There is little doubt that the world is in the process of transformation. Clearly a lot has to change.

All over the world significant numbers of people in every country are fed up with their governments and the institutions which have been guiding national life. This process accelerated during the pandemic as it became clear that a great deal was being hidden or distorted to facilitate public compliance. Now there is a process of public awakening slowly gaining momentum, but the actual course and final outcome of this restorative process remains hidden in the future, subject to uncertain events.

The pace of life and the density of information in every field of knowledge and endeavour has been accelerating exponentially. This has become so overwhelming that politicians and administrators everywhere have put up barriers to exclude broad-based information sources from their deliberations. Instead relying on their preferred advisors, economic principles, corporate lobbyists, political ideologies and crucially AI. As a result, the idea that the world can be transformed by presenting information to those in power has become a largely forlorn hope. We need new strategies.

To manage the explosion of information, technocrats are touting artificial intelligence, but computers are unaware, unable to experience in the way we do. They can only sample and summarise large amounts of information from the past. Therefore AI is destined to rehash all the failures of the past. Repeating the same mistakes that awakening populations are rejecting the world over.

Worse still, governments have started to use AI to distance themselves from public opinion. An article in Stuff is entitled “ACT leader David Seymour suggested ‘bots’ drove ‘fake submissions’ against his Regulatory Standards Bill“. Seymour was complaining because a public consultation received 23,000 submissions, 88% of which were opposed. Seymour has no evidence to support his accusation, he should have realised that, especially since the pandemic, the public is becoming more organised and alert to oppose government overreach. The really revealing part of the article is as follows: The Ministry for Regulation deputy chief executive of policy Andrew Royle admitted the ministry used AI to analyse the submissions received, saying:

“Its process included a “qualitative” analysis of about 1000 individual submissions. Group submissions and submissions over 10,000 words were read separately. The rest were summarised using AI.”

In other words, your submission to the government was very unlikely to be read by a human unless it exceeded 10,000 words, and this is just the beginning of the use of AI to control our lives and edit public narratives.

Even positive government initiatives like the MAHA movement led by Robert Kennedy Jr. are facing an uphill battle against entrenched ideas as the rest of the Trump administration pushes a pro-chemical, pro-corporate, pro-industrial agriculture agenda.

In parallel with this, our food sources and health systems are being edited and transformed through biotechnology experimentation and manufacturing. This is proceeding on a vast scale affecting the whole world’s population. It is happening not just without adequate safety testing, but despite evidence available to those controlling the process that gene editing is not just risky, but actually harming public health. Much of this is happening under the radar with the result that the public is not just uninformed, they are being misinformed and misled.

There are seeds of doubt emerging—Biotechnology is a ticking time bomb

Your local newspapers are probably not carrying articles like this one published May 27 by Barrons Investment Updates entitled “Gene Therapy Death Worsens Picture for an Already Troubled Field” which reports the death from treatment complications of a patient enrolled in a trial of gene therapy which was meant “to treat a rare genetic condition called Danon Disease, which weakens the heart muscle and generally kills male patients in early adulthood.” The trial has been suspended and the share price of the company involved, Rocket Pharmaceuticals of New Jersey, has fallen by 63%.

As the article explains, this is not an isolated case within the biotech industry. Another recent death occurred in March, when a patient on Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys, an approved gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died of liver failure. The process of gene therapy alters genetic sequences which triggers an immune response designed to protect us by eliminating invasive foreign DNA. As a result, gene therapy recipients inevitably face a lifetime of immunosuppressant drugs which affect their health, limit their lifespan and require hugely expensive ongoing monitoring and treatment. Thus gene therapy has inherent contradictions. Not only will gene therapy never be able to fulfil its exaggerated promises, but it will have an open ended negative affect on public health outcomes, as happened during the pandemic

The Barrons article concluded, “gene therapies have become largely unattractive to investors, who are worried about unexpected safety risks and commercialisation challenges”. In fact, the procedures are so costly, not just in terms of money but also in terms of the required number of highly trained medical personnel and sophisticated equipment for each patient and the amount of procedural individualisation involved, that it is inconceivable for any health system to fund them. The article reports that as a result medical biotech companies are finding it hard to enrol patients.

However our politicians remain largely isolated from the harsh realities and risks of biotechnology. Instead, subject to lobbying from corporate interests and researchers dependent on government grants, they are deregulating biotechnology. If biotechnology experimentation is not stopped, inevitably within a short timescale there will be another outbreak of a novel man made illness that causes a precipitous decline in mental and physical health on a global scale.

The extraordinary refusal to acknowledge the dangers of biotechnology needs to be met head on. An article in the UK Telegraph entitled “It’s time for the truth. Here’s the Covid Paper they don’t want you to read” reports “Still the scientific establishment is refusing to take the lab leak hypothesis seriously, let alone investigate it.” It asks the scientific establishment: “There are over 20 million people dead, and you don’t want to know why?”

There are still chances for us to register our opinion on the Gene Technology Bill, for example by signing and sharing the “Petition of Lisa Er: Halt the Gene Technology Bill and set up a Commission of Inquiry.” It just takes a minute to sign, and we need more signatures. Go to:

https://petitions.parliament.nz/b64831bc-b0b2-4518-a62d-08dd708a9825

To have even more impact ask for a meeting with your local MP.

But some words of caution are needed here, we are not involved in a logical argument. There is an almost fanatical and certainly reckless mentality associated with biotechnology experimentation. The industry constantly projects false messianic messaging of a bright biotech future promising long life, health and enhanced abilities, but there is no evidence for this in fact the opposite and the people pumping out the message are well aware of the lie. There is a disregard for public preferences, scientific caution and medical outcome data. Therefore it would be a mistake to believe that a compromise is possible with the biotech industry. It should be clear that very little meaningful dialogue is taking place. To move out of this danger zone, we need to take big steps. Little steps, meaningless discussions, compromise and delay only play into the hands of the biotech industry and ultimately spell disaster.

We need a giant leap forward

Over the last few weeks we have been reflecting: “What more can we do?”What can our proposed Hill Station College of Natural Law offer to dispel the head in the sand attitude of governments, bypass the biotech corporate juggernaut and open the eyes of gaslit populations?

Despite all the turmoil and polarisation in society, the sun rises every day anew, the seasons revolve one into another and the business of natural law continues unabated. The managing power involved is beyond our comprehension. A simple analogy will explain this.

Every day we are eating food. To digest this, our physiology makes trillions of decisions for us every second of the day, it guides physiological transformations which turn our meals into bones, muscle, blood, brains, organs and everything else which sustains and facilitates our life. Doing so, it maintains the enormously complex structural integrity of trillions of physiological components. Even the design of an eye for example is beyond our capacity to completely understand, reproduce or redesign. Now let us suppose we receive a 1000 piece jigsaw for our birthday, it will take us days to complete. Our body achieves millions of times more than this every millisecond. Cosmic law scales this up to inconceivable levels of organisation.

Despite this, the body cannot function properly without the input of our consciousness. We must make the right food choices, rest and exercise in time, while behaving sensibly and considerately. Natural law is intimately tied to our consciousness. Consciousness is the key to our relationship with nature. Gaining the support of natural law involves managing our consciousness. Consciousness is the essence of life, but what facet of consciousness? Our thoughts, feelings, ideas or dreams?

The home of the laws of nature is abstract, not obviously seen or heard, rather silent but all powerful. Our connection with the laws of nature can be strengthened in the silent depths of our consciousness. Communion with nature is not found in the endless sea of information, but rather in the abstract WHOLENESS of our inner consciousness. Holistic consciousness is the fulcrum point around which everything is balanced.

Therefore the first principle of the College of Natural Law is research in consciousness. Throughout the ages this has been the aim of the practice of meditation. The practice of meditation has nourished all cultural, intellectual and religious traditions. If you are new to the idea of meditation, it is not hard to learn, and the rewards can be immense for the individual and very powerful for society.

The massive effect of meditation on society is reported in my paper published in Psychology, Crime, and Law, 2:3, 1996. The research was completed originally in 1993 and presented by invitation as a keynote speech to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society on Crime, 1-3 March 1993, Harrogate, UK. The study provided additional clear and powerful evidence that crime in any major city can be reduced within a few weeks by a group practicing meditation. The powerful Box-Jenkins ARIMA impact assessment time series analysis was used to test the hypothesis that Merseyside crime rate was significantly reduced after what is known as the Maharishi Effect threshold was surpassed by a group of 140 collectively practicing transcendental deep meditation and 12,000 others in the city practising at home. My book Your DNA Diet explains the details and more about the benefits of meditation.

My follow up study of quality of life in Merseyside in the years subsequent to 1988 illustrates a remarkable cascade of positive trends and initiatives engulfing everyday life in the city of 1.5 million people. The following effects illustrate the infinite organising power inherent in our own consciousness:

1) LOWEST CRIME

Crime decreased by 60% relative to national trends (p<0.00006). Merseyside used to have the second highest crime rate in the nation, but became the lowest among the Metropolitan areas by 1993.

2) REDUCED INSURANCE PREMIUMS

The Association of British Insurers announced that insurance premiums in Merseyside will fall due to falling crime rates

3) SHORTEST HOSPITAL WAITING LIST

By 1990 hospital waiting lists in the Merseyside Health Authority Region had fallen to the lowest in the UK, with numbers of people having to wait for vital operations 60% less than in the other UK regions.

4) FREEDOM FROM YOUTH RIOTS

There was an absence of riots among Merseyside youth in the early 90’s in contrast to the riots in other English cities (including Luton, London, Oxford, Salford, Cardiff, and Bristol)

5) IMPROVED DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAMMES

Merseyside became the world pioneer of the ‘harm reduction movement’ for the treatment of drug addiction and had the lowest rate of HIV positive among UK cities.

6) ECONOMIC REVIVAL

Formerly declining, Merseyside became a model of economic revival. The national press reported it as one of the first cities in the UK to show signs of an end to the 89/92 recession.

7) REDUCED UNEMPLOYMENT

Unemployment rates in Merseyside and West Lancashire improved steadily relative to national trends after 1988 with a cumulative 60% drop in hard core unemployment.

8) INCREASED EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY

The UK Central Statistical Office rated Merseyside office staff as 20% more productive than their counterparts in London.

9) REDUCED STRIKES

Merseyside was once renowned for poor industrial relations, but by 1993 less than 1% of all working days lost in the UK were in Merseyside, despite the fact that almost 3% of the UK population live here.

10) PURIFICATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

There was a complete purification and restructuring of the Liverpool City government which had previously been reported as one of the most extreme, inept, and corrupt among UK cities in the early 1980’s.

11) NEW BUILDING PROJECTS

Reconstruction and beautification of the inner city and the large old dock areas of the city got underway, which had been one of Britain’s worst slum areas in the late 1970’s.

12) IMPROVED HOUSING

Following years of decline in housing quality in the 70’s and early 80’s, the Liverpool Housing Action Trust became the largest in the country.

13) REVIVED ENTERTAINMENT AND TOURISM INDUSTRY

There was a revival in film production, theatre, and tourism which had been in serious decline in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Numbers of visitors to Merseyside were up by 53% to 29 million in 1990 compared to 1985.

14) SPORTING SUCCESS

Teams from the North West of England dominated in many sporting events in the early 1990’s.

15) BALANCED SEASONS & ADEQUATE RAINFALL

Merseyside escaped the droughts of 1988 to 1989. The North West was reported by the local press as the only area in the country to have adequate rainfall during this period.

16) INCREASED HARMONY & CO-OPERATION

A unique level of co-operation and harmony along with increased optimism and self-confidence was in evidence on Merseyside among public and private sector bodies. The Merseyside Partnership brought together over 40 organisations to promote progress in the region.

17) INCREASED HAPPINESS

A psychological study completed in the early 90’s at Liverpool University rated Merseyside pensioners as having 50% less depression than their counterparts in New York or London.

18) INCREASED ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

In the first project of its kind in Europe, forty local organisations working together in the Estuary Project Group reduced the pollution load in the Mersey Estuary by 80%, enabling wildfowl numbers to increase by 60% and 35 species of fish to return.

19) HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

A unique experiment in the Wirral (a suburb of Merseyside) was described in the national press as ‘a rare piece of co-operation in the public sector’. Under the ‘Life Project’ initiative, inner city residents took more exercise, reduced use of prescription drugs, stopped smoking, cut back on drink, and changed their diet.

20) QUALITY OF LIFE

There were many articles in the local and national press analysing why all this optimism and positivity suddenly grew up in Merseyside. An article in the Daily Mail summed it up with the headline “Merseyside is my Heaven on Earth”, in the Daily Telegraph “A Good Place With Good People>” (June 13, 1995 p. 15), while an industrial development promotional advertisement in the Times of London (13 November 1991) trumpeted “Success After Success On Merseyside”.

Consciousness is at the centre of the Cosmos. This is an eternal verity found in every cultural and religious tradition. Christ said “the Kingdom of Heaven is within”. Krishna advised “Brahman [wholeness of consciousness] brings eternal freedom”. Buddha said, “Peace comes within, do not seek it without”.

Sufi’s say, “Meditation in God is my capital”.Einstein said “Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” Seneca said“It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable. ”Marcus Aurelius said “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.””

Despite this wisdom of the ages, the institutions of modern civilization (if that is the right term) have forgotten their founding principles. A great leap forward will result when research in consciousness becomes a priority in education. We are talking here about individual research in consciousness in the silent depths of self referral consciousness.

An article in the UK Telegraph this morning comments on the cover up of Biden’s cognitive decline saying: 

“The ability to have some trustworthy sources in the world does matter – and will matter an awful lot more in the years to come. The media that helped cover up Biden’s condition should take a serious and critical look at themselves – even though it’s not clear that self-criticism is something of which they are remotely capable.”

Unfortunately untrustworthy sources are not limited to the media. A paper published in the Journal of Independent Medicine is entitled “Metacritique of Influential Studies Purporting COVID-19 Vaccine Successes: Part 1 – Watson et al” which concludes that the risks of Covid vaccines outweigh any perceived benefits, saying one highly cited study, relied upon by health services, falsely purported to show Covid vaccines saved 14 million lives: 

“[The study included] the use of inaccurate estimates of effectiveness and safety due to inadequate counting windows; lack of recognition of waning effectiveness and eventual negative effectiveness; failure to account for confounding variables; exaggerated infection and case fatality rates; insufficient consideration of vaccine-related risks; and possible financial or political conflicts of interest.”

Search engines which employ AI are another source of unreliable and biased information, or rather misinformation. Last week I used Google to try to find out if the official March 2025 figures for New Zealand births and deaths had been published. Google AI overview told me: 

“In March 2025, New Zealand saw a 7% increase in both live births and deaths compared to the same month in 2024. There was a natural decrease, with 584 more deaths than births. The average daily birth rate was 44, while the average daily death rate was 63.”

This answer is entirely false, in fact the New Zealand March figures had not been published and AI, ever eager to speak with authority, simply substituted the latest Slovenian data for that of New Zealand. The current standard AI search engines which provide one sentence answers to complex questions, which may be inaccurate simplifications or even false, are going to be a greater and greater curse on our education system as time goes by.

Believing in one thing to the exclusion of many, thinking that a single winner is the only person worthy of praise and reward, maintaining faith in something that doesn’t work or for which there is no evidence, posing as an expert on something about which you know little and pretending to certainty when there is doubt are all symptoms of a failure of intelligence. This arises when the knower pays attention to a PART of a problem but fails to appreciate the WHOLE picture.

Last week there were articles in papers around the world like one in the NY Times entitled “Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment“. A nine month old baby known as KJ suffers from a rare genetic disorder which affects only one out of 1.3 million babies and is usually fatal. A customised gene editing intervention has saved his life for now. I don’t want to debate the merits of a life saving procedure which has so far cost many millions of dollars and has left the child dependent on the attentions of a team of doctors for the rest of his life, but I do take issue with Dr Peter Marks, the recently replaced director of the US FDA Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research, who claims in the New England Journal of Medicine that the procedure will “transform healthcare”.

170 million Americans are suffering from one or more chronic diseases and a senior medic is suggesting that a risky gene therapy technique costing multi million dollars per person and requiring the lifetime attention of many doctors per patient will transform healthcare. Such a view is not just myopic, it combines blind faith, professional conceit, corporate greed and disregard of the glaringly obvious—gene editing will not solve the crisis in public health. On present evidence it is more likely to exacerbate it.

Far far more likely to transform healthcare is a story published in the UK Telegraph entitled “Eat three yogurts a day and other secrets from the woman who lived to 117. This reports the findings of a study of the exceptionally healthy gut biome of a supercentenarian published under the title “The Multiomics Blueprint of Extreme Human Lifespan. “Individuals with a greater variety and “balance” of microbes in their gut seem to have a lower risk of experiencing around 70 different chronic conditions, ranging from heart disease to Type 2 diabetes, as each type of bacteria or microbe does something different for the body.” The subject of the study who lived in California ate three yogurts a day, had a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, exercised regularly, cut down on alcohol and avoided toxic people. 

If you are going to start eating yogurt, remember to avoid the processed flavoured and sweetened versions that crowd our supermarket shelves, research shows they are unhealthy. Organic plain yogurts are available and it is very easy to make your own fresh yogurt overnight at home—the healthiest option.

Complementing this, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has published a study entitled “Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries“.  This reports “Each 10% extra intake of UPF, such as bread, cakes and ready meals, increases someone’s risk of dying before they reach 75 by 3%”, according to research conducted in countries including the US and England. This adds to a growing body of evidence that UPFs are a fast track to an early death. For example, US research published last year in the BMJ found that people who consume the most UPFs have a 4% higher risk of death overall and a 9% greater risk of dying from something other than cancer or heart disease. It identified processed meat, sugar and ultra-processed breakfast foods, such as cereals, as the unhealthiest UPF products.

You might think that faced with such overwhelming evidence, government health experts would be rushing to warn the public about UPFs and incentivise healthy eating. In fact, governments the world over seem to be suffering from extreme myopia. A May 17 article in the UK Guardian is entitled “UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms“. This recounts the sorry tale of how planned government advice to supermarkets to prioritise promotion of fresh produce and drop promotions of junk food was abandoned after lobbying by the Food and Drink Federation (which represents corporations including Nestlé, Mondelēz, Coca-Cola, Mars and Unilever), repeatedly demanded the government ditch the healthy initiative.

These are the very same corporations who have been very busy substituting the natural ingredients in our traditional foods with genetically modified processing aids which contain harmful contaminated residues, as we reported in our article “Major Health Alert: the Extraordinary Genetically Modified Invasion of Our Supermarkets by Stealth“. As the 117 year old supercentenarian advised: ‘it is sensible to avoid toxic people’ and that goes for the glossy products of toxic corporations too. As consumers, we have more power than we realise. Time to STOP putting UPFs in our supermarket carts. 

Our government is planning to deregulate biotechnology experimentation, putting millions of our taxpayer dollars into risky biotech research whose inevitable mistakes cannot be recalled or remediated, while proven measures to greatly improve public health which can be easily implemented with virtually no cost and managed at home go unnoticed, unheralded and unsupported. This is all the result of an education system which is failing the young who are the future leaders of society. Overwhelmed with an explosion of technology, people are gradually losing the capacity to think clearly and comprehensively. We are being bombarded with messaging tailored to influence our financial and political choices touting the very latest fad over simple, cheap, traditional tried and tested solutions. This war on common sense, nature and tradition is increasingly being designed by inherently dumb computers with the aim of subtly usurping our cognitive abilities.

We may not appreciate the scope and size of the effects, but reaching for a calculator, accepting the answer of a search engine, media source, or government pronouncement uncritically, copying and pasting without thinking, letting AI write it for you, and putting something in our mouth without reading the label are all rendering our intellect inactive and rusty. Use it or lose it. 

Outer depends on inner. 

There is a deeper kind of technology fully available to all of us—a technology of consciousness. Reflective time spent in deep meditation or prayer is a means to revive and refresh our intellect, quietly integrating experience into a broader knowledge framework, connecting the PART with the WHOLE. Modern education with its focus on exterior technology and superficial ideas is debasing this possibility. The kind of society and times we are living through are the end result of ignoring our inner life. History records the rise and fall of civilisations. Invariably, it is the wide availability of deep spiritual and intellectual insight that drives the rise, and ignorance and cruelty that drives the fall. We are sleepwalking into the end times of our civilisation, because we don’t understand life, yet life is the closest thing to us. If you haven’t yet begun a personal journey to fully discover inner life, it is time to begin. As Wordsworth put it so beautifully in Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey:

“….that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world,
Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,—
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.”

It would be a mistake to think that such deep insight comes upon us solely by chance. We have control over our behaviour and food, we can mostly choose what experiences we expose ourselves to. Our consciousness is our own to manage. Christ said the Kingdom of Heaven is Within, echoing the wisdom of the ages. St Francis found peace in nature and reflection, we can do so also. The Bhagavad Gita promises the natural result of the regular practice of deep meditation, saying “He whose mind is unshaken in the midst of sorrows, who amongst pleasures is free from longing, from whom fear and anger have departed, he is said to be a sage of steady intellect”. This is not a mood cultivated through indifference but the natural result of repeated experience of the transcendental bliss that Wordsworth described as he sat above Tintern Abbey. It is time we looked within and taught the next generation to do likewise. The collective effect of meditation on society is transformative and beneficial in a way that is unmatched by any modern technology. You can find out more about transcendental meditation and its effects on individual and collective consciousness in my book Your DNA Diet available from Amazon as a Kindle.

The world is in crisis and in transition as I write. Nuclear armed powers India and Pakistan are at war, extending the conflict zone that has engulfed the Middle East. China is specifically threatening Taiwan with new weapons it has deployed successfully in Pakistan. The devastating effects of experimental biotechnology, whether in the form of engineered viruses or vaccines, have killed millions and adversely affected the lives of billions. Biotech battle lines have been set and the US administration has belatedly launched a rearguard action. Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jnr. has made key appointments at the FDA and at other agencies, who are insisting on scientific safety and efficacy testing standards for medicines and foods. mRNA technology is specifically under fire. Shares in biotech companies have tanked as a result. In an act of schizophrenia, mainstream media have largely abandoned caution and common sense in favour of attacks on Trump administration appointees, including RFK Jnr., whatever the validity of their statements and questions. As conflicts deepen, we have decided to go back to the most fundamental and ancient principles of natural law in an effort to describe solutions.

Natural law, physics and consciousness

There are innumerable laws of nature operating at every level of creation and at every time and place. At their foundation is the most powerful level of natural law, a field of supersymmetry, which is present everywhere with its whole potential available at every point. The laws of physics describe four fundamental forces Electromagnetism, Weak and Strong Nuclear forces and Gravity. These merge together at smaller time and distance scales, just like the four fingers of the hand which come together at the palm, eventually becoming completely unified at the Planck scale (10^-33 cms and 10^-43 secs).

The self referral character of the unified level of nature’s functioning identifies it as a field of universal consciousness which transcends time and space, yet supports it everywhere. This is further verified by the necessity of referencing an ‘observer’ to complete consistent physical theories of reality. Thus the material universe is irrevocably joined to our own consciousness. A connection we benefit from personally everyday as we perceive the world around us. Going deeper, the experience of the source of all the laws of nature is fully available to everyone in their own most settled state of consciousness which can be effortlessly achieved in deep meditation.

How do you know the truth?

The essence of natural law is the ‘Truth’—that which is: ‘Pure Consciousness’ or ‘Being’ with a capital ‘B’. When truth is respected and protected, in the management of society and in the daily life of everyone, society can prosper. Word of mouth can be trusted and the rule of national law can be just and fair.

An article in the NY Times headlines “A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse”. It reports “A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.” A.I. bots analyse enormous amounts of stored digital data from past internet postings.The NY Times continues: “AI Systems do not — and cannot — decide what is true and what is false. Sometimes, they just make stuff up, a phenomenon some A.I. researchers call hallucinations. On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent.” 8 out of 10 answers were wrong—a failing grade.

AI systems use mathematical probabilities to guess the best response, they are not using a strict set of rules defined by human engineers. So they make a certain number of mistakes. “Despite our best efforts, they will always hallucinate,” said Amr Awadallah, the chief executive of Vectara, a start-up that builds A.I. tools for businesses, and a former Google executive. “That will never go away.”In other words, even in critical applications AI systems can be completely unreliable.Nor will AI systems be able to innovate in the full sense of the word, they can simply rearrange things, or to use more understandable language, they can mimic and misrepresent the past and jumble up present reality. The truth remains hidden.

All computer hardware uses binary digital networks where logic gates can be either off or on and nothing in between. In contrast the human mind is not binary. It has sophisticated tools to know the truth. It experiences through five senses, it reasons with the intellect and can weigh the significance of the past. It perceives, infers, compares and crucially it listens and discusses with others who also have conscious minds.

According to the ancient science of reasoning known as Nyaya, there are sixteen points which can be used to test the validity of knowledge. In addition to the above, these include:

• The capacity to identify and categorise distinct objects, objectives and relevant examples.

• The capacity to identify, entertain and quantify doubt.

• Knowing established principles including applying steps of logic and reasoning to draw conclusions.

• Probing and attacking opposing views including the use of argument, dispute and ridicule.

• The exposure of contradictions, fallacies, circular arguments, unproven premises, irrelevant material and disagreement on foundational premises.

• Identifying words with two meanings, invalid generalisations, futile discussions and the correct use of analogies and metaphor.

In addition the human mind can identify special qualities of an object and assign numerical values and a hierarchy to its structure and antecedents.

The human mind carries out many of these processes instinctively, they are built into our mind/body set up.

The Science of Yoga further identifies harmonious and beneficial behaviours and procedures which reveal and enhance, rather than disrupt, the essential unity of life. Such principles are found in cultural, philosophical and religious traditions around the world;

Human consciousness has another possibility certainly not open to a computer, the direct appreciation or experience of the grand unity of life. In other words, participating in the WHOLENESS of existence. We are aware that a human can only know one thing at a time, whereas the laws of nature know and manage all things everywhere simultaneously. Something that religious people designate as God’s Will. Despite the limitation of human consciousness to one thing at a time, the apex of human awareness involves rising to a complete harmony with natural law that gives the benefit of all knowledge—becoming fully immersed in the natural order and essential joy of creation. An achievement that has been recognised in the lives of saints and sages throughout the ages.

What is national law?

Society is subject to national law which is created by human intervention operating in the field of politics and justice. Since time immemorial it has been recognised that national law depends for its authority on natural law. Only if national law respects and harmonises with natural law does it have true validity. If national law contradicts or violates natural law, it fails to uphold the integrity of society. When natural law is continuously violated in individual and national life, stress builds up in individual and collective consciousness and in nature, eventually erupting into conflict and catastrophe..

We cannot vote for natural law in national elections. In fact, politicians we elect do not generally recognise the sovereign power of natural law. Successive governments have passed laws which fail to recognise the steps of valid reasoning outlined above. Thus mistakes pile up on top of one another. In this way national law legitimises the violation of natural law. For example, sweeping generalisations have been made about the safety of small percentages of chemical or biosynthetic compounds added to foods, as well as processing residues. This has not been based on actual safety testing. As a result there have been rapidly accelerating rates of cancer. Such mistakes fail to grasp the integrated interdependent evolutionary history of the biosphere—how natural food chains allow the assimilation of nature’s intelligence.

Crucially, the intelligence of living organisms including human intelligence depends on the integrity of our genetic structures. This in turn depends on the quality of food we consume everyday. Whole fresh unadulterated food is essential to maintain health. Moreover our capacity to harmonise with natural law depends on the natural integrity of our own genetic structures in all their complexity and sophistication. Thus genetic structures support the ability to experience the fundamental nexus of cosmic life. How this miracle of life is achieved is beyond the understanding of modern biotechnology, yet the biotech industry is continuing to recklessly edit genetic systems. A recipe for disaster that dwarfs most other dangers of the modern age and threatens annihilation.

How do you increase harmony with natural law?

We are faced with the reckless ignorance of modern politicians and parties about the dangers of biotechnology and their consequent inability to protect human health and happiness. New laws like the NZ Gene Technology Bill are sweeping aside common rights and protections in a rush to deregulate biotech experimentation, even mandating individual compliance. Although almost powerless at the ballot box due to the lack of suitable candidates and knowledgeable media coverage, we can become more powerful and influence decision making. We can do this through recognising the power of WHOLENESS within. This can be achieved through increased harmony with natural law, whereby the power of nature is co-opted to our cause. This is an indirect approach to conflict resolution, but the power of natural law which governs the whole universe is actually the best friend and supporter we can have.

We have control over our thought, speech and action, including what food we consume.

The essence of natural law is truth, remaining truthful is a powerful technology to harness natural law. The technique to achieve this was explained by Shakespeare who wrote this advice in his play Hamlet:

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

History records the lives of individuals in every age who liberated their nations because they stuck resolutely to truth and justice. The highest form of ‘being true to thine own self’ is achieved in deep meditation but the saying also calls for disciplined thinking and speaking. The sweet truth is important, overly harsh words, even though true, can harm others. Constantly finding fault with others without providing solutions reflects back negatively on everyone including oneself. Every teacher knows that identifying even one positive trait in a student and then appreciating and encouraging it, works a thousand times better than criticism and disparagement.

We cannot know the innumerable effects of any action in their entirety, but always consider the time and place of any action. Is the action suitable for the environment? Is the time right?

The ancients celebrated and acknowledged the changing seasons and the cycles of nature which support growth. For example, it is well known that planting according to the phases of the moon is more successful, perhaps what is not so well known is how the effect of the seasons, circadian rhythms and lunar phases spills over into everyday life. The current English parliament was elected and the cabinet chosen on a no moon day, you can check the result out in the newspapers.

Cathedrals, temples and ancient monuments were often oriented to the rising sun. The morning sun is especially healing and energising. According to architectural principles known as Vastu Vidya, an entrance facing true east brings support of nature and improved health for the occupants.

Avoid cruelty to others and to animals. Those that put profit before health, happiness, morality and justice degrade the quality of their life and that of others. There are always consequences in this life or the next. Ultimately truth alone will triumph.

Politicians have assumed more and more power over our daily lives in ignorance of the sovereignty of natural law. But nature knows better than man how to organise. Working with nature is important. An organic diet rich in whole foods and fresh fruits and vegetables is healthy, it connects us with the pool of genetic intelligence in the biosphere. When I worked in Armenia for a year, high up in the Caucasus Mountains the dinner table included plates of fresh herbs to sprinkle on the meal. I met many people of a great age still in fine health. There were also many caves carved into hillsides where early Christian mystics practised meditation. Ancient traditions including herbal medicine in the home have been mistakenly forgotten. Around monasteries in Europe, there are still varieties of medicinal herbs flourishing in meadows. Variety is the spice of life.

Invitation

For a forest to be green, the trees must be green. For the world to be at peace, for the government to act intelligently, for the society to be healthy, peace, intelligence and health must be within the reach of individual members. This should be the result of education. Unfortunately education today has failed its students. They are not developing their full potential and graduates remain unaware of their deep connection with natural law. This is why we are continuing to promote our educational initiative to understand the wholeness of life and act in accord with natural law. We are inviting you to support and participate in this endeavour and look forward to hearing from you.