🧵1/6 Now the bright fortnight comes to an end & must I go. Everything which it is necessary to know, at this time, I have said. 👋

We do not seem to understand what good is.

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

The Trump regime's attacks on science & the rule of law may be part of a longer term fascistic agenda to disempower every aspect of society that stands in the way of weaponizing climate chaos & ecosystem collapse to create a "new" society of extreme exploitation, profit & power

Why are American banks calling for profiting from climate chaos? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FYF...

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The European Hermitages Project was set up to restore Europe's network of lost sacrosanct ancient forests and the inner tradition that gave rise to them.

9. On the biodiversity front, TEHP has a fund to buy up large areas of land and create biodiversity reservoirs, biodiversity corridors and sacrosanct ancient forest. The goal is to restore the ancient network of these, that once stretched from the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles into Asia

These plastic particles smaller than a human hair can pass through cell walls and enter the food web go.nature.com/44TofaH

Tarragona, Spain "3,18,000 residents were instructed not to leave their homes and to close windows and doors. On the night of July 7-8, the fire approached residential buildings."

"There's #carsoup, yes, again... #🌊CHINA Due to heavy #rainfall, massive #flooding occurred in #Weixin County in the Chinese province of #Yunnan. July 9, 2025"

Michael de Adder, Toronto Globe and Mail

The European Hermitages Project was set up to restore Europe's network of lost sacrosanct ancient forests and the inner tradition that gave rise to them.

The Bluesky profile for The European Hermitages Project can be found here @tehp1.bsky.social‬

The golden rule in society, for people practicing business is that business people themselves must never have more wealth than the poorest people in the society. If you want more, make sure everyone has more. This golden rule totally changes the dynamics in society from harmful to beneficial.

1. 🧵 It would be tremendously helpful if we could properly separate the intellectual strata of society from the business strata

We have this terrible cognitive dissonance, whereby time after time business people do something terrible. We all say: "Oh this is terrible, how did it happen? Surely we need to put more money into business" And then of course, something worse happens. So it goes round, without anyone noticing

Getting the human world to operate in opposition to the natural world is quite a feat really. This ultra fubar has been brought about by implementing the ideology known as business. Business, the word originally meant fearful - fearful about abundance. Lacking in faith, lacking in understanding

Lack of awareness, underpins all present problems. This is a lack of awareness of the nature of the Self and the way the world works. Because of this lack of awareness there is no discernment. From lack of discernment come poor decisions aiming at the wrong goal.

Everyone is beginning to understand the "find out" part of "Fuck around find out". But almost no one understands the fucking around they have all been doing, to get themselves into this situation.

People seem to think its only the pursuit of wealth by the billionaire class which is harmful. It is just as harmful in the middle class, and in the working class. I appreciate this is a bit like telling glue-sniffers that sniffing glue is harmful.

"On a global scale, the way food is grown is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, threatening 24,000 of the 28,000 species at risk of extinction, at a higher rate today than in the past 10 million years." - @jennifermolidor.bsky.social @biologicaldiversity.org gradfoodstudies.org/2025/06/19/a...

Populations that are chaotic on the inside, make disordered societies and have corrupt and clusterf*ckry governments. What is difficult to understand about this?

this is how civilizations end

📌 The new center that I have set up, explores the interface between biodiversity and inner development.

LA: “This is the cutting edge of the authoritarian fascist takeover of 🇺🇸— your silence will not save you… pretending like nothing’s going on will not save you… if you don’t stop these fascist thugs here, they’re coming for you.”

From the National Archives’ MI5 exhibition: a document reporting Hitler’s description of Chamberlain as “an arsehole”.

“It is astounding how easy the democracies make it for us to reach our goal” and “the more they offer the more blusteringly I will make demands on them” - still, urgh, relevant

Falling societies only ever renew themselves through people leaving them, and starting again in a new direction.

Biodiversity loss is a climate change multiplier. Every species we lose, every ecosystem we destroy weakens the planet’s resilience capacity.

So one of the world’s most prominent generative AI is now spruiking the values of history’s most evil man. Here is some advice, universities. Don’t sign deals with any generative AI company unless you’re willing to risk your own reputation. Oh

One of the most important bits of missing knowledge from modern society is that downward facing societies always, without exception at any time, produce deprivation & disorder. Ignorance of this truth is strong across the whole society, but is especially dense, in the business strata of our society.

1. 🧵A society that is not involved in causing ecosystem collapse / climate crisis would be a completely different society from the society we are in.

People get together for a particular aim. Every society has one. What is the aim of the society you live in?

What is it, that you are upholding by participating in this society?

"There is so much water in the Amazonian soil. Forests recycle 4-4.5 litres of water per sq meter per day during the dry season. But degraded land, like pastures, recycles only 1-1.5 litres. That helps to explain why the dry seasons are growing longer." - Carlos Nobre by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social

Please note, from the 10th, I will be away from your amazingly messed-up world again. I will be back briefly again in the Autumn.

Case in point -- current fires burning at low severity, creating ecological benefits in wilderness of Klamath NF -- yet agencies are dropping tons of toxic fire retardant into headwaters of salmon-bearing streams. Not just a waste, but creating more adverse conditions. kymkemp.com/2025/07/04/j...

1. The phases of human inner development is a subject I have touched on in a number of threads. A key point in human inner development is the connection between strata at low levels of inner development and the strata of higher levels of inner development.

Another study finds that the most effective way to increase forest resiliency in western forests -- "incorporating beneficial wildfire into landscape-level planning". Yet fed agencies now suppressing every fire, irrespective of potential benefits.🌏 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

'The French people shall never forget the sacrifices British people made to protect Europe and the world during the two world wars' Emmanuel Macron thanks British veterans during his address to the Houses of Parliament

1. The countryside, which has been turned into a service sector desert, serving a vacuous & locust-like consumer society, desperately needs vast numbers of people to return to the countryside to restore it.

"When you enter a grove of ancient trees, shutting out the sky w/ their thickly inter-twined branches -- do not the stately shadows, the stillness of the place, and the pale green light strike you with the presence of a deity?" ~Seneca the Younger (circa 45 AD) #thicktrunktuesday

The most important thing that people can do now, to change the direction of society, is to leave it.

Today the EU Commission unveiled its plans to simplify rules for the chemical sector and cosmetics💄 BEUC cautions that the proposed changes could greatly increase consumer exposure to dangerous chemicals and increase health risks. Our full reaction 👉 www.beuc.eu/press-releas...

1. 🧵Is it possible for people stuck in participation with the society that is driving ecosystem damage /climate crisis to get the direction of that society to change?

Change. . .

Downward facing societies cannot avoid the worst of the climate crisis & ecosystem collapse. Nature is so organised that organisms with high levels of inner disturbance self-destruct.

ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic. They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6. Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.

✳️ A "face-downer" is someone whose attention is so disturbed that s/he is not aware of anything subtler than sensory inputs. S/he is controlled by what S/he is not aware of. ✳️ A "downward facing society" is a community made up of face-downers. They are controlled by what they are not aware of.