- And there, there overhead, there, there hung over
- Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
- There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,
- There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
- There in the sudden blackness the black pall
- Of nothing, nothing, nothing -- nothing at all.
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- -- Archibald MacLeish, The End of the World
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- I've been waiting for this moment, for all my life...Oh
Lord,
- I can feel it coming in the air tonight...Oh Lord
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- --Phil Collins, In the Air Tonight
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- Part I
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- The future and the past exist only as concepts in our
minds. The future never gets here, the past is never retrieved. We have
the eternal Present moment which existed "before" time, and will
remain "after" its "end." The Present gives birth to
all things that are real; it is the "place" where you reside
in the deepest moments of stillness and bliss. There is no desire to acquire
something in the future, no desperate need to undo a mistake from the past.
In the Present, everything is perfect, because the mind perceives things
as they truly ARE.
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- Children embrace this reality without any conceptualization.
Unlike adults, they do not place conditions on their happiness, awaiting
future rewards before they can "feel good." Quite unconsciously,
they say to themselves, "This Present moment is more than enough,
thank you very much. Why waste time awaiting something that will never
get here, when everything I need is available now?"
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- Don't we all seek to re-acquire this effortless ability
to surrender to the Present? Nirvana, enlightenment, rapture, ecstasy...it
has many names, all of which describe the same spiritual state. It is simply
a recognition that God is not capable of making mistakes; that He has made
the Present moment perfect and incorruptible.
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- As a child, like every other child, I did not value futurity,
because I didn't believe in it. I was sure that if the future miraculously
DID one day arrive, I would not be around to see it. I thought of death
constantly throughout childhood. I spoke of Heaven and the afterlife as
casually as most children speak of GI Joe toys and video games. Of course,
I did have some tangible reasons for this belief. I spent childhood immersed
in Cold War "paranoia"; I watched movies like "Threads"
and "The Day After" with my heart in my throat and tears in my
eyes. Nuclear War was worse than a boogeyman; it was the personification
of all Evil in the Universe. If it ever happened, so I reasoned, it would
not only mean the destruction of the world, but it would act as a direct
confirmation of God's insanity. Surely, no "rational" or benevolent
Father would see his Creation destroyed in a senseless act of human dumbfuckery.
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- Around the age of 14, my belief in the End of the World
turned into something more complex. I was training for a marathon, running
for hours a day, and the endorphins and dopamine in my brain seemed to
open up a channel to something huge and important. I began having "dreams"
that cannot be called dreams; they were more like epic movie trailers for
a definitive future Event. In these "dreams," I gazed upon the
heavens, and saw things that only exist in fairytales and legends - things
that should not be spoken of, lest they might overhear. I saw colossal
Giants - one-eyed, fire-breathing, thundering and screaming - burning
in the sky with uncontrolled fury. They had returned to their former domain
with their companions, the fiends of darkness, and they were set to wage
war with their counterbalance, the Ships of Light. A "battle"
ensued that was less a battle than a magnificent drama, a play of such
grandeur that it echoes throughout all of history, since "before"
the beginning of time, to "after" its inevitable end.
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- My first thought upon witnessing this event was, "I
know this. I've seen this before. How could I have forgotten? It is important
that I remember, that I recognize the signs before it happens again. And
it WILL happen again...Is it just around the corner? I think it might be."
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- Part II
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- Albert Einstein once asked the question, "Is the
Universe friendly?" For many centuries, science has envisioned our
planet as a ship sailing in a calm sea, with nary a tempest to disturb
the still waters. We are told that for eons planet Earth and her surrounding
neighbors have been untouched by large-scale catastrophes. Great cataclysms
are things of the very distant past, and most likely, the equally distant
future.
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- But what will happen if this sea we find ourselves in
turns angry, thrashing and flailing and threatening to pull our ship under?
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- It has been said that the best indicator of the future
is the past. If our perception of the past is proven flawed, then all predictions
for the future must certainly be re-evaluated.
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- In the 20th century, the notion of the never-changing
solar system was thrown into doubt by Immanuel Velikovsky's bestselling
book, "Worlds in Collision." It was Velikovsky's assertion that
as recently as a few thousand years ago, planets moved on unstable courses,
and that these events were RECORDED in world mythologies, religions, and
folklore. Another Velikovsky book, "Mankind in Amnesia," describes
a horrific "Doomsday" event that was known as "the end of
the world." He further described our pathological need to re-enact
"the end of the world" through human sacrifice and tribal warfare
- even though the conscious memory of this epoch evades us.
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- What of the recent history of our solar system? A cascade
of space-age discoveries have thrown all previous assumptions about the
Universe into question. Evidence of surprisingly recent cataclysmic activity
has been found on all "rocky" surfaces in space, including asteroids,
comets, and our second-nearest planetary neighbor, Mars. The Martian landscape
features ennumerable enigmas, including an awe-inspiring chasm called Valles
Marineris, which is equal in size to HUNDREDS of Grand Canyons. According
to proponents of the "electric universe" theory, this colossal
trench could not have been formed by flooding, or even "rifting"
or a great "tearing" of the surface. Rather, it could only have
been formed by an enormous electric "arc," because the unique
features of the chasm can only be duplicated in laboratory experiments
with electrical discharge.
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- The ancients may have had a better understanding of the
planets than most people think. It happens that Mars (Eros) was a significant
figure in ancient mythology. He was the warrior-god - the Babylonian Nergal,
the Greek Ares - even the Latin Hercules and the Greek Heracles, were all
names for the planet Mars.
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- There can be no doubt that two central themes can be
found in all world religions and mythologies - the Golden Age, and the
End of the World. Perhaps the ancient people were all relentless liars
telling the SAME lie as a result of mass psychosis. Or perhaps their memories
are an ever-present ghost, begging us to remember, both for their sake
and ours.
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- Part III
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- At the age of 14, I sent a mental post card to my future
self. It read, "When the signs are everywhere, the time wil be at
hand, and you will KNOW." Which came first: did I receive the post
card, or did I see the signs? I suppose it doesn't matter, because either
way, I do REMEMBER.
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- At every moment in human history, people have seen "signs"
of the end of the world. There are many reasons for this, but I think it
originated at the same moment as our collective belief in the "man-God."
Nothing is more frightening than the notion that the Creator of Everything
is a large scale human - angry, jealous, vengeful, and demanding. If God
is a man, then he might well be insane.
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- I know that God is not insane, but I still believe in
the End of the World. It has ALREADY HAPPENED, and it will happen again,
not because God is angry, indifferent, or judgmental, but because human
beings create their own destiny. As Al Pacino said in The Devil's Advocate,
"Free will is a bitch," and our will is and always has been to
create a world of fear and death through preventable fuckery.
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- What are the signs that I claim to have seen? These are
not theological. They are based on solid evidence, some scientific and
some anecdotal, all providing pieces to the same child's puzzle. My eyes
are trained on the heavens, and I do not like what I'm seeing.
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- I have written on this repeatedly over the past month.
Again and again, the words "meteor" and "fireball"
are appearing in news headlines around the globe, as people stand in awe
at the wonderful, terrible spectre of fire blazing across the heavens.
Of course, meteors are ALWAYS reaching the earth...but the past 6 weeks
have produced more news items relating to meteors and other cosmic "impacts"
than the previous YEAR OR MORE. June 3rd (Washingtion), June 5th (Los Angeles)
June 10th (New Zealand) June 17th (Australia) June 20th (Seattle), June
26th (New Zealand) June 27th (Texas), July 7th (5 states in southern America.)
Any simple keyword search on Google will prove this a reality.
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- I began focusing intently on this topic because of my
recent interest in the asteroid Toutatis. On September 29th, 2004, this
enormous body, 3 miles in diameter and 1.5 miles in width, is projected
to pass within 963,000 miles of the earth - a VERY near miss in comic terms.
I took a personal interest in this, because last year, I met a man who
claimed to have insider's knowledge about our government's plans for Toutatis.
He asserted that he worked on a secret missile defense project in Alaska,
which was specifically designed to thwart an asteroid which would reach
the earth on September 29th of this year.
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- The September date does not necessarily hold special
fear for me...because I believe that things are happening already. I must
apologize for my hubris, but I assert that one must be pathologically myopic
to not see the indicators.
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- Meteor strikes...earthquakes...power outages...electrical
explosions...freakish weather...lightning strikes...one need not be "searching"
for these things in order to find them. A nuclear power plant outage in
Phoenix AZ, in June in conjunction with electrical fireballs and "strange
lights"...in the last three days, "unexplained" power outages
at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Logan Airport in Boston, and a city-wide
blackout in Athens, Greece, site of the 2004 Olympics...in Tibet two days
ago, a 6.7 earthquake...In the state of Oregon, 50 EARTHQUAKES in a one
week period, with a 4.9 earthquake occuring last night, the night of a
great thunder and lightning storm...A 4.7-5.0 earhquake in Israel, which
occurred just days after I wrote an article entitled, "Why Is Israel
Taking Earthquake Preparedness Measures?"...so-called "freak
weather" (as described by meterologists) throughout China, Europe,
and Canada.
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- And just yesterday, a report from the New York times,
and carried by the Drudge Report, that the magnetic field of the Earth
is "collapsing."
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- One could argue that I am only "noticing" these
things because I WANT to notice them. I have spent many sleepless nights
pondering that theory, because the last thing I want is to contribute to
an unhealthy and irrational "hysteria" over things that might
not happen. But for me, the last pieces of the puzzle have finally come
together, convincing me beyond doubt that I am not profoundly mistaken.
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- My father, David Talbott, has spent the last 3 decades
of his life examining the issue of planetary catastrohpe (for the record,
I do NOT speak on his behalf, and he very likely shudders every time he
sees me writing a new article.) In his research, he has made many contacts
with the most accredited scientists, including physicists, astrophysicists,
mathematicians, and experts on lightning phenomena. From a number of sources,
we have received information that should shock and appall ALL thinking
persons.
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- You may have heard recently of Internet II, which is
described as "a nationwide project to develop the next generation
of computer network applications to facilitate the research and education
missions of universities." That sounds wonderful, but as Servando
Gonalez writes in his article "Kiss Your Internet Goodbye," "Internet
2 will be fully controlled by the state. In order to access it, or to have
e-mail access, you must be a member of, or be affiliated to, any of the
government-authorized organizations and have a sort of security clearance.
Internet 2 will be out of the reach of the general public, and every person
trying to have unauthorized access to Internet 2 will be charged with terrorist
activities, and severely penalized." (Source: http://www.rense.com/general36/inter.htm)
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- Unbeknownst to most, this project is part of a DELIBERATE
EFFORT to RESTRICT space-age information to only the most esteemed universities,
research institutions, and large corporations. Major laboratories and universities
are now in RAPID TRANSITION to Internet II. They don't want you or me.
members of the lowly "unwashed public," to have meaningful access
to the ORIGINAL data coming from space exploration.
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- In other words, the scientific "mainstream"
is taking rapid and (some might say) DESPERATE measures to prevent members
of the public, including those whose taxes PAY THEIR SALARIES, from scrutinizing
new data from space. They are insulating themselves in an effort to avoid
being asked questions that they cannot possibly answer.
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- This can only be happening for two reasons:
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- 1) The Establishment is aware that space-age discovery
is repudiating the "sacred cows" of astronomy, including black
holes, dark matter, dark energy, the overall gravitational model, and even
Big Bang theory. Many powerful people will lose enormous amounts of grant
money if these theories continue to be refuted.
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- 2) The Establishment is aware of cosmic threats which
would create widespread panic if known to the public.
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- Or 3) Both 1 and 2.
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- I stated at the outset that true peace of mind can only
be found in the Present. I find myself returning increasingly (and gratefully)
to that childlike state of unconcern for the future. The Present can and
MUST serve us well..because in the End, it is all that we have.
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