In the early 1990s I worked for a man who was always reading books on conspiracy theories and believed that there was a shadow government that was going to take over the world. I, of course, thought that was silly. We have an open government, and have a free press. The press would have uncovered that, and our government would have shut them down. Just to be nice I looked over one of his books and was even more convinced it was silliness. It was poorly written and the author appeared to be pulling completely unrelated facts and sandwiching them together to make it look like a conspiracy, when in fact it was unrelated material.

In the meantime he did me a big favor by poking holes in my scientifically trained mechanical worldview, the view that the world is nothing more than a complex chemical machine. I was already in a state of cognitive dissidence from reading a number of books on quantum theory. Quantum theory, which all our modern technology is derived from, cannot be squared with this mechanical worldview. What I realized was that the scientific community was doing the same thing that conspiracy theorists were doing, i.e. trying to sandwich together a mechanical worldview with a scientific one that said reality was some form of illusion, and strictly spiritual.

Fast-forward to 2001 and 9/11 happened, and the internet was filled with more conspiracy theories saying that it was not the airplanes that caused the buildings to collapse. Someone had planned ahead and wired the buildings with demolition explosives. In other words the Arabian hijackers were just pawns in a much bigger plan, and of course, as the theory went, it was all a scheme by the U.S. government to strike fear into the American people and create a reason for us to invade Iraq!

What? How could that be, I cannot think of a more repugnant thought. These people that write this conspiracy stuff must be crazy! How could our government possibly stoop so low as to kill it’s own people. But then I kept seeing the way those buildings just fell straight down, just like buildings demolitioned, and what about the third building, called building seven, that was not even hit by a plane? It too just came straight down. High rise fires before and after 9-11 have not collapsed but three buildings did that day.

Then I got a photo in an email that I just could not get out of my head. It was a picture of a large hole in the side of one of the towers where one of the airplanes had gone into the building. What was so haunting was the fact that there was an insert, of part of the photo, blown up larger. In the blow up you could see what looked like a woman standing at the edge of the opening looking out. She looks dazed because she was leaning against a building support. What is she doing there? Is she from the building or the airplane? One cannot see how she could have survived from either place. Either way, if there was enough heat to melt the steel and collapse the building how can she just be standing there?

Then I thought, lets assume that there was enough heat to make the building collapse, how would it fall? What are the odds that the building supports would give way on both sides of the building at precisely the same time? Not much. If you look at the photos, the airplane went into the corner of one of the buildings. It is clear that if the fire had caused that buildings supports to collapse that corner would have failed first, and the top of the building would have fallen off. Therefore I am completely convinced that the three buildings were in fact a demolition job.

Obviously then, the next question is who? Who could have had the resources and need to do such an unspeakable thing? Were the suicide terrorists that flew the airplanes into the buildings just pawns in a much bigger plan?

Next week, who I think did it and the new paradigm.

O Frank Turner
Author and Speaker
The Science of Spirit: Beyond The Bleep www.ofrank.com