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I believe that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was either hijacked or experienced an extremely unusual mechanical problem of some kind. If it was hijacked, which is the more likely probability, then it wasn’t done to destroy the plane but to steal it.

The reason I say this is that the passengers were apparently intentionally killed, and there was no reason to do that if the plan was, for example, to fly the plane into a building in New Delhi or Mumbai.
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When I published Nature’s End in 1985, I was laughed at by environmental reporters at a press conference in Washington. When Art Bell and I published Superstorm in 1999, Matt Lauer scoffed at us on the Today Show. When the movie based on it came out, even the director said, to defend himself, that it was probably an overstatement.
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More than ever now, it’s possible to enjoy an increase of being, and 2013 has been a year of profound discovery for me.

In the scientific world, it brought four epochal discoveries, the combination of which are causing my mind to change profoundly. Not for me to change it, but for the discoveries themselves to cause me to think in a new way about the world we live in.
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Over the past twenty-four hours, something beautiful has happened to myself and my wife. It must have started sometime after nine last night. We first noticed it at close to one this morning.

Anne had gone to bed around nine. I was sitting up as I usually do. When I last looked at the clock, it was around ten thirty. Suddenly Anne appeared in the doorway. She had a rather perplexed expression on her face. She said, “What’s going on? What’s all the noise?” I looked up at her confused. There wasn’t any noise. Nothing was going on. She said, “What’s that on TV? Is that the NFL?” The television was dark.
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