Bitcoin and Blockchain

Five years ago on Jan 1, 2013, one Bitcoin was worth US$14.08 and on Dec 17, 2017 the price briefly passed US$20,000. A small investment of only $1408 for 100 coins was momentarily worth over $2 million just 5 years later. Bitcoin was the first of now over 1500 cryptocurrencies that exist today, but it still has the overall largest market value. From Wikipedia:

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system. It is the first decentralized digital currency, as the system works without a central bank or single administrator. The network is peer-to-peer and transactions take place between users directly, without an intermediary.

The second coin by market value is Ethereum. It started 2017 at US$8.35 and peaked on January 13, 2018, at over US$1400. I bought some Ethereum coins at the end of May 2017 for a price of around US$200 and in June 2017 my son built a special computer for about US$1000 to "mine" the coins. He now has mined almost three coins. From Wikipedia:

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality. It provides a decentralized Turing-complete virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which can execute scripts using an international network of public nodes.

The last crypto coin/platform I want to tell you about is EOS. It is currently in the ICO phase and the platform is expected to launch shortly after the ICO completes on June 1, 2018. I invested in the ICO earlier this month on April 10, 2018 at a price of US$6.00, which in hindsight was clearly divine timing, as starting on April 11 the price began shooting up and is currently over US$19.00. From Wikipedia:

EOS is a cryptocurrency token and blockchain that operates as a smart contract platform for the deployment of decentralized applications and decentralized autonomous corporations. EOS aims to become a decentralized operating system supporting industrial-scale applications, with claims to eliminate transaction fees and also conduct millions of transactions per second.

I know that many people don't understand what's so special about cryptocurrencies, so here's a great article on Medium that explains them beautifully. Essentially, a cryptocurrency token is an incentive, like when the company you work for gives you stock options. They are initially not worth anything, but if the company becomes successful they could be worth a lot, so you do your best to help make the company successful.

Bitcoin proved it’s possible to embed incentives in software so that the same level of coordination and efficiency is achieved without establishing legal entities, signing agreements, employment contracts etc. Bitcoin proved that economic coordination at the global scale that was previously extremely costly is now possible with pure software. This is the real breakthrough of Bitcoin, the creation of a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO).

Ethereum takes the idea of Bitcoin to the next level. It abstracts out the underlying platform so that you can focus on building other incentive structures. Ethereum does the same for DAOs. DAOs are not organisations as we normally imagine them (own stuff in the physical world, have employees etc). DAOs are pure economic coordination mechanisms. By distributing risks and rewards, DAOs can make people that never met each other contribute resources to the shared purpose.

Cryptographic tokens represent various risk/reward profiles and their holders create various incentive networks.

Web 1.0 — Static Document Networks : web of static pages connected via hyperlinks.

Web 2.0 — Social Networks : web of people connected via social links (likes, follows).

Web 3.0 — Incentive Networks: web of people connected via economic links (tokens).

In 2016, I wrote about The Singularity and a world where machines do all the work, but if we bring DAOs into the picture, then not only do they do all the work but also make all the money :-) From Forbes:

Terra0, a project involving an augmented self-owned forest proposed by Paul Seidler and Paul Kolling from the University of Arts, Berlin. In the project, forest land ownership is structured as an AI DAO with smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Then, using drones and satellites, the AI DAO can evaluate the wood stock and decide how much and when to sell in the market. Once the project is up and running, the AI DAO can pay out debts to its initial owners and eventually turn a forest into the autonomous, self-owned entity that controls its own resources. Taking this idea further, we can imagine self-owned AV (autonomous vehicles) and robots becoming a normal part of our future economy.

The Singularity

Wikipedia states the following about the Singularity:

The technological singularity (also, simply, the singularity) is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial superintelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.

The singularity has been talked about for decades and always seemed a long way off as little progress had been made in the field of artificial intelligence...until last year. The company DeepMind, acquired by Google in 2014, has built an artificial neural network that can think and learn just like a human being. In the video above, at the 10 minute mark, you can see how the AI learned to play some 1980's Atari video games. It started out much worse than a human, but because it is able to play and learn continuously, in a mere 24 hours it had learned to play better than any human.

One game that computers have never been able to beat a human at, unless given an advantage, is the ancient Chinese game of Go. Earlier this year, DeepMind's AI named AlphaGo finally achieved that goal, defeating world champion Lee Sedol 4 to 1 in a best of 5 match. Again, it was AlphaGo's ability to learn and teach itself that made this possible.

Unlike previous AI victories — such as Deep Blue’s defeat of chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, or IBM Watson’s Jeopardy! triumph in 2011 — DeepMind programmed AlphaGo to be capable of teaching itself, not just carrying out a set of fixed moves or activities.

I believe this ability to teach itself and quickly surpass human ability in any task, makes artificial superintelligence and the singularity an almost certainty. This will eventually create a world where machines do all the work, leaving humans free to focus on creative and spiritual pursuits, but there may be a lot of turmoil before we get there.

I recently read the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind that discusses numerous technological advances taking place at the present time, beyond just artificial intelligence. The author, Yuval Noah Harari, believes humans are on the verge of becoming gods through technology.

geneticists have already managed to engineer genius mice that display improved memory and learning skills, and super-worms that live up to six times their normal lifespan. There is no technical reason why we could not start engineering superhumans too. Within a century or even a few decades, genetic engineering and other forms of biological engineering might enable us to make far-reaching alterations not only to our physiology, immune system, and life expectancy, but also to our intellectual and emotional capacities.

That was written in 2014 and then earlier this year in 2016, Elizabeth Parrish became the first woman to actually become biologically younger through gene therapy.

In March 2016, the same tests taken again by SpectraCell revealed that her telomeres had lengthened by approximately 20 years, from 6.71kb to 7.33kb, implying that Parrish's white blood cells (leukocytes) have become biologically younger. These findings were independently verified by the Brussels-based non-profit HEALES (HEalthy Life Extension Company), and the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK-based charity committed to combating age-related diseases.

That description led me to the wikipedia page on telomeres where I came across the following study that was done.

A 2013 pilot study from UCSF took 35 men with localized early-stage prostate cancer and had 10 of them begin "lifestyle changes that included: a plant-based diet (high in fruits, vegetables and unrefined grains, and low in fat and refined carbohydrates); moderate exercise (walking 30 minutes a day, six days a week); stress reduction (gentle yoga-based stretching, breathing, meditation)" and also "weekly group support". When compared to the other 25 study participants, "The group that made the lifestyle changes experienced a 'significant' increase in telomere length of approximately 10 percent.

So there you have it. With some simple lifestyle changes, you can make yourself biologically younger to the same extent as Elizabeth did, and it has been scientifically proven! So you will have a choice for achieving immortality: technology or spirituality, however, there is a catch if you take the technological approach. Here's what the Founders have to say, taken from the book Earth Awakens.

Your genetics researchers will continue to map out the “immortality gene” and develop new technologies for splicing and combining it with existing “mortal genes.” Stem cell research will continue, despite opposition from some religious groups. Cloning and related practices will be extended and refined.

Although these new medical advances will start prolonging the lives of a few human beings, the vast majority will be unresponsive because the cause of their aging and decay will not have been addressed. Keeping a human body alive when the soul has given up interest in living does not work, and eventually the soul will find a way of exiting the body in such cases. Of course, the egoic self will continuously try to prolong itself, mostly out of fear of death or belief in self-importance.

In order for humans to attain physical immortality while in fourth density, they will need to have a great degree of enthusiasm and excitement about being alive. They will need to have a strong sense of purpose and commitment to being on Earth. They will also need to clear their subconscious and unconscious fear of death. If they are ready to move into fifth density ascension, then they will not need modern medicine to attain immortality anyway.

The Real History of the Earth

I just finished reading Sal Rachele's latest book "The Real History of the Earth" and thought it was great. Regarding the predictions, this book confirms what was hinted at in Sal's last book, that nothing major would happen until after the comet flyby on May 5, 2017 that causes another ascension boost and a major upheaval in world economies.

On December 21, 2012 the Earth reached a 4.00 vibration and transitioned to being a 4D planet. By mid-2015 the Earth reached a vibration of 4.25. In Sal's last book he had stated a person needed to be within 1.00 of the Earth to remain on the planet (i.e. at least 3.25 with the Earth at 4.25), but in this book he says a person needs to be within 0.5 of the Earth to remain here.

Since Sal's last book, the average vibration of humanity has increased from 3.55 to 3.60, but during that same time period the Earth has gone from 4.05 to 4.25. So the situation has reversed from most people being within the 0.5 range to now being outside it. This means that in the coming years more people will be dying such that by 2020 deaths will exceed births and the world population will begin declining. As I wrote last December, world population is what I'm using to validate the predictions.

In terms of physical ascension, similar rules apply, as it's also extremely difficult to maintain a physical vibration more than 0.5 higher than the Earth average. Since physical ascension requires a vibration of 5.00, this will only be possible once the Earth reaches a vibration of 4.50 which is not expected until sometime between 2030 and 2050.

Boy, 2050 would be a much longer wait than what I was expecting when I first read about physical ascension back in 2008, but the book does offer some hope. It hints that high in the mountains far away from 3D civilization the Earth maintains a much higher vibration than the average. So moving to a 4D spiritual community far from any 3D cities might allow for physical ascension as early as 2025. In any case, I'll be here waiting, watching and raising my vibration through daily spiritual practice.

BitGold

Buying gold just became incredibly easy. Certainly, buying gold bars that you took delivery of was also pretty easy, but storage could be a problem unless you are happy hiding them in your mattress. Safety deposit boxes are a hassle and opening a brokerage account requires lots of paper work. BitGold solves all of these problems. All you need is a smart phone to confirm your identity, a credit card or interact bank account for payment, then choose your preferred vault location and voila, you now own some gold.

As an added bonus, if you use this link to open your account you will get 0.5 grams of gold for free! Worth about US$18. Here are some snippets from a recent blog post of theirs.

We’d like share our reasons why we believe gold can be useful to anyone’s overall savings, and describe the key differences between having a gold account versus your traditional savings or spending accounts.

1. It Is Permanently Yours

Over the course of history (6,000 years!) gold has been ultimately chosen by every great human civilization, community, nation and society as the desired currency due to its permanence. When you buy gold, it’s always yours. In fact, you never really own it you’re just looking after it over your own lifetime because it will outlive you, your children and even your descendants thousands of years from now.

2. Gold is just a currency like Dollars, Euros, Yens or Pounds

Most national currencies were linked to or redeemable in Gold until 1971 when “Fiat Money” was re-introduced by the United States and soon thereafter every other country. Since then, gold has gained over 3,000% vs. the US Dollar which is arguably the world’s strongest fiat money. Gold may seem to go up, down or sideways but in reality and when viewed over long-timescales such as the avg. human lifecycle – it always rises.

3. Gold Preserves Purchasing Power

Only gold provides effortless long-term preservation of value. The scientific properties of gold are what make it so special. As humans we have nothing else that has a cost-structure which is linked to our natural human systems (farming, energy, labor, mining) that is also permanent and inexpensive to store (At BitGold, storage is free!) Gold is the only element that allows us to effectively measure the value of food and energy, over long periods of history. That is why it’s future cost will always also be related to the value of food and energy.

4. Gold is not an Investment like a Stock or Bond, it’s a Store of Value for Long-term Predictable Savings

The biggest mistake people tend to make is comparing the price and performance of gold with investments such as stocks or bonds. Gold should only be compared with currencies because fiat currencies were introduced by governments in 1971 to replace gold. An investment in the stock market or the purchase of a house requires management, oversight and running costs. Investments also carry risk of total loss. For every successful investment such as shares of Google or Apple there are also failed investments such as shares of Lehman Brothers or Kodak. Gold doesn’t require any upkeep, it’s just a piece of metal that is very expensive to produce and very cheap to store.

5. BitGold Offers the Cheapest and Fastest Way to Buy Gold

New innovative technology is changing how commerce and currency can work more efficiently. At the most fundamental level, we are here to help you preserve your wealth. Our success is built on your success. We’ve begun a journey to build a global operating system for Gold that is designed to enable you to save, and pay how, when, and where you prefer. There are no minimums. Start with as little as .01 grams of gold!

Web Business Journey

In May I started a new blog called "Web Business Journey". Here is a brief excerpt from my first post:

I’ve been writing about spirituality and making videos on yoga for a few years now and have grown a following way beyond anything I ever expected.

In December of 2014 I decided I would try to turn what has so far been a hobby into a real business. The goal of this blog will be to document that journey. It will focus on what is common to all web based businesses.

I just wanted everyone here to be aware of what I'm working on in case I don't have time to write monthly posts for this blog.

Vishwa Amara on 2015

Back in 2010 I posted material from numerous channeled sources, but over time many proved to be very unreliable. On the contrary, the Sapta Rishis (channeled at Vishwa Amara) have been better than most. In 2010 they indicated that nothing significant would happen in 2012 because the major events had been postponed to 2015. Well, 2015 has started and they have confirmed in their January 2015 post that a major crisis will hit by the end of the year. Below is an excerpt.

The New batch of Rishis and the Saptarishis have made many plans for the year ahead. Instead of having two large phases like the last year, they want to divide the year into five phases, each of about two to three months. Each phase would have a certain objective.

In the first phase, the Earth will experience the intensity of the Pralaya energies. The aim of this phase is to help every individual see the merit in choosing righteousness. The more we adopt Light, love and peace into our lives, and outgrow anger, bitterness and pessimism, the easier it will be to sail through. Those who resist will be the ones to face more difficulties. Our humility and surrender to God are essential.

The second phase will be a little relaxed. It will help every individual to assimilate the changes and strengthen their progress. During this phase, many new energies will be anchored on our Earth.

During the third phase, experimentation on freewill will be conducted by the Higher Intelligence. It will be easier to embrace the positive changes and adopt Light. We can also witness many changes all over the Earth. This phase is an important preparatory phase towards the Light Age.

In the fourth phase is when the battles between the Light and the dark will be at their peak. At the global level, the Individuals who spoil the lives of others, corrupt businesses and falsity will be exposed. This battle will also occur within each individual. At each juncture, we have to choose, let go of the unwanted, embrace Light and move on.

The last phase would be chaotic. There will be panic, confusion and a struggle for survival. For those who are connected to Light and have their basics in place, it should be a smooth phase. The Rishis expect Lord Kalki, to begin his work at the physical level during this period.

These are roughly the way the Rishis want to carry out their work during this year. But there will naturally be revisions and improvements based on their observations of how humanity responds to their initiatives.

So while they don't predict what form the crisis will take, Sal and the Founders provide all the details. In this first post they indicate that the $US and all global currencies will lose most of their value, while in this second post they provide instructions for how to prepare for it. Even some financial analysts agree that the world is poised for a Global Currency Crisis and to buy gold in preparation.

Economic Realities (chapter 6)

In chapter 6 of the book "Earth Awakens: Prophecy 2012 - 2030" the Founders provide some practical investment recommendations for making the transition to the Golden Age.

It is our understanding that the American and European currencies will likely decline dramatically between 2012 and 2015, resulting in severe hyperinflation or depression, depending on how the central banks respond to the deepening crisis. At the same time, the value of real goods (including gold, silver and agricultural commodities) will rise significantly.

Real estate was hyper-inflated for many years due to speculation. In 2006 the bubble burst and it has been declining ever since. We anticipate that it will continue to drop for a while and then stabilize and eventually climb, since land and buildings are real assets. However, it is likely that by the time it appreciates significantly in value, housing and land will only be available to those who have gold, silver and precious metals as collateral.

It is recommended that you prepare for the collapse by prioritizing your investments as follows:

• (1) buy land and grow your own food while you still can;
• (2) buy gold, silver and other precious metals (have the metal on hand in a safe place);
• (3) keep cash on hand rather than deposited in the bank;
• (4) keep liquid assets, such as checking accounts and credit/debit cards;
• (5) invest in forward-thinking companies that have excellent management and are contributing to the well-being of the world (such as alternative energy and environmental cleanup companies).
  

Remember, this is in order of priority. If you only have enough money for some of these, make sure items (1) and (2) are handled first.

I've written before about the importance of investing in gold, and here the Founders confirm the soundness of that advice, but even more important is buying land and growing food. While I've been growing food in my back yard as a learning exercise, I still have yet to purchase my one hectare of land as recommended by Anastasia for building a home and growing a food forest.

So while it is certainly possible to go it alone, I would much prefer to do so in a group as there is strength in numbers. I'm thinking of around 10 families buying around 100 acres or 40 hectares. If each family takes one hectare, then that still leaves plenty of space for growth as children become adults, marry and need their own hectare. The key to success though lies in having a shared vision of a Golden Age Ecovillage.

The Founders have much to say about this topic which I'll be sharing in future posts.

THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?

I haven't posted much on the current state of the world, but I thought the Thrive movie was tastefully done. Well worth watching, but for those short on time, a summary from the Thrive Movement web site is below.

PART I UNCOVERING THE CODE

I-A THE TORUS
An introduction to the torus and its mathematical formula, illustrating it at scales ranging from atomic to galactic.

I-B THE VECTOR EQUILIBRIUM
A look at the underlying structure of the torus, called the Vector Equilibrium, and its potential global impact.

I-C THE CODE IN ANCIENT CULTURES
A showcase of the torus, Vector Equilibrium and the Flower of Life encoded in different cultures for millennia – in stories, icons, alphabets, architecture and even in our DNA.

I-D SUN GODS SHARE KNOWLEDGE
How was there advanced knowledge of the living geometry of the Universe thousands of years ago? An inquiry into the existence and participation of "Sun Gods" and extra-terrestrial intelligence in the evolution of our own scientific knowledge.

I-E CROP CIRCLE MESSAGES
An examination of the appearance, meaning and source of these mysterious and elaborate designs.

I-F FREE ENERGY & ITS SUPPRESSION
An investigation into a century of systematic and ongoing free energy suppression, from Nikola Tesla, to modern day inventors.

I-G SUPPRESSION OF UFO & FREE ENERGY RELATED
A look at why the suppression of UFO phenomena goes hand in hand with the suppression of free energy and how the introduction of free energy would support a critical de-centralization of geo-political power.

PART II FOLLOWING THE MONEY

II-A FOOD AND THE GREEN REVOLUTION
An investigation into the ownership, control and influences of the banking industry through its control of the oil industry, and in particular its control of food production through oil-dependent pesticides and fertilizers, GMO crops, and the patenting of seeds.

II-B EDUCATION & THE NEA
The banking elite’s control of education through the Rockefeller-created National Education Association (NEA) and its intent to train obedient workers and predictable consumers at the expense of human creativity and critical thinking.

II-C HEALTH & THE AMA
Illustrates the control of the banking elite in the field of health, with its formation, funding and control of the American Medical Association and financial control of most medical research and education.

II-D SUPPRESSION OF CURES
Reveals the multi-trillion dollar incentive of the banking elite and their associated corporations to suppress cures for diseases.

II-E FOLLOW THE MONEY PYRAMID
The organizational structure of an elite group of people and the companies they run who, collectively, control the world of finance by actually controlling the source of money.

II-F MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR
What actually happens when we take out a loan? David Icke explains the current economic system in simple terms.

II-G FRACTIONAL RESERVE SCAM
An illustrated explanation of how our Fractional Reserve Lending System was established, and how it now operates to guarantee the debt-slavery of everyone but those in charge of it.

II-H CREATION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE
A look into the creation of The Federal Reserve, its ownership, and the heavy costs of exposing government secrets.

II-I CONSOLIDATING WEALTH AND POWER
Offers a historical account of the process by which the elite banking families consolidated their wealth during the Great Depression and the 2008 Bank Collapse, and how the scheme persists.

II-J RIGGING BUSINESS CYCLES
David Icke explains how the Federal Reserve rigs the so-called "business cycles," and the painful consequences in our lives.

PART III UNCOVERING THE GLOBAL DOMINATION AGENDA

III-A CHECK LIST FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION
A checklist of what an elite group of bankers would need to control in order to dominate the world – and what is left for them to accomplish in their scheme – thus identifying the leverage points for action to obsolete their control.

III-B STRUCTURE OF THE CONTROLLING ELITE
An explanation of the ruling structure of the controlling banking elite, highlighting who they are and how they dominate corporations and governments.

III-C THE ALL-SEEING EYE
Exposing one of the primary symbols of the controlling elite: the All-Seeing Eye, and its presence on icons as symbolic as the dollar bill and the top of the new Israeli Supreme Court Building.

III-D THE NEW WORLD ORDER
The divide and conquer strategy leading us towards a totalitarian world dictatorship, the end goal of the banking elite.

III-E STEPPING OUT OF THE HASSLE FREE ZONE
A personal reflection on what happens when you step out of the fear of what other people think.

III-F ORGANIZATIONAL CHART FOR GLOBAL TYRANNY
The map of the world as it is being carved up into super states that transcend national boundaries and facilitate global domination.

III-G COVERT WORLD EMPIRE
How the collusion of banks, corporations, and governments has taken down countries around the world, and how America is next to go.

III-H THE TOTALITARIAN TIPTOE
Explaining the technique of using gradual steps in the plan to destroy the financial strength and sovereignty of the US in order to transfer power to a central authority.

III-I PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION
The template used to erode rights and consolidate control: Creating or harnessing a problem to generate a fearful public reaction and then manipulating people into turning to authorities for a “solution” they have already manufactured as part of their “totalitarian tiptoe” strategy.

III-J FALSE FLAGS
Historical examples of the elite using manufactured tragedy to achieve their goals.

III-K POLICE STATE - CONTROLLING DISSENT
Most of what is already needed for a police state is already in place, from massive surveillance of citizens and the erosion of individual rights to refurbished containment camps and more.

III-L EUGENICS AND DE-POPULATION
Exposes the means, motive, opportunity and evidence of the plan to eliminate the majority of the world's population utilizing eugenics and sterilization via covert experimentation on populations throughout the world.

III-M A CRITICAL FORK IN THE ROAD
We are at a critical fork in the road in human evolution. Will we choose tyranny and possible self-destruction or health, freedom and the honouring of individual rights?

PART IV CREATING SOLUTIONS

IV-A WHO ARE WE REALLY?
Are we who the elite controllers would have us believe or are we actually capable of conscious, innovative, self-correcting solutions?

IV-B IMAGINAL CELLS
A look into the current co-existence of destructive forces in power and the 'imaginal cells' who are waking up and shaping a new and transformed future for our planet.

IV-C WITHDRAWING OUR SUPPORT
The structure of the controlling elite is dependent on our active participation. We can obsolete their plan; as we non-violently withdraw our support, their house of cards will fall.

IV-D WEBSITE TOUR
A comprehensive tour of thrivemovement.com, a website that has been designed to substantiate the content of the film, and to support a self-creating movement to radically transform our global predicament and create an authentic opportunity for all human beings to thrive.

IV-E TOP 10 INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS
Some tactical actions we can take as individuals that don't take much time or money to make a real difference, right now.

IV-F BLOODS/CRIPS GANG TRUCE
An example of real life problem solving using grounded solutions, highlighting one of the many powerful models for people to heal at a grass roots level.

IV-G LIBERTY WORLD VISION
Offering a vision for us to navigate by: the human potential to create a world in which everyone has a true opportunity to thrive; with open trade, voluntary education and associations, honest media, justice that restores life and losses and an honest money system with equal global access to clean, free energy to support a thriving planet.

IV-H THE PRINCIPLE OF NON-VIOLATION
A fundamental principle that underlies the approach of the liberty perspective – the one principle that everyone agrees with, at least for themselves.

IV-I DEATH TOLL OF COLLECTIVEISM
Outlines the philosophy of Ludwig Von Mises, who recognised that wrongly assuming the rights of the collective to be more important than the individual always leads to tyranny and is the operative underpinning of all governments and ultimately responsible for most of the death and destruction on the planet.

IV-J HEALING WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
It doesn't work to build a healthy living system on top of an unhealthy one. As we create a world that works for everyone we need to engage in true reconciliation with indigenous people and explore unprecedented strategies for resolution.

IV-K 3 STAGE TRANSITION TO LIBERTY
An illustrated description of the 3 over-lapping stages of a transition strategy to true liberty, beginning with reforming current systems, limiting government to the role of protectorate and ultimately creating a completely voluntary, non-coercive environment for conscious planetary evolution.

IV-L AIKIDO: THE WAY OF HARMONY
A practical non-violent expression of how to redirect the energy of an attacker to peaceful resolution.

IV-M THE PATH OF NON-AGGRESSION
Responding with violence only continues the old, "us versus them" paradigm. It is important that as we reclaim our future, we do it taking the path of non-aggression.

IV-N INNER GUIDANCE
The importance of relying on our own inner wisdom as we navigate our own journey.

IV-O HEALING OUR WORLD
As more and more of us are daring to speak up and link up, thought leaders discuss mass global awakening, the power of the people, and the impulse of evolution.

IV-P THRIVE SONG AND CREDITS
The theme song and a visual recap of scenes along with credits.

THRIVE Chapter Summaries copyright © 2011 Clear Compass Media, LLC

Earth Awakens: Prophecy 2012 - 2030

Last week I received Sal Rachele's new book "Earth Awakens: Prophecy 2012 - 2030" and have been extremely impressed with what I've read so far. It provides all of the practical information required for building the Golden Age and achieving Ascension, which beautifully compliments his previous book "Earth Changes and 2012: Messages From the Founders" which provided all of the background theory for understanding 2012, Ascension and the Golden Age.

I've only read the first chapter so far, but the way the predictions are given in a story telling manner is so much more beautiful and poetic compared to the somewhat more textbook style of the previous book. Granted, that book was more about the technical details while this one is about making it happen. After just the first chapter, I now have a significantly clearer vision in my mind of our journey to the Golden Age than I've ever had before.

For this post, I will simply provide a simplified table of contents from the book to give you an idea of what it contains. The actual table of contents is an extremely detailed seven pages long.

FOREWORD (X)
INTRODUCTION - THE NEW DAWN (1)
CHAPTER 1 - A FUTURE TIMELINE OVERVIEW (11)
CHAPTER 2 - THE NATURE OF TIME (35)
CHAPTER 3 - THE CHANGES WITHIN (51)
CHAPTER 4 - THE OUTER CHANGES (111)
CHAPTER 5 - POPULAR CONSPIRACIES-FACT OR FICTION (149)
CHAPTER 6 - ECONOMIC REALITIES (159)
CHAPTER 7 - POLITICAL STRUCTURES (179)
CHAPTER 8 - SOCIAL SYSTEMS (197)
CHAPTER 9 - INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES (217)
CHAPTER 10 - TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES (227)
CHAPTER 11 - THE COSMIC ORDER (261)
CHAPTER 12 - LIFE ON OTHER WORLDS (273)
CHAPTER 13 - LIFE IN THE ASCENDED STATE (299)
CONCLUSION (303)

Sal Rachele: 2012 - 2030

[Update: July 30, 2013] It seems the video referenced in this post has been removed, but the transcript below is still relevant so I'll leave the rest of the post as is.

Excellent video by Sal (channel for the Founders). Most of what he says I've covered on my site, but he does provide some additional details of what is going to happen over the next four years from 2012 to 2015. I will transcribe that part of the message starting from about the 44:30 mark.

It is likely that there will be major economic disruptions in most of the so called developed world, or first world countries. In the country that I reside in, the United States, the US dollar will likely lose most, if not all, of its value by the year 2015 and will be replaced by another currency.

Now if enough souls wake up, and there is some variability as to how many souls will still wake up, especially those in places/positions of government, the new currency may be a very enlightened one, backed by precious metals or based on a barter/trade system that is fair and equitable. It may be a wonderful opportunity for souls to move into a very different economic system, one based on peace and prosperity instead of lack and scarcity. But if enough souls don't wake up and the negativity is allowed to dominate, it could be a system set up to take away freedom and liberty from people.

So it's really going to depend a lot on the state of consciousness of the people of the country USA, and the same goes for the UK (United Kingdom), Germany, and many of the other countries - Japan, China. If the quality of the consciousness is raised sufficiently this transition into a new economy will happen in a beautiful, harmonious way rather than a destructive way.

Now that said, with 70 to 80 percent of the population still stuck in third density, it is likely there will be a lot of turmoil and upheaval as the economic system transitions. There will likely be bread lines; people waiting in line for basic supplies being sent to them by the governments of the various countries, or by private individuals depending on who responds to the crisis the best.

And there will likely be a breakdown of the global distribution system forcing people to rely more on the local agriculture, local energy, local trade and barter. The most valuable commodities in the years to come will be fresh fruits and vegetables - gardens, organic gardens, that are not tainted with genetically modified seeds.

And gold and silver will become more valuable than paper money, but they won't be as valuable as food because you can't eat gold and silver. So there will be a movement towards local organic farms, there already is, it's going to intensify, this movement towards the local and the organic. And for those who insist on eating heavily processed, genetically modified food, the immune systems will begin failing in those human beings.

That's not the only cause of immune system failure; the soul will literally prepare to leave the body, to find a way to exit the body if the soul is not ready to move into fourth density. It'll happen somewhat gradually, but not that gradually, it'll be very noticeable. The birth rate will only outdo the death rate up until about 2015, and then the population will stabilize somewhat and begin to decline as deaths outnumber births.

Now this will happen in two ways: there will be fewer people being born because of sterility among young females due to genetically modified organisms, toxic metals in the environment and other factors. And there will be more people dying due to immune system failures. So it works both ways and the crisscross point, the point where the deaths start outnumbering births on planet earth has been estimated to be somewhere around the year 2015.

And the peak population I've been told recently, that they've got it at about 7.8 billion; being the most number of humanity that will ever be on this earth. By the time this shift is over, around 2030, the population of earth will likely be somewhere between 1 and 2 billion, maybe 1.5 to 2 billion, somewhere in that range.

So it's pretty serious if you want to think of it as serious, it's pretty wonderful if you want to look at it as, "Oh all these souls get to go to other planets that are better suited to offer them what they want to learn." So it depends on how you look at it, yes it's a tragedy from a third density perspective, because at least for a while earth's going to be in a very...there's going to be a lot of sorrow and grief as people lose loved ones and things like that.

Sal's message hasn't changed and his prediction of 2015 being a key turning point is also given in his previous book "Earth Changes and 2012: Messages From the Founders", though not in as much detail. I've ordered his new book and will likely post from it as well as I go through it.

Fractional Reserve Banking

Money plays a large role in the life of 3D humans, so the coming financial collapse foreseen by the Founders will have a significant impact on the lives of those humans. For those waiting for NESARA, the Founders feel it won't happen, just like they don't expect Disclosure to happen. I'll present the Founders thoughts on NESARA in a future post, but for this post we start with their view of the financial system in place today.

The control of the world's monetary systems by a ruling elite has been going on for thousands of years, although the methodology has changed since the earlier civilizations. During the so-called Roman empire, taxation was a primary scheme. Tax collectors for the government would go door to door and would often take up to 90% of the assets of the people. In your present technological environment, this brazen form of control has been replaced with a more subtle, yet also more insidious, means of extracting assets from the common people and concentrating them in the hands of a few individuals.

As detailed in many of your alternative economic writings, you have a system that is called "fractional reserve" banking, in which money is printed and distributed in such a way as to cause the fictional assets of the banks to be replaced with real assets, meaning that paper is exchanged for things that have real value in your world, such as houses, land, crops, etc. Banks print and then loan these fictional assets (paper money) to borrowers, who then pay interest on the loan. The interest is compounded, which drives the "value" of the paper money lower (as if you could subtract something from zero in the first place). When the borrower is unable to pay (often due to inflation caused by the fractional reserve system itself), the bank repossesses the borrower's property (having real value). Now the bank has received something for nothing, and the owners of the bank have acquired resources with real value in exchange for the inconvenience of running a few printing presses and distributing a few pieces of paper.

The Founders have explained things in the simplest way possible, but for those looking for a more detailed and technical explanation, I would recommend my post "Gold for the Golden Age". For those keeping score, the value of gold in $US has increased by 29% since that post was written over a year ago.

The Golden Age of Gaia Blog

Steve Beckow's Golden Age of Gaia blog collects all of the freely available channeled material on the internet as well as material from journalists/reporters with real world evidence and produces about 80 postings per week on matters relevant to the coming Golden Age.

I no longer follow his blog as my focus has switched since I originally wrote this in 2010.

Gold for the Golden Age

Coxe Advisors' June 2010 economic update for BMO Capital Markets is a lengthy 53 pages, but contains the best description of the current state of the Gold market I've seen (starting on page 32).

Zero Hedge has posted that section as: Don Coxe Dissects Gold.

The longest-established text-based religion in the West is about the God of Jacob—His works and His worship. For roughly five thousand years, a believer summed up his credo by saying, ‘I believe in God.’

But when this credo arrived, it had to share space with an alternative belief system that was around for thousands of years before the Judaeo-Christian era began. A believer in this system summed it up, ‘I believe in Gold.’

The following event he describes also set off bells and whistles for me when it happened.

We think that future historians may well report that the moment when gold once again became a store of value was when the dollar began soaring in response to the stench of seared Greece—and gold climbed right along with it. The asset classes that have been inversely correlated since Keynes’s time suddenly united.

The conclusion is as follows.

What we believe is unfolding is a rush into gold by individual investors who look at the astronomic growth in financial derivatives—particularly collateralized debt swaps—and government deficits at a time when the effects of demographic collapse are finally being understood. According to some guesstimates we have heard, the supply of outstanding financial derivatives may be in the $70 trillion range, dwarfing the combined value of money supplies and debts. The total value of gold is so minuscule in comparison to the supply of these software-spawned instruments that it cannot be any real help in stabilizing global finances—but it can be a haven for investors seeking to protect themselves against an implosion of majestic proportions.

In addition to Don Coxe, I would also recommend you read Mike Shedlock's daily blog.

Finally, even mainstream media in the form of The New York Times is acknowledging Uncertainty Restores Glitter to an Old Refuge, Gold.

So aside from buying gold coins and bars which you hide in some secret location (NOT at a bank), I would recommend the Sprott Physical Gold Trust. The Gold is stored at the Royal Canadian Mint (not at a bank), and the Trust Units are directly convertible to Gold (in case currencies have become worthless).

Update on April 16, 2012: The Royal Canadian Mint has now introduced Exchange Traded Receipts which are perhaps even better than the Sprott Physical Gold Trust.

New Foundation for Currencies

In Matthew's description of the Golden Age from December 2007 he says:

The “new” foundation for currencies will be a return to an old one, where precious metals was a set standard for exchange, and “old fashioned” bartering once again will be an excellent way for nations and communities to conduct some business.

In Sheldan Nidle's update on June 22, 2010 from the High Councils of Sirius B (to use the Founder's terminology) they talk about zero-point energy which I'll discuss in detail later, but for this post they also talk about the coming economic collapse:

The Federal Reserve is bankrupt and the European allies of this once formidable juggernaut are not far behind. The system is collapsing internally, and soon this will become all too public.

Here it sounds like they are referring to the recent G8 and G20 meetings in Canada, with a major collapse coming soon afterward.

Currently, a number of moves are underway. First, the cabal has convened several international financial conferences to discuss what can be done about the immensity of the global financial crisis. These conferences have either failed or are doomed to. Second, the dark has had its mainstream media convince many that the economic problems are merely a "deep recession" and that you are close to turning this around. Nothing could be further from the truth, and the dark has no idea how to wriggle its way out of this. For their part, our Earth allies are quite close to toppling the monster core of this disaster: the US Federal Reserve "Bank." This illegal behemoth is bankrupt and swiftly running out of schemes by which to keep afloat; hence, its total collapse is imminent. The Bank of England and its partners-in-crime in "the City" are likewise about to go belly up. Similarly, many other allied banks are ready to succumb to a massive extinction.

Finally they say a new financial system will be born based on precious metals.

The change to precious-metals-based currencies is at the heart of the new system which reflects the new realities of the post-Cold War world.

This is essentially the same as what Matthew said almost three years ago, but now the signs are clear that these changes may be close at hand. Both Gold and Silver have been setting record highs in recent weeks, but the currency of choice for most is Gold, which I'll discuss further in my next post.