. Then, slowly, my body stopped aching, and I could walk or even jog easily, for the first time in years. I started to have more energy, and I slept better at night. The head cold went away—poof—and I wasn't going through a box of tissues a day. My hands became less stiff. I realized, in retrospect, that my frozen hands had been the hardest symptom to tolerate: I could barely button my son's small shirts or apply a Band-Aid, which made me feel useless as a mother. Almost four months later, in late May, I felt pretty much like my old self. I was so startled by my physical well-being that I didn't know how to enjoy it. Each night I'd go to bed preparing myself for the possibility that I might wake up sick again the next morning. Could GMO corn really be my problem? Could this blessed state really last? I couldn't let go; I had to know more. I decided to visit Rothenberg and his team of researchers endeavoring to crack open the black box.

When I landed in Cincinnati, it was sticky and eerily airless, though it was early June and well after midnight. I couldn't help but think about how one doctor had told me that the Ohio River Valley is basically a bowl that collects pollen and pesticide sprays from across the Midwest, creating a special kind of allergic hell.

The next morning, I made my way to Rothenberg's lab. Despite wearing sneakers and khakis and sporting a "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees" hairdo, Rothenberg exuded a scientist–rock star vibe—he moves through the world with importance. Over the next couple of days, he told me, I'd meet people whose views represented a microcosm of the worldwide debate over the safety of GMOs.

First up: Karl von Tiehl, a young, cherub-faced clinician and assistant professor in the medical school (he has since moved to Los Angeles to go into private practice). Our interview had barely begun when he informed me that my interest in the impact of big agriculture on the food supply was a preoccupation of his as well. He told me that, for the very worst patients who come to Cincinnati (those whose GI tracts and esophagi have been so damaged by eosinophils that their lives are severely compromised), the team has found that if they "give them a medical food that's been so chopped and sliced and diced that there are no proteins in it, that it's just amino acids, simple sugars, and small fats and stuff—there's nothing their immune system can react to—95 percent of the time, the disease goes away as long as they stay on that simple, horrible smelling, tasting formula." Von Tiehl doesn't know if GMO crops are the culprit, but, he says, "you're eating what somebody in some office has decided is good for you rather than what your grandma would have told you is good for you. There's something scary there."

A short walk down the hall, his colleague Amal Assa'ad, MD, also a professor at the medical school, dismissed anxiety over GMOs' safety as almost magical thinking. "What's wrong with chemicals?" she asked. "We're so afraid of chemicals because they are man-made, right? A lot of chemicals have helped us—a lot of medications are chemicals." If anything, GMO foods have been a boon to mankind, Assa'ad said. GMO seeds "produce better crops that have increased production, that are resistant to pesticides—crops that can feed the rest of the world."

She echoed the federal government's position—given voice through the regulatory policies of the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency—that there is nothing inherently dangerous about inserting the gene of one species into that of another, since the end product is essentially identical with that grown from regular seeds. This is also, perhaps needless to say, the biotech industry's stance. "There are several hundred studies that contribute to a huge body of evidence that GM crops…are as safe as their conventional counterparts," says Monsanto spokesman Thomas Helscher.

To experiment with a new GMO food in this country, a developer must first get a permit from the USDA to conduct field trials (literally, trials in open fields), following guidelines largely intended to prevent GMO crops from mixing with conventional ones. In addition, according to Helscher, biotech firms like Monsanto are required to compile a document that compares the biology of the modified plant to the unmodified one, determining, for example, if there is a "statistically significant difference" in the levels of nutrients such as carbs and fats between the two plants, or, if new proteins are introduced, whether they're included in the database of known allergens. If nothing goes obviously wrong, the crop is free to go to market.

It all sounds fine, until you dig a bit deeper, critics of this process say. For one thing, they question the objectivity of the allergen database because it's compiled at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, whose facilities are funded by the six major biotech companies: Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, Dupont Pioneer, Bayer, and BASF. Indeed, no GMO proteins are on the list, but that's for lack of "sufficient evidence" to put them there, says Richard Goodman, PhD, a UNL research professor and former Monsanto employee. He does add, however, that much of the existing data regarding the allergenic potential of GMO foods simply examines them for amino acid sequences similar to those in known allergens—like peanuts or milk—which limits the usefulness of the whole enterprise to people like Mansmann: They think GMOs may be carrying heretofore undiscovered allergens. (If you're thinking, Well, what do the clinical trials with humans show? The answer is: They're nonexistent because, the biotech firms say, they are impractical, and, again, GMO foods are basically presumed safe and thus don't undergo near the level of scrutiny as new drugs.)

The most fundamental complaint from those worried about the health risks of GMO foods is that hardly any of the research is independent; the biotech firms either conduct or pay for the studies forwarded to the government, and they also pick and choose which ones to submit. "The scandal is that the USDA does not force the companies to give results of trials that had negative outcomes," says Harwood Schaffer, PhD, a research assistant professor at the University of Tennessee's Agricul-tural Policy Analysis Center. "We've seen this in medicine: You only get the data that the [industry] wants you to see." Schaffer also points out that the biotech firms consider their research proprietary, so there's no record for the public to inspect: "Maybe the GMO companies aren't hiding anything, but the question is: Does the public have the right to know?"

One of my last stops in Cincinnati was the office of affable Australian-born immunologist Simon Hogan, PhD, who, interestingly, was the lead author of one of the few independently funded GMO-food studies. In the early 2000s, Hogan's interest was piqued when he learned GMO peas were being developed in his native country, so he decided to investigate the new product. "I felt there was a fundamental lack of knowledge on whether GMOs could have an effect" on animals (and possibly people).

He was surprised by the results: Mice given the GMO peas had inflammatory reactions such as "mucus hypersecretion," "pulmonary eosinophilia" (eosinophils in the lungs), and airway hyperresponsiveness ("the lungs were twitchy," says Hogan). Most important, the peas may have "perturbed" a tolerance mechanism in the mice, leading to enhanced immunreactivity. When the study was published in 2005 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, there was a deluge of media coverage both lauding and decrying it—most notably on the con side, a Nature Biotechnology article called Hogan's study "mush" and charged, among other things, that mice probably aren't analogous to humans when it comes to allergies.

With all the uproar, the pea project was abruptly canceled. But eight years later, another team published a contradictory report showing that mice react to proteins in GMO peas and in conventional ones. It was funded by the European Union. (Hogan's very measured response? Good science requires multiple studies before conclusions can be drawn.)

While most people seem to tolerate GMO corn, I asked Hogan if he thought it could be making a small cohort of the population sick, as his peas did the mice. "I don't think definitive analysis has been done to answer that question, and because you don't know definitely what these [GMO] proteins could do…that's sufficient for me to say 'halt' until we know more."

With the level of penetration of GMO foods, and the fairly widespread acceptance of them in America (certainly compared with Europe, where they're banned in many countries), saying "halt" seems unlikely at this point. Definitely in the air, however, is better labeling of such products. The Connecticut legislature passed a measure this June to require it, and a whopping 96 percent of people favor GMO labeling, according to a 2011 MSNBC poll. Whole Foods Market announced this March that by 2018 everything it sells in the U.S. and Canada will be labeled for GMOs. How the store will implement that is hard to fathom given the ubiquity of industrial corn: Will the bastion of healthy eating plaster GMO stickers on practically every item on its shelves? "We're very aware of how much of a challenge [labeling] is going to be," a company spokesman admitted, adding that they're committed to it nonetheless.

My small family has been able to jettison GMOs, thanks to the local farmers we've found and our willingness to do without the vast majority of prepared foods. But my husband and I both have jobs, and there are days when we can't imagine preparing everything from scratch forever. Yet when I was sick for all that time, my life felt totally out of control. I still rue the day when I was desperate enough for a diagnosis to believe I had chronic Lyme disease, which necessitated weaning my small son from my breast before either of us was ready so I could be bombarded with antibiotics. When I think back to how suffocatingly powerless I felt, how sidelined as a wife, mother, and productive person, I just feel, well, sick. Although Dr. Mansmann told me that most people allergic to GMO corn can end up tolerating small amounts after a couple years of abstinence, each time I've dared cheat, I've awoken the next morning with a frozen left hand, a sore hip, and a facial rash. So for now, at least, the extra work isn't really a choice; it's a way of life, one that reminds me daily that our modern world is full of challenges—dietary, economic, environmental—that at times feel overwhelming. And perhaps that's the gift in this: I've had to slow down and think about my food—how it was grown, what's in it, and which trade-offs were made in the journey from a seed to my plate. That consciousness has to be worth something bigger than just my health.