Circa 2005

Circa 2015

2025

(Rough 10 years then)

My name is Franco Carrieri, I was born in 1959, South Yorkshire, England and have lived in London since the mid-80s. My life-long motivation has been learning, particularly music, science, religions and cooking. In my twenties, as part of my spiritual explorations, I focused on sublimating my procreative drive into a creative drive, so I have a passion for being creative.

I started life doing jobs various, and by my early twenties had opened up an Italian fast-food outlet. I’d dreamed of being a manufacturer, who would export a product and employ people. I actually employed 2 and a half staff at my zenith, but only briefly, and my export product, cheese filled pizza crust, never saw commercial production at my hands. The idea was inspired as a way to attenuate the rim of a pizza from over baking (Mozzarella contains a lot of water). Some decades later I voiced this idea on national radio, and my ambition we realised; but not by me. After a year of self-employment, I realised my energy levels were seriously lacking and I needed a plan B.

Plan B: For the next several years I explored Buddhism, living and working in Buddhist communities. Ironically, the emotional energy in these communities was far from sweetness and light.

Plan C: capitalise on my musical skills. My guitar playing and compositional skills were quite advanced. In the early days of the internet, I published the first ever transcription of the First Movement of Vivaldi's Volin concerto (L'Estate) for Rock Band. I was occasionally recognised in the streets, which brought me smack up against my 'imposter syndrome' (which I understand to mean inferiority complex). It manifested as a profound nervousness and fear of what people would expect of me. Another dawning reality was Fibromyalgia and increasing neuropathy in my hands. They were worsening, and I knew my guitar playing ambition had, realistically speaking, already ended, although the emerging digital technologies made composition an option.

For plan D, I went to university. I graduated in my early 30s, deeply disappointed at the perfunction of the 2 universities I’d attended. I learned that expecting universities to facilitate success was, for the very large part, unrealistic. Outraged I began phoning UK National radio, from around 2000 to 2015, particularly Talk Sport Radio (now Talk TV), which back then also discussed topical issues. My frustrations with life were heard louder than I anticipated. I was briefly dubbed the Voice of Reason, at least until I asked who the voice of reason was. I was even offered a job presenting a Sunday Morning fishing show. I turned it down - again imposter syndrome and struggles with Fibromyalgia meant I didn’t always have the energy a radio show requires. Energy is crucial for confidence and confidence is crucial for broadcasting. I was once asked if I wanted to go head-to-head with American polemicist Ben Shapero. But there is an insidious side to broadcast media: It’s extremely testing and stressful. Talksport Radio had turned talking into a sport, and sport can be a very dirty game. I wasn’t going to enter a fight where the radio station would rig it to have us pulling each other’s hair out for ratings. The truth is, rudeness translates into ratings. My strategy during my radio-phoning years was to maintain all the equanimity I could, and rely on humour when it got ad hominem. Presenters are often intellectually dishonest and routinely love belittling. In the legacy media, a conversation on air is about controlling the narrative and, at least, appearing to win. I found trivialising the presenter’s aggression with a good quip was a useful gambit, whilst also accepted as currency by presenter and listener. However, press me and I’ll squeak out a one-liner was belittling me. Even when I was out and about people would recognise me and test me. Trouble is, some people don’t know their own strength. I knew I hadn’t mismeasured things, when a very famous politician, someone the reader has heard of, once asked me, “do people try to kill you? “No” I said. “Yes they do”, he responded, “They try to kill me as well”. Ask a stand-up comedian if people ever get abusive. Being an empath I was particularly sensitive.

One radio presenter tried, over several years, to get me to apply for TV cooking and baking competitions, while getting the nod that there was the possibility of a TV job in it for me. My wit, and capacity to take abuse and repost like it was part of an act, made compelling listening, and would also have made compelling viewing as well. Yet even after a decade of radio banter, the thought of working on TV horrified me, and made my heart pound out of my chest. Although, the banter was ostensibly only role play, it still hurt, and took energy out of me I felt I didn’t have. Phoning a radio station from the comfort of my own home was not the same as person-to-person in a TV studio. Also, I had an ethical issue with food. There was, and still is, a global obesity epidemic. I was on a spiritual path and that took priority. Karmically speaking, I didn’t want to contribute to the world’s problems, any more than I could help. I had to act in accord with the highest good of all. But just what made me think I could make a difference to the world’s obesity problem? As I wrote above, when phoning radio, I was heard far more loudly than I anticipated, and to an extent, at the time, I didn’t believe myself. So what was my influence on the world? For the largest part, I’ll never know, but I did predict, or should that be channelled, ideas that later manifested in society. Amongst other things, I coined the expression ‘intermittent fasting’ and popularised the 18:6 fasting regime at a time when fasting was not the household practice it is today. The first time I mentioned fasting for healing on the radio, I got a lambasting. I explained that just one, once-a-month fast would keep my weight stable (circa 2006). It didn’t impress, until I explained that if I had a bottle of tincture that stopped people gaining weight, I would be a billionaire, pointing out I’d just given the tincture away for free. I also suggested other fasting regimes, one of which was in fact taken up and developed by a TV doctor, who presented the 5:2 diet (that’s 2 days a week, not hours per day, on restricted calories).

For the record, fasting has not cured my fibromyalgia, although it does mitigate some of the symptoms.

There were other ideas and phrases I voiced that people repeated and that came to pass. For example, Elon Musk used, “use wings if a planet has an atmosphere, that’s what the atmosphere is for” (for re-entry vehicles). President Trump, when getting back into office in 2025 used the phrase “colour blind” to mean not racist. I used both these phrases decades previously. Another example was on Christmas eve evening, 2003, just hours before UK’s Beagle 2 lander, part of the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, was released over Mars. I spoke on the Charlie Wolf radio show. During the discussion, I voiced several ideas. One was that NASA might build a small helicopter to observe and help ascertain the best direction for the Rover to take. Indeed, NASA adopted this strategy for its next visit to Mars. The helicopter is called Ingenuity. We also discussed the problem of solar radiation. I said that water-ice could be used as shielding from cosmic radiation for space ships. Beds on a spaceship could rotate around an axis, to simulate the effects of gravity which might help attenuate the deleterious effects of micro-gravitation on skeletal bone. Up to that date, all first attempts to land on Mars had failed. When asked about Beagle 2’s likelihood of failure, I said that if Beagle 2 failed, it would not be because the clever stuff didn’t work but more likely a door wouldn’t open. The doors were doubly important as they revealed the solar panels that would power the lander. Beagle 2 descended from the ESA spaceship but was not seen again for over a decade. It was spotted in 2015 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Satellite imagery shows not all of the doors had opened properly meaning Beagle 2 didn’t power up.

Whilst the above sounds wonderful, and I was pleased by what was at least ostensibly my own wisdom and thinking, it caused me to reflect. The thing is, I believe, no engineer invents anything, no artist created art work, and anyone who had lost their keys only to have their location just pop into their head, did it exclusively by themselves. Much of it, if not all of it is channelling! Furthermore, I have a powerfully compelling example that can verify this. I have discovered/evolved/channelled an equation that plots the Semi Major Axis, that is, the average distance of a planet’s orbit around its parent star. I found my equation is at least 80% accurate for planets in our solar system and to an accuracy of no less than 80%. I also applied it to the first 117 planets discovered outside our Solar system (exoplanets).  For exoplanets, it is at least 80% accurate, for 97% of exoplanets. If this is true, it is of historical significance. But as yet, no one wants to listen. So, I have included the equation and calculations in a mathematical spread sheet, on this web site. To understand it, you’ll need to understand the concept of Semi Major Axis and be able to do percentages. Just take the empirical data for the SMA (included) given by the international space agencies and the closest matching number that was generated by my equation, make a fraction of them, and multiply by 100 for a percentage. Then see if the result is within 20% or less of the space agencies’ empirical data. I’ve compiled a smaller paper which covers the planets in our solar system and just 2 other star systems. It serves as a primer for the larger spread sheet. Some two decades later, there are now thousands of exoplanets waiting to be checked. I have also factored this discovery into my musical (see the lyrics sung by the astro-numerologists). If the equation is correct, it is an example of what channelling can do, and stands as support for what is currently being called 5-dimentional existence. There are more ways than empirical experimention to better our lives.

So far, I’ve found orthodox thinkers dismiss my equation out of hand, or misrepresent it. For example. Sometime in the early zeros, I contacted a prestigious astronomical society with my theorem. I got in return a picture of a spiral galaxy and the comment ‘I assure you, it’s chaos out there’. I pointed out that a spiral galaxy isn’t chaos and that I was talking about star systems, not galaxies. I then was passed onto someone else, who seemed like a very competent mathematician. He opined my formula simply sequenced numbers into a pattern. I replied that was true but the numbers also predict the semi-major axis of most (exo)planets from their parent star(s). He replied, “the discussion is now ended”.

I resigned myself to life being largely an impasse until the Covid era, when I had time to learn about the starseed concept. I then began to re-evaluate memories and what my charmed existence might be about. Thanks to the many podcasts on the topic my feelings of being stigmatised began to abate.  The unbelievable misfortune and synchronicities I’d experienced made sense when viewed from the starseed perspective. I have always put spiritual values above all other endeavours for the greatest part of life. That priority has manifested above all others. I'm still piecing together, or as the spiritual community puts it, ‘remembering’ and ‘awakening’, not only to the experiences of this life but others. They are few and brief, but just enough to stop me saying “I didn’t agree to be born”, because I remember agreeing.

Still not able to let go of my musical aspirations, I wrote an operatic musical (2020-23) Biography of a Buddha. It is included on this website and can be listened to for free.

I must say, life does seem to be about the journey more so than the destination.