RUCAPILLAN VIEW (aka "Villarica" volcano) PUCON, Chile

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RUCAPILLAN PLUME

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RUCAPILLAN LAVA FLOW (1983)

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RUCAPILLAN CRATER (aerial view)

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RUCAPILLAN CRATER

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"Stupa-fied in Pucon/Climbing Volcan Rucapillan" JEFF PHILLIPS

GREETINGS! My visit to southern Chile is coming to a close, as I prepare to head to the far north in about three days, to experience the high altiplano around San Pedro de Atacama.

I have been living here in Pucon for about three months...it has been an EXTREMELY productive and spiritually enchanted time for me. The town is actually on the outer lava-flow perimeter of the Villarica volcano, or "Rucapillan' as it is called by the indigenous Mapuche peoples from here, meaning "house of God." She is the most active volcano in South America, and the third most active in the world.

From the beginning I could feel the spiritual power of this wonderful place; then I started hearing from people that many regard this area as one of the most powerful spiritual vortices on the Earth right now. I can feel it.

I learned that some Tibetan Buddhist monks built a huge stupa about 25 kms out of town, because they understand the power of this area. Last weekend my friend Paola and I went to the stupa three days in a row, to meditate, to be with the stupa and the trees and energies there; and I did some radically cool photography, not only of Rucapillan in the distance but also some time-exposures of the Milky Way, and one of the Hunab Ku (Mayan for the center of the galaxy, can be seen as a bright patch between the tail of Scorpio and Sagittarius...it's almost directly overhead in the skies here just after sunset) and the silhouette of the stupa! In the warmer months the monks come and live there; right now, some people come to meditate on the full moon, but other than that, it's just sitting there all alone, bringing down cosmic healing vibrations into a very special place on Earth!

Yesterday I finally got to climb Rucapillan, and it was fantastic. It's about 14 kms of walking over snow and ice, climbing about 1500m on foot. The day was warm but at the higher elevations (the crater rim is at 2847m, or 9340 ft) the wind was high. I think we all got noticeable wind-burn!

We couldn't see any lava, but the sulfuric smoke was constant, and at one point a bunch of ash came flying out, resembling a flock of bats!

I love volcanoes. They are very special places in terms of the Earth. And they are very powerful places, geologically, geomagnetically, and spiritually. Chile has well over 2,000 volcanoes, and 55 of them are classified as active.

Chile has around 10% of all the volcanoes in the world! Almost all of them are stratovolcanoes, and the highest one is Ojos del Salado at 6887m, or 22,600 ft. Its last major eruption was around 1000 years ago. It is almost as tall as Aconcagua, the highest mountain in South America.

Anyway, these photos are not my own, as I am waiting until I return to NZ to get my film processed. One and five are from the web, and the center three are post-card scans!

During my time here I have felt immensely loved by Mother Earth; in my meditations at the stupa, with the Hunab Ku, with the sacred Auracaria trees, the waters, the Gondwanaland energies, and in my relationship with the lovely and powerful volcanoes and the double rainbows, I have given many thanks for the gift of life we all share, and I have asked for guidance and inspiration to do all that I can do here in the final days of industrial civilization...and I have asked for my fellow humans please to wake up before it's too late. Extreme Earth changes are already upon us, and what are we doing?

cheers
jeff

ps for more information check

http://volcano.si.edu/world/
http://gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/geo101/volcano.htm
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/current.html

amazing panoramas of volcanos and other terrain:

http://.swisseduc.ch/stromboli/qtvr/index-en.html

And do a search on "Tungurahua"...a huge volcano that has been erupting in Ecuador recently...20,000 hectares of farmland destroyed, as many as 300 people buried in the ash

http://www.stupa.org.nz/stupa/info.htm

Electric universe theorist Michael Armstrong told me that "Stupas were originally the inverse image of the polar configuration in the sky, correct in detail as to scale and even color...The original stupas were reverse-oriented scale models of the planets lined up as they were presented in "Remembering" [...the End of the World"] Saturn was a large golden hemisphere as the base with a narrow pyramid with the blue-green Venus on top with another pyramid with a red Mars on top of that. Looking at it from the top down you would see what the ancients saw in the sky. This is what we call the "polar configuration". The originals also had the 56 bright Birkeland current spots encircling the whole arrangement, which were represented by 56 pillars surrounding the structure. What with 3 million stupas in the world today, the later builders have lost the original significance, and the design has "drifted" from the precise original form because the builders have lost the knowledge of what they represented. However, the basic elements of the form are always included. Many domed capitol buildings have the same form with a collonade of pillars and Venus atop a pyramid.

for more information see www.holoscience.com and www.thunderbolts.info

JEFF PHILLIPS "ON THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF WAR" (PART ONE)

"ON THE NATURE AND ORIGINS OF WAR"

JEFF PHILLIPS
6 AUGUST 2006

archived at www.synthaissance.blogspot.com

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

“It’s a viciously worsening cycle of what would appear to be unquenchable blood-thirsty slaughter in the service of pathological madness on the part of a tiny group of powerful “leaders” accompanied by the passive acquiescence of a dumbed-down public.”

Today is the 61st anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear detonation. On this day in 1945 a B-29 called the “Enola Gay” dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on a large Japanese city which was both a strategic military outpost and a major population center. Over a hundred thousand people were instantly incinerated and the entire area was reduced to radioactive rubble. Three days later another Japanese city, Nagasaki, was similarly destroyed. The “success” of these attacks thus began what Jose Arguelles calls the “age of atomic terror.” 1

As of now, six decades later, no other population centers have been destroyed by atomic bombs. On the surface, we seem to have been spared the fate of nuclear annihilation. “Mutually Assured Destruction” and the Dr. Strangelove scenario have failed to materialize.

But in the same way that lethal levels of ionising radiation are undetectable by our biological sensory systems, the actual nuclear scenario has metastasized exponentially beneath the “radar” of our collective awareness 2. Moreover, our entire worldview has been manipulated so thoroughly that what we think of as “reality” bears little resemblance to what is actually going on.

As nuclear weapons were coming into being, so was television, which psychological warfare experts called “the atomic bomb of the mind.” With the age of “atomic terror” came a new paradigm of socio-political control, what researcher Christopher Simpson refers to as a form of “mental genetics”, focussing on creating a whole generation of “consumers” feeding on the “American dream”; advertising and psychological warfare fused to create a monstrous “hallucination engine” designed to distract and manipulate our minds, under the guise of “information” and “entertainment.” The system was designed from its inception to indoctrinate people into uncritical assimilation of its “truth”, so that, when the time came, the people as a whole would readily accept a completely fabricated “reality” with no questions asked. Hence 9/11…a textbook “psychological operation” on the order of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the “trigger” event to launch the implementation of a global “scientific dictatorship” by the illegally-installed and Zionist-influenced “neo-conservative” Bush administration and its “new world order” hydra. Who is their “enemy”? Communism? Islam? Extra-terrestrials? No…the REAL enemies are the Earth and the people…US.3

Since this new “reign of terror” began, we have witnessed and continue to witness repeated “wars of aggression” based on premises which are known to be completely false and/or fabricated, and which are also known to have been planned for years ahead of time. “Wars of aggression” are war crimes under the protocols of international law. In this same period, we have experienced and are experiencing unprecedented levels of infotoxicity 4 in our mental environment…a full-spectrum attack of cognitive phlegm and incredulous hyper-propaganda that would probably make Goebbels die laughing, were he here to witness it.

Today we watch in what may not be “horror” so much as it is “psychic numbness”, as a military-industrial juggernaut calling itself “America” wages “silent genocide” on the people of Afghanistan and Iraq in the form of DU. “Depleted uranium”…an Orwellian euphemism for a form of radiological warfare which distributes thousands of tons of highly radioactive dust into the environment, causes cancer and genetic damage in anyone who comes near it, and remains at carcinogenic and mutagenic levels for tens of thousands of years. It is quite literally warfare against life as we know it.5

And at this exact moment, the world grows angrier by the minute at another rogue terrorist state calling itself a “democracy”…Israel…as its military leaders order the deployment not only of even more DU weaponry but also prepare to use “bunker buster” missiles, which are essentially DU-based tactical nuclear weapons.6

Lebanon and Israel share a geographical border; they are next-door neighbours. Unlike “America’s” use of DU in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the highest concentrations of radioactive materials are released thousands of miles from the “fatherland”, Israel’s use of DU is literally in their own back yard. The military decision-makers have to know this; the direct and immediate result is that air- and water-borne DU released in Lebanon will rapidly make its way into Israel, to create an epidemic of cancer, birth defects and “Gulf war syndrome” just like in American and Iraqi veterans and civilians.7

This marks a new level of warfare: genocide that is simultaneously suicide. That the use of DU is not the equivalent of, but a level of technological innovation beyond, the ovens of Auschwitz and Dachau cannot be denied; that it is being deployed by decision-makers who share a heavy Zionist influence is pathologically ironic.

Israel is unofficially recognized as the fourth or fifth largest nuclear power in the world. I was not there to witness the “holocaust”, but I believe it happened; I have not witnessed a nuclear explosion, but I believe these weapons are real. I think it wise to consider that decision-makers who release DU in their own back yard would not hesitate to precipitate a nuclear first-strike.

While we have been busily building bigger houses, driving bigger cars and acquiring limitless wealth and possessions, the Earth and all of her children have been suffering in direct proportion to our greed and ignorance. We have not noticed the gradual transformation of our beautiful natural environment into a planetary waste-land because, as a whole, we are no longer in touch with the Earth as we are embedded in an artificial environment, a “matrix”, consisting of house, car and television, agendas of financial gain and property acquisition. We have become deaf to the cries and screams of our fellow beings, our planet.

Our perceptions have been managed, our consent engineered, our reality manipulated very successfully, to become precisely what the forces of global fascism, literally, “a complete merger of state and corporate power” 8 have long sought: we have become their product.

And like any product, planned obsolescence is inherent. We have served their purposes of functioning essentially as voluntary slaves to the mega-machine for decades, working to build their industrial and weapons systems thinking it was just our “job”, and enriching their coffers not only with the fruits of our own sweat and blood, but also the health and existence of the Earth and all children, ours and hers. We have bought into the paradigms of greed and denial, and now our time has come.

From the perspective of the “powers that be”, not only are “we, the people” no longer necessary, we are actually an impediment to imperial mobilization.9 Our numbers are too large; we are not only consuming precious resources and taking up space that could be “redeveloped”, we wield far too much power…mentally, physically, politically, spiritually. Now we must be destroyed utterly and completely, through sheer elimination or mutogenesis into something we cannot imagine.

The “wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, as horrific as they are, are more about strategic control, psychological impact and long-standing cultural animosities than they are about large-scale devastation; that this could be looming on the horizon cannot be written off as “doom-saying.”

For a long time, moreover, the “new world order” has been administering “non-lethal genocide”, using advanced “safe and clean” weapons systems with harmless-sounding acronyms like DU (depleted uranium), GE (genetic engineering), HAARP (High-Altitude Auroral Research Project) and TV (television). The chemical and pharmaceutical industries play a big role, as well. Although each of these has been well-documented as the weapons systems they truly are, they remain essentially invisible in the public eye. You cannot sense DU; you cannot feel the electromagnetic fields from a HAARP transmission; you cannot taste GE food; and we think that TV is entertainment, and mobile phones are convenient. Sadly,many people shrug this information off as “paranoid conspiracy theory rambling.” 10

And when “we, the people” start waking up a little and catching on to the next level of what is actually happening, whether it be, for example, another dimension of the weaponization scenario, election fraud, carcinogenic food or revelations on “9/11 reality”…they go to the next step in their “master plan” by staging or committing another atrocity to capture our attention, “shock and awe” us, sap our will, make us cower in fear. Good old “blowing stuff up”…you know, “traditional” warfare, with artillery, tanks, bombs, missiles, destroyed infrastructures, bodies to dispose of, environmental devastation…accomplishes this pretty well, especially when it all is broadcast 24-7 on mainstream tv.

It’s a viciously worsening cycle of what would appear to be unquenchable blood-thirsty slaughter in the service of pathological madness on the part of a tiny group of powerful “leaders” accompanied by the passive acquiescence of a dumbed-down public.

And this is just what man-“kind” is doing to himself. We often forget…indeed, it’s almost not in our “reality” any more…that we…you know, homo sapiens, “man, the wise”…are not the only form of life on the Earth who matters.

Chief Seattle said that “what we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves.” We are all inter-connected in the web of life…bacteria, molluscs, aardvarks, hippopotami, condors, oak trees, kelp…ALL life is part of one huge exquisite living system. Some call her Gaia.

“What comes around goes around.” We reap what we sew, and are responsible for the consequences of our choices and actions. This is the essence of the spiritual concept of karma.

And Spaceship Earth and our solar system do not exist in a cosmic vacuum; indigenous wisdom tells us of long-term cycles…”seasons” on inter-stellar and galactic levels based on spatio-temporal as well as energetic variations and radiations.

As I see it, what we are experiencing now is a convergence of these three dimensions: our existence as a threat to the health of the larger living system we are a part of; the summation of the karmic consequences of our actions/inactions, our choices, our denial, our ignorance; and our location in larger cosmic contexts of cyclical and energetic influences.

It might be “human nature” to be experiencing all of this, but it’s not by any means the full spectrum of who and what we are; on the contrary, we find ourselves at a major cross-roads, a global “day of reckoning”…but it is ultimately a planetary initiation for “man, the wise.”

We are quite literally at what Fritjof Capra calls “the turning point.” Which way it all goes is up to us…we are not mere observers of a grand drama, we are each participants, co-creators of “reality.”

In part two I will look at what “war” actually is, psychologically, socially, and ecologically, and in part three I will offer some ideas concerning what we can do about it.

To me, the overall scenario is not as dire as it may seem; it’s just that we have to act NOW.

JEFF PHILLIPS
PUCON CHILE
6 AUGUST 2006

FOOTNOTES

1) Jose Arguelles, “The Climax of History, the Fifty-Six Years of Hiroshima – Artificial Time Runs Out”, chapter five of Time and the Technosphere (2004), http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/zzz%20Arguelles%20TECHNOSPHERE.htm

2) Jeff Phillips, “Carl Sagan and the Nuclear Scenario: A Cosmic Perspective on Terrestrial Problems”, http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2006_07_16_synthaissance_archive.html

3) Jeff Phillips, introduction, www.regainyourbrain.org, http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain%20%20introduction/introduction.htm

4) Jeff Phillips, “The Age of Infotoxin”, Ad-busters, Winter 1995, http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/jeff%20phillips%20articles/phillips%20age%20of%20infotoxin.htm

5) Christopher Bollyn, “Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD, M.D. Says Depleted Uranium Definitely Linked”, http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

6) Dr. Doug Rokke, “Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens…” [delivery of 100+ GB28 “bunker buster” DU missiles to Israel], http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00452.htm

7) Robert C. Koehler, “Silent Genocide”, http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Silent-Genocide25mar04.htm

8) Mussolini’s definition of fascism

9) Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives

10) Leuren Moret, “Planet Earth as Target and Weapon”, http://www.worldaffairsjournal.com/article1.htm

UK: CHILDREN OF VETS HAVE 65% BIRTH DEFECT RATE

"By continuing to use depleted uranium (DU) armor and munitions, the Bush Pentagon is waging radiological warfare against the unborn and indeed against all unborn generations...By now most people know that DU has damaged tens of thousands of our own troops and caused soaring cancer rates in target populations, including the people of Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan...What is less well known is the staggering rate of birth defects in the children of the veterans of these wars. The British are reporting rates as high as 65%. It seems that breathing in the radioactive dust from exploded DU shells not only causes decapacitating illnesses, but massive genetic damage as well."

Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret.

http://www.rmbowman.com/ssn/DUandBirthDefects.htm

THE "CHOSEN" PEOPLE ARE LAUNCHING NUCLEAR WAR RIGHT NOW...BUNKER-BUSTERS AND MORE DU IN LEBANON!!!

NOTE FROM JEFF: THE "CHOSEN PEOPLE" HAVE OBVIOUSLY BEEN CHOSEN BY THEIR "GOD" TO LAUNCH WORLD WAR 3 AND SPREAD RADIATION ALL OVER THE PLANET TO FULFILL THEIR PSYCHOTIC "ARMAGEDDON" PROPHECY...AND WE ARE JUST WATCHING ON TV ABOUT HOW THE "EVIL" MUSLIMS DESERVE IT!!!!!!! IT'S NOTHING SHORT OF PLANETARY GENOCIDE AND HUMAN SUICIDE.

PEOPLE...THIS IS FOR REAL I AM AFRAID.

"Not working to discover the truth and not forming reasoned opinions about what's happening in the world is a way of being complicit in the new totalitarianism." Dr. Norman Livergood

Click on the link below to see what ionizing radiation does to babies. This is OUR future...EVERYONES'.

http://www.xzone-radio.com/uranium.htm

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert

states Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD.
former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project
July 26, 2006

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00452.htm
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2507&blz=1

The delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the Middle East. Israeli tank gunners are also using depleted uranium tank rounds as photographs verify.

Today, U.S., British, and now Israeli military personnel are using illegal
uranium munitions - America's and England's own "dirty bombs" while U.S. Army,
U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, and British Ministry of
Defence officials deny that there are any adverse health and environmental
effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing, and/or use of uranium
munitions, to avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a
radioactive toxic material - depleted uranium.

The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable, and a crime against
humanity. Consequently, the citizens of the world and all governments must force cessation of uranium weapons use. I must demand that Israel now provide medical care to all DU casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination.

U.S. and British officials have arrogantly refused to comply with their own
regulations, orders and directives that require United States Department of
Defense officials to provide prompt and effective medical care to "all" exposed
individuals. Reference: Medical Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium
Casualties, DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93, Medical Management of Army personnel
Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical Command 29 April 2004, and section 2-5 of U.S. Army Regulation 700-48. Israeli officials
must not do so now.

They also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive Contamination as required by
Army Regulation - AR 700-48: "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002) and U.S. Army Technical Bulletin- TB 9-1300-278: "Guidelines For Safe Response To Handling, Storage, And Transportation Accidents Involving Army Tank Munitions Or Armor Which Contain Depleted Uranium" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington, D.C., JULY 1996).

Specifically, section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation-AR 700-48 dated
September 16, 2002 requires that:

(1) "Military personnel "identify, segregate, isolate, secure, and label all RCE" (radiologically contaminated equipment).

(2) "Procedures to minimize the spread of radioactivity will be implemented as
soon as possible."

(3) "Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed of through burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in place, or abandonment" and

(4) "All equipment, to include captured or combat RCE, will be surveyed,
packaged, retrograded, decontaminated and released IAW Technical Bulletin
9-1300-278, DA PAM 700-48" (Note: Maximum exposure limits are specified in
Appendix F).

The previous and current use of uranium weapons, the release of radioactive
components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military equipment and releases of
industrial, medical, research facility radioactive materials have resulted in
unacceptable exposures. Therefore, decontamination must be completed, as
required by U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and should include releases of all
radioactive materials resulting from military operations.

The extent of adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons
contamination is not limited to combat zones but includes facilities and sites
where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested including Vieques, Puerto
Rico; Colonie, New York; Concord, MA; Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana; and
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Therefore medical care must be provided by the
United States Department of Defense officials to all individuals affected by the
manufacturing, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions. Thorough environmental
remediation also must be completed without further delay.

I am amazed that fifteen years after I was asked to clean up the initial DU mess
from Gulf War 1 and over ten years since I finished the depleted uranium
project, that United States Department of Defense officials and others still
attempt to justify uranium munitions use while ignoring mandatory requirements.

I am dismayed that Department of Defense and Department of Energy officials and representatives continue personal attacks aimed to silence or discredit those of us who are demanding that medical care be provided to all DU casualties and that environmental remediation is completed in compliance with U.S. Army Regulation 700-48. But beyond the ignored mandatory actions, the willful dispersal of tons of solid radioactive and chemically toxic waste in the form of uranium munitions is illegal (http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf ) and just does not even pass the common sense test and according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is a dirty bomb. DHS issued "dirty bomb"
response guidelines, http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
on January 3, 2006 for incidents within the United States but ignore DOD use
of uranium weapons and existing DOD regulations.

These guidelines specifically state that: "Characteristics of RDD and IND
Incidents: A radiological incident is defined as an event or series of events,
deliberate or accidental, leading to the release, or potential release, into the
environment of radioactive material in sufficient quantity to warrant
consideration of protective actions. Use of an RDD or IND is an act of terror
that produces a radiological incident."

Thus the use of uranium munitions is "an act or terror" as defined by DHS.

Finally, continued compliance with the infamous March 1991 Los Alamos Memorandum that was issued to ensure continued use of uranium munitions can not be justified.

In conclusion: the President of the United States - George W. Bush, the Prime
Minister of Great Britain - Tony Blair, and the Prime Minister of Israel - Ehud
Olmert must acknowledge and accept responsibility for willful use of illegal
uranium munitions - their own "dirty bombs" - resulting in adverse health and
environmental effects.

President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert should order:
1. medical care for all casualties,
2. thorough environmental remediation,
3. immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who demand compliance
with medical care and environmental remediation requirements,
4. and stop the already illegal the use (UN finding) of depleted uranium
munitions.

References- these references are copies of the actual regulations and orders and
other pertinent official documents:

http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/rokke_du_3_ques.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
http://cryptome.org/dhs010306.txt

Photo by David Silverman (Getty Images ) Image 71440735
http://editorial.gettyimages.com

Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD.
former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project

IT'S A HAPPY FAMILY OF "TERRORISTS"!!!

Notice it appears to be the SAME HAND-WRITING on all these signs. As if someone made them, then said "Hey buddy, I'll give you 20 quid to put this table-cloth on your head and hold this sign while we take your picture." "Slay"? "Behead"? "Butchaa"? These don't sound like words that a typical English-speaking person would use if they were pissed off. It would sound a lot angrier and more violent, wouldn't it? These are CATCH-WORDS; "butchaa" is for the younger 'gansta' crowd!!!

"BEHEAD"? "INSULT"? "THOSE"?

COME ON PEOPLE...all these words are just psy-ops catch words...this one is to tie in your memory to the fake "beheading" by the fake "terrorists" you could see all over the internet a couple years ago. This English is a bit formal sounding for "terrorists", isn't it? Actually, it sounds like a commandment out of a CIA operations manual.

SHOE SALESMAN HOLDING SIGN!

Doesn't this guy look just like he was working down at the shoe store at Piccadilly Square only a few hours before? And can you imagine this guy using the word "dominate"? If you were a genuinely pissed-off Muslim who spoke English, would YOU use these words on a sign? I don't think so. Notice the same finger-gesture they always showed "ben Laden" doing...I think he just dropped his cigarette!

THIS IS THE MOST BLATANTLY BOGUS ONE!

"FREEDOM GO TO HELL." Honestly, who would ever use words like that except as a joke or a hoax. "Freedom"? Does ANYONE actually believe that ANYONE in "other" countries thinks that they are NOT "free"...and that "we" are "free"? "Freedom" and "democracy" are nothing more than highly repeated Orwellian catch-words. VERY STUPID.

IT EVEN RHYMES!!!

ISN'T THAT A TABLE-CLOTH? And wait, isn't England part of Europe...they already had "7/7", right? Don't these people live in London...shouldn't the "your" be "our"?

THE "ANGRY MUSLIMS" WITH THE SIGNS ARE CIA EMPLOYEES!!!

Yo...THIS REALLY MAKES ME LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!  Below is a message forwarded to me by
Jon Lomberg...we've never met but have been in touch.  He is the artist who did the art
for Carl Sagan's Cosmos series.  He is someone who I thought possessed at least
minimal "media literacy."  That he forwarded this to me, and NOT as a joke, proved
otherwise.

ANYONE who could actually believe that "genuine Muslim terrorists" or would-be
"evil-doers" would actually 1)  dress like this   2)  use words like this "slay", "behead" "butchaa"
"Freedom go to hell"...GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!! 3)  and be doing
it at exactly this moment...ANYONE who could even consider that these people
may be what they appear to be...is frankly beyond hope.  They have obviously NOT
received even one watt of illumination from all the media literacy I try to spread.

This is TEXTBOOK "intelligence community" BULLSHIT. 
It is PURE HITLERIAN emotion-manipulation.

See these articles from my regainyourbrain.org web-site:

This first article is excellent...you can see the same "actors" one day have a certain look...
another day, same face with different head-gear!

"Press Uses Actors in War on Islam"

www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/press%20uses%20actors.htm
 
"Hitler's Use of Emotions to Manipulate Reason and Public Opinion"

www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/smith%20propaganda%20for%20masses.htm
 
"Misinformation"

www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/attention%20span%20misinfo.htm

"Battle for the mind:  behavioral and psychological warfare"

www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/battle%20behav&psy%20warfare.htm

"Media Control"  Noam Chomsky

www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/FINAL%20REGAIN%20UNLINKED/chomsky%20media%20control.htm

BELOW IS THE FORWARDED MESSAGE!  READ IT AND LAUGH!!!

"Fw: London Pictures of Muslims -- Alarming!!

NO DOUBT THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS - BUT FOR EUROPEANS NOT TO 
RECOGNIZE IT IS REALLY CONCERNING!!!!!!!!!??

? ? AND WE LET THESE PEOPLE COME INTO THIS COUNTRY TO LIVE, GO TO 
 SCHOOL, TRAIN TO FLY PLANES INTO BUILDINGS AND

? ? ?? ?WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE. WHERE THE HELL ARE OUR LEGISLATORS AND 
 WHY DON'T THEY DO SOMETHING TO STOP??PEOPLE?

? ? ?? ?WHO WANT TO DESTROY US, AND OTHER FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE, FROM 
 MOVING INTO OUR COUNTRY. MAKES IT VERY EASY FOR?

? ? ?? ?THEM BUT DISASTER FOR THE US. WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OURSELVES,

?? ?? ?? OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN? WE OWE THEM BETTER THAN 
THIS!!!?? ?? ?? ?

These Pictures tell it all
Muslims have stated
that England will be the first country?they take 
over!??

These are pictures not shown on American TV or in American 
Newspapers,but were forwarded to me by a Canadian Friend who thought 
Americans ought to know!
These pictures are of Muslims marching through the streets of London 
during their recent "Religion of Peace Demonstration." "


PEOPLE...IF WE ARE SO STUPID THAT WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE
STUFF AT THIS MORONIC LEVEL OF CREDIBILITY...WELL, WE
MAY AS WELL BELIEVE THAT ALL THINGS NUCLEAR ARE SAFE
AND CLEAN!!!  

"MAGELLANIC DREAMING" JEFF PHILLIPS PAINTING

This is my most recent painting, finished yesterday, for my friend Paola here in Pucon, Chile. She is going to mount it on the ceiling above her bed in her new house up on the base of volcan Villarica. It is approximately 1.5 meters in diameter, acrylic on wood.

Without being aware of it, I painted two "clusters" which remind me of the Magellanic clouds, which are two irregular galaxies visible in the night sky of the southern hemisphere as two fuzzy patches; they are the two closest galaxies to our own, the Milky Way.

A little Earth is floating there, too. That's us, you know.


cheers Jeff

HAND-PAINTED PULSERA by JEFF PHILLIPS (3)

And the final third of the same pulsera.

HAND-PAINTED PULSERA by JEFF PHILLIPS (2)

This is the same pulsera from a different angle.

HAND-PAINTED PULSERA by JEFF PHILLIPS (1)

A "pulsera" is an arm-band or bracelet-type thing...this is made of wood which I painted very intricately like I paint my rocks.

PAOLA PAINTING IN THE NORTH OF CHILE

This is my wonderful friend Paola painting on the altiplano near San Pedro de Atacama in the far north of Chile.

"Elohim Photon Dreaming" Jeff Phillips

"untitled" Serena Hayes, Keringke, Alice Spgs. NT

"DREAM-TIME DNA: A NON-LOCAL CONNECTION"

DREAM-TIME DNA: A NON-LOCAL CONNECTION
Jeff Phillips
(originally written in 2001)
In 1990 I began to feel a very strong connection with what I called "aboriginal consciousness. It was at this time that some of my art began to have that sort of feel to it. Only when I traveled to central Australia earlier this year, however, did I realize the depth of the connection.
For years I felt there was a connection between "aboriginal consciousness” and "dolphin consciousness”. Ever since the late 70,s I had been keen on understanding the whales and dolphins, large-brained mammals like ourselves, who have lived harmoniously on the Earth for tens of millions of years. Dr. John C. Lilly had speculated that the whales and dolphins were "repeater stations for signals from other water-based life-forms elsewhere in the galaxy (signals that are far weaker than those of the electronic SSE, or "solid-state entity which is vying for control of the Earth) [see Lilly’s The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography]
I knew that dolphins figured heavily into the dream-time cosmologies of almost every coastal aboriginal tribe in Australia; I guessed that the aborigines and the dolphins were conveying similar information about nature herself and how she works.
People had told me for years that a lot of my paintings contained images that reminded them of cellular structures, mitochondria, chromosomes, ribosomes, membranes, nuclei; this made sense in light of my background in biology.
Now it gets even freakier. My friend Moira Timms (Egyptologist, archaekonicist [someone who studies ancient symbols], author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions] had sent me a copy of a book called The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge, which she said she thought was one of the most important books of the (20th) century! In it, Jeremy Narby relates his hypothesis that shamans, medicine men and indigenous minds in general are in direct communication with the global network of DNA-based life, that this intelligence directly imparts knowledge that mainstream science cannot explain.
When I was in central Australia near Alice Springs I connected with some extremely wonderful aboriginal women artists who form the Keringke group. It was like we are doing the same thing only in different parts of the world. They are going beyond traditional aboriginal art, using a full spectrum of colors and creating their own stories, just like I do. I look forward to spending more time with my Australian art sisters!
But when I returned to New Zealand and was examining in depth the Keringke art book, I was totally blown away when I saw Serena Haye’s painting. It was extremely similar to one I had done around the same time in America. Both of us were working directly from within, and neither of us had seen the other’s art.
Further, Huddersfield University geneticist Martin Richards has shown that the origin of ALL humans can be traced back to a single family tree, even an original "Eve 7000 generations ago. These studies are based on mitochondrial DNA, of which the aborigines of Australia have the oldest of any human beings.
In quantum physics a "non-local connection is a sort of bridge or continuum which simultaneously links people, places or events from different spatio-temporal coordinates; Jung called this synchronicity.
My mind boggles at the meanings of all these connections. We truly ARE all a part of the same web of life, even beyond the Earth…an inter-galactic Gaia? It’s as if life herself is non-local, synchronistic, and highly intelligent, and she’s helping us to paint pictures of her!!! I am honoured to be a participant in this process!!!

The top picture, "Elohim Photon Dreaming", was done by me in the mountains of east Tennessee in the summer of 1999

The bottom painting, untitled, by Serena Hayes of the Keringke group in Northern Territories, Australia, was done in 1998.

"THE BIBLE" Moira Timms, chapter 12, Beyond Prophecies & Predictions

THE BIBLE

(Chapter 12 from Beyond Prophecies and Predictions, Moira Timms, 1994)

“…the seven seals are allegorical to each of the seven chakras (energy centers, like valves between the etheric and physical bodies, which are related to the endrocrine system) of the human body. With the opening of each seal comes “revelation” and the opportunity to be purified and transformed by the particular energies released. The more successful we are in handling and transmuting within ourselves (i.e., within each chakra) the intense surge of purifying energy released by the opening of each seal, the less necessary it is for these releases to manifest in the external world as chaos and catastrophe.”

“For no prophecy of scriptures ever originated in the mind of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (II Peter 1:21)

The Bible contains many prophecies and references to “the fullness of time”, “the harvest”, the “latter” or “last days”, the “purification of the nations” and the battle of Armageddon. God spoke clearly in these times (and sometimes not so clearly) through his prophets of the Old Testament, through the disciples who recorded the life and teachings of Jesus in the Gospels, and through John’s vision of the Revelation. The various biblical prophecies present warnings to the reader of the signs to watch before the finale, so that all who receive the message might prepare themselves, and be awakened to their spiritual identity and divine heritage. Again, we stress that it is not the end of the world that is predicted, but the end of the Piscean age and present world system. Preparation is needed to achieve sufficient faith, strength, understanding, and purity to make the transition to that promised land of a highly evolved and truly righteous society of the Aquarian, Golden or New Age. It will usher in the final stage of the Yuga, the 26,000 equinoctial cycle, and culminate in the evolution of humanity to a spiritual/fourth dimensional state of consciousness. The Bible records that it has always been God’s way to provide ample time and forewarning before catastrophes or judgments. A renewal of religious interest and spiritual awakening are important signs of the predicted times, and this is happening today.
In the ancient world of the Hebrew prophets, villages and centers of trade and commerce were scattered over an arid landscape of relentless sunlight and hazy barren hills. The prophets who emerged to stir the pulse of conscience were a remarkable breed of men. Wandering between communities and royal cities, they would often appear out of the wilderness areas to warn or admonish, help or advise. They were probably a thorn in the flesh of the populace, feared yet revered, as they spoke out against kings, corruption, and unGodliness. Through His prophets, God spoke directly in those days to people who would hear, and dealt just retribution to those who would not; or so it seemed. It was a simple affair, uncomplicated by the intricacies of technology and media.
A criticism aimed at Biblical prophecies is that describe events of the prophets’ own times. But this would not necessarily disqualify a prophecy from being true for our time, too. You can get a lot of mileage out of the major biblical prophecies because they deal with archetypal myths and images. While the perennial wisdom enables us to transcend the conditions of the world, it is the perennial ignorance that brings down the negative aspects of history that repeat in such predictable patterns. That is to say, failure to live according to natural law and divine will has consequences – returning karma. Biblical prophecy lets people know that God keeps His promises and covenants, and helps them understand more clearly God’s will and the moral standards by which He judges, in order that people may harmonize their lives with them and thereby avoid suffering.
In the visions of the various Hebrew prophets, we see again and again events quite similar, if not identical, to those recorded in the annals of many ancient peoples, several of which are discussed in the chapter on Pole Shift. The prophets quoted below lives just prior to the great cosmic upheavals that appear to have accompanied the “brief anomaly” of magnetic pole reversal around 860 B.C. If events that happened then are about to recur, the prophecy is still good. For example, the Book of Joel, form which the following quotes are excerpted, opens with Joel instructing the people to repeat to as many future generations as possible the prophecy he is about to give on the coming “day of the Lord”:

Joel, c. 820 B.C., “The Earth shall quake before them, the heavens shall tremble; the sun and moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.” (2:10)

“And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord to come.” (2:30-32)

Amos, c. 800 B.C., “And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to do down at noon, and I will darken the Earth in the clear day.” (8:9)

Isaiah, c. 775 B.C., “For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine…Therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.” (13:10 and 13:13)

Habbakuk, c. 628 B.C., “He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow.” (3:6)

Many centuries later the Gospels were written. They are accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus as written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These men also recorded in a firsthand and informal way very interesting information about the people and customs of two thousand years ago. The culture was still predominantly Greek, with Roman politics and Jewish religion. The political, social and moral attitudes of that time were quite corrupt, not so very different from our own, and the disciples who wrote the gospels originally were just plain folk from all walks of life. Matthew was a former tax collector, and Mark a scholar from a wealthy family. Luke had been a physician, and John (who also later wrote the Revelation) was a fisherman.
One day, on the Mount of Olives in the Judean hills, the disciples asked Jesus privately when the end would be, and what would be the signs of His coming again. Jesus spoke of wars and rumors of wars, of famines, of pestilence, and earthquakes, and said that they would be but the beginning of troubles. He warned of religions persecution; false prophets and imposters claiming to be Christ himself, and performing such heavy miracles that even the wisest might be deceived. He said that unless God intervened, humanity would be wiped out entirely, but that for the sake of the “elect” the time of trouble would be shortened.
In his discussion, Jesus also confirmed the visions of the Hebrew prophets. “Men’s hearts [will be] failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming upon the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” [emphasis added] (Luke 21: 26-27). In this passage, the original Greek word for “heavens” is “ouranos” – the root for uranium. One could read instead, “The powers of uranium shall be shaken. And then shall they see…” Uranium is shaken to produce atomic power. It is a matter of record and certainly a curious coincidence that the first nuclear experiments, detonated in New Mexico desert at Jornado del Muerto (journey of the dead) was called “Project Trinity.” When he beheld, on that fateful day, the awesome release of power wrought by their research, project director Robert Oppenheimer recalled the impact it had upon him. A passage from Sanskrit scripture echoed in his mind – Shiva, the destructive aspect of the Hindu trilogy, saying “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds…” The result of that dynamic fusion, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was code named “Baby Jesus.” This interpretation correlates with data from the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid – for the date exactly in the center, March 3-4, 1945, indicates the date of the first atomic bomb experiments. Also, the Hopi prophecies say the same thing. In a letter of appeal over the Black Mesa issue, the Hopi elders wrote to President Nixon, “The Great Spirit said that if a gourd of ashes is dropped upon the Earth, many men will die and that the end of this way of life is near at hand.” Matthew, Mark and Luke each report Jesus as saying right after this, “Verily, I say unto you, this generation shall not pass away until all be fulfilled.” And it looks very possible.
“Watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.” (Luke 21:36) This was his last advice to his disciples on the subject, for He was speaking also of the events concerning the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, which came about in 70 A.D., and which would have been witnessed by disciples still living at that time.
“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.” (Mark 13:37)
St. John the Divine was the youngest and most beloved disciple of Jesus. He had sat at Christ’s side during the last supper, and it was to him that Jesus entrusted the care of His mother, Mary, during the crucifixion. We know that Jesus was aware that John had been chosen to receive the prophetic vision of the close of the age, because John records at the end of his own gospel that “The saying spread abroad among the bretheren that this disciple (John) was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but ‘If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?’” (John 21:23) After Christ’s ascension, the Roman authorities put a finger on John. His preaching activities concerning the new Christian doctrine posed a threat to the establishment religion and the government arranged for him to be forcibly exiled for apostasy. John was banished to the island of Patmos in the Mediterranean, and it was during his later life that he had the vision recorded in the last book of the Bible as “The Revelation.”
The Book of Revelation is an obvious account of some very real future shock, detailing signs of Christ’s second coming and the events that presage the final judgment of humanity. Although interpretation has always been difficult and unsatisfactory, the veils of mystery are gradually lifting, as world events today shed light on much of the allegory. Many volumes would be necessary to explore fully all the aspects of John’s amazing preview, but there are a few highly relevant trends forming today that relate to it.
The Revelation involves a series of happenings that occur in the spiritual world of the heavens. In the first part of the account, John sees a scroll with seven seals, each of which represents an aspect of retribution that must come to pass before the “harvest is gathered”, i.e., the last judgment when the “sheep will be separated from the goats.” The seals are opened one at a time, and the first four release that famous quartet, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, bringing pestilence, war, famine, and death upon the Earth. It is important to understand that the seven seals are allegorical to each of the seven chakras (energy centers, like valves between the etheric and physical bodies, which are related to the endrocrine system) of the human body. With the opening of each seal comes “revelation” and the opportunity to be purified and transformed by the particular energies released. The more successful we are in handling and transmuting within ourselves (i.e., within each chakra) the intense surge of purifying energy released by the opening of each seal, the less necessary it is for these releases to manifest in the external world as chaos and catastrophe.

DR. CARL SAGAN

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

DR. HELEN CALDICOTT

"We shouldn't be exporting uranium because you're exporting cancer." Sydney Morning Herald, July 2006

www.nuclearpolicy.org
www.helencaldicott.com

BRAVO NUCLEAR TEST

"I have become death." Robert Oppenheimer

The future of humanity...

...the avoidable result of our denial.

PLASMA-GLOBE

The hands of "divine providence."

"CARL SAGAN AND THE NUCLEAR SCENARIO: A Cosmic Perspective on Terrestrial Problems" JEFF PHILLIPS

NOTE FROM JEFF: This is long but the problem is very real; here I give vital information on why anything nuclear is NOT "safe and clean", the psychology of denial, the consequences of our inability to act on the best knowledge we already have, and our amnesia concerning who we really are.

CARL SAGAN AND THE NUCLEAR SCENARIO:  A cosmic perspective on terrestrial problems

Dedicated to all the astronomers and activists of Earth, and life as we know it.  Long may you live!!!

 
    It’s no coincidence that the man who did the most to awaken our generation to the awe and mystery of the cosmos was also one of the most ardent anti-nuclear activists the world has ever seen.

    Astronomer Carl Sagan made great contributions in the field of planetary sciences before his name became almost synonymous with “extra-terrestrial intelligence.”  When he entered the realm of mass-communication with his comprehensively mind-blowing television series Cosmos, millions of star-gazers and space-cadets around the world came to love his New York accent and his waving arms telling us there were “billions and billions” of stars out there just like our sun.  In our own galaxy.  His question:  so why haven’t we heard from anyone else?

    Sagan’s hypothesis was that there may be no one else out there…not because they were never there, but because they destroyed themselves before they could go “inter-stellar.”  He believed that “technological civilizations” evolve in the same way as human beings, going through stages of adolescent recklessness before maturing into stability.  The difference was that instead of wrecking their parents’ house or car, like a teenager, the young technological civilization would tend to wreck its spaceship, its planet;  or worse, completely destroy itself through the mis-use of advanced technologies.

    How far are we from this scenario?  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a little clock that’s been at only a few minutes to mid-night for several decades. Midnight, of course, represents the unleashing of a nuclear “Armageddon”, whether intentional or accidental.  Many would argue that the minute hand has moved much closer to the “witching hour” since the Bush administration and associated New World Order enterprises unveiled their new “nucular” agenda, which involves rolling back or destroying previously existing test-bans and non-proliferation treaties, building a new generation of reactors, forming a “cartel’ of uranium-exporting and processing states, and actually adopting a “first-strike” orientation in terms of military strategy…all changes which ten years ago would have been regarded as unacceptably stark-raving mad.  Today, it’s still stark raving mad…but acceptably so;  the mind-managers have had their noses to the grindstone!

    What I find even more disturbing than these necrophilous revelations is the almost complete cluelessness of the people in general, particularly the younger generation, who spend so much time talking on their mobile phones and playing video games that they don’t even know what DU is! Not that the older generation is very different; their problem is “sport” on tv and having to listen to their kids’ video games and mobile phone conversations.

    OK, class…who knows what “ionising radiation” is?  No, it’s not something that you wish to acquire more of for your Schwarzeneggerian video-game army. Sorry, dude.  It’s the four primary emissions released by the decay of radioactive materials as well as in nuclear reactions.  In nuclear explosions, much of the damage is done by the initial heat and blast effects;  but much more insidious are the effects of the ionising radiation released.  These energies and/or particles damage us at the cellular level, through the creation of free radicals, and cause cancer and genetic mutations as they are absorbed by our dna.

    The longevity of radioactive materials is expressed in terms of its “half-life”, which is the time it takes for one-half of its mass to decay into non-radioactivity.  For your average radioactive isotope or nuclear waste, this figure is on the order of billions of years.  Got that…BILLIONS.  That’s the age of the Earth herself.

    The vast majority of all the energy that powers Spaceship Earth comes from the sun;  anything nuclear comes from minerals extracted out of the ground, out of the rocks.  Indigenous peoples, in particular the Hopi native Americans of Arizona, have specifically warned against “digging precious things from the land”, and with very good reason:  this will invite disaster.

    They know what they are talking about.  Ancient cultures may have expressed their wisdom “unscientifically”, but does this lessen the impact of their message?  Maybe they didn’t visualize the geo-magnetic and telluric currents that flow through the highly conductive metallic and radioactive elements, driven by energy from the Sun and beyond, which control the Earth’s magnetic field and weather patterns. The Adnyamanthaha aborigines of south Australia may not have known about ionising radiation, but they know where “sickness country” is located. They know that these sacred areas are to be left alone, protected.
   
    Look at what we’ve done.  Think, if you dare, of the direct and side-effects of our extractions:  gold, petroleum, uranium.  How much genocide, violence, and ecological devastation has occurred because of greed for these;  how many problems associated with what we use them for?  Digging precious things from the land is the root of many of our problems, and the karmic consequences of this unending rape of the Earth are only beginning to be felt.

    In April of 1986 I went to a place called Big Mountain, on the Navaho reservation in northern Arizona.  We were there to support the indigenous elders who were facing forced removal by the government;  Peabody Coal (owner of Kerr-McGee, the plutonium processing company that Karen Silkwood worked for…see the movie Silkwood) wanted to strip-mine Black Mesa…a region of immense sacredness to both the Hopi and the Navaho…and site of one of the largest deposits of coal, shale and uranium on the planet.

    It was at this time that I first learned of the Hopi prophecies, whose essence has been extraordinarily conveyed in a brilliant film called Koyaanisqatsi (Hopi for “life out of balance.”) It was also at this time that I first learned of Australian physician and anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott, through her work with the Center for Informed Democracy in Santa Cruz. 

    I had borrowed a Geiger counter from the physics department at UCSC, and in between our sessions with the elders, the singing, dancing and drum circles, I would walk around taking readings on the rocks lying on the ground.  I will always remember the clicks of the alpha particles striking the sensor…as well as the momentary ominous presence of the F-16 fighter plane that swept over us at no more than one hundred feet off the ground.

    And I will never forget the headline on the newspapers the day we came down to Flagstaff, after a week of isolation in the desert:  the Chernobyl meltdown!  While I was learning of the Hopi prophecies in one of their most sacred places, what is still to date the worst nuclear accident in history (that we know of!) was happening on the opposite side of the world.  And last I heard, twenty years later, is that the molten reactor cores are still melting down through the Earth.

    This amazing synchronicity has always been a profound lesson to me.  I had been on-lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory near Santa Fe, New Mexico two years earlier, to visit my old physics lab instructor from college.  It was there that I first caught the creepy vibe of the nuclear weapons establishment and the rather “matter-of-fact” approach of the scientists and researchers.  In a museum at LANL I saw mock-ups of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was reminded that the scenario of how a nuclear apocalypse might happen as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick in his film Dr. Strangelove was not at all far out.  I was all too aware that people like Edward Teller existed and had influenced legions of nuclear strategists and imperial technocrats.

    I had also learned that the Hopi prophecies had predicted that as a result of “digging precious things from the land”, a “gourd of ash would be thrown from the sky, which would burn the land and boil the oceans.”

    In a powerful book from the mid-1980’s, The Fate of the Earth, Jonathan Schell related that the horror of nuclear war was so unimaginably great that the average human mind went into a state of denial when confronted with its possibility. Denial, he reasoned, enabled us to continue to function in a world of dire realities and possibilities, but not without unconscious side-effects.  Moreover, a problem isn’t going to go away just because you aren’t dealing with it;  in fact, it  can get a lot worse while you aren’t dealing with it.  And this is precisely what has happened with the global nuclear scenario.

    With the detonation of the first atomic explosion at the Trinity test site at Alamagordo, New Mexico on 16 July of 1945, humanity entered the nuclear age, and crossed a threshold of no return:  the fate of the Earth…and that of ourselves…was now in our own hands.  Humanity, in the fury of its technological adolescence, had chosen to realize the destructive side of Einstein’s theoretical foundation;  we suddenly had the car keys but no driving lessons. The most brilliant mind of the twentieth century was prompted to speculate that he didn’t know what weapons World War Three would be fought with, but that World War Four would be fought with sticks and stones.

    World War Three rages incognito all around us today, a “war on ‘life-as-we-know-it’” in the form of mankind’s industrial civilization metastasizing out of control over the surface of the planet, a “world-eating” virus, in the words of naturalist Loren Eiseley.  And it rages within us as well, in the form of the low-grade schizophrenia that is passing for “normality” these days, manifesting as obsession with the mindless, trivial and even diseased by-products of our socio-cultural paradigm, as well as  “psychic numbing”, ignorance and denial of the awful truth.  Lots of people are awake and aware, but humanity as a whole is neck-deep in an ocean of ignial.  All too many of us simply don’t want to hear about it.  What we don’t know CAN hurt us…because we don’t know!  “Out of sight” is “out of mind”…but not out of existence.

    Carl Sagan wanted us to hear about it, because, as a crew member of Spaceship Earth, he loved his mother and his home;  and as an astronomer, he was acutely aware of the singular uniqueness of our planet…a jewel of blue and green floating in a vast continuum of the unknown, and home of all life we know.

    He was also acutely aware of the grave danger of the nuclear scenario and the threat it posed to the health and existence of life on Earth.  Sagan was so concerned about the dangers of nuclear weapons that he visited the Nevada Test Site hundreds of times, to demonstrate and protest against the development and deployment of ever-newer generations of bombs and missiles.

    He was probably very aware that he was putting his life on the line by doing so;  he contracted leukemia, which is one of the most salient cancers induced by ionising radiation, and died from it in the mid-1990’s, in his early sixties.  His last words were that he hoped that mankind might learn to listen to the voice of reason.

    I got to meet Carl Sagan once, at the Goldstone radio-telescope installation in the Mojave desert in southern California.  This was on Columbus Day of 1992.  I had been invited to a ceremony by the SETI group of NASA, who were launching a new program to search for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence.  What impressed me about him was the gravity of his presence:  I knew he was someone who was deeply concerned about the state of affairs on our planet.

    What drove Sagan in his quest for extraterrestrial intelligence was his belief that the psychological impact of “contact” would not only jolt humanity into a state of sober cooperation, but would also show us that it is possible for a technological civilization to survive its adolescence.

    More than ten years after his passing, still no word from out there.  Radio-astronomers have no report;  despite all the “disclosure-mania” and ubiquitous “et-presence” memes littering the media landscape, have YOU actually seen or heard from a genuine extra-terrestrial being in a way that can be verified by anyone else?  I didn’t think so.

    And we’re still here; yet the juggernaut rages, further fuelled by the fires of greed, for which the “war on terrorism” is only a facade; unfettered, even assisted, by the people, who sleep-walk in a day-dream matrix of consumption, entertainment, and corporate unreality.  The atomic clock says “five minutes ‘til midnight.”

    It almost seems as if the hand of divine providence is holding back that minute hand.  But for how much longer?

    Where is it all leading?  In the movie Contact, where Jodie Foster plays a radio-astronomer who receives a transmission from an extra-terrestrial civilization (Sagan wrote the novel on which the film is based and was assisting in production up until his passing), the first image to be decoded shows a picture of a swastika on Hitler’s uniform.  The “aliens”, to begin, had returned to us the first transmission they received from us:  the first world-wide television broadcast, the Berlin Olympic games in 1936. This was the first signal of sufficient power at radio wavelengths to make it out of the solar system, appearing like a sudden “nova” on the screen of anyone “out there” who may have been listening. The Nazis had pulled this off as a demonstration of their superior technologies, and may or may not have been aware of the beacon effect of this transmission.

    This was fairly brilliant science-fiction on the part of Sagan:  to show that on this planet, the most highly advanced technologies were being developed and implemented in the service of fascism and destruction. Based on the speed-of-light factor, the benevolent extra-terrestrial civilization in the Vegan star system then responded to this beacon with instructions on how to contact them.
 
    Jodie Foster is a brilliant actress, or at least used to be;  but what weight does she carry in the reality-based community?  Dr. Helen Caldicott, on the other hand, may not be an actress, but, much more importantly, she is REAL…a real health doctor, educator, anti-nuclear activist;  mother, grandmother, and lover of life.
   
    On live television in Australia recently she was lamenting the fact that the younger generation was not responsive to her message because they were so highly brainwashed by government propaganda saying that nuclear power is safe and clean.  This would be the same generation who is always talking on mobile phones.  You know, those small microwave transmitters which cause intra-cranial heating, disruption of brain-waves, and carcinoma.  The same generation who can actually stomach such media tripe as “Big  Brother.”  The same generation whose children…if they exist at all...are going to have exponentially higher probabilities of contracting cancer than this one;  the same generation who is going to have train and truck-loads of nuclear waste passing through their neighbourhoods and stored in their back-yards…all the while “enriching” a handful of corporations at the expense of life itself.

    Remember that back in the 1930’s, when “radiation” was first “discovered”, there was a brief craze where lots of the “in-crowd” drank radium tea and took radium baths, believing it was beneficial to their health.  After all these people died, others began to catch on to the reality of radiation.  So if you see adverts for “DU tea”, don’t buy it…you’re already breathing it!

    Australia, and Canada as well, play huge rolls in the global nuclear scenario, as these two countries provide close to 70% of all the uranium that is mined;  Israel, the fifth largest nuclear power, and a prima facie rogue terrorist state, is regarded by many as the most likely nation to use these weapons.  But the nuclear king-pin is, of course, the United States, who leads in “r & d”, strategic proliferation, and paradigm marketing…just like Nazi Germany in the early 1940’s.  The parallel’s are clear:  it’s a family tradition!!!

    Over the past few decades what has come to be known as the “military-industrial complex” has invested in a program of “full-spectrum weaponization” of almost every imaginable dimension of what we think of as “reality.”  They have even attempted to weaponize “reality” itself!  Each of these technological systems is in itself extremely dangerous;  the summation of their effects and unknown synergisms exponentiates the lethality.  At the top of the list, however, are all things nuclear.

    The nuclear scenario is of truly global proportion, affecting every life-form and eco-system on the planet; like other issues involving high technology, it is complex and consists of several inter-related problem areas, for example, the mining/extraction process;  transportation and storage of radioactive wastes;  development, testing, deployment, and proliferation of a wide spectrum of nuclear weapons, as well as reactors for power generation;  accidents in any of these areas;  the inherent “terrorism” involved in their possession;  and the consequences of actual nuclear war, tactical or strategic, and “radiological” warfare.

    Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first human population centers to experience the blow of a nuclear attack…the “gourd of ash.”  Nuclear physicist Leuren Moret, interviewed in the Australian documentary “Blowin’ in the Wind”,  relates that the U.S. military referred to these genocidal detonations as “test two” and “test three.”  Japan was already on the verge of surrendering;  the strategic planners and their scientific attaches wanted to see what would happen.  An in vivo experiment, and a flexing of newly-acquired muscle, to impress the Russians…who had “the bomb” within four years.  The result was beyond their wildest nightm…I mean, dreams!  On the sixth and ninth of August 1945 two cities of no strategic value were levelled and hundreds of thousands of civilians were incinerated in a matter of seconds.  A previously unimaginable form of “terror” was now in their hands.  The tests were a success…and the hard was on!

    The Hopi recognized the atomic bomb as the fulfilment of their “gourd of ash” prophecy and at this point began to share their insights with a world who would hardly listen;  they knew that the “day of purification” was at hand.

    Since then, well over 2,000 nuclear devices have been detonated, in many locations around the planet, leaving over 4000 kgs of plutonium in the ground, according to Greenpeace, and discharging another 4000 kgs into the atmosphere.  Every above-ground explosion generated a cloud of radioactive gases which the wind occasionally blew across major population centers, and lofted millions of cubic meters of radioactive dust into the atmosphere, which would eventually return to the surface in the form of “fall-out”. 

    Fall-out contains many lethal materials, most notably, in addition to plutonium, a host of by-products of nuclear reactions, including radioactive isotopes of iodine, cesium, thorium, cobalt, and our good friend strontium 90; their half-lives range from tens to billions of years.  These particles enter the water and soil cycles and the food chain, circulate in the atmosphere and remain in our tissue, our bones and teeth…for the duration.  Las Vegas, which is a hundred miles down-wind from the Nevada Test Site, has the highest per capita cancer rate in all of the United States;  and after the radio-active cloud from a British nuclear test blew over Adelaide, South Australia, scientists studying the bones of children who had died confirmed the presence of strontium-90.

    “But the government scientists tell us that nuclear power is safe and clean.”  I cannot think of a more fundamental lie than this.  Only a completely schizophrenic mind could believe this;  or a completely ignorant mind.  Ignophrenia:  the “new normality.”

    If it’s safe, then why do they make weapons out of it?  Right.  Today’s governments and military are kinder, gentler;  aware and responsible:  they only kill people with weapons that are safe and clean!

    It’s perfectly ecological, too…except for the millions of acres of sacred lands that are strip-mined and the millions of cubic meters of tailings left lying around, not to mention the hazardous chemicals used in the extraction process.  Where does all this stuff go?  Nowhere.

    True, some of the indigenous people go along with it.  Why?  Because they’re making a lot of money from it.  But for every one on the take, there are many more who hold to the old way. 

    Clean?…you bet!  Except for the millions of tons of high-level radioactive wastes generated annually.  Kind of like a small nuclear explosion in a drum.  Very convenient.  Where does all this stuff go?  Ever heard of “DU”?  But not all of it can be made into bullets, so they’ve got really big holes in the ground in Nevada and South Australia to put it in. Perfectly safe there…at least until it corrodes the drums and leaches into the water table, or until geological activity breaks the whole thing open.  Maybe not in our life-times…but in whose?  Our grand-children’s?

    Further, any facility where nuclear materials are processed eventually becomes so contaminated that it has to be shut down.  But only after lives have been lost and untold quantities of the most toxic substances known to man have been lost or released into the environment.  The Hanford site in Washington state is a major example;  this was a plutonium processing facility which is now so contaminated that they literally don’t know what to do with it.

    And I remember from my days in Boulder, Colorado that Rocky Flats, just to the north…another plutonium processing facility…estimated that approximately eight pounds of plutonium was unaccounted for at the time they shut down.  This is enough for several small war-heads and enough to kill every person on Earth many times over just from its radio-toxicity, and from only one facility.  Can you imagine the horror of being killed more than once?

    One of the really dangerous aspects of nuclear radiation is that, unless you are in the vicinity of a nuclear explosion or a reactor core, you probably aren’t going to be aware of its presence.  Humans have lived in the presence of radiation for millions of years;  we swim in a sea of radiation, the electromagnetic spectrum.  Sunlight is radiation which is essential for life;  all life on Earth is constantly bombarded by assorted radiations from the sun and beyond.  We respond to, are nourished by, resonate with and mutate from this constant flux of electromagnetic energy.  Some of the mass-extinction events on Earth may have been caused by extra-terrestrial radiation. And uranium can be found as a trace element in top-soils all around the world.

    But we are not equipped to sense or deal with high levels of ionising radiation.  You cannot feel a level of exposure that is basically cooking you…only hours later when you start getting really sick do you become aware of it.  This is why anyone who works in laboratories where nuclear materials are present wears a little tag that changes color if exposure has occurred…otherwise, you wouldn’t even know.

    Are you beginning to get the picture…of just how “safe and clean” anything nuclear actually is?  And if you REALLY want to know about the health effects of ionising radiation, I suggest you go over to Iraq and visit just about any hospital there.

    You see, the brilliant minds who brought us nuclear weapons to begin with…remember, Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhatten Project guys…laid the foundation for “radiological” warfare as well.  They knew that the reactors making their weapons-grade materials would be churning out vast quantities of radioactive waste.  In documents from the 1940’s they actually suggest that these wastes could be spread over battlefields…just like manure on a field of crops.  All the soldiers…ALL, not just the “enemy”…would die slow deaths from radiation poisoning.

    In 1973 a German company called Rheinmetal took out patents for the manufacture of what are called “depleted uranium”, or “DU” weapons.  The idea is very simple:  you take the “depleted” tailings from the extraction process and make it into bullets and artillery shells.  It’s called “depleted” because the tailings have only low levels of the U-238;  but “depleted” is an Orwellian euphemism, because what they add to the tailings is all the extremely high-level wastes from the reactors:  the most deadly substances known to man.

      From the point of view of your typical necrophilous military strategist, it’s the perfect battlefield weapon.  The bullets or shells pierce tank armor like butter, explode on impact, burn up whatever they hit, then disappear into a huge cloud of radioactive nano-particles which enter the food chain, the water cycle, the atmosphere.  Winds can carry these particles thousands of miles;  and their potency is not diminished except over millions of years.

    The perfect battlefield weapon…for those who never come near it, those who make the decisions for its manufacture and use.  Actually, it’s only “perfect” for someone…or something…that isn’t affected by radiation.  This has always made me wonder about these people.  Do they think they are somehow immune?  That it will never reach them or their loved ones (do they have any)?  Maybe the military has a new generation of “anti-radiation” drugs;  you know, you just pop some pills and you can walk inside the reactor.  Safe and clean, remember?  More than likely, they have pills that make you think this is true!  But who needs that when we already have television?

    To me, the most horrific and nightmarishly insidious thing that mankind is doing to others of his kind right now is the use of DU weapons.  Radiological war-fare.  Journalist Robert Koehler has called it “silent genocide” and this is precisely accurate.

    DU was actually used as early as the 1950’s as ballast in missiles, but DU weapons were first used by Israeli forces in 1973, and have been used in several countries, including Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Afghanistan;  they were used extensively in Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91; and an unimaginable 155,000 kgs have been deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom;  and they are believed to be in use by U.S. military forces training in Australia.  I would guess that all U.S. forces anywhere, as well as those from Australia, England and Israel, are at least partially armed with DU weaponry.

    And DU weapons, like anything emitting ionising radiation, don’t have to be exploded to do their damage;  you get zapped just from being near it.  Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, featured in the documentary film “The Doctor, DU, and Dying Children”, smuggled a live artillery shell from Iraq into Germany in his diplomatic pouch, and was charged with spreading ionising radiation when he submitted it to scientific institutions for testing!

    Medical authorities have estimated that even before the current operation in Iraq, over 500,000 babies had been born in Iraq who were severely deformed because of the effects of ionising radiation from the DU released in the first Gulf war.  You see, the poison dust containing the DU goes everywhere; even when a tank has blown up,  the DU’s journey has just begun.  It affects everyone within the reach of the wind:  not only military personnel on whatever side, but also health workers, children, civilians, pregnant mothers, even people in other countries. 
    

A few months ago scientists in the UK reported that background levels of ionising radiation there were four times what they usually were;  they attributed this to the clouds of DU blowing over from Iraq.  Safe and clean…in a very global way!  “What goes around…comes around!”

    The sickest part of the DU scenario is that this is not happening accidentally, an unforeseen side-effect of the “perfect weapon”, as some would have us believe. The decision-makers have known all along that DU weapons are indeed weapons of “silent genocide”…not only to blow up the “enemy” on the battlefield, and not only to destroy his entire genetic structure, to eradicate his people through the slow deaths of radiation poisoning and mutation, but also to kill their own military personnel. Soldiers in today’s military may think they are serving a noble cause, defending their homeland, destroying an “evil enemy.”  Au contraire…they are looked on by the top decision-makers as little more than witless cannon fodder.  Ask Cindy Sheehan.  And the “Gulf war syndrome” is known to be largely due to DU poisoning.

    In Nazi Germany, in the concentration camps, their biggest problem wasn’t how to kill everyone…it was disposing of the bodies.  Now, with the perfect “silent-genocide” weapon of DU, entire populations can be made to die slowly, and in their own homes.  The government and military is free from having to dispose of the bodies. Their children will mutate and die off.  And their own military personnel will do the same.  It’s called “eugenics”, or “population control.”

    Homo sapiens.  “Man, the wise.”

    It’s painfully clear that the wide-spread use of DU weapons is not only the equivalent of but actually a technological evolution beyond the ovens of Auschwitz and Dachau;  a more efficient means to the same end.  It is possible that the number of people who have already received lethal doses of DU may far exceed the number of people burned in concentration camps.  And more and more DU is being deployed hourly.

     People often speculate on what would have happened if the Nazis got nuclear weapons.  Think about it…they did. Hitler’s “devils among us”…“Jews, gypsies, liberals, communists” have become Bush’s Islamic “terrists”…everything else is the same except with 50 years worth of more advanced technologies., including television and all things nuclear.

    Nuclear radiation is safe and clean…as long as you’re already dead!

    Biologists have told us that not everything on Earth would die as a result of an all-out nuclear war.  Insects in general, and especially cockroaches, would be unaffected;  and grasses and non-vascular plants in general would be ok.  I remember reading that as early as three weeks after the Hiroshima detonation, wild-flowers were blooming at ground zero.

    Only the larger life-forms would be affected; any homo sapiens left would have to make it through a protracted “nuclear winter”, subsist on roaches and grass, and fend off rival mutants with sticks and stones.  I wish Stanley Kubrick would have made the sequel to Dr. Strangelove…How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Roach.  Importantly, life-forms in the ocean would be far less affected than those on land.

    The Earth is no stranger to cosmic catastrophe.  She’s made it through some pretty hairy times, for example at least five major mass-extinction events, some of which were believed to have been caused by cosmic radiation from supernovas.  Huge comets, asteroids, and other unknown celestial bodies have hurtled through the solar system, wreaking havoc and possibly even re-arranging planetary configurations. The crater-scarred surface of the moon, unprotected by an atmosphere, bears witness to the frequency of bombardment. 

    Immanuel Velikovsky, a Russian psychoanalyst and student of Freud, described such scenarios as these;  he was ridiculed by the “in-crowd” of his day (the radium-tea drinkers?), but time and research have proven him correct in many ways.  He believed that humanity as a whole had been psychologically traumatized by cosmic events so horrific that we were in a perpetual state of amnesia:  we refuse to remember what happened, and thus are doomed to play out this drama in our own small way.  He relates in his book Mankind in Amnesia that the military leaders of ancient times consciously sought to emulate the “gods” battling in the sky in their own war-fare.  With the advent of nuclear weapons our collective fantasy was fulfilled: a self-generated eschaton was now enabled, and our “small ways” of playing out unresolved psychic trauma were amplified to planetary lethality.

    Life on Earth has endured for a long time.  What is new this time is that a major threat to her health and safety has arisen not from somewhere else, but from one of her own children:  from us, homo sapiens, “man, the wise.”  This may not even be the first time…the Hopis tell us that ours is the “fourth world”.  And does the name “Atlantis” ring a bell?

    From a cosmic perspective, there’s a lot that we have no control over;  divine providence notwithstanding, there’s very little we can do to influence the sun or to shield ourselves from supernova x-rays.

      The nuclear scenario, however, is entirely of human creation.  Man, moreover, has armed himself not only with other technologies designed for killing and mutating, like genetic engineering (GE), weather warfare and mind-control (HAARP), and weltanschauungskrieg, or “psychological” and “unreality” warfare (TV and mass-communication as a whole), but is also suffering from the side-effects of his industrial civilization in general, for example, the fossil fuel scenario, atmospheric changes due to human activity, deforestation, desertification, chemical pollution, waste accretion.  Cancer rates are sky-rocketing, as are species extinctions. The ice caps are melting at unprecedented rates, but the reason remains unclear:  increased solar activity, weather/climate modification technologies, and the “greenhouse effect” could all be involved;  moreover, “global warming” is happening on planets other than Earth.  What does this tell us?  That we actually have no idea whatsoever about what is happening around us?
   
    Indigenous peoples have always told us that we ALL are connected in the web of life;  whether we want to or not, we ALL feel the pain and suffering of all our relations deep inside.  This is why we get cancer and go crazy…we refuse to acknowledge what WE are doing to ourselves.  All life that we know lives on the same spaceship.

    The “big picture” was expressed quite eloquently by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson in 1964, shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, which is regarded by many as the moment when the nuclear minute hand was the closest to midnight that it has ever been:

    "We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent upon its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed for our safety to its security and peace;  preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.  We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies  of man, half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all."

    Carl Sagan was first and foremost an astronomer.  Astronomers, moreso than anyone else, have a clear perspective on humanity’s place in the universe.  A cosmic, astronomical perspective helps us realize just how tiny and insignificant we truly are;  and at the same time, how precious, special, fragile life on Earth is.  A cosmic perspective gives us a sense of the real togetherness we share, the true family of life that we are part of.  A reluctantly “nuclear” family that is severely fragmented.

    Life here has endured cosmic cataclysms and survived; that this should always be so cannot be known.  What we DO have control over, however, are problems of our own creation, the nuclear scenario being at the top of the list.
 

     I think it’s very dangerous for us to believe that benevolent extra-terrestrials are going to intervene and save us from ourselves;  this is the same delusion promulgated by mainstream religion.  Besides, no self-respecting aliens are going to risk exposing themselves to Hollywood;  think of what would happen when their Spielberg-enhanced images reached neighboring star-systems…they would lose face throughout the galaxy!

    For hundreds of years, all of this non-sense that we are powerless and that salvation comes from beyond us has been generated by the spin-doctors of royalty, clergy, bankers, and the military/industrial complex.  Why?  To make us easier to control.

    The universe is telling us IN VERY BIG WAYS that it’s time to wake up.
   
    We have to learn our lessons for ourselves.  We have fouled our nest and we must clean it up and learn to take care of it.  We have been given the keys to our car and now we must learn to drive.  Paradoxically, “learning to drive” cosmically may fully entail stopping driving literally!  We must be like Toto, and pull back the curtain on the wizards of delusion.  WE must control transmission!

    That tiny minorities of wealthy imperialists and their minion corporations wield such control over what we think of as ‘reality’ is a testament not to their power or expertise, but only to our collective apathy, slumber and willingness to be misled.  The Zionists?  The Bilderbergers?  The “new world order”? The “illuminati”?  Ha…a bunch of greedy and impotent old men is more like it, with armies of highly-paid “perception managers” to disseminate grandiose hallucinations of their power…and the safety and cleanliness of all things nuclear!  They are no more than distant and severely mentally-ill relatives with lots of gold in their belfries!  Their goal:  to make this their world.  Yet “they” are a subset of “us.”

    Now more than ever we need a lightning bolt to strike us in the ass, to jar us from our deadly day-dreaming and inspire us to educate ourselves about what is really going on in this beautiful world, and to fall in love with Mother Nature, our planet, our home.  It’s a pretty cool place to be.

    Some good old-fashioned science education would be a great place to start.  The leading edge of science left the Newtonian/Cartesian paradigm in the particulate residue decades ago;  but since the military/industrial complex insists on staying at its outer limits…stuck at the level of “old-school” science-fiction…well, fire must be fought with fire, neutron with lead…laser with mirror…television with neuro-cybernetic creativity enhancement algorithms!
Physics is fun;  toss that video game.  Think of how cool you’ll be when you can actually explain what superconductivity is…in scientific terms!  Or pull out your very own Geiger counter…which if you’re lucky won’t be clicking!!!  Biology is rad…terminate “Big Brother.”  Think of how your friends will be impressed when you can explain exactly how ionising radiation actually causes your favorite mutations…or how microwaves can cook…in scientific terms!  Psychology is the COOLEST…think of how amazing you will be when you realize that you…yes YOU!...are actually using your very own brain/mind to CREATE REALITY at this very instant!  You and your friends can have “co-creation” parties!

    And when you get to this level…well, now you’re out of the old paradigm and into the new…you are now no longer living on a dead rock made of resources for extraction, you are a vital and integral part of a vast web of planetary life that is innately creative and intelligent, inhabiting a mind-blowingly awesome space/time-ship orbiting a huge plasma being illuminated by huge streams of interstellar electricity and inspired by emanations from the center of the galaxy.

    And at this point you will be better able to grasp the astronomical contradictions within the human experience which threaten us at every level, and the roles that you are playing in this unfolding drama.

    You are no longer just a passenger on Spaceship Earth…you are her crew!  Instead of “looking out for number one”, you’ll be looking in towards infinity!  And there is nothing wrong with your television set…as long as it is unplugged!

    Maybe the extraterrestrials ARE here…maybe they are who we REALLY are…a projection of our own true, but forgotten, nature.

    Einstein observed that with the dawn of the nuclear age, everything had changed except our ways of thinking, and that problems could not be solved from the same “level of thinking” that created them.

    For anyone to believe that anything nuclear is “safe and clean” is evidence that our ways of thinking have indeed changed…and in directions that Einstein actually foresaw.  He realized that the “shrewd methods of psychic and intellectual influences” brought to bear by the powers-that-be may prevent the development of independent thought.

    Maybe the next level from which our problems can be solved is simply a matter of a quantum leap in our psychological world-view:  to consider that we may actually be the “ultimate technology” with innate abilites to creatively and harmoniously re-program what we think of as “reality” and how we relate to ourselves, our fellow beings, our planet.

    This is what I always wanted to tell Carl Sagan and the other SETI radio-astronomers…that I thought they were looking in the wrong place for “extra-terrestrial” intelligence…that it’s actually embedded in the nature of life itself, in our dna, our cells, our brains and minds;  in trees, in rocks, in the whales and dolphins, in water, in the Earth, the stars, the galaxies, the entire omniverse.  In us.

    Is this realization what we are really afraid of, what we are in denial of, what we are running from…what we refuse to acknowledge, to remember?  Could it be that even more terrifying to us than ancient memories of cosmic catastrophe is the awareness that we ourselves actually ARE the “extra-terrestrial intelligence” we have long sought?  That we are not a “fallen” race of world-eating vermin…all that was just a really bad dream…but actually ARE higher-dimensional divine beings who are coming out of hibernation…waking up to the opportunity and responsibility, the excitement and wonder of being here and now, on the threshold of a new age…of our own creation?

    What are our options?  A nuclear or other catastrophe could still happen…in a flash.  The Hopi prophecies say that the United States will be destroyed by fire from the same “gourd of ash” they used on Japan.

    Renewed proliferation brings with it an increased probability of accidents…or deliberate use;  and with the vice of information control tightening, how much is happening that we don’t even know about?

      Meanwhile, the reactors churn out the waste and the DU dust blows in the wind to every corner of the globe. The slow death proceeds…a side-effect of our current way of “living.”  We…homo sapiens,  “man, the wise”…have finally constructed a “Doomsday machine.”  It’s called industrial civilization.

    It’s obvious that our current path is a dead-end.  The choice is ours:  to remain comatose in the face of seemingly insurmountable problems of our own creation until life as we know it has vanished, semi-conscious participants in eco- and suicide…or to wake up, breathe in the awe and mystery, and take the helm of Spaceship Earth as awakened crew operating on a completely new internal software environment.

    Science-fiction has become reality;  but it doesn’t have to be the horror version.  WE must control transmission:  divine providence may be growing weary of holding back that minute hand.                                              

Jeff Phillips
Pucon Chile
16 July 2006

BOOKS

Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Power is Not the Answer, The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex, If You Love this Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth, Missile Envy, Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do

Loren Eiseley, The Star-thrower

James Lovelock, The Gaia Hypothesis

Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power: the Myth of the Machine

Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth

Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection, The Dragons of Eden, Cosmos, The Nuclear Winter; Contact

Immanuel Velikovsky, Mankind in Amnesia

FILMS

"Poison Dust"

"The Doctor, DU, and Dying Children"

"Blowin' in the Wind"

"Helen's War"

Contact

Doctor Strangelove

Judgement at Nuremberg

Koyaanisqatsi

Silkwood

ON-LINE

www.thebulletin.org/doomsday_clock/timeline.htm

www.greenpeace.org

www.globalresearch.ca

www.nuclearpolicy.org

www.helencaldicott.com

www.carlsagan.com
www.regainyourbrain.org

"The Nuclear Winter", Carl Sagan, http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/sagan_nuclear_winter.html

"The Atmospheric and Climatic Consequences of Nuclear War", Carl Sagan, http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/Sagan-Nuclear-Consequences31oct83.htm

"Fighting for our lives", Caldicott interview, http://www.wholelifetimes.com/Caldicott.html

'We should not be exporting uranium because you are exporting cancer' Dr. Helen Caldicott, http://tinyurl.com/emr82

"There Are No Words...Radiation in Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs", Bob Nichols, http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Nichols0327.htm

"Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets...A death sentence here and abroad" Leuren Moret, http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml

"Silent Genocide", Robert Koehler, http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/DU-Silent-Genocide25mar04.htm

"Cancer Epidemic Caused by U.S. WMD...M.D. Says Depleted Uranium Definitively Linked", Christopher Bollyn, http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epidemic_.html

History of Nuclear Weapons Testing, http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/nukes/ctbt/read9.html

"Plutonium cancer risk may be higher than thought", New Scientist, http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Estgvisie/VISIE/Plutonium-Cancer.html

"Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Worst terror attacks in history", Norm Dixon, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050801&articleId=785

MUSIC

"I am aware" An experimental piece with Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock performance of the "Star-spangled banner" and dialogue from the 1964 courtroom drama Judgment at Nuremberg. Go to www.regainyourbrain.org/ click on Hendrix, scroll down to "I am aware". Down-load the mp3.

COMING SOON: "A Free-lance Intelligence Report: The 'Bigger Picture' as I see it Now" in which I attempt to synthesize everything that's relevant here and now...using understandable English and within the limits of the contemporary attention span. THIS is a challenge...but somebody's got to do it!!! hahaha!!!