chapter six - The elephant in the room
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
I suppose the question is are we making any headway toward solving the problem of getting light fire back into light fire ecosystems and putting an end to man caused catastrophic fire in these ecosystems? Some would say yes and others would say we are losing the battle, depending on the perspective they prefer, be as an optimist or a pessimist.
On the one hand, our collective knowledge on fire and fire management has grown by leaps and bounds from what it was in the 1950s setting up infrastructure that could be used to eventually get a handle on the problem of man caused catastrophic fire. Yet on the other hand, millions of acres of light fire ecosystems are being devastated every year by man caused catastrophic fire with the numbers continuing to rise rather than decline year to year.
It seems to me that what we have with the catastrophic fire problem fits into an overall fighting retreat to preserve land from man’s destructive behaviors in a large part driven by overpopulation and overconsumption that continue to rise, putting more and more pressure on nature and man himself. There seems to be reluctance, even denial, on the part of the public and the environmental movement to address these fundamental factors, this overall context and instead play the blame game, or generally get distracted by peripheral issues.
The focus within the environmental movement and development industry seems to be to play distraction games blaming each other, while together trying to nibble around the edges of the elephant in the room trying to solve issues that are more symptoms of overpopulation and overconsumption than causes in themselves. Developers are like drug dealers, if there is a demand there will always be developers to fulfill that demand and lobby for even more demand out of self-interest. What good does it do to demonize developers as this distracts from real causes? Producers simply work to supply consumer demand. As every doctor knows treating symptoms, or blaming doctors or patients can lead to the continuance of the disease and the death of the patient!
Because mankind as a whole is reluctant to limit reproduction and to settle for low consumption lifestyles on an individual and collective basis, our global environmental and social problems continue to worsen. This includes the loss of wildland to development and populations retreating into the country making it more and more difficult to prescribe burn around all the development hazards. So what are we to do? Give up and roll over and let nature take its course through disease and war as with other animals, or do we take our own destiny into our own hands as a rational thinking species? Or perhaps the reality will be a combination of both.
As a species, most of us think having children is a God given right, except perhaps in China where the people there have been forced to limit their reproduction for the common good. I am very much opposed to giving up my individual liberty, but if by exercising that liberty I am destroying humanity and the environment, should I not rethink my actions and make them more in accord with common good, the very environment into which my children are being born? Obviously it would be much better for you and me to limit our rights, than have society limit them for us, but are any of you willing to do that? Me I live on about 500 dollars a month and have had no children or grandchildren, how about you?
The cells that form our bodies were once free swimming organisms in the ocean, but they gave up their liberty of free movement to combine together to form colonies of organisms that had a competitive advantage to some degree over smaller free swimming single celled organisms. This struggle between these two competitive strategies is still ongoing as our bodies fight off viruses and bacterial diseases while cooperating with other micro-organisms as in our guts.
It has been my contention that population pressures and evolution within humanity are forcing for competitive reasons some single individuals to give up liberties to combine into a more advanced multi-individual organisms. In return for liberty, the individuals in this greater humanity trade some of that liberty for an equalitarian system where all contribute to the welfare of the whole, and all reap the benefits of this cooperation, becoming ever more specialized as are cells in our bodies. This scaling up is an indication of living in a fractal universe I believe.
So where does this overall context leave us in our battle to save our light fire ecosystems from catastrophic fire? It seems to me that the Nature Conservancy is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, by building partnerships between environmentalists and landowners and society as a whole. Somehow this idea has to be expanded to build global partnerships into movements to limit over-population, over-consumption and environmental destruction due to such things as unclean fuels.
Environmental Deception and Scamming of the Public
I am really wary of the global warming movement because it seems that it is elite corporate industry and banking leaders that are driving this movement, the very folks responsible for the problem in the first place. Such elite leaders or rulers benefit in creating a problem as in the fossil fuels industry, and then turn around to present solutions to the problem they created at the expense of the rest of us. This is a tried and true manipulative technique, used throughout history by the upper classes against the lower classes of society.
Real partnerships are critical toward solving this catastrophic fire problem, but it is also critical to be really careful that the ones we are partnering with, are sincere and competent, and are not scamming us with environmental or development boondoggles. So many of our politicians today have these environmental and development entourages that actually work together to scam the taxpayers and deprive real competent environmental projects of funds.
No matter if the taxpayer funded project is for fire suppression or fire management, we must look closely and review the project carefully to see that if the project can really deliver on its promises, or if it’s just another scam of the taxpayer and the public good. I believe the really good projects are not being funded by just the taxpayer, but by private donations as well.
Private donors take how their money is used much more seriously than the taxpayer who has little understanding or control over his or her money. Still, we have to study what are the agendas and motivations of the private donors so that they are not deceiving us as to their intentions to serve the public good rather than themselves.
We hear all this talk about environmental awareness, but what about deception awareness? What about all this scamming and corruption in politics, environmental and development communities? How
are we going to get a handle on this? Are we going to let the usual incompetent people gain control over the fire management community and waste what little resources that are available? Or even worse, let prescribed fire get out of control to set off even more severe wildfire leading to even more backlash against controlled fire?
Are we going to let the fire suppression industry continue the way they are going, sucking up all the funding insanely making the fuel load problem even worse, leading to even more catastrophic fire down the road? Is this another case of one or more industries helping to create a problem out of self-interest, only to turn around offering ineffective solutions to further self-interest?
How are we going to get smarter competent people into government and private leadership positions to change a fire suppression culture to a fire management culture? How much more loss of life, property and ecological destruction is it going to take to move from fire suppression to overall fire management in any meaningful way. Is fire management still only a subculture embedded within an overall fire suppression culture?
Information or Psychological Warfare, the Assault on Public Fire Consciousness
We have to collectively face the fact that the consciousness of global populations has been under a global propaganda assault in regards to fire for over 100 years through government agencies like the U.S. Forest Service. Smokey the Bear became the mouthpiece of this assault that really began in earnest in the 1920s. The slogan, “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires” assaulted the public mind everywhere it was used and spread from the United States to the rest of the world. It was a very well taxpayer funded big lie that was and still is being supported by a context of constantly repeated little lies.
A counter assault to free the public mind boils down to public education and the reason I and others write books and articles on fire management. I can only take a small bite out of this problem, but if enough of us are willing to make the personal sacrifices necessary, then we begin to have more and more influence over resolving this fire suppression problem.
This is really the crux of the problem, we got to have Smokey the Bear crying out everywhere before the public saying, “Only you can use fire wisely” rather than, “Only you can prevent wildfire” or worse, “ Only you can prevent forest fires.” It’s been like pulling teeth over decades to get Smokey just from “Only you can prevent forest fires” to “Only you can prevent wildfire”. Let’s face it, Smokey has yet to really be enthusiastically reformed, only giving as much ground as is absolutely necessary.
Words and language are very powerful, they both can be used to heal, or they can be used as weapons to enslave, by influencing thinking, emotion and culture. We know a society, a culture, both by the words it uses and the way it acts, not necessarily by what it says as to its intentions and motivations.
So ultimately our struggle for prescribed fire is a mental, emotional, and a spiritual one. A struggle against the false memes embedded within individuals and society, false memes that are the ultimate obstacles toward enlightenment and advancement on all fronts. These false memes have to be replaced with truer ones in our fight for public education, truth, justice and light fire in our forests and grasslands, even as we struggle mightily with our actions to right the wrongs of the past.
One of the most prevalent and destructive false memes that infect us all is, “Do as I say, not as I do.” As with the rest of our society, this meme infects the environmental movement where the very people with the most resources and education living middle class or upper class lifestyles, rave and rant over the destruction of the environment that they themselves in a large part are driving through excessive reproduction and overconsumption. Of course the lower classes are involved, but leaders mostly come out of the middle and upper classes and it is they by their actions and deeds that set the example for the poor and the less educated and control to a large extent the lives of the poor through control of resources and propaganda.
Mahatma Gandhi could be considered one of the most sincere and non-hypocritical leaders of humanity in the 20th century. His leadership has been of tremendous benefit to humanity inspiring others like the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement toward non-violence by himself practicing non-violence in the face of great violence. What often gets overlooked is the fact that Gandhi had almost no possessions as did Christ and Buddha even earlier in humanity’s past. How many middle and upper class environmentalists are really going to downsize their own lifestyles and quit having children before forcing others to do the same?
So we see in the overall environmental movement context and in the fire management movement sub-context, a very serious moral issue needing to be aired and resolved, if we are to speak with real moral authority to the rest of mankind. It’s the middle and the upper classes that are benefiting the most materialistically by hording, flaunting and inefficiently consuming scarce planetary resources. Those that control resources control people and so they are the leaders or rulers of society and so have the greater responsibility toward transforming society for the better, both by action and by example.
The upshot is that our wildlands are rapidly decreasing as population and consumption pressures escalate, and combined with ignorance of fire, is leading to unnecessary destruction of the remaining light fire ecosystems to catastrophic fire. Making things even worse, are the pressures to build homes and industry in rural and wildland areas making it even more difficult to use prescribed fire. We can begin to adapt to work with homeowners to create defensive zones around houses as the Nature Conservancy is doing, but is it any more than a fighting retreat against this overall cultural context of over-population and over-consumption? Is this the best we can do?
Maybe the best we can do to try to preserve and manage our disappearing and transforming landscapes is to try our level best to educate the public, not propagandize them. We got to strip away the chains that Smokey the Bear has laid on society in regards to the importance of fire in light fire ecosystems. We got to free our minds of the ignorance of fires natural role in earth’s ecosystems. We have to win the information war for the hearts and minds of global populations to get fire back into these ecosystems as quickly as possible. We all got to become activists and push forward to overcome the obstacles not just on the land and sea, but in our own minds and bodies. We have got to become better people to adequately solve the problems associated with fire and with humanity as a whole.
This requires accepting simple lifestyles that promote free time to reflect and improve on our actions to become such better people. Highly stressed populations are not healthy populations, nor are they healthy for the environment. We got to find the time to stand back and gain perspective on our lives. Living life is like painting a painting. One gets up close and works on the details, but then stands back to gain perspective to make sure that the details don’t get out of proportion and run together and become like modern art.
Materialism is rampant today and is in a large part responsible for human and nature’s woes. Our gods have become materialistic gods of pleasure and extravagance, shortsighted in the extreme. We worship materialism, the superficial aspects of life that which we can easily see and ignore the fundamental often hidden or unseen forces that shape our lives for better or worse. It’s like we can see the trees, but the ecology of the forest ecosystem is beyond our comprehension. Because of this, we as a species suffer, physically, emotionally and mentally, and we are no happier no matter how hard we search for materialistic solutions always just beyond our reach like the illusionary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Of what use are money, power, resources and material things in their own right if they are not used within a greater moral and ethical context of immaterial quantum reality in which material holographic reality is embedded. Of what use is a car if the driver is out of his or mind? Of what use are all these material things and people we are bringing into the world, if we have created an environmental pigsty for ourselves and our children and remain an unhappy stressed out humanity?
Young people, you must take the moral authority, become activists, take the ball and run with it for the rest of your lives, to not only end this fire suppression nightmare, but to transform society for the benefit of both humanity and nature. Remember also that your own self development is part of your mission in life. Self-development is just as important as external development. You must not lose sight of this as you proceed in life within a short-sighted society that does not put enough value on individual inner betterment and insight. We live in a society that will pull you down into the quagmire of selfishness and materialism if you do not remain strong and vigilant all your life.
When you are down and stressed out, make the time to go out into or find a little remaining wildland
and care for it as you do your own family, to maintain balance and inner peace. Live in the eye of the hurricane where the sun shines and the wind is calm. Live simply, quietly and effectively, and when you have your center, then move in and out of society to transform society for the better. My father told me that the Longleaf Pine forest on Greenwood was his cathedral and I read that many of his associates have said basically the same thing.
When you are old, don’t forget to give back, to write down for posterity what you have learned, so others can build on your good works just as you have built your life on the good works of others. Our lifetimes are short and in order to continue to advance and evolve, we must develop better and better ways to transfer good credible knowledge to our younger generation. We must do this so that the younger generation can keep moving humanity forward, building a humanity that can live in harmony with fire and nature even as we travel to the stars.
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
UFOs Exopolitics and the New World Disorder is the first book in a series of books written by Ed Komarek and is free on its website. It can be ordered in print and on Kindle from Amazon.
http://authors.exopaedia.org/edkomarek/index.html
Fire in Nature, A Fire Activist’s guide is the second in a series of books being written by Ed Komarek for the younger generation. The book is free on its website, or can be ordered in print and Kindle on
Amazon. http://fireinnature.weebly.com/
The Long Hard Road to Enlightenment is the third book in this series and is in the process of being written. It will be in the style of the previous two books including many footnoted links to credible source material.
The New World Order Disorder is in the conceptual phase and will be about international politics as its name implies.
Return to Alaska is in the conceptual phase and will be about growing up to become an independent, self-sufficient, frugal sovereign individual.
Ed Komarek has been mentored by many people in his long life by those that went out of their way to help him in his life’s journey and mission. In appreciation of that, he feels he should return the favor to society and the younger generation. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Facebook message.
I suppose the question is are we making any headway toward solving the problem of getting light fire back into light fire ecosystems and putting an end to man caused catastrophic fire in these ecosystems? Some would say yes and others would say we are losing the battle, depending on the perspective they prefer, be as an optimist or a pessimist.
On the one hand, our collective knowledge on fire and fire management has grown by leaps and bounds from what it was in the 1950s setting up infrastructure that could be used to eventually get a handle on the problem of man caused catastrophic fire. Yet on the other hand, millions of acres of light fire ecosystems are being devastated every year by man caused catastrophic fire with the numbers continuing to rise rather than decline year to year.
It seems to me that what we have with the catastrophic fire problem fits into an overall fighting retreat to preserve land from man’s destructive behaviors in a large part driven by overpopulation and overconsumption that continue to rise, putting more and more pressure on nature and man himself. There seems to be reluctance, even denial, on the part of the public and the environmental movement to address these fundamental factors, this overall context and instead play the blame game, or generally get distracted by peripheral issues.
The focus within the environmental movement and development industry seems to be to play distraction games blaming each other, while together trying to nibble around the edges of the elephant in the room trying to solve issues that are more symptoms of overpopulation and overconsumption than causes in themselves. Developers are like drug dealers, if there is a demand there will always be developers to fulfill that demand and lobby for even more demand out of self-interest. What good does it do to demonize developers as this distracts from real causes? Producers simply work to supply consumer demand. As every doctor knows treating symptoms, or blaming doctors or patients can lead to the continuance of the disease and the death of the patient!
Because mankind as a whole is reluctant to limit reproduction and to settle for low consumption lifestyles on an individual and collective basis, our global environmental and social problems continue to worsen. This includes the loss of wildland to development and populations retreating into the country making it more and more difficult to prescribe burn around all the development hazards. So what are we to do? Give up and roll over and let nature take its course through disease and war as with other animals, or do we take our own destiny into our own hands as a rational thinking species? Or perhaps the reality will be a combination of both.
As a species, most of us think having children is a God given right, except perhaps in China where the people there have been forced to limit their reproduction for the common good. I am very much opposed to giving up my individual liberty, but if by exercising that liberty I am destroying humanity and the environment, should I not rethink my actions and make them more in accord with common good, the very environment into which my children are being born? Obviously it would be much better for you and me to limit our rights, than have society limit them for us, but are any of you willing to do that? Me I live on about 500 dollars a month and have had no children or grandchildren, how about you?
The cells that form our bodies were once free swimming organisms in the ocean, but they gave up their liberty of free movement to combine together to form colonies of organisms that had a competitive advantage to some degree over smaller free swimming single celled organisms. This struggle between these two competitive strategies is still ongoing as our bodies fight off viruses and bacterial diseases while cooperating with other micro-organisms as in our guts.
It has been my contention that population pressures and evolution within humanity are forcing for competitive reasons some single individuals to give up liberties to combine into a more advanced multi-individual organisms. In return for liberty, the individuals in this greater humanity trade some of that liberty for an equalitarian system where all contribute to the welfare of the whole, and all reap the benefits of this cooperation, becoming ever more specialized as are cells in our bodies. This scaling up is an indication of living in a fractal universe I believe.
So where does this overall context leave us in our battle to save our light fire ecosystems from catastrophic fire? It seems to me that the Nature Conservancy is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, by building partnerships between environmentalists and landowners and society as a whole. Somehow this idea has to be expanded to build global partnerships into movements to limit over-population, over-consumption and environmental destruction due to such things as unclean fuels.
Environmental Deception and Scamming of the Public
I am really wary of the global warming movement because it seems that it is elite corporate industry and banking leaders that are driving this movement, the very folks responsible for the problem in the first place. Such elite leaders or rulers benefit in creating a problem as in the fossil fuels industry, and then turn around to present solutions to the problem they created at the expense of the rest of us. This is a tried and true manipulative technique, used throughout history by the upper classes against the lower classes of society.
Real partnerships are critical toward solving this catastrophic fire problem, but it is also critical to be really careful that the ones we are partnering with, are sincere and competent, and are not scamming us with environmental or development boondoggles. So many of our politicians today have these environmental and development entourages that actually work together to scam the taxpayers and deprive real competent environmental projects of funds.
No matter if the taxpayer funded project is for fire suppression or fire management, we must look closely and review the project carefully to see that if the project can really deliver on its promises, or if it’s just another scam of the taxpayer and the public good. I believe the really good projects are not being funded by just the taxpayer, but by private donations as well.
Private donors take how their money is used much more seriously than the taxpayer who has little understanding or control over his or her money. Still, we have to study what are the agendas and motivations of the private donors so that they are not deceiving us as to their intentions to serve the public good rather than themselves.
We hear all this talk about environmental awareness, but what about deception awareness? What about all this scamming and corruption in politics, environmental and development communities? How
are we going to get a handle on this? Are we going to let the usual incompetent people gain control over the fire management community and waste what little resources that are available? Or even worse, let prescribed fire get out of control to set off even more severe wildfire leading to even more backlash against controlled fire?
Are we going to let the fire suppression industry continue the way they are going, sucking up all the funding insanely making the fuel load problem even worse, leading to even more catastrophic fire down the road? Is this another case of one or more industries helping to create a problem out of self-interest, only to turn around offering ineffective solutions to further self-interest?
How are we going to get smarter competent people into government and private leadership positions to change a fire suppression culture to a fire management culture? How much more loss of life, property and ecological destruction is it going to take to move from fire suppression to overall fire management in any meaningful way. Is fire management still only a subculture embedded within an overall fire suppression culture?
Information or Psychological Warfare, the Assault on Public Fire Consciousness
We have to collectively face the fact that the consciousness of global populations has been under a global propaganda assault in regards to fire for over 100 years through government agencies like the U.S. Forest Service. Smokey the Bear became the mouthpiece of this assault that really began in earnest in the 1920s. The slogan, “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires” assaulted the public mind everywhere it was used and spread from the United States to the rest of the world. It was a very well taxpayer funded big lie that was and still is being supported by a context of constantly repeated little lies.
A counter assault to free the public mind boils down to public education and the reason I and others write books and articles on fire management. I can only take a small bite out of this problem, but if enough of us are willing to make the personal sacrifices necessary, then we begin to have more and more influence over resolving this fire suppression problem.
This is really the crux of the problem, we got to have Smokey the Bear crying out everywhere before the public saying, “Only you can use fire wisely” rather than, “Only you can prevent wildfire” or worse, “ Only you can prevent forest fires.” It’s been like pulling teeth over decades to get Smokey just from “Only you can prevent forest fires” to “Only you can prevent wildfire”. Let’s face it, Smokey has yet to really be enthusiastically reformed, only giving as much ground as is absolutely necessary.
Words and language are very powerful, they both can be used to heal, or they can be used as weapons to enslave, by influencing thinking, emotion and culture. We know a society, a culture, both by the words it uses and the way it acts, not necessarily by what it says as to its intentions and motivations.
So ultimately our struggle for prescribed fire is a mental, emotional, and a spiritual one. A struggle against the false memes embedded within individuals and society, false memes that are the ultimate obstacles toward enlightenment and advancement on all fronts. These false memes have to be replaced with truer ones in our fight for public education, truth, justice and light fire in our forests and grasslands, even as we struggle mightily with our actions to right the wrongs of the past.
One of the most prevalent and destructive false memes that infect us all is, “Do as I say, not as I do.” As with the rest of our society, this meme infects the environmental movement where the very people with the most resources and education living middle class or upper class lifestyles, rave and rant over the destruction of the environment that they themselves in a large part are driving through excessive reproduction and overconsumption. Of course the lower classes are involved, but leaders mostly come out of the middle and upper classes and it is they by their actions and deeds that set the example for the poor and the less educated and control to a large extent the lives of the poor through control of resources and propaganda.
Mahatma Gandhi could be considered one of the most sincere and non-hypocritical leaders of humanity in the 20th century. His leadership has been of tremendous benefit to humanity inspiring others like the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement toward non-violence by himself practicing non-violence in the face of great violence. What often gets overlooked is the fact that Gandhi had almost no possessions as did Christ and Buddha even earlier in humanity’s past. How many middle and upper class environmentalists are really going to downsize their own lifestyles and quit having children before forcing others to do the same?
So we see in the overall environmental movement context and in the fire management movement sub-context, a very serious moral issue needing to be aired and resolved, if we are to speak with real moral authority to the rest of mankind. It’s the middle and the upper classes that are benefiting the most materialistically by hording, flaunting and inefficiently consuming scarce planetary resources. Those that control resources control people and so they are the leaders or rulers of society and so have the greater responsibility toward transforming society for the better, both by action and by example.
The upshot is that our wildlands are rapidly decreasing as population and consumption pressures escalate, and combined with ignorance of fire, is leading to unnecessary destruction of the remaining light fire ecosystems to catastrophic fire. Making things even worse, are the pressures to build homes and industry in rural and wildland areas making it even more difficult to use prescribed fire. We can begin to adapt to work with homeowners to create defensive zones around houses as the Nature Conservancy is doing, but is it any more than a fighting retreat against this overall cultural context of over-population and over-consumption? Is this the best we can do?
Maybe the best we can do to try to preserve and manage our disappearing and transforming landscapes is to try our level best to educate the public, not propagandize them. We got to strip away the chains that Smokey the Bear has laid on society in regards to the importance of fire in light fire ecosystems. We got to free our minds of the ignorance of fires natural role in earth’s ecosystems. We have to win the information war for the hearts and minds of global populations to get fire back into these ecosystems as quickly as possible. We all got to become activists and push forward to overcome the obstacles not just on the land and sea, but in our own minds and bodies. We have got to become better people to adequately solve the problems associated with fire and with humanity as a whole.
This requires accepting simple lifestyles that promote free time to reflect and improve on our actions to become such better people. Highly stressed populations are not healthy populations, nor are they healthy for the environment. We got to find the time to stand back and gain perspective on our lives. Living life is like painting a painting. One gets up close and works on the details, but then stands back to gain perspective to make sure that the details don’t get out of proportion and run together and become like modern art.
Materialism is rampant today and is in a large part responsible for human and nature’s woes. Our gods have become materialistic gods of pleasure and extravagance, shortsighted in the extreme. We worship materialism, the superficial aspects of life that which we can easily see and ignore the fundamental often hidden or unseen forces that shape our lives for better or worse. It’s like we can see the trees, but the ecology of the forest ecosystem is beyond our comprehension. Because of this, we as a species suffer, physically, emotionally and mentally, and we are no happier no matter how hard we search for materialistic solutions always just beyond our reach like the illusionary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Of what use are money, power, resources and material things in their own right if they are not used within a greater moral and ethical context of immaterial quantum reality in which material holographic reality is embedded. Of what use is a car if the driver is out of his or mind? Of what use are all these material things and people we are bringing into the world, if we have created an environmental pigsty for ourselves and our children and remain an unhappy stressed out humanity?
Young people, you must take the moral authority, become activists, take the ball and run with it for the rest of your lives, to not only end this fire suppression nightmare, but to transform society for the benefit of both humanity and nature. Remember also that your own self development is part of your mission in life. Self-development is just as important as external development. You must not lose sight of this as you proceed in life within a short-sighted society that does not put enough value on individual inner betterment and insight. We live in a society that will pull you down into the quagmire of selfishness and materialism if you do not remain strong and vigilant all your life.
When you are down and stressed out, make the time to go out into or find a little remaining wildland
and care for it as you do your own family, to maintain balance and inner peace. Live in the eye of the hurricane where the sun shines and the wind is calm. Live simply, quietly and effectively, and when you have your center, then move in and out of society to transform society for the better. My father told me that the Longleaf Pine forest on Greenwood was his cathedral and I read that many of his associates have said basically the same thing.
When you are old, don’t forget to give back, to write down for posterity what you have learned, so others can build on your good works just as you have built your life on the good works of others. Our lifetimes are short and in order to continue to advance and evolve, we must develop better and better ways to transfer good credible knowledge to our younger generation. We must do this so that the younger generation can keep moving humanity forward, building a humanity that can live in harmony with fire and nature even as we travel to the stars.
OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
UFOs Exopolitics and the New World Disorder is the first book in a series of books written by Ed Komarek and is free on its website. It can be ordered in print and on Kindle from Amazon.
http://authors.exopaedia.org/edkomarek/index.html
Fire in Nature, A Fire Activist’s guide is the second in a series of books being written by Ed Komarek for the younger generation. The book is free on its website, or can be ordered in print and Kindle on
Amazon. http://fireinnature.weebly.com/
The Long Hard Road to Enlightenment is the third book in this series and is in the process of being written. It will be in the style of the previous two books including many footnoted links to credible source material.
The New World Order Disorder is in the conceptual phase and will be about international politics as its name implies.
Return to Alaska is in the conceptual phase and will be about growing up to become an independent, self-sufficient, frugal sovereign individual.
Ed Komarek has been mentored by many people in his long life by those that went out of their way to help him in his life’s journey and mission. In appreciation of that, he feels he should return the favor to society and the younger generation. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Facebook message.