Truth vs Falsehood (23 page)

Prior to the scandalous collapse of WorldCom, Enron, and others, there were a number of major corporations that calibrated below 200. However, many are not included in the current list because they are all in a period of transition and reconstruction. Of major interest is that over 90 percent of the “Fortune 500” companies calibrate at or above 200, with the majority between 202 and 210. This implies reliability, dependability, and integrity of function. Some, such as FedEx, Smuckers, Harley-Davidson, and Southwest Airlines, indicate above-average excellence. Envious critics of corporate wealth and power often fail to appreciate that many great corporations have been in business for more than a century.

In a class by itself, Walmart is the pace-setting product of the integrity of Sam Walton, as was noted in
Power vs. Force
back in 1995. Despite critics, Walmart is the biggest and most successful corporation the world has ever seen, and, more importantly, it serves as the prime example that integrity shows up on the bottom line. Sam Walton’s founding business principles calibrate at 385, and even now, the company is at a high 365. Walmart is responsive to criticism and is self-correcting. It represents commerce and not sainthood. It has expanded into philanthropic community service and established a philanthropic foundation. In addition, it provides over one million jobs and wide opportunity at the entry level. Critics abound but they themselves shop at Walmart. It is the buying public that made Walmart so huge. This ambivalence was well-stated in the newspaper editorial, “We trash Walmart but beat a path to it.” (
Arizona Republic
, 9/18/04.)

Walmart is the biggest retailer in the United States and China is the largest exporter, so the effect is to decrease inflation and consumer costs in the United States and increase the standard of living in China. This brought China into an alliance with the United States (Talton, 2004), which precludes China from being a nuclear threat, as had been feared in the prior decade. Notable is that Walmart’s operation is so efficient that it operates on only a 3.0 percent profit margin. (In Germany, Walmart hosts “singles” events on Friday nights in ninety-one stores, and many couples that meet there are later married [Zimmerman/Schoenfeld, 2004].)

Business and industry are caught up in worldwide economic and technical changes, such as the Internet itself, which mandate outsourcing for survival by cities, local governments, and even radiologists (Tanner, 2004). Most big corporations are multinational and driven by changes in foreign economies, banking, export laws, rates of currency exchange, etc. Therefore, ‘blaming’ an individual company or industry reflects a personal bias rather than a bonifide complaint. The whole world is the context to ‘blame’ for shifting economic factors beyond the control of individual companies. The ‘mom and pop’ era is over, as is the era that preferred men in higher executive positions. In that older culture, men were career oriented, whereas women were family oriented and less committed to business. Walmart, like other retailers, is in a highly competitive business, and pricing and promotion strategies are now available through price-optimization software (Larson, 2004).

Unions

While many unions calibrate in the 200s, indicating integrity of purpose and function, 78 percent fall below 200 for reasons unclear, except perhaps their compromising for the sake of self-interest, e.g., featherbedding at 190. On the other hand, they actively pursue what society and its members presume they are supposed to do, and thus, self-interest and leverage for gain are considered to be part and parcel of the game. In general, the public tends to take errors in union functioning with a grain of salt unless it results in the defrauding of union members.

Classically, union politics was a rough-and-tumble game that was played on its own turf. However, that rough-and-tumble nature resulted in congressional hearings and improved regulations. Paradoxically, unions themselves have now become almost identical to big corporations, with boards of directors and huge accumulations of capital that require corporate structures similar to those of corporate America. Many unions pioneered safety for workers, such as the IBEW did for the electrical linemen whose jobs entail high risk such as handling very high voltage. Some, such as the Teachers Unions, are prominently the target of criticism and controversy. Overall, union membership has been steadily declining and now represents only 13 percent of the workforce. If we ask why some unions calibrate low, the answer that calibrates as true is that the leaders are exploiting the workers for profit, power, and personal gain. In fact, union demands historically have driven some industries nearly out of business. However, the Federal General Accounting Office reports that outsourcing has not affected the overall U. S. job market (Geewax, 2004).

The unions’ press for improved employee benefits and working conditions paradoxically resulted in overall job loss because the employer is then less competitive in a world market. The escalating cost of employee benefits is a major factor that makes outsourcing a necessity for many businesses (Portes, 2004). The ‘union era’ is rapidly declining and being replaced by labor laws and employee benefit plans.

Law Enforcement

The reasons for the above disparities remain an interesting subject for future research. A primary impairment in the United States is failure to enforce the law (calibrates as ‘true’).

Science — Theory

Interestingly, we see that all major scientific theories, which are predominantly mathematical in nature, calibrate in the range of 450 to 460, including quantum mechanics. Calibrating the levels is pragmatically useful because a number below 200 indicates that further pursuit is a waste of time, energy, and money (e.g., the parallel universe theory). There is some limitation indicated by the current dinosaur extinction theories, which are primarily based on the supposition of major global changes rather than looking into evolutionary changes and the nature of life itself that occurred at that time. ‘Hormesis’ is the theory that small doses of toxins can have a beneficial effect (Celebrese, 2004).

The Drake equation is complex in that it combines multiple levels of science and mathematics, including nonlinear dynamics, to predict the likelihood of other intelligent civilizations in the universe. At present, it predicts approximately ten thousand such probabilities in just the Milky Way alone.

It is interesting that nuclear fission calibrates at 200 (as do guns), and thus it is the purpose for which it is used, e.g., dynamite and gunpowder have multiple uses such as a fireworks display or bombs and bullets. Intention is the decisive factor. (The intention in dropping the atomic bomb that ended World War II calibrates at 455.)

Surprising was the negative answer to the quantum theory of ‘entanglement’. It is an incorrect conceptualization; the phenomenon to which it has been applied can be explained differently: The coherence of ‘A’ and ‘B’ is not due to ‘A’ influencing ‘B’, but instead, both are influenced by ‘C’. This can be observed in the flight pattern of birds and fish that wheel about in geometric patterns. Each fish or bird is
not
influenced by the pattern of the others; instead, each is individually attuned to an overall attractor energy pattern, much as the dancing couples in a ballroom are not attuned to each other but simultaneously to the same music.

HeartMath is a discovery that the heart literally has a mind of its own (intuitive), and its electromagnetic field is dominant over cerebral rhythm. The heart field thus affects brain physiology, as illustrated in
Chapter 7
.

Similarly, ‘distant healing’ (i.e., from ‘A’ to ‘B’) is negative, but prayer influences healing because of the commonality of ‘C’ in that all minds are intertangled with the infinite energy field of Divinity (calibrates as ‘true’).

When a series of calibrations falls within a close range, it indicates a limitation of paradigm and implies that further investigation will just reveal more of the same caliber. The obvious conclusion is that if science is to make progress, it has to move to a paradigm that calibrates on a higher level; otherwise, it is dealing in circuitous refinement rather than discovery.

A notable value of consciousness calibration is its application to any kind of research, including industrial, marketing, and product development. The application of obvious benefit is to scientific research itself where the value of a project can be elucidated before expending valuable time, money, and resources. As an example, the research of years ago that discovered the double helix structure of DNA calibrates at 460. The current research project with the California Institute of Technology to discover a strictly neurobiological basis for consciousness calibrates at 140. The research may therefore reflect an initial bias in that in a recent interview, the lead researcher stated that “educated people will believe in due time that there is no soul independent of the body and hence, no life after death.” (Crick,
New York Times
interview by M. Westheimer, as reported April 1, 2004). The statement calibrates as false, and the research design calibrates at 140.