Great interview, Kyle! Elana is so knowledgeable (and totally adorable). I want to touch on a couple of topics you discussed.
First, the "blue" sky. Having grown up in the 60s and early 70s in the heart of Wisconsin, I can attest that the sky is no longer truly blue. At least 20 years ago, when I was living in the Los Angeles area, I termed it "silver" sky. I could literally see the shimmer of this nanotech — although I didn't know what it was — in the atmosphere AND on the roads. I even wrote poetry and songs about this concept!
Second, microwave ovens. We don't use ours that came with the house, and I have often talked with my husband about taking it out and replacing it with a really nice range hood. Also when we bought our travel trailer last May, we took out the microwave and made a large storage cabinet: Such a better use of the space in our tiny Micro Minnie Winnie! My mom insisted on getting a microwave oven around 1980/81, but I always got a weird vibe from them, no pun intended.
Third, my husband and I are both musicians, and he is a fabulous music therapist and hot-shot guitarist to boot! We are very fascinating by sound/frequency healing, and believe that this Nature's Technology speaks to the core of our spiritual essence. Earth is our Mother, our sustenance while we are here in Prison Planet (and that's not to suggest that Earth IS a prison, only that it has been TURNED INTO one).
Fourth, we cook almost all of our own meals, much of it from scratch. We eat big green salads at least once a day; fresh fruit; raw and steamed vegetables; nuts & seeds; beans & legumes; and mushrooms almost every day. We carefully scrutinize labels of any and all packaged foods (I've been doing that since 1975, and it drove my suddenly convenience-food-crazy mother crazy, thanks to the See-Aye-Ay and Second Wave Feminism.) We have a tiny lot but we grow mostly tomatoes, deep greens and lettuces, green beans, and herbs.
Fifth, and finally for this long comment, I was washing dishes tonight and it occurred to me — based on Elana's comment about building a relationship with the nano tech in her body — that since we OWN OUR BODIES as part of God-given sovereignty, we then own anything within it. And so, we can learn to be the Commander-in-Chief of these little AI "non-beings" and instruct them to do GOOD instead of bad! Just a wild thought, but hey, I'm into wild thoughts A LOT these days!
Thank you again for an excellent interview with Elana. I love your work/play!🤗
Though I still consider these ideas to be speculative fiction, it's gotten to the point where a lot of it seems neither very speculative or very fictional.
What would be great would be for someone from inside to step forward and actually admit to all of this.
The biggest problems I have with most of the people describing these technologies is vocabulary. What the hell is a "quantum dimension" for instance? I can't let that just go by and consider the reporter to be totally credible. "Satan worshipers" is not much better, though at this point I am very close to believing that.
We also don't have any settled terminology for describing "entities" which are basically degraded spiritual points of causation. Per my training, every body is run by at least one "genetic entity." Though this entity is technically a spiritual being, it is so degraded that it is confusing to describe it that way. I am not well-trained in this area, as entities are not the object of spiritual counseling. Though the ultimate solution is clearly to raise our own level of skill and operation to the point where such entities cannot trouble us, we aren't there yet, and they do trouble us; they trouble us all the time.
Thus, we tend to fall back onto the terminology of mysticism, which, steeped in a necessarily secret tradition, is purposely vague. That doesn't help make these phenomena more understandable for "normal" folk. I think the least researchers in this area can do is to study and understand the conventional terminologies of the sciences, and to use them as precisely as possible where appropriate. When going beyond scientific concepts, the terms used should be consistent and well-explained.
As things currently stand, there is much room for quackery. We don't need that in our subject (and it WILL be attempted, as the subject has strong enemies) because we are not dealing with goofball or crazy ideas. They are just ideas that are difficult to explain and that most people will have a difficult time accepting, even if explained well.
Great interview, Kyle! Elana is so knowledgeable (and totally adorable). I want to touch on a couple of topics you discussed.
First, the "blue" sky. Having grown up in the 60s and early 70s in the heart of Wisconsin, I can attest that the sky is no longer truly blue. At least 20 years ago, when I was living in the Los Angeles area, I termed it "silver" sky. I could literally see the shimmer of this nanotech — although I didn't know what it was — in the atmosphere AND on the roads. I even wrote poetry and songs about this concept!
Second, microwave ovens. We don't use ours that came with the house, and I have often talked with my husband about taking it out and replacing it with a really nice range hood. Also when we bought our travel trailer last May, we took out the microwave and made a large storage cabinet: Such a better use of the space in our tiny Micro Minnie Winnie! My mom insisted on getting a microwave oven around 1980/81, but I always got a weird vibe from them, no pun intended.
Third, my husband and I are both musicians, and he is a fabulous music therapist and hot-shot guitarist to boot! We are very fascinating by sound/frequency healing, and believe that this Nature's Technology speaks to the core of our spiritual essence. Earth is our Mother, our sustenance while we are here in Prison Planet (and that's not to suggest that Earth IS a prison, only that it has been TURNED INTO one).
Fourth, we cook almost all of our own meals, much of it from scratch. We eat big green salads at least once a day; fresh fruit; raw and steamed vegetables; nuts & seeds; beans & legumes; and mushrooms almost every day. We carefully scrutinize labels of any and all packaged foods (I've been doing that since 1975, and it drove my suddenly convenience-food-crazy mother crazy, thanks to the See-Aye-Ay and Second Wave Feminism.) We have a tiny lot but we grow mostly tomatoes, deep greens and lettuces, green beans, and herbs.
Fifth, and finally for this long comment, I was washing dishes tonight and it occurred to me — based on Elana's comment about building a relationship with the nano tech in her body — that since we OWN OUR BODIES as part of God-given sovereignty, we then own anything within it. And so, we can learn to be the Commander-in-Chief of these little AI "non-beings" and instruct them to do GOOD instead of bad! Just a wild thought, but hey, I'm into wild thoughts A LOT these days!
Thank you again for an excellent interview with Elana. I love your work/play!🤗
Though I still consider these ideas to be speculative fiction, it's gotten to the point where a lot of it seems neither very speculative or very fictional.
What would be great would be for someone from inside to step forward and actually admit to all of this.
The biggest problems I have with most of the people describing these technologies is vocabulary. What the hell is a "quantum dimension" for instance? I can't let that just go by and consider the reporter to be totally credible. "Satan worshipers" is not much better, though at this point I am very close to believing that.
We also don't have any settled terminology for describing "entities" which are basically degraded spiritual points of causation. Per my training, every body is run by at least one "genetic entity." Though this entity is technically a spiritual being, it is so degraded that it is confusing to describe it that way. I am not well-trained in this area, as entities are not the object of spiritual counseling. Though the ultimate solution is clearly to raise our own level of skill and operation to the point where such entities cannot trouble us, we aren't there yet, and they do trouble us; they trouble us all the time.
Thus, we tend to fall back onto the terminology of mysticism, which, steeped in a necessarily secret tradition, is purposely vague. That doesn't help make these phenomena more understandable for "normal" folk. I think the least researchers in this area can do is to study and understand the conventional terminologies of the sciences, and to use them as precisely as possible where appropriate. When going beyond scientific concepts, the terms used should be consistent and well-explained.
As things currently stand, there is much room for quackery. We don't need that in our subject (and it WILL be attempted, as the subject has strong enemies) because we are not dealing with goofball or crazy ideas. They are just ideas that are difficult to explain and that most people will have a difficult time accepting, even if explained well.