Truth vs Falsehood (16 page)

From observation, the low 200s signify dependable, integrous performance, e.g., the bus station, automobiles, and taxis, and reliables such as the post office and the airport. These venues often have the appearance of stripped-down functionality in which the color gray is predominant, along with ‘no nonsense’ gray metal furniture. With the addition of some human intention and personality, calibrations rise with the folksy innovations of historic “Old Route 66” and its Burma Shave signs. As human participation, creativity, and intention increase, the calibrated numbers rise to those of the high 200s, as represented by the police station and Times Square.

With the addition of human expertise and intention, the calibrated numbers rise into the 300s, which are exemplified by the airplane, ambulance, operating room, cruise ship, park, playground, circus, family farm, psychiatric hospital, and even the Olympics. The German autobahn includes stricter as well as more advanced engineering and construction, and despite its lack of a speed limit (traffic routinely moves at 110 miles per hour), the accident rate is lower than that on U. S. federal highways. The difference is also explicable by the fact that German drivers tend to be more skilled, have to be older to get a driver’s license, and are better trained. The autobahns have no intersections, low inclines, and deeper roadbeds. They are also better policed, with poor drivers quickly pulled off the road.

The 400s represent the introduction of creativity, aesthetics, and active intellectual pursuit, e.g., the library, the Paris café, Yosemite National Park, the community church, San Simeon (California), and even the Empire State Building, whose construction from start to finish took only one year and was facilitated by the courage and skill of Native American workers (primarily the Mohawks) who had no fear of heights and could successfully walk a steel beam 6 inches high, 6 inches wide, and 75 stories above the streets of New York City.

The 500s reflect devotion to beauty and reverence for the great artistic creations of mankind. (Rembrandt calibrates at an amazing 700.) For centuries, millions of admirers have waited in line with awe for even a glimpse of such fabled greatness. The calibration levels are beyond those of the Newtonian paradigm with its gray steel desks and predictability, rising to the subjectivity of love, devotion, reverence, and intuiting the source of perfection.

A visit to the Louvre in Paris is treasured by almost everyone. Visitors are surprised that they are allowed to freely take photographs of all the greatest of the world’s art treasures. In contrast, in the middle of the former courtyard stands a modernistic structure (cal. 180) that results in an unanticipated aesthetic shock. The design of the anomalous but very functional entrance structure represents the architecture (by E. M. Pei) of modernism. It became the subject of worldwide aesthetic debate, as would be expected from the disparity of a stark structure that calibrates at 180 being located in the courtyard of one of the world’s most historic buildings, which calibrates at 500+.

Daily Life

Notable is that the Internet system calibrates at a reliable 205-208, including its major search engines. In contrast, the content of the material that appears on the Internet reflects the whole range of human consciousness, calibrating from 50 to 445. It is therefore currently the greatest source of disinformation. Thus, the naïve belief that there ‘must be some truth for it to appear on the Internet’ is apparently quite fallacious and often damaging in its consequences. Calibration reveals that approximately 50 percent of the information provided on the Internet is at less than 200, which, interestingly, is almost exactly the same figure represented by the consciousness calibration of the current American population (49 percent below 200 and 51 percent above 200).

The privacy and anonymity of the Internet provide a means of expression for those people rejected by society as being imbalanced and having special personal problems, e.g., political extremism and socially rejected sexual proclivities, as well as irrationality and elaborate paranoid delusional systems. The Internet is the great playground for the ‘me’ generation, as reflected by website names themselves, e.g., ‘Bill’s Turn’, ‘My Place’, etc. These often reflect the dictum that an opinion is a routine idea inflated by the ego in order to sound profound and important. Sixty-seven percent of ‘blogger’ websites calibrate below 200 and primarily represent outlets for expression of negative emotions, resentments, and frustrated personality problems The supposed satire of political cartoonists is actually a sly form of vilification as indicated by its calibration level of 190. Some even seem deliberately malicious, with obvious intention to hurt or damage a hated target.

Money calibrates as neutral, and sex is at 250. Both apparently are intrinsically neutral but the intentions to which they are put make the difference. It is interesting that animal cloning is at 200, whereas human cloning is at 180.

A rather significant finding is the calibrated difference between blessed and unblessed food. Machine-made bread from a local supermarket calibrates at 188, but when blessed, it goes up over 200. Bread from the same supermarket but from the bakery department calibrates initially at 203, and again shows a rise if it is blessed. If food is homemade, it arises from its original 200 to 209, and if blessed, it rises up to 215. This is a unique demonstration analogous to the Heisenberg principle in that the introduction of human spiritual consciousness and intention alter the field. It also gives evidence that prayer itself is more than just wishful thinking.

Some brand names reflect affection (e.g., Jell-O, Route 66, Campbell’s Soup) and become imbued with cultural American mystique. They represent trust in the intention of a whole industry, which is expressed as brand loyalty.

Of interest are the calibrations of the fortunes enclosed in fortune cookies that, at 345, are frankly above the principles upon which large sections of the populace base their lives. For example, “One kindly word can change your whole life” contains really profound wisdom. (A fortune-cookie life is a good life.)

The positions of women and children in the United States, at level 405, are in stark contrast to their positions in repressive countries (such as Islamic and others), where they calibrate at 140, indicating a rather severe cultural lag in which the populace and their governmental leaders also calibrate quite low. Although the gap is closing from what it was in the 1930s, there is still a 20-point disparity in the United States between the level of men and that of women and children. Social change takes time, and apparently the ‘glass ceiling’ is now quickly disappearing as revealed by the fact that corporations led by female CEOs in 2003 exceeded the earnings of corporations led by male CEOs (
Fortune
, January 2004).

Historically, in a primitive or agrarian culture, the physical strength of men is necessary as is testosterone-led aggressiveness, and thus males tend to dominate. As civilization progresses, however, and valued skills become less physical and more mental or creative, the social ranks of the sexes approach equality. The word ‘primitive’ implies predominance of persistent animal patterns of behavior where ‘biology is fate’. In the modern world, the evolution of consciousness plus education and the intellect are the decisive factors.

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