John Jay Harper is a retired electronics engineer and mental health counselor with the US Department of Defense. He initially began his studies of science because of an uncanny insight to the workings of radios, rocks, and rockets, as he says, building crystal-radio sets as well as homemade missiles as a child. Then upon completion of high school he joined the US Army and because of his basic mastery of the subject-matter, was sent to an elite training program at the Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Later he completed formal academic schooling in electronics, counseling psychology, and health sciences, then went on to complete a successful 25-year career with the DoD working at such diverse Top Secret facilities as the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California and Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport, Washington. Today he is a researcher, writer, public speaker, and editor-in-chief with Reality Press in California focused upon earth changes impacting climate, consciousness, and civilization in era-2012, also known to astrophysicists as Solar Cycle 24.