Earth Changes

On the subject of various dreams I've had in the past, I do believe things are ramping up. I've mentioned the intense Auroras. Today, the sun let loose with a coronal mass ejection that was unlike any that have been seen before. This time it was on the Sun's east limb so it won't directly affect us, but the solar cycle appears to be ramping up in earnest and it's giving indications that it's going to be unique.

In 1859 there was a massive solar flare that inducted so much current in telegraph lines that it set telegraph paper on fire, and operators were able to send messages without batteries. Intense auroras were seen that made dusk and dawn look like mid-day. Newspapers could be read by the auroras. There is a recording of a similar event several thousand years ago in Mayan records.

We are aware of solar cycles that are 22 years in duration (peaking every 11 years, but switching poles each time so that a full cycle takes 22 years), it's worth noting that 11 years for half-cycle is just an average, there is variability with half-cycles taking anywhere from 9 to as many as 14 years. There is also a longer term cycle of 87-88 years, a still longer cycle of approximately 210 years, a super-cycle that appears to result from the interplay between those two that happens approximately every 1470 years, and I believe there may be even longer term cycles. For a ball of gas that is compressed by gravity to the point where it's constituents gradually fuse, the Sun is a very complex animal.

My use of the term complex animal isn't accidental either; I believe there is actually a living aspect to the Sun, and everything, but plasmas in particular I believe have sentience potential as a result of their interplay of chaos and order; much like that which occurs in brains, and the Sun's plasma is extremely complex and structured.

Many people are familiar with the fact that the Mayan calendar ends with the winter solstice of 2012. Many people believe this also will be the end of the world; but I don't believe so, and neither did the Mayans. It is however, the end of the age, things will change, those changes are already underway, there things happening within the Earth and heavens that are new to us. They may have happened before in the distant past, but not within the reaches of recorded human history.

These changes can be peaceful and gradual and beneficial to human kind, or they can be sudden, violent, painful, and deadly to human kind, it is up to us decide. If we accept the transition, work with it, welcome it, and adjust with it, then it will be a pleasant transition. If we resist the transition, fight it, continue to fight each other, then it is going to be of the violent nasty sort that will be most unpleasant and few of us will physically make it through.

I regret to say that I believe the path we seem to be collectively choosing is the path of resistance, a path where we maintain the status quo of hate and war, greed and ignorance, death and destruction, and I believe that I will not be here for the final hour, assuming I have properly decoded a message, and I find that regrettable as I've seen the aftermath and the re-worked planet is a rather pleasant place both socially and physically.

However, I see now that volcanic activity is on the upswing world wide. There are unprecedented Earthquake swarms; that is to say seismic activity that does not fit any previous known patterns, not along any known fault lines, plates seem to be moving, and now the Sun is becoming active.

In the dreams, just before things really get hot and heavy I first see these brilliant auroras, so brilliant they can be mistaken for a false dawn or daylight way past dusk, this is kind of like the last warning when we see this; it's the last point before the paths radically diverge.

After that, if we take the path of resistance; we'll see Pacific Cascade volcanoes becoming active all up and down the coast; but worse, we'll see new volcanoes and mountains we never new were volcanic becoming active. New volcanoes in the foothills on either side of I-90 dump so much ash and cinders as to render it impassible. The type of ash I see is much different than Mount St. Helens, not the fine gray powder but marble sized chunks of red-brown pumice, and also something not typical of subduction zone volcanoes, very hot flowing lava, not the thick sticky toothpaste lavas that form domes but not much else that we typically see.

I don't know what happens south of our region but our own military prevents us from escaping to the south, to the point of firing on anybody who tries with automatic weapons. Perhaps there is an epidemic of something that they are trying to prevent being spread to the south but I never see the reason why, just that attempting to go south results in automatic weapon fire being unpleasantly directed at ones person.

Attempting to go east, if I go early I make it to eastern Washington, there, to the north of I-90 a sort of volcanic cauldron forms though it's not the collapsed top of a magma chamber; rather a large north-south crack in the Earth's crust forms from which magma extrudes; and the East portion of the crack is higher and so the magma flowing out goes west and covers a large area and just stagnates there. A small town near there has magma come up right under it, the streets get hot, and it starts coming out of cracks in the ground, buildings catch fire and burn.

To the south of I-90 towards Yakima, near the army range, there is a huge secret underground military base in the dreams, and the military there isn't evil and firing upon people like it is going south along I-5, instead, they are trying to accommodate people, more than the base was designed to handle. The base is designed like a huge underground corkscrew spiraling down, and at the bottom of the cork screw there is a nuclear reactor that provides power for the base. The military does not know whether the magma will breach the base or not but it's better than being outside at the time. Something like 40,000 people go into it.

I've never gone to the north in the dream or attempted an escape by water. But these are things that happen in the nasty version.

Now, if we change, accept change, give up greed and hatred and start to love and care for our fellow human beings and other life with which we share this planet; then the scenario is much different.

There is volcanism still but it tends to happen away from populated areas and comes with plenty of warning so nobody gets hurt; there is however, also an increase in winter snow, not an ice age like last nights dream, but substantial, and there are hot springs in the foothills and mountains. The ski resort business does very well with the addition of hot springs to warm up in after skiing.

There are people who see a flip in the Earth's crust, and others just a flip in the magnetic field. I do see major changes but not a complete flip, but something does change the Earth's axis of rotation so we end up not having seasons like we do now but instead something that resembles a perpetual spring / summer. Species adapt.

The land is changed in the Pacific Northwest; we lose Puget Sound and the Olympics, but we gain these long fingers of land and water that are oriented SE/NW from roughly where the eastern shore of the Puget Sound is now all the way out to the Pacific Ocean, and this creates much desirable water front land and easy transportation by boat.

The concept of dividing the land up into plots that are property seems largely dead, houses are simpler, the weather is such that heating and cooling aren't needed, many houses simply have open doors and windows, which seems primitive but actually is practical in the new environment. Technology seems much less prevalent; people don't have or watch TV's or play computer games, they interact with each other, play physical games, make music, tell stories.

Somehow we are at peace with animals, they are not a threat to us nor us to them. There is commerce and jobs but it's things we need to live not just we sell to drive an ever ending economy, it's mostly simple very direct activities, fishing, building furniture, moving goods across the waterways.

The water and air are pristine, you can jump in and not be covered with slime, algae and such. I don't know how practical matters such as sewage are handled, but the problems just don't seem to be there; either we've changed too or we simply have found ways. It's just a whole new world literally.

I believe the changes actually started a while ago, when I saw the Aurora Borealis here half a dozen times in a summer when I'd only seen it once in my life prior, and as a teenager I used to often sleep outside under the stars in a sleeping bag, all those years I never saw them, but then I see them frequently, something has changed.

Mt. St. Helens rumbling to life; that I think was an early indicator. Now we've got Earthquake swarms and Earthquakes all over the place; indicating the movement of magma underground, the quakes outside of Las Vegas, publicly scientists state they don't understand them but they do. Magma is moving up a conduit, it cracks rocks on the way, it's about a mile from the surface there. Magma has also moved up under Mt. Rainier; it's moving up in an area about 20 miles east of the three sisters area of Oregon, it's coming up under a lake bed in Yellowstone, it's coming up under water off the Oregon Shores, and by the Aleutian islands, and existing volcanoes are popping off all over the place, from Alaska down to southern Argentina.

Changes are underway, and it's not going to be a bell curve like Mitch Battros suggests, it's going to be logarithmic with the rate of change ever increasing. It's time to make a decision, and we're in this thing collectively, it's time to decide to accept change, and start working out how we can work with the Earth, Heavens, God, all that is; how we can fit, flow, be a part of the living everything instead of an infestation of it that must be eliminated.

Ice Age

Been feeling not completely well the last few days, allergy hell and I think I've acquired some virus that appears to be making the rounds.

This morning after about four hours sleep, I had to get up and go to Bellevue to restore a server to service that had crashed. It was our main web server so it couldn't wait.

After I got back I took care of some work and then decided I really needed more sleep and went back to bed. After about an hour in bed I found myself simultaneously cold and hot, shivering and sweating at the same time, and then feel to sleep that way.

I dreamt it was June and we'd suddenly entered an ice age. Around Seattle there were snow drifts 12 or 15 feet high everywhere. You could not get around. I was pretty sure we were just going to freeze to death where we were. 30,000 years from now they'd dig us out of the ice with the bit of apple still in our mouths just like the Woolly Mammoths.

This did not have the characteristics of precognitive dreams that I have, it was jumbled and discontinuous both in space and time like an ordinary dream, so I am not expecting a new ice age to come in June, I think rather it was just a reflection of how I was feeling, my brain trying to make sense of feeling hot and cold at the same time.

Blue Light

Last night I dreamt I was on a high hill with a number of friends. It was late at night, dark, no city lights around. The sky was partially cloudy, small clouds here and there, with clear spaces with stars.

We all have these high power laser pointers. They are like the kind you buy at the store except instead of 1-5 milliwatts, they are watts, enough to see them reflect off of clouds and to some degree to even see the beam in clear air just bouncing off the dust.

People have various colors, red, yellow, green, and I have a blue pointer that is particularly high powered.

When people point their laser pointers at a cloud, you see a colored spot of light on them, like a small colored search light, but when I point my blue pointer at a cloud it does something weird.

At first it makes a point of light like the others except it also lights up the cloud a bit around it as the light is diffused, but if I hold it on, it gets brighter and brighter and a larger area of the cloud lights up as if it was somehow causing the cloud to fluoresce.

That dream transitioned into one where I'm in this large castle like room and dragons are suspended in the air in bubbles, and if I point the laser pointer at the bubble it breaks and frees the dragon.

This transitioned into another similar except the dragon's were replaced with Draculas, well, vampires but I knew they were all Draculas.

Not really sure what these have in common except they both start with "Dr" which reminds me of an instability problem on a Windows system and when something crashes it hangs with "Doctor Watson", so maybe related to that, I don't know, mostly just strange.

China / Prior Life

Last night I dreamt I went to China. It was a very polluted, crowded, industrial area where I went. The air was thick with coal smoke. There was soot everywhere. It was rather like a trip I had to take to Columbus Ohio in the 1980's in that sense.

Houses were crowded together and they had small rooms that were very full. A group of young men wished me to assemble a radio transmitter kit they had obtained from Korea. Given my background in pirate radio in the states this was something I couldn't resist though I did worry a small bit about being put to death or jailed for ever for subversion.

It was a semi-lucid dream. As I was assembling the transmitter, my mind was not clear. I had a hard time reading the instructions (which were in English from poorly translated Korean), the print was small, my eyes were blurry and my mind wasn't clear.

I became aware that the reason I wasn't clear was that I was dreaming, and I had just woken up in the dream world. Just as waking up in the non-dream world is not always smooth, so too it seemed natural for that to be the case in the dream world. As time passed, I did find myself thinking more clearly and was able to put the unit together.

It was a relatively low-powered, maybe a watt, AM transmitter, solid state. It also contained a small receiver as part of the package. It wasn't clear what the intended use of the unit was but these young men did not seem politically active, just having fun like I was back when I ran a pirate station.

The instruction sheets included an advertisement for a tube power amplifier that could be used with the unit that would boost the power to maybe 40 watts.

I also spent some time just touring. The people I stayed with spoke marginal broken English, I speak some marginal broken Chinese. Between our two marginal language skills and a lot of pointing and gesturing we managed functional communications for the most part.

The soot from the smoke-stacks had an odd quality; they would go up into the air and join a cloud and they'd make the edges of the clouds black.

An odd aspect of the dream is that in the dream, I was aware of a previous life, I could remember it clearly, but after waking up, I had no memory of it at all, only a memory of having had a memory in the dream.

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Volcano Dreams

Since I was about ten years old I've been having dreams of volcanism and other major geological activities around the Puget Sound region as well as seeing the aftermath of all the changes and what the new landscape looks like. The finished Earth, after all the changes, is consistent in the dreams, but the volcanic activity as well as various social aspects change.

I've seen paths where it's really pretty cool; the volcanoes go off in unpopulated areas, they behave predictably, we get geothermal energy and hot springs for recreation. In one dream there is a big ski resort built around the hot springs so you can go freeze your butt off skiing and then warm up in a hot spring.

And I've seen tremendously destructive paths, where volcanoes are going off everywhere. In those, our own military blocks passage to the south and shoots with machine guns anyone attempting to go south. Volcanoes block the I-90 corridor so escape to the East becomes impossible. They're actually at first to either side of I-90 but the volcanic ash becomes so deep that cars can't get through. In those dreams I inevitably get out and walk when the car can make no further progress and then eruptions of liquid lava happen on either side of me, and I always die in these.

Last night I had one that was between these two extremes. This dream was incredibly persistent. I kept waking up out of it and then going back to sleep and continuing where it left off. This happens to me in dreams exceedingly rarely. In this dream, there was a volcano in the Alki area, south of Alki actually that dumped so much ash that it filled in the sound between Alki and Vashon Island. You could walk to Vashon if you didn't get pummeled to death in another eruption.

There were volcanoes all over the place as well as lots of earth quakes. People were moving out to eastern states to get away from what was happening on the west coast. My wife and children had already left the area for Kentucky. I was going to go there eventually but still had to take care of something here, I don't know if it was business or relatives or what but for some reason I couldn't leave yet.

My house was gone, volcanoes had destroyed it already. I rented an apartment in downtown Seattle, it was a four or five story building that was almost on the waterfront and had a waterfront view but was really cheap because everyone was leaving. I was the only one on the entire fourth floor. That's all I remember, I woke up and stayed awake after that.

Iraqi Girl War Victim - Wrong Path

Iraqi Girl - War Victim

How much is oil worth? This is what we are doing in Iraq. This is the wrong path for our nation and for the world. This is not because of 9/11, this behavior on our part is what motivates people to commit acts like that which happened on 9/11/2001.

The world is changing, it's going to change massively, and in the end, this sort of thing will be gone, hate will be gone, greed will be gone, environmental destruction will be gone, but getting there can take different paths.

One path involves massive human suffering, our own military fighting us, massive volcanism, earthquakes, starvation, people getting cut-off from their families, most of us dying.

The other path involves massive changes, but in ways where they are beneficial rather than harmful to us. Volcanism happens but away from population centers, we know about it in advance, and it happens in a more peaceful manner that we actually benefit from.

I have seen both of these paths in dreams. We do not want to take the ugly hate path people, we really don't. The amount of suffering that will ensue is unimaginable if we continue down this path.

What we put out is what we're going to get back. If we put out hatred, we're going to get hatred back. If we destroy the environment, it's going to destroy us. If we're not loving of the our neighbors, our neighbors will hate us; if we have no respect for other life that we share this planet it with, it will have no respect for us.

If we love each other, our next door neighbor and our fellow human being on the other side of the planet and the other life we share this planet with, if we show respect for this planet that is our home, then it will provide us what we need.

There is no shortage of resources really, there is plenty of oil even right here at home, it's not the cheapest but it's way cheaper than $120/barrel to extract, this whole world situation is a greed and hatred game. This is the wrong path, we have to change.

And this is not a choice that requires we live in squaller and poverty; resources have been generously provided to us; the problem is that people who want to control us only want resources developed that they can readily control.

We have plenty of energy available to us from the sun and the earth, from the wind and the water and it's no longer more expensive than oil or not available in the quantities needed. It is less expensive, these alternate clean renewable sources, than the cheapest of fossil fuels, coal. But even in the realm of fossil fuels, we have a 300-400 year supply of coal, gasoline can be made from coal and if we replaced ALL of the oil we import with coal derived fuel it would only require a 50% increase in coal mining. Of coarse this isn't the right thing to do, we should be going with clean renewables, but the point is we don't have to go to foreign lands and kill and maim children to meet our energy needs, we have been provided with everything we need right here at home.