College Vs Trade School - 02-22-2024
Episode Summary:
Introduction
Brief overview of the importance of education in career development and the debate between choosing a college education versus trade school.
Economic Implications of College Education
- Discussion on the cost of college education, including tuition, living expenses, and additional fees.
- Analysis of the debt burden carried by college graduates and its long-term financial impact.
- Examination of the job market for college graduates, including average starting salaries and employment rates.
Benefits and Drawbacks of Trade School
- Overview of trade school programs, focusing on the duration, cost, and specific skill sets taught.
- The economic advantage of less debt and quicker entry into the workforce for trade school graduates.
- Consideration of job security and demand in various trades, highlighting industries with a high need for skilled workers.
Career Path Considerations
Discussion on personal career goals, interests, and the suitability of each educational path for different sectors, including the impact of societal and economic trends on job availability.
Real-World Examples and Case Studies
Presentation of success stories from individuals who chose each path, including their challenges and achievements, and statistical evidence comparing the long-term income potential and career satisfaction.
Future Outlook
- Analysis of emerging trends in education and the labor market, including the growing acceptance of trade certifications.
- Predictions about changes in the economic value of college degrees and trade certifications as technology and automation evolve.
Conclusion
Summarization of key points made throughout the explanation with final thoughts on making an informed decision based on individual circumstances and future aspirations.
Key Takeaways:
- Trade school offers specialized training for quicker job market entry with less debt.
- College education provides a broad knowledge base but often at a higher cost and with more debt.
- Employment opportunities may be more immediate and with competitive salaries for trade school graduates.
- The choice between college and trade school should be based on individual career goals and financial situations.
College Vs Trade School - 02-22-2024
Hello, humans. Hello, humans. It's likely to be a bit noisy here.
It's still the 22 February. It's a little after one, and we're heading outbound. Doggo did good. She got her shot and we got her all checked out. She's healthy and stuff.
A little on the pudgy side, but other than that, doing good. Anyway, I wanted to talk for a minute about money, economics and stuff like that. But also colleges, right? So a lot of people have were sort of coming back out of the whole pandemic, lock you down, fuck with your brains, that kind of shit. We got a lot of people that are waking up and talking about all of the crap that's been pulled these last few years.
But in any event, some of these, some kids are starting to get kids. I mean, college age. They're starting to think about going to college. And I've had some people ask me questions about it, right? And this one smart guy was saying, well, does it work economically, college?
I mean, and if so, what kind of college? And so on. And this is a guy I know here out on the coast, and he's a young fellow. He's trying to decide what to do with his life, right? Well, one of the things not to do, apparently, economically, is go to college.
I looked at it. And so if you went to college for an advanced degree, all right, so if you were smart about it, you can maybe get enough money from the education, so to speak. The certification really is what it is. You can maybe get enough extra money from the certification of having a degree in some professions to pay you back for the amount of debt and interest you're going to take on, okay? But it's very few, it's very selective.
And so if we look at some of these professions, like college, right, or like doctors and college professors and just examine them, we come up with a metric that shows us that if you were to go and take out loans to get a degree for even an degree like PhD kind of thing in teaching. So you're a doctorate in teaching, but it doesn't matter. Anywhere along the line for teaching, it will never, ever pay you back for the amount of debt and interest you'll pay on that education over the length of that education, if on the other. And you can go and check me on this, right? You can go and figure this math out yourself.
I don't use AI on this kind of stuff because it can't add. And so I was just sitting there doing additions on how much money you'd make and multiplication over the number of years, the raises you'd get, et cetera, et cetera. And doing this examination of teaching degree. Right, okay. So the reason the teaching degree was chosen here as an example, it's one of the easiest degrees to get.
Very few people crap out of teaching schools, whereas lots of people crap out on medical school, where they go into medical school, and there's a fairly high attrition rate anyway. So if you were to do that, you'll never get paid back. If you were alternatively, to take that same amount of money that you put into the school and do virtually anything else with it, you'd make your money back on it. So if you took out all of that debt and invested in crypto and did the right cryptos, you could make money or buy gold and just hold it as real value. So if you were to go and take a fraction of that time and go to trade schools.
So some of these trade schools to get started, to get an apprenticeship are as little as eight weeks of actual schooling, and then you do some level of an apprenticeship. And so there are apprenticeship programs in plumbing, all of the building trades. Right. Actually, when I was a kid and we were living on the east coast, I had too many credits for high to in. When we were in Virginia, I only had to go to high school 2 hours a day to stay.
Even with the credits I would need to graduate because I'd had calculus and had all this advanced stuff in Germany at younger ages and did very well with it. So I joined an apprenticeship program to fill up the time and the rest of the day, and I learned to be what they called a hogman, an apprentice to a bricklayer. And so I was into bricks, into ceramics. I was a high school kid. I'd go to school for a few hours, and then I'd go in and basically carry shit for people.
Finally learned to do some level of brick laying after a while, but you got to do it for a couple of years before they let you mess with anything that can cause them problems. Right? So in any event, though, you can get a plumber's apprenticeship or an electrician apprenticeship and get done with all of the schooling and everything that single year and go on out and then start making money. And if you plot the amount of money you will make as an apprentice electrician or as an apprentice plumber, you will make more money there than a doctor will make working in his residency. Not kidding you, right?
I'm not kidding you. Plumbers out earn doctors until doctors are 52. Until doctors are 52 years of age and have had that much experience and that much of a build up a practice and all of that. So it takes them a long time, they get out of school at mid twenty s and then they work for 25 years before they'll make more in that year than the plumber, than if they've done it as a plumber and all those previous 25 years, the plumber is going to out earn them in a significant way. Plus that plumber won't have the debt.
And so a lot of the earning capacity of that doctor is eaten up by the debt and the interest.
Not a good, not a good scenario for doctors.
So that's pretty much it for all of the professions, right? Where you have to be basically certified to get in and do the work from it. Now you have to be certified to be a plumber, you have to be certified to be an electrician, et cetera. But you earn that and get through it in a much shorter period of time and it doesn't take a lot of debt.
So this one kid had a couple of scholarships for some kind for sports. And even looking at that, even looking with the heavy cost of schooling defrayed by some level of scholarships, you're still screwed. You still don't make as much money as if you'd gone into a construction trade if you go into some of these other kinds of trades. So we've got mechanics out here that are specialists in these heavy duty equipment, things they used in logging operations, right? And even when logs are not the hot commodity, even when logs are not selling as fast as they should because there isn't as much demand for wood product, they always keep the mechanics employed because it's almost impossible to find them when you need them.
Otherwise they're that much in demand. So anyway, relative to college, unless you're going to go in and stick it out and be a doctor, and even then you're going to be under the base level here of a plumber for your first 25 years as a doctor. But unless you go out as a doctor or some other highly specialized skill, especially those relative to medical, right? So that's really the only ones that hold up and can out produce the plumber or the electrician or that kind of thing. And if you get into the building trades and you make a career out of it, a lot of people that are now full on contractors started off as plumbers or started off as electricians.
So there is a career path out and you end up being your own boss, you have your own business, you get equity. And so if you figure in those people that end up owning their own business as a result of having gotten into some level of a trade, and we're talking surveyors, all these kind of people, they will outproduce the professions economically now and into the foreseeable future just the way it is. So really there's not much in the way of an economic incentive to go to college. Now, it used to be that women started going to college to find men to marry them, right, to get husbands. And that was a common pathway, was to use college, for that was one of the benefits of the college program.
But now colleges are increasingly predominantly female in terms of the customers, the students, as more and more males have opted out, they've just decided they don't want to screw with any of this, right? And they're going other approaches. And so there's something of an issue developing at a sociological level as far as meeting eligible men and all of this. So we were just at the vets, and what brought this whole subject up here was one of the women was talking about her boyfriend, the reception women there, the two people working as receptionists and taking money and stuff. And the other one was saying that, boy, she wishes that she could meet a plumber.
It's like, okay, all right, so I'll talk about this here. And there is that sociological problem there. Since the men are not going to these collective areas where they could be dated, what's a female to do? I don't have any advice on that. I'm not the person to be answering those type of questions.
Boy, broken down shit everywhere on the road, vehicles having breakdowns all over. So anyway, so there is that aspect of it, right? So you need to really look at your potential for gain relative to the continual drain of the debt, because the debt is going to get a lot worse. And a lot of these college loan program things are on a sliding or not sliding a variable interest rate. And so they're going to respond to the interest rates and the Fed is going to have to raise interest rates to support the dollar against the euro.
This is really what it's come down to, is there's going to be a war between the European Central bank trying to save the euro, which it won't. It can't happen because of the political underpinning of the euro is breaking apart, and the Federal Reserve, and so it's going to be the one who will support their currency the longest by raising their rates the highest. That will survive, sort of, because as you raise the rates, you cause all the problems for the banks, you cause all the problems for the debt dependent industries like real estate and this kind of thing. And we're already in a giant commercial real estate fiasco. Never been this bad before.
But the major banks that did commercial real estate lending are now underwater. They will not ever be able to in this current market conditions. So that's basically for the foreseeable future. They will not be able to have enough in the way of loss reserves to cover the losses they're taking on commercial real estate. As all these commercial real estate properties are going bankrupt, basically going underwater, they don't have enough activity to support the debt level on them.
And so a lot of the people that are nominally the debt holders, supposedly the owners of some of these big commercial properties, they're just walking away. They're just going and handing the keys to the building over to the bank and saying hope you guys can do better with it than I did that kind of thing, right because they can't afford to make the payments on it anymore. As far as commercial real estate, Covid really trashed that with everybody staying home and all the offices empty. So I know a lot of people that are in larger aspects of the commercial real estate markets all the way around. I mean like all around the planet in Europe, UK, Japan, even people that deal in commercial real estate and so on as principals they take on the debt and buy the buildings and stuff and they're not doing well.
In fact none of them that I know of are even holding their position relative to these past few years. So they've been losing money for years and they can't continue. They're going to have to make some kind of a decision and do some stuff. One guy I know is he and his partners and maybe there's like six or eight or nine or something. He's in this little group.
Odly enough, a couple of the guys in the group are doctors that made some money only really as a result of owning their own clinics. But anyway, so these doctors and this guy know they're wrestling with the issue of what do they do with one of their properties. I think it's like in Boston or somewhere it's a big commercial office complex that had retail in it and they were doing okay while the retail held up and now they've shut down a lot of the retail. So basically these guys are sitting on, I don't know, thousands, thousands of square feet, 20 30,000 little four or five story, I think it's five story building that's got some apartments and then some retail attached, and they're just losing it because they've got no renters in these buildings, and so they're trying to get the bank to accommodate them, to not make payments on the debt because they don't have the income. And it's kind of like, I think maybe they've got three or four stores still hanging on and maybe one renter in the whole building.
As I was told here, every single month, their light on their income is about 90% less than what they need to cover the debt for that month. So every month they've got a 90%, they've got a cover of that mortgage on their own. And the doctors are pitching, all the partners are pitching. Nobody signed up for this commercial. Real estate was supposed to be a good deal, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and they're all going broke, and they're not alone.
Okay, so I actually know a guy. He's like me. He had to move. They moved out of Maine, and he bought an old restaurant. And we're talking old.
I mean, it had been empty for over a decade before he bought it. And it was like a three story restaurant. It's over on the coast in North Carolina. And he's converting it to a house. The upper floor, where you're going in the main floor of the restaurant, he's keeping, but he's basically demolishing the other two floors and repurposing this structure for a house.
And he got it so cheap, it had been empty for over ten years. And ten years ago, when it had been listed, it was listed for like a year plus. And then they stopped even trying to sell it because they got no offers or for whatever their motivation, they stopped trying to sell it. And it's just been sitting there. He came across it and decided he'd go and see if they were interested.
And they fell all over themselves to take basically a dollar on the hundred. So they got like 1% of what they'd initially started to get, tried to get back in 2014, so quite the shock. But they can take some kind of a write off, I'm sure, and there's that kind of stuff relative to the property. And he ends up with a nice place. Even on that main floor, he's got 10,000 sqft, which is a little bit more than he needed for a house, but he didn't need the other two floors, which are actually underneath the main floor, and he's having them demolished and taken down.
It's a weird little place. Each of the floors were sort of hung off of these cement pylons. Anyway, so commercial real estate. Not good, right? Some commercial real estate has done fairly decently for people in being repurposed for a while.
I was sort of looking to buy some commercial real estate for myself for a project. And I think we've passed on that I won't be buying the property. I went and looked at the other day.
It's really weird. I also found a house up here, and it's like, the house would solve a lot of our problems. It's not where we want it, but it meets most of the criteria. But the thing's got more than one hoa on it. I don't know why you would need more than one, but anyway, it does, and so it's not a good deal.
Another house I'd looked at that was closer to us is part of an HOA, and I hate hoas just because I don't fit into them. Anyway, but for the reason of the lawsuits and this house, I'd looked at this development south of us, brand new construction, really bizarre design, but nonetheless could have been made to work. And then I get into it, and it's a member of an HOA that's got a lawsuit against it. And get this, there's, like, three or four people within the hoa who are suing the hoa. So they're paying an attorney to sue the HOA.
And then as members of the HOA, they've got to pony up money to support the lawyers that are defending the HOA against their lawsuit. So they're paying lawyers on both sides of the contention here because of the hOa. You just can't make this shit up. Right? So anyway, that's it about going to school.
You're better off doing any other kind of schooling than college.
I know a couple of guys that are real smart. They're fairly young. They used to work at a distribution center for UPS. Okay? There's just these big places that go 24 hours a day just sorting shit for ups.
Mainly Amazon packages, that kind of thing. Anyway, these two kids, they're not making enough money to have housing, right? So they're living in a homeless encampment while they're working full time. Just really a hell of a situation. But they came up with a very interesting and very unique, or not unique, but very creative solution to both problems.
And so what they've done is they've signed up to go to merchant marine School, and they basically have, I think, six months, that when they signed up, they got six months free schooling in the school, and they get a job at the school during their schooling, and then once they graduate and go through the testing, they can go to work. And most of the work they would be doing is on vessels where they would be getting room and board as well as their salary. So good deal for them, free school, and then they get basically guaranteed work. There are so many positions open for qualified merchant marine now, even with shipping down, that there's no problem. And it's because of these current generations, people were sort of wimps and didn't want to do this kind of hard, dangerous work.
I know another guy who's down in the gulf, and he's working on an oil rig, and I think he's like, it was like something weird. It was like two weeks on, two weeks off. Like two weeks. No, it was something like that. This is some time back that he told me this, but nonetheless, he's on the oil rig.
He's got a room and board there. They shove the food in you. You need the calories. They're working your ass off. You work for a couple of weeks, maybe it was three weeks on and two weeks off, something like that, and they're making seriously good money.
So this guy is like, maybe he's 26, trying to think how old he is. So, like, maybe he's 26 now and making over 100,000 a year as a wild or as, what do they call him? Chain master something. They do deal with all of the stuff in terms of getting the piping down for drilling, et cetera, and fix it when it breaks, that kind of thing. But also, he's been doing it now for over a year, but he's decided what he wants to do, what he's fascinated with, and what would pay him more for less physical labor is being a technician for all the tools, keeping everything, basically being the mechanic for an oil rig, fixing machineries and that kind of thing.
So technical, skilled, make more money than he's making now. Not just a roustabout kind of guy, but a skilled mechanic for, you know, he's got a good career path. And we're going to need oil. And when Trump gets back, we're going to drill, drill, drill. So we'll need a lot of people to do that drilling.
And so it was a good choice for him. And he's making serious money. He's going to buy a house over here in Louisiana this summer, and I think he's going to take a month or two months off. He's got a girl that he's thinking about marrying all of this kind of stuff. So life is good for him, right?
But he doesn't have any college debt either. And so he's very atypical to all of the other people, all of his cohort of people he went to high school with, all of whom, most of whom, I think went to college. I mean, the males, right? And all of those guys that went to college have debt. So he says he's the only one that he knows that has no student loans.
So pretty good there.
And hang on a second, I've got to do a bit of tricky driving. Road hazards here. They're working on this state route, and I got to get over before this big, large truck smooshes me.
There we go.
Anyway, so some other things that have come up. Somebody had asked via email about the elohim and sleep, right? Which is a curious thing. They were thinking, oh, well, when they're asleep, we can sneak up on them, that kind of thing, right? And what's really interesting is that there are reports in Sanskrit that we get most of our, what we can say is hard data or factual stuff about the Elohim is going to be found.
Most of that's going to be found being in Abhistan, which is this precursor to Sanskrit, or is going to be in this ancient iranian language, ancient persian language that predates even Avastan, or it's going to be in ancient Chinese, because you find a lot of these descriptions of what's going on in these other languages. As I say, not so much in the Hebrew. Anyway, though in one of the Abestan descriptions, we've got a description of these Elohim that were doing shit, right? They were at war with somebody. They were out doing stuff.
There's this group of them. They go to a know a roadhouse, a hindu kind of a roadhouse on the border up in the north, up near the area of China where India smacks into all of Afghanistan and all of that. And they go out into battle or whatever, and then they go to this bar. And we have a description of these guys going to the bar and drinking lots and lots flaggins beer just by the fucking barrel. And there were a bunch of these guys, they drank all this beer.
They'd been drinking the beer in zinc lined beer mugs, flaggings that were lined with zinc. This was not that uncommon because zinc in one form is malleable. You can smoosh it around and hammer it, and it does really well. It also handles interacting with alcohol pretty well. And although I'm told it makes things, quote, sweet.
Alcohol is sweet if you put it into these. In any event, though, so they end up getting poisoned and they die. Then there's just all hell breaks loose because the Elohim find out about all these poisoned other Elohim, all these warriors that were out doing this shit. And so the main base finds out that all these guys have been poisoned, and it rains absolute hell down on this particular part of the area up there and converts it all into a desert. And so this was the origin story for this one particular desert area, as I say, up near the northern part of India, but sort of off over towards Iran and sort of over towards Pakistan and into Nepal, this particular little valley up there.
And they just come on in and obliterate everything. Because these Elohim were poisoned. I don't think it was a deliberate poisoning, but who knew that they were susceptible to poisoning from something relatively common? Now, it was usual to use lead to line glasses and stuff with lead, because lead is very soft, you can form it easy to find, not a lot at low temperature to refine it and so on. So it may have been that what was called zinc was just this particular kind of lead that has enough zinc in it that it turns it into a very slightly bluish color.
So we're not certain. We don't know the composition of this. We're not really sure what it was that killed these guys, but we have descriptions of these guys dying of it. And what's really interesting in that description, to me, anyway, relative to this conversation or relative to the question, is that within that description, we have it being said that at first, the management of the bar, the people running the bar, thought that these guys had just simply drunk enough to pass out, right? And what's interesting in there is the descriptions include a couple of statements about people had seen the Elohim drink so much that they were basically insensate and would sort of pass out.
Not like a human, where when you drink too much, you just pass out. And that's it, right? You're just, boom, you're out, you're flat, you're totally soft, and your frame is dead. There's no muscle tension. You are that drunk, and out you go.
Nobody had ever seen the Elohim get that drunk. They can drink and drink and drink and drink, and they get really inebriated. But we've never seen. It's not recorded that these Elohim came in and they drank all of our. And they, of course, drink for free, right?
So they drank all of your liquor and stuff, because if you give them any shit, they'll just kill you. And tell the next human over there, go get me this liquor. Right? Unless you want the same fate as this fucker.
So, anyway, it wasn't recorded that the Elohim drank so much they passed out. But in this particular instance, it was notable because they said, unlike other Elohim, these fuckers drank so much that they passed out around the table and were dropping around on the floor on the way out the door. And no one had ever seen this before, just as no one's ever seen them sleep. Okay, so we don't see them getting sleepy. There's no reports of them having a sleep cycle.
There are the exact opposite of that. So those reports that we have from humans that had some level of interaction with the Elohim when they were in the gaunts, when they had their force field bubbles up, these people would say that within the bubble, it was like perpetual daylight. And it has an incredible air, great smells. You feel super energetic. You feel like a newborn deer.
You're just out there just testing everything. Your body feels new and excited and so on, very energized. So it may be that these guys don't sleep as we know it. They may have some kind of a rest period, but insofar as we're able to determine there isn't sleep there, we also have the descriptions of some of the guys that threw hymns and shit. So it gets really weird, right?
Because people, over time, think this shit is religious, and so they convert it to a hymn. But also, maybe at the time, that was really how things were written down, because you'd come from a more oral tradition, and you only wrote shit down under certain circumstances. Nonetheless, though, we have descriptions of people that were in the Vimana, that were soldiers and stuff that were being transported, and they would go on long flights, and there would be Elohim on board, and the Elohim were awake constantly. It didn't matter how long. I mean, if it's a 36 hours flight or whatever, the Elohim were awake the whole fucking time, and the humans would record.
Well, we were told to go over here. We got into this area. There were fundamentally, like, four companies of us, four groups of 40 men, and we were doing our shifts and stuff, and you'd go and sleep, and you'd wake up, and there was so and so still awake, still standing there. And these guys, the Elohim, were reported to be able to like. And so maybe this is a rest cycle.
I don't know. But they would go into a particular stance, and it's like they sort of weren't there, right? Like they were off meditating and putting their mind somewhere else. And their body is just standing there, arms crossed, legs sort of splayed out, slight pressure taken off the body by letting the knees bend. And they just stand there hour after hour after hour kind of a deal.
And so maybe they're asleep that way. We don't know. There's no sign of sleep. We don't see sleep being described or ascribed to them. And as I say, maybe they don't sleep.
We just don't know. We do know that there's reports that they have copper blood, right? That they have blue green blood. And if you get them agitated, angry, and inflamed, they can have blue and shading over towards green skin.
So quite the colorful guys. And it sort of comes up on them as they get angry or whatever. So you get their copper blood flowing, get their copper up, and their skin changes color. And you can see that if they're agitated or whatever, they would have splotchy skin. You'd see the anger and stuff coming out in them.
So they're really weird beings relative to what we might think of as our normality of being human for a second. And we're gonna go through a.
There we go. No, there we go.
Anyway, so that's about the sleep. We don't know. Maybe they do, maybe they don't. But it was apparently very unusual to see them fallen over and passed out from drinking too much. And so now we know it probably was not overconsumption of alcohol so much as it was the introduction of either zinc or lead or something else within this with the alcohol.
Hang on, I got to take some pills. Here's. Good girl, sweetie. We'll be home sooner.
The Elohim were, by the way, we have descriptions of them, hugely, hugely exaggerated kind of activity relative to humans. So when the Elohim feasted, they might eat a whole cow themselves, this kind of a deal. They were really sensation addicts that really got into physical sensation and all of this. And they're hugely into drugs and alcohol of all kinds. They have a fondness for high alcohol content brandies, and they also, by the way, they think of humans as stinking.
And they are also extremely paranoid about their physical bodies. At least one category of the Elohim is. So the Elohim that we get descriptions of mainly are not the warriors and not the stomping around kind of guys. So if you'll note, even in the Bible, most of the language is not about the angels and the archangels, who are basically the enforcers and the people that do the work. Right?
Yeah, sweetie, we'll stop up here and get some fuel anyway. And so you get descriptions of the Elohim are really of the management crowd, the type of Elohim, the Elion and Yahweh, who are, know, Azrael, Lucifer, all of these kind of guys. And these guys are all management Elohim. They don't go out and do the fighting and stuff. They don't go and do the work.
So we don't know.
We know some of the physical differences between them, but not the physiological differences between them. But it may be that the Elohim that went on out and did the work and so on didn't have the same kind of concerns or conditions that affect the Elohim who are managers.
So anyway, the management kind are the ones more discussed, and they can't stand the thought of dying, and they can't stand the thought of being exposed to the bacteria that humans have. Bacteria and fungus. They were just very afraid of these. That's why they had the whole anointing thing where they would insist that any human coming into their presence have vast, literally gallons of oil, these particular antibacterial and antimicrobic oils, like frankincense oil and this kind of stuff smushed all over them. And they would also will end up with having the stuff shoved in their mouth in any opening possible.
Anyway, I got to get some fuel here, and then I've got to head on out. I got to get this stuff done. So I'll post these when.
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Episode Summary:
"Trivium" by Clif High is an exploration of critical thinking, particularly emphasizing the importance of the trivium – grammar, logic, and rhetoric. High delves into the art of critical reading, urging readers to scrutinize not just the content of texts but also their metadata, creation, and history. He argues that many modern texts fail to meet critical standards, often being misleading or manipulative.
High shares personal anecdotes to illustrate the value of critical analysis in various aspects of life, from professional work to everyday decision-making. He criticizes the current educational system for failing to teach effective critical thinking skills, noting that such a gap has led to a society often easily swayed by superficial or false information. The author emphasizes the need for individuals to be critical in their reception of information, whether through reading or listening, to avoid being deceived or misinformed.
Throughout the book, High stresses the importance of being vigilant about the sources of information, encouraging readers to consider the credibility and intention behind the information they consume. He points out how easy it is to be influenced by content that aligns with one's preconceptions, leading to a narrow and often incorrect understanding of the world.
Key Takeaways:
- Importance of the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) in critical thinking.
- Need for skepticism and analysis in consuming information.
- Critique of the modern educational system's failure to teach critical thinking.
- Personal anecdotes demonstrating the application of critical thinking.
- Emphasis on evaluating the source and intent behind information.
- Call for vigilance against misinformation and superficial understanding.
Predictions:
- The book does not explicitly make predictions about future events or trends.
Key Players:
- Clif High
- Jeff Berwick
- Carrie Cassidy
- Mark Richards
- William Tompkins
- Jay Widener
- Dustin Nemos
Trivivium - 01-26-2024
Hello, humans. Hello, humans. 45 minutes later shut this off. Too bad it's warm.
Pretty cold here. It's actually easier to take the cold when we don't have. Or when it's dry. When the air is dry, which we get around here with cold, the air just gets really dry. Then all of a sudden the temperature rises from the mid teens and 20s up into the.
But we get the increase in the moisture and then everybody gets cold because of the moisture in the air.
Usually we're in the upper 80s into the 90s in terms of moisture content. Anyway, so I'm going to keep on with hyper novelty theme for some time as we get into this, right? Because there's so many weird ramifications of it. Boy, pelicans flying overhead. Interesting.
They're bigger than eagles, actually. Anyway, so as part of hyper novelty, we come unhinged.
There could be a lot of untethered heathers running around freaking out, that kind of thing. But also it's going to extend to larger groups, to aggregated groups within our social order. So I expect, as part of hypernovelty, to see the emergence of corporations that are near to nation states or more powerful than nation states. So let us hypothesize that, indeed, it is factual that Lockheed Martin has an alien reproduction vehicle assembly line that is producing tic tac UFO kind of things, or ufos, what we're going to call ufos. It's producing these.
They're human made and they're being used by Lockheed Martin, but they're simply not being given to the government. The government isn't being told shit. Once these people get hold of this technology, they say, fuck you, government. We're more powerful than you, and you guys cannot be trusted. So that cannot be trusted.
Part's really going to be playing into it here in hyper novelty. And you will not believe the ramifications that I'm expecting to appear as a result of this. You guys can't be trusted. Hitting the top down, right? So in my opinion, as we go through this over these next few years, the United States is going to recognize itself in a new state of being that is not federal control, but is much more akin to the early days of the republic, with very little government control at all, and a lot of corporations just going off and doing their own shit.
So let's hypothesize that Lockheed Martin has some of these, and they're not alone. There are other corporations that have these vehicles, different kinds of them. So there's at least two different kinds of technology involved. With alien reproduction vehicles that corporations have. Then we have to ask ourselves, okay, so if you were a corporation and you had ufos, would it be in your interest to go and colonize or explore as a corporation?
Fuck the government. No government involved. So it would be Lockheed Martin's lunar base, right, that kind of thing.
Or Raytheon. Right. These kind of things, right. I actually happen to have a relationship way in the past with Raytheon at a couple of different levels, as did my father, because he was testing Raytheon gear in Vietnam for the Department of Defense as part of his being the military governor of the highlands in Vietnam. War for the Americans, right?
This in the latter stages of the war, the vietnamese government had broken down. And we get to a situation here where us government was actually running the government in Vietnam because of the dysfunction of the corrupt government there. That was basically the cause for everybody wanting to go communistic. It was planned, it was designed, it's a mother weapon kind of thing. But nonetheless, that was the stated reason was the government was so corrupt that they went communist just to get rid of all the corruption, which is what they're trying to do in the United States.
They're trying to say, everything's so corrupt. You're going to have to become a communist thing to get rid of all of the corrupt Das that George Soros put in. So there's 3000 plus counties in the United States. It is estimated that George Soros has put in over 2000 district attorneys and has put in an additional 4000 people into the justice system in terms of locally appointed judges, et cetera. So they actually owe their allegiance to George Soros.
They don't work for the United States government at all. They don't work for you guys. They work for George Soros anyway. So this is going to come out in hypernovelty. And so we may well have a situation now where the activity that I'm seeing on the moon that I can accurately tell you why I suspect that I'm looking at a battle.
So I can say this item, that item, this action, this movement, all of these things reflect an organized strategy and a directed strategic violence ongoing on the lunar surface. So it's not a war because wars are settled by banksters and through negotiation from one bank to another, when they're all done with the killing and stuff and they have accomplished their goals of putting in what population they want, where they want. So it's not that kind of a thing. Right. But it's a contention.
So we'll call it a war for lack of a better term, but these are wars of conquest. I think that I'm watching that someone is attempting to kick off the motherfuckers that are on the moon or to take over a big chunk of the moon in preparation for kicking off the motherfuckers that are on it or in it or both in any event, though. So we're seeing a contention and all of that. And now I have to wonder. They say like, secret space program and all of that, as though the government is in charge.
It's like, hey, guys, that is not necessarily the case. You may have area 51 and s four and all of that, and these guys may have their secret space program and that kind of shit, but hey, people, the corporations are off on their own. It is only because you were born before the years of hyper novelty that you automatically assume that a secret space program, a breakaway civilization, is organized as government, pyramidal, et cetera. It may well simply be corporate divisions. So we may have.
And if that's the case, let's assume that indeed some of what I'm saying is accurate. And we have organizations like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon and some of these other places up there fighting someone on the moon, okay? Fighting something on the moon. They're doing it for their own purposes, the corporations are, and for their own goals, but they may also be contending with each other. Just because Lockheed Martin kicks the people off the moon doesn't mean they're going to welcome Raytheon in their new territory.
So it's going to be a very much more complex world, guys. It's not going to be easily delineated and structured in a paramedical fashion. That's all going away. That is an artifact of the thousands of years of abuse by the Elohim who had that structure, okay? And they impose that structure on all of humanity.
And humanity normally does not operate that way.
Usually humanity prefers to organize itself as collectives of tribes. And this was always the big problem for the royals in Scotland and so on, is that you had to argue with all the fucking tribes to get them to get out there and go to war with know come and help you fight somebody, right? Which is the way it should be. You should not be able to give an order and have all these men go and plunge themselves into death. You should have to really have to work your ass off to argue them into a position that they want to take that risk.
I've got another stop coming up and I'm trying to chug down some vitamins here as I go along. It's been a weird. Anyway, so we may have Lockheed duking it out with Raytheon also fighting the Elohim and also fighting the ringmakers of Saturn, for all I know. Anybody that tells you they know is so full of shit that you need to just ignore them. Right?
This is like Kerry Cassidy or gene decode talking about AI, all right? That as soon as Gene decode starts talking about AI, he's off in fantasy land. This guy has no technical grasp. I doubt he was a technician in the navy. I actually doubt that he served.
To be honest. His language doesn't reflect that. He sounds like a fuck tard and a liar, to be honest. Somebody caught in fantasy land means other people believe him.
What was he? Patriot something. One of these podcasters had Gene decode and Carrie Cassidy on the other day. And it's like, oh, my God, they're both discussing AI. And Carrie Cassidy lives entirely in a fantasy land relative to AI and anything technical, right?
She just assumes that if she's seen it in the movies that that's valid because the movies are predictive programming and they wouldn't tell you about it unless they actually could do it. So it's like, okay, this is not an adult way to go through life. And so her interview the other day with Jay Widener, which is really a good interview from the perspective of hearing Jay Widener talk about this, but in there you see her exact mental situation because she cannot believe that Jay Widener came to this conclusion on his own. And she assumes that he must have been told by some whistleblower or someone with authority. So see, there is what you're going to run into.
Carrie Cassidy is a prime example. She's like the woo version of our untethered Heather Hyen, Brett Weinstein's wife. Carrie Cassidy loves authority. Loves it, just loves it, loves it, loves it. She can't live without that authority.
And hypernobility is just going to kick her in the ass because first off, I don't believe any of her whistleblowers, right? I do not accept she gives these whistleblowers authority. She says this murderer, guy convicted of most heinous murder you can kind of imagine sort of thing, and a group murder, a svengali kind of mind manipulator. Fellow is a convicted prisoner, convicted murderer doing life in prison. And he has convinced Carrie that he has authority.
She's actually just like given him authority because he stated stuff and she never assumes anybody's lying to her. And this guy is doing nothing but lying to her. 100% and she's been there and she's got like twelve interviews with this guy who's in prison because he was in the secret space program and they can't have him out walking around. Well, okay, Carrie, let's be realistic. Just like Jay Widener told her, we're not children.
Let's understand that this guy is lying. That if he actually was in the secret space program and he actually did have knowledge that was so dangerous to the secret space program, why would they allow him to live? They would not. They would just simply kill him. Human life is cheap to the people at the top here.
But anyway, so Carrie Cassidy is super enamored of authority. She has the authority of whistleblowers for everything she says. And so thus she can say all this horseshit and she just assumes it's true because a whistleblower told her and he wouldn't tell her. He would not deliberately lie because he has the authority of having lived through it, done it, or whatever the fuck, right? And it's like Jay Widener was telling know people lie that he worked with Corey good, the butthead who lied day after day after day after day on their Gaia tv shows to everybody's face for years.
He lied. And then the fucker sued me for telling, stating my opinion that he was lying. He sues me, I win the lawsuit, which I'm kind of proud of because of the way I did it strategically, but anyway. And then he had to admit, Corey good had to admit under oath and deposition that it was all lies. And so if Gene decode has to be put under deposition because he gets sued, is he going to admit that all his bullshit is lies?
Now, Carrie Cassidy, she's not lying. She's reporting to you what some whistleblower told her, what some person that she has granted authority to, to have this opinion and to be the backstop for her opinion is saying that XYZ is factual, so she can robustly say this is factual when in fact it's horseshit. All of this stuff about AI is not technically possible. So Gene decode says that AI sweeps the Internet three to 500 times a day. It reads every fucking thing in the Internet.
He's so lame. I mean, it hurts my head to hear shit like that. There's so many different reasons that that is not feasible at all. And then he goes on to give attributes to AI of having willpower and having desire. No, AI has desire.
They don't want to do anything. There's no there there. So Carrie Cassidy judges AI by know she wants this and so on. So she thinks AI is sentient as she is, and that's debatable as to whether or not she's actually sentient at any given point. But that's what she does.
She attributes all of these things to AI. She personifies it, and that's not the case. But Gene decode does that, too. And these people are saying this one guy, this patriot podcast or whatever the fuck his name was, was saying that these were the two people that really knew AI well. They're the two people that are throwing out all kinds of fantasies, but they don't have a fucking clue about.
So in my way of thinking, hyper novelty is going to be really bad on both of these guys because nobody's going to be accepting authority anymore. And if Kerry Cassidy brings up Captain Mark Richards, I'm going to say he's a liar. We can just dismiss what he says. He's a liar. And so she was in a real world of hurt with this interview with Jay Widener, which is fascinating to watch, the psychology of her, as well as Jay describing how he came to this understanding about JFK, which I think is brilliant and is quite factual.
Right. In any event, though.
But Carrie kept going back to this, quote, whistleblower. She kept going back to her authority about all of this. And Jay had to keep reminding her, he's lying, he's lying. He's not telling you the truth. He didn't actually shoot Kennedy.
He was not there. It didn't happen that way. There was nothing for any of these people to be in on. Right. So it was not a giant conspiracy.
And everybody telling her that. Exactly. It was a giant conspiracy is 100% wrong. It was a conspiracy, but not the way we think. Right.
That's why you should go and watch Jay Widener's documentary, which is pretty cool. I put it on two times speed because I just don't have that much time and I whipped right through it. But you really should do that. You should go and watch it anyway. So we're going to have the situation where even, and it's probably especially in the woo woo world for those people that have this hidden authority bias.
All of Carrie Cassidy's 100% of her 18 years or whatever it is, 20 years, 21 years, whatever the hell, but 100% of all of her work is simply throwing authority onto people and accepting whatever bullshit that they put out. And then she regurgitates it. That is her modus operandi. That's what's actually happening in her videos year after year. After year.
So she won't have the luxury of being able to regurgitate stuff relative to a supposed backstop of authority as we move into hyper novelty. And it's going to really impact her because people know set up and know. Your Mark Richards is not a captain. He's not in the space program. His dad was not in the space program.
He's in jail for murder. He's lying to you because he's got nothing better to do and he's just sitting in prison. So he makes up all these interesting stories and he gets a real thrill when he gets online and sees you say his name in these interviews and put authority on him. He gets a big rush out of it's all psychological thing for know, I used to work corrections. I worked around these people.
Terry probably could have worked corrections as I had and still would have this attitude that anybody saying this shit and claiming to be a whistleblower has an authority. There was one person in all of her interviews that actually was legit and he was killed shortly after he talked to her. Every other person that she's ever talked to is full of shit to some major degree. And so this is the situation we're at at the moment, is that we're moving into hyper novelty. And she's going to have to face that the same way that Heather is going to have to face that she has no authority.
She's got no underpinning that none of the studies that she relies on, all of the journals that she relies on have to be thrown away or examined to the minutiae in the particulars of that moment to see if it was actually valid. You can't accept them as saying they did a good study and wrote up this good report of this study here, XYZ study. And therefore I will trust them on the QRS study. You can't do that because the authority doesn't transfer that way anymore. And so we don't have that world.
That being the case, it's going to be really tough on these people, both Carrie and Heather. And they're both going to be untethered. Like I say, it's going to be really rough on Carrie Cassidy because every single one of her whistleblowers is going to be disputed. And then, even then, there will be no government. There will be no authority that we will grant that authority to as we go forward.
Now, obviously this is a particulate kind of an event, okay? It's not really an event. It's happening now. The hyper novelty. Lots of people are starting to discover it.
They're getting into the issues here of what we're all going to face. And that's the way of our world here as we go forward. Is this cracking open the coconut to see what's really in the damn thing? Right? We want to know what's really in there.
Hang on a second. I'll stop here. So these next few months, as we get into the hyper novelty, more and more could be really hard on lots of these people. I expect that we'll have some level of mental breakdowns that will be visible in videos and stuff, not just in the normies getting stuck walking across the sidewalk, across the crosswalk, that kind of thing. Right?
It's going to be much more widespread and much deeper. And it'll really hit. Like I say, it's really going to hit the woo people, so many of whom are like Carrie and have an inbuilt bias favoring normalty, normalcy, normality and authority. Anyway, so I got to go. I got to pick up some more stuff here.
And then two more quick stops and I'm home to do work. So anyway, I'll put these up in a while, but hypernovelty is going to bite our ass. People. Talk to you later.
Dwapara Virtue – 05-27-2023
Dwapara Virtue - 05-27-2023
Episode Summary:
The text presents a philosophical and metaphorical discussion of time, not as a dimension, but as an active entity that powers reality and has dynamic qualities that can be manipulated. Using the analogy of our solar system's elliptical revolution around the galactic center, the speaker frames this in the context of ancient Hindu Yuga cycles - Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron, each with different effects on human progress. They state that we are in the Bronze Age, ascending towards the Galactic Center, which they associate with innovation and growth, evidenced by advances like electricity and mass communication. Lastly, the speaker discusses the current educational system's inadequacies, advocating for a shift from teaching subjects to teaching children how to learn.
The text discusses varied learning styles and the importance of discovering one's own, to optimize individual education. It emphasizes an ongoing process of learning and adapting to new knowledge, amidst an era of information explosion. The author cites historical instances where vital knowledge was lost due to the destruction of important literature and discusses theories about the evolution of religions and significant earth changes. The text also explores the impact of our proximity to the Galactic Center on human consciousness and the concept of experiencing different ages in many lives, emphasizing that disruption and recreation are necessary for novelty in our quest for new consciousness.
The text describes a historical perspective on the role of the Khazarian mafia, relics of the Kaliyuga period, influencing major societal changes through religious and socio-political manipulation. It emphasizes the concept of warfare and human sacrifice originating from the Kaliyuga, affecting religions like Judaism and Christianity. It also suggests the role of space aliens in the conquest of ancient, non-warlike societies. Additionally, it talks about how the Khazarians used hypnotic substances to infiltrate and influence empires, leading to their destruction. Finally, it mentions the ongoing struggle against the Khazarian mafia's influence, rooted in a 6000-year-long conflict involving space aliens.
The text discusses a concept of harnessing energy from the universe's vibratory frequency, suggesting the potential to create a chip resonating with the frequency, thus generating electricity. This could form a fuel-less source of power, lasting indefinitely with proper engineering. The narrative also critiques Einstein's time-space dimension concept, arguing time can be manipulated differently, unlike space, and Einstein's view traps physics in materialism. The speaker sees a future beyond this, with the potential for groundbreaking discoveries once we move past these existing paradigms.
Don't say that about Charlie's clone! - 05-07-2023
Hello, humans. Hello humans. It's coffee break time. So May 27, about 915, something like that, out in the greenhouse doing a bit of weeding and a little bit of cleaning up and taking a break for a few minutes. Hello, doggo.
Anyway, let's talk about time is in my view, time is what powers our reality is this pulse. And the, quote, aftermath of that pulse is what we call time. And it's basically an injection of energy into our area here.
And the residual causes us to have this sense of duration and the passage of time. And the pulse itself is the creation of the reality in our consciousness in this coordinated fashion. It gets real complex when you look at it at that level. But we needn't discuss it there today. Some of the interesting parts of this, though is that time has active properties.
It's not a dimension. Okay? So Einstein came along and said, oh, well, we'll just treat time like it's any other dimension, right? So it's like distance, something like that. Hang on a second.
scripty noise.
And it's not time is not a dimension like distance. We can actually do things that alter our reality through time. And Cozy Rev has a number of experiments that do this exactly and precisely. And measurable and we're on the process of identifying the active and dynamic qualities of time which can be manipulated and used by humans. Now, time scales.
So time stuff that we can actively manipulate with our little experiments with bowls of water, mercury or lead weights or something like this. The time stuff itself also affects galaxies, stars, planets, humanity, the materium itself and so operates at that scale as well.
Time is a tool of universe and there's all these different qualities that we put to it relative to our human experience. But we do know that there are differences in time based on the quality of the temporal flux, if you will, the flow of it all. And so our solar system, we're in the third minor spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system, based on where it is, has an apparent 26,000 year revolution around the center of the galaxy. This revolution is elliptical, it's not circular.
This revolution, as an ellipse has a very much narrowed tail, so to speak. Okay? So our ellipse looks much more like a comet with its tail than any other form of an ellipse. The tail part is elongated relative to the position of the galaxy center relative to our elliptical orbit. So we spend more of our time in the area closer to galactic center as a solar system than we do spending time in the tail end of it, so to speak.
The tail end of it also seems to have a definitive hook where we sort of turn the corner. That turning the corner. All right. This great year takes 26,000 years approximately. It can be divided in half into 213 thousand year segments.
Each segment can be thought of as either ascending, in which case our solar system is moving closer to Galactic Center, closely closer to the influences of Galactic Center, or it can be thought of as descending, in which case you're moving away from Galactic Center.
So we have thousands of years to go before we get to the Silver Age. The Bronze Age that we're in now, the ascending Bronze Age, we're heading back towards the Galactic Center. That ascending Bronze Age is 2400 years long, and we're only into it 325 years. So we've got over 2000 years to go in this Bronze Age. We're going towards Galactic Center.
Okay? So there is a noticeable effect from the Yugas wherein humanity has more get up and go and more going for it as we head into Galactic Center, and we have less as we head away from Galactic Center. And on our furthest point away from Galactic Center is we are at our most dense. We ain't got shit. We've just come out of this.
Okay. The Kaliyuga was that part of our history where you didn't have electricity, you had the bare minimum of stuff in the way of energy. You didn't even apply the word energy to your own body. In fact, that's only in our lexicon since the early 18 hundreds, where they started applying some of these terms to the human body and stuff, and we started thinking about ourselves in a different way. Okay?
So we can I'm not going to get into this too much. It could take days, but we can plot where we are in and we have proof that we're no longer in the Kaliyuga. This is not a supposition. It's not an abstract mathematical calculation. There is definitive proof in our actions out here.
In reality, that definitive proof is the fact that we have electricity, the fact that we have mass communications, the fact that we have growing science, the fact that we have splitting diversifying science, even, however fucked up it is at the moment, so on and so on, right? So that we are in a period of growth. We're not in a period of becoming more dense. So on the other side, on the descending side, going into the Kaliyuga, there was a period of time in a Bronze Age, 325 years before we went into the Kaliyuga, where we started losing well, we were losing we were losing stuff all the time. We were losing the ability to do X-Y-Z and this sort of thing, right?
This is why we find all of these great monuments and crap all over the planet, the pyramids, these great cities, all the carvings on the temples in India, all of these different kinds of things that appear to have been done with and we know we're done with a technology we no longer have. And that that technology has been disappeared into into the realm of history. This was as we were going into the descent into the Kaliyuga. We've rounded that descent. We've come out of the 1200 years of the Kaliyuga, and we're into the 325th year of the Bronze Age on an ascending fashion.
And you will note, we've invented LEDs. All these different kinds of things are all happening all at once, and it's just like this bloom or explosion of new ideas, new thoughts, et cetera, et cetera. This is a very chaotic time indeed, as we know, and we have ourselves in the midst of a great war that actually has its roots in the Kaliyuga, which I'm going to in a minute. Anyway, one couple of things to note here in the Bronze Age in this particular time, we have got more subjects than you can imagine, and our school system is breaking down because it's still trying to teach subjects. So in my opinion, there is no fix for our school system.
If you're going to try and just teach individual subjects to kids, how many and what subjects are you going to try and teach? Right. It's not sufficient to teach simple mathematics. You need to now start thinking about teaching algorithm construction, design, pattern analysis, for computer software, et cetera, et cetera, all that are based on basically arithmetic and mathematics. And so we have all of these different kinds of things.
So in my opinion, the way to approach this is to decide that schools are not for teaching stuff. We've got the Internet. We've got all these other resources for learning stuff. So in my opinion, schooling should be to teach children how to find how they learn, okay? So until you know how you learn, you're just stabbing in the dark at trying to acquire knowledge.
And so for some people, they're going to learn a language best by hearing it spoken. Others are going to want to learn to read it. Others are going to need to use AI for repetition to get the memory down, all different kinds of different approaches to this. And until you explore that and find out which way you learn, you may be choosing the wrong way to learn something, and therefore, you will be failing just because you chose the wrong way to go at it. So if I were going to set this kind of thing up, I would teach kids how to discover how they learn, and that'll change over time.
How you learn will change over time. So they need to know that this is an ongoing process, that they have to keep acquiring and sharpening that particular skill. And then I would describe to them the basic shape of the learning universe. This is what math is. This is what it's used for.
This is what linguistics are. This is what they're used for. This is what science is, and this is how it's used. And then show them all the cool stuff and let them and get out of the way and let them decide what they want to learn. And then simply provide them the backup to get into the individual subject to the depth that they want to do.
So and then tell them, okay, now in order to survive, you're going to have to understand certain things in our reality at a bare minimum. So let's devise a plan so that you will have these things acquired at a bare minimum level that makes you proficient and you can just get beyond what's going to be required, being able to drive or read road signs or whatever it is, right? There's some basic level of understanding that everybody needs to have. And then you go on and learn whatever suits you really, in this new modern age. And there's tons of stuff to learn and participate in.
And so that would be my approach to dealing with being in the Bronze Age here, with the explosion of new knowledge and new approaches to knowledge.
Now, the war we're in at the moment, okay, so let's be really factual and clear about this.
In the descending part of our great year, we lost all kinds of information.
At one point, they burned all the books in China, okay? Like at 200 Ad or 200 BC or something, this weird ass emperor went ahead and burned all the books in China. There was this guy that burned all of the books. There were scrolls in northern India at one point, and this was like, I think, 600 BC. I can't think of his name.
But they were convinced that books were bad and had evil and stuff in them. So they just decided to save their society the trouble for whatever reason and burned all the books. And reputedly the burning of the books lasted so long and was so fierce that the sands and everything around that area were baked that were vitrified by the heat that was generated, but that there was actually a smoke column that could be seen 1000 miles away.
They really put some work into it. So we lost lots of information. Now there is some stuff that's been saved, some stuff that was there was 10,000 books hidden in this one Tibetan monastery. There was reputedly another 35,000 books written in very, very ancient Sanskrit that were hidden in this particular behind a wall in a cave that is the back of this other monastery in northern India and so on. So there are repositories of some of this level of knowledge from the previous Golden Age that have survived the previous Golden Age and Silver Age that survived and were hidden in the last Bronze Age.
And so note that at the time, they were in the Golden Age, when they hid Gobekli Teply, when they buried it so that it would survive. And there's probably other ones like that that were also hidden deliberately from what was going to happen, and they knew what was going to happen anyway. So let's be real clear about this, that with the exception, the presumed exception of the Jain religion, that's J-A-I-N there's no other religion that has no other philosophical understanding that has come down to us from the previous Silver Age, okay? We think that the Jain religion appeared sometime in the descending Bronze Age in that 2400 year period just before getting into the Kaliyuga. There.
Let me see, so probably 3000 years back, we start getting all different kinds of religions popping up, hindu religion, all these offshoots of that. Prior to that, it appears as though there was what we can call the science, okay? And the science is the Sam kia. And Samchia is a philosophical approach, scientific approach to determining who you are and what is the nature of universe by examining your consciousness and then everything that is not your consciousness as universe decides to present it to you and noting not only what is being presented, but the order in which it's being presented. And it's in a relationship with everything else that has ever been presented to you up until that point and all your knowledge.
And that from this, apparently, Jainism became distinct sometime back in the very beginning of the previous Bronze Age on the way down.
That was a coincidental period to all kinds of stuff in our history in which there were vast quantities of movement of people and not in some level of Earth changes that we can get into. So these Earth changes at that period of time were the creation of deserts, basically, and may have also included the freezing of Antarctica. So Antarctica may not have been frozen over prior to about 8000 years ago. And that that was the case. That that the reason that it froze is the sort of like the opposite of the reason that we have the deserts in that there are some literature suggestions that there was an atomic war and one of the weapons used in the atomic war was a scalar weapon that was like the reverse of an atomic weapon and that it didn't blow things up, it froze things.
And they froze Antarctica with this, like, you might think of as, like a directed energy weapon, kind of cold beam sort of thing. Right? There are some hints of that in some of the older literatures that that was the case. We also find that the creation of all the religions so Judaism is a Kaliyuga thing, right? And as we're going in descending side, going into the Kaliyuga, christianity came about just as we're getting into the Kaliyuga.
So these are all remnants of the Iron Age, when we were where you didn't have energy, the best you had was a sailboat. We knew all of this stuff though. We had designs for water wheels, we had designs for windmills, all of this kind of stuff. But no one built anything, right? No one did anything.
There was not a level of energy within humanity that allowed us to be that progressive and do shit. And this is coincidental with, of course being the furthest possible distance away from Galactic Center. So the supposition from our own experience and from all of the science and stuff, is that the closer you get to Galactic Center and the reason we call these things the Bronze, Silver and Golden Age is because you're exposed to more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more energy at a consciousness level. And that truly your consciousness changes as a result of that. And you experience that consciousness differently than you will in the Gold Age, than you will experience in the Silver Age, than you will experience in the Bronze age, than you will experience in the Iron Age.
You're going to have many lives. So you'll experience all of these at some point, you'll connect with each of these different ages anyway. And that this aspect of time scales, this is an aspect of the time stuff. This is an aspect of time doing this in order that there might be novelty, that there might be disruption, that therefore there could be recreation from the disruption. All of these things are necessary that there might be novelty in our search for the actual new, for consciousness itself.
Anyway, so all of the religions basically are artifacts of the Kaliyuga and we are fighting now against the Khazarian Mafia. Now, the Khazarian mafia has deep inbuilt remnants of the Kaliyuga in it. So there were no insofar as we're able to determine in looking at ancient societies that we have physical evidence for throughout India, Africa, all these different kinds of places where there's remnant stuff about the social order, including even Brazil. Now, in the Amazonian Valley, we're finding the remnants of rather sophisticated social order in terms of number of houses and granaries and this kind of thing, right? But anyway, we find that these people were not warlike.
And thus that makes sense that we see in the Jewish literature and other literature about how easy it was to conquer these people, how easy it was for the space aliens to come down and conquer these people. And because they were not defensive, they didn't have warfare as part of the thing. They did even they didn't even consider it a feasibility. It didn't even take it into account. And we think of it as natural that there's enemies, et cetera.
Prior to that time, apparently the concept of a generalized enemy state or war state didn't really exist. And so we see that they're conquered by the space aliens. We end up getting Judaism as a result of the interaction of the Ill with the Judeans and the Khazarians. And these people solidify their power and stuff and come through the Kaliyuga they have within their religious structure, as we see in Christianity, are remnants of one of the main horrific aspects of the Kaliyuga, which is this idea of personal body sacrifice. All right?
So prior to that period of time, going back into Sam kia, we find the idea of discipline and austerity. And then over time, it mutates down into, like, serious sacrifice on yourself, starving yourself in a fast to try and get enlightenment the way that Buddha did, right? It doesn't work. It's stupid. It destroys your body.
There's all different kinds of problems with it. And even Buddha comes out and says, oh, don't do this shit. But anyway, that was a kaliyuga twisting of that discipline mindset that comes out of some kia that leads to this ultimate idea of personal sacrifice that then gets twisted over to actual physical sacrifice where you conquer a tribe. And you kill for political reasons as well. But you go through and you kill randomly.
One out of every ten males that survives this kind of thing. And that leads to these are all artifacts of the Kaliyuga. We don't find evidence of sacrifice at any level in pre Kaliyuga civilizations except for just before the period of time that Kaliyuga starts up. So at the very tail end of the other Bronze Age, within that last, say, two or 300 years of that Bronze Age, we start seeing signs of it. And it reaches its peak at about 500 Ad.
At the very peak of the Kaliyuga. And it reaches its peak in Mesoamerica, where they were reputedly sacrificing between a quarter of a million and a half a million people per year, cutting their hearts out very religiously and systematically and precisely destroying the body, separating it out into all of the various different bones and storing all the bones separately. And all of this kind of stuff, all about these rituals around the sacrifice aspect of it. Right. And we see the physical sacrifice of children in Judaism and the reputed tainting of the Jewish Talmudic philosophy with all this sacrifice stuff, which was actual physical sacrifice of children.
We see it in the Old Testament, where so and so is going to stick a knife in his kid, right? And then now, even centuries later, even out of the Kaliyuga, there's still this taint against Judaism relative to sacrifice. And we saw it as late as, like, the 1920s, where 300,000 Jewish people or more were attending a big convention or something, I think it was in Chicago. And they did a ritualized sacrifice of a child in the belly of this furnace thing. And to this day, nobody knows if it was a real child or if it was a mannequin or what the hell was going on, really.
We have film of it happening and everybody got really whipped up by it. But these are all remnants. We even see the sacrifice, the human sacrifice in the wafer and the wine stuff in ancient Christianity frozen by a Khazarian takeover in 325 Ad. So Constantine, who froze Christianity into Catholicism, it was 1200 individual sects of thought at that time. And he froze it into a religion and they called it Catholicism and he tied it to the Old Testament, okay?
Which was at that point, of course, it was the Torah. And it was being translated by these Jewish guys that were also spoke Greek and a couple of Greeks who also spoke Hebrew. And this was all under the direction of Constantine. But Constantine was in 325 Ad. Was 100% captured by the Kazarean mafia people, right?
They do it through mistresses and through drugs. Okay? So Constantine had a Khazarian mistress, as did I'm trying to think of the guy's name Justinian. So at the height of the Byzantine Empire, what happened to Constantine happened to Justinian, where he took a Khazarian mistress, who ultimately gets rid of the rest of the harem and using drugs, captivates Justinian and takes over the Byzantine Empire. And we see that within the next 40 years, the Empire is destroyed.
Now, it is true, there are consolidation waves, origination waves, consolidation waves and destruction waves for Empire that relate also to the Kali Yuga and the Dwapara, which is Bronze Yugas, right? And that this happens during this period of time. So this was not unexpected. It was just the mechanism by which it was done with the Khazarians is just very interesting. And they're using the same techniques even to the point of using the same species.
So there was this particular species of plant I won't go into it, I know what it is, and so on. And they got it out of Persia in both cases, right, or what we would think of as Iran. And this particular plant was used to create a drug that is a mild hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, and even more importantly, it's a hypnotic it's this weird hypnotic drug. And so Constantine, his mistress and Justinian's mistress were both thought to be witches and both had, because of their Khazari and nature, had contacts through back through the Turkish peoples over to Iran. And it's known that they imported this plant to the respective courts in the empires they were involved in.
And so we see this influence throughout all history. And that's one of the things we're dealing with now, is this war against the Khazarian mafia. So that's why I keep saying we're in the process of dealing with a 6000 year long battle. Okay? There's also thoughts about that we can get into, and discussion we can get into about why the L arrived when they did and why the Theoi and the other ones that arrived with the L did arrive at that time.
There's also interesting notes that the Cathars, like the Khazarians, were driven out of northern India. The Cathars and the Khazarians both left, both were driven out of northern India by that war that created all of the deserts. That war involved the space aliens, the L and the Theoi and the Divas. So basically they're all space aliens. They're probably all the same group, we just have different names for them based on which group of human had to interact with them.
Anyway, that happens all at the same time. And so the Cathars go from northwestern India, they head down slightly south and then end up angling back up over to and settling in the coastal areas in Europe within outside of the bounds of the Celts and the Picks and these other tribes that were existing. And that these people that came on over the Cathars ultimately blend in with all of the Europeans and become the Saxons and the Toots and other Teutonic tribes there. That's where the Cathari approach to religion ends up in Europe. That's why it ends up in Europe.
Now, the Cathari religion is an interesting one, okay, so it's true that all religions stem from the period of time of the Kaliyuga. It's a period of time when humans are so dense they can't think right. We don't have enough light from the galactic center to spark our consciousness. And we have to do things through rote and through keep it together, basically by following the manuals, by following protocol until we can get back to a period of time where we can think it our way out of the problem. That's fundamentally a good description of what we have to go through as humanity.
There were, and there still are religious practices or philosophical practices that are not formalized religions that are not able to be tracked as such, but predate the Kaliyugan went through from the previous Bronze Age and they may have even come from the Silver or Gold Age, we just don't know. But Cathariism or and shamanism are two of these. And so the Cathari religion is just basically it's not so much a religion as a personal experience, philosophical approach of understanding universe that goes back to Sam Kia in that you examine yourself against what the material presents to you. And this one does involve the use of ecstatic drugs in the sense of hallucinogens and psychedelics and so on. So it's no different in that respect than the mysteries of Elysium or indigenous people eating peer cactus here in the Americas, which we know goes back at least 6000 years.
And that may indeed have been pre Ice Age. There's some suggestion of that. Anyway, so long understanding of all this. But time participates at a scalar level and is influencing humanity through those aspects as it influences us individually. And so we will find that as we go forward.
So everybody who's younger than me, who's going to live longer than me, will find that their minds will actually benefit going forward in time. Even though you're aging, you won't necessarily age and deteriorate mentally the way that previous generations have. We will lose a lot of that, right? A lot of the shit that we're carrying with us comes out of the mindset of these people that we're battling that want to keep us in the Kaliyuga. And so these are the people that want to do the human sacrifice, these are the pedophiles and so on.
All this is old Kaliyuga shit. We're dropping that as we go forward and our minds expand and universe won't permit it to continue. So we know that these guys are going to lose. This is the good part. As we're going into a we're in the new age of Aquarius.
We're 325 years into the Bronze Age. And as we go forward, more and more of the shit that was put upon humanity in the Kaliyuga falls off. And it is doing so not as an aspect of the materium, as an aspect of universe, without us necessarily having to do a whole lot relative to that. So we know that basically the trends are friend and we can harmonize with it and benefit from this harmonization. And we know that the stupid sacrifice people, the blood drinkers, the name stealers and this kind of thing are not going to come through in these next few hundred years for sure.
And that they will not make it into the Silver Age. They probably won't make it even halfway through what's left in the Bronze Age. They're due to have a major reduction in power as we get through this next little bit of increased energy. So each and every one of these things that increases the individual human potential causes a disruption in those people that get power by having humans be reduced, right? Slaves and so on.
So, for instance, we know that Zionism is doomed. There's never going to be any God that's going to come back and give any of these Jews 1000 GoI as slaves. No matter how much these people work towards that end, they are doomed because that's a Kaliyuga manifestation. And they're so stupid, they don't know we're out of the Kaliyuga. And that time does not support this anymore.
Now, one last thing, and I'll shut up and then I'll get some more work done here.
As we go through from Golden Age down to Silver Age, down to Bronze Age and then into Kaliyuga, and then in that period of time, we go from whatever energy sources were used by humans to do all that fantastic stuff in the Golden Age and the Silver Age. And then as we go down through the Bronze Age, we probably drop down ultimately into electricity and then ultimately into steam, and then finally into powering everything by shoving grass in a cow's ox's mouth and hitting him with a whip on the butt to make him go right, so that we. Get denser over time. We also lose capacity over time as we go down in this cycle and we also lose energy sources. But guess what?
Now we're in the up cycle. We're in the beneficial, the harmonious side of the cycle for us and we're gaining energy sources back. Look at how many more energy sources we have now. Look at how many different kinds, how much we're splitting the understanding of energy and getting further and further into it, et cetera, et cetera. I'm of the opinion that electricity has a limited use as we go forward and that we will lose electricity as a primary energy source as we understand it now.
And we will go to something that will be very much decentralized and that, by the way, centralization is part of the Kaliyuga and it's something that's going to drop away and fade away. All this stuff is going to fade. This is why I was going to say it's best to teach your own kids. Teach them how, they help them discover how they learn themselves and then give them the basic books, give them loom of Language, Mathematics for the Million, Biosphere by Bernadsky and a couple of other books. And then say here, these are your base resources, work off of these, you can trust these and we can filter everything through these books here.
And then what do you want to explore, kid? I'll help you out anyway though. So as we go forward here, I'm of the opinion we're going to lose electricity as a primary power source and we'll be moving into a new form of physics because our old physics, bear in mind, extends from the remnants of the Kaliyuga. It's an understanding of everything as grit as materialism. And we need to get out of that.
We need to start understanding everything as vibration and energy the way Tesla did. And so we will do that. I'm of the opinion that time powers everything at a level of vibratory frequency and it's 22 trillion times a second anyway though, so we can get into that. We're actually being able to make some headway with our time experiments here and we're going to do one around the planet here, probably sometime in Fall, where we're going to I won't go into it anyway though. So I'm of the opinion that we're about to shift in another energy sources, that we'll have new energy sources and this kind of thing, that we are not in a degradation level.
We're in a very fantastic change level where we're going to be losing. This is the last gasp of the Kaliyuga people, right? This is the last gasp of the human body. Sacrifice guys with all of this trans shit, chop your dick off for the greater god of our cult, that kind of thing, right? So this is the last guess.
This is not a continuing thing. These people are self destructive and this is going to universe in. materium is aiding that destruction because it needs to get them out of the way such that we can grasp this next bit of impulsive energy that will be coming our way out of Galactic Center. That once again is going to change all of humanity and Upwire us, so to speak. So anyway, that's the thought.
On time today, I'm really getting into this ship with the cozy rev experiments and as I say, we've had some success in this. Now, bear in mind what this implies, okay? So the implication is that if I'm correct and there is a vibratory frequency of universe that powers a non steady state universe at something over a trillion times a second flashing, and I think it's 22 trillion, but it doesn't matter. The actual numeric of it is immaterial. But the implication is that there would be some subharmonic that you could discover and you could just simply create a chip that wanted to vibrate at that particular frequency.
So maybe we're talking 22 billion times a second, I don't know, right? Some fantastically fast vibratory state. But there is some subharmonic of the flash rate of universe at which you could have a chip in its static state sit there and simply generate electricity for you because of the nature of what you would do to create that chip in harmonizing with the pulse in order to create that subharmonic. And so that would be your free energy you would have to create the chip. You'd have to put energy into making the fucker.
And it would not be trivial to do so. But once you'd made it, it would be a fuelless form of electricity that could just be plugged into shit. So you might have something like the size of a USB that you would just go and plug into something that was like a USB port and that would be your power source for that device. And it would basically last as long as the material of that device of the chip could withstand that level of vibration. And so I would expect the first ones basically we wouldn't know what we were doing and they would just flash into existence, create a shitload of electricity and then go poof because they were not engineered correctly to withstand the vibratory stresses on the material.
But that over time, we would get them to where they would be fairly long lasting. And so you could make one that might power a device for 1000 years or something anyway. And this is an aspect of the energy, the refinement of that energy, the getting out of the materialism and everything, that is an aspect of time as an active component of universe which you just don't find anybody who understands anything from Einstein's perspective dealing with because Einstein reduced time to a dimension. Okay?
So Einstein said in all of his equations that you might as well be dealing with distance whenever you dealt with time. And this is why we get this effect in all of these weird ass quantum equations where when you go to measure it, the waveform collapses and you get a number. But the quantum science, so to speak itself, doesn't tell you why that should occur. I can tell you why that should occur, and it's because Einstein took time and made it into a dimension, and it is not. We can demonstrate this by taking time stuff and doing active things with it in our reality.
And so I'm not able to take space out of the distance between myself and this tree over here and do anything with that space, right? It's like 25ft, so I can't take any of those feet out, and I can't put any more feet in there. So I know that this dimension exists and it's fixed. It has an enumeration that is fixed and won't change as long as the tree doesn't change its position and I don't change mine. That's not true of time.
We can actually take extra time stuff and shove it into the time space, so to speak. We need a whole new language to discuss all of this, but we can actively do that with cozy, rev's experiments, and he has done that, and there's others out there doing that as well. And so you can take stuff out of time and manipulate it, concentrate it, and use it, so you cannot concentrate distance. I cannot take distance out of the space between me and Alpha Centuri and do anything with it, but I can do that with time. And also, if we examine this and we take time and say it's not a dimension, then that instantly changes all of the calculations.
And you don't have to worry about curving space, because what you're having to do in all of those weird ass calculations is curve space time, so to speak, in order to accommodate the collapse of the time wave, which, like I say, is horseshit. Time is not a dimension, and I won't ramble on about that anymore. But Einstein is actually a remnant of the Kaliyuga because he was on the cusp, but he's a remnant of the Kaliyuga because he's trapped in materialism, as are all of the current atheistic, mostly Jewish physicists. All of that physics is trapped in this child sacrifice, body sacrifice, materialistic grit view of the world that is so Kaliyuga and is dying, and we just need to get beyond it, and we'll discover all different kinds of stuff. That'll be really cool.
Anyway, I got to get some more coffee and get the dog in and get some work done. Yeah, you get to go in now. Okay. Good girl. Woof.
Anyway. Okay, guys, talk to you later.
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Some people think that in today’s hyper-competitive world, it’s the tough, take-no-prisoners type who comes out on top. But in reality, argues New York Times bestselling author Dave Kerpen, it’s actually those with the best people skills who win the day. Those who build the right relationships. Those who truly understand and connect with their colleagues, their customers, their partners. Those who can teach, lead, and inspire. In a world where we are constantly connected, and social media has become the primary way we communicate, the key to getting ahead is being the person others like, respect, and trust. Because no matter who you are or what profession you're in, success is contingent less on what you can do for yourself, but on what other people are willing to do for you. Here, through 53 bite-sized, easy-to-execute, and often counterintuitive tips, you’ll learn to master the 11 People Skills that will get you more of what you want at work, at home, and in life. For example, you’ll learn: · The single most important question you can ever ask to win attention in a meeting · The one simple key to networking that nobody talks about · How to remain top of mind for thousands of people, everyday · Why it usually pays to be the one to give the bad news · How to blow off the right people · And why, when in doubt, buy him a Bonsai A book best described as “How to Win Friends and Influence People for today’s world,” The Art of People shows how to charm and win over anyone to be more successful at work and outside of it.
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by shiny mobile devices to notice. Information technology has improved rapidly, but there is no reason why progress should be limited to computers or Silicon Valley. Progress can be achieved in any industry or area of business. It comes from the most important skill that every leader must master: learning to think for yourself. Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.
Why should I do business with you… and not your competitor? Whether you are a retailer, manufacturer, distributor, or service provider – if you cannot answer this question, you are surely losing customers, clients and market share. This eye-opening book reveals how identifying your competitive advantages (and trumpeting them to the marketplace) is the most surefire way to close deals, retain clients, and stay miles ahead of the competition. The five fatal flaws of most companies: • They don’t have a competitive advantage but think they do • They have a competitive advantage but don’t know what it is—so they lower prices instead • They know what their competitive advantage is but neglect to tell clients about it • They mistake “strengths” for competitive advantages • They don’t concentrate on competitive advantages when making strategic and operational decisions The good news is that you can overcome these costly mistakes – by identifying your competitive advantages and creating new ones. Consultant, public speaker, and competitive advantage expert Jaynie Smith will show you how scores of small and large companies substantially increased their sales by focusing on their competitive advantages. When advising a CEO frustrated by his salespeople’s inability to close deals, Smith discovered that his company stayed on schedule 95 percent of the time – an achievement no one else in his industry could claim. By touting this and other competitive advantages to customers, closing rates increased by 30 percent—and so did company revenues. Jack Welch has said, “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” This straight-to-the-point book is filled with insightful stories and specific steps on how to pinpoint your competitive advantages, develop new ones, and get the message out about them.
The number one New York Times best seller that examines how people can champion new ideas in their careers and everyday life - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Think Again and co-author of Option B. With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn’t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.
In The $100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau tells you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - and earn a good living. Still in his early 30s, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth - he's already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he’s never held a "real job" or earned a regular paycheck. Rather, he has a special genius for turning ideas into income, and he uses what he earns both to support his life of adventure and to give back. There are many others like Chris - those who've found ways to opt out of traditional employment and create the time and income to pursue what they find meaningful. Sometimes, achieving that perfect blend of passion and income doesn't depend on shelving what you currently do. You can start small with your venture, committing little time or money, and wait to take the real plunge when you're sure it's successful. In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $100 or less), and from that group he’s chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies. In nearly all cases, people with no special skills discovered aspects of their personal passions that could be monetized, and were able to restructure their lives in ways that gave them greater freedom and fulfillment. Here, finally, distilled into one easy-to-use guide, are the most valuable lessons from those who’ve learned how to turn what they do into a gateway to self-fulfillment. It’s all about finding the intersection between your "expertise" - even if you don’t consider it such - and what other people will pay for. You don’t need an MBA, a business plan or even employees. All you need is a product or service that springs from what you love to do anyway, people willing to pay, and a way to get paid. Not content to talk in generalities, Chris tells you exactly how many dollars his group of unexpected entrepreneurs required to get their projects up and running; what these individuals did in the first weeks and months to generate significant cash; some of the key mistakes they made along the way, and the crucial insights that made the business stick. Among Chris’s key principles: if you’re good at one thing, you’re probably good at something else; never teach a man to fish - sell him the fish instead; and in the battle between planning and action, action wins. In ancient times, people who were dissatisfied with their lives dreamed of finding magic lamps, buried treasure, or streets paved with gold. Today, we know that it’s up to us to change our lives. And the best part is, if we change our own life, we can help others change theirs. This remarkable book will start you on your way.
Bold is a radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered tools to create extraordinary wealth while also positively impacting the lives of billions. Exploring the exponential technologies that are disrupting today's Fortune 500 companies and enabling upstart entrepreneurs to go from "I've got an idea" to "I run a billion-dollar company" far faster than ever before, the authors provide exceptional insight into the power of 3-D printing, artificial intelligence, robotics, networks and sensors, and synthetic biology. Drawing on insights from billionaire entrepreneurs Larry Page, Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Bezos, the audiobook offers the best practices that allow anyone to leverage today's hyper connected crowd like never before. The authors teach how to design and use incentive competitions, launch million-dollar crowdfunding campaigns to tap into tens of billions of dollars of capital, and build communities - armies of exponentially enabled individuals willing and able to help today's entrepreneurs make their boldest dreams come true. Bold is both a manifesto and a manual. It is today's exponential entrepreneur's go-to resource on the use of emerging technologies, thinking at scale, and the awesome impact of crowd-powered tools.
The answer is simple: come up with 10 ideas a day. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad, the key is to exercise your "idea muscle", to keep it toned, and in great shape. People say ideas are cheap and execution is everything but that is NOT true. Execution is a consequence, a subset of good, brilliant idea. And good ideas require daily work. Ideas may be easy if we are only coming up with one or two but if you open this book to any of the pages and try to produce more than three, you will feel a burn, scratch your head, and you will be sweating, and working hard. There is a turning point when you reach idea number six for the day, you still have four to go, and your mind muscle is getting a workout. By the time you list those last ideas to make it to 10 you will see for yourself what "sweating the idea muscle" means. As you practice the daily idea generation you become an idea machine. When we become idea machines we are flooded with lots of bad ideas but also with some that are very good. This happens by the sheer force of the number, because we are coming up with 3,650 ideas per year (at 10 a day). When you are inspired by an extraordinary idea, all of your thoughts break their chains, you go beyond limitations and your capacity to act expands in every direction. Forces and abilities you did not know you had come to the surface, and you realize you are capable of doing great things. As you practice with the suggested prompts in this book your ideas will get better, you will be a source of great insight for others, people will find you magnetic, and they will want to hang out with you because you have so much to offer. When you practice every day your life will transform, in no more than 180 days, because it has no other evolutionary choice. Life changes for the better when we become the source of positive, insightful, and helpful ideas. Don't believe a word I say. Instead, challenge yourself.
A Guide to Resilience: How to Bounce Back from Life's Inevitable Problems Christian Moore is convinced that each of us has a power hidden within, something that can get us through any kind of adversity. That power is resilience. In The Resilience Breakthrough, Moore delivers a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you're facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can each have our own resilience breakthrough, Moore argues, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potent fuel for overcoming life's hardships. As he shares engaging real-life stories and brutally honest analyses of his own experiences, Moore equips you with 27 resilience-building tools that you can start using today - in your personal life or in your organization.
What if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim--but it's largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals of which we are unaware. Studies show that these constant inputs drive the great majority of our decisions about what to do next--and we become conscious of the decisions only after we start acting on them. Many may find that disturbing. But the implications for leadership are profound. In this provocative yet practical book, renowned speaking coach and communication expert Nick Morgan highlights recent research that shows how humans are programmed to respond to the nonverbal cues of others--subtle gestures, sounds, and signals--that elicit emotion. He then provides a clear, useful framework of seven "power cues" that will be essential for any leader in business, the public sector, or almost any context. You'll learn crucial skills, from measuring nonverbal signs of confidence, to the art and practice of gestures and vocal tones, to figuring out what your gut is really telling you. This concise and engaging guide will help leaders and aspiring leaders of all stripes to connect powerfully, communicate more effectively, and command influence.
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
By Gary Vaynerchuk (Author)
New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that really works. When managers and marketers outline their social media strategies, they plan for the "right hook"—their next sale or campaign that's going to knock out the competition. Even companies committed to jabbing—patiently engaging with customers to build the relationships crucial to successful social media campaigns—want to land the punch that will take down their opponent or their customer's resistance in one blow. Right hooks convert traffic to sales and easily show results. Except when they don't. Thanks to massive change and proliferation in social media platforms, the winning combination of jabs and right hooks is different now. Vaynerchuk shows that while communication is still key, context matters more than ever. It's not just about developing high-quality content, but developing high-quality content perfectly adapted to specific social media platforms and mobile devices—content tailor-made for Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and Tumblr.
From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is immune to prediction errors. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is everything that is both modern and complicated bound to fail? The audiobook spans innovation by trial and error, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are heard loud and clear. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave - and thrive - in a world we don't understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand and predict. Erudite and witty, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish.
The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses about the new reality of the networked marketplace. Ten years after its original publication, their message remains more relevant than ever. For example, thesis no. 2: “Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors”; thesis no. 20: “Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them.” The book enlarges on these themes through dozens of stories and observations about business in America and how the Internet will continue to change it all. With a new introduction and chapters by the authors, and commentary by Jake McKee, JP Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor, this book is essential reading for anybody interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially vital for businesses navigating the topography of the wired marketplace.
From the founders of the trailblazing software company 37signals, here is a different kind of business book one that explores a new reality. Today, anyone can be in business. Tools that used to be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands is now just a few bucks or even free. Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is now simple.That means anyone can start a business. And you can do it without working miserable 80-hour weeks or depleting your life savings. You can start it on the side while your day job provides all the cash flow you need. Forget about business plans, meetings, office space - you don't need them. With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who's ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs who want to get out, and artists who don't want to starve anymore will all find valuable inspiration and guidance in these pages. It's time to rework work.
Tesla's main source of inspiration. Roger Joseph Boscovich, a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and polymath, published the first edition of his famous work, Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria Redacta Ad Unicam Legem Virium In Natura Existentium (Theory Of Natural Philosophy Derived To The Single Law Of Forces Which Exist In Nature), in Vienna, in 1758, containing his atomic theory and his theory of forces. A second edition was published in 1763 in Venice
Bill Clinton's Georgetown mentor's history of the Conspiracy since the Boer War in South Africa. TRAGEDY AND HOPE shows the years 1895-1950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century. With clarity, perspective, and cumulative impact, Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and a worldwide economic depression. As an interpretative historian, he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context. The result is a unique work, notable in several ways. It gives a picture of the world in terms of the influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other; it shows, more completely than in any similar work, the influence of science and technology on human life; and it explains, with unprecedented clarity, how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced the development of today’s world.
This is the July, 2016 ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trends Analysis) Report. Also known as 'the Web Bot' report, this series is brought to you by halfpasthuman.com. This report covers your future world from July 2016 through to 2031. Forecasts are created using predictive linguistics (from the inventor) and cover your planet, your population, your economy and markets, and your Space Goat Farts where you will find all the 'unknown' and 'officially denied' woo-woo that will be shaping your environment over these next few decades.
Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field. The point of discussion is the "time flow" conception of N A Kozyrev (1908-1983), an outstanding Russian astronomer and natural scientist. In addition to a review of the experimental studies of "the active properties of time", by both Kozyrev and modern scientists, the reader will find different interpretations of Kozyrev's views and some developments of his ideas in the fields of geophysics, astrophysics, general relativity and theoretical mechanics.
How UFO Time Engines work - Clif High
The webpage discusses the workings of UFO time engines according to N.A. Kozyrev's experiments. The LL1 engine is described as a hollow metal sphere with a pool of mercury metal inside. When activated by electrical energy, it creates a uni-polar magnetic field causing the mercury to spin at a high rate and induce "time stuff" to accumulate on its surface. The accrued time stuff is siphoned down magnetically to the radiating antennae on the bottom of the vessel, providing self-sustaining power and allowing for time travel. The environment inside UFOs is likely volatile and not suitable for humans.
The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.
Unique, controversial, and frequently cited, this survey offers highly detailed accounts concerning the development of ideas and theories about the nature of electricity and space (aether). Readily accessible to general readers as well as high school students, teachers, and undergraduates, it includes much information unavailable elsewhere. This single-volume edition comprises both The Classical Theories and The Modern Theories, which were originally published separately. The first volume covers the theories of classical physics from the age of the Greek philosophers to the late 19th century. The second volume chronicles discoveries that led to the advances of modern physics, focusing on special relativity, quantum theories, general relativity, matrix mechanics, and wave mechanics. Noted historian of science I. Bernard Cohen, who reviewed these books for Scientific American, observed, "I know of no other history of electricity which is as sound as Whittaker's. All those who have found stimulation from his works will read this informative and accurate history with interest and profit."
The third edition of the defining text for the graduate-level course in Electricity and Magnetism has finally arrived! It has been 37 years since the first edition and 24 since the second. The new edition addresses the changes in emphasis and applications that have occurred in the field, without any significant increase in length.
Objects are a ubiquitous presence and few of us stop and think what they mean in our lives. This is the job of philosophers and this is what Jean Baudrillard does in his book. This is required reading for followers of Baudrillard, and he is perhaps the most assessable to the General Reader. Baudrillard is most associated with Post Modernism, and this early book sets the stage for that journey to the post modern world.
We are all surrounded by objects, but how many times have we thought about what those objects represent. If we took the time to think about the symbolism, we could arrive at easy solutions. We have been so accustomed to advertising the automobile representing freedom is an easy conclusion. But what about furniture? What about chairs? What about the arrangement of furniture? Watches? Collecting objects? Baudrillard literally opens up a new world and creates the universe of objects.
It is not that the critique of a society or objects has not been done before, but Baudrillard’s approach is new. Baudrillard examines objects as signs with a smattering of Post-Marxist thought. In his analysis of objects as signs, he ushers in the Post-Modern age and world for which he would be known. Heady stuff to be sure, but is presented by Baudrillard in a readily accessible manner. He articulates his thesis in a straightforward manner, avoiding the hyper-technical terminology he used in his later writings.
Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.
The book begins with Sidis's discovery of the first law of physical laws: "Among the physical laws it is a general characteristic that there is reversibility in time; that is, should the whole universe trace back the various positions that bodies in it have passed through in a given interval of time, but in the reverse order to that in which these positions actually occurred, then the universe, in this imaginary case, would still obey the same laws." Recent discoveries of dark matter are predicted by him in this book, and he goes on to show that the "Big Bang" is wrong. Sidis (SIGH-dis) shows that it is far more likely the universe is eternal
In this book you will encounter rare information regarding your true identity - the conscious self in the body - and how you may break the hypnotic spell your senses and thinking have cast about you since childhood.
Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. Our visual perceptions are not a window onto reality, Hoffman shows us, but instead are interfaces constructed by natural selection. The objects we see around us are not unlike the file icons on our computer desktops: while shaped like a small folder on our screens, the files themselves are made of a series of ones and zeros - too complex for most of us to understand. In a similar way, Hoffman argues, evolution has shaped our perceptions into simplistic illusions to help us navigate the world around us. Yet now these illusions can be manipulated by advertising and design.
Drawing on thirty years of Hoffman's own influential research, as well as evolutionary biology, game theory, neuroscience, and philosophy, The Case Against Reality makes the mind-bending yet utterly convincing case that the world is nothing like what we see through our eyes.
At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark “Unspeakable” forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.
2020 saw a spike in deaths in America, smaller than you might imagine during a pandemic, some of which could be attributed to COVID and to initial treatment strategies that were not effective. But then, in 2021, the stats people expected went off the rails. The CEO of the OneAmerica insurance company publicly disclosed that during the third and fourth quarters of 2021, death in people of working age (18–64) was 40 percent higher than it was before the pandemic. Significantly, the majority of the deaths were not attributed to COVID. A 40 percent increase in deaths is literally earth-shaking. Even a 10 percent increase in excess deaths would have been a 1-in-200-year event. But this was 40 percent. And therein lies a story—a story that starts with obvious questions: - What has caused this historic spike in deaths among younger people? - What has caused the shift from old people, who are expected to die, to younger people, who are expected to keep living?
RFK Jr: 23.5% GREATER likelihood of dying - 09-06-2023
The Tavistock Institute, in Sussex, England, describes itself as a nonprofit charity that applies social science to contemporary issues and problems. But this book posits that it is the world’s center for mass brainwashing and social engineering activities. It grew from a somewhat crude beginning at Wellington House into a sophisticated organization that was to shape the destiny of the entire planet, and in the process, change the paradigm of modern society. In this eye-opening work, both the Tavistock network and the methods of brainwashing and psychological warfare are uncovered.
In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Feature Film - 2:47:08 - Youtube.com
A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays (1891–1995), pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.
Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, as well as his uncle, Sigmund Freud, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell Propaganda lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regards to organized manipulation of the masses.
Undressing the Bible: in Hebrew, the Old Testament speaks for itself, explicitly and transparently. It tells of mysterious beings, special and powerful ones, that appeared on Earth. Aliens? Former earthlings? Superior civilizations, that have always been present on our planet? Creators, manipulators, geneticists. Aviators, warriors, despotic rulers. And scientists, possessing very advanced knowledge, special weapons and science-fiction-like technologies. Once naked, the Bible is very different from how it has always been told to us: it does not contain any spiritual, omnipotent and omniscient God, no eternity. No apples and no creeping, tempting, serpents. No winged angels. Not even the Red Sea: the people of the Exodus just wade through a simple reed bed. Writer and journalist Giorgio Cattaneo sits down with Italy's most renowned biblical translator for his first long interview about his life's work for the English audience. A decade long official Bible translator for the Church and lifelong researcher of ancient myths and tales, Mauro Bilglino is a unicum in his field of expertise and research. A fine connoisseur of dead languages, from ancient Greek to Hebrew and medieval Latin, he focused his attention and efforts on the accurate translating of the bible. The encounter with Mauro Biglino and his work - the journalist writes - is profoundly healthy, stimulating and inevitably destabilizing: it forces us to reconsider the solidity of the awareness that nourishes many of our common beliefs. And it is a testament to the courage that is needed, today more than ever, to claim the full dignity of free research.
Most people have heard of Jesus Christ, considered the Messiah by Christians, and who lived 2000 years ago. But very few have ever heard of Sabbatai Zevi, who declared himself the Messiah in 1666. By proclaiming redemption was available through acts of sin, he amassed a following of over one million passionate believers, about half the world's Jewish population during the 17th century.Although many Rabbis at the time considered him a heretic, his fame extended far and wide. Sabbatai's adherents planned to abolish many ritualistic observances, because, according to the Talmud, holy obligations would no longer apply in the Messianic time. Fasting days became days of feasting and rejoicing. Sabbateans encouraged and practiced sexual promiscuity, adultery, incest and religious orgies.After Sabbati Zevi's death in 1676, his Kabbalist successor, Jacob Frank, expanded upon and continued his occult philosophy. Frankism, a religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on his leadership, and his claim to be the reincarnation of the Messiah Sabbatai Zevi. He, like Zevi, would perform "strange acts" that violated traditional religious taboos, such as eating fats forbidden by Jewish dietary laws, ritual sacrifice, and promoting orgies and sexual immorality. He often slept with his followers, as well as his own daughter, while preaching a doctrine that the best way to imitate God was to cross every boundary, transgress every taboo, and mix the sacred with the profane. Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Gershom Scholem called Jacob Frank, "one of the most frightening phenomena in the whole of Jewish history".Jacob Frank would eventually enter into an alliance formed by Adam Weishaupt and Meyer Amshel Rothschild called the Order of the Illuminati. The objectives of this organization was to undermine the world's religions and power structures, in an effort to usher in a utopian era of global communism, which they would covertly rule by their hidden hand: the New World Order. Using secret societies, such as the Freemasons, their agenda has played itself out over the centuries, staying true to the script. The Illuminati handle opposition by a near total control of the world's media, academic opinion leaders, politicians and financiers. Still considered nothing more than theory to many, more and more people wake up each day to the possibility that this is not just a theory, but a terrifying Satanic conspiracy.
This is the first English translation of this revolutionary essay by Vladimir I. Vernadsky, the great Russian-Ukrainian biogeochemist. It was first published in 1930 in French in the Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées. In it, Vernadsky makes a powerful and provocative argument for the need to develop what he calls “a new physics,” something he felt was clearly necessitated by the implications of the groundbreaking work of Louis Pasteur among few others, but also something that was required to free science from the long-lasting effects of the work of Isaac Newton, most notably.
For hundreds of years, science had developed in a direction which became increasingly detached from the breakthroughs made in the study of life and the natural sciences, detached even from human life itself, and committed reductionists and small-minded scientists were resolved to the fact that ultimately all would be reduced to “the old physics.” The scientific revolution of Einstein was a step in the right direction, but here Vernadsky insists that there is more progress to be made. He makes a bold call for a new physics, taking into account, and fundamentally based upon, the striking anomalies of life and human life.
Using an inspired combination of geometric logic and metaphors from familiar human experience, Bucky invites readers to join him on a trip through a four-dimensional Universe, where concepts as diverse as entropy, Einstein's relativity equations, and the meaning of existence become clear, understandable, and immediately involving. In his own words: "Dare to be naive... It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries." Here are three key examples or concepts from "Synergetics":
Tensegrity
Tensegrity, or tensional integrity, refers to structural systems that use a combination of tension and compression components. The simplest example of this is the "tensegrity triangle", where three struts are held in position not by touching one another but by tensioned wires. These systems are stable and flexible. Tensegrity structures are pervasive in natural systems, from the cellular level up to larger biological and even cosmological scales.
Vector Equilibrium (VE)
The Vector Equilibrium, often referred to by Fuller as the "VE", is a geometric form that he saw as the central form in his synergetic geometry. It’s essentially a cuboctahedron. Fuller noted that the VE is the only geometric form wherein all the vectors (lines from the center to the vertices) are of equal length and angular relationship. Because of this, it’s seen as a condition of absolute equilibrium, where the forces of push and pull are balanced.
Closest Packing of Spheres
Fuller was fascinated by how spheres could be packed together in the tightest possible configuration, a concept he often linked to how nature organizes systems. For example, when you stack oranges in a grocery store, they form a hexagonal pattern, and the spheres (oranges) are in closest-packed arrangement. Fuller related this principle to atomic structures and even cosmic organization.
To prepare Americans and freedom loving people everywhere for our current global wartime reality that few understand, here comes The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare (CG5GW) by Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (Retired) Michael T. Flynn and Sergeant, U.S. Army (Retired) Boone Cutler. General Flynn rose to the highest levels of the intelligence community and served as the National Security Advisor to the 45th POTUS. Sergeant Boone Cutler ran the ground game as a wartime Psychological Operations team sergeant in the United States Army. Together, these two combat veterans put their combined experience and expertise into an illuminating fifth-generation warfare information series called The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare. Introduction to 5GW is the first session of the multipart series. The series, complete with easy-to-understand diagrams, is written for all of humanity in every freedom loving country.
Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is best known for his work on the biosphere and the noosphere concepts. His ideas have profoundly influenced various scientific fields, from geology to biology and even philosophy. Here's the summary of his one of his concepts:
Biosphere :
- Vernadsky defined the biosphere as the thin layer of Earth where life exists, encompassing all living organisms and the parts of the Earth where they interact. This includes the depths of the oceans to the upper layers of the atmosphere.
- He posited that life plays a critical role in transforming the Earth's environment. In this view, living organisms are not just passive inhabitants of the planet, but active agents of change. This idea contrasts with more traditional views that saw life as simply adapting to pre-existing environmental conditions.
- One example of this transformative power is the oxygen-rich atmosphere, which was created by photosynthesizing organisms over billions of years.
It's worth noting that Vernadsky's ideas were formulated in a period when the world was experiencing rapid technological changes and were before the advent of concerns about global challenges like climate change. Today, his ideas can be seen in a new light, as we recognize the significant impact human activity has on the planet, from the changing climate to the alteration of biogeochemical cycles. Overall, Vernadsky's thesis about the biosphere and the noosphere offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of the Earth and humanity's role in that evolution. It emphasizes the profound interconnectedness between life, the environment, and human cognition and culture.
Vladimir I. Vernadsky (1863-1945) was a Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and geochemist who is best known for his work on the biosphere and the noosphere concepts. His ideas have profoundly influenced various scientific fields, from geology to biology and even philosophy. Here's the summary of his one of his concepts:
Noosphere :
- The concept of the noosphere can be seen as the next evolutionary stage following the biosphere. While the biosphere represents the realm of life, the noosphere represents the realm of human thought.
- Vernadsky believed that, just as life transformed the Earth through the biosphere, human thought and collective intelligence would transform the planet in the era of the noosphere. This transformation would be characterized by the dominance of cultural evolution over biological evolution.
- In this paradigm, human knowledge, technology, and cultural developments would become the primary drivers of change on the planet, influencing its future direction.
- The term "noosphere" is derived from the Greek word “nous” meaning "mind" or "intellect" and "sphaira" meaning "sphere." So, the noosphere can be thought of as the "sphere of human thought."
It's worth noting that Vernadsky's ideas were formulated in a period when the world was experiencing rapid technological changes and were before the advent of concerns about global challenges like climate change. Today, his ideas can be seen in a new light, as we recognize the significant impact human activity has on the planet, from the changing climate to the alteration of biogeochemical cycles. Overall, Vernadsky's thesis about the biosphere and the noosphere offers a holistic perspective on the evolution of the Earth and humanity's role in that evolution. It emphasizes the profound interconnectedness between life, the environment, and human cognition and culture.
A close analysis of the architecture of the stupa―a Buddhist symbolic form that is found throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia. The author, who trained as an architect, examines both the physical and metaphysical levels of these buildings, which derive their meaning and significance from Buddhist and Brahmanist influences.
Building on his extensive research into the sacred symbols and creation myths of the Dogon of Africa and those of ancient Egypt, India, and Tibet, Laird Scranton investigates the myths, symbols, and traditions of prehistoric China, providing further evidence that the cosmology of all ancient cultures arose from a single now-lost source.
It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages―Teutonic, Romance, Greek―helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a languages as it is actually used in everyday life.
But this book is more than a guide to foreign languages; it goes deep into the roots of all knowledge as it explores the history of speech. It lights up the dim pathways of prehistory and unfolds the story of the slow growth of human expression from the most primitive signs and sounds to the elaborate variations of the highest cultures. Without language no knowledge would be possible; here we see how language is at once the source and the reservoir of all we know.
Taking only the most elementary knowledge for granted, Lancelot Hogben leads readers of this famous book through the whole course from simple arithmetic to calculus. His illuminating explanation is addressed to the person who wants to understand the place of mathematics in modern civilization but who has been intimidated by its supposed difficulty. Mathematics is the language of size, shape, and order―a language Hogben shows one can both master and enjoy.
A complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. These timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path. The classic Sutras, at least 4,000 years old, cover the yogic teachings on ethics, meditation, and physical postures, and provide directions for dealing with situations in daily life. The Sutras are presented here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and with translation, transliteration, and commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most respected and revered contemporary Yoga masters. Sri Swamiji offers practical advice based on his own experience for mastering the mind and achieving physical, mental and emotional harmony.
William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world - and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict its future.
Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back 500 years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four eras - or "turnings" - that last about 20 years and that always arrive in the same order. In The Fourth Turning, the authors illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.
First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis - the Fourth Turning - when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together, the four turnings comprise history's seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth.
All original edition. Nothing added, nothing removed. This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire.
At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain.Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed.As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr. Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry.
Few people noticed the secret codewords used by our astronauts to describe the moon. Until now, few knew about the strange moving lights they reported.
George H. Leonard, former NASA scientist, fought through the official veil of secrecy and studied thousands of NASA photographs, spoke candidly with dozens of NASA officials, and listened to hours and hours of astronauts' tapes.
Here, Leonard presents the stunning and inescapable evidence discovered during his in-depth investigation:
- Immense mechanical rigs, some over a mile long, working the lunar surface.
- Strange geometric ground markings and symbols.
- Lunar constructions several times higher than anything built on Earth.
- Vehicles, tracks, towers, pipes, conduits, and conveyor belts running in and across moon craters.
The article delves into the history of the Khazars, a polity in the Northern Caucasus that existed from the mid-seventh century until about 970 CE. Contrary to popular belief, the term "Khazars" is misleading as it was a multiethnic entity, and it's uncertain which specific group adopted Judaism. The Khazars first emerged in the seventh century, defeating the Bulgars, which led to the Bulgars' dispersion to various regions. The Khazar Empire was established through the expulsion of the Bulgars and was multiethnic in nature. The language spoken by the Khazars is debated, with some suggesting Turkic origins and others pointing to Slavic. The Khazars had several cities and fortresses, with significant archaeological findings. The Khazars had interactions with various empires, including wars with the Arabs and alliances with Byzantine emperors. By the mid-10th century, the Khazar capital of Itil was destroyed by the Russians. The article concludes that much of what is known about the Khazars is based on limited sources.
In The Science of the Dogon, Laird Scranton demonstrated that the cosmological structure described in the myths and drawings of the Dogon runs parallel to modern science--atomic theory, quantum theory, and string theory--their drawings often taking the same form as accurate scientific diagrams that relate to the formation of matter.
Sacred Symbols of the Dogon uses these parallels as the starting point for a new interpretation of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language. By substituting Dogon cosmological drawings for equivalent glyph-shapes in Egyptian words, a new way of reading and interpreting the Egyptian hieroglyphs emerges. Scranton shows how each hieroglyph constitutes an entire concept, and that their meanings are scientific in nature.
The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon’s creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative efforts bear a striking resemblance to the modern scientific definitions of matter, beginning with the atom and continuing all the way to the vibrating threads of string theory. Furthermore, many of the Dogon words, symbols, and rituals used to describe the structure of matter are quite similar to those found in the myths of ancient Egypt and in the daily rituals of Judaism. For example, the modern scientific depiction of the informed universe as a black hole is identical to Amma’s Egg of the Dogon and the Egyptian Benben Stone.
The Science of the Dogon offers a case-by-case comparison of Dogon descriptions and drawings to corresponding scientific definitions and diagrams from authors like Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene, then extends this analysis to the counterparts of these symbols in both the ancient Egyptian and Hebrew religions. What is ultimately revealed is the scientific basis for the language of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was deliberately encoded to prevent the knowledge of these concepts from falling into the hands of all but the highest members of the Egyptian priesthood.
Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China’s most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Throughout his journey, Xuanzang fights demons who wish to eat him, communes with spirits, and traverses a land riddled with a multitude of obstacles, both real and fantastical. An adventure rich with danger and excitement, this seminal work of the Chinese literary canonis by turns allegory, satire, and fantasy.
With over a hundred chapters written in both prose and poetry, The Journey to the West has always been a complicated and difficult text to render in English while preserving the lyricism of its language and the content of its plot. But Yu has successfully taken on the task, and in this new edition he has made his translations even more accurate and accessible. The explanatory notes are updated and augmented, and Yu has added new material to his introduction, based on his original research as well as on the newest literary criticism and scholarship on Chinese religious traditions. He has also modernized the transliterations included in each volume, using the now-standard Hanyu Pinyin romanization system. Perhaps most important, Yu has made changes to the translation itself in order to make it as precise as possible.
One of the great works of Chinese literature, The Journey to the West is not only invaluable to scholars of Eastern religion and literature, but, in Yu’s elegant rendering, also a delight for any reader.
The Oera Linda Book is a 19th-century translation by Dr. Ottema and WIlliam R. Sandbach of an old manuscript written in the Old Frisian language that records historical, mythological, and religious themes of remote antiquity, compiled between 2194 BC and AD 803.
- The Oera Linda book challenges traditional views of pre-Christian societies.
- Christianization is likened to a "great reset" that erased previous civilizations.
- The Fryan language provides insights into the beliefs and values of the Fryan people.
- The cyclical nature of time is emphasized, suggesting patterns in history.
- The importance of identity and understanding one's roots is highlighted.
- The Oera Linda book offers wisdom and insights into several European languages.
The Oera Linda book offers a fresh perspective on our history, challenging the notion that pre-Christian societies were uncivilized. It suggests that the Christianization of societies was a form of "great reset," erasing and demonizing what existed before. The Oera Linda writings hint at an advanced civilization with its own laws, writing, and societal structures. Jan Ott's translation from the Fryan language provides insights into the beliefs and values of the Fryan people. The text also touches upon the guilt many feel today, even if they aren't religious, about issues like climate change and historical slavery. It criticizes the way science is sometimes treated like a religion, with scientists acting as its preachers. The cyclical nature of time is emphasized, suggesting that understanding history requires recognizing patterns and cycles. Christianity is portrayed as one of the most significant resets in history, with sects fighting and erasing each other's scriptures. The importance of identity is highlighted, with a focus on the Fryans, a tribe that faced challenges from another tribe from Finland. This other tribe had a different moral compass, leading to conflicts and eventual assimilation. The text suggests that the true history of the Fryans and their values might have been distorted by subsequent Christian narratives. The Oera Linda book is seen as a source of wisdom, shedding light on the origins of several European languages and offering insights into values like freedom, truth, and justice.
The Talmud is one of the most important holy books of the Hebrew religion and of the world. No English translation of the book existed until the author presented this work. To this day, very little of the actual text seems available in English -- although we find many interpretive commentaries on what it is supposed to mean. The Talmud has a reputation for being long and difficult to digest, but Polano has taken what he believes to be the best material and put it into extremely readable form. As far as holy books of the world are concerned, it is on par with The Koran, The Bhagavad-Gita and, of course, The Bible, in importance. This clearly written edition will allow many to experience The Talmud who may have otherwise not had the chance.
This five-volume set is the only complete English rendering of The Zohar, the fundamental rabbinic work on Jewish mysticism that has fascinated readers for more than seven centuries. In addition to being the primary reference text for kabbalistic studies, this magnificent work is arranged in the form of a commentary on the Bible, bringing to the surface the deeper meanings behind the commandments and biblical narrative. As The Zohar itself proclaims: Woe unto those who see in the Law nothing but simple narratives and ordinary words .... Every word of the Law contains an elevated sense and a sublime mystery .... The narratives of the Law are but the raiment Thin which it is swathed.
Twenty-one years ago, at a friend's request, a Massachusetts professor sketched out a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes. It would go on to be translated, photocopied, and handed from one activist to another, traveling from country to country across the globe: from Iran to Venezuela―where both countries consider Gene Sharp to be an enemy of the state―to Serbia; Afghanistan; Vietnam; the former Soviet Union; China; Nepal; and, more recently and notably, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, where it has served as a guiding light of the Arab Spring.
This short, pithy, inspiring, and extraordinarily clear guide to overthrowing a dictatorship by nonviolent means lists 198 specific methods to consider, depending on the circumstances: sit-ins, popular nonobedience, selective strikes, withdrawal of bank deposits, revenue refusal, walkouts, silence, and hunger strikes. From Dictatorship to Democracy is the remarkable work that has made the little-known Sharp into the world's most effective and sought-after analyst of resistance to authoritarian regimes.
Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the truth unfold as he writes about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war on drugs, the secret government, and UFOs. Bill is a lucid, rational, and powerful speaker whose intent is to inform and to empower his audience. Standing room only is normal. His presentation and information transcend partisan affiliations as he clearly addresses issues in a way that has a striking impact on listeners of all backgrounds and interests. He has spoken to many groups throughout the United States and has appeared regularly on many radio talk shows and on television. In 1988 Bill decided to "talk" due to events then taking place worldwide, events that he had seen plans for back in the early 1970s. Bill correctly predicted the lowering of the Iron Curtain, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the invasion of Panama. All Bill's predictions were on record well before the events occurred. Bill is not a psychic. His information comes from top secret documents that he read while with the Intelligence Briefing Team and from over seventeen years of research.
The argument that the 16th Amendment (which concerns the federal income tax) was not properly ratified and thus is invalid has been a topic of debate among some tax protesters and scholars. One of the individuals associated with this theory is Bill Benson, who asserted that the 16th Amendment was fraudulently ratified. Here's a brief overview of the argument: 1. Research and Documentation: Bill Benson, along with another individual named M.J. "Red" Beckman, wrote a two-volume work called "The Law That Never Was" in the 1980s. This work was a product of Benson's extensive travels to various state archives to examine the original ratification documents related to the 16th Amendment. 2. Claims of Irregularities: In his work, Benson presented evidence that claimed many of the states either did not ratify the 16th Amendment properly or made mistakes in their resolutions. Some of these alleged irregularities included misspellings, incorrect wording, and other deviations from the proposed amendment. 3. Philander Knox's Role: In 1913, Philander Knox, who was the U.S. Secretary of State at the time, declared that the 16th Amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states. Benson's contention is that Knox was aware of the various discrepancies and irregularities in the ratification process but chose to fraudulently declare the amendment ratified anyway. 4. Legal Challenges and Court Rulings: Over the years, some tax protesters have used Benson's findings to challenge the legality of the income tax. However, these challenges have been consistently rejected by the courts. In fact, several courts have addressed Benson's research and arguments directly and found them to be without legal merit. The courts have repeatedly upheld the validity of the 16th Amendment. 5. Counterarguments: Critics of Benson's theory argue that even if there were minor discrepancies in the wording or format of the ratification documents, they do not invalidate the overarching intent of the states to ratify the amendment. Additionally, they assert that there's no substantive evidence that Knox acted fraudulently. It's worth noting that despite the popularity of this theory among certain groups, the legal consensus in the U.S. is that the 16th Amendment was validly ratified and is a legitimate part of the U.S. Constitution. Those who refuse to pay income taxes based on this theory have faced legal penalties.
The article delves into the evolution of the concept of the ether in physics. Historically, the ether was postulated to explain the propagation of light, with figures like Newton and Huygens suggesting its existence. By the late 19th century, Maxwell's electromagnetic theory linked light's propagation to the ether, a theory experimentally validated by Hertz in 1888. Lorentz expanded on this, focusing on wave transmission in moving media. The article contrasts the English approach, which sought tangible models, with the phenomenological view, which aimed for a descriptive approach without specific hypotheses. The piece also touches on various mechanical theories and models proposed over the years, emphasizing the challenges in defining the ether's properties and its evolving nature in scientific discourse.