PEERS Origin Story

Dear friends,

PEERS (Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service) is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization established in early 2006 for the purpose of educating and inspiring all who are interested to help transform our lives and world through love and empowerment. To learn more about the inspiring mission of PEERS and the many websites we manage, please visit our home page. To read brief descriptions of the members of the PEERS board of directors, click here. For a concise description of the history and development of PEERS and its websites, read on.

PEERS came into existence as the result of many unexpected turns of events. I was quite shaken by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and the war on Afghanistan which soon followed. As a way to balance the intense negativity resulting from all this, I was inspired to create the Global Community for All website, which is all about spreading love, healing, and empowerment in our world, despite the fact that I knew next to nothing about creating websites. I posted this website in a very rudimentary form to the Internet in early 2002, four years before PEERS was officially established.

Just weeks before 9/11, I had been awakened to some very disturbing and life-changing information about hidden things going on in our world which I felt were incredibly important. As a way to deal with this vitally important information and get it out to the world, in late 2002 I gradually started creating what came to be the most popular of the PEERS websites, WantToKnow.info, whose tag line is "reliable, verifiable information on major cover-ups and a call to work together for the good of all."

WantToKnow.info officially launched in early 2003 and soon afterward was receiving a respectable 400 visits a day or more.

And though WantToKnow.info deals with what some might label "conspiracy theories," it's important to know that until 2001, I was a debunker of major conspiracy theories. One of my housemates was a conspiracy theorist, and I used to quietly laugh at his paranoid thinking. As a language interpreter for presidents and other top government officials around the world, I had been present at numerous secret meetings where the only people allowed were the top officials and their interpreters. There was no way my housemate knew more than me what was really going on.

I began my interpreting work with the U.S. Department of State in 1986 at age 28. How I ended up first interpreting for Bill Clinton in the White House in 1995 and eventually becoming the State Department's top Indonesian language interpreter is another fascinating story filled with little miracles which I won't go into here, but you can read about it at this link.

What matters here is that until 2001, I did not see or hear anything which I felt supported the beliefs of my housemate and other conspiracy-minded people that global politics is largely controlled by a small group of power-hungry men who work in secret groups behind the global stage pulling the strings for their own benefit.

That dramatically shifted in July 2001, when a great friend sent me a life-changing video presentation on UFOs. The powerful, reliable information in this astonishing video shook me to the core, as it revealed a major cover-up of UFOs. Astronauts, top military officials, and many other key influential individuals sharing their personal experiences of the UFO cover-up in this video could not all be lying.

By the end of this riveting video, my jaw was on the ground. I found myself shaking my head in utter amazement as I realized that the world was not what I had thought it was just two hours before! My understanding of reality was deeply shaken. I determined then and there to open to spiritual guidance and find out what was really going on.

I soon found that I had been much too hasty in dismissing what I had thought were the crazy conspiracy theories of some of my friends. And then, only six weeks after watching that life-changing video...

I watched in disbelief the graphic images on the TV screen as smoke poured out of a circular hole in the side of the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11. Only 45 minutes earlier, two planes had punctured the 110-story symbols of world trade in New York. With my stomach turning, I turned to my sweetie and said, "There's something seriously wrong here."

In my interpreting work with the State Department, I had flown in military helicopters with top U.S. generals who boasted to their Indonesian counterparts about our incredibly sophisticated radar facilities which can simultaneously track everything of significance in the skies over the U.S. from their control center at Cheyenne Mountain. One general bragged that our military could spot any unusual object anywhere in the country and within 10 minutes have a fighter jet on it to take action.

So it was virtually impossible that on 9/11 a relatively slow moving passenger jet could penetrate this radar and other layers of defense to hit the highly fortified center of U.S. military operations, especially given that all systems were on high alert after two planes had already hit the World Trade Center towers over 30 minutes earlier. The fact that the Pentagon later refused to release any clear images from the many dozens of video recordings of this collision only confirmed my suspicion that something was seriously wrong here.

Over the following year, I dove into intensive research and was amazed to come up with an astounding amount of reliable, verifiable information on 9/11, UFOs, and a number of other major cover-ups which I previously would have dismissed as completely crazy. Seeing the vital importance of this easily verifiable information, I began to compile my findings to share with any and all interested. I wanted to make a difference in our world and motivate others to get the word out.

Then in late 2002, I found myself involved in a top secret meeting in the home of Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri, where I saw a small piece of the hidden manipulations unfold before my eyes. I kept quiet about what I witnessed until I finally resigned from my State Department work (as reported in the Washington Post) in late 2004 due to excessive secrecy demands.

Once I quit the State Department, I became a whistleblower on this incident and testified in an internationally watched terrorism trial on how government officials had repeatedly lied to the international press. My decisive testimony was covered by BBC and many other top media outlets, and even resulted in an article featuring me and my work on the front page of the Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110901231065260117 in February 2005

In early 2006, we formed PEERS (Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service) as an umbrella nonprofit organization to manage WantToKnow.info and the other websites I had developed. We applied for and received official 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in just a few months and began drawing even more support.

For the first years, all donations we received went to cover the various expenses involved, and to pay those helping me to develop the websites. Only after seven years of volunteering full time did PEERS finally receive enough donations to compensate me at a modest rate of $1,000 a month for my work starting in 2010. In the following years, thanks to the generous support of our many readers and subscribers, this amount has been gradually increased so that I now am able to support myself and sustain this great work. And thanks to a large cryptocurrency donation in 2022, we were able to hire a wonderful woman, Amber Yang, as a full-time employee.

Ever since resigning from both my work as an interpreter and nurse, I have been living very simply. I feel very blessed that even with my simple lifestyle, I still fully enjoy life and love this great work of helping people to awaken to the deeper realities of our world and to join in the exciting work of personal and global transformation.

To me, none of this has felt like a sacrifice. The PEERS websites I founded have been a work of great love and passion for me. I am thrilled with how many people's lives this work has touched and even transformed in many different ways. We regularly receive wonderful emails of appreciation. I love living in service to all of us, so this has been a most rich and profound journey for me. It feels so good to be following my purpose and doing something meaningful with my life.

What a wild, strange and fascinating trip it has been! And it has been a great joy and pleasure to share all that I have learned with all of you, and to connect with so many people who are deeply dedicated to transforming our world. Knowing about all of the amazing, inspiring movements of transformation which are blossoming around the world, I have no doubt that PEERS is making a big difference.

Even though we may be in for some rough times ahead, I am incredibly optimistic about our future.

If you have read this far, I want to personally thank you very much for your interest in this work of love. I hope you can understand the intense amount of hard work and dedication that has gone into PEERS. I also ask you to sincerely consider the value of this important work. We really need your support to continue to grow and expand this great work. Every little bit helps. Please click below to help us make even more of a difference. And whether or not you donate, thank you for all the support you provide in any form. Together, we are transforming our world.