Future jobs, future skills - how to remain relevant and make it...

In the next 10 years, 9 million jobs will be lost to automation

The march of the Robots was a situation that worried the founder of Cybernetics Norbert Wiener just after WW2 when he could see from the advances of the by our standards primitive computer, that humans would lose out in the workplace to automation.

So what's at stake? For you as a potential victim, you need to take safeguard action.

Firstly, you need to get yourself transferable skills that you can take to new jobs.

Secondly, you need to be interested in things that Robots cannot do and learn to do those.

The Cyber Human is perhaps less than 50 years away

We hear a term being used now called 'Singularity.' That is when the robot becomes indistinguishable from the human. With 'on-line' communication, you may not always be aware that you are dealing with a machine.

In the flesh, you are because there is no second glance needed, the robot humanoid is still that and you an tell the difference even if it has cyberskin.

A computer may be able to do a lot of things but it doesn't have much intelligence. It relies on programmed conditional logic to operate. Much as we do but we work in different ways, through acquired learning. The computer mainly learns through downloaded information and some can learn through real scenario learning.

Future robot humanoids will have peer to peer communication by data

The average 4 year old child has better tactile recognition and response than many computerised units. This will come to a computerised human but only through a lot of development work in sensory telemetric data recognition and analysis capability.

What I am saying is that if it encounters a Bird's egg, it will be able to define it as such and handle it with the appropriate care and restraint, rather than crush it. In this case, the 4 year old can carefully handle the egg from the outset.

This gives us the situation of the machine having to build massive potential data banks of data based on the sensory information gained from everyday objects that we know of from acquired learning. But I am meandering a bit here....

The future skills humans will need are the skills that robots cannot do at present, such  as plumbing or wiring in a house where systems may need renewal or installation where there is no template 'plan' to work from. Situations where the human works out the strategy based on previous experience.

Another future proof way is to be as Mike Rowe says, 'Be interested in other people's crap' and also to follow your ability not your passion. By all means have hobbies and if these offer a genuine and possible progression into a career then do so if that is viable. But many people think they are just 'good enough' and the reality is they aren't.

What do other people not want to do? According to Ebay, in the UK there are on average up to £4000 value of items that people have and do not use, if you can sell that sort of thing for profit, that's an example of being interested in other people's crap, or selling your crap to other people

That said, there are due to the demographic vacuum left by generations of childless people in the UK an avenue where services will be needed and few to fill them. With an aging population, the burden on the young in time will be immense.

Future proof yourself before you become the future!

The cybersex future brothel service to come for Robosexuals with USB-like plug and play Gonads

A 'Linda Lovelips' - the sex doll of err... choice of the 1970s, apparently -

has anyone ever tested the legal efficacy of the 'realistic vagina, mouth and anus'

USP statement from their advertising claims in a trading standards court we ask?

Things have come a long way, so to speak....

The future is Cyber Vadge and Cyber Cock, with USB-like Plug and Play Gonads

The changing demographic of human society along with social changes and rampant and rabid feminazism has led the human male to a new place and technology may provide them with what they are seeking.

Err... no thanks

The dating game has moved on from the small ads columns in local newspaper to become big business in the Cyber age. Match and similar companies head the legit end of the market. But are they facing new threats?

Yes. The Tinder and Ashley Madison generation is here. No longer do you always have to pay for your thrills, with a 'like' function on dating apps, there is the danger of a shallow relationship arena based on looks.

This combined with a rampant and rabid feminist agenda held by some women is driving men elsewhere, usually to younger women. The younger women find that the mature man is not like their youthful 16-25 year old counterpart, so they are attracted to someone who has worldly experience and is perhaps more aware of the value of long term relationships.

This often leaves a swathe of available women who now have no male in their life, so they date younger men, a Milf and Cougar set who like the freshness of sex with younger and probably shallower men.

The prissy feminists who do date but only on their terms are becoming increasingly isolated from men because is their attitude. These 'Double A battery girls' who rely on Rabbit vibros to cure their lack of male interaction will ultimately be the losers.

So what is the future?

The Female sex robot of the future perhaps?

Robot sex.

The advance in a humanoid-like technology is one of the key industry sectors in future technology. The race is on to reach a stage called 'singularity' in which discerning between a human and robot at sight is difficult. Plus the robot will have the functionality of us.

Red Light areas may be lost to cyber technology alternatives

Now this opens up a new avenue for the sex industry, true cyber sex.

So, the red light districts of old may well disappear as punters both male and female can take advantage of true plug and play technology. The future is Cyber Vadge and Cyber Cock. Punters will be able to take their own personal plug and play gonad units to plug into existing humanoid shells and have sex, safely.

Bad news for the sex industry perhaps, but it means no more females will end up dead from either disease or being murdered by their clients.

The cost of a complete cyber partner that is fully functional may be about £5000 or so as an estimate, but as a fully functional human type entity, that will be cheap. With an optional build plan, you will be able to take advantage of choosing appearance and temperament.

We can now download dreams and thoughts as 'video' it is not too far down the road to the point where we can capture and copy our spirit and incorporate this into a 'unit' that looks like us and will allow us spare parts permitting, to live for hundreds of years.

The BBC as a televison model is over - the licence fee is no longer valid and demand viewing via internet is the new model

Television has changed - for the 'wired' generation who are now 'wireless'

'Wireless' - a term that up until a few years ago was probably used by an elderly gentleman in a sensible cardigan and cavalry tweed trousers, who probably wore a cravat and smoked a pipe to refer to his radio.

Wired for wireless - your electronic devices are likely created in Asia now

the days of a crusty looking old Bush are... back, they call it 'Retro' now.

Nothing like a fiddle on the old Bush, to get tuned in to the light program

But 'Wireless' is hip again and with this world going unplugged in a frenzy of data packet technology, never the twain shall interface as they might have to say now. Or put in simple terms, your data unique to you is coded and passed or should that be parsed between you and the source and not crashed.

The 'Ekco' radio designed by the architect Wells Coates, noted for his Moderne style

So how does this effect our only public broadcast provider the BBC? It makes it difficult for it to justify its position as the sole transmitter than requires you to possess a valid licence to watch its output.

With the advent of 'new' BBC channels post BBC2, the on-line I-player has become something I predicted before it arrived - Demand TV.

Basically, with such busy lives, people want to watch their media when they want and where. The model of fixed schedule broadcasting is starting to wane thanks to the YouTube generation.

Mobile phone and tablet use to watch media content has rocketed out of all proportion. A retailer I spoke to recently said that his television sales had gone right down to a few years ago as people are switching to other means.

Some are even watching live content via the Internet, something the BBC is trying to close out as a loophole.

The problem is that the BBC model is no longer viable. Given that it has shrunken its in-house program making from the heyday of the 70's, it relies on much bought in and repeat material to bulk out its schedules. 

Sadly, the game is up for 'Auntie' and she is no longer the attractive proposition she once was. New media and new audiences are moving to the watch on demand model and it is questionable how the BBC can justify the fee for the old model.

It cannot last and it will soon be as anachronistic as horse drawn carriages from the Victorian age.

The BBC has got to 'didge' up, that is get more archive out on sale either as downloadable format or onto disk. But even disk seems to be losing out to the recordable hard disk.

Post Brexit result jobs market is better - for a number of reasons

The EU is now facing a collapse of the 'Project' post UK voting to leave

Some months after 'Project Fear' failed to stop the rout, Britain is leaving the EU building, albeit slowly. So has Britain collapsed? Far from it.

Although a lot of speculative bidding was done on the eve of the Brexit vote, those that anticipated a remain, sadly lost a lot more than their shirts when the vote went against them.

But far from gloom and disaster predictions, Britain has not crashed and burned, au contraire, countries are queueing up to negotiate trading deals. So the scaremongering didn't work. Thank goodness.

In the months that followed the leave vote, there has been a shift in the jobs market, more opportunities and why is that?

Partly to do with immigration falling. The future of unlimited it seems immigration is over, there is no automatic right to remain for outside visitors and migrants have been making renewed efforts to get into Britain from the European continent.

What Britain needs is an Australian style points system, so that we can choose who we allow in to the country. We don't need any more Mullahs spouting hate or terrorists so that is one demographic sector or two we can get rid of from our list of people.

Seriously though, the drop in migrants many who come here for agricultural work is down to the advances in Robotic Machinery. These new advances displace human labour, they are able to work for longer and even identify produce at the peak time for picking.

The new interest in Britain has also started to come through into orders from companies to British manufacturing firms which is welcome.

Over the next 10 years 9 million people's jobs will be displaced by robotics and automation, the problem will be how to fix that gap. And how to pay the displaced. That's easy, a basic income guarantee (BIG) is the answer and is cheaper than the current employment model.

China paying top Dollar prices in buying up of European farmland - why you should be concerned

The old ways of Chinese farming are becoming changed by mechanisation

The economic growth in the Chinese economy has led the people there to migrate towards other tastes and foods which they previously rarely had access too.

The economic drain of agricultural workers to towns and cities has created new problems for the country, in terms of food supply and has allowed mechanisation to come forward in a 'tidal wave' of speed.

The low hanging fruit level of farming that is now displacing humans

Recently, Chinese investment has started buying land in mainland Europe to farm. Espcially in areas of France and Belgium, which is upsetting the locals as the Chinese are bringing their own people to do the farming.

And the produce which used to go into the European food markets is going back to China and not being consumed 'here.'

Should that alarm you? It should as this is just the start of a country that is finding western foods to its liking and wanting more.

The toxic waste legacy of China's manufacturing might

The other side of the coin is growing mechanisation, for China, years of a one child policy has led to a 1-2-4 family unit, one child to two parents to four grandparents structure.

With the one child being usually boys, this has created a massive imbalance to the tune of over 100 million males who will not reproduce or have a partner from Chinese stock.

The mechanisation of farming means that where in the past immigrants or holiday farmers were brought in to harvest crops, this can now be done by computer controlled machines which are more efficient and can work much longer.

The toxic waste legacy of China's almost unbridled recent growth means that some areas of land are badly contaminated to the extent that food grown there will start cancer in humans if consumed.

If this land use continues for off EU consumption, we could find prices increase greatly in the future. And less land is available to Western farmers.

Abba - the greatest group that almost never was - and why they became the biggest pop group of the 1970's

Even after 40+ years these famous faces need no introduction

Sweden was hardly known for its musical stars much outside of that country in the past but all that changed in 1974 when Abba won the Eurovision song contest.

But it could have been very different. Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson had known each other in passing for some years in the Swedish music scene and as a result, they started working together on song ideas as their paths crossed more frequently.

With the forward-looking entrepreneur Stig Anderson providing backing, they embarked on work which produced an album in Swedish called 'Hej, gamle man,' which means Hey old man, in English.

They decided to front their own group to bring their music to a wider audience and by chance they both had (then) girlfriends who were singers, Anni-Frid Lyngtsad, a cabaret and club singer since early teenage years and Agnetha Falkskog, a seasoned pop veteran who had composed and taken her own song in to the pop charts in her own right in the 1960's.

Waterloo - the song from the 1974 Eurovision that boosted Abba to career success

However, if the 'group' (which had formed almost by chance) had not used the 'backing singers' who had such a wealth of talent out at the front of the band, one wonders if they would have achieved the worldwide success they enjoyed?

And Bjorn and Benny wisely insisted to Stig Anderson that the use of English as the language for their songs would make them more successful outside of their native country. Being both Beatles fans, Bjorn and Benny acknowledged that English language material was likely to reach a bigger audience. These two factors led to their success along with a lot of hard work.

We must not underplay Frida and Agnetha as part of the early group, they weren't initially 'in' the group but somebody must have realised their great talent and they found themselves 'out there.' Fortunately, they were just the right people to front the group, being great singers who worked instinctively between themselves and were able to interpret the material so effectively.

The group with a small collection of songs some of which would find their way on to their 'Greatest Hits' album, were put forward for the 1974 Eurovision contest in London. I watched this performance and immediately they started their song, it was like a breath of fresh air, they were different and they stormed the contest to win.

The early album 'Greatest Hits' had some really good songs, they went from the folky 'Another town, another train,' one of my favourites to 'So long' a real rocker. Although the songs were sung in English, there was a slight 'tinge' of the native Swedish sound of the language to them and they just sounded so good. The lyrics, composition, arrangements and studio sound were real quality. The diverse breadth of subject material in the songs was interesting to think about too.

Alternative cover for the greatest hits album

So what happened in their transition from their 'Euroschlager' pop style to chart toppers? Likely the realisation that Frida and Agnetha were such tonally capable singers that Bjorn  and Benny didn't have to be the front men and that the songs Bjorn and Benny were writing together were becoming very rich in melody, words and content. Perhaps the relationships of the 4 members provided some material. 

Given that Bjorn wasn't a native English speaker, he even at this stage was producing lyrics that were high quality and made sense. He was writing in English and not writing in Swedish and translating which can often lead to ambiguity or a confused interpretation.

Tonally, Agnetha and Frida apart were good, together they were ethereal

As time progressed from the Eurovision win, it was clear that Abba were no one hit wonders. Their first six singles hit number one in the UK charts, the seventh 'Money, money, money,' did not hit the top spot but it was a really good song and perhaps sowed the germ of an idea for the later musicals.

Abba's 'Money, money, money' video - takes Frida back to her cabaret days perhaps

Not only were Frida and Agnetha attractive to look at and always well attired, but they could produce the goods vocally which was more important. They both had been involved in the performing scene for some years before Abba and had honed their voices and styles with various musical situations.

As solo singers Frida and Agnetha were very good individually, but together, their vocals were bordering on the ethereal, with a dynamic 2 octave range they could produce a sound that even today on stage, modern groups cannot get near. I once saw a show where 4 young female singers tried out an Abba song and they were 'adequate' but you could tell who wasn't singing it!

The Album - the 1977 tour to Australia was massive as was the film of the tour

The group was very popular within the European zone but demand for an Australian tour was such that the group was no doubt surprised at the reception they received in that region. It was manic and massive and overwhelming and an overwhelming success for them.

Michael Tretow at left with Benny and Bjorn at the mixing desk

Abba were one of the early groups to go to fully digital recording

The 1977 album simply titled 'the album' was a new departure, part of it broke into a small mini-production which was a toe in the water for Bjorn and Benny to go onto write musicals. The first track on the album called 'Eagle' washed in with a creamy and enveloping synth sound that sounds like a wave washing onto the beach. It set the scene for yet another quality album. Songs like 'One Man, One Woman,' were setting a darker tone and perhaps situations in the band member's relationships were coming through into the songs more.

It was the last album to feature Stig Anderson as a contributor, Bjorn and Benny were in their own right becoming masters of their own craft and it was now time for them to fly on their own, lyrically speaking.

From the video of the song 'Knowing me, knowing you'

The underpinning of the Abba sound in the studio was from their engineer Michael Tretow, his daring use of by today's standards of primitive studio effects helped give Abba their 'sound, he worked wonders with the limited tools available as we know them.'

From the compression of the acoustic guitars to give a dynamic sound as on the chorus of 'SOS,' to multi-tracking, to using effects on the vocals, this gave the group an 'edge' over many other bread and butter pop acts who just took a song into a studio and put it on tape and bothered the charts with it.

Abba went over to fully digital recording when this technology emerged and it changed their sound, it also brought new problems as Michael Tretow the studio engineer had to almost relearn the process of mixing the sounds as the harder edge sound of digital provided a new canvas to paint on and increased possibilities to explore.

It was no different for any other studio desk engineer of the day. Even today, I prefer to record by analogue input to a computer to get a warmer sound. I find digital too harsh and thin, I prefer the warmth of analogue.

The imaginative use of video by Abba was a means that allowed the group to concentrate on the studio work and writing. Certainly with young families, this added strains of touring and after all these were 4 people, not robots who could disconnect emotions and just go on tour!

The touring situations were also hard on the group, the obsessive and massive fan interest, the stream of dates were things that most groups only dream of, but to Abba it was becoming like for the Beatles two decades earlier, too much.

There had to be a way to keep themselves 'out there' without being  'out there' and the answer was Video, something they had used since 1973 on songs like the curiously titled 'Bang a Boomerang.'.

Stills from the 'Chess like' studio sequence of the 'Knowing me, knowing you video.'

The video for 'Knowing me knowing you' for example, was fairly simple in construction. But the use of the camera angles and a mild bit of choreography, produced a great video.

The studio scenes where the four performers move as if they were Chess pieces, may have planted a seed with Benny and Bjorn for the future musical 'Chess,' I mean how surreal is it to have a musical about one of the most unscintillating to most viewers, games in the world? 

The 'Knowing me' video you can watch again and again for the simple but so effective studio sequence. The song was later brought back to the attention of the public by the fictional TV presenter Alan Partridge, which must have boosted the ABBA revenues some. 

The 1979 tour London show - one London show attracted 5 million ticket applications

This was their finest live concert performance and was thankfully recorded

If you couldn't get a ticket, there was always the album,
from a group right at the top of their game

What was the secret of their success? It was due to the individuals having previously worked in the industry and developed their talents and abilities over many years collectively, an intuitive and far sighted backer with vision as Stig Anderson had, winning Eurovision which can be a death knell for some, was the worldwide exposure that set them on the course to success, good quality lyrics and music and the image of an attractive group of four people.

For about the first time in the pop world, they were a pop group who were two couples, in one pop group. It could almost have been soap opera of its time, but this in itself produced authenticity in Bjorn's songs when things started to unravel in their personal relationships, like most songwriters and writers, they draw on life and their experinces.

Even after their respective divorces, the group remained a viable unit and produced great material. Inevitably music fashions change and after the Visitors album and the last melancholic single 'The day before you came,' the curtain closed on the group when they no longer issued singles, but Frida and Agnetha released solo singles for a while after. Interestingly, at the early 80's both Frida and Agnetha looked younger than in 1973.

The germ of the musicals idea like Chess for Bjorn and Benny, grew from the Album scenes, which developed into ideas that spawned a series of musicals and ultimately led to the Mama Mia film as someone recognised their earlier work still had legs, this helped bring their music to an audience that had largely grown up some years after the group ended.

Abba 2016 the most recent time that the group was reunited

The money Rolls in, a still from the 'Money, money, money,' video, nice Rolls Royce...

As with many groups, there is always the clamour from the fans to reunite. Sometimes the years have not been kind to groups and performers and the reformed performers are a shadow of their former selves, or go on 'sad' tours of 'so and so's this and that' because the performers do not want to perform together, or there is a dispute over band name 'ownership' or where only one original member of the group is still wanting to do it.

Groups like Cream, the Shadows and the Police eventually performed 'reunited' concerts to acclaim, to the kind of degree that the Shadows had to have two farewell tours! 

But, Abba as individual members continued to have output post Abba, Bjorn and Benny with their musicals and Agnetha and Frida with their solo work, but not as a reformed Abba.

So the questions are should Abba reform or could they reform?

From a personal view as a composer and performer, I would say that their original heyday was a long time ago which I think Bjorn tends to acknowledge in his refusal to reform, but they do have an avenue they have not yet explored which is viable.

This is a group of people who have led intertwined lives for almost half a century, in that they have had a full life both as couples and apart. In their later years, they could bring the memories of the old times and of times since the group stopped, to provide new material for their songs.

As a studio and video concept it is still viable and if schedules and the will was there it could be done. I can see from Bjorn's point of view that the old group is 'over' and to perform a concert like Wembley 1979 is not viable from the group's point of view now, every night on tour.

But Abba does have an opportunity for a final reflection musically and provided the material is strong enough, they could take it as a project and make something of it, the fans would likely buy the album anyway, but perhaps that is not the point.

It needs to have for the group, songs that are musically 'relevant' and lyrics that can be related to. There is no shortage of talent to deliver that in any of the people.

Agnetha, the one most unlikely to have wanted to return has recently put out new songs, given that she has historically not wanted to tour and to perform only in the studio, perhaps this might be the way forward, to do an album project with a couple of live shows in Sweden to finally put the lid on Abba. Knowing the fans, would they be satisfied with that?

They are of course as individuals publicly known to be financially sound and do not need to do it for the money, but it would provide the final coda to a career that never officially 'ended,' it just faded after the last single left the charts.

We fortunately have the videos of the old songs to look back on with fond memories.

But you never know.....

The risk averse culture - beyond health and safety, whatever happened to common sense

The Risk Business - life is a risk, manage it safely

We manage risk everyday in our own lives, whether that is crossing the road, making a cup of tea, using a power tool, risk is involved.

A self-appointed industry has sprung up and as such created a monster of hectoring, in many cases unregulated 'experts' who diploma in hand, 'advise' us, sometimes badly. Very.

Risk has become an industry, rather as race relations was in the 1970s.

Risk management is important but common sense should prevail.

Any Tom, Dick or Harriet can become a health and safety consultant. And that is the problem, they often miss out real risk, where it is obvious to the lay person that a risk exists. I have experience of this, having identified a list of possible risk situations which a consultant had missed or not appreciated.

Issues such as paint fumes, lack of eye wash information in case it got into the eyes, no suggested use of safety footwear, the list went on and was not rocket science. Just plain and obvious common sense. A most uncommon commodity it would seem.

This may have stemmed from the business model of the company being of the FCNK type - that is fur coat, no knickers.

Even basic and obvious requirements such as backing up of computer data was not done on a 'cost basis', even though the business would have been finished if that data had become corrupt or destroyed and the 'cost' solution was perhaps a couple of hundred pounds. This was an area where risk should have been managed but was chosen to be ignored. So it went from that basic disregard and extended into a production environment. Dangerous. 

Managing risk is good, but has to be balanced with common sense

We are breeding a new generation called 'Generation Snowflake' this has come about as a part of the 'health and safety' (often gone mad) industry. A few years ago, I worked in a workshop and we had a couple of school age students who came for work experience. This was to be an education.

The first student came with a two page list of hectoring do's and don'ts from a teacher. Use of power tools was banned, the use of hand tools had to be supervised and the best bit.... yes, the kid was not allowed to boil a kettle! No I am not joking.

So what did we do? We adopted common sense. We ripped up the list in our own minds and empowered the student with the use of common sense and moderate supervision.

And nobody got killed, or injured and actually did learn something. Essentially the student could see how we managed risk, adopted responsible working practices and worked safely.

Looking at risk should be kept proportionate to the situation

The real fallout of this situation is that we are now creating a generation of people who stand on the sidelines, who are dependent on other peoples for decision making and to do things FOR them.

How many people have recently drowned in a few feet of water because someone stands and waits for somebody to do the necessary? Too many.

It is essentially a control culture of dependency. We now have people who cannot change a fuse in a plug, cannot use basic hand tools, so it goes on. But there is on the other side of the coin, plenty of youtube evidence of 'fails' where people foul up on camera.

We read about it in the papers of someone being injured doing something really stupid.

We have lost the ability it seems for many to know what common sense is. The fact that people make dicks of themselves with ladders etc. is because they have been 'cotton woolled' and have little risk management ability it would seem. Rather like a child that runs into the road without apparently thinking.  

Its about time we got real.

Depression, anxiety, suicidal, no direction? The answer may be you could be a star seed, but don't know it. Yet!

It's written in the stars they say, it could be for you too...

So, do you feel depressed, suffer from anxiety, not sure of your purpose, why you are here? Chances are you are not mentally ill, a doctor may prescribe medication to help, but that is not the answer.

As with all these problems, find the root cause and you start the curing process. The root cause may be something you hadn't considered. You may be a star seed but don't know it. Don't turn away now, read on, you may find the answers you are looking for.

About 20 years ago, I was experiencing symptoms like the above and for no apparent reason it seemed. One day I happened to be reading a book and it had a page in called a star seed quiz.

It listed 30 statements, I started to read the list and agreed with more than I disagreed with. Out of curiosity, I jotted down the statements I found I agreed with, 26 of the statements out of 30. 26 out of 30 seemed too big an odds to discount, so I looked further into this.

I had been psychically aware since a very young age, which would help to explain a lot of what I would evaluate about what I knew about myself in the years since my reading that book. I had numerous ghost experiences, telepathy and predictions that came true. Also synchronous coincidences left me astounded as to why these apparently unconnected things were indeed linked.

Your brain is more connected to more things than you may appreciate

As I started to look into the star seed situation, I started to notice a set of key points that would come up again and again. On the face of it, these are similar symptoms that many people say they suffer from, except that they are likely seeking or looking for help in the wrong place for answers because they don't know any better.

Some people feel 'disconnected,' that is they find this planet may not feel like home or they may not feel 'at home' where they live or wherever they reside. They may move around properties a lot, they often don't join groups for very long, there are reasons for this.

The reasons are that you might be here to learn a lot and to do so you must pick and mix what you do, where you live, work and your friends even. You may feel that you lack 'purpose' and are of unsure of what you are on this planet for, is life all worth it? What is the meaning of your life?

These and many other reasons can lead to depression, anxiety, even suicidal thoughts. You are not alone and here's where help may be at hand. And its free.

We have in the last 70 years become a consumer based society, with importance based on what you earn, what you own, your status, relationships and wealth.

As a young person a long time ago, I aspired to finding a lady, getting together, house, marriage, family, career - the usual shopping list that is seen as the 'success' barometer of life. It just seemed at that time to be a natural path and something that so many others did. I was about 18 then.

But something conspired and changed all of that. The brain had not finally finished growth. The human brain does not fully develop until around 22 years of age, the frontal cortex finally matures then. The problem with this is, especially for males is that the body is developing to an adult functional stage and is changing to a state where it can be able to reproduce.

Essentially, there are a lot of chemical drivers that are strong at this stage and are starting to become more representative in the body. And this going around in your blood and through your brain, which itself an 'engine' triggered by chemical and electrical changes can bring out the star seed in you, because your awareness is becoming mature. You may start to develop your mind, perhaps educationally or in a psychic way. 

If you have star ingredients in your makeup, you may develop these around the age of 22, they will be present in a strong concentration then.

You may find yourself questioning things, like why you are here, you may feel that you have no direction, or that things are failing, or you may not be achieving. This is because you are different.

Its almost like you watch other people as an observer, you may feel isolated and never 'in the centre' of things. This is because you do have a purpose, that is to learn, observe and eventually it should become apparent why.

Saying that, you may suddenly latch onto something and feel as though you have finally discovered a purpose, only for that to not materialise as you believe it should. This can often be the case of the star seed.

The American Indians say we all live many lives and perhaps we do on this planet, as a star seed you may have to 'live many lives' within a lifetime, hence you acquire knowledge and get involved in things, whereby you provide a catalyst for someone else to change or improve their lives.

In essence, you have fulfilled a 'purpose' in that way. But the reason you are here is to fill many purposes.

Many people say we come back again and again, so I wondered why we apparently do so without accumulating the memories from those previous times into our current situation, so we can draw on them?

Perhaps it is like us building a jigsaw puzzle face down, we accumulate pieces of knowledge in our journey and set those down and do so until we finish the picture. Only when we are ready to be able to handle the knowledge at the final stage of progression do we see the puzzle turned over and literally see the bigger picture.

Recently, through research for a book project, I came across the wisdom of the American Indian people and I would advise you to seek it out. Their wisdom and knowledge is amazing, their spiritual lifestyle may appeal to especially if you have either no interest in or have fallen out of love with 'organised belief systems.' 

If you think 'New Age' started in 1967, they had the original new age thinking hundreds of years ago. They really have things taped. Their spiritual teachings go beyond what some may describe as fairy tales, they have also long been connected with visitors from off this planet.

The Indians are very aware of nature and if you are suffering, this is a good place to start. Get out into the forests, or onto the tops of hills and just observe, feel good and let the nature around you calm you and re-energise you.

For those of us who live in urban areas, we have lost the connection with the earth, our world there is sealed off with concrete and tarmac, negative energy and pollution affect us.

You may find yourself connected to or liking nature, animals, the sea, or trees. By spending time here you will connect and reconnect. Bringing positive energy into your life will change it.

It can be difficult but like swimming, once you are in the water its not so bad.

Check out this link below to learn more about the star seeds, you may find more in common with your situation than you think! You may find that you are able to use this information to make sense of things!

http://www.dimension1111.com/starseed-experiences.html

Humans are an 'intervention' species - we did not come from Chimpanzees, here are the facts why

The oft quoted mantra humans came down from the trees is complete bullshit

The Darwinian view was made using what information was available, 250 years ago.

So, some naturalists tell us we came from an evolution of the Chimpanzee that came down from the trees one day and decided to walk upright, that's crap. Laughable. Here's why.

The 'belief' by some that a primate just happened to stand upright and decide this was a better way to get around and we evolved forward to being as we are today is not true.

Chimpanzees are said to be our closest living relative, at 98% genetically the same. So is an Alligator similar at 92%, but do we scrub about on stubby limbs and have a hard leathery skin? A house fly has 20,000 genes, the Human 30,000. See the picture?

All living creatures share the basic genetic ingredients.

What the experts don't tell you is that the 8% difference is many millions of cells different. Because that doesn't suit them. Many also come out with this 'out of Africa' Afrocentric view, that is also not correct. Hominids started in the European area and moved TO Africa, not the reverse. 

People say we Monkey around?

Lets look at some facts about Chimps v Humans.

The Human-Primate genetic 'match' gap is too wide for parity and compatibility to be true

Chimps have 4 limbs all equal length for tree climbing, they haven't evolved that out.

Humans have arms shorter in relative terms to their legs.

Chimps have far better muscle strength, their bones are more dense and stronger.

Humans have less relative strength and have lighter skeletal structure.

The Pelvis of both is obviously different because the Human walks upright, the Chimp does not do so for long periods of time. It is not built to do so.

The rib cages are opposite shapes, the Chimp is larger at the top and is funnel shaped down, the Human's is smaller and funnels outwards as it goes downwards. That is not evolution explainable, they were different from the outset.

The Human has a pronounced neck

The Chimp as with other primates has a neck / shoulders unit by contrast

The human eyes are adapted for light. The Chimp for low light conditions as found in forests. 

The Chimp can live in the wild, humans have no thick body hair and need clothes to live outside.

The feet are different in relation to where the ankle locates relevant to the base of the foot area.

The Chimp has no chin like other familiar Primates, the Human does have a chin.

The Human skull has to accommodate a different shape brain.

The Cerebral Cortex of a Chimp is 4 times smaller if laid out flat than that of a Human.

The voicebox is different as it the vocal chord arrangement

Humans use a structured language, primates do not. This is to do with the frontal cortex development which then allows the left side of the brain's language engine to function and the interplay between the two allows a growth of intelligence and development.

The Human has the 2nd Chromosomal pair joined, the Chimp and other Primates do not. The 2nd Chromosome fusing can only have been achieved by external modification, it can not happen naturally or in nature.

Human and Primate brains are different, here's why

An adult Chimpanzee is only as intelligent as an 18 month old child, do you know why? You'd think that statement might be wrong and that the Chimpanzee would be more intelligent, but that is not the case and it is to do with the brain.

A scientist decided to map the Human v Chimpanzee brain to try and map the difference in the neurons in both brains, to ascertain what was 'missing' from the Chimp side.

The scientist should have been cogniscant that the two brains are not related. The exercise had little 'relative' value, because the 'relatives' were not 'relative.' Look at all the above differences to see why this is so. And, why has the Chimpanzee not evolved intellectually like us?

So, let's go back to our comparison. What is the truth? It comes down to language. At around 18 months, the Human child starts to talk, why then? It is all to do with brain development.

The frontal cortex of the human brain develops with age and continues to do so until around 22 years of age, when it is fully formed. (The neural connections with the language engine of the left side of the brain are part of the reason, along with the development of neural intelligence that we advance over the primates.)

The difference is language. When we use language, we have to operate in three simultaneous places at once. We have to 'visualise' the past, present and future when we use speech, to say 'I did this, I am doing this, I am going to do that.'

We have to 'model' scenarios unconsciously to enable us to speak, because we are formulating 'arguments' that illustrate our actions. So we are saying we did, will do and are doing, without consciously being aware that our brain is computing the outcomes in our 'mind's eye' as we are speaking. We are also subconsciously forward planning.

The Chimpanzee on the other hand does not have this type of 'wiring' to be able to do these functions and they have not 'evolved them' in the 8 million years since they were supposed to have come down from the trees. Why, if we have and are the 'relatives' been able to and they haven't?

The bottom line is to look at the human species and ask yourself why no other animal has evolved to the apparent level that humans have? Why are the rest of the animals etc still at the level pretty much where they came in? Why are Horses not in charge for instance, or Dolphins?

Because they have not evolved further much than when they started out. Look at our technology and advancements over the last 500 years. Why in nature therefore are we so different?

We are an intervention species pure and simple, we have been modified to be advanced. The questions are who did it and for what purpose and then where did 'they' come from?

Someone from off the planet. 

Perhaps they may return to see the result of their unfinished experiment! To see how it turned out, or maybe they already know. I'm sure they have been back.

The late Lloyd Pye who spent many years researching this subject

I would direct those of you interested in our true origins to check out the work of the late Lloyd Pye, who spent many years investigating the subject of our recent human origins.

I would also suggest you see Michael Cremo's work on Forbidden archaeology that examines artefacts that are at odds with 'science.'