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    Hi:

    The rise of Europe was inextricably linked with the ascent of science, math, and reason. The interaction of technology and science eventually allowed for tapping the fossil fuel energy that has been powering industrialized nations ever since. A “byproduct” of that dynamic was the greatest music the world has known. Ancient Rome liked its music, and its instruments were forerunners of what Europe developed later:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_ancient_Rome

    From the troubadours of the High Middle Ages to the madrigals and recorders of the Renaissance:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_music

    new instruments and musical forms were invented. The invention of the printing press spread music to the growing middle classes, although the Church still dominated music. Then, after 1600, music began a steep ascent, beginning with the Baroque Era:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music

    with the great musicians and composers of the day finding work either for the Church or royalty. J.S. Bach was a towering figure, and his death in 1750 largely marked the end of the Baroque Era and led to the Classical Era, where music yet to be surpassed was made, most notably by W.A. Mozart. I recall once reading Seth remarking on the Classical Era, and he noted that that kind of music was really only attainable in a pre-industrial culture. The Classical Era also happened during the peak of the Enlightenment, when science and reason finally triumphed over religion and dogma. The idea of the equality of all people was ascendant in that era (reviving ancient Greek notions). The American Revolution at least gave lip service to that ideal, although equality certainly did not apply to women, slaves, and the Indians who were being dispossessed.

    A current controversy is how influential the American Indians were to the American form of government, such as the Iroquois:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#iroquois

    But a highly neglected area of investigation is just how influential the American Indian was to the rising notion of freedom in Europe:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#voltaire

    The Iroquois Confederation was the world’s only functioning democracy when the Europeans stumbled into it. While the Indians were being slaughtered and dispossessed, there was also a fascination with their lifestyles, even as the Indians were often portrayed as subhuman. One epidemic problem for the invading Europeans was “settlers” running off with the Indians and “going native”:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#captive

    A common notion was thinking that some new military leader or conquest would be the sign of a great new era of enlightenment – the peace through violence delusion. Beethoven originally dedicated his Third Symphony to Napoleon, before he crowned himself and revealed that he was just another imperialist:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphon...n_and_premiere

    A hundred years later, Mark Twain labored under a similar delusion when he believed that the Spanish-American war was going to bring the light of American ideals to the world’s benighted peoples. When that war and its aftermath began looking like the usual imperial land grab, with imperial bard Kipling welcoming the USA to the imperial smorgasbord:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Man%27s_Burden

    Twain turned decidedly against the USA’s nascent imperialism, and led the anti-imperial efforts in the USA, and his anti-imperial works are still virtually unknown:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#twain

    Beethoven would later put an ode to human equality in his Ninth Symphony:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphon...n)#Vocal_parts

    Beethoven’s career showed how an industrializing Europe was eroding the influence of the Church and royalty. While Bach and Mozart composed largely for Church and royalty, as did all composers of their eras, Beethoven was increasingly able to sell his works, living for years off of the royalties of selling his scores and the ticket sales of the performances:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_..._middle_period

    Recent research has suggested a reason why Stradivarius instruments are so coveted, hundreds of years after their creation, which is the dense wood that came from the shorter growing seasons of the Little Ice Age:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradiv...ction_attempts

    So, the ascent of music was one of the upsides of the rise of Europe. It was not all blackness, just mostly.

    A hundred years after the Enlightenment, my favorite period of visual art (with the Renaissance a close second), the Impressionist and Post-impressionist era, flourished. Monet, van Gogh, Renoir, Seurat, and friends achieved art that will never be made again. That period was made possible by the rising standard of living that industrialization provided, but before the twentieth century’s industrial art took directions that pretty much left me behind. I am a fan of twentieth century popular music, from ragtime through seventies rock, but the last twenty years or so have largely lost me. But it was those European composers of the early days of industrialization that still call to me. Those Germanic lads sure knew what they were doing.

    Time for work.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi:

    The gun-nut culture in the USA is definitely coming home to roost:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...united-states/

    When virtually all the well-made video games are first-person shooters, the situation of mentally ill people going on shooting rampages, and killing themselves as their final act, speaks very loudly to who we are as a nation. I see it as symptomatic. A nation that kills off millions of people for geopolitical reasons:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post478002

    and virtually worships violence is going to have some blowback, and we are getting it now, nearly every week, it seems. As I was reading the list of shooter rampages in recent years, they really began to blur together for me, and my memory is keen. I can only imagine how a typical American is processing it.

    I am not sure what to compare it to, but it is like some event that should be horrific, but it happens so frequently that people become inured to it, relegating it to background noise. Maybe a good analogy would be if airliner crashes became something where one happened each month. But nobody really wanted to minimize them, as it would impinge on flying “freedom.” It was just the cost of being a flying nation. That is probably not a good analogy, because intelligence recently prevailed, and active prevention has lowered airliner crash fatalities by nearly 90% in the past decade.

    The gun nuts are likely far too powerful in our imperial nation for sanity to prevail on gun violence (and yes, I am aware of the conspiratorial aspects of this situation, although most of it is needless paranoia). The Columbine shooting was a big deal when it happened in 1999, but now it would be relegated to the shooting of the week, quickly buried by the next massacres.

    These massacres are another sign of our crazy times, but that it is happening to children should make us collectively wake up a little more. It is almost like any gathering of people in the USA is vulnerable to crazed shooters trying for a glorious massacre on their way out (they are all men, by the way, but that should be obvious, with our killer ape heritage). That Portland mall incident was telling in that average people are developing the mindset so that they know what to do when the shooting starts.

    But I did not wake up to write about this. I wanted to write about cities. This could go in the “what can become obsolete with FE” thread, but it also is part of my human journey narrative. One of the bigger challenges of what I am attempting is dealing with the historical evidence, the scientific evidence, the scientific theories, both the orthodox and the alternative, and show not only how the energy situation has conditioned all aspects of the human journey, but what can be the case if energy was truly abundant and nothing was harmed to produce it. I admit that the task is a daunting one, and it is a big reason for why I have been so dilatory, as I seek to do some justice to vast subject matter. But, Avalon has given me the opportunity of being able to sketch the themes of my upcoming essay before I write it, as a kind of trial run. This thread has not really turned into a conversation as of yet, but my intention is that it will when I get that essay finished. It is something that needs to be discussed, explored, and become the focus of deep, heart-centered thinking. That is what the choir is all about. It won’t be a choir unless those in it know how to sing and know the song, and only need to refer to the hymnal once in a while. That is going to take a lot of time and effort. It won’t be for quick-study artists or those who skim the surface. The members of the choir will go deep and long.

    Recently, I was hanging out with a relative who is a legendary teacher. We were discussing his career and how he does it. He talked about how his fellow professors were usually jealous of his achievements. One fellow professor asked him his secret, and the response was to care about your students and show that you care. That is the most important first step. If you don’t have that, the rest does not matter. And you can’t really fake it, not for long. But that was only part of his success. The other was his extraordinary talent and experience. By the end of the first day of class, he knew the names of all of his students. Also, his mastery of the material was so great that at any point in the class, he could take detours in response to student questions and explore those issues, while weaving it into the framework and still getting back to the lecture’s topic. His colleague sat in on his class to see the secret of his success, and came away saying, “I can’t do that.” The colleague taught with a PowerPoint presentation that had to be adhered to in linear fashion, and any detours would derail his presentation, and quickly learning all of his student’s names was just not his style (and probably not within his abilities). That is the difference between how a master of the material presents it and somebody of lesser ability and experience. The choir has to attain a mastery of the material, in both heart and mind, or my plan is not going to work.

    On to cities. I am most of the way through Paul Bairoch’s tome, Cities and Economic Development, and my reading is naturally performed with two leading questions in mind:

    1. How did the energy situation shape the development of cities?, and

    2. What could a city look like if energy was abundant, and would we even need cities if we had FE?

    With a subject such as the development of cities and their dynamics with the civilizations that they reside within, what is common is that many avenues of inquiry have not yet been taken, and await the performance of research. With cities and their historical development, specialists often throw up their hands and say that much of the important evidence is long gone, and some subjects are now beyond the means to credibly investigate. That said, new tools and techniques are continually being developed, and new evidence is regularly adduced. But, it is true that today’s science will never really know how people thought five thousand years ago, or even five hundred. There is a vast amount of evidence, but it is an attempt to reconstruct a situation and dynamics that no longer exist. I was just reading the other day that among the most worthless degrees today are archeology and anthropology. Studying the human past and human animal is just not very profitable in today’s environment, but selling weaponry sure is.

    The consensus is fairly unanimous that cities arose “naturally” when humans began to domesticate plants and animals, and had a local and stable food (AKA “energy”) supply. But a city’s size was limited by the energy issue. The amount of energy it took to get the food into the city, which was directly related to distance and the means of transportation (water transportation was about a hundred times more energy efficient than overland transportation), and the time needed (for perishable food), were the primary limiting factors. If a city was situated on a body of water that made transportation from an agricultural hinterland easy, then the city could grow. Of course, in more northern climates, the growing seasons were shorter, so the ability to store food calories over the longer crop-less season had to improve before cities could form in northern climates. That is also why more meat and dairy was consumed in the north, as certain animals could live off of fodder that humans could not, and their milk and meat was available all winter, as long as the people did not eat them all up. The end of the Greenland settlements several centuries ago, during the Little Ice Age, was that way, where the inhabitants were forced to eat all of their animals in that final, brutal winter, and could not survive the next season.

    The energy issue had to be solved before cities could form, and domesticating plants and animals was the first step, and then transportation was the next one. Cities only became megalopolises when industrialization allowed for a much larger hinterland to be exploited, both in more energy-intensive farming that increased yields and productivity, but also quicker transportation. Also, relatively imperishable food such as wheat enabled it to be stored and processed/eaten during the crop-less seasons. Grain storage near mills became a key feature of supplying cities with food all-year round. That also meant that the human diet kept diverging from its ideal one of eating fruit. A huge proportion of our degenerative diseases are due to our impoverished diets. If everybody primarily subsisted off of fresh fruits and vegetables, most of our degenerative diseases (primarily artery disease, cancer, and diabetes – those diseases kill two-thirds of Americans today) would vanish. But under the current energy regimes, and powerful industries built up around food processing and creating addictive foods, and then managing the symptoms of those diseases (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#developing), the inertia of our disastrous system is formidable.

    Energy has always been the primary limiting factor of city formation and size, but why have cities in the first place? What was the point? The primary reasons appeared to be:

    1. People living in close proximity to each other could communicate easier;

    2. People living in close proximity to each other, and freed from agricultural duties, could create new forms of social organization that allowed for developing new skills and engaging in more complicated economic activities;

    3. Cities could create novel amenities and the easy access that went with the close proximity to them.

    That urban proximity is not really a distance issue, but the time it would take to cross the distance required to work, enjoy urban amenities, and reside. With FE and anti-gravity, both of which I know exist:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground

    and myriad other technologies kept under wraps by Godzilla and friends, that proximity issue becomes meaningless, as far as people needing to live and work in urban environments. People could commute to “work” from halfway across the planet, if they wanted to. Also, most of what happens in cities is involved, in one way or another, with the exchange aspect of economics (accountants, clerks, lawyers, bankers, etc.), and under an FE economy, the exchange aspect of economics becomes meaningless. Then, people would only engage in activities that produced something of real value. Also, I think that we are getting far enough along in the high tech revolution to see that people certainly do not need to live in close proximity to each other to communicate. There is a whole new stripe of psychologist, for instance, who only takes Skype clients. While physical contact will never go away, it is not needed for most human communication, and if people desire it, human contact would only be a few minutes away, anywhere on the planet, with the technologies unleashed that already exist and are kept under wraps.

    Under an FE regime, with related technologies, the reasons for having cities pretty much go away. There still might be some urban areas for specialized purposes, but relatively few people will want to live there, not if they can work where they want, sleep where they want, and play where they want, and going between those places is fast and easy. And as has been explored plenty on this best thread on the Internet:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...by-Free-Energy

    most “jobs” will become obsolete, and nobody will do anything to “make a living” that they do not want to do. Everybody will have a keen interest in the important tasks, and want to help, and the ones born of humanity’s innumerable dysfunctional adaptations to scarcity (or the pathological need to depend on scarcity), can go away, quickly, and become relics of the Age of Scarcity, such as slavery, gladiators, thrones, the subjugation of women, etc.

    I work in one of the nicest urban areas on Earth, where I can run into the world’s richest man at the movie theater:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates

    but if truly given a choice, virtually everybody who works and lives there would rather live in a pastoral setting with urban amenities. Cities are artifacts of energy scarcity, and with energy abundance, there would truly be no good reason to have them.

    I have a busy weekend ahead of me. I may make another post or two this weekend, but we will see.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Default Re: WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

    Hi:

    I am going to take a little time before I tackle chores to address a few issues, one of which being a post that I have been tardy in responding to. This will largely be about my approach and style, and why I am doing it this way.

    As regular readers know, my involvement in the FE field has waxed and waned over the decades, and so has my interaction with the public. As my midlife crisis ended, I began to engage the public in an “all-comers” way, and that did not turn out well, but it was a good learning experience:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll

    My first public interview, nearly five years ago, was due to Brian O’s influence:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm

    and it has kind of gone on from there. This wonderful protected forum that Bill has, to keep the trolls at bay, is likely the primary reason why I am interacting with the quasi-public these days. What that has done has opened me up to talking about Wade’s World with more people in my life, something that I have not done much of for a long time. My family generally does not want to hear it, and it is dangerous to do it at my workplace, and not many friends can go there with me, but my close ones do. But lately, probably due to both doing interviews with people such as Scott:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/public.htm#interviews

    and just me getting old enough to where I care less about how people react (I never try to blow people away, but it sometimes happens), and doing this Avalon stuff, I am talking about Wade’s World more than usual, with decidedly mixed results. I mentioned where a co-worker treats me like I have the plague because he heard ten minutes of it once, but he kind of asked for it. But just this past week, I did my Wade’s World talk with a co-worker whom I have worked closely with for several years. He began asking about my personal life in detail, and when that happens, it becomes difficult to skirt my wild past, so he heard about it for a couple of hours.

    I have spent about ten years of my career as a corporate controller, and that role is usually about the most solid one at a company, because the controllers write the checks. You don’t write checks for hundreds of millions of dollars over the years unless you are highly trusted. My day job is no longer a controller’s position, but a lot rides on my shoulders with regularity, which is why I am paid well (far more than I “deserve”), and if I was not highly reliable, I would not have succeeded in my career.

    I am well aware of how surreal my life’s experiences have been to the average person, and when I talk about Wade’s World, such as with co-workers, so I always keep it strictly to the facts of my life, many of which have solid documentary support, my direct personal experiences, or the direct personal experiences of those close to me, such as Dennis, Brian O, and Mr. Mentor, for instance. I also will bring in the direct personal experiences of people whose work I admired, such as Ralph McGehee (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm ), or those who helped me when I needed it, such as Gary Wean (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean ). Virtually everything else in my published work is quasi-scholarly, where people can go look it up by taking my sources, and I do my best to cite sources that are easily accessible to anybody with a little gumption. This is stuff is so “way out there” for the average person that keeping it as close to the ground as possible is the only way to go, for me.

    That is why you see me write conservatively on many issues. I stay away from wild conspiracy yarns, or where somebody alleges that they have the inside scoop from spooks. Stuff like that is highly unreliable, in several ways. I have had my fair share of interaction with Godzilla’s minions, but I never sought them out; they sought me out. Some, like Mr. Skeptic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/skeptic.htm), may work for Godzilla in some capacity, and may not. It is not easy to tell Godzilla’s minions from the all-too-common zero-integrity members of law enforcement, the “skeptics,” and those in America’s entrepreneurial waters, as they all act similarly.

    On alternative medicine, the “impossible” resolutions of the microscopes of Rife and Naessens:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#naessens

    are highly impressive, and what is more impressive are the pleomorphic dynamics that those microscopes have illuminated, as their high resolutions can study life processes, not the snapshots of death that electron microscopes take. So, when alternative theory has something like those microscopes to support their findings, I take them very seriously.

    Unfortunately, when the subject is FE technology, the organized suppression takes the equivalent of Rife’s scope out of circulation almost immediately. Around four thousand classified patents in the USA, and hundreds of billions of dollars of quiet money:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff

    usually does the trick, and that is before Godzilla starts playing rough. Those shenanigans keep the lid tightly on genuine FE and related technology, such as antigravity. And even in that area, I do not relate third-hand tales or spook stuff. The stories that I tell are either first-person by me or by somebody close to me, or something told directly to somebody in my organizations, such as the tale of that windmill entrepreneur:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill

    and when I heard Tom Bearden tell how Godzilla almost lured him to his doom:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden

    and when I discovered years later that the same thing almost happened to us at the same time:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting

    that old man earned a lot of cred with me. But the fringes are filled with alternative theories in physics, cosmology, quantum theory, and the like, as well as esoteric findings, the kind that dominate places such as Avalon. Unfortunately, my experience has been that most of it is not valid. That may seem unfair to fringe theorists, but unless their theories can be subjected to experiments that can falsify them, there is not really any way to validate them. White Science is good at that, and I am well aware of how closed-minded White Scientists can be, but if somebody is trying to get their theories validated by White Science, or even make a case to the fringes, it needs to lead to reproducible experiments that can falsify the theories. Otherwise, it is just one of the gang, and it can be hard to believe the innumerable theories out there. When I was with Dennis, we saw plenty of them, and I am continually besieged by the latest fringe theory or finding, and nearly all of the time, they are as flimsy as a house of cards.

    I am keenly aware that people can accuse me of similar behavior with my FE talk, but it really is a different animal. I provide plenty of meat for Dennis’s heat pump:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm

    and Mr. Mentor’s engine:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse

    and in understanding what kind of challenges disruptive energy technologies face in getting to the marketplace, a person really does not need to know much more than the basics of how Dennis’s heat pump and Mr. Mentor’s engine worked. There was nothing about them that violated the “laws of physics.”

    I admit that I can’t take anybody to go see a working FE device, but that is not really important for what I am trying to do. I have not seen a working FE device myself (as in in-the-room with one), but you can order a video of Sparky Sweet’s device operating, and it was the Real McCoy:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet

    I know that the stuff exists, but I can’t show it to you. That is where the reader needs to assess the breadth and depth of my work, and decide for themselves. If people think I am full of it, they are not in my target audience.

    On alternative theory that supports FE being feasible, I really don’t like to take it much further than Einstein saying that there still needs to be some kind of ether (1920-21, Leyden), and Einstein’s protégé calculating that a cubic centimeter of the vacuum contains more energy than contained in all the mass in the observable universe:

    http://www.spectrumradionetwork.com/...tastrophe.html

    http://www.vision.net.au/~apaterson/...m#HOLOMOVEMENT

    People can study what Sparky wrote, or Adam T., but unless it can result in a demonstration or testable theory, it is just talk, and it can very well be talk that leads people astray. My work is not really about challenging the “laws of physics,” at least convincingly to a scientist. They want to go get their hands on an FE device, not listen to people like me, and I really respect that. If Brian O could not make any headway with them:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions

    I sure won’t. So, I stay away from too much grand alternative physics and other stuff that is in the realm of pure theory. I am sympathetic to scientists who try to take on the Citadel with their theories, but I am not going to be much help. Sorry about that.

    My writings never stray very far from my personal experiences. I’ll give a for instance, on the post that I made just before this one. I have lived with people who killed people for a living, even while I lived with them. I have a number of close relatives who are mental health professionals, and I have had to deal with mentally-ill, potentially-violent people, from time-to-time. I related something recently where I was in the position of trying to prevent violence, because of a mentally-ill patient with a history of gun crimes. Being mentally ill and being busted due to gun crimes (like firing it at somebody) does not prohibit Americans from obtaining guns, even legally, think. I was waiting for the person to arrive, and had to be ready for anything, including trying to disarm the person. That was no fun. One of those shooting sprees that made the news happened a few blocks from where a cousin lives:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Se...shooting_spree

    and I contacted my cousin to see if all was well, and my cousin’s spouse was home and had locked the house and hidden in it, because the crazed gunman was still on the loose. That Mother Jones map:

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...-shootings-map

    is incomplete, perhaps wildly incomplete, because a shooting spree really hit home, literally, not too many years ago, and it is not on that map. I was living with a close relative at the time who is a mental health professional, and was a consultant to a Fortune 500 company. We were watching TV late one night when a newsflash came on, about a man going postal and going on a killing spree, targeting former co-workers of that company, one of whom he had a date with. He killed several people and was still on the loose. The man was high in a church hierarchy, and was obviously mentally ill. When we saw the news flash, I knew that my relative consulted for that company, and wondered what would happen, and sure enough, the phone rang about ten minutes later. My relative had to be at the corporation the first thing in the morning, as the co-workers were given the news about their dead fellow-employees. That is pretty grim stuff.

    The bottom line is that Ronald Reagan began to defund the social safety net in California, and continued the trend when he was president:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#reagan

    Ronnie does not get all the credit, but he was a leading figure in initiating the trend (like he did with education http://www.newfoundations.com/Clabau...ge/Reagan.html), and today, vast numbers of people who should be receiving mental health treatment are instead homeless and in our prisons. A bunch of them are also bombs just waiting to go off, like those spree shooters. The system has failed them, in many ways, and if the geniuses who designed the current system get their way, instead of making mental health services more widely available (and maybe relieve the stress in our society, like with FE! ), they will begin to criminalize all manner of behavior that is a call for help, not something that merits prison. But so it is, in an evil system.

    Time for chores.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi:

    As my nation reacts to the massacre at that grammar school (and even the global media is getting involved ) where we are devouring our own, I want to call attention to something that nauseated me when I first read it several years ago, but it is a typical situation in my imperial society. The USA invaded Afghanistan in 2001, and anybody familiar with the prior ten years in Iraq knew that either the numbers of dead in the nations we invade are usually swept under the carpet, or if they are ever acknowledged, they are justified, as Madeline Albright infamously did in 1996, when faced with explaining the deaths of a half million Iraqi children:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc

    The USA had already used Afghanistan as “bait” for the Soviet Union, with the result being millions of deaths and shattered lives:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#brzezinski

    so what was coming would be no surprise to informed observers, and Marc Herold, an American university professor, began a project called Afghanistan Body Count, to add up the deaths of Afghani civilians as a result of our invasion, by simply toting up the media’s reports. It was a conservative way of counting our murders, and he began publishing the data in late 2001:

    http://www.commondreams.org/news2001/1210-01.htm

    More innocent Afghanis died in a couple of months of the American invasion than died on 9/11, and the death toll is several million today:

    https://sites.google.com/site/afghan...fghan-genocide

    Of course, the right wing attack dogs were all over Herold when he began adding up the deaths:

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...1/565otmps.asp

    but his methodology was quite conservative. When the war drums began beating for the Iraq invasion a few months later, I could clearly see where it was heading:

    http://www.serendipity.li/wot/wade_iraq.htm

    as could any American whose head was not stuck in the sand during the previous decade. All of my pre-invasion concerns were validated by post-invasion reality. In 2002, Tommy Franks made the statement that America did not count those it had killed:

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommy_Franks

    and when the invasion of Iraq got underway, an effort followed Herold’s lead and formed Iraq Body Count, again using press reports. The press is far from the best source. The press is the establishment’s lackey:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big

    and the New York Times’s reporting on the Arabic peoples would have probably been a little too heavy handed for Goebbels to approve of:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot

    but it was the agenda-setting media in the USA. Later revelations that people such as Judith Miller were stenographers for Bush administration propaganda:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_...2.E2.80.932005

    were no surprise to informed observers. How she became some kind of heroine for freedom of the press is mind-boggling:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_...ce_controversy

    It was similar to war criminal Elliott Abrams being appointed by Bush the Second as a human rights advisor:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#abrams

    Iraq Body Count continued the conservative process of just toting up the media accounts. It would obviously grievously understate the death toll, but it was better than nothing. When the USA pulled a Stalingrad on Fallujah, there were some incredibly heroic Western journalists reporting what they could, and while the slaughter was progressing, I heard tales of novel weaponry coming from those independent journalists. There was not a peep from the American media (except here and there at the margins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_p...lt_on_Fallujah), with all of its reporters literally being “embedded” with the troops doing the slaughtering. A year later, an Italian documentary reported what the American media refused to, in that the USA was using chemical weapons on Fallujah, the kind of weapons that we said we were invading Iraq to eliminate.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falluja...idden_Massacre

    When it could no longer be denied that the USA used chemical weapons on Fallujah, the media tried spinning it away, and great pains were taken to call it “legal.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_p..._Iraq#Legality

    I clearly recall during the early days of the Fallujah attack, reports of masses of civilians (AKA women, children, the elderly) were lying dead in the streets, and the USA cordoned off that part of the city and did some kind of clean-up where the bodies and soils were removed, because it was somehow poisoned. Maybe it was white phosphorous, and maybe it was something else.

    While the Italian journalist was making the documentary, she was kidnapped, and when she was rescued, the USA actually shot her and killed one of her rescuers:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Giuliana_Sgrena

    Was that a “fog of war” event, or something more premeditated? The USA fired on a hotel that foreign journalists used in Baghdad when they invaded:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palesti..._2003_incident

    and the USA began to kick out foreign journalists as soon as they could:

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...962761675.html

    They did not want the PR disaster of people like Peter Arnett making uncensored reports to American audiences, like he did in 1991:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#arnett

    Many journalists lost their careers in those days for reporting the “wrong story,” while people like Judith Miller had a field day of virtually making it up as she went.

    While the white phosphorous was admitted to, what else was used is a matter of conjecture. When the USA invaded Panama, there were reports of exotic weaponry, and the summary execution of a journalist for the crime of taking pictures was among the acts committed by our invading troops:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#rodriguez

    It looks like Panama was a warm-up for Iraq, in both media “management” and exotic weaponry. It is not even denied that the USA used radioactive weapons on Iraq, in both wars, and there was also “blowback” on the USA’s soldiers:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendi...ier_complaints

    but the heavy price will be paid by the Iraqi people for a long, long, time. The half-life of the uranium sprayed across Iraq is 4.5 billion years. The highest birth defect rates in the world were in Southern Iraq, courtesy of the first Gulf War, which bore the brunt of the USA’s assaults:

    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1112-01.htm

    It really trips the light fantastic to realize all the chemical and radioactive weapons used on Iraq, not to mention the daisy cutters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82#Operations) and other delights. All to seize Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, and when that rationale fell apart well before we invaded, it quickly became an invasion to free Iraq:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq

    It would be similar to Hitler saying that he was invading Poland to free it. Orwell would have nodded his head at our name for our invasion, “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” In one of the many “you can’t make this stuff up” moments of our imperial adventure, the original name used was “Operation Iraqi Liberation,” (https://youtube.com/watch?v=GoSBqs6y8uM) but then somebody pointed out that the words formed the acronym “OIL.”

    I could have written a hundred-page essay on all the evil that the USA inflicted on Iraq to steal their oil, but I did not have the time or stomach for it:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading

    and doubt that I ever will. All of that was bad enough, but when the Lancet study came out in 2006, showing that 600K Iraqis had died of violence since the invasion (and at least that many already died non-violently due to the war’s aftermath, mostly children, but that was swept under the carpet, as usual), Iraq Body Count led the attack on the Lancet report!

    http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysi...eality-checks/

    It was sickening. Although the world would not know of it at the time, internally, a British government expert called the Lancet methodology “close to best practice” when it came out.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_...cial_reactions

    Naturally, hordes of imperial hacks came out of the woodwork to discredit the survey:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_...War#Criticisms

    but when the only other statistically-valid survey came out a year later, it verified the Lancet numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORB_sur...War_casualties), and Iraq Body Count led the charge once again:

    http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysi...aggerated-orb/

    If somebody wants to get conspiratorial about Iraq Body Count, I am certainly open to the arguments, but Chomsky would likely point to the internalized imperial assumptions of the members of Iraq Body Count. Iraq Body Count may well be functioning like the “liberal” media does, in setting the boundary for “rational” discourse. The so-called liberal media is every bit as imperialist as the mainstream and right wing are (ah, but I repeat myself, as our “mainstream” is right wing), but they concoct more humane rhetoric, putting a veneer of human caring on our murderous deeds.

    So, this weekend has been a period of national mourning for twenty children murdered by one of our own, but the millions of children that we killed in the past generation in Iraq and Afghanistan never even made it to Orwell’s Memory Hole to be flushed down.

    These are bizarre, agonizing times, and the media never missed a beat in starting up the war drums against Iran, which also has oil that we used to control but lost due to our excesses. How stupid can Americans be to believe that crap? The real answer is that almost nobody really cares. Almost ten years later, this is still the best essay on the mind and soul of the USA that I have seen:

    http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/07/...g-the-obvious/

    To be an American with one’s eyes open can be a surreal experience, and this situation in Asia is another example where humanity’s sentience can really be called into question. But as I have made clear, I think, that abdication of sentience is a voluntary act, as buying the party line assures people full bellies and lucrative careers:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant

    and that is all that really matters to them, in a world of scarcity.

    Time for chores.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi Wade and friends, I am three posts short of reading. As always, a fascinating and thought provoking ideas, understandings and facts which so greatly resonate, at least to me. There was so much I wanted to react to in your few last posts Wade, and I somehow feel I missed the moment.

    From everything you write and from what is known, the era of the rising of Europe seems to held the promise of a new level of enlightenment that was absent before, like a sudden ray of sun. at the same time it continued on the well known trail of depleting the earth and with the same 'tradition' of scarcity, hirarchy and separation based on social class which was based on color, culture,religion and all the usual known things and which exists today on a lesser prominent way.

    Another thing, quite major, that was born with the rise of Europe are the Banks. The development of banking spread from Italy to the rest of Europe. the beggining of the use of notes as money (around fourteen century) which brought the financial element and the control of the elites (by interest rates and money supply (inflation) on the people a couple of steps further. This resulted in a system that creates debt which is equal to slavery, a one which we are very familiar with today.


    I am sorry, but like Robert I need to take a little time off, I will be able to do the reading but not post so much while I accompany my mother in her final time on earth and her transition process. It might take a while. Much love and happy holidays to everyone Wade, you are close to my heart more than you know, and what you do is the right thing, This trail is the real one!

    Take care (for now),

    Limor
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    Quote Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
    But just this past week, I did my Wade’s World talk with a co-worker whom I have worked closely with for several years. He began asking about my personal life in detail, and when that happens, it becomes difficult to skirt my wild past, so he heard about it for a couple of hours.
    Wade
    I too had a very good experience over the past week in holding a conversation with another person in my circle of contacts. His world view had already been shattered which made a conversation with him about Godzilla very easy and delightful - just amazingly good. I draw so much pleasure these days from finding additional converts to the FE cause. Now, 4 of my friends are soldiers to the FE cause and I looking forward to adding one more as soon as possible!

    Experience has taught me to look for important signs of weakness of attachment to the still prevalent but totally incorrect world view before discussing anything FE related. Now that I am beginning to recover my spiritual balance, I am finding the whole thing a lot more enjoyable.

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    Much love Limor.

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    Quote Posted by Limor (here)
    ... I am sorry, but like Robert I need to take a little time off, I will be able to do the reading but not post so much while I accompany my mother in her final time on earth and her transition process...
    Much love and strength to you Limor, at this time.
    I’m always interested to read your thoughts, and look forward to reading many more when you feel ready to return. Wishing peace and loving guidance to you and to yours.

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    ...I draw so much pleasure these days from finding additional converts to the FE cause. Now, 4 of my friends are soldiers to the FE cause and I looking forward to adding one more as soon as possible!... ...Now that I am beginning to recover my spiritual balance, I am finding the whole thing a lot more enjoyable...
    Thank you for sharing Ixopoborn. It’s always so uplifting to hear of more people opening their hearts and minds to the wonderful potential of FE. It makes sense for it to be a joyous thing to talk about, and it warms my heart when others share an experience of it that’s been enjoyable. One by one, we are seeing the light and its extraordinary potential.

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    Hi all:

    Limor, may your mother’s transition be a blessing for all involved. Love and blessings.

    I’ll deal with the rise of European banking before long. Athens had the first monetized economy:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post581232

    and they had what we would call banks. But the earliest writings were accounting, adding up the elite’s haul, whether it was in Sumeria or the New World. Money is just accounting. It is not real, and when elites can get people focusing on money instead of real things (being mesmerized by the symbols and losing sight of reality), then they win. Controlling the accounting system is also part of what is called setting the terms of exchange. That is partly how cities subjugated their hinterlands and how the imperial powers bled their colonies. What we see today is just more of the same. I will deal at length with money and banking, but it will largely be about helping people see beyond money and banking. Most people do not want to, as they are only interested in what is in it for them, so money represents a way to meet their immediate material needs.

    All gold rushes were essentially counterfeiting operations:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#biggest

    Money is really meaningless in the big picture, but as long as Godzilla can keep people at the egocentric level of economic awareness, obsessed with money, then he has the game well in hand.

    Hi Ixopoborn:

    Glad to hear that you are making some progress and are enjoying the process. I guess that I did not complete my account of the conversation with my co-worker. Because he worked with me for several years, he knew I was not crazy, but he said that it was strange to hear me say things that were obviously "reasonable," to then make “crazy” statements right after them (which were only about what I experienced or those around me did). I love the man, but I told him that we would likely not have that conversation again, and I just sent him this link, as it is one of my more earth-bound essays:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm

    If I am crazy, so was Brian. It is possible that he will read it and want to know more, and I would be happy to talk with him, but that rarely happens, and that is fine. In the end, my message is that we can easily have heaven on Earth. The means to do it are already here. But enough of us are going to have to throw away almost everything that we think we “know” to get the benefit of it.

    I am not looking to recruit members of the choir when I talk to my co-workers, but when I do that, it is more to explain why I may look at the world “oddly” from time to time, and letting them know that I am still dealing with the aftermath of my journey, which sometimes affects my workplace demeanor. I will likely recruit zero choir members from among my friends, family and co-workers. The only candidates for the choir that I have seen I have found through the Internet. They are truly needles in haystacks.

    I am sorry if I may seem callous regarding the recent massacre of American children. I’m not. What is disheartening are the American responses to it that I am already seeing. That threatening call to where the service was held is more of America’s sickness, but the Yahoo! homepage, for instance, is completely dominated by that massacre. This is similar to what Orwell wrote of in 1984, that when we suffer losses (especially in imperial battles, and this event was not a direct imperial event, but was enabled by our incessant imperial violence), it becomes the obsessive focus of national mourning, while the losses of the other side are ignored or cheered. Orwell had this to say of British nationalists:

    “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocid...ial_in_general

    Hundreds of thousands of times more children have died due to our imperial behavior in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past generation than died in that massacre on Friday. And a mention of that death toll, where the blood is virtually all on our hands, has very rarely made it into the news, almost never as a headline, and whenever it was news for a moment, people like Albright justified it:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc

    This event is an opportunity for Americans to begin a little introspection to how we have all contributed to this situation. It is nice to see that I am not the only one calling for introspection:

    http://clarespark.com/2012/12/15/san...oblem-of-evil/

    Demonizing the mentally ill is no solution, but the usual suspects at Fox News have weighed in with their keen insights, as you can see at that link above.

    When 9/11 happened, George Bush said some of the stupidest things that ever came from a politician’s mouth, but he held center stage. I doubt that I need to chronicle his obscenities, but two that stick out are:

    1. This is a battle between good and evil; and

    2. They hate our freedoms.

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#explain

    Bush was our Caligula, but all American presidents are emperors, and woe to our imperial targets. Witnessing the aftermath of 9/11 was to watch the USA take a huge goosestep to the right. I am afraid that this massacre will help the USA keep going further and further to the right. That Obama can be convincingly portrayed as some kind of liberal to the masses is indicative of how far to the right we have gone. Richard Nixon would be a flaming left wing radical in today’s environment.
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    Hundreds of thousands of times more children have died due to our imperial behavior in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past generation than died in that massacre on Friday. And a mention of that death toll, where the blood is virtually all on our hands, has very rarely made it into the news, almost never as a headline, and whenever it was news for a moment, people like Albright justified it:

    Yes, agree with you here Wade...The media are master manipulators and I refuse to be drawn in to the info-shooting-trance.
    So what can I do? Not buy into the fear and gloomy speculations. Fear is great power-shrinker.
    Banning guns is no solution. Why is violence sanctioned in our movies and games and government activities (like war)?

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    ... I need to take a little time off, I will be able to do the reading but not post so much while I accompany my mother in her final time on earth and her transition process. It might take a while. Much love and happy holidays to everyone ...

    Limor
    Sending lots of love your way, Limor, and to your Mom. She is very lucky to have you there with her.

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    Hi Lunaflare:

    On this thread since early July, I have been sketching the journey of life on Earth and that upright ape that became humanity. We have a long past of being killer apes who got a lot better at the killing game and came to dominate the planet. From one perspective, violence seems to “work.” The winners can always say that violence works. That is how we came to the brink of self-annihilation as a species due to nuclear war, and we are still on the brink, but probably with far more risk of just making the planet uninhabitable. Fighting over dwindling resources may be the largest looming threat, and it could be directly related to environment collapse. Ecosystems have collapsed plenty of times, and globally. There is little reason to think that humans are somehow immune from that fate, especially as we have already wrecked almost all of Earth’s ecosystems.

    If you look at humanity’s primary form of violence, warfare, Bucky was right in that it was always driven by scarcity:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#scarcity

    Scarcity is always the invisible hand pushing the soldiers in the back. That is why FE can make that invisible hand vanish. Warfare is really a symptom, and scarcity is its cause. Many professions and industries depend on scarcity, fear, misery, and violence, with Godzilla sitting on the throne. That is why FE is so feared in those circles. It would mean game over for them, and they know it.

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    Hi Limor,

    Blessings to you and your Mom. How wonderful for her to have you supporting and loving her through her transition and journey. May there be much peace and acceptance as you travel together and may the energy of Love give you both strength in saying your goodbyes in body but never in spirit. Holding you in my Heart
    Love and Light Always/Sandy

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    I love this Thread,

    It seems with all the madness, that this is one of the few places one can find sanity, respect, genuineness, acceptance, and support, which all adds up to LOVE.

    Thank you Wade and All
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    Limor, blessings, peace.

    I've found it to be awesome when someone passes - when that door opens much happens that cannot easily be described.

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    Quote Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
    I guess that I did not complete my account of the conversation with my co-worker. Because he worked with me for several years, he knew I was not crazy, but he said that it was strange to hear me say things that were obviously "reasonable," to then make “crazy” statements right after them (which were only about what I experienced or those around me did). I love the man, but I told him that we would likely not have that conversation again
    I hear ya here Wade, working in the film industry I rarely if ever speak to any co-workers (crew) about the fact I interview people such as yourself but every now and then I hear someone make a few comments about the type of world we live in, then after some time a few more statements that make the "ok this person is awake" bells go off.
    Then given the opportunity I will state a few relevant things that are beyond mainstream knowledge and watch for a reaction, If they don't scuff, sneer and say "crazy talk" then I might well have that open conversation.

    I learned decades ago (the hard way) that to just shoot from the hip and talk to anyone & everyone about free energy, NDE, OBE, Megalithic structures, UFO's ect ect is just a quick way for family & friends to protect themselves by labelling you a conspiracy nut.

    in any event now and then with increasing regularity I do actually let the cat out of the bag and reveal I am a radio host and speak in depth about the Guests and subjects they speak about.

    I met a Locations Manager this year while working on a Film that was aware and we had several fascinating discussions, this guy was tuned in but its few and far between.

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    Hi Scott:

    Happy Holidays and all that. I have tried to be a good boy this year, so I’ll see if Santa comes through.

    Anybody who has been at this long enough comes to the same general vicinity of knowing what the general public can handle, and family, friends, and co-workers are risky people to talk about this stuff with. Yes indeed, this material really is rated R, not G. Anybody can find this thread, for instance, but not many can really read it and understand. Conceptually, it is not really all that difficult, but the implications threaten the foundations of most of the ideologies that people are indoctrinated into:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant

    so not many really want to understand it. I am looking for needles in haystacks. When I write about this stuff, I think back to my days with Dennis. Handing out thousands of flyers at mall shows, staging “Greatest Energy Shows on Earth”:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum

    packing five thousand people into a sports stadium to talk about FE:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post422926

    and trying to create a national network to make FE happen are all what I call Level 10 efforts:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10

    and they just don’t work. Not only is the crowd there because of what is in it for them, the ranks of such efforts are filled with opportunists who will stick a dagger in your back at the first opportunity, and some of Godzilla’s minions also are sprinkled in, and virtually all the rest are easily led astray by them. Dennis would try to start the stampede, but Godzilla’s minions would end up getting Dennis in a headlock, and then the opportunists would make their play to steal it all, and the herd would then stampede over a cliff after it first trampled Dennis. It took a few experiences like that for me to begin to figure it out, and that is called learning the hard way:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#why

    I came to realize that only a hundred heroes model had any hope of scaling the FE ramparts, but the hundred heroes do not exist, as far as I have seen:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany

    Many years ago, after my first stint with Dennis was over, I tried to get people to just think about the problem and the potential of FE, and I found that almost nobody could do that, either, especially people whom I considered hip and free-thinking – they just had a more sophisticated act, but were mired in scarcity-based ways of thinking just as much as those who watch Dancing with the Stars and American Idol. Those early days of just trying to find people who could think about it is about the time that I bumped into Brian O:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet

    and there were a number of us doing that kind of work, and many years later, I let Brian recruit me into NEM:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem

    My wife is glad that Brian talked me into the NEM experience (as well as Dennis talking me into going back with him in 1996), because I needed to “get it out of my system.” And I did. I will never be a part of somebody else’s Level 10 effort again. I am shooting for a Level 12 effort:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12

    and we will see if that approach has a prayer. I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, but if I can find enough of them, maybe we can make something happen, even though none of us will be heroes, but lambs.

    Everybody who has played the Level 10 game for any length of time has a moment or two when they become disgusted with humanity. It comes with the territory, and those still active were able to overcome those moments of disgust:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#disgust

    and wondering if humanity is really a sentient species:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience

    Probably the greatest challenge of playing at those levels is avoiding becoming bitter and cynical, when you get to see humanity up close and personal, warts and all. The masses are fast asleep, living their lives of quiet desperation, in a semi-sentient state where they punch the clock, shuffle home, and numb themselves up and temporarily sate their addictions so they can go do it again tomorrow. They are only going to begin to wake up, on the FE and abundance front, when it is delivered to their homes:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli

    I believe that the human potential is divine, but it is not easy to see from down here, and virtually nobody today can carry the FE ball for even a minute. It scorches their hands and minds. We ain’t going to get there by chatting up our co-workers, friends, and families. I have seen careers end and permanent estrangements from friends and family when newbies tried stuff like that.

    If enough of those needles can begin to think comprehensively:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing

    then we may be onto something.

    I was going to write about Europe this morning, but it will have to wait until tomorrow…ah, I just missed one bus, so have a few minutes for Europe.

    Again, by 1300, Western Europe had been about 75% deforested, and medieval agricultural technology had reached its limits of how much energy it could wrench from the land. Then Earth began to cool off, and the Medieval Warm Period ended. Early in the 1300s, Europe had a huge famine, the first in centuries:

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post595655

    Today, it is believed that cities always had lower life expectancies than the rural hinterland, clear up until the 20th century. City life was just far more deadly, especially for children. In Paris in the late nineteenth century, a common practice was mothers sending infants to wet nurses in the countryside so that they might live longer. That was during the Belle Epoque, when Western Europe lived in a Golden Age:

    http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#belle

    Some Golden Age. And while Western Europe was reveling in its Golden Age, with Paris at its center, well-to-do mothers sent their infants out of town so that they might live longer.

    OK, now it is time to go catch that bus.

    Best,

    Wade

    P.S. The world ends on Friday! No need to mow your lawn or clean the house this week.
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    Quote Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
    ...I believe that the human potential is divine, but it is not easy to see from down here, and virtually nobody today can carry the FE ball for even a minute. It scorches their hands and minds. We ain’t going to get there by chatting up our co-workers, friends, and families. I have seen careers end and permanent estrangements from friends and family when newbies tried stuff like that...

    ...P.S. The world ends on Friday! No need to mow your lawn or clean the house this week.
    LOL! I wish you’d mentioned it before. I just purchased some cleaning fluid to make my kitchen shiny for my landlord tomorrow. Oh well I’m not sure if he’s aware of the world as we know it possibly coming to an end, so it’s probably just as well I invested.

    The issue of talking to people about free-energy really is a big one. Sometimes, for inexperienced people like myself, I suppose it’s purely a natural result of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm for the ways FE solutions can permeate positively every facet of our existence - from safeguarding the planet and its forms of life, improving economic conditions, health and social issues etc, and extending out to the way we perceive and grow our place within the galaxy.

    But no matter how pure our intentions may be, or appear to us, in raising the FE subject, for a lot of people it’s still too much to take on. One of the reactions that can rear its head is that of resentment. Some people may at first respond to FE’s potential with a kind of awe or enthusiasm. But after time, because life is so hard without it, and the hardness of that life has deeply affected their ability to be the best possible version of themselves, their initial enthusiasm can sour. Then they can resent the FE enthusiast for his ability to be uplifted by and pursue the vision. They can resent him, consciously or unconsciously, for being a ‘better’ man, or (in their mind) simply perceiving himself to be ‘better,’ stronger, more altruistic etc. They may wonder why it comes so easily to the FE enthusiast to feel so uplifted and engaged by the FE subject. They may not even be seeing the FE enthusiast for who he truly is, but instead be unconsciously projecting their own idea of how beautiful they themselves would be were they not shackled by their own limitations. So they resent the local Free Energy Buff for his inner freedom, and resent him for turning their inner-spotlight on their own boundaries – even though those boundaries are surface, or temporal, and not the ultimate definition of who they truly are. I have plenty of my own boundaries, and the work of dealing with them is daily.

    Like others here - I don’t want to be resented, especially not for something someone thinks I think I am, and I don’t want to be a cause of pain. Mostly I find it easiest to keep my happy FE buzz to myself (verbally speaking) and then share it here. If I do share it, it tends to be with strangers, trying to spread the seeds of light like some kind of fleeting FE emissary, disguised as a passer-by. But even then I feel I have a responsibility to be careful how I describe the potential of FE, because I don’t want that person to end up resenting themselves for not knowing what to do with the information, or to resent life and the world because these solutions are kept under wraps.

    Like others here I have had some positive FE conversations with people. But it can also be a lonely road, which is one reason why I’m so grateful to have found this place. I smiled when I found the book The World I Dream Of, because I love the idea that lots of individual visions of a more beautiful world had found each other, and were keeping each other company, in one place. All these gatherings with a common vision, in books and threads and in the dreamtime, are resonating together like a foundation frequency for building our future world. It’s wonderful I think.

    If we’re going to do this, for ourselves, and also on others’ behalves, I can see why you (Wade) would say we need to go deep.

    I like these pictures. They make me think of going deep.





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    Quote Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
    Anybody can find this thread, for instance, but not many can really read it and understand.
    Yes indeed Wade - of the FE soldiers to which I referred yesterday: 3 out of the 4 have not yet looked at this thread despite my encouragement. The 4th is a new recruit but I very much doubt he will - I guess this means categorically they are not potential choir members but nonetheless I hope they will become useful to our cause in time.

    Quote Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
    I am shooting for a Level 12 effort ...
    Shooting for level 12 is a fine way to go and I really want to help as much as possible - my whole life so far has been about that very sort of thing to the exclusion of self BUT ....... presumably, Godzilla anticipates someone somewhere will make a level 12 attempt at introducing FE? Everything we do is seen and heard by Godzilla on this forum or pretty much anywhere else so presumably the function of the choir once it forms and begins to sing can't be stopped by G?

    Oh I get it: Godzilla is lazy about the possibility of a choir because he thinks its formation is impossible?

    The longer I linger, the more I feel comfortable on this thread. I am constantly being told I over explain so I will stop here except to say much love to everyone here!

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    @Ixopoborn: the way I see it Godzilla reigns over the "victims" kingdom using fear.

    The choir will operate in "creators mode". That is simply outside of Godzilla's domain... It's the first step in making him obsolete. We just don't play his game any more, but rather create our own. It this new paradigm Godzilla is powerless.

    However until you fully switch gears into "creator mode" Godzilla and most other humans will try their best to keep you in the "victim mode". That is "safe", is "known" and does not challenge anything at a deep level.

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