Thursday, September 07, 2006

Why Everyone Changed

Why Everyone changed:
It is no mystery but it can be worked out why consciousness changes caused everyone to change.
Although there are those who were perhaps inspired by what I say to change themselves, even those who did nothing to change themselves or who resolutely refused to change would have been changed by recent consciousness changes.
Why is that?
The reason is because a person’s consciousness state is governed by stress, restlessness and distraction that are never created entirely by his own behavior but there is another equally important external source. The relentless merciless bombardment of stress, restlessness and distraction form all others’ behavior is just as important as his own behavior in maintaining his consciousness in permanent suffering. Therefore if there was a significant reduction in the level of external stress, restlessness and distraction impacting on his consciousness as a result of alleviating consciousness changes in others, that person will automatically experience an alleviated consciousness change even if he did nothing to redress his own self generated stress, restlessness and distraction because the total load of stress, restlessness and distraction on his consciousness has been reduced as a result of the changes that reduced stress, restlessness and distraction in others.
Just as every being on earth is instrumental in maintaining others in stress, restlessness and distraction if sufficient people change they will also be instrumental in automatically causing a consciousness change in others without them doing anything. Because it is not just the person himself but others who detain a being in suffering, it is also not just himself but others who can also partially release him from suffering even if he refused to release himself.
Some people stress others more but even those who stress others least still generate significant stress even amongst their dearest loved ones and therefore should there come along someone who generates significantly less stress than anyone has done before, anyone who comes into contact with him will momentarily experience a significant reduction in the stress level impacting on his mind that he has never experienced before even if he did nothing except being his usual self and the memory of this unique reduction in stress level will spur him to change as best as he can because he now knows where he did not before that it is possible to exist with significantly less stress and nobody likes stress, they only put up with stress to get what they want from others.
ANY BEING (EVEN ANIMALS) WILL AUTOMATICALLY EXPERIENCE A NEVER BEFORE EXPERIENCED ABSENCE OF EXTERNALLY GENERATED STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION IN MY PRESENCE BECAUSE UNLIKE OTHERS I DO NOT FORCEFULLY STRETCH ALL MY SYLLABLES, DO NOT CONSTANTLY CHANGE SPEED OR LOUDNESS AND THIS TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF EXTERNALLY INDUCED STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION WILL TEMPORARILY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE LOAD OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION ON HIS CONSCIOUSNESS CAUSING HIM TO AUTOMATICALLY EXPERIENCE A TEMPORARY PARTIALLY ALLEVIATING CONSCIOUSNESS STATE CHANGE AND BECAUSE ALL BEINGS HAVE MEMORY, THIS EXPERIENCE WILL SERVE AS A TEMPLATE FOR HIM TO CHANGE TO REDUCE HIS SUFFERING SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY HIS FOOLISHNESS, WICKEDNESS (WANT TO HARM OTHERS) AND DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO MANIPULATE OTHERS BECAUSE NO BEING WANTS TO SUFFER ANY MORE THAN HE HAS TO, TO GET WHAT HE WANTS.
ONLY A BEING WHO HAS COMPLETELY STOPPED STRETCHING SYLLABLES, STOP CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS WILL EXPERIENCE A COMPLETE FREEDOM FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION AND BECAUSE ALL BEINGS HAVE NOT ABANDON STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS THEY HAVE ONLY EXPERIENCED A VARIABLE PARTIAL REPRIEVE FROM STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION.
Why There Are Two Mental Forces:
Anyone who cannot see or disputes the existence of mental forces in all beings in this world must be blind or deluded.
(Try to swing a golf club as violently as you can like Tiger Woods and pay attention to what is happening to your mind. Can you see yourself screwing up your facial muscles or applying great force on your mind or summoning great force in your mind as you violently swing the club with accelerating speed and force?)
Not only is there mental force in all humans and animals (including lowly creatures like insects), there are two opposing mental forces and they are not only constantly present but constantly changing in speed, direction and strength like the surface of the sea is never still.
Reason can never cause units of perception, thinking, speech and motion to stretch, change speed and strength of force but mental force can and is always required to do so and because stretching, changing speed and strength of force create stress, restlessness and distraction they must be driven by a force that goes against self called the force of going against self which is constantly active. Because stretching, changing speed and strength is constant in all the mind’s activities, the force of going against self is constantly active, constantly changing in speed and strength.
This force of going against self is also the drive to all the likes and dislikes and their derivatives, emotions like anger, hate, pride, shame, envy, jealousy, greed, lust, excitement & sadness.
Anger is always forceful and it goes against self because it causes stress, restlessness and distraction (an angry man cannot concentrate) apart from conditioning your mind increasingly to anger and you can throw caution to the wind to get killed. Therefore there is force in anger and it is correct to call it the force of going against self. It is not just when you are angry or emotional that mental force arises in your mind but mental force is constantly active in ordinary people’s minds because they are constantly using force to stretch, change speed and strength of force in all their activities namely perceiving, thinking, speaking and moving.
When a person gets angry, there is automatic (forceful) resistance, even rising fear that must come from another force called the force of self preservation which must be overcome before a person can express his anger and this resistance will keep resisting and regulating the force of going against self as it propels the anger and later this force of self preservation must surpass in strength the force of going against self before it can bring the anger to an end. No amount of reasoning can bring anger to an end but reason or consciousness alarmed by the rising stress can only direct the force of self preservation to rise in strength until it stops the force of going against self.
(Psychologists speak of fight or flight reactions in relation to an alarming situation confronting a being. Rather than restricted to alarming situations, this fight or flight reaction occurs in all situations faced by a being. The fight reaction is directed towards a target and is always mediated by the force of going against self and it includes all likes and dislikes and all emotions except fear whilst the flight reaction that is essentially fear or anxiety is directed away from a target and is mediated by the force of self preservation)
No amount of reasoning with your car will cause it to stop but only the application of opposite force on the brakes will do so. A force will only stop if it has expended itself or if it meets a superior opposite force.
No amount of reasoning with a tape recorder will cause it to stop but pressing the stop button to apply opposite force will. Similarly no amount of reasoning will stop rote speech that is not guided by reason but powered blindly by the force of going against self but making the force of self preservation apply opposing force will stop it.
Anyone whose mind has a force of going self must also have a force of self preservation just as any car that has a propulsive system must have brakes if it is to remain viable for long.
THE FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION IS USUALLY IN THE BACKGROUND RESISTING AND WHEN NECESSARY RISING TO EXCEED IN STRENGTH THE FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF TO BRING AN ACT THAT GOES AGAINST SELF TO AN END.
JUST AS A FERRARI MUST HAVE POWERFUL BRAKES, ANYONE WHO HAS A POWERFUL RAPIDLY ACCELERATING FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF AS ALL PROFESSIONAL SPORTSMEN MUST HAVE MUST HAVE AN EQUALLY STRONG RAPIDLY ACCELERATING FORCE OF SELF PRESERVATION OR HE WON’T LAST VERY LONG.
The individually characteristic style that is always present in all ordinary people’s speech and motion cannot be produced live but must be reproduced from memory. Whatever is reproduced from memory does not require reason to be present to supervise it let alone require reason to reproduce it. What is required is conscious retrieval to be handed over to one’s mental force of going against self that will then power it without questions asked. What is mindlessly reproduced driven by the force of going against self, rote stylish speech and actions cannot be stopped by reason but an opposite force, the force of self preservation is needed to stop them.
Fear:
Just as in an emergency, the driver lifts his foot off the accelerator and applies pressure on the brake pedal, in the same way when a threat is perceived the person lifts his foot off the force of going against self and puts his foot on the brake pedal to boost the force of self preservation. Thus when a person experiences fear there is an unabated drop in the speed and strength of his force of going against self directed towards the target for fear with an unabated rise in speed and strength of force of his force of self preservation in the opposite direction of the force of going against self or away from the target of fear.
Hunger & Thirst:
Although hunger and thirst can be merely a passive feeling of unpleasantness due only to all the bodily sensations generated by a prolonged deprivation of food or water, it is always a complex emotion in all ordinary people.
As the Buddha taught, passive feelings arise on contact with objects through the five senses that can only be pleasant, unpleasant or neither (paper is neither pleasant nor unpleasant to taste) that lasts as long as contact is made but this triggers like or dislike that is totally unnecessary and even harmful in all emotional people. You need a strong force of going against self to experience strong emotional hunger or thirst and nowadays because I do not possess a strong rapidly rising mental force, my thirst and hunger is two dimensional and easily bearable compared to being three dimensional and hard to bear in the past.
Hunger and thirst may be a complex mixture of dislike for the unpleasant bodily sensations of hunger and thirst together with dislike for the absence of food or water plus a rapidly rising like or desire for food or water at the thought of them plus anxiety or fear of potential bodily harm as a result of the deprivation driven by the force of self preservation.
THE STRONGER YOUR LIKES AND DISLIKES THE STRONGER AND MORE FRENZIED YOUR HUNGER AND THIRST WHICH ARE IN TRUTH TOTALLY UNNECESSARY BECAUSE THEY ARE ADDITIONAL SUFFERING ON TOP OF THE UNPLEASANT FEELING OF HUNGER, ARE CONDITIONING AND MAY LEAD TO IRRATIONAL ACTIONS.
WITHOUT GRADUALLY EFFACING YOUR MENTAL FORCE OF GOING AGAINST SELF BY DISAVOWING ALL FORCE, DISAVOWING ALL STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CHANGES OF SPEED AND LOUDNESS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THAT BEING TO RID HIMSELF OF EMOTIONAL HUNGER AND THIRST THAT IS ALWAYS SUFFERING NEVER PLEASURE.
THE REASON MY HUNGER AND THIRST IS NOW TWO DIMENSIONAL AND I CAN GO EVEN A DAY WITHOUT FOOD IS BECAUSE MY HUNGER IS MERELY A PASSIVE UNPLEASANT FEELING (NOT EMOTION) THAT LASTS AS LONG AS CONTACT WITH THE BODILY CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEPRIVATION OF FOOD WITHOUT A CRAVING FOR PARTICULAR FOODS TO SATE IT NOR ANXIETY FOR BODILY HARM.
THEREFORE HUNGER IN ORDINARY PEOPLE IS AN AMALGAM OF DISLIKE FOR THE BODILY FEELINGS GENERATED BY FOOD DEPRIVATION TOGETHER & THE ABSENCE OF FOOD ALTERNATING WITH A HEIGHTENED DESIRE OR LIKE FOR FOOD PLUS ANXIETY OR FEAR OF BODILY HARM.
HUNGER AND THIRST HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH REASON, IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY ADDITIONAL SUFFERING AND IS ALL ABOUT FORCE AND FORCEFUL CRAVING FOR FOOD THAT DOES NOT ENDURE. THEREFORE IF THE SATISFACTION OF HUNGER AND THIRST ARE PARAMOUNT FOR YOU, IT MAY DETAIN YOU IN THIS WORLD.
Like & Dislike:
Force cannot change in any other ways apart from changing in direction (that can only occur with movements in three dimensions), rising and falling in speed and strength in an undulating fashion or rising continuously in speed and strength. Apart from towards or away, direction change in speech, thought and perceiving is not possible.
Like is the consciousness experience when the mental force of going against self rises and then falls in speed and strength towards the target of liking.
Dislike is the consciousness experience when the mental force of going against self rises in speed and strength unabated towards the target of dislike.
Ordinary people always automatically like or dislike whatever that impinges on their senses but at lower intensities or when they are inured, they often fail to recognize they are experiencing and expressing like or dislike that are often faked to please or impress others.
For example when you frown, grimace or raise an eyebrow you are expressing dislike. When you complain, protest, argue, sigh, you are irritated or derisive you are disliking.
When you smile, laugh or get excited, are eager, greedy and lustful, you are experiencing liking.
Every time you say you enjoy something you are expressing liking eg I enjoy being a mother, I enjoy music. When people talk about love, eg I love jam, I love Indian food he is talking about liking.
When people speak sensually about food eg it is crispy, crunchy, piping hot, scrumptious, finger licking good, delicious, they are expressing liking. When you slurp your soup or gnash at your steak or sniff at an aroma you are sensual and liking. Can you imagine Jesus sniffing and slurping anything? Can you be denying yourself as Jesus said when you are sniffing and slurping trying to extract the last ounce of taste and smell? If you let your yes be yes only you just taste or smell, anything more, slurping or sniffing comes from evil and if you foolishly encourage others to follow suit there is greater punishment. If you like to slurp and sniff, you can do so just as well as animals.
Much as they like to like and dislike because liking and disliking applies force on their minds, is incessant and can rapidly alternate, liking and disliking can become tormenting.
For instance the phone suddenly rings and they dislike, they find it is their good friend on the line and it is liking, when he asks how are you, you sigh to express dislike to say, “Not too good”, he tells you some news you that you like to hear and you instantly experience like, you accidentally knock over your cup of coffee and you instantly become crossed or dislike.
Shame:
Shame is not just simple dislike for self but shame is the consciousness experience when something happens triggers a sudden collapse of the person’s prized pride that inevitably stirs anxiety associated with a welling up of normally well suppressed and denied dislike for self.
If you watch some people, they walk with a swagger, speak with a swagger and always adopt a puffed posture that indicate their pride is constant. It is not just them that have constant pride but all ordinary people, even kids and people who act humble and diffident who have constant not occasional pride in them that can easily be hurt.
Major reasons why people are constantly proud are because pride like all emotions are conditioning so that will regular experience, pride becomes intense, rapidly accelerating and hard to shake off, their pride is necessary to hide or deny the shame they must harbor in themselves for being a slut to constantly try to please and impress others, to counter the barbs they must regularly receive from others that they struggle in vain to please and impress.
Therefore in order for constantly proud people to experience shame, their endemic pride must be first deflated in a way that will alarm them and thence their well suppressed dislike for self will similarly rise alarmingly to the surface and he feels he has made a fool of himself.
Pride:
Pride is nothing more than like or the undulating rise and fall in speed and strength of the force of going against self targeted at self or objects that one identifies with (your spouse or kids or house) that may be genuine or faked or a futile antidote to cover your shame for self. When others say things that flatter you or you sense they like you, your pride automatically becomes puffed up and the flatterer or liker is tightening the noose of pride in you rather than benefiting you with karma not merit due to him.
Sadness:
Sadness is the consciousness experience when a person’s force of going against self rises in speed and strength in an unabated manner to reach its target and then fades away in speed and strength as a result of realizing the futility of experiencing the dislike that is repeated mindlessly in cycles, conditioning the person to present and future sadness.
Face with an awareness of a significant loss (loved one or article), the person’s dislike rises rapidly in strength and speed only to die away in speed and strength when he realizes it is futile to dislike but reflecting it is mindless and force driven, this cycle of dislike followed by fading recurs each time he thinks about his loss.
Anger:
Anger is the consciousness experience when his force of going against self rises in speed and strength in an unabated fashion diffusely towards the target of the dislike or anger and is then maintained at maximum force in his mind only to be unwound some time later using force by the force of self preservation to stop it because the stress of anger has become too intolerable to sustain. If angry people observe themselves, they become restless and cannot concentrate (distracted), what is said to them does not sink in part from experiencing rising stress.
Hate:
Hate is the consciousness experience when his force of going against self rises in speed and strength in an unabated fashion pointedly towards the target of the hate and is then maintained at maximum force in his mind only to be unwound some time later using force by the force of self preservation to stop it because the stress of hate has become too intolerable to sustain.
Both hate and anger can be directed outwardly or at self.
The difference anger and hate is that anger is blunt or more diffuse whilst hate is sharp or more focused on a subject, an illusion created by anger being expressed with a voice that is more bass whilst hate is expressed with a voice that is more shrill.
Greed:
Greed is nothing more than the consciousness experience when there is an undulating rise and fall in speed and strength of force of the force of going against self targeted at material objects like money & assets (cars, diamonds).
Lust:
Lust is nothing more than the consciousness experience when there is an undulating rise and fall in speed and strength of force of the force of going against self targeted at sexual objects like female or male body parts and apparels.
Envy:
Envy is nothing more than like for others’ possessions. For instance a girl may envy or like Marilyn Monroe’s fame, glamour and endowments.
Jealousy:
Jealousy is nothing more than dislike for others’ possessions. For instance another girl may dislike Marilyn Monroe’s fame, glamour and endowments.
Depression: Whereas sadness is dislike followed by its fading away, depression is a sustained unremitting dislike or hate for self that can be hard to shake off that be mad or for no apparent reason or it is reactive as a result of a serious loss.
Only One Cause & Cure & Trigger:
It is impossible that everyone could have decided on their own, independently to change themselves in recent years where there has been a considerable period of stabilization after the unprecedented consciousness change that occurred after 1977 but the recent consciousness changes must have occurred by a process of contagion whereby unprecedented changes in the demeanor and conduct of others can be perceived by others independent of their intelligence or virtue and this triggered them to all compulsorily change.
As I have said earlier, even if a person did not nothing himself and resolutely refuse to change himself, because the stress, restlessness and distraction that maintains his consciousness state is not entirely created by him but a substantial bulk is created by others, should significant numbers of others change so that the level of external stress, incitement to restlessness and distraction impacting on him is significantly reduced, he will automatically experience a consciousness change.
Because I set out to change myself behaviorally in a way that was the diametric opposite of social norms without being inspired by others much earlier than unprecedented changes in the appearance and behavior of others were perceivable by me, I never realized beforehand that it is possible for me to change my consciousness state again let alone imagine that everyone will change yet again as they did after 1977, my consciousness change cannot have been triggered by others and at the very least, I must be a co-trigger for recent consciousness changes that swept around the world.
My behavior change cannot be copied from others if I only became aware others were changing much later after I started changing myself. Just as there is no one today or throughout the ages who speaks what I say that I can copy or plagiarize from in the same way there is no one around who does not smile (or be sour faced if they don’t smile) or say or do things that are meaningless to please and impress others, there is no one who does not stretch his syllables and speak with constant speed and loudness that I can copy for my consciousness change my consciousness change is self induced.
Because there is only one way to reduce the load of stress, restlessness and distraction weighing on a consciousness thereby triggering an alleviating consciousness change and it is to not stretch syllables, not change speed and loudness that have their equivalents in perceiving, thinking and moving, whoever will be a co-trigger with me of recent consciousness changes must also essentially mirror by himself what I did.
It is unlikely if not impossible that there can be a co-trigger because throughout the history of mankind and even in today’s changed consciousness conditions there is not one being (including even lowly insects) who can as far as I can scrupulously ascertain vocalize or move without stretching, changing speed and strength of force.
BECAUSE CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES HAVE NEVER HAPPENED THROUGHOUT HISTORY EXCEPT IN 1977 WHEN I WAS DEFINITELY THE SOLE TRIGGER, IT WILL BE A SHEER COINCIDENCE THAT ALL OF A SUDDEN IN 1997 MORE THAN ONE PERSON SHOULD AT THE SAME TIME DECIDE ON THEIR OWN TO CHANGE THEMSELVES TO TRIGGER ANOTHER CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE. WHY DIDN’T THE OTHER PUTATIVE SOURCES MAKE A MOVE EARLIER BETWEEN 1977 AND 1997?
It is not because I say so that it is so but it can be objectively demonstrated by me that whatever creature or human anyone care to nominate can be shown objectively by me to stretch his syllables, changes speed and loudness. It is not a need for exclusivity or conceit that motivate what I say, I will be delighted if there were others who speak what I say and speak to me without stretching his syllables, changing speed and loudness because that will be the end of the bombardment of stress on me.
There is no other cause of consciousness constraints apart from the stress, restlessness and distraction that is constantly generated by the person himself and all others around him.
There is no other cause for stress, restlessness and distraction than the constant stretching, changes in speed and strength of force in the perceiving, thinking, speaking and movements of beings (even the calls of insects with their mindless repetitiveness, stretching, constant changes in speed and loudness is not music but stress all listeners).
There is no other cause of consciousness change apart from a significant reduction in stress, restlessness and distraction that beset a person’s consciousness that can only come from a significant reduction in stretching, changing speed and strength of force.
Even though everyone is still stretching his syllables, changing speed and loudness despite visibly having changed does not mean that stretching, changing speed and strength of force is not at the heart of recent consciousness changes. As I have said, if the level of extrinsic induced stress, restlessness and distraction is reduced as result of changes in others, the person will automatically experience a consciousness change even if he continued to stretch his syllables, change speed and loudness. If your doing and saying things that stresses yourself is subdued is more purposeful where previously it was indiscriminate and constant, then there will be a consciousness change. If you don’t stretch, change speed and loudness as much as before you will still experience a commensurate alleviation of your consciousness suffering.
If you reduce the frequency and intensity of your laughing and smiling you too will experience some amelioration of your consciousness suffering even if you continue to stretch your syllables, change speed and loudness because smiling and laughing have even violent stretching, changes in speed and strength of force of the muscles of your face and vocal apparatus.
If a person was stressing himself at an intensity of 10 and he now reduced it to intensity 8, he will automatically experience a consciousness change. There were no consciousness changes in the past because try as they may to reduce their resident stress levels eg through smoking, holidays, music, exercise, TM meditation, yoga, their resident stress levels remained essentially stable. Only recent behavioral changes meaningfully reduced everyone’s level of stress. Only the person who has truly stopped stretching syllables, stopped changing speed and loudness will experience the stress intensity of 0.
EVEN THOUGH MANKIND HAS NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THE OCCURENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES, REFLECTING THE UNMISTAKABLE DAY AND NIGHT CONTRAST THAT CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED IN ME, IN THE PAST EVEN IF I WANTED, NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED, I COULD NOT HELP BEING STRESSED, RESTLESS AND DISTRACTED BUT NOW BY THE ENDING OF THE STRETCHING OF SYLLABLES, CONSTANT SPEED AND LOUDNESS CHANGES, EVEN IF I WANTED, I CANNOT STRESS, MAKE RESTLESS AND DISTRACT MYSELF AND NO INDUCEMENT, ALL THE WEALTH, SENSATE PLEASURES, FAME & POWER IN THIS WORLD WILL MAKE ME RETURN TO THE AWFUL UNCERTAIN DAYS OF THE PAST.
EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR OTHERS TO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SAME EXTENT OF CHANGES AS ME, THEY MUST ALL EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT UNUSUAL RELIEF FROM SUFFERING TO HAVE NOTICED CHANGES. DOES IT REFLECT HONESTY OR STUPENDOUS SELECTIVE DENIAL OF REALITY THAT NO ONE IS CURIOUS WHAT IS GOING ON, NOT NOW NOT EVER? HOW CAN ANYONE OF THEM BE CAPABLE OF LET ALONE BE THE FATHER OF THESE CHANGES BUT INSTEAD THEY ARE ALL BASHFUL RELUCTANT CLUELESS ILLEGITIMATE OFFSPRINGS OF THESE CHANGES?
(If it is true that I triggered the consciousness changes in 1977 and I am at least a co-trigger of today’s changes, and this consciousness changes benefited everyone, reduced their stress, restlessness and distraction, isn’t it as Jesus said that it is to your advantage that he went otherwise the counselor will not come? What greater advantage can a being bestow on you than to cause the consciousness constraints to be lifted not once but twice? Just as precisely where a treasure lies in a treasure hunt is not stated but the clues given must be sufficient to guide some but not all to its location, in the same way there is no need for Jesus to state precisely who the counselor is but the clues he gave must be sufficient to enable some but not all to work out who the counselor is)
Because constant stretching & changes in speed and strength of force of units of vocalization and motion is the universal condition not just of humans but of all beings in this world, even all insects can be shown objectively to do so, it must take a truly unique person be similarly capable of not stretching syllables, not change speed and loudness as I can. It is therefore highly unlikely if not impossible that a co-trigger of the recent consciousness change exits. (Should anyone believe he can speak without stretching syllables, change speed and loudness or think there are some insect that can do so, I guarantee I can demonstrate in both cases constant stretching, changes in speed and loudness he never imagined existed)
Just the sight of me in recent years has on many occasions provoked some wicked people to spit at me or in my presence with a venomousness that I discern is unusual in the directness and intense acceleration in speed and force. If it is true that the spitting is with a directness and venomousness that they have never expressed before, this spitting will also have changed their consciousness, loosened the shackles of suffering in their minds in an evil way. Therefore the sight of me who is truly not suffering, truly have no style will stir evil ones to change because their implacable hatred has caused them to spit with a venom that they never generated before. Where their venom was blunt, it has been sharpened by their sight of me.
EVEN IF PEOPLE LACK THE DISCERNMENT TO TELL WHAT IS SO DIFFERENT ABOUT MY APPEARANCE OR BEHAVIOR, THEY CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STYLE AND ITS ABSENCE, THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE IN MY APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOR, THEY CAN ALL SENSE THE ABSENCE OF STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTING THAT MY APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOR IMPARTS ON THEM AND THIS WILL INVOLUNTARILY STIR THEM TO EITHER LIKE OR DISLIKE NOT IN THEIR USUAL WAYS BUT IN THEIR INDIVIDUALLY NEVER BEFORE STIRRED WAYS THAT WILL SET THEM ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL PATHS OF CONSCIOUSNESS CHANGE & THEY WILL THEN SERVE AS TEMPLATES FOR YET OTHERS TO CHANGE.
The underlying mechanism of the consciousness change in recent years must be the same in me as in everyone else, it is impossible that there should be one mechanism of change for me and a different one for all others.
I have demonstrated that there is only one mechanism for consciousness constraint (namely external and internal stress, restlessness and distracting detaining that consciousness) and one mechanism for alleviating the consciousness constraints by attacking the forceful stretching, changing of speed and strength of force that is the generator of the stress, restlessness and distraction by experiencing a consciousness alleviating freedom from stress, restlessness and distraction by stopping stretching, changing speed and strength of force. If I tried to imitate others’ ways of speaking I find that I must always use mental force to stretch my syllables, change speed and loudness and afterwards I unfailingly experienced rising stress, restlessness and distraction.
If there are other causes of stress, restlessness and distraction that govern a person’s consciousness then it will be impossible for me to experience a freedom from stress, restlessness and distraction by merely stopping stretching, changing speed and strength of force. I have proven that stretching, changing speed and loudness is the cause of stress, restlessness and distraction because they unfailingly arise to seize me if I did not desist whenever I started to stretch my syllables, change speed and loudness like others.
Why consciousness changes are almost as rare as hen’s teeth:
Hens don’t have teeth and therefore consciousness changes are almost as rare as non existent.
It is not without reason that gnosis and consciousness changes which both are forms of awakening and relieve suffering are difficult achieve as the Buddha says below:
Just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual slope, a gradual inclination, with a sudden drop-off only after a long stretch, in the same way this Doctrine (theory) and Discipline (practice) has a gradual training, a gradual performance, a gradual progression with a penetration to gnosis only after a long stretch. (It is conceivable if a being was to stagnate or turn back he will not realize gnosis was just around the corner.)
It is because there are multiple factors that detain a being in consciousness constraints all of which must be negated, there is considerable force and force of habit detaining beings in these multiple consciousness constraining factors and they are hampered by ignorance, delusion and foolishness that it is difficult next to impossible to achieve consciousness changes.
The recent consciousness changes vindicate what the Buddha said because they did not come quickly but only after a gradual training or performance starting in myself with not smiling or saying things to please and impress others that caused a reduction in stress, restlessness and distraction that enable me to see that I was stretching my syllables and how this was not pleasurable but stressful leading me to scrupulously painstakingly stop stretching my syllables that then led me to see there were constant changes in speed and loudness in my speech that were stressful not pleasurable so that I similarly applied myself to gradually stop changing speed and loudness.
There was no promise of an alleviating consciousness change beforehand. Because alleviating consciousness changes are truly incomparable anyone who knows they exist or had a foretaste will have changed at the earliest opportunity. I never imagined my recent behavioral changes will lead to a consciousness change in myself let alone that they will trigger changes in everyone else yet again as they did after 1977. I thought whatever consciousness changes possible have already been exhausted after 1977 and what remains is for those who will listen to what I say to change from darkness towards light; I did not expect everyone, even the evil to change.
All ordinary people are not motivated to change because true change must run counter to society’s dictates and though they suffer even to the verge of suicide, they are fearful of being ostracized or loss of livelihood, there is tremendous relentless social pressure and habit energy detaining them in their personal ways of behaving, they are seriously handicapped by foolishness, ignorance and delusion and even if a being was to embark to truly (not make believe) change himself (something that has never happened before), he must efface completely all the factors that detain him in consciousness constraints before he can achieve a consciousness change.
If you stopped smiling, saying and doing things that are only necessary to please and impress others you will experience a measure of release from suffering but because there is still stretching, changes in speed and loudness in your speech, you will still be detained in stress, restlessness and distraction. If you only stopped stretching your syllables without stop changing speed and loudness, the latter will also still detain you in stress, restlessness and distraction. If you only partially stopped stretching your syllables and then stagnated or slowly reverted perhaps under social inducement to increased stretching, you will suffer a relapse in stress, restlessness and distraction that will increase until they engulf you in total darkness where no light shines through to point to the source of your woes.
(How did the Buddha who lived in landlocked India know there are continental shelves that stretch from the coast to the depths of an ocean? Even many modern landlocked people are not aware of oceans and do not know continental shelves exist. Many even well educated people will be hard pressed to give the correct answer if asked how many oceans there are, so was a landlocked Buddha lucky or did he see to speak of the ‘four great oceans’ namely the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific & Indian. The Antarctic Ocean is not a true ocean because it is not enclosed and comprises the tail ends of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans)
Even though all beings here (including insects) still continue to move and vocalize with constant stretching, changes in speed and strength of force, this is at the heart of recent consciousness changes.
(Anyone who cannot see stretching in movements has deficient discernment. If you make a stylish curved movement from A to B where an economical straight line movement is possible, you have not only stretched that movement but constantly forcefully changed direction because there are constant changes in direction in all curved movements. All straight line A to B movements that have accelerating speed and strength throughout, as is the case in the movements of all beings here, is theoretically stretched even if they are not physically stretched because if it was not forcibly arrested by the person or the target, the continuing momentum will have taken that movement beyond the target or be stretched.)
Because it can never be accidental but it is with reason (because I truly do not want to suffer and make others suffer whereas others are kidding themselves if they think they do not want to suffer or make others suffer) that the original source set out on the course of change whereas all others were reluctantly ‘sucked in’, he also had a head start, he should be foremost in the changes that are heart of the consciousness change, namely not stretching, not changing speed and loudness.
Thus it is that I am foremost in the changes that are at the core of recent consciousness change; I alone can speak without stretching, changing speed and loudness where no others, not even insects and birds can do so after scrupulous examination by me.
That the Buddha said “I have no teacher; no one is equal to me; in the world of men and of gods no being is like me” implies that all beings are not equal, only the Buddha was self awakened, even his deputies could not awaken themselves. Jesus implied that no being in this world could do so when he spoke of the counselor convincing the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, taking what is his and making it known to you and teaching you all things. If it is possible for someone other than the counselor to do so, then what Jesus said is in danger of falsity. Thus it may be beyond the capacity of all beings that are detained in this world to trigger the consciousness changes of recent years.
I GUARANTEE ANYONE WHO THINKS HE CAN SPEAK WITHOUT STRETCHING SYLLABLES, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS BUT YET EXPERIENCE REGULAR STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT I CAN DEMONSTRATE TO HIM HOW DIFFERENT HIS SPEECH WILL SOUND LIKE IF THERE WAS NO STRETCHING, CHANGES IN SPEED AND LOUDNESS.
Why the person who likes and dislikes cannot see the truth:



















If you disliked her you will be switched off not to bother to examine her and see the truth of what she is perpetrating.
If you liked her, it will blind you to whatever that is negative that she is perpetrating. You will only want to see things in her that will reinforce your false like for her.
Only the person who is unemotional who neither like nor dislike her can pay attention to see as it is that she is faked seeing. Examine carefully and you may see that her eyes are vacant, faked focused on a subject but in truth seeing but not seeing in a private make belief world. She is only forcing herself to fake engaged, interested or friendly but she is lost in a daze of self-compromise in the name of pleasing others.
A Brave Smile:









This is what people might agree is a ‘brave’ smile; you force yourself to smile to appease others. There is actually considerable force backing the smile which is always stretched or prolonged to greater or lesser extent to allow others to view it. The lips are tightly pursed and the face slightly tilted downwards to force through and maintain the smile whilst the mind must suffer tension. She is acting and putting on a show for public consumption.
Anyone who thinks she is smiling because she likes you is deluded. She is smiling to please you, because she has been brainwashed to.
Anyone who does not believe his movements can be stretched has to remember that when you prolong your smile or stare, you are stretching your movements.
He Got What He Wanted:









People moan at the premature passing of a ‘good’ man but in truth as painful as his death may be he was literally constantly unknowingly asking for it and far from good he is a mischievous, misbehaving hypocrite just like the others in the picture. According to a close associate he can hardly stay still for a few seconds (reflecting his intense restlessness that is a result of the violently emotional way he behaves) and that may be reason he lost his life because he was frustrated by the recent bad weather to do whatever filming he could at the earliest opportunity. Trying to be funny and trying to make others laugh is not the way to heaven but the opposite. I make no concessions or apologies to please anyone regarding my views about him and even the others in the picture. Whoever you are, if you behave like the woman or the child, you are putting on a show, stressing yourself and others with debts incurred not merit. If you think that Jesus as a child will also behave like this child is doing you may be right or deluded. If you disagree with me, either you or I have wrong view, never both right views and views are never harmless but even leads to hell or the animal womb. You are a great fool if you think he is a great guy for inside there must be even intense aggression or force, hidden fangs and an urge to hurt others or ill will.
I neither experience sadness nor delight at his passing but as the Buddha said ordinary people who have not seen the light has suffering due to them that is as vast as an ocean and as long as an eternity.
IT IS PARTLY INTENDED, BEINGS IN THIS WORLD DO ‘ENJOY’ CONSTANT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT AWARE THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE ENJOYING, THEY HAVE NEVER TASTED ITS ALTERNATIVE (NOT STRETCHING, CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS) DISREGARDING THE STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THEY MUST AFTERWARDS STRUGGLE TO SHED BECAUSE EVERYONE ENCOURAGES AND EXPECTS THEM TO DO SO AND IT IS PARTLY UNINTENDED, THEY CANNOT HELP IT BECAUSE THE STRONG STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT POSSESSES THEIR MINDS DRIVE THEM HELPLESSLY TO CONSTANTLY STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH OF FORCE IN WHATEVER THEY PERCEIVE, THINK, SPEAK AND DO.
A Seeing But Not Seeing Eye:









This eye is staring but it is staring blankly, seeing but seeing, its consciousness scattered, elsewhere. Although not pronounced, it appears stunned with its pupil dilated indicating a mind that is not concentrated. She is an actress, faking it. Anyone who is emotional who looks at this eye will be provoked to become restless, to either be attracted to it (like) or arrested (dislike).
People usually if not always see in snapshots and when they force themselves to stare at something, they usually lapse into unseeing because their attention cannot be sustained (poor concentration) and wanders off or it is uncomfortable psychologically to keep on staring. It is because people have never seen an eye that attentively sees without using force that they see nothing wrong even when the eye above may cause them to squirm uneasily.
An eye that is passively with force paying attention to what it is seeing does not look like this.
‘Nothing Or Anything But’ Is Always False:
Since you think you can see the truth, can you tell me why ‘nothing but’ is always false?
For instance why is “As much as you like to think you are such a marvelous creature, the Buddha tells you that you are nothing but a bunch of mental and bodily activities and the consciousness that comes to being as a result of those activities” always false?
One saying rightfully says ‘you are nothing more than a bunch of activities and the consciousness that comes to being’ because there is a world of a difference between truth and falsity between ‘nothing but’ and ‘nothing more’. Your ‘but’ contradicts your ‘nothing’.
INTELLIGENCE VERSUS WISDOM:
IT IS NOT SO MUCH DISCERNMENT THAT PEOPLE CONFUSE INTELLIGENCE WITH BUT IT IS WISDOM.
WISDOM IS THE ACCUMULATION OF A STORE OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE AS A RESULT OF BEING DISCERNING OR SEEING THINGS CLEARLY AS THEY ARE, NOT AS YOU LIKE AND DISLIKE IT PLUS REASONING OUT THINGS AS THEY TRULY ARE WITH TRUE LOGIC.
IN ORDER TO BE WISE YOU MUST HAVE DISCERNMENT AND TRUE UNEMOTIONAL LOGIC, YOU MUST NOT LIKE AND DISLIKE.
HUMANITY IS NEVER OBJECTIVE MUCH AS IT LIKE TO PRETEND & TOUT ITSELF TO BE BUT IT HAS ITS SETS OF VALUES AND BIASES THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY BENEFICIAL OR TRUE BUT EVEN THE OPPOSITE, HARMFUL TO SELF AND OTHERS, FALSE OR DELUDED AND THE INTELLIGENT MAN IS MERELY A SUPERIOR SELF SERVING ROBOT WHO HAS SUPERIOR MEMORIZING AND SUPERIOR IN SPEED AND APT RETRIEVAL OF A SUPERIOR LIBRARY OF VESTED KNOWLEDGE TO CATER TO THE WHIMS AND FANCIES OF HIS SOCIETY SO THAT HE IS WORSHIPPED AS ‘BRILLIANT’ WHEN IN TRUTH HE MAY BE DELUDED JUST LIKE HIS SOCIETY IS DELUDED. JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A SUPERIOR LIBRARY OF ‘FACTS’ ACCEPTED BY SOCIETY, YOU HAVE SUPERIOR APPROPRIATE RETRIEVAL FROM YOUR LIBRARY, ALL OF WHICH REQUIRE ROBOTIC IMPRINTING & RETRIEVING DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN SEE THINGS CLEARLY AS THEY ARE AND YOU CAN REASON CLEARLY WITH TRUE LOGIC ANYMORE THAN A MORE POWERFUL COMPUTER CAN SEE THINGS CLEARLY THAN A LESSER COMPUTER WITHOUT BEING TOLD OR PROGRAMMED TO DO SO.
THE INTELLIGENT PERSON’S SUPERIOR MEMORIZATION AND RETRIEVAL IS NOT TAILORED FOR TRUTH AND TRUE HARMLESSNESS BUT TAILORED TO THE DICTATES OF SOCIETY AND SELFISHNESS. THE DISCERNING PERSON’S SEEING THINGS AS THEY ARE AND TRUE LOGIC IS TAILORED TO SEEING & KNOWING THE TRUTH TO ESCAPE SUFFERING, NOT TAILORED TO SOCIETY’S DICTATES.
Ordinary people see nothing amiss when they say or hear someone say “I smile because I like someone” but it is fool’s logic (that society has implanted by rote in that person) and false perception that will lead to mad perception to think that it is a valid statement.
Because liking is nothing more than a blind mental force undulating rise and fall in speed and strength as a result of seeing someone, you are unwittingly saying you smile because of blind undulating changes in your mental force that has nothing to do with reason. Because there are always undulating rise and fall in speed and strength of your facial muscles when you smile, your smile will reinforce your liking that then reinforce your smiling in ever tightening circles that will not end in unadulterated bliss but in torment.
Therefore the person who says so might think he is very smart, even wise and society will tell him it is so and he will nevertheless believe this is so despite what I say above and so it will be a matter of time to tell him whether he is right or wrong.
Just as society cannot see that “I smile because I like someone” is based on false or faulty logic that leads to agony rather than happiness it cannot see that many things that are accepted as true and beneficial are the diametric opposite.
CHANGING SPEED AND LOUDNESS:
WHEN YOU INCREASE THE SPEED IN EXHALING OR BLOWING OUT AIR DURING A STRETCHED SYLLABLE, THE PITCH OR SHRILLNESS OF THE SYLLABLE RISES.
WHEN YOU INCREASE THE FORCE WITH WHICH YOU EXHALE DURING A STRETCHED SYLLABLE, THE LOUDNESS OF THE SYLLABLE RISES.
WHEN YOU FORM THE NEXT SYLLABLE BY ALTERING THE CONFIGURATION OF YOUR VOCAL APPARATUS FASTER IN THE NEXT SYLLABLE, YOU HAVE CHANGED SPEED BETWEEN SYLLABLES.
WHEN YOU INCREASE THE FORCE WITH WHICH YOU EXHALE DURING THE NEXT SYLLABLE, YOU HAVE INCREASED ITS LOUDNESS COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS SYLLABLE.
FORCE MUST ALWAYS USED WHENEVER YOU CHANGE SPEED OR LOUDNESS WITHIN AND BETWEEN SYLLABLES, REASON HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THESE CHANGES AND IT IS BEST REASON IS ABSENT TO FACILITATE SUCH MINDLESS FORCE CHANGES THAT ARE ENTIRELY FOR SHOW TO DECEIVE, PLEASE, IMPRESS, INTIMIDATE AND DOMINATE OTHERS. FORCE CONSTANTLY USED TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS DETAINS THAT MIND IN STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION THAT WILL INTENSIFY WITH AGE AND YOU ARE HEADED FOR PERDITION NOT HEAVEN.
Careful What You Rubbish:
Jesus said that you will be judged for every careless word you say and the carelessness that people are aware is like the tip of an iceberg, nor can they help being careless because they are emotional and not in control of what they say, do or think.
The Buddha said he is the highest teacher and if you rubbish it and it turns out to be true, there will be accountability because it is wrong view and there are two destinations for wrong view, hell or the animal womb.
Should you turn around and argue, “How was I supposed to know what I thought is wrong?” then you are a fool to rubbish what you were not supposed to know. Heaven is not the destination for fools but hell and the animal womb are. Even if something is wrong and you rubbish it, you are putting your head on a chopper board because it is denigration. Even if a deranged woman should cry that her dead child is back alive, you should not laugh or rubbish her because she is suffering and it is hurtful to rubbish.
Further if you do not know something and you take up a position by rubbishing it, you are unwittingly betting and conditioning yourself to doubt and uncertainty that the same Buddha that you rubbish tells you is one of three lower fetters to future states of woe. You would not rubbish the Buddha if you did not have significant self identity views or are not opinionated that again the same Buddha tells you is another lower fetter to future woes.
Universal Stress, Restlessness & Distraction:
If you spray insecticide or smack a cockcroach, you can tell it is distressed because disorientated it may run around frantically aimlessly or flail its limbs with rapidly accelerating speed and strength of force as it fights for its life.
All cockcroaches can sense danger and will run away hurriedly with rising speed and strength of force if threatened. Mosquitoes, flies, bees and butterflies never make straight-line flights but they always fly with constant changes in direction and speed which reflects restlessness. If you listen to the vocalizations of crickets or cicadas, there are constant stretching, changes in speed and loudness.
All this indicate that insects are beings that may be no different from us, they can sense pain and danger and they can be greedy (flies & mosquitoes buzz around food and will not be denied even if shooed away).
It Is Always Style That Grates:
It is never the substance of whatever is said that causes the listener to become irritated or even explode but it is always how it is said with stretching of syllables, changes in speed and loudness that others find irritating. It is never what is said that is sarcastic (eg you’re so handsome) but it is the way it is said eg with soft laughter that makes it sarcastic.
THUS IT IS ALWAYS THE STYLE OF WHAT IS SAID OR DONE, THE STYLE OF A PERSON’S APPEARANCE OR POSTURE THAT IS OFFENSIVE TO OTHERS, NEVER THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT IS SAID OR DONE.
The amazing thing about ordinary people is that though they are frequently irritated by others’ appearances (eg shabby, ‘filthy’ beggar), stances (stylish or flaunting), ways of speech (eg haughty or nervous) or ways of doing things (thrashing things), they can never see that they themselves too possess perfectly valid artificial styles in their appearances, stances, speech and behavior and far from being a balm that soothes others, they can be equally just as much a pain in the neck of others as others are to them. For instance they cannot see that their humility, concern or sincerity is acted, is anxious and have motive. This is called immaculate blindness. If you are blind and you think you are heading for heaven then you may also be an immaculate fool.
Why No Sheep In Goatskin?
Because to be a sheep in goatskin you must be a sheep who acts like a goat and because all acting is always false, is forcefully driven by ill will, in no time the sheep will become a true goat rather than still a sheep in goatskin and therefore it is not possible to be a sheep in goatskin.
Betting Tip Of The Iceberg:
Just as they severely underestimate or cannot see the stretching, changes of speed and loudness in their speech, people severely underestimate the betting they make in their daily lives that are not harmless but is the very same doubt and uncertainty that conditions them inexorably to the future states of woe that the Buddha spoke about.
People often say to themselves or others “I bet or I am sure he knows, he doesn’t mind, he will not come, it is good to eat” when they have no right to say so, it is only a hunch. Betting is an urge and it fosters an attitude that you can know what you don’t know that must sometimes be dashed to create doubt that leads to uncertainty.
When you ask someone “You smoke?” you are betting or presuming that he smokes compared to asking him “Do you smoke?” People often presume or bet when they ask, “You don’t like him?” instead of “Do you like him?” Therefore what betting people are aware they make may be like the tip of the iceberg and they are conditioning themselves to doubt and uncertainty which is why they now have very strong doubt and uncertainty that is also reflected in the hesitancy or vacillating of their speech and motion.
Don’t Be Surprised:
Quote: Chan surprised over move to reduce traffic offence fines:
Comment: Why should anyone be surprised by anything at all unless he is pretentious and expectant or presumptuous? If you do not want to suffer you must ensure nothing surprises you. What the minister should have said was that he was never consulted before regarding the move. This is called letting your yes be yes only, anything more, ‘surprise’ comes from evil not good.
It Is Always Sarcastic:
Quote: Must tragedy occur before City Hall takes action?
Comment: Anyone who insists he is not being sarcastic when he speaks thus is a fool because it is always sarcastic. He already knows the situation is dangerous and he is not genuine in asking the question but he is asking to mock, with karma attached.
The non sarcastic person says, “City Hall should take action before tragedy happens”.
Despite what I say there will be some who will insist I am wrong and it is not necessarily sarcastic to say “Must tragedy occur before City Hall takes action?” This reflects their doubt and uncertainty; they believe they can see things that are not there namely that it can be not sarcastic when it always is.
Ordinary people like to believe they have an eye for truth and know the truth but it may be make believe than true.
Doomed Much Earlier:
Jesus predicted a dire end for mankind and it may be that even before the Industrial Revolution the seeds of mankind’s doom had been sown not by God but by mankind and those who talk about saving the planet may be talking about a pie in the sky.
Top scientist's fears for climate
By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst
One of America's top scientists has said that the world has already entered a state of dangerous climate change.
In his first broadcast interview as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Holdren told the BBC that the climate was changing much faster than predicted.
"We are not talking anymore about what climate models say might happen in the future.
"We are experiencing dangerous human disruption of the global climate and we're going to experience more," Professor Holdren said.
He emphasised the seriousness of the melting Greenland ice cap, saying that without drastic action the world would experience more heatwaves, wild fires and floods.
He added that if the current pace of change continued, a catastrophic sea level rise of 4m (13ft) this century was within the realm of possibility; much higher than previous forecasts.
To put this in perspective, Professor Holdren pointed out that the melting of the Greenland ice cap, alone, could increase world-wide sea levels by 7m (23ft), swamping many cities.
Safe limits
He blamed President Bush not only for refusing to cut emissions, but also for failing to live up to his rhetoric on harnessing technology to tackle climate change.
"We are not starting to address climate change with the technology we have in hand, and we are not accelerating our investment in energy technology research and development," Professor Holdren observed.
He said research undertaken by Harvard University revealed that US government spending on energy research had not increased since 2001. In order to make any progress, funding for climate technology needed to multiply by three or four times, Professor Holdren warned.
Last year, the UK's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, held a science conference to determine the threshold of dangerous climate change. Delegates concluded that to be relatively certain of keeping the rise below 2C (3.6F), CO2 levels in the atmosphere should not exceed 400 parts per million (ppm) and the highest prudent limit should be 450 ppm.
In October, at an international conference in Mexico, UK environment and energy ministers will try to persuade colleagues from the top 20 most polluting nations to agree on a CO2 stabilisation level.
Professor Holdren expressed doubt that progress could be achieved because if the US administration agreed that there was a need to limit CO2, this would inevitably lead to mandatory caps. President Bush has already rejected that option.
For more than a year, the BBC has invited the US government to give its view on safe levels of CO2. Our request is repeatedly passed between the White House office of the Council on Environmental Quality and the office of the US chief scientist.
To date, we have received no response to questions on this issue that Tony Blair calls the most important in the world. Professor Holdren called on the US Government to back the UK position.

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