InnerView #571
Thinking Together with Gerry Fialka: a multi-dimensional conversation on the human condition. It is a great honor and pleasure to join Gerry Fialka for this initial InnerView where we traversed avenues of existence together. From the Preface of his book, Strange Questions: Experimental Film as Conversation: “I don’t know what I think until I ask somebody. Why do I want to interview people? To connect, to learn, to think. I am curious about the human condition. Personal stories and philosophies can unify people sharing time together. Empathy and understanding can lead to new questions. Pattern recognition leads to comprehensive awareness. Probing “the big picture” with surprising questions uncovers the hidden psychic effects of words, both spoken and printed. Developing new critical thinking skills is a miracle, but not impossible.... Experimental film has been a major part of my life. I have studied mainstream cinema, but I usually find the challenges of the avant-garde more fertile. Revolting from the norm inspires me. It takes courage. Deep delving into the process, rather than the content, can free the watchdog of the mind. We can strive to pull back the curtain like Toto in The Wizard of Oz. The word “experiment” comes from the Old French esperment, meaning “practical knowledge, cunning, enchantment, magic spell.”

Antidote to the Hubris of Greed While Living Under Domination. Seeing the Maximum Security Establishment Denial System. This essay fulfills a growing inner dread over the past two-and-a-half-plus years to produce something focusing a tight beam of light on the unspeakable increases in global injuries and excess mortality co-incident with the December 2020 rollout of the C19 experimental gene therapies. As Ed Dowd states, “it’s a disaster. And the standard deviations are what we call black swan event deviations. They run the gamut from three to sixty standard deviations across these different [UK Disabilities Personal Independence Pension program] human body systems.” The souls highlighted in this accounting of censored and suppresed truths are celebrated for their dedication of bearing witness to and following the polestar of historical truth as it emits a light and illuminates the way we can all likewise be guided by. And in doing so, we can join in the sacred work of supporting the exquisite eons of life exploring itself on Earth for the seventh generation yet unborn and beyond.

This One’s For John – Hidden History Center Upgrade. Four years ago the concept was hatched of what today begins at https://hiddenhistorycenter.org/. At last, four years later, a compelling and provocative interface is now in place through which to relay information, raise questions, and generate discussion. The driving imperative has been to craft something akin to what John Judge would have envisioned were he alive to establish a brick-and-mortar Museum in D.C. to serve as its complement on the internet.

the heart of the matter: Why JFK Was Assassinated. Concerning the extra-constitutional firing of the 35th President, the following is proffered as an antidote to the specific set of illusions and—beginning with the Warren Commission’s Report—conspiracy theories presented by state actors, universities, and the media which promote a fabricated representation of reality through omission, distortion, falsehood, lack of contextual analysis, and disinforming opinion stated as obvious, incontestable fact. The essence of the cover-up is that there is a mystery to debate. There is no mystery. Anyone willing to look can see clearly who killed President Kennedy and why. The WHY of the assassination is the key to the crime and its cover-up. We can know why President Kennedy was assassinated. With this understanding and knowledge we can navigate the turbulent waters surrounding us today with a profoundly informed and deeply rooted sense of the meaning and purpose of our own lives in this irreducible present moment—the only moment we ever have.

COLD WAR: THE NEXT GENERATION
Antidote to Endless War Spawned by September 11: the Full Exercise of Our Imaginations. History does need to be re-written in every generation as each subsequent group’s lifespan will necessarily need to extend the depth and breadth of what was then, and what is now being, recorded. And in rescuing areas that were previously rejected, omitted, skewed, or distorted, a redemption of the struggles and lives of all our human ancestors can be successively restored to a more holistic representation of the multi-dimensional tapestry of the human project’s past. In this way, the past can reflect itself more fully, with constructive creativity and imagination in the present, to consciously evolve a future that includes the interests of all species generations—including humans—to come. The present time is exceedingly heavy in deed. Guy Debord’s understanding that we are evermore confronted with the eradication of historical knowledge is an essential motivator to highlight and promulgate historical knowledge of our epoch, of our world. Sharing and relaying the knowledge, intelligence, and awareness highlighted here is an invitation to engage all one’s wits and creative imagination to help the human project change course and stake out a different future than this current one based on the demands of capital and its accumulation. Exercising our intelligence in this manner, with clarity and coherence, is of the highest calling Life presents us with.

Dr. John W. Gofman: His Life, and Research on the Health Effects of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation. Beginning in 1995, I was grateful for the opportunity to work with Dr. John Gofman and his assistant Egan O’Connor building a digital archive of a portion of his written works. Dr. Gofman did more than most other medical scientists to warn people about the health effects and dangers of exposure to low dose radiation. He earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear/Physical Chemistry at UC Berkeley in 1943 where his graduate advisor was Glenn Seaborg. He co-discovered Uranium 232 and 233 and was the leader of the Plutonium Group at UCB for the Manhattan Project, where he produced the first 1.2 milligrams of plutonium for J. Robert Oppenheimer. He went on to receive his M.D. degree from UCSF in 1946. He successfully identified high density and low density lipoproteins and made a number of other major discoveries involving cholesterol, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, and especially cancer. In 1963 he was asked by the Atomic Energy Commission to establish and become the first Director of the Biomedical Research Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to study the “Implications of All Nuclear Energy Programs Upon Man in the Biosphere.” In 1969 he and his colleague Dr. Arthur Tamplin publicly concluded that the dangers of exposure to low-level ionizing radiation were much greater than previously acknowledged and that there was no evidence of a risk-free dose of radiation. By 1973 the US government had de-funded Gofman’s Livermore lab research on chromosomes and cancer. He returned to teaching full-time at UCB and chose an early and active “retirement” in 1974 as Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology, devoting the next 30 years to pro-bono research into human health-effects from radiation. Dr. Gofman produced a wealth of published works that have increased understanding and awareness of the biological hazards of low-level ionizing radiation and was a vital voice of intelligence and clarity calling for the cessation of further nuclear pollution of Grandmother Earth.

An Expanding Light to Dispel the Darkness: A New Movement to Ban Nuclear Weapons. 70 years ago today, the first atomic bomb used to kill people was detonated approximately 580 meters above the center of Hiroshima, Japan. The terrorizing capability to obliterate life on Earth with nuclear war was conceived 70 years ago. Its potential began to manifest in the late 1950s, and was wholly produceable by the 1960s when arsenals of multi-megaton hydrogen bombs numbered in the thousands and ICBMs were deployed. The means to create nuclear weapons came from the existence of uranium. The Manhattan project was all about enriching uranium. Since the 1960s the specter of nuclear annihilation has been steadily amplified by technology that continues the manipulation of uranium to generate radioactive elements especially suited to making nuclear warheads. Beginning on February 28 of this year Helen Caldicott convened an extraordinarily vital Symposium at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City on The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction. In May work began crafting a collection of files to highlight and emphasize the significance of this Conference. The shortcut link to it is: <ratical.org/ne>. Here you will find background on the Symposium, complete transcripts with inlined slides of 8 speakers (soon to be 9), mp3s of all speakers plus the Q&As, additional educational materials, and means to engage with people working to abolish nuclear weapons.

Increasing Consciousness, Outgrowing Our US Exceptionalism Myth. The U.S. origin story is based on an unconscious acceptance of and belief in the inevitability of Manifest Destiny, the idea that Europeans and later Anglo settlers were destined by God to take the land from sea to shining sea. Inherent in the origin story was the implication that the land had previously been terra nullius, a land without people. In this way, “the frontier” was ready for God’s chosen people to first “tame” it and then found a nation of dominion and freedom for all. This is the source of U.S. Americans’ belief in their unique exceptionalism. In fact, the historical reality is how the theft of lands that are today called the United States came to be claimed and owned by white men, revealing the processes and characteristics of settler colonialism. This specific brand of colonial usurpation is founded upon institutionalizing extravagant violence through unlimited war and irregular war. Extreme violence was carried out by Anglo settlers against civilians in an attempt to cause the utter annihilation of the Indigenous nations and communities of people existent across the continent for thousands of years before it was “discovered” by Europeans. The goal of this extermination was to enable the settlers’s total freedom to acquire land and wealth. Increasing consciousness of this historical reality is, as historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes, “both a necessity and a responsibility to the ancestors and descendants of all parties.”

Keep the Balance. September 2014 to September 2015 marks rat haus reality’s 20th revolution around SOL. This ratitorial highlights John Trudell’s 2001 explication of What It Means To Be A Human Being. Trudell submits that responsibility is the liberator’s word, “because then we are taking direct action with our intelligence.” To honor and serve Life’s needs contains and expresses profound significance, value, and purpose.

What To Do In Our Crazy Life? Attend Democracy School. This ratitorial recounts participating in a three day symposium of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School presented by Thomas Linzey and Richard Grossman. It explored the systemic historical and legal analysis of corporate power and democracy, and why democratic self-government is impossible when corporations wield constitutional rights against communities to deny the rights of people. Many instances of grass roots programs were presented that are altering this situation.

Moving Toward Thinking "like a mountain" looks out beyond the confrontation over corporate claims to constitutional rights towards framing rights to include everything not represented in our current structure and system of law. By framing rights in terms that "the right to exist is innate for the nonhuman world because it is grounded in the universe, not in any act of human law," we can envision and explore the dimension of being and belonging that supersedes the human-centric universe we have fashioned for ourselves in recent millennia.

We're All In Prison, And Most Of Us Don't Know The Door Is Unlocked considers how many illusions we began learning as children condition our perceptions to collude in our own social imprisonment. The door out of this prison is wide open and most of us do not see it. Closely examining the ways of our world and how it works will open the door to our living more fully and creatively in the life of our time.

Living On The Creative Edge shares moving into life with Nina Vansuch and how we exist not for ourselves alone. We are all part of a Great Conversation going on throughout our universe. It for each of us to choose how we participate in the specific ways we trust our lives and our future.

The New Myth For Our Species: The Creation of Consciousness explores the the need in human society for a new central living myth, grounded in the creation of more and more consciousness. Such a new myth can serve to resurrect our human family from the apparent ashes and darkness that, on the manifest level, we appear to be evermore attracted to. Instances of human activities are listed in the latter half that signify experiences lived in awareness that augments the sum total of consciousness in the uni verse. Such a fact of the creation of more consciousness provides a tangible "meaning for every experience and gives each individual a role in the on-going world-drama of creation."

Lessons at the Edge of the World describes recent inner and outer events I felt were especially significant.

Seattle Journal of November 26-December 3 recounts my journey to learn from and participate in the workshops, teach-ins, services, marches and rallies, as well as the group mind I knew would be manifesting there.

Four as a Symbol of Wholeness celebrates completion of ratical's fourth revolution around SOL, four significant new additions, thoughts on Y2K and manifesting psychic wholeness.

Expanding the Song of Life outlines some of what community currencies offer in the area of building a sustainable civilization, the gift of helping kids learn to play piano, and living life heroically.

The Biological Debt We Are Accruing By Continuing The Development and Promotion of Nuclear Power heralds the electronic availability of the classic lay-person's primer, Poisoned Power.

3rd Revolution Shift marks the changing o' the guard from .com to .org. And we've decided not to go for 501(c)(3) non-profit status.

Planting Seeds of Transformation considers some of the bountiful gifts life bestows upon us and how dynamics of inner transformation provide ways to manifest change within which, in turn, changes the world without.

HELP STOP THE WAR IN CHIAPAS   --   send e-mail to keep the pressure on officialdom.

"Independent Watchdogs:   An Antidote to Nuclear Pollution" focuses on ways you can be a Common Sense Expert on behalf of the health and well-being of your community and the world.

celebrating completion of ratical's 2nd revolution around SOL with a transcript of a talk given by Laurens van der Post in 1961 on The Psychological Origins of Racial Prejudice .

Highlighting the Committee For Nuclear Responsibility's Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation (HEIR) Reports with particular emphasis on Preventing Breast Cancer: The Story Of A Major, Proven, Preventable Cause Of This Disease .

november's beaver or frosty full moon was the occasion for launching The Six Nations, Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth.

observations on the occasion of the completion of rat haus reality's 1st revolution around SOL; feelings of blessing and excerpts of Laurens van der Post .

approaching completion of rat haus reality's 1st year revolution around SOL: bumpy traveling and preparation to pick up many threads . . .

Focus on the addition of Nuclear Technology: The Inappropriate Exercise of Human Intelligence, -- and Given This, What Is Appropriate?

Focus on the addition of Chapters 18-21, Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-Rate of Ionizing Radiation, with Respect to Induction of Cancer in Humans from Radiation-Induced Cancer from Low-Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis