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WAR- WAR - WAR 01-01-2009 05:30

In the 21st century I was hopeful that humans had seen enough of the devastation wars bring. But one has to realize that the people behind the scenes, big business, the ones that build the mighty weapons, the medical supplies drugs etc... are making huge profits from these wars. Where there is a war there is profit. The longer the war can be drawn out the more profit. I know these statements sound cynical and anti big business but they are not. They are anti war.

As I'm writing this Israel is pounding the crap out of Gaza and killing a lot of people, in my view unnecessarily. Hamas are defiant and are saying they will fight to the last breath. The ego of these people completely overshadows them. This is like a David and Goliath story. Goliath with the helicopters attack aircraft  and high tech missiles clearly and proudly marked (made in the USA)
and here's poor little David with his home made rockets. Lets get the statistics straight here Israel kill 20 or 30 for every one that is killed by Hamas. This is disproportionate, Israel say they are being careful to target only Hamas fighters.

I don't care what Israel say, and if they are being careful, how can careful end up killing hundreds of people most of them civilians caught up in the god forsaken Gaza strip. And why is Egypt just sitting there watching? This whole scenario is wrong. Everyone who looks into it can see it is wrong. Yet no one is doing a god damed thing to save innocent lives.

If this is the beginning of 2009, and everyone stands around watching the bully beat up the little guy. Then I will predict that humanity has not got far to go before it self destructs completely.

Maybe the end times prophecy's  have some truth to them after all. If so then hang on because 2009 is going to be a bumpy ride.

Written By

Maurice Price
Ex Energy Slave.

Time for Change 29-09-2008 11:17

With climate change being pushed back to second place since the media have given prime focus to the financial melt down happening around the world. This is causing a financial squeeze and it's impacting on many, making it difficult or impossible to maintain the standard of living to which they have become accustom. With many people opting for a reduction in their standard of living by moving to caravan parks or such, which were once the refuge of the poor, the poor have been squeezed out of even these meager places . Caravan parks are now out of the reach of the poor due to the swift migration of the marginal middle class bringing with them the demand of change which the parks have taken on and many have upgraded their facilities to bring them into alignment with lifestyle expectations of the middle class, with the poor being squeezed out. Now where do the poor have to go?

The poor and homeless in our society's get a bad rap, many of them have given up on society they just snapped and can't take the pressure anymore. Sure many have mental issues but there are no facilities to take them in due to a lack of funding, so they are left out in the cold. Yet the high society and middle class have no hesitation to pour out their scorn and distaste for what you might call the untouchables in our society. To which many amongst these poor were in high society but for one reason or another they slipped through the cracks and with these cracks ever widening maybe we should call sthese cracks crevasses now days.

There is no doubt that the world is at the beginning of a massive change. Many will argue this point mostly the ones that have not felt the impact on them yet. Many will take the standpoint that the governments will sure things up and make the necessary adjustments to bring things back on track. I would like to believe that too. But if you search the depths of your being you will know you are only fooling yourself, as deep down you know the truth of the situation. Maybe you should stop listening to everyone else and listen to your own heart, only then will you know the truth behind the veil of words and promises echoing around the world.

Things are going to change, life on planet earth and in the universe in general is all about change. There is nothing but change. History is an easy place to find out about change and its consequences.

One need not look far back into history to see what happens to those that deny change. They perish as the sweeping changes overcome them. Imagine being told you will be safe if you stand behind the pile of sand bags at the beach as the tsunami rolls in toward you. Would you believe the people in that situation? Maybe you would and maybe you wouldn't.

So the big question is how do we deal with such massive and impending change marching relentlessly our way. We have a choice many will stand steadfast and cling to the promises made by our governments and leaders. Governments and our leaders have much invested in continuing the status quo they have no way to come to terms with such change they have no choice in their minds but to stand steadfast in there belief or perish with it, and on the other hand nature only knows change. Who would win such a competition? Nature or Civilization as we know it today? We need not look back far in our past to see how many civilizations have fallen. Many of these civilizations were at their pinnacle of power and prosperity at the time of their fall. So if change is going to be forced upon us how do we change?

This is the big dilemma facing humanity today. How do so many make the sweeping changes necessary to realign themselves with nature. Well I would make the point it is near impossible.

As has been foretold for centuries there is going to be change near the end of the age. We are approaching the end of the age now. And there is no denying that change is in the air. The big question is who is going to embrace it and who is going perish fighting against it.

I don't have the answers either. All I know is change or perish, and I am going to make the change.

Many of you will think I have written this from a religious point of view, let me assure you I am not religious. Some of you will be thinking I am a crank a doom sayer. Well I can also assure you likewise that I would much rather continue life in the higher middle class that I have become so accustom to. But when some one yells fire and you smell smoke it would be wise to at least get up and see for yourself if there is fire. Don't just sit in your lounge chair and say, if there is fire, the fire brigade will fix it. Sure they will do their best. But Some times even the fire brigade can't get to the problem soon enough. And once the fire has taken hold the building is lost.

Homelessness and Poverty in Australia - Outrageous and Shameful 15-04-2008 12:03

Outrageous and Shameful

Look at ourselves, where has our humanity gone?

To most people living in Australia it would seem ridiculous even absurd to think that people were homeless and living in poverty with the amount of wealth this country has.

But the sad truth is there are around 36,000 homeless children and over 100,000 people homeless each night. This is enough people to fill a large football stadium, homeless every night . How is this possible? How could it happen in Australia? Even worse how could we let this tragedy happen.

How can we live with this stain, have we no decency left? Have we as a society sunken to such a low level that this is now acceptable? Shame on us if we accept such standards!

We sit in our lounge rooms criticising other countries for their lack of humanity yet we're prepared to look through our own lack of humanity in situations like this. I hear people say things like, “they put themselves in that position let them suffer.” or “ They should get off their ass and get a job,” or, they dropped out of society so why should we pay to pick up the pieces.” Well some of them did not drop out of society and some of them have tired to get jobs and if given an opportunity would get back up.

You probably think this couldn't happen to you,  don't you, and that your somehow immune to this sort of thing happening to you?.

Well situations change, and the world changes, today more than ever before the economic situations in this country are linked to the economic situations of the global economy and its resources.

The world is facing an energy crisis called peak oil . This is going to change the entire western worlds way of conducting business. Jobs that were once deemed safer and secure are going to be thrown out like yesterdays trash.

Your probably asking how can this be true? And what's going to cause this to happen?

Well here's a picture for you to take on board.

Peak Oil – with the reality of increased oil production becoming a thing of the past due to peak oil (a term used to describe the decline of oil production.) With the demand for oil now entering the stage where it out strips supply it is forcing the world oil price up. This rapid rise in oil price impacts on everything in society. So food prices will skyrocket. Petrol prices skyrocket, travel costs and transport in general costs skyrocket. All the materials plastics, clothing made from nylon and plastics skyrocket. The cost of doing business goes through the roof. Demand for products drop, employees are put off in the thousands, and globally probably in the millions. But you still have to pay your bills your car payments, your mortgage etc... where do you get the money if you have been put out of work? Where in this new economic climate do you turn to get another job? Could this really happen? Could this happen to you? The short answer. Yes. And we have entered the early stages of this very cycle now. Don't take my word for it though, do your own research. Find out about peak oil.

So while you currently have the good job the great lifestyle and all the trappings of success, wouldn't it be a great idea to reach out and offer someone less fortunate than yourself some help. If you suddenly found yourself on the scrap heap tomorrow you just might need theirs.

References

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23503426-662,00.html

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6388299.html

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20060710/default_full.htm

Mind gone mad 26-03-2008 12:49

Mind gone mad

A lot of people are asking the question whats gone wrong with the world?

So much hate,lust and greed in the world today.

    *      So many family break downs or break ups, but so few brake though.
    *      Where is the love, laughter and enjoyment of life that is suppose to be our birthright?
    *      Freedom or free choice, do we really have free choice? Or is it just a fairy tail fantasy?
    *      Purpose, do we really have a purpose? Maybe we do, and if we do, is it what we believe it to be? and if we don't, why do we cling to this thing we call life?
    *      Prosperity, what is it? How secure is it? How do we get it and where does it come from.

I Guess these are a few of the things that people ponder from time to time? when they have time. These days with the demand on our time at an all time high. How can this be? We have all this wonderful technology to do things for us and make life so much easier. This technology is suppose to free up our time. Where has all this freed up time gone?

I know from my perspective I have less time now days than I did some 5 years ago and if I look back 15 years ago I had even more time free time to enjoy. Now days I find it difficult to find the time to read a book a month thats time erosion for you.

So what the hell is happening ?

Things just keep on getting more complex. There are more forms to fill in, and where the hell do all these forms go to? who reads them? is all the data that goes on these forms secure?

I know my email box gets 30 to 50 emails each day, my physical (old style mail) box gets 10 or so letters and junk mail of some kind each day. and it makes a mess on my desk and takes time to review them and put them in their rightful place same goes for the email.

As for the cost of living were told by our wonderful reliable and trustworthy politicians that we have very low inflation and that they have it firmly under control. ARE THEY KIDDING? do they think we are that stupid to not to notice the price we pay when we go purchase our bread and basics, that it's going up more quickly than the publicly announced inflation figures put out by these people. It's obvious that these people never go buy their own groceries week after week other wise they would perhaps begin to suspect too.

Unfortunately the world is heading to a place that most of us don't want it to go.

Many years ago our leaders were from the community. Those that had become successful gave back to the community, to those that gave them their success. These leaders took on the job of leading the nations as an honor (Not Paid with money). Honor was their currency.

Compare that to the leaders we have today? What currency do they seek?

What are the motives of our leaders these days. Oh yes they make speeches and gestures about grand plans for the people. but the facts stand before all of us. Are we better off now than we were before? in some ways yes. We have technology.

What is the cost ?
Family crisis all time high
Drug abuse all time high
Teenage Pregnancy's at an all time high
Family values? (not even sure what this means anymore)
Health Crisis (to many areas to mention)

People are turning on each other.

How do the governments of the world control people ?

In the democratic countries they use fear.
Fear of not having enough money to pay the bills (debt driven society).
Fear of terrorism (religion comes in the back door).

Why do we have these so called religious fanatics popping out of the so called wood work in the first place? It's not because they want to, or because they like killing. it's because they don't see a bright future. They look down the road a few years and see more oppression and more violence and and and ... Governments talk about road maps to freedom while they plunder and mine the very substances right out from under these disparate people.

I certainly don't support the methods that these terrorists use but I do see where their anger comes from. And I see that anger is not being addressed. (well i guess i should rephrase that, it is being addressed with tanks and guns and violence and toucher) and in return we see more violence.


In the non democratic countries they use fear.
Fear of being arrested and taken away for toucher.
Fear of being killed.

This is a giant step back in time. Lets all take a trip back to the roman days or the viking days or the medieval days. Did we learn nothing? From the violence of the past and the not to distant past in some cases WW1, WW2 ,Vietnam, etc...

I haven't even mentioned the threat of natural disaster (Global warming) from our in pursuit of progress and economic growth and due to our misuse of resources like oil and coal just to name two of which there are many more.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of the world.

You see before you a world in turmoil.

The path that we are on is dire.

This is not a warning folks.

We are on the Titanic (metaphorically speaking) and the ice berg is out their somewhere on our course, if we don't change our course, well you know how it goes!. (Hope you have a life jacket.)

What our leaders are doing is good, the rearrangement of the chairs on the Titanic looks great. Unfortunately it's not taking us away from a collision with a catastrophe which is largely preventable.

This path where're on is like a funnel the further down we go the more difficult it is to get out. and the faster things happen.

Will changing course be easy? No (To many people have to much stuff to risk lousing it- therein lyes the problem. Keep doing more of the same and wait for disaster to strike or do something about it and meet the pending danger head on.)

Will there be suffering? Yes there will be (but which of the two options will cause the greatest suffering?)

This is a mathematical certainty.

There is too much evidence to ignore.

Tell you what, you look deep with in yourself search your very soul and then if you truly have you will know the truth. You will know what you need to do as difficult as it might be.

Yes there are groups out there saying things are not as bad as the scientists are making it out to be.

Ask yourself the question who is funding these groups? What is the motivation driving their arguments. Fear is driving it. Fear of reduced lifestyle. Fear of loss of fame and fortune, Fear of loss of power. In a nutshell it's FEAR OF LOSS.

But guess what? If we don't clean up our own act, rest assured mother nature will take her course and will cleaned up our mess if we don't, then talk about fear of loss.

Maurice Price
Ex Energy Slave.

Sadness and despair over humanity ~ China and Tibet. 26-03-2008 12:22

Sadness and despair over humanity ~ China and Tibet.

Of recent days there has been a lot of focus in the media on the issue of China and Tibet. It seems obvious to me that China is using violent draconian measures to suppress the uprising.

The use of force has never been a permanent solution to these types of situations. One only has to review history to see the number of empires that have been built on aggression  violence and suppression have all failed and crumbled later on.

It is a well known fact that China has a poor record when it comes to human rights and suppressing minority groups with force. I agree with the voices calling for China to engaging in dialogue with Tibet to bring a solution to this problem.

I would also point out that in my opinion people and countries that buy Chinese goods, visit China or support China in anyway while this violent suppression is going on are condoning the violent action being taken by China and are just as guilty by support.

You can't be saying on the one hand China we don't agree with your violent actions and on the other hand be buying Chinese goods or supporting China an anyway.

If China doesn't resolve this Tibetan crisis peacefully then in my opinion anything from China including the Olympic games is contaminated with the spirit of violence and suppression.

The Olympic Games are suppose to stand for perfection and for the highest standards possible in human achievement. If the spirit of the Games is to be tarnished with such human rights abuses and if the counties around the world allow this to happen then in my opinion we have lost the race, the entire human race. We will have become nothing more than common animals.

We as human beings have a divine purpose, unfortunately most have forgotten and fallen back to an animalistic state.

 

Maurice Price
Ex Energy Slave

Are we witnessing a Global Meltdown? 21-03-2008 10:51

Are we witnessing a Global Meltdown?

First of all I want to give you a picture of where the world is in terms of future sustainability or the level of lifestyle we are currently enjoying.

In the western civilization most people live a relatively comfortable life. By this I mean we all have plenty of food, and shelter. And from there the luxury rises depending on the position you hold with in the community. Have you ever stopped to ponder what holds all this together? And what could cause it to crumble.

There is no doubt that there are many threats facing our civilization today. Back in the 1900’s these threats we face today were not even contemplated.

With Global Warming continuing to be a headline topic, it is said by many in the scientific community to be the single biggest threat to our continuing civilization. Well there is no denying it certainly is one large threat but it’s probably not the major one. What I mean is there are other more destructive threats that you don’t hear about in the daily media. Firstly let me name the threats I’m talking about and then I will go into more detail on each of them. The first and most critical of these threats is Oil. Yes That right oil. You may be asking what’s oil got to do with it. Well as you know the western civilizations use a lot of this stuff. Back in 2005 the world was using 83 – 84 million barrels of crude oil per day.

Like all finite commodities they follow a pattern.  The pattern for the production of oil looks like this.

This shows that globally oil has or is approaching the maximum amount of oil that can be retrieved from the known oil reserves. This on its own is not that much of a problem. I mean it took since the 1800’s to now to use half of the oil that we know exists. So your probably saying to yourself no problem we have a couple hundred years to go before we run out. Well it doesn’t work like that.

The easy oil is what we get first, this stuff almost delivers it’s self. Then after a while the pressure drops and they have to add pressure to the well to keep production up then as time goes on it gets harder and harder to keep up the production levels, then the oil well goes into decline and thats it.

The United states oil production went into decline back in the 1970’s and from that time on steadily become more and more reliant on imported oil these days it imports almost all of it’s oil.

The big problem is that with countries like China, and India and other developing nations basing their economic growth on the US model (high demand for oil) This pushes up the consumption of oil vastly. Into the regions of demand out stripping supply as the graph below indicates.

What about finding more oil?

It would seem that the planet has been extensively studied using all the latest in technology to scan deep into the planet. I guess you could say the entire planet has been x rayed with very little new oil being discovered. I recall a geologist saying that for every 4 barrels of oil being used we are only discovering one barrel to replace it. It’s also interesting that the oil companies have not been building new refinery’s and most of the existing ones are 20 – 30 years old. If they were planning on increasing production to meet the demand they would have built more refineries to cope with the demand. Truth is that the major oil producers know and the oild companies know and the governments know that the world production of oil is not going to meet consumption demand and somewhere in 2007 - 2008 or there abouts the price is going to go up and up and up and up and up and up... to the point where everything is going to go up in price. Let me explain that. Everything in our western civilization is based on oil. From the food we eat to the clothes we wear, to the car we drive and the home we live in. Just think about the food for a moment. Take a cob of corn for example. The farmer prepares the field with a tractor using oil. The farmer fertilizes the field using fertilizes made from natural gas which is part of the energy being depleted same as oil. The crop is planted with the tractor using oil, the crop is sprayed with pesticides (sad but true) these pesticides are made from oil derivatives, the crop is grown and harvested using the oil powered machines. Then the crop is delivered to the markets in oil powered trucks and then the shoppers buy them from the supermarket and you would have driven there in and oil powered car. So how much oil is used to produce a single Cobb of corn? Get the picture now?

This oil usage is in almost everything, all our appliances, all plastics the list is to big to include here, I suggest you look it up your self, do your own research and see what you find. My job with this is to indicate there is a looming problem.

You see now that when oil fails to meed demand and forces the price up that the price increase will filter through to all the commodities we use everyday. This in turn puts inflationary pressures on the economy causing recessions, unemployment etc... All the things we don’t want.

I’m not here to be a dooms day alarmist just to let you know this is just one of the looming problems facing us in the near future. And by the near future I mean near like now onwards. Oh please don’t just take what I’m saying at face value. Investigate it for yourself only by doing that will you know the extent of the problem.

Ok next I want to turn your attention to another less known problem. The destruction of our microbes. On the surface this doesn’t seem like a real threat but when it’s investigated it is probably more serious than Global warming and Peak Oil together. Once again it’s rarely spoken of. Or out a sight out a mind. Western Civilization population has grown exponentially in just the last 200 years.

This graph indicates the sort of growth I’m talking about. Now that picture alone should tell you something about whats going to happen.

In nature and in history anything that has a near vertical assent is going to revers. I won’t keep going up forever. And when it comes down it will look the same in reverse. Scary scary thought. My point here is that we have been pumping all sorts of toxic chemicals into the soils to get higher yields and higher productivity not realizing that the chemicals are reaching rivers and water tables. When these chemicals come into contact with the microbial life forms they have a devastating effect on their health and these microbes are the base of life for the planet they are at the bottom of the chain so to speak. I we take out these guys then everything above them in the chain is at risk. I challenge you to do some research for yourself. Here’s and example, plankton which is the base of the food chain in the ocean. Because of the pollution from this chemical life we live the oceans are becoming more acid or the pH of the ocean is shifting. The plankton are not tolerant of this sudden shift and are dying out. This intern means less food for the next level up the chain and it has an effect on the amount of C^o2 that enters the atmosphere which in turn affects global warming. All these things are connected Oil use causes pollution directly and indirectly. Pollution causes poisoning of the microbial lifeforms. The death of the microbial lifeforms causes and increase of C^o2 entering the atmosphere. Which causes more global warming.

So you can see that everything has a compounding effect on everything.

I’m not going to go into global warming as a threat because you already know of that and what it’s doing to the planet.

So lets recap

Major Threats to our survival on this planet

1. Global Warming

2. Peak Oil

3. Destruction of the microbe

Now I want to point out some other concerning facts. Now I’m not here to do the doomsday stuff just to inform you and recommend that you do your own research to get your own take on what I’m saying here.

Ok, Lets look at what is likely to happen in the up and rapidly approaching future. And look at the alternative energy sources that are available on this planet.

Alternative energy sources.

So you say to yourself it’s all ok because we have Solar Power and Wind Power and Hydrogen Fuels and Nuclear Power. Yes that is true we do have all this stuff. But lets examine it’s real uses.

Solar Power.

Solar power is not going to power our heavy industry, it’s a light weight solution it will power a home with light and some appliances and thats about it. It’s not at a stage where it is going to take the place of oil. The manufacture and production of the Solar panels is made possible through oil.

Don’t get me wrong I love solar power but I also realise its limitations.

Hydrogen Fuel

The Hydrogen fuel debate has been around for a while now, but the facts still remain this. It takes more energy to produce the Hydrogen than you can get from the stuff. And it’s difficult to store in sufficient quantity to get any real use out of it. Then we have the problem of infrastructure who is going to put up the vast sums of money needed to build all the refueling stations all over the world. And do this in time before the oil becomes to expensive to use. My point here is this Hydrogen story is flawed.

Wind Power

There have been and are many wind generating stations firstly they are unreliable as the wind has to be blowing more often than not. The technology like all technology of today relies on oil to be manufactured and delivered to site. While this is a step in the right direction it’s only a small insignificant addition to the energy requirements needed to replace our dependence on oil power.

Hydro Electric Power

This form of electricity generation has been around for a long time and is going to remain an important part of our energy platform. This is not the answer either. If it was we would have had much more development in this area than we have today.

Nuclear Power

Of course we have nuclear power, but this is not a cheap form of power either. It produced deadly waste products that take a very long time to break down (thousands of years) and we user oil powered machines to dig the uranium out of the ground and transport and process it. The Power stations require oil powered machines to build them. This form of energy is dangerous and costly.

There is not a single form of energy readily available that goes anywhere near the cost effectiveness of oil. Lets examine it for a moment.

Lets say your car does 30 miles per gallon or 10km per liter. Lets look at how much energy that is.

If you were to stop in a straight flat stretch of road switch your car off and put it to neutral and start pushing your car for 30 miles or 48 km how long would it take you? Estimates are it would take you up to six weeks to push your car 30 miles or 48 km and thats providing it’s flat.

How much is your time worth? Lets assume you get $1 per hour for pushing your car. This equates to something like $1008 for the work. So how much is a gallon of gas? $3.44 US.

So lets exaggerate and say its $5 per gallon for gas. Thats $5 for the energy to propel your car 30 miles. Or $1008 if you did it at only $1 per hour. See the vast differential in energy costs. We have been brought up with an unsustainable understanding of energy. Energy has been so cheap for so long that we have taken it for granted and it’s almost impeded in our DNA. There is no denying it that we as in all of humanity have a problem a large and serious problem to deal with in the very near future.

Not to mention the risk of war between the countries that have an insatiable appetite for oil. I mean just think and I mean think about this for a moment. Here we have the USA, China, India, Russia Etc.. China, Russia and India are developing nations China is growing at around 10% per year that means they have an energy demand 10% bigger each year. Of the nations mentioned above which ones are going to reduce their economic growth to allow a fair sharing of the remaining oil reserves? Which countries have taken military action to protect their oil supplies already ? Does the invasion of Iraq ring any bells? What was the purpose of that invasion? Was it to find weapons of mass destruction or to safeguard their oil supply? And if it was the weapons of mass destruction where are they? It’s not a hard one to work out. Iraq is not the only target, There is Iran and Venezuela just to mention two that are on the radar of the USA. Is what they are saying about the Governments of Venezuela and Iran true or is it another smokescreen like Iraq and excuse to invade and take control of the resources ? I will leave that to you to work out. Also ask yourself this question, which of these major superpowers USA, China, India, Russia have nuclear weapons and which ones would use them if it was the only way for them to secure their energy supply?

I could write volumes on each of the subjects briefly discussed here and if you do some Internet searches you will find volumes yourself. There is a better way to live a sustainable way to live for the life as an energy slave is noway to live.

Written by

Maurice Price

Ex-Energy Slave

References on the microbe

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Who Speaks for the Microbe?

The Land Institute
Agriculture and Biodiversity Loss: Industrial Agriculture

Naked Ape to Super Species
Authors Dr David Suzuki and Holly Dressel

References on Peak Oil

End of Cheap Oil
National Geographic June 2004

4 Corners
Story on Peak Oil

Collin Campbell
Petroleum Geologist

Oil Crisis
Author Colin Campbell

Peak Oil Australia

The Oil Depletion Analysis Center
(ODAC) is an independent, UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion problem.

Colin Campbell DVD
Petroleum Geologist

Peak Oil imposed by Nature DVD

Documentary Film
Video Oil, Smoke & Mirrors

End of Suburbia
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

What a way to go
Life at the end of the Empire

Time! How come we seem to have less of it ? 21-03-2008 10:48

Time! How come we seem to have less of it ?

The modern world with it's hustle and bustle is a much different place than it was only a few short years ago. When I was growing up time seemed to be standing still. It seemed to take forever to go from one Christmas to the next. These days I fine we still haven't put everything away from the last one, and then it's time to get it all out again. Christmas then Easter in the blink of an eye. Is time speeding up or is it an illusion?

Well it seems impossible to say that time is speeding up doesn't it. How could it possibly speed up there is 60 seconds in every minute and 60 minutes in every hour. Can't just skim a few nano seconds off each second and hope nobody notices thats obviously crazy. Maybe it's that we are so distracted these days that we don't notice time as much as we use to. There are many theory's as to whats going on with time but only a very few actually understand it at it's core.

First of all we have to get a good solid understanding of time. What is it where does it come form and where does it go. Well time was invented by human beings I mean to say, if you asked your cat what time is it, your cat would tell you the time is now. You see time to your cat is only ever now. There is never a time when it is not now. Only we intelligent human beings have been able to invent time. Of course time is useful when setting an appointment to meet someone in the future, it's a calibration mechanism to the past and future, and when you meet whom ever you have the appointment to meet in the future, you will meet in the now. So Time is a measuring device like a ruler. We can overlay that ruler over events and mark off the events that way we have mapped the event to a calibrated scale on the time ruler giving us the ability to look back at past events and forward to future event projections or predictions.

According to Dr Carl Johan Calleman who wrote a book called solving the greatest mystery of our time the Mayan Calendar. This book went in to detail of time past, present and future. Dr Calleman suggests that time since the big bang has been progressively going through cycles firstly long cycles through to today the very short cycles.

The diagram below shows the cycles.

The Cellular Cycle commenced somewhere in the vicinity of 16.4 billion years (Big Bang)
The Mammalian Cycle 820 million years (First animals)
Familial Cycle 41 million years (First monkeys)
Tribal Cycle 2 million years (First Humans)
Regional Cycle 102,000 years (Spoken Language)
National Cycle 5,125 years (Written Language)
Planetary Cycle 256 years years (Industrial Age 1769)
Galactic Cycle 12.8 years (Age of Ethics) – we are in this age now.
Universal Cycle .72 of a year (still the future)

So according to this chart which was first drawn up by Dr Calleman it shows that the same amount of stuff occurs in each cycle but the cycles are shorter each time.
The Mayans left us clues with their intricate detail of time. Their Calendars are very accurate. I won't go into the detail here it's all in Dr Calemans Book if you care to get it. But My point here is that this is one indication of time speeding up. Time to a human being is only in the mind. As all things are only in the mind. We are not the mind we are human beings with a mind. The mind is a tool with which we are able to make complex calculations and decisions usually with the intention of making our life better although the mind works just as well the other way, (constructively or destructively).

Every night we go to bed and sleep. During the sleep process time stops in our consciousness. We no longer measure our being here with time while asleep. From the time we go to sleep to the time we wake up it seems only like a short time, feels more like minutes more than hours. Imagine this. Lay down or sit in a chair do nothing, no reading, no watching TV, no listening to the radio or music no distractions at all. Do it for 6 - 8 hours, then see how long 6 – 8 hours really is, go on I dare you.

Well I guess you get the picture 6 - 8 hours would be torcher. The modern civilization we are currently in entertains our minds the mind is so distracted and busy it's almost like we are asleep. There is so much information to take in everyday, so much to get done everyday, with the high cost of the lifestyle we live in the modern age of stuff, we have to earn more than ever before, this in turn has us running to keep up everyday and with the worry, anxiety and pressure of just making life work. The mind doesn't have time to notice time, just like when you're asleep your mind doesn't notice time then either. So is time speeding up? The short answer is NO, Time is not speeding up, but we are being forced to do more within that time. I guess it's a form of compression more done is less time give the illusion of time speeding up. All this is built on a false premise. This is the promise of a better lifestyle. Do we have a better lifestyle today than our parents or their parents? Well we have more stuff, and we have better cars and bigger homes and bigger TV sets. So in that way yes we do have it better, but on the other hand at what cost? More Stress, Anxiety, Depression, the poor health.... So our forebears had better health and were on the whole happier than our generation but they had less stuff. Oh and more time.

In the end we may face having to go back to a simpler lifestyle once again if in the near future those in the peak oil camp are proven to be right.

Written By

Maurice Price
Ex Energy Slave.

References

Dr Calleman – Solving the Greatest Mystery of Our Time – The Mayan Calendar

Consciousness – 20 Scientist interviews DVD