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A teaser extract from the Observer Ranch presentation, May 1 2026.
Remember Who You Are…
Westward view at Observer’s Conference, Penrose, Colorado, 1 – 5 May 2026
Since you are reading this, I will let you in on a little secret here: studies are forthcoming which will show the majority of older cities worldwide, and especially cities at higher elevations above 2250 ft, show a clear bias toward Np’ over our current north pole or any other alignment. The cities which show a clear bias towards the current north pole, are all in the ECDO inundation footprint. This will send ECDO Theory off the charts in interest. Get a part of the original work, and author’s touch, here, while you can. Once the big publishers get hold of this – it will be a different ballgame.
Coming April 2026 — A New Knowledge
It took more than two decades to assemble the line of research presented in this work — years spent in strategic analysis, intelligence work, materials science, complex initiative planning, detailed engineering and specification, construction, and operational discipline. During this long development of the theory, I gradually endured the internal struggles that accompany a worldview reshaped far outside the bounds of what was instilled in childhood or instruction. Accordingly, I do not underestimate the burden of dissonance that may settle upon the shoulders of a reader encountering this argument for the first time, or in a single sitting.
Despite the apparent darkness of its tone, the reader may discern an undercurrent of Gnostic optimism. I define faith not as a matter of holding to a set of doctrinal beliefs or performative deeds of virtue, but as the quiet art of living small lives with patience, love, and integrity — despite every temptation to submit to the contrary.
Hold one another close, for that is the only thing that is real. In this simple truth resides the joy each person must ultimately come to understand.
More is at play in our seemingly absurd circumstance than we are presently equipped to know. We are not alone …and never have been.
Any sufficiently advanced act of benevolence is indistinguishable from either malevolence or chance.
~ Ethical Skeptic’s Third Law of Advanced Intelligence
Be reluctant to declare that which is good, for no sooner is this done than evil will kill it and wear its skin as a virtue or religious costume.
In Gnosticism, the God of Eden or Demiurge pretends to be God. The cruel hatred of mankind and inconsistency of this entity may serve as a hint in this.
There exists a non-trivial and arguably irreconcilable inconsistency in the manner by which God exercises His professed values across the Old and New Testaments. The Apostle Paul defines love as that which keeps no record of wrongs suffered (1 Corinthians 13:5), while Scripture explicitly declares that God is love (1 John 4:8). Yet the biblical record chronicles 35 distinct divine judgments, condemnations, and punishments imposed upon mankind, each ostensibly predicated upon an accounting of offenses committed.
More consequentially, the twelfth judgment in this inventory—the crucifixion of Jesus Christ—constitutes, under the Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement, the payment in full of humanity’s debt of sin. Yet the biblical narrative proceeds to prescribe another 23 divine judgments and payments, culminating in the Great White Throne Judgment and Payment. If the debt has already been paid in full, by what moral or accounting principle do multiple judgements and punishments for the same exact crime continue? And if love keeps no record of wrongs, by what standard are those same offenses subsequently retained, adjudicated, and continually punished?
The definition of love does not qualify it by saying “only if the recipient decides to accept it…”
How can a God whose nature is love, and who explicitly frames the defining characterisitics which prove out that love, maintain an accounting of offenses that his very definition of love expressly forbids, and continue to exact multiple punishments for the same original crime upon a debt Scripture declares already paid?
There is no apologetic or hand-waving that can resolve this autoaufheben logical conflict. A principal tension exists between elements 5, 12, and 35 in the tally below as well (in bold) – setting aside the fact that the tally itself already stands in violation of 1 Corinthians 13:5.
New Testament God as Taught by Jesus (and later the Apostle Paul)
“[Love] does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
~ 1 Corinthians 13:5 (New International Version)
The God of Eden’s Tally of Wrongs Suffered and 35 Punishments/Payments Doled Out for THE SAME CRIME – DESPITE the Punishment (Death) Having Already Been Delivered and the Penalty Arleady Having Been Supposedly ‘Paid-in-Full’
Condemnation of the Serpent — Cursed to crawl upon its belly and eat dust. (Genesis 3:14)
Enmity Between Humanity and the Serpent — Perpetual hostility between their offspring. (Genesis 3:15)
Pain in Childbirth — Increased suffering in childbirth. (Genesis 3:16)
Toil for Sustenance — The ground cursed; mankind condemned to labor for food. (Genesis 3:17–19)
Mortality — Humanity condemned to return to dust, losing access to indefinite earthly life. (Genesis 3:19, 22–24)
The Great Flood — Destruction of humanity except Noah’s household. (Genesis 6–8)
The Tower of Babel — Confusion of language and dispersal of humanity. (Genesis 11:1–9)
The Ten Plagues of Egypt — Collective punishment of Egypt through ten successive plagues. (Exodus 7–12)
Forty Years of Wilderness Wandering — The Exodus generation condemned to perish before entering the Promised Land. (Numbers 14:26–35)
Destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel — Assyrian conquest, deportation, and national dissolution. (2 Kings 17:6–23)
Destruction of Judah and Babylonian Exile — Destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple, followed by national captivity. (2 Kings 24–25; Jeremiah 25)
Crucifixion of Jesus Christ — The bearing of humanity’s sins and their punishment through Christ’s sacrificial death, under substitutionary atonement theology. (Isaiah 53:4–6; Romans 3:25–26; 1 Peter 2:24)
Destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple — Roman conquest and destruction in 70 CE, foretold as judgment by Jesus. (Luke 19:41–44; 21:20–24)
First Seal — Conquest — The white horse and its rider, representing conquest. (Revelation 6:1–2)
Second Seal — War — The red horse; peace removed from the earth. (Revelation 6:3–4)
Third Seal — Famine — The black horse; scarcity and economic distress. (Revelation 6:5–6)
Fourth Seal — Death — The pale horse; death over one-fourth of the earth. (Revelation 6:7–8)
Fifth Seal — Martyrs’ Appeal for Vengeance — The slain petition God for judgment upon their persecutors. (Revelation 6:9–11)
Sixth Seal — Cosmic Catastrophe — Great earthquake, darkened sun, bloodlike moon, and celestial disturbances. (Revelation 6:12–17)
Seventh Seal — Commencement of Trumpet Judgments — Silence in heaven followed by the preparation of seven angels to sound their trumpets. (Revelation 8:1–5)
First Trumpet — Destruction of Vegetation — Hail and fire destroy one-third of the trees and all green grass. (Revelation 8:7)
Second Trumpet — Destruction of Marine Life — A burning mountain cast into the sea; one-third of marine life dies. (Revelation 8:8–9)
Third Trumpet — Poisoning of Freshwater — Wormwood renders one-third of the waters bitter, causing deaths. (Revelation 8:10–11)
Fourth Trumpet — Darkening of Celestial Lights — One-third of the sun, moon, and stars darkened. (Revelation 8:12)
Fifth Trumpet — Torment by Locusts — Demonic locusts inflict prolonged suffering upon humanity. (Revelation 9:1–12)
Sixth Trumpet — Destruction of One-Third of Humanity — Four angels released and a vast army brings mass death. (Revelation 9:13–21)
Seventh Trumpet — Proclamation of Divine Judgment — Announcement of God’s reign, wrath, and judgment of the dead. (Revelation 11:15–19)
First Bowl — Painful Sores — Affliction of those bearing the mark of the beast. (Revelation 16:2)
Second Bowl — Death of Marine Life — The sea becomes blood and every living creature in it dies. (Revelation 16:3)
Third Bowl — Freshwater Turned to Blood — Rivers and springs become blood. (Revelation 16:4–7)
Fourth Bowl — Scorching Heat — The sun burns humanity with extraordinary heat. (Revelation 16:8–9)
Fifth Bowl — Darkness and Agony — The kingdom of the beast plunged into darkness and suffering. (Revelation 16:10–11)
Sixth Bowl — Gathering for Armageddon — The Euphrates dries and the kings of the earth assemble for battle. (Revelation 16:12–16)
Seventh Bowl — Final Cataclysm — Unprecedented earthquake, destruction of cities, and enormous hailstones. (Revelation 16:17–21)
The Great White Throne Judgment — The dead judged according to their works; those absent from the Book of Life cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11–15)
Arguably, this inconsistency invites a more consequential proposition: that Jesus and/or Paul did not conceive of, or worship, the same divine authority portrayed as the God of Eden. Certain Gnostic traditions distinguished the supreme, transcendent God from the lesser creator and ruler of Earth and Eden, variously identified as Yaldabaoth (the Demiurge), Samael/Ha-Satan (the Chief Archon), or Shemyaza (leader of the fallen Watchers in Enochic tradition).
The very offense for which the Demiurge is condemned in certain Gnostic traditions is his presumption of being the supreme God. In the Apocryphon of John, Yaldabaoth declares himself the only God, unaware of the higher divine reality from which his own existence derives. His arrogance and ignorance are central to the narrative. Suppose the entity exercising punitive authority throughout portions of the Old Testament was not the transcendent Father whom Jesus proclaimed, but a subordinate being claiming that identity.
Under this interpretive framework, the apparent contradiction between divine love and punitive judgment may not arise from inconsistent attributes of a single deity, but from the conflation of fundamentally different divine identities within the inherited scriptural tradition. This does not establish that Jesus or Paul embraced Gnostic theology; rather, it raises a provocative historical and theological question: Are we attempting to reconcile the ‘mysterious ways’ and irreconcilable attributes of one God, or have we mistakenly attributed the actions of more than one pseudo-divine authority to a single fallen being pretending to be God? A being whose inceptional crime was his pretense of being God, in the first place.
