Hi to all. I’m Bill Eichman, based in State College Pennsylvania. Here’s my facebook profile, which isn’t a bad way to get a sense of my public character and nature. Bill Eichman
It tells only a portion of my story however. At the age of 11 I encountered books about occultism, common and popular at that time. Star Trek was popularizing the idea of mental powers, as was pop culture. I was a very bright kid, growing up on an isolated Pennsylvania farm. I decided that studying occultism had the best chance of allowing me to develop mental powers. So I studied and practiced it. By the time I left the farm for college I was a quite experienced expert in the western esoteric tradition, which had been heavily suppressed until it started up again in the late 1800s.
In college I taught free university classes on the topics that interested me, studied anthropology, and took up the study and practice of the eastern esoteric traditions, the training and meditative and philosophical disciplines that existed alongside the mainstream religions.
I now consider myself a world-class expert on the esoteric systems of this planet as a whole, in theory, and more significantly in practice. I have been profoundly affected and changed by my practice with the esoteric development toolsets. I’ve been quietly developing new systems of language, models, frames, and ideas, with demonstrations and the means to replicate and test the new systems.
The above topic, which I will call “disciplines for becoming conscious and managing one’s body.brains.minds”, is my special interest. I think it has the potential to amplify everything else we want to do, because it appears to increase intelligences of many kinds, and result in enhanced people that can learn faster, think and feel better, make optimum use of whatever resources they have, and do creative problem solving and other higher order activities more consistently and successfully than those without that training.
But along the way I have become expert or highly skilled and experiemced in a host of other fields. I was an early user of the internet, starting with listservs and usenet in the text based internet of the late 80’s to early 90s. In 1998 I started my second business attempt at making my living online as a web developer. It was fairly successful, and I have supported myself with internet business since that time as an independent developer with a one-man shop.
I became interested early on in the problems of sustainability, social and economic justice, and the great problem of our time, which is the coming transformation of our civilization from the use of fossil carbon to some other energy source.
That means studying our civilization itself. That’s an ugly study. Our civilization is rooted in the ancient greek and roman slave economies, which treated humans as livestock to be exploited and expended.It is that root pattern in our cvilization which makes the task of adapting to a post-fossil-carbon economy seem impossible. Why? Because we are slaves. We act as if we do not own ourselves, therefore, we can’t plan for the future, or take responsibility for it.
At my age, I would like to be able to spend as much time as possible using my skills for projects that intend to produce better human beings that are more free, and are therefore actively involved in working to develop the next civilization.
Which brings me here.
Bill