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Dear Ones,

I have just transcribed the video “Lightworker Alchemy 2,” in case you would like to take a look …

Link: “Lightworker Alchemy 2: Tools for Protection – Negative Aliens – Religious Opposition – Are Demons Helpful? – Direct Knowledge of God,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 12 May 2025; published on 14 May 2025; and transcribed on 26 September 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-CuK ..

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God bless you all
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days!

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 26 September 2025

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Paramount Ranch 13: Hawks Are Very Definite Beings . by Alice B. Clagett

Paramount Ranch 13: Hawks Are Very Definite Beings

Image: “Hawk Takeoff 1, Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 5 October 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

  • INTRODUCTION
  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • CONCLUSION
  • VIDEO CREDITS

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

This is the thirteenth video in the Paramount Ranch series. This is about what great historians Hawks are …

VIDEO BY ALICE

CONCLUSION

God bless you all
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days!

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 3 July 2025 and published on 27 July 2025
This is a high definition film.

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“Paramount Ranch 13: Hawks Are Very Definite Beings”
By Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 3 July 2025 and produced on 27 July 2025
Location: Paramount Ranch, Santa Monica Mountains, CA

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Lightworker Alchemy 2: Tools for Protection – Negative Aliens – Religious Opposition – Are Demons Helpful? – Direct Knowledge of God . by Alice B. Clagett

Lightworker Alchemy 2: Tools for Protection - Negative Aliens - Religious Opposition - Are Demons Helpful? - Direct Knowledge of God

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  • INTRODUCTION
  • VIDEO BY ALICE
  • SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
    • INTRODUCTION
    • MY FAVORITES
      • Redux: Misqualified Thought Forms
    • FERAL DRIVES – PACK INSTINCTS
    • HEALTH – HEALING
    • HUMAN SPECIES AND INTERSPECIES AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION
      • The Importance of This Category
      • Human Species Communication
      • Interspecies and Extraterrestrial Communication
        • Negative Earth Animals
        • Negative Alien Beings
    • THE LIGHTWORKER IDEAL OF PEACE ON EARTH
    • MENTAL FILTERS
    • MIND
    • PHYSICS OF ASCENSION: ASTROGEOPHYSICS – DIMENSIONS – TIMELINES – MASTERY OF TIME AND SPACE
    • PROTECTION – SANCTUARY – UPLIFTMENT
    • PSYCHOLOGY – PSYCHIATRY – SPIRITUAL COUNSELING
    • TWO CONFLICTING TOPICS: SELF-HELP VERSUS HELP FROM OTHER PEOPLE
    • RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
    • SOCIAL ISSUES – HUMAN AFFAIRS – SOCIAL PLANNING
    • STAR BEINGS
      • Sidebar: How to Contact the Great Beings Known as the Planets of Our Solar System
    • THEOLOGY
    • MORE MISQUALIFIED THOUGHT FORMS
      • The Difference Between Theology and Theosophy
    • CONCLUSION
    • MORE INFORMATION
  • VIDEO CREDITS

INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

The topic of this video is “Tools for Protection – Negative Aliens – Religious Opposition – Are Demons Helpful? – Direct Knowledge of God.” This is the second of five videos in the Lightworker Alchemy series.

There is an edited Summary after the video.

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

INTRODUCTION

Hello, Dear Ones.

It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

We have been talking about strange thoughts in the noosphere, and how very odd they are … and how unrelated to us as Lightworkers … and whether they have to do with Sympathetic Magic, or maybe Black Magic practices from this country or that.

We have not yet discussed Black Magic from the Philippines. Before we do that, I think it would be a good idea to go over some of the tools in my website “Awakening with Planet Earth” that you can use to rid yourself of upsetting, recurring threads of misqualified noospheric energy in the noosphere.

You will find a tab called “Contents” under “More” on your handheld. Or it may be easily visible on my home page if you are using a PC. That tab includes a long table of Contents from which I am about to offer some examples.

MY FAVORITES

Under the category “My Favorites” are many different subcategories. One interesting subcategory is “Prayers – blessings – mantras – chants – affirmations – white magic – by Alice.”

Those are new ways that I come up with that may allow you to counter the Dark, and to make your energy feel very Light. It might be prayers or blessings or mantras or chants or affirmations or White Magic by me.

By ‘White Magic’ I do not mean White Magic that fights the Dark. I mean White Magic that creates Light.

Redux: Misqualified Thought Forms

In the last video we were talking about some very odd thoughts that I cannot place anywhere. These thoughts sound to me like what animals think; for instance …

  • The thought of throwing urine into a victim’s yard,
  • Or throwing feces into their yard,
  • Or throwing feces at them,
  • Or poisoning the victim’s plants,
  • Or trespassing on their property and vandalizing their property,
  • Or poisoning things inside their house (the thought, not the action),
  • Or having your cat hunt on the victim’s property. Why is that so bad, I wonder?
  • Or throwing rats or rodents into the victim’s yard. Why is that considered so bad? Why do I in fact think of it as being a very bad thing?
  • The notion of acting out rape on another person and visualizing that you are raping the victim;
  • All kinds of curses, like …
    • curses that the victim should fall down,
    • curses that the victim should fall ill,
    • and so on.
  • The notion of sending one’s Spirit (which I think of as the astral body) into the victim’s home to inflict harm on the victim’s wife or children,
  • Or of sending one’s Spirit into a pet of the victim or into a wild animal, and having that animal inflict harm on the victim.

I think that will do for now in terms of misqualified energy. We talked about this last time too.

FERAL DRIVES – PACK INSTINCTS

There is a category that I have in “Awakening with Planet Earth” that might help explain this. The category is “Feral drives – pack instincts.”

At one time, years ago, I found myself channeling all kinds of things about feral drives and pack instincts … mainly without research. It just came to me. But there were also some field trips to zoos in early morning hours in San Diego many, many years ago; and also reading I did about Jane Goodall and her work; and that of other researchers on primate behavior, which led me to an understanding of feral drives and pack instincts.

I think my writings on the topic “Feral drives – pack instincts” might help explain these very ‘out there’ thought forms that seem to be circulating through the noosphere.

‘Feral’ means ‘wild’. It might have to do with  wild instincts, or pack instincts, that were the motivating factor for the behavior of primates before they became human beings. These might be very deep within ourselves. We might be liberating them. We might be transforming them to the Light, and to higher understanding, so that we no longer act them out.

I suggest reading the posts in the category “Feral drives – pack instincts.” That includes the subcategories on …

  • Bonding,” “Competition,”
  • Dominance – submission,” and
  • Pack ordering.”

I think all those would be especially pertinent.

HEALTH – HEALING

Then there is my category “Contents: Health – healing.” In that category there is quite a bit. Among the available choices I suggest …

  • Activations of Light and Invocations,”
  • Languages of Light and Sound,” and
  • Physical Regeneration.”

That is because these are relatively new methods of healing the physical body and maintaining personal health that have been conveyed or channeled by the Lightworkers for all humankind.

I will read them to you again …

  • “Activations of Light and Invocations,”
  •  “Languages of Light and Sound,” and
  • “Physical Regeneration.”

These are in the larger category “Contents: Health – healing.”

HUMAN SPECIES AND INTERSPECIES AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION

The Importance of This Category

There is a category called “Contents: Human Species and Interspecies and Extraterrestrial Communication.” If, as a Lightworker, you would like to know whether animals have been grabbed by a Black Magic person and caused to attempt to inflict harm on you … spiritually, mentally, emotionally, or physically … then it might be good to know what the animals are saying to you.

In the category “Contents: Human Species and Interspecies and Extraterrestrial Communication,” there are many examples of what animals are speaking … transcriptions of what they are saying.

These transcriptions, along with the videos, allow you, as a human being, to develop the Ascension gift of Universal Translation. (For more on this see my blog category “Universal Translator from the Alpha Centauri star library.”)

Once you do that, you will know whether you need to do one of the Lightworker activities, such as Activations of Light, Invocations of Light, Languages of Light, or Languages of Sound, in order to heal yourself and prevent that from happening, so that you can arise above that and beyond that, to the greater Light.

Human Species Communication

It is our right, as Ascending human beings, to know the languages of all the beings of Earth, and of all the extraterrestrial beings … whether they be negative or positive extraterrestrial beings.

Once we see the Light, and hear the Light, and understand the Light, then we can have a positive effect on the Light. We have to understand what is happening in order to know that we rise beyond that through alignment with God or through the help of our Ascension team, or through change-up in the Dimensions and Timelines … whatever method we choose.

So we recognize when there is danger, and we turn to the Light. This category “Contents: Human Species and Interspecies and Extraterrestrial Communication” can do that for us. It can lay the groundwork for an understanding of where we are at this moment in this dual Universe … so that we maintain form; so that we stay healthy; so that we can do the work that we were sent here to do.

Also in that category is a discussion of “Subconscious and Unconscious Symbolism.” That category is for human beings, so that we can rise to an understanding of our subconscious and unconscious minds; so that we can move past that, to our higher minds; and so that we can avoid acting on the basis of things that we do not even know exist in our own energy fields.

Interspecies and Extraterrestrial Communication

Then as far as Interspecies Communication is concerned: A lot has been made of Negative Alien Beings. And a lot ought have been made of Positive Alien Beings … of Christed Alien Species without whose help we would not be here now.

There are, here on Earth, many beings … including reptiles and insects, among others … and including hostile micro-organisms, that work against our survival here on Earth. Everyone knows this.

Overlighting all those beings are Negative Alien Beings.

Negative Earth Animals. We all know to stay away from ants and termites and very aggressive bees and giant reptiles on foreign islands and venomous snakes and hungry mountain lions … and all the beings that threaten our survival on Earth.

When we stay away from those beings, we stay away from the influence of Negative Alien Beings. Do you see?

Nevertheless, it is very good to know the language of the hostile beings on Earth. In doing that, we also can counteract the overlighting Spirits of these beings, which are what popular literature calls ‘Aliens’ in a misguided attempt to use those Alien spirits to wage war against other human beings.

Negative Alien Beings. We human beings need to unite together to keep at bay the Negative Alien Beings which overlight the hostile beings … the predators that might prey upon humans. Here in the cities of Earth it is very easy to forget how many of these there are.

-It might be mold on barley.
– It might be infestations on our crops. It might be great flocks of grasshoppers that come down and eat our crops.
– It might be the great predators of the wild that will grab us if we find ourselves suddenly in the wilderness without support of what comes so easily to our aid in the cities.
– It might be the lack of medicine in rural locations, leading to our murder by hostile micro-organisms.

The idea that Negative Alien Beings will help us to fight other people is an irrelevant notion. The Negative Alien Beings are the forces destroy modern society … that destroy our lives … that destroy civilization.

THE LIGHTWORKER IDEAL OF PEACE ON EARTH

If we band together with other cultures that promote harmony in the world, then we will be doing a better job than if we were trying to fight other cultures.

If there are cultures that are overlit by these beings, then I can see that there might be a problem.

We as Lightworkers feel, not in fighting the Dark, but in increasing the Light. So the things that we do to increase our Light we feel will increase the Light of the World, and promote Peace and loving relationships between nations. We think these are more important than fighting.

On the other hand there are times … as everyone knows … when people must fight in order to preserve their own countries. We hope it will not come down to that. But instead, we hope that the things which people choose to watch, on their free time, on television, might promote a notion of Peace and inspiration for all the peoples of Earth, instead of casting Darkness into the noosphere.

It is hard to find that kind of viewing on television or in the movies. But the things that we choose to do … no matter how hard they are to find … might bring joy into our lives, and joy into our neighborhoods, and joy everywhere on Earth.

These are things that we can always choose to do.

You would be surprised how much our joy affects the joy of everyone everywhere … more so than self-defense. But here in this world and in these times, I admit that we must first set a state of survival for ourselves … and from there, move into joy.

MENTAL FILTERS

Now let’s go back to the categories you may find helpful …

There is a category called “Mental Filters.” I came up with this category to show how we come up with notions bubbling up from the subconscious mind, which then automatically influence our conscious behavior.

If you read a few of the Mental Filters described in that category, I think you will get an understanding of your own ‘jack-in=the=boxes’ that spring forth from your subconscious mind and suddenly cause you to act in a certain way.

That might then give you a chance to act rationally, where other people may not be acting rational, and not to be influenced by these weird snippets of information floating around in the noosphere.

MIND

Coming up next: The category “Contents: Mind.” In that category I suggest the subcategory “Mastery of Mind.” If you read that subcategory through, that will help, because we must master our own Minds in order not to be influenced by other people who want to master us.

We must stand with and for ourselves, in the Light of God, in order to prevent other people from tainting our energy field with Darkness. We have to have a notion what we are a stand-alone feature of our energy field.

We stand alone, with God. None other may injure us. Only God is there with us. He is there with us throughout this experience of this reality and this incarnation.

“Mastery of Mind.” That is the subcategory.

PHYSICS OF ASCENSION: ASTROGEOPHYSICS – DIMENSIONS – TIMELINES – MASTERY OF TIME AND SPACE

Then there is a section “Contents: Physics of Ascension: Astrogeophysics – Dimensions – Timelines – Mastery of Time and Space.” That whole section is extremely important to the Lightworker.

It is new information that is channeled by me … sometimes by others … sometimes we band together and channel things. Why not read that one through? Whatever strikes you as especially important.

PROTECTION – SANCTUARY – UPLIFTMENT

In terms of protecting ourselves from noospheric misqualified energy, there is a blog category called “Contents: Protection – sanctuary – upliftment.” This includes, for instance, meditations, prayers, prophecy, songs, and stories. All these will be helpful. These are for inspiration.

PSYCHOLOGY – PSYCHIATRY – SPIRITUAL COUNSELING

Then there is a blog category “Contents: Psychology – Psychiatry – Spiritual Counseling.” I vote for Spiritual Counseling. But others may like Psychology and Psychiatry. It is up to you. The category is there for you to peruse.

I think you will find many new things in it … things at which you may raise an eyebrow. These are tools available for free at my website.

TWO CONFLICTING TOPICS: SELF-HELP VERSUS HELP FROM OTHER PEOPLE

Reading again these two conflicting topics … or you might say, complementing each other: “Contents: Protection – sanctuary – upliftment.” That is one. “Contents: Psychology – Psychiatry – Spiritual Counseling.” That is another.

One is self-help. And the other is help from other people.

RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD

Just beneath that is the category “Contents: Religions of the World” … whatever religion appeals to you. I find interesting “Esoteric lore – occult mysteries – arcana.” That is because there are certain insights in that subcategory that supplement the world religions.

The thing about religion is that a lot of people think religion is the only answer.

But for the Lightworker a lot of the time religion is an impediment to bringing in the Light. That is because people often identify social values with religion. They mistake faith for institutions or for people in high places in institutions. They mistake faith for a building or a congregation.

Faith has to do with the presence of God in our hearts. Insofar as attendance in a church increases faith in God, then that church is useful to us … the Lightworkers … in bringing in the Light.

The minute that there are conspiracies and plots, or diminution of the Light, or an attempt to grab the Lightworker and put him or her in a Lightless cage, then religion ceases to be helpful to us.

The problem, as I see it, is that religion is an earthly institution, and that God stands beyond all that. Somehow we have to spring out of that trap of religion and find in ourselves the guiding Light of the foundation of all religions: the existence of God within us and beyond us.

If we can then attend a church service, or go to temple, read esoteric lore, or whatever it is … and not be caught within that box … but still remembering the Light as it comes down through us … If we can do that, then it is safe to go to church or temple or wherever it is. If we cannot, then we have to steer clear.

A lot of people going through this Ascension process find within their church nurturing and sustenance sufficient to their need in Ascending. It is up to you.

It’s like Jesus Christ in the temple: Lightworkers, like He, are cast out as pariahs, and so forth. Their Light is too great.

If that is the case for you, then try not to worry about it. Just go and worship in the temple of nature. Or worship in your own home. Make your house a great and beautiful place where God can reside with you. If you pray for those people in those other places during their time of worship, maybe that will help too.

So there is more than one way to do it. There are those that feel safer in a church or temple, and those that are cast out from that environment. And there may be churches and faiths where you as a Lightworker are welcome.

SOCIAL ISSUES – HUMAN AFFAIRS – SOCIAL PLANNING

I see, in the table of Contents, quite a few categories that are not that important because they are bound by time and space.

Contents: Social issues – human affairs – social planning” is a huge category. It includes things like …

  • Culture,”
  • Economics – economy,”
  • Government,” “History

… things that a lot of people find very interesting, but which are not too important to the Lightworker. We Lightworkers find these of less interest because they are topics specific to a particular timeline and dimensions. And we rise past that, as Lightworkers.

It is okay to look at this category, but it is not too important, I feel. The full name of the category, again, is “Contents: Social issues – human affairs – social planning.” You could put that on the back burner and save it for later on.

STAR BEINGS

Beneath that category is “Contents: Star Beings.” That is quite interesting to most Lightworkers.

I work with some of the Star Beings. But you may find most of that information elsewhere, with others of the Lightworkers. I suggest you just see what I have. It may supplement what you know.

There is a subcategory “Planets – Council of Nine.” That has to do with the Planets in our star system.

The Planets themselves are great beings. And the Sun is a great being. That is the basis for the notion of Astrology.

You as a Lightworker can come in contact with those great beings known as Planets … with the Sun itself … and with the Planets and Suns of other star systems. You can do that.

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Sidebar: How to Contact the Great Beings Known as the Planets of Our Solar System

How can we contact and speak with the Planets of our Solar System? The answers are here ….

Link: “Compendium: Lightworker Homework,” by Alice B. Clagett, compiled and published on 20 June 2022; revised on 14 July 2023 and on 11 September 2024 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-rqc ..

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That will help rise you to rise above social issues, human affairs, and social planning. You will be in the Greater Light, far beyond what we call the ‘passing show’. So you might want to take a look at “Planets – Council of Nine,” which, as mentioned above, is a subcategory of the category “Star Beings.”

THEOLOGY

Another interesting category is “Contents: Theology.” That has to do with the study of God.

It is because of Theology that we have the current conflict in urban environments, and in countries like Brazil and the Philippines, between the Angelic Realm and the Demonic Realm.

If people were not so crushed together, I think they would immediately come to an understanding that alliance with the Angelic Realm is far preferable to alliance with the Demonic Realm.

Through the Angelic Realm we can live healthy, happy, fulfilled lives. But through alliance with the Demonic Realm we descend into Darkness.

All the Lightworkers know this. And yet, in the big cities … for instance, Los Angeles, here in the United States … or in Brazil, or in the Philippines, and in many other places on Earth … there is a great conflict with the Demonic Realm.

That conflict has established itself with some of the people, and is warring with the Angelic Realm. If you are a Lightworker, it is quite a Light show. It is quite incredible sometimes.

But we, as Lightworkers, need to detach ourselves from that fight.

The Dark always wants to war with the Light. But, as you know, the minute you walk into a Dark room and turn on the Light, the Dark flees. The Dark has no chance, really.

Only by marrying the Dark to cause-and-effect do we meld our energy with the Dark and come out with Grey-Grey.

That is not a good idea for a Lightworker. Do not turn the Light halfway on by fighting the Dark, here in the big cities of Earth. Rise past that, to the Light. And from the Light … from the Light of God … cast down Light upon Earth.

Do not argue with the Dark. So they say. For instance, on the astral plane I am hearing, “I will throw urine onto your tomato plants.” If I keep hearing this, over and over again, I will just remove my tomato plants. I can buy tomatoes at the store. I can buy them at the farmers’ market. I do not have to deal with this terrible thought.

I do not have to war with anybody. I can just take whatever action allows me to bring in the Light, and be joyful.

I have been hearing, on the astral plane, “I will trespass on your property and vandalize it.” I can hear this, year after year, or I can just make my fence a little higher. I can create an impediment that then gives me peace of mind.

I do not need to war. I can come up with a workaround.

MORE MISQUALIFIED THOUGHT FORMS

Back to those misqualified thought forms that have been circulating through the noosphere … Here is one: “I will send my hostile Spirit into your cat. While you are sleeping, the cat will give you nightmares.”

Okay, I can deal with that! The cat will not come into my bedroom at night.

If things get really awful sometimes … during certain states of the sphere of Earth … and if your cat is susceptible to things like that … you can leave your cat in the bathroom at night or when you are resting. Leave it with plenty of food and water and with a litter box. Make sure it is warm enough or cool enough in the bathroom. And so forth. Make it a nice place to be for your cat.

Then sleep someplace far from your cat. In that way you can prevent that from happening.

Unfortunately, lower animals are subject to Dark influences.

We in human form have the distinction of being able to use our higher minds and our very highest minds to influence the Darkness of our subconscious and unconscious minds, and to evade the Darkness on Earth. We do that with the help of others, who are much more Bright than we.

The idea here is that there is a Demonic Realm. There is an Angelic Realm. We invoke the Angels. We do not fight the Dark.

The Dark hopes that we will fight it. But we flood Light through Earth … just as turning on a Light switch in a Dark room would do. We create conditions that are safe for ourselves … safe for animals … safe for everybody on Earth.

We can do that.

GOD – SOURCE

Under the subcategory “God – Source,” there is a category called “Karma – incarnations – reincarnation – causal reality.” This is helpful to the Lightworker because an understanding of causal reality gives us an understanding of when we are in a Causal Trap; when we need to invoke a Higher Power to spring us out of the Causal Trap, the Karmic Trap, into the realm of Dharma … into the realm of blessed Light.

In that general category to do with “Karma – incarnations – reincarnation – causal reality,” there are two sub- subcategories that are good.

One is the “Glom Effect,” which can cause some right bad Ascension symptoms. We as Lightworkers want to escape from the “Glom Effect.”

Another sub- subcategory is “Grouping – leadership.” Grouping and leadership are that through which we Lightworkers. Many other people gang up against us in a glom effect to do with the misqualified energies coming in on the astral airs. These gangs of people try to convince us to group … to be led … and not to seek beyond Earthly power till we find God.

So these two subcategories … “Glom Effect” and “Grouping – leadership” … deserve a look by Lightworkers.

The Difference Between Theology and Theosophy. Also under “God – Source” is a sub- subcategory called “Theosophy – direct knowledge of God.”

You will notice the difference between “Theology” … which is teaching about God or wisdom about God … and “Theosophy” … which is direct knowledge of God. I am greatly in favor of Theosophy. But it is not for everybody. A lot of people want to read about it and believe it just as it is written down by others who were Theosophists. It is okay to take that path as well.

CONCLUSION

Let’s end for now. Next time, in the next video, we will begin with a favorite category of mine, called “Contents: Transcending the Dark – Courage Under Fire – Spiritual Warfare – Demon Wars.”

God bless you all
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 12 May 2025; published on 14 May 2025; and transcribed on 26 September 2025; revised on 7 October 2025
This is a high-definition film.

NOTE: As of 22 March 2026 the category: Human species and interspecies and extraterrestrial communication has been changed to Human species and interspecies and extraterrestrial communication – Universal kinship – All-sentience – Moral inclusivity – Non-speciesism ..

MORE INFORMATION

Names of my recommended blog categories and subcategories are in light blue font above. You can search my site to find the category or subcategory by that name. Also see …

Link: “Sympathetic Magic,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_magic ..

Link: “Witchcraft in the Philippines,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_in_the_Philippines ..

Here is the link list for the entire Lightworker Alchemy Series … Link: “Tiny Anthology: Lightworker Alchemy Video Series,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 7 October 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-EEa ..

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“Lightworker Alchemy 2: Tools for Protection – Negative Aliens – Religious Opposition – Are Demons Helpful? – Direct Knowledge of God ”
By Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 12 May 2025 and produced on 14 May 2025
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett

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Black Magic: Psychic Swooning as a Prelude to Murder? . by Alice B. Clagett *

Likely no one before me has offered a first-hand description of themselves as a victim of psychic swooning before. Here you are then, my own perilous tale of encounter with a black magic cult!

I intuit as a Lightworker that black magic cults may prepare to induce the psychic swoon by offering a human sacrifice, or by torturing a human being. Needless to say, as a Lightworker I am completely opposed to using these black magic techniques. Please mark my words: Those who use them may well end up behind bars!

Dear Ones,

Here is another of my ‘perilous tales’. These are dangerous events, whether psychical or physical, that have occurred in my life in my life (but thankfully, not in very recent times).

I was just now thinking today about the most curious instances of ‘swooning’ that I experienced in the years 2012-2015 when I went to the meditations of a neo-Hindu group in West Los Angeles and also in the Wild West. I had never ‘swooned’ before, but I ‘semi-swooned’ so many times during those meditations that I finally drew pictures of the events that took place in the Wild West …

Black Magic: Psychic Swooning as a Prelude to Murder?

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, seated.

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, seated.

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Black Magic drawing: Swooning

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, seated, leaning forward.

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, seated, leaning forward.

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Black Magic drawing: Swooning

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, eyes closed, falling forward off a chair.

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man

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Black Magic drawing: Swooning

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com … DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, falling forward off a chair, eyes wide open.

Drawing: “The ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 1 February 2020, CC BY-SA 4.0, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com

DESCRIPTION: Top: Five seated people; from left, a man, a woman, a wolf-man, and two women. Lower left: A woman, shown in profile, falling forward off a chair, eyes wide open.

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These ‘swooning’ events were unprecedented in my life … they had not happened before I attended the meditations, and the have not happened since.

I recall, one evening during meditation class in the Wild West, asking the leader of the meditation group about them: What is it that happened just now?

He said, with an expression of disdain on his face, (and I paraphrase): This is just something that you are working through right now. When you get over it, we will go on.

At the time, I believed him; it must be just something I was working through. But later events, and later reading I undertook, have led me to think otherwise.

As I recalled, two of the women in the Wild West group had studied with Indian spiritual teachers. One of those was a revered sculptor and spiritual teacher, who has since passed on. The other, I regret to say I cannot remember his name. Then there were the Indian saints whose images were on display in the meditation rooms. I had to admit I did not know much about any of those spiritual teachers. What might have their personalities been like; what were their social values, their ethics?

Did they feel themselves (as did the leader of that spiritual group in the Wild West) to be above right and wrong? What form might fundraising take in a spiritual group with that philosophy, and whose leader might be an adept at mind control, or psychokinesis, or able to stop the heart beat, or able briefly to obsess other people, or able to induce psychic swooning, or capable of other psychic skills?

I recalled how I had been the only newcomer in the meditations, both in Los Angeles and in the Wild West. I remembered how I was not allowed to speak with the other meditators, and how they never chatted socially with me before or after class. I remembered how I would raise my hand in the Wild West class, and the meditation leader would call on others whose hands were raised, but not me. They were all so very unapproachable; could it be they had a secret to hide?

I had felt surrounded by enigmatic people who, it seemed, had known each other for many years. Could it possibly have been that the Wild West leader of the group had told them not to speak to the new people because they would soon disappear? That he did not want their feelings to be ruffled, or group cohesion to be lessened, by the murder of newcomers? Definitely, there was an air of secrecy … of a secret so deep I might never hope to fathom it.

I began to wonder if the psychic swoon was a ‘black art’ practiced in India by some spiritual teachers, so as to keep food on their tables. For instance, I imagined there might be Indian spiritual teachers who had lured Western women to their lands, perhaps with a promise of marriage. I imagined they might have murdered these women, one after the other … like the husband in the children’s fable about the ruthless man named Blue-Beard with a rapacious twist … for the money in their wallets, then distill their bodily remains into a filtrate to water their gardens. What odd thoughts were those, I wondered?

I wondered if the wandering rishis of India might be feared by the people of that land because of their black magic talents, because, perhaps, their psychic stare might make the beholder become suddenly mad, or might make her have a psychic heart attack, or might make her hand over large sums of money, simply through what is termed ‘mental suggestion’ or ‘mesmerism’.

I also wondered if all India knows about the dangers of running across black magicians, and whether they might have forced the most dangerous of these psychic wunderkinder to leave India and migrate to other countries over the centuries. Could it be, I wondered, that some of the neo-Hindu spiritual teachers who migrated to the United States in the 1900s were blackballed for practice of the psychic arts in India, and exiled to our shores, where they were welcomed by hosts of impressionable young women?

I found an article from the year 1911 describing what was then thought to be such practices in New England …

Link: “The Heathen Invasion: American Women Losing Fortunes and Reason Seeking the Eternal Youth Promised by the Swarthy Priests of the Far East,” by Mabel Potter Daggett, in ‘Hampton Columbian Magazine,” Donald Wayne Castellano-Hoyt, Editor, Vol. XXVII, No. 4, October 1911, pp 399-411 … https://books.google.com/books?id=iUdFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA399&lpg=PA399&dq=mabel+daggett+heathen+invasion+hampton&source=bl&ots=CrZw7NYjp_&sig=d2DqKSpXoKSnhLUjAdKO7hCfb3k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL0PqI0PvbAhXKx4MKHXT7CXcQ6AEINzAD#v=onepage&q=mabel%20daggett%20heathen%20invasion%20hampton&f=false  ..

I read therein the implication that Eastern holy men had been taking, each to himself, many New England spinsters as wives. The article described certain tantric practices [I presume those to be Red Tantra and Black Tantra, described elsewhere in my blog] as the ‘left hand’ worship of the goddess Kali. The ‘right hand’ worship of Kali was said to be that of carnage and slaughter.

Could it be, then, that some neo-Hindu spiritual groups of that time, or perhaps for the more than a century span from 1911 till today, have been practicing Red Tantra and Black Tantra in the United States, along with murder … whether psychic or physical … as a black art acceptable to them in a philosophical sense, under the guise of the worship of the goddess Kali, for those who practice Red Tantra … or maybe under the guise of the wordship of the god Shiva, for those who practice Black Tantra? Could there possibly be neo-Hindu assassin cults flourishing for more than a century here in the United States?

Setting these startling ruminations to one side, I picked up the Hampton Columbian Magazine story once more. I read of Miss Sarah Farmer of New England, who gave up her fortune so that Green Acre (a place where many famous people got together) might be founded. It was said that her explorations into exotic religions eventually unbalanced her mind, with the result that she became an inmate of an insane asylum in Waverly, Massachusetts.

Then there was Miss Aloise Reuss, who though raised in a refined way, began screaming and praying in a Mazdaznan Temple of the Sun and was incarcerated in an Illinois asylum.

Then there was Mrs. Ole Bull, who inherited a considerable fortune from her husband, who passed away. In Mrs. Bull’s home was said to be a meditation chamber visited by Swami Vivekenanda and then later Swami Abhedenanda, whom she may have met at Green Acre.

Upon the death of Mrs. Ole Bull, her Will was found to bequeath several hundred thousand dollars to the Vedantist Society. After what must have been heated legal arguments, and a great deal of local press, the courts set that Will aside on grounds of mental incapacity and undue influence.

But on the very day the verdict against the Vedantist Society was rendered, Mrs. Bull’s daughter, Mrs. Olea Bull Vaughn, died, purportedly of a broken heart.

I gathered, then, there might be some popular understanding and legal underpinning for the notion that the spiritual teachers who migrated to the United States might, through ‘mental suggestion’ or ‘mesmerism’, influence the minds of impressionable women to give them money or land. Were that to be so, then I suggest that getting them physically away from the injuring psychics would, with time, most certainly restore them to mental and spiritual health.

This matched an event in my own psychic experience, to do with another neo-Hindu spiritual group in the year 2011. What could it be about the 11th year of a century, I wonder? Could that an unlucky year, from the standpoint of undue influence of the black arts upon innocent women? For me, I recall it was in the year 2011 that I felt suddenly and inexplicably to have fallen under the influence of a mesmerist, or perhaps a group of six to 15 mesmerists, all practicing the black arts together.

It seemed to me, through clair hearing, that this group had fallen upon hard times financially, and must have decided to use psychic ‘crowding’ to extort money so as to keep out of ‘the red’. I recall making a clair deal with them, to give them what was to me a large sum of money, with the understanding that they would then cease to harass me on the psychic plane.

When I mailed them the money, the psychic din grew 10 times more angry. I became convinced that this spiritual group had been raiding people’s bank accounts and forcing them to flee from Los Angeles for years, under threat of death. I thought that those whom they had victimized, and who had the courage to bring the issue of psychic extortion to the court system, might have been trounced through the group’s mind control of judge and jury during trials.

In a state of psychic terror I never before or since experienced, I fled from Los Angeles. En route, I spoke with a family member about the extorted money. They called the group, and arranged for the money to be returned to me. But, I felt, because of their courageous phone call, I and my family might have endured the wrath of the psychics there all these years. That is for nearly 10 years now. Although the psychic pressure abated for me in the year 2016, it takes merely the thought of the neo-Hindu groups I encountered back then, or their mention in one of my blogs, for an echo of that psychic fury to impinge upon my energy fields.

I shall set aside my personal story, and continue with the fruits of the reading I did on the topic of psychic crime …

I came across some drawings of members of Thuggee Cults of India, which fall upon travelers and murder them, and steal their money …

Black Magic drawing: Swooning

Image: “Thugs Blinding and Mutilating Traveler,” by Unknown artist, 1829–1840, scanned from plate between pages 80 and 81 of Citation: Peers, Douglas M. (2006). India under colonial rule: 1700-1885. Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-31738-3 … from English Wikipedia …  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thugs_Blinding_and_Mutilating_Traveller.JPG … public domain … DESCRIPTION: The travelers are dressed as Hindu Brahmins … COMMENT: From my own experience with psychic assault, I surmise these thugs, led by a ‘thuggee guru’, may have been able to sneak up on their victims by inducing a ‘psychic swoon’ through the use of black magic.

Image: “Thugs Blinding and Mutilating Traveler,” by Unknown artist, 1829–1840, scanned from plate between pages 80 and 81 of Citation: Peers, Douglas M. (2006). India under colonial rule: 1700-1885. Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-31738-3 … from English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thugs_Blinding_and_Mutilating_Traveller.JPG … public domain …

DESCRIPTION: The travelers are dressed as Hindu Brahmins …

COMMENT: From my own experience with psychic assault, I surmise these thugs, led by a ‘thuggee guru’, may have been able to sneak up on their victims by inducing a ‘psychic swoon’ through the use of black magic.

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Black Magic drawing: Swooning

Image: “A group of Thugs strangling a traveller on a highway in India in the early 19th century,” by Anonymous Indian artist. Made for Capt. James Paton, Assistant to the British Resident at Lucknow, 1829-1840, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thugs_Strangling_Traveller.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: “A groups of Thugs strangling a traveller on a highway in India in the early 19th century. One member of the group is gripping the traveller’s feet, another his hands, while a third member is tightening the ligature around the traveller’s neck.” … COMMENTS: From my own experience with psychic assault, I surmise these thugs, led by a ‘thuggee guru’, may have been able to sneak up on their victims by inducing a ‘psychic swoon’ through the use of black magic.

Image: “A group of Thugs strangling a traveller on a highway in India in the early 19th century,” by Anonymous Indian artist. Made for Capt. James Paton, Assistant to the British Resident at Lucknow, 1829-1840, from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thugs_Strangling_Traveller.jpg … public domain …

DESCRIPTION: “A groups of Thugs strangling a traveller on a highway in India in the early 19th century. One member of the group is gripping the traveller’s feet, another his hands, while a third member is tightening the ligature around the traveller’s neck.” …

COMMENTS: From my own experience with psychic assault, I surmise these thugs, led by a ‘thuggee guru’, may have been able to sneak up on their victims by inducing a ‘psychic swoon’ through the use of black magic.

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It occurred to me that these Thuggee Cults of India might be inducing in travelers the very ‘psychic swoon’ I had experienced while meditating with the first-mentioned spiritual group in Los Angeles and the Wild West.

What do you think, dear reader? Could there be such a thing as the ‘psychic swoon’? Might it be employed by members of a spiritual group so as to sneak up on, murder, and rob an unsuspecting traveler in foreign lands?

From my own stance, I hope everyone in the United States, will soon be well informed of the misery entailed should people be targeted in by those neo-Hindus who practice the black arts.

It goes without saying, far from all neo-Hindu spiritual groups practice psychic terrorism. But from my personal experience, I reluctantly surmise there are some that do so, even on our shores.

Knowledge is power, is it not? Without knowledge, the odds are too great for us to seek redress. That is why I added my large category Transcending the Dark – Courage Under Fire – Spiritual Warfare – Demon Wars  to this website … so that my readers may gain the knowledge needed to counteract such groups, should they have the misfortune to encounter them.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 15 December 2020; revised on 27 September 2023; revised on 17 October 2024

See also … Link: “Catastrophic Childhood Case Studies: Heart Vampire 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 13 December 2020; revised … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-l0W ..

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Link: “Schadenfreude and the ‘Bow Down to Me’ 3-Part Football Play,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 13 November 2013; revised and republished on 5 June 2017 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-7ia ..

Link: “The Hindu Psychic Crime Scandal of 1911,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 2 July 2018 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-9tv ..

Link: “Psychic Murder . Physical Murder . Thuggees,” by Alice B. Clagett, filmed on 16 August 2015; published on 17 August 2015 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-3SY ..

Link: “Thuggee,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee ..

Link: “Compendium: Psychic Murder – Bow Down to Me! Psychic Swoon,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 17 July 2020; updated … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-jc6 ..

Link: “The Story of Blue-Beard by Charles Perrault, in Project Guttenberg …   https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44288 ..

Also search these categories in my blog: Black TantraRed Tantra …  and  … Reverse Kundalini

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Libertarianism: The New Look of America . by Alice B. Clagett *

I am making this blog into a video series. I am slowly adding the videos to this blog.

Dear Ones,

INTRODUCTION: SIGNS OF ECONOMIC STRESSORS IN THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

First I have for you three signs of economic stressors in the United States Federal Government that I noticed …

1. ECONOMIC STRESSORS THAT MAY LEAD TO DECENTRALIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT          top

I have some thoughts on the state of the nation. Intuitively, I sense economic stressors that may gradually lead to our Federal government taking a lesser role in the governance of the United States, compared to the role of regional alliances of states.

Just to put this into perspective, this might be more of a Libertarian notion as a way of the ruling of the United States, still within the plan of our democracy, but rather different in emphasis from what we have known for a long time as the Democratic / Republican dichotomy.

All this time, Greenpeace and Libertarianism have been on our ballots, so we know they are a part of our democratic process. Only the look and feel of them is quite different, and it may cause us to wonder what is happening in the coming years.

In the coming times, I see the Federal government continuing to provide military defense, social security payments, and leadership in foreign affairs. I also see states taking more initiative in regard to economics for their regions.

As to trade, I see future reliance on established railroad routes and water routes such as the Mississippi River. I anticipate that, should there be a gradual lessening of Federal power, then there might be more trade within an economic region, and less trade globally and nationally.

As to finance, I see potential reliance on barter, with care not to place our financial assets in overseas locations. Local-employment-based credit unions may come into favor as regional savings repositories.

There may be more reliance on those economic sectors that hold strong during recessions … such as locally grown food, locally obtainable building materials, and water supplies not piped in over long distances.

As to economic stressors, I suggest the overarching stressor of the COVID-19 pandemic, the slowly building economic impact of the HIV pandemic, and stress of regional aridity due to long-distance water transport costs,

A socially disruptive stressor is handheld psychosis, which may lead to chaotic events such as mass murders and actions by public utilities, local law enforcement, and the military regarding perceived dangers that do not truly exist. This might precipitate social unrest, especially in regions of the United States pinpointed by the Jade Helm exercises.

2. CAVEATS REGARDING POSSIBLE LOCI OF SOCIAL UNREST          top

In United States cities, the high cost of housing and the increasing phenomenon of homelessness may lead to social unrest and attempted land grabs through anarchist behavior; this is something for which, I feel, every large city mayor and every state government ought to have on hand emergency action plans.

For states in arid regions, emergency anti-anarchist plans ought, I feel, to highlight security of water transport systems. Electrical grids, I feel, might also be an anarchist target.

I have a few examples for you, state by state …

In California, I see a rekindling of the Latin American ideal of revolutionary ardor, with possible attempts by undocumented workers … or documented workers fleeing from crimes in their homelands under false names. These energies might, for instance, take the form of faking murders of homeowners under pretense of COVID deaths. The intent might be a fast flip of real estate for profit for a revolutionary cause. Or such an attempt might be made so as to charge revolutionaries rent on homes acquired through COVID murder. Such murders might take place under the aegis of religious righteousness … or what I might term leftwing terrorism.

In others of the United States, there may be similar energies of fake COVID deaths to espouse other causes, such as black militance, white supremacy, and so on.

In Utah, there might be a Mormon separatist energy because of the seditionist history I have read took place with the founder of Mormonism. (I read that in Wikipedia.)

In Florida, there might be attempts on political power by drug lords from countries to the south. And so on.

We people in large United States cities can be a big help in creating peaceful environments for our children by offering our law enforcement departments volunteer help through neighborhood watch programs.

3. ON MAINTAINING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE IN THE FACE OF CHANGE          top

It seems unlikely to me that anything would happen in a moment; rather I feel that the United States might very slowly tend towards a model of government more akin to the state by state model of our early years as a nation. We may find, in future, that traveling from one state to the next is a refreshingly new experience. Not everyone may be watching the same thing on television every night anymore; there may be less airline flights from here to there; and so the natural flavor and local color of each region of the United States may become more striking to the casual tourist.

In addition, it may be that some regions of the United States may be more perilous (that is, more dangerous) for tourist travel, as was the case for travelers in the early years of our nation.

I realize the prospect of change can be unsettling. It is good to keep in mind that changes such as those spoken of … if, indeed, change there be … would in all likelihood take place by slow stages, over the course of the next century or two. Thus I feel certain there would be plenty of time to make our plans and find our footing in the new.

4. POSSIBLE FUTURE UNITED STATES ECONOMIC REGIONS AND TRADE REGIONS          top

This section has a series of maps that I have adapted to show possible United States economic regions and trade regions of the centuries that are to come. I would be interested in your comments regarding this intriguing topic of the eventual possibility that the United States government might become less centralized, and more imbued with local flavor and with the strong spirit of our local communities.

HIV-AIDS Pandemic Economic Stressor 1: One Eastern Economic Region Including the Southern States and the Eastern Seaboard

The first map looks like this …

Image: “HIV Pandemic Economic Stressor 1: One Eastern Economic Region Including the Southern States and the Eastern Seaboard,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: To the right of the white line, One Eastern Economic Region including the Southern states and the Eastern Seaboard … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons …

Image: “HIV Pandemic Economic Stressor 1: One Eastern Economic Region Including the Southern States and the Eastern Seaboard,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: To the right of the white line, One Eastern Economic Region including the Southern states and the Eastern Seaboard …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg  … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

You can see a topographical map of the United States that also shows the aridity … the rainfall. States that are green have more rainfall; states that are yellow, less; and states that are red, very little rainfall. Then I have drawn a white line showing an economic region that includes the Eastern Seaboard and the Southern states.

These states are very much affected right now … more so than the other states …  by the HIV and AIDS pandemic. And my thought was that that might act as a stressor that would consolidate that group of states into an economic region …

HIV-AIDS Pandemic Economic Stressor 2: An Eastern Seaboard Economic Region and a Southern Economic Region

This map encompasses the same general region as the prior map, but it is divided into two economic regions. To the right is the Eastern Seaboard, and to the bottom left, the Southern states. There is a yellow line between the two economic regions  …

Image: “HIV Pandemic Economic Stressor 2: An Eastern Seaboard Economic Region and a Southern Economic Region,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: To the right of the white line, the earlier Eastern Economic Region divided by the yellow line into two smaller regions: an Eastern Seaboard Region and a Southern Region  … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg  … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “HIV Pandemic Economic Stressor 2: An Eastern Seaboard Economic Region and a Southern Economic Region,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: To the right of the white line, the earlier Eastern Economic Region divided by the yellow line into two smaller regions: an Eastern Seaboard Economic Region and a Southern Economic Region  …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg  … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

So that would be two regions with their own special, local flavor, their own trade agreements; and maybe closely aligned with inter-region trade agreements.

Western Economic and Cultural Stressors: Northwest Economic Region and California Central Valley Economic Region

The below map deals with the West Coast. It shows two economic regions set apart from the rest of the United States with white lines. The upper one is the Northwest Economic Region, and the lower one is the California Central Valley Economic Region …

Image: “Western Economic and Cultural Stressors,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Along the Pacific Coast, two regions delineated by white lines. To the north is the Northwest Economic Region, including the parts of Washington state and Oregon with good rainfall. To the South is the California Central Valley Economic Region (also with good rainfall) … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “Western Economic and Cultural Stressors: Northwest Economic Region and California Central Valley Economic Region,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: Along the Pacific Coast, two regions delineated by white lines. To the north is the Northwest Economic Region, including the parts of Washington state and Oregon with good rainfall. To the South is the California Central Valley Economic Region (also with good rainfall)  …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg  … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Jade Helm Stressors: A Utah-Colorado Trade Region; a Texas Trade Region; a Mexican Trade Corridor; and a Florida-Caribbean Trade Corridor

This is an interesting map. The Description is below the image …

Image: “Jade Helm Stressors: A Utah-Colorado Trade Region; a Texas Trade Region; a Mexican Trade Corridor; and a Florida-Caribbean Trade Corridor,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Circled in yellow are two possible regions that might secede from the Union, but with which reciprocal trade agreements might be negotiated. Topmost is a Utah-Colorado Trade Region (which might be divided into two separate areas based on dominant religion). Lower and to the right is a Texas Trade Region comprising what is now eastern, central, and northern Texas. Then there are two southern regions delineated in white. These are regions that might lean favorably towards alliance with Mexico, but with which we might anticipate establishing reciprocal trade agreements. To the left is a Mexican Trade Corridor comprising California from Los Angeles and to the south; the lower halves of Arizona and New Mexico, and the southwestern part of Texas. To the right is the state of Florida, which might lean favorably toward the Caribbean countries, but with which we might anticipate establishing reciprocal trade agreements; this I term the Florida-Caribbean Trade Corridor … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “Jade Helm Stressors: A Utah-Colorado Trade Region; a Texas Trade Region; a Mexican Trade Corridor; and a Florida-Caribbean Trade Corridor,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: Circled in yellow are two possible regions that might secede from the Union, but with which reciprocal trade agreements might be negotiated. Topmost is a Utah-Colorado Trade Region (which might be divided into two separate areas based on dominant religion). Lower and to the right is a Texas Trade Region comprising what is now eastern, central, and northern Texas.

Then there are two southern regions delineated in white. These are regions that might lean favorably towards alliance with Mexico, but with which we might anticipate establishing reciprocal trade agreements.

To the left is a Mexican Trade Corridor comprising California from Los Angeles and to the south; the lower halves of Arizona and New Mexico, and the southwestern part of Texas.

To the right is the state of Florida, which might lean favorably toward the Caribbean countries, but with which we might anticipate establishing reciprocal trade agreements; this I term the Florida-Caribbean Trade Corridor …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

As to the Utah-Colorado Trade Region: In Utah, the Mormon faith is very strong. And in Colorado, the Christian faith is very strong. I thought that those two areas of this economic region might pull separately apart, possibly along religious lines.

Southwestern Arid Region: Small Town and Native American Reservation Citadels

This is an interesting map. There is a Description below the image …

Image: “Southwestern Arid Region: Small Town and Native American Reservation Citadels,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Circled in white is the large Southwestern Arid Region, which might move to more local forms of small town government … as well as continuing with Native American Reservation governments … should the nation become less centralized. This economic region includes the Great Basin, the Great Rocky Mountains, and the western portion of the Great Plains … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “Southwestern Arid Region: Small Town and Native American Reservation Citadels,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: Circled in white is the large Southwestern Arid Region, which might move to more local forms of small town government … as well as continuing with Native American Reservation governments … should the nation become less centralized. This economic region includes the Great Basin, the Great Rocky Mountains, and the western portion of the Great Plains …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

This area of the country is very, very arid. One can tell that by the color. I have cordoned off this entire arid zone as an area where Native Americans may establish reservation ‘citadels’ or ‘city towns’ that might act as trading posts for the area, for instance. I consider that they would become more like ‘city states’ if transportation slows down in the United States, and especially in that area, over the centuries.

Central Breadbasket Economic Region

On this map, the area in question is rather green. There is a little yellow, so that part is a little more arid land. It comprises the United States to the west and to the south of the Great Lakes. It includes most of the Mississippi River Valley as well. It looks like this …

Image: “Central Breadbasket Economic Region,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: Circled in green is a Central Breadbasket Economic Region, with plentiful rainfall and good river transportation. This includes the eastern portion of the Great Plains, as well as the area south of the Great Lakes, west of the Appalachians, and north of the Southernmost states … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “Central Breadbasket Economic Region,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: Circled in green is a Central Breadbasket Economic Region, with plentiful rainfall and good river transportation. This includes the eastern portion of the Great Plains, as well as the area south of the Great Lakes, west of the Appalachians, and north of the Southernmost states …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg  … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

We can anticipate that, if this continues to be a breadbasket area, it could provide food for other economic regions in the United States; and therefore, we would need to maintain some form of transportation to the south and to the east of the Central Breadbasket Region. The question would be whether transportation might be maintained across that vast, arid expanse to the west of the Breadbasket; or whether the Western Seaboard would need to grow its own foodstuffs as transportation became less prevalent.

Possible Future Capital Cities of the United States

Here is the last section, and an interesting one. I have for you three possibilities labeled 0, 1 and 2. The first is Washington, D.C., numbered ‘0’, because that is where the capital of the United States is right now.

Next is Lancaster, Pennsylvania, labeled ‘1’. Long ago, our nation’s capital was Lancaster; so I thought, perhaps one day our capital will be there once more.

And the last is Saint Louis, Missouri, labeled ‘2’. Saint Louis is right in the middle of the Breadbasket. I suggested Saint Louis as the second possibility because the location would be more centralized, and it might pull the other regions together.

Image: “Possible Future Capital Cities of the United States,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 … DESCRIPTION: The current capital of the United States is Washington DC (numbered ‘0’ on the map). Because of the AIDS crisis in Washington DC, and because our nation’s capital was once Lancaster PA, I suggest eventual relocation of the Capital back to Lancaster (numbered ‘1’ on the map). Farther out in time, it may be that Saint Louis, MO (labeled ‘2’) would prove a good location for our nation’s capital … CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “Possible Future Capital Cities of the United States,” adapted by Alice B. Clagett, 6 December 2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 …

DESCRIPTION: The current capital of the United States is Washington DC (numbered ‘0’ on the map). Because of the AIDS crisis in Washington DC, and because our nation’s capital was once Lancaster PA, I suggest eventual relocation of the Capital back to Lancaster (numbered ‘1’ on the map). Farther out in time, it may be that Saint Louis, MO (labeled ‘2’) would prove a good location for our nation’s capital …

CREDIT: The topographic map is “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg  … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

5. REGIONAL PACTS NOW IN PLACE         top

In the event of decentralization here in the United States, I feel the United States might expect to enjoy three power blocks along geographic lines of the three COVID pacts now in place amongst states in the Eastern States, the Midwest, and the Western States …

The Eastern States Multistate Council to do with COVID consists of the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island …

Link: “Eastern States Multi-State Council,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_States_Multi-state_Council ..

As well, there is the Midwest Governors Regional Pact” to do with COVID. This consists of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin …

Link: “Midwest Governors Regional Pact,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwest_Governors_Regional_Pact ..

There is also, to do with COVID, a Western States Pact involves the states of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington …

Link: “Western States Pact and Possible Decentralization of the United States,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_States_Pact#:~:text=The%20Western%20States%20Pact%20is,to%20the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic. ..

Here is the map of the power blocks for these pacts, which, I feel, may well be expanded to assure continuity of taxation, mail delivery services, securance of real property rights, and local military defense, in the event of decentralization of the United States …

Image: “U.S. States Forming Pacts to Reopen the Economy (Coronavirus Pandemic),” by JayCoop, in Wikimedia Commons, 27 April 2020 … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._states_forming_pacts_to_reopen_the_economy_(coronavirus_pandemic).svg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

Image: “U.S. States Forming Pacts to Reopen the Economy (Coronavirus Pandemic),” by JayCoop, in Wikimedia Commons, 27 April 2020 … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._states_forming_pacts_to_reopen_the_economy_(coronavirus_pandemic).svg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International

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Blog written and published on 6 December 2019; revised and updated on 2 October 2024; video filmed on 23 February 2022 and published on 26 February 2022 and following
Prior titles: What If the United States Became Less Federal and More Regional in Government?
and What If: Will the United States Become Less Centralized?

See also … Link: “Western States Pact and Possible Decentralization of the United States,” by Alice B. Clagett, written and published on 2 June 2020 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-is3 ..

6. MORE INFORMATION          top

Below are maps I studied while writing this blog …

6.1 ECONOMIC AND HISTORICAL STRESSORS          top

Civil War Stressor

Image: “United States map of 1861, showing affiliation of states and territories regarding secession from the Union at the start of the American Civil War,” by Júlio Reis, 23 February 2007, from English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Secession_map_1861.svg … CC BY-SA 3.0.

Image: “United States map of 1861, showing affiliation of states and territories regarding secession from the Union at the start of the American Civil War,” by Júlio Reis, 23 February 2007, from English Wikimedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Secession_map_1861.svg … CC BY-SA 3.0.

Dust Bowl Economic Stressor

Image: Map of states and counties affected by the Dust Bowl [1930s], sourced from US federal government dept. (NRCS SSRA-RAD).svg … “Based only on that PNG image. I made this file primarily using QGIS, and the following public domain … https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html shapefiles from census.gov] by Soil Science and Resource Assessment, Resource Assessment Division (NRCS SSRA-RAD) (Division of the U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture), 15 January 2012, from Wikimedia Commons … This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

Image: Map of states and counties affected by the Dust Bowl [1930s], sourced from US federal government dept. (NRCS SSRA-RAD).svg … “Based only on that PNG image. I made this file primarily using QGIS, and the following public domain … https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-cart-boundary.html shapefiles from census.gov] by Soil Science and Resource Assessment, Resource Assessment Division (NRCS SSRA-RAD) (Division of the U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture), 15 January 2012, from Wikimedia Commons … This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

Historical Expansion Stressor

Image: “A Map of the United States Showing Land Claims and Cessions from 1782 to 1802,” by Kmusser, in Wikimedia Commons … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_cessions#/media/File:United_States_land_claims_and_cessions_1782-1802.png … CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic … DESCRIPTION: This is a map showing state land claims and cessions from 1782-1802 that I made. The disputed territory between New Hampshire and New York formed, in 1777, the independent country of ‘New Connecticut’ (later renamed ‘Vermont’) which eventually gained admission as the 14th state in 1791. Boundary disputes between states that were resolved before U.S. independence are not shown.

Image: “A Map of the United States Showing Land Claims and Cessions from 1782 to 1802,” by Kmusser, in Wikimedia Commons … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_cessions#/media/File:United_States_land_claims_and_cessions_1782-1802.png … CC BY-SA 2.5 Generic

DESCRIPTION: This is a map showing state land claims and cessions from 1782-1802 that I made. The disputed territory between New Hampshire and New York formed, in 1777, the independent country of ‘New Connecticut’ (later renamed ‘Vermont’) which eventually gained admission as the 14th state in 1791. Boundary disputes between states that were resolved before U.S. independence are not shown.

Image: “perry-castenada: Admission of States and Territorial Acquisition U.S. Bureau of the Census (341K) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html …” by United States Census Bureay, U.S. Government, circa 1970s … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Territorial-acquisition-uscensus-bureau.jpg … public domain … DESCRIPTION: Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood, probably created in the 1970s.

Image: “perry-castenada: Admission of States and Territorial Acquisition U.S. Bureau of the Census (341K) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html …” by United States Census Bureay, U.S. Government, circa 1970s … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Territorial-acquisition-uscensus-bureau.jpg … public domain …

DESCRIPTION: Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood, probably created in the 1970s.

HIV-AIDS Pandemic Stressor

Image: “Map infographic displaying rates of HIV Diagnosis in the United States based on 2017 CDC data, published by the CDC in February of 2019,” United States Centers for Disease Control, 1 February 2019, Source: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/statistics/overview/geography/hiv-us-map-2017.png … in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hiv-us-map-2017.png … public domain

Image: “Map infographic displaying rates of HIV Diagnosis in the United States based on 2017 CDC data, published by the CDC in February of 2019,” United States Centers for Disease Control, 1 February 2019, Source: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/images/statistics/overview/geography/hiv-us-map-2017.png … in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hiv-us-map-2017.png … public domain

Jade Helm Economic Stressor

Image: “U.S. Army Special Operations Command map, depicting the US military plans during the Jade Helm 15 exercise,” by U.S. Army Special Operations Command, 31 March 2015, Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/31/why-the-new-special-operations-exercise-freaking-out-the-internet-is-no-big-deal/ … This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

Image: “U.S. Army Special Operations Command map, depicting the US military plans during the Jade Helm 15 exercise,” by U.S. Army Special Operations Command, 31 March 2015, Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/03/31/why-the-new-special-operations-exercise-freaking-out-the-internet-is-no-big-deal/ … This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

The above map leaves out Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, which were mentioned as being part of the Jade Helm 15 exercise here: “The joint exercise in realistic military training (RMT) known as Jade Helm 15 … was sponsored by the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM) … and involved the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) with other U.S. Military units in multiple states, including Texas, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Utah.” –from Link: “Jade Helm 15 conspiracy theories,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories ..

This map of the Jade Helm exercises includes the states missing in the map above … Link: “Other information (unconfirmed) suggests that Jade Helm is geographically larger (10 states), involves larger forces and has already started,” in Citizens Journal … https://www.citizensjournal.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/jadehelmother.jpg ..

Rainfall – Aridity Economic Stressor

Image: “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

Image: “USA topo en.jpg” [USA Topographical Map], from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_topo_en.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported

6.2 SURVIVAL FACTORS          top

Nuclear Power Plants and Seismic (Earthquake) Safety Survival Factor

Image: “Map prepared for CRS report for Congress: Andrews, Anthony, 2011 ‘Nuclear power plant design and seismic safety considerations’ Library of Congress Congressional Research Service report R41805, May 2, 2011, Washington. p. 22, fig. 8.” Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of nuclear reactors with statistics. 2011. Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011594649/ … from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_nuclear_power_plant_sites_vs._seismic_hazards_in_terms_of_percent_gravitational_acceleration_-_(United_States)_LOC_2011594649.jpg …. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

Image: “Map prepared for CRS report for Congress: Andrews, Anthony, 2011 ‘Nuclear power plant design and seismic safety considerations’ Library of Congress Congressional Research Service report R41805, May 2, 2011, Washington. p. 22, fig. 8.” Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes list of nuclear reactors with statistics. 2011. Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2011594649/ … from Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_nuclear_power_plant_sites_vs._seismic_hazards_in_terms_of_percent_gravitational_acceleration_-_(United_States)_LOC_2011594649.jpg …. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.

Post-Nuclear-War Survival Factor

Link: “The effects of a theoretical nuclear war in the USA – includes fallout, power outages, relief efforts, and more,” in Reddit … https://external-preview.redd.it/xyL0-MpSdZbu794s_N3NtCzySubUaitc9MoGcv_i7b0.jpg?auto=webp&s=c4630e18ef94d0ddf0c5759d3cf5d93222fcc9e4 ..

6.3 TRANSPORTATION          top

Longest United States Hiking Trails

My feeling is, these hiking trails might provide alternative transportation routes if highways are blocked due to natural disasters or highway repair issues …

Image: “Long Distance Hiking Trails in U.S.,” by ZeroGram …  https://cdn.imweb.me/upload/S201905065ccffe1baee08/5c94f72b9fa12.jpg ..

Link: “Long-Distance Trails in the United States,” by English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-distance_trails_in_the_United_States ..

Native American Trade Routes

I thought these Native American trade routes must represent terrain more easily traversible on foot or ahorse …

Image: “Smithsonian Institution map of native American trade routes through a little of Mexico, some of Canada and the United States” … https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNFnMn-XUAAXDqH.jpg ..

Railroad Lines

Image: “This is a map of the Class I Railroads I made using DOT data,” by Kmusser, 9 August 2006, in Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

Image: “This is a map of the Class I Railroads I made using DOT data,” by Kmusser, 9 August 2006, in Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

6.4 CAVEATS FOR UNITED STATES DOMESTIC TOURISTS          top

It may become more difficult to travel from state to state; this may have to do with lack of availability of gasoline, or lack of availability of charging stations for electric cars.

United States tourists may find it less safe to travel to other states. Their lives may even be imperiled while staying in some small towns that are distant from their own residences.

There may be tampering on a local basis with criminal databases, combined with identity theft and synthetic identity fraud, so that a tourist to a small town in a distant state is fraudulently classed as a criminal, and then subjected to local laws whose flavor and whose meeting of criminal punishment differs greatly from those in the tourist’s home town.

For instance, in the visited town euthanasia of senior citizens might be legal. The ‘captured’ tourist might be legally executed on a charge of senile dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. That charge could be made to stick through unrelated, criminal local people swearing on oath that the person is their spouse, swearing that the age is elderly, stating that the person has no money or means of earning it. Then the tourist might be killed and his or her money divvied up amongst the judge and the perjuring criminal.

Other instances: Blue laws and the penalties for child molestation, and the enforcement of these laws differ greatly from state to state. It is easy to assume that what ‘flies’ in one’s own state will ‘fly’ in the tourist town. Then, quick as a whip, a person might find himself behind bars and far from home, and subject to whatever local scam will fleece him of his money.

Another instance: Drug possession laws differ greatly from state to state. The scenario is the same as for Blue laws.

Drug lords may be in possession of the town, as was the case with Baltimore, Maryland, in recent years. If so, anything goes. Best not to set foot there. It is possible that local law enforcement and local court systems in towns ‘captured’ by drug lords might function in ways unexpected by a tourist, because of the threat of death for themselves and their families, and also because of financial inducements by drug lords. In other words, the tourist’s life might be worth a nickel. Maybe less.

A local tradition of bribery of officials is a consideration for tourists. This horse kicks two ways: You might be jailed if you do not bribe; or you might be fined for attempting to bribe. I am at a loss for words here.

Other instances: Homelessness may be considered a cause for euthanasia without court trial. This stance might be set in place by barring a tourist from local motels and hotels, then accosting him or her while asleep in their car.

Suppose a local gas fill-up were to result in a car breakdown 10 miles away, say, in the desert. Suppose the gas station owner had a group of related men who went out to scavenge vehicle parts, wallet and credit cards of the stranded car owner, and leave his bones beneath a Joshua tree.

[In terms of unexpected services rendered, I have encountered a case a little like that here in Los Angeles, where an acupuncturist demanded to see the drivers license after treatment, as a prerequisite to payment for services rendered. I intuited that the health care practitioner has an expensive addiction, and had been sending round family members to the addresses on the drivers licenses of her clients to burglarize the homes to help finance her habit. To prevent the victims from returning … in other words, to ensure a fresh group of people to be burgled … the acupuncturist set the electric needle settings too high, so that her clients received muscle-stunning electric shocks from the needles.]

The tourist’s sanity may be placed in doubt through false testimony by local mail-order psychologists also claiming at the local police station to be the ‘spouse’. This may be a game with many innings.

I intuit that local sheriffs and judges place more weight on testimony of their friends and neighbors than they do on the testimony of strangers. Where you visit, if you travel alone, may have crime gangs that, in cahoots with a sheriff or law enforcement officer, railroading tourists with intent to gain more tourist dollars. This may be more likely in low per capita towns.

There may be a local tradition of kangaroo courts that convict a tourist of this or that without his or her presence in the courtroom. There may be other legal irregularities, such as a crooked judge who holds a kangaroo court session on a Sunday, with written judgment conveyed, but with no online record of a court case. The kangaroo court paper of the crooked judge might be used to ‘capture’ and shake down the tourist. There is a danger of legal murder by euthanasia after the shake down, so as to prevent the tourist from taking legal action against the offending parties after changing the venue to their own home town.

In other words, the law may not be on your side, or it may not take the stance you expect it to take, when you travel to another state. This may become increasingly true with time, that towns in states other than one’s own may prove lethally unfriendly to tourists.

6.4 NEWS THAT SUPPORTS THE THEORY OF A RETURN TO LIBERTARIANISM          top

I may be adding to this category as I run across news articles.

Unfriendliness of one state towards the residents of another state … Link: “Utah Governor Tells Californians to ‘Stay in California’,” by Alexandra E. Petri, 13 February 2023 … https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-13/utah-governor-tells-californians-to-stay-in-california ..

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