Beach site, Post Aransas, Texas, March 26
Hi folks,
Well, talk about ridiculous: I’ve been asked to give a talk as part of the kick off at the annual Electric Universe conference in late June. A three-day event held at this year at Sheraton in Phoenix. I’m given to rambling about What It All Means (WIAM), plus its antecedent and foundation, How The World Works (HTWW), plus how we’ve been lied to about everything and now it appears that I’ll be elbowing a gang whose understanding of these matters is on a whole other level…
So: Aside from the video to be shot during the conference – meaning however many very smart folks will eventually view it online, etc. – I will be addressing an auditorium packed with PhDs in the various sciences (E.U. being a spectacularly cross-disciplinary paradigm), plus the authors of books I’ve squinted at in befuddlement and subsequently been enlightened by, plus — this one I’ll have to check — I believe there will be some short-list Nobel nominees in the first few rows.
There I am, second from the bottom!
No, I’m not necessarily impressed by Piled Higher & Deepers, let alone Nobel-dudes (given Obama’s blah blah), but in this case I most certainly am: see, aside from the odd mainstream plant/shill/controlled opposition, everyone in the room will be in some sense a renegade.
My kind of folks.
The way this all came about is amusing: In making an online contribution to the cause (for a bunch of renegades ‘official funding’ is nonexistent), I stuck in the Paypal instructions form that I considered the whole E.U. crew as ‘Official Cosmic Banditos’ and ‘officially’ dubbed them as such. The E.U. exec director, a fun gal named Susan Schirott, was already aware of my little book (or looked it up, I’m not sure which), its semi-cult status, etc. and word spread through the ranks and to David Talbott, one of the founding fathers of modern Electric Universe theory. The image of being an ‘Official’ cosmic bandito apparently cracked David up sufficiently to warrant the invite. (This ‘sense of humor’ angle is an excellent sign that E.U. theory is screwed on straight, in my view.)
From where (whence?) I write…
When my direct participation (as opposed to a guest or journalist/filmmaker) was first suggested, I had doubts, for various, perhaps obvious, reasons (that I failed Algebra II in high school being an example), but then David suggested that in my talk I might broach the subject of how science has ‘gone off the rails’ (his words). Some of you may have noticed that science’s divers failures in informing us HTWW is one of my pet peeves, if not an outright obsession.
Point being, I have three months to prepare my talk and it occurs to me that I’ve gotten some sage observations/advice/suggestions from you all, so I would ask for help with this one.
What I’m going to do is post a series of essays upon which my talk will be based, the general theme being how science has indeed come off the rails, and what that means to all of us.
(Maybe start with the above, then click this one and scroll down a bit)
But whether you are moved to make suggestions or not, I strongly urge you to take a good look at Electric Universe. You all know I’m big on implications: there are some doozies lurking behind E.U..
My apologies for being late with this post and for its lack of real content. I’ve been pouring over several books in several disciplines (with a new stack on the way from Amazon) and keep putting off the first installment essay – the subject of how science has gone off the rails turns out to be another bottomless rabbit hole. In fact, I’m tempted to dive into an actual book, the only bummer being that the title I had in mind has already been taken: Everything You Know Is Wrong.
I’ll try my best to get back to you in a week. Meanwhile check out the various Electric Universe links, plus my Postcard From The Road. (It’s similar to a recent one but I’m working on a certain visual theme, trying to get it right.)
Allan