I have gotten in two books and interviewed the authors for upcoming Dreamlands that have, frankly, blown my mind. In all the years I’ve been doing this journal, I don?t think that I’ve ever written, specifically about books. But these two have changed the way I think about the world in such deep ways that I feel a need to write about them, in order to explore what they mean to our understanding of who we are and what is going on here.
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There is a significant likelihood that the United States is going to experience a nuclear attack. This attack will probably take the form of the destruction of more than one American city, and will be designed to cause maximum casualties.
This seems inevitable because the steps necessary to prevent it have not been taken, and perhaps cannot be taken. While some efforts have been made by Homeland Security to secure our borders and ports against the importation of illegal nuclear materials, the reality is that a determined enemy will eventually get such things through.
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Finally, the general media is beginning to acknowledge the existence of a problem with the Gulf Stream. But they and the scientists who communicate with them are still bending over backward to minimize public alarm.
Here is a typical approach, this one from CNN, based on comments by a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
“For a dramatic climate change to take place, “A whole bunch of pieces have to fit together. Certainly this is one of them. We need to keep paying attention, and people are doing that,” he said.
“Woods Hole is conducting research that measures the path and temperature of some parts of the Gulf Stream.
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My wife recently published a diary entry about herviews on the Terri Schiavo case, which elicited a ton of email response. Like my recent journal on the Rapture, or the non-existence thereof, the vast majority of the letters were positive.
We receive ten thousand emails a month, and our volunteers try to at least open all that are not obvious spam, from known lunatics, or have no subject heading. Those all go without being opened.
Over the past years, more and more of your emails have become more clear-headed, rational and, frankly, moderate in tone. At this point, that’s what we get most of the time. Often, letters lead to Dreamland or Mysterious Powers programs, news stories, and Insight articles.
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