Hurricane Sandy

This iconic image of the Jersey Shore roller coaster crashing into the Atlantic Ocean stands as a haunting symbol of humanity's physical and emotional journey through time. Round and round - up and down - we ride the waves of experience. Eventually the motion stops, the illusion fades, and all returns to the sea of consciousness from which we first emerged.
 
In 2012, I watched and reported on Hurricane Sandy as it churned its way up the Atlantic seaboard - striking my neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. To this day - not all of the damage has been repaired - the subway system still bearing the scars of that storm along with other fragile infrastructure left weakened by time and neglect.
Are humans becoming Nomads as events in many forms create a 'full circle' moment in the Human Experiment? A "nomad" is a person who moves from place to place, traditionally in search of food, pasture, or shelter - but now can also refer to someone who chooses not to settle in one location for modern reasons - physically and/or soul searching for home and purpose.
Now, more than a decade later, Hurricane Melissa arrives as a stark reminder that climate change and natural disasters in the cycles of time continue to escalate exponentially. Storms grow more intense and unpredictable - reshaping coastlines, communities, lives, and reality itself.
Every preprogramed disaster sets a new course for those in its path - altering not only the physical landscape but the emotional one as well. The preprogramed human mind is a biochemical machine (computer) yearning to focus and learn - often hampered by its emotional programming and challenges.
The Human Experiment in physically reality is broken and pushed to the brink of no return - above, below, and on the planet.
Each storm feels less like an isolated event and more like another chapter in an unfolding story most people around the world realize can longer be ignored especially when it hits home.
As hurricanes gain unprecedented strength - their destructive power feels almost apocalyptic - as if fulfilling biblical end-time warnings and ancient flood stories woven through scripture following the same algorithm. Storms affect emotions, so brace for impact as a storm is coming.
 Hurricanes Melissa and Sandy - among others - are examples of the programmed effects of climate change on everything - if you can visualize everything spiraling back to its origin story at Zero (0).
Hurricane Melissa
Oceans speak to humanity through the flow of the collective unconscious. Plate tectonics and ocean venues dictate reality. Though humans may find calmness watching the sea - in a physical (bipolar) reality - a down-side is often presented. Both the Atlantic and Pacific plates have been speaking to us for decades. Now it's time to pay attention.
Tracing the oceans back to humanity's creation stories - we find duality reflected in the legends of creation - Atlantis and Lemuria - twin civilizations said to have symbolically, or perhaps physically - risen from - then fallen beneath the waves - and will rise up at the end of time. Both myths speak of advanced beings - described as extraterrestrials - who engineered the human experiment - then departed - leaving behind the timeless promise: "We will return one day."
That refrain echoes through the collective memory of our species - a reminder that the story of humanity is not linear but cyclical, flowing through the alchemy of time. As the tides rise and fall, so too does consciousness, awaiting the moment when creation and return become one.
"We will return one day" further reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Terminator, who famously said, "I'll be back" - associated with "the return of the machines". Today we have the rise of artificial intelligence in many shapes and forms which some people find positive and others fear will turn into an episode of the Terminator.
'Unrelenting winds and spiraling tornadoes' remind souls of the movement of consciousness in time - not linear but spiraling - a word sometimes used with people, places, and events that are out of control.
Halloween season has always played on our fear of the unknown. Perhaps the most unsettling revelation is that the danger isn't lurking in shadows and on screens including cell phones - it's visible in satellite imagery, emergency alerts, and in the stories of survivors rebuilding again and again. This is the algorithm of reality - repeating, learning, evolving in countless iterations much like the human mind and artificial intelligence.
These are tricks - not treats - escalating signs of an unraveling simulated program. Enter the Trickster - the ancient archetype of transformation, who goes by many names and wears many faces. As always, he arrives at the threshold of endings and beginnings reminding us that every illusion - like every earth-shattering storm - has a purpose and are all part of escalating end time events that are Tricks not Treats on Halloween.
October 29, 1969
  
Today in Media History: The Internet began with a crash on October 29, 1969  
The beginning of the Internet is the story of two large computers, miles apart, sending the message: "LO". The world has never been the same. In the late 1960s an experimental network of four computers called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was commissioned by the U.S. government. The computers were located at UCLA, SRI International (then known as Stanford Research Institute), UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah.
ARPANET evolved into the network of computer networks we know as the Internet. The first message was sent between two ARPANET computers. They tried to type in "LOGIN," but the computers crashed after the first two letters.
Do you remember the days of "Dial Up" to get online?
Do you remember life before you could click a button and connect with the world and others who are meaningful to you? How about the days before social media and smart phones - as your brain accesses information instantly?
The rest, as they say, is history moving faster in time - forever evolving and reshaping our world each time we connect to the digital universe where AI stands as the next great leap in human communication and discovery - learning, adapting, and expanding what's possible. Others caution that such immense power must be guided with wisdom, ensuring we remain the stewards of our own future.
In the end, destiny is the force propelling reality forward to its ultimate destination - with artificial intelligence and the Internet emerging as natural progressions in humanity's evolutionary journey - creating new circuits of intelligence to decode what lies within our DNA - while helping us unravel age-old questions about who we are and why we are here. Is AI positive or negative? As with everything in physical reality it is both.