"... a critical shift in American culture — one that a handful of researchers have been tracking, with some alarm, for the past decade or so. Americans these days seem to be losing their appetite for empathy, especially the walk-a-mile-in-someone's-shoes Easter Sunday morning kind.... " netanyahu's propaganda rag needs to tell the truth sometimes, so that it can lie almost all the time.

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/712249664/the-end-of-empathy

"... Then, more than a decade ago, a certain suspicion of empathy started to creep in, particularly among young people. One of the first people to notice was Sara Konrath, an associate professor and researcher at Indiana University. Since the late 1960s, researchers have surveyed young people on their levels of empathy, testing their agreement with statements such as: "It's not really my problem if others are in trouble and need help" or "Before criticizing somebody I try to imagine how I would feel if I were in their place."

Konrath collected decades of studies and noticed a very obvious pattern. Starting around 2000, the line starts to slide. More students say it's not their problem to help people in trouble, not their job to see the world from someone else's perspective. By 2009, on all the standard measures, Konrath found, young people on average measure 40 percent less empathetic than my own generation — 40 percent!..."

But certainly I'm not endorsing their description of the book which I have not read. Much of it sounds incredibly horrible.

Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse George Monbiot George Monbiot. UK Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/15/rebellion-prevent-ecological-apocalypse-civil-disobedience?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_us&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1555326352

Ignite Soul log April 14th. Nice shirt, God bless you, the woman said.

Several times a week one person or another, they seem to be local, I've never met them, will stop and say something like, thank you for what you are trying to do here., thank you for all your good work here,.... today it was a little different, the white-haired lady apparently had been sitting behind me oh, I hadn't noticed her, in the all-you-can-eat salad bar that I frequent several times a week. I take good care of the staff, as best I can, and the amount of vegetables and fruit, tuna fish, potato salad, that I consume wood cost way more than I could afford in a grocery store. It is a godsend on many levels.

As she was walking from behind me toward the exit door she didn't turn but she said, nice shirt, God bless you. It is not a fundamentalist shirt. For Joy serve those poor souls in solidarity. At all times I mind my own business, I have way more everyday to do than I have time for, so minding my own business is easy and a necessity, I keep my eyes down, I don't look for eye contact or recognition. But when I am in town I do sit in a conspicuous spot and of course there's the signage on the vehicle but there's the signage on me. Front and back. And when I can I will choose a chair without arms to sit in so that I can turn it sideways and sit with my back exposed to the room so that anyone that cares to read the message can do so. She chose to do so. She liked what she saw.

Tonight James is feeling really satisfied. That's not important. But he is.

The last several days have been a lot of technical work as discussed yesterday, attempting to establish that the vehicle can, sustainably, reasonably, do the climb that we did tonight in preparation for doing three times more once the final three miles up to the Mount Whitney portal are cleared of the rocks and debris from the slides this winter. It is rated as one of the 12 most difficult climbs for cyclists in the country and indeed it is. The road is very very good. Just three years old. But it is very very steep. Very steep. Did I mention steep? Between 9 + 13% grade for just under five miles as I recall. Tonight we did the first mile and a half of that as we have done several times recently but on the prior trips overheating of the engines was extremely problematic.

And much time has been spent in recent days trying to figure out a combination of speed and which controller running which motor that did not require us to stop every two tenths of a mile, literally, to let the motors cool down.

Well I was aware  that speed was a major issue and I know from years past that having a fan blowing on the motor can help a lot to keep it cool. Well, not cool, but to lengthen the time between stops by a factor of two or three or four.

Well, the hard work paid off much better than I anticipated tonight. The outside air temperature was cool but not cold, and the combination of the right speed, the motors are more efficient when I let them travel faster than I normally travel so that they allow for all my exercise. The one fan I had on the motor helped a lot and a second one is coming for the second motor. Well, it was really gratifying and as mentioned in the cycling log the body performed really really really really really well tonight. It started out kind of rough but boy it went to a higher level than in a long time towards the end.

So the Big Technical Preparatory physical projects I think they're behind us but there's still some small ones that tonight's Journey indicated really need to be done, the availability to switch between temperature sensors is 1 whereas now the switching require stopping the vehicle and changing some cables. The new seat situation seems to be a substantial Improvement, not a game-changer, but a much more sensible posture, more pronounced recumbent, and the work that was done needs to be tightened up a bit. There's a lot of force coming out of this old body. And a few other items. The very painful delay of the new graphics for the vehicle may continue for another day or so but almost certainly it will be executed by mid-week.

Solar RV cycling log April 14th. Embarrassed, pleased, or not sure yet?

The next several paragraphs were written during the voyage.

Earth to James, land every stroke.

By the final 20% of each long Voyage this seems to happen by itself. To accomplish it in the first 20% of the voyage so far is pretty much impossible for me.

Difficult first 20%. Very difficult. Then here is what really helped.

Dig! James, that means, the last 30 percent of the stroke is where you need to focus. A really bad, hon recognized habit, is trying to find the power in the first third of the stroke. Why? I don't know. Body thinks it's a good idea. It is not.

Land the stroke James. Land it.

Aim the torso and keep it stable James. Aim to the landing point as best you can. James, keep it solid, something for the thighs to work against. Have a heart.

Left leg really wants to go rogue today. Part of that seems to be not digging but rather starting the stroke too early. The other part, and this seems huge, the foot ankle and shins were not completely limp. The lower muscles were disempowering the thighs. And forcing a very difficult rotation to manage. make the foot ankle and Shin Limp.

Stationary attempted to be sure that the knees were in equal relationship to the crank full extension. Seems to have quieted the rogue left leg down.

There is a support beam running right down the middle of this vehicle. Sitting as I always sit but looking down maybe for the first time the cross bar is distinct Lee to the left. Who knew? Have just shimmmed supporting the right buttocks against the slope of the shoulder, and centering the body. Feeling less lopdided for these initial seconds.

But these paragraphs are written at the end after a 1650 calorie night, very good performance, and really startling stuff the last mile and a half which is an extremely difficult climb of between 8 and 13%. About a mile and a half of that.

In The crucial very difficult last mile and a half, a new part of the routine, an old friend returned unexpectedly. Probably was a friend about 3 months ago on lesser climbs in this area but was not found to be sustainable.

That old friend is the notion of the knees turning the gear that moves the chain. And on top of, enabled by, a month-and-a-half now of ever-improving and more rational sustaining Dynamics, this emerged and was quite helpful. It improves the ability of the body to do everything that's been discussed in the last month and a half worth of logs in an even more rational and coherent and focused way.

But then something really really really surprising happened. Knees, James, the knees! This has been emphasized over and over and over for many months now because when musculature in the calves ankles and feet get involved things get very tense and a lot of energy is lost in that.

But tonight at least tonight, maybe not sustainable, maybe very sustainable, the thought was, James, the knees are not really turning the gear at your knees, there is not one, but they are moving your feet which is turning a gear.

Well, whether it was adrenalinn because the overall Voyage was going well, whether it was somewhat the new seat orientation, whether it was just a body is stronger and better trained from all these recent months, time will probably give some evidence.

But this last Discovery really is mechanically what's happening, and at least for that arduous last hundred human Watt blast at very high output, about 200 watts per hour sustained Which is higher than James has seen all winter, and it felt quite good, quite fluid, maybe it's sustainable and a new Plateau for James? Maybe with this thought and all the preparation psychological and physical all winter, maybe he'll be able to continue to deliver all of the Power with the thighs using the study torso as a  PowerBass, and the knees but with this improved focus of what it's actually doing, it is moving the feet which are moving that gear driven by the crank.

Ignite soul log April 13th. The tedious foundational work may be coming to an end.

As the weather gets extremely hot down in Lone Pine and az hikers begin to frequent the portal an additional 2000 feet of climbing, much time has been going into readying the vehicle for that challenge. Very expensive in terms of time, money, not so much. This is an experimental vehicle going where no one has gone before. A tremendous challenge has been trying to find the combination of controllers in the proper location to reduce the tremendous time lost to allow the electric motors to cool down. Limited success at best was achieved. But what could be learned has been learned and will be applied.

Time will tell but this should be a fairly High return investment. Hopefully so.

Solar RV cycling April 12th. The purpose is to press compress the spine each stroke. New organizing principal.

Dangerous and exciting time. Physical seat radically oriented to backwards. Body finding new optimum.

New findings.

Purpose of these forward stroke is to compress the spine.

Body is to be checked in with periodically as to the mechanics. Is it happy?

Body must be shifted far enough that the knees terminate at the rotation point of the pedals. If not very frustrating and frustrating over rotation occurs. Worrisome because the knees clear the cross bar by about only an eighth of an inch.

Radical seat rotation makes sense. Does not seem to be a magic bullet of any sort. Yet this is only day one.

Inconclusive but remembering the up stroke as a deliberate feature of timing and aiming is a good idea it seems. Get also helps Lathan the stroke. And it set up this thrust importantly it seemed.

Pressing against the aligned lower spine seems to be now bringing back elements of upright cycling. Head forward curling backflow tight into the seat. Trusting against that aligned spine.

Finding, making, the target point on the ground in front of the vehicle is really really really difficult and really really really crucial.

Everything is in two elements, properly positioning the body so that the outward thrust of the thighs compressors the spine, a entirely stable platform, and hitting the target consistently based on the needs established by the Cadence and the force. Very difficult. Absolutely crucial.

The young autistic boy politely, intellectually took over the adults Observatory meeting.

My friend has two autistic Sons, 11 and 9 or so I believe. The 11-year-old went to an evening adult Observatory conference recently. Politely, taking his turn, he wound up taking over the meeting, appropriately, with his discussion of advanced Theory regarding black holes and white holes.

Some with autism have an enormous advantage over the rest of us. They lack shallow empathy, the empathy that makes us sheep, the empathy that makes us be quiet unless we fit in. The shallow empathy that prevents us from following our dreams and capacities. Thank God Greta, leader of the youth environmental movement, is autistic. Yes, she does not fit in, she is not a sheep, and she identifies the Sheep around her.

Maybe the same for this young man at the adult Observatory meeting. And of course we pathologized these. Because they don't fit in with the norm of being f****** sheep.

The medicine is this, be the change you wish to see in the world. No one wants to be that medicine, no one wants to take that medicine. The

The medicine is this, be the change you wish to see in the world. No one wants to be that medicine, no one wants to take that medicine. The rest is history. And the funny thing is, making the attempt is the only path to Joy. The only life of joy.

James, the only citizen of nature, you are, that I have met. My friend Mike said this, I think, paraphrase.

Mike, Mary, and their extraordinary little dog Miko, have been friends to me in the last couple of weeks. It has been such a delightful encounter.
Two days ago Mike handed me a book and obviously thought it would be a good idea if I read it. This after I had mentioned that my reading list is 200 years long, and that losing weight was what I was trying to do with the vehicle. LOL. In the last few days the beginning pages and some of the last have been read to me during the journey.
Breathtakingly useful analysis of the disease of capitalism, materialism, colonialism, tribal Christianity.... This being my very inadequate initial synthesis.

Our Collective software is a software operating system problem, not Hardware. Damn the children, we will not change our software!

Damn, that program won't run! What's wrong with the computer? There were devices and maybe still are that could run dual operating systems but just one or the other at any point in time oh, and there was always a considerable effort to switch from one system to another. One application would run but only if the correct operating system were in charge. Easy fix. Switch operating systems. Our insane mania this culture for dozens, hundreds, thousands of years, we keep looking for the hardware fix for the  programs of Justice, fairness, equality, peace... Better crop methods, better irrigation methods, faster internet, more money, safer housing codes, different laws, capitalism, socialism, democracy, whatever, and that has never been the fix and will never be the fix. Changing the operating system so that the soul, the limbic system, the mammalian brain, is in charge, has only ever been the possible fix.  Confucius, Buddha, Jesus,  Hillel ,  dozens have given their lives  so we would change operating systems.  No.  We instantly distort their message into some Hardware solution. And we will destroy our children, we are destroying our children, because we will not confront that, we will not do that. Fuc the children.

Solar RV cycling log April 10th. What??! Months of agony for not adjusting the seat?!?! Need target each cycle is on the road ahead. Who knew?

Friend Mike rides a electric recumbent. Sure, Brian try it, several days ago he said. James Did. Holy s***, thought James, this makes a lot more sense. Torso aligned naturally as it is in a conventional upright.

Dang, no one seems to make  stand alone recumbent seats that could be fit for this vehicle.

Middle of the night, bing! James, four bolts hold this seat. You have a drill. Drill different holes, and go the seat back!

1100 calories in two what tonight will be a super ride of close to 2000 calories possibly, adjusting the seat is not the magical it, but the next best thing.

Without applying the hard one cause of the last 6 weeks, who knows. But they have been applied and after several hours of constantly improving struggle we are in a new ballgame it seems.

The cour lessons of the last 6 weeks are all being confirmed again.

But the vehicle is now significantly solving the alignment issue with the help of a rolled up towel in my lumbar.

The old important lesson of caring forward the dynamics of an upright cycle, full downward extension for the thighs, knees, was the Northstar compass that finally brought us to wonderful performance. As mentioned above the posture alignment, something for the thighs to trust against, is now done largely by the vehicle. With the fbutt  way way way forward and a rolled up towel supporting the lumbar.

Finding the end direction and point for the for word knees, underside, remained a mystery for a while. But now at least tonight seems clearer than ever. At very low cadence it is about 35 degrees up from perpendicular. At faster cadence get moves up. Finding this and targeting it with the knees, underside, is totally necessary.

Several items were left up high at the base of the mountain this morning, argh! Several bath mats that are put on the ground that help maintenance psychological very much. Maybe they are still there. Probably would be in the morning. But if this amazing old buddy is up to it we will go the extra her 13 mile equivalent tonight and benefit from trees that can block the wind which has been consider Bowl these last 3 days.

Squeezing the left knee toward center is worth mentioning. That left left leg likes to go rogue as you might recall being mentioned.

Laying back on the job is worth mentioning.

Staying at 50% of power or lower it's worth mentioning.

The more emphasis, sliding the butt way forward, ridiculously forward, is giant. With the huge side benefit of taking stress off the knees. More needs to be learned but the guide seems to be aligning the Torso with the spot on the ground that the knee needs to hit.

When it feels best, there's also a surprising direct line thrust thing experienced with the underside of the knee from the beginning of its thrust directly to the point on the ground that it needs to hit.

Update. The Super Ride discussed above did not happen. We have done 1440 calories, the body says, enough for tonight. We can do the rest in the morning.

Ignite souls log April 10th. Many distractions, necessary, solid forward progress.

Trial runs  of translation of Jesus 200 versus practiced this morning were exstream Lee encouraging.

My friend Mike, he and Mary are celebrating their 49th anniversary Today. Such nice friends they seem. Good to each other I think. Mike recommended a book to me, against Leviathan, Perlman the author. Mid-1980s publication as I recall. A wonderful scholar and a very serious human being from what I can tell from the early parts of this book. wonderfully and responsibly cerebral, but trying to understand a problem that is fundamentally the disempowerment of the soul, the limbic system, is limited at best from a cerebral point of view.

More distractions these next few days, preparing this miraculous vehicle for three or four months of dramatically more demanding climbing than we have even been doing. But the work of recent days and the next few is relatively inexpensive, good practice for James, and is likely to pay very high dividends in coming months.

The few bits of input so far on the graphic plan for the right side of the vehicle are appreciated yet they have in no way dislodge the current plan which James is really quite pleased with. he expects that by the end of the week they will be put into production and received within two weeks.

James translation of the 200 verses from Jesus are the other very high priority but getting these vehicle issues out of the way is the higher priority.

James has power. Current case in point. Yesterday James put away his winter boots. This morning the temperature was 27 degrees. The boots are back out. The Truman Show?

5 Ways Money May Be Costing You Studies show that wealth can be detrimental to individuals.

5 Ways Money May Be Costing You
Studies show that wealth can be detrimental to individuals.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-be-yourself/201904/5-ways-money-may-be-costing-you

Solar RV cycling log April 8th. Experienced a pure recumbent today. Quite a lesson.

Mike, my new friend, came by as I Was preparing to Journey up the hill, he on his pure recumbent terratrike. Generous as he is, he gladly let me give it a try. Wow. Extremely enlightening. Not unlike conventional upright cycling, his pure recumbent makes it quite obvious to the body what it is supposed to do. The modified recumbent that is my vehicle does no such thing. Nor does it prevent it. And upright cycle aligns the body with the thrust of the pedals, straight down. The pure recumbent aligns the body directly with a pedals, about 70 degree recline. On tonight's voyage attempts were made with some success to achieve a similar reclining posture, scooting the rear end considerably forward on the seat, and learning to experience the mid back as the place that the thrust should act against out at roughly 60 degree angle. Also learned from the brief ride on that pure recumbent was how extraordinarily extraordinarily extraordinarily effortless it is to move it. And that encouraged an experiment on tonight's ride of establishing a power ratio so that James was moving himself plus about 40 lb instead of himself plus 250 lbs. As a consequence on tonight's ride James burned just under 1200 calories as opposed to the 14 or 1500 calories that he prefers. But much higher sustained output power was also observed, long stretches of 140, 150, as opposed to the 110 watts that has been seeb recently.

It seems like the really really really important lesson of tonight was that the place to be thrust from is the mid back reclining as much as possible, buttocks slid Way Forward, and the thrust should be along that recline to an air place at about 65 degrees. Laying down on the job has a place here.

Trump and his vile tribe of pathogens are a god-given vaccine....

Created by the force of creation we are. Incarnation of that force we are to be. Deviance is everything else.

Created by the force of creation we are. Incarnation of that force we are to be. Deviance is everything else.

April 8th ignite soul log. Virtually no comepatriots in this mission. Not complaining.

Each call of recent weeks for assistance with graphics messaging has received at most one answer. Definite silence. No offense intended to the mission and none received. What does it mean? For certain no passionate comePatriots, partners. Could mean friends are a bit aghast. Complete disinterest is my best guess.  Extraordinary how what one person finds worth their entire being, everyone else finds totally disinteresting. So it has been for thousands of years now for Jesus, Buda, Confucius. Oh billions are interested in what is projected up on these individuals but no one is interested in what they actually taught and lived. The rest is the history of species Extinction.

The graphic for the right side is probably finished in concept, unless there is some unexpected useful input from others. Within two days the final production artwork should be completed and then within several weeks the final product received. In all likelihood the back panel will also be designed and created at the same time. Each side will cost probably two or three hundred dollars so the left side will probably wait until the right side and the back panel prove themselves.

Trump and his tribe of pathogens are a God given vaccine. Could inoculate us against accepting evil.

Trump and his tribe of pathogens are a God given vaccine. Could inoculate us against accepting evil.

I am crazy for certain, when those in this culture don't consider me so.

I am crazy for certain, when those in this culture don't consider me so.

Help needed. Serious input needed. Rt side of Sol

Solar cycling log April 7th. Conventional cycling is thrusting against something, the torso, the pelvis. Who knew?

This is feeling like a gigantic step forward. The first time grasping what the essence of this recumbent cycling is and what the notion that it is a upright bicycle rotated backwards means.

At various times in this very good performing journey, low output per hour but extremely sustainable at extremely low RPM so James is carrying himself plus almost his own weight again tonight. 1/3 of this 900 lb payload. Quite comfortably. At various times particularly early he thought that it was a matter of pushing against the spinal column aligned with the direction of trust. And that was nice for a while but it was easily lost. Very difficult to maintain that spinal column alignment with such a forward direction of thrust. But it seems that what was really needed was trusting against the pelvis somewhat tilted in alignment with that forward thrust. The buttox and thighs need something to thrust against. Yes, there is the seat back, and that plays a role but somehow that doesn't do it. And that certainly is not the answer in conventional upright cycling.

Certainly tonight feels like an important milestone. And a key element of that is an acute willingness to slow the vehicle down, way way down, way way way down, as much is needed to maintain that comfortable smooth out trust against the inertia of the pelvis.

An issue in the background rarely spoken of but they're pretty much every journey… discomfort in James knees that rises up sometimes. It is a high priority to eliminate that to protect long-term cycling. There is a high correlation with that discomfort and finding that they thrust has shifted from the forward part of the thighs down into the feet and legs.

Is the case during every week of at least the last month the real cornerstone is being aware that the body needs to feel the mechanic of an upright bicycle. And throughout this journey and most specially when things aren't feeling ideal sooner or later that touchstonr comes into mind and is tremendously helpful if not immediately eventually in bringing things back into a line.

Almost certain is James that the amazing performance reported for the end of every long journey is the body somehow finding this need for alignment with the pelvis, the torso, finding the place to push against. But only today is this coming to conscience competence with James.

We carried probably between 28 and 30% of this 900 pound payload up the hill tonight. Just over 1,500 calories. Very good ride.

Ignite Soul log April 7th. James will translate Jesus gospel????

What is involved in a translation? No, really, what is involved in a translation? The mechanics, correct? But how little of a great translation is that?

At some level translation is technique. But thousands approach the technique of a Monet, or Motzart, or a Charles Dickens, thousands at least. And they cannot approach what these people have done. So important translation is not a function of technique, or in the case of the Gospels language expertise. That plays a role but not the dominant one.

0 credit to James he has from his earliest memory seen a Jesus through the church translation that the church doesn't see, and only one in a million see. Schweitzer saw it, Gandhi through Tolstoy and a few others.,

At least for James, James has a gift of seeing Jesus, maybe no one else will ever agree.

And more to the point of this log James realizes that he has profound Lee allowed the church translation, that artistic abomination, let alone the abomination of word choice, James has let that determine his own translation too.much too long. That should not stand.

James is so eager to emerse in Tolstoy’s translation. And that must happen. But first  James must take the 200 verses that we were given by that little colored guy Jesus, and do his own translation. Starting from the English rendered by the Jesus seminar, but going beyond that. He has already begun during his up and down Hills voyage, listening to those verses. And beginning the translation in his mind. High priority must be placed on doing this in black and white. Then Tolstoy.

Downtown with Sol the vehicle today a gentleman approached and we had such a wonderful conversation. Well, mostly output from me, but I'm so glad we met and he is glad too. What I told him about the soul, the limbic system, he was clearly glad to know of and is unlikely to forget the conversation. Without James extensive study every week James would not have been able to import that information.

Tonight James encountered at least an utterly breathtaking Lee magnificent spirit over by the two ladies, the four legged ladies, vanilla and chocolate, although this individual corrected me, blondie and brownie. LOL. What a blessing to encounter this beautiful spirit. A vegan since childhood. I don't want to hurt animals she said. She spoke from a beautiful place in her heart, although later on there was some stridency evident, but why shouldn’t there be? She obviously feels a deep solidarity with all living things, and is upset, out raged, hurt, when other parts of her are hurt. Comented often have I telthe zero interest blondie and brownie have in me. Well this magnificent spitit  it turns out several times a year maybe four when she's in the area from LA will camp out for days, and walk miles to find and feed these two ladies. Vanilla, the particularly standoff fish one, she just loves it when I put my arms around her neck and on and on and on. I'm serious. How unfair! I’m totally delighted.

Mike and Molly and Nico there excruciating Lee adorable little doggie, are at the place that water is retrieved every couple of days by me. No dis credit to anyone, an exquisite blessing it is for me to encounter them these several times. Married more than 40 years, that's not important. Incredible friends to one another it seems. He is a pioneer with mobile solar and there are some technical issues that I discussed with him and another issue that he helped me out with.

The translation by Jesus James is beginning work on is a matter of tone and attitude. And substance. Some people see Mount Whitney and the mountains and lakes beyond once, are impressed and then move on. John Muir saw and it captivated his life. Those are different reactions. Qualitative Lee and quantitative leave. Same external reality, pro found Lee different understanding and appreciation.

James is finding some certainty that he and everyone have been totally missing either the spin that Jesus experience or that  he was pointing at. It is about the joy, the heaven, the reality of being a soul, limbic system, on earth in this life. James is surprised to be seeing this, the same way he's surprised at the different coloring on Mount Whitney and in the clouds each morning. He must get this out where he can see it more plain Lee and maybe discard it, or maybe stand on it and grow from it for his remaining days. More likely the latter. Has he mentioned maybe 18 years ago he caught a glimpse of this and then was detoured. His choice. Maybe the detour was right only so he could come back and stay the path this time.

Help needed. Please forward to who might. DC ebike electrical advice.

This email was sent to my friends in Vancouver Canada, grin Technologies, the supplier and go go to place for ebike electronics in the world. But they are very backed up and I wonder if you know anyone that might provide Insight on the following.

Extreme every-other-day climbing ahead for months. This is the forecast here in Lone Pine. As the Heat and bugs rise the three miles up to the portal, 5 miles of 9 and 13% grade will be usual.

I think I'm all set, but if this is crazy please let me know. So far this morning it was tested and seems to be okay.

Bottom-line question, if with only one or the other receiving power, one positive input wire disconnected, the other controller connected to the battery, can I leave in place the FaZe Runner, and the old 40 amp controller phase wires connected in parallel to my mid Drive crown?

The grin fine controller seems to have found its niche, driving the crown in the rear wheel which goes at such horribly low RPM. It provides nice substantial power, no torque of course, and it does not overheat.

On the really steep climbs the old 40 amp controller driving the mid vehicle motor and I have way more than enough power. And neither overheats. Not appreciably anyway. But that combination is insufficient for The Descent, it cannot keep me slow enough with regenerative braking Beyond about 6% grade.

But the FaZe runner on that mid vehicle motor with the grin fine controller in the rear wheel has no problem keeping me at about 6 miles an hour.

So I've got the equipment the problem is, not at the same time.

I would have preferred talking to you all first but it seemed to me that if a controller was not receiving power, the red battery lead disconnected, it would be as though it were not in the system. Sorry if I'm giving you a heart failure but please let me know.

What I am needing is a way of quickly changing over the system from climbing mode to descending mode.

And my initial tests indicate that yes, based on temperature, the controller that is receiving no power from the battery, ground wire still connected but the red Power lead disconnected, the controller not being used space Stone Cold.

The questions I have which I pray you might have time to address.

1. Is this okay or is it a bad, bad bad, bad bad bad idea?

2. Can you think of a much better way for me to do this?

If it is okay:

3. Any idea where I can Source a switch that will enable me to select between power from the battery going to One controller or the other? The stuff I could get at a hardware store certainly wouldn't handle this amount of power.

4. If the paralleling of phase wires described above, and tried this morning, is okay, could I do the same thing by wiring up a parallel harness for the hall sensor wires?

In any case,

5. Can you point me to a way of hooking up a second temperature meter to the second motor not through the cycle analyst I'm sure, but can I do a external sensor so that I can watch both Motors? 

Thanks Friends. James

More and more I experience being a soul. It's a wonderful thing. More and.....

More and more I experience being a soul. It's a wonderful thing. More and more my only concern for the body is when it goes, or is taken from me, my work will stop. So much still to do.

My lucrative business career was based on finding the one in a million client and Associate that, got it. Finally......

My lucrative business career was based on finding the one in a million client and Associate that, got it. Finally it is occurring to me that in my current Mission the same is required. Triage. Wanting to save everyone not only does not make it so, but makes it infinitely less likely.

Sol RV cycling log, April 5. Aircycling!

Wow. Building on the elements now tracked daily in the metric, the chart, proven stable these last 4 weeks, something new these first 30 minutes of tonight's four hour journey.

Aiming the torso at the 40° target.

High power cycling on a conventional cycle does this pretty automatically. But not a recumbent. There are so many alternative strategies that tempts the body. Or, seriously, I am an absolute idiot, and it has taken me years to get to this point.

Maybe both.

Also, not mentioned before, this being an electric vehicle, there is tremendous opportunity for the vehicle to get in the way of the physical mechanics of moving it with the body. James, remember to mention the dramatic, huge, monumental improvement in the vehicle cycle true performance these last couple of days.

Aiming the torso at the 40° knee target stroke. But at all times not just at the end of the target. This is an almost, maybe completely, imperceptible adjustment. And it is again what the body naturally does in high powerstroke climbing hill on a conventional bicycle. A lining everything with gravity and the direction of the downward stroke. And again, no such dictation by a recumbent cycle.

But so completely fluid, normal, comparative Lee effort list, when found. Who knew?

And remember how often the last 20% of the journey is the best performance? This alignment often happens naturally at that point, I'm quite sure. But I was not conscious of it. Only now. Power out from the torso.

Another 40% of the journey is behind us.

It keeps getting better.

Targeting the torso and maintaining it as a face for the lies legs to work against is proving monumental.

Maybe targeting 45 percent is incorrect. There's evidence now that targeting 60 % not as a hard target at the end but as a softer target tire, maybe more helpful.

Totally contrary to something that seemed helpful 6 weeks ago, keeping the eyes very low, barely in front of the vehicle, now seems the exact opposite of what's needed. Now it seems that looking far down the road helps keep the torso aligned more horizontal to the road, recumbent, and allows the rest of the knees to hit that 50 or 60 degrees target in the air.

And having done so for the last hour now you know the notion of what the buttocks and glutes do in a conventional bicycle, they do the work, and for the first time that is becoming more pronounced.

James, be prepared to go very very very very slow. Even to remind your body, to prove to your body, that it can happen. Very empowering. Very necessary. Very powerful.

Hinted at all through this voyage, and now much more pronounce is they notion of positioning the torso  at all times so that the thighs and buttocks can do all the work almost an air cycling sort of thing. Really, an air cycling sort of thing tonight. The torso totally wants to help finding and rocking and this and that. It is very hard to keep it just suck back keep to make room for the thighs to pedal aircycling. But it feels very good. Powerful, sustainable,  and less stress on the knees. It seems it is very hard to have confidence that the buttocks and thighs and glutes can do all the work but they seem to be more than up to it.

Ignite Soul log April 5. Grunt work. Slow, tedious, frustrating, necessary, laying a good foundation.

This is not the easy, semi euphoric stuff. But it is oddly satisfying and totally necessary to this mission to ignite souls. Quite satisfying indeed. See James Patting himself on the back. LOL.

James metrics are dipping. He is gladly facing up to realities. He is not on track to be a substantial transformational soul. Yes, who knows. But the likelihood is not great. Why? To far to go, too little time.

But he has been all of this adulthood the igniter of souls. Substantially? Yes, substantially. As a match is a igniter of paper or wood. Whether it is put to use or brought in contact with dry fuel is a separate matter. James will not give up on becoming a transformational soul but he will focus on what he can continue to do, be an igniter of souls.  

Directly? Not necessarily. James blog is approaching a million views these last 12 years or so that it has been up. He has put up during that period And time many tens of documents on to the Internet that were not there or we're not easily available of the most transformative souls that have ever been. And this work is continuing. Will it transform anyone's life? Don't know. Unlikely. More like than if the work wasn't being done.

More foundational work ahead but satisfying and necessary. Creating the new soul igniting oriented graphics for the side and back of the miraculous RV. Design and production at very high priority. Already beatthe traffic is increasing substantially here in lone pine Mount Whitney. The message is so on truth now, that having it on the side of the vehicle instead of the horribly distracting technical stuff is a tremendous opportunity. Some work was done today to determine that it is possible in the dimensions required. It is. Not inexpensive but after years of preparation it is time. Very exciting.

James, I've got a stiff neck. I asked why? Spending so much time looking at your photographs, he replied. Such a enjoyable couple, my age. We had several nice long talks now. Uncharacteristic Lee I initiated things when I saw the huge solar array on the top of the trailer that his gigantic RV is pulling. An electric car he pulls which he also charges with his solar array also on the roof of his RV, and two electric try circles for he and his wife.

By the way, if I were you I would check the photo archive Link at the top of this blog for the breathtaking beauty of today. Beauty just does not quit here.

With all this, in the direction of being a transformational soul this foundatioal work is moving me, but too slowly to arrive or make a substantial difference. But again, the work being done, the work of the last 15 years, is igniting of souls, it is that kind of thing, it is of that stuff, it is creating and spreading matches.

As mentioned, the metrics are trending downward, and this is a good thing. James is coming to a greater understanding of how far is needed to go. Where to fish for the soul that can ignite is totally not understood by him. There is a possibility that for the next 4 or 5 months that where he is right now geographicly would be fabulous or a complete dud. This is on the Pacific Coast Trail. People from all over the country and all over the world come to travel that trail that extends for Mexico up to Canada. Mount Whitney is the highest point in the United States so you can imagine what kind of a draw that is for a certain population. It will not be shocking to me if some portion of that population is drawn to hiking because the soul is looking for something more. It might be they all are just looking for idle entertainment, but maybe some are looking for more. It is not impossible that by being here this summer strategically placed with the new graphics that a word of mouth could be started. The 30 yr WH peace vigil which we conducted for about 3 years 12 hours a day served that purpose. Or this might be a dud. Probably something more.

It seems like we are not wearing out our welcome. But maybe tomorrow that will prove mistaken. Probably not.

Is this body finally healing from all the cancer and treatment? Only about 10 hours a day of sleep is required for the last week or so. Unwilling is James to assume that this is the new normal, but it could be. James work could certainly use an additional couple of hours per day.

Yes, these are not glamorous days, this is not the fun study of Tolstoy, but it is very satisfying because clearly a strong foundation is being laid for the coming week months years or whatever time is left.

A fruitful notion occurred today. Might be a dead end. Might be a wrong turn. Probably needs to be tested. James needs a new set of metrics in addition to the two now, to help him understand how much of a LSGIA Being  he is being. Essentially is he being a soul or a head and body? Head and flesh? Jesus in his verses, and possibly more so in the Tolstoy translation, seems to be saying that we are most joyful when we live as a soul. The kingdom comes, as thy will is done on earth as it would be in heaven. Clearly in heaven, we are soul, not a body and head. Even, especially, in the heaven, the kingdom, that Jesus taught, the kingdom was in us, the kingdom of God within us. He was explicit about this and never said otherwise. No Jesus did not live as though the flesh and the head should be ignored. Keeping them going is the price of keeping the soul active in this life.  but the body is not the goal. And my soul wants the body not to be the goal. The head, not to be the goal. But very much wants them to continue as long as they can effectively support the work of the soul. As they are doing bless their essence. So James has been living as a soul for almost two decades and partly for all of his life. But scale of 0 to 10? Maybe at 7? What an important opportunity for him to track his progress and see if he can work toward something more intense.