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Twenty Reasons Why HS2 Might Not Be the Promised Public Transport Option of the Future

There is a project in England called HS2. It stands for High Speed 2 and is a plan to build a high speed rail route between London and Birmingham and then beyond. The stated justification for it by the government is to move the political centre of gravity away from London and nearer to the Northern and Midland cities; the so called ‘power house’.

These cities have conventionally voted for the socialist or Labour Party and HS2 was originally a Labour government idea in 2009. Why it has not been cancelled by the Tories in my view is that there may be some political gain for the Conservative and Unionist Party in making Westminster ‘closer’ to the North. In the last election these cities did largely swing to vote Conservative for, no doubt, many reasons.

One skill that I believe is essential for politicians is ‘problem solving’. There is a science to this subject and the first question to be asked in solving a problem is; what is the problem? As much as this may seem obvious, it is heart breaking to observe how much money is wasted on national projects that turn out not to solve the problem. I am reminded the airport in Spain that has never opened and you can probably think of some ‘vanity projects’ in your local area. ‘Vanity’ may be one reason those in power do not ask the right questions. Or perhaps it is the Dunning-Kruger Effect…

(The Dunning–Kruger effect is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability), : source Wikipedia

…that makes politicians believe they understand the problem perfectly and have the perfect solution.

An Idiots Guide to Digging a Hole for Yourself
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Another common pitfall for ‘problem solvers’ is the temptation not to apply a new solution when the original one does not work. This is known colloquially as to ‘dig a hole for yourself’. Rather than abandon the first location to dig, the blinkered view and or fear of admitting a mistake and or wasting time, money and effort… compels decision makers to keep applying the original problem solving technique. Feedback is rarely sought, dissenters are ridiculed and rational insight is lost in the rush to jump into the deepest hole ever dug…

The HS2 project in my view is a perfect example of this and even the PM used this metaphor…

Boris Johnson has suggested the only answer to the “hole” enveloping HS2 is “to keep digging”. BBC News 31 January 2020

So far three billion pounds has been spent on demolition and railway infrastructure. To change now would mean wasting all of this money and admitting a mistake. To admit to such things is political suicide, and career politicians need to impress upon their voters that they know what they are doing. This is what we see at the moment.

Personally, I would vote for any politician who is prepared to describe the white elephant under construction as just that. Here is my ‘off the cuff’ list of reasons to abandon the project. I am sure the list could be even longer but it hardly seems necessary. It is not all negative. It contains the precise locations where treasure can be found, should the current hole ever be realised to be just full of air.

Here is my list of strategic reasons to abandon HS2;

1.The people who live in the Midlands and North of England desire most to have better rail links between the East Coast and the West Coast of England and connecting the cities in between.

2. The people who live in the Midlands complain that the existing rail service to London is at full capacity and needs upgrading. This could be achieved quickly and relatively cheaply with additional conventional infrastructure and rolling stock.

3. HS2 is planned to go initially North South, adding a link to London which is contrary to stated intention to move the ‘centre of gravity’ of the country. The word ‘London’ is the clue.

4. The country has borrowed a vast quantity of money during of the Covid -19 pandemic. To reduce this burden ( and presumably vulnerability to any future rise in interest rates) it is proposing to reduce aid to the poorest countries in the world. In doing so it risks losing the ‘world leader’ status it aspires to. One obvious alternative is to admit it can no longer afford to pay for HS2.

5. Since the pandemic, people have become used to communicating using the internet. Moving physically between locations has become less important.

6. Trains are old technology. They have been improved as much as they ever can be and now only new technology should replace it.

7. High speed trains are at their most economic on long distances such as found on the continent of Europe, North America or Australia. As any continental traveller will tell you, the UK major cities are relatively close to each other and journeys short in comparison with countries where high speed trains have been a success.

8. Fast, long distance trains are rivalled by aircraft. In Spain, for instance, internal flights are cheaper and quicker than the extensive high speed rail network.

9. Trains are rivalled by new technology such as the Hyperloop. They are likely to become superseded in the next few decades, just as railways took over from canals. Technology and economics are more sustainable drivers than political policies. New technology by-passes the decision making processes of government. In the era of present rapid ‘advances’ in technology governments must work with new technologies in the way that voters do.

10. A large proportion of ‘clean’ electricity is produced by fossil fuel power stations and nuclear power stations. The first is neither clean nor efficient. The nuclear option is becoming more and more expensive (as decommissioning costs are included) and prone to the dual risks of nuclear accident and the problem of the indefinite safe storage of nuclear waste on planet earth.

11. The costs of major infrastructure projects can be reasonably expected to double by the time they are completed. The original estimate for HS2 in 2005 of 37 billion pounds has already doubled to 78.4 billion pounds by 2015! (according to Institute for Government statistics). At this rate of increase it will have doubled again by 2025 and that is only the estimated cost. There are inevitably going to be delays and unforeseen extra costs. This during predicted future decades of Covid 19 austerity.

12. Europe is joined to one nation by the Channel Rail Tunnel. The United Kingdom is connected to twenty seven countries by the Channel Rail Tunnel – and beyond. The train from Berlin to Manchester appeals to a minority who will either meet virtually, go by air or just not choose to do business in the United Kingdom.

The List Extends into the Tactical Reasons to Abandon HS2

What have the Victorians ever done for us? picture credit Country Life

13. When the Victorians built railway stations, they were able to build their palace-like stations in the centre of towns and cities; just where travellers wanted to arrive! Due to high land values and ethical (archaeology, listed buildings, city centre decay, the housing shortage ) concerns around compulsory purchase, this is no longer practical. Most HS2 stations will be built outside the towns and cities they serve. The connecting transport will take away some or all of the time gained (1hour 21 minutes reduced by 29 minutes) by using a high speed train. An example I experienced many decades ago, was in Brisbane. When you arrive in Brisbane rail station you have to stand and wait for a bus or taxi to get you to the centre of Brisbane. I believe a local train has now reduced this problem but the insanity of these slow ‘connections’ remains.

14. Simple analysis of the problem will reveal there are many means to connect the regions of the UK other than high speed trains. The best and perhaps most cost effective of these, is to improve connectivity using the internet. This has the potential to allow passengers to work during their journey on conventional trains. This will make the speed of the train less important.

15. A new train route will cause considerable loss and damage to the countryside and communities through which it is intended to pass. The least of these is the one hundred ancient woodlands which will be destroyed. At a time when the country has been promised it will be more self sufficient in food, farms will be significantly negatively affected.

16. One hundred ancient woodlands, fauna and flora and in areas of outstanding natural beauty and special scientific interest will be permanently harmed or eradicated at a time when the environment is being prioritised, not least because of climate change.

17. Trains are a less safe means of travel than flying and in the future, the hyperloop. The later will be so safe that the prototype has already been trialled over a short distance by it’s designers and backers, personally. Hyperloop is frictionless so will require a fraction of the amount of energy required to propel an ordinary or high speed train.

18. To fit the broader brief of ‘increasing connectivity’ within England, new trains and routes should be started in the North. Phase One HS2, starts in London and therefore does not benefit those in the North unless they want to go to London.

19. The money spent by the Test and Trace and PPE procurement was approximately 57 billion pounds. This is in the same ball park as the current estimated cost of HS2! If HS2 costs reach 106 billion pounds, then this is the same as the cost of running the National Health Service for a year. Politicians have to be asked why not run the NHS for a year with this money?

20. The High Speed train network will not serve the satellite regions of the United Kingdom; known as Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. These areas already resent to control of an England-centric government based in the south of England. In my view this may become the straw that breaks the camel’s back and play into the hands of the Nationalist Parties of each country, the first to fall being Scotland followed by Northern Ireland, then Wales and then Yorkshire – Cornwall?!

I have not included any benefits from a High Speed train network in the United Kingdom.

Such as list should always be included in any rational ‘problem solving’ assessment. My problem is, I can’t see any benefits, except some good publicity photos of dolphin-nosed trains and grinning politicians in high visibility jackets.

If there ever were benefits, these should have been gleaned after the second world war when the UK’s industrial cities had been demolished. Despite ‘winning’ the war in 1945 the UK was bankrupt. Japan ‘lost’ the war and in the 1970’s built some of the first high speed trains – the famous Skinhansen.

The Right Technology at the Right Time in the Right Place – Shinkansen

Perhaps some would argue that an electric train speeding along the tracks is much greener than the cars on the motorway running parallel. With the proviso that the National Grid is powered by carbon neutral fuel sources, this is true, but certainly by 2040 (as phase 2 is due for completion), cars and lorries are going to be mainly electric or hybrid. Any ‘green’ advantage to all trains is slowly disappearing.

And in the midst of a pandemic and in preparation for the next, is not personal transport going to be preferred to public transport?

What would Robert Stevenson be thinking if he saw the final phase of his invention being acted out? What would he say about today’s ultra wealthy taking personal travel into the edges of space and is that why he called his invention Rocket?

1829 Rocket – Still the best public transport concept applicable two hundred years later?

Ancient Light Part Three

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In Part One of this trilogy entitled ‘Ancient Light’, I have described the curious electrostatic qualities of many ancient monolithic structures. They appear to be designed principally to concentrate weight upon piezoelectric rocks. This produces subtle effects that can be sensed by the human body and mind, even to the present day.

I have also examined the unique design of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Cheops as an example of use of this same principle. The highly selective construction techniques suggest that static electricity was intentionally generated, stored and exploited in the pyramid. The Arc of the Covenant operates as a capacitor potentially discharging static electricity as an ‘arc light’ and even lightning from the pyramid’s peak.

In this final section I shall describe the ancient knowledge of the production of monatomic gold shared (and possibly inherited) with the Mesopotamian civilisations.

There are depictions of gold mined by humans for the Anunnaki ruling Mesopotamia in ancient times. Humans were possibly created as a slave race mining gold for their rulers. Even as far away as South Africa, Zulu legends speak of a time when “visitors of the stars” came to dig gold and other natural resources.

For more insight into the mystery of the ancient gold mining across Earth the work of Michael Tellinger is the authority on the subject.

Interestingly there is little in the Mesopotamian drawings to suggest a use for their gold. What there is however is a remarkably common theme in visual representations of two ‘demi-gods’ standing either side of ‘the tree of life’ holding a bag and cone shaped object.

When examined closely the ‘cones’ appear to be made of many spherical objects which have been formed together into the shape of a cone. It is always held at mouth level as if in the gesture to eat. It is surely no coincidence that this same image appears in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Akhenaten Offering / Honouring Bread to the Sun god Ra and the life giving ‘solar energy*’ symbolised by the Ankh at the end of the ray.

The best line of investigation that allows modern readers to penetrate this mystery, comes from a renowned Egyptologist Sir Francis Petrie of University College London. He produced a report for his sponsors on a trip he made in 1904 to Mount Horeb in the Sinai Peninsula.

The full story is described in detail by Sir Laurence Gardener in the excellent video below;

Gardener describes Petrie’s discovery of an ‘alchemical laboratory’ in an Egyptian Temple on Mount Horeb ( later Mt. Sinai), dedicated to the goddess Hathor. Within the temple store rooms, is found 50 tons of a mysterious white powder, conical stones, metallurgists crucibles, tanks and basins. Much of the design stylisation on these and other objects is Mesopotamian. Inscriptions mysteriously refer to ‘Mfkzt’ (pronounced Muf Khut)’ and ‘bread’ and ‘light’.

Petrie decided that the use of this laboratory went back to the very first Ancient Egyptian Dynasty and continued in production until the final 18th Dynasty. Laurence Gardener describes the story of the flight of Moses and the Israelites. Moses famously went up Mt. Horeb (or Mt Sinai, as it was later called) where there was seen fire and smoke at night. We are told that this came from an Alchemical Laboratory where Moses would have observed the transmutation of gold into a powder. Exodus describes how Moses burnt the golden calf in the fire and ‘ground it to a powder’.

We should be aware that Moses was trained as a priest by the Egyptians. His great grandfather was Thutmoses 3rd, who reorganised the ancient mystery schools of Thoth and founded the ‘School of Master Craftsmen’ at Karnak. They were called ‘The Great White Brotherhood’ because of their preoccupation with a mysterious white powder.

Hathor picture credit Worldhistory.org

In the tradition of the goddess Hathor, a cow and a nursing goddess, came the ‘powdered milk that;

‘…gave the Pharaohs their divinity’.

It is no secret today that gold can be transmuted into a white powder in a furnace and this powder confers good and longevity, (common to Royal families even to this day!). It is called ‘monatomic gold’ or ‘ormus’ and can be even purchased on E-bay!

‘There is nothing new under the sun’ – King Solomon

Is it possible that in large quantities over long periods of time, this powder may alter human consciousness to a higher ‘god-like’ level? Clearly the Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians thought so, to the extent that they must have processed large amounts of precious gold to deify the Pharaoh. After all, the role of the Pharaoh was to be both man and a god, and achieving this status whilst living, was his or her aim.

Just to explore the Old Testament, Moses story a little more, there is the narrative of ‘Mana’ appearing on the ground like dew ‘from Heaven’. This mana could be made into cakes and consumed and appeared when the Israelites had run out of food. Can we conjecture that this substance was also powdered gold placed there overnight by priests for the people, until we consider a clue from Mesopotamia. Here the name for powdered gold was Shemana and it is more than tempting to take this as being identical to Mana.

There is a discrepancy in appearance – or perhaps it appeared in two forms. The ‘mana from heaven’ described in Exodus as feeding the Israelites, is described as being ‘like a coriander seed in size and shape’. This appearance resembles the ‘seeds’ that make up the cone shapes in Mesopotamian reliefs.

Corriander Seed – picture credit Wiki

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me always’

Exodus 25:30

This extract from Exodus show us firstly how important ‘shewbread’ (or white powder cakes) was. The cone shaped stones found by Petrie in the Temple of Hathor on Mt Horeb, may well have been moulds with which to make cone shaped vessels to hold or mould the shewbread.

Laurence Gardener tells us that the 4th Dynasty was the era of the pyramid building where Hathor is always depicted with representations of the Pharaoh. We can imagine a society in which the workers drank beer, the middle classes and aristocrats used a narcotic derived from the blue water lily and Pharoahs ate Monatomic gold.

With the Ark present in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid, I have described in part two how high voltages and plasma could have been generated between the wing tips of the Cherubim. Such a high temperature might have been used as a furnace to turn gold into the precious white powder but I do not believe there is any evidence for this. Such a process would have produced smoke and waste materials and the interior of the King’s Chamber is remarkable for being clean.

The alchemical creation of white powder was in furnaces in the Temples, not in the pyramids, in my view. But there is another cleaner method for producing monatomic gold, which could have been one of the functions of the pyramids.

As a clue, one of the contents of the Ark of the Covenant, as well as the tablets on which the commandments were inscribed, was some Mana. According to the Book of the Epistles, this was possibly held in a pot made of gold.

Modern pyramid experimenters have found many extraordinary characteristics even in scale models of pyramids. Modern experimenters Mary and Dean Hardy of Allegan, Michigan took a gold coin and hung it at the King’s Chamber level of a Great Pyramid model. After some time the gold coin got a clear “oil” on it and the gold was etched away under the drops of oil. This oil can be reduced to the white powder known as Orm or Monatomic Gold.

From my own personal experience I once worked for an architect in Australia who described himself as a ‘modern alchemist’ and had a laboratory over our work place that he regrettably never showed me. I remember him telling me however, that it was possible to produce oils from metals, a fact that struck me at the time, as worth remembering.

An unlikely scientist in this story is Sir Isaac Newton. He was an alchemist for the second part of this life and deeply interested in the Bible and the pyramids. The following extract is from a recent sale of some manuscript belonging to the great scientist.

“He was trying to find proof for his theory of gravitation, but in addition the ancient Egyptians were thought to have held the secrets of alchemy that have since been lost. Today, these seem disparate areas of study – but they didn’t seem that way to Newton in the 17th century,” Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby’s manuscript specialist, told The Guardian.

The traditional quest of alchemists is that they tried to turn ‘lead into gold’. Such a ‘story’ in my view, is yet another example of a ‘red herring’ to hide the truth. The transmutation of gold using a ‘secret fire’, is the true ‘secret of alchemy’. Chemists such as Nicolas Flamel called the Shemana, Mana, white powder, Ormus – the Philosophers’ Stone.

Oil of Gold – picture credit Kymiaarts.com

The ‘secret fire’ may not be actual fire but the concentrated energy within the pyramid at the location of it’s inner chambers, where gold transmutes by the action of invisible fire or ‘energy’.

The findings and analysis of his ‘white powder’ by Sir Flanders Petrie where never published. This may have been because it contradicts some elements of the Old Testament. It may also be that the knowledge of the philosophers stone and it’s effects was desired to remain secret by those in powerful positions who already knew about it…such as the Freemasons and other Societies in possession of and trusted with guardianship of ancient secrets.

There is a twist in the story, because the white powder has been analysed in modern times by the physicist Andrei Sarhakov. He describes it as ‘exotic matter’ because one of it’s characteristics was that it weighed less than nothing! In other words it was not affected by gravity. It’s ability to levitate itself could be transferred when placed on other matter.

These gravitational effects remind us of the interest that Sir Isaac Newton took in developing a theory of gravity that has advanced civilisation to this day! Was he also exploring the possibility of ‘anti-gravity’?

Even more extraordinary is that Sarhakov found Orm could move into another dimension if we want it to, a concept familiar to Quantum physicists and modern mystics, but which the general public find hard to comprehend.

Interdimensional Travel – not new to mystics and of greater benefit than physcial space travel…

This three part story is one with many ‘loose ends’ as a pessimist would describe them or ‘exciting paths to explore’ for optimists. If we accept the possibility of knowledge, nay enlightenment, in the ancient past that is but a memory today, the narrative becomes just slightly easier to tie together.

The great unknown remains the ‘energy’ associated with the monoliths and large buildings from our past. We know that these buildings are found all over the world and were inspired by known effects on human consciousness . All of this was enhanced to a superlative level by the ingestion as ‘bread’ of a mysterious white substance which today is called monatomic gold.

I conclude with a quotation from the rear cover of John Michell’s classic book;

‘The View Over Atlantis’;

*’The entire surface of the earth is marked with traces of a gigantic work of prehistoric engineering, the remains of a once universal system of natural magic, involving the use of a polar magnetism together with another positive force related to solar energy’.

There remains a great mystery about this energy known as ‘Chi’ and many other names. What we can be sure of, is that there is no smoke without, fire.

Ancient Light

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Throughout the period known as the ‘Stone Age’ we find a variety of structures made with massive stones called ‘monoliths’.

Stone Henge Monolith

Exactly why so much time and effort was expended to create them is uncertain, however I shall endeavour to cast some light on a subject that has fascinated me for a lifetime.

Some of the very earliest such structures have recently been discovered in modern Turkey, what was earlier known as Anatolia, at a place called Gobleki Tepe. I shall draw your attention only to the large vertical monoliths which are unusual for both their ‘T’ shape and incised decoration. The question is; why the T? This shape is clearly top heavy but perhaps that was the intention, to make the stone as heavy as possible. Let us look at some later examples.

One of the most iconic stone circles is Stonehenge in Southern England. The giant horizontal stones in the ‘trilathons’, again place extra weight on the vertical uprights for no obvious reason. They could have stood upright and detached as is more commonly found.

Stone Henge in Wiltshire England picture credit pw.com

Many standing stones exist in the landscape on their own rather than in circles or lines. The standing stone pictured at the begining, is interesting in it’s shape and sheer size. It is pointed at the top which is so common must not be accidental. There are two clues here then which are scale and shape of monoliths.

There are also ‘balancing rocks’ and here the shape at the base brings enormous pressure onto the base of the rock.

An inversion of this principle of high localised pressure, is seen where a huge monolith is balanced on top of three vertical stones that have been deliberately pointed. This creates enormous pressure at the point of contact.

None of these structures was intended as shelter or domestic reasons. They are clearly ‘sacred’ in purpose leaving two monolithic questions why this stone why this type of rock and why this shape?

Modern archaeologists have been very successful in analysing the material found at these sites, but because of a materialistic bias, ignore further ways of interpretation. For instance most ancient structures are aligned to underground terrestrial currents as evidenced by the dowser Guy Underwood in his book The Patterns of the Past. In this book he proves that studying the stones as energetic as well as material, opens the mind to new possibilities.

When a stone containing quartz, such as granite, is compressed, a static electric charge is created. This is called ‘piezoelectricity’ and is used today in quartz watches, lighters, even ink jet printers. In order to create the enormous compressive force required for this effect, a large pressure is needed. This just happens to be what is found in ancient monoliths as already described.

It is an extraordinary fact that a 1 cm cube of quartz with a 2KN (500 lb ft) force correctly applied, can produce a voltage of 12500 volts! This is not then a imperceptible effect in nature. Remember that lightning can produce millions of volts in the atmosphere and is both common and natural.

The human body works partly by electrical stimulation in nerves. The heart and brain would not function without volts. It is not surprising that dowsers, such as myself, have experience strong energetic patterns at ancient sites. We can trace energy associated with underground water courses, fissures in rock, caves, volcanic plugs, sacred buildings and many other common landscape features. Animals are responsive to this energy as well with cows selecting underground spring sites to give birth as an example.

There is an effect on the human psyche and emotions for which there is not the possibility to prove here as it is experiential, however the reader is encouraged to explore ‘dowsing’ as most human beings have this additional sense. I contend that we are sensitive to this energy because our body mind unity can be ‘charged’ by it so as to produce beneficial effects such as healing, calming of body and mind and at it’s highest level, enlightenment.

It is therefore reasonable to propose the ancient structures were constructed to produce a natural ‘spiritual’ experience. Sitting in or near such structures for a period of time and or sleeping overnight, can produce ‘supersensory’ experiences such as dreams and visions of extraordinary significance.

The Oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece for instance, gave the female seers their supernatural visions directly because of their location in the underground caverns.

The strength of the terrestrial energies found in these ancient sacred places, is dependent on the size of the structure or series of structures, the unique formation of the location within the landscape, alignment astronomically, geometric proportions and shapes, time of day and season, solar and lunar alignments, sensitivity of the seer or aspirant.

The system of alignment of the human consciousness with nature in order to bring the clarity of mind known as ‘enlightenment’ is therefore highly complex and libraries have been written on the subject.

I highlight the effects of piezoelectricity above as little has been recorded about this and my observations suppositions are largely original and or from the collective unconscious. I include it in particular because I believe that it plays a significant part in one of the most famous sacred buildings, the Great Pyramid of Giza, in Egypt.

A Kirlian Photograph of model pyramid geometry

I shall present my next blog as an in depth study of this last remaining Wonder of the Ancient World and still our best clue as to what ancient people did and believed and what we are still capable of doing today, perhaps even more so.

Pandemos

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Common to all the people

The thing with pandemics is that they are far from being ‘unprecedented’ as many politicians offer as an excuse for making mistakes. Historically there is a long list including the plague or ‘Black Death’ as it was known in England.

So aware are public health experts today that, certainly in the UK, pandemics are regarded as the number one risk. Governments have to be prepared for even the most unlikely eventualities and there will be a plan, somewhere. This will describe the risks – particularly the level of harm – and how to mitigate and eventually, eliminate, those risks.

A well thought out emergency plan will include the ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ needed. Warehouses across the country will store vast quantities of ‘just in case’ resources, from dried baby milk to personal protective equipment. Software will be posters and public information announcements already prepared for broadcasting to worried populations. It’s a whole area of expertise and those trained will be employed in all levels of government, from national to local. Protecting the population of a country is, after all, one of the primary functions of government.

Let us examine, pandemics caused by viruses. To mitigate and plan for a new viral infection there are six stages;

  1. Identify the origin of the virus and strictly control the contributory factors.
  2. Analyse the virus and it’s methods of transmission between hosts.
  3. Analyse the effects of the virus on the human body.
  4. Identify ways of preventing and treating the virus and it’s transmission.
  5. Share all of the hardware and software between countries of the World to do the above.
  6. Initiate prevention and treatment programmes throughout the global population.

At the time of writing there is a pandemic which is estimated as causing between 100,000,000 and 400,000,000 infections a year, according to the World Health Organisation. There has been a dramatic growth of cases in recent decades and at least half of the world’s population are at risk.

picture credit: thenativeantigencompany.com

The virus causes mild symptoms but in some cases can produce acute flu-like symptoms in humans. There are four serotypes meaning it is possible to be infected four times. According the BBC News App, ‘explosive outbreaks can overwhelm hospitals.’ In it’s most lethal form, fatality rates are 1% of the population when proper treatment and care is available.

Readers will probably have realised by now that I am describing dengue fever or DENV.

It’s a viral infection that you certainly do not want to experience. It’s commonly known as ‘break bone fever’ as it causes severe pain in muscles and bones. Like all viruses it poses a significant threat to the human population.

The good news for those living in high risk urban areas in the tropics, is that a new method of prevention has given very promising results in trial. The BBC News App reports that infections in the city where the trial took place were cut by 77%.

The method used ticks item 4. in my list above. Researchers used a ‘miraculous’ bacteria (Wolcachia) to infect host mosquito’s that spread the virus. The bacteria makes it much harder for the DENV to survive in it’s shared host so the mosquito is less likely to cause an infection. The trial set about introducing this bacteria into the local mosquito’s; fighting fire with fire.

What we can learn, in common with most viral outbreaks is that the origin of the virus and it’s method of transmission must be thoroughly investigated (1. above).

With this understanding, whenever new virus’s are discovered, pandemics can be prevented more quickly and as we know – speedy intervention is vital to reduce transmission. In an ideal world, governments will work together. Knowledge and resources should be immediately sent to the centre of any outbreak and paid for by global contributions rather than the host country, in my view. NGOs and strategic public health organisations, I believe, should be given overall control of treatment of the outbreak, with politicians merely signing off the allocation of national resources. Each country contributes according to it’s means, the rich and those without any outbreaks (pre-pandemic) pay more.

And if one pandemic is given disproportionately more publicity and resources than equally serious concurrent pandemics, what could possibly be the reason? Mind the mind gap!

Ancient Light – part two

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The following is one of many interpretations of the mystery that is the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau, Egypt. The fascination thing is that there are many levels of knowledge inherent in it’s construction which do not contradict each other. The creators of the pyramid were able to think multi-dimensionally, that is like a three dimensional chess player. Modern rational thinking usually asks the question, ‘which one is true?’ when the answer is simply, ‘all of them’.

The personal interpretation that I shall discuss in this essay, is how the pyramid creates, attracts and stores static electricity. This is not to ignore electromagnetism, gravity, sound, ‘chi’ and the earth’s magnetic flux, all of which I believe also have a function in the design.

Radio Waves within the Great Pyramid at different frequenicies

Before making any new theories and dismissing others, it is important to examine and understanding our ‘thought patterns’. Archaeologists present themselves as scientists practising scientific method. This is clearly sometimes true, but regrettably their own specialism has suffered from assumptions, rationalising and political suppression when it comes to Egyptology.

As an example, the most common rationalisation amongst academics, is that pyramids are ‘tombs’. Archaeologists in all fields inevitable come across ancient human remains, but it does not mean the place in which they find them was intended and constructed to be a tomb. A Christian church for instance is usually surrounded by burials, but the church was not built only to bury the dead. It has multiple functions.

Even more glaring in the case of the Great Pyramid of Cheops is that there is no evidence it was a tomb. No bodies were ever found inside and no inscriptions exist on the walls in the manner of other Ancient Egyptian burial sites. In fact burials were conducted in the Valley of the Kings to divert grave robbers from the pyramids.

The so called ‘ventilation shafts’ in the King’s and Queen’s chambers were never intended to ventilate as some academics have suggested. Dead people do not breath.

These are just two examples of how ‘scientific’ myths have been created to explain the unknown. It is what humans do. If something is mysterious, we tend to try to offer an explanation however absurd in order to gain peace of mind.

I have therefore tried to examine what we know about the Great Pyramid with an open mind. Very often the very best clues are those the present the most mystery and this is where I shall begin.

Here is a strange fact. The Ancient Egyptians referred to the pyramid as ‘Ta Khut‘ which means ‘the light’. What are we to make of this as there is no light visible from the outside or inside it? Clearly we are missing some information. In addition, the word ‘pyramid’ means ‘fire in the middle’, giving us a real riddle to unravel.

The most glaring incongruity is the use of pink granite from the quarries of Aswan over 500 miles away, to construct the massive walls of the chamber. This choice is clearly not a decorative aesthetic for which a simple granite lining would have sufficed. There are five granite block courses forming the King’s Chamber walls. Above these are five further stories of granite beams, topped by a limestone gable.

King’s Chamber Cross Section

Conventional theory is that this extraordinary construction was to spread the enormous weight of the pyramid above and from earthquakes. Neither of these is correct otherwise the Queens Chamber below and under greater weight above, would have a similar construction. The limestone gable spreads the load as a diagonal vector away from the chambers below.

Now let us consider the selection of the type of rock, that is pink granite. It is piezoelectric; that is, it creates electricity when compressed under extreme weight. It is reasonable then to explore whether this was in any way an intention of the ancient constructors. If electricity was being created by pressure would the granite be able to store it? The answer is yes, as the other characteristic of granite is that it is dielectric, that is it is an insulator that can hold a charge, as in a capacitor.

The third thing we observe about the blocks is the smoothness with which they are built giving perfect contact and conductivity between each block. It has been said that a razor blade can not be inserted into the joints.

Given the massive size of the chamber and the one hundred, over 70 ton granite blocks there could be tens of thousands of volts being generated. Perhaps similar to the voltages carried by the wires of national grids, supported on ‘pylons’ as in the Ancient Egyptian ‘pylon’.

In the King’s Chamber there are two, so called, ‘air shafts’ shown with dotted lines above. This name is yet another assumption by ‘scientists’ which has been repeated without justification. They are not positioned at ceiling height as would any ventilation shaft but at ‘table height’ perhaps for ease of access. They are not continuous so do not admit air. When photographs were taken by exploring robots, a limestone block bars the way. What is most interesting and is largely ignored, are the two copper wires penetrating the block, and the discovery of a length of copper wire in one of the shafts with some cedar wood. If these shafts were intended to carry electricity then two wires would be prudent in case one was broken over time.

Copper wires set into the stone: electrically distanced

Electrical circuits require two polarities and there are two shafts in both chambers. The positive and negative wires (if that is what they were) would be ideally positioned to enter the chamber.

In any electrical circuit we can also expect to see a connection to earth. Sure enough there is the existence of the ‘well shaft’ linking downwards from the Kings Chamber, through the Queen’s Chamber down to the Subterranean Chamber; when viewed looking north in section. It would be interesting to know is any remnants of copper wire or their fixings survive in this shaft.

Finally, a switch would be expected to be found but of course all wires have been removed. But perhaps, if there ever were copper wires, these and the switches have been purloined long ago by thieves. Interestingly, in the King’s Chamber one ‘air shaft’ is horizontal where it goes through the wall with a shallow dome shape above. Could this have been where a switch once was?

The last feature in the King’s Chamber not mentioned so far, is the so called ‘sarcophagus’, an empty, lidless box with no hieroglyphs so is not a tomb. It is moveable; sliding on it’s integral granite base, so may not be in it’s original position. What was this for?

The Spark of the Ark

Here I have to introduce the celebrated Ark of the Covenant. The Old Testament story of it’s theft by Moses from the pyramid shows it’s importance. The loss threatened the ‘power’ of the Ancient Egyptian State so much, that the Pharaoh risked and lost an army trying to get it back.

The Ark is 2 ½ cubits long by 1 ½ cubits square in cross section. To enter the Kings Chamber by the low entrance it would have to be smaller and sure enough the entrance is 2 cubits by 2 cubits. This also allows the ‘sarcophagus’ to be slid inside as well, just.

The Ark could then be place on the sides of the ‘sarcophagus’ and sure enough it does this neatly with outside edge sitting in the centre of the 6 inch thick sarcophagus wall.

The next part of our theory requires the understanding of a ‘Leyden jar’. The image below amply describes how a static charge is built up and discharged in a glass jar.

There is a physicist on You Tube who explains very well how the Ark operated as a large Leyden jar and I direct the ready to this link;

Ancient Aliens: Mysterious Powers of the Ark

The two angels on the lid lean towards each other and their wing tips almost touch leaving a ‘spark gap’ as you would have at the end of a spark plug in an internal combustion petrol engine.

There are accounts in the Old Testament of the Ark being dangerous and able to emit light and smoke. We have to wonder what unique characteristics of the Ark produced this?

Is there a clue in the name? Is an electrical ‘arc’ why it was appropriately named ‘Ark‘?These ancient descriptions suggest a high voltage discharge of static electricity, similar to lightning, causing the air to be super heated. The effect in an enclosed space would have been awe inspiring! No surprise that the Ark is described as the ‘eye of God’.

Any priest entering the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle, would have a rope tied around one leg. This was because if he was knocked unconscious or killed by the Ark, his body could be retrieved without risk to others. The Ark was even used in battle in some manner according to the biblical story of the fall of Jericho. The accounts suggest it’s function was beyond purely ceremonial.

I hypothesise that the entire King’s Chamber is also a Leyden Jar. I have described the necessary elements already. The granite walls and ceiling are the equivalent to the glass in the jar. Granite has a relative permittivity of 5.45 and glass between 3.7 to 10. Copper wires, which the ancient Egyptians were perfectly able to make, may have connected the outside of the chamber to the outside via the ‘air shafts’ to the pyramidal summit as a positive and the same of the other side as a negative charge. The limestone smooth facing blocks would have acted to insulate the wires, as would the air.

The missing pyramidion peak of the pyramid of Cheops suggests that either it was removed or was never installed. If there was an electrical function to the peak of the pyramid then this might explain why it is flat. There are stories of the pyramidion being gold, fit the theory that gold’s function as the ideal electrical conductor was why it was there.

With the copper wires terminating there and probably extending a short way into the air, a natural charge would have entered the wires just from the ionised air, as described by Tesla in his ‘Tesla Tower’. We should remember that the pyramid was the world’s tallest building for 3800 years until our modern era. Clearly height (481 feet) was an important function of the pyramids specification.

Imagine what may have then happened. It is possible that this arrangement would also have enabled to pyramid to emit lightning at times; again as did the famous Tesla Tower in Newhaven, New York State.

The Tesla Tower

Even today, the pyramid is described by visitors in a curious way. One party who ventured to the summit to have a picnic, found their bottle of wine wrapped in a wet cloth for cooling, gave off an electric spark when drunk from. It was being charged as a Leyden jar.

During electrical storms lightning would have been attracted to the copper conductors and been either earthed or directed into the Ark depending on the position of the switch/es.

The ‘Eye of God’ is seen at the top of the pyramid on the dollar bill (see below) and perhaps this is a reference to ancient knowledge by the masonic founding fathers of the USA. Clearly with or without the Ark, the King’s Chamber could have been the centre of the power of the Ancient Egyptian State both literally and metaphorically. It would have been the peak of their technology and kept the population in reverence and respect for all things ‘royal’.

If the King’s Chamber was the charging point, could the Queen’s Chamber have functioned as a neutral place where the Ark of the Covenant could be stored safely. This chamber has no heavy granite beams and walls and therefore had a difference function. Just the presence of two ‘air shafts’ indicates it could discharged static electricity in the direction of precise stellar constellations, as all the shafts are astronomically aligned.

The Stellar Alignments of the Shafts

Moving from conjecture to a natural conclusion, sparks emit radio waves and directional electromagnetic waves could have contained information. Could there have been messages sent to ‘mother’ civilisations and / or to other pyramids around the globe. Tesla, again predicted this possibility using his Tesla Tower and others around the globe. Could this be why we find pyramids today on every continent, including Antarctica?

In my third and last essay on this subject I shall conjecture upon a most esoteric clue hidden inside the Ark itself. Could this enlighten us as a practice that the Egyptians would have inherited from the Sumerians and their overlords, the Anunnaki. It also answers the question many scholars ask which is, ‘where has all the world’s gold gone?’ Could the ‘cow goddess’ Hathor and the fire inside the pyramid, be clues?

All the World is a Stage

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A very famous playwright coined this idea many years ago;

All the world is a stage

and all the men and women merely players,

Each has his entrances and his exits,

A friend of mine, who lived alone, wanted to move house. The reason was that one of her neighbours had lost her husband. Maybe her friend would now sell up and move away. The pond in which she swam was now missing a fish and more might go. Soon it would be empty. Moving house and finding new friends seemed a good idea.

I suggested that moving house may not solve the problem. I proposed that our lives consist of three things. The ‘scenery’, the ‘actors’ and the ‘story’. Each is as important as the other and all are fundamental to enjoying life. Merely changing the scenery will not necessarily invite new characters and a new story.

For example, foreign holidays are popular with many people. It’s a way of packing up and ‘leaving everything behind’. As I once overheard a man say in the queue for passports about his holiday, ‘you have to get away from staring at the same four walls.’

The backdrops to our lives do become visually repetitive.

‘Either this wallpaper goes or I do!’ – Oscar Wilde

Even the daily journey to work becomes an extension of the wallpaper and we begin to detest it, whether it is the inside of a car or private Lear Jet. So the simplistic solution we take is to change it; even if only for a couple of weeks each year. Off we go to the Balearic’s with all our ‘bare necessities’ in a suitcase or three, our beloved partner and a smile of expectation. Expectation because you know the hotel; you should do…it’s been your holiday destination for the last fifteen years.

For some, this is all the scenery change they can handle. There is comfort when they know what to expect. They know where their favourite restaurant is, the best bars. Some vacationers are more adventurous in their scenery choice. They go to different hotels each year or even different countries. If you have enough money, today the sky is no longer the limit. You can ‘Spacecation’.

But again, life or rather our expectations of life, let us down. After two weeks we are bored walk of the beach and the frog in the shower and the hotel mini bus that is always full. We begin to long for home.

Going abroad has not even changed the people in our lives, unless we were lucky enough to find a ‘holiday romance’ or get the phone number of the ‘nice couple we met on the plane’. We went with the wife or husband and we return with the wife or husband. The rows on the hotel balcony pushed down into the suitcase of our mind, strapped up and locked away until another time.

It is easy to change the scenery but changing the characters, that is something different. Families are by definition almost, designed to stay together whatever happens. They are our insurance policy to support us through whatever troubles life brings. Families do break up but it is better they do not.

Friends are great but from the day we are capsized out of Junior School, we realise friends we love, disappear. Only the very best of friendships will sustain you through all of your tempests and becalments.

And the world of work will treat us with more indifference than is good for us. If there is a reason why the company needs to cut staff, then the company comes before your mortgage repayments. You are out.

The characters in our life are born and pass away before our eyes, sometimes quite literally. We become resigned to the phases of life. When we are young new characters keep appearing. They amuse and delight us and then are gone.

When we are old, the characters who we have held dear, fall off the calendar until we are left alone and awaiting our cue to exit, stage left or right.

And as if this warp and weft of life is not complexity enough there is the third dimension, and the one which troubles or delights us most; the story.

Think back to your favourite movie. Whilst you will remember some of the backdrops to the scenes, some of the performances and appearances of the actors, it is the story which holds fast in your memory. Human beings are hard wired to remember stories as we do melodies.

We spend our childhoods dreaming of what we are going to become; explorers, pilots, politicians, film stars! The stories we aspire to are almost always unrealistic. That is after all, the nature of dreams is;

” If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:…’

from ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’ epilogue, William Shakespeare

We watch one or two grown ups who have been in the right scene at the right time with the right character and have been given an opportunity to reach for a goal they never dreamed would come. It did, which makes the rest of us think our ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ will come to us to. Perhaps it will.

But the movie in which you have the staring role, is not remotely likely to bring you fame. Be it ever so humble, we should not be ashamed of an uneventful life. While we are responsible for how we respond to opportunities in life, we are not responsible for the ‘hard knocks’, false starts, mirages, tricksters, fraudsters, liers, cheats, charlatans, and ‘low ballers’ that knock us off our feet.

Two dimensional life is just about management. Holidays are fun. But when you add the third dimension of a narrative, you had better be ready to run. And remember, like Tom and Jerry, the wallpaper of life is on a very very very long roll.

The Space Time Cage

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The standard monkey cage encloses a space using three dimensional planes; x,y and z.

Take one standard monkey, place him in the cage and it’s game over for monkey freedom.

Humans also occupy a cage only it is less simple to observe – because it is infinite. We live in an ‘infinity monkey cage’ in which we can travel in any direction – but with the restrictions of always coming back to the start.

Then it gets complicated. Scientists measure time; from leaky water clocks to atom accurate atomic clocks. This single act of measurement creates a past and a future – pressing our minds into an ever smaller space, or is that a larger one? Either way it puts human endeavour into a tight spot.

Things must be done ‘on time’. In a kind of cosmic act of cookery, we are placed in a dome shaped oven to cook for a measured period and then emerge as plump loaves of bread. The cosmic clock is not our friend but our enemy, for it cannot be beaten. It ticks inexorably in the background of all our endeavours.

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This dominant dimension in our lives – I would argue it is not a dimension at all. The act of measuring a thing will not make it real if it is imaginary. Can you measure freedom?

Time picks us up and places us in a social order on a point of singularity within the Universe; it is called ‘being born’.

And as we grow into adults we accept this social order. We indulge in it’s whims which are justified as ethical (providing complexity and contradiction are ignored) and therefore acceptable. If you reject the ‘normal’ of that moment, you must risk being regarded as ‘not normal’.

An 18th century normal is not a 19th century normal. Slavery – which had been around for thousands of years – was voted out as unethical.

Humans were not learning but unlearning bad habits. It was never ‘natural’ to enslave your own species. Nature (if ever) rarely does it. This change in human consciousness was restricted by time. Slaves had been enslaved for millennia. Eventually, for ethical reasons – slaves were released to live in social equality.

It was just an imaginary game that had been played out by the victors at the cost of ruining millions of lives and their descendants.

Were there Roman aristocrats who refused to have slaves? I don’t know but such a person would have been described as ‘out of their time’.

Human societies evolve – not because of time but despite time. Some evolutionary steps are incredibly slow, but if you can not measure time, that is an invisible transition.

There is no ‘one direction’ for human evolution. We have freewill so do not hit the bars of the space cage, just as we do not hit the bars of the time cage. This fact alone should make us query the reality of space and time.

Are they not mere conventions?

Of course without matter and gravity we could not walk to the shops for a pint of milk, but physicality was only ever, a compromise. By shedding our acceptance of what is ‘normal’ or ‘fixed’ or ‘normal’ we edge closer to the reality of an infinite space.

The ‘man of the age’ who is lauded as a hero, is not a better human being. They are simply so much caught in the conventional illusion of what matters and what does not – that they go along with the fickle opinions of others – especially if they are being flattered.

The true ‘hero of the age’ is not of the age they appear to others to be in. Such a person acts independent of time either as a scientist like Nicola Tesla, an artist like Leonardo de Vinci or any of the prophets.

picture credit: Ivanep

Examine the words of their words and their thoughts are independent of space and time.

They uncover / reveal / expound truths which are out of ‘time’ and ‘space’. Their starting and finishing point is infinite and exist in every reality.

Such truths as ‘love one another’ and 1+1=2, subvert corruption in human societies. They ‘unpeeled’ coverings that have been revealed as real in previous centuries. They will always be true.

Man has not been on Earth for long. If Earth was created in 1000AD then we came along on 22 December 1999. We are no more than a passing thought created just in time for the end of the year. It would do us well to remember how truly insignificant humans really are but some of us, sometimes, get a glimpse of infinity, a quality which is not ours to hold.

The Arc – part two

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My personal interpretation of the flood-myth story departs from the account in the Old Testament of the Bible. I take issue with the simplistic account of wild animals compliantly lining up in pairs. We are told that the majority (seven of each) of the animals were domesticated, not wild and selected as food for Noah and his tribe. Therefore, I suggests that the only live animals taken onboard the ark were domesticated. Could it not have been that a considerable amount of work had gone into transforming wild species into domesticated varieties?

There was a strong motive to harness the power of a giant Aurochs in a ‘lite’ version which we now know in bovine form as bulls and cows.

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An Auroch

Animals supported the burgeoning transition into settlements and farming. There is evidence from the excavations at Gobleki Teke in Anatolia that the monolithic structures there were created by agricultural communities 5000 years before the ‘official’ date. Nobody knows who these communities were but the appearance of the Mullilu ‘bags’ carved onto one stone, suggests an intriguing link with the Annunaki.

picture credit: Wikipeadia – Goblekli Tepe in Anatolia Turkey – the so called Vulture Stone

So we should not be surprised when we see mummified pussy cats in Ancient Egypt. Domestication of big cats to, presumably rid grain stores of vermin, lead to the creation of the domesticated feline. She was even elevated to the position of ‘god’ and many statues of her exist, as do mummified cats in such numbers their bodies were once burnt for heating.

The final step in this theory and certainly the most disturbing and controversial is that homo sapiens are ourselves domesticated animals, not for food but also as genetically engineered ‘gods’. Animals so beautifully perfect in their form that cosmic consciousness felt free to enter and inhabit human bodies as ‘soul’.

Let us return to the animals being selected to be preserved in the Arc. Should we take at face value the account in the Bible?

The reference to the animals going into the arc ‘two by two’ is a conspicuous detail. Why state this? Why not explain what happened to the plant, reptile, bird and insect kingdoms? And there is surely a fascinating tale to tell about the animals that did not survive, such as Unicorns.

The omissions are glaring, including the assumption that Noah and his family were the only humans at that time to own a boat. Many other races survived to tell the tale, one on similar lines as Noah only perhaps with smaller boats and their own food banks; we have their stories so no proof is needed on that point.

With reference to the Biblical version, we might ask why the precise dimensions of the ship were worth recording. If there is any detail we require it is its means of propulsion, navigation and anchoring. If we are examine the credibility of the Arc’s uncontrolled travels on a tempestuous ocean, it is hard to take it literally.

A boat, loaded with wild carnivorous animals, was always going to be an impossibility. How do you stop the animals eating each other like they do in nature? A powerless and rudderless ship was more likely to hit a mountain top and sink, than preserve life with a big L.

Picture credit: Pinterest King Solomon’s First Temple with the Molten Sea supported by animals in the foreground

Was the Arc really a ship? Since the proportions of the Arc in the Bible are given as a cubic rectangular shape, I personally think it more likely it was a giant building. The dimensions of the Arc are exactly proportional to the First Temple of Jerusalem, which of course, was a building. Not only that but there is a truth in the creation of similar geometric forms at different scales, what we call today, fractals. The proportions demonstrate a complete understand of the Divine mathematics that governs all Creation. Perfect mathematical proportions are beauty and beauty is Divine.

So perhaps the Arc was a beautiful and functional building. Perched on a mountain top it would have had a far better chance of surviving. There might even have been several such buildings scattered around the globe around the world erected by different cultures and described, we know, in their own myths. After all, there was no real rush. To flood the world would have taken several hundreds if not thousands of years.

What we are missing in the Bible is an overview. Perhaps it has been over redacted over time, but certainly the Annunaki put a lot of effort into fine tuning a wobbling world so that it could emerge from catastrophe completely cleansed of impurity.

An Annunaki with Tree of Life in background

When we look at the records of how the Annunaki Sumerian gods are repeatedly depicted in pictures, they are standing either side of a flowering tree, a ‘tree of life’. This firstly gives us an idea of a ‘family tree’ with it’s various branches – genetic connections – as in ‘royal family’. The ‘blue blood’ of the modern royals might well be a linguistic remnant of the reptilian DNA in humans.

The pictures are intriguing. In one hand the ‘god’ or ‘demi-god’ is holding one of those bags already mentioned, and in the other, something resembling a fir cone. The bracelet contains a clue; an eleven petalled flower and a central ovary, one for each month of the solar year.

Pine cones are counter clockwise spiral forms that obey the arithmetical, Fibonacci growth patterns. They hint, symbolically, of the process of genetic engineering and or horticultural hybridisation. The seeds of a pine cone are fractals of a tree in nascence, and seeds is where this hypothesis goes next.

There are very few contemporary descriptions of what the ‘fir cone’ and ‘bag’ represent. However there is one translation from the Acadian language which uses the word, BANDUDDU or ‘Turkish Pine Cone’. The bag is a MULLILU or ‘purifier’. If we accept that the Sumerian gods were active in global DNA management, part of that process would be to eradicate unwanted elements of DNA, or as it is known today, ‘gene editing’. It was vital that disease and inferior life was eradicated or ‘purified’, for future generations, whether prior to a catastrophe or in micro-management of earth’s delicate ecosystems. At another level it was vital that humans became able to access ever increasing levels of consciousness.

picture credit: Wakehurst Place, Sussex, the Millenium Seed Bank

The subject of genes returns us to this ‘two by two’ anachronistic detail. It is an interestingly similar mathematical picture of the double helix of mitochondrial DNA. Could Noah’s Arc have been a bank of DNA? Does the Mullilu contain genetically altered / improved pollen to fertilise the tree of life? Small bags, even today, usually contain light, high value items. (One of the strategy’s adopted by the scientists today in order to preserve life in the event of a global catastrophe is to create seed banks.)

Should we be surprised that DNA codes are binary and there are two sets of two letters to describe them; A and C = 0 / G and T = 1. As we know, 0 and 1 is the binary language of computers. This code and it’s most recent ‘quantum’ addition (neither 0 nor 1) is now understood by many scientists to be how not only life forms are described, but the whole fractal universe. This is why beings from infinitely large distances away can come to our small planet and know the deep structures, or programming, of our three dimensional existence. It’s the same everywhere in the binary code Universe…two by two.

The Tree of Life

The Arc

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Adam and Eve were having a blissful time in the Garden of Eden. They had booked to visit the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys and were not disappointed. However hotel hospitality standards fell when Eve leaned over the balcony and was faced with a firey eyed reptilian. She was reassured when she saw it wore a elegant bow tie and a wide jawed smile. It held a shining fruit in it’s jaws, as if it knew she had missed breakfast that morning. The rest, as they say, is history.

Within all the stories of the beginning times of humanity there is one scientific question that as yet, needs proof. It is the ‘missing link’. The problem is that homo sapiens appear to have no ancestor. We may be 98% similar in our DNA to our Chimpanzee cousins but compare the two species, and the difference is obvious.

If no ‘missing link’ is to make an appearance in fossils, let us test another hypothesis. Suppose that homo sapiens were visited by beings from other dimensions and / or space time realities? Well, yes, that is a big leap into the unproven, but no more than Conquistadors landing in Central America or Captain Cook landing in North Island, New Zealand. Cultures historically, attract unexpected visitors. Sometimes the meeting is destructive bringing plague and disease and sometimes constructive, bringing new technology and ideas. Usually it is a mixture of both and those who think it shouldn’t happen or apologies are due, might reflect on this very human vulnerability and how blame is not the solution.

So here we have these early humans romping around the Garden of Eden without a care in the world. That is until the rules changed. The new rule, a poisoned chalice in effect, was ‘freewill’.

Such a gift, if humans are involved, was always going to get out of control. A ‘guide’ was needed and one may say that time was right for a radiant being or beings to appear, in computer terms, a ‘security patch’ for humanity. Fairly far fetched hypothesis you might say, but then, so were ships with sails appearing on the horizon for the Aztecs.

If this hypothesis deserves exploration, we need evidence. Well there is evidence but not conclusive evidence. We might start with the Bible as a source.

In The Book of Daniel we find a race known as ‘The Watchers’ meaning ‘those who are awake‘ or ‘guardians‘. Nebuchadnezzar described them as ‘a watcher, a holy one come down from heaven‘. Biblical scholars want to interpret Watchers as ‘angels’. Whatever they were, we are told that they came from above.

How can we be sure of that? Well, if we change sources to earlier writings, then the Sumerian texts record the presence on Earth of a race they call the ‘Anunnaki’. Translated this also means, ‘those who came from Heavens to Earth‘ – remarkably similar to The Watchers. A Victorian scholar name Nathaniel Schmidt was one of the first to translate the Sumerian cuneiform tablets; some of the earliest written records. He read of contact between humans and the Anunnaki They appear to have been a benign influence whose intent was to aid the development of humans.

If we seek evidence other than the written Sumerian records, then there are thousands of ancient visual depictions of ‘non-human beings’ in pictures and sculptures. If we dismiss these as ‘myths’ or ‘imagination’ how can we account for those that are from different cultures?

These figures are often oversized, that is several times the average height of a homo sapien. Could this genetic mix account for why the skeletons of ‘giants’, found all over the world. The presence of giants such as Goliath fighting in warring armies, gives a reminder that size is just a matter of scaling up. This is more practical for cold blooded rather than warm blooded creatures…hence the giant reptilians of the Carboniferous era.

Giantism; a genetic characteristic that is still with us

Gilgamesh is a well known character who appears on the Sumerian ‘Kings List’. He is described as a hybrid between human and non-human. It is undeniably possible that Anunnaki bred with humans either physically, or genetically using techniques common today that we call ‘test tube babies’.

If the ‘missing link’ is ever to be explained, could this be it?

Humans went from being descendants of the Garden of Eden to being a ‘super race’ who lived for hundreds – even thousands of years as, ancient texts record, were the Sumerian Kings. One early such king was recorded as living for 43,200 years. Should we dismiss this as fantasy? Sumer gave us the sexigesimal system of time recording and were exact and prolific at recording in general, so we must have good reason to dismiss their historical records as wrong.

The Sumerian texts shows us a dark side to the Anunnaki. In their version of creation myth there are two demi-gods. Enki wants to upgrade humans to enjoy a more conscious life and this conflicts with Enlil, so Enki breaks ranks. Enlil wants to destroy the planet. Enki gives instructions to Noah for his family and farm to be saved.

Those lead by Enlil wanted to use humans as a work force to mine minerals such as gold in South Africa, on behalf of their non-human superiors. Following the ways in which colonies change over time, the the colonisers returned to their own dominions while still receiving the riches of Earth for their own purposes.

All of this was happening pre-flood. The last Sumerian dynasty before the flood lasted 241000 years and was shared by 8 kings each reigning 30000 years! This dynasty ended in the flood.

If this date is the same on the time line as the end of the last Ice Age, then at around 10600 BCE sea levels rose dramatically around the globe. This is recorded by many and diverse cultures;

Mesopotamia

Hinduism

Gun-Yu in China

Deucalion and Pyrrha in Ancient Greece

Genesis in the Old Testament

Bergelmir in Norse myths

Nuh (Noah) in the Quran

Polynesia

Hawaii

Mesoamerica the Mayan peoples

La Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe in North America

South America the Canari Confederation

Africa

Australian aboriginal tribes.

This level of ancient cultural agreement over a global flood supports the hypothesis that it occurred in large parts of the world, rather than ‘everywhere’. We are proof that most if not all of the peoples alive at that time, survived.

The Sumerain, Babylonian and Assyrian have similar flood stories to Genesis in the Bible and it is likely that the Bible referred to these for it sources. We know that the Bible was redacted in the 6th century AD so is the most recent version of events and furthest from them.

Now my version of the flood-myth story departs completely from the Bible. I take issue with the simplistic account of wild animals compliantly lining up in pairs. The majority (seven of each) of the animals were selected as food for Noah and his tribe. Therefore, I suggests that the only animals taken onboard the ark were domesticated. The Annunaki’s skill at genetic engineering was surely applied to animals as well as humans. Domesticated ‘beasts of burden’ were not just fresh meat but worked for humans, in the way humans worked for the Anunnaki.

Proof of this hypothesis? Well the reference to the animals going into the arc ‘two by two’ requires challenging. Why state this detail? Why not explain what happened to the plant, reptile, bird and insect kingdoms? There is surely a good tale to tell about those animals that did not survive, such as Unicorns. Since communities all around the world record the same event, it is likely that there were thousands of human survivors and multiple lineages of life on earth.

If we are examine the credibility the story of the Arc as a wooden ship and it’s uncontrolled travels on a tempestuous ocean, it is hard to take it literally. A boat loaded with wild carnivorous animals was always going to be an impossibility. How do you stop the animals just eating each other like they do in nature? A powerless and rudderless ship was more likely to hit a mountain top and sink, than navigate to a safe harbour.

picture credit: UCA News
The rainbow is also an arc – part of a circles circumference – the route of the Arc on the globe.

We have to ask whether the Arc could really have been a ship? Since the proportions of the Arc in the Bible are given as a cubic rectangular shape, I personally think it more likely it was a giant building, or perhaps several such buildings scattered around the globe by multiple cultures when the rains started. To flood the world would have taken several hundreds if not thousands of years, giving humans time to preserve life, as best they could. The reference to forty days in the Bible is of course numeric code in the same manner as the whole of creation taking six days.

The dimensions of the Arc are proportional to the First Temple in Jerusalem, which of course, was a building. Not only that but there is a truth in the creation of similar geometric forms at different scales, what we call today, fractals.

The Bible omits to point out that plants were as vital to preserve as animals, fungi, insects and reptiles, all of which were at risk of extinction. The Sumerian gods are repeatedly depicted in pictures as standing with flowering tree and attending to it. In one hand they hold a bag and in the other, something resembling a fir cone.

Pine cones are counter clockwise spiral forms that obey the arithmetical, Fibonacci pattern of growth. They are perfect symbols of the process of genetic engineering and / or horticultural hybridisation. The seeds are fractals of a tree / Tree of Life, in nascence, and seeds is where this hypothesis goes next.

to be continued mid May 21 on this theme and the meaning of ‘two by two’ explored to reveal something extraordinary

The Bill

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There is presently being considered in the UK parliament a ‘Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill’. It is wide ranging in it’s intended effects. So much so that citizens are worried and they are asking questions are;

Are these new legal powers necessary and if so are stricter legal powers the best way to achieve the intended result?

In other words, is shooting the cockerel the best way to have a lie-in?

It is coincidental that the timing of these proposals coincided with a public vigil for a murdered woman, Sarah Everard. Sarah was tragically murdered, allegedly by an off duty police officer, whilst walking home.

The vigil was held in Clapham Common in South London. Unfortunately there were ugly violent scenes when police enforced the Covid regulations, which ban such public events. The confrontation had been foreseen. Prior to the vigil, an organisation called ‘Reclaim These Streets’ approached the police and then the High Court. The High Court told the organisers to sort it out with the police.

The question has to be asked, how ‘negotiations’ failed to find a solution that eliminated the risk of confrontation and violence.

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comment: how the media encourage dualistic thinking

People with an iota of problem solving sense and mediation skills, will know that if you set up two sides with conflicting agendas, they will always disagree with each other.

The BBC News webpage comments; For almost a year, the ambiguities and omissions within the coronavirus restrictions have left both the police and the public grasping for answers as to what is possible in public. It’s so complex we’ve even seen people fined for walking while holding a cup of tea.

The Covid ‘regulations’ are already a cause for antagonism between the public and the police. The police are having a hard time maintaining public confidence in their impartiality and fairness. The Police are currently lumbered with issuing Enforcement Notices, fines of £200, under the Covid Regulations.

Personally, I can see good reason to remove the police from the enforcement of Covid rules.

Police are principally responsible to protect the public from those breaking criminal law. They stopped being responsible for lost dogs and parking on double yellow lines long ago, so why are they involved with Covid rules?

One possible solution would be to create a new temporary role of ‘Covid Enforcement Officers’. This process of specialist enforcement officers has already been successfully with non-criminal offences, such as parking fines. Police used to issue parking fines decades ago. Then Traffic Wardens were created for this purpose and currently used ‘Parking Enforcement Officers’ have the role.

The Home Office might be able to recruit volunteers to enforce Covid Rules, given the large number of community spirited citizens who have already put their names forward for public service during the emergency. Alternatively, or as well as, the Home Office could pay CEO’s in the full time role. Alternatively or in addition, the Home Office might use the services of those currently paid to ‘furlough’ at home. This at least would be a better use of tax payers money. The role might also be given to a strictly selected portion of those ‘homeless’ and living in hotels at public expense and even released prisoners. Both groups who might well rise to the being awarded public trust and benefit for the rest of their lives for some experience of employment. My point is that there are many avenues to explore before dismissing the role of CEO.

Let us next examine the subject of public protests during the Covid state of emergency. It cannot be denied that where there is a public protest planned over an issue of current high public interest, there is good reason for respecting public feelings. If the government restricts the human right of protest it runs the risk of appearing draconian. When the government and rule of law is perceived by citizens to lose the high moral ground, ‘policing by consent’ becomes difficult to impossible. We see this in Hong Kong and Myanmar at the moment where protest has effectively been made illegal.

The problem for the British government that the vigil in Clapham Common posed, was for a potential ‘mass Covid spreading event’ to take place. This was the fear and Police had a duty to prevent such an outcome. They would be sure to be blamed for not using their powers should there be a subsequent localised outbreak of Covid infection.

The problem solving method used was for both sides to line up against each other like in a medieval battle. Even the High Court ran from this confrontation. All were victims in my view of the process of dualistic thinking or ‘either or’ solutions.

The way I would look at this problem is that it is not only a ‘police’ responsibility. In most problem solving processes, problems will be found to be widely shared. Who might the other stake holders be?

Just of the cuff I would suggest that the problem was owned by the organisers, those attending, the Park Authorities and the by-laws, the National Health Service (local hospitals), Human Rights organisations, the Courts, scientists of the health and social variety, the local MP and London Mayor’s Office, Legislators and the Home Secretary.

The only intervention the government could conceive was a new law, because that is what governments do; a classic case of ‘digging the hole deeper’. This is how they intend to make the present police powers more stringent;

The Bill being proposed wishes to prevent public protest that creates “serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”.

The lack of any nuance to this ‘nail – hammer’ thinking was, in my opinion, is woeful. If the complexities of solving a problem are embraced, then solutions are abundant.

For instance in the case of this public vigil by, say one thousand people, it can be be managed to achieve the clearly set out objective…to let people have their moment of remembering peacefully and without disproporthionate harm to themselves or others. After all, if strangers mix inside a supermarkets without creating mass Covid spreading events each day, then a single outdoor event is considerably less risky. Experience of public gatherings outdoors, including when not socially distanced, has shown that mass Covid events do not take place afterwards. This was shown to be the case at recent public protests in the USA such as the Black Lives Matter marches or the infamous storming of Capitol Hill.

Aside from the spread of infection it is hard to see why any peaceful outdoor protest should culminate in;

“serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community” if managed properly.

There are clear Covid rules of social distancing, mask wearing and hand washing and the attendees would willingly follow such rules as they Sainsbury’s where public disorder is not considered an imminent threat.

A vigil by definition, is a passive affair where people sit or stand with candles and placards to express their feelings of solidarity, sadness and, in this case, discontent that a young woman’s public murder makes many women feel unsafe.

Imagine how a Problem Solving / Protest Management Meeting that I am envisaging, might have taken place. There would be numerous attendees with multiple points of view but with a overlapping and shared desired outcomes. The aim of the meeting will be to express and examine all views in a spirit of co-operation to solve a shared problem. The fruit of such meetings is that solutions can be just as impactive as force, but in a subtle and almost invisible way.

So if you were the Superintendent of Parks, would you not be a good person to involve in how to make this peaceful event as safe as possible whilst supporting the Human Right to protest? You could provide detail maps of the park showing entrances and exits, toilet facilities, how previous public events had been managed, first aid and other emergency considerations (normal for large gatherings), catering etc. etc. in as much detail as you need and that’s just the Park Keeper.

The Fire Service say they could provide sand bags for people to sit on at the required distances…good idea…and safe bins to dispose of used candles. The local press and police might hire a drone to take photographs from above. The police use it to monitor events and the press get some great photograhps. Those attending are told that by staying on their sandbags they images will be spectacular visually, whilst respecting privacy and not spying on indiviuals. Instead of a grid, an local artist might design a shape for the sandbags and candle holders, like a flower of rememberance. You get the idea. It’s soft management designed to delight not draw battle lines.

The Covid Enforcement Officers might have produced some posters which will be clearly displayed at the entrances to the Vigil Arena, reminding attendees of the Covid safety rules and the fines for infringement.

I could list the inputs of each party but you get the picture. Towards the end of the meeting the person representing the local police, shares that there is intelligence that the an anarchist organisation are planning to attend. There is a history of them creating public disorder and damage to property. A few mug shots are shared.

Are These People Mourners or Political Activits?

The Police therefore commit to having 200 riot trained officers on hand but out of view, in case of “serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”. They confirm that there are existing laws under the Public Order Act, Criminal Damage Act and Breach of the Peace to make arrests and allow the vigil to continue peacefully.

Dame Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, is at the meeting and says that she intends to take part in the Vigil. Everyone applauds. Apparently, several other celebrities and leaders of Human Rights and Women Safety organisations are also going to take part. There is decided to be a VIP area next to the area designated for the Press.

In this hypothetical scenario the event takes place and the Anarchist ‘rent-a-mob’ do make an appearance. They are ‘kettled’ away from the vigil into an area that the Park Superintendent recommended which is surrounded on three sides by high fences. Flood lights had been secretly positioned their and their switching on allows for CCTV surveillance to begin and the press to get some good pictures. The police keep them there until the vigil has ended and the park is clear. Two anarchists are arrested are, both for previous offences using outstanding warrants.

My conclusion is that any public protest with warranted public interest and sympathy, should be allowed to take place under Covid regulations, and the Regulations should be amended to permit this. It is for the committee of interested parties to decide what level of public interest and support exists, not the courts or the police.

In summary, when the only parties involved are cast as protagonist and enforcer, the result will tend towards the violent scenes sadly witnessed on Clapham Common. Giving the enforcers more powers to enforce is no solution, and leads to the very thing purported to avoid, that is;

“serious public disorder, serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community”.

So in answer to the question at the top of this essay which was;

Are these new legal powers necessary and if so are they the best way to achieve the intended result?

…my answer is no. The existing laws were sufficient for the nine arrests made at this vigil. Next time, organisers should seek the help of the ‘partnership approach’ to public protest event planning. Use it or ignore it at your peril.