26 December, 2019

2020 - More of the same?

The wider implications of our collective decisions are not unknowable. Unintended consequences are the natural result of concentrating decision making into an ever smaller group of people who have very little real connection to the millions of people their decisions impact upon.

The foundation of our present day modern world is your individual human nature. Not our collective human nature but yours. It is perhaps difficult to believe but how you percieve the world creates the world.

More of the same, is the few (and fewer) making more and more decisions that benefit fewer and fewer of everybody else. This has always lead to a 'reset' that Historians call 'Wars'.

The real problem is our own individual human natures. We are all capable and competent until we aren't. Then fear can quickly erode our confidence and abilities. Once even a low level of fear takes hold we ought to acknowledge this fear and deal with it according to our own principles. Far too often, we listen to those in 'authority'.

I could argue that 'authority' only exists to ease the fear of the many. I could give thouands of examples but you will already have your own opinion and no number of examples will change that. I just ask that you give it some thought.

Those in 'authority' must ensure that fear is continually supplied and that they can and will reduce that fear. This is human nature. A plumber is someone in authority, they will use low level fear to get you to use their services instead of watching a youtube video and doing it yourself. Electricians do the same thing, as do car mechanics. Very quickly, those in authority join forces to reinforce the message that you need them. Eventually, the guilds and associations get big enough to be helpful to a political party and then have laws eased into existence which makes it illegal for you to wire up someone elses house, replace a worn clutch or whatever. You could call this progress.

Anything that is born of fear is something to be very wary of indeed. Even something born of love needs to be monitored in case fear starts to take hold. Just beacuse something was started with good intentions does not mean its continued existence is not based on fear.

Fear is the main tool for suppressing our individual human natures and coercing us into going along with the 'mainstream'. Fear is the main tool of anybody in any position of authority. As soon as you realise this you can work on reducing your own fear responses to those in 'authority'.

Without an automatic fear response to parents, teachers, bosses, police, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, bank managers or whoever you can increase your own abilities and competencies. You can listen, decide and act. There is no motivation to listen and obey. There is no reason to listen and obey. You simply decide to act in accordance with your own principles.

With each of us making our own decisions we will quickly reach an equilibrium with those around us. Unintended consequences are quickly felt and dealt with. This may lead to a lot more small acts of annoyance and aggression. However, world wars or civil wars are never going to happen.

The individual choice is one of conquering fear or being subtly (or not) manipulated by those in 'authority'.

I mentioned earlier that your world changes when you do. Imagine, just for a moment, that you are free from fear. This doesn't mean you don't feel fear but that you are sensitive to it. Perhaps you are driving at night and see blue flashing lights and hear a siren. You may feel a brief stab of fear but as you pull over you are calm and relaxed. Now you no longer fear for what you may or may not have done. You simply want to know why your journey has been interupted. This difference is huge. In one scenario you give your power to the police. In the other, you retain all your power.

Unless you (the reader) make a change, you will get more of the same and that is your choice.

What exactly is more of the same?

Speaking collectively, 'wealth' and 'power' will continue to be 'centralised'. These three concepts form what we call our 'modern society'. Modern society confuses bank credit with wealth. Modern society confuses power with laws and legality. Modern society is based on fear.

More fear. More fear. More fear.

More fear leads to fewer and fewer 'good' choices.

To be a 'good' member of society, you will need to disagree with this post.

The 'alternative' is to be a 'good' human being. Wealth is whatever you deem it to be, knowledge, friends, experience, self awareness, competencies, abilities or whatever. Power is that which you are capable of personally wielding or persuading others to wield on your behalf. Laws and legalities fade into basic commonsense.

A human being has a far wider range of choices than a member of society simply because fear restricts a member of society.

Summary

Most of the time, most of us run on auto-pilot. We react and respond according to how we usually act and respond.

Some of the time, we behave as human beings as fear is completely absent and we are deciding on how to act rather than just reacting on auto-pilot.

The majority of us will act as members of society, some of the time, believing that we submit a little of ourselves for the general good. We would do no such thing if we believed we submit a little of ourselves for the benefit of a few.

Self awareness

Basically, the entire blog post is not about the future of our society but about the readers self awareness. Knowing when you are on auto-pilot or acting out of fear, are the first steps to understanding yourself and then you will readily understand those about you and then the world.

The suggested sequence is self awareness, awareness of others and then understanding society.

You are welcome.






01 December, 2019

Brave New World

There is a major difference between knowing and understanding.

Knowing is a safety blanket.

Understanding is elusive and ever changing.

To begin the journey from knowing to understanding, we must shed our fear.

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A personal example would be my 42 year quest to become fitter and stronger. The last six months of which have seen me change from knowing a great deal about health and fitness, to better understanding my own health and fitness.

41 years and six months of knowledge acquisition and training versus six months of listening to my body, trusting my own eyes and adapting my training to suit me.

Guess which has yielded results? (Answer:- I have had more gains in the last six months than the previous 41.5 years.)

This 'understanding' thing is far from easy.

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Let us imagine a world where the safety blanket of knowledge is shed as we enter adulthood. Fear of missing out, fear of being wrong, all fears are acknowledged and accepted. We each trust ourselves, our own eyes, our own ears and our own unique and developing understanding of the world and our place within it.

This would be a Brave New World. For this world to exist, everybody or even most people are not required to embrace it. Only one person need do it, if that person is you.


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Let us call that my Christmas message and everyone is invited to read it regardless of beliefs.

It is a distillation of my books, blog posts and fifty years of wonderment.

You can call it whatever you wish.

Take care

David

09 June, 2019

Conquering Cancer and Defeating Diabetes


Text copyright © 2019 David Roy Watkinson
All Rights Reserved




This blog post is dedicated to the general advancement of humanity



A cure for Cancer

The book, Noticing Sigma, is finished but I thought an example as to what Sigma ought to notice would be of interest.

Western Society has a disease which is rampant. My best friend at school got a form of it and died. I was told what had happened and that was that. At work a customer was given 6 months to live and I was horrified. Particularly as he kept working and so I kept seeing him, face to face. Then my partners mum got the disease and slowly at first and then quickly, deteriorated and died. Then my Auntie got it and has very recently passed. She has inspired this addition to my book as well as the research, I cannot thank her enough and now I cannot thank her at all.

As sad as this is for me personally, I have noticed a trend. This disease is getting closer and closer to me. I suspect my partner will get it next and / or then me. The start of two week research into cancer begins.

Western society is seeking a cure for cancer in the form of a pill or treatment that can be readily supplied by the health industry. Society has been seeking this solution for over one hundred years. Modesty aside, it has taken me two weeks.

As far as I know, 30% of us will get cancer and nobody really discusses it. So, forgive me for doing so, as this does breach society rules. We are all full of cells, at the end of life each cell dies and is recycled by the body. This is natural and not to be feared. Some cells fail to die and we call these cells cancerous. A clump of billions of cancerous cells is called a tumour.

As we all know these cancerous cells start to take over at the expense of our health. The cancer spreads, slowly at first but then increasingly faster. A cancerous cell does nothing good for us unlike the trillions of non-cancerous cells.

Ideally, we ought to encourage our cells to die at the appropriate time. Intermittent fasting helps this process of end of life cell death and recycling. I now eat two meals per day in one eight hour window. For me this means no breakfast, no mid-morning snack, a large lunch, no mid-afternoon snack and a large evening meal and going to bed without supper. So, six meals a day has been reduced to just two. Note that calorie intake is not restricted, just the time of eating.

During fasting the body is forced to become more efficient so the end of life cells are more readily recycled. During fasting the body releases various hormones to prevent muscle loss and this fasting also allows the digestive system to have a rest.

If you choose to do the same then you will be eating in a manner that the body is designed to eat. Your body will work with you to become stronger, fitter and leaner. At the end of life, cells will be recycled and cancer slowed to a stall.

That is part one of my researched cancer cure. Basically, don’t allow cancer to get out of control and I have explained how.

There is a part two and if used in conjunction with part one is likely to be incredibly beneficial health wise, not just in terms of not dying from a cancer.

Now, cancer cells love glucose. One common test for cancer involves injecting you with radioactive glucose and seeing where it ends up. Cancer cells can only live on glucose and consume 10 – 12 times more glucose than a healthy cell. This test readily reveals where the billions of cancer cells are currently based.

Now, this tells us that feeding glucose to cancer cells is not a good idea. If we could deprive cancer cells of glucose then they die. Unfortunately, cancer cells do not wish to die, they wish to thrive. Thus cancer cells promote metabolic processes to turn our muscles into glucose. This explains why many people with cancer are seen to waste away, slowly at first and then far more quickly.

Most of our calories come from carbohydrates with a modest amount of protein and some fat. Cancer loves this diet, particularly if we eat three high carbohydrate meals a day interspersed with high carbohydrate snacks.

Our bodies will always have some cancerous cells. A few cells that have failed to be recycled early enough and this is not a problem. If we fast, we encourage the recycling process. I fast daily for 16 hours. This helps my body to implement a thorough recycling programme which will help prevent an accumulation of cancerous cells.

Now, part two of my cancer cure involves not feeding cancerous cells. Which means not eating carbohydrates. No rice, no pasta, no potatoes, no bread, no pizza and no soda drinks. Without access to glucose a cancer cell cannot grow. Without glucose a cancer cell dies and is recycled.

After ten days of not eating carbohydrates I am still alive and well, so my healthy cells must be able to get energy from somewhere. Astonishingly, our healthy cells are dual fuel capable. Incredibly, our natural fuel source is fat and not carbohydrates. For 99% of mankind's existence we have eaten ‘naturally’. This means a nice piece of fish or meat, some edible leafy plants, nuts, berries and the bulk of our calories from fat. I would imagine that animals would provide a great deal of our fat. Animals that are completely free range who eat other plants or animals that are not subject to pesticides and gmo nonsense.

I started to rant but hopefully you got the key message. Human beings rarely eat carbohydrates, whereas western civilisation society has us eating mostly carbohydrates.

I eat lean meat and fish, leafy vegetables, eggs, butter, olive oil and coconut oil. For dessert, I have strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, a few nuts with whipped double cream. I will start eating very fatty meats and fish when I discover a ‘natural’ source of them.

As far as cancerous cells are concerned, they have NOTHING to eat and will just die. I am eating a normal amount of protein, no carbohydrates and lots of high quality fats. This is not the traditional western society diet but it is what our bodies have adapted to for 99% of our time on this blue and green bauble.

Western society does not have a cure for cancer but I have just given you one. Intermittent fasting with a ketogenic diet.

Perhaps you are already riddled with cancer. Stop eating carbohydrates. This buys you time to regain your health, strength and vitality. Try eating one, two or three times a day. Whichever you feel happy with. Eat tuna, salmon, sardines, mackerel smothered in MCT oil with a few leafy vegetables like spinach. This is perhaps not the best time to change your diet but it is do or die time. In time try some very expensive fatty meats. Eggs are your friend as is high quality butter. Dairy might be difficult so try not eating it and swapping out butter for ghee.

Unfortunately, I would guess that the damage caused by the cancer will not be survivable. However, perhaps you have been given 3 – 6 months to live. On chemo or some such like these will be ‘uncomfortable’ months of low quality life. Embrace my two part cure (with lots of internet research) and expect 2 – 3 years. More than half of which will be both active and ‘comfortable’.

You must find what works for you. With luck, effort and enhanced personal awareness you may find that you outlive your cancer and die of something else entirely, up to and including ‘old age’.
It must be said that your Doctor is unlikely to allow you to refuse carbohydrates. He will use his power to hook you up to a glucose drip. This is the evil that men do without understanding.

On a cheerier note, you will likely need a meal with carbohydrates in it, from time to time. I know of one chap whose joints ache when his body requires a meal inclusive of carbohydrates. This isn’t once a week or even once per month but it does happen, just not regularly.

There are a range of health benefits to eating as suggested above. I see it as eating like our ancestors did for 99% of our history. Fat lazy animals wandering about eating ‘organic’ leafy vegetables. Other slightly less lazy animals eating other animals. Fish filling every stream and pond. Nuts and berries growing all around, changing with the seasons. Our bodies are genetically coded to such food stuffs.

I mentioned cancer but this two part programme also reduces heart disease, normalises insulin and cholesterol levels along with promoting strength, vitality, energy levels, normalising mood, reducing stress, increasing our cognitive abilities, enhance focus, ability to critically think, improving skin and nail condition as well as making our hair silkier and shinier.

However, unless you have read all my books and developed mindfulness, meditation, manifestation, a Sigma mind-set and Sigma noticing skills, then you will find reason enough not to entertain the idea that I found a cure for cancer in under two weeks. Something society has failed to do in over a century.

I will end my rant before I start it, you take care.

Final words of wisdom

I had no right to take you on a journey of awareness but I felt compelled to do so. My journey has not ended, just this blog and my writing career.

Currently I am becoming far more aware of ‘inflammation’ in my body and how detrimental this is physically, emotionally and mentally. ‘Insulin resistance’ is also new to me and I feel compelled to deal with both inflammation and insulin resistance.

Intermittent Fasting and a ketogenic diet helps with both insulin resistance and inflammation. When both are done simultaneously, the results are multiplied.

The change of diet has had an unimagined and significant impact upon my mood. I was quick to anger and no stranger to violence. Now, there is no anger and violence is a choice rather than a reaction.


‘Free from fear’ and ‘fit for life’ – these are the gifts you are looking for.

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I am now five weeks into intermittent fasting on a ketogenic diet. My mood has been commented on by many. Apparently, my mood is now considered to be 'good'.

The clarity of my thoughts is my personal favourite enhancement.

For many, my weight loss might be the headline act. The first four weeks saw the loss of one stone. An average weight loss of half a pound per day. This is the equivalent of 1700 calories. I wasn't pleased so for the last week I have eaten as much as possible. Listening intently to what my taste buds are seeking and noticing which foods I am particularly enjoying eating.

I don't count calories but my food consumption is excessive. I intended to stop my weight loss so needed to close the 1700 calorie deficit. The reward for this gluttony was the loss of one half of a stone. You read that right, my half pound a day weight loss has increased to one pound per day.

The numbers were, 12.5 stones for several years. 11.5 stones after 4 weeks and 11 stone after a week of gluttony.

Well, I mentioned my clear thinking earlier so allow me to 'explain' what has happened.

Carbohydrates put the body into 'crisis' mode. A powerful hormone (insulin) floods the system to remove the dangerously high blood sugar levels. After fifty years of 'crisis' my blood sugar levels are now where they should be. My body is not in 'crisis' and can now start to repair half a century of damage.

For the last week I have consumed a decent amount of protein but far greater amounts of high quality fats. I believe these fats have all been used as building blocks for repair. None used for energy. My body has likely taken all required energy calories from my bodies fat stores. It needed 3,500 daily and so I have lost around one pound of body fat, each day. No exercise was done during this week. It appears that 'repair' uses a great deal of energy / calories.

I have eaten a great deal of food but my appetite has lead the way. One night, I was so hungry that I ate two large meals before I felt satiated. Perhaps I ought be worried but I am not.

My body is letting me know when it is hungry and what it wants to eat and how much. I am just acting in harmony with my digestive and hormonal systems. I am no longer in 'crisis' mode and as my hormones normalise and harmonise my body weight and composition will reach its genetic potential without 'additional and unnecessary' effort.

I would guess that I am probably heading towards ten stone at ten percent body fat. As a man, this does feel daunting but I truly am expecting my body to naturally acquire an additional two stones of muscle, fairly quickly too.

From 12.5 stone at 30% body fat
To perhaps 10 stone at 10% body fat
Eventually, 12 stone at 10% body fat  :-)

Anyway, what will be will be. Currently, I am in the best condition of my life. Fitter at fifty than 25 is awesome.

I'll let you know -

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OK that's me done. The writing of the books and the blog helped me develop my thoughts but now this task is simply slowing me down. But for the interested, do read on to the end.

At six weeks I weigh 11 stone, as I did at week five. This is because I wished it so. If I eat 900 calories of pork scratchings in addition to my keto food, I gain a little weight. If I eat 450 calories of pork scratchings in addition to my keto food, my weight is unchanged. If the cat and I share a few pork scratchings, all else being equal then I lose a little weight.

One week ago I bought a body tape measure and instantly measured my biceps. I don't know why but I measured them again one week later. I was stunned to discover I was 1/8 inch bigger. I haven't started to train yet!

What I do next is entirely my own business but thanks for reading this post.

Anyone wishing more can contact me and we can discuss a mutually beneficial exchange of value. If you don't now how to contact me directly then you haven't read all my books and I see little point in reading them to you.

I'll finish with a parable that I hope is original but likely isn't.

A drowning man is of no use to anyone


30 March, 2019

The basics - part five - What's in it for you?

If out ranking an Angel is not one of your goals now that you know it is attainable, I am surprised.

Perhaps a lesser goal would be realising your own power and potential, know who and what you are, understanding the universe and that you are part of it.

If that is beyond your ability to believe then you could choose to simply make your life more enjoyable and rewarding. You can enjoy your work to a level that most only dream of. You can appreciate the people and both the natural and built world around you. You can live life to your own standards and improve the lives of those you hold dear and everyone else too.

Or, if that is beyond your ability to believe, you can remove annoyances from your life, neutralise frustration and get the most from any and all contacts you have with other people.

I can't see the point in trying to achieve less than that.

These are not the goals society wants you to aim for. These are not goals they want you to believe in. Society wants you to believe in authority, their authority. It wants you to believe in bank credits. It wants you to believe in society far more than you believe in yourself.

Now, the bricks and mortar of society can transform into a civilisation at the speed of thought. The two co-exist and only your perception changes.

Each person has an inner monkey and from that we get society. In society bank managers, economists and financial advisers know best. Government is necessary and protects your freedom. In a civilisation, you naturally critically think, decide for yourself and form groups with other people to meet mutually agreed and beneficial outcomes.

In society government has more power than one individual. In a civilisation, governments have less power than any one individual.

For example, my insurance provider wanted 1220 bank credits from me to insure a motor car. After many emails explaining why this was incorrect, I telephoned them. For one hour and fifteen minutes I engaged with the human part of each person I was bounced to and from. My monkey remained calm and asleep. I acted in such a way to help them keep their own monkeys managed. Now, this was easy for me as I have been practising doing this at work for a couple of years. Anyway, they returned 250 bank credits to me and reduced the 1220 number to 740. It would have been less but I increased my cover. Had I not had the ability to do this, I would have 730 less bank credits than I do have and would be angry and annoyed, with less insurance cover.

Tuesday we had a stock check. Normally I get angry enough with my colleagues to act in a manner sufficient to warrant instant dismissal. This year, zero stress, zero annoyance and zero threats, zero aggression. I am reluctant to admit just how poorly I have behaved during more than a dozen previous stock takes. How have I kept my job for so long?

Anyway, the thing to note is that other people enjoy being in human mode and dislike being in monkey mode. Once you start to modify your own behaviour, all those who interact with you will too. Give it a few months.

What is in it for you? All of the above, even if only you bother doing it.

If just 4% of us do it, we transform life on earth for everybody, not just ourselves.

At this point, I am not sure what else to write. My time would be better spent practicing 'being' rather than writing about 'being'.

You give the matters I have raised some serious thought. Or not. As always you have a choice.

Be seeing you

Although published to celebrate my 50th birthday, I wrote this on Saturday 14th of October 2017.

16 March, 2019

Where am I at?

In two weeks time I will be fifty years old. That seems very odd to me. I would rather be forty in two weeks time, which feels far more appropriate. I usually spend my birthday in quiet reflection of my life so far but the people around me have decided something else entirely, so be it.

I will reflect instead, today or rather now. Society would have me measure my value in dollars earned or perhaps spent. Government might value me in terms of tax revenue. My bank manager would place a specific number of bank credits I am worthy of being loaned. Others may want to know where I live, my job title, what car I drive and what stuff I own. Those are all external references. They are not significant or important. My partner asked me how happy I was and I wondered if she meant something specific or just in general. She didn't say.

How do I value my life so far? Well, I wanted to do some stuff and then I did it. There were consequences and I have accepted them. Currently, there are things I wish to do and I am doing them. The consequences have not made themselves known yet. I have also chosen not to do some stuff and that has consequences too. Placing a value on my life is alien to me. The value is and always has been time. I have had nearly fifty years of time on this blue bauble and every second of which has been spent regardless of what I was or was not doing.

I can sum up my life very easily. Whilst in human mode, my time was spent wisely. When my inner monkey took charge things were often very enjoyable, pleasurable and created fond memories of happy times. My inner monkey can be a very playful thing indeed. My inner monkey also gets rather angry at times which can lead to both physical and verbal violence. This also creates memories but not fond ones.

That is my reflection of my life thus far over for another year. Going forward, I more fully appreciate the need for me to be mindful over what mode I am in. Am I in human mode and spending my time wisely. Is my inner monkey active and thoroughly enjoying some activity or other. Or is my inner monkey in a destructive rage.

I can extend this awareness to others too. Joining others in human mode or joyous inner monkey revelry. Choosing not to join others when their own inner monkey is raging against whatever injustice it perceives.

So, where am I at? My time has been spent doings things that I wanted to do. It is correctly said of me that I do not do things that I do not want to do. This seems entirely reasonable to me.

Where am I at?

I am good, sometimes bad.


01 January, 2019

The basics - part four - So what / what does this mean?

The consequences of the 'bank credit is money fairy tale' is multi-layered, vast and beyond the imagination of most of the current crop of people inhabiting this blue bauble.

The main consequences, in my opinion, is that we rely far too much on the imagined / imaginary wealth of the financial system and the imagined / imaginary power of governments.

The perceived wealth of the financial system is just not there. All the wealth is in the hands and minds of the people. The 'bank credit is money' fairy tale is a simple confidence trick.

The perceived power of the government's is not there either. All the power is in the hands and minds of the people. The governments power is based upon the wealth they take from us without our consent, awareness or knowledge. Should we decide not to believe that bank credit is money, their main support mechanism ends. The notion that Trump / Obama / Bush / Clinton / daddy Bush are or were the most powerful people on earth is beyond belief. As is the idea that some 'shadow' government really has all the power. Both are fairy tales. All the power is in the hands of the people. All of it. I am more powerful than Trump or the Clinton woman. Far more powerful. You were born to be far more than you believe yourself to be. Far, far more.

So, our entire concept of the 'real world' is based on a fairy tale. The fairy tale being that bank credit is money. This has allowed for the massive development of our society and the huge institutions embedded within it. A grand and noble endevour built upon sand.

The cost to each individual member of society is grievous. Our individual development into true human beings, mindful beings, fully aware conscious and almost angelic beings is simply thwarted. We are conditioned to the notion that bank credit is money and that those in authority know best.

Yet, we all know that those in authority are not Gods, they do not know best. Half of America thinks Trump is ruining their country. The other half believe that Clinton would ruin their country. Both are correct, it is their country. Allowing either deluded being to control vast amounts of wealth is stupidity beyond my ability to conceive. Yet, that is your 'real world'.

Your 'real world' is a fairy tale designed to constantly feed and agitate our inner monkey / ancient portions of our human brain. Thus the development of a society where our inner monkey can be dominant and controlled by the few to their own advantage. This is what we call a society. This is the 'real world' of almost seven billion beings.

There is a better choice. Obviously, there is a choice. We can choose not to believe that bank credit is money. We can choose to control our inner monkey and develop our humanity. Each of us, contains the ability to rise above those the christian cultures call Angels.

This is the plan of the universe / God. We are all of the universe. The universe / God exists within us all.

I mentioned God and Angels, feel free to use other terms that you are more comfortable with. My belief system is my own. I only ask that you believe in yourself. There is no need to believe in me, none.

Executive Summary
Those who perceive themselves to be in authority are both deluded and dangerous.

If you do not believe that you outrank an Angel, you have not sufficiently contained your inner monkey and developed your humanity. Or you are a psychopath. 2% of us are. They have a place in a civilisation but should not be granted any power in a society / our 'real world'.

In case you were wondering. I mostly don't feel Angelic. I do have my moments, these moments are occurring more frequently and lasting longer. The word happy is too mundane a word to describe the reality of it.

You take care and do start your journey soon