Retrospective Perspectives 2023/2024

As my perspective for 2023 draws to a close, I wanted to evaluate my perceptions of this year and try to put them in context for these coming months in 2024.

What became obvious to me is how much we’re all victims of our respective education. I felt that almost everyone I met in person (or virtually exchanged over a deeper conversation), now lives in a bubble.

Caused by mainstream reporting, social media, offline exchanges, or the prestigious circles some exclusively tend to move in, nobody seems to be immune to this phenomenon and hardly anyone realizes it. I’m no exception. It feels like we’ve lost the empathic factor of a good discourse, namely, to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes, before making up our mind to what we already know it would otherwise be. What a loss!

Two simple examples of how leading news coverage shapes our “current truth” is how panic around Covid was ended by Ukraine-Russia and how the same subsequently disappeared from the limelight with the reporting around Israel/Hamas. Geopolitically these developments mean serious risks and exhibit tendencies of global leadership madness as we hop from crisis to crisis without signs of recovery from previous ones first.

A major shift in global finance indicating a steady decline of USD as the lead currency, combined with a general lack of trust in the fiat system, a clear trend towards digital wallets (with much less places to pay in cash), a puzzling stock market and internationally dwindling real estate valuations, raises concerns about the sustainability of the financial world at large. Traditionally gold has been one of the few assets available to weather incoming storms but perhaps IP backed bonds could also rise to the occasion as they are portable and present themselves as an option to both preserve and grow wealth simultaneously.

Health also took great strides this year, producing a number of breakthroughs, e.g. with new findings in the uses of whole-body hyperthermia and from innovative applications of laser light therapy. Indeed, the spectrum of life still holds much to explore and we can do even better by remembering its laws of nature (such as the principle of resonance) and by focusing more on pre-medicine opportunities in pathogen management. For the first time in years I’ll miss my annual fast next week, however I’ll be sure to rectify this after obtaining a deeper understanding about the journey from disorder to disease.

Many of the things that I only read about in research so far have now been realized practically, whether it’s the thorium reactor in China that has officially commenced operations, certain safe (non-embryonic) stem cell treatments options, or a water motor (that hopefully doesn’t meet the same fate as its predecessors did), and many more.

To me 2024 holds enormous opportunities in health and IT (especially in security and privacy), linked to the revival of both old and new sciences (such as cymatics) — as they are needed for future research — and, in technologies which could cause revolutions in the energy industry (just think along the lines of wireless energy distribution or having your own mini nuclear reactor at home).

These incredibly rapid developments might come at a steep price — our sanity. Not all of us are equally adaptively equipped to the many new ways and means of doing things and not all new ways and things are as compatible to our human nature as they may seem at first.

Combine this with the political and financial uncertainties at large and one could quickly end up with a challenging state of mind amidst unforeseeable forces that keep pounding us from the outside. The only factor we may be able to control is our inner reaction to them.

Therefore, my mission for 2024 is to simply “meditate” and with it get ready to manage, lead, or accept as required the many changes that may even change our perception of change itself.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Toby