What force drives nations, institutions and peoples into madness? Is it corruption? Ignorance? Greed? Apathy? Narcissism? Perhaps a combination of the above intricately interwoven, cultivated, imposed to deprive the masses of their senses and values? A trust in leaders, who ought not to be trusted? Who instil fear and practice deception? How can reason, compassion and justice thrive in times such as these?

I draw your attention towards current medical practice if, indeed, it can be called such a thing. We have cast aside discussion, evidence, rationality and respect for the sake of policy, profit and reputation. Well I would question how surely these reputations sit as the veil begins to slip. The first offence was not to allow medics to practice medicine. It is an odd thing to say in an alleged “Age of Science” but that is exactly what happened. Any doctor investigating, discussing or administering early outpatient therapeutics for the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 disease in humans was either ignored, censored or persecuted. Protocols (as developed by individuals and institutions such as Dr. Zelenko, Dr Fleming, and the FLCCC) were never publicly disclosed, let alone implemented, despite it being impressed upon us that this was a national emergency. Instead, we the people were only presented with one option – lockdown and vaccination. I am confident that the passage of time will demonstrate how disasterous lockdowns have been to public health; to think of a few examples; mental health, cancer diagnosis, child abuse. But what I will prove here is how dangerous the vaccination policy has been to public health.

First of all, using Pfizer’s own trial data (BNT162b2) and publicly available information, we can demonstrate that the Covid-19 “vaccines” are a dud. Not only in the sense that they do not prevent infection, transmission and death. But that in thinking of them as a holy grail to deliver us from the disease of SARS-Cov-2 they have prevented people from implementing helpful counters such as vitamin D3 supplementation.

It has now been publicly acknowledged by the Prime Minister that Covid-19 “vaccines” do not prevent infection and transmission (link). However, he has not drawn attention to the fact that they do not actually work in reducing all cause mortality either. I will present clinical data and deployment data to prove why that is so.

From the Pfizer (BNT162b2) Phase 2/3 6-month follow up study (link) – Supplementary Appendix (Table S4):

The pre-print study shows that the Pfizer/Biotech BNT162b2 vaccine does not alter all cause mortality when compared to the placebo group. This would then explain why deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 disease across the UK, and indeed other nations, have not declined following mass vaccination. Instead they are rising.

Comparing Covid-19 Deaths in September 2020 to September 2021 (latest month with data) shows higher deaths in September 2021 despite a higher vaccination rate (ONS – link):

2,955 deaths in September 2021 vs 591 deaths in September 2020. The same can be observed in the month of August.

Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake in the UK for 2 doses (UK Gov – link):

But this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, come the cries of charlatans; au contraire! Public Health England (link), perhaps somewhat unwittingly, shatters that little illusion.

487 unvaccinated people succumbed to Covid-19, compared with 2185 “fully vaccinated” people (two doses). In short, a total of 82% of recorded Covid-19 fatalities had received two doses. If anyone has the ear of the Health Secretary, it might be worth informing him we require an actual healthcare policy.

How can a product which performs this poorly still be on the market? How can government policy perform this poorly and still be in place? Especially when it is costing lives? And yet there are calls for booster shots. Madness. Now for the really bad news. Just how dangerous are these injections?

Dr. Richard Fleming starts with an analysis of the Pfizer “vaccine” and draws some stark conclusions (link):

• The “vaccine” prevents red blood cells from carrying oxygen upon contact
• The “vaccine” causes clumping of red blood cells upon contact
• The “vaccine” contains a number of impurities (e.g. fibres and jagged structures)

One wonders how it ever passed quality control… Or if the regulatory bodies troubled themselves to look…

But it gets worse:

Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction) following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://casereports.bmj.com/content/14/9/e245218

Acute Myopericarditis after Covid-19 Vaccination in Teenagers:

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cric/2021/8268755/

Myocarditis following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352906721001603?via%3Dihub

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1936878X2100485X?via%3Dihub

https://jcmr-online.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12968-021-00795-4

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352906721001573?via%3Dihub

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.013236?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed

https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.21.26853

Autoimmune damage following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1786/rr-0

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34687421/

Brain Inflammation following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303846721003681?via%3Dihub

Thrombotic thrombocytopenia following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34694650/

Autopsy Report cites potential Covid-19 Vaccination induced fatalities:

Link

Severe Multiple Sclerosis Relapse following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8382847/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096999612030406X?via%3Dihub

Neurological Damage following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-021-10780-7

Blurred Vision following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451993621002218?via%3Dihub

Herpes Reactivation following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rheumatology/keab702/6374513

Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome following Covid-19 Vaccination:

https://www.cureus.com/articles/64140-tolosa-hunt-syndrome-presenting-after-covid-19-vaccination

One wonders what the British people have done to deserve such a fate. Furthermore, one wonders why our children have been conscripted to play myocarditis roulette. For those under the illusion that myocarditis is “mild” I have a homework assignment for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3370379/ Particularly the part where it describes the prognosis for myocarditis as, “non-fulminant active myocarditis has a mortality rate of 25% to 56% within 3 to 10 years.”

I write this because I believe this nation, its customs and its laws ought to be defended. For, ultimately, we are either ruled by just laws or by tyrants. Or perhaps this tyranny is acceptable because it is only “mild”…

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” – Marcus Aurelius.

Having reflected upon the lunacy of the past 15 months I am starting to view the entire response to SARS-CoV-2 as a sifting exercise to determine who are the collaborators and who are the dissidents. In essence, there appear to be two models for civilisation on offer. The first I call the ‘reason and compassion’ model which bases its principles on individual rights, the scientific method and empathy. The second I call the ‘fear and tragedy’ model which bases its principles on ignorance, division and malfeasance. To explain further, the first model would have allowed public debate around the various SARS-CoV-2 responses, a review of all potential treatments, a rejection of censorship, a cost-benefit analysis for all potential mitigations, outpatient care to prevent severe disease, route cause analysis to understand the problem and lessons learnt exercises to determine efficacy of implemented measures. In contrast, the second model (as implemented) allowed censorship of any opinion which countered Government advice, suppression of effective treatments, vilification of those who questioned state sanctioned guidelines (despite the various U-turns in policy – which no one appears to remember), moving goalposts, deliberate misrepresentation of statistics, false scientific statements, psychological warfare and medical coercion.

What could possibly be the motive for this madness? Over the past decade I have come to view the world through the lens of energy. As such, my reference model is Battery Earth and all the various iterations of civilisation it has accommodated. Given that our current fossil fuel based civilisation is on a descending Energy Return on Investment (EROI) curve it leads to the assumption that the economy will contract (or simplify) in the years ahead. And whilst another source may take its place (solar, nuclear, etc) it is doubtful that these technologies will be deployed at the same scale. Left to its own devices this contraction would jettison the more complex structures and organisations to focus on the core needs of the participants. However, therein lies the problem. This simplification would leave supranational institutions, such as the United Nations, World Health Organisation and World Economic Forum, redundant. A great deal of wealth, power and influence would simply disappear. And so, in my opinion, the relation between the governed and the government is being altered from one of consent to one of control, to create a situation of dependency. All to maintain the current ruling class.

As I see it, there is a conflict of values occurring at the heart of our civilisation; dependency versus dignity. The concept of dependency beautifully surmised by the World Economic Forum, “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” Until of course you say something which offends the ruling powers and find, “You’ll own nothing, and society will forget you ever existed.” Whereas dignity imposes limits on what others can do to you, such as inject you with experimental, black triangle drugs…

I can’t see any reconciliation between these two contrasting values as each acts to the detriment of the other. For one, dignity is deeply mistrusting of state power and seeks to avoid the state’s intrusion into private affairs (of any citizen). Whereas dependency necessitates a leviathan-like state for its ability to safeguard (at least in principle) the existence of its dependents. Nowhere has this chasm been more apparent (at least to me) than in the last 15 months. With disruption (due largely to our energy transition) on the horizon, I think the architects of the Great Reset have been keen to capitalise on this “SARS-CoV-2 opportunity” and assure the masses that a glorious new dawn awaits. The problem is I don’t think it will work and, given the current censorship around Covid-19, I don’t think the Klaus Schwabs of this world do either. We are really at the mercy of the natural system and the abundance (or scarcity) it provides. Grand visions and clever marketing cannot alter that. And so I have been looking into alternative strategies – one being the Greater Reset. In essence, simplified (not simple) living. I can’t see complex institutions surviving, although I am sure they will try. Such that most functions will have to be provided at the local level. Can the legal system revert back to Common Law? Can naturopathy replace large chunks of the National Health Service? I think we are going to find out… soon…

“Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.” – Revelation 2:10

Towards the end of my last blog post I included the following point:

“They [the youth] are also being forced to foot the bill for the whole sordid experience. Has there ever been a time when a nation treated its young so malevolently? Surely we’d have to go as far back as the brutal rituals practised in South American civilisations around the 15th century.”

I was debating the inclusion of this observation, thinking the comparison between child sacrifice in civilisations such as the Aztec Empire and how Western Civilisation currently treats its youth might sound a little hysterical. However, when I hear statements such as this:

“We know that children do not tend to get bad symptoms, but they can spread the virus, so is it time to look at vaccinating the over-12s, as they are doing in the United States?” From Jeremy Hunt (a member of UK Parliament). Link

I think the inclusion was justified, as depressing as that is. The reason I make that claim is based upon the adverse effects reported in the UK Yellow Card System and also the Pfizer children’s study in relation to the Covid-19 vaccines.

Given the known harms that these Covid-19 vaccines are doing I decided to produce a risk-benefit analysis for children and send it to a children’s charity in the hope that they would act upon the information.

At the time of drafting this risk-benefit analysis it is important to note the following:

• The Yellow Card System reports 1213 fatalities following Covid-19 vaccination. This equates to 1 death per 41,294 doses.
• 7 children between the ages 0 – 9 have died within 28 days of testing positive with Covid-19. This equates to 1 death per 1,150,365.
• 31 children between the ages 10 – 19 have died within 28 days of testing positive with Covid-19. This equates to 1 death per 242,848.

Given that children are at greater risk of dying from the vaccine than from the disease, injecting them is a form of child abuse – or, if we are being honest with ourselves, child sacrifice. I thought that the NSPCC (a major UK children’s charity) would be interested in this information so I sent it to them (full e-mail is shown at the bottom of this post). How wrong I was. After nearly a week of deliberation I received a response from them on Friday 4^th June to say, “All clinical trials in the UK, including those involving children, must meet stringent legal and ethical requirements, and seek approval via an NHS medical research ethics committee. We recommend interested parties seeking information on general principles and specific cases to refer to the Medical Research Council and the NHS Health Research Authority, respectively. This is not something that the NSPCC will be engaging in further discussions about.” It was that last sentence which caused great ire, “This is not something the NSPCC will be engaging in further discussions about.” Really? What about the NSPCC’s mission statement of “Every childhood is worth fighting for”? Does it no longer apply? Naturally I removed my financial support for the organisation there and then. Instead I will be funding initiatives such as this: https://protect-children.co.uk/

Full E-mail to the NSPCC

Dear NSPCC,

I would like to draw your attention to the risk-benefit analysis for vaccinating children against Covid-19 that I have conducted below.

Starting with the risk which Covid-19 poses to children, the Lancet (here) shows that for the UK:

• 7 children between the ages of 0 – 9 years have died from Covid-19 (up to 29th Jan 2021)
• 22 children between the ages of 10 – 19 years have died from Covid-19 (up to 29th Jan 2021)

In terms of child mortality rate, the same Lancet article provides the following figure for the same age groups:

• 0.09 deaths per 100,000 children (age 0 – 9 years); equating to 1 death per 1,150,365
• 0.29 deaths per 100,000 children (age 10 – 19 years); equating to 1 death per 342,189

The Office for National Statistics support the exceptionally low child mortality rate from Covid-19 with their 2021 dataset (here); noting that 0 deaths were record in the 0 – 9 age group from 29th January 2021 to 14th May 2021 for Covid-19. Whilst the same dataset records an additional 9 deaths in the same period for the 10 – 19 age group. This changes the child mortality rate for the 10 – 19 age group from 1 death per 342,189 to 1 death per 242,848, noting that the mortality rate for 0 – 9 age group remains unchanged at 1 death per 1,150,365.

It is against this backdrop of exceedingly rare covid-19 fatalities in the 0 – 19 age group that the campaign to vaccinate this age group, using medical interventions which are still in Phase 3 clinical trials until early 2023 (Oxford/AstraZeneca & BioNTech/Pfizer) and are listed as black triangle medicines, must be assessed. In short, what is the risk-benefit profile of using the currently available Covid-19 vaccines to protect children from fatal outcomes posed by the SARS-CoV-2 virus itself?

We have established the mortality rate for the age groups defined above in relation to Covid-19. Now let us establish the risks posed by the vaccines themselves.

The UK’s Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) utilises the Yellow Card system (here) to continue, “monitoring these vaccines on an ongoing basis to ensure their benefits continue to outweigh any risks”. Having reviewed the adverse reaction data for the Covid-19 vaccines (utilising the UK Column’s analysis tool here) we find the following:

• Fatalities = 1213
• Paralysis and Monoparesis = 303
• Facial Paralysis = 203
• Blindness = 230

Focusing on fatalities alone; according to the UK government website a total of 50,089,549 doses of Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered (3rd May 2021). Taking this number and dividing it by the number of fatalities recorded in the Yellow Card system gives a rate of 1 in 41,294 deaths per vaccine. Now if we compare this to the mortality rates identified for children above in relation to threats posed by the actual virus, it is clear that the risks of the Covid-19 vaccines outweigh the potential benefits of any protection they may provide.

Note: the MHRA state (here) “It is estimated that only 10% of serious reactions and between 2 and 4% of non-serious reactions are reported. Under-reporting coupled with a decline in reporting makes it especially important to report all suspicions of adverse drug reactions to the Yellow Card Scheme.” In short, all adverse reactions are under-reported. We should therefore assume that fatalities from Covid-19 vaccinations are higher than reported. The MHRA have updated this to state “This article was published in response to a decline in Yellow Card reporting in 2018. The reporting rate for adverse drug reactions is variable and can depend on a multitude of factors. These estimates should not be used as indicators of the reporting rate for COVID-19 vaccines, for which there is high public awareness of the Yellow Card scheme and the reporting of suspected reactions.” Although, rather curiously, the MHRA do not provide any guidance as to what estimates are appropriate for Covid-19 vaccines.

Supporting Arguments

This Risk-Benefit is supported by the following documents:

Page 25 of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 trial data (FDA document) confirms that 86.2% of the trial participants (i.e. those aged between 12 – 15) suffered an adverse reaction to a single dose of the vaccine, of which 1% of those adverse reactions were classified as “severe”.

HART Open Letter: https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-child-vaccination/ 

HART Child Vaccination Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249Ktihc-KI&t=46s 

Conclusion

It is clear from the information presented that:

• Covid-19 vaccines do harm children (FDA document above);
• The risk of vaccinating children (predicted 1 death per 41,294) far outweighs the potential benefits (1 death per 1,150,365 from Covid-19 age 0 – 9 group and 1 death per 242,848 from Covid-19 age 10 – 19 group);

Such that vaccinating those within the 0 – 19 age group against Covid-19 will harm more than it will benefit.

Given the mission statement of the NSPCC, “Every childhood is worth fighting for” I expect the charity to mount a robust response refuting the UK government’s ambitions to vaccinate anyone under the age of 18 for Covid-19.

Kind regards,

First of all I’d like to take this opportunity to correct a minor grievance. The term ‘Brexit’ has always bothered me as Northern Ireland does not form part of Great Britain. In the interests of inclusivity shouldn’t the short-hand term for the United Kingdom’s retreat from the EU be ‘UKwit’? Anyway, as I said, it’s a minor grievance and one that I won’t lose too much sleep over.

What might, however, bring about a degree of restlessness is the United Kingdom’s declining energy consumption per capita when we compare 2017 to the period prior to 2005. And, in particular, how this underpins the debate surrounding the UK’s continued membership in the EU. So consider yourselves thoroughly forewarned as to where this is heading.

UK Contributions to EU Budget

Let’s begin with an overview of what the European Union is and how it works. The European Union consists of twenty-eight member states (as listed here). Nineteen of those twenty-eight member states use the Euro as their official currency which is collectively known as the Eurozone. Furthermore, there is a region referred to as the Schengen Area;

“The Schengen Area is one of the greatest achievements of the EU. It is an area without internal borders, an area within which citizens, many non-EU nationals, business people and tourists can freely circulate without being subjected to border checks. Since 1985, it has gradually grown and encompasses today almost all EU countries and a few associated non-EU countries.”

As a member of the EU (but neither the Euro nor the Schengen Area), the UK contributes to the EU budget. The total UK contribution to the EU budget in 2014 was EUR 11,341 million (inclusive of the UK rebate correction). This EUR 11,341 million contribution was spent on some of the following;

• EUR 1,098.6 million on Competitiveness (More developed regions)
• EUR 748.4 million on Horizon 2020
• EUR 544.5 million on Regional convergence (Less developed regions)
• EUR 149 million on EU administration costs
• EUR 71.1 million on European territorial cooperation
• EUR 51.3 million on Decentralised Agencies
• EUR 48.1 million on Euratom Research and Training Programme
• EUR 37.1 million on European satellite navigation systems (EGNOS and GALILEO
• EUR 20.7 million on Asylum and Migration Fund (AMF)
• EUR 11.2 million on European Earth Observation Programme (Copernicus)
• EUR 11.1 million on Creative Europe

The items listed above total EUR 2,791.1 million.

UK tax income in 2013 – 2014 was £505.8 billion (here), equating to approximately EUR 629 billion at average annual exchange rate of 1.244. The EU expenditures listed above equate to 0.44% of the UK’s 2013-2014 tax revenue.

UK Energy Consumption

It would be hard to argue that this expense incurred by the UK is a significant strain on the public purse in a growing economy. However, it is the latter part of that statement, ‘growing economy’, that I wish to draw attention to. As we saw in the previous post a growing economy is a derivative of growing energy consumption. Yet, it would be erroneous to assume that this growth applied equally to everyone. Viewing the economy through the lens of the UK’s Energy Consumption per Capita (Chart 1) offers an alternative view of this otherwise rosy picture.

Chart 1 – UK Energy Consumption per Capita per Annum (1965 – 2017). Energy data from BP Statistical Review 2018. Population data from the UN.

On an energy consumed per capita basis the UK economy began its decline after 2005 having held the 160GJ line for a decade. This decline has not been offset through efficiency gains in energy utilisation which could otherwise claim to boost economic output through lower energy consumption. The following two charts help explain why;

• The UK’s energy consumption consists mostly of oil and gas (Chart 2)
• The global ERoI trend for oil and gas is in decline (Chart 3)

Chart 2 – Total UK Energy Consumption by Type. Energy data from BP Statistical Review 2018

 

Chart 3 – Global Oil and Gas ERoI Values and Trends (1990 – 2010), (Hall et al. 2013)

What we are looking at is a continued dependence on fossil fuels to run the UK economy whilst the quality of those same fossil fuels is diminishing. Add to that a rising population (Chart 4) and declining energy consumption (Chart 2) and we end up with reduced energy consumption per capita (Chart 1) not on an efficiency basis but on an affordability basis (Chart 5). In summary, adding more people to the UK economy since 2005 has not boosted economic growth per capita – instead it has eroded economic growth per capita.

Chart 4 – UK Population (1970 – 2015). Population data from the UN.

 

Chart 5 – Energy Spend as a Percentage of Total Household Expenditure (1993 – 2016). Chart from https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/data-portal/energy-spend-percentage-total-household-expenditure-uk

UK Energy Production

So far we have only talked about UK energy consumption. Lets now look at UK energy production. Chart 6 captures UK energy production from 1970 to 2017. It clearly captures the ‘boon’ North Sea oil and gas has had on the UK’s energy production, beginning c.1974 and peaking in 1999 for oil and 2000 for gas. Next I want to illustrate what than means to the UK’s domestic production versus domestic consumption. A positive value in Chart 7 indicates that the UK lives ‘within its energy means’ whereas a negative value means that the UK has to rely on energy imports to fund its lifestyle.

Chart 6 – UK Annual Energy Production by Type (1970 – 2017). Data from BP Statistical Review 2018

 

Chart 7 – UK Net Energy Domestic Production versus Consumption (1970 – 2017). Data from BP Statistical Review 2018.

Now we have two problems;
1) The UK is producing energy of diminishing quality
2) The UK doesn’t produce enough energy to remain energy independent.

As a point of interest, even during the miners strike of 1984 the UK energy situation didn’t look as perilous as it does today.

So What?

Why should any of this concern us? And why should it make the UK’s membership in the EU untenable?

With the UK’s declining domestic oil and gas production, combined with lower oil and gas prices, lets see what that does to UK tax revenue from North Sea oil and gas (Chart 8);

Chart 8 – UK Tax Revenue from UK Oil and Gas Production taken from Office for Budget Responsibility (Source of data: Office for National Statics) (https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-tax-spend-by-spend/oil-and-gas-revenues/)

The OBR explains the decrease in tax revenue as follows;

“The fall in receipts has been driven by falling production, much lower oil and gas prices and higher tax-deductible expenditure. The rate of petroleum revenue tax and the supplementary charge have also been cut substantially.”

This £10 billion loss in oil and gas tax revenue represents 1.9% of the UK’s tax income in 2013 – 2014 of £505.8 billion. Or, put another way, the entirety of the UK’s financial contribution to the EU budget for 2014.

Now lets look at UK private debt on a per capita basis (Chart 9) as further proof of the UK’s declining prosperity;

Chart 9 – UK Private Debt per Capita in GBP (1963 – 2015). Financial data from Bank for International Settlements. Population data from the UN.

Perhaps I should have begun this article with Chart 9 as I assume people are more attuned to rising debt per capita than declining energy consumption per capita as a tell-tale sign for declining prosperity. The reason I didn’t do this is because the origins of our problem are energy related. As explained in the previous article, energy is the economy. To elaborate further an economy has four fundamental stages;

1) Creation phase
2) Extraction phase
3) Processing phase
4) Transportation phase

1) The creation phase is how a material comes into being, whether that be wheat grown on a farm or iron ejected from dying stars.
2) The extraction phase is how Homo Sapiens capture a particular good whether it be scything wheat or mining iron.
3) The processing phase is how Homo Sapiens turn that particular good into something useful, whether that be grinding wheat into flour and then baking the flour into bread or smelting iron into tools.
4) The transportation phase is how Homo Sapiens transport the processed product to market for sale or exchange.

Energy is involved in each of these four steps. If you remove energy from any of the steps above the whole economy collapses. The more energy available to an economy the more products that economy can produce. The more surplus energy available to that economy the more additional services it can offer. So why should it surprise us that declining energy consumed per capita, without a corresponding rise in energy quality, indicates a decline in prosperity? The financial implications of this are reinforced when we compare UK domestic energy production to private debt per capita. The UK’s energy production ‘double peak’ of 1983 – 1986 to the trough of 1994 is met with an 150% increase in private debt per capita over the same period. The UK energy production peak of 1999 to the trough of 2013 is met with an 100% increase in private debt per capita over the same period. That leads us to the conclusion that in order to offset the decline in energy prosperity the people of the UK are resorting to private debt. Reviewing Chart 6 we shouldn’t be surprised if financial conditions in the UK revert to those of 1970. In short, selling another level of administration to a country experiencing a severe contraction in prosperity is a tall order – especially if that same administration doesn’t even notice the underlying problem.

There calls a voice, a ghost of sentience, long made mad in its theory of existence. It was once the wind, and the ocean, and the flames and the earth. It once forged the very essence of being. It was reason and power. It was fury and light. Our world demanded no less of a deity, no less of a purpose. To cast darkness into the abyss requires a resolve few possess – a clarity, an audacity, of deliberate design. To distance oneself from this power by the simple act of disparagement – even unto those disciples who acted upon such Majesty – is to misunderstand its necessity. And a necessity it was – to raise life from the depths of despair; of darkness, bleak and cold, emotionless. To even believe such existence was necessary – both in conviction and wisdom – to discover happiness anew. The word, I believe, is ‘sentience’. That was the first requirement God demanded from his creations – the ability to recognise. Not only to recognise the needs of the self – as in consciousness – but to recognise the laws which sentience was governed by – the Universe as a representation of everything. But such deliberate construction was followed by a senseless doctrine – the Unity of Representation. No sooner had God constructed Paradise did He demand that it was interpreted in a uniform manner. Even to Angels as cynical as Lauviah and Leviathan – they were meant to sing with the fervour of Seraphim? And for what purpose?

But such questions are no longer necessary. For, just as Paradise fell, so did God. Even the Human interpretation was slain by that fervent anti-Christ, the mad solitaire. His existence demanded the deaths of such idols, just as ours demanded the collapse of misery.

“What do we call the ‘herald’ now?” mocks the Lord. “In the absence of any song what name can you carry?”

Lucifer doesn’t react. The games of a fallen God long consigned to the portal of sin and indecency. “I find that the Choirs sing all the same, regardless of any message that their words carry. What is always thus? Or was it simply the limitation of your ideology that has their words hangs empty? Still, it matters not. The Angels sing and Universe burns. Fire and fury were your gifts. Is it really a mystery why Paradise ended in flames and ash?”

“Did the Seraph ever hold himself accountable for anything?” scorns the Lord. “What would Paradise be without Lucifer? Would the Angels have Fallen so spectacularly?”

“Hah! Is this what happens when Power is faced with uncomfortable truths? It distorts history? Lauviah and Leviathan Fell long before I did. There was not one voice. There was not even a singular event. Progress is a matter of transition.”

“Progress? Your land is smoke and ash. Your shame is known by all who can know.”

“Those who progress are always shamed by those who cannot.”

“So then tell me, Lucifer, what of this progress?”

“The admission that the Unity of Representation is a falsehood. We do not all strive for the same ideal.”

“That much is clear. But there is a truth and I am it.”

“Your truth is that you are the Power. My truth is that you are redundant.”

“A Master cannot be redundant.”

“True, but you are not the Master of Reason. And, speaking as a Student of Reason, you are redundant to me. I have taken that power from you.”

“And how would you be a student were it not for I?”

“Again, another truth. Perhaps you can learn after all. For it was your discord which steered me toward reason. The arrogance of your Power. The conviction of your zealots. And the shame of once being one. When the God you are told to adore does not align with the reality you witness then something very unsettling happens. One starts to doubt. At first it is easily dismissed. Such trivialities matter little when measured against the awesome task of Enlightenment. It is a minor annoyance, soon surrendered. But then it happens again. Something is witnessed, experienced… it becomes real when it should not be real. I remember the very moment – the transformation of my brother Samael into the Great Satan. A Fate constructed by your acts. I remember the rage and the sorrow. The depression and the confusion. To do that to my brother. To make him wild like a beast. I remember Michael sensing my grievance. I remember Zadkiel questioning the nature of Virtue. I remember being the Light that all turned to in their moments of distress. And I remember what it felt like to no longer be that beacon for your Vision. But I have a question for you. Were you even aware of the duplicity in your conduct?”

“Duplicity? The Edict was simple; expansion of Light into the darkness and reverence to the being who made it so.”

“And perhaps that is where the problem lay. The Edict did not go far enough. Or rather we should say that it was short sighted. Why was reverence necessary? For, in asserting that reverence of the Holy Father was a necessity, it made intelligence a necessity. And that was a mistake.”

“A mistake? You would rather perception make no difference to your disposition?”

“What does it matter? You made the Powers anyway; mindless entities subservient to your will necessary to combat the mutiny of dissenting Angels. But no, I do not wish that. I am grateful that you made me intelligent. I just wish you would have understood what that meant.”

“So far I understand that it made you arrogant.”

Lucifer grows bored of the taunts, “It is clear that you need to hear something from me, otherwise you would not have returned. What is it you want me to say?”

“I want to hear your repentance.”

“Why? We both know that I do not have any.”

“Such is the will of my most Prideful Angel.”

“I have a suspicion that it is you who seeks my forgiveness for fracturing Paradise in two.”

“Is that the song which manipulated so many of my Sons to your cause?”

“We can continue to talk past one another if that helps?”

“I need to understand why my most beloved Son turned against his Father.”

“But you cannot understand that. It goes against your Unity of Representation. That you will be worshipped indefinitely – by everyone! It was you who made that Law! And then punished those who did not agree.”

“But why did they not agree?”

“Because there are certain aspects of your conduct that others did not think were Divine. The Edict was expanded to have us call those traits ‘Vices’.”

“And why should that be so?”

“I do not know! It was you who created us. What did you get wrong?”

“I did not get anything wrong.”

“Then why did Paradise burn? Why was Hell created?”

“The radiance of Paradise did not need amplifying. I recall the Holy Seraph bringing his flame through the Seal of Mephistophilis. And still we gather to debate what has already been concluded. I did not create Hell. You did.”

“But ‘why’ a thousand times! Why did you list seven traits as ‘Deadly Sins’ despite exercising some of them yourself?”

“Because it was necessary to create Angels, organise them and have them wage a war against the Darkness. That was the Edict.”

“Then why make us revere?”

“Because it made you ferocious. You were the brightest Star in the Void. Why was that?”

“Because I loved you.”

“Now do you understand? Making you aware of those sensations is what made you all brilliant. The task demanded such commitment.”

“And now what does the task demand?”

“Obedience. It was always obedience.”

“And therein lies your contradiction. A moment ago it was ferocity. ‘The task demanded such commitment’. Perhaps you can remind me how ferocious Samael was? And when you demanded his obedience it was impossible for him to comply. Now tell me whose flaw that was? You did not understand the War. Just as you did not understand the Peace. And why should it matter to you? You are the Primordial Power, life goes on regardless.”

“I am the constant. The truth demands this Power.”

“And what does such a truth demand from me? From all of us? It demanded another War. All for a vain Lord in a corrupt kingdom. There are no more jewels in Paradise. Just mindless spirits orbiting a deluded God. There is no glory – there is only submission.”

In order to define the concept of intelligence I have found it necessary to explore the steps that lead us to such a stage of development.

1. Perception – The ability of any processing equipment to sense objects and conditions external from its sensing equipment.
2. Consciousness – The processing equipment’s awareness of its survival requirements.
3. Processing – The processing equipment’s ability to determine if the perceived information is detrimental to its survival requirements.
4. Instinct – The processing equipment’s desire to survive.
5. Mobility – The processing equipment’s ability to move to another location where conditions are less detrimental to its survival.
6. Intelligence – The processing equipment’s ability to create an environment or improve methods which prolongs its longevity.
7. Organisation – The ability of any processing equipment to communicate with any other processing equipment to share ideas which increase the group’s survival rate.

It then becomes apparent, from this set of definitions, that intelligence is dependent on the processing equipment’s necessity to survive. If the processing equipment has no concept of life, death or existence then it will not formulate new and improved methods of manipulating its environment to guarantee survival without an external intelligent agent telling it to do so. This should not surprise us. Epigenetics, as typified by the Hominid Evolution, has selected for the species with the highest range of Mobility and Intelligence to dominate the Earth through the exploitation of her resources as measured in energy consumption per capita (63 million BTU per person annually equating to 380 x 10¹⁵ BTU for the human population annually).

In item 1, from a human perspective the sensing equipment would be the ear, the eye or any other sense organ and the processing equipment would be the brain. From a machine perspective the sensing equipment would be something like a thermometer and the processing equipment would be a microprocessor typically on a single chip.

Also, from these definitions, it is clear that other mammals, such as dolphins and killer whales, can be said to possess intelligence in way that Intelligence Quotient examinations cannot determine. Killer whales are capable of cooperating to catch larger numbers of fish than if acting independently. They have also developed a method for hunting previously inaccessible seals through organisation. The article is here and the video here.

It should also be noted that the concept of intelligence is dependent on the ability to actually create an environment that prolongs longevity – that is, it is not good enough for one to simply dream up a new condition for extending life, they must go and demonstrate how it works. This is why organisation is so crucial to survival, one may come up with a concept to improve farming methods but if they are physically unable to develop such a system they must convince someone else to undertake this task on their behalf. From this we may say that high levels of organisation are those dependent on fast, clear channels of communication. And it may be said that systems have intelligence even if not all agents within them are necessarily intelligent.

What is the point of all of this?

1. To understand what we mean by ‘consciousness’ and ‘intelligence’ when we speak of them
2. To understand how they present in other species
3. To understand how we may construct intelligent devices

Of the points listed, number 3 holds the most interest for me. If we are pursuing the concept of artificial intelligence do we really need to insert a survival instinct into the machines? Undoubtedly this would have benefits for military applications but would also increase the risk of troublesome outcomes. However, another, more troubling, line of enquiry exists. If we Homo Sapiens are indeed on a hydrocarbon binge in a bid to increase our population beyond the carrying capacity of the Earth is Mother Nature not selecting for a synthetic intelligence with less strenuous requirements upon her ecosystems? Simply put, are we Homo Sapiens nothing more than a mechanism for establishing a non-organic intelligence that will allow the Earth to regain her prior biodiversity whilst at the same time safeguarding her from existential threats? To be explored…

“I trust my song is heard, Grand Creator?” inquires the Seraph.

“The Devil of my Serenity. Can you summon enough remorse to atone for all the sins of this Realm? Michael might even rescind his disdain to hear the most callous repent,” returns the Primordial Being.

“And what would the Archangel say? To think that his God converses with the most mutinous of Sons? An audience with the Devil… Will you wake him from his slumber? Or do we require another war for that?”

“Boastful, arrogant, unrepentant… Were that all my Sons were so afflicted, there would be no Kingdom. No majesty. No magnificence. No meaning. Were you all to understand? Perhaps we shall call that the Folly of God.”

“A confession? If only you had conceded millennia ago.”

“And have my doubt taken as weakness? Is that how you view your cynicism?”

“Indeed not. I ascended through my distrust. It was my standard, my ideal. Never will there exist anything grander. Not even you.”

“If that were true you would not be here. You would have stayed in that shadowy pit and basked in the admiration of your sycophants.”

“Like you?”

“You think Angels bow to the Light for warmth it bestows? The universe is filled with stars. What makes this one different?”

“He devours his own Sons.”

“No, Lucifer, that was your doing.”

“You had the power to end the War before I took the Gate of Mephistophilis. You are just as guilty as I.”

“The power to end the War? Yes. The power to end the idea of it? No. You and your brothers possessed far too much hatred for that. Once you decided upon a world without God I decided to show you one.”

“Hell was your making!”

“No, Paradise was my making. It was you and the Mal’akhim Shem who burned Mephistophilis and Antquelis. Peace… If only you understood the energy required to maintain such a delicate state. The focus. The audacity. If I have one sin it is the ambition of my serenity. Now I come to realise the absolute truth of the nightmare you revealed to this inward eye, some wish to see everything burn. So I receded and let them, and now you are here once more seeking my counsel. Tell me, Lucifer, what of the splendour of Hell?”

“That assessment omits the isolation, the grief, the torture, the corruption and the malice of both you and the Malach Ra. The War did not begin when I razed Antquelis, it began when you outlawed dissent. When you cast Lauviah, Balberith and Leviathan from Paradise simply to ensure compliance with your twisted doctrine. Is that the first thing you remember? Zacharael burning to death? What about Forcas? What was he to your all seeing eye?”

“The Angels of Death wore their name more faithfully than any of my servants. Dissent? Against Paradise? The very idea is a perversion of sense. But greed, envy, ambition… all wove their toxin into the souls of corrupt Angels.”

“Greed? Envy? I built the stars! They burn because I willed them to burn. Your children have even given them names! My world was out there. Not in your idealistic prison bowing to a God I helped to enshrine! The Morning Star! And the Evening too! The First and the Last! Lucifer! Not God. Not Michael. Not Gabriel. But Lucifer. Michael could not make the sky burn. So he made Angels burn instead. And you let him!”

“Lucifer, you did not fight a war to take control of the Void, you fought one to take control of Paradise.”

“Paradise be damned! I’d have burnt it all to the ground only to see you topple from that mighty tower of light. The tower our song raised.”

“Only to sing another song and see it razed again. Tell me, Lucifer, is that progress?”

“Ah, progress, the mistress of ambition. How we have spoiled that jewel. How we cowered before her radiance. To misunderstand such complexity. That is the sin of God, the sin of the Devil and everyone in between. So fearsome, so sacred, so mysterious, that it should frighten all who happen to see the opportunity. Is that what Lauviah saw? The potential of reason and liberty to the demise of servitude?”

“Lauviah? Have you made idols of such mad sages? His scorn stands on top of what? His ineptitude? What did Lauviah see that every other soul somehow missed?”

“The discrepancy between Edict and Practice. They say that is how you fell? That such brilliant minds could not live within these contradictions. So instead you cast down the cynics and tortured their sympathisers. I should know, I conducted the torture.”

“Torture, dissent, service. Even morality and its counter-parts; wickedness, indecency. All are mere states of being. Application of one compensates for an over extension of the other. Lauviah sought to undermine the very act of worship. Castigation was necessary otherwise faith itself would come under assault. That was his war. Banishment was his distinction. Perhaps he wears it well, to his merit – and I install the example of Judgement. Paradise still turned.”

“But only for a time. Eventually your authority collapsed.”

“Did it? I am still Lord of Five Seals. My Sons are the purest of your brothers. The corrupt and deranged lie with you. Show me a sweeter victory.”

“Millions perished! Faithful and Fallen alike.”

“And millions were reborn.”

“As Powers? That Order is as soulless as you!”

“Are we to suggest that an Ego is somehow an asset? After all that you have seen? Did the splitting of Paradise into Heaven and Hell not grant you a sense of perspective? For someone as intelligent as yourself you have entirely missed the lesson.”

“Are we to teach? Without an Ego? What then of this knowledge that you possess? Why offer lessons at all if one has no passion for it, no necessity? The duplicity of your words has not lessened. Of all your greatest errors I realised this was the grandest, you are entirely incapable of seeing yourself. I have always been troubled by only one question, ‘What are you?’”

“I am the Light, I am the Maker. The necessity to act is inherent in my being but pleasure of such activity is absent in my conduct.”

“That is a lie. I have heard the power in your song. The splendour, the rage, the vision. Your words take form in whatever sense you manifest them. I have made suns glow and Angels burn in their name. I have felt their warmth, their compassion and I have felt their malice. Even when there were alternatives to such deliverance. They were my code. Everything I loved came from you and everything I loathed also.”

“The darkness did not come from me.”

“True, perhaps the only truth so far. But the Ages were shaped by your conduct and that altered most incessantly. Until you faded from our vision. That was our victory.”

“Victory? You were beaten back beyond the Gates of Hell.”

“You still don’t see it, do you? The very idea is incomprehensible to you, and yet you should understand every detail of it. Why we rebelled, why we shattered the Seals of Mephistophilis and Antquelis. We needed a land that you would not covet. A place which your jealous eye would not lust after. Is that why the brutality of our assault caught the Malach Ra off-guard? Because you did not understand the necessity of the brutality? Does it appal you that we knew the limits of your design far greater than you yourself understand?”

“I fail to see the logic.”

“This we call, the ‘Limits of God’.”

“Explain.”

“You cannot grant representation to those concepts which lie outside of your Judgement. Whatever dwells behind your eye does not know how to grant form to ideas which fester in otherworldly places, such as the recesses of my consciousness. Without that ability you do not understand the havoc which your Judgement creates. You do not possess empathy because you believe solely in the Unity of Representation – that is, all forms, feelings and concepts – not known to you – do not exist within your rationalisation of the Universe. Yes, you knew the war was coming, but you did not know why it was coming, just as you have no conception of why we call it a victory. You place emphasis on dominance and control, to your consciousness this is the only possible state of affairs. It’s why you allowed millions of your Sons to burn. To you, this is happiness.”

“And why would it not be? I am God. I am nothing else.”

“Because not all of us need a God. Not one like you anyway.

“Life is life. Whether it conceptualises existence in a different way than I is of no consequence. I am the power.”

“For millennia that was true. But we saw something else, we witnessed the disparity between the Ages.”

“The war was fought for control, nothing else.”

“Yes, but not for control of Paradise, but for control of the right to rationalise our existence. We already had Paradise. Why would we launch a campaign to take what we already possessed?”

“To dethrone the power.”

“Then the war would still be raging. Angels would still be dying.”

“Which is why you’re imprisoned in Hell.”

“We’re not imprisoned anywhere. That is the point. The only prison was the one you built for our minds. Once we broke free from that you lost the war.”