An extraordinary mixture of cerebral Brilliance, and limbic blindness. Some of the brilliance....

From saving Paradise, Brock and Parker. Must read. Archive.org

In her study of women's poetry of lamentation, Constantina-Nadia Seremetakis concludes that lament is "a prelude to the staging ofwomen's reentry (as individuals and as a collectivity) into the social order on their own terms."4 it is in other words and assertion of life-giving power in the face of unjust structures that suppress, exclude, violate, and' control life. Telling the truth about Jesus's crucifixion has abiding importance.
To break silence whenever violence is used to shame, instill fear, fragment human community, or suppress those who advocate forjustice is life-giving. Just as Jesus, injohn's Gospel, stood before Pilate and said, "You have no power over me," the Passion narratives defied the power ofcrucifixion to silence Jesus's movement. In doing so, they placed before his movement the choice to tell the truth and live by ethical grace. They said life is
found in surviving the worst a community can imagine, in lamenting the consequences of imperialism, and in holding fast to the core goodness of this world, blessed by divine justice and abundant life.
By the fourth century, the church recited the stories oflamentation every year in the week before Easter. Remembering the sorrows that injustice and violence inflicted, the early Christians filled their churches with images of the life that lamentation allowed to break free, the life of ethical grace, the life ofparadise on earth.

Ransoming Souls log. February 17th. Very gratifying, solid progress in recent days. Important opportunities processed well.

1. This collection of words, for Joy serve those poor souls, in solidarity, has a Clarity and completeness that no collection of words before me Pryor provided. A true north compass.
2. Substantial distractions in recent days, very distressing disintegration of an important relationship, but not into hatred, or anger, but just disintegration. The brain of the vehicle, soul, died yesterday. That knocked out most of the regenerative braking which revealed that one of the two sets of disc brakes, the pads were gone and it appears that disaster was averted but time was required to effect repairs. With all that, my imagination of the clients, the needy Souls today and in the future, they saw that Focus was not lost, distractions did not escalate Beyond Bare necessity attention. This is substantial progress.
3. Several needy Souls, needy being a virtue, needy indicating the soul is still alive in a troubled world, came across our path and we are not unhappy with the skills and knowledge that have been accumulated that could be brought to bear with some level of skill and effectiveness.
4. Reasonably competent skills were brought to bear on the potential distractions to do with the vehicle.
5. Reasonably effectively and financially Frugal step was taken to provide a battery situation that could literally last the life of the vehicle, many years.
6. Audio study of saving Paradise, Brock and Parker, was all but completed in the four hour journey tonight. This is important progress in two respects,  sweeping scholarly look at four thousand years of so-called Christianity, and, major progress in terms of turning this exercise time, these arduous climbs in unbelievably beautiful land, into the study time that has always been the intention. This is very encouraging. This despite extremely difficult temperature situation. How frostbite was averted in the feet is a mystery because they certainly felt like they were gone.
7. Possibly 20% of saving Paradise has been annotated in the PDF. James has highly promoted this book, yet it is a Minefield in addition to being a wealth of information. And as he did not long ago with spiritual Evolution, George vaillant, he intends to provide a detailed review so those that are interested have his view of how to avoid the landmines and find the gold.
8. Sadly, but probably to be expected, the terrible failure of Brock and Porter, saving Paradise, is directly parallel to that of George vaillant, spiritual evolution. Like every creature they're doing the best they know. And they have done me a tremendous service. But they write about truths that are bigger than the ability of our cerebral cortex to understand, things that can be grasped only by our limbic system, our soul, but they show little evidence of having that Soul. That's not a criticism, it's not a condemnation, it's an observation. So the problem is although their cerebral cortex provides tremendous scholarship, they in effect colorblind to these paintings they are trying to show us. And it's extremely important to bear that in mind.
9. Although due to equipment failure and adverse weather the every other day extreme exercise protecting this human battery and motor, was interrupted, it seems to be getting back on track with today being roughly 1400 calories of excellent workout.

Cycling log. February 17th. Amazing ride. Injecting energy into the travel is the only reason to Pedal. Duh.

1. A number of really positive things, not for the first time ever, but maybe for the first time fully conscious, cognizant. 
2.  Thirteen or fourteen hundred calorie climb. The instruments are largely out which was an advantage. Attention could go into what the body was feeling. 
3.  Maybe this is sustainable, maybe it is not. Probably is. So simple, so logical.
4. The small of the back relaxed 100% of the time into the back of the seat cam up a evolution of this being a recumbent.
5. 100% the purpose of peddling is to inject energy into the travel.
6. The slower the better, allowing more time for more energy to be injected.
7. 100% of energy being delivered by the thigh.
8. Although a reciprocal cycling between the thighs is crucial, there was a distinct injection of energy into the travel at about a hundred and ten degrees forward and down.
9. Relaxing into the back of the seat was extremely helpful.

He died tonight, Sol, the vehicle.

This is the email sent later to the electronic supplier in Vancouver Canada. Their height help is likely needed in diagnosis and possibly in shipment of a replacement part

.Justin, guys, dead analyst?!?! RIP?

[ note. The cycle analyst is the electronic control system for the vehicle, in addition to managing operations like throttle it tracks speed, tracks human energy, energy into the motor, and very importantly provides most of the regenerative braking capability. virtually all of the breaking for this 900 pound payload is the regenerative braking and with the loss of that brain tonight it was a very treacherous 4 Mile, one thousand foot descent. Almost immediately it was discovered that the brake pads for one of the two brakes were totally gone. I was very careful but we had to get down trying to beat full-on hypothermia and hopefully the rotor was not destroyed. Tomorrow morning we'll dig into it. Justin is the world's go-to guy for this equipment which he designed. And it is his company. They are closed weekends so I might not hear anything until Tuesday but it is not rare that in a crisis he responds over the weekend.]

Temperature plunging, a thousand feet up, on my two thousand foot 1600 calorie climb, drenched in sweat, the battery I was running on quit, I plugged in another, the system came on, and nothing, not a hint of life in the motors but everything else seemed to work. Power was getting to both controllers, and the light on the face Runner was solid, but on the older controller  it was erratic. Three or four of the normal pulses and then  something irregular and then maybe a couple of normal pulses and something else irregular. No pattern that I could detect. The throttle registered on the cycle analyst but nothing to the motors. I was clueless. Don't laugh. This is been so stable it's been so long since I have had to troubleshoot anything. But somehow I had a hunch that the throttle was not being seen by the controllers. Thankfully the throttle cable was long enough and I ran it directly to the controller's bypassing the cycle analyst. Bingo. The motors worked. Then some things on the cycle analyst began to catch my attention. On the main screen, the bottom left should read watts. Instead the letter was not W, it was A. And then on the screen that reads out how many watts since the system was last reset, which for me was at the beginning of this trip 4 miles earlier, it said something like 7,000 watts, and 1700 watts per mile on the following screen. What?

It was risk of hypothermia I was covered in sweat. The temperature was plunging. So I'm back at the hostel where I stay sometimes.

I sure wouldn't mind some thoughts from you guys. In the morning when I have warmed up I anticipate getting my laptop and attempting to refresh the firmware to see if that's the problem.

Sure hope to hear from you guys.

Of course, it's the weekend.

Oh, and I trust I'm not getting anyone in trouble. Seriously. I called at 10 to 6, I didn't expect to have a signal but I did, got your switchboard, oh we're closed our hours are whatever until 6 p.m. . 10 of 6 I called ARG!!! LOL.

The only other system anomaly is for the last probably several days, the last several trips up the mountain which I do at about a mile and a half per hour so that I can do 25% of the work, every couple of minutes one of two things happens but not on any predictable schedule that I can find, either the motors drop out for a moment, a second, but very noticeable, the system lights and power do not flicker, but the motor dropped substantially, and on the cycle analyst it shows about a 50 watt drop, or, much less regularly, it pulses about 50 Watts. My first thought was that it was one of the batteries but it seemed to have done it on any and all battery combinations and each battery.

James

Odd, is it not? Yes, this is what Joy looks to me like. It always has. My father looked somber like this. This is my....

Odd, is it not? Yes, this is what Joy looks to me like. It always has. My father looked somber like this. This is my view of Jesus, King, Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Confucius, and yes, Buddha. The most enviable Souls there have ever been, no?  Yes, to me. Since my earliest memory.  Enviable!  Admirable yes, but enviable!  No? Joy is quite the opposite of what we worship in this Society, pleasure, happiness, Glee..... I've tried those. They are like eating sand to me. Joy is being alive, and nothing else is. I highly recommend it. With all of my life.

LOL. If you do not resonate at some significant level with this, and this is not a challenge I'm giving you, it is a loving observation, if you do not resonate with this, then do not walk, run, from any closeness to my work. Because my every fiber of being is trying to drag people in this direction of joy.

Horrible expense, potentially Dynamite investment in the vehicle.

650 bucks just invested in a final battery for the vehicle. There is some risk because this is a non-traditional set up, with ongoing charging from regenerative braking, and solar at the same time as output to the motor. As usual, going where no one has gone before.
But experience, very long arduous careful selection, and some advice from an expert, it should be okay.
And it should provide a tremendous safety factor and very very long life for this battery setup now.
Lithium ion batteries wear out not so much because of the Cycles, but because of the Heat and strain in two different situations, pushing out the last little bit of energy, and being charged all the way to the top.
This final battery will add dramatic capacity and a fourth, or third, battery running in parallel which dramatically, hugely, reduces those fatigue factors on each individual battery. The best estimate of this procurement is that if this vehicle runs another 10 years and 40,000 miles quite possibly no more batteries will need to be purchased.

Shockingly surprising, and encouraging. Cycling log. February 14th.

Back in September prior to the month in Washington DC which broke continuity, there was a period of absolutely amazing efficiency, sustainability, reasonableness, fluidity, and decent performance. What I recalled was that it had to do with pumping the knees up and down particularly important was the upstroke, it was as though the knee was Rising pumping energy out of the ground below me. And I wrote as such. Returning to the vehicle after a month it was impossible to recreate that. And much Agony and turmoil, totally not complaining, has ensued in the following months.
Several days ago there were brief glimmers of that becoming attainable again. And in a mile and a half Journey today, heading up toward the base of Whitney, the miraculous situation solidly presented itself again. Without the mindset and muscle compliance of remembering this is a recumbent seat, a recumbent bicycle, it is totally impossible to achieve. But with that mindset fully in place it is almost a natural byproduct. Seems impossible but it is almost certainly the case.

The brightest Penny you are not, James. The wind knocked you on your butt, and, continued

The wind knocked you on your butt and you still continued up the mountain? The brightest penny in the pile you are not James.
Walking out of the hostel gust knocked me on my butt on the stairs.

On we continue to, a mile and a half up toward the mountain, just too risky, too dangerous, horrible gusts.

In the final analysis checking in with the clients, in my imagination, they said, James, you are risking the vehicle why? Go back to the hostel.

That's where we are.

did you see the articles about the river of wind coming off the Pacific into California creating all this? The estimates are something like 12 times the amount of moisture in the Mississippi river is in that River of air.

O and how did he know?  A guardian angel of this Mission came forth with some funds today. Bless his heart.

Wonderful Folks at this hostel. They can't do much, very little, but they do what they can to ease the financial strain.

Paradise, heaven, in this life on Earth, Jesus and all the prophets preached. Perverted Christianity destroyed all that truth.

"Other books such as Leviticus, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, I
Enoch, andJubilees, maintained the mysterious location
of paradise, suggesting that it suffused the entire land of Israel or even the whole Creation.34 One ofthe mysteries ofDilmun and Eden was their precise location.
Whether in the direction of the rising sun or between four great rivers, paradise confused any attempts to pin it
on a map. It eluded the control, captivity, or ownership ofany one nation, people, religion, or time. In direct contrast to the wars, economic exploitation, fratricidal divisions, and environmental devastations of empires, it offered experiences and visions ofjustice, of the goodness of ordinary life,
could be experienced as real and of a
vibrant peace. Paradise was described in terms recognizable as earthly life at its best. In these descriptions, it
not as a permanent state ofbeing but as aspects oflife itself. It flourished where people took responsibility for the well-being ofall
and respected
and protected the great cycles of life that sustain human life.