WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The issue of scarcity and greed is an important one. If the Michael material is to be believed:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#overleaves

some souls will choose greed as the way that fear accesses their personalities, to learn the grim lessons that physical reality has to offer. So, greed may never go away entirely. However, in a world of scarcity, greed is the predominant chief feature. Greed runs the show on Earth today. Capitalism exalts greed:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed

as a crucial aspect of how the system functions. When a vice gets turned into a virtue, something is awry. Conspiracists and newbies to the FE conundrum virtually always look at the government as the chief architect of FE suppression, and I always have to correct them, or at least try to. People can’t seem to shake the idea that the government is primarily responsible for FE suppression. Nothing could be further from the truth. The government is merely a tool that Godzilla uses, just like any other tool. Every time we got taken out, it was the government that wielded the public club, but they always did it at the bidding of their private interest patrons. I describe it to FE newbies as capitalism on steroids. Greed (including for both wealth and power – power is the ultimate goal, and in a world of scarcity, controlling wealth is how power is achieved) can never be satiated, because it is the fear of never having enough. It is the very opposite of an abundance mentality, and because our world is so deeply conditioned on scarcity and greed, almost nobody can really understand what abundance means. When I made those suggestions that Robert, Ilie, and Telosian Embrace took me up on, to create those threads on the fear of FE:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...No-way-in-hell

on what becomes obsolete with FE:

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

and what a future Earth could look like:

http://www.projectavalon.net/forum4/...A-Future-Earth

my intent was to bring aspects of the FE conundrum onto the table so that they could be examined. The “obsolete” thread that Ilie began I keep stating is arguably the best thread on the Internet, and I mean it. If you look at all of those aspects of our world today that would become obsolete with FE, they are because humanity lives in abundance. That “obsolete” thread is really an abundance thread. The essay on my site that was perhaps the most enjoyable to write was the one on abundance, especially the part that described what abundance looked like:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance

I wrote that essay during the darkest phase of my midlife crisis, and as I look back, it was probably to remind myself what my journey was all about.

In a world of abundance, greed will no longer run the show.

Unbridled greed will eventually destroy everything around it. One of the best examples of rampant greed was the life of Hernando de Soto. He started his career as one of Balboa’s men:

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

and raped and plundered Central America for a generation, contributing mightily to its depopulation. When people think of the conquistadors, they usually think of the Aztecs and the Incas, but Central America was populated by millions of people, and after the islands of the Caribbean, it was the first place to get depopulated by Spanish evil. Central America had open plains that became rainforests after the natives were used up. Those plains were human-created environments, similar to the Great Plains of North America.

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

One of the Spanish chroniclers, Oviedo,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo..._y_Vald%C3%A9s

who was not sympathetic to the natives like Las Casas was (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#casas), witnessed the stupendous rape, pillage, and depopulation of Central America, and wrote of how incredible it was to walk in a wilderness that was a thickly-populated paradise just a generation earlier. He could scarcely believe the devastation that had been wrought in just one generation. Soto was in on that rape and pillage from the beginning. But Central America was not gold plated. One historian wrote about Soto something like, “How much rape and plunder could one man participate in in a lifetime before he was satisfied?” A "normal" man would have had a hundred lifetimes of rape and plunder from Soto’s eighteen years in Central America, but the success that Cortes had of conquering the Aztecs fired the imagination of Spanish freebooters.

When Columbus arrived in the New World, the Caribbean natives had difficulty understanding their greed. Life was easy in the Caribbean, which was about the closest thing to an earthly paradise that ever existed. The men that Columbus left behind on his first voyage began fighting with each other over supremacy almost before Columbus’s ship was out of sight:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#fort

and they wanted women to sleep with. They were provided them, but one wasn’t enough, or two. The men ended up with about six women each, emulating the harems of Islamic potentates. In colonial Paraguay, the average Spaniard had nearly twenty concubines.

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

Observing Spaniards said that the dreams of the sultans came true in Paraguay. The rape, plunder, and waste of humans lives was perhaps history’s greatest in those early years of conquest, and is the only era of the human journey that I am aware of where humans were regularly used for food:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#dogs

Soto was not content with a generation of rape and plunder in Central America, and was one of Pizarro’s men who set out after gold-plated civilizations in South America, and they found one. The conquest of the Incas is another bloody tale, and Soto came away from it rich as a king. But it still was not enough for Soto. He soon was mounting an expedition to North America, to see what gold-plated civilizations could be had for the taking there. His North American expedition engaged in the prodigious brutality that the Spanish were so famous for. The first slaughters of natives on what became USA soil were engaged in by Soto’s expedition:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm#napituca

Even when reading accounts sympathetic to the natives, the incredible destruction of native life was treated in passing. On the North American expedition, Soto engaged in standard operating practices of the Spaniards in the southern lands. They captured hundreds of Indians and chained them together at the neck, to use as porters. The porters would not last long, and one winter of chasing out the occupants and occupying their town used up all the porters, so in the spring, more Indians had to be captured to be put into porter service, for the few short months that they survived the process. Soto’s favorite recreational activity, when he wasn’t raping women, was hunting Indians from horseback with his dogs. It was a favorite conquistador pastime:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#monteria

Even with the chroniclers who were sympathetic to the Indians, such activities are scarcely mentioned, or if they are, it is in a kind of “boys will be boys” tenor. Soto’s expedition laid waste to what became the Southeastern USA, although the diseases they brought with them may have done most of the work. A generation later, another Spanish expedition came to plunder the same region, and they planned to be predator/parasites just like Soto’s expedition was, wresting towns, food, concubines, and porters from the inhabitants (and hopefully gold! ), but they were in for a surprise. Lands that Soto’s expedition had described as thickly populated were deserted ruins:

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

The “humanitarian” gold quest engaged in by Coronado (who is an ancestor of a close relative), at about the same time as Soto’s expedition, did the same thing:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm#tiguex

raping, plundering, slaughtering, etc. Although Soto was rich as a king from the Incan plunder, he died along the banks of the Mississippi River, and less than half of his men (no Spanish women attended those predatory “explorations”) returned to Spanish settlements. Soto is history’s only person to prominently participate in the first rape and plunder of Central America, South America, and North America:

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

Soto did not know when to quit, driven by greed until the end. Soto, Balboa, Cortes, Pizarro, Columbus – all were evil-minded men, primarily motivated by greed, and their greatest adversaries were always other Spaniards, not the natives. Balboa and Pizarro were killed by their own men (Pizarro served up Balboa to his execution by beheading by his father in-law, to be betrayed by his own men eventually – honor was in short supply among the freebooters), and Columbus spent one journey back to Spain in chains. Their immediate afterlives must have been something like Hitler’s. And all over the USA, cities, schools, rivers, islands, and other landmarks are named for them. In Ventura, I almost went to Balboa Junior High School. I attended Junípero Serra elementary school:

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

Serra was the Hitler of California, building North America’s first concentration camps. His were religious concentration camps, but the final product was just like that of Auschwitz. And Serra is up for sainthood today:

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

I went to the California equivalent of Adolf Hitler Grammar School:

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

The predominant ideologies of our time turn darkness into light, and the endless slaughters of the innocent become twisted into tales of glory. That is part and parcel of the FE conundrum. Those inversions of reality are a big reason why almost nobody can even comprehend abundance, and irrationally dismiss my life’s experiences as a “conspiracy theory.”

Time for a long day at the office. It will be back to Rome and its aftermath soon. There are many dimensions of the Roman phenomenon.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

That post I made this morning spurred me into some reading. The issue of the pre-Columbian size and state of the people of the Western Hemisphere, and just how devastating the European invasions were, is one of the more contentious areas of scholarship. I have read a pretty fair amount of literature on the subject for the past twenty years, and it is a key area of interest to me. I just finished reading one of Livi-Bacci’s recent papers in the subject this evening.

http://usmex.ucsd.edu/assets/022/10125.pdf

His voice is a good one (I have some of his books on the subject), but I also just looked back at my Soto book by David Ewing Duncan, and was reading about Soto’s 105-day march through Coosa territory. The question of the impact of the Spanish presence in the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, and Incan lands has been the source of rancorous academic battles for several centuries. As you can see in Livi-Bacci’s paper, the human impact gets a huge share of the “credit” for the native population collapses where the Spanish came and stayed, turning the populace into slaves, even more than disease in probably many instances. But that is for places where the Spaniards came and stayed, imposing their will on the natives, to catastrophic effect, where Spaniards were around to witness and chronicle the impacts.

But when Soto’s freebooters marauded through Coosa territory, it had an immediate impact on the peoples, but the Spanish left and did not return for twenty years. When the Tristan de Luna expedition came, planning on preying on the same peoples that Soto did, they found depopulated lands. Duncan speculates as to the causes, all attributable to Soto and friends, whether it was disease, starvation after the Spanish stole their food just before winter, disruption of the political-economic system and the trade routes, the deaths of so many able-bodied people because of Soto, or some combination. Whatever they all were, and what their synergistic effects may have been, the civilization vanished after one encounter with the Spanish marauders.

It is like the quick disappearance of all elephants in the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic to South America, soon after humans appeared. The scholars who try to minimize the human impact have a tall task ahead of them, especially when the elephants of Africa and Southern Asia did fine.

The demise of the Coosa was far from the only place devastated by the Spanish in those days. When Soto’s crew went marauding, they came upon a recently depopulated region, probably courtesy of disease from the failed Ayllón expedition:

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

Late in the invasion, soon before Soto died of fever, they attacked and stole one more town, on the Mississippi, Pacaha:

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

The next time Europeans visited the area, in the 1673 Marquette expedition, the entire region had been depopulated. There is plenty of mystery in that instance, but I think that it is easy to underestimate the devastating impact of the invasions that the Europeans inflicted on the Indians. Entire civilizations can easily unravel when subjected to such stresses.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A quick comment before I run off to work….

The primary message of my upcoming essay and my work is really pretty simple, which is partly why I think that non-scientists can understand if they take a little time. I really don’t think that it takes all that much “intelligence” to understand.

For instance, there is not a serious scholar on Earth who sees anything heroic about the Spanish invasions of the New World and the European rivals that came behind them. It was an evil enterprise from beginning to end. The only debate among serious scholars is just how devastating the invasions were. But in the popular culture, the evil-minded men who led the invasions somehow became heroes. Shedding the imperial ideology is really not hard to do, if a person wants to. But that is the hard part, because in a world of scarcity, the ideologies justify the slaughter and exploitation as some kind of righteous deed, or the crimes are swept under the carpet, and the herd gets carrots and sticks to keep them in line with the program, and everybody needs to eat.

I was just reading this weekend about some of the same old stories, the kind you see repeated ad infinitum in our imperial society. The people who killed that “diplomat” were “terrorists” whom we called “freedom fighters” when they did our bidding:

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed...ambassador-lib

This is a very familiar theme:

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

and our nation’s evil designs often create blowback:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-1...lateral-damage

And for a person whose eyes are open, it is transparently easy to see through the imperial apologists who labor mightily to turn darkness into light, who turn vices into virtues:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#vices

who encourage us to ignore the lessons that we learned at age five, because we are so grown up now:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting

Most of what I have to teach does not require some mighty intellectual prowess to comprehend, but just honesty and an open heart.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Thanks for this post Wade

It was something that needed some sort of clarification. You often say that you need to be "scientifically literate" to be able to understand how energy runs the show. It is my impression that this may feel intimidating, like the words "science" and "scientific" are some super solemn and complex concepts that very few can get.

I don't think that's the case! In fact I believe that solid science is simple and clear! You don't need to be a rocket scientist or dabble in quantum mechanics, strings theory and "time-vortex-mathematics" (I just made that up) in order to understand how energy runs the show. In my opinion only a very basic and "down to earth" understanding of science is more than enough...

I find that asking yourself often "how stuff works" it's a good way to deepen the understanding of your world. And it is within your reach! There even is a website called HowStuffWorks: http://www.howstuffworks.com/ that explains most of the concepts in a simple and clear manner.

So it's enough to simply become interested in how the world functions around you, and you will find yourself "scientifically literate" in no time. And hopefully you'll start to notice the thread of energy biding all things (and systems).

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

That is a big subject that I don’t have the time to cover right now, but I probably need to before long, and I will likely be doing more personal experience posts, to show how I came to where I am in my approach. The issue of scientific literacy and understanding the energy situation is critical. Yes, people should not have to be rocket scientists to understand how energy runs the show, but they need to understand the science of energy well enough to realize that so-called hydrogen power, electric cars, air cars, biofuels (I just saw another urine-powered engine today http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...234718329.html - you can see a post somebody made about urine power somewhere on this thread) are not answers at all. It is all about where the energy is coming from, not how it is manipulated, stored, etc. There are people who think that batteries can solve our energy problems.

At least windmills are capturing energy and bringing it into the human ledger, but wind sure ain’t going to solve our problems. Hydroelectric, wind, solar, biofuels, fossil fuels, hydrogen “power,” air cars, urine “power,” etc., etc., are all forms of solar energy. Of the usual suspects, only geothermal, nuclear fission, and tidal power are not coming ultimately from sunshine, and none of those are abundant. Tapping the ZPF is abundant. Lots of theory out there on tapping it. LaViolette calls it genic energy, while Jeane Manning’s (and Joel Garbon’s, but Jeane was the primary author) Breakthrough Power lists thirty names for ZPE that she gathered over the years (and “genic” did not make that list).

You do not have to be hip enough to begin to get into the intricacies implied by this post made today:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post582954

that I will be replying to before long. What might be helpful is to just know that many theorists are chasing after that Holy Grail. Adam’s reply to the discovery of the Higgs boson is along the lines that many are chasing after these days:

http://projectearth.com/founder-essa...firmed-by-cern

In brief, the Unified Field is God. If you want to call the unified field love, I can get with that, too. There is a physical/technical aspect to it that technology can get at, and until we become Level 19s:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level19

we are going to get at that field technologically, but only if our hearts are in the right place.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I’ll respond to that FE inventor’s thread before long, as posts are being made to it, but I have been there and done that on the FE inventor front, and am trying something different.

Science, intelligence, sentience – those can all be highly charged words. They have their place and importance, and I will make some posts about them and how I see them related to my work. I have already posted about my father’s math ability. His IQ is way up there:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ath#post571130

From almost the time I could walk, I was recognized as a chip off the old block, but my younger brother’s IQ is higher than mine, and my other brother has an IQ around 75-80, which likely comes from my father marrying a woman with an IQ about half of his. So, “intelligence” is one of my family themes. My IQ is on the low end of the genius range, and I have been blessed to know people a lot smarter than me. Intelligence is a talent, like psychic, athletic, or artistic talent, but it is what people do with their talent that matters.

I became a student of genius, being mentored by Dennis and Mr. Mentor in my lifetime, both of whom were smarter than me. Science came effortlessly to me. Math took some effort, but I was still in the genius range for math. With a mother whom I passed up intellectually before I was ten years old, the issue of intelligence and getting by in this world has occupied me from a very young age. Maybe because we are supposedly a sentient ape, and learning to make and use tools is what made humanity what it is, a huge portion of the human ego is wrapped up in the idea of “intelligence.” I have stated it before on this thread that some of the smartest people I know have said some of the stupidest things I ever heard. So-called intelligence is certainly not all what people make it out to be. I’ll take heart over head any day.

But as a student of genius, I came to understand how it worked, and there were aspects of it that I felt could be taught to people. In a way, that is what part of my work is about. What I found was that geniuses really looked at problems in a simple way. Somewhat paradoxically, they were able to handle the complex aspects of an issue, but they also were able to sort them out, picking out what was important in a mass of information. For systems of thought, they sifted through the information and identified the system’s assumptions. The assumptions are where they focused their ingenious insight, and they then turned the assumption upside down or inside out. I’ll give some examples in coming posts.

Dennis is one of the greatest creative geniuses that I have ever encountered. To a great degree, he was an untaught genius, being raised as a migrant farm worker:

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

and being forced to leave home at age thirteen. For all that my life’s experiences may seem way larger than life, they pale next to Dennis’s. When he was teaching me the alternative energy business, it could be a bewildering experience to try to understand how he saw things. But, I was the pupil of another world-class genius, Mr. Mentor, so I was familiar with the genius process.

For instance, the year that I met Dennis, he had scientists, engineers, and inventors working for him. The young engineer who designed the Seattle heat pumps really did not understand the technology very well, and Dennis was constantly correcting him:

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

He eventually tried to extort money from us in Ventura, and testified against Dennis, and was actually showed his own report, to counter his testimony that the claims that Dennis made for his heat pump’s performance were “impossible.” When faced with his own report, that young engineer had to admit the “impossible.”

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

That is an example of somebody not being able to think past their textbooks. In Seattle, after the company was stolen, Mr. Young Engineer was one of the “loyalists” for a brief time, and he designed and built a model, using Excel, to show a prospective heat pump buyer what the “balance point” of the heat pump would be for their home, which meant how much of the heating load the heat pump could provide. Being totally new to the game, I had no other frame of reference. I did not even know how the heat pump worked when I chased Dennis out to Boston:

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

When I lived with Dennis, I mentioned Mr. Young Engineer’s program, and Dennis soon made the statement that his heat pump, “Did not save energy, it saved money,” and that Mr. Young Engineer was trapped in an engineer’s way of looking at the heat pump, and that his “balance point” program was worthless as a marketing tool. All homeowners wanted to know was if the heat pump would save them money. Dennis was right, and that understanding was behind his “system for savings” program:

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

Dennis’s “system for savings” program is still the most ingenious marketing program that I ever saw, but none of his business associates could understand its simple genius, which is why every time his associates stole his companies, they quickly threw away Dennis’s “crazy” marketing plans and tried selling the equipment for cash, going for the quick capitalistic kill. They never understood that Dennis’s marketing program is what made his efforts so meteoric. All the people who tried selling the heat pump for cash quickly went out of business.

But Dennis’s program of selling to a mass market was also an admission of where his customers were coming from. Saving money is a purely microeconomic decision, and could be called egocentric. If people bought Dennis’s equipment for the immediate economic benefit that they would receive, they were in it for themselves. As long as you understood that, you knew what people could give you. It was really the same thing with his employees in Seattle, in that they were all there for the paycheck. They were as self-interested as Dennis’s customers were. So when the big sledgehammer came down, to wipe out Dennis’s Seattle effort:

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

he certainly did not have any allies among his customers, employees, or business associates, because they were all their for their immediate economic benefit. However, one person was there because a voice in his head led him there:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2

and he was the only person who chased Dennis out to Boston to help him rebuild his effort. When I saw the employees cheer the thieves in Seattle:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#salient1

it was a great moment of awakening for me, helping me shed my naïve notions of what motivated people. One reason why I am not with Dennis anymore is because he keeps playing the business game, appealing to people’s self-interest. He has always played the religion and nationalism cards, but after many years of watching those approaches and being uneasy with them, I was finally able to articulate what they all had in common, and why none of those approaches had a prayer, or if they did, the downside was potentially catastrophic; they were all appealing to scarcity-based, and necessarily egocentric, ideologies:

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

and appealing to a person’s self-interest is the path of disaster for the FE game, especially with Godzilla and friends being as vigilant as they are. Of course, virtually everybody does everything for self-interested reasons. That is why I am looking for needles in haystacks. I found another needle in Brian O, but I was the only person at NEM who had gone through the FE meat grinder, and I still am. When I have seen recent NEM-ish efforts out there, they are full of naïve scientists, engineers, inventors and others, none of whom have been through the meat grinder, and it shows. Anybody who thinks that some tinkering inventor, applying for patents and trying to raise money, has a snowball’s chance in hell of making FE happen, simply does not have any high-level experience in the field. Only a fool like Dennis:

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

had any business trying that route, and every time I see somebody advocate a “grass roots” tinkerer revolution, or trying to scale the ramparts with a bunch of newbies whose armor does not even have a scratch on it, I really don’t want to watch. But that naïve path of tinkering inventors, patents, working in garages, has worn a deep rut that leads straight into Godzilla’s maw, if they even make it that far and are not taken out by the lower-level predators and the allies, who all get gold fever:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion

Most never get ten feet along that path before they are taken out, usually by falling on their sword. At Avalon, I have found that very, very few people really understand what I am writing about here. Ilie gets a lot of it, as do some others, but my approach entails throwing away nearly everything that people think about how the word works. People who get caught up in conspiracism do not understand how the world really works. Godzilla is a small part of the problem. The problem is the great herd of humanity that operates from self-interest above all else. So it is, in a world of scarcity, and that is the crux of the FE conundrum. Of course, nobody wants to admit it, because it says unsavory things about our species, but until we grapple with the truth and accept it, we are going nowhere but to oblivion.

My recent writings about Soto are an example.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post582331

What an evil enterprise his North American invasion was, totally inspired by greed and the desire to conquer and subjugate people that he had never met (and it turned out, did not even exist). But all over America’s Southeast, chambers of commerce vie for the “honor” of having their town be on the route of his invasion, as he brought “civilization” to North America. How crazy and stupid is that? That is the ego at work. The ego is really pretty stupid, when you get down to it, like a two-year-old child in his terrible twosies. Self-interest at the expense of everything else is the path to self-extermination, but is humanity’s predominant thrust today, as it has always been. That is thinking like a victim, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with “intelligence,” but fear.

Similarly, anybody with any gumption can prove to themselves that they have psychic ability. Going to channels and digesting mystical literature is a fairly worthless exercise if the person has not had any mystical experiences of their own. That is one reason why the “skeptics” treat mystical ability like the enemy, and they let their brains dribble right out of their ears when faced with evidence of the paranormal:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post571831

and those are supposedly “smart” people, with Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov in their ranks. Michael Roads said it well in an interview that he gave not long ago;

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post309392

intellect and intelligence are not the same thing, and I heartily agree. All of that IQ stuff and genius is about the intellect. That is but one aspect of intelligence. I don’t dismiss it by any means, but it is only one facet of intelligence. The scientific stuff that I have been posting to this thread, especially on my human journey posts the past several months, requires some mental horsepower to truly comprehend, and my folly may be thinking that it takes less than it really does. I have had well-meaning scientists tell me that in order to become a comprehensivist:

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

people need to be able to hold the important parts in their heads so that they see the big picture. That is also called being a systems thinker. Unless people can become systems thinkers, they tend to get lost in the trees, never seeing the forest. That is where “intellect” comes into play. That is why I keep saying that if we are going to see the big picture, we need to do the work. While the heart is key, using our sentience to see the big picture is the primary thrust of my work. I will be making more posts in this subject. As Ilie says, science and technology done right is relatively easy. Science and math are not that easy, not really, but it is true that scientists have unnecessarily made much of what it does obscure and kind of like the new priesthood. And scientists can be the most irrational of all when they encounter evidence that shatters their paradigm. Dismissing my life’s experiences and those of people close to me as a “conspiracy theory” is a highly irrational act, but is perhaps the most common one that I receive from “smart” people:

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

as they defend their religiously-held worldview. True knowledge comes from experience. It is that simple.

Time to rush off to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Wade,

Thank you for your posts, as always there is so much to learn from them. It seems that the admiration for Columbus, Serra and other North America 'invasions tyrants' and their perpetuation as a positive human beings in history is part of the dual climate prevailing on earth, it is one against another, 'either or', 'they or us'. it is the language that is so wide spread, the language of scarcity, of ' not having enough', that any other reality of co-existing and 'there is more than enough' is so out of reach of the average human beings mind.

Mystical experiences are probably not at all 'mystical', they are simply some 'tapping' into the broad reality around us. taking the blindfolds from the horses sides and he will be able to see a much larger view than he used to, put it back, and the view is becoming limited again. Funny that science does'nt in general think along these lines. everything has perfectly good explanation, just not one that can be explained yet with our limited tools, but almost nothing (that happens), can be rejected or invalidated on the basis of 'not understanding it, therefore, it does not exist'. This is not a sign for inteligence of a society. curiosity and the willing to delve deep into the unknown is more of a sign of using our cell brains and even streching it a bit further.

On the other hand, studies such as this:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ealth-science/

"According to a new study, a surge in human brain size that occurred roughly 1.8 million years ago can be directly linked to the innovation of cooking"

"Did you eat a hot meal today? It's a smart thing to do, as our ancestors learned"

Can lead to another study case - "why some people would like to rip the hair out of their heads in distrust?" - I am willing to volunteer to be a guinea pig, alas, they will not accept a brain shrinks raw foodist like myself. Shame.

[Melinda]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
...When faced with his own report, that young engineer had to admit the “impossible.”

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

That is an example of somebody not being able to think past their textbooks...

...Michael Roads said it well in an interview that he gave not long ago;

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post309392

intellect and intelligence are not the same thing, and I heartily agree.

Your post inspired a few thoughts Wade, so I thought I might share them.

When we hear the word ‘materialistic’ we often associate it with someone who places high value on acquiring and owning physical things. But exactly the same attitude can manifest itself with intellect, whereby instead of feeling special or superior because of the physical things we own, we feel it because of the ideas we have. It’s a kind of intellectual materialism, where we feel our mental prowess defines us and we cling to it fearfully, polishing our clever ideas in a corner of our mind much like a proud car owner polishes their vehicle in the temple of their garage. It’s very easy to behave this way and believe we are not being materialistic, when all we are really doing is transferring our competitive, fear-based materialism from the physical world to the mental.

A young medical doctor who was involved in the research end of the business once told me that you didn’t even need to get to the level or conspiracy theories to see why progress was as slow as it was in her field of science. She said she’d witnessed first hand how people in positions of power in her immediate world would, without hesitation, dismiss and bury new theories or solutions, simply because if they validated them it would invalidate their own work; work they had possibly spent years being admired for, whilst reaping the accompanying rewards.

We are programmed to be our own worst enemies, and reprogramming ourselves so we can change that is one of the reasons why I enjoy reading this thread and other relevant, related sources. Sometimes I can think I know something about a solution already, but by immersing myself in it and engaging with it more regularly it can sink in more, to a point where I begin to see something new in it.

One of the things that frequently baffles me is when people brush something under the carpet, often mockingly, by saying it’s ‘not scientifically proven’. The way I see it, if I wish to practice an attitude that genuinely honours science, one of the first things I can do is study its history. In doing so, it doesn’t take long to realise that many of the ideas that are now ‘text-book’ were first proposed by scientists who were mocked and suppressed (or worse) by their contemporaries. It seems logical then that in order to really honour science and what it has given us, I need to respect the scientific method, whilst simultaneously respecting the potential of the imagination and what is not yet proven. As with all things in life, finding a balance is key.

At the start of a lecture he gave some years ago, looking at monatomic elements, Sir Lawrence Gardner said:
“Science is in an interesting period right now. It’s actually got to a stage where it’s moving at a truly incredible rate. I mean never before do I remember day to day discoveries. Week to week was something, month to month was pretty average, but day to day now science is changing. Scientists say there’s nothing that we’re working on that seems to follow the rules and the laws that we were dealing with yesterday. New things are coming. So even the most notable researchers and scientists and writers in the mainstream front line are now sounding more like science fiction writers used to. And their work and their discoveries is in fact seeming a little preposterous to that breed of people whose vision is constrained perhaps by what they perceive to be the limits of plausible achievement. The people who feel that it was all learned, done and dusted, with passing that last exam.”
http://youtu.be/B9oAXPqPWog

In the advancing world he describes, an open mind and a generous heart seem more useful than ever.

I found it a really interesting, and enjoyable lecture. At around 37 minutes in he describes a process that took place to investigate the constituents of a mysterious substance, and the benefits of scientists pooling their knowledge / resources to investigate successfully. Collaboration proved to be the key to their success

[Ilie Pandia]

Interesting to learn and notice that other people see things in a different way than you do...

It makes me wonder how much do I actually perceive something and how much I am slave to some deeply rooted conditioning (like scarcity) that I am not being aware of.

It seems the onion still has more layers to peel off . (and in the center of it may still be yet another onion, sigh..)

@Melinda: very interesting point about intellectual materialism and the trap of closing your mind to new ideas because of the effort and time invested in the old ones.

@Wade: if your task consists of try to show us that everything we think we know is actually wrong... and what we are "seeing" is not actually there... then you got yourself one huge task .

And one final word about "IQ". This is also a highly charged concept. Personally, I am not very convinced by the meaning and actual measurement of the IQ thing. Most tests I've seen seem to measure your integration level into a system of thought and not so much so "how intelligent you are". The IQ is sometimes used as a label to limit some people and prop the ego of others. My belief is that what one man can do, I can do too! Of course, it may take me longer to learn that skill if I have no talent in it, but I don't consider it to be impossible or completely out of reach. (This may be a faulty belief, but so far it has served me well ).

I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I do sometimes act in very stupid ways. Looking back at those times I notice that it was because of fear or some other conditioning that got triggered. This leads me to conclude that in an abundance world, what we think of as "intelligence" will develop so much (not being blocked by fear any longer) that on the new "IQ scale" our today's geniuses might score in the "idiot-range"

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Great posts, people. I don’t have the time to respond to all of that brilliance that you put out there today, but briefly…

Ah, Ilie, as I stated, knowledge comes from experience; the seeing, the touching, the being there when things are happening, making things happen. Most of what people think they “know” is not knowing at all, but believing something they were told. I am big into people getting out of their easy chairs and going and finding out. That is why I encourage people to go get some mystical experiences under their belt. That is why I encourage people to watch UFOs light up on request, if they have any doubt about the phenomenon:

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

Traveling thousands of miles to go swimming with wild dolphins:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post512090

chasing Dennis across a continent:

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

chasing my dreams, chasing women ( ), going where that damn voice suggested I go – those are all experiences that gave me knowledge, not some belief because somebody told me so. All of the dominant ideologies:

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

fall apart on scrutiny, because they are really built on faith, not knowledge, and were designed to serve those who made up the belief system, and they all have carrots and sticks to attract and retain their adherents, but none of them really encourage the believers to go find out for themselves, but to take some “authority’s” word for it. Some of my learning experience were truly life-threatening, and I do not encourage people to go chasing after the white bunny of FE:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

but I do give people plenty to chew on in that milieu, but I have yet to ever encounter anybody who obtained one of Dennis’s books, the two best being written in his cells, so people really can’t be that eager to begin finding out how it works. So, I do what I do.

On “intelligence” and IQs, they have their place, but they are not the be all, end all, that is for sure. But you can’t fake math. You can’t build a bridge unless you know what you are doing. The Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQs of any ethnic group on Earth, and are ten times overrepresented for getting Nobel Prizes, for instance:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...azi#post543124

and it likely was due to hundreds of years in those soon-to-be-obsolete professions, accounting and business management (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post583327 ), where they had to play the abstract thinking game every day.

Briefly, Limor, that cooking article is more verification of Wrangham’s thesis:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#cooking

Evolution happens. The brains of our distant ancestors grew tremendously, and many biological changes attended the rise of humans. Our tools made us, in very real ways.

Melinda, my upcoming essay will make my energy essay largely obsolete, but this part will survive:

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

which I may not be able to improve upon much.

All three of you made points that I could spend a day or two responding to, and I will make better responses soon, but I have been summoned to bed.

Best,

Wade

[mosquito]

Well said Ilie !

What you and Melinda are saying is not dissimilar to what I wrote on the other thread, about how intellectual arrogance will become a thing of the past (hopefully) with FE, as we will have evolved to a point where knowledge isn't denied to anyone for any reason, and education will be all-encompassing and holistic.

In order for us to reach that state of heart centred sentience, we all need to be ready and willing to say goodbye to our long-held, cherished, comforting beliefs; about ourselves and our world.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have a little time before I run off to work. Yes, Limor, the scarcity mindset is probably the most deeply baked one that humanity has. It took me many years to really understand what I was seeing with all the FE denial, or if it was not denial, it became the focus of greed, delusions of grandeur, and so on.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1

That universal scarcity mindset is also a universal fear mindset, and is why personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity:

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

These are all facets of the scarcity issue, and the fear really overrides people’s brains, so that they can seem really, really stupid, but what they are really doing is protecting the niche of hell that they staked out for themselves. Those who are willing to explore beyond that, in the quest for abundance, are the needles in haystacks that I refer to. They will operate from personal integrity, they will be willing to relinquish their beliefs and go find out for themselves, and they will do it so that everybody can ultimately benefit from it. In brief, they operate from love, not fear, so they are thinking like creators, not victims. That is why I always say that it begins in the heart.

Yes, “mystical” experiences were likely not considered to be so “mystical” long ago. In our age of materialism, however, it is something different. It is likely regaining abilities that came to us very naturally long ago.

Yes, Melinda, what you noted on the medical front is exactly what I say on the FE front: we do most of Godzilla’s work for him. Godzilla really does not have any power, other than what the masses have given him by abdicating responsibility for their lives. I have written at length about the medical racket and why it operates like it does:

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

I have not gone much into the personal irony for me of those days in the 1980s, but it could get so far over the top that it was like a black comedy. I left Southern California two times previously, saying that I never wanted to live there again, to only have Dennis move the company back to Southern California, only a little over a year since I escaped it. When Dennis was in jail and my life was being destroyed, I ended up having to get work in LA again! Driving to LA every day back then is like a bad dream, as I think back on it. And I got a job in a medical lab, to have the medical gangsters try to shut it down right after I started work there:

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

It was like that voice in my head was rubbing it in. Today, it would take five teams of wild horses to drag me back to Southern California. After I moved to Ohio and began the research that became my work today, I studied the medical racket more than any other racket:

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

The rackets all operate in similar fashion, and the masses always do most of the work for the racketeers, as they imprison their own minds. That resistance to anything new by people in the medical establishment is common to anybody with “education.” It is that way in all areas of formal learning:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded

and the more the paradigm supports a racket, the deeper the indoctrination goes. And because of the carrots that the “smart” get, they indeed polish their intellectual egos to where they are all nice and shiny, and they end up saying the stupidest things that I ever heard. There is an arsenal of irrational responses that people have stocked up as their defense to anything that rocks the boat. People like Carl Sagan said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What a canard. That was Carl playing pseudoscientific high priest of the establishment, not being a scientist interested in exploring the unknown:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan

Another one I just encountered for the zillionth time. Back in the 1990s, Steven Greer lined up several hundred witnesses to testify about the UFO issue. Most were from the military. He was able to mount congressional hearings, and Ed Mitchell co-chaired the hearings. Those hearings cost several people their lives, and Greer was never the same:

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

Several astronauts have gone public on the UFO issue, including Brian O, which almost cost him his life:

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

The knee-jerk response by “smart” people to the UFO cover-up is that something that big cannot be covered up. People will talk, so therefore there cannot be a UFO cover-up. When I respond that several hundred people have talked and want to have a safe public forum where they can talk all day long about what they know, those UFO deniers then want to change the subject. I had that happen just the other day. How rational is that?

I call what you are referring to as the rationalist-materialist paradigm, and it dominates scientific thinking. That paradigm began forming in the West about a thousand years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#toledo

so it is deeply ingrained.

As Bucky Fuller said, specialization in science was a ruling class tactic to keep scientists in the dark, never seeing the big picture:

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

Multi-disciplinary efforts are now becoming very common in science and academia, and Godzilla is having a hard time keeping the lid on everything. As long as the rationalist-materialist paradigm stays in place, he has the upper hand, but once scientists start having mystical experiences, it will be game over for Godzilla, and he knows it.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Only a few minutes before I hit the hay, but in this reality:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

the human potential has been tapped in ways that very people today can even believe is possible, but it lies only 300 years into our future, at least for those who choose love. The average six-year-old in that reality has more knowledge about the human body and how to be healthy than anybody alive on Earth today. If they took our IQ tests, they would score off the scale. So, calling them “geniuses” is selling them short. Their mental horsepower dwarfs everything that lives on the planet today. With the heart in charge, everybody gets a whole lot smarter, and when fear reigns, everybody gets a whole lot dumber. While writing this, I was inspired to go get a book that I have not looked at since the 1990s, ET 101, to get a juicy quote that stood out in my mind. It reads:


“We have noticed that your idea of intelligence and our idea of intelligence have very little to do with one another. For instance, you call yourself an intelligent species, yet you are dangerously close to making your planet uninhabitable by anything other than asphalt. You have also managed to place yourselves at the top of the endangered species list. May we point out that a virus demonstrates a more astute grasp of its situation than that. The only reason a virus is inclined to trash its environment is in its well-calculated attempt to maintain its life.

“We have noticed that you use the word ‘smart’ in conjunction with business swindles and corrupt deals. When somebody sells property that is located on a quicksand bog, you say, ‘Boy, was that a smart move!’ You also think it is incredibly clever to sell a used car for top dollar without mentioning that it has no transmission. Both these examples are trumped-up illustrations that lack the malignancy of your actual activities. Your governments, your corporations, and your citizenry commit mind-boggling atrocities in the name of material cunning, and all human commerce is riddled with spiritual scandal. Moreover, though such acts may technically be fraud according to your laws, fraud is only an issue if you have the misfortune of getting caught. Otherwise, these acts remain shrewd business moves, the products of brilliant minds.”


ET 101 is perhaps the funniest channeled book that I ever read. They offer up their own definition of intelligence:


“A brain is an instrument of intelligence, while intelligence is a force. Intelligence is the force of life expressing itself in created form. It exists in all life, whether it has a brain or not.”


They finish the section with:


“Our purpose here on this planet is to assist in freeing you from denial so that you can finally begin to think straight. It is our mandate as well as our longing to help raise you out of your deranged thought process up to the status of a truly intelligent life form.”


Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi

Wade, thank you for the booklet suggestion (45 pages long) Sounds charming Since there is no tangible copy available for purchase in my country i let myself search the internet for it. Had found illegal version of it. Illie has found legitimate copy available for purchase and download here:
http://et101.net/shop.html

[edit]
Shame on me
I have replaced direct link to the PDF with the link to the store

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was not suggesting that anybody go out and find ET 101, but you are a resourceful bunch. I read it in the early 1990s. Reading it is a fond memory.

ET 101 discusses the difference between walk-ins and crawl-ins. Most of us crawl in as babies. At the end was a questionnaire for those on the mission of awakening humanity, and whenever I hear about Wilton, Connecticut, I still think back to the questionnaire answer:

“I live in Wilton, Connecticut, and have mistaken my portfolio for my identity. Is there any possibility of me and my portfolio being restationed at this point?”

After that is the one that I remember best:

“This mission is a piece of cake. Where to next, big guys? (Be advised that if you check this box, further questioning may be necessary.)”

I am not sure that I would buy the other stuff that that site hawks.

Right now I am reading Pan’s Travail by J. Donald Hughes, on the impacts of the Greek and Roman civilizations on the Mediterranean environments. It was an early work in his career on such subject matter, but has become kind of a standard reference in the field. I also have his An Environmental History of the World, which is similar to Ponting’s A Green History of the World.

While such efforts often get criticized for not having ultra-scholarly detachment, I am not aware of better efforts out there.

In a way, this stuff is really not hard to understand. Life on Earth is powered by the sun, plain and simple. Where there is enough solar energy and raw materials, mainly water, fixed nitrogen and some other elements (phosphorus and traces of some metals), plants can grow, and the animals that feed on them. I covered a lot of this when I began this series of posts in July:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post520372

The sun’s output seems to have been very steady for billions of years, and it has been slowly increasing. The ice ages, for instance, have had little or nothing to do with the sun’s output, but variations in Earth’s orbit, its atmospheric gases, and the placement of its land masses. During the Little Ice Age that ended only in the nineteenth century, the sun’s output only fluctuated by about one-tenth of one-percent, about like we see in my lifetime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar-cycle-data.png

Only so much of the sun’s energy hits Earth, and about one twentieth of one percent gets captured by photosynthesis, and that is what powers the ecosphere. Far less than one percent of that captured solar energy ended up being preserved in what we call fossil fuels. Before fossil fuels were tapped, the chemical energy available to humanity in the form of food was that of the current growing season for the most part. Harvesting fruit trees and harvesting the trees themselves widened the horizon of energy use, reaching back a hundred years or more of growing seasons as trees were felled.

But forests are the primary creators of topsoil, and they created the environment that pretty much all land life evolved in. Forests turned the deserts of the land masses into ecosystems. When the forests were razed for the energy resources that they provided, it also led to the destruction of the forest ecosystems, not only the canopy, but the soils also stopped forming and exposed soils quickly erode away, blown and washed away, eventually exposing the bedrock, especially on slopes. That lost canopy, soils, and ecosystem was also a big sponge that retained the rainfall. It really is a simple dynamic. The Mediterranean basin is surrounded by mountain ranges, with very little flat land, anywhere.

The two earliest civilizations were in Mesopotamia and Egypt, both taking advantage of river valleys in desert regions. While the people of Mesopotamian civilizations had legends where nature was treated like the enemy to be subdued:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...esh#post554340

the Egyptians had more of a worshipful relationship to nature, and their civilizations were more rural than the city-states that came to dominate Mesopotamian civilizations.

Nevertheless, anyplace where humans built their civilizations, nature was necessarily put into service for human benefit. Before humans began civilizing the Nile River, there was a lush forest in the Nile valley, inhabited by lions, elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, huge aviaries of astonishing diversity, and the like. The civilizations of Egypt wiped all of that out over the millennia, making way for agriculture. Even the silt that fertilized the Egyptian fields during the annual flood was significantly the result of deforestation and erosion in the highlands that fed the Nile. And Egyptians were the nature worshippers.

The civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt both influenced the Greeks (and the many others that sprouted up over the millennia in the region), and the Romans in their turn. While the Greeks and Romans had plenty of nature worship early in their civilizations, the demands of economic growth, which always came at the expense of the ecosystems, where all the chemical energy came from, food most importantly, meant that the ecosystems had to be brought to heel. The result, especially on the hilly lands where Rome and Greece were, resulted in erosion and desertification. In Hughes’ Pan’s Travail, he remarked on his first visit to Greece, where the rocky slopes of Mount Hymettus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hymettus.JPG ) could be seen from the Parthenon. Plato described the deforestation of that mountain in the fourth century B.C. It remained a denuded rock until my lifetime, when the Greek government decided to reforest it. But the soils were almost totally gone, and they literally had to dynamite holes in the limestone in order to plant the pine tree seedlings.

Off to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hello Wade,

Originally posted by Wade Frazier: "Evolution happens. The brains of our distant ancestors grew tremendously, and many biological changes attended the rise of humans. Our tools made us, in very real ways. "

I hope it is o.k to keep digging on the Wrangham’s thesis issue. I understand that the discovery of firemaking and cooking food has led to the evolutionary upgrade from Homo erectus to Homo Sapiens by contributing to brain enlargment, but the final conclusion from that National Geographic link as if raw food is equivalent to a developmental regression does'nt sound right to me

Are you willing to expand a little more on that?


Re: ET101 instruction manual

Your above 'Wilton, Connecticut questionnaire' made me laugh so hard. I remember this book 'falling into my lap' from off the shelf at the bookstore in 2006, it was lying on a pile of books and really stood out (it winked at me), I had to touch it, and than I read the cover.. and took it home. I never found another Copy in Hebrew or in English anywhere. I lent this one to a friend, since it was also suited for him, but copied it, so I still have it somewhere. A funny funny book. I am not willing to be recruited to almost any task after doing my mandatory military service, but the one which is described there, I am more than willing (and to FE of course!) to do, or maybe, it is guaranteed that we all already are recruited?

While writing this post, I hear explosions from somewhere, not too close, apparently, two rockets were fired to the Tel Aviv area, the complete idiotism of the 'war games'.

I think I will apply to the questionnaire -

“I live in Kiriat-ono, Israel, and have mistaken my portfolio for my identity. Is there any possibility of me and my portfolio being restationed at this point?”

But to be honest, I already applied in the past, and received a refusal. I think we are all stationed where we need to be.

Enjoy your reading, Robert! Thanks Wade!

[sandy]

Dear Limor,

Love your posts and just have to say my heart goes out to you. Only those who experience this daily trauma can understand fully the impact on one's mind and soul. I Love You Sister>>>>Stay Safe

[Limor Wolf]

Dear Sandy ~

Thank you so much, I am fine and not in the center of things. I think that you too can understand the harm and the trauma because your heart is so open and wide, and you can connect to others feelings ~

Tonight is not going to be a good night for the people in Gaza, and It was not a good day for some people in Israel, but that is the everyday events of so many places around the world. can we begin to imagine what is going on in Afganistan, in Iraq, in Syria, in Africa?

Our world can use some Anti gravity, Zero point energy, healing devices, time reversed wave technology, and a little bit of peace and harmony in our hearts. Wade always say, and it is so easy to believe him, that love is the predominant force that changes the world, love is the begginning and the botom line of everything, as well as the middle.

Love is a missing link for some, but if they may feel it only once, there might not be going back afterwards.

[CdnSirian]

Posted by sandy (here)
Dear Limor,

Love your posts and just have to say my heart goes out to you. Only those who experience this daily trauma can understand fully the impact on one's mind and soul. I Love You Sister>>>>Stay Safe

Ditto! So sorry little time on here right now to say more. (Thanks Sandy).

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

So sorry to hear about the troubles in your neighborhood today. It was all over the news here. If it was up to me to reassign you to easier duty, I would. But, as you know, we usually have to stick it out where we are, whatever the cosmic reasons are. Scotty can beam me up any day, but he hasn’t yet.

On raw versus cooked food, that is a big subject. Wrangham’s hypothesis is that cooking provided an evolutionary advantage, as it allowed proto-humans to get more net calories out of food, and it is hard to argue against that advantage. The human digestive system shrank, and less energy was needed to digest food. On the evolutionary front, the important years are those it takes to grow up, reproduce, and successfully raise the next generation. Before industrialization, that was accomplished by age forty, so the degenerative effects of cooking and preserved food, which generally do not become deadly until after age forty, did not really impact humanity’s evolutionary fitness. The energy boost that cooking afforded humans was an evolutionary advantage.

Even the people in this reality:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

probably cooked their grain-based food. I agree that most food should be eaten raw, but there has yet to be a culture that could eat all raw food – it is hard to get all the needed calories that way. When I went vegan when I was twenty, I was pretty much a raw food eater, and I lost fifteen pounds. It was also the healthiest that I ever was.

With an FE economy, I am sure that people could do the raw food thing successfully, as the abundance of high-energy raw foods would be far higher than they are today, even in a rich place like the USA. We shop for our groceries at one of the premier stores on Earth:

http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/locations/rd.html

but it would still be a challenge to do total raw foods.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade