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Good News from 2023 You Probably Didn't Hear

Surprise, Surprise!  Believe it or not, some positive things happened in 2023. Theses stories will come as a welcome relief, and will very likely come as a surprise as well. Studies from the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, NOAA, Royal Society Science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Polar Bear Monitoring Group and others have been—in what propaganda experts call "issue filtering"—entirely suppressed by the corporate media and censored by social media platforms. The results of these important studies received zero coverage on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN or MSNBC. The truth is of great value, to say the least, so please take a minute to relax, enjoy, and reflect!                                                                                 WAIT ... WHAT?

First, this is really wonderful. Giraffe populations are rising! Giraffe numbers are 20 percent higher than in 2015, an increase linked to dedicated conservation efforts. According to a recent analysis of survey data from across the African continent, the total giraffe population is now around 117,100, approximately 20 percent higher than the population of 97,500 in 2015, when the last major survey was published. Giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) were once considered a single species, but recent genetic evidence shows there are likely four species of giraffe, three of which have increased considerably in number: the Northern giraffes, the Reticulated giraffes, and the Masai giraffes. The fourth, Southern giraffes, the most populous species, have remained relatively stable. Reported in February by the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, and published in the peer-reviewed research journal "Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation."

News from the Rainforest! Jaguars (Panthera onca) have been under pressure for decades from habitat destruction and hunting, and are listed as “Near Threatened.” Although a few Jaguar populations are still threatened in some areas, a new study found something remarkable. Here's the headline from 'Science News': "Huge Numbers of Fish-eating Jaguars Prowl Brazil’s Wetlands." A team of wildlife scientists from Oregon State University deployed 59 cameras in the Pantanal, an immense tropical wetland—the largest of its kind in the world that sprawls over parts of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay—and collected more than 1,500 videos of jaguars. The researchers also rounded-up 13 jaguars (here kitty kitty) and fitted them with tracking collars to gain insight into the animals’ population density, movements and social interactions. Based on their data, they estimate that the Pantanal hosts the highest density of jaguars ever recorded, 12.4 animals per 100 square kilometers, nearly triple the population of earlier studies. Jaguars were also the most common mammal spotted on the cameras.          

And here's some great Ocean News. Humpback whales in the South Atlantic have nicely recovered from near-extinction! A new count shows the population off Brazil's east coast went from about 450 in the 1950s to over 25,000 now. Royal Society Science researchers report the population of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) that swim the seas between South America and Antarctica has bounced back to about 93 percent of the population’s previous levels. Of 14 known humpback populations—seven in the Southern Hemisphere and seven in the Northern Hemisphere—10 have shown almost complete recovery, according to NOAA.
     And this rebound is part of a global trend for dozens of other ocean species. "We're seeing an ocean that's teeming with life like we haven't seen since the '40s or '50s," Chris Fischer, founder of the research organization OCEARCH, told CBS News on May 29th, 2023.

Sea turtles are swimming happily as populations thrive! For millennia, humans have used both adult sea turtles and their eggs as a food source and for cultural practices. For example, the shell of the beautiful Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata, pictured) is prized for trinkets, jewelry, furniture inlays, etc. Yet greatly increased pushback from the public and numerous conservation efforts have seen poaching drop sharply, and populations worldwide are doing well. “The silver lining is that, despite some illegal harvesting, exploitation is not having a negative impact on sea-turtle populations on a global scale. This is really good news,” said marine scientist Jesse Senko, in research published in 'Global Change Biology'. “Contrary to popular belief, most sea-turtle populations worldwide are doing quite well,” he said. Additionally, the study pins down where—and by whom—sea turtles are being exploited, which helps conservationists target governments and communities for advocacy, said Emily Miller, an ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.                          

The Bald Eagle’s Soaring Return! The number of American bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) has skyrocketed since 2009, with more than 300,000 birds soaring over the lower 48 states, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists said in a March 24th report. As a result of conservation efforts, the bald eagle population has risen from a mere 417 nesting pairs in 1963 to more than 71,400 nesting pairs now, an increase of 17,000%, and there are an estimated 316,700 individual birds today. Bird lovers have hailed the eagle’s recovery and noted that the majestic, white-headed bird has always been considered sacred to Native American tribes and treasured by people all over the United States generally. Biologists conducted aerial surveys and worked with the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology to acquire information on areas that were not practical to fly over as part of aerial surveys.

And here's some great BUZZZZZ. After almost two decades of the media's relentless "bee colony collapse" coverage, a gold-standard source reveals something remarkable—there's been a stunning boom in the population of the industrious little honeybees in the U.S. The numbers from the new 'Census of Agriculture' shows that America’s honeybee population has rocketed to an all-time high, up 31 percent since 2007. The U.S. has added almost a million bee colonies, and we now have 3.8 million, the census shows. Since 2007, the honeybee has been the fastest-growing so-called "livestock" segment in the country, according to National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. And that doesn’t count feral honeybees, which may outnumber their captive cousins several times over. Plus, the Census of Agriculture also shows the population of our beautiful wild ducks is up 12 percent, and the deer population is up about 7 percent.      

Polar Bears Are Doing Really Well! Remember all the dire claims that polar bears are in danger, and may even become extinct? Turns out nothing could be further from the truth. The newest data shows polar bear numbers have grown significantly during the recent warming period. The populations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) have increased from between 5,000 and 10,000 bears in 1960 to between 22,000 and 31,000 today, based on estimates from the Polar Bear Monitoring Group and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Litter sizes “are among the highest ever reported for 18 of 19 polar bear populations.”
     Biologists were mistaken about how polar bears would respond to summer sea ice losses, and have since learned why:  Polar bears evolved between 6,000,000 to 350,000 years ago, so adapted to thrive in climates that were alternately both much colder and much warmer than today.
 •   Here's how it was explained to me by a Stanford geophysicist:  "Over millenniums, the Earth's landmasses and oceans undergo vast changes—miles-thick sheets of ice cover entire continents then recede, polar regions experience ice-free sub-tropical periods, sea levels rise and fall by many hundreds of feet, rift zones and canyons form then gradually fill to become valleys and plains, mountain ranges weather away while some, like the Himalayas, continue to rise, and full-margin rupture earthquakes and supervolcano eruptions dramatically change topography. To the geologic eye, the Earth is a fluid form. In relatively recent history, evidence shows that polar bear populations thrived during the Holocene climatic optimum, from 9000 to 5000 years ago, which proxy data indicates was far warmer than at present."
 •   What's more, real world observations by Native Inuit Tribal Communities also crush the alarmist claims that polar bears are endangered by reduced sea ice. An extensive analysis relying on native reports concluded that 12 of 13 Canadian Arctic polar bear sub-populations (92.3%) have been stable or growing in recent decades. During interviews with four Inuit communities on their experience with polar bears, all participants reported having more bear encounters in recent years than in the past. “Back in the '50s, the '60s, and into the mid '70s, there were hardly any bears,” said an Inuit tribal elder. “There are too many polar bears now. Bears can catch seals even if the ice is thin, and in open water.”

“You can’t always teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is provide them with what they
need to know when they need to know it.”  —Seymour Papert, world-renowned MIT mathematician and educator

  •  This is super. I convinced Michael to let me make one of my favorite books available at no cost for your evening reading, Mystic Knowledge of the Ages, The Reawakening. This exploration and discovery anthology presents an extraordinary selection of profound concepts and insights. Regular price $7.95, FREE on Amazon worldwide Monday, April 15th (only).

"Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic and sorcery.
Perhaps they will remain when all the works of our reason have passed away."
—Will Durant, Ph.D., recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Medal of Freedom

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook knowledge for magic; now,
when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake magic for knowledge."  —Thomas Szasz

"Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes."  —Walt Whitman

This book takes you on an exploration of the most refined and profound wisdom of the ages, the mystic knowledge to which the Western world has in recent times been reawakening. What exactly is this knowledge? Mystic knowledge falls under the aegis of Aristotle’s metaphysics and seeks to reveal the fundamental nature of all reality; it describes what anything must be in order to be at all. It presents a description so integral, so essentially simple, so all-inclusive that it applies to everything, whether visible or invisible, human or divine, or anything else. Religion has never really done this, even though it vociferously claims to do so.

“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain true knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally, while in mysticism you go vertically.”  —Friedrich Nietzsche

“Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the greatest powers of the world.”  —William Butler Yeats

“Those possessed of wisdom follow the mystics. They know where they are going.”  —Ryszard Kapuściński

“The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that the ultimate reality without is identical to the reality within.”  —Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.

Chapters include:
     •  Part I
Introduction
Knowledge, Religion, and the Academics
Preface
The Mystic Knowledge of Ancient Egypt
Evidence for a Stunning Antiquity
     •  Part II: Anthology of Mystic Knowledge
Introduction to the Anthology
A Great Master Speaks, Immense Powers of the Ancients Revealed, circa 1370 B.C.
Teachings of the Himalayan Masters, Their Secret Knowledge and Practices
True Experiences with a Sorceress of the ‘Four Portals’
‘In The Valley of Supreme Masters’ Book Series:
Book One - A Chronicle of Power - Part 1 - Revelations of a Paranormal Kind
Book One - A Chronicle of Power - Part 2 - A Series of Phenomenal Events
     •  Part III: Special Edition Supplement
Our Universe - The Stunning New Discoveries
Earth’s First Civilization: Antarctica, 55 Million B.C.
Ancient Egypt, Extraterrestrial Origins
Down the Rabbit Hole, A Mystical Adventure
Quantum Consciousness, Psychokinetic and Extrasensory Powers: A Guide to Attaining True Paranormal Abilities

Some excerpts from 'Mystic Knowledge' —  (Note: The number after the book's name is a direct link to the book's U.S. Amazon page, in case you're interested in knowing more about it from the description and 'Read sample' feature.)

“The manifestations and results we create with visualization, once we initiate them, seem to come forth through fixed and invariable laws, but only because we perceive those results through our senses, which clothe all that they transmit in that dress of space, time and causality which our minds themselves have made. Nevertheless, we are beyond and above space, time, and the perceptions that we make. Each of us is a center of initiative force and creative power. Formulate your desire, then let your desire become action using the techniques of power I am teaching you. Your desire must be impeccably reflected in your thoughts and inner images—that is the magic. When you do this, in the inner world your desires are wholly fulfilled, immediately and effortlessly. In what you perceive to be the outer world, time may have to pass, circumstances change, or whatever, but that desire will manifest. It is law.”  —Mani Choejor, B’on Sorceress of the 4000-year-old Zhang Zhung tradition, quoted from True Experiences with a Sorceress of the ‘Four Portals’     B01ICAW6JM

“Experience is the product of the mind—your conscious thoughts and images—propelled into being by feelings; it is also a product of unconscious thoughts and feelings. These together form the reality that you experience. You are therefore not at the mercy of a reality that exists apart from yourself, or is thrust upon you. Your innermost thoughts and images are translated into seemingly material structures that you call objects; these exist, in your perception, within a framework you call space. Others are translated instead into structures you call events, in your perception these seem to exist within a framework you call time. Both space and time are illusions, yet they represent your most basic assumptions, which simply means that you accept both and assume that your reality is rooted in a series of moments in time and in dimensions of space.”  —Kalika-Khenmetaten, quoted from her manuscript ‘The Golden Crown’ (circa 1368 B.C., ± 17 years), from the book A Great Master Speaks, Immense Powers of the Ancients Revealed     B00TIYMKFM

“Your human species has been endowed with a conscious mind to direct the nature, shape and form of his and her creations. You are a creator translating your expectations into physical form. You see, the world is meant to serve as your reference point. The apparent appearance of your physical world is a replica of your inner thoughts. You can change that world at any time. You change it without knowing it. You have only to use your ability consciously, to examine the nature of your thoughts and feelings and project only those which agree with your expectations. They coalesce into the events with which you are so intimately familiar. I will teach you methods that will allow you to understand the nature of your own reality, and to point a way that will let you change that reality in whatever way you choose... and do not worry; you will better understand the power of visualization when you wish not to fall asleep because your reality is finally better than your dreams”  —the Celestial Aani, quoted from Ancient Egypt, Extraterrestrial Origins     B01N00WWJ1

“The more developed the individual consciousness the more persistently it will seek its true source, like a child strayed from its parent, or a wanderer longing for home. If it is capable of patient study and meditation, it may find the ladder down which it came, and will climb back to its heights.”  —Himalayan Master R.K., quoted from A Chronicle of Power - Part 1 - Revelations of a Paranormal Kind     B00YLC044A

Remote sensing images from NASA test missions over Antarctica revealed what researchers say is evidence of an ancient settlement lying beneath 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) of ice. “There’s very little margin for error when it comes to individual photons hitting individual fiber optics, which is why we were so surprised when we noticed these structures on the imagery,” explained a NASA project scientist. “As of now we can only speculate as to what these features are ... there are possibly many other additional sites that are covered with ice. It just shows us how easy it is to underestimate the size, scale, and age of past civilizations.” Archaeologists who have examined the images believe that they show clear evidence of a large settlement or city beneath the ice sheet. “These are features of intelligently-made structures, resembling some sort of pyramidal and rectangular buildings. We clearly have here evidence of advanced engineering. The only problem is that these images came from Antarctica under two kilometers of ice that's been there for millions of years. That is clearly the puzzling part, and we do not have any explanation for this at the moment.”  —quoted from Earth’s First Civilization: Antarctica, 55 Million B.C.     B07D1RC8DJ

Discover the unparalleled mystic wisdom of the Himalayan and ancient Egyptian masters, profound knowledge that for long millenniums has remained hidden in secrecy. 2023 Edition nine book anthology. Free on Amazon worldwide Monday, April 15th (only). Estimated e-reader page count 280 (actual count varies with the reading device used). For more information, please see the description and ‘Read sample’ feature on the book’s Amazon page. Find it in the U.S. Amazon Store here, the U.K. Store here, the CA Store here, the AU Store here, the DE Store here, for India and Nepal here, and for Egypt here. Thank you, and enjoy!

  •  And NEXT, to provide some fascinating reading for your evenings, in a very rare offer this enlightening book is available at no cost, Kalika-Khenmetaten, the Supreme Egyptian Adept: Ancient Secret Knowledge of the Great Female Master. This book takes you on an unforgettable journey into a fabled realm to explore ancient knowledge virtually unknown to the modern world. FREE on Amazon worldwide April 15th and 16th.

 "An amazing find about true consciousness and our illusion of reality. This book provides hidden knowledge of Egyptian manuscripts and techniques to expand our awareness. A must read I couldn't put it down."

 "A manual, a comprehensive guide to reaching higher awareness."

 "This is the first I've heard of Kalika... To read excerpts of her words of wisdom, sacred texts safe guarded for so long, now to being brought forth to humanity is vitally important! Please read!"

  "Ancient spiritual message wrapped in a fascinating story. Great to learn how advanced 4000 year old spiritual knowledge is and how insightful today."

  "Thought Provoking anthology, with a focus on the mystical. I’ve read everything I could find that MG Hawking has written since I first read his first book. The events and philosophies presented generate any number of insights. Repeated forays will garner you new nuggets to chew on. Populated with colorful and easy to relate to characters, these books are as much a storytelling as a teaching and window into a different world."

This book reveals the profound secret knowledge of the Egyptian Master Kalika-Khenmetaten, who lived and authored her manuscript 'The Golden Crown' under the patronage of the great Kings of Egypt, Amenhotep III and his successor Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten), over 3300 years ago.

Riveting, magical, inspirational, and richly enlightening, the story of Kalika is one of the most epic in history, and her writings reveal the great knowledge and power of the masters of those distant ages. Fragments of the material presented in this book have at various times through the millennia appeared in the more profound Eastern philosophies and secret wisdom traditions of various ages. This is to be expected—the knowledge that conveys true power has an ancient and possibly conjoint origin. In modern times, relics of this knowledge have resurfaced in various formats, although unfortunately absent both the most fundamental elements as well as the most advanced elements of the wisdom system of the supreme masters. The writings of Kalika-Khenmetaten are absent nothing—they are all-encompassing.

Attaining the ability to directly manifest whatever persons, circumstances and events you desire to experience in your life cannot be truly or fully achieved through simplistic concepts of “positive thinking” or some alleged “secret,” as so many people have been disappointed to discover. Kalika produced her manuscript, The Golden Crown, for important reasons. It is to some extent a manual, a comprehensive guide to reaching higher awareness, written by a supreme master for masters, but not only for masters. Kalika intended that it could be utilized by persons of requisite ability to reach, through their own efforts, significantly expanded levels of awareness. It sets forth the foundational recognitions and essential principles of consciousness necessary to enable and master extraordinary creative powers.

Excerpts from 'The Golden Crown':

"Throughout our land, I see men plowing, fishing, toiling, disputing, cheating and being cheated, running after gold or pleasure; each surrounded by a cloud of hopes, fears, illusions, follies, and hates; believing that gods and fate spin the web of life for each human atom, and each in turn waiting to be drawn away by the messenger of death. Men do not realize their own divinity or true nature, yet it lives within them, ever acting on each experience of their life. Were they to recognize this, they would find that their True Self hovers ever about them, like a magnificent angel, holding in her outstretched hands a priceless Golden Crown. Were they to reach out and take that Golden Crown, it would make each man who does so a Prince, each woman a Princess."  —Kalika-Khenmetaten

“Your innermost thoughts and images are translated into seemingly material structures that you call objects; these exist, in your perception, within a framework you call space. Others are translated instead into structures you call events, in your perception these seem to exist within a framework you call time. Both space and time are illusions, yet they represent your most basic assumptions, which simply means that you accept both and assume that your reality is rooted in a series of moments in time and in dimensions of space.”  —Kalika-Khenmetaten

“Experience is the product of the mind—your conscious thoughts and images—propelled into being by feelings; it is also a product of unconscious thoughts and feelings. These together form the reality that you experience. You are therefore not at the mercy of a reality that exists apart from yourself, or is thrust upon you.”  —Kalika-Khenmetaten

The foregoing three passages from the manuscript of ‘The Golden Crown,’ composed in Waset (Thebes), date to approximately 1368 B.C. (± 17 years). Our sincere thanks to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology for reviewing and in some cases refining our original translations. Kalika’s writings reveal the secrets that underlie the unprecedented accomplishments of Ancient Egypt, a civilization whose arts and culture were elevated to a degree of superiority and grandeur that have seldom, if ever, been equaled since.

“Ancient Egypt, through the solidarity, the unity, the disciplined variety of its magnificent achievements, its unexcelled artistic products, and through the enormous duration and the sustained power of its effort, offers the spectacle of the greatest civilization that has yet appeared on the earth. We shall do well to equal it.”  —Gabriel Faure

“Ancient Egypt presents us with an impenetrable mystery. How may we explain a Neolithic desert people spawning the most majestic civilization of history? Their rapid ascension from a primitive state to a previously unapproached zenith of technology and culture demonstrates advancements that utterly elude explanation. Many of their artistic and architectural productions are unequaled to this day. What could possibly explain vast technical knowledge and sophistication appearing so fully-formed so suddenly?”  —Legendary Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, Archaeological Journal (1911)

An incomparable book for anyone interested in the higher forms of esoteric knowledge and the astonishing civilization of Ancient Egypt. 2023 Edition, available free in Amazon stores worldwide April 15th and 16th. Includes a supplemental anthology, e-reader page count 364 (estimated, actual count varies with the reading device used). For more information, please see the description and ‘Read sample’ feature on the book’s Amazon page. Find it in the U.S. Amazon Store here, the U.K. Amazon Store here, the CA Amazon Store here, in the AU Amazon Store here, for Germany here, and for Egypt here. The Goodreads page can be found here. Enjoy!

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     Next, something to mull over, one example of really asinine (but pretty comical) Media Nonsense, by Amber:
Holy cow, a lot of the "reporting" from the mainstream media, it turns out, increasingly plumbs the depths of an alternative universe that readily embraces the absurd without even batting an eye. Instances of this are abundant, and they could pass for bitingly sharp, dark bits of satire on the American media if they weren't everywhere in, you know, real life.
                         We believe that detecting and correcting disinformation is the first step toward creating
                       better-informed citizens, and that can best be accomplished by presenting actual, truthful
                      observational data. The loss of a fair, honest and objective press is a really big deal, so this
                  is something all Americans need to be aware of, knowledgeable about, and therefore fully alert to.
•    Here's a typical example, a very revealing exposé of the nefarious fear-mongering and false narratives in the media. With the wildfires in the Texas panhandle—and constantly during the summer wildfire season—like crazed carnival barkers, the media went wild trumpeting claims about "record-breaking wildfires" and "the worst wildfires in history" and "record-shattering megafires" and so on. You know what I mean. And as you read this, please think back to the apocalyptic reporting after the Australian brushfires in 2020, and there's this prediction from the 'Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Impact Assessment' published in 1990, over 32 years ago: "During this decade, there will be worldwide mass forest mortality linked to climate-change-fueled wildfires."  So there's all of that, and then there's the truth...
•   FACTS:  The world's land area is 57,510,000 square miles (148,940,000 sq km), which is 29.2% of the Earth's surface (70.8% is water and ice). Around the turn of the century in 1900, an estimated 4.5% of the land area of the world burned in wildfires every year, or an average of about 2,587,950 square miles annually. By the year 2000, NOAA and the NCDC reported that this had declined to 3.2%, or 1,840,320 square miles, a reduction of 29 percent. Then, over the last two decades, NOAA satellites show an even further decline. In 2021, about 2.7% burned, and in 2022 just 2.4% burned, about 1,380,240 square miles. That's a REDUCTION of 47 percent in land area burned, some 1,207,710 fewer square miles than in the early 1900s (an area the size of India), and 460,080 fewer square miles than in 2000.
     The current data is showing the total amount of land area burned in 2023 is estimated to have been 2.6% of the world's land area, approximately 1,543,750 square miles, a REDUCTION of 41 percent in land area burned over the last 120 years, some 1,044,200 fewer square miles than in the 1900s.  Sources: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Satellite Data (2022), Washington, DC;  the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC;  and the Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ.
•   FACTS:  In the United States, the peak in the number of acres burned actually occurred in 1930 with over 52,000,000 acres burned, compared to 7,577,000 in 2022, a DECREASE of 85%, and 2,634,000 acres burned in 2023, a DECREASE of 95% over the last 93 years. And the peak in the number of wildfires actually occurred in 1981 with about 244,890, compared to 69,988 in 2022, a DECREASE of 71%, and 55,570 wildfires in 2023, a DECREASE of 77% over the last four decades.  Sources: The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), the nation's center for wildland fires, providing statistics that encompass lands managed by all federal, state, local, tribal, and private agencies;  Princeton Environmental Institute, NJ.
     Note: If you wish, you can verify all of the foregoing data with NOAA, the National Climatic Data Center, the Princeton Environmental Institute, and the National Interagency Fire Center via each of their respective official Office of Communication. Make sure to put a specific request in the subject line of your e-mail so it's directed to the right department within each agency.
•               •To the extent that reality still has any meaning these days, please keep this in mind -
There's really no polite way to put this, but since the foregoing facts and historical data are quickly and easily available to anyone who cares to check, it is the inescapable conclusion:  When you hear media reporting anything like "wildfires are becoming more frequent" or "wildfires are burning more land than ever before," you're hearing total lies told by people who know them to be lies. Instances of these tragicomic spectacles are on screens everywhere, so beware.
 •    >>>    Please take a moment to consider the following examples of pure fabrications, the media organizations that    <<<
                   ran them, and that doing so meant abandoning every professional standard of honest, objective journalism:
CNN:  "Climate-change-charged wildfires are burning more acres than ever before."
MSNBC:  "Forests all over the U.S. have been experiencing the worst wildfires in recorded history."
CBS:  "Climate change is making wildfires more frequent and more destructive than ever before."
PBS:  "Historically extreme wildfires pose an existential threat to civilization."
NPR:  "The U.S. is experiencing the worst wildfires in history."
USA Today:  "Record-shattering megafires are destroying massive areas of U.S. forestland."
The Associated Press:  "This summer marked the most destructive wildfire season in history."
The Washington Post:  "Historically unprecedented wildfires are destroying massive amounts of forestland."
The New York Times:  "Wildfires in the United States are becoming more frequent and burning a greater number of trees."
     Well. Keeping in mind that the number of U.S. wildfires in 2023 was actually DOWN by 77% from its historical high, the amount of area burned was DOWN by 95%—and that in 1930, as one example, 1947% more trees burned than in 2023—we see that every one of those reports is calculated, outright disinformation. This is an excellent example of the current state of the U.S. mainstream or 'legacy' media. A media expert from UC Berkeley put it this way:  "Reporting like that is a travesty; in journalism there is no ‘artistic license’ to grossly distort scientific data. Never trust a media outlet that does not trust its public with the truth."
••  The extent of false reporting in the media and on social media platforms has had real-world consequences. Clearly, the public is not buying the hysteria and is unimpressed by the hysterics. A Gallup Poll shows that only 16% of Americans have "confidence" in newspapers to publish the truth, and only 11% of Americans have "confidence" in television news to report the truth. These are by far the lowest poll numbers for the U.S. media ever recorded. This is a revenge the world sometimes takes upon the iniquitous, that it entraps them by force of the very morality they think themselves superior to. The constant lying comes from a lot of politicians as well. As a neighbor of ours, a Nobel laureate, wryly observed:  “Politicians are to telling the truth as cats are to swimming. They can do it, but they prefer not to.”

Freedom of speech encourages ideas, opinions, discussion and debate, but there is ONLY ONE SET OF FACTS.

“Freedom of information is a fundamental human right, and the touchstone of all freedoms. For a press that is
afraid to let the people judge the truth in an open market, is a press that is afraid of the truth.”  —John F. Kennedy.

“The most valuable piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”  —Antisthenes (445-365 B.C.)

An Observation from Michael:   Amber’s article revealing the true wildfire data is outstanding, yet simply getting the facts straight regarding climate issues is not enough. Even though there is an abundance of valid information available, widespread disinformation is creating a situation where people are more divided than ever. Getting people to realistically address climate issues calls for more than technology and reams of data—it requires understanding human nature and human decision-making.
     Researchers at Stanford University have conducted research directed to understanding why people do—or don’t—take certain stances on environmental concerns. Their studies reveal a significant and growing ‘polarization’ of people’s views on climate issues. Polarization happens when differences in beliefs spread further and further apart, with one side fully embracing the ubiquitous climate disinformation, and the other side fully aware of the scientific climate realities. The study found that: “Everyone eventually holds very strong views and virtually no one is left in the middle. When you reach a point where a significant percentage of people have inaccurate beliefs based on disinformation, it becomes much harder to have productive discussions of any relevance.”
     Polarization occurs on multiple levels, primarily through the way we process information. People are inclined to ‘biased assimilation’ of information—when someone hears new information, their acceptance of it depends on whether it’s consistent with what they already believe. Adding to the current extent of polarization is ‘homophily’—people like to associate with people whose views are aligned with their own. Not only are they not likely to accept different information, they’re not likely to even hear it, because they’re only listening to people who believe what they do. Because people only pay attention to sources they agree with—and there are powerful vested interests working very hard to promote disinformation that supports a purely political agenda—it is difficult for accurate scientific information to penetrate.
     Consider, for example, what happens with a person who reads: a) Reports about wildfires coming from media outlets, yet also reads, b) Reports of the factual data about wildfires coming from major research centers. Reports ‘a’ and ‘b’ are in diametric opposition; the media claims wildfires are horribly worse than ever before, yet the warehouse of data compiled by top research centers shows that wildfires are far less severe than at anytime in recorded history. What determines which reporting that person will believe? One would think that the source of the information would be an important consideration, yet research indicates that for many people the enormous difference in the credibility of source ‘a’ and source ‘b’ plays little or no part, showing how powerful biased assimilation, homophily, and the resulting polarization can be.
     Additionally, there’s a very dangerous category of polarization called 'affective polarization.' That’s how someone regards others who have different beliefs, and goes from, “Those people have the wrong views on climate change” to “They’re not good citizens, they’re not good people, they’re terrible.” This, of course, is the most problematic. When someone begins to think that the 'other side' is not redeemable—or are “deplorables” or "deniers" or even "evil"—it becomes extremely difficult to have functional discussions to move forward with realistic programs.
     Obviously, polarization has detrimental effects on democratic processes when it affects peoples’ ability to understand real problems versus fabricated “problems.” Environmental problems take on the form of social dilemmas, creating a conflict between people who "virtue-signal" in the short term and the collective interest of the country in the long term. Polarization between groups impedes the cooperation that is required to implement effective environmental decision-making by interfering with communication, degrading trust and mutual understanding, and making it difficult to engage in constructive debate.
     As Amber's examples stunningly illustrate, the mainstream media is actively spreading malicious disinformation, as is social media, and it’s going to get worse. The incredible abilities of AI are making it easier to disseminate polarizing disinformation and making it far easier to identify and target specific groups who are vulnerable to disinformation. True 'freedom of the press' and actual 'free speech' require not only the absence of political manipulation, but the active seeking of authentic facts and the relentless pursuit of truth. As we’re now seeing, the current tyranny in the media is not just the one which conspires to spread and enforce uniformity of climate propaganda fables, but the tyranny that belittles and ignores facts, and therein suppresses the truth.
•   When a clear understanding of reality is revealed by data, it becomes important to have that as widely known as possible. Nature shapes our future, irrespective of false notions held by the public or falsifications spread by the press. Science works to find the true nature of our world. The truth about reality is not decided by the number of likes on social media, it is not dictated by political speeches, and it is certainly not imposed by media lies. Agenda-driven political activists and their operatives in the media can try to distort or deny the facts any way they want, but they cannot create a non-existent reality by making up stories and reporting on them as if they were true. Unlike all too many people, Nature cannot be fooled.

A Cautionary Note from Heather:  It is worth pausing here for a moment to consider that the absence of truthful and fact-based media stories on issues of public concern is not the result of sloppy or incompetent research, it is intentional. Anyone can make an unfounded and often truly ludicrous claim about anything—climate related, political, cultural, whatever—and, without any proof, the story makes it into the media. This is a serious matter. A professor of media at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism told me: "The politicization of the media has become ubiquitous. The resulting duplicity of attempting to misrepresent the scientific record in a manner intended to deceive the public is as serious an infraction against professional ethics as a journalist or politician can commit. When that breach happens and the corrupt behavior of falsifications and fabrications come to the fore, it explodes the illusion of objectivity."
      One of Stanford's definitive experts on the subject of media propaganda explained: "At their heart, these propagandists are about premising the hard-left political ideology of a small coterie of bi-coastal elites over the rest of humanity. Their motivating passion for falsified climate reporting is what they see as the right of their chosen group to manipulate and exploit others with absolutely no regard for truth and without restraint from any kind of law, human, moral, or divine."  (This is very well-stated, and it is interesting to see just how affecting accounts of climate disinformation can be, and how it moves otherwise restrained academic experts to unaccustomed pitches of lyricism.)
•   Warning:  The highly politicized media organizations we were told to be very wary of include, but are not limited to: CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic magazine, The New Yorker, the Associated Press, NPR, and PBS. Additionally, others who are "often a few oozy footsteps worse"—hard-left
and extreme-left organizations that traffic in disinformation, hoaxes and pure fabrications mixed in with other reporting—such as Vox, The Guardian, Politico, USA Today, Salon, Alternet, Grist, FiveThirtyEight, Slate, Raw Story, Mother Jones, The Nation, Scripps, TNR, Rolling Stone, Intelligencer, and the like. So PLEASE beware! And as a critical warning for parents, Teen Vogue has an extreme-left indoctrination agenda, actually one of the worst, and it's for kids!

Hi, Amber here with what you might call a "technical" section. During the summer we went to a really fun balloon festival with our house guests and some friends from here in Mill Valley. When we got home we all enjoyed a nice BBQ and drinks out on our front patio. Later in the evening the subject of visualizations came up, mainly relating to how they sometimes work really well and at other times seem not to work at all. That ended up with Michael offering some insights and suggestions, along with relevant quotes from some outstanding sources. So I thought to pass along some of the conversation since it could be helpful!
     
Michael:  Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, makes an excellent point which applies to visualizations and also affirmations. He writes, "It is possible to fail in many different ways, whereas the path to success is narrow." Aristotle pointed out, for example, "There are numerous ways for an archer to miss her mark, but only one way to hit it. A last-minute tremor, a gust of wind, a tattered string, slightly twisted bow, inadequately feathered arrow or sudden cough; any of these can make the whole process go awry. Moreover, the archer who overshoots her mark misses by as much as the one who's arrow falls short."
     In the same manner, there are many ways for visualizations to fail—and thus, to disappoint and discourage—as they have very little tolerance when it comes to maintaining the demanding conditions necessary for success. Visualizations can be thought of as a concatenation of highly non-random, carefully circumscribed, strictly structured thoughts and images that must all come together to succeed, and at the same time keeping random, negative thoughts—such as doubt or failure—at bay.
    

Next, readers have been e-mailing us to recommend that the full and complete account of Michael's Himalayan adventures and experiences really should appear in our newsletter, especially for the sake of people discovering our books for the first time. They are certainly right, so...

Journey into a fabled hidden world to experience a truly epic adventure.
This captivating account is adopted from the archived journals of explorer M.G. Hawking’s sixty-two months in remote regions of the Great Himalayan Range. On an extended trek into a largely unexplored area of the vast frozen fortress of the Himalayas, Hawking chanced on something extraordinary. In a beautiful small village he encountered truly exceptional men and women possessed of knowledge and abilities virtually unknown in the Western world. Richly entertaining and enlightening, this is Hawking's full memoir, one you will never forget. New Edition, e-reader page count 1285 (estimated). For more information, please see the book's Amazon page; the U.S. page here, the U.K. page here, the CA page here, the DE page here, the AU page here, for India and Nepal here, and for Egypt here.  (This book is regular price.)

Please Note:  When we issued this new edition with corrections and revisions, many of the book's previous reviews vanished, and all of them were 5-Star. Very disappointing after all our work, but we're consulting with Amazon to have them restored. Fortunately, some of the reviews were preserved, and I'll include them here —

  "It's been a long time since I have not been able to put a book down. I read myself to sleep, over and over, day and night. This is my first experience with the author, and I was satisfied early on that he is telling us about an adventure that goes beyond anything that I thought was possible. Maybe you have read or studied reincarnation, other dimensions, telepathy, intuition, the subconscious, and all manner of what could be referred to as supernatural or afterlife. You have not read anything like this. The title of the book, nor my review, can adequately describe what you are in for. The last book that changed my life was 'Seth Speaks,' and that was 30 years ago. This book changed my life, this week."

  "An adventure unlike any other. Hawking has achieved a master piece of philosophy and adventure combined with spiritual truths and romance. It is unlike any book I’ve read, and I’ve enjoyed the third reading as much as the first; which, because of the amount of spiritual teachings inside, multiple readings are almost certainly a requirement to extract every ounce of information available from the masters and adepts within the story. Highly recommended."

  "Absolutely mind blowing! I am a long time student of the 'occult' and this book's knowledge far surpasses anything I have ever read in over 50 years of reading! Made abstract concepts clear. Truly life changing for me. You will be hooked on Hawking's book, which could change the evolution of the planet."

  "Masterful and Engaging Adventure in the Himalayas. A masterful story of adventure and discovery. Hawking artfully brings together a cogent examination of philosophy and science intermingled with Eastern Adeptic Wisdom. I couldn’t get enough and groaned viscerally when the story ended. Highly recommended."

  "Such a book has long been needed for mankinds' awakening. MG Hawking's detailed account of his time spent in the Himalayan Mountains is an awesome adventure and one of personal enlightenment. Not only does he relay his experience with his time among Adepts, but also gives the reader his knowledge of physics and history of the area. He brings this all together with a seamlessly flow of natural occurrences."

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  "Truly an inspiration. This book has given me the confirmation that there is more to my existence than what I learned as a child raised in the heavy handed mantle of religion. A must read for those who yearn to break free and open their minds to the infinite possibilities of life."

  "A Rare Treasure. Hawking brings together an important anthology from an amazing number of adepts and masters with whom he engaged during a five-year trip to the Himalayas. What a rare resource! I took pages of notes; highly beneficial for anyone on the path to enlightenment."

  "This book is life changing. Even as a person who has practiced visualization, energy work and "magic" and thought myself to know a bit about it, this book really transforms your entire belief of what is possible. I also love the scientific background of both the author and the ideals presented, for those whose intellectual mind needs "facts" to break through the doubt that is inherent in all of us from birth. Particle physics, the very essence of what we construe as our being, supports the widely held beliefs of the ancients, that the world we know is but the tiniest perception of what is real. This book is inspiring and gives us a glimpse into how to expand our consciousness and create the reality that we desire. I bought this book to expand my extra-sensory powers, and ended up expanding the entire world of my existence."

The quantum world builds the classical world. Everything in our classical, macroscopic world is composed of microscopic units of energy—the quanta—acting in unison. Consciousness and its various mental abilities are part of that quantum physical universe. Since consciousness arises at the quantum level, the features of quantum physics are involved in, and represent explanations for, all the countless paranormal phenomena that have been observed through the ages, and which modern researchers consistently observe in experimental settings, including extrasensory perception and psychokinesis.

Both of the great revolutions in modern physics—relativity and quantum theory—have revealed factors that play a fundamental role in the creation of what we perceive as physical “reality.” They challenge the assumption that there is a material reality that exists ‘out there’ at all. In past centuries it was believed that the physical reality we experience around us exists independent of our observations—in other words, that there is an actual, real material reality. Advancements in quantum research have revealed that this is demonstrably not the case.

“The world is a construct of our mind’s sensations, perceptions, beliefs, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not.” —Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Laureate

“The present laws of physics are incomplete without a translation into terms of mental phenomena. The laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated without recourse to consciousness.” —Eugene Wigner, Nobel Laureate

“The universe does not exist ‘out there,’ independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators.” —Legendary Physicist John Wheeler

“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of the existence of consciousness. The mind is the matrix of all matter.”  —Max Planck, originator of Quantum Mechanics, Nobel Laureate

The personal experience of many of our readers demonstrates that the knowledge presented in this book, when founded on a comprehension of scientific models of consciousness, offers the illumination which, with diligent study and practice, can enable the realization of very uncommon abilities, ones that can be utilized to create a superlative life for both the practitioner and others.

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