New Web Site Launched!

On 15 Feb 2010, the Life Force Designs web site was launched by Larry Cox, an artist and electronics technician from Berkeley, California.

The site features Larry's projects in electronics, but also provides articles and resources in other fields that he has studied. He has started with a simple site, using no "active" elements. The style of the site could be considered sophmoric, but considering Larry coded the whole site by hand and knew nothing about web sites a year ago, He's a little proud of it.

The web still has a lot of growing up to do, as does society in general. The web has been running into the same challenges that society is dealing with: people with bad intentions using technologies for evil purposes. That this is a key stumbling block has been the central realization of my lifetime. The game of life cannot be played outside of some sort of moral framework. No matter how much our physical technologies advance, our ultimate future is in question until we can develop and embrace a technology for dealing with ethical and moral choices. It must handle the spiritual side of life - intention, integrity, belief - as surely as our mechanistic technologies handle the physical side of life. This site is meant to explore these issues. And I hope it contibutes to their handling. It also serves as a platform from which I can promote my work.

Reflections on a Birthday

On 13 March (2010), the birth date of L. Ron Hubbard; writer, explorer, inventor, philosopher and humanitarian.

All PR? Don't try telling that to a serious student of his work!

One of the stongest modern voices urging us to face up to the responsibilities of beings living in the Atomic Age, Hubbard gave us a way to understand what was happening on the planet, in our own heads and ultimately throughout the universe.

From my studies of his work, I see no evidence that Hubbard expected his work to turn in the direction of religion when he published his first account of his serious research in 1950. But as he studied the puzzles of the human mind and the human condition, and how to solve them, he ran straight into the spiritual in spite of himself.

Hubbard wanted his work to define a new science, as precise as mechanical engineering, as predictable as the laws of chemical reactions. His discovery of the spirit made that impossible, at least in the context of contemporary earth society.

Continued...

And look at the directions that our science and engineering are now taking us:

Hubbard was one of many who warned us of what lies ahead for us here on earth. And evidence is mounting that those predictions are coming true. His advice: use the technology he discovered to create a new future. Raise your sights. Think with new paradigms. The old ones are wearing out and will be replaced. What will replace them? Ways of thinking that will sustain life, or lies that will destroy it?

Ron was only one man. He could not determine the fate of an entire planet through the strength of his own will alone. I for one hope that his words are heard widely enough to make a difference.

Helping the New York Rescue Workers - What's the Problem?

July 2010

Jim Woodworth is a Scientologist. Since 2003 he has also been the Executive Director of the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project. He came to Seattle not long ago to talk to a group of Scientologists about the difficulties he had getting support from New York Officials for the project. To this day, the mayor still opposes it, though it has now serviced over 800 people with only one minor medical emergency reported in all that time. On top of that, many people who went through the program are extremely happy with what they got out of it.

The project uses a technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard called the Purification Program. This technology was developed in the 1970's and has been used by thousands of people. There has never been any real flap concerning any possible ill effects. Yet the medical community insists it is dangerous, based on one or two studies (from what I can tell) about the toxicity of niacin. The medical community is obviously stretching their argument, hoping the fact that they are doctors will convince us to stay away. Yet Hubbard never said that this was a medical treatment. That given, there are some doctors who claim the program does have measurable effects on the health of those who do it.

The Cult of Scientific Truth

I believe this all leads back to a strategy implemented many years ago by people who thought they would benefit from it that devalues any experience that cannot be defined in scientific terms.

This strategy is not being pushed by scientists. Many scientists believe in God or other spiritual entities. The purpose of science is to solve man's problems with the physical world, not to convince anyone that non-physical problems aren't real or aren't important.

Those rescue workers were being told by people in the medical community that there was nothing that could be done to accelerate their recovery from the toxic exposures they experienced during 911. They were being put on drugs and told that they would just have to wait until the ill effects they were experiencing wore off. From the viewpoint of medical science perhaps this was correct advice. But we see from the experience of those that have done the program that this advice was also stupid and uninformed. Many of those rescue workers now no longer need drugs or medical attention. Was the revenue from those services what those doctors were trying to protect? To me it is clear that the people pushing Scientific Truth as the only valid experience aren't being totally honest with us.

Disclaimers, etc.

All text on this site is written by myself. If you copy any of it, I would appreciate it being attributed to me. But I understand that on a public site such as this any attempt to strictly control the use of its content is usually not worth the effort.

It also follows that I cannot guarantee that the information on this site is accurate, or would in any way be useful, though I hope it might be. I encourage you to do your own reserach and come to your own conclusions.

I have used a wide variety of images on this site. Some I have created myself, others are in the public domain, and it is possible that some may be under copyright. If any reader notices any image on this site that you think should not be displayed here for legal reasons, please let me know, and I will replace it with something else. All images are for illustrative purposes only.

As you may have noticed on this sight, I have not generally provided embedded links to other sites. For the most part, I have only given names and key words that you may insert into a search engine to find sites that interest you. If you have trouble finding sites on any subjects mentioned in the text, let me know and I will do my best to help out.

I can be reached at elaurens.cox@gmail.com