Awareness of Potential and Perturbation in the Web of Life

February 11, 2026 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

I think it fair to speculate that I have a better awareness of the potential of things, where they might go and what they might morph into, than many. I kid myself that I can see scope out of a potential. I have a big picture preference. I can envision bigger scope.

I am not an eejit nor a gobshite.

Last night I had a restless night because “the dreaming” was highly perturbed. There were multiple events running into each other mostly pertaining to people from my UK past.

After things have had a massive “car crash” what might arise out of the debris, the ashes, is difficult to anticipate. “Car crashes” can be like a dose of salts, a good clean out. The reboot may not be successful; the system may not have a good recovery point. The dreaded blue or black screen of death may persist for a long time until a way forward is found. Things grind to a halt in the car crash.

Of late something weird has been going on with my computer and network. Google has been complaining and asking me for Captchas which suggests that something is off and perhaps someone is playing “silly buggers” remotely.

I am aware that the contents of this blog have the possibility to “explode”. There are some/few to whom what is here may be of more than a little interest. I would put the likelihood as low but the potential impact of a wide scale happenstance as high. With publicity things could easily get out of hand. There are perhaps some who would not want this, others who might.

It has a very low probability – high impact scaling in my mind. It is potentially big but it won’t happen.

On one level what I am saying as an ex-scientist is that I have “evidence” for prior incarnations reaching back thousands of years. Were I still a gainfully employed practicing scientist at a top university, such a claim would be more “interesting”. As it is I am just another weird eccentric British expat living in rural France. Maybe I have lost the plot entirely? This is an easy thing to suggest in PR terms.

Dr Whacko McNutjob…

It is an easy sell. One many would buy.

The potential for all this to change both suddenly and to a large degree exists. Potential may never manifest.

The phenomena of last night and to an extent still this morning suggest that a large scale perturbation in the web of life is ongoing…The jungle drums are sounding…

Something is up…

I am unclear as to any easy mechanism for it to involve me directly and/or in person.

I am not sure what excuse or justification anyone could make to me in order to explain {con}. I cannot see what might be cobbled together which would offer credibility. An open and honest approach is very unlikely because that is against normal modus operandi and the desire for control. People who like cunning plans do not understand honesty nor approaching with open hands and open hearts. It is alien to them.

Before sleeping last night I revisited the idea of a “Quantum Telepathy” patent application. If I am going to write something that might be more fun than a novel, though one could morph into the other.

I wonder if Whacko McNutjob would be an acceptable name for deed poll…

“If you’re a permanent resident overseas, you cannot change your name by deed poll.”

I would have to move back to the UK to do this…

Maybe it is all in my imagination and there is no hoo-ha going on…

How Likely Am I To Bullshit?

February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

It is common these days to hype, over egg , big up , exaggerate and overstate. This is a kind of infection which is sourced in the USA. One of the problems I had way back was that in writing grant proposals one had to overstate and oversell, stretch the limits of possible commercial applicability. It went against the academic notion of considered writing and into blagging so that the politicians could be sated with their need to blag the fuck out of everything. For example claiming that the UK might, in fantasy land, become a “Science Superpower”. A sound byte is not reality it is an advertiser’s tag line.

Although I can pitch and sell, to an extent, it is not my default. There is a time and a place.

About nine years ago I attended an “entrepreneurs” event in the home counties. I was given a chit saying that the value of said event was £3,000 and was not taxable. There were about fifty people there seeking help with preparing a business plan / pitch. The majority of whom were fantasists prone to over stating and bullshitting. There were so many “apps” being hyped that I got bored.

I offered to speak. Having been part of a big successful fund raise. The offer was not taken up. I was not one of the “gang”. Their loss not mine. I was probably the only person in the room who had raised millions on the back of a business plan I wrote. They wanted to teach me how.

The trouble is that if you are prone to bullshitting and over hyping you may imagine that everyone else is too!! This is not a bad working hypothesis but it is not universally applicable.

As a rule of thumb I am not obsessed with the sound of my own voice and do not love to be the centre of attention spouting forth endlessly from my soap box. I’ll speculate that I will research, think, research some more, think some more, and prepare to a greater extent than most.

My personal assessment is that I am not a gobshite prone to gobbing off.

If someone wants to look into things I will encourage them to see if they can add to what I have already found out.

My own self assessment is that I am not prone to bullshitting. I will not wing it in a pitch. I will be well prepared.

In the dream before the notion of car crash is presented. One can see in the Dragon’s Den TV programme that many pitches are car crashes. They are ill-prepared despite the fact of show back catalogue. Some try to bullshit which goes wrong. Some people have lives which lurch wildly from crisis to crisis. Their whole life is a car crash. We could sat Katie Price is an example of an ongoing car crash.

If you bullshit you are prone to car crash.

If you are well researched and prepared, less so.

Many “great ideas” and cunning plans result in car crashes, sometimes severe and extensive motorway pile ups.

You can make your mind up as to how likely I am to bullshit.

Am I more likely to bullshit than you?

The Tendency to Underestimate

March 28, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

This tendency can be followed by overreaction and disproportionate over reaction at that. One might point at Pearl Harbour, 9/11 and the recent Hamas attacks. There was underestimation prior in each case. If something catches people unawares it is an act of terrorism if “they”, do it, or an act of cunning if “we”, do it. Placing thousands of indiscriminate pager bombs in Lebanon to maim and kill Hezbollah was “clever” and in no way terrorism… “Terrorism” depends upon which side you are on. The “allies” firebombed Dresden, hardly an altruistic act.

People, countries, who are prone to arrogance tend to underestimate others. I’ll speculate that Trump has made a miscalculation concerning how people feel concerning the USA and his actions in particular. We shall see.

It is possible that people have underestimated me or that they have overestimated me or that they have judged me spot on. I have perceived that from time to time I have surprised people. I have done things which they did not see coming. I may be mistaken. If they had me sussed, they would have foreseen.

The problem with words like underestimate is that they are linked to competition, winning and even conflict. “Never underestimate your opponent”. The estimation is tied up in an oppositional scenario, there is a presupposition, a desire for victory.

When I was a younger man, I thought I knew a lot more than I actually did. I was full of bullshit and prone to evangelising about science, thermodynamics and veganism. I have hindsight now. But back in the thrall then, I was certain and dogmatic. People in the thrall lack a wider awareness. They do not know what is beyond their ken and may be arrogant and conceited about their self-diagnosed omniscience.

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Not so long ago someone “told” me some things about Castaneda and that The Guardians do not exist. He was adamant. As usual I was direly in need of education. People have told me many things. I’ll estimate that in general I get told way more than I am asked. The assumption is perhaps that because I am not a soap-boxing gobshite, I know little or nothing. I do not feel the urge to show off.

I could say that I know no-thing but nobody would understand what I mean by that statement nor get the experience behind it. They would not think to ask what I mean. They might tell me.

People can be markedly unaware as to the extent of what is unknown for them and yet feel entitled to opine thereupon.

I have mentioned the blue books opus in this blog. There may be those that think it to be made up hippy shit. If the contents are real and even quasi-factual then it would be unwise to underestimate the so-called hierarchy, those others call The Guardians of the Race. The Tibetan suggests they differ markedly from Joe Bloggs buying a steak slice at Greggs and from those having a BYOB works event at 10 Downing Street.

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People can pooh-pooh out of arrogance and that can be a miscalculation. There is a tendency to pooh-pooh as a knee jerk reaction which may stem from a sense of entitled complacency.

The Tibetan mentions masters as having taken the fifth initiation, this means that even after they become a nirvani there is work to do. If you have never met a putative awakened Buddha, it might be wise not to slag them off, if only on the off chance that they are real. It might be good to spread your bets.

But of course, those who are fond of the sound of their own voices, when they find themselves in a bit of a hole, tend to keep on digging. They may be unaware because of their underestimation that they have indeed fallen into a hole, a trap of their own making. Even when someone hands them a spade or a shovel, they may not cotton on to the hole hypothesis. Dig baby dig.

This tendency to underestimate is widespread. It pertains a little to an arrogant sense of entitlement.

“Mr Ghandhi, India is British my good man…”

I have never met a “know-it-all” who actually does.

Perhaps one day if people keep telling me what I am, what I know, what I am thinking, what my motivations are and who I am, I will learn.

Then they will be right…

And I can finally sleep soundly…

Do You Bat for the Same Team as Jesus and Buddha?

February 19, 2025February 19, 2025 ~ quantumdreamer ~ Leave a comment

In our times where once again brutality and coercion are to the fore, where people soap box to gain attention, where adamant dogmatic assertion tries to overcome and suppress considered debate, there are many who do not bat on their team. The gargantuan ego of ME swells and seeks airtime. Many a brutalist claims God is on their side and that divine will is aback their wholly “justified” actions. But at one level we know that this is bullshit.

I’ll postulate that the gobshite occurrence frequency per unit population has risen sharply in recent years and that the decibel count of their most welcome interventions is significantly enhanced. After all, where would we be without the benefit of their omniscience?

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I don’t recall either of these gentlemen advocating the use of 2000 pound bombs to blow poor, near defenceless people and their families, to smithereens. That is not the action of team Jesus or team Buddha. I don’t recall them ever mentioning doing “deals”, for mutual benefit. That is Mephisto talking. They never said love thy neighbour but only if he gives you a large wad of cash or rare-earth metals. Neither of these guys was conditional.

Viewed from more than one angle humanity and western humanity in particular is no longer bound by morals and decency. A “what is in it for me” mentality can be found on many sides. Genuine, as opposed to PR, altruism is rare. Sodom and Gomorrah would be seen as bastions of morality in our times. We have a president who allegedly knobs a porn star. There are many “leaders” whose legality is questionable. The corrupt get elected by the corruptible. There is a bit of a lads club.

We could re-write Matthew 5

Blessed are the loud gobshites, for they will talk over everyone and browbeat them into silence.

Blessed are the corrupt for they will slightly lower our tax burdens as a bribe for our collusion.

Blessed are the warmongers for they will enhance the values of our shares in the defence industries.

Blessed are the hypocrites for they will ban abortion but allow God like IVF. They have the power of life and death.

Blessed are the vengeful for they will stir our righteous ire to get our backing for their slaughter and death. We the just, shall prevail whatever the cost to the heathen subhuman hordes.

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I don’t think Buddha and Jesus have many on their pre-season roster, they cannot afford the salaries, the perks nor can they give big kudos and internet fame. They can’t offer backhanders and jobs for the sycophants, pals and donors. It is not their way.

Whose team are you on?