Ray Peat Emails
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I have been sent previously unpublished email correspondence with Ray. These are wonderful, unique emails in my perspective. Perhaps if others have previously unpublished email correspondence with Ray, they can post them in this thread as well.
Q: I was just wondering if you read things unrelated to science at all, for pleasure? Do you have any pieces of Literature or authors other than Blake that have influenced you a lot, or your ways of thinking?
RP: I read sporadically in 18th,19th, 20th century things, often when I’m trying to get a better perspective on events. When I was studying English and American lit I was aware of the contemporary (1950-'65) forces that were shaping it, along with the rest of culture, and so have tended to see it as a mostly toxic artifact.
This is all one email chain:
Q: I was just wondering your thoughts on things other than nutrition/health, as I'm sure you get asked these for the majority of questions.
Also, how do you work against writers block?RP: People occasionally ask me about philosophy, politics, and the nature of consciousness, and those interests preceded my interest in health issues. I think writer’s block is a sign that you need a different form of activity, and different thoughts about the people you are writing for, i.e., a general renewal of perspective. Those topics are all deeply interrelated. For example, I like the “process philosophy” of A.N. Whitehead and the “process theology” of David Ray Griffin, who has in recent years been doing important work in politics, recognizing that engaging with current issues is part of his theology.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3caIG0SMHXE[Editor's note: The video is David Ray Griffin 2011 "911 Miracles", I believe this is the same version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7fE7hphVI]
Q: Interesting video and it agrees with similar things I have watched and agree with. Are you familiar with the documentary called Zeitgeist? It has a section dedicated to 9/11 here, if you are interested:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hZUBR3mg_OQ
I am wondering what your thoughts are about this "manufacturing of consent" as Chomsky puts it, how the general public can avoid being convinced by a false flags such as 9/11 and the media portrayal? I have done previous research years ago on the Kosovo war as well as other periods of history which show this creation of events and inaccurate portrayals are not isolated to 9/11. I've yet to find a case of the media portraying something of this scale and the general public realising before many years have passed. Perhaps things will change with the increasing access to the internet across the worldRP: I’ve been concerned since childhood with the imposition of the official view of reality. With no source of information except the mass media, I still couldn’t see how people could think that the official version of the Korean war was plausible. In 1954, when the Sunday supplement This Week announced a contest to name the anticolonialist movement in Vietnam (which came to be called the VietCong), I understood that the public was being manipulated. By then the government had been refining its methods for over 50 years, and I understood that the reason my teachers seemed so gullible was that politically perceptive people couldn’t keep a teaching job.
I think the internet will stay open only as long as it doesn’t affect the system’s control; as it is, it’s very useful to the system, for watching what people are doing, and for inserting their information where it’s needed. They have robot personalities expressing their opinion on many of the political forums.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/07/28/who-really-started-the-korean-war/
http://brianwillson.com/the-unknown-truth-about-korea-u-s-sanctioned-death-squads-and-war-crimes-1945-1953/Q. Are you saying a newspaper supplement was responsible for naming the "enemy" Vietnam national liberation front? I can't find any information about that online at all, but that is completely surreal.
You mentioned you were thinking about the official view of reality from an early age. Did you ever experience any level of existential crisis? How do you/did you deal with them?
RP: Since I was away at college I wasn’t seeing that publication regularly, and I didn’t see how the contest ended, but I had heard of the Committee on Public Information in the first world war, and knew that government propaganda was everywhere; the schools passed out Weekly Reader, guiding cold war consciousness, newspapers and radio were obsessed with it.
When I was 3 or 4 I saw newspaper pictures of the Italians bombing in Africa, heard about Japanese atrocities in China, rigged elections in Los Angeles, and capital punishment in the US, and then the draft started; I was quietly forming opinions on how to handle such situations when I was older. Around that time a 92-year old man was staying at our house, and I would look at him and imagine the knowledge he represented; then he died, and it started me thinking about the meaning of knowledge, life and aging.
I recently saw a good youtube video, Why Kerala, Grampa?
Q. Do you listen to music much? Do you have any favourite artists?
RP: I don’t listen much, but I really enjoy certain kinds of music, certain instruments, certain people. Wynton Marsalis, Stan Getz, Rafael Mendez, Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Casals, Herb Alpert, Paul Robeson, french horn, glass harmonica, tuba
Q. Thoughts on Novichok poisonings in England 2018
RP: The timing of all of the recent poisoning episodes, in Syria and UK, has been favorable to the US empire, and unfavorable for Syria and Russia. The UK government failed to follow the OPCW rules, without explanation. I suspect that they know private criminal organizations were responsible, but prefer to blame Russia.
“In not giving a sample to whichever state is accused of a chemical weapons misuse, an accusing OPCW member country is in violation of its requirements under OPCW rules.”
Germany defends Russia’s responses to the Skripal case while criticizing the UK’s handling of the UK’s case, and repeats that the UK has yet to show any evidence of its claims against Russia:
Berlin still has ‘no evidence’ from UK that Moscow is behind Skripal poisoning – reports
Published time: 7 Jun, 2018 16:23
Edited time: 8 Jun, 2018 08:20
The German government has zero evidence from the British authorities that could back London’s claims that Moscow was behind the poisoning of the Skripals, German media reports.
More than three months since the start of the probe into the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, the UK is still conspicuously tight-lipped when it comes to any real evidence that could prove its accusations against Russia.
Still multiple leads in Skripal poisoning case, says Scotland Yard
On Wednesday, the German government informed a parliamentary oversight committee during a closed hearing that it still has not received any evidence suggesting that Russia might well be behind the incident that took place in early March, German TV station RBB reports.
“It is [still] only known that the poison used in the attack was a nerve agent called Novichok, which was once produced in the Soviet Union,” Michael Goetschenberg, a correspondent of German ARD and an expert on security services, told RBB, commenting on the results of the hearing, which he is familiar with. Apart from this information, which was released by the British authorities soon after the incident, no new data on Russia’s alleged implication in this case was provided to Germany so far, he added.
German intelligence has also found no Russian trace in this case so far, Goetschenberg said. “The BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence… has also contacted its own sources and tried to verify the information [about Russia’s potential involvement] in some way,” he told RBB, adding that it eventually failed to find any evidence pointing to Moscow as well.
https://rt.com/news/429057-germany-uk-no-evidence-skrpial/British chemical warfare base within 10km radius of both Novichok crime scenes
ALL four people poisoned by a Russian nerve agent live within 15km of a chemical warfare base. Coincidence or something more? The theorists are in overdrive.
Marnie O’Neill@marnieoneill7http://news.com.auJULY 6, 20186:34AM
Amesbury pair exposed to novichok, police confirm
THE news that two more people have been exposed to the same nerve agent that poisoned a Russian ex-spy and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury four months ago raises some uncomfortable questions.Both crime scenes are less than 15 kilometres from the secretive Porton Down defence laboratory — where samples from both cases were sent for analysis and subsequently identified as Novichok, a Cold War era nerve agent authorities insist has only ever been produced in Russia.
But the proximity of the lab to both attacks — the three sites form a small, neat triangle on a map — has people wondering whether it’s a coincidence or something more sinister.
Porton Down and the chemical weapons experiments allegedly carried out there have been the focus of conspiracy theories for decades, with stories of horrible experiments carried out on human and animal subjects alike.
Q. I noticed you linked an article from Russia Today, do you trust them as a source?
What makes you think it was a criminal organisation responsible, rather than for example, the UK government?RP: I think governments use criminal organizations for many of their routine assassinations. They can find very indirect routes to deliver radioactive isotopes or rare toxins. I’ve always looked at a broad range of information sources, to decide what stories seem most likely. The big world media have been tightly controlled, mainly by the CIA, for generations, so their stories are reliably intended to misinform and distract.
Q. I wondered your thoughts on lucid dreaming, and whether it is beneficial at all, or maybe even stressful? Have you tried to learn to do this at all, or have any opinions on it?
RP: I have done it sometimes when trying to solve chemical or biological quetions, and found it very productive, but I think it's more likely to happen when you are working under pressure.
Q. Interesting, how do you think dreaming relates to the world? Do you think you already knew the answers to the questions and dreaming allowed you to realise them, or do you think dreaming allowed you to connect to something else to give you the answers?
RP: It’s a kind of thinking based on wholes and images, rather than words and logic. It sometimes gives the impression that it’s drawing in new information from outside sources. Andrija Puharich discussed that quality of dreams.
August 2019
Q: This is going to sound incredibly surreal, but thought you should know you have been mentioned in a guys political manifesto he calls himself "bronze age mantis" who has a small following of about 20,000 on Twitter. I dont really know anything about him or it to be honest, but thought I should give you a heads up incase you start getting weirder messages than usual.
RP: Thanks, they are getting weirder at an increasing rate.
Q. I was wondering about your mental ability, and how much you think is "natural." Did you always possess the memory recall you have now when you were younger? What do you think is responsible? How would you recommend someone improve their general mental abilities?
RP: When you do something regularly, you keep getting more proficient at it. My memory for images has always been good, but I think never nearly as good as a dog’s, and my memory for names has always been fairly poor. Raising the brain to its proper temperature can immediately improve all of its functions.
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@brad What a treasure trove, Brad.
Thank you for posting them.Of course, there were complainers on the former RPF that said Dr. Peat would be so disappointed that people were talking about conspiracy theories. In retrospect, they were probably agents of the take down.
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@Regina
Yes Brad, great postings. Thank you.At the beginning of the 2020 Pandemonium, Ray said in an interview with Danny and Haidut, something about the Club of Rome, etc..., and what goals they have. Exactly these little clubs which are known, and represent the 'narrative makers' and owner's (or board of directors) of the corporate world. That is also why he referred to Hillman and Ling at times, because their scientific discoveries weren't in the accepted narrative. It doesn't take a genius to understand the barrage of messages sent simply do not have to be received, or integrated. It takes a truly independent mind. That is one reason religion, or other forms of health systems (ie- sceince), are enemies of the state.
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I actually have a number of unpublished emails! I'll have to compile them eventually, but what would be the most helpful way of uploading them? I often see screenshots and things like that; a lot of the context I ask him about is quite personal so I might prefer to abridge them somehow, but I want to provide as much detail as I can in case it helps someone.
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@CreakyJoints Any format you like! Text would be great because they will be able to be indexed and searched for by search engines. You'll also be able to redact portions that are personal.
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Hey, I hope you don't mind me posting this here. If you do I'm more than happy to post it in another more appropriate area. But I was actually trying to view the old forum's email exchange list with Ray and noticed the firewall was blocking a considerable number of IP addresses. It took the liberty of snapshooting the page and thought I'd share the link with everyone in case they need to view some of Peat's email replies too https://archive.ph/raPhe
*actually it's not my snap, someone else snapped it a few years ago as well.
