Stealing A Domain With Your Name On It?

I wrote about a podcast domain that was hijacked some time ago by a guy who wanted to “own the world”.

I decided to allow the domain jbschirtzinger.com to expire awhile ago due to AI slurping up content. As you can see, though, the domain exists and the blog as it existed in around 2023 appears to be online. It is an impostor posing as me, and then pulling my old content to make it appear that I wrote some stuff I haven’t. This blog you are currently reading is the original material.

Here is where the “injected content” begins:

See all that “Nigerian Crypto Stuff?” Yeah, I didn’t write any of that, and it is weird that someone decided to duplicate my blog after purchasing the domain name to make it look like I did.

Reporting It

I reported the issues to the domain registrar, but they only sent some form email back and never did anything. I reported it to ICANN and submitted the clear evidence that someone is posing as me, and then sometime like a month later they asked for some additional info that was really irrelevant to the problem and only gave like a week to respond to their request before auto-closing the case. Since I hadn’t heard from them in over a month, I wasn’t on the lookout for their email. You can, of course, re-open the case, but then, if it is that badly broken in terms of a reporting system, I highly doubt they will be effective in addressing the matter. ICANN wanted the form letter that the registrar sent back as proof that the registrar was contacted, apparently. Regardless, if someone is posing as you and the evidence is clear, it shouldn’t really matter who contacts whom about the issue.

An Analogy

An analogy would be that you come into a crime scene and you can see someone is sprawled out on the floor and that a witness there is telling you the person was shot. You listen to the witness, but you ask them whether or not they filed a police report at their local police station. The person says they have but nothing was done. You ask them for a copy of the report, but you do not receive it right then and there. You tell them that the case is auto-closed then but you can re-open it anytime in the future. Oh yeah, you also just so happen to work with the Federal Branch of criminal investigation.

Obviously, if the power isn’t being used locally, you aren’t, at the Federal level, absolved from doing anything about what was reported. It’s ridiculous to think you would be. Hemming and hawing over some minor procedural element while someone is shot on the floor is definitely not in the spirit of the law…

Playing the Trumpet

The Silver Trumpet ran a short piece today that caught my attention. The topic concerned work, specficially hard work. After considering the perspective, I wanted to be certain that I did not give the topic short shrift, and so decided the best place to detail my thoughts on the topic would be here.

A definition from Strong’s Hebrew is going to be necessary:

There is not, in the above distinction, a necessary relationship to “hard work”. The “or” also does not automatically mean work AND service but could instead mean work OR service–the latter being the exclusive case. This has application to the Silver Trumpet’s piece–particularly this part:

The understanding here reflected in the writing is an understanding of what we might understand as toil or labor without the Holy Spirit. If we see people worshipping hard, for instance, in a Church service, do we tend to say those people are “working hard?” Contrast that idiom and use with the idea of someone being on a construction site. Would we say the construction workers are “working hard”? In Church, the Holy Spirit ought to be present. On the construction site, maybe not. The curse of labor often gets tangled in the concept of work, or service.

Levi Genes – not for mining

Levites, it is said, though responsible for carrying the Ark of the Covenant were more held aloft by the Ark itself. The idea behind the statement is that when a person is fulfilling the work or duty to be done as a service to YHVH, the burden is lightened into something that becomes a kind of mystical joy. The mundane tasks that might seem rote and boring are elevated into an intimate relationship that creates a closeness with the essence of the Glory of God. People do drugs for much less of a sensation, and they often do “mundane tasks” while on them. (Brushing one’s teeth while on acid, perhaps) If drugs are a cheap, unsanctioned knock-off or ersatz for the Holy Spirit, how much more magnified would these tasks be with the full presence of the Holy Spirit?

Concordance

The above Strong’s definition lists the Hebrew word “abad” as being a primitive root. Its meaning is to work, serve, labor, worship, or possibly enslave. Egypt, of course, is the Biblical discourse on slavery, and the Hebrew people generally found it to be disagreeable although they became accustomed to being slaves in ways that made them not want to leave Egypt. This concept of labor and slavery being linked comes again to the point of some of the misperception present in the article in The Silver Trumpet. Levites are not “enslaved to YHVH”. That kind of phraseology is more of a Pauline idea. Levites are, however, to render service specific to YHVH and traditionally received certain things that other tribe members did not receive for doing so. YHVH was their duty, their meal ticket, and their inheritance as well as their home and their occupation. They didn’t serve YHVH at say 9:00 am then hit the rush hour traffic to go work at Microsoft on the latest release until 5:00 pm. The work was seamless and sanctioned by the Most High. This is a key difference.

The Rest of the Story

The rest of the story in the Silver Trumpet article is decent, although good works need not be difficult as such. It is often the case that they become that way because a lot of evil is being performed that would otherwise not desire good works to be performed. This is “hard work” not because the work is necessarily hard, but because other people are choosing to do what they ought not do. As Messiah said, “My yoke is light”. It is up to us to jettison our baggage overboard around work and slavery to fully understand what He meant. It could be, for instance, that we have enslaved ourselves to work because we are working for ourselves when we ought to be aiming to to the Will of the Only Work worth doing. If that’s so, the problem is in our own inner relation to work and worship. The only hard thing there is to go far enough within ourselves with transparency to find the snag.

Back in the Day

Way back now in the beginning of the user web, I had a Tripod site, and an Angelfire site. I likewise had a Geocities site. I remember using the Tripod site the most, in the end, because I liked how it worked better than the other two. Of course, since it was the beginning of the web, I can safely say that I didn’t really know what I was doing, and neither did anyone else. And you know what? That made the web experience great.

Before All That

My generation was the last to see the world prior to the internet. My house had a set of 1960’s encyclopedias written during the cold war, and that meant that any book report that did not involve a trip to the library would involve consulting these books which, by 1988, were very outdated. I remember having to do some kind of report on Indira Gandhi, and fortunately, those encyclopedias were still viable for that. They weren’t so useful, however, for all the countries in the USSR which was no longer the USSR.

Encarta

So, when we first were able to afford a home computer and it had Encarta, I soon learned how other kids were able to knock out their reports so fast with clip-art and digitized articles. It was near essential to have some way to get online, or at least on a recent CD or your knowledge pool was severely hampered.

Things Shifted…

Somewhere along the way, maybe the next generation after mine, a group of kids was born with the presence of the internet always being there. Furthermore, they have never known a world without that information at their fingertips. The key realization that they are missing is that all that information is not your information!. In fact, you don’t really know jack diddly. Because you can read a thing on the internet doesn’t make you smarter. It does, however, put a lot of information at your fingertips that before had a high barrier to entry.

But Then…

Because none of us knew what we were doing back in the Tripod/Geocities/Angelfire era, there were many weird and wonderful web pages out there. No one was trying to be an influencer because no one knew what that was. Instead, if you were in to the TV show Family Ties then you made your site about it and other people who were into that might come along and talk with you about things you need to add. There might be a small ecosystem of Family Ties related sites.

But NOW…

But now, there is this sense of there can only be one supreme overlord of Family Ties. First there has to be some kind of flame war, then a bunch of cancellation of people who don’t do Family Ties according to the Contributor Covenant adopted by Family Ties fandom and oh yeah, only the pagerank can support this person who, clearly, knows everything about Family Ties there is to know or ever will be.

Then Wikipedia Made Everyone an Expert

Then the final nail in the coffin is that because an encyclopedia like Wikipedia exists which far outpaces Encarta or my 1960’s encyclopedias. (at least sometimes)There is a whole new generation of self-proclaimed experts on just about any topic you care to pursue. Again, this is a far cry from the early social web, where you were just into a thing because you were. The emails have largely stopped, and instead everyone is jockeying for self-promotion points so that their reputation in the digital world is lifted. And oh, it is unlikely they are gonna code a page. It is more likely they will submit a three minute video clip spouting some shit they read ten minutes ago to try to get the algorithm to pick them up and toss them up the heap.

The Social Web Being Trash Is A Social Problem

In a me-culture, the social web is a social problem. Wisdom and knowledge are not the same things. Knowledge can change with wisdom, but knowledge without wisdom seldom does.

Heaven Tree Webring

A few years back, I belonged to a webring for “Christians”. I was not sure this category was the best fit, since what a Christian consists of varies enough that there are many hundreds if not thousands of denominations of Christians with the same but highly differing beliefs. The webring was called Heaven Tree. It’s still around.

Christians That Don’t Understand Christianity

Modern Christians do not understand early Christians, and certainly less Christian Jews or Messianics. One day, after having joined Heaven Tree webring, I had found that I had been kicked out because some of my subject matter concerned topics like Astrology and Tarot. After writing for clarification, what I was told was the reason for my removal was that these topics had been brought to the attention of the ringmaster, and that these were not appropriate for a Christian webring.

The only problem with this assertion is that there is an entire Hebrew form of Astrology and Tarot, which in fact I have developed, discovered, and pursued. A typical Christian, however, is unaware of the encoded meanings of Astrology inherent in the Book of Revelation, or how the Messiah having literally become the “Hanged Man” undertook the hero’s journey. In other words, modern Christianity splits its roots and it winds up being something like Christianity Lite without any kind of magical understanding. This forces believers who might normally have some comprehension of such matters to go full on Harry Potter and then they try to reconcile what is witchcraft with Christianity. C.S. Lewis and other early Christian writers had to toe this line especially carefully. How do Christians, for instance, deal with elves who do not appear in the Bible? Satyrs? Fairies?

To most Christians, the answer is those are all “evil”. The only thing that counts is Jesus–and Jews MAYBE on a good day–might. Never mind Jesus WAS Jewish and was fulfilling things relating to these systems which pagans have appropriated and used for other ends. Still, what belongs to God is God’s.

What Belongs In A Community…

The infuriating thing about issues like these is that people are willing to kick a person or author out of a given place because, and this is important, THEY BELIEVE THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE IN THAT COMMUNITY. There is a normalized type of thinking that begins to resemble a kind of mall police that weeds out the shoppers that might look like they are trouble. Ironically, however, it is THEY who are missing pieces of their own community–or at least essential definitions of it–and when someone comes along to try to fill them in on that, they rely on a heuristic of “this info is scary and possibly evil” instead of considering the facts and passages on their own merits. A lobotomized Christian is not the work of the Lord, but the work of believers who, thinking they are doing the right thing and trusting their own judgment, falter and do something else instead. (That was how Messiah was crucified in the first place, wasn’t it?)

Not Unique To Religion

This problem is not unique to religion. Often, one can see it at work in programming languages or potential solutions to engineering issues. It can be seen in treatments doctors are willing to pursue, and what it means to be “good at one’s job” via “work culture”. It is everyone and at all times present, and it seems that generally the gatekeepers who ought to have the greatest vision concerning the community are the most blinded guards. The consequence is that the community is denied membership and growth that certain people bring. It “arrests” the development and keeps the status quo for a little longer, although eventually some critical failure will begin to manifest and by then, the community has split, or failed entirely, and is no longer a community. The klaxon sounds well before this outcome. Unfortunately, it generally requires people to put down their favorite mask–that of the false ego–and there are few who are willing to do that. (nevermind the humility that greatness in either religion or worldy accomplishment often must display or advocate)

Guards At The Gate

While it is true that not everyone is a “good fit” for a given community, it is also true that sometimes the definition of a community is a stolen thing and has become an artificial flower among legitimate roses. A Christianity that refuses to understand the underpinnings of these ancient arts is somewhat dead. It is certainly bereft of essential understanding. What community, then, other than of ignorance, is being guarded?

It’s 2025!

I don’t usually really care so much that it’s 2025 since I’m familiar with more than one way to go about counting years. On the other hand, since other people make it a big deal, and because I’ve made some promises as you can see above, I’ve got to be a little excited because Quarto by now has a glossary. RIGHT? RIGHHHTTT? Two years later, for an academic publishing tool, without any questions being asked as requested–means the feature is there, RIGHHHHTTT? Well, no. Two years of being question-free was still not enough time.

Bell South Engineers Suck?

I’d think that the Bell South Engineers would be able to belt this one out, unless there is some incentive for them not to. I’m not sure what that incentive is, but I do know that three years for a publishing app to not have any code to deal with a glossary is a lot of wasted time. I also know now that I wasn’t told the truth. It’s not so much the glossary functionality had not been worked on, so much as it was that there was no intention to work on it in any timely fashion. Result? I got the reply I got. My point? There are plenty of projects out there that get funding, and without users like me poking people to tell them they are needed features, they get left by the wayside. Blaming your user base for pointing out a needed feature is nonsensical–especially if you tell them that as an excuse to say “Hey man, answering you sucks, cause like I totally got work to do!” It’s another project-killer mentality. Just say the truth, which is, “Yeah, we should have this feature, but our lords and masters don’t think it is a priority right now so I’m not sure when it will be added.” Bummer, sure, but way more useful in terms of informational content.Certainly, it is way more honest.

Exciting update:

So you see, asking about a feature becomes abuse, no matter the timeline. You, the USER are the problem, not the project. This is why a Code of Conduct is useless. It gives people power to self-righteously believe they are doing the correct thing, when in fact, they are failing to hold themselves to reasonable behavior. Same thing was true when the Messiah walked the earth… While probably nobody is going to die for not having a glossary in Quarto, the fact I asked was the problem as it took up precious time. When I pointed out the time that had been taken that was precious, and the feature was still not present, I’m still the problem for desiring the feature and the project to be better suited to its niche. I’m not “constructive” although I’m showing exaclty something that needs “constructing”. Consequence, mute me, the voice, and the problem is solved, right? Except there is still no glossary…

When You See a Problem…

After discovering the problems with the domain of the internet system and some unpleasant consequences due to that as I’ve discussed elsewhere, I made it a prime focus in 2024 to try to find solutions to certain things that would fall under my purview of being able to offer useful input.

The first project I was excited about before 2024 but hoped would come to completion during that period was Gabpay. I’m not what you would call a “Christian Nationalist” but I do think competition that has a Biblical foundation against things like Paypal is going to be a positive contribution to the payment processor space. I especially believe that payment gateways need to be taken out of the custody of the likes of Stripe and Paypal since both of them have been caught de-platforming people at various moments for political reasons. While I don’t have an issue for people being removed from certain services due to serious violations of law, political beliefs ought not be one of the reasons for removal.

The last thing I did was apply for a card Gabpay said was coming, and that was some time ago. I think the idea was to compete with Paypal’s card system, which seemed like a good idea to me. Checking on it for purpose of writing this article, I’m still uncertain what the status is, and that’s about all I need to know about that solution. A general truth is going to be repeated here–if Gabpay had delivered on this promise within a reasonable time frame, they could have been a huge player in the tech scene. As it is, it’s more like a joke along the lines of Half-Life 3.

Another Project

Another project I got excited about was the Encyclosphere project as an alternative to Wikipedia. I became involved with writing some proof for it along with editing articles and understanding how the underlying code moved between confederated Wikis. When I wanted to make an offline copy of one of the wikis, however, Larry Sanger took it upon himself to accuse me of being a Chinese spy who was trying to steal the project. Apparently my idea hit at the same time some other nefarious actor out there started mucking about with the site. Of course, if this hasn’t been solved, then it seems to me that Sanger is not really solving the original problems that the first Wikipedia posed in that foreign influences got ahold of it. Since defending myself against accusations of not being a Chinese spy is a tiresome occupation, I decided to take my leave of the project. I’m not a lot of other things I don’t make a habit of defending myself against either. I don’t exactly blame Larry Sanger for this, but it did show me that putting effort into this specific project is unlikely to yield different results as the well is easily poisoned. With a little more trust, however, and less paranoia, and more unified effort applied to networking problems, I think Encyclosphere could have been a HUGE player on the tech scene as a better source of information that Wikipedia.

Finally Freenet

My final big 2024 hope was pinned on what was called Locutus but is now called Freenet. Ian Clark, who made the original Freenet, was behind this one and had a release date for early spring. Since I was a big fan of the old Freenet, I figured Ian had a good grasp on the timetable involved to get a project like this done and so assumed he had estimated correctly and waited for the work to complete full-well knowing that if he got it done on the timetable he anticipated, the project would be huge. Unfortunately, due to a crypto library they had counted on working with the new system needing to be re-written, the project was not done in Spring. It still wasn’t done in Fall, and I think also isn’t done now. The straw that broke that camel’s back, however, was when I was chatting with Ian and mentioned that I thought the project needed to be out sooner rather than later because people were literally dying over freedom of speech issues. He made light of that fact, although I think he is based out of Texas in part. I wonder if the present events connected there with all the exploisions have made him re-think that position? Regardless, it’s too late for the new Freenet to make the kind of impact it could have if Ian had estimated the time it would take correctly to make the new model.

My Evaluation

I think in many instances, the places above are motivated by a good but also receive grants to do the work they are doing. I think the process of receving grants makes those who are doing these projects vested in receiving more grant money and want to control the project in certain ways. This gives a false sense of security, and a lack of urgency. After all, if you have your own needs met, however long it takes is however long it takes. On the other hand, if you are being attacked by enemies of free speech, you require relief immediately–not when somebody gets around to it. In that regard, I think all the above other than Gab has a lack of first-hand experience. Gab probably got hamstrung at the banking level, but didn’t bother to communicate that and so lost its momentum. This and all the statements about creating a “parallel economy” and literally not seeming to achieve that in the least in any useful way make it a bunch of hot air. False hope is worse than no hope. Indeed, no technology is going to save humankind. That’s why there was a guy crucified, after all. On the other hand, the people who have that guy in common are supposed to be on a similar page–not dragging their feet and getting grant money and outsourcing tomorrow’s casualties for today’s funding. (Robbing Peter to pay Paul as they say) As a whole, I’d say in the technology fields, these groups of people have failed to assert a beachead and secure a landing zone for others fighting for freedom. Most of the reasons why it hasn’t happened are petty. Nobody is going to contribute to a project if you are constantly accusing them of nefarious ends. Ghosting your users about the status of your project is a good way to make them not care–especially if it takes forever. Making freedom of speech software but not feeling a kind of empathy of the actual plight of people who are dying because of the inability to speak and taking your time because you made an error in the time estimate is also not great. These are all human errors, but they are project-killers. Above all, missing the “Operational window” of “highest effectiveness and impact” is absolutely fatal. While there is still hope for these projects, the impact is now likely to be faint.

Rather, some other paradigm of technological freedom will have to take their places. Perhaps Qortal can fill that gap?

Note: Tor solves many problems all ready, and so does I2P. Of course, trusting the other users is another problem there.

Finding a Way

I took this site off the main web some time ago, but found an imposter pretending to be me bought the domain, protected it with cloudflare, and then starting posting as if they were me. Probably, it is some kind of crypto scam. I reported them to the registrar and ICANN so we shall see what they do. So far, they are taking their time which is ironic with all the climate of “misinformation” and “speedy takedowns”.

The Rogue Suggested

The Rogue Scholar suggested to me I ought to find a place for my website, and so here within the Qortal network I think there is enough tradeoff between security and non-dns stupidity to be able to have a presence without as much interference. Hence, the huge book cover!
If you head on over to the Qortal bookstore, you will find that you can purchase The Rogue Scholar: The Rogue To Victory for Qortal! It’s even a little cheaper than it is on Amazon and elsewhere, because hey, screw those guys.

The Book

Funnily enough, the book rather needed the kind of environment that Qortal provides and starts to predict a world a little like it. It was written back in 2010, which was when Bitcoin was only around two years old and was only just learning how to talk! The digital divide was undivided in the work.

Here is the Amazon tagline for the description of the work:

Sal Grimone is a GREAT DECEIVER! He gets paid to digitally implement his deceptions. Unfortunately for him, his neat world is about to be rocked by the unexpected intersection of other members of the reality he inhabits. And oh yeah, the line between reality and fiction has been made thin by the birth of a thing called the “Holonosphere”. Everyone is struggling with metaphysical problems brought about by this. A few people might just change the world by how they answer and act…

So Yeah…

The Rogue can be a demanding fellow. With a new digital home for one of the guys who publishes him, well, he had to have his say. So, he did! By the way, he also wants me to tell you the work is non-DRM’ed. If you get it from the Qortal store the produce should be an unvarnished PDF with no weirdness. If not, get in touch!

A Gallery?

Above, there should be a 3d gallery of various odds and ends. The folks over at Croquet have supplied quite the framework. Go check it out!

Hint: If you want to see the above gallery larger go here

My Face?

You should see a video with my face. Static website generators are awesome, but sometimes doing things like “embedding html” which I could easily do in say, 1997, are somehow more difficult in 2023. Nonetheless, we push on and prevail. Here’s the “I can’t be troubled to listen to your face” breakdown or the TL;DW–too long didn’t watch:

1. Buy the book: https://books.beiteshelpublications.org/wp/
   (paper or digital copy)

2. Sign up for the workshop after you buy the book: https://courses.beiteshelpublications.org/chamilo/main/auth/inscription.php?c=MED99&e=1

3. Sign up for the newsletter: https://paragraph.xyz/@beiteshelpub/from-school-you-skipped

Gemini Protocol

There are lots of people out there that, in one way or another, are hankering for a more “innocent” version of the internet or at least what they remember as being a more innocent version of the internet. Mostly, what they really mean to say is that they are seeking a version of the internet “before advertising and corporations and tracking” and all manner of other things that the internet has become. Indeed, the early days were more exciting in the sense that one had to go to the library to seek out the kind of information that was available easily on the internet. Most of all, it was “free” like going to a library. Putting up copious amounts of ads would have made as much sense as putting up a bunch of billboards in the library reading room.

As might be expected then, there are some people out there who are trying to take the web “back” to a simpler time and one such effort is the Gemini Protocol.

Gophers?

Gemini of course, is a constellation, but in the case of project Gemini it concerns the space program by that name because–well because people that made the protocol wanted it to be retro-spacey, okay? Okay!

If you click on the link, you will see something called the “gopher protocol“ mentioned as well which is/was a version of the internet that woulda/coulda/is still around. So Gemini is kinda like gopher, kinda like html, but all very stripped down in an almost “brutalist” way. However, for doing something like say, reading my new book, the Gemini experience offers something unparalleled in the modern internet. It offers a stripped down “content first” experience. Here, let me get a screen shot to show you what I mean:

See what I mean? That’s “gorgeous” in terms of internet reading and viewing.

Gempub?

In order to get the book “translated” to this form, I had to do quite a bit of work. For one thing, Gemini protocol only works with certain kinds of browsers. After experimenting around with several differing kinds I would say La Grange, which you see in the picture is by far the best aesthetic experience. The next thing I had to do was make the book consistent both with the Gemini protocol itself which is a bit like Markdown, and also make something called a “Gempub“ file which is really a kind of “accepted format” for books written in the Gemini markup. Then, I tried forever to get the cover page to display handsomely on the page with the intro, but either found a lack of support or else some transient bug that will hopefully be missing in future iterations. Finally, after I did all that, I had to make an ssh key, and reach out to someone hosting Gemini services to publish the Gempub file. The host, incidentally, is a Gemini addres: gemini://gmi.si3t.ch (reading an astrology chart for the sign of Gemini is magnitudes easier than the above chain of events)

So Where Is the Book?

Well, it is several places at this point, but if you want to go on the reading journey as God intended, (you do don’t you?) you should download the La Grange browser above and then head over to this link: gemini://gmi.si3t.ch/terraumbra/htdnw3.gpub/book/index.gmi

And Just to Be Hip/Cool

I also posted up a version of the book at this little “auction” place that uses “sats”–a type of cryptocurrency as an exchange. You can find the link here if that sort of thing interests you. When one’s Church/business whatever has been targeted or silenced, one gets to a point where one favors some other method of exchange than the usual kinds–which brings me to a final point.

WAYY BACK IN 2015

…I was warning everyone about an incoming blood moon and financial crash. My wife, at that point, went to France, and after ascending a mystic mountain during the blood moon (I shit you not) she prayed for the return of land in Southern France to be returned to Occitania. Do you know what happened? Two days after she left the mountain the proposal for the south of France to be returned to Occitania was on the table. A year to the date of her ascent, the land was returned.

Occitania is famous for people who idolize Mary Magdalene and the Cathars, which were a Gnostic sect and the mountain has no shortage of people all around it who are wizards, warlocks, witches, or just garden-variety insane. The thing about all these people is that though they had ascended the mountain and prayed to what I presume are pagan Gods, the return of the land never seemed to result. Now of course, I am sure there are wizards who will tell you that it was they who brandishing magical wand and sigil brought the land back, and it JUST so happened to coincidentally be at the time my wife prayed for the return of the land that their “Great Work” completed. Perhaps they are correct. However, if it were the case they were correct, then surely they ought to have written something like my above meditation book long before now since it consists of the corpus of what are usually considered to be “Gnostic Works”. My interpretation of these works is not inherently Gnostic, but it surely does not preclude such an understanding. What I see happening instead around a land that experienced nothing short of a miracle is a bunch of nonsense ego-strutting. I have a feeling that was somewhat how and why the land was lost with which to start.

I figure, however, that an alternative internet independent of time with “lost gnostic works” in a “mysty bygone-time-period” full of warlocks, wizards, and witches is probably the “best possible place” for a book to exist on a protocol called “Gemini” such as this. Maybe you might even be able to say it exists in a kind of “mirror sense” to the mountain–weirdly magical and hopeful for a more innocent time that simply slipped from our grasp due to human greed and suspicion. I especially figure a book with the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Thomas in it should be especially appropriate to and for this task. For all of that to be true, I do not need to be the King of the Wizards, or the Grand Magus or Bodhisattva incarnate. No, for all those things, I need no specific association with the land, the mountain, or the people. Instead, I simply need to become smaller and listen to what my heart tells me.

Indeed, America is in the same place, as is the world. Somehow, probably due to that “early warning” I sounded that everyone brushed off along with many additional soundings since, everyone has become deaf. And you know what? In the world of the deaf, the man with one working ear is king. Shema Israel, ADONAI Eloheinu, ADONAI Echad.