By Joel Carlinsky
Joel Carlinsky writes on the irresponsible use of cloudbusters at his blog: www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com
"Strong winds and torrential rains and mega snow in storms in West Coast and California March 18-20th are result of radiation reaction with atmosphere in Japan and across ocean.. An Oranur reaction has taken place in Japan and across Pacific causing intensification of storm as it crosses Pacific."
---Post to an internet mailing list.
I agree 100%. The real problem is not the radioactive particulates in the atmosphere. It is the oranur reaction they cause. And that is not detectable with the usual instruments. We can expect a series of intense storms as the atmosphere reacts against the oranur excitation from the damaged reactors with strenuous efforts to rid itself of the pollution.
One effect of such storms is that a lot of the radioactive particulates will be washed out of the atmosphere into the sea or onto the land before they have had as much time to run down into less a less harmful state as they would otherwise have had.
A further problem is the large number of backyard cloudbuster hobbyists who are bound to try to "help" by pointing pipes at the sky in all directions. None of them will know that there are others doing the same thing, possibly within a few miles of them, and there will be cloudbusters drawing from all directions at random.
And that will result in some very chaotic weather. It will also spread the radioactivity around quite a lot more than nature ever would have.
I suggest that anyone reading this should look at the weather maps for the next few weeks for signs of cloudbusting being done from the West Coast in an attempt to divert storms away from some areas to others.
The most likely scenario is that someone will decide that the most poulated areas are the ones that should be "saved" at the expense of those less heavily populated, so storms that are on-track to a large city may suddenly change course and go to some relatively unpopulated area.
Also, look for unpredicted rain to wash a lot of fallout down out of the atmosphere before it reaches land. That could mean someone decided to contaminate the ocean instead of letting the fallout reach land. The fallout that reaches land will tend to stay where it hits the ground, while anything that comes down in the ocean will tend to travel much farther and faster than any contamination on land, but that will not occur to a lot of people who think of the ocean as a public dumping ground.
A probable result of such misguided cloudbusting to "save" or "protect" areas on land is the radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean food chain to a significantly greater extent than would happen otherwise.
There is no transparency and no accountability in the field of cloudbusting. Anyone is free to decide what to attempt with a cloudbuster without any input from anyone else or any oversight by anyone representing the interests of the public. There are no standards of training required, no guidelines that must be adhered to, and no way to sanction those who cause damage or to require them to carry insurance to compensate their victims.
Cloudbusting is a wild frontier where anybody can do exactly as he pleases with the fragile atmosphere upon which all life depends. Most of the people who take up cloudbusting have good intentions and think they are doing the right thing, but they nearly all lack any real knowledge of the little-known branch of physics that the cloudbuster is based on, and they also are almost all totally ignorant of the biological sciences that would enable them to understand the potential effects on the ecosystems they will inevitably affect.
And there are some who are sadists or psychopaths or driven by a need to dominate and control. Such persons are attracted to cloudbusting for the feeling of power that it gives them. They enjoy the feeling that they get to decide what weather the rest of us have to endure.
And the rest of us are at their mercy.
I am trying to change that. I am trying to get a movement going to demand transparency and accountability in the cloudbusting field. There should be standards set, a professional Code Of Ethics, training, insurance coverage, consultations with ecologists, and some way to sanction those who are found guilty of malpractice.
Because the atmosphere is too important to be left to whoever wants to control it.
If you would be willing to help in this project, please contact: orgonomic.ecology@etaireia.org
18 March, 2011
MacKenzie Eyes Only Memo “ZR-FLATSTORE” (12-9-61)
The following document was mailed to me by U.S. post from Roderick A. MacKenzie on March 11, 2011 and I received it on March 17, 2011. The page was torn into 15 small pieces and placed in wax paper inside of a padded envelope. I pieced the document together and taped it on the same day I received it. The page is small, measuring only 5 and a half by 8 inches. It is stained in 3 spots by a yellow color, and appears to contain three original signatures, one in pencil and two in black marker.
- Joan d’Arc (This document will be made available for analysis by the JFK research community. More details to be added.)
The document reads as follows:
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Report No. ZR-72-40-63210
Date: 12-9-61
Area: ZR
Sect.: 5
To: SecH2CIA Cd 2 9 Nwds,
Sec. DIA SFHS ZR-Rfl. 21.
Sec. FBI Div. V. ZR-Rfl.
[paper is signed in pencil at top "Miami 40" with initials "LD" and in black marker "OK Zapata B."]
EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY.
TRASH BURN BOX – TRASH BURN BOX – TRASH BURN BOX.
NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY.
This day of 12-9-61 At __________ [handwritten, cannot read]
D.I.A. Has auth. Formation of an Safe Area Project Under Supervision of
Agent Mayer in Habana Central. To provide a SAFE HAVEN for Selected
partys and persons under scrutiny of RAM ZR FLATSTORE / inactive
Agents, Partys, Hot Indvls., for short periods to be trained in Carnival
Arts under umbrla. INACTIVITY. Inactive Operatives will be under NEED
TO KNOW CONDITIONS.
The funding for this initial costs of formation and and mtnce. Of this BLK
OP. will come from PETTY CASH directed from Permindex, Ltd. Of Toronto,
Cn. To be fwd to Permindex fr. Dist. At Permindex Inc. New Orleans, La.
Zl. (See Cover pages for Items and listing of NEEDS sup by MacKenzie, R.
c/o Mc willi Habana, Cuba, El Presidanti Hotel.
This Project is dubbed ZR-FLATSTORE and must be comp. by 3-5-196 .
and be op under "HANDS ON" cont of MacKenzie at Chgo. And
go to Gibsonton, Fl. Fr initial set up as SAFE ENVIRONMENT on midway of
MacKenzies choice. Attn: Bertram, C. Permindex N.O., La. Clients will be
directed under NOMAD Cntrl. Only. To safe haven at ZR-FLATSTORE to
Learn skills on Carnival Games or Shows Mac Kenzie will form as per
route (See Billboard Mag, Letter List and Ads under Agents Needed. Code
No. 6969McKen.
Due to nature of this project Blackout secrecy is in effect, Need to know
parim only. NO RECORDS OR PAPERTRAIL WILL BE MADE. MacKen will
mtn. Tel. Contact Nightly w/Agency th D. Graham and Roselli on all mtrs.
Pert. To ZR-FLATSTORE and Clients will be directed through this mode of
Info. Cmptzation is in effect on all levels in this project and NEED TO
KNOW is in effect all the way.
This order is in effect immediately.
C.V. Mc Allevery / Case agnt.
Route ZR-RIFLE, #5
[Signature of Mc Allevery appears in black above name]
Here is the scanned document as a PDF for all of our eyes:
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/PDFs/mackenzie_eyesonly.pdf
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/eyesonly.html
For more information see also:
Interview with Roderick MacKenzie
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/mackenzie.html
PDF of book, The Men That Don’t Fit In, by Roderick MacKenzie
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/PDFs/mackenzie_mendontfitin.pdf
- Joan d’Arc (This document will be made available for analysis by the JFK research community. More details to be added.)
The document reads as follows:
DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Report No. ZR-72-40-63210
Date: 12-9-61
Area: ZR
Sect.: 5
To: SecH2CIA Cd 2 9 Nwds,
Sec. DIA SFHS ZR-Rfl. 21.
Sec. FBI Div. V. ZR-Rfl.
[paper is signed in pencil at top "Miami 40" with initials "LD" and in black marker "OK Zapata B."]
EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY – EYES ONLY.
TRASH BURN BOX – TRASH BURN BOX – TRASH BURN BOX.
NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY – NO COPY.
This day of 12-9-61 At __________ [handwritten, cannot read]
D.I.A. Has auth. Formation of an Safe Area Project Under Supervision of
Agent Mayer in Habana Central. To provide a SAFE HAVEN for Selected
partys and persons under scrutiny of RAM ZR FLATSTORE / inactive
Agents, Partys, Hot Indvls., for short periods to be trained in Carnival
Arts under umbrla. INACTIVITY. Inactive Operatives will be under NEED
TO KNOW CONDITIONS.
The funding for this initial costs of formation and and mtnce. Of this BLK
OP. will come from PETTY CASH directed from Permindex, Ltd. Of Toronto,
Cn. To be fwd to Permindex fr. Dist. At Permindex Inc. New Orleans, La.
Zl. (See Cover pages for Items and listing of NEEDS sup by MacKenzie, R.
c/o Mc willi Habana, Cuba, El Presidanti Hotel.
This Project is dubbed ZR-FLATSTORE and must be comp. by 3-5-196 .
and be op under "HANDS ON" cont of MacKenzie at Chgo. And
go to Gibsonton, Fl. Fr initial set up as SAFE ENVIRONMENT on midway of
MacKenzies choice. Attn: Bertram, C. Permindex N.O., La. Clients will be
directed under NOMAD Cntrl. Only. To safe haven at ZR-FLATSTORE to
Learn skills on Carnival Games or Shows Mac Kenzie will form as per
route (See Billboard Mag, Letter List and Ads under Agents Needed. Code
No. 6969McKen.
Due to nature of this project Blackout secrecy is in effect, Need to know
parim only. NO RECORDS OR PAPERTRAIL WILL BE MADE. MacKen will
mtn. Tel. Contact Nightly w/Agency th D. Graham and Roselli on all mtrs.
Pert. To ZR-FLATSTORE and Clients will be directed through this mode of
Info. Cmptzation is in effect on all levels in this project and NEED TO
KNOW is in effect all the way.
This order is in effect immediately.
C.V. Mc Allevery / Case agnt.
Route ZR-RIFLE, #5
[Signature of Mc Allevery appears in black above name]
Here is the scanned document as a PDF for all of our eyes:
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/PDFs/mackenzie_eyesonly.pdf
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/eyesonly.html
For more information see also:
Interview with Roderick MacKenzie
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/mackenzie.html
PDF of book, The Men That Don’t Fit In, by Roderick MacKenzie
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/PDFs/mackenzie_mendontfitin.pdf
Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Safety Reports, Accidents
By Jason Clenfield - Mar 18, 2011
The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry. The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant, also run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. In 2002 and 2007, revelations the utility had faked repair records forced the resignation of the company’s chairman and president, and a three-week shutdown of all 17 of its reactors.
With almost no oil or gas reserves of its own, nuclear power has been a national priority for Japan since the end of World War II, a conflict the country fought partly to secure oil supplies. Japan has 54 operating nuclear reactors -- more than any other country except the U.S. and France -- to power its industries, pitting economic demands against safety concerns in the world’s most earthquake-prone country.
Nuclear engineers and academics who have worked in Japan’s atomic power industry spoke in interviews of a history of accidents, faked reports and inaction by a succession of Liberal Democratic Party governments that ran Japan for nearly all of the postwar period.
Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismology professor at Kobe University, has said Japan’s history of nuclear accidents stems from an overconfidence in plant engineering. In 2006, he resigned from a government panel on reactor safety, saying the review process was rigged and “unscientific.”
In an interview in 2007 after Tokyo Electric’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant was struck by an earthquake, Ishibashi said fundamental improvements were needed in engineering standards for atomic power stations, without which Japan could suffer a catastrophic disaster.
“We didn’t learn anything,” Ishibashi said in a phone interview this week. “Nuclear power is national policy and there’s a real reluctance to scrutinize it.”
To be sure, Japan’s record isn’t the worst. The International Atomic Energy Agency rates nuclear accidents on a scale of zero to seven, with Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union rated seven, the most dangerous. Fukushima, where the steel vessels at the heart of the reactors have so far not ruptured, is currently a class five, the same category as the 1979 partial reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island in the U.S.
[….]
Back-up diesel generators that might have averted the disaster were positioned in a basement, where they were overwhelmed by waves. “This in the country that invented the word Tsunami,” said Brockman, who also worked at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Japan is going to have a look again at its regulatory process and whether it’s intrusive enough.”
The cascade of events at Fukushima had been foretold in a report published in the U.S. two decades ago. The 1990 report by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent agency responsible for safety at the country’s power plants, identified earthquake-induced diesel generator failure and power outage leading to failure of cooling systems as one of the “most likely causes” of nuclear accidents from an external event.
[…]
After Hokuriku Electric’s Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa prefecture was rocked by a 6.9 magnitude quake in March 2007, government scientists found it had been built near an earthquake fault that was more than twice as long as regulators deemed threatening.
“Regulators just rubber-stamp the utilities’ reports,” Takashi Nakata, a former Hiroshima Institute of Technology seismologist and an anti-nuclear activist, said at the time. While Japan had never suffered a failure comparable to Chernobyl, the Fukushima disaster caps a decade of fatal accidents.
Two workers at a fuel processing plant were killed by radiation exposure in 1999, when they used buckets, instead of the prescribed containers, to eye-ball a uranium mixture, triggering a chain-reaction that went unchecked for 20 hours.
Continue reading at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-17/japan-s-nuclear-disaster-caps-decades-of-faked-safety-reports-accidents.html
The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry. The destruction caused by last week’s 9.0 earthquake and tsunami comes less than four years after a 6.8 quake shut the world’s biggest atomic plant, also run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. In 2002 and 2007, revelations the utility had faked repair records forced the resignation of the company’s chairman and president, and a three-week shutdown of all 17 of its reactors.
With almost no oil or gas reserves of its own, nuclear power has been a national priority for Japan since the end of World War II, a conflict the country fought partly to secure oil supplies. Japan has 54 operating nuclear reactors -- more than any other country except the U.S. and France -- to power its industries, pitting economic demands against safety concerns in the world’s most earthquake-prone country.
Nuclear engineers and academics who have worked in Japan’s atomic power industry spoke in interviews of a history of accidents, faked reports and inaction by a succession of Liberal Democratic Party governments that ran Japan for nearly all of the postwar period.
Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismology professor at Kobe University, has said Japan’s history of nuclear accidents stems from an overconfidence in plant engineering. In 2006, he resigned from a government panel on reactor safety, saying the review process was rigged and “unscientific.”
In an interview in 2007 after Tokyo Electric’s Kashiwazaki nuclear plant was struck by an earthquake, Ishibashi said fundamental improvements were needed in engineering standards for atomic power stations, without which Japan could suffer a catastrophic disaster.
“We didn’t learn anything,” Ishibashi said in a phone interview this week. “Nuclear power is national policy and there’s a real reluctance to scrutinize it.”
To be sure, Japan’s record isn’t the worst. The International Atomic Energy Agency rates nuclear accidents on a scale of zero to seven, with Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union rated seven, the most dangerous. Fukushima, where the steel vessels at the heart of the reactors have so far not ruptured, is currently a class five, the same category as the 1979 partial reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island in the U.S.
[….]
Back-up diesel generators that might have averted the disaster were positioned in a basement, where they were overwhelmed by waves. “This in the country that invented the word Tsunami,” said Brockman, who also worked at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “Japan is going to have a look again at its regulatory process and whether it’s intrusive enough.”
The cascade of events at Fukushima had been foretold in a report published in the U.S. two decades ago. The 1990 report by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent agency responsible for safety at the country’s power plants, identified earthquake-induced diesel generator failure and power outage leading to failure of cooling systems as one of the “most likely causes” of nuclear accidents from an external event.
[…]
After Hokuriku Electric’s Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa prefecture was rocked by a 6.9 magnitude quake in March 2007, government scientists found it had been built near an earthquake fault that was more than twice as long as regulators deemed threatening.
“Regulators just rubber-stamp the utilities’ reports,” Takashi Nakata, a former Hiroshima Institute of Technology seismologist and an anti-nuclear activist, said at the time. While Japan had never suffered a failure comparable to Chernobyl, the Fukushima disaster caps a decade of fatal accidents.
Two workers at a fuel processing plant were killed by radiation exposure in 1999, when they used buckets, instead of the prescribed containers, to eye-ball a uranium mixture, triggering a chain-reaction that went unchecked for 20 hours.
Continue reading at:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-17/japan-s-nuclear-disaster-caps-decades-of-faked-safety-reports-accidents.html
14 March, 2011
What the Financial Newsletters Leave Out
Trevor Constable and the Ahrimanic Forces
The following article by Trevor James Constable was originally published in Borderlands (Vol. 43, No. 3, May-June 1987) It explains in a nutshell the "Ahrimanic" theories of Trevor James Constable which derive from Rudolph Steiner.
Numerous readers of my Cosmic Pulse of Life (1976) have expressed their gratitude for the book’s esoteric insights into world trends. Many orthodox analysts nowadays, mainly in the financial newsletters, are aware that the USA is being steadily and systematically destroyed from within. Politically, economically, spiritually and morally, the USA is being cut down through the actions of numerous eminent and influential Americans, most of them native born citizens. In all history, there has been no such treason.
Slowly the reality is sinking into the financial newsletter publishers that these malevolent operations are taking place on an almost inconceivably vast scale. As yet, there is little or no comprehension that the overall directing consciousness is not human, or that its scope and capacities dwarf the most brilliant human being into insignificance. This was dealt with in my Cosmic Pulse of Life, and warrants overview updating after a decade. Because of its very nature, nothing will appear concerning this kind of intelligence in the financial newsletters.
The earth plane is under preparation for the incarnation in the mortal body of Ahriman ― the third member of the Cosmic triad involved in Earth evolution. The occult sequence is the incarnation of Lucifer in Asia four millennia ago; the incarnation of Christ in the Middle East two millennia ago; and the imminent incarnation in the West of Ahriman, the spiritual suzerain of the inferior forces, i.e. the forces standing beneath Man. Nothing can prevent this event, for it is Cosmic in design and integumented into the whole drama of evolution. As incarnate humans, what we do control is our individual orientation and reaction to the Ahrimanic event, to which current world trends are a sinister precursor.
Dr. Rudolph Steiner has stated that ahrimanic goals include total control of the Earth, the making of the world wholly ahrimanic. Destruction, rigidification and enslavement characterize the advance toward ahrimanic control. Actions directed towards world control are all around us, cunningly masked by idealistic fronts, and we should be sharply aware that ahrimanic aims and agents always come to us as that which they are not. Those who are dismantling and undermining America purport to be impelled by common sense and idealism.
The secret orders and secret societies into which wealthy and influential Americans have been inducted, usually at leading universities, are for the most part ahrimanic organisms serving vast subversional goals in earth evolution. Highly educated men have to be led to believe that their clandestine activities are for the benefit of mankind, which is wholly in accord with the lying nature of the ahrimanic powers. Cultivated elitism runs strongly in such groups of men, and provides and avenue by which the ahrimanic powers access the individuals psychically. The greed and wealth of some of them places them under the control of those ahrimanic lieutenants commanding those spheres of action.
The secret activity has accelerated since World War I, synchronous with other preparations for the incarnation of Ahriman. Some of it has even peeped above the surface in the various “commissions” and “councils” such as those organized and financed by the Rockefeller interests. These are typical ahrimanic fronts, carrying the clear ahrimanic signature of representing themselves as that which they are not. They have come to constitute a shadow government in America, by which the irritating impediment of elections may be circumvented. Diffusion of such unelected rulers into every significant level of government suffices to exert control, no matter who is elected by the public.
Ambitious political pushers quickly came to accept in America, that without the blessing and support of the shadow forces, they can wield no significant influence of any kind. Actual and direct control has passed in our time wholly to the shadow forces. Mere party politics and hoopla are part of the cunning duping of the populace, who fail to realize that the country is managed from the shadows no matter who stands in front of the TV cameras as president.
The heaviest shadow backing today lies behind the high-powered drive for World Government. Only one force in earth evolution stands to benefit from such an agency: Ahriman. To make the Earth wholly Ahrimanic requires political machinery, to manage the forthcoming attempt at enslavement of mankind. Ordinary citizens of rational mind are being systematically brainwashed to believe that “peace” can only come to Earth out of World Government. Institutions of higher learning support this goal, while their learned professors fail to discern that our present earthly governments are all run from the shadows and that World Government can be no different.
Avoided like a plague is the common sense reality: Earth has always been one world and is one world now. Within its diversity lies its unity. A World Government, bending all to a single authority, aims at the eradication of diversity.
The USA stood as a prototype of unity in diversity, with all the tribes of the earth brought under one banner, yet protected from each other’s excesses by Constitutional government. The individual became the sovereign amid the mass. Failure of American government has not been due to its forms, but rather to corruption of individual humans who ensoul those forms: representatives, judges, leading elective and appointive officials. The Money Power has been the major earthly agency of this corruption, but it is absolutely essential to grasp that the corruptive impulse, the corruptive will, reside in the same extra-human source as is now illegally manipulating the whole world. The Money Power is the worldly instrument of the ahrimanic will.
Men who have surrendered the USA to dishonesty and corruption, now seek behind a veil of fake altruism, to bring the entire world under the control of international finance capitalism, which has replaced the obsolescent nationally-based capitalism of the past. With its sophisticated modern communications and unimaginable financial power wielded at the tap of a computer key, international finance capitalism is the ultimate ahrimanic instrument. Sovereignty and governments get in its way, impede its maneuvers and frustrate its appetites.
Nothing of these machinations appears in the full light of day, which is what you would expect of the powers of darkness. Control of informational media is central to the main ahrimanic design, and the limitation and rigidification of thought in America today strangely coincides with the so-called “information age”, wherein the brightest people have not an inkling of what is really happening. Media control is responsible. Media clones intone about the “tides of history” as one impeding government after another is destabilized and swept out of the way of the ahrimanic powers.
Always these invasions of other people’s lives, nations and affairs take place behind phoney protestation about violated human rights, fake moral outrage and synthetic morality. A free man aware of ahrimanic workings sees only one dominant tide in the material world: the tide of financial debt. Here is bondage for mankind on an unprecedented scale. Woe betide that nation or people that finds its way to solvency. Geopolitical targeting will ensue, and if need be, the entire life of that people will be convulsed with ahrimanic ruthlessness behind a moralistic facade.
Who issues the debt that results in international serfdom? The same forces that now back the lofty-sounding commissions and councils and clubs, all of them driven by their obsession for World Government. They really know not “whence cometh” their conscious thoughts about all this. The excarnate ahrimanic beings access them through subconscious actions, and we can expect that sophisticated developments of what exists on earth as radionics, exercise such control. By this means, the will of the ahrimanic powers is driven up into our world ― through these men of earthly financial and political power. Subversion of earth evolution requires earth plane action by earthly incarnates, who become literally the hands and feet of those spirit beings who are unable to function in this density.
Greed is the impelling motive that leads controlled human beings to distort and monopolize commerce, control natural resources, misuse technology and despoil the natural beauty of the Earth that is essential to the well-being of its inhabitants. Worst of all their crimes against mankind is the special corruption of education, so that each incoming generation is shaped to accept world corruption. The revivifying power of youth is thereby diverted into a frantic youthful scramble for a share of the spoils.
Men come and go from this plane. The scale and sequencing of the mighty events that are now climaxing, bespeak a superintending intelligence not afflicted with mortality. The periodic irruption of secret societies into the open at various points in history, at times when incarnates were needed to implement earth plane action, further supports the extra-human surveillance and supervision of anti-evolutionary machinations.
The moral, social, economic, industrial, political and emotional disintegration of the USA have all attained the kind of momentum that tends to be self-reinforcing. The ultimate ahrimanic obscenity is meanwhile being clandestinely prepared: political merger of the USA into the ahrimanic stronghold of the USSR. World Government can eventuate no other way. The ahrimanic minions who have worked for the destruction of the USA as a prerequisite for this merger, may not ever see the day when they will rule it all in the way they dream ― without being elected.
Most of these misguided and greedy men are into their 70′s. No matter what secret societies they belong to and regardless of their earthly eminence, they all face the inexorable democracy of the grave. Nobody ever plotted their way around that. These vain and deceitful men have pursued the enslavement of their fellows under false banners of friendship and service. There is solace for the victims of their wickedness in the grinding wheels of the Lords of Karma.
This article may be found at: http://journal.borderlands.com/1987/what-the-financial-newsletters-leave-out/
The following article by Trevor James Constable was originally published in Borderlands (Vol. 43, No. 3, May-June 1987) It explains in a nutshell the "Ahrimanic" theories of Trevor James Constable which derive from Rudolph Steiner.
Numerous readers of my Cosmic Pulse of Life (1976) have expressed their gratitude for the book’s esoteric insights into world trends. Many orthodox analysts nowadays, mainly in the financial newsletters, are aware that the USA is being steadily and systematically destroyed from within. Politically, economically, spiritually and morally, the USA is being cut down through the actions of numerous eminent and influential Americans, most of them native born citizens. In all history, there has been no such treason.
Slowly the reality is sinking into the financial newsletter publishers that these malevolent operations are taking place on an almost inconceivably vast scale. As yet, there is little or no comprehension that the overall directing consciousness is not human, or that its scope and capacities dwarf the most brilliant human being into insignificance. This was dealt with in my Cosmic Pulse of Life, and warrants overview updating after a decade. Because of its very nature, nothing will appear concerning this kind of intelligence in the financial newsletters.
The earth plane is under preparation for the incarnation in the mortal body of Ahriman ― the third member of the Cosmic triad involved in Earth evolution. The occult sequence is the incarnation of Lucifer in Asia four millennia ago; the incarnation of Christ in the Middle East two millennia ago; and the imminent incarnation in the West of Ahriman, the spiritual suzerain of the inferior forces, i.e. the forces standing beneath Man. Nothing can prevent this event, for it is Cosmic in design and integumented into the whole drama of evolution. As incarnate humans, what we do control is our individual orientation and reaction to the Ahrimanic event, to which current world trends are a sinister precursor.
Dr. Rudolph Steiner has stated that ahrimanic goals include total control of the Earth, the making of the world wholly ahrimanic. Destruction, rigidification and enslavement characterize the advance toward ahrimanic control. Actions directed towards world control are all around us, cunningly masked by idealistic fronts, and we should be sharply aware that ahrimanic aims and agents always come to us as that which they are not. Those who are dismantling and undermining America purport to be impelled by common sense and idealism.
The secret orders and secret societies into which wealthy and influential Americans have been inducted, usually at leading universities, are for the most part ahrimanic organisms serving vast subversional goals in earth evolution. Highly educated men have to be led to believe that their clandestine activities are for the benefit of mankind, which is wholly in accord with the lying nature of the ahrimanic powers. Cultivated elitism runs strongly in such groups of men, and provides and avenue by which the ahrimanic powers access the individuals psychically. The greed and wealth of some of them places them under the control of those ahrimanic lieutenants commanding those spheres of action.
The secret activity has accelerated since World War I, synchronous with other preparations for the incarnation of Ahriman. Some of it has even peeped above the surface in the various “commissions” and “councils” such as those organized and financed by the Rockefeller interests. These are typical ahrimanic fronts, carrying the clear ahrimanic signature of representing themselves as that which they are not. They have come to constitute a shadow government in America, by which the irritating impediment of elections may be circumvented. Diffusion of such unelected rulers into every significant level of government suffices to exert control, no matter who is elected by the public.
Ambitious political pushers quickly came to accept in America, that without the blessing and support of the shadow forces, they can wield no significant influence of any kind. Actual and direct control has passed in our time wholly to the shadow forces. Mere party politics and hoopla are part of the cunning duping of the populace, who fail to realize that the country is managed from the shadows no matter who stands in front of the TV cameras as president.
The heaviest shadow backing today lies behind the high-powered drive for World Government. Only one force in earth evolution stands to benefit from such an agency: Ahriman. To make the Earth wholly Ahrimanic requires political machinery, to manage the forthcoming attempt at enslavement of mankind. Ordinary citizens of rational mind are being systematically brainwashed to believe that “peace” can only come to Earth out of World Government. Institutions of higher learning support this goal, while their learned professors fail to discern that our present earthly governments are all run from the shadows and that World Government can be no different.
Avoided like a plague is the common sense reality: Earth has always been one world and is one world now. Within its diversity lies its unity. A World Government, bending all to a single authority, aims at the eradication of diversity.
The USA stood as a prototype of unity in diversity, with all the tribes of the earth brought under one banner, yet protected from each other’s excesses by Constitutional government. The individual became the sovereign amid the mass. Failure of American government has not been due to its forms, but rather to corruption of individual humans who ensoul those forms: representatives, judges, leading elective and appointive officials. The Money Power has been the major earthly agency of this corruption, but it is absolutely essential to grasp that the corruptive impulse, the corruptive will, reside in the same extra-human source as is now illegally manipulating the whole world. The Money Power is the worldly instrument of the ahrimanic will.
Men who have surrendered the USA to dishonesty and corruption, now seek behind a veil of fake altruism, to bring the entire world under the control of international finance capitalism, which has replaced the obsolescent nationally-based capitalism of the past. With its sophisticated modern communications and unimaginable financial power wielded at the tap of a computer key, international finance capitalism is the ultimate ahrimanic instrument. Sovereignty and governments get in its way, impede its maneuvers and frustrate its appetites.
Nothing of these machinations appears in the full light of day, which is what you would expect of the powers of darkness. Control of informational media is central to the main ahrimanic design, and the limitation and rigidification of thought in America today strangely coincides with the so-called “information age”, wherein the brightest people have not an inkling of what is really happening. Media control is responsible. Media clones intone about the “tides of history” as one impeding government after another is destabilized and swept out of the way of the ahrimanic powers.
Always these invasions of other people’s lives, nations and affairs take place behind phoney protestation about violated human rights, fake moral outrage and synthetic morality. A free man aware of ahrimanic workings sees only one dominant tide in the material world: the tide of financial debt. Here is bondage for mankind on an unprecedented scale. Woe betide that nation or people that finds its way to solvency. Geopolitical targeting will ensue, and if need be, the entire life of that people will be convulsed with ahrimanic ruthlessness behind a moralistic facade.
Who issues the debt that results in international serfdom? The same forces that now back the lofty-sounding commissions and councils and clubs, all of them driven by their obsession for World Government. They really know not “whence cometh” their conscious thoughts about all this. The excarnate ahrimanic beings access them through subconscious actions, and we can expect that sophisticated developments of what exists on earth as radionics, exercise such control. By this means, the will of the ahrimanic powers is driven up into our world ― through these men of earthly financial and political power. Subversion of earth evolution requires earth plane action by earthly incarnates, who become literally the hands and feet of those spirit beings who are unable to function in this density.
Greed is the impelling motive that leads controlled human beings to distort and monopolize commerce, control natural resources, misuse technology and despoil the natural beauty of the Earth that is essential to the well-being of its inhabitants. Worst of all their crimes against mankind is the special corruption of education, so that each incoming generation is shaped to accept world corruption. The revivifying power of youth is thereby diverted into a frantic youthful scramble for a share of the spoils.
Men come and go from this plane. The scale and sequencing of the mighty events that are now climaxing, bespeak a superintending intelligence not afflicted with mortality. The periodic irruption of secret societies into the open at various points in history, at times when incarnates were needed to implement earth plane action, further supports the extra-human surveillance and supervision of anti-evolutionary machinations.
The moral, social, economic, industrial, political and emotional disintegration of the USA have all attained the kind of momentum that tends to be self-reinforcing. The ultimate ahrimanic obscenity is meanwhile being clandestinely prepared: political merger of the USA into the ahrimanic stronghold of the USSR. World Government can eventuate no other way. The ahrimanic minions who have worked for the destruction of the USA as a prerequisite for this merger, may not ever see the day when they will rule it all in the way they dream ― without being elected.
Most of these misguided and greedy men are into their 70′s. No matter what secret societies they belong to and regardless of their earthly eminence, they all face the inexorable democracy of the grave. Nobody ever plotted their way around that. These vain and deceitful men have pursued the enslavement of their fellows under false banners of friendship and service. There is solace for the victims of their wickedness in the grinding wheels of the Lords of Karma.
This article may be found at: http://journal.borderlands.com/1987/what-the-financial-newsletters-leave-out/
The Cosmic Pulse of Trevor James Constable
Interview by Joan d’Arc (This interview took place by telephone in 1994)
Plasmoids That Live in the Sky might be the title of a campy fifties sci-fi movie, but in this case it’s the subject of the life work of Trevor James Constable, and the result of years of scientific research gathered and corroborated worldwide and presented in his book Cosmic Pulse of Life. When he is not documenting the existence of macrobacteria on infrared film, Trevor is doing some serious “cloudbusting” experiments, explained in his video Etheric Weather Engineering on the High Seas and in a forthcoming book. Here, Trevor talks about fringe science, the invisible realm and the flummoxing of earthling power elites by evil entities having no business doing business in this dimension.
Joan d’Arc: Mr. Constable, I read that your book, Cosmic Pulse of Life, first published by Merlin Press in 1976, “shocked the publishing industry” because of its criticism of official science, a “science” which has been unable to make a significant finding in the area of UFO phenomena in over forty years.
Trevor James Constable: Well, first of all, the shock which is alleged to have occurred in the publishing world is, I think, exaggerated. I think it had a serious impact on the UFO world, because people suddenly found that a large mass of evidence had been gathered, and it was original evidence. It hadn’t been put through any kind of government or scientific strainer where the life could be knocked out of it. This indicated that the UFO thing was something immeasurably more complex than just a bunch of entities climbing into spaceships over on Venus or Mars or somewhere else in the universe and traveling over here to take part in the life of the Earth in some incomprehensible fashion. It showed that there was a biological dimension to the whole thing, and this in turn is the key to the general sequestration of the whole approach of Cosmic Pulse of Life. It is true that, since the days of Kenneth Arnold, when UFO’s first entered the public domain, there has been no single significant finding in the area of UFO phenomena.
d’Arc: Yet, answers seem to be closer when working with the theories of Wilhelm Reich and others considered to be in the realm of “fringe” science.
Constable: That is a fact. It is true that answers are closer when you work with the theories of Wilhelm Reich. Because you must remember that Reich’s work is rooted in practical matters. And his discovery of this biological energy, a specific biological energy that he called orgone, set the entire question of vital force on a completely new basis. Up until then, it had been sort of a philosophical will-ó the wisp. Reich changed all that, and by using modern instrumentation and modern methods he presented evidence of the existence of this biological power, the thing that makes every heart beat and which nobody, but nobody, in the entire reaches of official science has yet seen fit to address.
d’Arc: Why do the High Priests of Science need to protect the materialist worldview at all costs?
Constable: [Imagine being] raised from infancy with chains of interlocking and interlacing views laid upon you and made a part of your method of functioning and viewing creation, and all this excludes the idea of a biological energy; there isn’t any pulsation, it’s just chemicals. Then all of a sudden someone comes along and says, “Hey, wait a minute, there is a bioforce!” And it’s physical, it’s accessible. You can demonstrate it! Well, what happens is everything that you know, everything that you have been taught, everything that makes up the cement of your whole worldview is subject to a very serious disillusionary attack. That is the reason why they clamp down in official scientific circles at the very suggestion of specific biological energy, orgone, or as we refer to it in my phase of weather engineering, chemical ether.
d’Arc: Explain your theory that some UFOs are “plasmoidal living organisms” which are native, albeit invisible, to our atmosphere and how you came to realize that these biological entities could be photographed using infrared film.
Constable: As explained in my book, when Dr. Woods and myself started this work back in 1957, we went after spaceships like everybody else. We had no consciousness whatever of there being anything else. And when we used infrared film for the purpose of pursuing objects that were repeatedly seen and reported worldwide as having come from and often returned to an invisible state, we recorded not so much spaceships as these strange plasmoidal living organisms. And there were too many of them to be ignored, or blown away as aberrations or the results of faulty processing: the normal excuses that are made for these things.
And, we were not at all happy at the time that we obtained the first evidence of the plasmoids; not at all, because we wanted spaceships. We were in that same hard, mechanical idea about these things, that someone had built these things over in Venus or Mars or elsewhere, and they jumped in them and flew over here, and they were cheek by jowl with us on Planet Earth. At least that’s what we wanted to be able to prove.
In actual fact, using infrared film, which extends the range of the human eye far beyond what the eye itself will register, we got something else. We got these living organisms, and we got lots of them. And since that time lots of other people all over the world have got them. I just got a letter from a gentleman who photographed shoals of these things over the Western Australia desert. So, they are there and they have always been there. They are not from anywhere else, they are what we might call the upper dimension of our physical world. They have been referred to as macro bacteria: the counterpart at the upper border of physical nature of the microbes that infest the sub-sensible realms of physical nature of which we were earlier not aware. We are aware of them now, because centuries ago the microscope was discovered and an optical limitation was removed. Infrared film does the same thing at the upper border of physical nature, but the things that are found, instead of being extremely small, they are very vast, sometimes forty or fifty feet across.
So everything fits from a polarity point of view, and finding out that these things could be recorded with infrared film was simply accidental. It was not something that was planned, programmed or intended. But we didn’t shrink from what we found, we pursued it through the years and we never found any reason to revise it. The work that was done subsequently in Italy twenty or thirty years later served only to verify it, as has the work done by other people in Romania, Australia and elsewhere. All through the years, all of this has been mercilessly crushed by the people in the UFO field who feel that they are somehow serving the truth by killing something that’s alive.
d’Arc: How does orgone energy (“the ether”) relate to your exobiology theory and your work in Reichian cloudbusting?
Constable: I would need a three or four hundred page book to describe my work in Reichian cloudbusting. In fact, a fairly comprehensive volume on this is being prepared now and is going to be published by Borderland Sciences Research Foundation sometime this year. So it is futile to attempt an interview at this time to describe my work. I haven’t done Reichian cloudbusting in a while; I do things in a completely different way, I use geometric forms. I do not use the old time Reichian cloudbuster anymore, although I made good use of it for many years.
I can only say it is impossible to assemble any kind of valid exobiology theory if you do not first understand why it is that everything living on this Earth, from the microbe to the mastodon, pulsates! That’s the thing that you have to elucidate first.
d’Arc: If Reich had lived beyond the mindset of the fifties, do you think he would have changed his view of UFOs as “machines from another planet?”
Constable: Sure, I think that he would have readily expanded his initial conception of UFOs as machines from another planet. However, I want to point out something significant here, and I never tire of re-emphasizing this, because it never seems to sink in, that it’s not a question of having spaceships or plasmoidal organisms: you have both! There are at least two dimensions to the UFO phenomenon. One is the spaceships idea and the other is the living organisms. And because in the mode of their manifestation these two aspects of the UFO phenomenon are mutually confused, nobody seems to have been able to straighten it out, except me.
People believe that you’ve got ships from other planets and you can’t have anything else. If you’re going to have biological critters in the upper atmosphere, well then you can’t have the other. You’ve got to have both. And what this does is expand your consciousness. And that is one of the good things about this whole phenomenon in all its diversity. You’ve got to get your consciousness expanded and operating along new lines. The old ways are dead and gone, like this civilization of ours. I certainly believe that Reich, had he lived, would have expanded his understanding of these things, because he had the mentality and the observational power to do so. But, you can’t expect very much of a man at a critical time of his life when he was being harassed and hounded by the medical profession, the psychiatric profession, the FDA, and the courts. You can’t expect much from a man who is under that kind of pressure.
d’Arc: What was your theory of space and flying saucer propulsion in 1958, when you wrote your classic book They Live in the Sky, and how have your theories changed since then? Were you influenced by Wilhelm Reich’s work (described in his book Contact With Space) and were you pursuing a similar path in your research?
Constable: My theories in 1958 I cannot recall for you in detail or compare them to the views that I hold now. But basically there wasn’t a great deal of difference, it’s just that in the meantime more and more evidence has accumulated. The basic idea that the source of all these things is the invisible has continued to gain momentum and continued to gain status because of the derelictions and inadequacies of the formal theories. I was influenced by Wilhelm Reich, but not until after I had made my original contribution with They Live in the Sky. I did not know Reich existed or I might have written that book differently. That influence came along later and is part of subsequent development worked out in Cosmic Pulse of Life, which correlates with work from Romania and Italy.
d’Arc: Does the appearance of UFOs in the skies have anything to do with the “destruction of the industrial, financial, moral and spiritual fabric of the USA?” Is the American decline an engineering job on the part of an otherworld intelligence which somehow rules the planet Earth through its top power elite?
Constable: Everything that has happened and everything that we are seeing now that shows this ongoing downtrend in American Life, the industrial, financial, moral, spiritual and political fabric of the USA disintegrating, this is all being brought about by people who are in the body with us. There is no question about that. This is a function of conspiratorial activity. It is the inspiration of it that comes from other planes; the guidance of it. And very often these people have no conception whatever that they are under psychic control and are being directed from other planes to do these things by entities who cannot manifest here themselves. That, in my opinion, is the reality of any infiltration of the top power elite which is, by the way, not something visible to the ordinary citizen. It is hidden also, as most people know, down at the level of the Presidency. Somebody like George Bush (Sr.), for example, would be probably at about the fourth layer down in the power structure. The entire world is run from the shadows and it is well to keep that in mind.
d’Arc: In your book you state that scores of people believe there is some undetermined energy principle behind the UFO phenomena, yet the billion dollar NASA budget does not contain a dime for UFO investigation. Why does the government bury its head and continue to pretend there is nothing out of the ordinary happening in the Earth skies?
Constable: Of course it is true that there is an undetermined energy principal behind the UFO phenomena, and NASA has no hesitation in squashing billions which it doesn’t have to earn, and spending nothing to investigate UFOs or even have a small project on them. Nothing. The reason for it is very complex and relates to the energy question. We know from Reich’s work that this energy will run motors, and if you can run motors out of the atmosphere without having to hook into the power grid, that is a disaster for the world’s power structure. The control of energy is the control of people. It is the control of economies. So the breaking of the fuel monopoly is reason enough for governments who are run from the shadows and steeped in corruption to do nothing to elucidate the principles of energy that are behind UFOs.
d’Arc: Can you discuss your statement that “unseen extraphysical entities have expanded their manipulations and destructive capabilities on the physical plane via humans they can control.” Do you see this as an occult influence in top levels of world secret government?
Constable: Extraphysical entities with an interest in the earth plane can only manifest here through correspondences. They do not come down and land on the White House lawn, because they do not belong to the Earth plane. So what they have to do is find correspondences within those in authority and control what they can access and, by those means, infuse their malevolent ideas and purposes into the civilization. On the simplest and broadest basis you may ask yourself why it is that the US, despite having had the most successful and largest expansion of production in the history of the world in World War II, grew by 1950 to become a phenomenally prosperous country, and since that time has been run down mercilessly to a shadow of its former self, incapable of carrying out even many of its own defense processes, can’t forge its own aircraft carrier anchor chains, stuff like that. Straight down from a high point. Despite the prodigious proliferation of computers and other things that are supposed to improve productivity and increase the standard of living, our standard of living goes down. The chief agency and the chief link between the ruling authorities, the real rulers here, and those in the extraphysical realm who are utilizing them, is the dishonesty of the men on the physical plane. That’s what opens them to access from the unseen.
d’Arc: In your book you talk about Hitler and the occult influence in machinations of World War II. Most people do not believe in “magic,” but is it more simply understood as a series of deals made with other-dimensional entities who shouldn’t be trusted?
Constable: I referred to Hitler merely in passing and pointed out that he was essentially the vehicle of Lucifer and it was a Luciferic activity that he headed in Germany. Anyone who does not understand the difference between Lucifer, Ahriman (the evil deity in the Zoroastrian religion) and Christ will never know anything about this world. We in the USA are fully in the clutches not of Lucifer but of his opposite, Ahriman, and the Ahrimanic powers in general. This is what you are dealing with in the so-called phenomenon of the Greys, all of which is taking place in the darkness. It’s a significant point, it’s a signature. Nothing is out on the table, nothing is in the light, everything is in the dark.
d’Arc: So the trouble we find ourselves in is a result of bad deals made by Earth leaders?
Constable: Oh, true to form, I think that these arrangements were originally entered into with these otherworld entities for the purpose of attempting to get from them technology that could be used to make profits, technology that could be exploited and, instead, they found themselves inextricably enmeshed with entities they could neither understand nor control. And these were beings that had no trouble flummoxing them five ways from Friday. The very sound principle from basic spiritual science is to have no commerce whatever with entities of this type, to have no commerce whatever with entities who do not belong here and above all to be honest, since honesty protects you against all this. Do everything that you want to do, or that you want to see done, in the broad light of day and right out on the table top. That is a principle that I think our government relinquished and buried a long time ago. Alas for America!
©1994 PARANOIA. This interview with Trevor James Constable first appeared in PARANOIA, Issue 5 (Summer 1994). The Cosmic Pulse of Life: The Revolutionary Biological Power Behind UFOs by Trevor James Constable was republished by The Book Tree in 2008 (www.thebooktree.com) (800) 700-TREE.
Plasmoids That Live in the Sky might be the title of a campy fifties sci-fi movie, but in this case it’s the subject of the life work of Trevor James Constable, and the result of years of scientific research gathered and corroborated worldwide and presented in his book Cosmic Pulse of Life. When he is not documenting the existence of macrobacteria on infrared film, Trevor is doing some serious “cloudbusting” experiments, explained in his video Etheric Weather Engineering on the High Seas and in a forthcoming book. Here, Trevor talks about fringe science, the invisible realm and the flummoxing of earthling power elites by evil entities having no business doing business in this dimension.
Joan d’Arc: Mr. Constable, I read that your book, Cosmic Pulse of Life, first published by Merlin Press in 1976, “shocked the publishing industry” because of its criticism of official science, a “science” which has been unable to make a significant finding in the area of UFO phenomena in over forty years.
Trevor James Constable: Well, first of all, the shock which is alleged to have occurred in the publishing world is, I think, exaggerated. I think it had a serious impact on the UFO world, because people suddenly found that a large mass of evidence had been gathered, and it was original evidence. It hadn’t been put through any kind of government or scientific strainer where the life could be knocked out of it. This indicated that the UFO thing was something immeasurably more complex than just a bunch of entities climbing into spaceships over on Venus or Mars or somewhere else in the universe and traveling over here to take part in the life of the Earth in some incomprehensible fashion. It showed that there was a biological dimension to the whole thing, and this in turn is the key to the general sequestration of the whole approach of Cosmic Pulse of Life. It is true that, since the days of Kenneth Arnold, when UFO’s first entered the public domain, there has been no single significant finding in the area of UFO phenomena.
d’Arc: Yet, answers seem to be closer when working with the theories of Wilhelm Reich and others considered to be in the realm of “fringe” science.
Constable: That is a fact. It is true that answers are closer when you work with the theories of Wilhelm Reich. Because you must remember that Reich’s work is rooted in practical matters. And his discovery of this biological energy, a specific biological energy that he called orgone, set the entire question of vital force on a completely new basis. Up until then, it had been sort of a philosophical will-ó the wisp. Reich changed all that, and by using modern instrumentation and modern methods he presented evidence of the existence of this biological power, the thing that makes every heart beat and which nobody, but nobody, in the entire reaches of official science has yet seen fit to address.
d’Arc: Why do the High Priests of Science need to protect the materialist worldview at all costs?
Constable: [Imagine being] raised from infancy with chains of interlocking and interlacing views laid upon you and made a part of your method of functioning and viewing creation, and all this excludes the idea of a biological energy; there isn’t any pulsation, it’s just chemicals. Then all of a sudden someone comes along and says, “Hey, wait a minute, there is a bioforce!” And it’s physical, it’s accessible. You can demonstrate it! Well, what happens is everything that you know, everything that you have been taught, everything that makes up the cement of your whole worldview is subject to a very serious disillusionary attack. That is the reason why they clamp down in official scientific circles at the very suggestion of specific biological energy, orgone, or as we refer to it in my phase of weather engineering, chemical ether.
d’Arc: Explain your theory that some UFOs are “plasmoidal living organisms” which are native, albeit invisible, to our atmosphere and how you came to realize that these biological entities could be photographed using infrared film.
Constable: As explained in my book, when Dr. Woods and myself started this work back in 1957, we went after spaceships like everybody else. We had no consciousness whatever of there being anything else. And when we used infrared film for the purpose of pursuing objects that were repeatedly seen and reported worldwide as having come from and often returned to an invisible state, we recorded not so much spaceships as these strange plasmoidal living organisms. And there were too many of them to be ignored, or blown away as aberrations or the results of faulty processing: the normal excuses that are made for these things.
And, we were not at all happy at the time that we obtained the first evidence of the plasmoids; not at all, because we wanted spaceships. We were in that same hard, mechanical idea about these things, that someone had built these things over in Venus or Mars or elsewhere, and they jumped in them and flew over here, and they were cheek by jowl with us on Planet Earth. At least that’s what we wanted to be able to prove.
In actual fact, using infrared film, which extends the range of the human eye far beyond what the eye itself will register, we got something else. We got these living organisms, and we got lots of them. And since that time lots of other people all over the world have got them. I just got a letter from a gentleman who photographed shoals of these things over the Western Australia desert. So, they are there and they have always been there. They are not from anywhere else, they are what we might call the upper dimension of our physical world. They have been referred to as macro bacteria: the counterpart at the upper border of physical nature of the microbes that infest the sub-sensible realms of physical nature of which we were earlier not aware. We are aware of them now, because centuries ago the microscope was discovered and an optical limitation was removed. Infrared film does the same thing at the upper border of physical nature, but the things that are found, instead of being extremely small, they are very vast, sometimes forty or fifty feet across.
So everything fits from a polarity point of view, and finding out that these things could be recorded with infrared film was simply accidental. It was not something that was planned, programmed or intended. But we didn’t shrink from what we found, we pursued it through the years and we never found any reason to revise it. The work that was done subsequently in Italy twenty or thirty years later served only to verify it, as has the work done by other people in Romania, Australia and elsewhere. All through the years, all of this has been mercilessly crushed by the people in the UFO field who feel that they are somehow serving the truth by killing something that’s alive.
d’Arc: How does orgone energy (“the ether”) relate to your exobiology theory and your work in Reichian cloudbusting?
Constable: I would need a three or four hundred page book to describe my work in Reichian cloudbusting. In fact, a fairly comprehensive volume on this is being prepared now and is going to be published by Borderland Sciences Research Foundation sometime this year. So it is futile to attempt an interview at this time to describe my work. I haven’t done Reichian cloudbusting in a while; I do things in a completely different way, I use geometric forms. I do not use the old time Reichian cloudbuster anymore, although I made good use of it for many years.
I can only say it is impossible to assemble any kind of valid exobiology theory if you do not first understand why it is that everything living on this Earth, from the microbe to the mastodon, pulsates! That’s the thing that you have to elucidate first.
d’Arc: If Reich had lived beyond the mindset of the fifties, do you think he would have changed his view of UFOs as “machines from another planet?”
Constable: Sure, I think that he would have readily expanded his initial conception of UFOs as machines from another planet. However, I want to point out something significant here, and I never tire of re-emphasizing this, because it never seems to sink in, that it’s not a question of having spaceships or plasmoidal organisms: you have both! There are at least two dimensions to the UFO phenomenon. One is the spaceships idea and the other is the living organisms. And because in the mode of their manifestation these two aspects of the UFO phenomenon are mutually confused, nobody seems to have been able to straighten it out, except me.
People believe that you’ve got ships from other planets and you can’t have anything else. If you’re going to have biological critters in the upper atmosphere, well then you can’t have the other. You’ve got to have both. And what this does is expand your consciousness. And that is one of the good things about this whole phenomenon in all its diversity. You’ve got to get your consciousness expanded and operating along new lines. The old ways are dead and gone, like this civilization of ours. I certainly believe that Reich, had he lived, would have expanded his understanding of these things, because he had the mentality and the observational power to do so. But, you can’t expect very much of a man at a critical time of his life when he was being harassed and hounded by the medical profession, the psychiatric profession, the FDA, and the courts. You can’t expect much from a man who is under that kind of pressure.
d’Arc: What was your theory of space and flying saucer propulsion in 1958, when you wrote your classic book They Live in the Sky, and how have your theories changed since then? Were you influenced by Wilhelm Reich’s work (described in his book Contact With Space) and were you pursuing a similar path in your research?
Constable: My theories in 1958 I cannot recall for you in detail or compare them to the views that I hold now. But basically there wasn’t a great deal of difference, it’s just that in the meantime more and more evidence has accumulated. The basic idea that the source of all these things is the invisible has continued to gain momentum and continued to gain status because of the derelictions and inadequacies of the formal theories. I was influenced by Wilhelm Reich, but not until after I had made my original contribution with They Live in the Sky. I did not know Reich existed or I might have written that book differently. That influence came along later and is part of subsequent development worked out in Cosmic Pulse of Life, which correlates with work from Romania and Italy.
d’Arc: Does the appearance of UFOs in the skies have anything to do with the “destruction of the industrial, financial, moral and spiritual fabric of the USA?” Is the American decline an engineering job on the part of an otherworld intelligence which somehow rules the planet Earth through its top power elite?
Constable: Everything that has happened and everything that we are seeing now that shows this ongoing downtrend in American Life, the industrial, financial, moral, spiritual and political fabric of the USA disintegrating, this is all being brought about by people who are in the body with us. There is no question about that. This is a function of conspiratorial activity. It is the inspiration of it that comes from other planes; the guidance of it. And very often these people have no conception whatever that they are under psychic control and are being directed from other planes to do these things by entities who cannot manifest here themselves. That, in my opinion, is the reality of any infiltration of the top power elite which is, by the way, not something visible to the ordinary citizen. It is hidden also, as most people know, down at the level of the Presidency. Somebody like George Bush (Sr.), for example, would be probably at about the fourth layer down in the power structure. The entire world is run from the shadows and it is well to keep that in mind.
d’Arc: In your book you state that scores of people believe there is some undetermined energy principle behind the UFO phenomena, yet the billion dollar NASA budget does not contain a dime for UFO investigation. Why does the government bury its head and continue to pretend there is nothing out of the ordinary happening in the Earth skies?
Constable: Of course it is true that there is an undetermined energy principal behind the UFO phenomena, and NASA has no hesitation in squashing billions which it doesn’t have to earn, and spending nothing to investigate UFOs or even have a small project on them. Nothing. The reason for it is very complex and relates to the energy question. We know from Reich’s work that this energy will run motors, and if you can run motors out of the atmosphere without having to hook into the power grid, that is a disaster for the world’s power structure. The control of energy is the control of people. It is the control of economies. So the breaking of the fuel monopoly is reason enough for governments who are run from the shadows and steeped in corruption to do nothing to elucidate the principles of energy that are behind UFOs.
d’Arc: Can you discuss your statement that “unseen extraphysical entities have expanded their manipulations and destructive capabilities on the physical plane via humans they can control.” Do you see this as an occult influence in top levels of world secret government?
Constable: Extraphysical entities with an interest in the earth plane can only manifest here through correspondences. They do not come down and land on the White House lawn, because they do not belong to the Earth plane. So what they have to do is find correspondences within those in authority and control what they can access and, by those means, infuse their malevolent ideas and purposes into the civilization. On the simplest and broadest basis you may ask yourself why it is that the US, despite having had the most successful and largest expansion of production in the history of the world in World War II, grew by 1950 to become a phenomenally prosperous country, and since that time has been run down mercilessly to a shadow of its former self, incapable of carrying out even many of its own defense processes, can’t forge its own aircraft carrier anchor chains, stuff like that. Straight down from a high point. Despite the prodigious proliferation of computers and other things that are supposed to improve productivity and increase the standard of living, our standard of living goes down. The chief agency and the chief link between the ruling authorities, the real rulers here, and those in the extraphysical realm who are utilizing them, is the dishonesty of the men on the physical plane. That’s what opens them to access from the unseen.
d’Arc: In your book you talk about Hitler and the occult influence in machinations of World War II. Most people do not believe in “magic,” but is it more simply understood as a series of deals made with other-dimensional entities who shouldn’t be trusted?
Constable: I referred to Hitler merely in passing and pointed out that he was essentially the vehicle of Lucifer and it was a Luciferic activity that he headed in Germany. Anyone who does not understand the difference between Lucifer, Ahriman (the evil deity in the Zoroastrian religion) and Christ will never know anything about this world. We in the USA are fully in the clutches not of Lucifer but of his opposite, Ahriman, and the Ahrimanic powers in general. This is what you are dealing with in the so-called phenomenon of the Greys, all of which is taking place in the darkness. It’s a significant point, it’s a signature. Nothing is out on the table, nothing is in the light, everything is in the dark.
d’Arc: So the trouble we find ourselves in is a result of bad deals made by Earth leaders?
Constable: Oh, true to form, I think that these arrangements were originally entered into with these otherworld entities for the purpose of attempting to get from them technology that could be used to make profits, technology that could be exploited and, instead, they found themselves inextricably enmeshed with entities they could neither understand nor control. And these were beings that had no trouble flummoxing them five ways from Friday. The very sound principle from basic spiritual science is to have no commerce whatever with entities of this type, to have no commerce whatever with entities who do not belong here and above all to be honest, since honesty protects you against all this. Do everything that you want to do, or that you want to see done, in the broad light of day and right out on the table top. That is a principle that I think our government relinquished and buried a long time ago. Alas for America!
©1994 PARANOIA. This interview with Trevor James Constable first appeared in PARANOIA, Issue 5 (Summer 1994). The Cosmic Pulse of Life: The Revolutionary Biological Power Behind UFOs by Trevor James Constable was republished by The Book Tree in 2008 (www.thebooktree.com) (800) 700-TREE.
The Trevor Constable Story
“Racist Rapes Atmosphere”
The Trevor Constable Story
By Joel Carlinsky
Trevor Constable is in his 80s and retired now, but has left a legacy of younger imitators and groupies who look up to him as a great alternative science researcher and innovator. Several of them are actively trying to copy his methods of "weather engineering" using the equipment and methods he devised. This is highly unfortunate. Even one Trevor Constable is at least one too many.
Far from being the benevolent humanitarian the deluded groupies think he is, Mr. Constable shows some truly alarming tendencies. He was a campaign worker in the 1968 presidential election campaign for George Wallace, who ran on a platform of strict racial segregation. He later said that he wanted Wallace to first win, then get asassinated soon after, so his running mate, General Curtis LeMay would become president.
Constable went on to later become a close friend of LeMay, and on his behalf, LeMay at the time of his death was lobbying his former associates in the Pentagon to look into the weather control methods developed by Constable. Apparently neither of them knew the United States is a signatory to a United Nations Convention banning weather modification as a weapon or any military research on weather modification, so what LeMay was doing was urging his former co-workers to commit a war crime. This could be regarded as treason.
Constable has written several highly laudatory biographies of World War Two German and Japanese war heroes, stated that Lee Quan Yu, the former dictator of Singapore, best known for advocating beatings with a cane as a punishment, is the greatest political leader of the 20th century, and once told a radio talk show audience on the Art Bell Show, that we should not show any sympathy for crippled children because they must have done something in a past incarnation to deserve being crippled.
Constable is very mystical, and especially influenced by Rudolph Steiner, an Austrian folklorist, philosopher, and theologian whose highly mystical ideas are often incorrectly thought by mystical-minded people to resemble those of Reich. In fact, there is no resemblance at all and Steiner was about as far from being a scientist as it is possible to get. It is hard to imagine any set of ideas farther removed from the meticulous natural science of Reich than the near-total reliance on intuition and folklore of Steiner.
In an article in the Journal of Borderland Research, What The Financial Newsletters Leave Out, he once claimed that the real conspirators behind the conspiracies the conspiracy theorists talk about are not human; they are Arimanic entities on the Astral Plane, and they use astral radionics machines to influence the minds of people here on earth.
In a conversation with me, he once stated that "Reich did not invent the cloudbuster. He was a re-incarnated Atlantean, and remembered how they used to build them in Atlantis. They fought a war with them and sank their continent." When I asked him how did he know that, he said he was clairvoyant.
In a letter to Dr. Richard Blasband, then Director of Research of the American College of Orgonomy, which at the time was funding his cloudbusting efforts, Constable asked Blasband to hold onto a check for money they owed him because he was in the process of a divorce and wanted to wait to claim the money until after the judge had examined his finaces so his disabled soon-to-be-ex-wife, the mother of his two children, would not be able to get her hands on it.
This from the man who once stated, "Inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race is the spirit of fair play. It is a part of their structure."
It is with this background in mind, that we must look at the statement he made in a letter to Jerome Eden, published in the C.OR.E. Manual, by Jerome Eden, to "Take the orgone by the balls and it will talk. Any other approach and it laughs at you". Eden commented, "That's how you torture somebody!"
According to Mary Poe, who was his assistant, when she quit, shortly after he had discovered how to direct a lightning strike to a selected target, he tried to kill her with directed lightning bolts.
In his published writings on his weather control work, Constable often used expressions like "Shoving millions of tons of air around", but in all his published writings, spanning over 40 years, he never once mentioned any such concept as self-regulation of the atmosphere, or suggested there was some sort of cause for the droughts he constantly attempted to break.
In fact, he never even mentions DOR, the stagnant, unhealthy state of orgone, which according to Reich and almost every other worker in the field, is the underlying basis for droughts and must be carefully removed before attempting to bring rain to a drought-stricken region. He told me that thinking about DOR causes it, so he tried not to think about it. He said Dr. Richard Blasband was "socking in the whole East Coast with DOR by worrying about it all the time".
One result of this conflating cloudbusting with mysticism was that, since he did nothing to remove the DOR blockage that was causing the droughts, every time he "ended" a drought, the drought soon returned again right after he ceased working. Time after time, Constable succeeded in bringing rain in the mist of a drought, or in a desert area, but in not one single instance did the rains continue for long after he stopped operating.
His sole criteria for the success of an operation was the amount of rain that fell, not the impact that rain had on the place where it landed. He often trumped his "great results" by documenting them with first, the original weather forecast from the previous day, then the news story about the rain the next day, to demonstrate how he had caused the forecast to be wrong.
One of the operations he did was thus documented by the news headline: 9-Year-Old Boy Swept Out To Sea By Sudden Unexpected Storm". Another was documented by the newspaper headline: "Storm Hikes State Death Toll To 67 On Rain-slicked Freeways".
It should be noted that this particular operation was not conducted to break a drought or because there was any need for rain, but merely to demonstrate a new technique he had discovered to Dr. Blasband, who was visiting. Blasband did not raise any objections to this killing people for the sake of a demonstration.
In another instance, Trevor Constable was asked at an alternative science conference about one article of his in which the "beneficial" results were accompanied by a news story of 6 field hands being struck by lightning. He shrugged it off with, "Well, if they don't believe in it, they can't sue me, can they?"
Now there is a reason I am going into all this material that sheds light on the character of Trevor Constable. That reason is that recently an Australian admirer of Trevor Constable, Ash Palise, has taken up cloudbusting as a hobby, and already has bungled several operations, inflicting more damage on Australia than Trevor Constable managed to inflict on the entire earth in his entire 40-year career.
And Mr. Palise has been trying to emulate his hero, Trevor Constable, using his variation on the cloudbusting equipment first invented by Reich in 1952, and operating it according to the theories and concepts he has picked up from Constable, theories and concepts unsupported by any scientific evidence, and dramatically at odds with those of Reich and virtually everyone else who has engaged in cloudbusting over the past 60-odd years.
One result of this uncritical acceptance of these concepts of Constable by Ash Palise, has been the recent floods in Queensland, the worst flooding in Australian history. Hence the need for a full-length disertation on the misconceptions of cloudbusting promulgated by Trevor Constable and now, unfortunately, being continued by Ash Palise with truly disasterous results.
( To be continued......)
Joel Carlinsky writes on the irresponsible use of cloudbusters at his blog: www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com
References:
Curtis LeMay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay
George Wallace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/sept98/wallace.htm
Rudolpf Steiner
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/tadrvw.htm
The Trevor Constable Story
By Joel Carlinsky
Trevor Constable is in his 80s and retired now, but has left a legacy of younger imitators and groupies who look up to him as a great alternative science researcher and innovator. Several of them are actively trying to copy his methods of "weather engineering" using the equipment and methods he devised. This is highly unfortunate. Even one Trevor Constable is at least one too many.
Far from being the benevolent humanitarian the deluded groupies think he is, Mr. Constable shows some truly alarming tendencies. He was a campaign worker in the 1968 presidential election campaign for George Wallace, who ran on a platform of strict racial segregation. He later said that he wanted Wallace to first win, then get asassinated soon after, so his running mate, General Curtis LeMay would become president.
Constable went on to later become a close friend of LeMay, and on his behalf, LeMay at the time of his death was lobbying his former associates in the Pentagon to look into the weather control methods developed by Constable. Apparently neither of them knew the United States is a signatory to a United Nations Convention banning weather modification as a weapon or any military research on weather modification, so what LeMay was doing was urging his former co-workers to commit a war crime. This could be regarded as treason.
Constable has written several highly laudatory biographies of World War Two German and Japanese war heroes, stated that Lee Quan Yu, the former dictator of Singapore, best known for advocating beatings with a cane as a punishment, is the greatest political leader of the 20th century, and once told a radio talk show audience on the Art Bell Show, that we should not show any sympathy for crippled children because they must have done something in a past incarnation to deserve being crippled.
Constable is very mystical, and especially influenced by Rudolph Steiner, an Austrian folklorist, philosopher, and theologian whose highly mystical ideas are often incorrectly thought by mystical-minded people to resemble those of Reich. In fact, there is no resemblance at all and Steiner was about as far from being a scientist as it is possible to get. It is hard to imagine any set of ideas farther removed from the meticulous natural science of Reich than the near-total reliance on intuition and folklore of Steiner.
In an article in the Journal of Borderland Research, What The Financial Newsletters Leave Out, he once claimed that the real conspirators behind the conspiracies the conspiracy theorists talk about are not human; they are Arimanic entities on the Astral Plane, and they use astral radionics machines to influence the minds of people here on earth.
In a conversation with me, he once stated that "Reich did not invent the cloudbuster. He was a re-incarnated Atlantean, and remembered how they used to build them in Atlantis. They fought a war with them and sank their continent." When I asked him how did he know that, he said he was clairvoyant.
In a letter to Dr. Richard Blasband, then Director of Research of the American College of Orgonomy, which at the time was funding his cloudbusting efforts, Constable asked Blasband to hold onto a check for money they owed him because he was in the process of a divorce and wanted to wait to claim the money until after the judge had examined his finaces so his disabled soon-to-be-ex-wife, the mother of his two children, would not be able to get her hands on it.
This from the man who once stated, "Inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race is the spirit of fair play. It is a part of their structure."
It is with this background in mind, that we must look at the statement he made in a letter to Jerome Eden, published in the C.OR.E. Manual, by Jerome Eden, to "Take the orgone by the balls and it will talk. Any other approach and it laughs at you". Eden commented, "That's how you torture somebody!"
According to Mary Poe, who was his assistant, when she quit, shortly after he had discovered how to direct a lightning strike to a selected target, he tried to kill her with directed lightning bolts.
In his published writings on his weather control work, Constable often used expressions like "Shoving millions of tons of air around", but in all his published writings, spanning over 40 years, he never once mentioned any such concept as self-regulation of the atmosphere, or suggested there was some sort of cause for the droughts he constantly attempted to break.
In fact, he never even mentions DOR, the stagnant, unhealthy state of orgone, which according to Reich and almost every other worker in the field, is the underlying basis for droughts and must be carefully removed before attempting to bring rain to a drought-stricken region. He told me that thinking about DOR causes it, so he tried not to think about it. He said Dr. Richard Blasband was "socking in the whole East Coast with DOR by worrying about it all the time".
One result of this conflating cloudbusting with mysticism was that, since he did nothing to remove the DOR blockage that was causing the droughts, every time he "ended" a drought, the drought soon returned again right after he ceased working. Time after time, Constable succeeded in bringing rain in the mist of a drought, or in a desert area, but in not one single instance did the rains continue for long after he stopped operating.
His sole criteria for the success of an operation was the amount of rain that fell, not the impact that rain had on the place where it landed. He often trumped his "great results" by documenting them with first, the original weather forecast from the previous day, then the news story about the rain the next day, to demonstrate how he had caused the forecast to be wrong.
One of the operations he did was thus documented by the news headline: 9-Year-Old Boy Swept Out To Sea By Sudden Unexpected Storm". Another was documented by the newspaper headline: "Storm Hikes State Death Toll To 67 On Rain-slicked Freeways".
It should be noted that this particular operation was not conducted to break a drought or because there was any need for rain, but merely to demonstrate a new technique he had discovered to Dr. Blasband, who was visiting. Blasband did not raise any objections to this killing people for the sake of a demonstration.
In another instance, Trevor Constable was asked at an alternative science conference about one article of his in which the "beneficial" results were accompanied by a news story of 6 field hands being struck by lightning. He shrugged it off with, "Well, if they don't believe in it, they can't sue me, can they?"
Now there is a reason I am going into all this material that sheds light on the character of Trevor Constable. That reason is that recently an Australian admirer of Trevor Constable, Ash Palise, has taken up cloudbusting as a hobby, and already has bungled several operations, inflicting more damage on Australia than Trevor Constable managed to inflict on the entire earth in his entire 40-year career.
And Mr. Palise has been trying to emulate his hero, Trevor Constable, using his variation on the cloudbusting equipment first invented by Reich in 1952, and operating it according to the theories and concepts he has picked up from Constable, theories and concepts unsupported by any scientific evidence, and dramatically at odds with those of Reich and virtually everyone else who has engaged in cloudbusting over the past 60-odd years.
One result of this uncritical acceptance of these concepts of Constable by Ash Palise, has been the recent floods in Queensland, the worst flooding in Australian history. Hence the need for a full-length disertation on the misconceptions of cloudbusting promulgated by Trevor Constable and now, unfortunately, being continued by Ash Palise with truly disasterous results.
( To be continued......)
Joel Carlinsky writes on the irresponsible use of cloudbusters at his blog: www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com
References:
Curtis LeMay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay
George Wallace
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/sept98/wallace.htm
Rudolpf Steiner
http://www.doyletics.com/arj/tadrvw.htm
12 March, 2011
What Really Happened to Amelia Earhart?
Did she crash and sink, or was she rescued and shot for espionage?
Or did she live a secret life as New Jersey housewife Irene Bolam?
Liz Lee reports for Paranoia Magazine.
http://paranoiamagazine.com/earhart.html
Obama understatement of the year
"Treatment of Bradley Manning is appropriate and is meeting our basic standards...."
And Julian Assange is next.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/president-obama-says-hell-take-the-pentagons-word-for-it-treatment-of-bradley-manning-is-appropriate.html
And Julian Assange is next.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/03/president-obama-says-hell-take-the-pentagons-word-for-it-treatment-of-bradley-manning-is-appropriate.html
04 March, 2011
Identity cards. Do we really need them?
By Roy Wood
The Home Office has triumphed yet again with another half-hearted attempt at legislation that once dissected, means absolutely zilch.
I have had enough of watching Jacqui Smith’s expression on our screens, face looking like a smacked bottom, desperately trying to convince the electorate that she is telling the truth.
According to our Home Secretary, this ID scheme will be imperative in the fighting of crime and terrorism. OK, so it has presumably been well thought out, hasn’t it ?
Now it doesn’t need rocket science to work out that because the introductory scheme in Manchester is not compulsory, we’re hardly going to be swamped by queues of terrorists and crooks in post offices all over the country, waiting to supply their fingerprints to the authorities. So it cannot be effective in significantly reducing crime.
Any police officer will tell you that their biggest problem has always been linking these crimes to the perpetrators, rather than simply trying to identify the individuals in the first place. As far as terrorism goes, since we became part of the EU and our borders have been opened up to all and sundry, terrorists can easily move across borders using tourist visas (or even very good forgeries) which can be deemed as legitimate identification.
Let’s be honest. This is yet more unnecessary, and expensive, Labour legislation.
Surely the Government already has in place a facility to detect people who use multiple identities in order to evade tax? The police must also have under surveillance those people who change their identity in order to perpetrate fraud. MI6 already has specific data on terrorist factions. The spooks are not stupid.
In fact, as time goes on, it wouldn’t be too surprising if the Government wished to keep adding more personal information to our databases, thus making privacy a thing confined only to the history books.
But, let’s face it, the Government doesn’t exactly have an impeccable record when it comes to taking care of our personal data. They are still allowed to download sensitive material onto their personal laptops, which have so far been discovered on a train or in the back of a taxi by some honest boy scout. We might not be so lucky next time.
Are we really gullible enough as a nation to want to put these people in charge of our personal stuff? So what if I lost my ID card? Easy thing to do – people lose their phones and cards, or have them stolen, on a regular basis. I would immediately be treated with suspicion, and be inconvenienced by being denied goods or services until my card could be replaced and reinstated. This may take weeks, as it is likely to happen to quite a lot of us.
In that time card thieves and fraudsters would in possession of our identity. What an absolute catastrophic mess that would be.
The scheme could also be wide open to forgery. Remember, the cards would originally need to be issued on the basis of providing ID in the first place, such as a driving licence or birth certificate. I already have this documentation. Why the hell do I need to go out and spend another sixty quid on even more ID?
It is also estimated that in order to keep the National Identity Register up to date, the charges for these cards could end up costing in the region of £95 to even £300. I know that these things are supposed to include fingerprints and an iris reading. But surely this would only be needed when travelling abroad, so why not include them in your passport?
ID cards could very well inconvenience our normal everyday existence. Surely you wouldn’t need to supply your fingerprints to purchase a jacket from Topshop? But if you were a young person, you could very well be refused the goods if you were unfortunate enough to have lost your ID card.
We all know that the Government dare not allow the British public a referendum on ID cards, because they would lose big time. I would have preferred to write something humorous in this column, but it’s just not funny, is it?
“Oh bugger! Lost my card – may need to get a hand transplant and some new eyeballs before I can go into Matalan.”
(This article was written by rock legend Roy Wood for the Sunday Mercury Times in UK, even though the article says it was written by Paul Cole. I have personally emailed Paul Cole and he admitted it was written by Roy Wood. Although he assured me via email on December 15, 2010 that he would have the byline changed, he has not done so. – Joan d’Arc)
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/getwoodyastarforchristmas/roywoodpictures/2009/05/31/identity-cards-are-another-invasion-of-privacy-says-rocker-roy-wood-66331-23749095/
fromPaul.Cole@sundaymercury.net
tojoan d'Arc
dateWed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:07 AM
subjectRe: campaign to take your name off Roy Wood's article "Identity cards are another invasion of privacy."
Hi
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
The article, of course, IS written by Roy Wood, for whom we successfully campaigned to get his place on the Walk Of Stars.
I have asked my digital team to remedy the situation.
Regards
Paul Cole
Executive Editor
Sunday Mercury
BPM Media
Sixth Floor
Fort Dunlop
Fort Parkway
Birmingham
B24 9FF
The Home Office has triumphed yet again with another half-hearted attempt at legislation that once dissected, means absolutely zilch.
I have had enough of watching Jacqui Smith’s expression on our screens, face looking like a smacked bottom, desperately trying to convince the electorate that she is telling the truth.
According to our Home Secretary, this ID scheme will be imperative in the fighting of crime and terrorism. OK, so it has presumably been well thought out, hasn’t it ?
Now it doesn’t need rocket science to work out that because the introductory scheme in Manchester is not compulsory, we’re hardly going to be swamped by queues of terrorists and crooks in post offices all over the country, waiting to supply their fingerprints to the authorities. So it cannot be effective in significantly reducing crime.
Any police officer will tell you that their biggest problem has always been linking these crimes to the perpetrators, rather than simply trying to identify the individuals in the first place. As far as terrorism goes, since we became part of the EU and our borders have been opened up to all and sundry, terrorists can easily move across borders using tourist visas (or even very good forgeries) which can be deemed as legitimate identification.
Let’s be honest. This is yet more unnecessary, and expensive, Labour legislation.
Surely the Government already has in place a facility to detect people who use multiple identities in order to evade tax? The police must also have under surveillance those people who change their identity in order to perpetrate fraud. MI6 already has specific data on terrorist factions. The spooks are not stupid.
In fact, as time goes on, it wouldn’t be too surprising if the Government wished to keep adding more personal information to our databases, thus making privacy a thing confined only to the history books.
But, let’s face it, the Government doesn’t exactly have an impeccable record when it comes to taking care of our personal data. They are still allowed to download sensitive material onto their personal laptops, which have so far been discovered on a train or in the back of a taxi by some honest boy scout. We might not be so lucky next time.
Are we really gullible enough as a nation to want to put these people in charge of our personal stuff? So what if I lost my ID card? Easy thing to do – people lose their phones and cards, or have them stolen, on a regular basis. I would immediately be treated with suspicion, and be inconvenienced by being denied goods or services until my card could be replaced and reinstated. This may take weeks, as it is likely to happen to quite a lot of us.
In that time card thieves and fraudsters would in possession of our identity. What an absolute catastrophic mess that would be.
The scheme could also be wide open to forgery. Remember, the cards would originally need to be issued on the basis of providing ID in the first place, such as a driving licence or birth certificate. I already have this documentation. Why the hell do I need to go out and spend another sixty quid on even more ID?
It is also estimated that in order to keep the National Identity Register up to date, the charges for these cards could end up costing in the region of £95 to even £300. I know that these things are supposed to include fingerprints and an iris reading. But surely this would only be needed when travelling abroad, so why not include them in your passport?
ID cards could very well inconvenience our normal everyday existence. Surely you wouldn’t need to supply your fingerprints to purchase a jacket from Topshop? But if you were a young person, you could very well be refused the goods if you were unfortunate enough to have lost your ID card.
We all know that the Government dare not allow the British public a referendum on ID cards, because they would lose big time. I would have preferred to write something humorous in this column, but it’s just not funny, is it?
“Oh bugger! Lost my card – may need to get a hand transplant and some new eyeballs before I can go into Matalan.”
(This article was written by rock legend Roy Wood for the Sunday Mercury Times in UK, even though the article says it was written by Paul Cole. I have personally emailed Paul Cole and he admitted it was written by Roy Wood. Although he assured me via email on December 15, 2010 that he would have the byline changed, he has not done so. – Joan d’Arc)
http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/getwoodyastarforchristmas/roywoodpictures/2009/05/31/identity-cards-are-another-invasion-of-privacy-says-rocker-roy-wood-66331-23749095/
fromPaul.Cole@sundaymercury.net
tojoan d'Arc
dateWed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:07 AM
subjectRe: campaign to take your name off Roy Wood's article "Identity cards are another invasion of privacy."
Hi
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
The article, of course, IS written by Roy Wood, for whom we successfully campaigned to get his place on the Walk Of Stars.
I have asked my digital team to remedy the situation.
Regards
Paul Cole
Executive Editor
Sunday Mercury
BPM Media
Sixth Floor
Fort Dunlop
Fort Parkway
Birmingham
B24 9FF
28 February, 2011
Beings in NothingDrive
An Existential Analysis of the Travis Walton UFO Abduction
By Joan d’Arc
On the thirty-year anniversary of one of the most compelling UFO contact experiences, I present my interpretation of the Travis Walton abduction case of 1975. This admittedly kitsch interpretation is unlike any other, either of the skeptic or non-skeptic variety, and its intent is not to prove or disprove the facts of the case. Rather, the intent is to marvel at the sense of wonder that embellishes the human condition and to convey the idea that we have a choice about how we look at the world. I hope it will add to our understanding of this profound human experience as we subconsciously try to become more comfortable in the skin we find ourselves in.
On the evening of November 5, 1975, a crew of men working in the forests at Turkey Springs, Arizona jumped into their pick-up truck and headed home to Snowflake for dinner. All at once, a brilliant yellow light blared through the trees. Upon coming to a clearing that afforded them a better view, the men realized the source was a flying saucer.
Travis Walton got out of the truck for a better look at the "golden machine," which hovered silently about 15 feet above the ground only 90 feet away. As he later described it in The Walton Experience (1978), the object was estimated to have an overall diameter of 15 to 20 feet and was shaped like two deep pie pans, one inverted on top of the other, with a "small round bowl upside down" on top of that. The dome on top was luminous white with darker strips of dull silver outlining the glowing panels. The surface of the ship had a "luster of hot metal." There were no seams, protrusions, antennae, windows, ports or hatches on the silent craft.
Walton approached the craft as the other men called out to him to come back. About six feet from the craft he got into a half-crouched position, staring up at its smooth surface. Suddenly the ship began to vibrate and wobble, giving off low- and high-pitched mechanical tones. A blue-green beam of light about a foot wide shot out of the bottom of the craft, with a sharp, cracking sound, striking him in the head and chest with a force he later described as "a high voltage electrocution."
The men in the truck watched in terror as Walton's body arched backward and was hurled about ten feet in the air. His body landed motionless on the ground. The driver sped off quickly, crashing over bushes and small trees until, through a clearing, the men watched the ship rise above the trees and take off at incredible speed. The men returned to the scene to pick up Walton, but he was nowhere to be found. Police authorities interrogated the men, thinking they had concocted this fantastic tale to cover up Walton's accidental death or murder.
Only in Hollywood?
The Travis Walton story is one of the most well known UFO contact reports since it was brought to the silver screen in the film Fire in the Sky. Problematically, Hollywood did a bad job of explaining what Walton actually remembered about the incident aboard the spacecraft where he purportedly spent the next five days. As a result of the film, most people know only of the drama surrounding the ordeal his co-workers were put through concerning his absence. In order to fill in the void left by Hollywood, more pieces of the bizarre tale recounted by Walton follow.
As consciousness returned, Walton discovered he was lying on his back on a table. He initially had no recollection of the spacecraft. He had a burning, "crushed" feeling in his chest and a splitting headache. He was remarkably weak. He recalls a bitter, metallic taste on his tongue, as well as intense thirst. His eyesight was blurred. He had no idea where he was but could hear a quiet shuffling. An odd light fixture hung down from a "triangular" shaped ceiling. He suddenly recalled being in the woods looking up at the glowing saucer. He reasoned that "maybe that thing had hit me with something" and he had been rushed to the hospital. He tried to move but he couldn't. He tried to call out, but no sound came.
Walton became aware that he was still wearing his shirt and jacket, which were pushed up under his arms. He reasoned that he must have been injured so badly there was no time to remove his clothing. He then looked down and noticed an unfamiliar technological artifact lying across his bare chest:
A strange device curved across my body. It felt cool and smooth. It was about four or five inches thick... [and] ...it extended from my armpits to a few inches above my belt. It curved down to the middle of each side of my rib cage. It looked like it was made of shiny, dark gray metal or plastic.
Walton then tried to focus on the "blurry figures of the doctors" he suddenly realized were standing over him. Once his vision returned:
The sudden horror of what I saw rocked me with the realization that I was definitely not in the hospital. I was looking squarely into the face of a horrible creature! My senses were instantly electrified into a new keenness. Everything clicked. The weird-shaped room, the strange device, the odd clothing, all added up to just one thing. 'Good God!! I must be inside the craft!!" [Emphasis his!!]
Emotion and the Horrible
The double exclamations Walton uses in his chronicle might perhaps represent his profound horror upon realizing the world has just shapeshifted beyond the predictable reality fixed squarely between the edges of his comfort zone. It has been noted by researchers that fear is the most common human reaction to meetings with extraterrestrials. In his writings on the supernatural in Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Carl Jung wrote that mankind "feels an almost instinctive aversion to this kind of knowledge, for he fears its paralyzing effect." As Jung noted, humankind may admit that unknown powers exist no matter what they are called, but one "turns away from them as speedily as possible, as from a threatening obstacle."
Why is fear so automatic when one is confronted with the supernatural? From a purely phenomenological point of view, why does this constitute a threat? We might consider Martin Heidegger's suggestion that our first sensory assessment produces a logical comparison or correspondence between subject and object—an assessment of facts devoid of meaning. He proposed that perceptions are logically distinguished when an object is isolated out of the stream of experience and held up to that which it is not. However, the second assessment will move beyond this correspondence to the "meaning of the ground of the investigated beings," revealing the nature of the relationship between them. If no meaning is revealed, if there is no melding of subject with "brute object," we could surmise, as Jean Paul Sartre might, that an instance of existential nausea might follow.
A Science of Experience
Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl believed that in order to maintain its meaningfulness and integrity, the quantitative sciences developed by man should acknowledge that its roots are in the same sensory world which it studies and measures. He hoped that a new Science of Experience would someday re-establish "lived experience" as a basis of scientific method. Husserl spoke of the "phenomenal world," the world of subjective experience, as being pure transcendental consciousness.
As David Abram writes in Spell of the Sensuous, each of the human senses lends its own unique mode of perception, which diverges, intercommunicates and overlaps with the others. In order to comprehend a particularly novel sensory experience, you must use all your senses in "dynamic participation." These are the tools of a different type of science; one that we all know instinctively. Your tools in the Science of Experience are your naked humanness. Abram explains:
The relative divergence of my bodily senses (eyes in the front of the head, ears toward the back, etc.) and their curious bifurcation (two eyes, one on each side, and two ears, two nostrils, etc.), indicates that this body is a form destined to the world; it ensures that my body is a sort of open circuit that completes itself only in things, in others, in the encompassing Earth.
In this novel situation, as Walton has noted, your senses are "instantly electrified into a new keenness." Everything begins to click, and it all adds up to "one thing." You have no trouble isolating this object out of your stream of experience, since it's in your face and you cannot move. You feel like an animal being hunted and you begin to think like one. You attempt to categorize the nature of the beast exhibiting predatory behavior toward you. You deduce that it is like me, in that it has the same basic morphology, locomotive stride, number of limbs, body symmetry and other features; but it is not like me in a most disturbing way.
Walton has the existential creeps upon coming face to face with an outwardly humanoid entity whose mode of perception is completely alien to the Earth environment. He knows instinctively that these beings do not belong to this world. As he looks for some human qualities or even a counterpart to mammalian forms, his first assessment is that these beings gather information in a novel manner. These entities make no use of the five senses taken for granted on this planet, the senses which define us as human, the very senses we are using in the moment to comprehend this situation.
A World That Speaks
The conventional view of language is that it is a set of mutually agreed-upon signs, or representations for things, linked by a formal system of rules. Phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty disagreed with this assessment, believing that human language is rooted in our sensory experience of the "life-world." He believed that meaning is spontaneously gestured with the body. We learn our native language, Merleau-Ponty pointed out, not mentally but bodily. He suggested that the conceptual meaning of words "must be formed by a kind of subtraction from a gestural meaning, which is immanent in speech."
A gesture is not arbitrary or meaningless behavior accompanying language, but is linked with the particular words being used. In essence, gesture is the "bodying-forth" of emotion ("a motion emanating") into the world; the tangible, visible aspect of a particular feeling. Speech is vocal gesture that communicates meaning, and is rooted in the sensual dimension of experience. It is born, writes David Abram in Spell of the Sensuous, of "the body's native capacity to resonate with other bodies and with the landscape as a whole," and is "a particular way of singing the world." Further, Merleau-Ponty proposed that no phenomenon presented itself to humans as passive, but as dynamic and engaging. He believed that humans are part of "a gesturing landscape" — in essence, "a world that speaks."
Yet, if human perception is an open circuit that completes itself via its environment, what type of environment does this entity come from? What type of being does not require food? What type of being does not need to hear? Clearly, its home environment is highly technological. As Sartre indicates, it is the things to which I cannot give meaning which cause the phenomenological experience of what he has termed nausea. Human beings can only place this experience in the realm of the supernatural.
As Walton later wrote, the creatures were under five feet tall with the normal arrangement of features. They had five fingers on their small hands. Other than that, he recalls, "their similarity to humanness quickly became terrifyingly obscure." The skin was pale, chalky and slightly translucent, and had a tight doll-like fit. They had "bulging, oversized craniums" and an infantile appearance. They had huge eyes with irises nearly an inch in diameter. Not a sound came from their tiny narrow mouths. They wore soft orange-brown overall suits and pinkish-tan footwear.
It doesn't take Walton long to conclude that these beings are not from around here. They are visitors from a landscape that does not gesture, a world that does not speak. They are techno-wizards who somehow project thoughts into the mind from a distance. They exhibit no emotion as they go about their work. The physical qualities possessed by this novel entity seem to incorporate that of reptile, insect and machine. Although they are overtly humanoid, in no sense are they mammalian. In some sense we feel that these are not "free will" entities: the lights are on but there's somebody else at the wheel. They are "Beings-in-NothingDrive."
As H.V. Ditfurth wrote in The Origins of Life, "a living being that does not engage in a continual exchange of energy with its environment is simply unthinkable." What sort of being is this? Writing in The Day After Roswell, Col. Philip J. Corso suggested the grays are the biological robots of a highly advanced visitor race. Psychologist John Mack further wondered if the traveling biochemists are on a mission to relocate a doomed human race to new homes in other planetary systems. Mack suggested we are but tagged animals in a cosmic trail of tears…
Magic: The Mind Dragging Among Things
Important to this assessment is the idea that magic, and its relationship to reality, may be a wholly different phenomenon than we understand it to be. Merleau-Ponty suggests a preconceptual relationship between the body and the sensible realm when he writes: "I give ear, or look, in the expectation of a sensation, and suddenly the sensible takes possession of my ear or my gaze, and I surrender a part of my body, even my whole body, to this particular manner of vibrating and filling space known as blue or red."
Sartre proposed that the world is in effect "a world of emotion," and the various human emotions have something in common, that is, "they make a same world appear, a world which is cruel, terrible, gloomy, joyful ... but one in which the relationship of things to consciousness is always and exclusively magical." He provides an example. Let's say a grinning face appeared in the window, sending a reaction of horror throughout your entire body. Phenomenologically speaking, your body is invaded by terror. Sartre explains that in this emotional moment, "consciousness is degraded and abruptly transforms the determined world in which we live into a magical world." Think about that. You haven't changed; the world has! As P.D. Ouspensky notes in Tertium Organum, "the mystery of thought creates everything." He writes:
As soon as we understand that thought is not a 'function of motion' and that motion itself is a function of thought; as soon as we begin to feel the depth of this mystery, we shall see that the whole world is a kind of vast hallucination which does not frighten us and does not make us think we are mad only because we are accustomed to it.
Sartre proposes that the world sometimes reveals itself to consciousness as magical (open-ended, subjective) instead of determined (solid, objective). Your survival response is to bring the world back to the confines of your safety nest: consensus-reality. But sometimes there is a lag in doing this, during which your heart feels like it could have jumped out of your skin. When the gag is over we can laugh, but while we're suspended in Magical Existentia we have seemingly entered an aspect of the world that contains possibilities we would normally not entertain. As Sartre clarifies, we need not believe that "the magical is an ephemeral quality which we impose upon the world as our moods dictate. Here is an existential structure of the world which is magical..." (Essays, 243)
The category "magical," in effect, governs our interpsychic relations and our perception of others; the magical is "the mind dragging among things." Sartre sees magic as consciousness rendered passive. In this posture, "man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical." The rational superstructures which make up our consensus-reality are actually "ephemeral and without equilibrium." They "cave in when the magical aspect of faces, of gestures, and of human situations, is too strong." (Essays, 244)
Indeed, this may explain why nobody is a true believer until they have experienced strange phenomena first hand. Perhaps imagination is not a separate mental faculty, but is the way the senses have of throwing themselves beyond in order to make tentative contact with the other sides of things that we do not sense directly. P.D. Ouspensky has suggested these may be the manifestations of the fourth dimension into the phenomenal world.
David Abram writes in Spell of the Sensuous that debunkers of magic, putting a premium on detached objectivity, attempt to "halt the participation of their senses in the phenomenon" by imagining other phenomena (wires, threads, mirrors), or by simply looking away. We always retain the option to suspend any instance of participation, he writes. There will always be people who "simply will not see any magic, either at a performance or in the world at large."
What happens when, without sufficient notice to halt sensory participation, we are plunged into the irrational alternate universe lying on the other side of our rational superstructure? Sartre guesses: "consciousness seizes upon the magical as magical; and forcibly lives it as such." Let's see how Walton deals with his existentially horrible situation:
A creature was looking steadily back at me with huge, luminous brown eyes that were the size of quarters! I recoiled at the sight. I looked frantically around me. There were three of them! Hysteria overcame me instantly. I struck out at the two on my right, hitting one with the back of my arm and knocking it into the other one. … The one I touched felt soft through the cloth of its garment. The muscles of its puny physique yielded with a sponginess that felt more like fat than sinew. The creature was light and had fallen back easily.
I heaved myself to a sitting position. The exertion caused beads of sweat to pop out on my forehead. I lunged unsteadily to my feet and staggered back. I fell against a utensil-arrayed bench that followed the curve of one wall. My arm sent some of the instruments clattering against the back of the shelf. I leaned heavily there, keeping my eyes riveted on those horrid entities!
Human emotion is a "quality which penetrates us" and "exceeds us on every side," explains Sartre. He writes, "the emotion ceases to be itself; it transcends itself; it is not a trivial episode of our daily life; it is intuition of the absolute." With regard to the specific emotion of horror, Sartre suggests, it is not only the present state of the thing that is transcended, but it is "threatened for the future; it spreads itself over the whole future and darkens it; it is a revelation of the meaning of the world."
Future Shock
Walton's terrific fear quite possibly stems from something we might call future shock. If culture shock is the result of an unprepared confrontation between two entirely different Earth cultures causing "bewilderment and disorientation, a misreading of reality, and the inability to cope," it may be relatively mild, suggests Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock, compared to the ravages of future shock, "the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future."
Existentialists tend to see the essence of human existence as a journey; as being "between that from which the journey comes and that to which it proceeds." The German word dasein (human existence) describes life as a project in which human existence projects itself toward the future. As Heidegger says, man is always "engaged in projects to realize himself in the future"; care for self means "care for the future." Yet, while we are always preparing for the future, we glide toward it slowly, marking it with various anniversaries and rites of passage. We do not expect it to arrive overnight.
Walton's fear may arise from the sudden realization that we are not alone in the world as we've always been taught; that our plane of existence might be shared with an ultra-life form we had not known about, if only due to our perceptual limitations or an enormous reality hoax. It would seem that this realization effectively transformed the world as he thought he knew it; and did, in fact, spread itself over the future as "a revelation of the meaning of the world" — a world which we as technological beings thought we owned and managed. But as that surety slips away, the horrible begins to hold a "substantial quality," which spreads itself over perceptual space-time as "horrible in the world."
Walton has seen various unknown technological devices, including the flying saucer itself, which must surely have his mind reeling with fright. For, although the humanoids are short, spongy and slight of build, he is technologically overpowered by the Goliath contraptions of a futuristic society. He has entered a magical realm without his slingshot! Physically unarmed and mentally disarmed, he tries to overcome this existential situation using caveman ingenuity:
My action caused the device on my chest to crash to the floor. No wires or tubes connected it to me... Greenish rays came from underneath the overturned machine. … My legs felt too weak to hold me up. I leaned heavily on the counter. The monstrous trio of humanoids started towards me. … With the superhuman effort of a cornered animal, I ground out the strength to defend myself. ... I grabbed for something from the bench to fend them off. My hand seized upon a thin transparent cylinder about 18 inches long. It was too light to be an effective club. I needed something sharp and tried to break the tip off the tube. I smashed the end of the glass-like wand down on the waist-high metal slab. It would not break.
There seems to be trouble in Magical Existentia. How might Sartre explain Walton's reaction? Sartre distinguishes the concept of anguish from the concept of fear in that "fear is fear of beings in the world whereas anguish is anguish before my self." He further distinguishes the concept of vertigo as "anguish to the extent that I am afraid not of falling over a precipice, but of throwing myself over." He clarifies: "A situation provokes fear if there is a possibility of my life being changed from without; my being provokes anguish to the extent that I distrust myself and my own reactions in that situation." (Essays 120-124) Sartre gives an example:
Vertigo announces itself through fear; I am on a narrow path—without a guard rail—which goes along a precipice. The precipice ... represents a danger of death. At the same time I conceive of a number of causes, originating in universal determinism, which can transform that threat of death into a reality; I can slip on a stone and fall into the abyss ... If nothing compels me to save my life, nothing prevents me from precipitating myself into the abyss ... the decisive conduct will emanate from a self which I am not yet.
This is an important facet of phenomenology. A human being is essentially a changeling. Although we remain outwardly the same person throughout our lifetime, our interactions with people and with the world cause us to change inwardly. We do not react in exactly the same manner to each situation, unless it's required, nor do we get the same results each time we do react in similar manner. Each situation constitutes a different set of possibilities. Our actions and engagements must be constantly adjusted to a world that is constantly changing as well, making each interaction and experience a novel one.
In The Spell of the Sensuous, Abram writes that from a sensory perspective there is no thing that "appears as a completely determinate or finished object." Every thing I see "presents some facet of itself to my gaze while withholding other aspects from view." Figuring out what constitutes this unknown factor is part of problem solving. If a particular situation is exemplary in its novelty, we become excited and ask others for their opinion. Our lives are largely spent as intersubjective problem-solvers.
Second, because we are temporal beings, the self is a flowing entity existing over time. If you concentrate on your inner monologues you will have to agree that you are suspended in a built-in past, present and future. We all create mental pictures of ourselves in possible future scenarios. We project ourselves into the future in order to define ourselves in it. We know from experience not to depend too much on the pictures because life tosses banana peels in our path.
Sartre explains: "At this moment, fear appears, which in terms of the situation is the apprehension of myself as a destructible transcendent in the midst of transcendents, as an object which does not contain in itself the origin of its future disappearance." In other words, I don't know when I will no longer experience this self as subject, nor do I know the circumstances by which my death will occur. Sartre continues:
I realize myself as pushing away the threatening situation with all my strength, and I project before myself a certain number of future conducts destined to keep the threats of the world at a distance. These conducts are my possibilities. I am in anguish precisely because any conduct on my part is only possible … while constituting a totality of motives for pushing away that situation, I at the same moment apprehend these motives as not sufficiently effective. (Essays 123)
This leads to the third point, that we do not know what decision we will make with respect to the next banana peel thrown in our path, and we do not always trust ourselves to make the right decision. Humankind is always in a posture of questioning, of expectation, of not knowing what comes next or why. This is what Sartre called contingency. Thus, he suggests, "my decisive conduct will emanate from a self which I am not yet." Therefore, while my momentary self and my past self contain known qualities, my future self—that which I am not yet—is suspended in limbo. It is, in quantum physics terms, a possibility wave.
So we see that man's subjective world deals with potential threats, and survival tactics are at all times part of a repertoire of possible responses to the threat of bodily harm or death. We can try to "push away" this threat, but there is no promise as to the effectiveness of that action. According to Sartre, this risk constitutes mankind's absolute freedom in a free will universe.
Freedom: The Brute Resistance of the World
Back in his magically transformed world, Travis Walton is apparently lodged between fear and anguish, the proverbial rock and the hard place. He has just awoken from a long nap, like Rip van Winkle, and this magical place doesn't have any familiar tools at his disposal. There are no hammers, buzz-saws, and unfortunately no "two-by-fours." There is no Sartrean toolness about this reality, which is a situation that would surely cause any Earth man considerable angst.
On the face of it there aren't a lot of possibilities, but Walton is profoundly free to come up with some. As Sartre says, an obstacle is neutral; one is free to "go around it, or climb it, or to ignore it." The "brute resistance of the world" is worked into the overall pattern of solutions afforded to us by our existential freedom. Important to Sartre's position on the matter, freedom is a given which constitutes the framework of possibilities.
Walton's dilemma can be seen as an exercise in free will. What are his options in this novel situation? As always, when the going gets rough, a human being is free to wing it. With amazing suicidal grace, Walton chooses vertigo. He tries to throw himself over the edge. He manages to scare the pants off the perplexed gang by trying an alternate possible historical configuration; that of a screaming wild banshee:
I lashed out with the weapon at the advancing creatures, screaming desperate, hysterical threats at them... 'Get away from me!!! What are you?' Then I shrank away in revulsion. The creatures continued towards me, their hands outstretched. 'Keep back, damn you!!' I shrieked. They halted. In a snarling crouch I held the tube threateningly behind my head. …
Their sharp gaze alternately darted about and then fixed me with an intense stare ... I felt naked and exposed under their scrutiny... Their mouths never made any kind of sound... Just as I girded myself to spring at them, they abruptly turned and scurried from the room! They went out the open door, turned right and disappeared... I collapsed back against the bench and struggled to slow my racing heart.
The Beings-in-NothingDrive backed off for a pow-wow and Walton won the first round, but all humankind is ever required to do is to win one round at a time. "I need only," Sartre says, to "make an appointment with myself on the other side of that hour, of that day, or of that month... [for] ... anguish is the fear of not finding myself at that appointment, of no longer even wishing to bring myself there."
To Sartre choice and intention are both acts; it is not the result that constitutes freedom, for all possibility is the consequence of existing, and all of my choices and acts are free. Even choosing to do nothing is an act. But, Sartre explains, "it is for the sake of that being which I will be there at the turning of the path that I now exert all my strength, and in this sense there is already a relation between my future being and my present being."
Through that last-ditch effort, posits Sartre, that last ounce of strength which constitutes the threat of my final annihilation, I am saved. He states, "It is through my horror that I am carried toward the future, and the horror nihilates itself in that it constitutes the future as possible. Anguish is precisely my consciousness of being my own future, in the mode of not-being." (Essays 141)
Strangely, Walton was left to wander the craft unescorted. He came upon a chair that had controls on its arms and tried it out for size. From across the room he saw a muscular human being about 6 feet, 2 inches tall, wearing a tight blue suit, and was relieved to see one of his own kind. The tall blonde man wore a transparent helmet that opened to a wide rim over the shoulders. Walton chatted animatedly with the man, asking him questions, but the man gave him the silent treatment. He led Walton down a narrow hallway to a door that slid open, and they disembarked from the ship down a steep ramp.
Walton was dismayed to discover they were inside an even larger mother ship that contained flying disks of various sizes and shapes. Entering a room where there were other humans, who looked alike in a "family sort of way," a man and a woman lifted Walton onto a table. The attractive blonde woman held an object that contained a "golfball-sized sphere." She pressed it over his mouth and he lost consciousness.
Travis Walton awoke on the side of the highway outside of Heber, Arizona, five days after he had been abducted by the craft. He had kept an appointment with a future self that was radically changed. He later wrote, "When I made that fateful choice to leave the truck … I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in its aftermath, that my life would never — could never — be the same again."
Walton looked up in time to see the yellow center-line of the highway reflected in the bottom of the spaceship's "gleaming hull" before it shot vertically into the sky. "The most striking thing about its departure," he wrote, "was its quietness."
References
Abram,David. Spell of the Sensuous.
Corso, Philip. The Day After Roswell.
Ouspensky, P.D. Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World, 1920, 1982, Vintage.
Sartre, J. P. Essays in Existentialism, 1965, 1993, Citadel.
Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre. Its main purpose was to assert the individual's existence as prior to the individual's essence. “ Sartre's overriding concern in writing Being and Nothingness was to vindicate the fundamental freedom of the human being, against determinists of all stripes. It was for the sake of this freedom that he asserted the impotence of physical causality over human beings, that he analysed the place of nothingness within consciousness and showed how it intervened between the forces that act upon us and our actions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness
Walton, Travis, Fire in the Sky, Marlowe & Co., 1997.
Walton, Travis, "The Walton Experience – An Ordinary Day," www.travis-walton.com, relays much of the abduction experience itself.
(Note: Joan d’Arc coined the term Beings in NothingDrive in this article published in Paranoia Magazine in 2005; it is not quoted from any other source. It is a reference to the existentialist manifesto, Being and Nothingness, by Jean Paul Satre.)
Joan d'Arc is the co-editor of Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader, at
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com
By Joan d’Arc
On the thirty-year anniversary of one of the most compelling UFO contact experiences, I present my interpretation of the Travis Walton abduction case of 1975. This admittedly kitsch interpretation is unlike any other, either of the skeptic or non-skeptic variety, and its intent is not to prove or disprove the facts of the case. Rather, the intent is to marvel at the sense of wonder that embellishes the human condition and to convey the idea that we have a choice about how we look at the world. I hope it will add to our understanding of this profound human experience as we subconsciously try to become more comfortable in the skin we find ourselves in.
On the evening of November 5, 1975, a crew of men working in the forests at Turkey Springs, Arizona jumped into their pick-up truck and headed home to Snowflake for dinner. All at once, a brilliant yellow light blared through the trees. Upon coming to a clearing that afforded them a better view, the men realized the source was a flying saucer.
Travis Walton got out of the truck for a better look at the "golden machine," which hovered silently about 15 feet above the ground only 90 feet away. As he later described it in The Walton Experience (1978), the object was estimated to have an overall diameter of 15 to 20 feet and was shaped like two deep pie pans, one inverted on top of the other, with a "small round bowl upside down" on top of that. The dome on top was luminous white with darker strips of dull silver outlining the glowing panels. The surface of the ship had a "luster of hot metal." There were no seams, protrusions, antennae, windows, ports or hatches on the silent craft.
Walton approached the craft as the other men called out to him to come back. About six feet from the craft he got into a half-crouched position, staring up at its smooth surface. Suddenly the ship began to vibrate and wobble, giving off low- and high-pitched mechanical tones. A blue-green beam of light about a foot wide shot out of the bottom of the craft, with a sharp, cracking sound, striking him in the head and chest with a force he later described as "a high voltage electrocution."
The men in the truck watched in terror as Walton's body arched backward and was hurled about ten feet in the air. His body landed motionless on the ground. The driver sped off quickly, crashing over bushes and small trees until, through a clearing, the men watched the ship rise above the trees and take off at incredible speed. The men returned to the scene to pick up Walton, but he was nowhere to be found. Police authorities interrogated the men, thinking they had concocted this fantastic tale to cover up Walton's accidental death or murder.
Only in Hollywood?
The Travis Walton story is one of the most well known UFO contact reports since it was brought to the silver screen in the film Fire in the Sky. Problematically, Hollywood did a bad job of explaining what Walton actually remembered about the incident aboard the spacecraft where he purportedly spent the next five days. As a result of the film, most people know only of the drama surrounding the ordeal his co-workers were put through concerning his absence. In order to fill in the void left by Hollywood, more pieces of the bizarre tale recounted by Walton follow.
As consciousness returned, Walton discovered he was lying on his back on a table. He initially had no recollection of the spacecraft. He had a burning, "crushed" feeling in his chest and a splitting headache. He was remarkably weak. He recalls a bitter, metallic taste on his tongue, as well as intense thirst. His eyesight was blurred. He had no idea where he was but could hear a quiet shuffling. An odd light fixture hung down from a "triangular" shaped ceiling. He suddenly recalled being in the woods looking up at the glowing saucer. He reasoned that "maybe that thing had hit me with something" and he had been rushed to the hospital. He tried to move but he couldn't. He tried to call out, but no sound came.
Walton became aware that he was still wearing his shirt and jacket, which were pushed up under his arms. He reasoned that he must have been injured so badly there was no time to remove his clothing. He then looked down and noticed an unfamiliar technological artifact lying across his bare chest:
A strange device curved across my body. It felt cool and smooth. It was about four or five inches thick... [and] ...it extended from my armpits to a few inches above my belt. It curved down to the middle of each side of my rib cage. It looked like it was made of shiny, dark gray metal or plastic.
Walton then tried to focus on the "blurry figures of the doctors" he suddenly realized were standing over him. Once his vision returned:
The sudden horror of what I saw rocked me with the realization that I was definitely not in the hospital. I was looking squarely into the face of a horrible creature! My senses were instantly electrified into a new keenness. Everything clicked. The weird-shaped room, the strange device, the odd clothing, all added up to just one thing. 'Good God!! I must be inside the craft!!" [Emphasis his!!]
Emotion and the Horrible
The double exclamations Walton uses in his chronicle might perhaps represent his profound horror upon realizing the world has just shapeshifted beyond the predictable reality fixed squarely between the edges of his comfort zone. It has been noted by researchers that fear is the most common human reaction to meetings with extraterrestrials. In his writings on the supernatural in Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Carl Jung wrote that mankind "feels an almost instinctive aversion to this kind of knowledge, for he fears its paralyzing effect." As Jung noted, humankind may admit that unknown powers exist no matter what they are called, but one "turns away from them as speedily as possible, as from a threatening obstacle."
Why is fear so automatic when one is confronted with the supernatural? From a purely phenomenological point of view, why does this constitute a threat? We might consider Martin Heidegger's suggestion that our first sensory assessment produces a logical comparison or correspondence between subject and object—an assessment of facts devoid of meaning. He proposed that perceptions are logically distinguished when an object is isolated out of the stream of experience and held up to that which it is not. However, the second assessment will move beyond this correspondence to the "meaning of the ground of the investigated beings," revealing the nature of the relationship between them. If no meaning is revealed, if there is no melding of subject with "brute object," we could surmise, as Jean Paul Sartre might, that an instance of existential nausea might follow.
A Science of Experience
Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl believed that in order to maintain its meaningfulness and integrity, the quantitative sciences developed by man should acknowledge that its roots are in the same sensory world which it studies and measures. He hoped that a new Science of Experience would someday re-establish "lived experience" as a basis of scientific method. Husserl spoke of the "phenomenal world," the world of subjective experience, as being pure transcendental consciousness.
As David Abram writes in Spell of the Sensuous, each of the human senses lends its own unique mode of perception, which diverges, intercommunicates and overlaps with the others. In order to comprehend a particularly novel sensory experience, you must use all your senses in "dynamic participation." These are the tools of a different type of science; one that we all know instinctively. Your tools in the Science of Experience are your naked humanness. Abram explains:
The relative divergence of my bodily senses (eyes in the front of the head, ears toward the back, etc.) and their curious bifurcation (two eyes, one on each side, and two ears, two nostrils, etc.), indicates that this body is a form destined to the world; it ensures that my body is a sort of open circuit that completes itself only in things, in others, in the encompassing Earth.
In this novel situation, as Walton has noted, your senses are "instantly electrified into a new keenness." Everything begins to click, and it all adds up to "one thing." You have no trouble isolating this object out of your stream of experience, since it's in your face and you cannot move. You feel like an animal being hunted and you begin to think like one. You attempt to categorize the nature of the beast exhibiting predatory behavior toward you. You deduce that it is like me, in that it has the same basic morphology, locomotive stride, number of limbs, body symmetry and other features; but it is not like me in a most disturbing way.
Walton has the existential creeps upon coming face to face with an outwardly humanoid entity whose mode of perception is completely alien to the Earth environment. He knows instinctively that these beings do not belong to this world. As he looks for some human qualities or even a counterpart to mammalian forms, his first assessment is that these beings gather information in a novel manner. These entities make no use of the five senses taken for granted on this planet, the senses which define us as human, the very senses we are using in the moment to comprehend this situation.
A World That Speaks
The conventional view of language is that it is a set of mutually agreed-upon signs, or representations for things, linked by a formal system of rules. Phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty disagreed with this assessment, believing that human language is rooted in our sensory experience of the "life-world." He believed that meaning is spontaneously gestured with the body. We learn our native language, Merleau-Ponty pointed out, not mentally but bodily. He suggested that the conceptual meaning of words "must be formed by a kind of subtraction from a gestural meaning, which is immanent in speech."
A gesture is not arbitrary or meaningless behavior accompanying language, but is linked with the particular words being used. In essence, gesture is the "bodying-forth" of emotion ("a motion emanating") into the world; the tangible, visible aspect of a particular feeling. Speech is vocal gesture that communicates meaning, and is rooted in the sensual dimension of experience. It is born, writes David Abram in Spell of the Sensuous, of "the body's native capacity to resonate with other bodies and with the landscape as a whole," and is "a particular way of singing the world." Further, Merleau-Ponty proposed that no phenomenon presented itself to humans as passive, but as dynamic and engaging. He believed that humans are part of "a gesturing landscape" — in essence, "a world that speaks."
Yet, if human perception is an open circuit that completes itself via its environment, what type of environment does this entity come from? What type of being does not require food? What type of being does not need to hear? Clearly, its home environment is highly technological. As Sartre indicates, it is the things to which I cannot give meaning which cause the phenomenological experience of what he has termed nausea. Human beings can only place this experience in the realm of the supernatural.
As Walton later wrote, the creatures were under five feet tall with the normal arrangement of features. They had five fingers on their small hands. Other than that, he recalls, "their similarity to humanness quickly became terrifyingly obscure." The skin was pale, chalky and slightly translucent, and had a tight doll-like fit. They had "bulging, oversized craniums" and an infantile appearance. They had huge eyes with irises nearly an inch in diameter. Not a sound came from their tiny narrow mouths. They wore soft orange-brown overall suits and pinkish-tan footwear.
It doesn't take Walton long to conclude that these beings are not from around here. They are visitors from a landscape that does not gesture, a world that does not speak. They are techno-wizards who somehow project thoughts into the mind from a distance. They exhibit no emotion as they go about their work. The physical qualities possessed by this novel entity seem to incorporate that of reptile, insect and machine. Although they are overtly humanoid, in no sense are they mammalian. In some sense we feel that these are not "free will" entities: the lights are on but there's somebody else at the wheel. They are "Beings-in-NothingDrive."
As H.V. Ditfurth wrote in The Origins of Life, "a living being that does not engage in a continual exchange of energy with its environment is simply unthinkable." What sort of being is this? Writing in The Day After Roswell, Col. Philip J. Corso suggested the grays are the biological robots of a highly advanced visitor race. Psychologist John Mack further wondered if the traveling biochemists are on a mission to relocate a doomed human race to new homes in other planetary systems. Mack suggested we are but tagged animals in a cosmic trail of tears…
Magic: The Mind Dragging Among Things
Important to this assessment is the idea that magic, and its relationship to reality, may be a wholly different phenomenon than we understand it to be. Merleau-Ponty suggests a preconceptual relationship between the body and the sensible realm when he writes: "I give ear, or look, in the expectation of a sensation, and suddenly the sensible takes possession of my ear or my gaze, and I surrender a part of my body, even my whole body, to this particular manner of vibrating and filling space known as blue or red."
Sartre proposed that the world is in effect "a world of emotion," and the various human emotions have something in common, that is, "they make a same world appear, a world which is cruel, terrible, gloomy, joyful ... but one in which the relationship of things to consciousness is always and exclusively magical." He provides an example. Let's say a grinning face appeared in the window, sending a reaction of horror throughout your entire body. Phenomenologically speaking, your body is invaded by terror. Sartre explains that in this emotional moment, "consciousness is degraded and abruptly transforms the determined world in which we live into a magical world." Think about that. You haven't changed; the world has! As P.D. Ouspensky notes in Tertium Organum, "the mystery of thought creates everything." He writes:
As soon as we understand that thought is not a 'function of motion' and that motion itself is a function of thought; as soon as we begin to feel the depth of this mystery, we shall see that the whole world is a kind of vast hallucination which does not frighten us and does not make us think we are mad only because we are accustomed to it.
Sartre proposes that the world sometimes reveals itself to consciousness as magical (open-ended, subjective) instead of determined (solid, objective). Your survival response is to bring the world back to the confines of your safety nest: consensus-reality. But sometimes there is a lag in doing this, during which your heart feels like it could have jumped out of your skin. When the gag is over we can laugh, but while we're suspended in Magical Existentia we have seemingly entered an aspect of the world that contains possibilities we would normally not entertain. As Sartre clarifies, we need not believe that "the magical is an ephemeral quality which we impose upon the world as our moods dictate. Here is an existential structure of the world which is magical..." (Essays, 243)
The category "magical," in effect, governs our interpsychic relations and our perception of others; the magical is "the mind dragging among things." Sartre sees magic as consciousness rendered passive. In this posture, "man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical." The rational superstructures which make up our consensus-reality are actually "ephemeral and without equilibrium." They "cave in when the magical aspect of faces, of gestures, and of human situations, is too strong." (Essays, 244)
Indeed, this may explain why nobody is a true believer until they have experienced strange phenomena first hand. Perhaps imagination is not a separate mental faculty, but is the way the senses have of throwing themselves beyond in order to make tentative contact with the other sides of things that we do not sense directly. P.D. Ouspensky has suggested these may be the manifestations of the fourth dimension into the phenomenal world.
David Abram writes in Spell of the Sensuous that debunkers of magic, putting a premium on detached objectivity, attempt to "halt the participation of their senses in the phenomenon" by imagining other phenomena (wires, threads, mirrors), or by simply looking away. We always retain the option to suspend any instance of participation, he writes. There will always be people who "simply will not see any magic, either at a performance or in the world at large."
What happens when, without sufficient notice to halt sensory participation, we are plunged into the irrational alternate universe lying on the other side of our rational superstructure? Sartre guesses: "consciousness seizes upon the magical as magical; and forcibly lives it as such." Let's see how Walton deals with his existentially horrible situation:
A creature was looking steadily back at me with huge, luminous brown eyes that were the size of quarters! I recoiled at the sight. I looked frantically around me. There were three of them! Hysteria overcame me instantly. I struck out at the two on my right, hitting one with the back of my arm and knocking it into the other one. … The one I touched felt soft through the cloth of its garment. The muscles of its puny physique yielded with a sponginess that felt more like fat than sinew. The creature was light and had fallen back easily.
I heaved myself to a sitting position. The exertion caused beads of sweat to pop out on my forehead. I lunged unsteadily to my feet and staggered back. I fell against a utensil-arrayed bench that followed the curve of one wall. My arm sent some of the instruments clattering against the back of the shelf. I leaned heavily there, keeping my eyes riveted on those horrid entities!
Human emotion is a "quality which penetrates us" and "exceeds us on every side," explains Sartre. He writes, "the emotion ceases to be itself; it transcends itself; it is not a trivial episode of our daily life; it is intuition of the absolute." With regard to the specific emotion of horror, Sartre suggests, it is not only the present state of the thing that is transcended, but it is "threatened for the future; it spreads itself over the whole future and darkens it; it is a revelation of the meaning of the world."
Future Shock
Walton's terrific fear quite possibly stems from something we might call future shock. If culture shock is the result of an unprepared confrontation between two entirely different Earth cultures causing "bewilderment and disorientation, a misreading of reality, and the inability to cope," it may be relatively mild, suggests Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock, compared to the ravages of future shock, "the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future."
Existentialists tend to see the essence of human existence as a journey; as being "between that from which the journey comes and that to which it proceeds." The German word dasein (human existence) describes life as a project in which human existence projects itself toward the future. As Heidegger says, man is always "engaged in projects to realize himself in the future"; care for self means "care for the future." Yet, while we are always preparing for the future, we glide toward it slowly, marking it with various anniversaries and rites of passage. We do not expect it to arrive overnight.
Walton's fear may arise from the sudden realization that we are not alone in the world as we've always been taught; that our plane of existence might be shared with an ultra-life form we had not known about, if only due to our perceptual limitations or an enormous reality hoax. It would seem that this realization effectively transformed the world as he thought he knew it; and did, in fact, spread itself over the future as "a revelation of the meaning of the world" — a world which we as technological beings thought we owned and managed. But as that surety slips away, the horrible begins to hold a "substantial quality," which spreads itself over perceptual space-time as "horrible in the world."
Walton has seen various unknown technological devices, including the flying saucer itself, which must surely have his mind reeling with fright. For, although the humanoids are short, spongy and slight of build, he is technologically overpowered by the Goliath contraptions of a futuristic society. He has entered a magical realm without his slingshot! Physically unarmed and mentally disarmed, he tries to overcome this existential situation using caveman ingenuity:
My action caused the device on my chest to crash to the floor. No wires or tubes connected it to me... Greenish rays came from underneath the overturned machine. … My legs felt too weak to hold me up. I leaned heavily on the counter. The monstrous trio of humanoids started towards me. … With the superhuman effort of a cornered animal, I ground out the strength to defend myself. ... I grabbed for something from the bench to fend them off. My hand seized upon a thin transparent cylinder about 18 inches long. It was too light to be an effective club. I needed something sharp and tried to break the tip off the tube. I smashed the end of the glass-like wand down on the waist-high metal slab. It would not break.
There seems to be trouble in Magical Existentia. How might Sartre explain Walton's reaction? Sartre distinguishes the concept of anguish from the concept of fear in that "fear is fear of beings in the world whereas anguish is anguish before my self." He further distinguishes the concept of vertigo as "anguish to the extent that I am afraid not of falling over a precipice, but of throwing myself over." He clarifies: "A situation provokes fear if there is a possibility of my life being changed from without; my being provokes anguish to the extent that I distrust myself and my own reactions in that situation." (Essays 120-124) Sartre gives an example:
Vertigo announces itself through fear; I am on a narrow path—without a guard rail—which goes along a precipice. The precipice ... represents a danger of death. At the same time I conceive of a number of causes, originating in universal determinism, which can transform that threat of death into a reality; I can slip on a stone and fall into the abyss ... If nothing compels me to save my life, nothing prevents me from precipitating myself into the abyss ... the decisive conduct will emanate from a self which I am not yet.
This is an important facet of phenomenology. A human being is essentially a changeling. Although we remain outwardly the same person throughout our lifetime, our interactions with people and with the world cause us to change inwardly. We do not react in exactly the same manner to each situation, unless it's required, nor do we get the same results each time we do react in similar manner. Each situation constitutes a different set of possibilities. Our actions and engagements must be constantly adjusted to a world that is constantly changing as well, making each interaction and experience a novel one.
In The Spell of the Sensuous, Abram writes that from a sensory perspective there is no thing that "appears as a completely determinate or finished object." Every thing I see "presents some facet of itself to my gaze while withholding other aspects from view." Figuring out what constitutes this unknown factor is part of problem solving. If a particular situation is exemplary in its novelty, we become excited and ask others for their opinion. Our lives are largely spent as intersubjective problem-solvers.
Second, because we are temporal beings, the self is a flowing entity existing over time. If you concentrate on your inner monologues you will have to agree that you are suspended in a built-in past, present and future. We all create mental pictures of ourselves in possible future scenarios. We project ourselves into the future in order to define ourselves in it. We know from experience not to depend too much on the pictures because life tosses banana peels in our path.
Sartre explains: "At this moment, fear appears, which in terms of the situation is the apprehension of myself as a destructible transcendent in the midst of transcendents, as an object which does not contain in itself the origin of its future disappearance." In other words, I don't know when I will no longer experience this self as subject, nor do I know the circumstances by which my death will occur. Sartre continues:
I realize myself as pushing away the threatening situation with all my strength, and I project before myself a certain number of future conducts destined to keep the threats of the world at a distance. These conducts are my possibilities. I am in anguish precisely because any conduct on my part is only possible … while constituting a totality of motives for pushing away that situation, I at the same moment apprehend these motives as not sufficiently effective. (Essays 123)
This leads to the third point, that we do not know what decision we will make with respect to the next banana peel thrown in our path, and we do not always trust ourselves to make the right decision. Humankind is always in a posture of questioning, of expectation, of not knowing what comes next or why. This is what Sartre called contingency. Thus, he suggests, "my decisive conduct will emanate from a self which I am not yet." Therefore, while my momentary self and my past self contain known qualities, my future self—that which I am not yet—is suspended in limbo. It is, in quantum physics terms, a possibility wave.
So we see that man's subjective world deals with potential threats, and survival tactics are at all times part of a repertoire of possible responses to the threat of bodily harm or death. We can try to "push away" this threat, but there is no promise as to the effectiveness of that action. According to Sartre, this risk constitutes mankind's absolute freedom in a free will universe.
Freedom: The Brute Resistance of the World
Back in his magically transformed world, Travis Walton is apparently lodged between fear and anguish, the proverbial rock and the hard place. He has just awoken from a long nap, like Rip van Winkle, and this magical place doesn't have any familiar tools at his disposal. There are no hammers, buzz-saws, and unfortunately no "two-by-fours." There is no Sartrean toolness about this reality, which is a situation that would surely cause any Earth man considerable angst.
On the face of it there aren't a lot of possibilities, but Walton is profoundly free to come up with some. As Sartre says, an obstacle is neutral; one is free to "go around it, or climb it, or to ignore it." The "brute resistance of the world" is worked into the overall pattern of solutions afforded to us by our existential freedom. Important to Sartre's position on the matter, freedom is a given which constitutes the framework of possibilities.
Walton's dilemma can be seen as an exercise in free will. What are his options in this novel situation? As always, when the going gets rough, a human being is free to wing it. With amazing suicidal grace, Walton chooses vertigo. He tries to throw himself over the edge. He manages to scare the pants off the perplexed gang by trying an alternate possible historical configuration; that of a screaming wild banshee:
I lashed out with the weapon at the advancing creatures, screaming desperate, hysterical threats at them... 'Get away from me!!! What are you?' Then I shrank away in revulsion. The creatures continued towards me, their hands outstretched. 'Keep back, damn you!!' I shrieked. They halted. In a snarling crouch I held the tube threateningly behind my head. …
Their sharp gaze alternately darted about and then fixed me with an intense stare ... I felt naked and exposed under their scrutiny... Their mouths never made any kind of sound... Just as I girded myself to spring at them, they abruptly turned and scurried from the room! They went out the open door, turned right and disappeared... I collapsed back against the bench and struggled to slow my racing heart.
The Beings-in-NothingDrive backed off for a pow-wow and Walton won the first round, but all humankind is ever required to do is to win one round at a time. "I need only," Sartre says, to "make an appointment with myself on the other side of that hour, of that day, or of that month... [for] ... anguish is the fear of not finding myself at that appointment, of no longer even wishing to bring myself there."
To Sartre choice and intention are both acts; it is not the result that constitutes freedom, for all possibility is the consequence of existing, and all of my choices and acts are free. Even choosing to do nothing is an act. But, Sartre explains, "it is for the sake of that being which I will be there at the turning of the path that I now exert all my strength, and in this sense there is already a relation between my future being and my present being."
Through that last-ditch effort, posits Sartre, that last ounce of strength which constitutes the threat of my final annihilation, I am saved. He states, "It is through my horror that I am carried toward the future, and the horror nihilates itself in that it constitutes the future as possible. Anguish is precisely my consciousness of being my own future, in the mode of not-being." (Essays 141)
Strangely, Walton was left to wander the craft unescorted. He came upon a chair that had controls on its arms and tried it out for size. From across the room he saw a muscular human being about 6 feet, 2 inches tall, wearing a tight blue suit, and was relieved to see one of his own kind. The tall blonde man wore a transparent helmet that opened to a wide rim over the shoulders. Walton chatted animatedly with the man, asking him questions, but the man gave him the silent treatment. He led Walton down a narrow hallway to a door that slid open, and they disembarked from the ship down a steep ramp.
Walton was dismayed to discover they were inside an even larger mother ship that contained flying disks of various sizes and shapes. Entering a room where there were other humans, who looked alike in a "family sort of way," a man and a woman lifted Walton onto a table. The attractive blonde woman held an object that contained a "golfball-sized sphere." She pressed it over his mouth and he lost consciousness.
Travis Walton awoke on the side of the highway outside of Heber, Arizona, five days after he had been abducted by the craft. He had kept an appointment with a future self that was radically changed. He later wrote, "When I made that fateful choice to leave the truck … I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in its aftermath, that my life would never — could never — be the same again."
Walton looked up in time to see the yellow center-line of the highway reflected in the bottom of the spaceship's "gleaming hull" before it shot vertically into the sky. "The most striking thing about its departure," he wrote, "was its quietness."
References
Abram,David. Spell of the Sensuous.
Corso, Philip. The Day After Roswell.
Ouspensky, P.D. Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World, 1920, 1982, Vintage.
Sartre, J. P. Essays in Existentialism, 1965, 1993, Citadel.
Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (French: L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique), sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre. Its main purpose was to assert the individual's existence as prior to the individual's essence. “ Sartre's overriding concern in writing Being and Nothingness was to vindicate the fundamental freedom of the human being, against determinists of all stripes. It was for the sake of this freedom that he asserted the impotence of physical causality over human beings, that he analysed the place of nothingness within consciousness and showed how it intervened between the forces that act upon us and our actions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_and_Nothingness
Walton, Travis, Fire in the Sky, Marlowe & Co., 1997.
Walton, Travis, "The Walton Experience – An Ordinary Day," www.travis-walton.com, relays much of the abduction experience itself.
(Note: Joan d’Arc coined the term Beings in NothingDrive in this article published in Paranoia Magazine in 2005; it is not quoted from any other source. It is a reference to the existentialist manifesto, Being and Nothingness, by Jean Paul Satre.)
Joan d'Arc is the co-editor of Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader, at
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com
17 February, 2011
An Overview of The Cloudbusting Situation
By Joel Carlinsky
Joel Carlinsky writes on the irresponsible use of cloudbusters at his blog: www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com
February 17, 2011, posted to OrgonomicEcology-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
Dear Dr. ................,
You ask a lot of good questions, but unfortunately there are no good answers. I will try to summarize the background to the situation.
1. I have been involved in orgonomy for over 40 years, have done most of the basic experiments first done by Reich, and some original ones, and was a student in the only seminar Eva Reich ever taught on orgone biophysics. My experience includes the first cloudbusting expedition in Australia, in 1971.
2. As the internet has made spreading information around so much easier that it was before, more and more people have found out how to construct a cloudbuster. Hardly any of them have a clue to how to use it properly. The result has been a lot of erratic weather, and numerous deaths have been among the results. I have documented many of these cases on my blog, www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com
3. My role has morphed into that of a crusading cyber-journalist, blowing the whistle on incompetent irresponsible misuse of the cloudbuster. In this capacity of environmental activist against Cloudbuster Malpractice I have made many enemies among the Atmosphere Abusers. Not surprisingly, some of them have attempted to retaliate by posting defamatory articles about me on various internet venues. This is the normal spate of personal attacks any environmental activist regularly undergoes from those he criticizes. The more effective the criticism, the more vehement the attacks.
In most cases, it is harmless enough, since the people I am trying to reach are not likely to fall for such obvious slander of an environmentalist, and the people who are likely to believe the lies told about me are not likely to become active against cloudbusting anyway.
In particular, conspiracy theorists and free-energy advocates are seldom environmentalists and could not be expected to become active in a campaign to obstruct use of what they think of as a new technology. The free-energy believers are almost always in favor of any new technologies and expect new technologies to save the world from environmental problems, while the conspiracy-believers think the corruption of few bad eggs in positions of power is the real problem and expect to solve it by political means. Neither is a potential activist against a mass movement of well-meaning but incompetent middle-class backyard hobbyists irresponsibly playing with a new technology.
4. I am not against all cloudbusting. On the contrary, I consider properly-done cloudbusting to be a much-needed adjunct to the environmental movement, with the potential to at least partially off-set the harm being done to climate stability by nuclear technology.
The wide-spread use of radioactivity is the most serious problem facing this planet, and the cloudbuster, while certainly not a panacea, could do a lot to help keep the earth habitable until the Atomic Age is over and the atmosphere can start to recover from the damage that the use of nuclear power has inflicted upon it.
The issue is not cloudbusting, per se, but improper cloudbusting by persons who do not understand the principles involved, the most important of which is atmospheric self-regulation, a concept that authoritarian personalities seem unable to grasp.
5. Cloudbusting can be taught, but it is more like a neuro-muscular skill, like swimming or riding a bicycle, than an intellectual subject of study, so it cannot be taught or learned via the printed word, over the internet. The ability to recognize proprioceptive sensations is much more important than any book-learning in subjects like meteorology or atmospheric physics. In fact, formal training in such subjects is not only irrelevant, but a positive drawback.
Another major drawback is mystical thinking. Many people who are attracted to cloudbusting suffer from habitual mystical distortions of their thinking processes, which can become dangerous if they are allowed to manipulate the weather.
6. The people who do the best work in cloudbusting come from a background of kindergarten teaching, animal training, gardening, and artistic pursuits. The ones with the worst record come from a background in physics, engineering, especially electrical engineering, and meteorology.
There is even some doubt if cloudbusting can be properly learned by adults, and it is likely that only young trainees, under the age of 17 or so, should be accepted for training. A proper training program for adolescents would take about two or three months of full-time personal instruction, and would not include meteorology, which is largely irrelevant.
7. The cloudbuster is based on a fundamental breakthrough, and is not just an extension of current scientific knowledge, and the most important lesson to be learned from it is that it renders the prior scientific model of the atmosphere obsolete and all previous concepts of atmospheric functioning must be abandoned. This strikes some persons with formal scientific training as heresy and they strongly resist it. But no progress will be made until the current model of the atmosphere is dropped from consideration.
The orgonomic model of the atmosphere certainly does not exclude the well-attested role of naturally-occurring cycles based on astronomical factors, but superimposes upon those natural cycles two additional factors of human origin. One is a global, ongoing, generalized deterioration of atmospheric stability, a breakdown of the coupling between the atmosphere and the underlying orgone field that is the ultimate Prime Mover of the material components of the atmosphere. This global oranurization is behind most of the long-term changes in climate that are being conventionally --and wrongly-- ascribed to greenhouse gases.
The other factor taken into consideration by the orgonomic model of atmospheric functioning, but ignored by the conventional model, is the genesis of specific weather events in cloudbusting operations. Many severe storms, floods, etc., are known to have been caused by poorly-done cloudbusting operations. The recent disastrous floods in Queensland, Australia, which were caused by a series of bungled operations by a Mr. Ash Palise, of the Brisbane area, are only one example of this added factor that must be taken into account to form a complete picture of what is happening in the atmosphere.
8. A basic miscalculation by many people who do not understand the concept of cloudbusting it that there is some way to improve the cloudbuster. There is not. No improvement on the original design is possible. There are many claims of better forms of equipment than the original cloudbuster, as designed by Reich, but on close examination they all turn out to be either outright lies for commercial purposes or self-deception by individuals who do not understand the way a cloudbuster works.
There is certainly much room for research, and much research should be done, but inventing new forms of equipment is not the direction research should go. What is needed is more information on how the atmosphere functions, and how the operator functions while interacting with the cloudbuster. We need better operators, not better equipment.
Another miscalculation is the blind faith in electromagnetism that misleads some people into thinking some electrical form of weather manipulation is possible. Since electromagnetism is a secondary form of energy, and such secondary energies interact with the primary energy of the atmosphere, irritating it into a toxic and more randomized state of activity, all any electromagnetic device can do is add to the disruption of an already damaged atmospheric energy substratum. There is no way any electromagnetic device could ever do any good in terms of helping to restore a damaged atmospheric energy system to normal functioning, which is the point of a properly-conceived cloudbusting operation.
9. There is no law specifically against cloudbusting yet, but there are numerous laws that could be used to put a stop to free-lance cloudbusting by individuals. Activists should have no trouble convincing the authorities to take action against independent cloudbuster operators under already existing laws that were intended for other purposes.
In case where the authorities prove unconcerned, there might be other ways to trigger some action. An insurance company, for example, might be persuaded to use their considerable influence to instigate legal action against persistent cloudbuster operators to protect their profitability. Or a civil suit for storm damages could be filed, which even if not ultimately successful in a trial, would drive up the cost of cloudbusting beyond what most people interested in it could afford.
10. The most urgent need right now is for a Code Of Ethics for cloudbuster practitioners, and a set of standards that can be agreed upon for what goals to attempt. Since at this moment, such considerations seen hopelessly Utopian, my role of investigative journalist, cyber-activist, Nemisis, and Jiminy Cricket to the growing cloudbuster movement, seems assured.
Sincerely,
Joel Carlinsky
( Former orgone biophysics student of Dr. Eva Reich )
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February 17, 2011, posted to OrgonomicEcology-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
Dear Dr. ................,
You ask a lot of good questions, but unfortunately there are no good answers. I will try to summarize the background to the situation.
1. I have been involved in orgonomy for over 40 years, have done most of the basic experiments first done by Reich, and some original ones, and was a student in the only seminar Eva Reich ever taught on orgone biophysics. My experience includes the first cloudbusting expedition in Australia, in 1971.
2. As the internet has made spreading information around so much easier that it was before, more and more people have found out how to construct a cloudbuster. Hardly any of them have a clue to how to use it properly. The result has been a lot of erratic weather, and numerous deaths have been among the results. I have documented many of these cases on my blog, www.orgonomicecology.blogspot.com
3. My role has morphed into that of a crusading cyber-journalist, blowing the whistle on incompetent irresponsible misuse of the cloudbuster. In this capacity of environmental activist against Cloudbuster Malpractice I have made many enemies among the Atmosphere Abusers. Not surprisingly, some of them have attempted to retaliate by posting defamatory articles about me on various internet venues. This is the normal spate of personal attacks any environmental activist regularly undergoes from those he criticizes. The more effective the criticism, the more vehement the attacks.
In most cases, it is harmless enough, since the people I am trying to reach are not likely to fall for such obvious slander of an environmentalist, and the people who are likely to believe the lies told about me are not likely to become active against cloudbusting anyway.
In particular, conspiracy theorists and free-energy advocates are seldom environmentalists and could not be expected to become active in a campaign to obstruct use of what they think of as a new technology. The free-energy believers are almost always in favor of any new technologies and expect new technologies to save the world from environmental problems, while the conspiracy-believers think the corruption of few bad eggs in positions of power is the real problem and expect to solve it by political means. Neither is a potential activist against a mass movement of well-meaning but incompetent middle-class backyard hobbyists irresponsibly playing with a new technology.
4. I am not against all cloudbusting. On the contrary, I consider properly-done cloudbusting to be a much-needed adjunct to the environmental movement, with the potential to at least partially off-set the harm being done to climate stability by nuclear technology.
The wide-spread use of radioactivity is the most serious problem facing this planet, and the cloudbuster, while certainly not a panacea, could do a lot to help keep the earth habitable until the Atomic Age is over and the atmosphere can start to recover from the damage that the use of nuclear power has inflicted upon it.
The issue is not cloudbusting, per se, but improper cloudbusting by persons who do not understand the principles involved, the most important of which is atmospheric self-regulation, a concept that authoritarian personalities seem unable to grasp.
5. Cloudbusting can be taught, but it is more like a neuro-muscular skill, like swimming or riding a bicycle, than an intellectual subject of study, so it cannot be taught or learned via the printed word, over the internet. The ability to recognize proprioceptive sensations is much more important than any book-learning in subjects like meteorology or atmospheric physics. In fact, formal training in such subjects is not only irrelevant, but a positive drawback.
Another major drawback is mystical thinking. Many people who are attracted to cloudbusting suffer from habitual mystical distortions of their thinking processes, which can become dangerous if they are allowed to manipulate the weather.
6. The people who do the best work in cloudbusting come from a background of kindergarten teaching, animal training, gardening, and artistic pursuits. The ones with the worst record come from a background in physics, engineering, especially electrical engineering, and meteorology.
There is even some doubt if cloudbusting can be properly learned by adults, and it is likely that only young trainees, under the age of 17 or so, should be accepted for training. A proper training program for adolescents would take about two or three months of full-time personal instruction, and would not include meteorology, which is largely irrelevant.
7. The cloudbuster is based on a fundamental breakthrough, and is not just an extension of current scientific knowledge, and the most important lesson to be learned from it is that it renders the prior scientific model of the atmosphere obsolete and all previous concepts of atmospheric functioning must be abandoned. This strikes some persons with formal scientific training as heresy and they strongly resist it. But no progress will be made until the current model of the atmosphere is dropped from consideration.
The orgonomic model of the atmosphere certainly does not exclude the well-attested role of naturally-occurring cycles based on astronomical factors, but superimposes upon those natural cycles two additional factors of human origin. One is a global, ongoing, generalized deterioration of atmospheric stability, a breakdown of the coupling between the atmosphere and the underlying orgone field that is the ultimate Prime Mover of the material components of the atmosphere. This global oranurization is behind most of the long-term changes in climate that are being conventionally --and wrongly-- ascribed to greenhouse gases.
The other factor taken into consideration by the orgonomic model of atmospheric functioning, but ignored by the conventional model, is the genesis of specific weather events in cloudbusting operations. Many severe storms, floods, etc., are known to have been caused by poorly-done cloudbusting operations. The recent disastrous floods in Queensland, Australia, which were caused by a series of bungled operations by a Mr. Ash Palise, of the Brisbane area, are only one example of this added factor that must be taken into account to form a complete picture of what is happening in the atmosphere.
8. A basic miscalculation by many people who do not understand the concept of cloudbusting it that there is some way to improve the cloudbuster. There is not. No improvement on the original design is possible. There are many claims of better forms of equipment than the original cloudbuster, as designed by Reich, but on close examination they all turn out to be either outright lies for commercial purposes or self-deception by individuals who do not understand the way a cloudbuster works.
There is certainly much room for research, and much research should be done, but inventing new forms of equipment is not the direction research should go. What is needed is more information on how the atmosphere functions, and how the operator functions while interacting with the cloudbuster. We need better operators, not better equipment.
Another miscalculation is the blind faith in electromagnetism that misleads some people into thinking some electrical form of weather manipulation is possible. Since electromagnetism is a secondary form of energy, and such secondary energies interact with the primary energy of the atmosphere, irritating it into a toxic and more randomized state of activity, all any electromagnetic device can do is add to the disruption of an already damaged atmospheric energy substratum. There is no way any electromagnetic device could ever do any good in terms of helping to restore a damaged atmospheric energy system to normal functioning, which is the point of a properly-conceived cloudbusting operation.
9. There is no law specifically against cloudbusting yet, but there are numerous laws that could be used to put a stop to free-lance cloudbusting by individuals. Activists should have no trouble convincing the authorities to take action against independent cloudbuster operators under already existing laws that were intended for other purposes.
In case where the authorities prove unconcerned, there might be other ways to trigger some action. An insurance company, for example, might be persuaded to use their considerable influence to instigate legal action against persistent cloudbuster operators to protect their profitability. Or a civil suit for storm damages could be filed, which even if not ultimately successful in a trial, would drive up the cost of cloudbusting beyond what most people interested in it could afford.
10. The most urgent need right now is for a Code Of Ethics for cloudbuster practitioners, and a set of standards that can be agreed upon for what goals to attempt. Since at this moment, such considerations seen hopelessly Utopian, my role of investigative journalist, cyber-activist, Nemisis, and Jiminy Cricket to the growing cloudbuster movement, seems assured.
Sincerely,
Joel Carlinsky
( Former orgone biophysics student of Dr. Eva Reich )
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