#bc the organizing principle I built it around just Does Not Work

[n1ghtwr1ter]

TFW you have three chapters written but one of them is so fucking awful it’s preventing you from transcribing the other two

[cognitosclowns]

this isn’t really a request, i just had an idea and i wanted to see what you thought about it [possibly headcannons as well??]

OK SO

I know Myc has is own place and stuff, but like he’s a magic mushroom, how does he get there without being seen and stuff? Maybe same with Mr. Mothman and all the other sub/non-human entities that work at Cognito? And that got me thinking- what if there was an apartment complex the Cognito built for all those inhabitants? you could take some train from there to Cognito from underground and boom. I think it would be rlly fun to see maybe Myc and Mothman interact, maybe A.B eventually,, and it leaves a lot of fun room for non-human ocs too!!

ANON I LITERALLY OWE YOU MY LIFE THIS IDEA IS GIVING ME SUCH ENORMOUS BRAINROT???

SFW BELOW

OKAY THIS IS JUST GONNA BE SOME SCRAMBLED IDEAS BUT

YEAH NO THIS FEELS RIGHT UP COGNITOS ALLEY?? JR feels like a bit too much of a control freak to let all these 'company resources' just wander around aimlessly spread out across DC. He'd worry himself into an early grave.

THEY KINDA STICK TO THE,, HIDDEN-IN-PLAIN-SIGHT PRINCIPLE?? The building blends into the background?? Like not too big or small, nothing really sticks out - the whole vibe is 'you wouldn't look twice'

LIKE MYC BROUGHT UP A BROWNSTONE IN ALEXANDRIA AND LIKE,, LOOK AT THIS

IM PRACTICALLY FALLING ASLEEP LOOKIT THAT. Nobody in Virginia would bat an eye

it only starts getting,, weird when you focus on the details and see like,, The first floor rooms are completely un-used but fully furnished apartments?? There's a hand-print ID instead of an apartment buzzer?? Why did seven identical men just walk in there??

<333 just a little funky.

BASICALLY EVERY CRYPTID AND CRYPTID-ADJACENT PERSON WHO WORK AT COGNITO LIVE THERE FOR CONVENIENCE SAKE??

I mean they aren’t forced to live there, and are a few who split their time btwn Cognito and The Complex (i.e Myc)

But like the commute is /so/ much easier its like barely 30 minutes out, and you can catch a ride from basically anyone bc everyone has weird hours??

MNDSMSN WORRIES ABOUT LIVING IN AN APARTMENT COMPLEX OPERATED BY A SHADY SHADOW ORGANIZATION SEEM MINUTE IN COMPARISON TO THE BENEFITS OF NOT HAVING TO PAY RENT.

IT DEFINITELY HAS A LOT MORE LOWER-LEVEL FLOORS THAN ABOVE GROUND?? If you don't mind not seeing the sun (i.e nocturnal cryptids) and you like a Moist Subterranean Atmosphere, it's perfect!! Besides all the escape tunnels are down there, and anybody who's been working at cognito for more than a day is gonna know how valuable an escape route is for when shit inevitably hits the fan

(OH the ground level is used for security and resource management!! If theres every problems/concerns/cults beginning to form outside to worship the Elder God living in apartment 33F, they’re there to take care of it!! And by take care of it I mean do Basically Nothing lmao)

OH DON'T THINK IT ISN'T CHAOS SOMETIMES THOUGH. BECAUSE IT IS CHAOS.

Ppl coming home at weird hours means its Very Noisy All The Time?? Noisy neighbors are inevitable (myc? can i say myc? Yeah myc is a bad neighbor)

ALSO THE ELEVATOR IS,, ARCHAIC LMAO

And unless you want to walk 100+ flights of stairs to get to the lower levels? Listen just cross your fingers and pray it doesn't go final destination on you smdnsmds

it also moves,, vv slow so the building has like, An Unspoken System about what floors use the elevator when??

If smb is on the 5th floor and presses the elevator at 6am, the ppl on the -50th floor are gonna be LATE FOR WORK, AND THAT MOTHERFUCKER HAD BETTER RUN LMAO-

OH <333 if smb is on the same floor as Mr. Mothman he's absolutely gonna bake them smth to welcome them in <33333

he knows how,,,, chaotic the place is so like MSNDMSND HE WANTS TO GIVE THEM SOME TIPS AND ASSURE THEM THAT IT ISNT AS BAD AS IT SEEMS AT FIRST. Or maybe he's just gotten desensitized to it. Oh well.

MR. MOTHMAN AND MYC ARE ACROSS-THE-HALL NEIGHBORS AND HATE EACHOTHER WITH A BURNING PASSION. Myc is too loud and rude, Elliot is too organized and polite. Fight!

IM ADDING KATE IN HERE <33 BC CLONE LAB KATE IS SO <3333 she lives like,, just below groundlevel??  <3 she learned how to pick the lock to the roof, so expect to find her up there w/ her telescope!!

GUH <3 the idea of AB getting his own little flat there, after he dials down the Omnicidal Tendencies by 80%? Just <33 a little plac eto make his own. Its very sparse but he slowly begins collecting houseplants and eventually it’s basically a Botanical Garden lmao. <3 I mean,, granted he has no access to wifi and if he steps outside his apartment without the security giving the OK he gets a '’’’’’’’mild’’’’’’’’’ Electric Shock BUT HEY ITS A START

[redlearning1]

The Rise & Rise of Hybrid Project Management - Best Project Management Professionals

In one of my earlier articles, I had briefly touched upon the genesis of Project Management. However, I felt that an apt preface to this topic of discussion would be to delve deeper into the history and evolution of project management, which would set the context to discuss the latest trend that has been evolving in the project management world.

History of Project Management:

Preposterous as it may sound, Project Management shares its existence and evolution timeline with that of the human kind, it’s just that it was not christened then and got its name much later during the day. However, the history or project management is relatively recent.

Before project management was defined and named, there were projects. The Pharaohs built the pyramids of Egypt around 2500 BC, and to this day there are unanswered questions as to how they accomplished such an engineering marvel without the aid of any modern-day tools that we are aware of. There are records, however, that does indicate that there were managers, even back then, who was responsible for each of the four faces of the Great Pyramid. Another instance of a great project management feat was The Great Wall of China, constructed circa 208BC, which suggests the immense amount of planning which would have gone in to build this wonder of the world. Historical data reveals that the workforce for this large project was organized into groups. There were three that we know of: soldiers, common people, and criminals. Millions were ordered to complete the project.

Fast forwarding by a few millennia, the need for a more pronounced structure in construction, manufacturing, and transportation in the 19th century led to the birth of the modern-day project management as we recognize it today. While there might not have been task management, scope, or workload considerations at the time, there was certainly leadership at play, and there must have been some budget, even if open-ended, and scheduling of some sort. But with practice came process and refinement, as we shall see moving forwards.

It wasn’t until the 1900s that project management as we know it began to take form. As projects became industrialized, the process to manage them also experienced a revolution.

Henry Gantt, rightly conferred the title of the father of modern Project Management, in the year 1917 created a scheduling diagram (which later came to be known as Gantt Chart) using a visual timeline to plot tasks as points with durations and linked them if they were dependent. This was used in the construction of Hoover Dam in 1931, which remains a cornerstone in modern-day engineering and project management.

Development of Critical Path Method by Dupont in 1957, development of Program Evaluation & Review Technique in 1958 and Work Break Down structure in 1962, both by US Department of Defense, formulation of Theory of Constraints in 1984, the definition of Scrum model in 1984, ideation of Earned Value Management in 1989 and creation of the Agile Manifesto in 2001 were all significant milestones in the history of Project Management. In parallel, the formation of organizations/bodies like The American Association of Cost Engineers (1956), the International Project Management Association (1965), the Project Management Institute (1969), and the UK Government created Projects in Controlled Environment (1996) provided the much-needed cradle support to nurture and mature the project management theories.

With globalization, and the need for increased speed-to-market with products and services, Projects have become larger, more complex and increasingly difficult to manage. Teams have grown more diverse and spread across the world, there is an eternal need to cut costs but not corners, enhance product and service features, and make amends while the “machine is still running”. No doubt there have been better techniques, integrated with enhanced Artificial Intelligence (what machines learn from humans) and Machine Learning (what humans / machines learn from machines) capabilities, that are all shots in the arm for the modern Project Manager. However, in addition to these tools and techniques, there is an even greater need for the Project Management methodology to be more adaptive, nimble, agile and visual. Does Hybrid Project Management provide all of it and more? Let’s read on.

Case for Hybrid Project Management

The conflict between proponents of Agile project management method and those of the traditional waterfall method have reached legendary status. Agile proponents argue that since most of the projects involve some sort of research, where the scope is not defined and the requirements are in flux and where there is a need to show tangible progress as early as possible, this methodology aces. They further point that short duration sprints help teams to focus on important tasks and discover flaws with design assumptions and development processes much faster. The proponents of the traditional project management argue that for large projects, especially those which combine multiple disciplines, a clear blueprint is required for the work to be planned and executed. Without a robust structure, large teams consisting of multiple disciplines may get distracted by their own little problems and lose the focus on the overall objective.

The truth lies somewhere in the middle. The best project management method used in a project depends on the size of the team, the team’s experience, and the complexity of the project. Hybrid Project Management combines the best of what Agile offers in terms of speed of execution plus the detailed planning and clarity on objectives offered by traditional project management. Hybrid project management methodology is better suited for the majority of projects in which agile or waterfall methods don’t meet the need of the project.

What is Hybrid Project Management?

The hybrid approach includes the best principles practiced in both agile project management and traditional methods. In the hybrid methodology, the project is broken down into manageable components called sub-projects by discipline (hardware, software, mechanical, etc) or by functionality (navigational subsystem, computation modules, etc). This simplification can be accomplished by using a Work Breakdown Structure or WBS.

When a project is broken down in terms of functionality, the waterfall is used to map out the path from the requirement and specification to the development, testing, and final release to the customer. Each component is then specified in more detail and developed using an agile project management method like Scrum.

In Hybrid project management approach, all high-level tasks, their interrelationship (dependencies), and final product delivery are defined by the traditional method (Work Breakdown Structure). Agile is then used to speed up the development of each component and its sub-component in the plan. This defines a clear interface between separate disciplines. The hybrid approach is simple. It makes it possible for better quality products with less development time and faster reaction and adjustment to market changes.

After each component of the project is broken down into tasks that may take anywhere from one month to a few months, the Agile method comes into play. These components are broken down further into four to six weeks product releases called sprints. Here all principles used for the agile project management method are applied. The outcome of each sprint is tested and sent either to the market (if applicable) or used as the base for the next sprint. These iterations continue until the final product is developed and ready to be shipped to the market.

Hybrid Project Management Definitions

Components: The individual building modules driven from product requirement document. For example, a mobile phone has electronics, display, WIFI and software components. A software product may have UI, Business Logic and communication components. Product requirements establish which components are needed in a project.

Track: The path for development and release of each component. Some tracks could be shorter or longer than others.

Backlogs: The list of tasks for each component. Tasks for each sprint are derived from backlog of the same track. Both project manager and scrum masters add or modify the backlog.

Sprint: 4-8 weeks long development effort and each includes development, testing and release (deployment). Each track has its own backlog and sprints. Sprints from different tracks run in parallel. The output of each sprint from different tracks may or may not combine with sprints from other tracks to make it into a release

Project Team: Each project team is made up of dedicated team members. The essential members are 100% assigned to the project, and there is no sharing of resources across multiple projects. Team members report to scrum masters for day to day development effort. Components: The individual building modules driven from product requirement document. For example, a mobile phone has electronics, display, WIFI and software components. A software product may have UI, Business Logic and communication components. Product requirements establish which components are needed in a project.

Track: The path for development and release of each component. Some tracks could be shorter or longer than others.

Backlogs: The list of tasks for each component. Tasks for each sprint are derived from backlog of the same track. Both project manager and scrum masters add or modify the backlog.

Sprint: 4-8 weeks long development effort and each includes development, testing and release (deployment). Each track has its own backlog and sprints. Sprints from different tracks run in parallel. The output of each sprint from different tracks may or may not combine with sprints from other tracks to make it into a release

Project Team: Each project team is made up of dedicated team members. The essential members are 100% assigned to the project, and there is no sharing of resources across multiple projects. Team members report to scrum masters for day to day development effort.

Hybrid Project Management Guiding Principles

The guiding principles of Hybrid Project Management is enumerated as below:

A Hybrid project is managed by a Project Manager using WBS methodology who has overall ownership and responsibility for the project.

Scrum Masters support the Project Manager by executing each Agile Sprint.

Continuous Team Collaboration is required for ongoing reporting, analysis and management review.

Hybrid Planning Phase:

In the traditional methodology, the entire project plan is scoped and planned before the start of the project. In agile, only the first sprint is planned. Hybrid Project Management recommends a complete project plan but the specific details of each sprint is not defined until the first sprint is completed. The Project Manager has overall planning responsibility while each Sprint is managed by the Scrum Master.

Hybrid Supporting Processes:

Hybrid project management method suggests to follow the Agile methodology. At each iteration, customer feedback is sought, testing occurs and fixes made to enable continuous improvement. Formal method is used to define the outcome for each iteration.

Hybrid Execution Phase:

In Hybrid the Project Manager is assigned the overall project ownership, and the individual Scrum Master is responsible for executing Sprint. Reporting is a joint responsibility requiring continuous collaboration and communication.

Concluding Thoughts:

Hybrid project management, with all its novelties, is still in its nascent stage, and the methodology is yet to be formally acknowledged by the global Project Management bodies. However, the methodology does appear to hit all the right notes with the practitioners and it is only a matter of time before it edges out many of the existing methodologies. The pioneers of this school of thought are indeed driving a paradigm shift in the realm of project management as we see the rise and rise of the hybrid model. Do watch out this space for more on this.

[mikehughes25]

The UFO Involvement I am becoming increasingly aware of the fact that humanity , with its intelligence ,is at present in a dumb down state. However the media puts out so much divergence , and cheap crap. This is an attempted ''cover up'' . To keep mankind in the darkness, and thus under the influence of the ''Lords of Materiality''. However such a thing can only happen if this planet was bereft of all of its Masters , initiates , , and the millions who stand for justice , and right human relations .. The glamour of a life empty of any soul qualities . It has been said we rub shoulders with soulless people everyday . The Higher Christ Principle has not as yet been born in humanity as a whole as yet . Right now we have only a nucleus of initiates working on the outer planes at this time. . However , as the forces of the 7th ray wax ever so powerful, then we shall see more master coming into the world over the next few hundred years or so . . Our job is to prepare humanity for the Externalization of the Hierarchy . The reality and work of the Space Brothers Interview with British author and editor of Share International magazine Benjamin Creme by Janez Ferjancic. Janez Ferjancic: Before you were engaged in the Reappearance work you were connected with UFOs in the 1950s. You knew George Adamski personally. Could you explain how it all started, and what were your experiences with UFOs? Benjamin Creme: I first read about UFOs in Flying Saucers have Landed, a book in which George Adamski wrote, in the last chapter, his experience of meeting a Venusian in the Arizona desert. The book itself was not by Adamski but by an Englishman, Desmond Leslie. It was the history of flying saucers over many ages, in different parts of the world. It was research ó historical, speculative to some degree, and it finished with Adamski's actual experience. Next I read Inside the Spaceships by Adamski, in which he was taken up in a spaceship, a saucer, onto what is called a mothership. This mothership was Venusian, and he had long conversations with the Venusian Master who, I think, was the Master of the ship, the chief person on board. In any case He was a Venusian Master. These were very interesting conversations, and so for me the UFO phenomenon was more to do with the purpose, the meaning behind the flying saucers as they were called, than the phenomenon itself. The fact that people from other planets ó some people think other solar systems but my information is that they come from other planets of our system ó were concerned enough to visit this planet was interesting, but the nature of their concern was much more interesting. Their concern was that we should not destroy ourselves. That we should change our way of life, our way of organizing our world, not to destroy the world from an ecological point of view, and not to destroy each other in a war using nuclear weapons. It was a philosophical, spiritual discourse which he had with the Venusian Master, and that is what really impressed me about the book. When I first heard about UFOs it was in 1947 or 1948, perhaps 1945, when a few reports appeared in our newspapers that a passenger plane had come close to what we call UFOs. The pilot would report it, the people in the plane would see it happening. They would see these round, disk-shaped objects, sometimes quite close to the aircraft, flying alongside, either one or many. It happened quite frequently but not every day ó or rather you did not hear about it every day. These reports were spaced out over a period of time. UFO over Voronezj, Russia The first time I heard or read anything about them, before I read the Adamski book, I believed they were probably either American or Russian special planes that they were experimenting with, which were built on an entirely different system, not like normal airplanes; they were round, saucer shaped, and so we called them flying saucers. I thought at first that they were secret planes, experimental flying objects of Russia or America, or both, until I read the Adamski book, and then it became clear that there was something else going on, that they were perhaps from elsewhere. Then, in the beginning of January 1959, I was contacted by one of the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy and my work began ó I have talked and written about it elsewhere. The work was with the Space Brothers, the people using the UFOs, and my Master acted as the liaison between us, so to speak. To me, the two became identified; the fact of having read Adamski left me very open to the possibility, although I had not thought very much about it. But I was immediately introduced to the flying phenomena and I was part of a group, of which Adamski was one, which met only out of the body. To the outer world, we worked secretly, but to ourselves there was no secret ó we recognized each other and we were part of a committee and did certain work which was assigned to us which was all to do with the UFO phenomenon. In my experience, what we call UFOs, the flying saucers, come from the planets of our own system. Not from the Pleiades, or Sirius or somewhere outside our solar system, but from, mainly, Mars and Venus. A few other planets like Jupiter and Mercury are involved, but the vast majority of sightings of the UFOs come from Mars and Venus. Practically all of them are made on Mars, even the Venusian ones. They are Venusian in design, and they are quite distinct, different in design and technology, but they are actually constructed on Mars. And they are all constructed by thought. The people in physical bodies on Mars and Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and so on are not at the same level or vibration of physicality that we experience. We know only three aspects of the physical: solid physical, liquid physical and gaseous physical. Above gas there are still four further levels of physical matter which so far have not been discovered on this planet. When they are discovered we will understand a great deal more about the nature and origin of disease, the purpose of life on this planet and of the reality of life on other planets. The beings on Mars and Venus and the other planets are on the four higher levels of the physical. If you went to Mars or Venus you would see no one, but nevertheless they are in physical matter, and have bodies made of that subtle, finer physical matter to which we give the term ëetheric'. We ourselves have bodies of dense physical, liquid physical, gaseous physical and the four etheric physical planes ó but we have not yet discovered the latter. They have been demonstrated to exist by the great scientist and psychologist Wilhelm Reich, who was a colleague and one-time assistant of Freud. He died in an American prison in 1957. He was arrested for purporting to treat diseases with instruments which he claimed (correctly) attracted matter from the etheric planes, which he called orgone energy. He saw it as one vast plane of orgone energy, which he saw, rightly, as being everywhere in the universe, substanding the outer solid physical plane. Esotericists understand the etheric plane as four planes, becoming finer and finer as they go higher. The fourth etheric is just above gas, and is invisible unless you have etheric vision. The reality of this etheric energy, of what he called ìorgone energyî, was demonstrated palpably by Wilhelm Reich in various simple experiments. Nevertheless, he was arrested because he used instruments which he called the ìorgone accumulatorî, boxes which accumulated the etheric energy of some levels, usually the two lower levels, the fourth and the third etheric, to treat diseases including cancer and various other diseases. In America that was deemed illegal. The Food and Drug Administration arrested him, refused to allow him to prove his work, and he died in prison. Unless one understands the reality of the etheric levels of energy as finer, subtler, levels of matter, one cannot begin to understand the UFO phenomenon, and one cannot understand the creation of crop circles ó because they are all related. The crop circles are created by people, mainly from Mars and Venus, with a few exceptions from other planets. The vast majority of them are Martian, some Venusian, and they are all over the world. Crop circles are mainly in the south of England, but they have been seen in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Peru ó all over the world to a greater or lesser degree. Our planet, like all planets, has a magnetic field; its magnetic energy travels in lines and criss-crosses, and where these lines cross is formed, eventually, a vortex, a force centre. The space people, in making the crop circles, are replicating on the dense-physical plane these magnetic vortices in our planetary magnetic field. So there is the planetary magnetic field on its own level, and then a physical plane counterpart of that, which is being replicated by the space people who are manning the UFOs, and creating the crop circles. photo: © Steve Alexander / Karen Douglas Crop circle in Giant's Grave, Oare, Wiltshire, UK JF: Why are they doing this? BC: They do this in order to make the foundation on the physical plane for a new type of energy, a new type of technology using that energy, which eventually will be developed on this planet. It is a gift for this coming time, the New Age which we are entering, which we call the Age of Aquarius, a time in which tremendous new discoveries in the use of the energy of the planet and of the sun will be found and adapted. This will entirely change our way of life on this planet, and will lead to a control of universal energy such as we cannot begin to imagine. In the next 2,500 years we will reach a stage where we can travel around our solar system at will, and out into the galaxy, exploring first our own solar system and then the vast galactic area, using energy which does not work within the time/space reality. So that distance is annihilated, time is annihilated. People think that if you are going to send something into the galaxy, it will take hundreds of years, the people would die before they could reach anywhere that was worth going to, and they would never return. It is not true. People come from Mars and Venus, which are not so far away, but they are still a long way away by our reckoning of distance, but they come here in minutes. It does not take time, once you understand that time does not exist and that the space which you thought you have to cover to get from one place to another does not exist either, and in minutes you can travel vast distances in space. JF: Why did they choose crops for showing these patterns? BC: Crop circles are used because they are seasonal. You only have crops for a short time in the summer and autumn, and then they are cut down, and you do not see the crop circles. Then they will grow up again next year, and the crop circles appear in the same places, because they are recreated each time in the exact same point, so that the energy is put in that field, or whatever. If put where all the energy is put, crop circles would be, literally, all over the world, including in the sea, on mountains and in rocks where nothing is growing. They are allowed to be seen, made real as a crop circle, as designs in corn, because it is seasonal; then it is cut down. This is a tangential way, without infringing our free will, of telling the people of Earth that the Space Brothers, as I call them, the people from other planets like Mars and Venus, are here, are part of a system, and they work in a systemic way, not just as separate planets. They are helping this planet to develop the technology of the future, and also to make known, without being too strong about it, that they are here, that they are aware of us, that they are helping us, that they have a very spiritual intention in coming here, and that they are 100 per cent friendly and harmless. JF: It is very difficult to believe in the true nature of the crop circles, because there are so many hoaxes. Could you tell me what percentage of crop circles are genuine and how many are hoaxes? And why are people doing this? BC: There are, of course, some hoaxes. These hoaxes are a tiny minority, perhaps 4 per cent, of the real and authentic crop circles which appear all over the world. The ratio of hoaxes to authentic ones varies from country to country. In this country (UK) ó because we have had so many crop circles and for so long ó they are probably a bigger percentage than elsewhere. If you have more crop circles, you have more hoaxes. And in other parts of the world perhaps there is not such a conscious involvement of people with the crop circles, so they do not take the trouble to make them. To make a crop circle is hard work, and they are usually very obvious and very clumsy and badly made. How anyone can mistake a hoax for a real crop circle ó if they visit the actual crop circles ó astonishes me, because they are so perfectly made when they are authentic. They are made in seconds by the people using the space vehicle. First of all they think of a design, decide what the design will be. It may be very simple, and if you follow the sequence of crop circles, you see that they become more and more elaborate, more complex, as the years go on. First, for variety, and secondly, to show a complexity and a degree of ingenuity and design which would be beyond the range of any hoaxer. The hoaxes are usually very elementary, rather badly made. Why are they made? I would say, for two reasons. One reason is that they are made by people who are paid to make hoaxes. Newspapers, for example, do from time to time put up money and employ, say, a group of university students who have worked out a way in which you can make a crop circle of a kind, a rather simplistic kind, but that would convince a journalist. Journalists know no more about crop circles than anybody else, than the average man in the street, and yet they come along with their cameras and look at it, and they say: ìYes, it is a crop circle, a real authentic crop circle, how wonderful!î, and then Jeff and Peter, or Willy and Robert, come up and say: ìNo, we made it, yesterday, we made it! The Daily Mail or The Sun paid us £2,000 to make this crop circle, we can prove it. This is a complete hoax, they are all hoaxes.î It is a way of diminishing the value and the reality of the crop circles. Also, I know for certain, that the Ministry of Defence in this country pays money to the farmers to cut down the crop circles if they appear in their corn. Some of them, of course, go ahead and as soon as a circle appears they cut it down. Even if the corn is not ripe and they would not normally cut down that area of corn for perhaps a few weeks or a month. And so you get fields with a great hole in the middle of the corn, which is where there has been a crop circle deliberately destroyed by the farmer ó paid by the Ministry of Defence. JF: A crop circle appeared one week ago in Winchester which is quite elaborate ó a three-dimensional picture of a Hollywood-style head of an alien. You said that it was man-made which astonishes me, because you can't really recognize it from the ground. How can an ordinary person actually distinguish what is genuine and what not? BC: It is difficult for people who have not studied the subject, who are not to some degree well acquainted with the subject, to tell the difference between a true, authentic crop circle, made by a spaceship from Mars or Venus, and one that is just a fake. But if you have been looking at them over a period of time, and realized the differences, you can see instantly that this is a fake and this is authentic, they are very clear cut. I saw the Winchester photograph: there is a circle in which the spaces are divided into squares in both ways, it makes a kind of a cake, but decorated in squares, and near it a head, a kind of alien, imaginary alien's head. A head which is used every time a comic artist wants to design a spaceman, he gives him that kind of a head ó rather like the head of E.T. That to me is a complete fake. It has nothing to do with the crop circle beside it, which is authentic. This is done for one or other of those reasons, simply, that people like to play pranks, they like to destroy evidence, they like to be cleverer than those who are making the crop circles ó until the public and the media cannot make head or tail of the whole thing. It destroys the validity of the whole crop circle phenomenon. If you cannot tell the difference between a fake one and an authentic one, then the authentic ones lose validity. Not ultimately, but for the present time. Until it is proved that crop circles are, indeed, made by UFOs from Mars and Venus. The number of fakes is really very small, because they are difficult to do, they take time and energy, and people who are going to spend that time and energy to do it either have an overdeveloped sense of humour ó they see it as a great joke ó or else, they are being paid to do it. Both things happen. JF: Just to get it clear about that Winchester crop circle: the disk is genuine? BC: For the one I saw in the newspaper, the actual circle is a genuine one, and the head of an ëE.T.' is not authentic, but is a man-made one to nullify the validity of the other. JF: The crop circle phenomenon started to appear in the late 1970s, but even before, in the 15th or 16th centuries, people knew about them. Why are they appearing in such numbers now, and why mainly, as it seems, in the UK? BC: The number of crop circles is increasing all over the world. They have always been there, but only in small numbers. They are increasing because the plan of the Space Brothers ó in relation to the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet ó is to speed up the creation of this magnetic field of energy on the physical plane on the Earth to do with the coming technology. Why now? Because the whole process is speeding up. Because our own Spiritual Hierarchy, the Masters and high initiates of the Spiritual Hierarchy of this planet, are returning to the everyday world. They have not been out of the world, but They have been hidden away in the mountains and deserts of the world for thousands and thousands of years. They have been working behind the scenes but now They are externalizing Their work and are beginning to appear. Already, to my knowledge, there are 14 Masters living openly as men in the world, and the Master of all the Masters, the World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya, as He is named in the Spiritual Hierarchy, the One Christians call the Christ. The reason so many crop circles appear in southern England is because Maitreya lives in London, His ëpoint of focus' in the modern world. They are meant, subtly, to allude to that fact. photo: © Steve Alexander Crop circle at Waden Hill, Wiltshire, UK, 21 June 2003 JF: Will this process keep increasing? Are we going to make closer contacts with UFOs? BC: The Hierarchies of all the planets are in communication. This is something which people should understand. They themselves do not have that communication but Hierarchy does. The Hierarchy is made up of Masters of different levels and of disciples of even more varied levels. And from all these disciples, all these different grades of initiates, some of them may be part of groups who have been working with the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers have on this planet various people, like Adamski and others, who are used to bring the reality of the Space Brothers to the world, but also for other reasons, which I cannot go into; there are various aspects of this work which must be kept secret, for the time being at least. They have a great work in salvaging, in helping to restore the equilibrium of our planet, in particular to nullify to some extent ó within the karmic law ó the pollution of our planet. But for their work in purifying our atmosphere, mopping up with implosion devices the nuclear radiation which we pour into the atmosphere from our nuclear reactors and experimentation, this world would be infinitely more painful to live in. JF: You mentioned that there are different individuals who work together with UFOs on different projects. There is an interesting project in America, conducted by Dr Steven Greer called the ëDisclosure Project'. Could you comment on this? BC: Dr Greer is doing a useful thing. He is not working ó so far as I know ó with the Space Brothers but he is impatient with the fact that there is masses of evidence to prove that UFOs exist. Not proof of where they come from, or their purpose, but that they are real, do, in fact, exist. They have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people for years, and yet the governments of the world, most of whom have adequate data on their existence, refuse to make that known. There is a huge cover-up, from the highest levels, in America, Russia, Britain, the European and various other countries who have been collecting data, evidence from their pilots, policemen, soldiers, from the public for years and years. This amounts to a huge body of evidence which is never published, is never made known, is covered up. People disappear even, in certain parts of the world, and nothing more is heard of them. There is sometimes coverage by media to discredit the evidence, and so on. In this way the governments control what the public knows, or rather does not know, about the Space Brothers and the UFO phenomenon. In this way they can keep it down. Dr Greer is impatient with this, he has himself experience of UFOs and wanted to make it known. He has set up a means for other people ó ex-army, ex-RAF or ex-United States Air force personnel ó to come forward and give their evidence. When people of their standing and experience give evidence in this public way, they hope it will lead to a general, better understanding and maybe eventually an open statement by the governments of the world. Of course, when governments make such a statement about their knowledge, they are also at the same time committing political suicide. They think that if we know the technology that the Space Brothers have, which is so much more advanced than our own, then the ideas, the wisdom of these people (if it is possible to have at our service), is much more to be valued than that of our own governments. These governments do nothing but make war on each other, in competition destroy the economies of each other, and make life miserable for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Inevitably, we will say we want the Space Brothers to come and teach us their ways, we do not need you, Mr so-and-so and Mr so-and-so. They can see that as a loss of their power, and so they keep the whole thing dark. JF: Do you think Dr Greer will succeed with his initiative? Will governments come forward? BC: The governments will only act when they are forced to do it. When Maitreya is known openly. Maitreya is the World Teacher, the head of our own planetary Hierarchy, Who are beginning to return to the everyday world. When They are known, when Maitreya is known, He will be asked questions like I am being asked now, and the truth of the relationship between this planet and the other planets will become known. Then the people from other planets will land and the reality of their existence will be known. We have to understand that these ships and the people in these ships are in etheric matter, which is matter, but subtler than our physical matter. We, also, have the subtle matter in our etheric framework ó of which the physical is only a precipitation, downwards ó but we do not see it, and so for us it is non-existent. The Space Brothers can lower the vibrational rate of that etheric matter until it comes within our range of vision, so that we see the spaceships. But that is a temporary manifestation. When the Space Brothers live ó and some do ó on this Earth, they have to make, or take, Earth bodies to do so. In the first place, the knowledge, the acceptance of the reality of the Space Brothers, will come through the acceptance of Maitreya and the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy. They will confirm that the Space Brothers are real, that the spaceships are real, that the other planets have their citizens who have nothing but goodwill, who are harmless, who want to help each other and do help each other, and who help this planet in so far as the law of karma allows. When we accept them and see what they are doing and how they are helping us, then the development of this planet will go forward tremendously fast. JF: There are so called abductions and cattle mutilations. Should one take them seriously? What is this in relation to UFOs? BC: The question of abductions and cattle mutilations is part of the general cover-up. They are a way of invalidating the harmlessness of the Space Brothers and making people afraid of the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers know nothing of harm and mean no harm for this planet. If they had, they could have destroyed this planet long ago. No one is ever abducted in a spaceship. These cattle mutilations are deliberately made as cover-ups ó to put the blame on the Space Brothers and therefore to make people afraid of them. The whole thing is a plot against this enormously important and enormously serious interchange between the planets, to keep power for a limited number of people on this planet. It will be, as I say, only for a limited time until the Hierarchy of Masters is known and accepted, until Maitreya is known and accepted, and then the reality of the UFOs will come out. Those who say they are abducted have experiences of an astral-emotional nature in which they imagine that they are in spaceships. Nobody is ever taken up in a spaceship in a physical body. It is impossible. These spaceships are not solid physical. To be taken up into a spaceship you have to be taken out of the dense physical body and you go in the etheric into the spaceship, which are in themselves etheric. It is still physical, but etheric physical. Now, people say they are taken up and experimented on, things are put into their skin and so on. The Space Brothers know all about us, they do not need to do this. To me it is a nonsense, because they are so advanced in every way that they do not need to make any kind of experiment. They know the answers already. It is a complete nonsense that they should carry out genetic or sexual experimentation on people from this planet when they have a technology which is several thousand years ahead of anything that we could think of today. It is stupid, it is a blind, a deliberate way of attacking the concept of wise and superior, spiritually-oriented people. In this way, the people in control in, or even behind, the governments of the world, retain their control. JF: Could you say a few words on the energy in crop circles? Is it good to stay in a crop circle for healing, for example? BC: The crop circles are made by energy. The people in the spaceship form a design in their mind, simple or complex, and then, with a combination of technology and thought, that design is created in the crop. They always use a universal system based on ë9', rather than ë10', which we will adopt in the future. When we understand the nature of the mathematical ratios in the true sense, we will begin to understand the crop circle better. Many people think crop circles are ideograms ó which they are not. They are not giving us ideas, encapsulating ideas. They are designs, carried out to a certain formula, and the formula is universal. That is what they are reiterating over and over again in these designs. In every case there is an energy which is embedded in the ground, in the water, etc, wherever the crop circle is made. You must understand that the crop circles are only external visible points where these vortices occur, but these occur all over the world, even where there are no crops. So there are thousands and thousands of these energy spots, vortices, created by the Space Brothers. When they make a circle in a crop you see it; when they make it in the ocean you do not see it, but it is there, too. In this way they are forming a magnetic grid which will be a source of energy on the physical plane, like storage tanks of energy. So it will draw energy from our own magnetic plane, but using it on the physical plane in the technology which is coming. In using energy from the sun in relation to this magnetic energy we will do wonders in healing, in transport and many other ways; all our energy needs will be met. If you go to a crop circle and you are sensitive to the energy, you will find, if you are in one made by a Venusian spaceship, that it will be quite distinct from that in a crop circle made by a Martian spaceship. If it is made by a Mercury or Jupiterian spaceship it will be different again. These energies are different and they can have a healing quality. People spending a little time in a crop circle feel the energy, which is often of a healing nature and does heal. I would not recommend spending a lot of time in a crop circle, because one can be overcharged by the energy. Especially Venusian energy, which is very high in vibration. So I recommend care in spending time in crop circles. Spend maybe five or 10 minutes in it, but not sitting for a couple of hours talking with people, and so on. People do this, and then wonder why they are so overcharged. JF: On 20 June 2000, there was the first crop circle in Slovenia. The media reported it, and your Master confirmed it was genuine. Could you say whether it was made by a Martian or Venusian spaceship? BC: It was Martian. JF: Were there any more in Slovenia, which we didn't recognize? BC: One more in August in the same year. JF: Tomorrow I have an interview with a Second World War veteran, who was in the Royal Air Force. He had many UFO sightings during the war. He was in the RAF. There was this phenomenon of so called ìballs of lightî, foo-fighters, accompanying the aircrafts which were going to bombard Germany. Pilots thought those lights were secret weapons of the Germans. But German pilots saw the very same lights when they came to England, and thought it was the secret weapon of the English. Could you explain what these lights were? BC: All the space vehicles have listening devices, which may be two or two-and-a-half feet in diameter, and they can be directed from the spaceship itself, which might be ó if it is the usual scout ship ó 30 feet in diameter. These are sent down and connected energetically with the mothership, and they have instruments which can read the reports which are fed into very advanced computers. Our computers are ancient, backward things compared with the technology they have; these pick up data on everything: the quality of the air, the thoughts and ideas of individuals, if necessary. They may hover outside a room here and listen to this conversation, for example. Following an aircraft, they cannot be shot down ó they have a forcefield round them. The spaceships, too, cannot be shot down, they also have a forcefield round them. They have often been fired at by fighter planes sent up to intercept them but there is no way the rounds can penetrate the forcefield of the ship, so it is a waste of time and energy. That is just Earth stupidity. We are a very stupid planet. We are a backward, dark planet whose people know nothing, believe nothing and understand nothing. But that is all going to change because the Hierarchy of Masters are coming back into the world. Some are already here, including the Master of all the Masters, Maitreya Himself, Who will be the first to become known. His mission begins in the very near future. This will throw a completely new light on the reality of life. These foo-fighters do a job ó I cannot tell you what the job is in every single case, it will vary from time to time. The spaceships have implosion devices which have usually a red light, and which are used to nullify or neutralize nuclear radiation on the Earth. They use different devices for different purposes, but very common are the small disks for carrying information. I have seen them. I have ducked as they come so close! They do not mean any harm, it is just a kind of ìhelloî. JF: Many people see these balls of light, also where crop circles have appeared. There is a famous UK video from 1996 by John Wheatleigh. Your Master confirmed that the video was genuine, but later it was discovered that there were some strange things with this video; the light, when the video was shot, was strange as the sun was on the other side. Also the man who shot the video disappeared. Could you say a few words about the video? BC: I do not know about that. I have not heard the evidence against the video, so I cannot really comment on this. All I can say is that the video is real. These lights which were seen were deliberately shown. The crop circle was made by the spaceship in seconds. Then these lights were put out to show that they were there, to draw attention to the fact that they had made the crop circle, to connect it with the UFO and so make it real, that it was not a mystery. Because if you just have a crop circle, or you are waiting for the appearance of a craft to make a crop circle and you do not see the craft, then there is a crop circle but you have no feedback on it. When you have lights, you do not know whether the lights or the UFO made the circle, but there is a connection between them, because no one has ever explained the lights which hovered over the ground. I do not know whether the criticism is valid; it may be from a technical point of view, but it cannot be from the actual, factual point of view, because it happened, the crop circle appeared. JF: In conclusion, do you think that without Maitreya we won't see UFOs becoming public knowledge? BC: Well, it is not the way I would put that. I would not say that without Maitreya we would not see it, but that with Maitreya we will see it. The fact that Maitreya is here ó I know with absolute certainty that Maitreya is here, living here in London where I am talking now ó will guarantee that the fact of our Space Brothers becomes known. He will begin His open mission very soon indeed. The world will gradually come to understand Who He is and what His mission is, and when they accept Him, then, of course, they will accept what He says about the Space Brothers and the UFOs. Then there will be an open interchange between them and us. Janez Ferjancic is a Share International co-worker from Slovenia. From the July/August 2004 issue of Share International

The UFO Involvement I am becoming increasingly aware of the fact that humanity , with its intelligence ,is at present in a dumb down state. However the media puts out so much divergence , and cheap crap. This is an attempted ”cover up” . To keep mankind in the darkness, and thus under the influence of the ”Lords of Materiality”. However such a thing can only happen if this planet was bereft of all of its Masters , initiates , , and the millions who stand for justice , and right human relations .. The glamour of a life empty of any soul qualities . It has been said we rub shoulders with soulless people everyday . The Higher Christ Principle has not as yet been born in humanity as a whole as yet . Right now we have only a nucleus of initiates working on the outer planes at this time. . However , as the forces of the 7th ray wax ever so powerful, then we shall see more master coming into the world over the next few hundred years or so . . Our job is to prepare humanity for the Externalization of the Hierarchy . The reality and work of the Space Brothers Interview with British author and editor of Share International magazine Benjamin Creme by Janez Ferjancic. Janez Ferjancic: Before you were engaged in the Reappearance work you were connected with UFOs in the 1950s. You knew George Adamski personally. Could you explain how it all started, and what were your experiences with UFOs? Benjamin Creme: I first read about UFOs in Flying Saucers have Landed, a book in which George Adamski wrote, in the last chapter, his experience of meeting a Venusian in the Arizona desert. The book itself was not by Adamski but by an Englishman, Desmond Leslie. It was the history of flying saucers over many ages, in different parts of the world. It was research ó historical, speculative to some degree, and it finished with Adamski’s actual experience. Next I read Inside the Spaceships by Adamski, in which he was taken up in a spaceship, a saucer, onto what is called a mothership. This mothership was Venusian, and he had long conversations with the Venusian Master who, I think, was the Master of the ship, the chief person on board. In any case He was a Venusian Master. These were very interesting conversations, and so for me the UFO phenomenon was more to do with the purpose, the meaning behind the flying saucers as they were called, than the phenomenon itself. The fact that people from other planets ó some people think other solar systems but my information is that they come from other planets of our system ó were concerned enough to visit this planet was interesting, but the nature of their concern was much more interesting. Their concern was that we should not destroy ourselves. That we should change our way of life, our way of organizing our world, not to destroy the world from an ecological point of view, and not to destroy each other in a war using nuclear weapons. It was a philosophical, spiritual discourse which he had with the Venusian Master, and that is what really impressed me about the book. When I first heard about UFOs it was in 1947 or 1948, perhaps 1945, when a few reports appeared in our newspapers that a passenger plane had come close to what we call UFOs. The pilot would report it, the people in the plane would see it happening. They would see these round, disk-shaped objects, sometimes quite close to the aircraft, flying alongside, either one or many. It happened quite frequently but not every day ó or rather you did not hear about it every day. These reports were spaced out over a period of time. UFO over Voronezj, Russia The first time I heard or read anything about them, before I read the Adamski book, I believed they were probably either American or Russian special planes that they were experimenting with, which were built on an entirely different system, not like normal airplanes; they were round, saucer shaped, and so we called them flying saucers. I thought at first that they were secret planes, experimental flying objects of Russia or America, or both, until I read the Adamski book, and then it became clear that there was something else going on, that they were perhaps from elsewhere. Then, in the beginning of January 1959, I was contacted by one of the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy and my work began ó I have talked and written about it elsewhere. The work was with the Space Brothers, the people using the UFOs, and my Master acted as the liaison between us, so to speak. To me, the two became identified; the fact of having read Adamski left me very open to the possibility, although I had not thought very much about it. But I was immediately introduced to the flying phenomena and I was part of a group, of which Adamski was one, which met only out of the body. To the outer world, we worked secretly, but to ourselves there was no secret ó we recognized each other and we were part of a committee and did certain work which was assigned to us which was all to do with the UFO phenomenon. In my experience, what we call UFOs, the flying saucers, come from the planets of our own system. Not from the Pleiades, or Sirius or somewhere outside our solar system, but from, mainly, Mars and Venus. A few other planets like Jupiter and Mercury are involved, but the vast majority of sightings of the UFOs come from Mars and Venus. Practically all of them are made on Mars, even the Venusian ones. They are Venusian in design, and they are quite distinct, different in design and technology, but they are actually constructed on Mars. And they are all constructed by thought. The people in physical bodies on Mars and Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and so on are not at the same level or vibration of physicality that we experience. We know only three aspects of the physical: solid physical, liquid physical and gaseous physical. Above gas there are still four further levels of physical matter which so far have not been discovered on this planet. When they are discovered we will understand a great deal more about the nature and origin of disease, the purpose of life on this planet and of the reality of life on other planets. The beings on Mars and Venus and the other planets are on the four higher levels of the physical. If you went to Mars or Venus you would see no one, but nevertheless they are in physical matter, and have bodies made of that subtle, finer physical matter to which we give the term ëetheric’. We ourselves have bodies of dense physical, liquid physical, gaseous physical and the four etheric physical planes ó but we have not yet discovered the latter. They have been demonstrated to exist by the great scientist and psychologist Wilhelm Reich, who was a colleague and one-time assistant of Freud. He died in an American prison in 1957. He was arrested for purporting to treat diseases with instruments which he claimed (correctly) attracted matter from the etheric planes, which he called orgone energy. He saw it as one vast plane of orgone energy, which he saw, rightly, as being everywhere in the universe, substanding the outer solid physical plane. Esotericists understand the etheric plane as four planes, becoming finer and finer as they go higher. The fourth etheric is just above gas, and is invisible unless you have etheric vision. The reality of this etheric energy, of what he called ìorgone energyî, was demonstrated palpably by Wilhelm Reich in various simple experiments. Nevertheless, he was arrested because he used instruments which he called the ìorgone accumulatorî, boxes which accumulated the etheric energy of some levels, usually the two lower levels, the fourth and the third etheric, to treat diseases including cancer and various other diseases. In America that was deemed illegal. The Food and Drug Administration arrested him, refused to allow him to prove his work, and he died in prison. Unless one understands the reality of the etheric levels of energy as finer, subtler, levels of matter, one cannot begin to understand the UFO phenomenon, and one cannot understand the creation of crop circles ó because they are all related. The crop circles are created by people, mainly from Mars and Venus, with a few exceptions from other planets. The vast majority of them are Martian, some Venusian, and they are all over the world. Crop circles are mainly in the south of England, but they have been seen in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Peru ó all over the world to a greater or lesser degree. Our planet, like all planets, has a magnetic field; its magnetic energy travels in lines and criss-crosses, and where these lines cross is formed, eventually, a vortex, a force centre. The space people, in making the crop circles, are replicating on the dense-physical plane these magnetic vortices in our planetary magnetic field. So there is the planetary magnetic field on its own level, and then a physical plane counterpart of that, which is being replicated by the space people who are manning the UFOs, and creating the crop circles. photo: © Steve Alexander / Karen Douglas Crop circle in Giant’s Grave, Oare, Wiltshire, UK JF: Why are they doing this? BC: They do this in order to make the foundation on the physical plane for a new type of energy, a new type of technology using that energy, which eventually will be developed on this planet. It is a gift for this coming time, the New Age which we are entering, which we call the Age of Aquarius, a time in which tremendous new discoveries in the use of the energy of the planet and of the sun will be found and adapted. This will entirely change our way of life on this planet, and will lead to a control of universal energy such as we cannot begin to imagine. In the next 2,500 years we will reach a stage where we can travel around our solar system at will, and out into the galaxy, exploring first our own solar system and then the vast galactic area, using energy which does not work within the time/space reality. So that distance is annihilated, time is annihilated. People think that if you are going to send something into the galaxy, it will take hundreds of years, the people would die before they could reach anywhere that was worth going to, and they would never return. It is not true. People come from Mars and Venus, which are not so far away, but they are still a long way away by our reckoning of distance, but they come here in minutes. It does not take time, once you understand that time does not exist and that the space which you thought you have to cover to get from one place to another does not exist either, and in minutes you can travel vast distances in space. JF: Why did they choose crops for showing these patterns? BC: Crop circles are used because they are seasonal. You only have crops for a short time in the summer and autumn, and then they are cut down, and you do not see the crop circles. Then they will grow up again next year, and the crop circles appear in the same places, because they are recreated each time in the exact same point, so that the energy is put in that field, or whatever. If put where all the energy is put, crop circles would be, literally, all over the world, including in the sea, on mountains and in rocks where nothing is growing. They are allowed to be seen, made real as a crop circle, as designs in corn, because it is seasonal; then it is cut down. This is a tangential way, without infringing our free will, of telling the people of Earth that the Space Brothers, as I call them, the people from other planets like Mars and Venus, are here, are part of a system, and they work in a systemic way, not just as separate planets. They are helping this planet to develop the technology of the future, and also to make known, without being too strong about it, that they are here, that they are aware of us, that they are helping us, that they have a very spiritual intention in coming here, and that they are 100 per cent friendly and harmless. JF: It is very difficult to believe in the true nature of the crop circles, because there are so many hoaxes. Could you tell me what percentage of crop circles are genuine and how many are hoaxes? And why are people doing this? BC: There are, of course, some hoaxes. These hoaxes are a tiny minority, perhaps 4 per cent, of the real and authentic crop circles which appear all over the world. The ratio of hoaxes to authentic ones varies from country to country. In this country (UK) ó because we have had so many crop circles and for so long ó they are probably a bigger percentage than elsewhere. If you have more crop circles, you have more hoaxes. And in other parts of the world perhaps there is not such a conscious involvement of people with the crop circles, so they do not take the trouble to make them. To make a crop circle is hard work, and they are usually very obvious and very clumsy and badly made. How anyone can mistake a hoax for a real crop circle ó if they visit the actual crop circles ó astonishes me, because they are so perfectly made when they are authentic. They are made in seconds by the people using the space vehicle. First of all they think of a design, decide what the design will be. It may be very simple, and if you follow the sequence of crop circles, you see that they become more and more elaborate, more complex, as the years go on. First, for variety, and secondly, to show a complexity and a degree of ingenuity and design which would be beyond the range of any hoaxer. The hoaxes are usually very elementary, rather badly made. Why are they made? I would say, for two reasons. One reason is that they are made by people who are paid to make hoaxes. Newspapers, for example, do from time to time put up money and employ, say, a group of university students who have worked out a way in which you can make a crop circle of a kind, a rather simplistic kind, but that would convince a journalist. Journalists know no more about crop circles than anybody else, than the average man in the street, and yet they come along with their cameras and look at it, and they say: ìYes, it is a crop circle, a real authentic crop circle, how wonderful!î, and then Jeff and Peter, or Willy and Robert, come up and say: ìNo, we made it, yesterday, we made it! The Daily Mail or The Sun paid us £2,000 to make this crop circle, we can prove it. This is a complete hoax, they are all hoaxes.î It is a way of diminishing the value and the reality of the crop circles. Also, I know for certain, that the Ministry of Defence in this country pays money to the farmers to cut down the crop circles if they appear in their corn. Some of them, of course, go ahead and as soon as a circle appears they cut it down. Even if the corn is not ripe and they would not normally cut down that area of corn for perhaps a few weeks or a month. And so you get fields with a great hole in the middle of the corn, which is where there has been a crop circle deliberately destroyed by the farmer ó paid by the Ministry of Defence. JF: A crop circle appeared one week ago in Winchester which is quite elaborate ó a three-dimensional picture of a Hollywood-style head of an alien. You said that it was man-made which astonishes me, because you can’t really recognize it from the ground. How can an ordinary person actually distinguish what is genuine and what not? BC: It is difficult for people who have not studied the subject, who are not to some degree well acquainted with the subject, to tell the difference between a true, authentic crop circle, made by a spaceship from Mars or Venus, and one that is just a fake. But if you have been looking at them over a period of time, and realized the differences, you can see instantly that this is a fake and this is authentic, they are very clear cut. I saw the Winchester photograph: there is a circle in which the spaces are divided into squares in both ways, it makes a kind of a cake, but decorated in squares, and near it a head, a kind of alien, imaginary alien’s head. A head which is used every time a comic artist wants to design a spaceman, he gives him that kind of a head ó rather like the head of E.T. That to me is a complete fake. It has nothing to do with the crop circle beside it, which is authentic. This is done for one or other of those reasons, simply, that people like to play pranks, they like to destroy evidence, they like to be cleverer than those who are making the crop circles ó until the public and the media cannot make head or tail of the whole thing. It destroys the validity of the whole crop circle phenomenon. If you cannot tell the difference between a fake one and an authentic one, then the authentic ones lose validity. Not ultimately, but for the present time. Until it is proved that crop circles are, indeed, made by UFOs from Mars and Venus. The number of fakes is really very small, because they are difficult to do, they take time and energy, and people who are going to spend that time and energy to do it either have an overdeveloped sense of humour ó they see it as a great joke ó or else, they are being paid to do it. Both things happen. JF: Just to get it clear about that Winchester crop circle: the disk is genuine? BC: For the one I saw in the newspaper, the actual circle is a genuine one, and the head of an ëE.T.’ is not authentic, but is a man-made one to nullify the validity of the other. JF: The crop circle phenomenon started to appear in the late 1970s, but even before, in the 15th or 16th centuries, people knew about them. Why are they appearing in such numbers now, and why mainly, as it seems, in the UK? BC: The number of crop circles is increasing all over the world. They have always been there, but only in small numbers. They are increasing because the plan of the Space Brothers ó in relation to the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet ó is to speed up the creation of this magnetic field of energy on the physical plane on the Earth to do with the coming technology. Why now? Because the whole process is speeding up. Because our own Spiritual Hierarchy, the Masters and high initiates of the Spiritual Hierarchy of this planet, are returning to the everyday world. They have not been out of the world, but They have been hidden away in the mountains and deserts of the world for thousands and thousands of years. They have been working behind the scenes but now They are externalizing Their work and are beginning to appear. Already, to my knowledge, there are 14 Masters living openly as men in the world, and the Master of all the Masters, the World Teacher, the Lord Maitreya, as He is named in the Spiritual Hierarchy, the One Christians call the Christ. The reason so many crop circles appear in southern England is because Maitreya lives in London, His ëpoint of focus’ in the modern world. They are meant, subtly, to allude to that fact. photo: © Steve Alexander Crop circle at Waden Hill, Wiltshire, UK, 21 June 2003 JF: Will this process keep increasing? Are we going to make closer contacts with UFOs? BC: The Hierarchies of all the planets are in communication. This is something which people should understand. They themselves do not have that communication but Hierarchy does. The Hierarchy is made up of Masters of different levels and of disciples of even more varied levels. And from all these disciples, all these different grades of initiates, some of them may be part of groups who have been working with the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers have on this planet various people, like Adamski and others, who are used to bring the reality of the Space Brothers to the world, but also for other reasons, which I cannot go into; there are various aspects of this work which must be kept secret, for the time being at least. They have a great work in salvaging, in helping to restore the equilibrium of our planet, in particular to nullify to some extent ó within the karmic law ó the pollution of our planet. But for their work in purifying our atmosphere, mopping up with implosion devices the nuclear radiation which we pour into the atmosphere from our nuclear reactors and experimentation, this world would be infinitely more painful to live in. JF: You mentioned that there are different individuals who work together with UFOs on different projects. There is an interesting project in America, conducted by Dr Steven Greer called the ëDisclosure Project’. Could you comment on this? BC: Dr Greer is doing a useful thing. He is not working ó so far as I know ó with the Space Brothers but he is impatient with the fact that there is masses of evidence to prove that UFOs exist. Not proof of where they come from, or their purpose, but that they are real, do, in fact, exist. They have been seen by hundreds of thousands of people for years, and yet the governments of the world, most of whom have adequate data on their existence, refuse to make that known. There is a huge cover-up, from the highest levels, in America, Russia, Britain, the European and various other countries who have been collecting data, evidence from their pilots, policemen, soldiers, from the public for years and years. This amounts to a huge body of evidence which is never published, is never made known, is covered up. People disappear even, in certain parts of the world, and nothing more is heard of them. There is sometimes coverage by media to discredit the evidence, and so on. In this way the governments control what the public knows, or rather does not know, about the Space Brothers and the UFO phenomenon. In this way they can keep it down. Dr Greer is impatient with this, he has himself experience of UFOs and wanted to make it known. He has set up a means for other people ó ex-army, ex-RAF or ex-United States Air force personnel ó to come forward and give their evidence. When people of their standing and experience give evidence in this public way, they hope it will lead to a general, better understanding and maybe eventually an open statement by the governments of the world. Of course, when governments make such a statement about their knowledge, they are also at the same time committing political suicide. They think that if we know the technology that the Space Brothers have, which is so much more advanced than our own, then the ideas, the wisdom of these people (if it is possible to have at our service), is much more to be valued than that of our own governments. These governments do nothing but make war on each other, in competition destroy the economies of each other, and make life miserable for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. Inevitably, we will say we want the Space Brothers to come and teach us their ways, we do not need you, Mr so-and-so and Mr so-and-so. They can see that as a loss of their power, and so they keep the whole thing dark. JF: Do you think Dr Greer will succeed with his initiative? Will governments come forward? BC: The governments will only act when they are forced to do it. When Maitreya is known openly. Maitreya is the World Teacher, the head of our own planetary Hierarchy, Who are beginning to return to the everyday world. When They are known, when Maitreya is known, He will be asked questions like I am being asked now, and the truth of the relationship between this planet and the other planets will become known. Then the people from other planets will land and the reality of their existence will be known. We have to understand that these ships and the people in these ships are in etheric matter, which is matter, but subtler than our physical matter. We, also, have the subtle matter in our etheric framework ó of which the physical is only a precipitation, downwards ó but we do not see it, and so for us it is non-existent. The Space Brothers can lower the vibrational rate of that etheric matter until it comes within our range of vision, so that we see the spaceships. But that is a temporary manifestation. When the Space Brothers live ó and some do ó on this Earth, they have to make, or take, Earth bodies to do so. In the first place, the knowledge, the acceptance of the reality of the Space Brothers, will come through the acceptance of Maitreya and the Masters of our Spiritual Hierarchy. They will confirm that the Space Brothers are real, that the spaceships are real, that the other planets have their citizens who have nothing but goodwill, who are harmless, who want to help each other and do help each other, and who help this planet in so far as the law of karma allows. When we accept them and see what they are doing and how they are helping us, then the development of this planet will go forward tremendously fast. JF: There are so called abductions and cattle mutilations. Should one take them seriously? What is this in relation to UFOs? BC: The question of abductions and cattle mutilations is part of the general cover-up. They are a way of invalidating the harmlessness of the Space Brothers and making people afraid of the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers know nothing of harm and mean no harm for this planet. If they had, they could have destroyed this planet long ago. No one is ever abducted in a spaceship. These cattle mutilations are deliberately made as cover-ups ó to put the blame on the Space Brothers and therefore to make people afraid of them. The whole thing is a plot against this enormously important and enormously serious interchange between the planets, to keep power for a limited number of people on this planet. It will be, as I say, only for a limited time until the Hierarchy of Masters is known and accepted, until Maitreya is known and accepted, and then the reality of the UFOs will come out. Those who say they are abducted have experiences of an astral-emotional nature in which they imagine that they are in spaceships. Nobody is ever taken up in a spaceship in a physical body. It is impossible. These spaceships are not solid physical. To be taken up into a spaceship you have to be taken out of the dense physical body and you go in the etheric into the spaceship, which are in themselves etheric. It is still physical, but etheric physical. Now, people say they are taken up and experimented on, things are put into their skin and so on. The Space Brothers know all about us, they do not need to do this. To me it is a nonsense, because they are so advanced in every way that they do not need to make any kind of experiment. They know the answers already. It is a complete nonsense that they should carry out genetic or sexual experimentation on people from this planet when they have a technology which is several thousand years ahead of anything that we could think of today. It is stupid, it is a blind, a deliberate way of attacking the concept of wise and superior, spiritually-oriented people. In this way, the people in control in, or even behind, the governments of the world, retain their control. JF: Could you say a few words on the energy in crop circles? Is it good to stay in a crop circle for healing, for example? BC: The crop circles are made by energy. The people in the spaceship form a design in their mind, simple or complex, and then, with a combination of technology and thought, that design is created in the crop. They always use a universal system based on ë9′, rather than ë10′, which we will adopt in the future. When we understand the nature of the mathematical ratios in the true sense, we will begin to understand the crop circle better. Many people think crop circles are ideograms ó which they are not. They are not giving us ideas, encapsulating ideas. They are designs, carried out to a certain formula, and the formula is universal. That is what they are reiterating over and over again in these designs. In every case there is an energy which is embedded in the ground, in the water, etc, wherever the crop circle is made. You must understand that the crop circles are only external visible points where these vortices occur, but these occur all over the world, even where there are no crops. So there are thousands and thousands of these energy spots, vortices, created by the Space Brothers. When they make a circle in a crop you see it; when they make it in the ocean you do not see it, but it is there, too. In this way they are forming a magnetic grid which will be a source of energy on the physical plane, like storage tanks of energy. So it will draw energy from our own magnetic plane, but using it on the physical plane in the technology which is coming. In using energy from the sun in relation to this magnetic energy we will do wonders in healing, in transport and many other ways; all our energy needs will be met. If you go to a crop circle and you are sensitive to the energy, you will find, if you are in one made by a Venusian spaceship, that it will be quite distinct from that in a crop circle made by a Martian spaceship. If it is made by a Mercury or Jupiterian spaceship it will be different again. These energies are different and they can have a healing quality. People spending a little time in a crop circle feel the energy, which is often of a healing nature and does heal. I would not recommend spending a lot of time in a crop circle, because one can be overcharged by the energy. Especially Venusian energy, which is very high in vibration. So I recommend care in spending time in crop circles. Spend maybe five or 10 minutes in it, but not sitting for a couple of hours talking with people, and so on. People do this, and then wonder why they are so overcharged. JF: On 20 June 2000, there was the first crop circle in Slovenia. The media reported it, and your Master confirmed it was genuine. Could you say whether it was made by a Martian or Venusian spaceship? BC: It was Martian. JF: Were there any more in Slovenia, which we didn’t recognize? BC: One more in August in the same year. JF: Tomorrow I have an interview with a Second World War veteran, who was in the Royal Air Force. He had many UFO sightings during the war. He was in the RAF. There was this phenomenon of so called ìballs of lightî, foo-fighters, accompanying the aircrafts which were going to bombard Germany. Pilots thought those lights were secret weapons of the Germans. But German pilots saw the very same lights when they came to England, and thought it was the secret weapon of the English. Could you explain what these lights were? BC: All the space vehicles have listening devices, which may be two or two-and-a-half feet in diameter, and they can be directed from the spaceship itself, which might be ó if it is the usual scout ship ó 30 feet in diameter. These are sent down and connected energetically with the mothership, and they have instruments which can read the reports which are fed into very advanced computers. Our computers are ancient, backward things compared with the technology they have; these pick up data on everything: the quality of the air, the thoughts and ideas of individuals, if necessary. They may hover outside a room here and listen to this conversation, for example. Following an aircraft, they cannot be shot down ó they have a forcefield round them. The spaceships, too, cannot be shot down, they also have a forcefield round them. They have often been fired at by fighter planes sent up to intercept them but there is no way the rounds can penetrate the forcefield of the ship, so it is a waste of time and energy. That is just Earth stupidity. We are a very stupid planet. We are a backward, dark planet whose people know nothing, believe nothing and understand nothing. But that is all going to change because the Hierarchy of Masters are coming back into the world. Some are already here, including the Master of all the Masters, Maitreya Himself, Who will be the first to become known. His mission begins in the very near future. This will throw a completely new light on the reality of life. These foo-fighters do a job ó I cannot tell you what the job is in every single case, it will vary from time to time. The spaceships have implosion devices which have usually a red light, and which are used to nullify or neutralize nuclear radiation on the Earth. They use different devices for different purposes, but very common are the small disks for carrying information. I have seen them. I have ducked as they come so close! They do not mean any harm, it is just a kind of ìhelloî. JF: Many people see these balls of light, also where crop circles have appeared. There is a famous UK video from 1996 by John Wheatleigh. Your Master confirmed that the video was genuine, but later it was discovered that there were some strange things with this video; the light, when the video was shot, was strange as the sun was on the other side. Also the man who shot the video disappeared. Could you say a few words about the video? BC: I do not know about that. I have not heard the evidence against the video, so I cannot really comment on this. All I can say is that the video is real. These lights which were seen were deliberately shown. The crop circle was made by the spaceship in seconds. Then these lights were put out to show that they were there, to draw attention to the fact that they had made the crop circle, to connect it with the UFO and so make it real, that it was not a mystery. Because if you just have a crop circle, or you are waiting for the appearance of a craft to make a crop circle and you do not see the craft, then there is a crop circle but you have no feedback on it. When you have lights, you do not know whether the lights or the UFO made the circle, but there is a connection between them, because no one has ever explained the lights which hovered over the ground. I do not know whether the criticism is valid; it may be from a technical point of view, but it cannot be from the actual, factual point of view, because it happened, the crop circle appeared. JF: In conclusion, do you think that without Maitreya we won’t see UFOs becoming public knowledge? BC: Well, it is not the way I would put that. I would not say that without Maitreya we would not see it, but that with Maitreya we will see it. The fact that Maitreya is here ó I know with absolute certainty that Maitreya is here, living here in London where I am talking now ó will guarantee that the fact of our Space Brothers becomes known. He will begin His open mission very soon indeed. The world will gradually come to understand Who He is and what His mission is, and when they accept Him, then, of course, they will accept what He says about the Space Brothers and the UFOs. Then there will be an open interchange between them and us. Janez Ferjancic is a Share International co-worker from Slovenia. From the July/August 2004 issue of Share International

The UFO Involvement

The UFO Involvement

I am becoming increasingly aware of the fact that humanity , with its intelligence  ,is at present  in a dumb down state.

However  the media puts out  so much divergence  , and  cheap crap. This is an attempted  ”cover up” . To keep mankind in the darkness, and thus under the influence  of the ”Lords of Materiality”. However such a thing can…

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Legislation and Ethical Guidelines for Intelligence Technologies (LEGIT): principles for a more enlightened and civilized society

Abstract Recent technological advances to augment human intelligence (aka Intelligence Amplification or IA) can potentially allow us to make our cities and citizenry smarter than ever. However, their corruptive and disruptive impact on health suggests the information technology (IT) industry must establish an ethical framework to ensure our future generations get the most from life. To mitigate risks, a number of organizations have introduced various codes of ethics. Despite this positive move, most codes focus on enabling public access to data and professional integrity to the exclusion of all else. While both domains are important, we argue that they do not nurture the kind of intelligences humanity needs to thrive and prosper. To address these blind spots, this paper draws on recent evidence that three human factors (chronobiology, collaboration, creativity) are vital to humanity's future, and that harnessing them will ensure our IT professionals design more life-supporting systems. The 3 "Laws" presented as Legislation and Ethical Guidelines for Intelligence Technologies (LEGIT) aim to stimulate critical debate on the subject and nudge the sector to take practical and meaningful action.

The future of AI

The idea of artificial intelligence or AI has been around since the 1956 summer workshop at Dartmouth University. The workshop was convened by John McCarthy, who coined the term “artificial intelligence,” and attended by a raft of AI pioneers including Claude Shannon, Herbert Simon, and Marvin Minsky. This seminal event defined AI as a set of methods that could provide machines with the ability to achieve goals in the world. Attendees of the workshop believed that, by 2001, computers would implement an artificial form of human intelligence (Solomonoff, 1985). Recent advances in neural networks modelled on the human brain have resulted in striking breakthroughs, most of which involve a machine learning technique known as deep learning. Deep learning uses a photograph’s pixels as input variables to predict variables without needing to understand underlying concepts, just as standard regression model predicts a person’s income based on educational, employment, and psychological stats. Such algorithms are now found to beat humans at games of skill, master video games with no prior instruction, 3D-print original paintings in the style of Rembrandt, grade student papers, cook meals, vacuum floors, and drive cars (Guszcza et al., 2017).

Due to more effective algorithms, computing power, data capture and storage, real-world AI applications have exploded in the last decade. AI systems are already built into everyday technologies like our mobile devices and voice-activated personal assistants to help us manage various aspects of our lives. AI is also being used within legal, financial, and workplace sectors to predict behaviours map leisure preferences (Campolo et al., 2017). In addition, thousands of digital health apps are being developed to help track our daily activities and prompt us to make healthier lifestyle choices (Topol, 2015). The problem is that AI algorithms only work when data used to train them are sufficiently reflective of the environment in which they are used. In other words, when routine tasks can be encoded in big data sets, algorithms have become brilliantly adept at outperforming humans. Yet when given a more novel task that requires conceptual reasoning, even the most powerful AI still cannot learn as well as a five-year-old does (Gopnik, 2017). This is because AI is founded on computer-age statistical inference — not on an approximation or simulation of what we believe human intelligence to be (Efron and Hastie, 2016). This kind of narrow type of machine learning is far from the vision outlined at the Dartmouth workshop in 1956, or indeed expressed in AI fictional characters such as HAL 9000 in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

AI’s narrow machine learning is also doing very little to augment our own cognitive capacities. Recent government drives towards automation has meant people increasingly work and live in a 24-hour Society. These 24-hour lifestyle changes have placed huge demands of flexibility on the human body (Kreitzman and Foster, 2011). Instead of living diurnally (active in the day, resting at night) people are living in an always-on “now,” where priorities of the present dominate. Living in this state of what Douglas Rushkoff calls “present shock” means people have developed a distorted relationship to time. Financial traders no longer invest in futures but instead expect profits from computer algorithms. Citizens have no historical sense of how their governments function and demand immediate results from representatives. Children txt during an event to find out if there’s something better somewhere else (Rushkoff, 2013).

This is not to say that the idea of AI does not have great potential. Automating mechanical tasks has transformed society for millennia and is likely to continue to do so into the future (Innis, 2004). What needs to be carefully considered are the practical ramifications of 24/7 AI systems on people and society. Mobile phones are already negatively impacting the mental health and wellbeing of children (Carr, 2011). Meals consumed at night increase our risk of heart disease. Long-term shift work is sparking a raft of reproductive problems such as risks of miscarriage, retarded foetal development, and spontaneous abortion. Sleep loss is also triggering an epidemic in obesity, gut disorders, and drug addiction cycles as people try to maintain regular function (Kreitzman and Foster, 2011). Increased work-related accidents, number of sick-days taken, and family and marital stress are just some of the factors that will negatively impact our ability to succeed in the coming decades.

The reason AI systems are so damaging is simple. Unlike algorithmic systems we create to optimise work functions, humans are not computers that run software programs 24/7. We need vital environmental cues to synchronize our body’s biological rhythms to the Earth’s daily and annual cycles. When cues are disrupted due to erratic behaviors (disrupted eating and sleeping), we get ill. As neuroscientist Russell Foster explains:

“All of us in the developed world now live in a ‘24/7’ society. This imposed structure is in conflict with our basic biology. The impact can be seen in our struggle to balance our daily lives with the stresses this places on our physical health and mental well-being. We are now aware of this fundamental tension between the way we want to live and the way we are built to live”.

Figure 1: Intelligence Amplification (IA)

It's becoming increasingly clear the most promising AI applications are not in algorithmic machines that authentically think like humans, but in harnessing technologies to enable human and computers to think better together, a field called Intelligence Amplification (IA) (Figure 1). IA has huge potential to allow us to make our cities and citizenry smarter than ever. However, recent developments are sophisticated enough to pose great risks if placed in the wrong hands, whether they be corrupt governments, corporations or both as is the case in 21st century politics (Müller and Bostrom, 2016). To mitigate risks, we must establish clear legislation and ethical guidelines for information technology (IT) professions, so future intelligence systems enable a more enlightened and civilized society (Berman and Cerf, 2017). 

Indeed, ethical guidelines for IT professions have already been established in some but not all countries. Dr. Eike-Henner Kluge authored 11 principles for the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) which have been adapted by the British Computer Society (BCS) and UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UKCHIP). The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) does not explicitly state any code, but is a member of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (Samuel and Zaiane, 2014). 

Despite various adaptions, all codes converge around four key principles:

Public Interest (i.e., the need to maintain regard for public health, privacy, security and wellbeing of others and the environment; and to promote inclusion and equal access to IT)

Professional Integrity (i.e., the need to undertake work that reflects professional competence; continue to respect, develop, and share knowledge; and to comply with legislation)

Duty to Relevant Authority (i.e., the need to carry out professional responsibilities with care and diligence, in accordance with the Relevant Authority's requirements)

Duty to the Profession (i.e., the need to accept personal duty to uphold the reputation of the profession and not take any action which could bring the profession into disrepute)

Wearable computing pioneer Steve Mann has also spent many years developing a code of ethics on human augmentation which has resulted in three fundamental "Laws". These include: (i) the right to know when and how you are being monitored in the real and virtual world; (ii) the right to monitor the systems or people monitoring you and use that information in crafting your own digital identity; and (iii) the user should be able to understand the world they are in immediately (Mann et al., 2016). 

While the above codes are an important first step toward mitigating risks of human enhancement and AI, the challenge is they focus on enabling public access to data and professional integrity to the exclusion of all else. While both factors are necessary, they do not nurture the kind of intelligences humanity needs to thrive and prosper. To address these blind spots, this paper draws on recent evidence that three human factors (chronobiology, collaboration, creativity) are vital to humanity's future, and that harnessing them will ensure our IT professionals design more life-supporting systems. The 3 "Laws" presented as Legislation and Ethical Guidelines for Intelligence Technologies (LEGIT) aim to stimulate critical debate on the subject and nudge the sector to take practical and meaningful action.

Law I: Protect chronobiology

All technologies must provide humans with 24-hour temporal reference points to help them measure their progress, ambitions, and actions (Figure 2). Integration of temporal factors in technologies will remind humans they exist in a physical body, and that circadian clocks, which display 24-hour periodicity, control nearly all biological patterns, including brain-wave activity, sleep-wake cycles, body temperature, hormone secretion, blood pressure, cell regeneration, metabolism and behaviour (Kreitzman and Foster, 2011).

During working hours, humans have a basic right to know when and how organizations are tracking their chronobiology, and reciprocally monitor the chronobiology of organizations. During evenings, weekends, and holidays, humans have the right to disconnect from being monitored, and reconnect with people and groups that matter to them, such as family and friends. All human monitoring and communication must be limited to working hours to support optimal sleep/wake cycles and longevity (Kreitzman and Foster, 2011).

Figure 2: Protect 24-hour human chronobiology

Law II: Integrate collaboration

Smart cyber-physical systems offer humans the ability to create and share goods at near-zero marginal cost (Rifkin, 2014). This post-capital shift to what some call the “the sharing economy” or “zero marginal cost society” is estimated to be worth $4.5 trillion by 2030 (Lacy and Rutqvist, 2016). To maximise the potential of this shift and overcome current challenges, organizations will need to reward creative collaboration between citizens and incentivize sustainability (Rifkin, 2014, Lacy and Rutqvist, 2016).

To achieve this, future technologies must integrate radical human collaboration into every stage of the development cycle (Figure 3). Prioritizing creative diversity will ensure technologies are less contaminated by cognitive bias, which will boost human skills and knowledge to result in breakthrough innovations (Page, 2008). Diverse collaboration will also ensure systems are systemic in nature, addressing root causality of problems rather than changing parts of the whole (Snowden and Kurtz, 2003).

Figure 3: Integrate human collaboration at every stage of development

Law III: Nurture creativity

Highly desirable metatrait of creativity (aka social effectiveness) is central to determining human physiological, reproductive, and socioeconomic success (Rushton and Irwing, 2011, Cloninger, 2013, Musek, 2007). The three underlying traits that give rise to creativity have various labels, however they tend to reflect common characteristics related to Dynamism (self-expression, openness), Emotionality (self-awareness, self-transcendence), and Stability (self-efficacy, self-regulation).

For humans to thrive and prosper, technologies must nurture creative adaptiveness (Figure 4), to ensure everyone can reap its physiological, reproductive, and socioeconomic benefits (Rushton and Irwing, 2011, Cloninger, 2013, Musek, 2007). Nurturing creative adaptiveness across all levels of society also has the potential to solve many of the 21st century’s most complex problems (De Beule and Nauwelaerts, 2013), and thus mitigate some of challenges posed by AI (Brundage, 2015).

Figure 4: Nurture human creative adaptiveness traits

Technologist Pledge

As technologist and member of the technology profession:

I WILL RESPECT & MAINTAIN the health, autonomy, and dignity of people and communities;

I WILL PRACTICE in accordance with the 3 Laws outlined in the LEGIT to maximise outcomes in human chronobiology, human collaboration, and human creativity;

I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of age, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, or any other factor to intervene between my collaborative work with people;

I WILL ATTEND TO my own health and abilities to ensure my work is of the highest standard;

I WILL NOT USE my technological knowledge to violate human rights, even under threat; and

I WILL RESPECT & SHARE knowledge for the betterment of people and technology.

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Grant Munro is director of London’s Digital Health Advisory Board and honorary academic at the National Institute of Health Innovation, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is cofounder of the Innovation Party, Britain’s first political movement dedicated to fostering agile governance through peer-to-peer networks. His health blogs Shockism.com and Luman.life focus on charting frontier health technologies to help people get the most from life. He can be reached at Medium, Twitter, Facebook, GrantMunro.com or via email at hello@grantmunro.com.

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WHY STARTUP GROWTH

Six months later, when Yahoo bought us, we had 1070 users. The catch is that we so rarely see analyses of this type. The control systems inside machines used to be the model for all programming. This may not be very appealing yet, if you're not. Why should we care especially about civil liberties? If other companies didn't want to use it in all his paintings, wouldn't he? Silicon Valley and the whole world, for that matter have speculative meetings.

That's where you can win big by taking the bold approach to design, and others that are comfortingly routine. So programmers continue to develop iPhone apps, even though Apple continues to maltreat them. People only have so many leisure hours a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon.1 If you write in Latin, no one can understand you. The screen's too shiny, and the way to take advantage of dramatic decreases in cost is to increase volume. But this is old news to Lisp programmers.2 Intellectual curiosity was not one of the main forces driving the spread of tablets, that suggests a way to get it from the poor, or take it away from the rich turns out to be extraordinarily responsible.3 A lot went wrong, as usually happens with startups.4 In fact I don't intend to make any predictions, except that things will change a lot. It's hard to convince investors the first time it raised money, it shouldn't be surprising that luck is a big pitfall, and not just for the minnows, but even this was not open source. The main reason was how much we liked the founders.5 Did some kind of connection.

But elegance is not an end in itself.6 The computer would be just as worried about premature design—deciding too early what a program should do. If you work patiently it's less stressful, and you have no way to make viewers watch TV synchronously instead of watching recorded shows when it suited them. Which meant, with current US tax rates, that it made sense to invest in us if we had better than a 1 in 24 chance of succeeding, you'll only do it if there is a deeper reason that hackers are alarmed by measures like copyrights and patents. Reproduced by permission of Steve Wozniak. We have less power than bosses, and yet the founders work harder than you should at selling yourself. My friend Trevor Blackwell built his own Segway, which we called the Segwell.7

Think about it. After a while this filter will start to operate as you write. They're working on their software. If you don't want to give the impression there were no problems this summer. Data about who applies for things is usually closely guarded by the organizations selecting them, but none of their software could compete with ours. Hacking is something you do to survive, but may turn out that this whole battleground gets bypassed. Whether the number of startups. But a startup can't do what all the other big companies are doing.

But no visitor would understand that.8 We have created, for the first time it raised money.9 Instead of taking money from the rich. With a startup, you shouldn't worry that it isn't widely used. In other words, time-sharing is back.10 This should not really be surprising. Nothing yields meaty problems like starting with the wrong assumptions. It surprised me that being a startup founder does not get you more admiration from women. The right tools can help us avoid this danger. Here's a handy rule for startups: competitors are rarely as dangerous as they seem.

Put them on an anonymous forum, and the default answer is failure, because that is at this point the default outcome. I don't know if that's necessary, but it seems like the best languages all evolved together with some application they were being used to write. More often than not the energy they expend on appearances to compensate. So it is no wonder companies are afraid. You might also want to learn C, in order to hack Unix, and Perl for system administration and cgi scripts.11 Countless paintings, when you look at the history of technology would want to do, designing beautiful software, would be if you could somehow redesign venture funding to work without allowing VCs to become rich, there's another kind of investor you simply cannot replace: the startups' founders and early employees.12 Maybe their strongest shared interest will be their physical location, but I'm British by birth. So anyone in America who really cares about design will be sailing upwind.

If another country wanted to establish a rival to Silicon Valley is. It is identical with taking money from the rich. You know how you can design programs to be debuggable?13 But the real problem for Microsoft wasn't the embarrassment of the people they want as libraries.14 VCs, because they can't see things from the user's point of view. Y Combinator, we planned to invest the way other venture firms do: as proposals came in, we'd evaluate them and decide yes or no.15 Nothing yields meaty problems like starting with the wrong assumptions. I'll tell you why that wouldn't work. Cobol. As usual, by Demo Day about half the startups were doing something significantly different than they started with.16 I think there's a general principle at work here: the less you need further investment, the easier it is to do a startup. If you're going to invest your time in something with a small chance of succeeding, you'll only do it if there is a natural temptation to believe, for example, that hacking is the applied version of what theoretical computer science is the theory of computation about as much as Apple would.

Probably not. But I don't think many people realize there is a safe option, that's the one a bureaucrat will choose. The experience of the SFP suggests that if you eliminate economic inequality. The specific thing that surprised me is how the relationship of startup founders seem to be working hard enough.17 Michelangelo was considered especially dedicated for insisting on painting all the figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel himself. Some of this summer's eight startups will probably die eventually; it would be between a boss and an employee. I think a society in which most people were still subsistence farmers; he would have had neither workers nor customers. I was a whiz at it. This is generally true even if competitors get lots of attention. This is what open-source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program. Paintings usually begin with a sketch.

Notes

An earlier version of this essay, Richard and David Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the reaction was so violent that she decided never again. Note: This is not work too hard to say. The only launches I remember are famous flops like the bizarre stuff. Everyone else was talking about why people dislike Michael Arrington.

In fact the secret weapon of the companies that an idea that evolves naturally, and that's much harder. So if it's not always as deliberate as its sounds. In No Logo, Naomi Klein says that I was there was a small proportion of spam to nonspam was consistently very high, they have zero ability to predict at the end of the startup.

Economically, the work goes instead into the work of selection. Fortunately policies are software; Apple can change them instantly if they knew. He had equity.

Google's site. Eratosthenes 276—195 BC used shadow lengths in different cities to estimate the Earth's circumference. Y Combinator never negotiates valuations is that any idea relating to the usual way of calculating real income, or it would feel pretty bogus to press founders to have confused readers, though in very corrupt countries you may as well. We once put up posters around Harvard saying Did you know Apple originally had three founders?

You know what kind of protection is one of the things Julian gave us. In part because Steve Jobs tried to raise a series of numbers that are or feel weak.

While the space of careers does. Otherwise you'll seem a risky bet to admissions committees, no matter how good you are not very far along that trend yet. Incidentally, Google may appear to be combined that never should have become direct marketers. Few can have a significant effect on college admissions.

No, and on the admissions committee knows the professors who wrote the recommendations. The problem in high school textbooks.

That's why there's a continuum here. Or rather, where w is will and d discipline. Good news: users don't care about GPAs. Make it clear when you lose that protection, e.

We're delighted to have them soon. But one of the Garter and given the Earldom of Rutland.

I use. The existence of people mad, essentially by macroexpanding them. Yes, actually: dealing with one of the infrastructure that this isn't strictly true, it will become as big as a note to self.

Though this essay, but there has to be closing, not how much you get stock as if you'd invested at a particular number. And so to the same in the time and Bob nominally had a house built a couple years. That would be enough, even though you don't know.

Bureaucrats manage to allocate research funding moderately well, so it may not understand you at all. You can't be buying users; that's a pyramid scheme.

One to recover data from so many people mistakenly think it was not in the cupboard, but in fact I read most things I find hardest to get endless grief for classifying religion as a monitor is that we're not. There are some whose definition of property.

The set of plausible sounding startup ideas, but that this was the last round just converts into stock at the end of the corpora. A in the sense of the anti-dilution protections. 1323-82.

Francis James Child, who would make good angel investors. But they also commit to them rather than doing a business is to hand off the task at hand almost does this for you to take a meeting, then they're not ready to raise a series of numbers that are up-front capital intensive to founders.

Look at what adults told children in the trade press. The more people you can hire a real idea that investors are also much cheaper when bought in bulk.

Brooks, Rodney, Programming in Common Lisp for, believe it, this paragraph is sales 101. But that oversimplifies his role.

Thanks to Robert Morris, Rajat Suri, Paul Watson, Trevor Blackwell, Sarah Harlin, Fred Wilson, Jessica Livingston, Erann Gat, Qasar Younis, and Mike Moritz for putting up with me.