What happened to journalism? Thirty or forty years ago journalists reported events. Today they offer opinions about events. They stamp their own views on the consciousness of viewers and listeners. They opine. They seek the extreme edges of events, be they floods, earthquakes or some gruesome murder to sensationalise their so called reporting and better draw focus to their own over-inflated egos.
News programs today are packed with negativity. They present a one sided view of the world which is utterly depressing and totally false. A sop to cheeriness is added in an item about pandas or some other cuddly story in the last item of news. This is supposed to make us all feel better before we trudge off to bed, those of us that is, that are still watching.
We have no idea what casualties have been inflicted on the enemy in Afghanistan. We are never told but we know the names of every single one of our soldiers killed in action. Why? Did the media highlight the deaths of every soldier killed in WW1, WW2, or the Korean War. Of course not, that would have taken all day to read out. So why are the relatively few deaths of today's fighting men given such prominence? What is the purpose of it? If you listen to the news, it would appear that only our soldiers are dying. Our allies for all we know, have suffered few if any casualties. As for the enemy who knows? We certainly do not but the question is why not? Do the powers that be think we are idiots that we must only be told only what they want us to know, that we cannot be told the facts or that we should not be given the opportunity to make up our own minds? Who can trust an authority that tries so hard to maipulate the news and by inference our minds?
This is not news broadcasting. This is mind manipulation, media brainwashing and government propaganda. It's abysmal. It's depressing. It's unbalanced and therefore presents a false image of the world we live in. I for one have switched off.
I do not trust the integrity or the motives of those whose job it is to inform us. I do not want opinions. I want news and I want both sides of it not one. I want to hear what is new in the world of science, technology, art and what positive initiatives are being taken by communities and people in our country and elsewhere to make the world a better place. I want to hear about all the good that is going on in the world as well as the bad. I am sick to my back teeth of the garbage that is being fed to us by the television and paper media and so are most people. We are all gradually switching off.
I could go on about the endless dreary repeats that our licence fees paid for donkey's years ago. What are they using licence payers money for now? So mind numbingly dull are many of the programs, I now prefer to watch old black and white films! I hate to think how many times these have been repeated but they are at least better than the rubbish showing on other channels. They at least have a bit of drama in their storylines. I could go on about reality shows and the general dumbing down of the BBC and other networks but I'm sure you have got the drift, so I wont bother. I simply ask who will save us from these donkeys?
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Monday, January 03, 2011
Quantum Survival
Herewith Dr. R.D. Pearson's theory on Quantum Survival.
It is most definitely worth reading. I will say no more but welcome related comments.
INTRODUCTION
A major paradigm, accepted across all established scientific disciplines, states that mind and consciousness result from brain function alone. This means that mind must vanish at the instant of brain death, a conclusion totally at variance with the evidence. This evidence has been building for over a century and is now so firm as to effectively constitute totally convincing proof of survival. Roll (9) and Zammit (12) cover this aspect exhaustively.
The reason scientists in general go to great pains to discredit this evidence is because it conflicts with all theories physicists have so far developed. Until a major paradigm-shift in physics has occurred there can be no hope of any change of attitude. Hence it is of paramount importance that the flaws in existing physics are resolved so that it becomes extended to incorporate survival and other controversial phenomena.
This article shows how a successful search made to solve three difficulties in physics resulted in providing just such an extension. The resulting “Survival Physics” shows that, as a natural consequence of the mathematical logic, at least the sub-conscious mind is the true reality at the base of all that exists. Although the brain must die its exact copy lives on to be connected with another parallel universe. Built the same way as our own, these seem just as real as ours when the mind is in register.
This is not the only attempt at producing a theory of survival. The states of others, presented at an SPR conference on 24 April 2004, seem less advanced.
THE PROBLEMS WITH PHYSICS
Theoretical physics has so far been unable to resolve three major difficulties. In consequence greater and greater sophistication in concepts and mathematical formalism has resulted, yet no solutions are yet within sight. Could it be that theorists are all leading each other into a blind alley so that a totally different approach is required? This article shows that when a return is made to the logic of common sense, in which only fairly elementary maths is required, a solution to all three problems appears simultaneously.
One problem concerns the big bang theory that purports to explain the creation of the universe from nothing. It is clearly flawed since it makes a major false prediction known as the “Cosmological Constant” (CC). Theorists are unable to switch off their creative explosion. To show how serious this is I quote the Nobel laureate, Steven Weinberg, (11) who wrote in “Reviews of Modern Physics” January 1989 that this “represents a veritable crisis for physics”. Even today the situation remains unchanged after the 25 years of its existence. In 1987 this author realised his own expertise was potentially able to solve the difficulty. Unfortunately the second difficulty known as “wave-particle-duality” needed simultaneous resolution.
When matter is repeatedly divided the atom is eventually reached. Then further division shows this to constitute sub-atomic particles. Quantum theory is the study of the mechanics operating at this sub-microscopic level of reality. In the 1920’s it was discovered that at this level nothing moved as it does at the visible level. In fact motion seemed governed by a plan formed by interfering waves. If two pebbles are thrown into a pond simultaneously waves spread out in rings and the rings cross into each other creating a patch of rough water.
The reason scientists in general go to great pains to discredit this evidence is because it conflicts with all theories physicists have so far developed. Until a major paradigm-shift in physics has occurred there can be no hope of any change of attitude. Hence it is of paramount importance that the flaws in existing physics are resolved so that it becomes extended to incorporate survival and other controversial phenomena.
This article shows how a successful search made to solve three difficulties in physics resulted in providing just such an extension. The resulting “Survival Physics” shows that, as a natural consequence of the mathematical logic, at least the sub-conscious mind is the true reality at the base of all that exists. Although the brain must die its exact copy lives on to be connected with another parallel universe. Built the same way as our own, these seem just as real as ours when the mind is in register.
This is not the only attempt at producing a theory of survival. The states of others, presented at an SPR conference on 24 April 2004, seem less advanced.
THE PROBLEMS WITH PHYSICS
Theoretical physics has so far been unable to resolve three major difficulties. In consequence greater and greater sophistication in concepts and mathematical formalism has resulted, yet no solutions are yet within sight. Could it be that theorists are all leading each other into a blind alley so that a totally different approach is required? This article shows that when a return is made to the logic of common sense, in which only fairly elementary maths is required, a solution to all three problems appears simultaneously.
One problem concerns the big bang theory that purports to explain the creation of the universe from nothing. It is clearly flawed since it makes a major false prediction known as the “Cosmological Constant” (CC). Theorists are unable to switch off their creative explosion. To show how serious this is I quote the Nobel laureate, Steven Weinberg, (11) who wrote in “Reviews of Modern Physics” January 1989 that this “represents a veritable crisis for physics”. Even today the situation remains unchanged after the 25 years of its existence. In 1987 this author realised his own expertise was potentially able to solve the difficulty. Unfortunately the second difficulty known as “wave-particle-duality” needed simultaneous resolution.
When matter is repeatedly divided the atom is eventually reached. Then further division shows this to constitute sub-atomic particles. Quantum theory is the study of the mechanics operating at this sub-microscopic level of reality. In the 1920’s it was discovered that at this level nothing moved as it does at the visible level. In fact motion seemed governed by a plan formed by interfering waves. If two pebbles are thrown into a pond simultaneously waves spread out in rings and the rings cross into each other creating a patch of rough water.
This is the interference pattern characteristic of waves. At the quantum level, particles only appear where the wave amplitudes add up; none are seen where they cancel out. The conceptual difficulties are best illustrated by reading a book by David Deutsch (2) called, “The Fabric of Reality” (Penguin 1998). He says the only possible interpretation requires the universe to split in two every time one of these particles has a choice of two ways to go.
It involves an almost infinite set of universes existing in the same place each multiplying at an almost infinite rate! This is needed if consciousness is kept out of the solution. One of the original ideas from the 20’s, however, is called the “Copenhagen Interpretation”. This says that a particle only exists when an observer “collapses the wave function”. So this interpretation had already accepted consciousness to be involved in the creation of matter.
To me this meant that the quantum level had an unreal quality and had to be contrived by consciousness. There had to be a true reality at a deeper level having a structure able to evolve a conscious intelligence. It could not, therefore, operate on the wave mechanics of the quantum level but needed to exist to make those waves. It was more likely to operate on the classical mechanics found satisfactory for explaining how stars and planets moved: “Classical Mechanics”.
This introduced the third difficulty for which no resolution has emerged for over 70 years. Einstein’s theory called “General Relativity” (GR) is accepted as the best since it has survived almost every experimental check. Unfortunately it is incompatible with quantum theory.
To me this meant that the quantum level had an unreal quality and had to be contrived by consciousness. There had to be a true reality at a deeper level having a structure able to evolve a conscious intelligence. It could not, therefore, operate on the wave mechanics of the quantum level but needed to exist to make those waves. It was more likely to operate on the classical mechanics found satisfactory for explaining how stars and planets moved: “Classical Mechanics”.
This introduced the third difficulty for which no resolution has emerged for over 70 years. Einstein’s theory called “General Relativity” (GR) is accepted as the best since it has survived almost every experimental check. Unfortunately it is incompatible with quantum theory.
It was also impossible to apply it to solve the problem of the cosmological constant owing to the assumption that only motion relative to the observer existed. Now as objects are speeded up they gain energy of motion called “kinetic energy”. In relativity its value differs from one observer to another if the observers also see each other in motion. Consequently kinetic energy, according to GR, has to be regarded as illusory. To solve the problem of the CC kinetic energy had to be real. Consequently a new mechanics had to be derived. I had to be, not only compatible with quantum theory, but also had to match all the experimental checks that had elevated the status of GR to one of the two major achievements of 20’th century physics.
THE SOLUTION
To provide a satisfactory alternative to GR seemed to present a formidable obstacle since this had to be derived first. However, by applying the mechanical engineers logic of common sense a satisfactory new “Exact Classical Mechanics” (ECM) soon emerged. It matched all the data just as well as did relativity theory but had the advantage of starting out quantum compatible. It was first published in Russia in 1991 (5) but can be found on the “Campaign for Philosophical Freedom” website of Michael Roll, (1) very professionally organised by Paul Read.
ECM theory had all motion referred to the local background medium, to be called the “i-ther”. So now kinetic energy could be regarded as real. To enable a paradox free theory of creation from the zero energy state of nothingness to appear it was also necessary to extend the theory to yield an, “Opposed Energy Dynamics”.
THE SOLUTION
To provide a satisfactory alternative to GR seemed to present a formidable obstacle since this had to be derived first. However, by applying the mechanical engineers logic of common sense a satisfactory new “Exact Classical Mechanics” (ECM) soon emerged. It matched all the data just as well as did relativity theory but had the advantage of starting out quantum compatible. It was first published in Russia in 1991 (5) but can be found on the “Campaign for Philosophical Freedom” website of Michael Roll, (1) very professionally organised by Paul Read.
ECM theory had all motion referred to the local background medium, to be called the “i-ther”. So now kinetic energy could be regarded as real. To enable a paradox free theory of creation from the zero energy state of nothingness to appear it was also necessary to extend the theory to yield an, “Opposed Energy Dynamics”.
ECM theory yields Einstein’s famous equation E=mc2 by a totally different method but without reference to relativity in any way. This equation shows that matter is made out of energy. So energy is the ultimate building substance of the universe of matter. Since matter had to emerge as a construct of the i-ther, this ultimate level of reality had also be made from the same stuff.
For energy to appear from nothing it had to exist in two opposite and complementary kinds: positive and negative. We assume we are made of only positive energy defined by Newton’s laws. He said that when an object was caused to accelerate it had to be pushed by a “force of action” pointing in the same direction as the motion produced.
For energy to appear from nothing it had to exist in two opposite and complementary kinds: positive and negative. We assume we are made of only positive energy defined by Newton’s laws. He said that when an object was caused to accelerate it had to be pushed by a “force of action” pointing in the same direction as the motion produced.
An object made of negative energy would move in a direction opposite this force. Although difficult to accept at first introduction, this actually involves no conceptual difficulties. If two objects both made of negative energy are imagined to collide, both have their responses reversed and so the effects cancel. Consequently if all matter were negative it would behave in exactly the same way as that we observe. Indeed it is impossible to say which dominates for our matter.
For creation to occur both kinds need to exist as a balanced mixture of minute real particles to be called “primaries”. These are the only true particles that really can exist. Then it is also possible for the positive and negative primaries to cancel each other to zero, so enabling an existing mixture to annihilate itself to become nothingness. So what would actually happen during the collision of opposites? They would certainly all be in vigorous motion, like the molecules of a gas, eternally colliding and bouncing off one another.
For creation to occur both kinds need to exist as a balanced mixture of minute real particles to be called “primaries”. These are the only true particles that really can exist. Then it is also possible for the positive and negative primaries to cancel each other to zero, so enabling an existing mixture to annihilate itself to become nothingness. So what would actually happen during the collision of opposites? They would certainly all be in vigorous motion, like the molecules of a gas, eternally colliding and bouncing off one another.
Opposed energy dynamics gave the answer. Another law of mechanics called the “conservation of momentum” had also to be satisfied. The momentum of an object is defined as its mass multiplied by its velocity. The sum of the momentums of all objects colliding has to be the same after the collision as it was before, as measured in any specified direction.
Instead of annihilating this condition forced both colliding primaries to gain energy of their own kind in balanced amounts. They were breeding like opposite sexes! A detailed computational study taking collision probabilities into account showed that the average energy gain would be 0.091 of incident kinetic energy if the average speed were 99% of the speed of light. The proportion rose to 0.199 as speed fell to 10% of light speed. Of course the incident kinetic energy rises rapidly as speed increases.
In consequence the i-ther would form a rapidly growing ball but its density would also increase until an unstable condition was reached. And this solved the problem of the CC!
The entire flow field now broke up into minute cells divided by watershed-like boundaries, possibly forming a regular pattern like a honeycomb. Inside each cell, flows converged to a central point and here conditions, again governed by the need to conserve momentum, favoured mutual annihilation. In the outer annulii of each cell a gas-like fluid existed forming a breeding blanket and nearly all this creation was cancelled out at the central focal points.
Instead of annihilating this condition forced both colliding primaries to gain energy of their own kind in balanced amounts. They were breeding like opposite sexes! A detailed computational study taking collision probabilities into account showed that the average energy gain would be 0.091 of incident kinetic energy if the average speed were 99% of the speed of light. The proportion rose to 0.199 as speed fell to 10% of light speed. Of course the incident kinetic energy rises rapidly as speed increases.
In consequence the i-ther would form a rapidly growing ball but its density would also increase until an unstable condition was reached. And this solved the problem of the CC!
The entire flow field now broke up into minute cells divided by watershed-like boundaries, possibly forming a regular pattern like a honeycomb. Inside each cell, flows converged to a central point and here conditions, again governed by the need to conserve momentum, favoured mutual annihilation. In the outer annulii of each cell a gas-like fluid existed forming a breeding blanket and nearly all this creation was cancelled out at the central focal points.
A minute net creation remained causing a slow growth, over aeons of time, to the vast size of the universe we see today -except for one thing: matter did not yet exist. The i-ther is only the source of matter. However, when matter eventually appeared it would go with the flow. And the flow predicted was one of accelerating expansion. Every part would be moving away from every other with both speeds and accelerations proportional to separating distance. This was predicted in 1992 and in 1998, as reported by Schwarzchild, B (10), astronomers discovered that, contrary to their expectations, the expansion was indeed accelerating. So Survival Physics has made an important prediction later confirmed by observation.
A SUB-QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES
There could be almost spherical centres of annihilation (hubs) or long filamentous shapes (links) all of finite diameter and consisting of primaries in the act of mutual destruction. Hubs and links, however, would themselves form permanent structures. Many links could couple to a single hub as one of an infinite variety of geometries that could form by chance.
This structure formed a source of power that could only manifest as waves: so explaining why the quantum level has to operate on wave mechanics. The waves need intelligent organisation, however, but arrangements of hubs and links could be imagined that looked very like the artificial neural networks that scientists, such as Hinton(3) have shown to have memory and learning capability. The speculative part of the emerging theory had to assume that in the fullness of time a neural network would evolve and that further evolution would lead to the emergence of the conscious intelligence needed for wave organisation.
This meant that at least the sub-conscious mind had to exist as an i-theric structure. It would need to contrive matter by the clever organisation of real quantum waves. A sub atomic particle would be formed by the repeated focusing of waves at points chosen at random but confined to regions of constructive wave interference patterns. In this way a satisfying interpretation for the enigma of wave-particle-duality emerged.
A SUB-QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS EVOLVES
There could be almost spherical centres of annihilation (hubs) or long filamentous shapes (links) all of finite diameter and consisting of primaries in the act of mutual destruction. Hubs and links, however, would themselves form permanent structures. Many links could couple to a single hub as one of an infinite variety of geometries that could form by chance.
This structure formed a source of power that could only manifest as waves: so explaining why the quantum level has to operate on wave mechanics. The waves need intelligent organisation, however, but arrangements of hubs and links could be imagined that looked very like the artificial neural networks that scientists, such as Hinton(3) have shown to have memory and learning capability. The speculative part of the emerging theory had to assume that in the fullness of time a neural network would evolve and that further evolution would lead to the emergence of the conscious intelligence needed for wave organisation.
This meant that at least the sub-conscious mind had to exist as an i-theric structure. It would need to contrive matter by the clever organisation of real quantum waves. A sub atomic particle would be formed by the repeated focusing of waves at points chosen at random but confined to regions of constructive wave interference patterns. In this way a satisfying interpretation for the enigma of wave-particle-duality emerged.
A particle, such as an electron, would no longer be regarded as a single object travelling along the curved paths caused by the action of electric and magnetic forces. Instead electrons would be sequences of wave focusing events joined end to end in time but not in position. These positions would be chosen mathematically so that, as observed by scientists, electrons would only now appear to be acted upon by a real force of electromagnetism. The other three forces of nature could be similarly interpreted. Hence our universe now appears as a semi-virtual reality. It is built from real energies but these are intelligently organised.
Each i-theric mind would have to be separated from the universal sub-conscious by some form of information filter-barrier programmed into the i-ther, so that it could interact with other minds in meaningful ways. This could explain why at least one matter system had to be organised to provide a temporary housing in which such interaction could occur.
Each i-theric mind would have to be separated from the universal sub-conscious by some form of information filter-barrier programmed into the i-ther, so that it could interact with other minds in meaningful ways. This could explain why at least one matter system had to be organised to provide a temporary housing in which such interaction could occur.
Then on the demise of that housing another based on different laws of physics was provided so that development of individual minds could continue. The i-ther could build several interpenetrating universes all occupying the same space but tuned to different quantum wave frequencies. Then the i-theric mind could tune into just one at a time. If the brain has its own consciousness then a copy is carried in the i-ther.
In this way a theory emerged, that had survival as its core feature. It had appeared from the simultaneous solution of the three major difficulties of physics. With this model the entire spectrum of the so-called “paranormal” can be given an explanation as potentially real effects including mediumshiop, telepathy, psychokinesis, healing, apports, OOB’s, NDE’s and prediction.
In this way a theory emerged, that had survival as its core feature. It had appeared from the simultaneous solution of the three major difficulties of physics. With this model the entire spectrum of the so-called “paranormal” can be given an explanation as potentially real effects including mediumshiop, telepathy, psychokinesis, healing, apports, OOB’s, NDE’s and prediction.
REFERENCES
Most can be found on the Campaign for Philosophical Freedom website:
Most can be found on the Campaign for Philosophical Freedom website:
This covers many other aspects mostly concerning the evidence for survival.
Deutsch, David: The Fabric of Reality : Penguin Books 1998
Hinton, Geoffrey E.: How Neural Networks Learn from Experience Scientific American special Issue “Mind and Brain” September 1992
Keen, Montague: Ellison, Arthur: Fontana, David (of the Society for Psychical Research UK): The Scole Report (More valuable evidence)
Pearson, Ronald D.: Alternative to Relativity including Quantum Gravitation: Second International Conference on Problems in Space and Time: St. Petersburg, (Sept. 1991) pp 278-292.
Pearson, Ronald D.: "Quantum Gravitation and the Structured Ether"Sir Isaac Newton Conference. St. Petersburg (March 1993) pp 39-55 Petrovskaja Academy of Sciences & Arts Chairman. Local Organising Committee: Dr. Michael Varin: Pulkovskoye Road 65-9-1 St. Petersburg 196140, Russia. FAX: (7) (812) 291-81-35. Phone: Alexandre Alekseev: office:(7) (812) 291-36-73, Home:(7) (812) 173-55-69 E-Mail:
consym@saman.spb.suPearson, Ronald D.: Origin of Mind [Dec.1992]: -A popularisation plus Technical Appendix (Maths of Opposed Energy Dynamics) 72 pages: (110 grams) direct from Michael Roll.
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mike@mroll.freeserve.co.uk; michael@booksbymichael.comE-mail:
Pearson, R. D.: Consciousness as a Sub-Quantum Phenomenon Frontier Perpectives, Spring/ Summer 1997, Vol.6,No.2 pp70-78 (See 1) website
Roll, Michael: A Rational Scientific Explanation for So-Called Psychic Phenomena: The Paranormal Review October 2004 pp 21-23 Proc.Soc. of Psychical Research Vol.58, Part 220 (1999)
Schwarzchild, B.: Very distant Supernova Suggest that the Cosmic Expansion is Speeding Up: Physics Today, Vol.51(6) pp.17-19
Weinberg, Stephen: The Cosmological Constant Problem Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol.61 (1) Jan 1989
Zammit, Victor: A LAWYER PRESENTS THE EVIDENCE FOR THE AFTERLIFE
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Saturday, January 01, 2011
Survival Physics
This is Ronald Pearson (Survival Physics). His eye opening theory should be read by everyone who is interested in Quantum Physics and what happens to us after death. You make up up your own minds. It makes a whole lot of sense to me and answers many of the questions that even the greatest minds have failed to address or explain satisfactorily. (See Above article)
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Change and leadership
“The ego finds its collective expression in the economic structures of this world, such as the huge corporations, which are egoic entities that compete with each other for more. Their only blind aim is profit. They pursue that aim with absolute ruthlessness. Nature, animals, people, even their own employees, are no more than digits on a balance sheet, lifeless objects to be used, then discarded”.
Eckhart Tolle
Herein (the pursuit of ego), lies the cause of immeasurable misery throughout the ages to the present day. What does this tells us? It tells us everything. Above all it tells us that the pursuit of me, mine, more than, I want, I need, I must have, etc., can have only one outcome, that which we have and see before us, one of continual injustice, inequality, poverty, famine, war and endless misery. The end result is that we live in an emotional and physical vacuum disconnected from the world that we inhabit and of which we are made. Worse, we are destroying our world and therefore ultimately ourselves.
Acknowledging this provides us with all the answers we need to transform our world and ourselves. The pursuit of egoic desires is insane (there is no other way of describing it) and has always and will always lead us down a blind alley. It’s a road to nowhere but more of the same.
What we need is a completely different philosophy that understands that less me, mine, etc., both as individuals and nations is the only route to something infinitely more rewarding. We must finally acknowledge that we are all together in the same boat. What happens to anyone of us affects all of us. The wellbeing of all the individual parts guarantees the wellbeing of the whole. We are all of us part of and joined to each other and everything around us. This is not even up for discussion any more. Quantum Physics tells us we are the children of the stars and interconnected to everything. We are part of nature and not apart from it.
We cannot go on creating ego-centric political and corporate structures that have no symbiosis to the well being of the greater world, nor purpose, other than to feed their own insatiable greed at the expense of others. We cannot continue to exploit finite resources at a faster rate than nature or technology can replenish or replace them. We must recognise that unsustainable economic growth is the ultimate insanity. It is quite simply mass suicide.
We need to think about the pace, nature and purpose of our economic growth and we need to target investment toward the right kind of technologies for future planetary sustainability and the betterment of life for all. Above all we must cease producing endless streams of pointless, cheap, plastic products/packaging that have limited usage, short term life spans and long term toxic disposal consequences; all for the sole purpose of making ever more profit. We can no longer ignore the consequences of such blind stupidity. We must recognise the absolute need to eradicate short termism from our thinking. It more often than not causes nothing but long term problems. We have to move away from the unholy grail of maximising profit at the expense of jobs, communities, environment, social adhesion and quality of life. We cannot sustain such a shallow philosophy without destroying the very meaning and purpose of living, the value of which is incalculable.
The pursuit of blind ego has always and will always unleash the negative forces that have brought us to where the world now stands, on the verge of calamity. We are faced with global warming, the clash of cultures, economic meltdown, the widening gap between rich and poor, the loss of moral compass and so on. Perhaps the greatest catastrophe has been the calculated entrapment, by the marketing industry and a compliant media, of our minds which are focused on the worthless and the trivial. The marketing moguls think it is clever to create a superficial demand for endless streams of ecologically harmful, intrinsically unnecessary material products that we can all live comfortably without. It’s not clever. It’s idiotic. It pollutes our world, diminishes our minds and harms our souls. They have very effectively focused our minds on the lowest common denominator of our being in the name of profit driven by greed. We can no longer see the woods for the trees.
The transformation of this mindset is the greatest challenge we face if we are to create a better, more compassionate and just world. This is the inescapable truth that must be confronted. This is the key that can unlock the door to real change. What is needed now is enlightenment and wisdom. A world bereft of wisdom is a vacuous world, a rudderless ship ultimately doomed to crash upon storm whipped rocks with all hands aboard.
Armed with this knowledge our course is as clear as a mountain stream. We must repair our leaking ship and set our sails towards a meaningful and more rewarding destination for all of mankind and every living thing that sails with us. How do we do this? We start by asking ourselves what principles need to be applied in the conception of a better fairer more sustainable socio-economic program that eradicates poverty, provides equity, assures justice and enriches the meaning of life while protecting the planet. The destruction of animal or plant life threatens all life and diminishes us all. We begin by understanding that self interest can only be assured if the common interest is satisfied first. This is a fundamental truth which the ego-centric world has so far failed to comprehend and which once understood has the power to change everything.
Everything we do must be done with thoughtful purpose, within a coherent plan that serves and enriches our life experience and inspires our minds. It must serve the greater good. Those that have must help those who have not. We cannot all be blessed with natural resources but the planets resources must be used for the common good. We cannot continue with the politics of belligerent domination by exploiting our assets to dominate others in order to exercise power over those less fortunate. These resources belong to the cosmos, to all of us, as we belong to it. Their placement is a geological phenomenon not a political birthright of any one nation. Its placement is irrelevant. It belongs to the world.
We are but the temporary guardians of our planet and it’s resources not the owners. If we do not share the resources equitably, there can only ever be one outcome. We must put behind us for ever the politics of dogma and domination. They have served us poorly. What has it ever bought us but inequality, injustice, strife, discontent and misery? What will it bring us in the future but more of the same? This we know to be an absolute truth and yet we continue to bury our heads in the sand and pretend ignorance of our own insanity. What good is knowledge if we do not act upon it? Acknowledging the error of our ways is the first step to change. Herein lies the only way ahead that makes an iota of sense. There is no second or third way, only one way, the right way. There is only one correct solution to any mathematical problem and we are not even close.
Therein, lies the burden and challenge of true leadership. It is not about empty imagery or looking cool on television. It’s about wisdom and enlightenment. The role of leadership is to lead humanity to a higher place. It’s about the spiritual fulfilment of humanity which will never be found at the alter of consumerism, greed or media spin.
The greatest power comes not from nuclear weapons. It is to be found only in the brotherhood of humanity; the understanding that we are all equal and that our common interest is far more important than personal interest. It comes from tearing down that which divides us and building on that which unites us. This is the only role of true leadership. Every war or conflict is a failure of leadership.
Eckhart Tolle
Herein (the pursuit of ego), lies the cause of immeasurable misery throughout the ages to the present day. What does this tells us? It tells us everything. Above all it tells us that the pursuit of me, mine, more than, I want, I need, I must have, etc., can have only one outcome, that which we have and see before us, one of continual injustice, inequality, poverty, famine, war and endless misery. The end result is that we live in an emotional and physical vacuum disconnected from the world that we inhabit and of which we are made. Worse, we are destroying our world and therefore ultimately ourselves.
Acknowledging this provides us with all the answers we need to transform our world and ourselves. The pursuit of egoic desires is insane (there is no other way of describing it) and has always and will always lead us down a blind alley. It’s a road to nowhere but more of the same.
What we need is a completely different philosophy that understands that less me, mine, etc., both as individuals and nations is the only route to something infinitely more rewarding. We must finally acknowledge that we are all together in the same boat. What happens to anyone of us affects all of us. The wellbeing of all the individual parts guarantees the wellbeing of the whole. We are all of us part of and joined to each other and everything around us. This is not even up for discussion any more. Quantum Physics tells us we are the children of the stars and interconnected to everything. We are part of nature and not apart from it.
We cannot go on creating ego-centric political and corporate structures that have no symbiosis to the well being of the greater world, nor purpose, other than to feed their own insatiable greed at the expense of others. We cannot continue to exploit finite resources at a faster rate than nature or technology can replenish or replace them. We must recognise that unsustainable economic growth is the ultimate insanity. It is quite simply mass suicide.
We need to think about the pace, nature and purpose of our economic growth and we need to target investment toward the right kind of technologies for future planetary sustainability and the betterment of life for all. Above all we must cease producing endless streams of pointless, cheap, plastic products/packaging that have limited usage, short term life spans and long term toxic disposal consequences; all for the sole purpose of making ever more profit. We can no longer ignore the consequences of such blind stupidity. We must recognise the absolute need to eradicate short termism from our thinking. It more often than not causes nothing but long term problems. We have to move away from the unholy grail of maximising profit at the expense of jobs, communities, environment, social adhesion and quality of life. We cannot sustain such a shallow philosophy without destroying the very meaning and purpose of living, the value of which is incalculable.
The pursuit of blind ego has always and will always unleash the negative forces that have brought us to where the world now stands, on the verge of calamity. We are faced with global warming, the clash of cultures, economic meltdown, the widening gap between rich and poor, the loss of moral compass and so on. Perhaps the greatest catastrophe has been the calculated entrapment, by the marketing industry and a compliant media, of our minds which are focused on the worthless and the trivial. The marketing moguls think it is clever to create a superficial demand for endless streams of ecologically harmful, intrinsically unnecessary material products that we can all live comfortably without. It’s not clever. It’s idiotic. It pollutes our world, diminishes our minds and harms our souls. They have very effectively focused our minds on the lowest common denominator of our being in the name of profit driven by greed. We can no longer see the woods for the trees.
The transformation of this mindset is the greatest challenge we face if we are to create a better, more compassionate and just world. This is the inescapable truth that must be confronted. This is the key that can unlock the door to real change. What is needed now is enlightenment and wisdom. A world bereft of wisdom is a vacuous world, a rudderless ship ultimately doomed to crash upon storm whipped rocks with all hands aboard.
Armed with this knowledge our course is as clear as a mountain stream. We must repair our leaking ship and set our sails towards a meaningful and more rewarding destination for all of mankind and every living thing that sails with us. How do we do this? We start by asking ourselves what principles need to be applied in the conception of a better fairer more sustainable socio-economic program that eradicates poverty, provides equity, assures justice and enriches the meaning of life while protecting the planet. The destruction of animal or plant life threatens all life and diminishes us all. We begin by understanding that self interest can only be assured if the common interest is satisfied first. This is a fundamental truth which the ego-centric world has so far failed to comprehend and which once understood has the power to change everything.
Everything we do must be done with thoughtful purpose, within a coherent plan that serves and enriches our life experience and inspires our minds. It must serve the greater good. Those that have must help those who have not. We cannot all be blessed with natural resources but the planets resources must be used for the common good. We cannot continue with the politics of belligerent domination by exploiting our assets to dominate others in order to exercise power over those less fortunate. These resources belong to the cosmos, to all of us, as we belong to it. Their placement is a geological phenomenon not a political birthright of any one nation. Its placement is irrelevant. It belongs to the world.
We are but the temporary guardians of our planet and it’s resources not the owners. If we do not share the resources equitably, there can only ever be one outcome. We must put behind us for ever the politics of dogma and domination. They have served us poorly. What has it ever bought us but inequality, injustice, strife, discontent and misery? What will it bring us in the future but more of the same? This we know to be an absolute truth and yet we continue to bury our heads in the sand and pretend ignorance of our own insanity. What good is knowledge if we do not act upon it? Acknowledging the error of our ways is the first step to change. Herein lies the only way ahead that makes an iota of sense. There is no second or third way, only one way, the right way. There is only one correct solution to any mathematical problem and we are not even close.
Therein, lies the burden and challenge of true leadership. It is not about empty imagery or looking cool on television. It’s about wisdom and enlightenment. The role of leadership is to lead humanity to a higher place. It’s about the spiritual fulfilment of humanity which will never be found at the alter of consumerism, greed or media spin.
The greatest power comes not from nuclear weapons. It is to be found only in the brotherhood of humanity; the understanding that we are all equal and that our common interest is far more important than personal interest. It comes from tearing down that which divides us and building on that which unites us. This is the only role of true leadership. Every war or conflict is a failure of leadership.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
UK Immigration
Uncontrolled immigration would be untenable and potentially disastrous. Our land mass and resources are limited and therefore there must be some control over immigration. However the ultimate solution is to eradicate poverty and dictatorship in those countries at the source of mass migration. That is the nut that has to be cracked.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Brown's Apology
The Prime Minister should not be writing personally to families of brave servicemen and women who have been killed in Afghanistan. This would have been impossible in previous wars where casulties were in the tens of thousands.
The onerous task of informing relatives is the duty of regiment commanders and not the Prime Minister.
The reporting of every single death in the current conflicts is counter-productive and harms public morale. Fatalities are the inevitable price of war. If we cannot take the casualties, we should not be fighting.
The media coverage is grossly sensationalist and short sighted. Mr. Brown's attempt to appear caring is misguided and shows he has little understanding of his duties as a war time leader.
In the meantime we should be grateful that casualties are as low as they are.
The onerous task of informing relatives is the duty of regiment commanders and not the Prime Minister.
The reporting of every single death in the current conflicts is counter-productive and harms public morale. Fatalities are the inevitable price of war. If we cannot take the casualties, we should not be fighting.
The media coverage is grossly sensationalist and short sighted. Mr. Brown's attempt to appear caring is misguided and shows he has little understanding of his duties as a war time leader.
In the meantime we should be grateful that casualties are as low as they are.
Friday, November 06, 2009
New Labour Failure
This shower of a government does not think you have a brain or an iota of common sense. This government treats people with contempt. This government loves one size fits all solutions that do not fit anyone. This government will penalise everyone for the crimes and misdemeanors of the few. This government cannot accept that in society there are, have always been and will always be a small percentage of deranged people and no legislation will eradicate that. This government has no common sense!
EU Presidency
The people of this country are walking apthetically, blindly and dumbly into the EU superstate trap set for them by the self appointed, unelected, self interested, empire building political elite. They are doing so without question or debate and without consideration of any other alternatives. The creation of a shadowy unaccountable EU superstate is another step towards the suppression of freedom, free trade and independent ground up control of regional affairs.
Who is your MEP? Has he ever communicated with you? What has he done for you and your region?
The new EU President, whomever he or she may be, is no more or less than an imposition by stealth of a European superstate on the people of Europe; whether we want it or not. We don't and that's why we have never been asked!
Beware you politicians! You are about to learn that you cannot impose your will on the people forever without their consent. We are millions. You are but a few thousand and a few thousand too many at that!
Who is your MEP? Has he ever communicated with you? What has he done for you and your region?
The new EU President, whomever he or she may be, is no more or less than an imposition by stealth of a European superstate on the people of Europe; whether we want it or not. We don't and that's why we have never been asked!
Beware you politicians! You are about to learn that you cannot impose your will on the people forever without their consent. We are millions. You are but a few thousand and a few thousand too many at that!
Theft of Democracy
David Cameron is not the only one who will be haunted by Europe. Because the British people have been denied a promised referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, it will be a festering sore of increasing discontent that may yet have consequences far beyond Mr Cameron's or for that matter Mr. Brown's tenure not to mention limited imagination. This unpardonable treachery will do more harm than good and may yet bring the EU superstate to it's knees.The people will not tolerate the theft of their democracy for long.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Key to Hamas - Isreali Truce
Any truce that does not recognise that there is no alternative but to live together in peace is worthless. The alternative is constant and permanent war and an ever mounting body count of innocent people on both sides.
Hamas have failed to comprehend the enormous economic and social benefits that a permanent peace would bring the Palestinian people. The rewards for peace far exceed the rewards of war. Only when this is understood can there be an end to the slaughter.
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