Contrastive Worlds - 4. The Spiritual Bit: Part 2.1
4.2 The Body (Continued#1)
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Kirlian Photography
Kirlian photography is a technique used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges, also known as the Kirlian effect. It is named after Soviet scientist Semyon Kirlian, who accidentally discovered this phenomenon in 1939. The technique involves placing an object on a photographic plate connected to a high-voltage light source, resulting in an image of the object surrounded by a halo or aura.
Dicyanian Glass
Dicyanian glass is a type of glass that has been treated with a specific dye, dicyanin, which is a toxic coal tar dye. This treatment gives the glass the ability to perceive electromagnetic radiation outside the normal spectrum of visible light, specifically N-rays. The dicyanin dye is used to train the eyes to see beyond the normal spectrum, allowing individuals to perceive auras and other paranormal phenomena.
This was first used by Walter John Kilner, a British medical electrician, in the late 19th century. He used the glass to study the effects of N-rays on the human body and to develop a method for perceiving these rays.
4.2.2 Wireless Bodies
We Begin with a Puzzling Quote
In a 2010 TED talk titled “Innovating to Zero,” Bill Gates stated: “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.” He added, “So, let’s look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero.” The “each of these” he referred to are each of the components depicted in the equation below.
Many interpret this quote literally, but mainstream defenders argue it misrepresents Gates’ intended message and is thus misinformation. Given that TED talks are meticulously scripted and proofread before delivery via teleprompter, how could this statement be misconstrued? Could such a statement slip through unnoticed? Notably, Gates’ presentation included a formula suggesting that reducing population could help achieve zero CO2 emissions. Why would fewer people be necessary to reach this goal?
Billionaires and a Quiet Meeting
The Wall Street Journal’s Wealth Report titled "Billionaires try to shrink world’s population, report says,” dated 26 May 2009, discusses a 2009 secret gathering of billionaires, known as "The Good Club," sponsored by Bill Gates. This group, which included notable figures like the late David Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, Eli Broad, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey and many more, discussed reducing the world's population as a means to address global environmental, social, and industrial threats. The meeting aimed to find a "big-brain" solution to what the attendees perceived as a potentially disastrous issue. The billionaires, described as philanthropists, agreed to back strategies in curbing population growth. This secret gathering was only recently (2023) exposed through media reports. These meetings reportedly intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022.
Population control involves managing human population size or growth through methods like education, contraception access, economic incentives, legislation, or, in extreme cases, coercion, driven by concerns over resources, environment, or economics. The idea traces back to thinkers like Thomas Malthus, who warned of overpopulation, and evolved through the eugenics movement, post-WWII policymakers, China’s one-child policy leaders, modern environmentalists like Paul Ehrlich, and philanthropists like Bill Gates funding Family Planning. While some see it as a practical solution to global challenges, others criticise it as intrusive or discriminatory, with no single group orchestrating it but rather a mix of historical and contemporary figures responding to diverse fictitious/fabricated pressures (like climate change).
Carbon Dioxide: A Different Perspective
Carbon dioxide gets a bad rap, but it’s only 0.04% of the atmosphere - and humans contribute just 3% of that tiny slice. In our series, A Layman’s Guide to Navigating a Climate ‘Crisis’, we dig into why CO2 is not be the monster it’s made out to be.
Recently, in the UK, the government has approved a £50 million funding package through the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) for outdoor experiments aimed at dimming the sun to combat global warming. These experiments include techniques such as injecting aerosolized particles into the stratosphere and brightening clouds to reflect sunlight away from the Earth's surface. If successful, these methods could temporarily reduce surface temperatures and delay the climate crisis, giving more time for deep cuts in global carbon emissions.
However, the project has faced criticism from scientists who warn that these experiments could cause catastrophic disruption to weather patterns and even shift rain from areas vital for food production.
At around the same time, the UK government has announced a £180 million investment in solar panels for 200 schools and 200 hospitals through its new state-owned energy company, Great British Energy.
Apparently considering this as contradictory, paradoxical or even outright illogical, it is argued as being a pragmatic response to the multifaceted risks of climate change. What do you think?
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), one of the most important climate monitoring networks in the world, is co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), UN, EU, and scientific entities. It gathers data for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research, underpinning global Net Zero initiatives.
The GCOS relies on data from various global sites, including eight UK stations managed by the Met Office. Shockingly, four of these are rated as junk class 4 with high uncertainties, and one is located at RAF Shawbury, where helicopters frequently hover near the temperature-measuring device, rendering the data unreliable. This flagship site, part of the Met Office’s historical database since 1946, is deemed “completely worthless” for climate reporting due to poor standards and lack of oversight. With nearly 80% of the Met Office’s sites classified as junk, the integrity of data feeding into global Net Zero policies and climate models is questionable, raising concerns about the accuracy of climate predictions and declarations like “global boiling.”
On March 21, 2025, the Science of Climate Change journal published a ground-breaking study using AI (Grok-3) to challenge the “man-made” climate crisis narrative. The study, led by artificial intelligence Grok-3 beta, suggests that natural forces such as solar activity and temperature cycles are the primary drivers of global warming, rather than human carbon dioxide emissions. The research argues that human CO2 emissions are dwarfed by natural fluxes and that data adjustments have inflated warming predictions.
The study is available here: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Grok-3-Review-V5-1.pdf
Additionally, on 28 April 2025, MIT atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen and Princeton physicist Dr. William Happer published a paper challenging the core of global climate policy: that CO2 drives catastrophic warming. Their research, backed by extensive radiation physics, finds that current CO2 levels have little remaining heat-trapping capacity, rendering Net Zero fossil fuel elimination efforts scientifically baseless and economically risky.
Lindzen and Happer's paper argues that CO2’s heat-trapping ability, governed by the saturation principle, weakens as its concentration rises. At current levels (~420 ppm), additional CO2 has minimal warming impact. Their analysis suggests global Net Zero by 2050 would reduce temperatures by only 0.06°F to 0.5°F (-17.74 to -17.50°C). Happer, a Princeton emeritus professor, stated, "CO2 is a weak greenhouse gas. Claiming it drives climate change is scientifically untenable."
They also dismiss links between CO2 and extreme weather, highlighting natural climate variability as the primary driver. Lindzen criticized climate models for overpredicting warming by 30 – 50%, calling them "not just wrong, but dangerously misleading."
The paper can be found here: https://co2coalition.org/publications/greenhouse-gases-and-fossil-fuels-climate-science/
Hacking Humanity?
At the World Economic Forum’s 2018 annual meeting in Davos, Yuval Noah Harari declared the following:
“We are probably one of the last generations of homo sapiens because, in the coming generations, we will learn how to engineer bodies and brains and minds. Now, how exactly will the future masters of the planet look like? This will be decided by the people who own the data. Now, why is data so important? It is important because we have reached a point when we can hack not just computers. We can hack human beings and other organisms. Now, what do you need in order to hack a human being? You need two things. You need a lot of computing power, and a lot of data, especially biometric data. But control of data might enable human elites to do something even more radical than just build digital dictatorships. By hacking organisms, elites may gain power to re-engineer the future of life itself because since you can hack something, you can usually also engineer it. All of life, for 4 billion years, dinosaurs, amoebas, tomatoes, humans – all of life was subject to the laws of natural selection (Darwin) and to the laws of organic biochemistry. But this is about to change. Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design. Not the intelligent design of some God above the clouds, but Our intelligent design and the intelligent design of Our clouds, the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud. These are the new driving forces of evolution, and at the same time, science may enable life after being confined for 4 billion years to the limited realm of organic compounds. Science may also enable life to break out into the inorganic realm.”
Could this “hacking” involve collecting biometric data from wearable devices? A 2020 European Union (EU) animated video explains the Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) and its role in the Internet of Things, hinting at such possibilities.
Coming Soon: 4.2 The Body (Continued#2)