In mid 2004, just weeks after leaving the corporate world and while travelling in Thailand, I experienced my first epiphany. An epiphany, the way I define it, is a sudden, powerful, and often life-changing realisation that someone experiences in an otherwise ordinary moment. It is a flash of extreme inspiration in which a previously worrying concern suddenly makes perfect sense.

At the time, while riding a wave of intense emotion which is difficult to fully explain, I wrote How to Find the Purpose of Your Life. This was the first (extremely tentative) step on what I knew would become a journey of discovery.

Since then I’ve adopted The Triangular Theory of Consciousness - a phrase coined by Dr Ian Weinberg in ‘Quantum-determinism – an Integrative Model of Holistic Consciousness’. Published in Quantum Leap, Sygma Books, 1998. Continue reading

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV’s while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.

We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’

Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’

So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’

Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!… Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!’

Howard Beale, Network, 1976

For an excellent review of recent history and why the world is where it’s at, see Zeitgeist, The Movie.

Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve, gold standard and money market manipulation.

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