Monday, July 7, 2008

Mileage

Like most of you my family sees the problems with the price of gasoline worldwide. I would like to share one potential solution. Though it is a best a short term solution to a very long term problem, still it is a start in the right direction.

First of all, like many families we now look at our SUVs differently. Mine gets 18.7 miles per gallon and is a four wheel drive SUV which is great in snow or rain or mud. My wife's gets 11 miles per gallon at best but can haul 1 adult and 6 kids or teenagers, a total of 7 people. Mostly for now we have pretty much decided to park the 11 mile per gallon vehicle for now except when 2 suvs are needed in exceptional circumstances. We also have a motor home that funny enough gets 12 to 14 miles per gallon. It is mostly parked too.

However, our solution is not to go buy a hybrid car. Our reasons for this might surprise you. First of all, even though a hybrid like a Prius might get 40 to 50 or more miles per gallon I don't necessarily consider passenger car hybrids that one uses every day for work as safe for humans to ride in. I lost my father to bone cancer that was caused by working under 130,000 volt lines in a power generating station. Before he died he taught me about coronas and how they can damage human tissue and cells. Though I think hybrids are generally safe to ride in I think they are unsafe if one rides in one every day for years. I guess it is a little like cell phones. More and more studies are finding how serious long term use of cell phones can be. There aren't enough years of exposure to fully understand this yet but 20 or more years of heavy cellphone use could be very damaging. So I worry about especially young girls and young women who spend hours on cellphones and how they could be damaging not only their long term health but also the genetic health of their babies and future generations worldwide. So I'm very concerned about the long term (ten to twenty years or more)use of cellphones, standing to close to microwave ovens in use, being close to electric motors or generators or alternators that use or generate more than 10 horsepower AC or DC. Remote or cordless phones in houses and apartments etc etc. etc.

Because my father was an Electrical Contractor and Electrician he understood a lot about this. However, his death from bone cancer taught us what long term exposure to high voltage can do to a human body.

So, though hybrid cars might be relatively safe in the short term, I believe in the long term of 20 to 30 years or more they likely will be deadly on the health of people riding in them long term. I believe the likely kinds of illnesses that will come from these things will be: immune problems, leucemia, and many kinds of cancer. It is not that one cannot get these things from insecticide or herbicide on plants and food or through exposure to paint or even old lead paint or lead in the soil from long term traffic that used leaded gas from the early 1920s until the 1970s when lead in gasoline was finally banned.

Anyway, to make a long story short I think a high mileage car like a Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic or other car that gets above 30 miles per gallon regularly is the best long distance driving option and health wise preferable to a hybrid. Since people don't drive Motorhomes every day I think that hybrid gas electric or diesel electric motorhomes without all the batteries is a very good idea too. No batteries makes it safer in an accident as well.(less chance of electrocution without the batteries).

Dual Power hybrid cars and motorhomes

I was listening the last few days to the news about the difficulty of making enough hybrid batteries for the Prius and other hybrids. This got me to thinking about dual power takeoffs like one finds on old pickup trucks. Why couldn't one build a power takeoff right where the U-joint is on rear wheel drive vehicles. Maybe by using the gas powered electrical generators on existing motorhomes, one could then use the 110 volts generated to power an electric motor big enough to move a motorhome on the level at 55 mph or more. So the way I envision this would be use your regular gasoline engine until you get to the freeway where you really need the mileage per gallon. Then pull to the side of the road and disconnect your U-joint and connect it to your 100+ horsepower AC 110 powered electric motor powered by your gas powered generator onboard and using a dimmer switch as a throttle power back onto the freeway. This way you could still afford to drive your vehicle and make your family and yourself happy. You might have to idle the gas or diesel main engine to power your brakes and steering and Air conditioner, radio, cds and Dvds but idling doesn't burn much gas. When you need to drive in the city,(if you want the extra control) pull over and reconnect your U-joint and drive shaft to the transmission. However, it also might be possible to design another way to shift it between gas and electric power to the drive shaft like one shifts between 2wheel drive to 4 wheel drive on some vehicles.

This way no extra batteries beyond your main engine battery and deep storage batteries for your 12 volt lighting system for the living area that would already be there on board your motor home would be needed because you still can use your gas or diesel engine locally and around town. So this solves the problem Prius and other Hybrid owners are having or will run into soon. I think those hybrid batteries have to be changed about every 3 years just like a regular car battery, except hybrid batteries are several thousand dollars to replace and a car battery is about $50 to 75(big difference).

The one drawback might be the size of your gasoline generator and how much electric power it puts out. So to really make this work one might have to put a bigger gasoline powered electrical generator. Also, I'm envisioning not a DC electric motor but an AC powered electrical motor. I'm not sure which would be better for maximum torque.

I was watching the news today about a guy who took out his VW bugs gasoline engine and put in an electric motor in place of it and probably put batteries in the back seat area of the Bug. So this person had a plug-in Bug that ran only after charging by plugging it into 110 volts. There is also a ready made Zap Car and truck that goes about 40 miles on an electric charge that you can buy. Check online. It is a 3 wheeler which puts it in the category of a 3 wheel motorcycle like several other new vehicles.

Country and Suburban Home Garage research is what made this country great in the first place. Just look at the Wright Brothers and Henry Ford for example.

I have it! This actually is the best idea of all. A V8 or V6 or straight 6 engine even at idle could generate enough power if the torque was connected to a generator and the generators power connected to an AC or DC electric motor of 100 horsepower or more.(whatever you need). Once this was done, even at idle one could easily travel on the level. On hills one might need to up the engine speed to generate more power to the electrical motor. Extra batteries wouldn't be necessary. I envision at least a doubling or tripling of mileage, so you would get at least 20 to 30 miles per gallon even at idle on the level and maybe 15 to 25 on a hill. It won't hurt to try your only other choice might be park it or sell it if you have a motor home. I have a Canadian Leisure Van and it is parked too, even though it gets 2 mpg more than my wife's SUV which now gets about 10 or 11 mpg. We're all in this together worldwide!

I think this is the same principle that Diesel Electric train engines use nationwide. That is what is powering over 90% of the trains in the United States or more. They don't store much electricity except for starting the diesel engines. Without the expense of all the batteries this all gets a whole lot more practical. Good Luck!

Man should study man before Spirit

I think it was Confucious who said my title. I have found it to be true. Studying man, in other words, psychology, building, history, social Science, philosophy, anthropology etc. should be attempted before studying spirit. The Zen masters also have a saying, "Carry water chop wood". Even though this was before electricity and running water it still applies. What this means is, "You must be aware of what your body needs before you look for your spirit. Otherwise there will be no body to approach spirit and you will be just dead."

When I first learned to soul travel consciously in my early 20s, for a short time because I had broken up with the woman I wanted to marry and spend my life with and because I had been excommunicated from my childhood church I didn't really care whether I lived or died for a time, so I soul traveled for a while. Then I realized that unless I took care of my body I wouldn't have one and that God had given me this body for a purpose and I needed to figure out what that purpose was. "Carry water chop wood". You must eat, drink, breathe, defecate, urinate and associate with people. Otherwise, you will soon be gone and no matter how spiritual you are you will just be dead.

Understanding the Dead and the Dying

I wish to share my lifetime of experience with people who are already dead or who are dying. First of all, just like drivers of cars worldwide, everyone drives pretty much the same no matter their religion or philosophy worldwide. Likewise, what happens to all souls after they leave their body or as they leave their bodies is very similar. How it is perceived by each being might be different because of religion or philosophy but scientifically what happens to the souls of all beings in passing out of whatever body they are occupying presently is pretty much the same for everyone.

It is in this quest for understanding by most beings that I am writing to lessen your suffering as a being living in a mortal body.

What I am going to recommend is not for everyone and I must say along the way to gain my understanding I have crapped my pants especially in my teens and 20s to obtain some of my knowledge of death and dying. However, after I theoretically found out about the Mahayana and the Vajrayana and then went on to actually experience them both as a scientifically based reality, fear permanently left me in regard to death and dying.

I also believe there is a scientific basis for all religions, it is just that experiencing fearlessness and peace and wisdom in regard to death and dying I find incredibly useful for those of us living in mortal bodies still.

It is easier for me to start by sharing what I experience now even though it took me about 30 years to get to even the beginning of what I'm talking about and then I now have had about another 30 years to get used to it all.

What I experience now at age 60 when someone I know and am close to dies is still very difficult at first unless the soul is very advanced and can protect both itself and me from harm. One of the easiest transitions was a Catholic Priest named Charles Moore that was also a lawyer and a friend to me. Another was my Aunt who recently passed who also seems to be very spiritually advanced.

I recounted two personal experiences with friends here but they came to me and asked me not to print those experiences so I honored their wishes. One of the first things I have to say to you is that it is very important to honor the wishes of the dead so they have no reason to seek revenge upon you. As long as you honor them they are honor bound to honor you. If they don't honor you then you can call in angels and Archangels like Michael or Jesus or whoever you pray to in your religion to protect you from harm.

Many many people have come to me at their time of passing for help as I am gifted in this way. I know who to call in to help them if they are scared or confused. It is very important to pray for relatives that don't believe in God also so they don't just hang like a grey blob over their grave or cremation urn because whenever an angel comes they just think it is a phantasm and unreal because of their earthly beliefs. So praying for your friends and relatives that believe in nothing is important for everyone's well being.

I have seen this gray blob kind to thing and have learned to pray for angels to come take the being to a place of spiritual healing.

Often times the dying are afraid, panicked or just plain confused for one reason or another. They will have a better time of it if you can reassure them that everything is okay. Whether they completely believe you or not is not what is important. What is important is that the more peacefully one can pass over the easier time that one usually has. The hardest times on the other side can come from the most traumatic and violent deaths. This is why it is so important for soldiers facing death every day to pray together and to help each other wherever possible to the other side when one goes on. This lessens greatly the trauma of the event on the soul.

My mother and I were both gifted in some of the same ways. When I was in my late twenties and visiting my mother, sometimes we would be shown just to drive somewhere on the freeway and there would be an accident and we both would help the dead and dying there transition to the other side. We would be mystically guided to these events just after they had occurred to help those in transition. Often this would bring tears to our eyes as the angels we had called arrived and took the dying away.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Deaths in Previous Wars

I was thinking about the death tolls in wars and police actions the last 20 years or so. I thought it would give some perspective to list war dead from World War II and Viet Nam so people can see how much better they have had it than then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
World_War_II_casualties#Total_human_losses

The above wikipedia address is my source for fatalities.

The total losses recorded worldwide from all nations in World War II was
72,763,500

The United States alone had 416,800 military deaths and 418,500 civilian deaths attributed to World War II.

However, the Soviet Union had 10,700,000 military deaths and 11,400,000 civilian deaths. So their total losses were 23,100,000 or 13.71% of their population as of 1939.
Whereas the United States only lost .32% of their population.


China also lost 20,000,000 people, mostly civilian during World War II as well.

Germany lost 7,293,000 total of their population, mostly military deaths.

Japan lost 2,700,000 also mostly military deaths.


However, even though the Soviet Union and China lost over 20,000,000 people each, the most meaningful statistic is the total dead of 72,763,500 worldwide which is more than the total living population of many individual nations on earth right now!

The statistics that were commonly given at the end of the Viet Nam war that I cannot find documented now online for some reason were: 50,000 American dead, 250,000 seriously wounded and maybe 1,000,000 veterans scarred mentally or physically or both for life.

If you compare these death statistics to the losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, one thinks more of police action than full out war. However, if one looks at these last two wars(Iraq and Afghanistan) in regard to the economic and political damage done to the U.S. and the Western World long term, I guess one will have to see how history decides to see all this in a longer term perspective.

Were these last two wars necessary? I think a longer view is necessary just like with Viet Nam. No one is happy about any of these wars. However, can anyone tell me what the alternative might have been? One might conjecture all sorts of things but in the end, no one really knows what might have been because that is not what actually happened.

Now, all we really have is the present and future. All those on all sides are both dead and gone no matter what their point of view was. We are alive and they are dead and in the end we all have to live with that somehow.

The Bush Legacy

It has never been easy for wartime presidents or the soldiers who fought for them and their country in times of need. It claimed the lives of many presidents: Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Johnson after Kennedy was assassinated which also might have been a wartime assassination because of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In Reagan we had a people person that the world loved. In Clinton we had a very brilliant and public man who led us into prosperity and an international positive view of the United States that was unparalleled since President Kennedy and Reagan.

Bush's Presidency will always be defined by 9-11. Bush will be seen as the western world leader that truly drew a line in the sand and said "Thus far and no further." What will come next is anyone's guess. How efficiently this was done will be debated for decades to come.

However, just after 9-11 I predicted as a psychic that Bush would be seen when leaving office as similar to President Truman who dropped the two A-bombs and firebombed Japan's cities killing millions of civilians in order to end World War II. Though Americans were happy to end the war only losing 900,000 Americans, they were embarrassed to have had to kill so many Japanese in order to end the war in the face of Kamikaze suicide warriors. However, the Japanese finally gave up in desperation in order that their whole nation wasn't rendered extinct by Truman.

Likewise, many things have been done by the United States that it wouldn't have normally done when it perceived its way of life facing extinction. Our way of life these days is facing extinction again from the price of oil and food and from Global Climate change. But that will be the job of the next president to solve.

Precognition

First I would like to say that my experience with both life and precognition is a very personal experience for me. It might be said that life trusts me to be precognitive and to keep these gifts because I am very responsible with my gifts and because I consider all life as my family so I am trusted. Trust is very necessary for life to allow you to be as gifted as I. If you are not trusted life will find a way to take either your gifts or your life itself.

That being said I find that if I look at all this scientifically all this most closely resembles things I hear about particle physics. For example, in particle physics there is no objective reality because every experiment is affected directly by the consciousness of the observer of any experiment. So in any experiment the result is partly the product of the consciousness of the observer.

This puts the observer in the position of being a potential or actual God in regard to their lives and all the lives they affect with their consciousness and actions. Once one understands they are responsible in this way a higher level of responsibility is necessary. I can remember when life asked me to become more responsible. No. I think demanded a higher responsibility on pain of death would be more accurate. It started when I was 10 and I achieved a high enough level of consciousness to be allowed to live and have my gifts by age 15. This was a very terrifying but necessary experience.

So, at this point I'm 60 and I see all this gifted stuff in a slightly different way now.

When I look at precognition as it affects my life and others I see myself as a natural intuitive precognitive psychic that has been accepted by life and nature as being a responsible shaman or Merlin type of being who sees himself as both a Christian Mystic and as a Tibetan Buddhist also. You might say "How do you reconcile all this." My answer would be experientially "God is where you find Him" (her, it, the Being). Yes. This is a very mystical experience. But it is recognizable to you if you compare it to when you see someone you immediately fall in love with. For me, this experience can be found in any person, place, condition or thing, so I am constantly looking for God, the Beloved, everywhere and every-when. Often I find God(him, her, the Being) and am overwhelmed with love and peace with God in those moments.

My experience of being a precognitive psychic is in the context of being a servant of God. I guess the most useful way I could say it is I appear to be an incarnate angel or Archangel and in this context work for God to restore order and harmony and balance.

Things are just so in transition or "out of balance" depending upon your point of view right now on earth that "Balance" seems to be the only worthwhile goal(at least for the life that will remain on earth). Many souls will be leaving earth for other realms in this cycle though it is likely that earth will remain for many types of souls to incarnate on for millions or more years to come.

One of the reasons I write is to create a better future for all beings. Since I see the future I also see that if I write about what I see the future changes to a better one. So it is a lot for me like riding in a car and seeing potential hazards and accidents ahead and telling the driver to slow down and watch out. If the driver heads my warning things will be ok. If the driver doesn't heed my warnings then I might ask the driver to stop and let me out. The time it takes him to stop might save his life. Either way I have done what I can as God has gifted me so in my heart I have peace about it.