"Down one road lies disaster, down the other utter catastrophe.
Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose wisely." - Woody Allen

The world we live in too often feels like Alice's Wonderland. Exploring it can be a surreal journey past your comfort zone and, as the implications of each new awareness creeps in, you may want to scream or go to denial or shut down. The cognitive dissonance feels awful. And we can easily get depressed, feel despair or anger. We invite you to go down the rabbit hole only as deep as you feel ready at any specific time.

And, as we suggested on the home page, you will likely need to actually embrace the feelings of hopelessness and despair for however long it takes in order to feel ready to take action. So, with all that said, we invite you in for a peek.

DEMOCRACY: We begin with our deep concern over the loss of our sacred democracy. The most glaring danger is use of corporate-controlled voting machines, which have taken away our most basic right as American citizens. We, The People no longer decide who will represent us in our government.

MEDIA: Next we suggest you look hard at the corporate media, which appears complicit in our loss of democracy. The most obvious media collusion can be seen in the ignoring of the voting machines without paper trails and the Downing Street memo. The most extreme media subterfuge seems to be the "Big Lie" regarding the events of 9/11, which require only a little focused research to understand.

ENERGY SUPPLY: This is where the pieces come together. It gets obvious why we are in Iraq and why our leaders lied to get us there. The now popular words "Peak Oil" mean that we have now used half the oil on the planet. The remaining half is far more difficult to get, far lower in quality and is located in places where Americans are hated. This suggests oil will become far more expensive just as China has become a major user of oil and has become aggressively competitive. Imagine life without fuel. It takes ten calories of oil for every calorie of food we now produce. These are some of the highlights which we suggest you study intensively because their impact is already affecting you and will do so more and more dramatically every year.

HOW CAN ALL THIS BE HAPPENING? This is the logical next question and we propose an answer. We observe that there exist some humans with no sense of conscience and who will predate on anyone and everyone in order to achieve power. Once in power they pose a survival level threat. This type of human is 2% of the population and responsible for 80% of the pain in the world. The classic psychiatric name for them is psychopath, we prefer the archetypal designation of "psychic vampire".

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
~ Robert Frost ~

We provide this site as a tool kit and as inspiration for you to build and launch your own sacred lifeboat.

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