thewakingtimes--2020-09-11--NEVER FORGET: In 2020, A 4 Year Study Found That ‘Fire Did Not Cause Building 7’s Collapse On 9/11’

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As the media frenzy around 9/11 reminds us today to “ never forget ” there is some crucial information that the establishment absolutely wants all Americans to forget — the overwhelming abundance of evidence that pokes serious holes in the official narrative of what happened that fateful day .
On September 11 , 2001 , at 5:20 p.m. , World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its own footprint , falling at free fall speed for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second complete destruction .
WTC 7 was not hit by a plane .
After it collapsed , Americans were told that office fires caused a unique — never before seen — complete architectural failure leading to the building collapsing into its own footprint at the rate of gravity .
Naturally , skeptics have been questioning the official story for some time and after moving from the realm of conspiracy theory into the realm of science , this extensive university @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of fire causing the collapse is simply not true .
As TFTP reported in April , Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth announced the completed partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks ( UAF ) in their final report of an in depth four-year study on what they say actually brought down WTC 7 .
According to the press release , contrary to the conclusions of NIST , the UAF research team finds that the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11 was not caused by fires but instead was caused by the near-simultaneous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The extensive four-year study was was funded by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth ( AE911Truth ) , a nonprofit organization representing more than 3,000 architects and engineers who have signed the organization ’ s petition calling for new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11 .
According to the study ’ s authors : The UAF research team utilized three approaches for examining the structural response of WTC 7 to the conditions that may have occurred on September 11 , 2001 .
First , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loading that may have occurred below Floor 13 , where most of the fires in WTC 7 are reported to have occurred .
Second , we supplemented our own simulation by examining the collapse initiation hypothesis developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) .
Third , we simulated a number of scenarios within the overall structural system in order to determine what types of local failures and their locations may have caused the total collapse to occur as observed .
After conducting comprehensive modeling and studying countless scenarios @ @ @ @ @ @ @ J. Leroy Hulsey , Ph.D. , P.E.
, S.E.
, UAF , Zhili Quan , Ph.D. , Bridge Engineer South Carolina Department of Transportation , and Feng Xiao , Ph.D. , Associate Professor Nanjing University of Science and Technology Department of Civil Engineering , concluded the following : The results of this study can not be dismissed .
It completely destroys the narrative that has been shoved down the throats of Americans for nearly two decades .
What ’ s more , this study backs up thousands of other researchers , scientists , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out for years .
As TFTP reported last July , history was made in regard to 9/11 as New York area fire commissioners called for a new investigation into the tragic events that unfolded that day .
The resolution called for a new investigation due to the “ overwhelming evidence ” that “ pre-planted explosives .
.
.
caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings.
” On July 24 , 2019 , the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District , which oversees a volunteer fire department serving a hamlet of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York , became the first legislative body in the country to officially support a new investigation into the events of 9/11 , according to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth .
The resolution calling for a new investigation was drafted by Commissioner Christopher Gioia and it was immediately and unanimously approved by the five commissioners .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world .
Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project .
Follow @ MattAgorist on Twitter , Steemit , and now on Minds .

NEVER FORGET: In 2020, A 4 Year Study Found That ‘Fire Did Not Cause Building 7’s Collapse On 9/11’
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
As the media frenzy around 9/11 reminds us today to “never forget” there is some crucial information that the establishment absolutely wants all Americans to forget — the overwhelming abundance of evidence that pokes serious holes in the official narrative of what happened that fateful day.
On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 p.m., World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly collapsed into its own footprint, falling at free fall speed for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second complete destruction. WTC 7 was not hit by a plane. After it collapsed, Americans were told that office fires caused a unique — never before seen — complete architectural failure leading to the building collapsing into its own footprint at the rate of gravity.
Despite calls for the evidence to be preserved, New York City officials had the building’s debris removed and destroyed in the ensuing weeks and months, preventing a proper forensic investigation from ever taking place. Seven years later, federal investigators concluded that WTC 7 was the first steel-framed high-rise ever to have collapsed solely as a result of normal office fires.
Naturally, skeptics have been questioning the official story for some time and after moving from the realm of conspiracy theory into the realm of science, this extensive university study has found that the official story of fire causing the collapse is simply not true.
As TFTP reported in April, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth announced the completed partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in their final report of an in depth four-year study on what they say actually brought down WTC 7. According to the press release, contrary to the conclusions of NIST, the UAF research team finds that the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11 was not caused by fires but instead was caused by the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.
“Our study found that the fires in WTC 7 could not have caused the observed collapse,” said Professor Leroy Hulsey, the study’s principal investigator. “The only way it could have fallen in the observed manner is by the near-simultaneous failure of every column.”
The extensive four-year study was was funded by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth), a nonprofit organization representing more than 3,000 architects and engineers who have signed the organization’s petition calling for new investigation into the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on 9/11.
“We are proud to have supported the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Professor Leroy Hulsey in conducting a genuinely scientific study into the reasons for this building’s collapse,” said Richard Gage, president and founder of AE911Truth. “It is now incumbent upon the building community, the media, and government officials to reckon with the implications of these findings and launch a new full-scale investigation.”
According to the study’s authors:
The UAF research team utilized three approaches for examining the structural response of WTC 7 to the conditions that may have occurred on September 11, 2001. First, we simulated the local structural response to fire loading that may have occurred below Floor 13, where most of the fires in WTC 7 are reported to have occurred. Second, we supplemented our own simulation by examining the collapse initiation hypothesis developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Third, we simulated a number of scenarios within the overall structural system in order to determine what types of local failures and their locations may have caused the total collapse to occur as observed.
After conducting comprehensive modeling and studying countless scenarios, the study’s authors, J. Leroy Hulsey, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., UAF, Zhili Quan, Ph.D., Bridge Engineer South Carolina Department of Transportation, and Feng Xiao, Ph.D., Associate Professor Nanjing University of Science and Technology Department of Civil Engineering, concluded the following:
Fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.
The results of this study cannot be dismissed. It completely destroys the narrative that has been shoved down the throats of Americans for nearly two decades. What’s more, this study backs up thousands of other researchers, scientists, and engineers who have been pointing this out for years.
As TFTP reported last July, history was made in regard to 9/11 as New York area fire commissioners called for a new investigation into the tragic events that unfolded that day. The resolution called for a new investigation due to the “overwhelming evidence” that “pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings.”
On July 24, 2019, the Franklin Square and Munson Fire District, which oversees a volunteer fire department serving a hamlet of 30,000 residents just outside of Queens, New York, became the first legislative body in the country to officially support a new investigation into the events of 9/11, according to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
The resolution calling for a new investigation was drafted by Commissioner Christopher Gioia and it was immediately and unanimously approved by the five commissioners.
“We’re a tight-knit community and we never forget our fallen brothers and sisters. You better believe that when the entire fire service of New York State is on board, we will be an unstoppable force,” said Commissioner Christopher Gioia, adding, “We were the first fire district to pass this resolution. We won’t be the last.”
About the Author
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.


thewakingtimes--2020-09-15--Questions Of Our Time – Can We Finally Heal Our Collective Trauma?

Questions Of Our Time – Can We Finally Heal Our Collective Trauma ?
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Why are so many things going on in the world right now that are detrimental to our own well-being ?
It appears self-evident that there is something fundamentally wrong with how the world is – in so many ways and upon so many levels .
We are a species with noble character , with a great spirit , and with a sacred soul .
In our hearts most people wish only for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equity , compassion and communion .
And yet what we see going on in the world is nothing less than complete madness .
We have to say it exactly as it is – we are experiencing a collective trauma on a global scale .
In my recent work I proposed the possibility that some kind of mental and/or unconscious infection or contagion has produced a form of irrationality – or ‘ madness ’ – that has now become so normalized within us that we hardly recognize its presence .
[ i ] Further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ itself into various forms of social conditioning ( or perhaps even produces this conditioning ) in order to veil its existence .
This normalized madness then usurps genuine thinking patterns , with the result that when everyone shares the collective psychosis then the madness of the world appears to be a ‘ normal feature ’ of human civilization .
And those people who are ‘ awake ’ to the irrationality and madness are considered the ‘ crazy ones.
’ Here is an illuminating tale : There was once a wise and powerful king @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a far kingdom .
And the king was feared for both his might and his love of wisdom .
At the heart of the city was a well whose water was cool and crystalline , and all the inhabitants drank from this well , even the king and his courtiers , because there was no other well in the city .
One night , while everyone was asleep , a witch entered the city and poured seven drops of a strange liquid into the well , and said : ‘ From now on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go crazy.
’ The next morning all the inhabitants drank the water from the well , except the king and his lord chamberlain , and very soon everyone went mad , as the witch had foretold .
During that day , all people went through the narrow streets and public places whispering to each other : ‘ The king is mad .
Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason .
Naturally , we can not be ruled by a mad king .
We must dethrone him !
’ That night @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of water from the well to be brought to him .
And when they brought the cup the king and his lord chamberlain drank heavily from it .
Soon after that there was great rejoicing in that distant city of a far kingdom because the king and his lord chamberlain had regained their reason .
The King and his love of wisdom ( Genuine Mind ) was corrupted by the poisonous drops of the witch ’ s liquid ( infection/contagion ) that resulted in the mass epidemic of craziness ( irrationality/madness ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , has now become the dominant narrative that influences social behavior .
This disease of irrationality is a contagion that infects individual and group minds as well as infuses the whole array of our social systems .
The collective ‘ cultural mind ’ is continually being shaped by dominant social-cultural narratives that normalize our mental and emotional behavioral patterns .
These norms are then transferred into cultural myths that serve to transmit and reinforce these mass-minded belief systems .
We end up validating our own corrupted thinking through unconscious affirmations .
Once this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aims to propagate and strengthen itself in order to legitimate its own ‘ logical ’ existence .
Like a mental cancer it ingratiates itself into our own neural pathways as an insider rather than an outsider so that we fail to notice its toxic presence .
Yet there remains a niggling sense of something being ‘ not-quite-right ’ deep within any sensible/sensitive person .
This corrupted reality then becomes internalized so that people adapt to a form of the ‘ new normality ’ and anyone who speaks up or questions this ‘ paradigm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , eccentric or , at worst , a crazy heretic .
A more recent category for such people is now to be designated as a ‘ conspiracy theorist ’ which is a quick brush to dismiss people with ideas or thinking contrary to this ‘ norm.
’ And those people who appear to accept and encourage such norms are quickly brought ‘ into the fold ’ and supported by the orthodox , mainstream systems .
The majority of those supporting and propagating the disease of irrationality are not in psychiatric care but running @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and financial institutions .
A great majority of the asymptomatic , unknowing carriers of this mental contagion can also be found in the streets , in shops , and everywhere in society .
Positions of great power , especially , represent this irrationality , and often knowingly so , as it supports and strengthens their own continuing structure of power .
An irrational mind corrupts , yet an irrational mind in a position of power corrupts totally .
The presence of the irrational mind is like a sickness of the soul , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ collective unconscious .
Just like any other virus or pathogen , it seeks to spread itself by infecting as many carriers as possible .
Those people who carry the irrational mind ( whether knowingly or not ) act as transmitters and amplifiers for it , strengthening its frequency within the collective consciousness .
A collective ‘ possession ’ can also be referred to as a psychic epidemic , or a disturbance in the field .
Such disturbances can have varying affects upon people ’ s mental health and well-being .
Over time , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of trauma which then is projected externally .
People who suffer from this may carry it as an ‘ undefinable ’ trauma within them , and it is common to turn to alcoholism , hedonistic pursuits , addictions , and other dependencies as a way of coping , or escaping , from a sense of ennui , apathy , or plain world-weariness .
When a person feels traumatized , they are vulnerable to further mental programming and varieties of external influence and persuasion .
It can be very subtle too .
Our modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to exploit this vulnerability to outside influence and persuasion .
The monk Thomas Merton said that modern societies suffer from a crisis of sanity : If modern institutions are infected by a corrupted and irrational system of mental thinking patterns then , as Merton suggests , this instability will be amplified and made worse .
Individual traumas are given institutional sanction and support within a culture that has based its social norms upon such irrationalities .
The irrational has broken through and implanted itself as the ‘ rational standard rule.
’ It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ susceptible to this mental corruption when it comes to us dressed up in sheep ’ s clothing .
As is always the case , those people most vulnerable are usually those who are conditioned to authority and/or passivity .
This trait , unfortunately , is one that is first implanted through compulsory schooling .
Likewise , people who are easily influenced by external opinions , and who are prone to group-thinking , are among the first to give away their mental independence to external sources .
The irrational mind preys upon such ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mind ’ of humanity helps in the transmission and proliferation of the psychic trauma .
As the famous psychiatrist R.D .
Laing once said – ‘ The condition of alienation , of being asleep , of being unconscious , of being out of one ’ s mind , is the condition of the normal man…normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
’ [ iii ] Conscious awareness is perhaps our greatest antidote to the irrational mind .
If we are to gain a broader @ @ @ @ @ @ @ view major events , human actions , propaganda , social disturbances , power struggles , and the rest , from the standpoint of the collective trauma of the irrational mind .
Modern human thinking patterns have been conditioned around such traits as greed , competition , ambition , materialism , and selfishness .
These are all traits that mark a lack of authenticity .
The irrational mind seeks to develop greater degrees of inauthenticity and lack of empathy within the individual .
The world stage is littered with such personalities .
The peril @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may also help to spread it .
That is , people who start out resisting this corrupted mindset often find themselves adopting it ’ s values in order to survive .
It is the ‘ if you can ’ t beat them , join them ’ type of thinking .
It seems that humanity is collectively struggling to awaken against its very own condition of traumatic sleep .
It has often been said – by mystics , sages , and wisdom traditions – that humanity is collectively asleep .
The ignorance we have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of real knowledge of it , indicates we are asleep .
The more we breed this irrational mind within our societies and cultures , the more people will behave and live like automatons .
We will live within a tighter range of conditioned stimuli that programs specific opinions and thinking patterns that validate the control of the irrational over us .
A person who is more conditioned to obedience is more susceptible to submission and external control .
This indeed could be the reason for our systems of authority establishing rigid orders of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we travel , pass through airports , are track and traced , etc .
It can be likened to a preparation for automated behavior as a requisite for an automated mind .
The thinker George Gurdjieff wrote : By adopting the mentality of the irrational mind , we are participating in our own suppression and furthering the behavior of an automaton .
We need to recognize that many of our incumbent social systems are set-up to corroborate and reinforce the consensus mind-set .
Our genuine awakening to this trauma can not come from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from those persons who can think and act independently .
The first step we can take is to accept the possibility that the irrational mind contagion exists .
The Gnostic text The Gospel of Philip says : ‘ So long as the root of wickedness is hidden , it is strong .
But when it is recognized , it is dissolved .
When it is revealed , it perishes… ’ The danger lies in our distraction – in our unknowingness .
It is now necessary to see the irrational mind for what it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is key .
If we can not bring harmony and good sense to the world around us , then we should at least bring it upon ourselves .
It is time now to awaken from this cursed slumber and to finally heal our individual and collective trauma .
Kingsley L. Dennis is the author of Bardo Times : hyperreality , high-velocity , simulation , automation , mutation – a hoax ?
, The Phoenix Generation : A New Era of Connection , Compassion , and Consciousness , and The Sacred Revival : Magic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Age , available at Amazon .
Visit him on the web at http : //www.kingsleydennis.com/ .
[ i ] See Healing the Wounded Mind : The Psychosis of the Modern World and the Search for the Self .
[ ii ] Cited in Levy , Paul .
2013 .
Dispelling Wetiko : Breaking the Curse of Evil .
Berkeley , CA : North Atlantic Books , p47 [ iii ] Cited in Levy , Paul .
2013 .
Dispelling Wetiko : Breaking the Curse of Evil .
Berkeley , CA : North Atlantic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , PD .
1950 .
In Search of the Miraculous : Fragments of an Unknown Teaching .
London : Routledge & Kegan Paul , p316 Like Waking Times on Facebook .
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Questions Of Our Time – Can We Finally Heal Our Collective Trauma?
Kingsley L. Dennis, Contributor
Waking Times
‘A painted bird of paradise in a cage’ ~Aurobindo
Why are so many things going on in the world right now that are detrimental to our own well-being? It appears self-evident that there is something fundamentally wrong with how the world is – in so many ways and upon so many levels. We are a species with noble character, with a great spirit, and with a sacred soul. In our hearts most people wish only for the betterment of all others – for equity, compassion and communion. And yet what we see going on in the world is nothing less than complete madness. We have to say it exactly as it is – we are experiencing a collective trauma on a global scale.
In my recent work I proposed the possibility that some kind of mental and/or unconscious infection or contagion has produced a form of irrationality – or ‘madness’ – that has now become so normalized within us that we hardly recognize its presence.[i] Further, this ‘presence’ has embedded itself into various forms of social conditioning (or perhaps even produces this conditioning) in order to veil its existence. This normalized madness then usurps genuine thinking patterns, with the result that when everyone shares the collective psychosis then the madness of the world appears to be a ‘normal feature’ of human civilization. And those people who are ‘awake’ to the irrationality and madness are considered the ‘crazy ones.’ Here is an illuminating tale:
There was once a wise and powerful king who ruled in a remote city of a far kingdom. And the king was feared for both his might and his love of wisdom. At the heart of the city was a well whose water was cool and crystalline, and all the inhabitants drank from this well, even the king and his courtiers, because there was no other well in the city. One night, while everyone was asleep, a witch entered the city and poured seven drops of a strange liquid into the well, and said: ‘From now on, anyone who drinks this water will go crazy.’ The next morning all the inhabitants drank the water from the well, except the king and his lord chamberlain, and very soon everyone went mad, as the witch had foretold. During that day, all people went through the narrow streets and public places whispering to each other:
‘The king is mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason. Naturally, we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him!’ That night, the king ordered a golden cup of water from the well to be brought to him. And when they brought the cup the king and his lord chamberlain drank heavily from it. Soon after that there was great rejoicing in that distant city of a far kingdom because the king and his lord chamberlain had regained their reason.
The King and his love of wisdom (Genuine Mind) was corrupted by the poisonous drops of the witch’s liquid (infection/contagion) that resulted in the mass epidemic of craziness (irrationality/madness). This corrupted mind, we can say, has now become the dominant narrative that influences social behavior. This disease of irrationality is a contagion that infects individual and group minds as well as infuses the whole array of our social systems.
The collective ‘cultural mind’ is continually being shaped by dominant social-cultural narratives that normalize our mental and emotional behavioral patterns. These norms are then transferred into cultural myths that serve to transmit and reinforce these mass-minded belief systems. We end up validating our own corrupted thinking through unconscious affirmations. Once this seed of psychosis is planted then it aims to propagate and strengthen itself in order to legitimate its own ‘logical’ existence. Like a mental cancer it ingratiates itself into our own neural pathways as an insider rather than an outsider so that we fail to notice its toxic presence. Yet there remains a niggling sense of something being ‘not-quite-right’ deep within any sensible/sensitive person.
This corrupted reality then becomes internalized so that people adapt to a form of the ‘new normality’ and anyone who speaks up or questions this ‘paradigm of normality’ is considered either odd, eccentric or, at worst, a crazy heretic. A more recent category for such people is now to be designated as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ which is a quick brush to dismiss people with ideas or thinking contrary to this ‘norm.’ And those people who appear to accept and encourage such norms are quickly brought ‘into the fold’ and supported by the orthodox, mainstream systems. The majority of those supporting and propagating the disease of irrationality are not in psychiatric care but running most of our social, political, and financial institutions. A great majority of the asymptomatic, unknowing carriers of this mental contagion can also be found in the streets, in shops, and everywhere in society. Positions of great power, especially, represent this irrationality, and often knowingly so, as it supports and strengthens their own continuing structure of power. An irrational mind corrupts, yet an irrational mind in a position of power corrupts totally.
The Irrational Mind
The presence of the irrational mind is like a sickness of the soul, and it manifests as a disturbance in the collective unconscious. Just like any other virus or pathogen, it seeks to spread itself by infecting as many carriers as possible. Those people who carry the irrational mind (whether knowingly or not) act as transmitters and amplifiers for it, strengthening its frequency within the collective consciousness. A collective ‘possession’ can also be referred to as a psychic epidemic, or a disturbance in the field. Such disturbances can have varying affects upon people’s mental health and well-being. Over time, this off-kilter mentality stabilizes into a form of trauma which then is projected externally.
People who suffer from this may carry it as an ‘undefinable’ trauma within them, and it is common to turn to alcoholism, hedonistic pursuits, addictions, and other dependencies as a way of coping, or escaping, from a sense of ennui, apathy, or plain world-weariness. When a person feels traumatized, they are vulnerable to further mental programming and varieties of external influence and persuasion. It can be very subtle too. Our modern societies have been stealthily constructed on ways to exploit this vulnerability to outside influence and persuasion. The monk Thomas Merton said that modern societies suffer from a crisis of sanity:
‘The problems of the nations are the problems of mentally deranged people, but magnified a thousand times because they have the full-straight-faced approbation of a schizoid society, schizoid national structures, schizoid military and business complexes.’[ii]
If modern institutions are infected by a corrupted and irrational system of mental thinking patterns then, as Merton suggests, this instability will be amplified and made worse. Individual traumas are given institutional sanction and support within a culture that has based its social norms upon such irrationalities. The irrational has broken through and implanted itself as the ‘rational standard rule.’ It is perhaps little wonder that people are so susceptible to this mental corruption when it comes to us dressed up in sheep’s clothing. As is always the case, those people most vulnerable are usually those who are conditioned to authority and/or passivity. This trait, unfortunately, is one that is first implanted through compulsory schooling.
Likewise, people who are easily influenced by external opinions, and who are prone to group-thinking, are among the first to give away their mental independence to external sources. The irrational mind preys upon such ‘group-think’ individuals as the ‘mass mind’ of humanity helps in the transmission and proliferation of the psychic trauma. As the famous psychiatrist R.D. Laing once said – ‘The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man…normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.’[iii] Conscious awareness is perhaps our greatest antidote to the irrational mind.
If we are to gain a broader perspective here then it is important to view major events, human actions, propaganda, social disturbances, power struggles, and the rest, from the standpoint of the collective trauma of the irrational mind. Modern human thinking patterns have been conditioned around such traits as greed, competition, ambition, materialism, and selfishness. These are all traits that mark a lack of authenticity. The irrational mind seeks to develop greater degrees of inauthenticity and lack of empathy within the individual. The world stage is littered with such personalities.
The peril of the irrational mind is that resistance may also help to spread it. That is, people who start out resisting this corrupted mindset often find themselves adopting it’s values in order to survive. It is the ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ type of thinking. It seems that humanity is collectively struggling to awaken against its very own condition of traumatic sleep.
Under the Irrational Spell
It has often been said – by mystics, sages, and wisdom traditions – that humanity is collectively asleep. The ignorance we have about this condition, and the absence of real knowledge of it, indicates we are asleep. The more we breed this irrational mind within our societies and cultures, the more people will behave and live like automatons. We will live within a tighter range of conditioned stimuli that programs specific opinions and thinking patterns that validate the control of the irrational over us. A person who is more conditioned to obedience is more susceptible to submission and external control. This indeed could be the reason for our systems of authority establishing rigid orders of control and obedience, such as when we travel, pass through airports, are track and traced, etc. It can be likened to a preparation for automated behavior as a requisite for an automated mind. The thinker George Gurdjieff wrote:
‘Contemporary culture requires automatons. And people are undoubtedly losing their acquired habits of independence and turning into automatons, into parts of machines…. Man is becoming a willing slave. He no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery, to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can happen to a man.’[iv]
By adopting the mentality of the irrational mind, we are participating in our own suppression and furthering the behavior of an automaton. We need to recognize that many of our incumbent social systems are set-up to corroborate and reinforce the consensus mind-set. Our genuine awakening to this trauma cannot come from any ‘mass movement’ but only from those persons who can think and act independently.
The first step we can take is to accept the possibility that the irrational mind contagion exists. The Gnostic text The Gospel of Philip says: ‘So long as the root of wickedness is hidden, it is strong. But when it is recognized, it is dissolved. When it is revealed, it perishes…’ The danger lies in our distraction – in our unknowingness. It is now necessary to see the irrational mind for what it is – recognition and acknowledgement of it is key. If we cannot bring harmony and good sense to the world around us, then we should at least bring it upon ourselves. It is time now to awaken from this cursed slumber and to finally heal our individual and collective trauma.
About the Author
Kingsley L. Dennis is the author of Bardo Times: hyperreality, high-velocity, simulation, automation, mutation – a hoax?, The Phoenix Generation: A New Era of Connection, Compassion, and Consciousness, and The Sacred Revival: Magic, Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age, available at Amazon. Visit him on the web at http://www.kingsleydennis.com/.
Endnotes
[i] See Healing the Wounded Mind: The Psychosis of the Modern World and the Search for the Self.
[ii] Cited in Levy, Paul. 2013. Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, p47
[iii] Cited in Levy, Paul. 2013. Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, xvii
[iv] Ouspensky, PD. 1950. In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, p316


thewakingtimes--2020-09-15--Will We Choose Freedom or Fascism?

Will We Choose Freedom or Fascism?

Will We Choose Freedom or Fascism ?
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Here we are .
No more speculation about ‘ what awaits around the corner ’ ; the jail keepers are escorting us down the concrete corridor and the cell keys are hanging from his belt .
Each one of us , in turn , convicted – without notice and without trial – of being Human and electing to express ourselves accordingly .
That is the new definition of ‘ terrorist ’ .
The battle lines are drawn ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state it , we are in the fight of – and for – our lives .
We go forward , with the courage and conviction which comes with refusing to be derailed from the path of truth .
Or , capitulate to the central control system and fall into a very dark pit from which there is no charted escape .
We shall know each other by the calibre of our actions .
We do not have to wear a badge announcing ‘ the resistance ’ .
The army that we are becoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , no ‘ uniformity ’ visible .
We know our task and do not need to wait for a command .
We are aware of the composition of the war being waged upon us .
And we are aware of being susceptible to certain elements of its dark agenda .
So we know we have to rid ourselves of those vulnerabilities in order to come out on top .
That is the first lesson in the art of this form of warfare .
A warrior without self discipline and self awareness , is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invisible enemy is a new game .
Yet a key component of our repressor ’ s armoury draws upon weaponised digital , algorithmic and irradiating technologies .
One deals with these by withdrawing one ’ s allegiance to the tools and practices of a mind controlling ‘ convenience ‘ culture .
The tyranny which is now directly manifesting has taken hold as a result of the inability , or unwillingness , of those in positions of responsibility to break the top-down anti-life chain of command and stand firm for truth and justice .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ being exerted to silence those who should not be silent .
This is leading to the complete capitulation – amongst all categories of ‘ officers of the state ’ – to maintain integrity , responsibility and the imperative to uphold fundamentally civilised moral standards .
Yet there are many awakening to the realisation of their imprisonment .
For some , this provokes a desire to seek shelter from the storm and , if possible , to turn a blind eye to recognising the degree to which their imprisonment stretches out into all corners @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , sensing the profound implications of what lies in store should they not take action , turn to face the music and become warriors in the cause of justice , truth and liberty .
Now the beauty of turning to face the music , is that an unseen cosmic element immediately provides support in the mission one has chosen to undertake .
Whereas for those who try to hide , no such propitious event occurs .
Choosing freedom makes one powerful .
But carries with it a keen sense of responsibility to ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not really possible to ditch all one ’ s bad habits in one go , as those starting out on the conscious path find out .
But it is possible , and absolutely necessary , to act on one ’ s key digressions without delay .
Making the decision to oppose the ways of the deep state and its corporate globalisation spider ’ s web can not involve resisting it with one hand and supporting it with the other .
That is the road to somewhere worse than nowhere and the antithesis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In order to ensure continuity between one ’ s words and one ’ s actions , one needs to take a quick scan of those daily routines that are not in line with one ’ s determination to stand for justice , truth and liberty .
The most obvious priorities , given the nature of our oppressors , is to withdraw one ’ s support ( money ) from the major banks ; one ’ s food purchasing from the major supermarkets and one ’ s medicines from the major pharmaceutical companies .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ starting by withdrawing one ’ s support for these great behemoths of rampant social , ecological and economic degradation , can one really say that one is standing against fascism and for freedom ?
The dictatorship descending upon us – using the alibi of the current Covid chimera – provides the starkest opportunity most will ever have to turn to face the music .
It is exactly the right catalyst to make one see , or at least seek , the truth – and then act on it .
The intentional chaos now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The preplanned ‘ order out of chaos ‘ is the imposition of a fascist state ; it ’ s that simple .
And we have plenty of time to recognise the symptoms .
Every artery of society , in whatever part of the ( post ) industrialised ‘ democratic ’ world one might live in , has been steadily poisoned by the social engineering , predictive planning and creeping technocratic agenda emanating from the deep state ’ s global ambition to rule the world .
An ambition held earlier by the backers of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spain Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia – to name a few .
Our political institutions have capitulated to the blueprint of the Fourth Reich and most of the population have gone along with them , not realising what agenda is being played-out .
The leading edge of the ‘ new ’ fascism is not an army of occupation , but a digital re-programming of the human mind .
A technological toxic blanket of ‘ virtual ’ control separating man from nature , thus destroying the foundations of human evolution .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doing so to create an army able to resist and turn around this cult of death .
That ’ s why our own integrity in ‘ practising as we preach ’ is so vital .
We must use our powers of discrimination to see through our own vacillations , and to dump the supposed ‘ conveniences ’ that undermine and delay our active commitment to respond to the key imperatives of our time .
Then , slowly but surely , the compromises that detour us from our goal – only to refresh the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fighting – will be deleted and done away with .
The integrated beings who emerge via successfully battling with their own vicissitudes , will be the only ones capable of taking-on the seemingly immovable oppressors of this planet , its peoples and all the living entities that comprise its vast diversity .
The emancipation of all these rests upon the courage and voracity we invest into harnessing our inner and outer drives for integrity and truth .
That is what it actually means to choose freedom over fascism .
Julian Rose is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ writer , international activist , entrepreneur and teacher .
His latest book ‘ Overcoming the Robotic Mind – Why Humanity Must Come Through ’ is particularly prescient reading for this time : see www.julianrose.info

Will We Choose Freedom or Fascism?
Julian Rose, Contributor
Waking Times
Here we are. No more speculation about ‘what awaits around the corner’; the jail keepers are escorting us down the concrete corridor and the cell keys are hanging from his belt. Each one of us, in turn, convicted – without notice and without trial – of being Human and electing to express ourselves accordingly. That is the new definition of ‘terrorist’.
The battle lines are drawn; there is no other way to honestly state it, we are in the fight of – and for – our lives. We go forward, with the courage and conviction which comes with refusing to be derailed from the path of truth. Or, capitulate to the central control system and fall into a very dark pit from which there is no charted escape.
We shall know each other by the calibre of our actions. We do not have to wear a badge announcing ‘the resistance’. The army that we are becoming is forming organically. No uniform required, no ‘uniformity’ visible. We know our task and do not need to wait for a command.
We are aware of the composition of the war being waged upon us. And we are aware of being susceptible to certain elements of its dark agenda. So we know we have to rid ourselves of those vulnerabilities in order to come out on top. That is the first lesson in the art of this form of warfare. A warrior without self discipline and self awareness, is a lost cause.
Confronting an often invisible enemy is a new game. Yet a key component of our repressor’s armoury draws upon weaponised digital, algorithmic and irradiating technologies. One deals with these by withdrawing one’s allegiance to the tools and practices of a mind controlling ‘convenience‘ culture.
The tyranny which is now directly manifesting has taken hold as a result of the inability, or unwillingness, of those in positions of responsibility to break the top-down anti-life chain of command and stand firm for truth and justice. Fear and bribery are the main tools being exerted to silence those who should not be silent.
This is leading to the complete capitulation – amongst all categories of ‘officers of the state’ – to maintain integrity, responsibility and the imperative to uphold fundamentally civilised moral standards.
Yet there are many awakening to the realisation of their imprisonment. For some, this provokes a desire to seek shelter from the storm and, if possible, to turn a blind eye to recognising the degree to which their imprisonment stretches out into all corners of their daily lives. But others, sensing the profound implications of what lies in store should they not take action, turn to face the music and become warriors in the cause of justice, truth and liberty.
Now the beauty of turning to face the music, is that an unseen cosmic element immediately provides support in the mission one has chosen to undertake. Whereas for those who try to hide, no such propitious event occurs.
Choosing freedom makes one powerful. But carries with it a keen sense of responsibility to ‘practice as one preaches’. It is not really possible to ditch all one’s bad habits in one go, as those starting out on the conscious path find out. But it is possible, and absolutely necessary, to act on one’s key digressions without delay.
Making the decision to oppose the ways of the deep state and its corporate globalisation spider’s web cannot involve resisting it with one hand and supporting it with the other. That is the road to somewhere worse than nowhere and the antithesis of the warrior’s path.
In order to ensure continuity between one’s words and one’s actions, one needs to take a quick scan of those daily routines that are not in line with one’s determination to stand for justice, truth and liberty.
The most obvious priorities, given the nature of our oppressors, is to withdraw one’s support (money) from the major banks; one’s food purchasing from the major supermarkets and one’s medicines from the major pharmaceutical companies. Other steps will follow, but without starting by withdrawing one’s support for these great behemoths of rampant social, ecological and economic degradation, can one really say that one is standing against fascism and for freedom?
The dictatorship descending upon us – using the alibi of the current Covid chimera – provides the starkest opportunity most will ever have to turn to face the music. It is exactly the right catalyst to make one see, or at least seek, the truth – and then act on it.
The intentional chaos now manifesting, is our wake-up call. The preplanned ‘order out of chaos‘ is the imposition of a fascist state; it’s that simple. And we have plenty of time to recognise the symptoms.
Every artery of society, in whatever part of the (post) industrialised ‘democratic’ world one might live in, has been steadily poisoned by the social engineering, predictive planning and creeping technocratic agenda emanating from the deep state’s global ambition to rule the world. An ambition held earlier by the backers of Hitler in Nazi Germany, Franco in Spain Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia – to name a few.
Our political institutions have capitulated to the blueprint of the Fourth Reich and most of the population have gone along with them, not realising what agenda is being played-out.
The leading edge of the ‘new’ fascism is not an army of occupation, but a digital re-programming of the human mind. A technological toxic blanket of ‘virtual’ control separating man from nature, thus destroying the foundations of human evolution.
We who are now joining together, are doing so to create an army able to resist and turn around this cult of death. That’s why our own integrity in ‘practising as we preach’ is so vital. We must use our powers of discrimination to see through our own vacillations, and to dump the supposed ‘conveniences’ that undermine and delay our active commitment to respond to the key imperatives of our time.
Then, slowly but surely, the compromises that detour us from our goal – only to refresh the pockets of those we claim to be fighting – will be deleted and done away with. The integrated beings who emerge via successfully battling with their own vicissitudes, will be the only ones capable of taking-on the seemingly immovable oppressors of this planet, its peoples and all the living entities that comprise its vast diversity.
The emancipation of all these rests upon the courage and voracity we invest into harnessing our inner and outer drives for integrity and truth. That is what it actually means to choose freedom over fascism.
About the Author
Julian Rose is an early pioneer of UK organic farming, writer, international activist, entrepreneur and teacher. His latest book ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind – Why Humanity Must Come Through’ is particularly prescient reading for this time: see www.julianrose.info


thewakingtimes--2020-09-15--OCTOPUS PROMIS: The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We’re Living In Orwell’s 1984

OCTOPUS PROMIS : The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We ’ re Living In Orwell ’ s 1984 Get the latest Waking Times articles delivered to your inbox .
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I don ’ t know if you have been paying attention or not , but a lot of police organizations across the U.S. have been using what are known as “ heat lists ” or pre-crime databases for years .
What is a “ heat list , ” you may ask ?
Well , “ heat lists ” are basically databases compiled by algorithms of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yes , you read that right a person who “ may ” commit a crime .
How these lists are generated and what factors determine an individual “ may commit a crime ” is unknown .
A recent article by Tampa Bay Times highlights how this program in Florida terrorized and monitored residents of Pasco County and how the Pasco County Sheriff Department ’ s program operates .
According to the Times , the Sheriff ’ s office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law , based on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arbitrary decisions by police analysts .
Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears , often without probable cause , a search warrant , or evidence of a specific crime .
This program according to the Times has been operating since at least 2011 .
The program introduces a social credit system .
It gives people scores based on their criminal records .
People get points each time they ’ re arrested , even when the charges are dropped , and they even get points for just being a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then make frequent – potentially even daily – visits to those with higher scores in the heavily flawed pre-criminal system .
Activists and journalists sued the Chicago Police Department in 2017 for failing to disclose how these programs operate , as Activist Post reported .
Chicago wasn ’ t the only major police department exposed using predictive crime algorithms .
The Los Angeles Police Department was also caught one year later in 2018 by activists from the Stop LA Spying Coalition , as Activist Post reported .
This heat list idea in local @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was rolled out in Chicago .
However , Activist Post may have missed other cities that gained less media attention ; and as this writer will discuss shortly , the idea comes from a federal database .
A paper released last year by MIT entitled “ Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns ” has been signed by some of the highest level university experts in the field of A.I .
and law who warn about the “ technical flaws ” of these pre-crime based systems , Activist Post reported .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ noted , the pushback has already started in several cities , and a few police departments have dropped their programs after becoming aware of the inaccuracies .
In 2018 , for example , New Orleans suspended its 6-year running pre-crime program after its secret predictive policing software was exposed .
The scariest part of all this is that the New Orleans and LA police departments were actually both linked to Palantir Technologies , which directly works with the CIA and is suspected of being the current fork of PROMIS Main Core software .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ heat lists , with algorithms that put suspected “ domestic terrorists ” into their own round-up lists , created at first by Oliver North for President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W .
Bush under FEMA ’ s Readiness Exercise — 1984 ( REX-1984 . )
The use of Palantir ’ s pre-crime algorithm software posits that other police departments may be utilizing the same software for their own pre-crime programs .
Palantir is also the same company working with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on its own lists to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and investigative journalist Barrett Brown originally reported .
You may remember Palantir from journalist Barrett Brown , Anonymous ’ hack of HBGary , or accusations that the company provided the technology that enables NSA ’ s mass surveillance PRISM which is the successor to PROMIS .
Palantir ’ s software in many ways is similar to the Prosecutor ’ s Management Information System ( PROMIS ) stolen software Main Core and may be the next evolution in that code , which allegedly predated PRISM .
In 2008 , Salon.com published details about a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the heart of the Bush administration ’ s domestic spying operations .
The database known as “ Main Core ” reportedly collected and stored vast amounts of personal and financial data about millions of Americans in the event of an emergency like Martial Law .
PROMIS was forked into many reported use-cases for the U.S. government , including an intelligence application on board nuclear submarines of the United States and Great Britain , and the use by both the U.S. government and certain allied governments for inventory tracking of nuclear materials and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bizarre and frightening use was to keep track of dissident Americans under Main Core .
Trump ’ s administration has now expanded that effort for local police and federal officials with a national security watchlist that includes Americans who have no connection to terrorism .
The new TOC ( Transnational Organized Crime ) watchlist , was authorized through a classified Attorney General order and launched in 2017 , as Activist Post reported .
The TOC database allows the government to track and monitor Americans without a warrant , even when there is no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Also , anyone who is considered to be an “ authority ” – be it police to state and federal agencies , and even some allied foreign governments – can nominate any single person to the list .
The Main Core database isn ’ t just a rumor or conspiracy theory ; PROMIS software was used by Iran-Contra fall guy then-National Security Council , Lt. Col. Oliver North to create the dissidents list for Rex-84 that would later evolve to Main Core .
North used PROMIS software in 1982 in the Department @ @ @ @ @ @ @ House , to compile a list of American dissidents to invoke if the government ever needed to do so under Ronald Reagan ’ s Continuity of Government ( COG ) program as a liaison to FEMA .
In 1993 , Wired described North ’ s use of PROMIS in compiling the Main Core database : This Main Core database of individuals was given to a handful of individuals , meaning most government officials had no knowledge of the program ever existing .
The database was passed off from administration to administration through National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This writer wrote extensively on Main Core and PROMIS in an investigation on the cover-up of stolen Inslaw software and murders of journalists Danny Casolaro and Anson NG Yonc , CIA intelligence operative Ian Spiro and NSA employee Alan Standorf .
See : “ Octopus PROMIS : The Conspiracy Against INSLAW Software , And The Murders To Cover Up A Scandal Bigger Than Watergate.
” The TOC list includes — “ Insider threats , ” which is relevant to leakers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden , and journalists leaking these secrets like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ February , FBI Director Wray told the House Judiciary Committee that the Bureau had expanded initiatives “ to focus on insider threats partnering with TCO [ transnational criminal organization ] actors.
” This is a statement that is being re-echoed from 2017 , when Wray stated a similar comment mentioning TCOs during a House meeting .
While presidents change , the leadership under them inside agencies only sees a shift by the replacing of the heads of the agencies .
However , policies and stigmas inside stick with those in the intelligence community @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government , U.S. National Counterintelligence , and Security Center ( NCSC ) stressed in its latest report that hacktivists “ Anonymous ” and “ public disclosure organizations ” like WikiLeaks pose a “ significant threat ” similar to that of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists , as well as Russia , Iran , and China .
Obama ’ s DHS didn ’ t hesitate to call those who believe in conspiracy theories potential right-wing terrorists , stating that the following points might make someone a terrorist in a study by the University @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part by the Department of Homeland Security .
• Americans who “ are fiercely nationalistic , as opposed to universal and international in orientation ” • Americans who are “ suspicious of centralized federal authority ” • Americans who are “ reverent of individual liberty ( especially their right to own guns and be free of taxes ) ” • Americans exhibiting a belief in “ conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty and a belief that one ’ s personal and/or national way of life is under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investment from the CIA and heavily used by the military , and Palantir is a subcontracting company in its own right .
The company has even been featured in the Senate ’ s grilling of Facebook , when Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg , “ Do you know who Palantir is ?
” due to Peter Thiel sitting on Facebook ’ s board .
Palantir ’ s Gotham software allows Fusion Center police to track citizens beyond social media and online web accounts with people record searches , vehicle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Map tool , and an Object Explorer tool .
According to DHS , “ Fusion centers operate as state and major urban area focal points for the receipt , analysis , gathering , and sharing of threat-related information between federal ; state , local , tribal , territorial ( SLTT ) ; and private sector partners ” like Palantir .
Further , Fusion Centers are locally owned and operated , arms of the “ intelligence community , ” i.e .
the 17 intelligence agencies coordinated by the National Counterterrorism Center ( NCTC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are staffed by trained NSA personnel like what happened in Mexico City , according to a 2010 Defense Department ( DOD ) memorandum .
This is only the beginning of the fight , and it ’ s going to be a long battle drawn out to prevent the use of this technology , not just here in the U.S. but worldwide as well .
There ’ s no telling how long these projects have been active , and trusting police to honestly tell us is like trusting the wolf guarding the henhouse .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminals , see Uri Gal ’ s hilarious and honestly titled article : “ Predictive Algorithms Are No Better At Telling The Future Than A Crystal Ball.
” Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post where this article ( OCTOPUS PROMIS : The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We ’ re Living In Orwell ’ s 1984 ) was originally published .

OCTOPUS PROMIS: The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We’re Living In Orwell’s 1984
Aaron Kesel, Activist Post
Waking Times
I don’t know if you have been paying attention or not, but a lot of police organizations across the U.S. have been using what are known as “heat lists” or pre-crime databases for years. What is a “heat list,” you may ask?
Well, “heat lists” are basically databases compiled by algorithms of people that police suspect may commit a crime. Yes, you read that right a person who “may” commit a crime. How these lists are generated and what factors determine an individual “may commit a crime” is unknown. A recent article by Tampa Bay Times highlights how this program in Florida terrorized and monitored residents of Pasco County and how the Pasco County Sheriff Department’s program operates.
According to the Times, the Sheriff’s office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence, and arbitrary decisions by police analysts. Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant, or evidence of a specific crime.
This program according to the Times has been operating since at least 2011. The program introduces a social credit system. It gives people scores based on their criminal records. People get points each time they’re arrested, even when the charges are dropped, and they even get points for just being a suspect of a crime.
The deputies then make frequent – potentially even daily – visits to those with higher scores in the heavily flawed pre-criminal system.
Activists and journalists sued the Chicago Police Department in 2017 for failing to disclose how these programs operate, as Activist Post reported.
Chicago wasn’t the only major police department exposed using predictive crime algorithms. The Los Angeles Police Department was also caught one year later in 2018 by activists from the Stop LA Spying Coalition, as Activist Post reported.
This heat list idea in local law enforcement actually originated in Miami then was rolled out in Chicago. However, Activist Post may have missed other cities that gained less media attention; and as this writer will discuss shortly, the idea comes from a federal database.
A paper released last year by MIT entitled “Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns” has been signed by some of the highest level university experts in the field of A.I. and law who warn about the “technical flaws” of these pre-crime based systems, Activist Post reported.
Fortunately for us, as Nicholas West noted, the pushback has already started in several cities, and a few police departments have dropped their programs after becoming aware of the inaccuracies. In 2018, for example, New Orleans suspended its 6-year running pre-crime program after its secret predictive policing software was exposed.
The scariest part of all this is that the New Orleans and LA police departments were actually both linked to Palantir Technologies, which directly works with the CIA and is suspected of being the current fork of PROMIS Main Core software. PROMIS pre-dates all of these local police heat lists, with algorithms that put suspected “domestic terrorists” into their own round-up lists, created at first by Oliver North for President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush under FEMA’s Readiness Exercise — 1984 (REX-1984.)
The use of Palantir’s pre-crime algorithm software posits that other police departments may be utilizing the same software for their own pre-crime programs. Palantir is also the same company working with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on its own lists to catch illegal immigrants, as Activist Post and investigative journalist Barrett Brown originally reported.
You may remember Palantir from journalist Barrett Brown, Anonymous’ hack of HBGary, or accusations that the company provided the technology that enables NSA’s mass surveillance PRISM which is the successor to PROMIS. Palantir’s software in many ways is similar to the Prosecutor’s Management Information System (PROMIS) stolen software Main Core and may be the next evolution in that code, which allegedly predated PRISM. In 2008, Salon.com published details about a top-secret government database that might have been at the heart of the Bush administration’s domestic spying operations. The database known as “Main Core” reportedly collected and stored vast amounts of personal and financial data about millions of Americans in the event of an emergency like Martial Law.
PROMIS was forked into many reported use-cases for the U.S. government, including an intelligence application on board nuclear submarines of the United States and Great Britain, and the use by both the U.S. government and certain allied governments for inventory tracking of nuclear materials and long-range ballistic missiles. But the most bizarre and frightening use was to keep track of dissident Americans under Main Core.
Trump’s administration has now expanded that effort for local police and federal officials with a national security watchlist that includes Americans who have no connection to terrorism. The new TOC (Transnational Organized Crime) watchlist, was authorized through a classified Attorney General order and launched in 2017, as Activist Post reported.
The TOC database allows the government to track and monitor Americans without a warrant, even when there is no evidence they’re breaking the law. Also, anyone who is considered to be an “authority” – be it police to state and federal agencies, and even some allied foreign governments – can nominate any single person to the list.
The Main Core database isn’t just a rumor or conspiracy theory; PROMIS software was used by Iran-Contra fall guy then-National Security Council, Lt. Col. Oliver North to create the dissidents list for Rex-84 that would later evolve to Main Core. North used PROMIS software in 1982 in the Department of Justice, and at the White House, to compile a list of American dissidents to invoke if the government ever needed to do so under Ronald Reagan’s Continuity of Government (COG) program as a liaison to FEMA.
In 1993, Wired described North’s use of PROMIS in compiling the Main Core database:
Using PROMIS, sources point out, North could have drawn up lists of anyone ever arrested for a political protest, for example, or anyone who had ever refused to pay their taxes. Compared to PROMIS, Richard Nixon’s enemies list or Sen. Joe McCarthy’s blacklist look downright crude.
This Main Core database of individuals was given to a handful of individuals, meaning most government officials had no knowledge of the program ever existing. The database was passed off from administration to administration through National Security channels, according to sources.
This writer wrote extensively on Main Core and PROMIS in an investigation on the cover-up of stolen Inslaw software and murders of journalists Danny Casolaro and Anson NG Yonc, CIA intelligence operative Ian Spiro and NSA employee Alan Standorf. See: “Octopus PROMIS: The Conspiracy Against INSLAW Software, And The Murders To Cover Up A Scandal Bigger Than Watergate.”
The TOC list includes — “Insider threats,” which is relevant to leakers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, and journalists leaking these secrets like Julian Assange. In fact, last February, FBI Director Wray told the House Judiciary Committee that the Bureau had expanded initiatives “to focus on insider threats partnering with TCO [transnational criminal organization] actors.” This is a statement that is being re-echoed from 2017, when Wray stated a similar comment mentioning TCOs during a House meeting.
While presidents change, the leadership under them inside agencies only sees a shift by the replacing of the heads of the agencies. However, policies and stigmas inside stick with those in the intelligence community. In fact, Trump’s government, U.S. National Counterintelligence, and Security Center (NCSC) stressed in its latest report that hacktivists “Anonymous” and “public disclosure organizations” like WikiLeaks pose a “significant threat” similar to that of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists, as well as Russia, Iran, and China.
Obama’s DHS didn’t hesitate to call those who believe in conspiracy theories potential right-wing terrorists, stating that the following points might make someone a terrorist in a study by the University of Maryland, which was funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security.
Americans who “are fiercely nationalistic, as opposed to universal and international in orientation”
Americans considering themselves “anti-global”
Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty (especially their right to own guns and be free of taxes)”
Americans exhibiting a belief in “conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty and a belief that one’s personal and/or national way of life is under attack”
Palantir was founded with early investment from the CIA and heavily used by the military, and Palantir is a subcontracting company in its own right. The company has even been featured in the Senate’s grilling of Facebook, when Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “Do you know who Palantir is?” due to Peter Thiel sitting on Facebook’s board.
Palantir’s Gotham software allows Fusion Center police to track citizens beyond social media and online web accounts with people record searches, vehicle record searches, a Histogram tool, a Map tool, and an Object Explorer tool.
According to DHS, “Fusion centers operate as state and major urban area focal points for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat-related information between federal; state, local, tribal, territorial (SLTT); and private sector partners” like Palantir. Further, Fusion Centers are locally owned and operated, arms of the “intelligence community,” i.e. the 17 intelligence agencies coordinated by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). However, sometimes the buildings are staffed by trained NSA personnel like what happened in Mexico City, according to a 2010 Defense Department (DOD) memorandum.
This is only the beginning of the fight, and it’s going to be a long battle drawn out to prevent the use of this technology, not just here in the U.S. but worldwide as well. There’s no telling how long these projects have been active, and trusting police to honestly tell us is like trusting the wolf guarding the henhouse. For more articles on artificial intelligence predicting criminals, see Uri Gal’s hilarious and honestly titled article: “Predictive Algorithms Are No Better At Telling The Future Than A Crystal Ball.”
About the Author
Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post where this article (OCTOPUS PROMIS: The Rise Of Thought Crime Technology — We’re Living In Orwell’s 1984) was originally published.


thewakingtimes--2020-09-18--Questions Of Our Time – Can We Now Continue Our Human Evolution?

Questions Of Our Time – Can We Now Continue Our Human Evolution ?
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We have arrived at an important time in our collective human journey : humanity now has to face the fact that it is living within a dishonest civilization .
The tentacles of our growth and progress have reached too far into the sullied bellies of power and greed .
People are being tricked into falling for the superficial , the glamourous , whilst slipping into a potential future of the human-less .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ place where , for the first time , the human being , and mind , is finding itself out-of-place within its own territory .
The very identity of our humanity is now in flux and we are in need of re-defining who we are and where we are going .
It is no exaggeration to say that humanity is entering a period of existential crisis that has perhaps not been last witnessed since the Middle Ages .
Only this time , we don ’ t have our religious institutions to offer us salvation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of finding ‘ salvation ’ through becoming fully human in the face of dehumanizing forces .
We have to resist the huge , encroaching mechanical organizing forces of life .
These are detrimental to the vital human force and its life instincts .
We are being crippled by those forces that lie external to us , and onto which we have been accustomed ( or conditioned ) to place our dependence and trust .
We are right in the middle of a time of intense ‘ enforced socialization , ’ or what Edward @ @ @ @ @ @ @ architecture of oppression.
’ For some , the only response to this overwhelming ‘ architecture of oppression ’ will be to find their comfort zones – such as sitting in their chairs at home in supplication to the digital distractions of online entertainment .
This oppressing architecture will come less with batons and clubs and more with the enticements of a ‘ Brave New World ’ that Aldous Huxley outlined .
Satisfactions , and the access to such satisfactions , will form part of the disciplinary structures that pretend to be democratic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that has crept , or slithered , into our so-called regimes of modernity .
What we have now is not only dishonest but dysfunctional towards a fully realized human future .
Or perhaps that is the point ?
That what is trying to emerge at this time is not wanting to support the development of a fully human future but rather to form the architecture of a dehumanized , technologized future ?
Maybe humanity has now arrived at an important juncture on its journey that will decide which path forward it will take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at an evolutionary juncture that marks a passing of one era and a decision-point into what type of future era awaits .
And it is here that we are in distress .
It is this point that marks our existential crisis .
The Indian sage Sri Aurobindo said , in 1910 : ‘ The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.
’ The term ‘ recrudescence ’ is not popularly used yet refers to the recurrence of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consider it as a resurgence in order to expel , similar to popping a returned boil to release the pus .
Perhaps what we are witnessing around the world is an expulsion of the ‘ diseases of humanity ’ that have crept into the human body .
There is a correspondence here to that of viruses .
Viruses are microscopic parasites that only thrive when within a host body .
Many scientists consider viruses to be non-living parasites or , at the most , to be ‘ at the edge of life.
’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ These parasites then exist in the ‘ twilight zone ’ between life and non-life where they replicate toxic material until the host body produces an immunity .
As an analogy , the corrupt and deceitful elements of humanity are replicating through the host global body until our collective consciousness can find and/or reach a state of immunity .
This is the period of ‘ recrudescence ’ that Aurobindo states as marking the end of one stage of human evolutionary growth and its next .
We may wonder here if the current state of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – the ‘ popping the boil ’ – before a new state of health can be regained ?
And through this , humanity can both individually and collectively find a new story for itself – a new and revised sense of purpose .
Similarly , the French thinker Satprem ( a follower of Aurobindo ’ s thinking ) claimed that – ‘ When a species fails to find its own sense , it dies or self-destructs.
’ This may define our current dilemma – we are trying to find our sense within this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are high .
We are in need of coming to our human good senses .
This period of fluidity ( what I have previously referred to as the ‘ bardo times ’ ) represents a time of distortion , uncertainty and , ultimately , a disconnection with the past .
It is a fluidity where concepts of truth are muddled , and the ‘ true-false ’ or the ‘ false-true ’ invades our consciousnesses in order to confuse and disorientate .
We are coming close to a peak point where we swim in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reality – a form of pseudo-reality .
And we remain in this liquid , fluid unreal time until the immunity of human consciousness dispels these zombie self-replicating parasites ‘ at the edge of life.
’ That is , until we can heal our ‘ wounded consciousness.
’ We are perhaps walking dazed in the blurry last rays of twilight that divides a dying age from one yet to be born .
We are unsure of our footing , and so we reach out for the shards of security that the dying age throws @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lifeline for the future ; they are the threads that cling to the dying age and which eventually will only lead us into the underworld as Orpheus journeyed into Hades .
We need to move into the light and , unlike Orpheus , we should not look back before reaching the light , lest we lose the object of our love .
Going forward and developing our humanity is not about ‘ adding on ’ new things or appendages – or becoming a bodily hybrid ; rather , it is about falling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our inner self-sufficiency .
Rather than looking outside of us – staring up at the stars and waiting for extraterrestrial help to arrive – we should be seeking for the powerful secret kept within the intra-terrestrial .
The evolutionary secret is kept – has always been kept – within us .
And yet our external systems , those ‘ architectures of oppression , ’ are depriving us of our own means to push forward .
Our social institutions are attempting – by distraction or design – to keep us from discovering our own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bodily-physical as well as mental-emotional being – is in danger of becoming buried beneath not climate changes but a technical-medical age of bio-security that deprives the human being of its own choices and its own means for development .
We are close to becoming self-doubtful of our own knowing .
Once our channels of self-knowing are invaded and corrupted by a deluge of deliberate fakery , trickery , and pseudo-truths , we become suffocated by the compelling force of a new story that washes over us .
If we too readily succumb @ @ @ @ @ @ @ imposed ? )
social story , we shall soon forget the threads that connect us to a soulful human life .
We must take this time as a trigger to compel us to find the human evolutionary key that lies within .
Humanity has entered unprecedented times .
Such times demand an unprecedented response .
It appears that we are now being asked to ‘ step up ’ to accept our responsibility to become full human beings ; or we slump into the cul-de-sac of becoming the ‘ incurable clowns ’ on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forward in repetition , as if mimicking the self-replication of viruses .
What is needed is a form of recalibration and re-creation .
We need to push for a new phase that springs out from this current one as a fish jumps out of its fishbowl gasping for air .
A new air .
A new breath .
This is what is needed .
We must grow our new lungs – our new perceptual organs – if we are to be able to draw in this new air .
Humans have always had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a type of inherent in-built longing that keeps us resilient .
The promise of a future becomes our promise too .
We promise it to ourselves even though we ’ re not sure how to keep such a promise .
Again , quoting Satprem , who refers to humanity as : ‘ A species in transition , unaware of the means of its transmission .
And the guards of the Camp are preventing it by every possible means from finding its own key.
’ We ’ ve lived so long within a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve become lost to how inner growth should take place .
And the ‘ guards ’ of this mental jungle are preventing by ‘ every possible means ’ our way to find this key within each and every one of us .
Each person is compelled now to dig within them , and to find and reach for that key which unlocks the prison door for them .
If enough individual doors are unlocked , opened , and stepped through , then the prison dissolves .
This is the twilight of our containment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We are presently , in the words of Aurobindo – ‘ A painted bird of paradise in a cage.
’ The key is in unlocking the cage door and finding a new air to breathe .
And then humanity can soar as never before .
The question of our time is – can we now continue our human evolution ?
Will we ?
Kingsley L. Dennis is the author of Bardo Times : hyperreality , high-velocity , simulation , automation , mutation – a hoax ?
, The Phoenix Generation : A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Consciousness , and The Sacred Revival : Magic , Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age , available at Amazon .
Visit him on the web at http : //www.kingsleydennis.com/ .
[ 2 ] I explored this theme in my book ‘ Healing the Wounded Mind – The Psychosis of the Modern World & the Search for the Self ( 2019 ) [ 3 ] A reference to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice , where Orpheus looked back too soon , before reaching the light , and lost his love .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Waking Times on Twitter .

Questions Of Our Time – Can We Now Continue Our Human Evolution?
Kingsley L. Dennis, Contributor
Waking Times
The earth is not going through a moral crisis, but through an “evolutionary crisis.” We are not moving toward a better world…we are in the middle of a MUTATION toward a radically different world…Unknown to ourselves, we are in search of the new being; we are right in the midst of a human revolution.’ ~Satprem
We have arrived at an important time in our collective human journey: humanity now has to face the fact that it is living within a dishonest civilization. The tentacles of our growth and progress have reached too far into the sullied bellies of power and greed. People are being tricked into falling for the superficial, the glamourous, whilst slipping into a potential future of the human-less. Our present landscape is morphing into a place where, for the first time, the human being, and mind, is finding itself out-of-place within its own territory. The very identity of our humanity is now in flux and we are in need of re-defining who we are and where we are going.
It is no exaggeration to say that humanity is entering a period of existential crisis that has perhaps not been last witnessed since the Middle Ages. Only this time, we don’t have our religious institutions to offer us salvation. The responsibility is upon our shoulders of finding ‘salvation’ through becoming fully human in the face of dehumanizing forces. We have to resist the huge, encroaching mechanical organizing forces of life. These are detrimental to the vital human force and its life instincts. We are being crippled by those forces that lie external to us, and onto which we have been accustomed (or conditioned) to place our dependence and trust.
We are right in the middle of a time of intense ‘enforced socialization,’ or what Edward Snowden recently referred to as an ‘architecture of oppression.’ For some, the only response to this overwhelming ‘architecture of oppression’ will be to find their comfort zones – such as sitting in their chairs at home in supplication to the digital distractions of online entertainment. This oppressing architecture will come less with batons and clubs and more with the enticements of a ‘Brave New World’ that Aldous Huxley outlined.
Satisfactions, and the access to such satisfactions, will form part of the disciplinary structures that pretend to be democratic. A democratic totalitarianism is the deceitful dishonesty that has crept, or slithered, into our so-called regimes of modernity. What we have now is not only dishonest but dysfunctional towards a fully realized human future.
Or perhaps that is the point? That what is trying to emerge at this time is not wanting to support the development of a fully human future but rather to form the architecture of a dehumanized, technologized future? Maybe humanity has now arrived at an important juncture on its journey that will decide which path forward it will take. That is, humanity has arrived at an evolutionary juncture that marks a passing of one era and a decision-point into what type of future era awaits. And it is here that we are in distress. It is this point that marks our existential crisis.
The Indian sage Sri Aurobindo said, in 1910:
‘The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution.’
The term ‘recrudescence’ is not popularly used yet refers to the recurrence of an undesirable condition. We can also consider it as a resurgence in order to expel, similar to popping a returned boil to release the pus. Perhaps what we are witnessing around the world is an expulsion of the ‘diseases of humanity’ that have crept into the human body.
There is a correspondence here to that of viruses. Viruses are microscopic parasites that only thrive when within a host body. Many scientists consider viruses to be non-living parasites or, at the most, to be ‘at the edge of life.’ Others refer to viruses as self-replicators. These parasites then exist in the ‘twilight zone’ between life and non-life where they replicate toxic material until the host body produces an immunity.
As an analogy, the corrupt and deceitful elements of humanity are replicating through the host global body until our collective consciousness can find and/or reach a state of immunity. This is the period of ‘recrudescence’ that Aurobindo states as marking the end of one stage of human evolutionary growth and its next. We may wonder here if the current state of global toxicity is this period of expulsion – the ‘popping the boil’ – before a new state of health can be regained? And through this, humanity can both individually and collectively find a new story for itself – a new and revised sense of purpose. Similarly, the French thinker Satprem (a follower of Aurobindo’s thinking) claimed that – ‘When a species fails to find its own sense, it dies or self-destructs.’ This may define our current dilemma – we are trying to find our sense within this toxicity and fluidity. And the stakes are high. We are in need of coming to our human good senses.
This period of fluidity (what I have previously referred to as the ‘bardo times’) represents a time of distortion, uncertainty and, ultimately, a disconnection with the past. It is a fluidity where concepts of truth are muddled, and the ‘true-false’ or the ‘false-true’ invades our consciousnesses in order to confuse and disorientate. We are coming close to a peak point where we swim in a hallucinatory or hypnotic state of false reality – a form of pseudo-reality. And we remain in this liquid, fluid unreal time until the immunity of human consciousness dispels these zombie self-replicating parasites ‘at the edge of life.’ That is, until we can heal our ‘wounded consciousness.’
We are perhaps walking dazed in the blurry last rays of twilight that divides a dying age from one yet to be born. We are unsure of our footing, and so we reach out for the shards of security that the dying age throws at us. Yet these are not a lifeline for the future; they are the threads that cling to the dying age and which eventually will only lead us into the underworld as Orpheus journeyed into Hades. We need to move into the light and, unlike Orpheus, we should not look back before reaching the light, lest we lose the object of our love.
Going forward and developing our humanity is not about ‘adding on’ new things or appendages – or becoming a bodily hybrid; rather, it is about falling away from such external appendages and finding our inner self-sufficiency. Rather than looking outside of us – staring up at the stars and waiting for extraterrestrial help to arrive – we should be seeking for the powerful secret kept within the intra-terrestrial. The evolutionary secret is kept – has always been kept – within us. And yet our external systems, those ‘architectures of oppression,’ are depriving us of our own means to push forward. Our social institutions are attempting – by distraction or design – to keep us from discovering our own evolutionary secret.
The human being – a bodily-physical as well as mental-emotional being – is in danger of becoming buried beneath not climate changes but a technical-medical age of bio-security that deprives the human being of its own choices and its own means for development. We are close to becoming self-doubtful of our own knowing. Once our channels of self-knowing are invaded and corrupted by a deluge of deliberate fakery, trickery, and pseudo-truths, we become suffocated by the compelling force of a new story that washes over us. If we too readily succumb to the script of this corrupted (imposed?) social story, we shall soon forget the threads that connect us to a soulful human life. We must take this time as a trigger to compel us to find the human evolutionary key that lies within.
Humanity has entered unprecedented times. Such times demand an unprecedented response. It appears that we are now being asked to ‘step up’ to accept our responsibility to become full human beings; or we slump into the cul-de-sac of becoming the ‘incurable clowns’ on the evolutionary ladder. There is no going forward in repetition, as if mimicking the self-replication of viruses. What is needed is a form of recalibration and re-creation. We need to push for a new phase that springs out from this current one as a fish jumps out of its fishbowl gasping for air. A new air. A new breath. This is what is needed. We must grow our new lungs – our new perceptual organs – if we are to be able to draw in this new air.
Humans have always had a thirst for the future; it is a type of inherent in-built longing that keeps us resilient. The promise of a future becomes our promise too. We promise it to ourselves even though we’re not sure how to keep such a promise. Again, quoting Satprem, who refers to humanity as: ‘A species in transition, unaware of the means of its transmission. And the guards of the Camp are preventing it by every possible means from finding its own key.’
We’ve lived so long within a thinking, mental jungle that we’ve become lost to how inner growth should take place. And the ‘guards’ of this mental jungle are preventing by ‘every possible means’ our way to find this key within each and every one of us. Each person is compelled now to dig within them, and to find and reach for that key which unlocks the prison door for them. If enough individual doors are unlocked, opened, and stepped through, then the prison dissolves.
This is the twilight of our containment that comes before the dawn of liberation. We are presently, in the words of Aurobindo – ‘A painted bird of paradise in a cage.’ The key is in unlocking the cage door and finding a new air to breathe. And then humanity can soar as never before. The question of our time is – can we now continue our human evolution? Will we?
About the Author
Kingsley L. Dennis is the author of Bardo Times: hyperreality, high-velocity, simulation, automation, mutation – a hoax?, The Phoenix Generation: A New Era of Connection, Compassion, and Consciousness, and The Sacred Revival: Magic, Mind & Meaning in a Technological Age, available at Amazon. Visit him on the web at http://www.kingsleydennis.com/.
[1] See my book – Bardo Times: hyperreality, high-velocity, simulation, automation, mutation – a hoax? (2018)
[2] I explored this theme in my book ‘Healing the Wounded Mind – The Psychosis of the Modern World & the Search for the Self (2019)
[3] A reference to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus looked back too soon, before reaching the light, and lost his love.