The Lifeboat Hour – A Spiritual Approach – 07/08/12

Yeah, Ruppert’s really into the truth. Just like when he attacked a guy in Portland Oregon at a bar last year, who confronted him about something he was telling some other people. Yeah, his “twelve steps,” getting drunk, then attacking someone. “Former LAPD Detective,” when his own proof indicates “Police Officer I.”

Sooner or later the truth comes to light. A Dutch Proverb
Thank you Traker of Truth for guiding a light for more to follow. Looking forward to what you will say each week especially now that you are letting go of the old fear based and moving fearlessly into the new ‘noo’ paradyme. We learn together to move in the noosphere YES!
Peace n Love

What happened to the economic collapse that was absolutely supposed to have happened last August???

And now we are being given lessons in the 12 step program from “Tracker of Truth” . Don’t drink the Kool Aid! This guy is losing it. Been there and done that with the 12 step nonsense. It was always filled with self proclaimed authorities who wanted a forum to outrank others. Not for nothing was Michael Ruppert once A COP.

“New White Trash! New White Trash! My ‘New White Trash’ band is the best music that has ever been created!!! Didn’t you all know that???!!!!”
I’m glad that “Mr. Spiritual” thinks so. Sounds like some crap written and sung by litttle kids. I guess he was real spiritual when he recieved the largest fine for sexual harrassment in Oregon history. He’s also real spiritual, according to the people who used to work with him/for him. I guess he just burned his latest crew.

Mike has been someone who is passionate and put something out there for people to listen to. I have been keen to hear what he has to say, but I have seen the stuff about the Aliens, Disclosure and also the spiritual healer baloney being used on fools before. I’m very disappointed in Mike, I thought he was going to make it.

We all want to believe in something, especially if it is the end of the world. I say “go for it Mike”, if you are right I’ll write your autobiography, that you are happy to endorse, for free.

However, from last weeks program with Mike’s ‘good friend’, James Howard Kunstler, author of ‘The Long Emergency’ and others, they clearly didn’t know what each other were doing. James was having a go at Mike with the information about his knee replacement and the Chromium and Cobalt poisoning. That is true, but he wanted to make it clear they weren’t good friends but conference buddies. Mike seems to have a lot of ‘friends’, like, Dimitri Orlov, Matt Savinar and anyone else he shares the stage with at conferences.
I was interested for a number of years in your work Mr Ruppert, (2 P’s), and even have read most of Crossing the Rubicon.
As for this weeks program, I think you have veered off the path to tracking the truth about the big picture, because the electricity you felt in your ‘Healing’ session, (did you Pay for it?) was a carefully controlled low voltage current administered by the ‘healer’ who was electrically insulated to give you an ‘authentic sensation’ that would convince you you were one of the few ‘Waves’ of incarnations without ‘Karma’.
What a load of bollox. If anyone was coming to this place without Karma, they certainly wouldn’t get fiddled with by a patient, nor become Alcoholics, (Good on you BTW for remaining sober, I mean it).

Seriously Mr Ruppert, if there was a large group of Karma free souls, they would defiantly not need Dolores Canon to help them regress or remember. Would anyone expect to be healed of Karma by just forgiving others. What in the hell do you think Buddhists have been doing for 1400 years? Playing with their navels? But oh that’s right, the Aliens do the heavy lifting in the healing department.
Karma is self transcendence. And the real Healers aren’t’ talking of parlour tricks like saying stupid signs will appear, unexplained pains, depression, dizziness. Fuck, you can talk about Fukushima and not see the signs of radiation sickness, or even old age.
Mr Ruppert, you have tried to drag the fairly convinced Peak Oilers and Collapsers from your other, earlier ‘Warrior Work’ over to the Spiritualist mumbo clowning group. Only the very gullible, or the very scared will follow you.
I fully respect all the confessions you have made to the public, some of which made me feel for you very sincerely, and that wont change. I have no personal idea how hard alcoholism is to recover from, and I believe you when you say you had other real people’s help. That is an achievment I cannot claim to have done. We all have our shit to deal with.
None of that empathy and respect I have for you and your earlier shouting about the collapse issue will transfer to me falling for the Delores Canon’s and the Gregg Braden’s of the internet.
You have built up a core following and perhaps you have told these other freaks you can bring 80% of those people with you, to their websites and healing sessions or whatever, but you have to do a deal. They need their cut. So go ahead, like a Kama-free spirit, with a ‘Shaman’, to lend authenticity, and advocate this band of hony balonyists.
New revolutionary ideas are one thing, and I will listen to those who claim to have some ‘good oil’,(pardon the Peak Oil pun), but you have lost me as an advocate, unless we see the Aliens.
But O, that’s right, they look just like us, but without Karma. Well now that’s proof.
I also note your carefully crafted message to your faithful to throw out the Cartesian rational way of seeing the world. That’s going o work isn’t it ?
The smarter thing to do if you are done with using a hammer on all things is to put it down and pick up another tool. But don’t throw it away, leave it well oiled in your tool kit, for you will need it sometime down the track.
Rationality and Logic may have contributed to a lot of the Empire’s dirty work for the Planet, but it also tells you to wash your hands after toiletries, and why.

The trick with the Jungian mid life crisis Mr Ruppert, is not to ‘Flip’, but to realise you have an over identification with the ‘rational’, and de-identify with it, not demonise it, as you wade into the irrational.
You need all your functions Mr Ruppert. I wish you all the best with your new business venture. If the Aliens do appear, then I will apologise here. Until then I won’t be coming over. I wish you well on your journey.
OzMan.

Great. Now we are being advised to get our financial advice from “Little Grandmother”. And Mike is now “Tracker of Truth”. Sheeesh.

I thought that maybe this guy was on to something but the only thing I think he is on is perhaps some kind of medication gone haywire and I don’t want any part of it. I hope PRN is monitoring some of this feedback.

I hate it when someone makes phony claims about how spiritual they think they are. The proof is in the pudding. Mike has a sketchy past with some of his past “fundraising” organizations and like a lot of 90′s new age gurus he is going to run out of customers that are willing to pay money to hear this crap.

We need solid information, not hand me down wisdom from some trendy Shaman. Just watch how this escalates in coming weeks.

Mike, I’ve got a fitting title for your new book!

“The Paranoid Narcissist”

I have been questioning Mike’s saneness for a few months now. He is getting away from what drew people to him, and that is concentrating on the workings of collapse. That is all well and fine though, he is just going to lose a lot of listeners

I think he may have an inflated sense of self worth and overstates his influence. He also seems to have given up the fight in the hopes that ‘spirit’ is going to somehow going address the massive injustices in the world.

Great! All the people that I’ve introduced to Mike over the years are now e-mailing me and telling me what a retard I am listening to this ‘quack’ after the stuff he has said in his last couple shows. And to be honest, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve been taken for a fool on things like peak oil, 911, and ‘apocalyptic’ style economic collapse. Obviously 90% of what he said is true, but the timing is WAY off and the severity is in question, and I didn’t have to ‘confront John Deutch ‘ or be part of a ‘warrior class’ to come to that conclusion.

I do want to say “Thanks Mike Ruppert” (there, at least someone has said your F—ing name), because you’ve done for me the same thing that Alex Jones did for me 2 years ago…you proved to me again that you can’t take any one person’s word for it and you can’t get your info from only one source. You have to educate yourself with a lot of reading and research and come to your own conclusions cause no one person has it figured out. You did open up a lot of minds, and for that you’ll be remembered admirably by friends and followers — including myself. But by others you’ll unfortunately be considered a crazy person, with lots of examples to point to of why NOT to listen to your message.

Good luck on your ‘spiritual journey’…whatever that might be. I hope, in the end, you come to the same conclusion (the only logical one) that I did several years ago thanks to Carl Sagan’s writings — Every time science finds something new that scientists can’t explain with their current understanding, the lay person insists that it is proof of god or spirit or creator. And by this I’m referring to your beliefs about quantum physics. It’s no different than people worshiping the sun until they figured out it was a star, one of many. It’s no different than people thinking that seizures were a sign of demon possession, until they found the medical cause.

Might I suggestion you read Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World. Sagan has a way of showing how our logic is flawed when it comes to things we have strong feelings about…he explains how to step back and look at things with scientific methodological evidence, not faith or belief which is nothing more than comforting thoughts expressed through neurological connections in your brain feeding your dopamine receptors convincing you that your warm fussy emotions are a connection to something bigger or greater than you…which by the way is an emotion that is built into our genetic structure via the coding of proteins (see Robert Sapolsky lectures on human behavioral biology).

Just remember, human beings have a tendency to self medicate and reach for fantasy when life becomes very stressful and hard to endure (see Gabor Maté’s books on addiction and self medication). People do it in many different ways, some people find god (or spirit), some drink or do drugs, some people shop or collect things they don’t need, some people grow an unusual fondness for sexual partners and porn, some people play video games or watch movies non-stop. Fantasy is a defense mechanism that our brains have developed to deal with long term exposure to stress. It’s sort of a pressure valve that allows our bodies to reset or ‘de-stress’ for a period of time, clearing out the dozens of hormones that have been accumulating and floating around in our blood stream causing all kinds of emotional, epi-genetic and biological chaos (see Robert Sapolsky books on stress). Our emotions are nothing more than molecules floating around in our bodies binding to receptors which tell our brains which feelings to express and this is all based on millions of years of evolution and natural selection with the ultimate purpose of survival. There are many ways to cope with stress and we’ll always be drawn to the things that convince us that everything will be okay or things that makes us feel good inside, even if for only a little while…long enough to clear the ‘junk’ out of our blood stream so we can think clearly again.

Good luck Mike, hope to see you the other side

As much as Mike talks of AA and 12 step programs, he seems to be forgetting one of the most important principles of the “program”:.

The AA slogan that comes to mind is…. Attraction rather than promotion.

A truly spiritual person does not have to advertise the source of their self proclaimed wisdom. They are known by their actions, and do not have to say ” look at me, look at how SPIRITUAL I am “.

My one great hope for the 21st century was that all the religious fanatics and new age gurus would become passe. It has almost happened, but guys like Ruppert seem to want to bring it all back.

If you need heroes or teachers, look to those who do real good for others, not those who are on the lecture circuit for profit.

Lastly, a lot of us are hungry for good information that the mainstream is not giving us. So we are sometimes vulnerable to notorious figures like Ruppert who unfortunately is quickly losing credibility as a “tracker of truth”.

It’s understandable that a person operating under a sustained high level of stress and disappointment in ones life would, at some point seek relief. Infortunately, in seeking relief, all too many are sucked=(suckered) into/onto the same old merry-go-round often found in/on the, “spiritual” circut, (pick any spiritual/religous venue ya like. Lots of time wasting, and money to be lost and made in these.
I think Mike Ruppert has run across someone in his life who is leading him astray (or, it could be that as others are insinuating, as he was really just like Alex Jones all along, but I don’t think so, personally). I do think Mike has been under a lot of stress, and is naturally going to make him vulnerable. Thanks, but no thanks, Mike. You have helped me in so many ways, early on, and your natural talents are very valuable, but I have been down that road of, “spirit”, and I know it leads no where, although I can understand how attractive it can be to someone in desperation. That said,…, I, for a long time now, always watch for the sign that it’s time for me to depart from following a given person no matter how great their messege is formulated, or how good their information is, and useful their knowledge has been up to that point. “That point” being when suddenly they start veering off onto that, “spiritual journey” thing, which I’ve studied enough, and been involved enough in my life to know when and where it is applicable and where it just leads one away off to roam around in circles, and waste a lot of time and money. Well Mike,…you’ve crossed that Rubicon, so to speak. One that I was born and raised on and wasted most of my life on, until I crossed my own Rubicon. Now you’re trying to lead me back to from where I managed an escape? Not going down that road again, Mike.
I began to look for what is real, tangable, and workable (as in gardening, animal husbandry, wildcrafting, and low-tech living, and many other valuable things be they ancient, or new. I’m not saying that spiritual developement, and spiritual knowledge are not valuable, but please be careful when you make that journey, Mike. Lots of Bull Sh*t on that path.
Sorry you do not have the rent. I used to be in that spiritual state as well, until I changed my mind, and now live rent-free oweing nothing to anyone. What a luxery that is. No rent due, no mortgage payment. I own, outright, my own place (which is otherwise known in the spiritual world (the real one) as, “BEING ONE WITH THE EARTH”, otherwise one is free-f;oating and, “groundless”.
I have known my purpose in life for a long, long time, Mike, I just needed some skils, and knowledge so as to begin implimenting that which would aid me in fulfilling that purpose. You helped direct me to that which I needed, and I am thankful for that. I hope you manage to get the rent money together, otherwise all that, “spirit” is gonna turn into grasping at air as you find yourself evicted, once again. Doesn’t PRN pay you a salary?
Maybe have some t-shirts made to sell at some of your gigs, or speaking engagements can put you together some cash, or start selling some of your fruit and vegetables for some cash so you can pay your rent.

Tracker of Truth? What the Fuck? Truth is only found in reality and you, my friend, are not in it anymore………………………………. I am so saddened by your demise. Start drinking, please.