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WELCOME TO THE PERSONAL WEBSITE OF RICHARD C. COOK
THE PURPOSE OF THE SITE IS TO MAKE AVAILABLE HIS BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND DVDs.
  • On September 20, 2011, Richard C. Cook gave a major speech to the International Reciprocal Trade Association at their annual convention in Mexico, where he introduced the Gaia Plan, calling for a worldwide Basic Income Guarantee. See the blogposts section of the website.
  • Receive an autographed copy of Challenger Revealed by Richard C. Cook by using the “Donate” button on this webpage. Cost is $20 plus $5 S&H within the U.S. or $20US plus $12US S&H abroad.
  • On Monday, January 24, 2011, Richard C. Cook spoke at a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster at Chapman University in Orange, CA. The blog section of this website carries several articles related to this event.
  • The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century. New book available from Global Research with a chapter by Richard C. Cook on “Democratization of the Monetary System.” ORDER HERE
  • Richard C. Cook is one of 25 Americans featured in a new book by Vince Reardon: Legacy: Passing on Cherished Values in a Values-Starved World. ORDER HERE
  • Order We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform by Richard C. Cook. Use the PayPal donate button at the top of this page and send $25 which includes shipping within the U.S. See the new review by Jamie Walton of the American Monetary Institute. CLICK HERE
  • Lite in the Heart by Australian mystic Omna Last is available through this website. Use the Donate button at the top to order. Send $20 which includes S&H and allow two weeks for delivery. Go directly to Omna’s website HERE.
  • Website now includes PayPal “Donate” button to support research and publication mission. Donations are gratefully accepted.

Richard C. Cook is an author, editor, and speaker who resides in Roanoke, VA. His interests are meditation and spirituality, space exploration, local economic sustainability, and monetary reform. He attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated with honors in 1970 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Cook is a retired federal government analyst who worked for the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. He also taught history at the Field School in Washington, D.C.
At NASA Cook was the lead resource analyst for the space shuttle solid rocket boosters, external tank, and Centaur upper stage. He extensively documented the problems with the solid rocket booster O-rings that destroyed Challenger on January 28, 1986. He then became one of the foremost whistleblowers of modern times when he was instrumental in exposing the start of a cover-up in the wake of the disaster, leading to the disclosures that followed by engineers who had tried to stop the launch.
As a witness to the incident and a participant in the subsequent investigations, he received the Cavallo Foundation Award for Moral Courage in Business and Government for his role in bringing the truth about Challenger before the public. It is safe to say that without Cook and the other whistleblowers the public never would have learned what really happened to cause the greatest tragedy of the space age.
Cook never returned to NASA after his testimony. Upon retirement in 2007, he published his memoirs of the tragedy in a book entitled Challenger Revealed. The book was called by one reviewer, “The most important space flight book in 20 years.”
A lifelong student of meditation, Cook published In the Foosteps of the Yogi, a book about Sri Shivabalayogi, a guru from India, in 2000. His most recent book is We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, derived from his post-NASA career at the U.S. Treasury Department and his analysis of the financial crash of 2008. He had predicted the crash a year earlier in articles published on Global Research, an internet news site. He has published over 60 articles on the internet and in print venues on alternative economics and other topics, most recently writing about the ancient roots of Christianity in the Essene and Gnostic teachings. In Roanoke, he is working at renovating houses and teaching classes in meditation and has founded the Peace Spiritual Center as a community resource. His wife Karen is a teacher.

Cook may be contacted through this website or at Peace.Spiritual.Center@gmail.com. The website for the Peace Spiritual Center is www.Peace-Spiritual-Center.org

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Challenger Disaster

In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."

The Cook Plan

What I am calling the 'Cook Plan' is to pay each resident of the U.S. a dividend, by means of vouchers for the necessities of life, in the amount of $1,000 per month per capita starting immediately as our fair share of the resources of the earth and the productivity of the modern industrial economy. The money would then be deposited in a new network of community savings banks to capitalize lending for consumers, small businesses, and family farming.

Omna Last

The Lite in the Heart can be experienced when there is enough Love awareness and a strong enough energy field for consciousness to enter deep within the Heart to the place where the Atma lives, shining more brightly than a million Suns.