Thursday 16 April 2009

Positive news for conspiracy buffs

Sometimes the Illuminati agenda backfires. There's this meme in the conspiracy circles that everything is a conspiracy all of the time, and therefore a 'conspiracist' mentality forms around every possible thing that could go wrong. It's often accepted that these Illuminati characters are infallible and responsible for everything. But then you just have to look at the last two weeks here in London in the aftermath of G20. It's been scandal after scandal with the police and the government in the media on a gargantuan scale. The Orwellian propaganda machine seems to be turning in on itself in the most unlikely of happenings


The newscutting, left, explains how this girl called Nicky who was filmed being slapped and whacked in the leg with a baton by an over zealous pig in riot gear (I'm not the corporate media and I'm not calling him a police officer) ended up on You Tube and then made it onto the front pages of Britain's newspapers as a result only days after they had beaten a man and caused his death. Nicky apparently wants to use top PR guru Max Clifford to sell her story. This will be an enormous PR disaster for the police. It will be hard for anyone not to think of this country as a police state, and in the context of how it is now, a police state will not be popular.

Also Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary, is in trouble for using corrupt means to have Conservative MP Damian Green arrested under the terrorism act. Does this mean she is guilty of taking steps to criminalising political opposition? Is that not a step to a fascist state? Only two weeks after the porn scandal? During another scandal about a smear campaign by a spin doctor? And the Bob Quick scandal? I could go on.

Now I could understand 'problem, reaction, solution' if this was just a ploy to get the Tories to win the next general election, but something tells me that the way this is spreading like wildfire across the police and government institutions, that there might just be an awakening. That many problems of that nature can only result in one reaction. I can't see how these events could lead to anything other than people questioning authority, and the increasing police state becoming a contentious issue.

My intuition tells me that enough people, including those in the institutions themselves, are looking up from their propaganda machine and thinking 'what the hell is going on?'.

As for demonstrations, I don't go to them often because I hated being caged in by riot police. Once I got detained with about 700 other people for 7 hours by riot officers. I saw many of them being over zealous, and provoking violence, and feel that any justice that could be done now is well overdue. In the aftermath of this, future demonstrations could become less oppressive as the police are forced to relax their tactics.

This week, public resistance to the police state is no doubt beyond what the manipulators anticipated when they were plastering 'New World Order' all over the media only two weeks ago. Abuse of police powers and oppresive government tactics have tarnished their public image so badly that I can only see this as the Illuminati making a really big, horrible mistake. In the grand scheme of the totalitarian tiptoe, this may be a small victory like a won battle in a losing war, but let us realise that this is evidence that the ruling elites are not infallible. Who knows where this could go?

We are the real Illuminati. Remember that.

Wednesday 15 April 2009

The matrixes outside the matrix

This article is inspired by my recent lifetime ban from the Grow Report forums. Like any self respecting psychonaut, I thought I'd try to 'find the others', so at least I wouldn't feel like I was in a minority of one. I really hoped these new found 'others' would be 'my tribe'. I'm now kicking myself for being so naïve. I've already learned that lesson, so why did I forget? Well I needed reminding again.

The problem is that when you get any group of humans together, the overwhelming instinct to develop a pack animal/herd mentality does tend to undo all the rhetoric about how enlightened or evolved that said bunch of people are. A great disappointment in this reality is the fact that upon realising that you are free (to some degree) of consensus reality, and unplug from the matrix into this bewildering outer level, you will meet a lot of people who will say "Welcome to the real world". But upon further observation you may discover, especially if you are a truly independent thinker, that their world is no more real than consensus reality, and that they tend to congregate in separatist isolationist fiefdoms with the same pecking orders and systems of control that they apparently escaped still firmly intact.

In Aeolus Kephas's last ever podcast (click here) he goes into great detail about how the alternative perception community have ended up in a matrix outside the matrix, swimming in an overwhelming torrent of knowledge without context. Upon first hearing it, I imagined that he would be seen as a heretic by the die hards of the psychedelic, conspiracy, UFO and new age communities, but my reaction was that he was speaking his own truth and keeping himself free from the limitations of packs and herds. Within days of hearing that podcast I ended up in a nasty argument on a public forum with one of the psychedelic communities self styled 'thought police', which lead to official threats from forum moderators, a three day ban, and then a lifetime ban.

In the aftermath, with time to calm down and get centred again, I realised that I had committed the same 'crime' as a politician who disregard the 'party line' for the greater truth, or the member of the church who blasphemes because he feels his truth is closer to Jesus than what the priest is saying. I remembered one of Gandhi's bumper stickers: "Even if you're in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth".

Now, who better than David Icke to sum this up? A lot of people are instincively phobic of Icke, and that's because he is very challenging of consensus reality. But is that not what we need?

Here is an excerpt from his book "Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster" where he sums up the levels of freedom and enslavement of the human mind very well, using the metaphor of a camp site:

Tent Pitching
When we arrive in this five-sense "world" we begin to walk our jouney of experience. I have likened it to carrying a tent in a backpack, walking down the road and looking for somewhere to pitch it, settle down, and find our comfort zone. Where we choose to stop decides the way we see the world because this is the point, the perspective, from which we observe people and events. Here are some of the "camp-sites".

  • Base Camp: Most people don't choose to walk very far. A few strides and out come the pegs at a point where they believe what the media tells them and accept that they are ordinary and powerless or that they know all they need to know (same thing). They are hapy to drift though life guided by accepted "norms" and conditioned "thought". They include the athiests and the fanatical religious believers, those who think this world is all that exists and those whothink if they do whattever their religion tells them they might get a ticket to the afterlife in paradise. I will call these the "Base-Campers" and they represent by far the greatest number of humankind.
  • Radical Camp: Others walk a bit further until they find an acceptable spot. These are the "Radical-Campers", and they have begun to see that there is more to know than we are told. They might be "greens" and "environmentalists" or campaigners against the arms trade, "third world" debt, globalisation and other five-sense injustices. The Base -Campers who pitched their tents back down the road see these Radical-Campers as extreme and "loony" because we judge everything and everyone from our own point of observation - where our tent is pitched. What is perfectly sensible to one person or group will be extreme or crazy to another. In the same way, our conditioning, background and accumulated "knowledge" lead us to see the same event from very different perspectives. If a guy came out of the sea with a crab clinging to his bum someone might shout, "Hey, there's a crab's claw stuck to you bum." But a fellow crab might say, "Hey, you've got a man's bum stuck to your claw." Depends on your point of observation.
  • Conspiracy Camp: Those who are still not satisfied with the perspectives and beliefs of the Radical camp decide to walk some more before they pitch the tent. These "Conspiracy-Campers" realise that the injustices the Radical-Campers acknowledge ar not random, but part of a coldly calculated global injustice, the Illuminati conspiracy. they will see the connections and the game plan within the five-sense reality - the names, dates, coordination and so on. The Radical-Campers see these Conspiracy-Campers as extreme in the same way that Base Campers see them. The Radical-Campers may, and indeed many do, condemn the Conspiracy-Campers as "racist" or "Nazis". Did you know that a global fascist state is unfolding all around you? What? You're an Nazi - condemn him, ban his meetings, ban his books. You think I'm joking? If only I was. Back down the road in the tent city of the Base Camp, they see the Conspiracy-Campers as crazy, loony, "conspiracy theorists" akin to members of the Flat Earth Society.
  • Infininty Camp: There are others, the "Infinity-Campers" I will call them, who continue to walk on past the point where the five-sense conspiracy researchers are banging in their pegs. They have no desire to pitch a tent and they don't even carry one because there is never enough time to put it down before something draws them further down the road of inner and outer discovery. By now the road is quiet with not may people about, but those who venture this far start to realise that the world we see, hear, touch, smell and taste, is an illusion and only a very tiny frequency range that those senses can perceive. Beyond its vibrational walls is infinity, where all possibility exists. They see that the five-sense "human bodies" of the Illuminati leaders are only a physical vehicle for entities operating beyond the five senses to control the "physical" world and turn humanity into a giant battery, an energy source. To conventional five-sense conspiracy researchers, Infinity-Campers are extreme and doing great harm to their efforts to persuade people through names, dates, places, etc., that the conspiracy is real. To the Radical-Campers they are lunatics, but dangerous ones if "naïve" people believe what they say. To the Base-Campers they should be locked away in a psychiatric institution because they are clearly mentally ill. In short: anyone who moves beyond the point where you have pitched your tent is seen as extreme and the further they wander down the road the more extreme you perceive them to be. Their points of observation ar so different, and this puts them, literally, on different "wavelengths".
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So, back to finding the others. Not all of them will be as 'other' as they say. The academic dogmatists will be remodelling their old rigid ways to fit them into a mould that works with the more misguided members of alternative perception communities who can be brought to their bidding. Being as they have taken their old habits with them, they will attack like packs of dogs, and/or follow like herds of sheep. Alienation from these people is a blessing, or you will find yourselves bound by more systems of control. If they ban you or ostracize you, then you are free.

In the aftermath you can look back from that perspective at how they keep going round and round the same old stuff. Any awakened observers who witness you standing your ground alone against such viscious pack mentality will come with you as you command respect because of your integrity. This in turn will create a level playing field in a socially egalitarian environment.

It seems to me now that the journey to the 'others' is very difficult indeed. Full of dissenters, debunkers and zealots. It is our challenge to use these situations as a big obstacle course, and return to inner peace as often as possible.

Friday 10 April 2009

Road safety fear manipulation double agenda?


Here in the UK there is a new road safety campaign to scare teenagers into looking as they cross the road. The unquestionable propaganda that goes with this campaign makes is a bone of contention to even consider challenging it. And if you do challenge it, you will be accused of being callous and insensitive, with the usual emotional knee jerk reaction:

"What if it was your teenage child?"

Fair point, up to a point. But the picture above on the left (if you are of a sensitive disposition, don't click on it) is really disturbing, and aimed at kids. It depicts a side on view of a young actress playing a corpse lying on the road, staring with sinister cadaver eyes. It draws you in by appealing to your morbid fascination, and it is easy to get transfixed with deep subconcious fear as you get further and further sucked in.

On television, there is a 9pm watershed to protect children from disturbing images, scenes etc, but the rules are a bit different when it comes to billboard advertising. This advert is aimed at teenagers specifically, but regardless of who it is aimed at, people of all age groups have to walk past this advert, from little kids to sensitive elderly people to even paranoid schizophrenics. The trouble is, for those with a weak will and morbid fascination, this image is irresistible to look at, and affects people on a subconscious and even unconscious level.

I see this as a 'silent weapon for quiet wars' offensive - an attempt to simulate the traumatizing effects of war in a non war zone, to generate fear, to create submissiveness as another manipulation trick to coerce conformity. At the same time it will desensitize us even further as our sub conscious minds swim in the excessive and ubiquitous snuff movie like clutter that the corporate media relentlessly doles out to us that, for the less strong minded and the faint hearted, what is to stop an unexpected nightmare from being triggered by having these images buried in their heads? Who is going to protect them from apparent road safety propaganda?

Is it any wonder that there are so many people on anti depressants and anti psychotic drugs? Granted, teenagers can be clueless, especially when it comes to road sense, but does that justify living in a world of disturbing imagery?

Anyway, enough of my spin on it. Below is the press release/propaganda. You have the opportunity to weigh it up against my take on it, and make your own mind up about it. You may not agree with me, but as a result of a devil's advocate opposing perspective, you will see it in a less biased and more neutral light.


A STARK new road safety campaign from Transport for London (TfL) urges teenagers to 'Think! Look out for your mates'.

The campaign's theme, 'Don't let your friendship die on the road', highlights the fact that friendship is one of the most important things in young people's lives.

As teenagers are more likely to be involved in a road collision than any other age group, compelling posters will be put up close to schools and busy areas across London.

They show young actors who appear to be lying against a wall, however, a second glance reveals them to be lying on the road as a result of a collision.

The message is a clear call to action: 'Think! Look out for your mates'.

In addition to posters, a radio advert dramatises the effect of young loss as a teenager reads a eulogy for a best friend at their funeral, while a series of online banners will appear on popular websites including Bebo and MSN Messenger.

This year TfL is spending £57million on road safety measures in the capital.

Chris Lines, head of the TfL London Road Safety Unit, said: 'These adverts serve as a stark reminder to young people of the importance of taking care when using, or nearby, London roads.'

The Metropolitan Police are in a spot of bother this week.

I'ts a black week for the police in the UK this week, with a double whammy. The assistant commissioner resigns over 'exposing a sensitive document', and the riot police beat someone to death.

The bumbling buffoon

It appears that Scotland Yard’s assistant commissioner Bob Quick (Bob Slow would be more appropriate eh?) has been photographed holding a sensitive document in public relating to counter terrorism. He was on his way to see unelected Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Home Secretary/porn scandal survivor Jacqui Smith when it was noticed that he had these secret documents on full display for everyone to see.

Hang on a minute. Is this kind of criminal negligence possible? I mean, you’ve got a document related to preventing a terrorist attack from happening (allegedly). You’d think the chief commissioner would say the following:


“Bob, it is of the utmost importance that this document MUST NOT BE REVEALED in public. London is the most surveilled city in the world. You can’t move for CCTV cameras. Tourists and paparazzi take pictures all the time, and you cannot be 100% sure that terrorists are not taking pictures as well.
“As a result this document must never be revealed outside this office, and must be stored in an lead lined x-ray proof briefcase with a double combination lock until it reaches Downing Street. ”

Those sorts of high standards should not be considered unreasonable should they?

So how come it is possible for this scenario to be happening at all? Was bungling Bob set up? Or was there some other more sinister agenda here? Well, if you read the news cuttings you will find that this situation lead to the fast tracking of a few raids on British muslims (apparently potential terrorists) which lead to one man being tasered. Were these people potential ‘Al Qaeda’ terrorists? Whether they were or not, wouldn’t the police tasering one of them be detrimental to building good relations with the British Muslim community? Wouldn’t that make a lot of muslims lose respect for the police and want to join a jihad?

Also Bob Quick has been paid off with a £110,000 pension for his ‘minor error’ (see left).
Something here does not add up.

The baton wielding marauding barbarians

It’s a double whammy for the boys in lime green this week as four riot police at the G20 demonstration beat up Evening Standard seller Ian Tomlinson with their sticks, resulting in him having a heart attack and dying. At first he was said to be an innocent bystander who was in London that day to sell the Evening Standard, but later they dished up evidence of him being drunk whilst blocking the path of a police riot van. I supposed they’ll say they were provoked into beating him up as a result will they?

I have also included a piece from the London Paper, Wednesday April 9, 2009 containing graphic images of Mr Tomlinson’s confrontation with the police (see left).


There's no doubt a few funny handshakes have been exchanged this week.

Saturday 4 April 2009

More bobbies, more arrests? What's all this then?

Today I was in King Street in Hammersmith and I saw this attached to a street light. Now from the first of April it seems there will be a few more boys in blue with tits on their heads plodding up and down Hammersmith.

But at the bottom it says in capital letters MORE ARRESTS. Hang on, if there's a few more police officers plodding up and down is that supposed to deter crime and create less arrests? Process of elimination suggests that this is not a crime prevention measure after all, but a step towards making Britain more of a police state than it already is. What will they arrest us for? Dropping bits of our sandwiches? Possession of long hair and beards? 'Looking at me in a funny way'?

Also, look at the pictures. The copper (the one with the tit on his head) is black. The community support officer (the plastic pig) is Asian/Indian. Is that not pandering to the political correctness brigade? Would it be condidered racist for them to use white officers in these pictures? Or are they just trying to use a politically correct disclaimer to absolve them from the amount of black people they're going to victimise? The black and Asian people in the picture will be used to spin that they are not a racist institution, but that's obviously smoke and mirrors. We know the truth. This stinks of Orwellian doublethink combined with creeping fascism.

On the plus side, at least is was a warm sunny day when I took this picture!

New World Order? Where have I heard that before?

I found this article on a press association site, which can be found here.

New world order hailed after rescue

Experts are digesting the G20's "historic" trillion-dollar bid to pull the world out of recession after Gordon Brown hailed the creation of a "new world order".

After two days of intense talks with his fellow leaders, the PM claimed victory, saying: "This is the day the world came together to fight back against the global recession, not with words but a plan for global recovery and reform.

"The decisions, of course, will not immediately solve the crisis, but we have begun the process by which it will be solved."

US President Barack Obama was effusive in his praise for Mr Brown's chairmanship, and branded the outcome "a turning point in our pursuit of global economic recovery".

There had been fears of tensions with French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German chancellor Angela Merkel. In the event, both proclaimed themselves satisfied, having secured tough curbs on tax havens and hedge funds.

Mr Sarkozy said "a page has been turned" on the "Anglo Saxon" financial model, while Mrs Merkel said it represented "a very, very good, almost historic compromise". But there were no firm commitments to a new fiscal stimulus - which many believed Mr Brown and Mr Obama were hoping for.

The key plank of the deal is an injection of 1.1 trillion dollars of additional resources for the International Monetary Fund and other international institutions - the biggest increase in their history, according to Mr Brown.

Mr Brown said new rules on bankers' remuneration - establishing "sustainable compensation schemes" - would mean "no more rewards for failure".

Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said the summit "stopped the rot" in the global economy but more had to be done to boost trade and tackle tax havens.

He told BBC Breakfast that world leaders had realised they needed to act together to deal with the worldwide recession.


Also click on thumbnail of this article from TheLondonPaper

Now I don't know about you, but I'm at the point where I cringe at the use of New World Order by politicians full stop. I remember Gordon Brown using the same phrase for an ecological plan a few years ago. I even remember Blair using that phrase in a speech post 911. That was the same phrase George Bush senior used in his 1990 speech in which he said that the 'rule of law' would be used globally. However I would like to point out that the phrase no longer gives me 'conspiracy paranoia'. On the contrary, I think that their over confidence and complacency is making them over expose the covert tactics, and that will mean enough people will see though the veil to make their agenda vulnerable.

In the aftermath of the G20 summit it seems that all they have really achieved is to further borrow and spend their way out of debt, which is impossible. I doubt this is anything more than a spin doctoring via the big lie machine to lure us into a false sense of security. One thing that was agreed was that 800 more troops should be sent to Afghanistan. It's funny how the war machine continues during times of financial cutbacks. All the talk about closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing troops out of Iraq, and what do they do? Exactly.

And as for the way the protests were spun in the media, I saw a front page of the Daily Mail with the caption "Love and Hate". Love referring to a cosy picture of Brown and Obama with a backdrop of US and UK flags, and hate referring to a disturbing picture of riot police hitting a man with blood dripping off his head. I also saw a picture of police charging at a man who had fallen to the ground.

But when I dug deeper I than the front pages I came to the conclusion that the majority of protesters were peaceful, but the 'perception management' of the propaganda machine is the same old trick - make the only people who stand up to the lies in our society be portrayed as unwashed benefit scroungers hell bent on causing destruction and violence - even if the photographic evidence shows the police hitting them! The police are nevertheless portrayed as good, and their bleeding, bruised victims are seen as layabouts who should get their hair cut and get proper jobs like normal people.

However I feel that the general consensus is drifting away from that these days. Our world leaders are so blatant in their lies, deception and control freakery that a lot more straight ordinary people are feeling like they have been taken for a ride by gangsters.

Before 911 I used to go to the anti capitalist Mayday demos. The next day, straight people would pass judgement on everyone who attended as being unwashed dole scroungers, drug users, etc. But it seems these days that a lot of people in suits with normal jobs who still consider themselves to be capitalists attend these demos. It's no longer capitalism vs anti capitalism. It now appears to be joint captilism/anti capitalism vs gangster capitalism.

It may just get easier to shoot more holes in this New World Order and expose it for the scandalous sham that is is. Who are they kidding eh?

Friday 3 April 2009

Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?

The following is an actual question given on a University of Liverpool chemistry final exam.

The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues via the Internet, which is why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law that gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that, if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.

Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell. Because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay constant, the volume of Hell must expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Sandra during my freshman year, that "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is endothermic and has already frozen over.

The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is extinct…leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being - which explains why, last night, Sandra kept shouting
"Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY
"A".

What future? An article I sent to THE ECOLOGIST magazine as part of their essay competition. Unfortunately I didn't win!

If you were to ask your archetypal pessimistic doomsayer about how we may, or should be living in the future, there answer is likely to be "What future?". It is a sad fact that although we are living in a time when ecological issues are on the agenda more than at any other time in history, and governments and corporations are pressured more than ever to do something, that there is still a climate of pessimism, and often reading the ecologist and other similar media can make us feel disillusioned and powerless when we consider what we have done to the environment and what we are up against if we are to have a future at all.


Although this may seem irrelevant on the surface, people such as Arthur C. Clarke and cult writer Robert Anton Wilson were, amongst other things, futurologists. In a way the same could be said of Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame. If the concept of futurology was applied to ecological issues, the chances are that instead of feeling useless at the end of an article, we may feel inspired. Back in the sixties and seventies, the future seemed like something better, where technology, experimentation and space travel were to take us to areas exciting and inspiring. That may be a romantic nostalgic view on my part, but I cannot help but think that in this era of awareness of ourselves killing the planet, we have become less futurological in that positive, exiting and innocent way.

In my own humble opinion the Earth has been rendered somewhat derelict, and like a derelict building needs to be covered in scaffolding so that a major restoration job can take place. I intend for this article to be based on positive if somewhat innocent futurological ideas based on technology we already have. Picture an ecological infrastructure revolution. Never mind the whys and wherefores. As you read this article please resist the desire to be cynical, nor to worry about how it could possibly be done. The only thing in the human condition which could save us is inspiration and will. It helps to retain a childlike innocence in order to feel that way.

Firstly consider desalination technology. During the hot summer in 2006 which affected London, there was a lot of talk about hosepipe bans and drought orders. At one point, Thames Water suggested building a desalination plant only to be derided and shouted down by Ken Livingstone. I could not believe how short sighted he was. Here we are on island in which it is impossible to be any more than 65 miles away from the sea, and rising sea levels are threatening us with TOO much water! Meanwhile our oil obsessed governments in the pockets of big corporations think nothing of starting wars in order to build miles of oil pipelines in the Middle East. If oil pipelines can be built then why can't desalinated water pipelines be built too? They would, to coin a phrase, have 101 uses.

In Britain we would never have droughts again, and we would be encouraged to drink more water, have more baths, and even leave the taps on during times of rain drought in order to raise the water table. We would never have hosepipe bans ever again, and using hosepipes to keep the grass green would be encouraged because we would be perceived to be lowering the sea levels! Some of the salt could be returned to the sea, especially in areas where melting ice caps are diluting the sea with fresh water. The remaining salt could be sold as table salt in order to discourage people buying rock salt.

One third of the world's land is desert, and desertification is becoming a symptom of global warming. How long may it be before 40% of the world is desert? Could Spain and Southern Italy be part of that? Certainly areas where once there were vast rainforests are in danger of becoming deserts.

Large scale desalination plants combined with pipes containing strategically placed sprinkler holes linked up to computers with 'meteorological' software could over time transform designated parts of deserts into manmade rainforests – a kind of Kew Gardens and Eden project style set up, but on a grand scale. Money could be generated by NGO's and charities to pay for this. It may take decades to establish areas like this but if it was done on a vast scale, the moisture from the forests would generate rain clouds in otherwise dry areas, cooling down parts of the Earth and also contributing to lowering sea levels or at least redistributing the world's water. Imagine 'the Sahara Rainforest'. Preposterous?

Also with alpine regions of the world suffering from receding snowlines, these pipes could be brought to areas where melt water in spring is threatened. This of course may sound like a more challenging use of this technology, but it could work on the same principle as the window cleaners 'water fed pole' system which uses high pressure to force water up a vertical pipe. A flexible but firm foam lining could be placed on the inside of these pipes to allow for expansion as, during the winter, the water in the pipes freeze. This would prevent damage to the pipes. As temperatures rise in spring, the pipes would mimic the natural melt water effect, and the foam would slowly expand.

My next futurological idea is what I call white sea blankets. As we are all aware, the melting ice caps are speeding up the global warming of the world by reducing the amount of white visible from space needed to reflect heat back. Imagine if vast areas of the sea had white tarpaulin-like canopies made out of non petroleum vegetable plastics. There could be holes to let sunlight in, for the benefit of marine life in that part of the sea, but from space it would look like uninterrupted white. Over a big enough area this could reduce the temperature of the sea by 1 or 2 degrees Celsius.

Thirdly, floating islands could be used as clean energy power stations, evolving the idea of offshore windfarming to its next stage of evolution. Kansai International Airport in Osaka bay, Japan is built on a man-made island. It appears that the Japanese have been very innovative in this way, but imagine a floating island off the coast of Britain the size of the Isle of Man specifically for clean energy generation. The entire floor could be made out of solar panelling, wind turbines could be densely packed on this island, and the skirts of the island's coast line could have devices harnessing wave power. Artificial lakes could be built in order to minimize the impact on marine life, and an enormous amount of electricity could be generated by, to coin a phrase, killing three birds with one stone. Excuse the inappropriateness of that phrase – it's the best metaphor I could muster!

Ever since I visited the Eden Project in Cornwall, I imagined how this botanical garden could set a model for a new form of farming. I called my fourth idea 'permaculture biomes' – a way of producing fruit from foreign climates without the food miles. Using heat or cold air conditioning (depending on the indigenous climate) from clean energy, Dubai could produce English apples and strawberries, and England could grow coconuts. If permaculture biomes based on tropical, warm temperate and cold temperate models were built in as many countries in the world, imagine the reduction in food miles? If we are struggling to stop people travelling the world, getting food to travel less would at least have some significant impact. Also if the biomes contained large enough forested areas, this could offset some if not all of the carbon generation from the energy used to produce food in this way. Another good reason to have as many botanical greenhouse gardens and permaculture biomes as possible is that if greed took us to the point that rainforests became extinct due to excessive logging and vast areas of monocultural farming, or even worse, deserts sprung up in place, we would at least have saved the biodiversity of the world, meaning that we could create new rainforests from just the botanical garden samples alone.

Finally I would like to sum up by pointing out that a lot of cynical naysayers reading this article may be tempted to pick holes and say why all this ideas cannot be realised, or wish to be the devil's advocate and be deliberately disagreeable – especially those from a more academic background than the author of this article. I would say to these people that if you are so clever, use your cleverness usefully, positively and constructively. Maybe you would be more accurate in your research and statistical information than I am, but retaining facts, and knowing things alone will not save us. As I stated at the beginning of this article, inspiration and the will to carry on are more likely to save us than anything else, and there are plenty of people without an education who have these qualities. The educated people could contribute so much with what they have learned by surrendering their rigid dogmatic approach to knowledge, and following their hearts to wisdom. If this article raises cynical questions for you then come up with your own answers out of inspiration. If you think about the bigger picture, these models could be made workable if the will was there. The outcome would mean combating to some degree the rising sea levels and transferring that self same water to parched land, helping prevent desertification and floods, creating new jungles which would absorb more greenhouse gases, reflect excess heat out of the Earth, thus slowing down the melting ice sheets, reducing food miles, and vastly reducing the need to use and eventually eliminate fossil fuels.

But more important than all that, we would be creating a new paradigm in human consciousness where modern technology would be used in a way that was symbiotic with nature rather than exploitative and parasitic. By setting ourselves impossible goals we ultimately achieve what we would not have done otherwise. Creating that new world infrastructure and putting it in place could be costly and time consuming but once it is finally there who knows where it could lead? One day we could 'take the scaffolding down' because we would have succeeded in balancing out the climate so well.

For us as a species that would be a very rewarding feeling.

The real drugs problem - Ignorance of drugs.

Someone said to me recently: “Drugs, I don’t want to know.” Full stop. This is what I consider to be a huge problem. People who have made their minds up about something they haven’t researched, based on the criminalization of the said phenomenon by a bunch of knee jerk reacting bureaucrats, who themselves, have also not intensively researched.

In the eighties there was an advert/public information film in Britain about Aids. The slogan said “Don’t die of ignorance”. I consider ignorance of drugs to be a bigger problem than heroin or crack addiction, and I'd also go as far as to say that ignorance of drugs could be as detrimental as ignorance of Aids. I treat people who think like this the same as I’d treat any other person who is a member of a brainwashed cult. A few people may consider that last comment to be a bit radical, but think again - imagine your parents had a “drugs - I don’t wanna know” mentality, and the only drug education you ever had was a needle or a crack pipe. Remember what Timothy Leary said? Drugs - Just Say Know!

A person who can tell you the chemical compound, latin name and type (stimulant, depressant, empathogen, entheogen) is in a stronger position than someone who is sanctimonious in their arrogance, and arrogant in their ignorance. Their children are less likely to become junkies and also THEY THEMSELVES are less likely to become junkies too, should their ideology suffer a paradigm shift.

I, like many people, have experienced the unpleasant reality of having outlived a lot of people who took the wrong drugs, and at time of writing I am in my late thirties, so still fairly young. But the untimely deaths I tell you about happened when I was in my twenties. So were they. I was lucky because I knew heroin and crack (and alcohol) were potentially fatal, and I saw a few people drop like flies. I could have been coerced into that culture myself, but I was cautious. I stuck with marijuana and LSD because I knew they had little or no recorded deaths attached to them. Thankfully I did know that. My education about drugs was my saving grace. Amongst the ‘just say no’ brigade, I was fortunate enough to see literature which explained the different types of drugs and their effects. One thing that was clear was that heroin and crack had the potential to be like plagues, whereas LSD stories were usually unfeasible and grossly exaggerated at best and just plane false at worst. There may have been one or two elements of truth, but that’s exactly how tenuous arguments win.

So when It came to realising that Western culture did a considerable amount of disregarding of the things it did not understand, I was easily able to warm to the possibility of shamans having used LSD like compounds for spiritual growth, and even to this day it beggars belief to me that psychedelics are lumped into the same category as heroin and crack amongst a lot of young people. What went wrong?

One answer that comes to mind is 9/11. That enormous cataclysmic lie by the ruling elite had far reaching implications beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. When gargantuan amounts of fear are released like that, people become easier to brainwash. It’s a perfect time for a conservative backlash, and out of old staid habits, the scared do not want to know that which scares them any more - even if it could end the problems forever.

You see when the Cold War ended, Rave and MDMA exploded out of nowhere. People were uniting because there was no ‘bogeyman’ anymore. 9/11 put the ‘bogeyman’ back. What else could have done?

I’m not saying that everyone should take psychedelics (maybe once?), but consensus reality is reflective of who are alcoholics or anti depressant addicts. Those who are not quite driven to those extremes are nevertheless incredibly stressed out. Those of a conservative mindset and lifestyle who maintain the status quo in a profoundly diseased society are not the antidote!

There’s a no-brainer for you.

So what do we do? There’s no doubt that the world is becoming more fascist than ever, and this book is not going to go down the David Icke road, but I would still suggest that you read his books anyway, and make your own mind up. The road I want to lead you down is what I would consider the positive symbiotic sister to the conspiracy consciousness. We are alive, and the mind is amazingly complex, and whether we want to believe it or not, the thing Terence McKenna called ‘the transcendental presence of the other’ is always in the background, and if psychedelics open up a portal to that realm then prohibition will only encourage people to misuse these valuable tools, and carry on being bad to their reputation, thus reinforcing the ‘just say no’ brigade. Maybe the powers that be know this, and are happy to perpetuate it.

Calling all space cadets. Don't give your minds away to gurus!

I've met a lot of dissenters and 'shouter downers' in my time and they have kicked me when I've been weak, especially during my more 'spaced out' years as a younger man. So here's a post in praise of the space cadets.

I talk, write and blog in first person a lot. I do this specifically so that the reader sees my version of reality as subjective on a conscious, sub conscious and even unconscious level. If I tell you that someone said something to me, rather than say it in a disembodied, depersonalized way, you will be less likely to take what I say as gospel.

But then who am I to assume you’re that gullible?

Here’s a long winded answer: I’ve read many things from many ‘gurus’ and ‘prophets’, and even been taken for an idiot by a lot of them in ‘real’ life too, back in my more impressionable younger years, I’ve been tempted to give my mind away. As a result I accept that this may be read by many people at many different levels of the path that they’re on. Some of these people will be experienced shamans (for want of a better word, but you know what I mean, kind of), and other people reading this are likely to be lost space cadets at risk of being made to feel second fiddle to whatever guru comes along to do their thinking for them. But in my opinion, the space cadet is potentially better off than an ignoramus of consensus reality, because he or she has an open (if somewhat frazzled) mind, and is open to make mistakes along the way until he eventually becomes a space commander, and works out how to land the ship!

Reclaiming the psychedelic community back from the boring academics.

In my opinion a lot of podcasts in the psychedelic community, and a few of the forums have become stuffy with academia. Not all of them obviously. But I've been trying to get a point over that seems too leftfield even for the psychedelic community, resulting in defensiveness. That point is that what got me into shamanism was totally primal, totally primeval.

I'd even go as far as to say the childhood fear I had in 1979 took me into prehistoric parts of my mind, or the collective archives. Play the embedded player below, which is episode 1 of ShamanicFreedomRadio podcast, and hear how my childhood fear manifested itself.



As a result, when I learned to use psychedelics to help me get through this, I did it totally my own way, free of ideology, dogma and academia. This was my own autonomous path. And rather than study shamanism antropologically, or plagiarize someone elses culture, I feel that this is about my own inward journey to evolve forward by going back to the primal level and simulating a parallel version of evolution from the beginning of civilisation.

It seems to me we have too many ingrained habits of mind (Rupert would certainly have a thing or two to say about this) that we can't break.

All the institutions we have are staid, old, dusty and stagnant hangovers from the post enlightenment era, and we're living in a world where God has become Abrahamic, neurotic and vengeful, and scientism has excluded God. That means that psychedelic culture will either become a science based lofty academic antropological 'case study', or a Santo Daime type religion a bit too close to Christianity. My take on it is that if we could break free from the post enlightenment habits we could take it to a Buddhist like middle way level.

When people become fixed and dogmatic in academia they get stuck in their debates which contract rather than unfold, they get stuck in rituals like exams, coursework, debating, debunking, model fixing, towing the party line, etc and it gets stuck in the left brain, and in circuit 3 of the Leary model, the time binding circuit. This compromises a lot.

Now I may have been referring to a few academics for the purposes of my argument, and fair enough, that goes to show that I feel academia does have its place in this - building of the models so that we can convey it in language. But I think we have to remember to be humble, understated, spontaneous, and in touch with the heart. Compulsive academia puts people too much in the head, and psychedelic people are trying to do what? Exactly - get OUT of their heads!

So the moral of the story is, if anyone has listened to a few podcasts here and there, and have got fed up with some of them being too scholarly, and you want a 'bloke down the pub' or a 'silly naughty boy' or a 'mad avant garde anarchist' instead, these are the qualities I focus on in my podcasts. With childlike enthusiasm I'll invite people on to 'bang the world to rights' whether I've researched them or not. That may seem unprofessional to compulsive academics, but I'll end up with guests, and if they're distinguished guests and they like my approach, all the better for it. To me it's worth the gamble. I'll live with having dissenters as some of the best people on Earth have enormous armies of dissenters.

Our culture needs reshamanising and we're attempting to do it, but it seems it'll take longer than we can imagine, but if we can find it in ourselves to see ourselves as pioneers of a future model, and now we're just 'picking and eating' as we fumble over stuff, this childlike fluidity will benefit us so much more than any allegiance to any textbooks.

You may agree, you may not, but I think this is definitely a subject the psychedelic community really needs to address. If we could amalgamate the primal and the academic so that both sides know their place, and unify it into a new model of post modern shamanism, we could really be on our way to the most significant evolution in history and prehistory combined. We are not living in a native society, but do we ever think to find what they have in our own? I believe that we are at the beginning of an age now, rather than at the end of one.